In only 10 lines, ‘Ohio’ is able to capture all of the, shock, outrage, and frustration felt towards the government in the wake of the shootings. ‘Ohio’ demands attention, and, no matter what your opinion is about it, you find yourself listening, obeying, angered and repulsed. Young cleverly uses the drumbeat to evoke an anthemic military theme that, ironically, would become the anthem to the counter-culture generation. ‘Ohio’ opens with a cool electric guitar solo, followed by a steady, rhythmic drumbeat that sounds like a marching tune. In its resentful lyrics and crashing guitars the song immediately captures all of Young’s idealism and fury. ‘Ohio’ provided perhaps one of his most famous opportunities to do so. Young was a widely outspoken musician at the time, and always relished the chance to express an opinion through song. It was liberated only 10 days after the shootings, reflecting the horrific social injustice of the events of that early May day. His band, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, were so eager to release the song that they only took a few takes to record it. Within hours of this terrible event singer/songwriter Neil Young was scrawling the lyrics to a song that expressed all of his rage and horror towards this headline, the immortal anti-war hymn, ‘Ohio’. May 4th 1970: Four Kent State students killed by their own country’s army.Īll over America, protests like this one at Kent State college were breaking out, all with the same theme, the Anti-Vietnam war movement.
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