OHIO ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover

[Gil]

May 4th 1970: Kent State University. 4 students killed, 9 students
wounded by the National Guard. Neil Young responded right away
with his song "Ohio" which was recorded immediately by Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young.
I made this video in 2010 on the 40th Anniversary of this tragedy.
Special thanks to Phil Cuchetti for singing passionately with me.
I brought it up to 30 something pre school parents and they refused
to believe this happened. They knew nothing of this dark event in
American History. They were shocked to find out it really did happen.
I was then motivated to make this video.

[Glennwillow]

Great job on this Gil. What a tragedy for so many people.

- Glenn

[Jwills57]

Excellent cover! This song really takes me back. I was 12. My dad was the chairman of the English Department at a small liberal arts college in Ohio. I have vivid memories of how absolutely gutted he and my mom were at this senseless shooting of college kids. My mom was in tears for hours. That night there was a memorial gathering on the campus commons. He and my mom both went. They hated the war and what the war was doing to the country--just rending the country in two. An interesting aside--my 13th birthday was in June. My dad was pretty level-headed and non-demonstrative. But after my little birthday celebration, he pulled me aside on the patio and said that there was no way he and my mom would ever let me get shipped off to Vietnam--nobody knew how long the war was going to drag on--and that he and mom had already been making "arrangements" with friends for other alternatives, which I later came to understand as college and life in Canada. And you have to understand--my dad was a decorated combat veteran of WWII, had seen really horrible things and knew there was a time and place for fighting for your country. But he was sickened by the whole Vietnam thing, the stupidity of it, the waste. He had tremendous sympathy for the average, common soldier but detested the political decisions by leaders of both parties that got us going down that rat hole. Good to be reminded of those dark days, every now and then. Thanks for the song.

[keith.rogers]

Nice job and video. Thanks.

[started with 1]

Painfully good. Playing and singing especially the harmonies are great.

[calvanesebob]

Great job!

Both the music, and the video.

I was 13 when that happened.

Thanks for sharing,

[LAPlayer]

I love that song, and the group (collectively and individually). Loved your rendition. Thanks for sharing.

[raysachs]

Another great Neil Young cover Gil. You really have a way with his music. I was a little kid when this happened, a little over a week shy of turning 11, so it might have gone right by me at the time, except my older brother, who was kind of my hero at the time, was in college at Oberlin, just about an hour away. Like many schools, Oberlin went on strike after that dark day, and so I remember the time really well, with all of the long distance phone calls back and forth between my brother and my folks, which I listened in on when I could. So I was way more aware than a ten year old kid should have had to be. And I was already a CSNY fan at the time, and when the song came out, I was into it pretty quickly.

-Ray

[rémy64]

Excellent cover👌