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Once completed, Neil played the album for his label Reprise and than immediately gave a live interview to CNN. For many fans, this was Neil at his finest -- speaking truth to power.
So is the song "Ohio" "an anthem for our times?". While the jury may still be out, our readers here were somewhat divided on the answer. Regardless, the CSN&Y song "Ohio" is a powerful song still resonating 56 years later.
Thrasher's Wheat has been observing the anniversary of this event for decades now, sadly.
We can only continue to ask the pertinent question: "How many more?"
According to the blog Last Left Turn Before Hooterville, a new Neil Young album was being recorded. The blog, written by a member of a 100-voice choir, said the album would contain the lyrics:
"Let's impeach the President for lyin'!".
Once completed, Neil Young played the album for his label Reprise and then immediately gave a live interview to CNN. For many fans, this was Neil at his finest -- speaking truth to power.
"THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE NEED TO STAND UP FOR HUMANITY and let the whole world know who they really are."
With military madness continuing to kill our countries, what's the average citizen of the world to do?
Obviously, we're Still Living With War -- both in our minds and hearts -- because it's all just deja vu, all over again and again and again ...
As Neil Young has stated: "History is a cruel judge of overconfidence."
Neil Young Signs "PEACE"
More "Shock And Awe" was coming our way.
"CSNY DEJA VU" Film Poster - 2008
Part performance, part documentary and commentary, the film CSNY Déjà Vu is a call to peace and remains relevant today. Because if we ignore the lessons of history, we do so at our peril and increase the likelihood of repeating the same mistakes.
From album "Living With War", the title track's lyrics continue their prescient revelations on today's times. so, carry on.
[Try to remember peace (visualize) ]
"I join the multitudes I raise my hand in peace I never bow to the laws of the thought police I take a holy vow To never kill again To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart I'm living with war in my heart and my mind I'm living with war right now"
And so here we are in 2026 with "Living With War", v. 3.0. We are in a loop and we are not learning our histories and repeating the same mistakes. Break the cycle. Make peace cool again. Now.
And we'll probably do this again in 2032 ("Living With War", v. 4.0) ... if only ... at the least, for our "Families".
peace
ps- apparently, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts have been in the studio, with "8 songs recorded". A "Living With War", v. 3.0 maybe? Well, we shall see and hear eventually. Hopefully the new songs provoke another generation to support peace. We are dreamin' people ...
pss - Note that LWW is now the default playback song of the day on NYA. thanks Jake!
I've always loved Joel's work and to hear him talk about his life is wonderful. There is something about the way he (like Nils and Cameron) was accepted at such a young age by Joni, Elliot, Neil, Graham and the whole Laurel Canyon scene that I struggle to get my head around. But it points to how kind, constructive and hard working all these people were.
It is sometimes easy to assume people got into the scene by just being in the right place at the right time, though the way Joel talks about how much time he spent on learning Joni's songs and mastering photography shows how you need to have a driving passion.
Often, one makes one's own luck in life.
Thanks so much for the Comment of the Moment Greying Rider!
Glad you enjoyed the "Joel Bernstein Interview". Talk about being in the right place, at the right time?! It does seem that the whole 60's Laurel Canyon scene really was like traveling into another dimension.
More on the legendary 1960's Laurel Canyon scene ...
Tedeschi Trucks Band did their first-time cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s song “Ohio” on the opening night of their residency at Beacon Theatre, New York City on March 10, 2026.
Given the popularity of my post on the song “For What It’s Worth (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound)” by Buffalo Springfield, which is now close to 4,000 views and rising (available here), I have to conclude that people are desperately searching for a way to make meaning out of what’s happening around the world and in their own countries.
In particular, I suspect that people are trying to figure out some way to respond to what they feel are steps in an egregiously wrong direction—perhaps even illegal, immoral, unethical, or tyrannical—by those in charge of running things, without risking themselves, their family, friends, and communities, or their way of life in doing so.
My post on the song “Ohio” is now starting to get the same attention—a song written and put out by Crosby Stills Nash & Young in the immediate aftermath of the Kent State Massacre in 1970, which was soon thereafter followed by the Jackson State Killings.
If you’ve been around as long as I have, you’ve been feeling a strong sense of deja vu for a while now. We have been here before. We have been through something eerily similar to this. That’s why I’m sharing the “Ohio” post below, so you can see why I’m saying that.
I do believe in my heart, mind, and soul that, as Martin Luther King declared in his remarkably inspiring sermons and talks using the title of a famous gospel song as his key message, “We Shall Overcome.”
As Dr. King explained, we shall overcome not simply because we wish to do so. We shall overcome because “somehow the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” and because “truth crushed to earth will rise again.”1 If you need inspiration in these difficult times, here it is:
And here it is in the song whose title he cited, “We Shall Overcome,” sung by the glorious Joan Baez. (You can find the other two iconic versions, one by gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and the other by the famous folk singer-activist Pete Seeger, here and here.)
Herewith, without further ado, my previous post on the tragic events provoking the creation of the song “Ohio” by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.
This is a fantastic song in so many ways. Thank you, Neil Young and CSNY.
Live at Fillmore East, 1969 captures the magic. The first half
is acoustic, the second electric, while the sound—overseen by Stills,
Young and John Hanlon—is pristine. Everything I’ve read indicates that
it hails from the late show on the 20th. If the Neil Young setlist site Sugar Mountain is accurate, then, a few songs were left out and the set order tweaked—similar to what Young did with his archival Young Shakespeare a few years back. Between-song patter is also excised.
Doesn’t much matter. What’s here is phenomenal. While Young waits
backstage, Crosby, Stills and Nash weave ethereal wonders during the
initial stretch of songs, with the opening “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”
giving way to a cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” while Crosby’s
“Guinnevere” is absolutely stunning thanks to Nash’s genteel harmonies,
while Nash’s “Our House”—which he’d record for Deja Vu—will
leave you singing along. Neil saunters to stage center for “On the Way
Home,” which rightly receives a round of applause at the start. “I’ve
Loved Her So Long,” a highlight from his solo debut LP, is a
stripped-down delight that’s buttressed by the addition of Nash’s
harmonies.
The electric section is as fine, if a tad more ragged, with Crosby
singing his heart out on “Long Time Gone,” and the band sailing into the
sky on “Wooden Ships.” The highlight, however, is a riveting 16-minute
“Down by the River” that floods the brain with dopamine.
54 Years Later: "Ohio", Kent State, Student Protests & The Tin Soldiers March On | #MayTheFOURBeWithYou
School Shootings ... "How many more?"
53 years ago, on May 4, 1970 at ~12:25 PM, a school shooting took place on the campus of Kent State University, Ohio.
Remember those days when students were brave enough to march in the streets and end a war?
Now that today's college students have been safely muzzled by crippling
loan debt and "woke" education, there is little need for authority to teach students a lesson
similar to that educational day of May 4, 1970. It's been 50 years
since shots rang out across a college campus, leaving four dead in Ohio and the lives of so many of that generation changed forever by the day's events.
And so, the tin soldiers march on and on... in Vietnam. Balkans. Iraq. El Salvador. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. Yemen. Ukraine. Sudan. Palestine.
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