What a song! It was so powerful. I was 16 years old. Two years from draft age in 1970. I have been a huge fan of Neil Young since WoodStock and Ohio is an absolute masterpiece! Long May he run!
If you guys are ever in Ohio... take the time and walk the grounds at Kent State...chilling!...one of the true Religious experiences I've had in my Life. among the other things you feel !!!!!
Neil sounds strong and this magnificent song still brings me to tears. May the Creator bless this man with good health and joy for all long as he wants. Grateful for all he’s created and given, helping people everywhere. Thanks for posting this.
This is amazing at his age and I can't tell his voice is any different than when I heard this on the radio when it was a hit! I was in high school and a fellow classman had a project asking if the Kent State students deserved to die and the National Guardsmen were right in shooting them. I said no. He was enraged and at the top of his lungs he started shouting. It was divisive times and I also got kicked out of a host family's home where I paid for rent and daily dinner with the family while I was attending vocational school. I only expressed very quietly and always politely my view against the war and that I didn't like Nixon and that I was going to vote for McGovern.
I know a Green Beret, who was back from 3 tours in Vietnam. Stationed in Ohio spring of 1970. He wasn't on campus that particular day. But after May 4th was overheard by his CO saying, "Ohio National Guard 4, Kent State ZERO!" Needless to say, he got transferred immediately.
Typhoon Pamela in Guam in 1975 killed the power for 3 weeks. We used car batteries to blast this song out from our Navy barracks. I think the whole island could hear it.
Kent, Ohio was my home during my graduate student attendance @ KSU 1973-74.. Watergate hearings and the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974. On August 31, 1974, CSNY headlined and closed the "World Series Of Rock" @ Cleveland Municipal Stadium with Ohio of course. Jesse Colin Young The Band Santana CSNY
I wasn't there, I was in high school at the time. Such a great and meaningful song. I wonder what newer generations think of it. Does it shake them up like it does for me?
@@SoItGoesCAL34 I don't think it shakes them up; those of us old enough to understand had shared experiences from the 60's and 70's. Fifty-three years ago, 1970; fifty-three years before that marked the U.S. entry into WW I, 1917. Time changes so much.
@@Bluesmn9the first time I heard this song was 3 years ago in 2020. I was 23 years old. I legitimately laid down, and sobbed while singing along. We most certainly understand, and are not buying the bs of Militaized industrial complex. I stand with all of Creation as Sacred and Equal.
The Kent State shootings didn’t just result in the senseless murder of four college students protesting the war in Vietnam, it inflicted a deep wound in the national psyche. The country was already deeply divided. Kent State made it worse. Neil captured the anguish so powerfully in “Ohio.”
There's an indy artist in Connecticut that just started doing a Neil Young solo tribute show and it's absolutely amazing how much he sounds like Neil, even on his own original music. I've never heard anyone whose voice is this close to Neil's. He just posted a video of a full performance of the show (he calls it "The Loner: The Music of Neil Young") he did at a small club in Bridgeport, CT. See what you think. th-cam.com/video/GKktfL-ThKo/w-d-xo.html
18. I was in college, but didn't go back in January 71. Wanted to stay home with my girlfriend. I went through the draft lottery. High number. Though I later enlisted in the Navy I have no idea what I would have done if my number had been low.
✌🏻Right-on! "Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine. Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement. Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species. Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them. Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation." Oliver Sacks "Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music. In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God. One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind." Hazrat Inayat Khan 🙏🏻
I'm pretty sure that's the same stereo White Falcon he's had since the 1960s and am also pretty sure he used it for the original recording. He and Stills and Crosby were all big Gretsch players back then.
@@19tractor52 Yeah, here is a good live video of them, this time Stills has a White Falcon, and Neil an orange Chet Atkins model, I think that was his main guitar in Buffalo Springfield...he originally was inspired to get one by seeing Randy Bachman playing one back in his High School days in Winnipeg th-cam.com/video/F0NjZrPX-l0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the upload, what was he talking about buying for 800 bucks? That guitar? if so in the late 60s that was a lot of money...but worth every penny for sure
looking at other performances, I think he was talking about the old pump organ he had probably just used on the previous song, makes more sense, in the other one he said it may have been a furniture store, he wasn't sure lol
Saw him in 2008 and he was still great.I think his solo 99 tour was probally his best vocally and playing wise.Hes really having trouble playing now and his vocals arent there.
Where was he for the Canadian Truckers Strike? NOt a word from him, nor show of support for the working man, their families and Canadians. I dont get it, unless he's a shill for Trudeau. Say it aint so Neil---please. Legitimate question, so save the attacks--what we cant ask questions anymore? He owes an answer given his songs for the working man and love for Canada. Lets hear it Neil--he's known to get very angry and volatile when challenged.
@@billr2375 Are you so sure he said nothing? That wouldn't be like him and I have had acquaintances in his sphere going back 50 + years. You are right about one thing nonetheless: he has a real mean temper, at least historically.
For some of us, this song will never be out of date. Honestly, it shouldn't be for any of us. I came home from Vietnam on April 30. Kent State happened on May 4. May this song live on to remind us so that we always strive to be a more perfect union. Lest we forget.
![Neil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video)](/img/n.gif)
God bless this man. What an incredible musician and a incredible humanitarian. He is an absolute national treasure…
Yes a CANADIAN national treasure!
@@peterwalker7728you got it brother...no sense in pilling on
..
He even has a t shirt with a maple leaf on it.
Neil is a World treasure just like Lennon was. 👍
True music is still briljant
Only sad he turned pro government
Pro vaccine
Pro climat hoax
What a song! It was so powerful. I was 16 years old. Two years from draft age in 1970. I have been a huge fan of Neil Young since WoodStock and Ohio is an absolute masterpiece! Long May he run!
One of THEE most brilliant guitar riffs ever. Even Eddie Van Halen couldn't come up with this one.
One of my guitar hero's. The voice is still there and the guitar brings memories from long ago.
Song still brings chills, after all these years.
Same here, as I'm listening now. We've learned much in these past decades. But, not nearly enough.
Me too
Mee too!
Yes, tears from when I was in college after Kent State.
If you guys are ever in Ohio... take the time and walk the grounds at Kent State...chilling!...one of the true Religious experiences I've had in my Life. among the other things you feel !!!!!
Keep goin NEIL you've been my hero for over 50 Years .
Neil's looking his years but he is still on fire!
Neil sounds strong and this magnificent song still brings me to tears. May the Creator bless this man with good health and joy for all long as he wants. Grateful for all he’s created and given, helping people everywhere. Thanks for posting this.
A much-exercised voice weakens in old age, along with the body, but a much-exercised spirit grows stronger.
God bless Neil Young.
What an INCREDIBLE guitar sound!!
I'm grateful that SN&Y are still around. RIP David Crosby
A loss to musikk.
Killer - and that tone. Amazing. Thanks for this.
Big ole hollowbody Gretsch and those Filtertron pickups don't hurt!!!
No denying his guitar tone.
Great tone🎸✨🌎
Still brilliant and rocking after all these years!! Thanks, Neil!
Neil Young a big part of my growing up, I bought my first album I think in 1970.
Neil Young is the steely-eyed missile man☮️☮️☮️
Powerful as ever! Thanks! 🙌
Nice to see he's bringing out the electric this tour!
This song takes me both way back and ahead. Neil's songs continue to paint vivid and relatable images and stories.
Times are not A'Canghing..
Still rings true today. .. We have not Taught Our Children Well..
Sounds like hes 25 years old BE WELL NEIL I love ya keep rocking
Neil Young plays as good as ever. An great american born in Canada,
He still has his Canadian citizenship. True north strong and free!
Know he got an am. citizenship in the U.S. in the 1970s. So he has both. Ok
Only Canada can claim him. He is not America in anyway!
Rock & Roll can never die.
Hey Hey, My My
there's more to the picture than meets the eye.
As relevant as always. Neil still rocks.
Lol
in a less than free world
Have a great message.,....be remembered
Defining song for a generation and the generations who came before. As for those who come after....
Another GREAT Canadian musician.
liberal jagoff.
Boy have we’ve been blessed!!!!
This is amazing at his age and I can't tell his voice is any different than when I heard this on the radio when it was a hit! I was in high school and a fellow classman had a project asking if the Kent State students deserved to die and the National Guardsmen were right in shooting them. I said no. He was enraged and at the top of his lungs he started shouting. It was divisive times and I also got kicked out of a host family's home where I paid for rent and daily dinner with the family while I was attending vocational school. I only expressed very quietly and always politely my view against the war and that I didn't like Nixon and that I was going to vote for McGovern.
You need hearing aids
I know a Green Beret, who was back from 3 tours in Vietnam. Stationed in Ohio spring of 1970. He wasn't on campus that particular day. But after May 4th was overheard by his CO saying, "Ohio National Guard 4, Kent State ZERO!"
Needless to say, he got transferred immediately.
Sounds SO great!
STILL SOUNDS GREAT !
I know, right?
I remember when our government killed these people,they aren’t beyond it again ⚠️
Neil very much appreciate you sir 💖
I was in college in Ohio when the killings at Kent State happened. This song always pierces my heart. Love you Neil.
@@annewhaples2381How loud was the whole shooting for the observers in and around the college?
Thank you...
I’ve seen CSN
Stephen Stills
And to finish the bucket list, Neil Young❤
Neil,
Please tour So Cal
Please
4 deaD IN OHIO THE DAY AFTER I GOT HOME FROM GERMANY. IT STILL HURTS!
The White Falcon gives this song the biting edge it deserves. Hope he plays it tomorrow night.
Typhoon Pamela in Guam in 1975 killed the power for 3 weeks. We used car batteries to blast this song out from our Navy barracks. I think the whole island could hear it.
Kent, Ohio was my home during my graduate student attendance @ KSU 1973-74..
Watergate hearings and the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974. On August 31, 1974, CSNY headlined and closed the "World Series Of Rock" @ Cleveland Municipal Stadium with Ohio of course.
Jesse Colin Young
The Band
Santana
CSNY
Wrote some of the best songs that follow and dictated the story of Our Lives
Thank you Neil, and yes long may you run.
Dave in Cleveland, Ohio
I’m going to see him at the Greek Theater in Berkeley this Saturday 7/15/2023.
Effin Legend.
Saw Stephen Stills in Frisco and Vegas. Legen……..dary 🔥💯
Love Neil. Saw the Stones from the front of the stage at this venue.
Yeah, this song brings chills and tears. I was there when four fellow students were murdered by the Ohio National Guard.
I wasn't there, I was in high school at the time. Such a great and meaningful song. I wonder what newer generations think of it. Does it shake them up like it does for me?
@@SoItGoesCAL34 I don't think it shakes them up; those of us old enough to understand had shared experiences from the 60's and 70's. Fifty-three years ago, 1970; fifty-three years before that marked the U.S. entry into WW I, 1917. Time changes so much.
@@Bluesmn9the first time I heard this song was 3 years ago in 2020. I was 23 years old. I legitimately laid down, and sobbed while singing along. We most certainly understand, and are not buying the bs of Militaized industrial complex. I stand with all of Creation as Sacred and Equal.
Un immense songwriter. S'il en reste un c'est lui. Forever Young.
❤❤❤ love this!
Dedicated to Greg Abbot and the brave Guardsmen repeating the folly this song commemorates
He can still do his thing in 2023. What an icon.
Legend!
Good job, Mr. Neil Young🙂👍
The Kent State shootings didn’t just result in the senseless murder of four college students protesting the war in Vietnam, it inflicted a deep wound in the national psyche. The country was already deeply divided. Kent State made it worse. Neil captured the anguish so powerfully in “Ohio.”
Neil is showing us how to do it.
Still amazing!
awesome!
There's an indy artist in Connecticut that just started doing a Neil Young solo tribute show and it's absolutely amazing how much he sounds like Neil, even on his own original music. I've never heard anyone whose voice is this close to Neil's. He just posted a video of a full performance of the show (he calls it "The Loner: The Music of Neil Young") he did at a small club in Bridgeport, CT. See what you think. th-cam.com/video/GKktfL-ThKo/w-d-xo.html
Goosebumps
neil young
epic
❤
NY has always had his head screwed on just right. My us boomers these are the feels.
u go Neil
18. I was in college, but didn't go back in January 71. Wanted to stay home with my girlfriend. I went through the draft lottery. High number. Though I later enlisted in the Navy I have no idea what I would have done if my number had been low.
Neil young is absolutely the best!
My favorite 🎉🎉
Gem of Canada
Im cryin thx Neil covid fkd up alot of lives
Or maybe it saved a lot of lives , you don't know, you're just guessing
👌👌😎
Neil Epic😁
nice
Neil has more awesome songs than anyone ever. Trust the math.
Yes , Neil has over 1200 songs and counting. Twice as many as Dylan. More than McCartney, Springsteen,Petty, Clapton, etc......
Lest we forget
Oh I hope he comes to europe soon!
👏👏👏👏
Neil Young is My Co-Pilot!
✌🏻Right-on!
"Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine. Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement. Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.
Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation."
Oliver Sacks
"Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music.
In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind."
Hazrat Inayat Khan
🙏🏻
🤯🔥❤️
😅😊❤❤❤❤
Strange selection of guitars for this tune. But whatever Neil wants is fine by me. Long live Neil. My all time favorite artist.
That is the guitar he recorded the song with and has always played the song electrically with
I'm pretty sure that's the same stereo White Falcon he's had since the 1960s and am also pretty sure he used it for the original recording. He and Stills and Crosby were all big Gretsch players back then.
@@19tractor52 Yeah, here is a good live video of them, this time Stills has a White Falcon, and Neil an orange Chet Atkins model, I think that was his main guitar in Buffalo Springfield...he originally was inspired to get one by seeing Randy Bachman playing one back in his High School days in Winnipeg
th-cam.com/video/F0NjZrPX-l0/w-d-xo.html
Wish I had 800 bucks babe
🔆🌟🌟🔆
Thanks for the upload, what was he talking about buying for 800 bucks? That guitar? if so in the late 60s that was a lot of money...but worth every penny for sure
looking at other performances, I think he was talking about the old pump organ he had probably just used on the previous song, makes more sense, in the other one he said it may have been a furniture store, he wasn't sure lol
Saw him in 2008 and he was still great.I think his solo 99 tour was probally his best vocally and playing wise.Hes really having trouble playing now and his vocals arent there.
He is over 80 years old …are you possibly being a little demanding with expectations ?? He is lucky to be on stage ! Be grateful !
@@MusicVault 77 is the new 57
@MusicVault he's 77 years old.
Definitely showing his age
@martinmartin8871 yeah I used to think 50 was the new 30!? After 50 yrs in the building trades my 67 feels like 87!😂
Canada's Best: Rush, Neil Young, Hockey lol
How can you run when you know.........
I thought this tour was supposed to be deep cuts?
Gretch guitar...crazy tone. What is the amp?
Fender 5E3 Deluxe probably.
As a proud Gretsch owner, I think you're correct. No Les Paul this time.
How much are tickets to this?
I dunno…how much?😮
I hear he wrote this for Daryl Hannah.
Well, Neil wrote it in 1970 and she was born in 1960 so??? Where the hell do people come up with this shit?
Reminds me of the time me granddad wandered from the home, and we found him at the karaoke bar.
Your granddad has over 1200 songs and a $200,000,000 networth?
@@artvallejos1460 No my granddad’s a decrepit old man who can’t sing.
@@piggyroo100
too bad, it looks like Neil Young out did your granddad .
@@piggyroo100 how much were the tix ?
@@sloburnjo No cover
Rogan 2024!
Fukkin A Todd!
Got any Cinnamon Girl from that show?
✌🧡 happy america day 💔
you get choked up too. i can't sing through the chorus.
Neil is my favorite artist of all time, so I say this with the greatest respect and admiration. I think it's time to put away songs like this.
😮 Is it just the lighting or is hare gray.
Thought Neil doesn't like protesters anymore??
Yeah, right.
Where was he for the Canadian Truckers Strike? NOt a word from him, nor show of support for the working man, their families and Canadians. I dont get it, unless he's a shill for Trudeau. Say it aint so Neil---please. Legitimate question, so save the attacks--what we cant ask questions anymore? He owes an answer given his songs for the working man and love for Canada. Lets hear it Neil--he's known to get very angry and volatile when challenged.
@@billr2375 Are you so sure he said nothing? That wouldn't be like him and I have had acquaintances in his sphere going back 50 + years. You are right about one thing nonetheless: he has a real mean temper, at least historically.
@@billr2375
he doesn't owe us a damn thing.
His songs are payment enough.
@@billr2375old man take a look at my life
electric makes a powerful audio.
um, er, uh. gosh. I mean, jeez...
He should of went out with a band. It’s like he is working things out , but charging people full price. No thanks.
Still playin' and singin'? 😮😮😮
Its like his song Old Man has come full circle. Time to retire or die. No burn out before you fade away like a real rock god....
For some of us, this song will never be out of date. Honestly, it shouldn't be for any of us. I came home from Vietnam on April 30. Kent State happened on May 4. May this song live on to remind us so that we always strive to be a more perfect union. Lest we forget.
Looks like Neil Old to me.
4 dead on Oh High Oh
Some people better retire in time and grace....