In May 1970 I was in high-school, and had a pretty good garage band going. Had a couple of originals including some pretty strong protest stuff. When "Ohio" came out, we learned it immediately and got requests to play it everywhere we performed.
Even though my views on such things have changed and morphed a lot in nearly 55 years, I still have trouble singing it without it catching in my throat.
I am sorry to say that I believe that this summer, our government will do something similar, though to whom I can't predict. Could be protesters, could be citizens, could be you and me. Interesting times ahead.
...Interesting times ahead.
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Wasn’t this an anvien5 Chinese proverb or some kind?
Oh man, I'm a cluster of emotions. I graduated in '69, kicked around for a couple of years while doing a local college, joined the USN in '71. The deaths of those 4 college students was hard to take...couldn't imagine being their parents. I was proud of our flag, supported our military, was behind our government's war in Vietnam, still cry when I visit the Vietnam Memorial. I hated hippies and spit on protesters and draft-dodgers (figuratively). Now days, I've changed and classify myself as a war-protestor. While I wouldn't escape to Canada if I was called up for duty, I no longer support America's wars around the world. As for the music of that age...it was too good to turn my back on. I just had to separate the music from the politics of the music. Have a lot of that music on VINYL. Still ticked off that I didn't attend Woodstock.