50 years ago today

[mark]

A very dark time and a huge and deadly crime, perpetrated by our government.

[89th]

Trivia: this woman is actually a 14 year old girl.

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

Some of you may know, Big Al’s wife was a student there at the time.

[bachophile]

I remember very clearly. I was 11 but understood it was a very big deal.

[jon-nyc]

Looking at these kids. Allison Kraus had just turned 19, wasn’t even part of the protest.

As Neil Young says, ‘what if you knew her and found her dead the ground?’

[jon-nyc]

[Copper]

That was a fast 50 years.

[jon-nyc]

Such a distinctive sound he gets at the beginning of this piece.

Mark, Improv, other guitar peeps, any idea what he’s doing there?

[Mik]

My brother and his family live in Kent and worked at the university. It's never far from the surface.

[Copper]

79 haunting photos from the Kent State University shootings you’ve likely never seen before

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/05/79-haunting-photos-from-the-kent-state-university-shootings-youve-likely-never-seen-before.html

[Improviso]

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:

Such a distinctive sound he gets at the beginning of this piece.

Mark, Improv, other guitar peeps, any idea what he’s doing there?

Notice at the beginning, he's tuning? He's tuning the low E string to a D, which is called "drop D" tuning. The other distinct thing he's doing is hammering the string. He hits the string first and THEN places his finger on the string.

Found this that can explain it better.

Link to video

[Improviso]

While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

That’s interesting, thanks for posting that.

Oh, and Copper, cool photos, good find.

[bachophile]

@89th said in 50 years ago today:

Trivia: this woman is actually a 14 year old girl.

If memory serves, that girl was a runaway from home, and after the photo she was found and returned to her parents.

[Aqua Letifer]

Joe Walsh was a student there, too.

[jon-nyc]

@Improviso said in 50 years ago today:

While in the subject of Neil Young, this was pretty cool. I remember watching it when it was live. Couldn't believe it was Fallon.

I remember we had a thread on it.

Fallon was impressive. Young still has his voice.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:

Young still has his voice.

Which I always hated.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in 50 years ago today:

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:

Young still has his voice.

Which I always hated.

I strongly suspect that there's a 1:1 correlation between liking Neil Young and geographic proximity to New England.

[jon-nyc]

He's a Canuck.

I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in 50 years ago today:

He's a Canuck.

I have really grown to appreciate his songs over the years.

I know, I think it's a region thing, not a political map thing. Canadians in that area like him, too.

He's an absolutely bad ass songwriter and guitarist. Folks might not like him, but he's damn talented anyway.

Saw him play with Crazy Horse in PA a couple of times in the 90s. I was there, man.