Neil Young Journeys is primarily a concert film starring legendary rocker Neil Young with a few scenes of him talking about his childhood while driving through his childhood home in a small town in Canada. The concert just shows Neil onstage while playing his guitar and keyboards. Most of the songs are newer songs with a few "classics" thrown in such as Hey Hey My My, Down By The River and Ohio. While performing his hit song Ohio, which was Neil's rather angry response to the senseless shootings by the Ohio National Guardsman of four college students at Kent State University while students were protesting the Vietnam War, footage of the shootings as well as pictures of the four slain college students was shown while he was playing the song. Also, while he was singing a song called Hitchhiker, there was a POV cam put underneath Neil's microphone and, well, let's just say the footage gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "spitting distance," all right? In any case, diehard fans will undoubtedly enjoy this film. As for others, well, let's just say this film would NOT be for fans of Justin Beiber, if you know what I mean! A sidenote: It should probably probably go without saying that all the guardsman who killed those four students were never held legally accountable for the senseless shootings as they were acquitted of any & all wrongdoing save for a court case brought on by the families of the victims that was settled out-of-court with the stipulation that said family members make a public statement that basically absolved the guardsman of the shootings. That's Nixonian "justice" for ya! NOTE: Here's a clip from YouTube of Neil Young's "Ohio" performance from Journeys:
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