Turn to Stone response to Kent State Shootings?

[sodascouts]

I was reading about the Kent State Shootings on Wikipedia and on there at the "Artistic Tributes" it states: "Joe Walsh, who briefly attended Kent State, has said that he wrote 'Turn to Stone' in response to the shootings." There's no citation. Since I'm leery of Wikipedia, has anyone heard about this quote elsewhere?

ETA: I made sure to post this after the related Trivial Pursuit question had been answered.

[sodascouts]

These are the lyrics to the Barnstorm version:

Hey now, the well's run dry
Pages of your book on fire
Read the writing on the wall
Hoedown, it's a show-down
Everywhere you look we're fighting, hear the call
And you know it's gettin' stronger
I don't think they can last much longer
Turn to stone

Well there's a change in the wind
You know the signs don't lie
Such a strange feelin' that I don't know why
It's takin' such a long time
They're backyard people and they work all day
The day gets wasted, it's safe to say that their tastin'
To make the words rhyme
And you know it's gettin' stronger
You can't make 'em run that much longer
Turn to stone



These are the lyrics to the solo version:

Hey, now, the well's run dry
Pages of your book on fire
Read the writing on the wall
Hoe down, it's a showdown
Everywhere you look we're fighting, hear the call
And you know it's gettin' stronger
It can't last very much longer
Turn to stone

Well, there's a change in the wind
You know the signs don't lie
Such a strange feeling and I don't know why
It's takin' such a long time

Backyard people and they work all day
Tired of the speeches
And the way that the reasons keep changin'
Just to make the words rhyme

And you know it's getting stronger
Can't fake 'em out much longer
Turn to stone

And you know it's getting stronger
It can't last very much longer
Turn to stone

[Freypower]

I have never heard anything about this but, while it is nowhere near as explicit as CSNY's Ohio, there does seem to be a suggestion of it.

[MikeA]

There's no question but that it is a statement of the times. I'd not heard it was specifically written from inspiration (if that's the right word) resulting from the Kent State situation but it would not surprise me at all were it confirmed by Joe that is was an expression of his disgust about the military unloading on the students. He's made no secret of the impact that it had on his life and his horror of it.