Phil Ochs is an unjustly forgotten artist who started out as a great songwriter in a genre that already had one great songwriter for all of the other artists to cover. 1967 saw Ochs going into experimental mode, with a new label in a new city with a new life. Turning away from the headlines of the New York Times for source material, Ochs dove headfirst into painting portraits of life based ...
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Phil Ochs was a contemporary of Bob Dylan. Dylan was once quoted as saying he wished he could write songs like Phil Ochs. This was the more political Dylan, the younger more naive one who hadn't yet seen the pigeon holing that accompanied being known as a "protest singer". Well we all know what happened to Dylan, but what, perchance, happened to Mr. Ochs. Well, Phil never really shook the la...
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--- - |- Last week, in a post entitled "Live Fast, Deaf Young," the always entertaining The Deciblog posted the above photos with the following text: "Metal is a life-long commitment to nihilism and self-destruction. You don't bang your head because it's good for your neck, you don't get drunk because it's good for your liver, and you don't [...] ~~- Phil Ochs
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Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off.--2002Look at the deficits that have been run up... And Republicans have been in charge... We've been adrift in a sea of incompete...
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Ending "*a piece*":http://www.themadhatter.net/mg3ochs.htm looking twenty years back on the suicide of his friend Phil Ochs, "*Marty Gallanter*":http://www.themadhatter.net/index.htm says:An article in the October, 1976 edition of *Esquire*, by John Berendt was headlined with "While the Movement died a natural death, the music died by hanging." He was only half right. The Movement did not die, ...
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Maybe you saw this story about the 78 yr. old man in Hartford, Conn. who was the victim of a hit and run.It was disturbing, to say the least. More story and video at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/05/ignored.hitrun.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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Phil Ochs is an unjustly forgotten artist who started out as a great songwriter in a genre that already had one great songwriter for all of the other artists to cover. 1967 saw Ochs going into experimental mode, with a new label in a new city with a new life. Turning away from the headlines of the New York Times for source material, Ochs dove headfirst into painting portraits of life based ...
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