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excerpts from a SATIRE article written by phil ochs, "an interview by fans in the underground of greenwich village," circa mid 1960s

#phil ochs #folk music #60s #writing

an astrological take on phil ochs (born december 19th, 1940), ascendant in virgo ♍︎ ↑

#phil ochs #folk music #collection #note: “of good memory” did not apply to song lyrics or contact lenses in his case. or in general #he was pretty much textbook inattentive type adhd by today's standards #mainly added that bit because he certainly was “super-sensitive”

"who was that man in the gold lamé suit" by phil ochs circa 1970

#phil ochs #poetry #70s #writing

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin — July 13, 1968

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The Tribune — July 13, 1989

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phil ochs photographed by ron cobb with a close acquaintance in los angeles, 1967

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i have been wondering this for a long while. it totally looks real but i also wonder if it may have been a very realistic movie prop that he or cobb managed to borrow, since several if not all of these were taken in hollywood.

only other things i can think of are an oddity market like you said or maybe he and/or cobb managed to get a university to hand it over LOL. there is a goth store near me that sells human bones including skulls, there's definitely still a market for it and it was probably less shocking back then when post-mortem photography had only been out of vogue for about 20 or 30 years. plus phil had some pretty morbid humor and did at least two comic photoshoots in cemeteries, both of which were also shot by ron cobb

i don't think phil owned the skull since i haven't seen it outside of this one shoot. cobb was a visual artist so perhaps he used it as a ref?

hollowofhaze

mystery of #myskull semi-resolved? (robin love is ron cobb's widow)

#ok so like not at all

lyrics to "here's to the state of richard nixon" by phil ochs, a rewrite of his "here's to the state of mississippi," typewritten by the author at the apartment of chip berlet on january 20th, 1974

phil explained the song in a march 22nd, 1974 interview with the ann arbor sun:

“So [‘Here's to the State of Mississippi’] was a study of the symbology of evil. Being born in the south myself, I didn't feel comfortable attacking it, so I stopped singing the song for a while. Especially after Mississippi John Hurt, one drunken night, said ‘Phil, you really shouldn't sing that song anymore. After all, people like me are from Mississippi too.’

So I had to look around for a new symbol of evil and along he came in 1968, more than I could hope for, and I switched the song, right around the time of Cambodia and Kent State. I kept rewriting it—you know Agnew used to be in it—to the changing circumstances. Finally over Xmas we recorded it.”

#phil ochs #folk music #70s #writing

phil ochs with his teen idol, faron young, (+ a broken arm from a heated confrontation phil had with a wall) at the palomino, north hollywood, february 15th, 1974

#phil ochs #folk music #faron young #classic country #70s #photo #i ain't mogging anymore

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knuckle tattoos that say PHIL OCHS

i’ve heard that the liner notes on phil ochs in concert are mao zedong poems. as i do not own the album, i, alas, do not know which poems these are. do you, maybe, perhaps, perchance, know what the poems are?

changsha, tapoti, loushan pass, snow, yellow crane tower, kunlun, the immortals, & reply to mr. liu ya-tzu. i posted a scan of the in concert liner notes at this link <3

#ask

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PHIL OCHS - The War Is Over

★ ✮ ☆ “but this land is still troubled by men who have to hate

they twist away our freedom and they twist away our fate

fear is their weapon and treason is their cry

we can stop them if we try”

– verse from an early version of "power and the glory" by phil ochs (1963)

photos: ochs photographed by tom wilkes for the cover of his album rehearsals for retirement, los angeles, 1969

#phil ochs #folk music #60s #photo #This then is the death of the American

“MAYBE WE HAVE TO begin by attacking the automobile. Or the asphalt and concrete which, made necessary by the automobile, are poured out on the earth. Nature won't tolerate that for long.”

"political folksinger with soul," an interview with phil ochs by the rev. larry jones for the honolulu star bulletin, july 21-22, 1968

#phil ochs #folk music #60s #newspaper #interview #he actually never worked for rfk though he admired him