Phil Ochs

A blog dedicated to Phil Ochs, '60s and '70s singer-songwriter, guitarist, and political activist.

[hollowofhaze]

“It goes beyond insanity. There is too much reason today.”

"smiling protester lives for today," a profile of phil ochs including excerpts from an interview by enn raudsepp for the globe and mail, september 14th, 1966

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Why is The Crucifixion instrumentation so scary.

[hollowofhaze]

a&m publicity for phil ochs' single "outside of a small circle of friends" b/w "miranda," both from pleasures of the harbor, in billboard: the international music-record newsweekly, december 2nd, 1967

[achaoticwildcharstellium]

Happy very late Phillie Autumn to my southern hemisphere cool people that exist in the world omg yay except Halloween cannot be in autumn in the southern hemisphere but the sticker looked nice to add ok?????????????????????????????

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs photographed by fred w. mcdarrah at the "war is over" rally phil organized in washington square park, new york city, november 25th, 1967

phil can be seen passing out noisemakers and hershey bars to his fellow agitators, because the director of the selective service system during the vietnam war was one general lewis blaine hershey.

[moonlitdriver]

Everyday a decision is made

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[babedylan]

parasocial relationships are bad except for me and 1960s folk singer phil ochs because i know him personally and he's actually a close friend of mine 🙄

[hollowofhaze]

“It goes beyond insanity. There is too much reason today.”

"smiling protester lives for today," a profile of phil ochs including excerpts from an interview by enn raudsepp for the globe and mail, september 14th, 1966

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The Boston Globe — May 26, 1968

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non-60s artists who have covered / paid homage to phil ochs in their music

on their 1980 album “sandinista!”, british punk rock band the clash sampled lyrics from phil ochs’s poem “united fruit” in their song “up in heaven, not only here”, sang by guitarist mick jones

american singer-songwriter jello biafra (formerly of dead kennedys) and mojo nixon covered phil ochs’s “love me, i’m a liberal” on 1995 album “prairie home invasion, with updated lyrics

canadian american singer-songwriter ani defranco covered “when i’m gone” in 2000

english punk-folk artist billy bragg has had numerous songs in homage to phil ochs, such as a cover of “chords of fame”, and a homage to him in the song “i dreamed i saw phil ochs last night.”

american band they might be giants covered “one more parade” in 1990

punk rock band squirrel bait covered “tape from california” in 1987

english singer songwriter thea gilmore covered “when i’m gone” in 2004

eddie vedder of american rock/grunge band pearl jam covered “here’s to the state of mississippi” in 2006

american pop artist lady gaga performed phil ochs’s “the war is over” in 2016, although in questionable circumstances (private concert for hillary clinton’s election campaign ?)

british singer-songwriter morrissey (formerly of smiths) covered “days of decision” in 2019 (also questionable because it’s morrissey)

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Really love that guy who yells "yeah!" during Santo Domingo on Live Again. Me too, audience member from 1973. Me too

[scarletafterglow]

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The new book about the Beatles and Bob Dylan doesn't have Near enough mentions of Phil Ochs

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The Baltimore Sun — May 20, 1970

[babedylan]

does anybody know who phil ochs really is

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs compares seeing jefferson airplane live to cumming in a 1968 interview with gordon friesen published posthumously in broadside ballads vol. 11: interviews with phil ochs