are there any other known drawings of Phil done during his lifetime?? I haven’t found much in my searching, just the obvious few (like the gunfight at carnegie hall cover) maybe I’m not looking hard enough 😅
Hi! Sadly I can't think of many right now, only a couple. I'll try to go through my Phil stuff more closely tomorrow or whenever I have time to see if I happen to have more. But for now I can share these:
60s anti-folk pamphlet (sorry for the terrible quality), that is "geared towards tearing down the reputation of Columbia Records, as well as that of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs and Malvina Reynolds." I think the kneeling guy is supposed to be Phil
This 1974 concert poster
Ad for a benefit he did in 1969
16 Magazine Sing Along ad. Saw this one on one of Tori's accounts, they said they think the person between Cher and Leonard Nimoy is probably Phil, and I agree. He may not look like a teen idol, but he did appear in that magazine once or twice
And this last piece was published not during Phil's lifetime, but shortly after, in October issue of Esquire Magazine
what is your favorite Phil fact please I yearn for knowledge
Hi, i'm so so sorry it took me so long to answer! That yesterday's message pushed me to finally finish this post. So here's a bunch of cute or interesting or just phil things I think about a lot
1. My favourite fact is that he's silly as you can see in his War is Over songbook, where he put a picture of himself in a trashcan right next to the excerpts from negative reviews of his music😭
Couple years later he referenced the Esquire critique in his Midnight Special performance (55:35)
This is the performance he watched with those college kids he met right before and here is one of them recalling it:
2. Another amazing thing is that he was R. L. Stine's classmate in Ohio State University and both of them were involved in the humour magazine The Sundial there. Phil once told Stine he should ditch the magazine and start writing novels. Stine did that and moved to New York to pursue career as a writer, which resulted in him writing the Goosebumps series!! Sure, even if Phil hadn't told him to leave, he *probably* still would've written them, BUT! what if not?? So, we can still say we have Phil to thank for the existence of the series
3. Whatever this is (shame he lost)
4. His last meeting with Meegan is something i think about frequently. She was so young when she lost her dad, and since she didn't even live with him she got to spend so little time with him:(
"On the last day that I saw him, we went to the flea market in Sausalito, and he bought me a set of encyclopedias. And I'm pretty confident that he knew he wasn't going to be seeing me again. And he also got me a cat, which he named Rimbaud. When I was 20, and read Arthur Rimbaud, it was like, "Oh, OK. I see." I do feel like they're seeds. He was trying to leave me with little bits and pieces that I would discover over time."
5. I can't find the source right now, but I'm 99.9% positive that i've heard it from @imgonnasayitnow (Hi Tori, I hope you don't mind me tagging you). So, when Phil went on a farm to buy Pigasus for DNC 68, he got attacked and knocked to the ground by a herd of puppies, which is the cutest thing ever
6. When he was arrested in Chicago in 1968 he was behaving like a 15yo boy and bragging about his music? Go off Phil (this is a pic of his FBI file i saw on Tori's account and honestly most of the fun things I know about Phil i know from them, they're the best😅 shout out to her!!)
7. Phil's drawings that look like they really are a 15 yo boy's doodles instead of a 30+ yo man😭 (I hope the Woody Guthrie Center puts them on a exhibition one day... please...)
8. And the last thing is his response to Boradside's critic Ralph Earle who mixed up Roger Taylor and Gregory Peck in his (terrible) review of Pleasures of the Harbor
sorry to be insane but I saw you added heavenly creatures to your watchlist on letterboxd and I'm here to say Please do watch it it's so so good. it has lesbianism for real
🙏 the confirmation is all the motivation i need. WILL be watching it ASAP tomorrow bcs i miss watching good movies like holyyy this month has been mid irt movies for me
