Phil Ochs - Highwayman/Interview/Changes
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2011
- Phil appears on "Come, Read To Me a Poem" on April 12, 1967 in New York City.
1. "The Highwayman" performance at 02:09
2. Interview at 08:50
3. "Changes" performance at 15:50 - Hudba
Now here is a talented guy that did not get nearly enough recognition.
+bigfurlan He got far more recognition then he needed or deserved. People do not realize that he was the first person to spotlight the CIA's real involvement in third world politics. This action led directly to all that followed in his life.
There were/are those who made sure of it....
@@thomashigens101you surely mean to say , that he got way too much "recognition" from the cia... (which isn't a fault of his, he was just doing his best)...
nevertheless he wasn't only a talented guy , but someone who took that talent and created enormous value with it: God rest his merry soul in eternal joy!
"I've been trapped by New York City and arrested by the cement." Love that quote from this interview...
The great man in great voice. I could never want any more than this. God bless you Phil.
I saw Ochs in Atlanta at the Great SouthEastern Music Hall around 1974 . He was the GREATEST of them all . I have seen Dylan , Pete Seeger , many of the greats . Phil , in his day , was like none other . God Bless him . R.I.P my friend .
what can be said, fantastic, love you phil
Phil was done in by tragedy and sadness. I recited this poem in 8th grade but it didn't pernitrate how sad it was.
Thanks so much for posting this. have loved his songs since the 60's but never saw him live or much video of him till these youtube days.
Maiyim, "Pleasures of the Harbor" still ranks as one of my favorite songs I've come to know and love. Have a great time in Japan. I'm sure many in Mystic will carry you in spirit.
I can really relate to him in so many ways and if it wasn't fot Phil Ochs I probably would never get into folk music to be honest, especially since I am a musician myself and am naturally drawn to people whose voices fall more or less in the same range as me, I admire bob dylan but its nice to see a folksinger with a natural tenor voice
I think,I adore every cell in Phil.
Great insight into his creative process and personality. Thanks so much for this.
Good to see Phil. Be sure to check out the Facebook group Celebrating Phil Ochs' 75th Birthday and the website Celebrating Phil Ochs.
a real treasure here! Many "thank you-s" for posting!
Damn, I wish that Phil was still with us today. He would have a field day with today's politics!
Yes & tragically it has been a vicious cycle repeating itself almost EXACTLY back to the Sixties situations...YET we should've LEARNED BETTER BY NOW. It's odd how the alt-right hangs around NAZIS yet claim they believe in freedom & liberty/American values.. Ignorance is bliss but it's up to the rest of US United to stand up for those ignorants evils, platitudes, problems & positions of politics, + especially their poisoning of the stream of socials sciences & streams of consciousness
Phil Ochs would be a Trump supporter today
@@petetaggerez1282 plz he would a 1000% be an annoying resistance lib like all his boomer peers. Everyone who didn’t move to the center are either dead or demoralized from politics entirely.
@@flyingsloth730 You might be right, but if his biography is accurate, Phil was already moving away from the left in the years before he died. His suicide might have been out of despair for his fading political faith.
@@petetaggerez1282Phil was openly identifying as a socialist and a Marxist by 1972. in 1974 he spoke out against capitalism and organized a benefit for Chilean refugees following the coup that killed Allende. a man who so viscerally hated Nixon would never support Trump.
The interviewer seems to have done her homework. She is familiar with Ochs' \ work and asks intelligent questions. She also avoids any political discussion. I assume this must have been a PBS show, Who is/was the interviewer?
does anyone know who the hostess was? And if this was a regular program? I looked up "Come, Read To Me a Poem" and all that came up was this.
thanks for posting this. it is great to see a rare ochs appearance on film, although the interviewer is a little too "groovy" to me. the fact that people are still arguing over phil ochs so many years after his death just shows how important he was.
A critic once said his guitar playing wouldn't much suffer if his right hand were webbed. How wrong he was.
He definitely had more chops than he let on all the time! He was no Paul Simon, but he was no slouch either!
Is that Linda Ellerbee? Some grown ups my age know her from Nick News, but I only know and love Phil Ochs because of my mom. This is a real treasure of a video. Thank you for uploading.
Changes may have been my only guitar finger-picked song from my teenagehood.
Best moment of the interview:
Interviewer: One thing about poetry you know how when you learn something, and you know it's taught to you and you feel you know, terribly stupid, and the thing you're left with is ignorance. But good poetry somehow doesn't make you feel ignorant. It really makes you feel like, ahhhh!, like you've known it all along.
who really wanted this to be an 18 minute Highwaymen
The most significant melody of that age. As good as any Elvis Young and Beautiful, Buddy Holly Everyday, Just My Imagination. There is only this. Poetry to music. If Walt Whitman could sing int he 1960s, he may have been angry he didnt write and sing this.
Great poem, great song, great talent that burned out way too soon. The only problem (besides weeping almost every time I have heard it) I have with "The Highwayman" is the same problem I have with The Godfather, The Sopranos or any other crime story: I don't want to care about the people, particularly the criminals in them. Yet, especially with British history, one can understand how a person can go down that path. And when stories are told with great art, as those have been, it is impossible not to care for them.
Was this transposed from CED?
@ukevids Just saw the Phil Ochs IV on that NYC Poetry TV show. Well found, thanks for that. I noticed you overdubbed "Changes", The show recording was that bad hey? No worries,
I plan on making some songs out of some Poems from: Dirt Road Visionary by John Charles Griffin. I remember from when I was VERY young I loved Humpty Dumpty now it seems to have become as real again as it was back when it was written about a tyrant/arrogant/foolish English king. What she has to say about Poetry really is great & very deeply true of it {No posturing.}
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@11xzxzxz no problem 11xzxzxz i'm happy to help
I believe the lady's name is Gioia Timpanelli.
kinda of funny considering not far of was "Tin pan Alley" :p
Rats!!! It will not play for me. I will try again later, Sigh...
@11xzxzxz radicals are not liberals. the last radical liberal was Robespierre
@11xzxzxz Wait, what?
"I meant that compared to the normal great Phil Och's songs"
Didn't you call him "Phil Jokes Ochs" in your previous comment?
"wrong that I would disagree that Phil was a consistently great melody maker"
You said in your previous comment that his melodies were mediocre.
" don't think he doesn't have one of the greatest & most distinctive voices ever"
You said in your previous comment that his voice was vapid.
Make up your mind, because you're giving mixed signals here. O_o
I hate to say this.....so i won't
@11xzxzxz I don't remember having seen a more backhanded and inconsistent comment in my life. Unsuitable lyrics? I disagree. Mediocre melodies? I can name an artist or two who've had more consistently good melodic sense, but I disagree with you still. Vapid voice? Quite the opposite. I think it was very distinctive and had a lot of character. Poor politics? Apparently you're not liberal; only conservatives would think a thing like that. I do agree, however, that he was indeed very handsome.