Phil Ochs' tragic decline was marked by alcoholism, mental illness, and paranoia, culminating in his suicide in 1976. His erratic behavior, adoption of an alternate persona, John Butler Train, and belief in conspiracies alarmed friends and family, who tried unsuccessfully to help him. Despite a final effort to create an album documenting his psychosis, he ultimately took his own life.
The song above, entitled posthumously as 'You're All Full of Sh*t', and without any public tabs to my knowledge, was the last-ever public concert recording of Phil Ochs before his suicide and was considered lost media for many years. I recovered the recording in early 2021 and found it on my hard drive recent...