My brother, a friend and I, saw Phil Ochs in Greenwich Village in 1964. We each bought an album from him. In 1977 I picked up a woman hitchhiking across the Golden Gate Bridge. She was Phil's ex-wife, and I guess sort of his ex-widow, and she gave me one piece of information. She said that obviously Phil was a talent. However their friend named Bob Dylan would "just pull songs out of the air" seemingly with no effort. "It was amazing." I think both Phil and Bob had important things to tell.
Bob Dylan in an interview talked about how he made a deal with the devil to be a great musician. That's how many musicians & actors get their "gifts & talents!"
Bob Dylan had ghostwriters and sold his soul to the devil (by his own admission btw) As Phil Ochs said "Dylan is America's greatest songwriter and America's greatest sell out"
I really miss these kinds of song that raise consciousness of people. Songs that inspires social and political change. They really bloomed in the 1970s. Wish we can more songs like these today
we still have songs that inspire social change, but unfortunately it's been about: glorifying drug usage, glorifying dropping acid, glorifying gangster life to blacks...
@@nancykolze7939 pretty sure he did commit suicide especially with his mental state at the time but the fbi did have have a large (lazily written) file on him
@@nancykolze7939He really did it sadly. The CIA kept a file on him, but they managed to censor him enough to the point he was no longer a threat worthy of being taken out.
I still can't see why we compare Dylan and Phil, I think they are both incredibly great in their own ways, and I listen gladly to both the two ones songs. And Phil, we miss you man!
@@haakiiify I disagree Dylan has nothing "new" it's just rock and blues meet country & western. Ochs has orchestrated records infinitely superior to whatever dylan has done since 1962
I heard this on the radio on the way into work, flipping through stations. Stopped immediately when i heard this and asked googled what it was. Found a new artist!
I'd never heard of this guy, and then there I am at a huge anti-war demonstration in SF in maybe 1969 or 1970, and there he is singing this song. We'd just marched across SF and here he is singing, "I ain't marching anymore."! I think I finally got it--marching off to war, not in protest of wars.
Dec. 19, 1940 - Apr. 9, 1976. R.I.P., Phil Ochs, only 35. What if they gave a war, and people refused to participate? Prime example: Five months into the brutal World War 1, The 1914 Christmas Truce (Dec. 24-26) had almost 100,000 French, British, and German troops thumb their noses at the war, temporarily threw down their weapons in the trenches, buried their dead, exchanged small Christmas gifts (cigarettes, chocolate, liquor), and played soccer. Their superiors hated their peaceful outbreak and ordered them back to killing the other side! "I Ain't Marching Anymore" brilliantly sums up that desire for peace! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
I Ain't Marching Anymore Больше маршировать я не буду (перевод VeeWai) Oh, I marched to the battle of New Orleans О, я маршировал к битве за Новый Орлеан At the end of the early British war, Под конец ранней Британской войны, 1 The young land started growing, Молодая страна начала расти, The young blood started flowing, Молодая кровь начала проливаться, But I ain't marching anymore. Но больше я маршировать не буду. For I've killed my share of Indians Я убил свою толику индейцев In a thousand different fights, В тысяче разных боёв, I was there at the Little Big Horn, Я был и у Литтл-Бигхорн, 2 I heard many men lying, I saw many more dying, Я слышал, что многие полегли, я видел, как умирали ещё больше, But I ain't marching anymore. Но больше я не буду маршировать It's always the old to lead us to the war, На войну нас ведёт всегда старичьё, It's always the young to fall, А погибает на ней всегда молодёжь, Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun, А теперь взгляните на всё, что мы взяли саблей и ружьём, Tell me is it worth it all. Скажите мне, что оно того стоит… For I stole California from the Mexican land, Я украл Калифорнию у Мексики, Fought in the bloody Civil War, Дрался на кровавой Гражданской войне, Yes, I even killed my brothers Да, я убивал даже своих братьев And so many others, И много кого ещё, But I ain't marching anymore. Но больше я маршировать не буду. For I marched to the battles of the German trench Я шёл маршем к боям у германских окопов In a war that was bound to end all wars, На войне, что должна была положить конец всем войнам, Oh, I must have killed a million men, О, я убил, должно быть, целый миллион людей, And now they want me back again, А теперь меня снова хотят вернуть в строй, But I ain't marching anymore. Но больше я маршировать не буду. It's always the old to lead us to the war, На войну нас ведёт всегда старичьё, It's always the young to fall, А погибает на ней всегда молодёжь, Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun, А теперь взгляните на всё, что мы взяли саблей и ружьём, Tell me is it worth it all. Скажите мне, что оно того стоит. For I flew the final mission in the Japanese sky, Наконец, я летал на последнее задание в японском небе, Set off the mighty mushroom roar, Выпускал могучий «грибной рык», When I saw the cities burning, I knew that I was learning Когда я увидал, как пылают города, я понял, что усвоил урок: That I ain't marching anymore. Больше я маршировать не буду. Now the labor leader's screaming Сейчас лидеры профсоюзов возмущаются, When they close the missile plants, Когда закрывают ракетные заводы, United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore... "Юнайтед Фрут" орёт на кубинский берег.. Call it, peace, or call it, treason, Называйте это миром, называйте это изменой, Call it, love, or call it, reason, Называйте это любовью, называйте это разумом, But I ain't marching anymore, Но больше я маршировать не буду, No, I ain't marching anymore. Нет, больше я маршировать не буду
Don't care what others think but Bob Dylan couldn't hold a candle to Phil Ochs. I'll take this song over any of Dylan's anti-war songs. His bipolar disease as well as some other demons eventually led to him taking his own life. But he was a song-writing genius with a great melodic voice. We miss him--but his songs live forever. Always RIP Phil
He never released an acoustic album as consistent as Freewheelin, but from 1967-1970 he was better than Dylan in basically every way. His protest songs are also much better-written overall; the thing with Dylan is that he never really considered himself a "protest singer", so he had more license to try new musical and lyrical ideas from the start
Any ranking to compare one artist is fine, IN ONE OR OTHER WAYS, but not so considering total greatness or lasting a long time guessing. But just a general appraisal, of which artist might be a stronger person in most modes of human being bodily and brain, near presence, and even inspection? The stronger the artist woman or man is the longer will last the art and work of these creators. I remember once GOD GIVE ME A LOT OF MUSCLES I COULD BEAT UP BAD GUYS A BETTER FOOTBALL WIN EVERY BOXER THE... WORLD AND SUPERMAN. I SAW IN DREAMS ZILLIONS SUBSCRIBERS' EYES CRYING IN JOY, COME TO US DEMANDED ME SEEING MY FACE CARVED INTO RUSHMORE MEMORY BANK SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES!.
When it comes to any art-form, Roy Buchanan said it best on that Rockpalast show from Germany. After he ended a song the German crowd started chanting "Roy number one!, Roy number one!" and he quieted them down and softly said "I love you all for sayin' it but the truth is there's no such thing as number one". I'll never forget those words of wise humility that he uttered....
The power of Phil Ochs is his unabashed, even boyish lack of ambiguity in his songwriting. One tends to believe Phil Ochs when he says his marching days are behind him. (Presumably before "marching" took on a different cadence and cause during the civil rights era).
for i flew the final mission the Japanese sky; set off the mighty mushroom roar, when i saw the cities burning i knew i was learning that i wasn't marching anymore
there are few musical artists in modern times that compare to dylan. No one had more reach, influence, or originality. Sorry but you just dont know what you are talking about
The ultimate anti-war song performed by a very talented person. I recall when he killed himself, he was sure he had some sort of illness that was going to kill him, but it was all in his mind. Such a great talent.
Phil did an electric version of that which I thought was terrific. I heard it from a disc insert in a Sing Out magazine and I have read that it was issued as an EP England (OK, the UK). I harbor a hope that some time before I die (which cannot be to far away) I can hear that again.
~1968. From a show that very little information is available for: "Live From The Bitter End", a show that was apparently actually taped at a studio in New Jersey with a set designed to recreate the stage area at the actual Bitter End. There is actually a box set of "Live From Greenwich Village New York" on VHS showcasing many performances of various artists from this program. This show using footage from the former was narrated by Rick Nelson and apparently aired in the 1980s.
I used to sing along with this song when I was young, when the Vietnam war was going full blast. But I just noticed that Phil went right past WWII. He made a passing nod to the bombing of Japan, but had nothing to say about the rise and fall of Nazism. I wonder what he would say today about Israel's efforts to defend itself. The young men (and women) on both sides would probably run to the battlefield without a push from the "old men." It's sad how wars have changed. Not as easy to sing about any more.
he did sing about israel! in a 1971 re-write of love me I'm a liberal: I read underground papers and Newsweek, I’ve learned to take every view Ah, the war in Vietnam is atrocious, I wish to God that the fighting was through But when it comes to the arming of Israel, there’s no one more red, white and blue So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal in all quiet on the western front: Civilized nations abide by the code They learn from the victors to do what they're told Even Israel is marching down Germany's road And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front I guess I'll join the National Liberation Front
I was at a Phil Ochs' concert at the Troubadour in 1970 I think it was. I'm still around. I retired from teaching after a 33-year career and I would bring in my guitar and sing some of Ochs' music in my American History classes. He left an image and I sure hope I did.
I was at a concert with him in Chicago in 1968. I practiced law for 45 years. Now I work with people who have dementia. They are more interesting than lawyers.
I understand the sentiment but some things are worth fighting, killing, and dieing for, like freedom. Just think about what would have happened if we just let the Nazis win, or what would happen if we let the Russians win.
In itself it's an exercise of freedom (not to be mechanical) (Listen to this other musician: ruclips.net/video/7tu4pkX6f7M/видео.html ) (he wouldn't be as great if he was a metronome and, believe me, there are well gifted and talented musicians who can imitate him almost as well, but they sound a machine)
@@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 Yours is the most idiotic rationalization for horrible musicianship I've ever come accross. It's a well known fact that the reason this guy offed himself was because he kept listening to his recordings and they were so bad he decided to end it all.
No, it is not. It is not because Phil did not join the american army that he was not a patriot. He liked JFK and loved the USA. Please read a biography about him. Take cares.
it's a vietnam war/draft protest song. if you knew anything at all about phil or the 1960's you'd know that. phil loved this country. he despised people who wrapped themselves in the flag to defend their racism or their militarism.
Had Ochs lived who knows? But his later songs on A & M Records were clearly one the same level as Dylan's songs. They were poetic, introspective and just as brilliant as Dylan's. Sadly, he didn't live on. However, Dylan never wrote as song as beautiful as Changes.
@@dixievans9179 he lost his protest vibe in another side of bob dylan when he wrote an entire song about growing up and past childish protest. All his songs from that point took much more of a practical, objective commentary than an active protest stance and were still fantastic
Did he REALLY not feel getting out from under the yolk of British rule worth it?! Or ridding the world of Adolph Hitler?! What about ending southern slavery?! How naïve to you have to be to make the blanket statement "never fight ever again under any circumstance"?! Like he's an 8 year-old appealing to 7 year-olds. Gorgeous melody, anyway.
Listen up libs! Hitler, the British, slavery? Dude take a piss. Very few know the truth on any of these issues. So typical. But I agree with you. We must fight at times. I for one would fight to defend my people from Marxist governments.
The transfer of power from the British crown to the ruling American aristocracy is not the people's revolution that you think it is. Ending Southern slavery is something that we had to do, because we founded this nation upon slavery itself- and explicitly so. If the revolution were actually egalitarian, slavery would never have had to be abolished. After ridding the world of Hitler, we took over as global hegemon. We have committed at least 5 genocides that I can think of right off the top of my head (3 of which are actively happening as I type this in 2022). We, daily, rape the rest of the globe for our domestic profits. If you think it's worth it, I hope you're one of the casualties.
![Phil Ochs - The Power and The Glory [with "controversial" verse] (1963)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gApvH1WDr_g/mqdefault.jpg)
My brother, a friend and I, saw Phil Ochs in Greenwich Village in 1964. We each bought an album from him. In 1977 I picked up a woman hitchhiking across the Golden Gate Bridge. She was Phil's ex-wife, and I guess sort of his ex-widow, and she gave me one piece of information. She said that obviously Phil was a talent. However their friend named Bob Dylan would "just pull songs out of the air" seemingly with no effort. "It was amazing." I think both Phil and Bob had important things to tell.
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Bob Dylan in an interview talked about how he made a deal with the devil to be a great musician. That's how many musicians & actors get their "gifts & talents!"
Bob Dylan had ghostwriters and sold his soul to the devil (by his own admission btw)
As Phil Ochs said "Dylan is America's greatest songwriter and America's greatest sell out"
That kid over his shoulder is definitely CIA!
What a couple of mannequins those two are!
Ochs looks so alive, so young and vibrant in front of those fossils -
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That kid over his shoulder is stoned.
He never lost his relavance but America did.
I really miss these kinds of song that raise consciousness of people. Songs that inspires social and political change.
They really bloomed in the 1970s. Wish we can more songs like these today
There are so many bands doing the exact same thing today. Of course it looks and sounds different, but it's out there.
The mega-corps that own our channels of communication have ensured that nothing like this ever reaches the mainstream consciousness again.
Kesha and Dan Reynolds have been putting outbsome good stuff, they are my favorites
we still have songs that inspire social change, but unfortunately it's been about: glorifying drug usage, glorifying dropping acid, glorifying gangster life to blacks...
@@jalpert Hmm...
THE BEST ANTI WAR SONG EVER WRITTEN. HIS LYRICS WERE INCREDIBLE. ONLY ONE OCHS!!🙏🏼🎸🎤
I can't tell which one of his antiwar songs is the best. This one is definitely up there.
Did he really take himself out or was he killed?
@@nancykolze7939He really killed himself.
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pretty sure he did commit suicide especially with his mental state at the time but the fbi did have have a large (lazily written) file on him
@@nancykolze7939He really did it sadly. The CIA kept a file on him, but they managed to censor him enough to the point he was no longer a threat worthy of being taken out.
I still can't see why we compare Dylan and Phil, I think they are both incredibly great in their own ways, and I listen gladly to both the two ones songs. And Phil, we miss you man!
Couldn't have said it any better, mate...
Dylan is musically more interesting, Ochs is politically more interesting
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I disagree Dylan has nothing "new" it's just rock and blues meet country & western. Ochs has orchestrated records infinitely superior to whatever dylan has done since 1962
Phil Ochs voice is a lot better than Dylan's.
@@Феюшкаиз dylan's words said more
Left us much to soon. Sadly missed. A great talent
I heard this on the radio on the way into work, flipping through stations. Stopped immediately when i heard this and asked googled what it was. Found a new artist!
Glad to hear there are stations still playing this music in the 2020's
I'd never heard of this guy, and then there I am at a huge anti-war demonstration in SF in maybe 1969 or 1970, and there he is singing this song. We'd just marched across SF and here he is singing, "I ain't marching anymore."! I think I finally got it--marching off to war, not in protest of wars.
better late than never
i was just a kid when he died and it hit so hard. my big sisters and i listened to this song on the radio after we lost a friend in Vietnam.
Big up yourself Phil Ochs, whereever you are. Got me through some absurd times. I'm sorry about the gov't.
These are the absurd times and they aren't over yet.
the unabashedly shameful govt
Even now, things seem only to get worst for all of us. Solidarity forever, and ever.
It's always the rich that lead us to the wars. Always the poor to fall.
A terrible anniversary today 9th April 2021; God bless you Phil, always always my hero.
Phil Ochs best poet ever.
Dec. 19, 1940 - Apr. 9, 1976. R.I.P., Phil Ochs, only 35. What if they gave a war, and people refused to participate? Prime example: Five months into the brutal World War 1, The 1914 Christmas Truce (Dec. 24-26) had almost 100,000 French, British, and German troops thumb their noses at the war, temporarily threw down their weapons in the trenches, buried their dead, exchanged small Christmas gifts (cigarettes, chocolate, liquor), and played soccer. Their superiors hated their peaceful outbreak and ordered them back to killing the other side! "I Ain't Marching Anymore" brilliantly sums up that desire for peace! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
John McCutheon has a song about this
Do those ppl know what they are witnessing?? Pure talent!
We could use his message today more than ever...love you Phil Ochs.
I first saw Phil at a rally for Gene McCarthy. He was at most of the demonstrations I went to. Usually for free.
That's where I saw and heard him at a rally organized by Lynn Williams near my parent's home on the North Shore of Chicago. Were you there?
@@philmann3476iI was 16 in 68. My parents wouldn’t let me go to Chicago for the convention. That was the last demonstration I didn’t go to.
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Sending this virtual song to Ukraine, Russia, USA, NATO and so many others.
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I wish they listened to it!
GOOD OLD PHIL NEVER FORGOTTEN.
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Больше маршировать я не буду (перевод VeeWai)
Oh, I marched to the battle of New Orleans
О, я маршировал к битве за Новый Орлеан
At the end of the early British war,
Под конец ранней Британской войны, 1
The young land started growing,
Молодая страна начала расти,
The young blood started flowing,
Молодая кровь начала проливаться,
But I ain't marching anymore.
Но больше я маршировать не буду.
For I've killed my share of Indians
Я убил свою толику индейцев
In a thousand different fights,
В тысяче разных боёв,
I was there at the Little Big Horn,
Я был и у Литтл-Бигхорн, 2
I heard many men lying, I saw many more dying,
Я слышал, что многие полегли, я видел, как умирали ещё больше,
But I ain't marching anymore.
Но больше я не буду маршировать
It's always the old to lead us to the war,
На войну нас ведёт всегда старичьё,
It's always the young to fall,
А погибает на ней всегда молодёжь,
Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun,
А теперь взгляните на всё, что мы взяли саблей и ружьём,
Tell me is it worth it all.
Скажите мне, что оно того стоит…
For I stole California from the Mexican land,
Я украл Калифорнию у Мексики,
Fought in the bloody Civil War,
Дрался на кровавой Гражданской войне,
Yes, I even killed my brothers
Да, я убивал даже своих братьев
And so many others,
И много кого ещё,
But I ain't marching anymore.
Но больше я маршировать не буду.
For I marched to the battles of the German trench
Я шёл маршем к боям у германских окопов
In a war that was bound to end all wars,
На войне, что должна была положить конец всем войнам,
Oh, I must have killed a million men,
О, я убил, должно быть, целый миллион людей,
And now they want me back again,
А теперь меня снова хотят вернуть в строй,
But I ain't marching anymore.
Но больше я маршировать не буду.
It's always the old to lead us to the war,
На войну нас ведёт всегда старичьё,
It's always the young to fall,
А погибает на ней всегда молодёжь,
Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun,
А теперь взгляните на всё, что мы взяли саблей и ружьём,
Tell me is it worth it all.
Скажите мне, что оно того стоит.
For I flew the final mission in the Japanese sky,
Наконец, я летал на последнее задание в японском небе,
Set off the mighty mushroom roar,
Выпускал могучий «грибной рык»,
When I saw the cities burning, I knew that I was learning
Когда я увидал, как пылают города, я понял, что усвоил урок:
That I ain't marching anymore.
Больше я маршировать не буду.
Now the labor leader's screaming
Сейчас лидеры профсоюзов возмущаются,
When they close the missile plants,
Когда закрывают ракетные заводы,
United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore...
"Юнайтед Фрут" орёт на кубинский берег..
Call it, peace, or call it, treason,
Называйте это миром, называйте это изменой,
Call it, love, or call it, reason,
Называйте это любовью, называйте это разумом,
But I ain't marching anymore,
Но больше я маршировать не буду,
No, I ain't marching anymore.
Нет, больше я маршировать не буду
Goosebumps. The best performance of this song I've found.
Don't care what others think but Bob Dylan couldn't hold a candle to Phil Ochs. I'll take this song over any of Dylan's anti-war songs. His bipolar disease as well as some other demons eventually led to him taking his own life. But he was a song-writing genius with a great melodic voice. We miss him--but his songs live forever.
Always RIP Phil
Horseshit, Dylan is much better
He never released an acoustic album as consistent as Freewheelin, but from 1967-1970 he was better than Dylan in basically every way. His protest songs are also much better-written overall; the thing with Dylan is that he never really considered himself a "protest singer", so he had more license to try new musical and lyrical ideas from the start
Any ranking to compare one artist is fine, IN ONE OR OTHER WAYS, but not so considering total greatness or lasting a long time guessing. But just a general appraisal, of which artist might be a stronger person in most modes of human being bodily and brain, near presence, and even inspection? The stronger the artist woman or man is the longer will last the art and work of these creators. I remember once GOD GIVE ME A LOT OF MUSCLES I COULD BEAT UP BAD GUYS A BETTER FOOTBALL WIN EVERY BOXER THE... WORLD AND SUPERMAN. I SAW IN DREAMS ZILLIONS SUBSCRIBERS' EYES CRYING IN JOY, COME TO US DEMANDED ME SEEING MY FACE CARVED INTO RUSHMORE MEMORY BANK SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES!.
Steve Roberts totally agree!!!
When it comes to any art-form, Roy Buchanan said it best on that Rockpalast show from Germany. After he ended a song the German crowd started chanting "Roy number one!, Roy number one!" and he quieted them down and softly said "I love you all for sayin' it but the truth is there's no such thing as number one". I'll never forget those words of wise humility that he uttered....
The King of Folk Music.
No one said it better than Phil. It was true then and still is now!
In this video Phil Ochs was animated, his voice was melodic and every word was understood.
Bedst political folksinger. What a tradic end for such a talented guy.
On a different kind of march, we need him more than ever.
The power of Phil Ochs is his unabashed, even boyish lack of ambiguity in his songwriting. One tends to believe Phil Ochs when he says his marching days are behind him. (Presumably before "marching" took on a different cadence and cause during the civil rights era).
for i flew the final mission the Japanese sky; set off the mighty mushroom roar, when i saw the cities burning i knew i was learning that i wasn't marching anymore
Perfect song for this memorial day
I agree with previous comments : Ochs wrote wonderful songs. He wrote the finest anti war songs I've ever heard. As for Dylan he was just dreary.
Dylan dreary? Retarded comment.
there are few musical artists in modern times that compare to dylan. No one had more reach, influence, or originality. Sorry but you just dont know what you are talking about
Regardless, bob sounds like a cat being strangled. Not that I can really say much as I sound worse than a cat being strangle.
@Nikki Green I quite agree!!!
The problem with Dylan is there was a lot of arrogance in his lyrics.
Wars are never made by soldiers but by politicians.
I still play his songs in my mind so many years later
The ultimate anti-war song performed by a very talented person. I recall when he killed himself, he was sure he had some sort of illness that was going to kill him, but it was all in his mind. Such a great talent.
I'm sure he didnt
Underrated af
Phil did an electric version of that which I thought was terrific. I heard it from a disc insert in a Sing Out magazine and I have read that it was issued as an EP England (OK, the UK). I harbor a hope that some time before I die (which cannot be to far away) I can hear that again.
Here it is! ruclips.net/video/3LCOhr1IwUE/видео.html Peace man!
ruclips.net/video/3LCOhr1IwUE/видео.html
Thank you dlmd1945. Phi was the greatest!
I believe Phil Ochs was beautiful, brilliant, and gifted. ❤
What a lovely voice! Soothing inspiring activates my heart again!
this is our victory song.
Victory over what?
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Peace for Ukraine and Russia ☮
Just Great Man! Just Great!!
Великолепно!
Bruh if I was there peep me getting hype af in the back
Seven Keller Same man
So precious this video
Awesome. When and where is this from? Still so, so, true today as everything Phil Ochs tried to tell us
~1968. From a show that very little information is available for: "Live From The Bitter End", a show that was apparently actually taped at a studio in New Jersey with a set designed to recreate the stage area at the actual Bitter End. There is actually a box set of "Live From Greenwich Village New York" on VHS showcasing many performances of various artists from this program. This show using footage from the former was narrated by Rick Nelson and apparently aired in the 1980s.
Yes! Aired Early January 1968 Channel 13 NYC, I am willing to be wrong.. but don't think so.
masterful guitar
Yes indeed beats all of Dylan's anti War songs
It's a lot more specific, in terms of the lyrics, but it's not better.
@Gottfried Exactly -- Dylan had the foresight to know that, say "Masters of War" would be one for the ages.
Freewheelin is probably the most influential protest album of all time, and one of the best acoustic. I love both but dylan is just a different breed
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I quite agree!!
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As relevant now as back in the 60s with the invasion of Ukraine.
A tragic and sad song. I hope you have recovered.
Whats this live from? Where did they find the most unenthused crowd ever
I used to sing along with this song when I was young, when the Vietnam war was going full blast. But I just noticed that Phil went right past WWII. He made a passing nod to the bombing of Japan, but had nothing to say about the rise and fall of Nazism. I wonder what he would say today about Israel's efforts to defend itself. The young men (and women) on both sides would probably run to the battlefield without a push from the "old men." It's sad how wars have changed. Not as easy to sing about any more.
David Rovics
he did sing about israel!
in a 1971 re-write of love me I'm a liberal:
I read underground papers and Newsweek, I’ve learned to take every view
Ah, the war in Vietnam is atrocious, I wish to God that the fighting was through
But when it comes to the arming of Israel, there’s no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal
in all quiet on the western front:
Civilized nations abide by the code
They learn from the victors to do what they're told
Even Israel is marching down Germany's road
And it's all-all quiet, on the Western front
I guess I'll join the National Liberation Front
I saw Phil Oates many years in a coffee house in NY
Varying tempo!
I want to know where the people in the background are at now.
I was at a Phil Ochs' concert at the Troubadour in 1970 I think it was. I'm still around. I retired from teaching after a 33-year career and I would bring in my guitar and sing some of Ochs' music in my American History classes. He left an image and I sure hope I did.
@@steveroberts8719 I hope not too many of them committed suicide. Most of his fan base did,.
I was at a concert with him in Chicago in 1968. I practiced law for 45 years. Now I work with people who have dementia. They are more interesting than lawyers.
Rip phil
You are being disrespectful to these two great talents by allowing this to become a pissing contest.
*Blows raspberry
What's up with Mark David Chapman sitting behind him ?
So THAT'S who he reminded me of. Thanks for that!
I thought it was Jim Jones.
When this was filmed Chapman would have been five...
2021
Знаю русский язык, понимаю о чём он поёт. По ходу он не плохой человек был
United Fruit
Give me a Phil Ochs x Dr. Dre mashup
oh Phil, forgive us . . .
Can i get more imformation about this live show? Seem like which year and where was the perfroming place. Thank you advance for your reply!
CBC? Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Toronto I would presume. Oscar Brand was Canadian, wasn't he?
When I sing this song, it’s I stolen Arizona; not California.
United fruit in Cuba.
The guy in the background with the sunglasses on looks like Mark Chapman.
Mark David Chapman sitting right behind him. I guess he took his medication that day,
Forgot Spanish-American War.
This is like andy to leyley in coffee off andy and leyley
pity about the bloke with the dark glasses behind him
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Phil over Bob.
absurd
better you meditate before writing stupid words,
First in my heart.
I understand the sentiment but some things are worth fighting, killing, and dieing for, like freedom. Just think about what would have happened if we just let the Nazis win, or what would happen if we let the Russians win.
Don' t you see the irony of your statement?
And look at what happens when we do fight and "win." Always another rich man's war and poor man's fight. Tell me, is it worth it all?
Audience just sits there through the whole thing stonefaced!
They were ignorant but Curious.. This Shit is Deep!
You read that as stonefaced? I see deep contemplation.
Different era, and this is political folk from the 60's not pop music
@@solidaritytime3650 Yes, no reaction from their asses.
Why do you think it's called "being stoned"?
Summer of 66.
The first liberals had a lil bit of class.
Who ever makes CIA jokes is a sorry excuse for a person this talented man was taken from us because of it and his personal demons shame on y’all
They're saying the guy behind him is an agent, not Phil himself.
The implication being that Phil was being surveilled by the govt.
the Cocaine Import Agency?
Недопонятый
Holy CRAP. This guy needs a metronome to play in time. He's all over the place. Fast, slow, uneven and who the hell colorized the video?
Why. I heard Lighting Hopkins was the same. We are not machines, yet.
@@ciaranryan5265 Two wrongs don't make a right
In itself it's an exercise of freedom (not to be mechanical)
(Listen to this other musician: ruclips.net/video/7tu4pkX6f7M/видео.html )
(he wouldn't be as great if he was a metronome and, believe me, there are well gifted and talented musicians who can imitate him almost as well, but they sound a machine)
@@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 Yours is the most idiotic rationalization for horrible musicianship I've ever come accross. It's a well known fact that the reason this guy offed himself was because he kept listening to his recordings and they were so bad he decided to end it all.
@@tonys4396 OK, thanks
Not an anti war song. its an anti American song.
s8150f good
No, it is not. It is not because Phil did not join the american army that he was not a patriot. He liked JFK and loved the USA. Please read a biography about him. Take cares.
He mentioned other wars that were not American in this song as well so..
it's a vietnam war/draft protest song. if you knew anything at all about phil or the 1960's you'd know that. phil loved this country. he despised people who wrapped themselves in the flag to defend their racism or their militarism.
War is big business.
yeah he is very good but to compare him to Dylan is absolutely ridiculous saying he much better, not a chance, Bob is a living legend.
Had Ochs lived who knows? But his later songs on A & M Records were clearly one the same level as Dylan's songs. They were poetic, introspective and just as brilliant as Dylan's. Sadly, he didn't live on. However, Dylan never wrote as song as beautiful as Changes.
This ain't it chief
Dylan kinda lost his protest song vibe when he found God after his fake motorcycle accident.
Mid 70 s Dylan is also fantastic without the protest vibe.
@@dixievans9179 he lost his protest vibe in another side of bob dylan when he wrote an entire song about growing up and past childish protest. All his songs from that point took much more of a practical, objective commentary than an active protest stance and were still fantastic
Did he REALLY not feel getting out from under the yolk of British rule worth it?! Or ridding the world of Adolph Hitler?! What about ending southern slavery?! How naïve to you have to be to make the blanket statement "never fight ever again under any circumstance"?! Like he's an 8 year-old appealing to 7 year-olds. Gorgeous melody, anyway.
Listen up libs! Hitler, the British, slavery? Dude take a piss. Very few know the truth on any of these issues. So typical. But I agree with you. We must fight at times. I for one would fight to defend my people from Marxist governments.
The transfer of power from the British crown to the ruling American aristocracy is not the people's revolution that you think it is. Ending Southern slavery is something that we had to do, because we founded this nation upon slavery itself- and explicitly so. If the revolution were actually egalitarian, slavery would never have had to be abolished.
After ridding the world of Hitler, we took over as global hegemon. We have committed at least 5 genocides that I can think of right off the top of my head (3 of which are actively happening as I type this in 2022).
We, daily, rape the rest of the globe for our domestic profits.
If you think it's worth it, I hope you're one of the casualties.
Is that also your assessment of Universal Soldier?
all wars are bankers wars, srry but not gonna die in Ukraine for these people lmao