Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @eekowarrior4409
    @eekowarrior4409 8 месяцев назад +21

    Just the truth. We need this level of compassion more than ever in 2024.

  • @jeanphillips1030
    @jeanphillips1030 10 месяцев назад +67

    His songs are still relevant in 2024.

    • @stevefreno
      @stevefreno 9 месяцев назад +4

      Or more so …… powerful stuff

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel 5 месяцев назад +37

    I first met Phil in 1968. I was 16, working my butt off for Gene McCarthy. There was a rally at Tiger stadium. Phil played. After the music and speeches were over , Phil came and talked to the kids working the rally. I saw him many times. He was at virtually every demonstration I ever went to. After Kent State, I moved to Dublin for 10 years. When I heard Phil had hanged himself, I cried for days. His music helped make me who I am, an activist, working for people’s rights.😊

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 2 месяца назад +2

      You weren't the only one crying. I was a freshman in college when the news came through...most of my dorm floor was in tears.

  • @alisonfernandes9770
    @alisonfernandes9770 7 дней назад

    Woke up this morning with this song running through my mind. Thank you for being here. 😎

  • @JaneFrieman
    @JaneFrieman 6 лет назад +201

    The way he enunciates each word, his gestures, his melodic voice and his playing of the guitar captivates each and every listener.

    • @gillygil8747
      @gillygil8747 2 года назад +2

      Yes. Reminds one of John Goodman.

    • @michaelmiller7160
      @michaelmiller7160 Год назад

      @@gillygil8747 Lol. A joke? or was he a singer? Either way, the Left has no humor and can't laugh at themselves.
      A genius and it had nothing to do with his politics. Just good melodies and lyrics. About 20 songs are worth my attention.
      ruclips.net/video/m4MAF1o1AMs/видео.html rate 9. Men Behind the Guns . lyrics not written by Ochs. The men below who fight the foe oh the men behind the guns!
      ruclips.net/video/JUpE3hEXpL4/видео.html Changes . love this morbidity. 10
      ruclips.net/video/sxDD9CV-XJ4/видео.html When I'm Gone. Sweet beautiful song rate 9
      ruclips.net/video/_0BeEHXjXIM/видео.html there but for fortune .rate 9
      ruclips.net/video/lfkhBGWkQrs/видео.html Cross my Heart. Moving, strings and orchestration make the song. rate 9.
      ruclips.net/video/XZCr3VYZEi8/видео.html Celia. rate 9. A fascist prisoner sings a song to his lady. Corny by gut-wrenching. When will i lie beside my Celia neath the tree oh when will Celia come to me? (Listen to this song and feel the tears almost fall)
      ruclips.net/video/TMMUcLCjnT8/видео.html Flower Lady rate 10. exponential poignancy.
      ruclips.net/video/20O8xrv3F7g/видео.html Tape from California. Rating 10 Jazzy cool psychedelic sound. One of his top 5
      ruclips.net/video/CB4xpqNSYpk/видео.html The Marines have landed on the shores of Santo Domingo. Genius Lyrics. Few songs approach this kind of picturesque lyrics such as "And the crabs are crazy, they scuttle back and forth/ The sand is burning. And the fish take flight and scatter from the sight their courses turning. Later on: But the soldiers make a bid, giving candy to the kids/Their teeth are gleaming/ The marines have landed on the shores of Santo Domingo"
      Ringing of Revolution has great lyrics. Think of the monumental Charles Dicken's "great expectations" lyrics were written in 15 mins? ruclips.net/video/Tis4xaoddWA/видео.html Lyrics should be studied in school
      ruclips.net/video/gnDLe8BCEFw/видео.html Half a century High. eerie playful and soars. 9.5
      ruclips.net/video/H-Pd7azytEk/видео.html That was the President. Best tribute song to Kennedy. 8.5 here's a memory to share, here's a memory to fade.
      ruclips.net/video/K49_39VTshI/видео.html Another Age. Catchy. 8
      ruclips.net/video/SsX8m_dLUA4/видео.html Pretty Smart on my Part. catchy. 8
      ruclips.net/video/VQBLBvi67fw/видео.html I kill therefore I am. country twang sounds good. 8 catchy too.
      ruclips.net/video/t3OiLBRh9X8/видео.html Too many Marytrs. Topical folk song but still decent. 7.5

    • @paulwhetstone0473
      @paulwhetstone0473 6 месяцев назад +1

      Well said.

    • @wnewfmer
      @wnewfmer Месяц назад

      @@gillygil8747 You mean Steve Goodman?

  • @bbbartolo
    @bbbartolo Год назад +23

    In this simple (but epic) song he caught forever the heart and conscience of the folk movement.

  • @Meme-zc4cw
    @Meme-zc4cw 7 месяцев назад +23

    The voice we need today. His songs about war, civil rights, labor, and automation are just as relevant today. What I like about Ochs is he just says what he means. He doesn't cloak is views in metaphors like Dylan does. Both great, but I prefer Ochs because he just says what he means.

    • @mikesedam616
      @mikesedam616 4 месяца назад

      Nah just another voice bringing confusion.

    • @8sun52
      @8sun52 2 месяца назад +1

      @@mikesedam616 Yes. A rare voice bringing unique and clear clarity.

  • @bethcurtin5449
    @bethcurtin5449 Год назад +16

    There will never be another Phil. He was a oner.

  • @leonardc.middelkamp1797
    @leonardc.middelkamp1797 6 лет назад +297

    All these Phil Ochs songs are still so very relevant today.

    • @xyz2121
      @xyz2121 5 лет назад +12

      There's still bums sleeping in the rain and drunkards stumbling out the door.

    • @madisyngolab330
      @madisyngolab330 4 года назад +12

      Even more so in 2020, especially with Too Many Martyrs

    • @jamesbeebe2870
      @jamesbeebe2870 3 года назад

      @@madisyngolab330 lol what martyrs?

    • @madisyngolab330
      @madisyngolab330 3 года назад +7

      @@jamesbeebe2870 It's a song by Phil Ochs, with an alternate title "The Ballad of Medgar Evers"

    • @musiccentral2333
      @musiccentral2333 3 года назад +2

      Yet this land is still troubled by men
      who have to hate they twist away our freedom and they twist away our faith law is there Weapon treason is there cry we can stop them if we try.

  • @geo3573
    @geo3573 9 месяцев назад +6

    Still relevant and missed.

  • @chesterproudfoot9864
    @chesterproudfoot9864 11 месяцев назад +9

    Phil - teaching us today what we didn't learn back then. Alas.

  • @DavidVT23
    @DavidVT23 7 лет назад +133

    The vulnerability in his voice ... just makes this such a powerful song.

  • @curtbarnes4294
    @curtbarnes4294 4 года назад +76

    the ABCs of empathy, the heart and soul of the folk movement, the New Testament and the Socialist Movement all in the simplest and most direct expression possible. A classic of classics. And easy to sing.

    • @peternemeth1777
      @peternemeth1777 4 года назад +6

      Yes I agree. This song has the same message like streets of London. Just a timeless beautiful song that has a universal message for the whole humanity gifted from higher beings to us humans as I guess.

  • @hangdogit
    @hangdogit 11 месяцев назад +10

    So wise. So inspiring. So insightful. So eternally relevant.

  • @nevillegriffiths4395
    @nevillegriffiths4395 3 года назад +36

    Thanks Mr Gibson, the school music teacher for planting this song in my mind in the 1970's it still resonates along with where have all the flowers gone.

  • @jackiewashere_
    @jackiewashere_ 11 месяцев назад +5

    happy birthday king miss u forever

  • @christopherday1568
    @christopherday1568 Месяц назад +1

    Magical, sensitive, beautiful, superb, what other superlatives do you want!

  • @madisyngolab330
    @madisyngolab330 4 года назад +52

    This man was an absolute treasure who was ahead of his time and we didn't deserve him

    • @ericdavis101
      @ericdavis101 3 года назад +11

      And we deserve him even less now (sigh)...

  • @paulsmith9542
    @paulsmith9542 Месяц назад

    Beautiful bitter sweet phrasing quality in his voice and pitch perfect to my ears !! Like the genius of Judee Sill who reduced me to tears when I first heard her in England in the early 70s !!!!

  • @lekunberriko1
    @lekunberriko1 9 лет назад +90

    Phil Ochs forever and ever.

  • @multicaruana
    @multicaruana 8 лет назад +99

    A masterpiece that will live on forever.

  • @thehistorywatcher
    @thehistorywatcher 9 лет назад +148

    I saw Phil perform when I was a student at UC Santa Cruz. Excellent singer. Sad story.

    • @LTRavenhawkBrony
      @LTRavenhawkBrony 7 лет назад +13

      thehistorywatcher I envy you.

    • @endthedrugwartoday
      @endthedrugwartoday 7 лет назад +12

      Uh, the CIA killed him. That's not sad because it means he pissed them off to that point. That is a life well lived.

    • @lcm7832
      @lcm7832 7 лет назад +6

      thehistorywatcher I first heard his music living in the dorms of UCSC, Crown college. 1994.

    • @idootponda2275
      @idootponda2275 7 лет назад

      are you dense?

    • @emmabradford0137
      @emmabradford0137 4 года назад +3

      @@endthedrugwartoday agree

  • @NickSmokes
    @NickSmokes 4 месяца назад +4

    Rest in peace Phil Ochs, an American inspiration.

  • @LawrenceMeisel
    @LawrenceMeisel 2 года назад +5

    Prophetic and sad. RIP. There but for fortune go you or I.

  • @reykjavik82
    @reykjavik82 Год назад +6

    god i miss this guy. my fav singer songwriter. so sad when i hear one of his tunes. this is my fav Phil tune

  • @colingroves2246
    @colingroves2246 Год назад +15

    The most amazing songwriter of his day sadly cut down in his prime. Way ahead of his time. Where would he be today? Up there with Dylan and Cohen. If, if only Phil.

    • @icaruscrane8846
      @icaruscrane8846 Год назад +1

      Way better than the egotistical Dylan and Cohen

    • @astragreen
      @astragreen 10 месяцев назад

      Hardly’ ‘cut down’ he hanged himself committed suicide I’m surprised you used those words describe his death!..

    • @hharvey6492
      @hharvey6492 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@astragreenhe was killed by bipolar disorder

    • @michaelhoffman5486
      @michaelhoffman5486 7 месяцев назад

      @@hharvey6492 yup

    • @username-yc3bd
      @username-yc3bd 2 месяца назад

      ⁠​⁠@@astragreen
      well he had bipolar disorder and his voice was damaged by muggers previously which probably didn’t help

  • @Ravenwing2024
    @Ravenwing2024 7 месяцев назад +4

    God bless you Phil. I played your songs on April 9th. A black black day.

  • @Tony-dk9sx
    @Tony-dk9sx 11 месяцев назад +2

    RIP

  • @JasonJBrunet
    @JasonJBrunet 9 лет назад +99

    Man, he was a really good guitar player.

    • @8sun52
      @8sun52 4 года назад +7

      Yeah, an ok guitarist that can sing and play this fingerpicking at the same time; love his voice. But some ahole in the 60s referred to his playing as with "flippers of a fish" or something like that. Probably because he didn't like the threat of his songs speaking up against the oligarchs that were screwing up our world through power and greed; and still are.

    • @z1522
      @z1522 4 года назад +6

      Scores of the folkies had to be decent to accomplished finger pickers, out of necessity and the demands of the style. That served well, the many who soon moved into late sixties rock, from John Sebastian to Roger McGuinn, naturally progressed and built on the solid musicianship, to expand into folk-rock, then beyond. It differed from the R&B and jazz-based early rock and roll, like Bill Haley's Comets, as well as the crude strumming of rockabilly (although the rest of country music had very similar roots connections, to country blues and imported Anglo Saxon ballads).

    • @KennBurch
      @KennBurch 4 года назад +8

      @@8sun52 That was Robert Christgau, who said that Phil's guitar-playing would not get any worse "if his fingers were webbed" or something close to that. Phil actually quoted thay on a later album cover and Christgau later admitted he'd been out of line. On balance, Phil's guitar playing could be called adequate- it worked for the way he sang, and as was the case with his singing, the quality of his guitar playing varied based on his general mental state at the time. To be fair, Dylan basically sucked as a guitarist in the Sixties and early Seventies.

    • @DavidStanley85281
      @DavidStanley85281 3 года назад +1

      ​@@KennBurch Yeah, when I read that comment my thought was: "that sounds like Robert Christgau."

  • @theodoreelch2311
    @theodoreelch2311 2 года назад +12

    his music still has a big impact.

  • @cacampbell3654
    @cacampbell3654 2 года назад +18

    This moves me (again!) to tears, as it did the first time I heard it in a situation much like what is pictured. Only the room was much more jam-packed, smoky, a basement coffeehouse in Yorkville Village, Toronto Canada mid 1960s.
    Still miss this human being, still feel a need for the comfort and strength I felt in response to his point of view. Still wish he could have lived out his life, found other ways to address the agony of existence that he obviously found unbearable.
    Thanks for this PHILOCHSVEVO, and Arlo Guthrie for encouraging us to revisit this man and his right on song, today! ❤️

  • @maryhyland
    @maryhyland 4 года назад +35

    I’d love to hear what Phil would write today....

    • @jerrysmith2354
      @jerrysmith2354 2 года назад +5

      Probably a lot of the same, due to how relevant his music still is. Maybe things about the dangers of technology

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад

      @@jerrysmith2354 I think about those today who preach the Meritocracy. But I talk to those on both the right and left, and we know that our life paths are in many ways a product of luck, yet what nearly all long for is simply community.

  • @barbarakoontharana725
    @barbarakoontharana725 4 года назад +20

    Phil you were gone too soon, but these songs are treasures. Thank you.🙏❤️

  • @johnmitchelljr
    @johnmitchelljr 5 лет назад +79

    Thank you. He had something to say and said it for all to hear. It's stupid to rate people saying one is better than the other. Unique artistic voices is the most important to be expressed. Big brother really has a hold on this generation. Money is king. Thank you for sharing. Hope he gets a few more new fans.

  • @BringingValue
    @BringingValue 11 месяцев назад +2

    So relevant today! Beautiful poignant true

  • @nicktighe3093
    @nicktighe3093 2 года назад +9

    such a great loss of an incredible person

  • @ebaylistentomusic
    @ebaylistentomusic 2 года назад +5

    Back when a man or woman could stand up alone and sing a powerful beautiful ballad.

  • @carlofiorletta
    @carlofiorletta Год назад +3

    Such poetry and voice and still reasonates

  • @joebanks4997
    @joebanks4997 Год назад +5

    A great leveller was Phil. ❤ No matter how much you have, you're only ever a single step from catastrophe.

  • @tobyblake851
    @tobyblake851 7 лет назад +37

    a true artist, under-rated

  • @donsturn9104
    @donsturn9104 4 года назад +11

    Still listen to him singing "The Highwayman" on a live recording. He was a true bard and he shared so much in his short life.

  • @PubliusUSA
    @PubliusUSA 3 года назад +7

    The idea of living in peace will live on thru infinity, want for peace will never go away, it will live with us until we humans are extinct.
    Ochs and many many other musicians have turned the idea of peace into great music. 1000 thank yous to all.

  • @TheReddevil821
    @TheReddevil821 6 лет назад +29

    A masterpiece. Sing to my soul Phil.

  • @multicaruana
    @multicaruana 7 лет назад +25

    No one, really, can compare to Phil in this genre

  • @BobbyL-jm1hq
    @BobbyL-jm1hq 8 месяцев назад

    Great song. The Lord rules over all...and He will take care of you and guide your path, if you let Him in

  • @williamkaprielian8962
    @williamkaprielian8962 4 года назад +6

    Whoever disliked this video should get their heads checked!

  • @shiretsu
    @shiretsu 7 месяцев назад +1

    this is such an important evolution of the old phrase - it's not by the grace of god that we are born into material wealth to any degree. material wealth which makes falling on hard times and the associated trends of suffering much less likely for us. I think there's a dual meaning with "luck" as well, but most importantly phil was literally saying that money is what holds a lot of us back from lives of crime, drug abuse, homelessness, starvation, and even being victims of war
    most people in america are a couple of missed paychecks away from ending up in destitution so of course this is an unfortunately timeless piece

  • @hangdogit
    @hangdogit 2 года назад +4

    An absolute American Original-and one to be proud of!

  • @9lorac
    @9lorac Год назад +2

    I was lucky enough as a young girl to see him in Boston

  • @stephenmarcus2825
    @stephenmarcus2825 6 лет назад +6

    Died so sadly, unable to find a place for himself. So important for his contributions and missed more than ever in our crazy times.

  • @laura-louisetobin6098
    @laura-louisetobin6098 7 месяцев назад +2

    Restorative justice anthem.

  • @johnwakefield8570
    @johnwakefield8570 Год назад +1

    " .. and there but for fortune may go you .. or I .. "
    60,000 + homeless in Los Angeles County ..
    I have been have homeless ..
    It is important for us .. that they are not ..

  • @LonelyAtTheTop79
    @LonelyAtTheTop79 10 лет назад +21

    yessss even Phil Ochs has a vevo now! a true american hero

  • @ottowes
    @ottowes 6 лет назад +9

    One of the greatest of our time.

  • @lumaz71
    @lumaz71 10 лет назад +37

    goosebumps.

  • @leland-bobpalmer4274
    @leland-bobpalmer4274 6 лет назад +26

    One of the best, a TRUE patriot, in other words, an American with a conscience & heart & care for the PEOPLE who MAKE THIS COUNTRY ALWAYS GREAT {Though troubled}!

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад +2

      Thanks Bob. If we could all only realize that patriotism is about we, not me.

  • @donsturn9104
    @donsturn9104 5 лет назад +17

    How could such a genuine person feel so alone to take his own life - and lose that beautiful voice of compassion and humanity?

    • @emmabradford0137
      @emmabradford0137 4 года назад +8

      he was targeted

    • @nancyjamison8269
      @nancyjamison8269 4 года назад +4

      had a broken heart

    • @margaretross9150
      @margaretross9150 4 года назад +10

      He suffered from a ferocious case of bipolar disorder and, as his brother said, couldn't make it out of the valley he was stuck in. A remarkable talent and social justice warrior.

    • @caitlinbelforti870
      @caitlinbelforti870 4 года назад +5

      His life was incredibly hard.

    • @imgonnasayitnow
      @imgonnasayitnow 3 года назад +6

      he had undiagnosed + untreated bipolar disorder and suffered loads of trauma

  • @excelsior999
    @excelsior999 2 года назад +3

    The venue in this video looks like it might have been the legendary Gaslight Club on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, where I saw so many burgeoning singer/songwriters perform "back in the day," including two very special Shining Stars - Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan.
    More than a few of those artists went on to become very successful in their careers, but none more so than Bob Dylan. Everyone in that circle knew he was going to "make it," but nobody could have predicted his meteoric rise to superstardom. In a word, it was astounding, probably even to Bob himself. I believe that when Dylan leaped ahead of his peers so quickly and in such an amazing way it had a marked affect not only on Phil Ochs but also on a lot of other young and talented performers who were on the scene at that magical time.
    The title of the song which Phil was singing in this video is sadly ironic in light of his untimely death by suicide. Of course nobody can know what was in someone's mind when they take their own life, but I think that Phil, a dedicated share-the-wealth "progressive" (if not an actual Marxist) wouldn't be human if he hadn't been thinking something like,
    'Here I am singing these mostly Lefty songs playing an acoustic guitar as one of "Woodie's Children" (Woody Guthrie), and soon after Bob Dylan "went Electric" (at the Newport FOLK Festival, no less) his career began to take off like a rocket. He's going to be rich and famous and I, like some kind of a schmuck, am going to be remembered (if I'm remembered at all) as a distant "also-ran". '
    I believe that Phil Ochs felt that he needed to make a bold and swift move in order to play "catch-up" with Bob Dylan, and so he decided to perform a concert at Carnegie Hall. Good idea? Maybe, but it didn't turn out at all the way that he hoped it would.
    The concert quickly Sold Out. Afterwards, a lot of dejected audience members felt that Phil Ochs himself had Sold Out. To everyone's shock and surprise, he appeared onstage in a gold lamé suit with an electric guitar and a Rock band. His program consisted mostly of a lot of popular R&R standards. No Folk Songs. No politically themed protest songs.
    From all reports by those who were present, the audience was in a state of shock from the very beginning of the concert, and also appeared to be very disturbed at the bizarre event which they were witnessing. Some said that it was embarrassing to watch Phil Ochs trying to act like an Elvis wanna-be, rather than as the singer whom they knew and loved, known for his very moving ballades and especially for his strongly-worded, original Folk-Songs which protested economic and social injustice.
    Sadly, the concert which many of his fans had been eagerly anticipating was an unmitigated disaster. Phil had to endure shouts of "Where's Phil Ochs?" and (probably for the first time in his career) a lot of booing. This may have been just too much for him to handle. In fact, it may have been his "last straw."
    The death of the great Philip Ochs - singer/guitarist, songwriter, social activist, humanitarian and poet, was not only tragic. It was a tremendous loss for his friends and family and for us, his fans and followers. As his peer Don McClean put it in his song remembering the Life and Death of Vincent Van Goth, "This world was never made for one as beautiful as you." R.I.P., old friend.

  • @user-ch5qd3uz3l
    @user-ch5qd3uz3l 5 лет назад +32

    shame that phil's guitar never played along willie or waylon
    this is working class america music right here

  • @Tom-kt8lu
    @Tom-kt8lu 4 года назад +5

    He was one of a kind.

  • @smythe555
    @smythe555 4 года назад +25

    I get the praise for his lyrics, but I'm touched by how pretty his melodies are.

  • @wbworkout
    @wbworkout 6 лет назад +7

    WOW, what a song!

  • @cindyrook1189
    @cindyrook1189 6 лет назад +5

    Happy Birthday Phil! Sing it!!

  • @presidentdudley731
    @presidentdudley731 4 года назад +6

    Phil Ochs for President 2020

  • @ilovetoronto68
    @ilovetoronto68 10 лет назад +7

    happy birthday Phil- wherever you may be. I'm sure the world you are in is a far happier place than this world you departed from.
    we have something in common, eh- my brother's birthday is today also. small world, what! :-)

  • @PRISMN54
    @PRISMN54 2 года назад +22

    So strong!! Thank you for sharing. How could this song sound more true and sincere than the composer himself giving his message to young students.

  • @vodkaone1053
    @vodkaone1053 8 месяцев назад +1

    OMG! How did they ever get Phil to wear a suit!?!

  • @spiralyucca
    @spiralyucca 7 лет назад +7

    saw him at the Troubadour in Hollywood, was amazed as he did the Elvis impression

    • @lucasmembrane4763
      @lucasmembrane4763 4 года назад +1

      I was there, too. It was around 1971 or 1972, IIRC. Somehow, the Dillards were the opening act. He had Lincoln Majorca backing him up on a grand piano. It was evident that his career was taking a regrettable turn -- he had written an unequaled stack of songs about the things to which America ought to have paid attention but didn't, and he was obviously frustrated by experiencing the impossibility of turning portent into attention in America. He went on stage in that metallic gold jacket, showing us without words that he had burnt himself out, that dedication can go only so far, that he could see no light ahead on his chosen path.

  • @michaelmurphy2330
    @michaelmurphy2330 2 года назад +4

    What a beautiful voice, I hadn't even heard of him before, thanks to the clash, I've been researching for Phil Ochs, why wasn't this guy up there with Bob Dylan?
    A real talent!

    • @TheDeastman13
      @TheDeastman13 Год назад +2

      REAL good question...i think it's because of the turn he took with his 'greatest hits' album...and then there was his depression and suicide...i DO wish this guy got his due, musical historywise, though...

    • @johnlinzmayer7036
      @johnlinzmayer7036 Год назад +1

      @@TheDeastman13
      Well, he does, by those of us who know better.
      Hopefully as time passes there will be more acknowledgement of his historical greatness.

  • @sudipbosu8787
    @sudipbosu8787 5 лет назад +3

    It feels like a journey.

  • @tabjones5163
    @tabjones5163 3 года назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @dalecarlson5199
    @dalecarlson5199 5 месяцев назад +1

    Phil Ochs is so relevant now. Our options going forward are nil. We need new candidates for 2024. Those now are both frauds - can you guess why?

  • @Jennings9462
    @Jennings9462 5 лет назад +9

    Re: that avaricious comment by James Mcload. Phil was a good friend who was happy to make an excellent living. I suspect that his royalties & licensing income is far beyond what your greedy little mind can comprehend-but that was his concern

  • @paullavan6098
    @paullavan6098 10 лет назад +9

    Lovely to see you, master.

  • @annetteholman2999
    @annetteholman2999 3 года назад +6

    Does anyone today have the heart and the head to create this kind of protest song?

    • @redavenger5094
      @redavenger5094 3 года назад +3

      I was friends with Phil Ochs around 1973-75 so I sometimes update his songs to stay current with what is going on today: " *Knock on the Door* " ruclips.net/video/ItJ3Z4qjBks/видео.html
      “ *Here’s to the Antichrist Pope Francis* ”
      ruclips.net/video/DlJ_FNF9Yu4/видео.html
      I was also friends with Blind Sonny Terry and John Hammond Jr....here's a Dave van Ronck arrangement of a blues song, a little different than the Leadbelly version - …”Good Morning Blues” ruclips.net/video/fkMYfgkVG48/видео.html

    • @aaliyah-pq6uc
      @aaliyah-pq6uc 3 года назад

      @@redavenger5094 that's amazing

  • @DaneBrooke
    @DaneBrooke 3 года назад +3

    I was 'one handshake' from Phil Ochs (Uncle Dan)

  • @ThnbAnimatrll
    @ThnbAnimatrll 8 месяцев назад

    One day we have to explain the meaning of this song to younger generation for all these sufferings would be absurd after the revolution

  • @frederickalvarez6958
    @frederickalvarez6958 7 лет назад +3

    The man

  • @Karen-uw4vb
    @Karen-uw4vb 4 месяца назад

    Yes LORD JESUS

  • @blindboygrunt6731
    @blindboygrunt6731 3 года назад +3

    Ochs wore a jacket and tie .. what a conservative establishment look for such a rebel lol ....His words matter...

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад +1

      I remember years ago walking into the room where I was to defend my dissertation. Normally members of one's committee wear a jacket and tie. No one on my committee was doing either. They showed their respect for me by not doing so. I felt honored. They respected my distaste for elitism.

  • @miguelkath
    @miguelkath 3 года назад +2

    I came here through Où va la chance, Françoise Hardy....so much charm.

  • @ericlamb3238
    @ericlamb3238 6 лет назад +19

    Those girls are looking at him like I did the first time I watched baseball.

  • @dbadagna
    @dbadagna 6 лет назад +2

    Very nice! Could you add the date and place it was filmed to the video description above?

  • @brandondavidson4085
    @brandondavidson4085 4 года назад +1

    "There but for the grace of God go I."- John Bradford

  • @boltsyllable
    @boltsyllable 10 лет назад +10

    What year and where is this from? Genius

    • @GrannySongs
      @GrannySongs 10 лет назад +9

      Looks like The Bitter End.

    • @Nokorola
      @Nokorola 9 лет назад +15

      From ~1968 from the local syndicated show "Live From The Bitter End" taped in New Jersey.

    • @Treebard
      @Treebard 3 года назад +1

      @@Nokorola Might've been produced in NJ, but the Bitter End is in Greenwich Village, so it had to have been *taped* in NYC. Just sayin'. 😀

  • @jayraskin
    @jayraskin 4 года назад +6

    Not as beautiful as Joan's version, but just as powerful and humane.

    • @icaruscrane8846
      @icaruscrane8846 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, but he wrote it.
      I'm also a big fan of Joan.

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад +2

      @@icaruscrane8846 I marched with Joan for the Vietnamese boat people. I cannot think of a more appropriate person to cover his song. Both are true humanitarians.

    • @thelistener3844
      @thelistener3844 Год назад +2

      With respect, I disagree with you both on his vocal range, the clarity and his self accompaniment on the guitar.

  • @jerma953
    @jerma953 3 года назад +1

    🥀

  • @kelloggs5473
    @kelloggs5473 4 года назад +7

    Who else feels Phil is very, very handsome in this video? He wears a suit very well.
    This was video-recorded in 1968. Has anyone here read the biography of him and does it say women were throwing themselves at Phil in 1968? A woman who is not aroused by this video must be LGBTQ - not that there’s anything wrong with that.

    • @imgonnasayitnow
      @imgonnasayitnow 3 года назад +3

      you can’t just indiscriminately use “LGBTQ” when you mean “not attracted to men”

    • @imgonnasayitnow
      @imgonnasayitnow 3 года назад +4

      but yes, Phil was very handsome (signed, an LGBTQ)

    • @jerrysmith2354
      @jerrysmith2354 2 года назад +2

      For real. Youd think he'd have been at least a bit more popular. Dudes handsome as hell

  • @MrBertiepie
    @MrBertiepie 2 месяца назад

    Said the last line of this songto my cat Sundance and later my dog Tex as they were put to sleep

  • @charleshonig7080
    @charleshonig7080 4 года назад +2

    Truth Teller"

  • @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467
    @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467 4 года назад +2

    Wow: so young!!! He is showing how shy he was back then... good thing he manned up after a while!!

    • @jerryfenwyck
      @jerryfenwyck 4 года назад +2

      By "manned up" do you mean tearing up the joint and menacing people with a steel-clawed hammer?

    • @imgonnasayitnow
      @imgonnasayitnow 3 года назад +3

      uh. what

  • @cupjay
    @cupjay 9 лет назад +13

    maan, in the posthumous biography it's clear the epic fail of the '68 democratic convention killed the guy. r.i.p. buddy.
    book might still be available from better public libraries, or not:
    "There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs", September 6, 1996.
    author Michael Schumacher

    • @baconenjoyer
      @baconenjoyer 8 лет назад +10

      +cupjay A great read. Depression hurts bad. Hope they make a biopic of him one day. His story from the early sixties til the end deserves to be known for anybody who cares about social justice or democracy (ie Sanders fans)

    • @norahopekaran1879
      @norahopekaran1879 8 лет назад +4

      Schlecht - he was bi-polar. Did you ever watch the documentary of his life? "There But For Fortune". So sad. I loved him. I still do. Amazing, beautiful and troubled man. He hanged himself. I remember the day. I am interested in reading the book that cupjay mentioned. I hope I can get it from the library.

    • @endthedrugwartoday
      @endthedrugwartoday 7 лет назад +1

      He was killed by the CIA you idiots. Jesus you people are fucking stupid!

    • @peternemeth1777
      @peternemeth1777 4 года назад +2

      @@endthedrugwartoday what did he do that they wanted to get rid of him? And why are you sure that he's been killed? I know nothing of this man just this beautiful song that is one of my favourite songs since I found it in a book 30 years ago and learned to play and sing it. It was just 1 or 2 years ago that I heard it the first time through youtube. The song came to me in a spiritual way by playing the notes from a paper and went straight into my heart then and will be in my heart forever.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 года назад

      @@peternemeth1777 I doubt the CIA killed him but he was into some bad political stuff beyond the usual of the times.

  • @alexumali1744
    @alexumali1744 6 лет назад +3

    How I wish Phil had a song about the Philippines.

    • @LonelyAtTheTop79
      @LonelyAtTheTop79 6 лет назад +5

      look up his song 'Celia'

    • @alexumali1744
      @alexumali1744 6 лет назад +4

      Thank you. I want to play this song Celia and " There but for Fortune" in an event in the University of the Philippines on a grand piano.

    • @margaretross9150
      @margaretross9150 5 лет назад +2

      @@LonelyAtTheTop79 It is a beautiful song.

    • @DrJohn-rl9zg
      @DrJohn-rl9zg 2 года назад

      I remember back in the late '80s I was going to college and I sat in a city park. I was playing my guitar and suddenly I was surrounded by a bunch of Filipinos on holiday. They were trying to get everybody to give money to me. And then my thesis advisor came by, it was actually both our birthdays. We all had so much fun singing. I don't know if I played any of Phil's songs but I know the theme was there.

  • @JonEoinSaoradh
    @JonEoinSaoradh 3 месяца назад

    The most beautiful people all seem to die so soon..

  • @leonardocodirenzi2284
    @leonardocodirenzi2284 Год назад

    Ecco la bellissima versione originale di c'e' la fortuna,incisa da francoise hardy in italiano ed in francese col titolo ou' c'entra la chance

  • @anythinglovecanbuy
    @anythinglovecanbuy 10 лет назад +5

    The Bitter End?

    • @MooPotPie
      @MooPotPie 9 лет назад +5

      +Jason Wang Yes, 1968.

    • @alnicospeaker
      @alnicospeaker 7 лет назад +6

      the brick-wall cannot be mistaken ;)

  • @smurfmama2020
    @smurfmama2020 3 месяца назад

    What happened to the revolution?

  • @retrofit7787
    @retrofit7787 8 лет назад +4

    why is Jackie from that 70s show there ?

  • @lewjones
    @lewjones 9 месяцев назад +1

    Dylan was intimidated by him

  • @bellycuda
    @bellycuda 6 лет назад +1

    Was Phil Ochs a Morrissey influence?

    • @evanb2679
      @evanb2679 5 лет назад +4

      Unlikely, he's quite talented while Morrisey is just a professional whiner.

    • @TrumptonMayor
      @TrumptonMayor 2 года назад +1

      Yep,Morrissey is a fan of Phil.