How could ANYONE have thought it made sense to keep Nixon in power in '72? DId they forget what a total, life-hating bastard he'd been throughout his entire career?
And, seriously folks, ANYBODY could have gone to China.
@Hamporkcheese And, really, Dylan is. In fact, Dylan started as a pop-style performer, but went into "folk-style" music because he had more creative space to work in there than he would have had he stuck to the conventions of early-60's white American pop, a genre that was a dead zone from the moment Buddy Holly's plane crashed 'til the Beatles showed up, reminded everyone that rock-and-roll was based on black music, and brought it back to life..
ignorant people talkin shit obama is a demacrat he cant be fashist its on the oppisite side of the political spectrum dumbass, and i dont see how you can compare the worst president ever NIXION to obama who hasnt done anything to hurt the country jus nothin to fix it.
@cosmic70rock granted, he hasn't been the greatest president. Considering the past 10 presidents in office, it is not like there is really much of a difference. Your comment just reeks of ignorance, and nonchalance. About as much as this song did.
Richard Nixon was a bad man but he just got caught; other presidents got clean away. The horror of Nixon was not Watergate but the Vietnam war where he and Robert Strange (that is his middle name) McNamara and before them, Lyndon B(vains) Johnson allowed 58,196 American troops to die and many many more died and tortured.
Now, here's the the incompetency and transparency of Barack Obama
Go find yourself another country to be part of ..
@11xzxzxz Watergate was really inseparable from Vietnam. If Watergate had been about a second-rate burglary, Nixon would have cut the perpetrators loose and let justice run its course. The reason for the cover-up (what really got him in trouble) is that he was afraid an investigation would expose all the covert operations against anti-war and civil rights activists, for example, ransacking the office of the shrink who treated Daniel Ellsberg (leaker of the Pentagon Papers).
@Seasass Though I believe if Phil Ochs was president he would have fucked us up as much as Obama could if he has his druthers. I only hope you don't but into the most of the nonsense of the radical left of today .. I can forgive Phil, he was a sweet beautiful man and very witty (I have some secret tapes of him in long conversations with friends) ; Obama is just an actor and irresponsible politician... for so many reasons why and there but fortune goes you or I.
@Seasass I wasn't aware of the Rules of being Relevant to you or too continue to Relate linearly. As Phil Ochs sang "when I got something to say sir and I'm gonna say it now". ha. If you don't see a connection or can't track me then we are not going to communicate anymore but it was nice while you lasted. I Declare the War is Over .. It's Over.
@Seasass See an ass? Be one. And for you my sanctimonious narcissistic fiend; a flight from pragmatic ideas, a flight to devour your own corrupt carcasses of stinking ideas and a the loosening of your bowels and vowels as your putrid speech passes continuously out of belly of your beastly bottom. Now take flight my four-legged friend and don't dawdle from doing extensive research into your own narcissist mind and falling down is your prescribe exercise today.
@Seasass Yeah I don't how these things happen. emotions overcome logic and the trial is always short. Impressed with you and your string of words. Toast to Phil. In a while will the smile of my face turn to plaster .. you like Neil Young? good song Mr Soul.
Sadly they stared & sank in their chairs and searched for a comforting notion.
And the rich silver walls looked ready to fall As they shook in doubtful devotion.
The ice cubes would clink as they freshened their drinks, wet their minds in bitter emotion. And they talked about the ringing of revolution!
Down on our knees we're begging u please, sorry for the way you were driven. There's no need to taunt just take what you want, & we'll make amends, if we're living.. BUT ONLY THE DEAD R FORGIVEN.
Thumbs up if you are a baby boomer (you know, grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's) and acknowledge that...you shouldn't stereotype my generation (I'm a teen, I love Phil Ochs and have been protesting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since elementary school of my own choice- my parents say Vietnam was bad and Iraq's good). Afghanistan/Iraq are now my generation's Vietnam, Phil said "it's always the old to lead us to war it's always the young to die." Here's to the state of Bush, Fox "news", Obama.
I am so glad you won your guitar bet and JOhn F. Kennedy won the presidency. God only knows if Nixon had won you never would have won your guitar from your room mate. Love You Phil !!!!1
@tsomer07 Why would he apologize to Nixon? I think he's happily dropping napalm from heaven down into hell where Nixon is burning. And Obama's just a puppet, carefully choosing his words so somebody doesn't shoot his ass for being black.
@tsomer07 he would have done a hell of a job on "Here's to the State of George W Bush". every verses applies to THAT administration, and we all know it.
40 years latter and it's only gotten worse. 60 years since Ike warned of the Military-Industrial Complex. We are coming up on 100 years since the slaughter of WWI.
this MAN is what, EVERY MAN , SHOULD BE ! GUTS, BRAINS, great voice, and incredable LOVE, for Y me, and, everybody else, who cares about RIGHT& WRONG!!!
People who speak up like this most of the time are murdered and passed off as suicide. They get drugged up or driven to insanity or whatever I suppose. Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Hendrix and who knows.
Has it occurred to any of you supposedly "tolerant" and "understanding" contemporary liberals that 1964 was FORTY-SIX EFFING YEARS AGO? That contemporary Mississippi, despite its savagely racist past, has progressed rather far beyond it?
I believe Ochs was a genius (although also seriously bipolar). And I'm certainly not a Nixon fan. But I'm bemused by those who seemed (and seem) to consider Nixon akin to the Antichrist, without offering adequate evidence to support their apocalyptic arguments. Nixon, for example, did not order National Guardsmen to shoot at Kent State. Yet that nuance was lost upon CSNY.
@stevevandien Nixon wasn't the antiChrist. Havven't decided whether it was raygun or dick cheney, but if neither, they're close enough for my lifetime.
Here's to the State of Mississippi, reworked for Tricky Dicky. Lots of power in both versions, appropriate for their times. Phil was truly a great man. Too bad the they keep the target moving so there's always another battle to fight.
@RTT8001 Please drop the invective and describe, with logic and reason, your objections to conservatives. You might also describe the Tea Parties that you've attended and what upset you about them. Then we'll have something to discuss.
I'm a conservative, and I don't call liberals "left-wing scum." We learn by exchanging ideas and discussing our differences, without insulting one another.
@lazur1 foid it..WOWQ: John SinclairFreedom Rally: Rennie Davis, Allen Ginsburg, Jerry Rubin, Ed Sanders, Bobby Seale, ..johnLennon, yoko ono,archie shepp,Phil Ochs, commander/cody, joy of Cooking. David Peel & the Lower East Side
@stevevandien We need a voice like Phil Ochs now because complete and utter lunatics like Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, and the rest of the radical right are dragging our country into their stinking gutter. What facts would you like? The fact that American workers have been dragged into near-poverty by the frauds of rayugndubyanomics? That the taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, who now control a record amount of the wealth of the country have been cut by over a half?
@MiserableOldFart I'd like you to support those assertions with some evidence, and with particular attention to cause and effect. Demonstrate, for example, that Palin, Paul etc. are "complete and utter lunatics." That's hyperbolic and unworthy of a serious discussion.
@ChrisF116 How long did the children of Japan, Germany and Italy pay for the actions of their misguided leaders? Those we've "supported," well, let's see -- these included Japan and Germany during the Boxer Rebellion. Or did you forget this?
@stevevandien Too late to bother with you. You're obviously gone. But what I don't understand it what you get out of a fine artist like Ochs, who was a true radical, unlike the corporate whore-phonies I mentioned in the above posts..
@MiserableOldFart Too late, indeed, since you won't or can't support your bloviating with a rational argument. What do I get out of Ochs? His ARTISTRY. Ochs' best work ("Crucifixion," for example, is a great song) transcends both his tendentious and sometimes risible politics, plus the insanity that eventually engulfed and killed him. You can't understand why a conservative could admire a "radical" artist? That says more about you than me:).
Not to downgrade Ochs but Nixon was a real president unlike the clowns Bush and Obama. There wouldn't be 20 million illegals arrogantly roaming around the country if Nixon was president.
@krushnoi The most of illegals came to USA for working, doing jobs that "legal" americans they don´t want to do.And don´t forget this: your forefathers once came to this country searching freedom, meal and justice.
Phil Oches was one of the greatest "protest" singers of all time. He was the equal of the "young Bobby Dylan". He was fearless and he died young (thanks to the CIA who framed him and made him end up in and Afghanistan prison).
Chilling lyrics, I read Robert Dallek's book on Nixon and Kissinger, I mean the meetings those two had, it sounded like "The Godfather", psychotic, scary, irrational, vengeful, spiteful, wasn't that paranoia all so unnecessary? What courage and balls to sing this song, absolutely NOBODY would do something like this today, nobody.... bless you Phil Ochs. I believe his ashes were scattered in Edinburgh, Scotland.
wouldnt that be nice if life was that easy VB??? But--- life isnt that easy--nixon was a scum bag crook and the rest are not like that.....he got causght cause he was a stinking lying murderous scum ...
who tried to destroy the consituion and the stinking bastrds working for him--rumsfeld and cheney have done there jobs well.....go back to the gop rat hole.
@greenwoodtea Drop the invective and try to describe, if you can, how Nixon "tried to destroy the constitution [sic]" And please use logic, reason and evidence.
This is so great...nixon ---that stinking bastard nixon lied --stole --bombed --wire tapes---he was lucky not to be rotting in prison for the rest of his life...
sound familiar??judges??war, war, war?? Nixon- the gop model for reagen bushsr and jr... Nixon got himself (watergate) before he could destroy the democracy..we were lucky then --but the Dem party is not what it once was...that is the difference. and the gop pukes are worse.
@vboredv You must not have been alive when Nixon was president. I am 59 and he was the biggest s.o.b. there was. Ford should not have pardoned him. Nixon divided our country. I remember "don't trust anyone over 30" was a code phrase we used even at 15 & 16. It took me years and years...until I had my own children...before I could even say the Pledge of Allegiance. My small kids asked me once, "Mommy, why don't you say this?" They asked in 1984. It took me that long to get over Nixon's America.
@yoginipeacelove According to many who served in Nixon's administration, Bush was even worse. But if you're conscious of that, take heart--it means he didn't succeed in fucking up your generation entirely.
@greenwoodtea Since Nixon, in his second term, was largely repudiated by conservatives, please use logic and reason to back your assertion about Nixon as "the gop [sic] model for reagen [sic] bushsr and jr." What, exactly, did Reagan and the Bushes have in common with Nixon?
@ Yeah, thats exactly what I mean. Compare Watergate to Iraq. Illegal break in he was somewhat connected to vs an illegal war Bush was instrumental in lying about. Nixon also did a lot of good environmental policy- Clean air and Water Acts.
@stevevandien Who are you, my political science professor or something? Maybe you should learn the history for yourself. Regardless, the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 established the idea of the sovereignty of states. Since then, there have been other things like the Geneva Convention and the U.N. charter that established limits on when you can legitimately go to war. Above all, It must be in self defense. Iraq was no threat to us, and had no connection with 9/11.
@ChrisF116 So the war of the United States against Germany 1942-5 was illegal, because Nazi Germany hadn't attacked the US and posed no immediate threat. I see. thanks for clarifying.
@stevevandien There two things are nothing alike. Germany was sinking our cargo ships at an astronomical rate in the early days of the war. That is in itself an act of aggression against us. Plus Germany had attacked our allies. Iraq in 2003 was a relatively stable country that hadn't attacked anyone in over a decade. IAEA inspectors were in the country and told us there were no weapons. There was no threat to us. You cant dismiss that.
Respond to this video... The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as with every intervention we have had in the region, is obviously about oil. Hence, the war is illegal. How fucking complicated is that? Come on. Stop listening to propaganda.
@ChrisF116 If it's obviously about oil, why didn't the US appropriate every oil well in Iraq, instead of leaving them to the Iraqui people? Maybe you're the one who shouldn't listen to propaganda:).
@stevevandien Everything in the Mid East is about oil. If it wasn't there, we wouldn't be there either. What do you think the contractors are doing there? They are the ones who manipulate the politicians into war, and they are the ones who make the money off of the war. Why do you think we the largest embassy in the world there? We want our forces close to the oil. You decide whether this was a legitimate reason to kill over 100,000 people.
@stevevandien Obviously you've never heard of the Military Industrial Complex. It is the very structure that champions there military adventures, as first described by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address (A classic and insightful speech you should definitely look into- its on here.) The contractors represent the industrial part of the triangle (Military, Defense Industry, and Government.) As long as war is such a lucrative business for some, it will continue.
@ChrisF116 Of course I've heard of it. What you haven't done is describe exactly how it functions relative to Iraq, indeed to every war since Eisenhower's speech. Citing Ike isn't enough; even great men can be wrong.
Both of the archive websites for the Mike Douglas show, and the David Frost show that had offered the episodes, the websites are down now. It may be that our window of opportunity to get those episodes has dwindled to a close. Shit, I should have reached out to more Ochs fans earlier! The Museum of Broadcast Communications may be able to obtain those episode for $60 each on DVD! May be harder, may need express permission. They are closed for a while, to relocate or remodel or something.
Such a fucking amazing man! The greatest songwriter of the century, truly one of a kind, and his enthusiasm and humanism is sadly missed in such a haunting world.
@andyochs Correct .. the greatest folk songwriter of any century. It's the melodies, lyrics and voice. I don't even agree with much of his politics (though not a fan of Richard Nixon) but that doesn't matter with Phil. Never has there been such a talent. Neil Young thought he was great. What a charismatic guy .. and I know someone who used to talk with him and he said Phil was all heart and all humor all the time. Well except in the end. RIP.
@andyochs I love Phil Ochs, too, and happen to think his last two albums are badly underrated, but the greatest songwriter of the century??? Greater than Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Rodgers and Hart, Smokey Robinson, Neil Young, Hank Williams? Penn and Oldham? Richard Thompson? Ellington and Strayhorn? I could keep going and going with this.
@andyochs Just saw your "folk songwriter" correction. That gets a lot closer to it, but what's a "folk" songwriter, and do we need to make the distinction? Is Neil Young a "folk" songwriter? I suppose, but some of his bands rock awfully hard. He's better than Phil. John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Richard Thompson. How about someone in the Stampfel/Hurley camp? Phil might have surpassed Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly, but I wonder. And Dylan still beats everyone.
They're leading us into World War Three And this what you call democracy It's a cry for no government, a cry to be free And I don't see freedom in democracy Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian Do you really care what party you're in? Did you really think you could make it big Living among these nuclear pigs If you didn't know you'll never see We're too far gone for democracy Look whats it's done to you and me... Democracy is not for me...
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Phil was MURDERED! I have personally collected precious evidence on Phil Ochs, I have mailed it to any who will ask. Phil Ochs was murdered by our own Government/CIA/Secret Service. I have very strong information to support this. It will convince any skeptic, I can assure that. Psychiatry, and "medicine" to help? Tom Cruise was right about that. Cut out the ignorance Phil Ochs fans, and let's get some Justice For Phil!
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You're thinking of the FBI. They had him listed as Phil Oaks. That's bullshit disinformation. Phil was the most radical leftist, and you believe they didn't even know his name? I believe what he said, the secret service hired thugs to take him out, they left him for dead. He survived, but he was eventually taken out. John Train is the name of a CIA agent who was working to disrupt the leftists. They programed another personality into him, then they gave it the command to kill the host.
I'm sure they could've killed him. But he was only a singer, not a leader of a big union or leftist party . . . So there was little reason for them to do it.
He was a radical Marxist, more radical than Malcolm X. He was fully engaged. Hoover personally disdained him. They programed many people to snap and kill themselves. You don't know very much about Phil Ochs or the federal government. Go a bit further down the rabbit hole.
We don't live in free democracy though. Freedom of speech and protest has almost gone. We have Jesuit shadow gov., army, triple canopy. ect.. ready to fully overthrow the US at the slightest whim. It's in the law books now, and any true fan of Phil Ochs is a subversive target. Ask Phil, Lenny Bruce or Jim Morrison about democracy. Oh wait, you can't. We're far too gone for that. The Gulags are ready to be filled to capacity. Two or three years from now we'll have a staged nuke war. Wag the dog!
This is a rare find. I can't believe how few hits this song has. If you mention Phil Ochs to anyone they will say ...Who? But listen to that crowd. He has been effectively erased from pop culture.
radicals, revolutionaries, and truth tellers have a nasty habit of being distilled and rendered harmless children's book subjects (MLK, Cesar Chavez) or being completely written out (Joe Hill, the I.WW, Phil Ochs) or like Woody Guthrie, their original message is lost and Bush Sr. uses this land is your land as his campaign song.
ok, well, the whole post is silly. the thesis seems to be that these people have been whitewashed or forgotten... i dont know how you get forgotten or whitewashed when there are doens of books and websites and films written about every detail of your life and your work is copied and covered by tens of thousands of people in every country on the planet.
mlk was just an organizer who became a symbolic figure of the movement. he would have been nothing if it wasnt for the countless people who fought against the race hierarchy in the us. similarly joe hill was a musician and labor activist and he fought for workers rights at a time when those types of people were regularly faced with death. the only thing thats "silly" here is to imply that his contribution is somehow worth less
The original post says "rendered harmless". MLK is the liberal's darling because he stressed the "non-violent" message of Gandhi.
This ignores the fact that his peacefull methods worked exactly once - with the bus boycott. It took the threat of violence - the mustering of federal troops - to get the schools integrated.
MLK was rethinking his strategy when he was murdered.
George Orwell and Martin Buber both pointed out that Gandhian methods would not work against fascists.
Those people didn't want to be relegated to discussions in university classes, they sought to inform and uplift the working class in one form or another. It doesn't matter how many books in a library quote somebody if the people in the street have never heard of them.
@chilam8668 when phil died rolling stone published a poem about him by abbie hoffman "ive seen phil ochs on freedoms trail organizing demonstrations and posting bail..." carl wilson of the beach boys was a concientious objector to the vietnam war he went through a lot of legal hassels with that watch the live video of feal flows.
@chilam8668 Please examine the extensive bibliographies of MLK and CC, and explain why the books therein (which include Pulitzer Prize winners) are "harmless children's book subjects." "Completely written out?" I read about Joe Hill, the IWW AND Phil Ochs (plus Paul Robeson) in high school during the mid-70s. So did my classmates. Why do you make such easily refuted assertions? Bush Sr. hasn't been president for EIGHTEEN YEARS. Yet you attack him. Can you say "straw man?"
@chilam8668 All the more reason for new generations of activists, artists, and songwriters to horrify the corrupt establishment with new drives and works that can't be so ignored and misconstrued.
I love it!! THat song is actually called Heres to The State Of Mississippi. But he changed it to Richard nixon. All the other lyrics are the same. I love Phil Ochs. I grew up listening to him from my dad who was a fan growing up in the 60s. He also got me into Vanilla Fudge. They were so cool!!!
Thanks, I'll see if I can track those down. I can't believe how much of his stuff is out of print. It's ridiculous. And it doesn't seem like "Chords of Fame" was ever put on CD.
This is the greatest song! Thank you for posting this! This and other songs I've been hearing on Youtube (only a few that I recall from years back) have made me a fan. Now to track down those out of print CDs!
Sadly, Richard Nixon was way to the left of Obama.
silversoul7 1 month ago 2
How could ANYONE have thought it made sense to keep Nixon in power in '72? DId they forget what a total, life-hating bastard he'd been throughout his entire career?
And, seriously folks, ANYBODY could have gone to China.
KennBurch 2 months ago
who are the three fuckers that supported Richard Nixon
thebomberrock 2 months ago
Ochs was right, in a totally different way.
feeblepizza 2 months ago
Eddie Vedder did this song justice
roxydog2004 3 months ago
he called Bob Dylan a pop singer....
Hamporkcheese 3 months ago
@Hamporkcheese And, really, Dylan is. In fact, Dylan started as a pop-style performer, but went into "folk-style" music because he had more creative space to work in there than he would have had he stuck to the conventions of early-60's white American pop, a genre that was a dead zone from the moment Buddy Holly's plane crashed 'til the Beatles showed up, reminded everyone that rock-and-roll was based on black music, and brought it back to life..
KennBurch 2 months ago
ignorant people talkin shit obama is a demacrat he cant be fashist its on the oppisite side of the political spectrum dumbass, and i dont see how you can compare the worst president ever NIXION to obama who hasnt done anything to hurt the country jus nothin to fix it.
jbisterfelt 6 months ago
A damn Cummunist!
JerryJimmson 7 months ago
Here's to the state of Barack Obama.
bensmith3200 7 months ago
@bensmith3200 What is your point?
oneNonly1fullofsome 7 months ago
@bensmith3200 Ahh is the poor little Neo-Nazi hard done by? Awww....you fucking idiot. Shut the fuck up and stop crying.
BlameRepublicans 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Phil Ochs
@BlameRepublicans
Just for the record: I HATE NAZIS!!
I am a socialist. That's why I'm not a fan of Barack Obama.
bensmith3200 4 months ago 3
@bensmith3200 Fair enough.
KennBurch 2 months ago
The world could use a Phil Ochs. Keep the post alive, the world should never forget Phil.
odinsblood333 7 months ago 2
@odinsblood333 we have them. Try Ani Difranco for starters
oneNonly1fullofsome 7 months ago
Phil killed himself at age 35. Nixon lived to be 81. No justice in the world.
Aqquila89 7 months ago 14
OBAMA FIND YOURSELF ANOTHER COUNTRY TO BE PART OF.
cosmic70rock 7 months ago
@cosmic70rock granted, he hasn't been the greatest president. Considering the past 10 presidents in office, it is not like there is really much of a difference. Your comment just reeks of ignorance, and nonchalance. About as much as this song did.
oneNonly1fullofsome 7 months ago
damn, dude, that was a balzy song.
psyjax2 7 months ago
Richard Nixon was a bad man but he just got caught; other presidents got clean away. The horror of Nixon was not Watergate but the Vietnam war where he and Robert Strange (that is his middle name) McNamara and before them, Lyndon B(vains) Johnson allowed 58,196 American troops to die and many many more died and tortured.
Now, here's the the incompetency and transparency of Barack Obama
Go find yourself another country to be part of ..
Here's the the transparent state of Barack Obama.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@11xzxzxz Watergate was really inseparable from Vietnam. If Watergate had been about a second-rate burglary, Nixon would have cut the perpetrators loose and let justice run its course. The reason for the cover-up (what really got him in trouble) is that he was afraid an investigation would expose all the covert operations against anti-war and civil rights activists, for example, ransacking the office of the shrink who treated Daniel Ellsberg (leaker of the Pentagon Papers).
Seasass 8 months ago
@Seasass Good point.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@Seasass Though I believe if Phil Ochs was president he would have fucked us up as much as Obama could if he has his druthers. I only hope you don't but into the most of the nonsense of the radical left of today .. I can forgive Phil, he was a sweet beautiful man and very witty (I have some secret tapes of him in long conversations with friends) ; Obama is just an actor and irresponsible politician... for so many reasons why and there but fortune goes you or I.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@11xzxzxz Hmmm ... I'm a little confused (i.e., did not see how your comment was relevant to anything I had just said). Oh, well.
Seasass 8 months ago
@Seasass I wasn't aware of the Rules of being Relevant to you or too continue to Relate linearly. As Phil Ochs sang "when I got something to say sir and I'm gonna say it now". ha. If you don't see a connection or can't track me then we are not going to communicate anymore but it was nice while you lasted. I Declare the War is Over .. It's Over.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@11xzxzxz Flight of ideas ... loosening of associations ... Phil (especially in his latter days) would have been proud of you ...
Seasass 8 months ago
@Seasass See an ass? Be one. And for you my sanctimonious narcissistic fiend; a flight from pragmatic ideas, a flight to devour your own corrupt carcasses of stinking ideas and a the loosening of your bowels and vowels as your putrid speech passes continuously out of belly of your beastly bottom. Now take flight my four-legged friend and don't dawdle from doing extensive research into your own narcissist mind and falling down is your prescribe exercise today.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@Seasass Just kidding, Friends? For putting up with me they give big prizes .. sometimes. I was merely qausi-mock-angry at you. Good luck to you.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
@11xzxzxz No problem :) I was actually quite impressed by the last string of words ...
Seasass 8 months ago
@Seasass Yeah I don't how these things happen. emotions overcome logic and the trial is always short. Impressed with you and your string of words. Toast to Phil. In a while will the smile of my face turn to plaster .. you like Neil Young? good song Mr Soul.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
Sadly they stared & sank in their chairs and searched for a comforting notion.
And the rich silver walls looked ready to fall As they shook in doubtful devotion.
The ice cubes would clink as they freshened their drinks, wet their minds in bitter emotion. And they talked about the ringing of revolution!
Down on our knees we're begging u please, sorry for the way you were driven. There's no need to taunt just take what you want, & we'll make amends, if we're living.. BUT ONLY THE DEAD R FORGIVEN.
11xzxzxz 8 months ago
They never publicized that Nixon was innocent......do your homework...... he was framed. I am not kidding.
lway56 8 months ago
Sadly, most of the justices appointed by Richard Nixon come across as flaming radicals when compared with Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito!
Seasass 8 months ago
He was the most inspired political singer EVER! The new documentary on his life, THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE, is a must-see film!
SoulQuest7 8 months ago
Thumbs up if you are a baby boomer (you know, grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's) and acknowledge that...you shouldn't stereotype my generation (I'm a teen, I love Phil Ochs and have been protesting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since elementary school of my own choice- my parents say Vietnam was bad and Iraq's good). Afghanistan/Iraq are now my generation's Vietnam, Phil said "it's always the old to lead us to war it's always the young to die." Here's to the state of Bush, Fox "news", Obama.
yoginipeacelove 9 months ago
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he would have done a hell of a job on "Here's to the State of George W Bush". every verses applies to THAT administration, and we all know it.
ragabiparino 9 months ago
I am so glad you won your guitar bet and JOhn F. Kennedy won the presidency. God only knows if Nixon had won you never would have won your guitar from your room mate. Love You Phil !!!!1
LeeMike233 11 months ago
I used to listen to this song back when.
I think if he were still around, Ochs might revisit this tune, apologize to Nixon and sing
"Here's to the land--of obama....
tsomer07 11 months ago
@tsomer07 Why would he apologize to Nixon? I think he's happily dropping napalm from heaven down into hell where Nixon is burning. And Obama's just a puppet, carefully choosing his words so somebody doesn't shoot his ass for being black.
TedEdFred21 10 months ago
@tsomer07 I think he would have done a hell of a job on Here's to the state of George W Bush... all the verses apply to him, a million times over.
ragabiparino 9 months ago
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@tsomer07 he would have done a hell of a job on "Here's to the State of George W Bush". every verses applies to THAT administration, and we all know it.
ragabiparino 9 months ago
Awesome, just awesome.
Evel0Knievel 11 months ago 2
40 years latter and it's only gotten worse. 60 years since Ike warned of the Military-Industrial Complex. We are coming up on 100 years since the slaughter of WWI.
Had enough? Me too. Get politically active.
grodhagen 1 year ago 2
Some say Phil committed suicide? I believe he did it with this song. Even above his voice, lyrics & "HEART", ..Courage & "Guts",..2nd to NONE!
hanksnow2 1 year ago 8
this MAN is what, EVERY MAN , SHOULD BE ! GUTS, BRAINS, great voice, and incredable LOVE, for Y me, and, everybody else, who cares about RIGHT& WRONG!!!
tonybenn1000 1 year ago 6
People who speak up like this most of the time are murdered and passed off as suicide. They get drugged up or driven to insanity or whatever I suppose. Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Hendrix and who knows.
wagtec 1 year ago 2
@wagtec I HEAR YOU& AGREE. thanks for your great coment. take care.
tonybenn1000 1 year ago 2
Thanks for this R.I.P Phil........
scarlettspyders 1 year ago
Just replace Richard Nixon with "George Bush". Where is Phil Ochs when we need him?
TheOneCalledTimmy 1 year ago
Have you more of these presentation? live?... i would like to find more videos of ochs on the 70's.
mavilunA 1 year ago
LAND OF O-----YOU KNOW WHO .....
SPARKSNEVADA777 1 year ago
"The times, they're never changing." I sure liked Phil back then, and still do.
ZZJoCa 1 year ago
Has it occurred to any of you supposedly "tolerant" and "understanding" contemporary liberals that 1964 was FORTY-SIX EFFING YEARS AGO? That contemporary Mississippi, despite its savagely racist past, has progressed rather far beyond it?
stevevandien 1 year ago
I believe Ochs was a genius (although also seriously bipolar). And I'm certainly not a Nixon fan. But I'm bemused by those who seemed (and seem) to consider Nixon akin to the Antichrist, without offering adequate evidence to support their apocalyptic arguments. Nixon, for example, did not order National Guardsmen to shoot at Kent State. Yet that nuance was lost upon CSNY.
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien Nixon wasn't the antiChrist. Havven't decided whether it was raygun or dick cheney, but if neither, they're close enough for my lifetime.
MiserableOldFart 1 year ago
Here's to the State of Mississippi, reworked for Tricky Dicky. Lots of power in both versions, appropriate for their times. Phil was truly a great man. Too bad the they keep the target moving so there's always another battle to fight.
avlisk 1 year ago
Right on Phil!!! Sounds like Phil knew the future of America for sure which would even be worse than what he was singing about.
God help us if the right wing scum and Tea Partyers brainwash our country. Annoy the Conservatives-Defend the Constitution.
RTT8001 1 year ago 2
@RTT8001 Please drop the invective and describe, with logic and reason, your objections to conservatives. You might also describe the Tea Parties that you've attended and what upset you about them. Then we'll have something to discuss.
I'm a conservative, and I don't call liberals "left-wing scum." We learn by exchanging ideas and discussing our differences, without insulting one another.
stevevandien 1 year ago
There are a lot of very big amplifiers set up behind Phil..who was the band that night? I guess it was already too late to be Jimi.
lazur1 1 year ago
@lazur1 foid it..WOWQ: John SinclairFreedom Rally: Rennie Davis, Allen Ginsburg, Jerry Rubin, Ed Sanders, Bobby Seale, ..johnLennon, yoko ono,archie shepp,Phil Ochs, commander/cody, joy of Cooking. David Peel & the Lower East Side
lazur1 1 year ago
Phil Ochs> Bob Dylan
AUSROTTENY2K 1 year ago
Here's to the state of Sarah Palin... We really need Phil Ochs now.
MiserableOldFart 1 year ago
@MiserableOldFart Please explain your comment, using logic and reason:).
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien We need a voice like Phil Ochs now because complete and utter lunatics like Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, and the rest of the radical right are dragging our country into their stinking gutter. What facts would you like? The fact that American workers have been dragged into near-poverty by the frauds of rayugndubyanomics? That the taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, who now control a record amount of the wealth of the country have been cut by over a half?
MiserableOldFart 1 year ago
@MiserableOldFart I'd like you to support those assertions with some evidence, and with particular attention to cause and effect. Demonstrate, for example, that Palin, Paul etc. are "complete and utter lunatics." That's hyperbolic and unworthy of a serious discussion.
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien How long shall the children of Iraq pay for the 2 decade old actions of a dictator we once supported?
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 How long did the children of Japan, Germany and Italy pay for the actions of their misguided leaders? Those we've "supported," well, let's see -- these included Japan and Germany during the Boxer Rebellion. Or did you forget this?
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien Too late to bother with you. You're obviously gone. But what I don't understand it what you get out of a fine artist like Ochs, who was a true radical, unlike the corporate whore-phonies I mentioned in the above posts..
MiserableOldFart 1 year ago
@MiserableOldFart Too late, indeed, since you won't or can't support your bloviating with a rational argument. What do I get out of Ochs? His ARTISTRY. Ochs' best work ("Crucifixion," for example, is a great song) transcends both his tendentious and sometimes risible politics, plus the insanity that eventually engulfed and killed him. You can't understand why a conservative could admire a "radical" artist? That says more about you than me:).
Best wishes, Steve
stevevandien 1 year ago
Ochs was the best!
lekunberriko1 1 year ago 2
Wonderful. Very witty lyrics and rhymes.
I especially am fond of: "And the speeches of the Spiro are the ravings of a clown."
I had only one opportunity to hear Ochs, at a get-out-the-vote McGovern rally just before the 1972 election. The memory remains.
lennycohenfan 1 year ago
Not to downgrade Ochs but Nixon was a real president unlike the clowns Bush and Obama. There wouldn't be 20 million illegals arrogantly roaming around the country if Nixon was president.
krushnoi 1 year ago
@krushnoi correct
56BUICKRiviera 1 year ago
@krushnoi The most of illegals came to USA for working, doing jobs that "legal" americans they don´t want to do.And don´t forget this: your forefathers once came to this country searching freedom, meal and justice.
jonchic2002 1 year ago
Should be called "Here's to the State of Barack Obama".
jizzo225 1 year ago
Phil rules. End of story.
JohnnyLaRue86 1 year ago 2
@JohnnyLaRue86 - Absolutely!!
Georgie2047 1 year ago
A SUICIDE. I remember him in silver suit doing Elvis on the David Frost Show. A short time later he was dead. What happened? What REALLY happened?
Novak67766 1 year ago
I was there!
doblange 1 year ago
BRAVE - BRAVE - BRAVE
Poor man - died so early.
Notofagus25 1 year ago
if you want a nice copy of rehersals for retirement for $10 go to barnes and noble in paramus new jersey usa .
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Good grief, don't you idiots know that Phil Ochs was CIA??
imjdg1961 1 year ago
History repeats itself.
BrokenBard 1 year ago
Gees what an amazing songwriter, and very brave naming names, just the scum of the earth ones
lillyandruben 1 year ago
What a loveable man, Phil Ochs. Thanks a lot for this video.
nichina 1 year ago
here's to the state of indian killers... find another universe to be a part of..
oops did I say that ? (**)>>
Moondancedenise 1 year ago
rip phil ochs
Christiaantje7 1 year ago
One brilliant and gutsy guys who wasn't afraid to name names. He was probably murdered by the government the same way Hunter Thompson was.
JoeThePhilosopher 1 year ago
Phil Oches was one of the greatest "protest" singers of all time. He was the equal of the "young Bobby Dylan". He was fearless and he died young (thanks to the CIA who framed him and made him end up in and Afghanistan prison).
webryder 1 year ago
@webryder He hanged himself.
LordGeiger 1 year ago
Chilling lyrics, I read Robert Dallek's book on Nixon and Kissinger, I mean the meetings those two had, it sounded like "The Godfather", psychotic, scary, irrational, vengeful, spiteful, wasn't that paranoia all so unnecessary? What courage and balls to sing this song, absolutely NOBODY would do something like this today, nobody.... bless you Phil Ochs. I believe his ashes were scattered in Edinburgh, Scotland.
sc1460 1 year ago
Great clip -- Phil Ochs should be put on rotation on all commercial radio stations!!
marimbadearco 1 year ago 3
wouldnt that be nice if life was that easy VB??? But--- life isnt that easy--nixon was a scum bag crook and the rest are not like that.....he got causght cause he was a stinking lying murderous scum ...
who tried to destroy the consituion and the stinking bastrds working for him--rumsfeld and cheney have done there jobs well.....go back to the gop rat hole.
greenwoodtea 1 year ago
@greenwoodtea Drop the invective and try to describe, if you can, how Nixon "tried to destroy the constitution [sic]" And please use logic, reason and evidence.
stevevandien 1 year ago
This is so great...nixon ---that stinking bastard nixon lied --stole --bombed --wire tapes---he was lucky not to be rotting in prison for the rest of his life...
sound familiar??judges??war, war, war?? Nixon- the gop model for reagen bushsr and jr... Nixon got himself (watergate) before he could destroy the democracy..we were lucky then --but the Dem party is not what it once was...that is the difference. and the gop pukes are worse.
greenwoodtea 1 year ago
All the presidents are lying, stinking, corrupt bastards. Nixon just got caught.
vboredv 1 year ago 25
@vboredv You must not have been alive when Nixon was president. I am 59 and he was the biggest s.o.b. there was. Ford should not have pardoned him. Nixon divided our country. I remember "don't trust anyone over 30" was a code phrase we used even at 15 & 16. It took me years and years...until I had my own children...before I could even say the Pledge of Allegiance. My small kids asked me once, "Mommy, why don't you say this?" They asked in 1984. It took me that long to get over Nixon's America.
MyMoppet52 9 months ago
@MyMoppet52 Bush has kind of fucked up my generation. I'm 16. I think Bush is just as bad as Nixon most definitely.
yoginipeacelove 9 months ago
@yoginipeacelove According to many who served in Nixon's administration, Bush was even worse. But if you're conscious of that, take heart--it means he didn't succeed in fucking up your generation entirely.
Seasass 8 months ago
@vboredv Very true. And Phil would agree, of course. :)
yoginipeacelove 9 months ago
@greenwoodtea Since Nixon, in his second term, was largely repudiated by conservatives, please use logic and reason to back your assertion about Nixon as "the gop [sic] model for reagen [sic] bushsr and jr." What, exactly, did Reagan and the Bushes have in common with Nixon?
stevevandien 1 year ago
Shit. Compared with George W., Nixon was a saint. I still think he got a bit of a raw deal. Great song though.
ChrisF116 2 years ago
@ChrisF116 Yeah, less you count that whole watergate busines. but yeah. i guess.
94lukepl 1 year ago
@ Yeah, thats exactly what I mean. Compare Watergate to Iraq. Illegal break in he was somewhat connected to vs an illegal war Bush was instrumental in lying about. Nixon also did a lot of good environmental policy- Clean air and Water Acts.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 How and why did Bush "lie?" Please support your assertion with logic, reason and evidence. Please define as well "an illegal war."
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien Who are you, my political science professor or something? Maybe you should learn the history for yourself. Regardless, the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 established the idea of the sovereignty of states. Since then, there have been other things like the Geneva Convention and the U.N. charter that established limits on when you can legitimately go to war. Above all, It must be in self defense. Iraq was no threat to us, and had no connection with 9/11.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 So the war of the United States against Germany 1942-5 was illegal, because Nazi Germany hadn't attacked the US and posed no immediate threat. I see. thanks for clarifying.
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien There two things are nothing alike. Germany was sinking our cargo ships at an astronomical rate in the early days of the war. That is in itself an act of aggression against us. Plus Germany had attacked our allies. Iraq in 2003 was a relatively stable country that hadn't attacked anyone in over a decade. IAEA inspectors were in the country and told us there were no weapons. There was no threat to us. You cant dismiss that.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@stevevandien Hello? Is this irony?
On Dec. 11, 1941, Italy declared war on the US first, followed by Germany.
Germany posed a real and deadly threat. Within weeks, the US suffered worse losses of shipping than at Pearl Harbor. Look up "Operation Drumbeat."
Ignore this if you are just joking with ChrisF116. But the war with Germany started in '41, not '42.
ImperialistRunningDo 1 year ago
Respond to this video... The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as with every intervention we have had in the region, is obviously about oil. Hence, the war is illegal. How fucking complicated is that? Come on. Stop listening to propaganda.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 If it's obviously about oil, why didn't the US appropriate every oil well in Iraq, instead of leaving them to the Iraqui people? Maybe you're the one who shouldn't listen to propaganda:).
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien Everything in the Mid East is about oil. If it wasn't there, we wouldn't be there either. What do you think the contractors are doing there? They are the ones who manipulate the politicians into war, and they are the ones who make the money off of the war. Why do you think we the largest embassy in the world there? We want our forces close to the oil. You decide whether this was a legitimate reason to kill over 100,000 people.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 Contractors are behind it all? Sheez. You're not interested in a rational discussion, so I'm done. Have a nice day, if you can.
stevevandien 1 year ago
@stevevandien Obviously you've never heard of the Military Industrial Complex. It is the very structure that champions there military adventures, as first described by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address (A classic and insightful speech you should definitely look into- its on here.) The contractors represent the industrial part of the triangle (Military, Defense Industry, and Government.) As long as war is such a lucrative business for some, it will continue.
ChrisF116 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 Of course I've heard of it. What you haven't done is describe exactly how it functions relative to Iraq, indeed to every war since Eisenhower's speech. Citing Ike isn't enough; even great men can be wrong.
stevevandien 1 year ago
@ChrisF116 Please describe Nixon's saintliness as opposed to GWB. And please use logic, reason and evidence, rather than invective and assertion.
stevevandien 1 year ago
Both of the archive websites for the Mike Douglas show, and the David Frost show that had offered the episodes, the websites are down now. It may be that our window of opportunity to get those episodes has dwindled to a close. Shit, I should have reached out to more Ochs fans earlier! The Museum of Broadcast Communications may be able to obtain those episode for $60 each on DVD! May be harder, may need express permission. They are closed for a while, to relocate or remodel or something.
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philipchek 2 years ago
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No I haven't - even not 50$ and it's the half of the month. Either, it would have been a pleasure :)
philipchek 2 years ago
Such a fucking amazing man! The greatest songwriter of the century, truly one of a kind, and his enthusiasm and humanism is sadly missed in such a haunting world.
R.I.P. X
andyochs 2 years ago 40
@andyochs Correct .. the greatest folk songwriter of any century. It's the melodies, lyrics and voice. I don't even agree with much of his politics (though not a fan of Richard Nixon) but that doesn't matter with Phil. Never has there been such a talent. Neil Young thought he was great. What a charismatic guy .. and I know someone who used to talk with him and he said Phil was all heart and all humor all the time. Well except in the end. RIP.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
@andyochs I love Phil Ochs, too, and happen to think his last two albums are badly underrated, but the greatest songwriter of the century??? Greater than Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Rodgers and Hart, Smokey Robinson, Neil Young, Hank Williams? Penn and Oldham? Richard Thompson? Ellington and Strayhorn? I could keep going and going with this.
gdash4 11 months ago
@andyochs Just saw your "folk songwriter" correction. That gets a lot closer to it, but what's a "folk" songwriter, and do we need to make the distinction? Is Neil Young a "folk" songwriter? I suppose, but some of his bands rock awfully hard. He's better than Phil. John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Richard Thompson. How about someone in the Stampfel/Hurley camp? Phil might have surpassed Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly, but I wonder. And Dylan still beats everyone.
gdash4 11 months ago
love it
overayala 2 years ago
great protest song, adapted from his early "Here's to the State of Mississippi" about civil rights.
Gershwin200 2 years ago 4
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Gershwin200 2 years ago
Nice
PeterRoeder31 2 years ago
Is this what you call democracy?
They're killing us, and you're killing me
Now I know better, now I can see
That I don't wanna be in democracy
Now is the time for us to strike
Do we know what we're doing? Have we set things right?
philochs 2 years ago 2
philochs 2 years ago 2
I love this song. Phil Ochs was a brave man to sing this at the time. All hail!!
SittingDownWith 2 years ago 4
What a bad ass
sealio9 2 years ago 4
Great take on "Mississippi"
Love Ochs, he's so under rated.
KultureJamCollective 2 years ago 3
All Shall Hail Nixon!
plett410 2 years ago
Man, he had Nixon's number!
MrOldSlacker 2 years ago
merveilleux!
gerardvallerey 2 years ago
This man should live inside of everybody. I love him. I can't wait to get him tattooed on me. If only it could bring him back to life.
kaylagayyla 2 years ago
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Phil was MURDERED! I have personally collected precious evidence on Phil Ochs, I have mailed it to any who will ask. Phil Ochs was murdered by our own Government/CIA/Secret Service. I have very strong information to support this. It will convince any skeptic, I can assure that. Psychiatry, and "medicine" to help? Tom Cruise was right about that. Cut out the ignorance Phil Ochs fans, and let's get some Justice For Phil!
philochs 2 years ago
That would explain why the CIA didn't know he died for 6 months.
gabrielurmen 2 years ago
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You're thinking of the FBI. They had him listed as Phil Oaks. That's bullshit disinformation. Phil was the most radical leftist, and you believe they didn't even know his name? I believe what he said, the secret service hired thugs to take him out, they left him for dead. He survived, but he was eventually taken out. John Train is the name of a CIA agent who was working to disrupt the leftists. They programed another personality into him, then they gave it the command to kill the host.
philochs 2 years ago
I'm sure they could've killed him. But he was only a singer, not a leader of a big union or leftist party . . . So there was little reason for them to do it.
MarxBakuninMe 2 years ago
He was a radical Marxist, more radical than Malcolm X. He was fully engaged. Hoover personally disdained him. They programed many people to snap and kill themselves. You don't know very much about Phil Ochs or the federal government. Go a bit further down the rabbit hole.
philochs 2 years ago
Political dissent may be dangerous but it is the essence of a free democracy.
changealice 2 years ago
We don't live in free democracy though. Freedom of speech and protest has almost gone. We have Jesuit shadow gov., army, triple canopy. ect.. ready to fully overthrow the US at the slightest whim. It's in the law books now, and any true fan of Phil Ochs is a subversive target. Ask Phil, Lenny Bruce or Jim Morrison about democracy. Oh wait, you can't. We're far too gone for that. The Gulags are ready to be filled to capacity. Two or three years from now we'll have a staged nuke war. Wag the dog!
philochs 2 years ago
Ask JFK about dissent. Ask him about the essence of a free democracy. He knows very clearly that essence was snubbed out long ago.
philochs 2 years ago
After his death, papers from the CIA leaked, discovering that the CIA deemed Ochs as a potentially dangerous individual.
mancheromanchero 2 years ago 2
Somehow that says more about the CIA than Phil Ochs.
changealice 2 years ago
such a desperatley sad tale is that of phil ochs
arru23 2 years ago
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robgoth100, grammar fail. as much as i love Phil Ochs, he just changed Mississippi to Richard Nixon for this song. Cheap
plop341 2 years ago
Phil didnt die. He is still so relevant.
Reluctant5 2 years ago 3
yeah its a shame, the fbi didn't like him because he spoke the truth!
when dylan went pop, ochs refused to listen to his bullshit and carried on singing about the most important things!
great video, cheers
ukpsychopunx 2 years ago 5
This is a rare find. I can't believe how few hits this song has. If you mention Phil Ochs to anyone they will say ...Who? But listen to that crowd. He has been effectively erased from pop culture.
DonaldBecker79 2 years ago 5
radicals, revolutionaries, and truth tellers have a nasty habit of being distilled and rendered harmless children's book subjects (MLK, Cesar Chavez) or being completely written out (Joe Hill, the I.WW, Phil Ochs) or like Woody Guthrie, their original message is lost and Bush Sr. uses this land is your land as his campaign song.
chilam8668 2 years ago 21
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putting joe hill in the same category as MLK is kind of silly
phdecora 2 years ago
Nobody did, there are three categories given in the original post.
agenttachyon 2 years ago
ok, well, the whole post is silly. the thesis seems to be that these people have been whitewashed or forgotten... i dont know how you get forgotten or whitewashed when there are doens of books and websites and films written about every detail of your life and your work is copied and covered by tens of thousands of people in every country on the planet.
phdecora 2 years ago
mlk was just an organizer who became a symbolic figure of the movement. he would have been nothing if it wasnt for the countless people who fought against the race hierarchy in the us. similarly joe hill was a musician and labor activist and he fought for workers rights at a time when those types of people were regularly faced with death. the only thing thats "silly" here is to imply that his contribution is somehow worth less
anonimf 2 years ago
The original post says "rendered harmless". MLK is the liberal's darling because he stressed the "non-violent" message of Gandhi.
This ignores the fact that his peacefull methods worked exactly once - with the bus boycott. It took the threat of violence - the mustering of federal troops - to get the schools integrated.
MLK was rethinking his strategy when he was murdered.
George Orwell and Martin Buber both pointed out that Gandhian methods would not work against fascists.
pirbird14 2 years ago
Those people didn't want to be relegated to discussions in university classes, they sought to inform and uplift the working class in one form or another. It doesn't matter how many books in a library quote somebody if the people in the street have never heard of them.
agenttachyon 2 years ago
Did he really use "This Land is Your Land" when he was campaigning in '88? I think I'm going to barf!
sdgakatbk 2 years ago 2
@chilam8668 when phil died rolling stone published a poem about him by abbie hoffman "ive seen phil ochs on freedoms trail organizing demonstrations and posting bail..." carl wilson of the beach boys was a concientious objector to the vietnam war he went through a lot of legal hassels with that watch the live video of feal flows.
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@chilam8668 Please examine the extensive bibliographies of MLK and CC, and explain why the books therein (which include Pulitzer Prize winners) are "harmless children's book subjects." "Completely written out?" I read about Joe Hill, the IWW AND Phil Ochs (plus Paul Robeson) in high school during the mid-70s. So did my classmates. Why do you make such easily refuted assertions? Bush Sr. hasn't been president for EIGHTEEN YEARS. Yet you attack him. Can you say "straw man?"
stevevandien 1 year ago
@chilam8668 All the more reason for new generations of activists, artists, and songwriters to horrify the corrupt establishment with new drives and works that can't be so ignored and misconstrued.
HisEmptyHouse 1 year ago
Phil sang what we should have known.
We owe him.
rocketlonscher 2 years ago
I love it!! THat song is actually called Heres to The State Of Mississippi. But he changed it to Richard nixon. All the other lyrics are the same. I love Phil Ochs. I grew up listening to him from my dad who was a fan growing up in the 60s. He also got me into Vanilla Fudge. They were so cool!!!
davedaddy101 2 years ago
Hey, is this song available on any of Phil's albums? I can't seem to locate it.
thesithempire 2 years ago
It's on a few compilation albums. If you can get your hands on "Chords of Fame" or "American Troubadour," you can find it.
peanutfoot 2 years ago 2
Thanks, I'll see if I can track those down. I can't believe how much of his stuff is out of print. It's ridiculous. And it doesn't seem like "Chords of Fame" was ever put on CD.
thesithempire 2 years ago
This is the greatest song! Thank you for posting this! This and other songs I've been hearing on Youtube (only a few that I recall from years back) have made me a fan. Now to track down those out of print CDs!
thesithempire 2 years ago
Pleasant sounding sophistry.
RobGoth100 2 years ago
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killsfascists 2 years ago
Well, Phil was a very underated song writer,such a shame he is'nt around today. Love his music.
Silvermac27 3 years ago 6
Some things never change. Just the names are different.
ipsut 3 years ago 6