Phil Ochs - Highwayman/Interview/Changes

Phil appears on "Come, Read To Me a Poem" on April 12, 1967 in New York City.

1. "The Highwayman" performance at 02:09
2. Interview at 08:50
3. "Changes" performance at 15:50

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  Music

[gropingwithastoker]

I'm glad this survives. The interviewer was very thoughtful as well, and she clearly had good insight into Phil's work. And now he's off to California....

[dcortex]

Best moment of the interview:

Interviewer: One thing about poetry you know how when you learn something, and you know it's taught to you and you feel you know, terribly stupid, and the thing you're left with is ignorance. But good poetry somehow doesn't make you feel ignorant. It really makes you feel like, ahhhh!, like you've known it all along.

[Kimberly Collins]

thanks for posting this. it is great to see a rare ochs appearance on film, although the interviewer is a little too "groovy" to me. the fact that people are still arguing over phil ochs so many years after his death just shows how important he was.

[lobizoon1]

Thanks so much for posting this.

[Jason Sheftell]

The most significant melody of that age. As good as any Elvis Young and Beautiful, Buddy Holly Everyday, Just My Imagination. There is only this. Poetry to music. If Walt Whitman could sing int he 1960s, he may have been angry he didnt write and sing this.

[Nice. Real Nice.]

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[Nice. Real Nice.]

radicals are not liberals. the last radical liberal was Robespierre

[fairf22]

So young and vulnerable, and tender and true. What's the point of arguing?

[YourFaceWillDie468]

Wait, what?

"I meant that compared to the normal great Phil Och's songs"

Didn't you call him "Phil Jokes Ochs" in your previous comment?

"wrong that I would disagree that Phil was a consistently great melody maker"

You said in your previous comment that his melodies were mediocre.

" don't think he doesn't have one of the greatest & most distinctive voices ever"

You said in your previous comment that his voice was vapid.

Make up your mind, because you're giving mixed signals here. O_o

[YourFaceWillDie468]

I don't remember having seen a more backhanded and inconsistent comment in my life. Unsuitable lyrics? I disagree. Mediocre melodies? I can name an artist or two who've had more consistently good melodic sense, but I disagree with you still. Vapid voice? Quite the opposite. I think it was very distinctive and had a lot of character. Poor politics? Apparently you're not liberal; only conservatives would think a thing like that. I do agree, however, that he was indeed very handsome.