From: utzoo!watmath!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Re: More on Phil Ochs
Article-I.D.: unc.3634
Posted: Tue Jun 29 22:19:59 1982
Received: Thu Jul  1 00:05:55 1982


Phil Ochs committed suicide about 6 or 7 years ago.  There was a final
double album released, with some new songs, and some live recordings of
old ones, I believe.  I think there were also assorted songs and tributes
from some of his friends and colleagues, though I'm not certain of that.
My younger sister saw him in a small club in N.Y. around 1973 or 1974 (and was
greeted incredulously at the door; she looked far too young to have heard
of Ochs in his days of popularity); his voice was largely gone, apparently
as a result of being assaulted while traveling through Africa.  According
to his obituary, that and the fact that he felt he could no longer write
songs so depressed him that he decided to kill himself.

If anyone really cares, I can probably dig up the mono numbers for the
old Elektra recordings.  But my Ochs records are all up in Brooklyn; all
I have here are tapes.  Among the notable songs on the first two albums
are "I Ain't a Marchin' Any More", "Power and Glory", "Draft Dodger Rag",
and musical renditions of "The Bells" and "The Highwayman".  Gee -- I
think *I'll* dig out *my* tapes, too, and wallow in some nostalgia of my
own...