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#joe hill

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All this about not getting to see John Lennon on twitter but I think the real tragedy is that Freddie Mercury never had an instagram

#freddie mercury

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diving into Phil Ochs tumblr reminds me of Chris Estey’s essay on Phil Och’s Greatest Hits album (which as everyone knows was not a greatest hits as Phil Ochs didn’t have any hits). it’s from a 2009 zine and the 2010 Best American Music Writing, which is where i came across it. Did a quick & imperfect scan on my phone, you can get it here.

uh, it talks a lot about suicide and death and other unpleasant things. think it’s great though. one of those things i read — almost fifteen years ago now — that made me realise what this kind of writing could really DO.

here are a couple of shorter bits

#“he probably just hated heterosexuality” 😵‍💫 #phil ochs

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hey phil ochs tumblr, how we doin'????

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Phil Ochs at the Eugene McCarthy Fundraising Rally on June 2, 1968 at the Playboy Club in Beverly Hills, California, photographed by Ron Galella

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Phil Ochs, 1967 photographed by Alice Ochs

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Phil Ochs’ college satire pieces are kind of sending me

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that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

#james baldwin

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I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs

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phil, 1966 :]

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Phil Ochs poses for a portrait session in 1966.

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"I read underground papers and Newsweek

I've learned to take every view

I warned Vietnam is atrocious

I wish to God that the fighting was through

But when it comes to the arming of Isreal

There's no one more red, white, and blue"

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Phil Ochs poses for a portrait in 1967 in New York City, New York.

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This is the funniest part of the phil ochs fbi file

#lol #phil ochs

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