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Phil Ochs, “Tape From California.” Psychedelic New York City in the 60s. Be sure to watch the Phil Ochs documentary on PBS next Monday, Jan. 23 at 10pm.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is on Netflix Instant! Watch it! Watch it now!
Even if you think you have little to no interest in Phil, folk and protest music, or the counter culture of the ’60s (what’s wrong with you?), watch it purely for the fact that Phil was a total babe. You might actually learn something along the way.
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It’s like I was sending my future self a message. By mistake I stumbled on a link to this video that I e-mailed myself in 2007. I was just looking for this video two days ago (with no idea it existed online) for my Phil Ochs paper. Alternate versions of “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” and “William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed” within.
The life of protest singer Phil Ochs plays out like a silver-screen Western in Kenneth Bowser’s documentary, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune. “Left-wing politics was his career,” says one friend, “but … what was in his heart was not left-wing politics at all. It was John Wayne and Gary Cooper.” Keep reading …
I watched this again (with my Mom) last night. It’s so well done, but then again, I’m biased.
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Peter O’Toole communes with his co-star on the set of Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)
“[In Lawrence of Arabia,] there was a famous scene of a charge in which my face was described by Time magazine as with a look of ‘messianic determination’ as we charged.
…The day of the charge, we were given Moroccan plow camels, who had never had a human being on their hump. We were doing a mile down a shaley hill - 50 camels and 400 horses. It was going to be very dangerous indeed. So I went to the caravan which Omar [Sharif] and I were sharing. As you may know, Omar is a gambling man. He was looking very solemn.
He said, ‘I’m working up the odds, Peter….whether or not the camel will fall over, or whether I will fall off the camel. The odds on the camel falling over are 6:4 against, but the odds of me falling off the camel are even money.’ I saw the sense of that so I asked, ‘What do you intend to do?’ He said, ‘I’m going to tie myself onto the camel.’
I thought, well, I don’t really fancy being adhered to a camel. So I said, ‘I’m not going to do that, Omar. I’m going to get drunk.’ And Omar said, ‘Oh, I’m going to get drunk as well.’ So we got a bottle of brandy and two bottles of milk and we drank the brandy and the milk. And of course by this time we were supremely confident of doing anything. So he was tied to the camel. Off went the rockets - boom! - and of course the camels, out of sheer terror, bolted.
And this look of ‘messianic determination’ on my face was, in fact, a drunk actor.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lstth4eZuk1qzdvhio1_1280.jpg)
Peter O’Toole communes with his co-star on the set of Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)
“[In Lawrence of Arabia,] there was a famous scene of a charge in which my face was described by Time magazine as with a look of ‘messianic determination’ as we charged.
…The day of the charge, we were given Moroccan plow camels, who had never had a human being on their hump. We were doing a mile down a shaley hill - 50 camels and 400 horses. It was going to be very dangerous indeed. So I went to the caravan which Omar [Sharif] and I were sharing. As you may know, Omar is a gambling man. He was looking very solemn.
He said, ‘I’m working up the odds, Peter….whether or not the camel will fall over, or whether I will fall off the camel. The odds on the camel falling over are 6:4 against, but the odds of me falling off the camel are even money.’ I saw the sense of that so I asked, ‘What do you intend to do?’ He said, ‘I’m going to tie myself onto the camel.’
I thought, well, I don’t really fancy being adhered to a camel. So I said, ‘I’m not going to do that, Omar. I’m going to get drunk.’ And Omar said, ‘Oh, I’m going to get drunk as well.’ So we got a bottle of brandy and two bottles of milk and we drank the brandy and the milk. And of course by this time we were supremely confident of doing anything. So he was tied to the camel. Off went the rockets - boom! - and of course the camels, out of sheer terror, bolted.
And this look of ‘messianic determination’ on my face was, in fact, a drunk actor.”
My Phil Ochs collection
01. The Broadside Tapes 1
02. All The News That’s Fit To Sing (mono)
03. I Ain’t Marching Anymore (mono)
04. Phil Ochs In Concert (mono and stereo pressings)
05. Pleasures Of The Harbor
06. Tape From California (2 copies)
07. Rehearsals For Retirement (2 copies)
08. Gunfight At Carnegie Hall
09. Greatest Hits
10. Chords Of Fame (2 copies)
11. Sings For Broadside
12. A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
13. Live In Vancouver CD
14. Last Stand At Gerdes (Bootleg)
15. Farewells & Fantasies (Box Set - Autographed by Phil’s sister, Sonny)
Well, shit. Nicely done, sir.
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ethnomusicologist.
ukulele enthusiast.
bookworm.
About Me
Readernaut
Last.fm
Vinyl Collection
View Kim H's check-ins on GetGlue
