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Thread #78620   Message #1993362
Posted By: 30button
11-Mar-07 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: Phil Ochs - ever see him perform?
Subject: RE: Phil Ochs - ever see him perform?
I held one of the speakers when he sang during the antiwar demonstrations in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago in 1968. An amazing experience; he was a great singer and songwriter, but what you had to experience to understand was his ability to galvanize a crowd. A rabble rouser in the most positive sense of the term.

Can't remember if he sang "I Ain't Marching" or "The War is Over," but I do remember the electric surge that went through that crowd.