Ron:
My dear dear friend, it is easy when you have a weekly very public voice to talk about barking up the wrong trees... it is more than the record company execs. It is the open mics that now charge singers to perform ( I'll rot in hell before I pay someone to hear me... ) the death of folk clubs in New York. In fact, NJ has a lot more venues... look, all I am saying is I, for one, would not judge Phil Ochs as simply being ill. Suiside sucks... not a good choice, but I would not say he would have been in the place he was, if there was more opportunity to be heard... until you spend a lot of time alone and forgotten... well, just don't judge the man for his death.

cheers
lor