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Thread #22672   Message #3174218
Posted By: Bobert
21-Jun-11 - 08:33 PM
Thread Name: Why did Dylan dis Phil Ochs?
Subject: RE: Why did Dylan dis Phil Ochs?
Well, I've always loved Bob's music but he did seem to have a certain arrogance to him...

He was in Richmond, Va. in the winter of 69 to play at the Mosque and there was an anti-war demonstration that I was involved with fir the following day so I took a piece of paper with a short paragraph to one of his band mates (The Band, can't remember which one) and asked him if he'd pass it to Dylan to read sometime during the concert... The bandmate said, "Bob won't do that kinda stuff"...

Kinda rubbed me wrong... How can you write anti-war songs yet not take a friggin' 15 seconds to make an announcement of a demonstration against the war???

B~