Fifty-seven years ago today, Broadside Magazine held it's first monthly Hoot at the Village Gate in New York.  It featured many of the great Broadside singers, including Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen, Pat Sky and Buffy Sainte-Marie.  
     The energy in the room on this historic tape sounds incredible, as the enthusiastic audience of 500 sings along and cheers with gusto for their hometown heroes.  
     This tape captures a moment when the Village folk scene was hitting a peak of creativity and the new urban topical songs were linking up with the freedom songs from the South.  It makes for powerful and fascinating listening.  Enjoy!

Ain’t That News? – Tom Paxton and Broadside Singers
Go Tell It On the Mountain, This Little Light of Mine – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Father's Grave, Got To Go Downtown – Len Chandler
My Hudson River – Pete Seeger
Plains of Nebrasky-O – Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs
Now That The Buffalo's Gone, Welcome, Welcome, Emigrante – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Give to the Cause – Patrick Sky
Talking Election Blues – Terence Boylan
Delta Blues – Julius Lester
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle – Freedom Singers
Beau John, I Read it in the Daily News – Tom Paxton
Days of Decision, In the Heat of the Summer (cut) – Phil Ochs

Unknown album (5/30/2021 12:35:37 AM)

YesMoreSongs #4:  Broadside Hoot November 1, 1964

As sung at the 2,000 strong anti-SB 277 rally in Sacramento June 9, 2015.

CHECK OUT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ux2fM9NvkKlobIjA_RVGQ

KILL THE BILL!

There’s a bad wind blowing all across this land
The time has come, you know we gotta make a stand
For the ones we love, for the rights we’ve earned
Are we condemned to repeat what we never learned?

Little child crying ‘cause they took away
Her right to be in a classroom today
How many people gonna have to die
Before we take to the streets and protect our rights

-CHORUS-

We’ve got to
Kill the Bill
A little bit every day
If we close our eyes you know it won’t go away
Kill the Bill
From San Diego to Weed
Gotta hold on to the choice that we need!

You can’t trust the papers to tell you what’s going down
Just talk to your neighbors and take a look around
You’ll see more people in the same boat than they want you to believe
And nobody wants to give away their liberties

Safe and effective’s all they ever talk about
He who controls the agenda controls the outcome
So let’s tell our stories every chance that we get
You know they haven’t invented a truth vaccine yet!

We’ve got to
Kill the Bill
A little bit every day
If we close our eyes you know it won’t go away
Kill the Bill
From San Diego to Weed
Gotta hold on to the choice that we need!

I see thousands are marching in a red tidal wave
And standing in the way of the sick road they wanna pave
If we stick together, though our leaders are for sale
There’s no way in the world that we won’t prevail!

We’re going to
Kill the Bill 
Right here today
We’re gonna scream and shout until it goes away
We’re gonna Kill the Bill
Till it’s dead and gone
Then we’ll all breathe free and our lives will go on…

Kill the Bill !

Phil Ochs tells his story in this podcast that features some rare early recordings.  Created by Karl Pascal. 

Songs:
Born Before
In the Pines
John Henry
Ballad of the Cuban Invasion
Ballad of Billy Sol
This Little Light of Mine
One More Parade
Talking Vietnam Blues
Viet Nam
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Draft Dodger Rag
Marching Down to Washington
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
When I'm Gone




YesMoreSongs #1:  PHIL OCHS in His Own Words

Many have heard the tape of Phil Ochs and John Lennon jamming on CHORDS OF FAME in a hotel room in Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 10, 1971, but few have heard what came after!   

Phil and John played one more tune, Phil's RHYTHMS OF REVOLUTION !

Amusingly, Phil keeps picking songs that show off his lyrics,  but John is more interested in learning to play his slide guitar, here asking  "Do you know any in E?"  It's John Lennon, so Phil chooses a song about Revolution.  It's in G, but that's all right.  

John inquires if Phil wrote Chords of Fame at the time he was friends with Dylan, then gamely noodles along, and is pleased when he ends the song right with Phil.  

Jerry Rubin comes in on drum.   

A Beautiful, Historic  meeting of Revolutionary Heroes!   We are about halfway between John and Phil's 75th Birthday Celebrations!  Enjoy!

That evening's concert can be found  at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzYGDk2lIA [Phil's up at 17:20].  DIG IT !

YesMoreSongs #2:  PHIL OCHS and JOHN LENNON     Revolution in a Hotel Room "Do You Know Any in E?"

In response to the horrible new SB 277 law in California, Karl Pascal sang Vaccinocracy Live at the Berkeley Protest Festival on 8-15-2015

VACCINOCRACY

Shots can be risky, shots can be bad
Shots may not deserve all the praise that they’ve had
Why you gotta force ‘em if they’re such a great tool?
Why you gotta kick kids out of school?

-CHORUS-
I will not! (NOT!)
I will not be
Part of your Vaccinocracy!
We will not! (NOT!)
We will not be
Part of your Vaccinocracy!

The people are waking up to your lies
The people are trusting their very own eyes
Is that why you’re cracking down on the herd?
Is that why you’re silencing every word?

-CHORUS-

You’re gonna be sorry that you picked this fight
‘Cause more and more people are seeing the light
You can try to force us, but you’re gonna fail
‘Cause your way of life is beyond the pale!

-CHORUS-

Check out my Youtube channel:  NOSBZTT NOW


VACCINOCRACY Live at the Berkeley Protest Festival August 15, 2015

Enjoy this great concert by PHIL OCHS at Hunter College in New York City on April 17, 1971 !   

Check out Phil's hilariously updated lyrics to Love Me, I'm a Liberal !  

Dig the cheers when Phil sings how students have "even helped to overthrow the leaders of the land" !   

Ochs classics abound, including a clap-along Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, and an achingly poignant Jim Dean of Indiana featuring Phil on piano. 

Photo by Mark Eliot, taken backstage at this very concert

Happy New Year !

The Bells
Power and Glory
There But for Fortune
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Changes
Crucifixion
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
Chords of Fame
Jim Dean of Indiana
Here's to the State of Richard Nixon
The Highwayman
The War is Over
Rhythms of Revolution
I'm Going to Say It Now
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends

Phil Lives !



YesMoreSongs #3:  PHIL OCHS at Hunter College April 17, 1971

Recorded at the Golden Gate Bridge anti-SB277 rally/vigil/reunion July 1, 2016.  They brought it to us, we'll bring it to them!  Photo of Karl P and Ken B by Sara B

TOO MUCH FREEDOM
by Karl Pascal 

They brought it to us
We were doing just fine
Quietly knowing, not toeing the line
Protecting ourselves the best way that we know
But that's too much freedom 
And freedom must go
That's too much freedom for our fascist foe!

The right to refuse
The right to be free
The right to do only what you think you need
The right to defend your good health from their greed
That's too much freedom
And freedom ain't free
That's too much freedom in a fascist country!

I won't look at the world through their death-colored glasses
I'd rather do down fighting than kiss their asses!

Awake from your sleep or lose it, my friends
'Cause we're getting close to where history ends
And those who destroy won't be making amends
That's too much freedom
And freedom must end
That's too much freedom for our fascist friends!

They look at the world through death-colored glasses
We're gonna rise up fighting and kick their asses!

They brought it to us, we'll bring it to them
They brought it to us, we'll bring it to them
They brought it to us, we'll bring it to them
They brought it to us, we'll bring it to them...forever or till it's won

Golden Gate Bridge Year 2

Too Much Freedom

Inclusion in the new book of writings by Phil Ochs has inspired interest in his song Love is a Rainbow.  I recorded this rough demo of Love is a Rainbow years ago, from a rare lead sheet generously provided by another Ochs aficionado.  The melody and chords are as written on the lead sheet.  It is in 6/8.  

Although no tape exists of him singing it, there exists a snippet of tape on which Phil mentions Love is a Rainbow.  I've borrowed it to create how it might have been had Phil introduced and played Love is a Rainbow in the Broadside apartment.  Enjoy!

Karl Pascal

Popular tracks