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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Fri Nov 22, 2013, 10:26 PM Nov 2013

Phil Ochs-Crucifixion(first live performance)

In honor of JFK, and also of the rest of our heroes who fell in the "cycle of sacrifice" that may still be going on:

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Phil Ochs-Crucifixion(first live performance) (Original Post) Ken Burch Nov 2013 OP

A genius and a man well before his time The empressof all Nov 2013 #1

All so very true. Ken Burch Nov 2013 #2

The empressof all

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1. A genius and a man well before his time

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Sat Nov 23, 2013, 01:31 AM

Nov 2013

I remember hearing the news of his suicide on the radio...He was a complicated soul whose message still resonates today.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. All so very true.

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Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:15 PM

Nov 2013

Phil Ochs was the sort of person who loved and hated too deeply to live a long life, I think.
We need those people, and we'll probably always lose them before their time(as we did with Van Gogh and Kurt Cobain, for example).

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