We got our heads bashed in Chicago; we saw students shot to death at Kent State; we had people stabbed to death at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert - what do we have to believe in anymore? Unfortunately, for Phil Ochs, he couldn't give an answer. He lost his faith.

I just can't keep up with Phil. And he's getting better and better and better.

That was really Phil's strong point. The big rally. He was a topical singer. He sang a lot of songs about the news of the day. When he performed in that kind o…

[The Yippie demonstrations were] merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal …