As the person who came up with the idea for this Phil Ochs / Bob Fass live
audience broadcast at midnight and followed through with making many of the
arrangements for it, I thought the the show was spectacular, Bob and the
performers were terrific, Sixth Street Community Center was extremely
acommodating and jammed to the rafters to the end at 3:30 a.m. (thank you
Howard Brandstein!!!), the free food was yummy and the wine and glug plentiful
(thanks to Alex Steinberg for the wine and transportation and Phil J. from
CISPES for the great glug!), and to Patty Heffley for bartending, helping with
the equipment, and providing delicious piles of French pastries, Cathryn Swan
who coordinated the performers, Linda Z. for providing all sorts of odds'n
ends, Frank Lefever for bringing food and literature, Roger Manning for his
expertise, and Romolo Sanchez for his suggestions and good vibes ...
and of course the biggest thank yous to Jon Almeleh and Bill Wells for their
exhausting and VOLUNTEER efforts in doing the production end, trucking and
testing and setting up and running all the equipment .... and to Bob and Linni
Fass, Bill Propp, and Mayer Vishner, for anecdotes, and everything ....
and to Shawn Rhodes who came in at the last minute to help take the feed, and
also to the Greens -- a whole bunch o' them (especially Roy Felshin, Rob
Gilheany, Gary Davidson, Pat Logan, and videographers Richard Hirsh and Carl
Lawerence -- yes Virginia, there will be a video!) -- for helping out in all
sorts of ways, to intern at 6th Street Center Citlalic Jeffers -- and to
producers Robert Knight, John McDonough & Ibrahim Gonzalez, and the ghost of
Abbie Hoffman for stopping by.
Also, thanx to the artists who did some very interesting and beautiful
interpretations of Phil Ochs songs:
Linda Draper ("Flower Lady")
Peter Dizozza ("The War Is Over")
Joel Landy ("Is There Anybody Here?")
Kirk Kelly ("I'm Gonna Say It Now" -- dedicated to NYU Strike)
Debe Dalton ("There But For Fortune")
Abby Lappem ("What's That I Hear?")
The Wowz ("Tape from California")
Ben Parrish ("Cops of the World")
Mitchel Cohen & Al Podber ("When I'm Gone")
Al Podber ("Power & the Glory" and "William Worthy")
Jeffrey Lewis
And ... to Phil Ochs, "In such times of uglyness, the true protest is Beauty"
.... 65 years old (had he lived), wow!
Beautiful, beautiful night. Thank you all!
Mitchel Cohen
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