PHIL OCHS Gunfight At Carnegie Hall RARE CANADA ONLY LP

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Phil Ochs Gunfight At Carnegie Hall 

CANADA/A&M (Stereo SP-9010) 1975 Original M-/M- copy of the rarest regular release Ochs LP, only ever released in Canada and in very small numbers.

On the cover of Greatest Hits, Phil Ochs had appeared in a gold lamé suit like the one Elvis Presley wore on the cover of the 1959 album 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 2. On the back cover was the legend, "50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong!"

The suit and the Greatest Hits title were part of a concept Ochs, who had recently seen Presley perform in Las Vegas, was pursuing at the time. Always a student of popular culture, he harked back to the rebellious tone of 1950s rock & roll and wedded it to the revolutionary fervor of the late '60s — or at least that was the idea for Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.

Beginning a tour the month that Greatest Hits was released, he wore the suit onstage and for the first time used a backing band, mixing his own new and old songs with medleys of songs associated with Presley and Buddy Holly, as well as a version of "Mona Lisa," and even Merle Haggard's recent anti-hippie anthem "Okie From Muskogee."

His two Carnegie Hall shows on the nights of March 27th and 28th, 1970, were marred by various incidents recounted on the back cover of the album. Gunfight at Carnegie Hall, containing 46-and-a-half minutes of the reported three-hour second show, focuses on the singer's attempt to explain his concept to a skeptical audience, which he does with a certain cockeyed wit, if without complete success, at least in front of these listeners. Ochs lobbied long for A&M to release an album drawn from the embattled show, which the label belatedly did, but only briefly and in Canada. — William Ruhlmann (AMG)

This, and Dylan's Royal Albert Hall (actually Manchester Trade Hall) performance are the only two oder rock records that can actually bring to mind things like the riots at the first shows of impressionist painting in Paris, or the burning of the theatre at the first showing of Un Chien Andalou.... Instances in which the response to art is not entirely predetermined (when was the last concert you went to when there wasn't a standing ovation/encore at the end?). And the interesting thing is that Ochs had his album released at the time, while Dylan waited 40 years for things to cool off a bit!

I saw Phil in the gold lame suit at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, I can't recall the year but it must have been in 1970. I remember like it was yesterday when he paused before the thoroughly confused crowd and said "Hey! You don't understand. The only way we can have a revolution in this country is to transform Elvis Presley into Che Guevera."

OK, so now it's N'Sync, but the idea is still solid.

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