In October 1970, he performed with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and the Canadian band Chilliwack at the first Greenpeace Benefit Concert, organized to raise funds to send a ship to protest a planned underground hydrogen bomb test by the US at the Aleutian island of Amchitka.
Chilliwack? Seriously? This Chilliwack?
Huh.
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What Jefferson Starship is to Jefferson Airplane is what this version of Chilliwack is to the 70s incarnation.
Somehow I had managed to get through life without ever hearing this song or seeing the video.
Curse you, NYMary!!!!
Ochs never had his legs broken in Chile. He was, however, mugged in Africa (Kenya, maybe?) in the early '70s, which left him with permanent damage to his vocal chords and, worse, to his psyche. Friends say he never recovered.
Yeah, but this is better.
Yeah, but this is better.
That was a pretty awesome cover.
Phil Ochs did visit Chile, but Allende was in power at the time. Phil learned of the overthrow of the Allende government while in Africa. During the month of the overthrow (September 1973), in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Phil was mugged and strangled, and his voice was damaged permanently.
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