filament of fantasy

it's hard to tell because of course most pictures of young philip are in b&w, but this one looks like it could have been it:

& here are some excerpts from death of a rebel by marc eliot (not the most reliable source but phil's attachment to particular items of clothing & desire to become james dean are fairly well-documented):

“In my eighteen years as a record executive, never has an artist checked sales figures more carefully or more frequently than Phil.”

ye olde phil ochs callout post by jac holzman of elektra records for broadside #92, june 1968, in response to a segment of an interview with ochs published in the magazine's previous issue

“GORDON: Phil, where do you go from here? Some Broadside readers, pessimists it's true, say everybody has ‘sold out’ except Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton.

PHIL: Well, as you may know, I've sold out too. So that leaves only Paxton and I hope he doesn't sell out.”

part 3 of an interview with phil ochs by gordon friesen in broadside #91, may 1968

much of the audio of this interview was released as broadside ballads vol. 11: interviews with phil ochs following ochs' death in 1976.

part 1

“Political songs are in a sense a misnomer, because the Vietnamese war reflects a spiritual crisis here at home, and Dylan, after renouncing so-called political songs, was writing newer songs that reflected the same spiritual crisis.”

part 2 of an interview with phil ochs by gordon friesen in broadside #90, april 1968

much of the audio of this interview was released as broadside ballads vol. 11: interviews with phil ochs following ochs' death in 1976.

part 1

“So they take a man like Virgil Grissom and say, here's the man we'd like every American to be, and then they kill him.”

part 1 of an interview (a term used loosely here) with phil ochs by gordon friesen in broadside #89, february - march 1968

much of the audio of this interview was released as broadside ballads vol. 11: interviews with phil ochs following ochs' death in 1976.

part 2