Sonny Ochs Speaks at the 1976 Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

[@millardfillmore3961]

Phil we miss you, and really need you now more than ever!

[@BillyNines1]

Thanks, Sonny.

[@robinzachary9355]

I was at this concert. I was 15 and taking guitar lessons from Sonny at her house in Far Rockaway. I actually had a chance to see Phil there more than a few times and one time I walked in on him playing piano and singing. I will never forget that. Seeing this is mind blowing! Because I was jotting notes down about what she was saying on the program which I still have. How did you get this?

[@ffpr1]

Then you were classmates with Billy Idol and Michael Jackson's guitarist Steve Stevens? He studied guitar from Sonny too!

[@robinzachary9355]

@@ffpr1 I guess so! They were private lessons so I never met any of her other students, but I knew her family. Good to know!

[@stevesedberry]

thanks!

[@helaineberman9221]

The singing poet!

[@joeysanguine3596]

❤😊

[@andrewrivera1054]

Any 2nd part?

[@oppothumbs1]

Great music - near Dylan in melody and lyrics. I don't think about his politics, I am a very realistic and moderate with some liberal and some conservative ideas. Who were those who came over to play at his home on Bleeker? Jesus just when it got real interesting...

[@waltonsmith7210]

Conservatives were always standing in the way of the causes Phil cared about