Utah Phillips on "Making a Living, Not a Killing"

[@roydaintith4710]

I'm 63 years young and a socialist,since I was a kid. l only heard about this comrade, recently. he's so erudite,articulate and inspirational, that I feel my own efforts for the cause, inadequate,and so,it's a kick up the are to redouble them.

[@peekome9544]

24 in June here. Hoping you're well after all this time. United through icons like Utah, I hope our generations can leave something worth a damned for my little niece and nephew. I can only hope we leave legacies of knowledge that serve to help along the saving of the planet. Recent highlights of our past failures to secure human rights have reared their ugly heads again and here's hoping this fighting gives way to a lasting peace.

[@generalsavage4103]

26 thumbs up in one reply come on man if this was last year so you might be dead now but can we be comrades now

[@defenderofearth2395]

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed and those that are killing it all have names and addresses"

[@angelrwbf]

The punks have been claiming Utah Phillips as one of our own for a very long time, because he is the quintessential embodiment of the best of what punk has been & still is. Marco Pirroni said, "There are two phrases which sum up the legacy, one is 'No' and the other is 'Fuck off.'" That applies as well to Phillips as it does to punk.

[@spooninspoon]

As far as I know Utah Phillips makes any Anarchist punk rock band in the world look like the Johnas Brothers. This guy is an absolute legend to me, he keeps the tradition of true American Folk music alive.

[@sabotabbypaddy]

Utah Phillips, if you think about it, actually embodies the spirit, drive, and attitude that is truly punk; a spirit of DIY, a genuine love for music, human values, and a social conscience.

[@featherriver2080]

I spent an entire day with Bruce (Utah). Indeed -- a very memorable day.

[@kylewitherrite6916]

+featherriver2080 go oooon. :)

[@featherriver2080]

+Kyle Witherrite Actually, I wasn't thinking when I wrote that. I went with him and two other musicians, to the Minneapolis Folk Festival one weekend. All went to a party at Garrison Keillor's house afterwards. It was another time I was thinking of.

[@barbararichards7202]

Beautiful guy, so glad to have found this video, thanks for posting xx

[@zed804]

I so enjoy listening to Utah

[@RugbyDemon6789]

Boy if America was run by people like him - what a country it would be .

[@emilynix6404]

Rest in power

[@deanrao4805]

Enjoyed his "Hobo Jungle of the Mind" which was airing Sunday evenings, around the turn of the century, on KPFA Pacifica station, Berkeley, CA. I was in Fremont, south of Berkeley. I heard him speaking on KPFA at a station fundraiser held in SF one Sunday. He did about 1/2 hr. segment. I hurried downtown via BART just to get a chance to look at him. He was done with his segment and was kind of wandering around, not looking busy. I regret that I was too shy to walk up and talk to him. He seemed approachable.

[@konst1]

wish i could have got to meet him

[@jjjj360]

Man I could just listen to this guy talk for hours

[@zed804]

agreed!

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

The moments that were this man's life speak to me with fire

[@angelrwbf]

For the record, "still is" was clearly referring to the fact that there are still great punk bands performing today, it wasn't a reference to the contemporary genre of watered-down commercial music labeled "punk" in the mainstream. It's the same as comparing the currently popular version of hip-hop to the pioneers of rap. The contemporary versions of these revolutionary musical movements are just neutered, commercialized ways to undermine the power music can have in popular movements.

[@stevelestermusic]

wow, great talk- thanks

[@destroy_time]

@spooninspoon amen! utah is my hero, and on this labor day deserves especial thought.

[@glirving1]

Thanks for posting. We'd like to form not for profit locations where people can perform, share and be safe from aggressive marketeers.

[@dirtroadsandwoodstoves]

looks like the old Free Radio Santa Cruz studios - NICE :)

[@Terrible_Peril]

right on!

[@Madcapredcap]

"Most honest agent in New York City" is like "driest fish in the ocean".

[@commentatertot]

Utah seems like a real good guy. He should have pissed on Amy Goodman when he had the chance.

[@chiledoug]

@spooninspoon yup

[@konst1]

rip utah

[@alderneyfred]

Utah might be the most intelligent person I've never met. BUT What is that clicking on the left track ? Is it his dentures ? But great stuff anyway.

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

I love this guy but let's be honest: as a singer who "owns his own means of production", he's not a worker but a petit bourgeois. Tht's why he's so popular among middle class people and not actual workers

[@DanDDirges]

Johnny Cash and many others wanted to cover your songs like you stated but you said no. Maybe that's a noble thing but it would have greatly spread your communist message and made you rich but you said no. the only thing is that many have not heard your songs and should have. you should have fed that dragon imho. but I greatly admire your reasons for not doing so. I just hope many others can hear Utah Phillips songs.

[@lizvill73]

It should be hard to find this guy. It's like tuition.

[@justinchambers2306]

Utah Phillips is a Anarchist not a soicialist

[@bigbill4426]

to be an anarchist is to seek out forms of un legitimate hiarchy and dismantle them to replace with more democratic relations, capitalisim is the private ownership of the factory, undemocratic, socialism has very little to do with the government, the baseline definition of socialism is the democratic ownership of the work place, socialism most certainly has its place within anarchist thought

[@Deuce_Allan]

@WinterCicadas yep

[@stormbornbjornsson6576]

Anarchism/Socialism/Communism are all just different flavors of each other tbh.

[@generalsavage4103]

Cuz this is an important part of American history shouldn't this be required watching

[@spooninspoon]

@Turdburglerxx86 I'm very well educated, in fact I wish I didn't know some of the things I do know about society... So i don't know where your coming from when you say "educate yourdelf"? lol. My point was based on music more than it was politics, although those things do come together as whole sometimes. The movement your talking about is underground and will always be underground. It's def- not for everyone, folk music isn't for everyone either is politics... They just happen to coexist.

[@Hchris101]

neeto

[@roydaintith4710]

I'm 63 years young and a socialist,since I was a kid. l only heard about this comrade, recently. he's so erudite,articulate and inspirational, that I feel my own efforts for the cause, inadequate,and so,it's a kick up the are to redouble them.