Phil Ochs
Music
c.1970
Phil Ochs, folk singer/songwriter and
political activist, was found hanged in his sister’s home in Far Rockaway,
When he finally returned to
his family, in 1947, he was but a shell of his former self, described by
Phil’s sister as “almost like a phantom.” Beginning in the fall of 1956,
Phil Ochs began attending Staunton Military Academy, the very same
institution that future ‘serial killer’/cult leader Gary Heidnik would
attend just one year after Ochs graduated. During Phil’s two years there, a
friend and fellow band member was found swinging from the end of a rope (I
probably don’t need to add here that the death was ruled a suicide).
Following graduation, Phil enrolled at Ohio State University, but not
before, oddly enough, having a little plastic surgery done to alter his
appearance (doing such things, needless to say, was rather uncommon in
1958). In early 1962, just months before his scheduled graduation, Ochs
dropped out of college to pursue a career in music. By 1966, he had released
three albums. In 1967, under the management of his brother, Michael Ochs,
Phil moved out to Los Angeles. Michael had begun working the previous year
as an assistant to Barry James, who maintained a party house at 8504 Ridpath
in Laurel Canyon. In the early 1970s, with his career beginning to fade,
Phil Ochs began to travel internationally, usually accompanied by vast
quantities of booze and pills. Those travels included a visit to Chile, not
long before the US-sponsored coup that toppled Salvador Allende. In early
summer of 1975, Phil Ochs’ public persona abruptly changed. Using the name
John Butler Train, Ochs proclaimed himself to be a
That symbolic
assassination, on the summer solstice, took place at the same hotel that
Devon Wilson had flown out of a few years earlier. One of Ochs’ biographers
would later write that Phil/John “actually
believed he was a member of the
"U.S. agents were able to destroy any persons reputation by inducing
hysteria or excessive emotional responses, temporary or permanent
insanity, suggest or encourage suicide , erase memory , invent double or
triple personalities, inside ones mind."
---quote by the late Mae Brussells Operation Chaos investigator etc.
Ochs was a close chum of Bob Dylan , and thought Bob was the greatest
poet ever. Ochs ,Bob, and Farina set out on the Folk minstrels path in
the village in the early 1960's. Together with others they dragged folk
music away from the migration camps and union halls into direct
confrontation with the Eisenhower's looming military-industrial complex.
Ochs denounced the American politics in the "Cops of the world". song
" and when we've butchered your sons boys, have a stick of gum boys, we
own half the world...."OH CAN YOU SEE"? AND THE NAME OF OUR PROFITS IS
DEMOCRACY.
He was the ultimate dissident song quote:
" the comic and the beauty queen
are dancing on the stage .The raw recruits are lining up like coffins in
a cage."
"Oh we are fighting in a war we lost before the war began"
Not long before he died, one night after too many drinks, he drew down
the CIA Director Wm. Colby, director of the murderous Phoenix Project in
Vietnam. He claimed he put a contract out on his life for 100,000
dollars. "I told Colby he's got a half of year to live or get out of
Vietnam or he is dead. They can kill me but he is dead" he said.( He as
well was certain that Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine and famous
feminist is a CIA agent) Ochs was founder of the Yippee party, sang with
protesters, and appeared as a witness for the trail of the Chicago
Seven. His lyrics were considered so inflammatory that he was banned
from the air-waves. The FBI did not refrain form amassing a huge file on
him, and the feeling that he was never alone unnerved him. He wrote "
take everything I own, take the tap from my phone, and leave my life
alone, My life alone! He was tarred as a communist and a threat to
national security. His friends said Ochs was convinced he would be
assassinated. He was driven to drink by the radio black-listing his
music and the ongoing surveillance and harassments and his nerve gave
out. He lived in a perpetual state of paranoia His vocal cords were
crushed by thugs.
He developed a right wing pseudo personality called John Train who he
wrote about ( Beth's note: Who created John Train? Was he like his good friend Joan
Baez, a mind-controlled MPD(DID), from abuse and experimentation? On the
first day of summer ,1975," Phil Ochs "was murdered in the Chelsea Hotel
by John Train, Ochs said in a taped interview. "for the good of
societies public and "secret," he needed to be gotten rid of." He also
made reference to his Pseudo personality in song fragments in an album
never recorded re: "Phil Ochs checked into the Chelse a Hotel, there was
blood on his clothes, Train Train Train, the outlaw and his brain. (my
note: I have read accounts of cloning since the 50's. Lots of hi-tech
knowledge kept secret, including in Jim Keith's book "Secret and
Suppressed").
Ochs actually now believed he was working for the CIA., writes
biographer Marc Elliot.( Ochs also referred to N.Y. Cornell Hospital in
mysterious lists) "Train hinted that if Ochs had been a commercial
success "they"(CIA) would have killed his host personality.. " Colby and
Co. would have been more than happy to put a slug thru his head at that
point, "said Train, the alternate personality. Ochs committed suicide on
April 9, 1976, by hanging. This was the same year of the book " the
Control of Candy Jones" by Donald Bain., ( a study of CIA mind control
experimentation, Candy was also an MPD, created personalities, who
carried out covert assignments , a marionette with an inner Nazi
personality. She worked without her knowledge as a CIA op. for 12 years.
Her final post-hypnotic command was suicide, which was intervened by her
husband, talk show host John Nebel. ( the book is out of print, I have a
copy) It is very probable that "John Train" was programmed to kill
Philip Ochs the host personality.
Another musician with repressed memory of child-hood trauma was
Peter
Townsend ("Who" guitarist). In 1999 it occurred to him that certain
phrases from rock opera "TOMMY" were not fiction but his life. He filled
in the blanks from his childhood amnesia. The Covert War Against Rock by Alex
Constantine