Dave Van Ronk - He Was a Friend of Mine (Live at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert, 1976) 

They'd like us to forget these folk singers ever existed imo.

Currently doing exactly that

@@bshieldsd YES! Glad to know we’re on the same page!

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Exactly, right on comment. He was also a brilliant acoustic guitarist who was loyal to his roots and didn’t sell out to commercialism

He was trying not to cry

I had a similar experience once. Went to see a singer, Chi Coltrane, that I adored (& still do). Her opening act was a young, unknown guy from Chicago who played & sang by himself -- had a song about Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore....

I saw Dave in one of his last concerts at the Van Dyke in Schenectady NY..

Are you talking about PHil Ochs or Dave Can Ronk?

@@HoldenNY22 Van Ronk. I listened to Ochs' records a lot, but never saw him in concert.

I still have his records...one of my all time favorites as well.

This is literally one of the greatest performances I've ever seen.

@@jimjones3605 All of his performances were that moving. At least the ones that I attended.

Raskin...Great soul in YOU

Really? That is awesome. I saw Dave Van Ronk live in Columbus toward the end and I screamed out this song and he looked up quite surprised. I believe he then did it.

I met a guy at SURF CITY 31st Dec 1964, this is the first song he played to me. I fell in love with him and Dave Van Ronk.

Incredible. So much soul. Love the grit and feeling.

Well he's different from Dylan anyway.. Dylan was not famous because of his guitar technique or his vocal ability (which are both mediocre) but because of his songwriting skills. I'm not that much of a Dylan fan but he is certainly one of the best songwriters from his generation. Dave on the other hand only wrote a handful of songs.

Yep he belts some grunge-y Ab4s here 😹😹

That was not love of Phil. Of music, perhaps.

@@territhal3478 true, but good though.

@@jjkcharlie Yes -- it's an excellent rendition.

@@territhal3478 why not love of Phil?

@@davidosims @Terri Thal - Because unless the name is a coincidence then I think Terri new Dave personally.

Mine too. His "Stackerlee" is why I picked up a guitar.

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My boyfriend died 1966 and took with him his LPs, I never heard the song again until 2002 when DVR died.

Dave (and Phil, for that matter) were really amazing guys. Dave was a folk singer in the 60's protest scene - most famous for arranging "House of the Rising Sun" for Dylan & The Animals; an interesting anecdote was that he was having dinner in a restaurant just across from the Stonewall Inn, during the night of the riot. Dave, a straight, completely non-LGBT dude, got up from his dinner and ran over to help the rioters fight against the cops, simply because he saw an oppressed group in trouble. Phil was a singer in the same scene; he wrote some famous anti-Vietnam-war songs, that are really great; Bob Dylan was a best friend, but pushed Phil away as, as he admitted, he grew more and more jealous of Phil's ability. Unfortunately, he was severely bipolar, and, after a series of truly tragic events - in the wider world: the 68 convention, the pardoning of Nixon, the 70s depression and failure of the 60s spirit, the Chilean coup where he'd performed just months prior; and personally, being spied on (phone taps, reading his mail etc) by the FBI as part of COINTELPRO (even worse since his friends all dismissed this as merely a bipolar paranoid delusion), his close friend Victor Jara being tortured to death in the aforementioned coup, being strangled in a mugging in Morocco destroying his singing voice (it's theorized that this may have been the feds a la the proven murders of other civil rights leaders, but there's no concrete proof), and a really badly received concert he did in a manic phase. He switched to a depressive phase, became alcoholic, "transformed" into an alter ego, and, one night, killed himself. This concert was thrown less than a month after his death. The pain in Dave's voice is very real, and very, very fresh. The man introducing the song is former AG Ramsey Clark, who died very recently - it goes to show the wide range of people touched by Phil's life.

​@t.s Thanks for all that info. Some of Phil's songs put me off him (I had a couple of his albums in the 60's up in Winnipeg), but what you recounted explains that a little, and convinces me he was not the opportunist some made him out to be.

Nancy Sherburne love bob dylan

Slightly different, but Bert Jansch was also incredible in his day

I think John Martyn took a lot of Nick Drakes’ sound... ‘solid air’ is the homage. Not a criticism, it’s what the music is for.

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He sounds awesome and very much like Ted Hawkins.

It’s on his Dave Van Ronk Folksinger

Funny, thought I would be the only one listening to this and thinking of him. RIP An Old Chunk of Coal.

This guy owns a doghouse

yep! very distinctive moles. He was at Phil's Chile benefit concert a few years prior, too, along with Dave V.R.