quinta-feira, abril 09, 2026
Hoje dia de recordar Phil Ochs...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:50 0 comentários
Marcadores: folk, folk rock, música, música de protesto, Phil Ochs, When I'm Gone
Phil Ochs morreu há cinquenta anos...
Ochs performed at many political events, including the 1968 Democratic National Convention, mass demonstrations sponsored by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events. Ochs initially described himself as a democratic socialist but grew more radical after the police riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs' mental stability declined in the 1970s as he struggled with bipolar disorder and alcoholism. He died by suicide on April 9, 1976.
Ochs's influences included Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Bob Gibson, Faron Young, and Merle Haggard. His best-known songs include "I Ain't Marching Anymore", "When I'm Gone", "Changes", "Crucifixion", "Draft Dodger Rag", "Love Me, I'm a Liberal", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", "Power and the Glory", "There but for Fortune", and "The War Is Over".
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Ochs's drinking became more and more of a problem, and his behavior became increasingly erratic. He frightened his friends both with his drunken rants about the FBI and CIA and about his claiming to want to have Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker or Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders manage his career.
In mid-1975, Ochs took on the identity of John Butler Train. He told people that Train had murdered Ochs and that he, John Butler Train, had replaced him. Ochs was convinced that someone was trying to kill him, so he carried a weapon at all times: a hammer, a knife, or a lead pipe.
His brother, Michael, attempted to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital. Friends pleaded with him to get help voluntarily. They feared for his safety because he was getting into fights with bar patrons. Unable to pay his rent, he began living on the streets.
After several months, the Train persona faded and Ochs returned, but his talk of suicide disturbed his friends and family. They hoped it was a passing phase, but Ochs was determined. One of his biographers explains Ochs' motivation:
By Phil's thinking, he had died a long time ago: he had died politically in Chicago in 1968 in the violence of the Democratic National Convention; he had died professionally in Africa a few years later when he had been strangled and felt that he could no longer sing; he had died spiritually when Chile had been overthrown and his friend Victor Jara had been brutally murdered; and, finally, he had died psychologically at the hands of John Train.
On Christmas Eve 1975, Ochs visited the apartment of Larry Sloman and Dave Peller, which he had done semi-frequently near the end of 1975. On this particular evening, Peller recorded Ochs singing ten songs, five of them new and intended for an album that "would be an unflinching narrative of his psychosis over the past year" which went by the working title of Duels in the Sun. Five other songs were also at some level of completion by this time. A second tape, possibly recorded before Christmas Eve, features additional songs intended for this project. This album would never come to fruition beyond these two recordings.
In January 1976, Ochs moved to Far Rockaway, New York, to live with his sister Sonny. He was lethargic; his only activities were watching television and playing cards with his nephews. Ochs saw a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with bipolar disorder. He was prescribed medication, and he told his sister he was taking it. On April 9, 1976, Ochs died by suicide, hanging himself in Sonny's home.
Years after his death, it was revealed that the FBI had a file of nearly 500 pages on Ochs. Much of the information in those files relates to his association with counterculture figures, protest organizers, musicians, and other people described by the FBI as "subversive". The FBI was often sloppy in collecting information about Ochs: his name was frequently misspelled "Oakes" in their files, and they continued to consider him "potentially dangerous" after his death.
Congresswoman Bella Abzug (Democrat from New York), an outspoken anti-war activist who had appeared at the 1975 "War is Over" rally, entered this statement into the Congressional Record on April 29, 1976:
Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago, a young folksinger whose music personified the protest mood of the 1960s took his own life. Phil Ochs – whose original compositions were compelling moral statements against the war in Southeast Asia – apparently felt that he had run out of words.
While his tragic action was undoubtedly motivated by terrible personal despair, his death is a political as well as an artistic tragedy. I believe it is indicative of the despair many of the activists of the 1960s are experiencing as they perceive a government that continues the distortion of national priorities that is exemplified in the military budget we have before us.
Phil Ochs's poetic pronouncements were part of a larger effort to galvanize his generation into taking action to prevent war, racism, and poverty. He left us a legacy of important songs that continue to be relevant in 1976 - even though "the war is over".
Just one year ago - during this week of the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War - Phil recruited entertainers to appear at the "War is Over" celebration in Central Park, at which I spoke.
It seems particularly appropriate that this week we should commemorate the contributions of this extraordinary young man.
Robert Christgau, who had been so critical of Pleasures of the Harbor and Ochs's guitar skills eight years earlier, wrote warmly of Ochs in his obituary in The Village Voice. "I came around to liking Phil Ochs's music, guitar included," Christgau wrote. "My affection [for Ochs] no doubt prejudiced me, so it is worth [noting] that many observers who care more for folk music than I do remember both his compositions and his vibrato tenor as close to the peak of the genre.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:05 0 comentários
Marcadores: folk, folk rock, I Ain't Marching Anymore, música, música de protesto, Phil Ochs
sábado, março 28, 2026
John Evan, o teclista dos Jethro Tull, nasceu há 78 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues-rock, folk rock, hard rock, Jethro Tull, John Evan, música, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico, Too Old To Rock'n' Roll
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: Aqualung, blues-rock, folk rock, hard rock, Jethro Tull, John Evan, música, Rock Progressivo, rock psicadélico
terça-feira, março 17, 2026
Hoje é dia de ouvir música celta...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 05:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: bateria, bodhrán, Caroline Corr, Dreams, folk rock, Irlanda, música, música celta, percurssão, The Corrs
Caroline Corr comemora hoje cinquenta e três anos
Caroline Georgina Corr (Dundalk, 17 de março de 1973) é uma instrumentista musical da República da Irlanda, conhecida por ser a baterista da banda de folk rock, formada por irmãos, The Corrs. As suas atribuições na banda transcendem a bateria, tocando também instrumentos como o bodhrán e o piano. Por vezes, também participa nos coros, nalgumas canções.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:53 0 comentários
Marcadores: bateria, bodhrán, Breathless, Caroline Corr, folk rock, Irlanda, música, música celta, percurssão, The Corrs
segunda-feira, março 16, 2026
Nancy Wilson faz hoje setenta e dois anos
Além da banda banda Heart, as irmãs Wilson também formaram outra banda nos anos 90 chamada The Lovemongers. O cover da canção "The Battle of Evermore" do Led Zeppelin fez parte da banda sonora do filme Vida de Solteiro (1992), dirigido por Cameron Crowe.
Uma das composições de Nancy, (Elevator Beat), fez parte da banda sonora do filme Vanilla Sky (2001), feita por Tom Cruise. Nancy foi casada com o diretor do filme, Cameron Crowe, de 1986 a 2010. Nancy e Cameron são pais de dois filhos gémeos, nascidos em janeiro de 2000.
Nancy e a irmã Ann ganharam uma estrela na Calçada da Fama de Hollywood em setembro de 2012. Em abril de 2013, Nancy e os outros integrantes do Heart entraram para o Hall da Fama do Rock.
Um marco na carreira de Nancy foi a interpretação da música Stairway to Heaven na homenagem aos Led Zeppelin no Kennedy Center Honors, em dezembro de 2012. A bateria ficou por conta de Jason Bonham, filho do falecido baterista da banda, John Bonham. Esta apresentação foi um dos grandes momentos do tributo. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page e John Paul Jones (que já produziu um álbum dos Heart), ficaram com os olhos marejados de lágrimas.
quinta-feira, março 12, 2026
James Taylor celebra hoje 78 anos
James Vernon Taylor (Boston, 12 de março de 1948) é um músico norte-americano, compositor e intérprete da fusão do "country-gospel-rock".

Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues-rock, Carole King, country, folk, folk rock, James Taylor, música, pop, You've Got A Friend
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues-rock, country, folk, folk rock, James Taylor, música, pop
quinta-feira, março 05, 2026
Alan Clark, o teclista dos Dire Straits, celebra hoje setenta e quatro anos
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: Alan Clark, blues rock, Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits, folk rock, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, teclas
domingo, fevereiro 22, 2026
James Blunt celebra hoje cinquenta e dois anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:52 0 comentários
Marcadores: folk rock, Goodbye My Lover, James Blunt, música, pop rock, Reino Unido, soft rock, trip hop
quarta-feira, fevereiro 11, 2026
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 11:11 0 comentários
Marcadores: country, country rock, folk rock, hip hop, música, pop, pop rock, Rock, Rock alternativo, Roots rock, Sheryl Crow, The First Cut Is The Deepest, USA
Sheryl Crow celebra hoje sessenta e quatro anos
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (Kennett, 11 de fevereiro de 1962) é uma famosa cantora, compositora, multi-instrumentista e atriz norte-americana, formada em música e composição. O seu estilo musical incorpora elementos de rock, pop, country e hip hop.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: country, country rock, folk rock, hip hop, If It Makes You Happy, música, pop, pop rock, Rock, Rock alternativo, Roots rock, Sheryl Crow, USA
sexta-feira, janeiro 30, 2026
Marty Balin, fundador dos Jefferson Airplane, nasceu há 84 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: acid rock, folk rock, guitarra, High Flying Bird, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin, música, rock psicadélico
quarta-feira, janeiro 21, 2026
Richie Havens nasceu há oitenta e cinco anos...
Richie Havens (Brooklyn, 21 de janeiro de 1941 – Jersey City, 22 de abril de 2013) foi um cantor americano de música folk.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:50 0 comentários
Marcadores: Festival de Woodstock, folk rock, Freedom, música, Richie Havens, Woodstock
segunda-feira, janeiro 19, 2026
Dewey Bunnell, fundador da banda America, celebra hoje 74 anos
Bunnell conheceu Gerry Beckley e Dan Peek ainda na escola, na Inglaterra. Os três formaram os America e gravaram o primeiro disco da banda em 1971.
Assim como os outros membros, Bunnell compunha, cantava e tocava viola. As suas composições mais famosas são "A Horse With No Name" e "Ventura Highway".
Bunnell ainda é membro dos America, juntamente com o outro membro fundador, Gerry Beckley.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:40 0 comentários
Marcadores: A Horse With No Name, America, Dewey Bunnell, folk rock, música, Rock
Hoje é dia de ouvir os America...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: America, Dewey Bunnell, folk rock, música, Rock, Ventura Highway
terça-feira, janeiro 13, 2026
O Xutos & Pontapés deram o primeiro concerto há 47 anos

Os Xutos & Pontapés são uma banda de rock portuguesa formada em 1978.

Em 2014 é lançado o disco "Puro", que comemora os 35 anos da banda.
A 30 de novembro de 2017 morre o guitarrista e fundador, Zé Pedro, aos 61 anos, vítima de doença hepática.
Em 2019 foi lançado o disco ''Duro'', que comemora os 40 anos da banda.
Membros atuais
- Kalú (bateria e vocais de apoio) (1978 - atualidade)
- Tim (baixo e voz) (1978 - atualidade)
- João Cabeleira (guitarra solo) (1983 - atualidade)
- Gui (saxofone e vocais de apoio) (1984-1990, 1996 - atualidade)
- Zé Pedro (guitarra ritmo e vocais de apoio) (1978-2017; falecido)
- Zé Leonel (voz) (1978-1981; falecido)
- Francis (guitarra) (1981-1983)
- Ricardo Delgado (teclas, convidado por Zé Leonel, 1981)
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:47 0 comentários
Marcadores: folk rock, Homem do leme, música, new wave, pop rock, punk rock, Xutos e Pontapés
sexta-feira, janeiro 09, 2026
Hoje é dia de ouvir Led Zeppelin e a guitarra de Jimmy Page...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 22:22 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues-rock, folk rock, guitarra, hard rock, heavy metal, Jimmy Page, Kashmir, Led Zeppelin, música, Rock, Rock and Roll


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