If you have to beg or steal or borrow, Welcome to Los Angeles: City of Tomorrow! – Phil Ochs
from “The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles”
The heat of summer was cooling, my Rock n’ Roll show, FIRE, was put out but another small torch was burning south of the border in the hands of a humble, yet capable theatre company: Open Fist in Los Angeles.
A new play in the works about the life of my favorite folk singer, Phil Ochs was illuminated in it’s very first staged reading.
The Power and the Glory: the Tall Tales of Phil Ochs (American)
Jesse Bernstein's The Power and the Glory
My hat goes off to the cast and company that pulled this off in such a short time. An especially big thank you goes out to my collaborator- Jesse Bernstein for his talent and perseverance and his lovely girlfriend for being such a welcoming host. And to Erhin Marlow for entertaining and guiding me through the ever intriguing, beautiful, sensual morgue that is Los Angeles.
