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rockermike
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 6, 2009 - 01:32pm PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4
Pete sang this song on the Smothers Brothers show (remember them). Some say it marked the turning point in ending the Vietnam War.
By the way, my mom says my sister and I (and all the other kids in the audience) got to go up on stage with Pete when I was three to sing a song.
I've been sort of left leaning ever since. Dangerous guy no doubt. ha
And while I'm on the way back machine; here's the Tommy Smothers and some very very young Beatles. ha What happens to youth? damn. Makes me feel like the universe is just a big flushing toilet bowl. Oh yea, it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23aPr-spJJ8
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou should not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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HOORAY for PETE!
One of the greatest singers alive.
An inspiration and courageous man.
Long Live Pete and Toshi!
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apogee
climber
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Just watched "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" the other night- a truly fantastic, inspiring, humbling documentary. Seeger is a true American hero, with a sense of humility, honor, vision and commitment that has been unmatched by only a very small number of people.
Hats off to Pete Seeger.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Isn't he the guy who swore the Soviet Union had no gulags?
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Bill Hutchins
Trad climber
Maryland
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For decades Pete Seeger has been there for labor, civil rights, for peace, for the air and water. A great American.
I think our current President is doing a pretty good job, but he might want to listen to "Waist Deep" before he pushes too far into Afghanistan.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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A bumpity bump for:
'Uncle Pete'
http://www.peteseeger.net/
As a kid growing up as a wharf rat my first awareness of Pete Seeger was his work on the Hudson and the construction of the 'Clearwater' sloop.
At that time in my life (12 - 14 yrs old) I spent my summers in dinghy racing/tactics camp yet I still held a dire fascination for early American sailing craft, Howard Chapelle was/is one of my heros.
When I learned that a guy Named Pete Seeger was having a gaffed rigged, Hudson river, sloop constructed I was intrigued and followed the development closely. Some years later my father would often do handwork repairs to various canvas belonging to the Clearwater.
The Clearwater project was a fascinating endeavour at the time. It was one of the first efforts to clean up a totally polluted, American water way. I had my doubts but it took hold and not only gained momentum but gave inspiration and impetuous to many other similar programs. Just a season or two ago the city of Boston pronounced the Charles river safe for swimming again. That is for the first time in perhaps 50 years!
I still did not realize what Mr. seeger's musical career was all about. However during the same period of my life my mother was the manager of America's longest running coffee house and it was almost uncommon for a performer to play an eve without covering at least one Seeger song. So who was this Seeger guy?
More time, more experience, more questions and a guitar lesson or two later...
I began to realize the impact that Pete's music and life work had on my own life in spite of my ignorance of the man's full career.
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In a brush with fame:
Once (early 80's) I had the opportunity to burn one with Arlo in between sets while he played a show at the 'Oxen yoke' in N.Conway. While hanging with Arlo and some of his band members I asked'm a question about Pete and he told me something to the effect of: - I never saw my father perform live, everything I know about live performance and having stage presence I learned from 'Uncle Pete' !
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Some years later I went to a benefit concert for the 'Clam shell alliance' at the Orpheum theatre in Boston. On the roster was Jackson Browne and David Lindley, Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
During that show I got to see Pete in his finest. Browne and Lindley played a set and then Arlo and Seeger followed suit. After that there was no set list and it turned into a jamm session. That is when Pete began to really shine. He had all the composure and subtle direction of a true master of the stage. He gently guided the others through and amazing evening of spontaneity.
At 90(+) years of age...
We may not have Mr. Seeger on hand for very many more years, yet I pray we can all hold'm in our hearts for many generations to come !
As we sit and wonder "Where have all the flowers gone" let's take solice in knowing that "We shall not be moved"
Bumpity bump for a true 'American Idol'
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