Bummer..Pete Seeger died

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Well, he lead a good life. I always liked him.. I still do..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

[josephpalazzo]

Sad

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Ehh.. Death isn't necessarily sad. Pete had a great life and made a lot of people happy. At 100 I'd say it was his time to check out. Now, had he been a mass murderer and lived to 100...that would be sad.

[stromboli]

Yeah. There's a dude that definitely lived through some shit. Had an album back in the day, "Story Songs" He knew everybody or at least sang their songs, from Leadbelly to Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez and so on. Spanned generations; I learned about Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie from him. He has played or sung with everybody even loosely connected with folk music. We should all live lives like his.

[hillbillyatheist]

RIP. He is to me, the Carl Sagan of folk music.

[stromboli]

You can make the case that he popularized both the 12 string guitar and the banjo to the world, taking them from their roots in blues and Bluegrass and exposing them to a wider audience. I have an album by Leadbelly somewhere (I'm deaf now, don't listen to music) that I got, because of Seeger. Yeah, great human being. We owe him for many things.

[josephpalazzo]

I agree he had a good life, and was an inspiration, but it's always sad to me when such a good person no longer exists... must be on account of my sentimental shortcomings from my Italian culture...  :oops:

[Solitary]

I'd say it has more to do with you being a real intelligent human being. It's too bad he died, but he did live a long and fruitful life.  :(  Solitary


On October 21, 2011, at age 92, Pete Seeger was part of a solidarity march with Occupy Wall Street to Columbus Circle in New York City.[43] The march began with Seeger and fellow musicians exiting Symphony Space (95th and Broadway), where they had performed as part of a benefit for Seeger's Clearwater organization. Thousands of people crowded Pete Seeger by the time they reached Columbus Circle. Pete Seeger performed with his grandson, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, David Amram, and other celebrated musicians.[44] The event, promoted under the name #OccupyTheCircle, was LiveStreamed, and dubbed by some as "The Pete Seeger March".

He contributed a spoken version of "Forever Young" to the 2012 album Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. He recorded the song with community children's chorus, Rivertown Kids, who were previously featured on Tomorrows' Children.


 


 Seeger looks on as a ceremony concludes marking the raising of the new home winter port in Kingston, New York, of the Sloop Clearwater, Sep 15, 2012[45]
On April 26, 2012, tens of thousands of Norwegians gathered in a show of unity at a rally in Oslo to sing Pete Seeger's song "My Rainbow Race" which a mass murderer had ridiculed as an example of "Marxist" brainwashing. The gunman was on trial for killing 77 people on July 22, 2011, insisting that his victims, who included 69 children, were traitors.[46] The song, which Seeger wrote in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, has long been a popular children's song in Norway. Its lyrics include the lines:


Some want to take the easy way
 Poisons, bombs! They think we need 'em.
 Don't they know you can't kill all the unbelievers.
 There's no shortcut to freedom

[stromboli]

Little boxes, a personal favorite

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

[gussy]

I really had never heard any of his music until Springsteen did a tribute cd to him.  Really good stuff.  Then I read that he paid royalties to the South African song writer that wrote the Lion King song.  Disney made about 8 quadrillion dollars off the song and refused to give the guy a dime.  Turns out he was a bigger capitalist than a major corporate entity.

[Plu]

I had no idea he made Little Boxes. I liked that song when I saw Walk off the Earth perform it :)