Pete Seeger Deid.

[notanimby]

Pete Seeger has died aged 94

Rather excellent obituary in The Herald today
www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/death-of-a-folk-legend-pete-seeger-singer-warrior-inspiration.1390897099

Although not his own song - this must have meant the world to him singing this song in this place for a black man becoming president


www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4H0k8TDgw


How apt this verse is for us in Scotland today - with foodbanks

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2MRTqzJug

[peony]

Ah, this is a loss.

I used to sing this song to my kids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90qRE2F7CM

I always loved his quiet, yet persistent, demand for social change.

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Sad loss, indeed. One of the good guys.

I only heard just now when I got back from the movies. Wolf of Wall St, as bizarre coincidence would have it.
Personally, Peony, not sure if you'd agree, but I think we need to get LOUDER and even more persistent, in bringing about social change.

With a week to go on Celtic Connections, I imagine there will be many a Pete Seeger tribute at the various shows, and hopefully at the annual Transatlantic Sessions this weekend

[bormes]

Rolo, did you like the movie?
I confess it was just a soft Porn kind of thing, the sort of silly Joan Collins things from years ago, seeing a wee bit of breast and the odd naked nubile!
De Caprio carried the movie and as the rat who robbed all the ordinary people (not much about that in the movie) wrote the book, there is no way we were going to get the truth.
He even ratted out his best friends even though he was the ring leader and he walked away with a 22 month sentence, I wonder how much the Judge was paid, when you consider Madoff got a LIFE sentence for the same thing?

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Jan 28, 2014 23:40:22 GMT -1 bormes said:

Rolo, did you like the movie?
I confess it was just a soft Porn kind of thing, the sort of silly Joan Collins things from years ago, seeing a wee bit of breast and the odd naked nubile!
De Caprio carried the movie and as the rat who robbed all the ordinary people (not much about that in the movie) wrote the book, there is no way we were going to get the truth.
He even ratted out his best friends even though he was the ring leader and he walked away with a 22 month sentence, I wonder how much the Judge was paid, when you consider Madoff got a LIFE sentence for the same thing?

Hi B, posted on the meeja thread about this last night;

glasgowwestend.proboards.com/thread/1489/wolf-wall-street

Let's chat over there!

[peony]

I think we do need to get loud and demanding, but Pete was quietly persistent when everyone else was screaming and burning flags and so on. He inspired so many to carry on, I think. I saw him once in Provo Utah with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was a great concert.

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Jan 30, 2014 19:43:36 GMT -1 peony said:

I think we do need to get loud and demanding, but Pete was quietly persistent when everyone else was screaming and burning flags and so on. He inspired so many to carry on, I think. I saw him once in Provo Utah with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was a great concert.

Yeah, good point, Peony: a lifetime of persistence-- respected and admired by so many.

I don't know if you can get the BBC iPlayer on some kind of proxy server but if so, the music documentaries on BBC Four are top-class. Very often feature artists from the 60s, 70s with great/rare concert footage that you might enjoy. It's about the only tv I watch these days...