Pete Seeger biography now on PBS.

[Elwood P Dowd]

I'm getting the feed off Direct TV, so your local programming might be different. I've been a Seeger fan since the 1960s.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "This Homeland is OUR Homeland." - Republicon homelander anthem

"And if you don't fit our narrow racial, sexual, income, and political profile,
Homelander Security Goons will take care of you...Ooooo."

- Republicon Homelander anthem*
* Shamelessly stolen, and adapted by evil republicon propagandists,
from the brilliant life work of the Great Pete Seeger

[raccoon]

15. He was blackballed decades ago.

"However, his career as a mainstream performer was seriously curtailed by the Second Red Scare: he came under severe attack as a former member of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Later, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of protest music in the late 1950s and the 1960s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

[mdmc]

2. I don't have tv

but :kick: for Seeger. www.clearwater.org

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. I understand, but I keep one around for shows like this

along with some of the old classic movies and comedy shows.

[mdmc]

4. I actually have a tv with rabbit ears

but pbs doesn't really come in. I have it hooked up to a sony playstation that plays dvds.
I would gladly be watching Pete!:kick:

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. You will have to buy an add-on box next February

or you won't get anything. Digital TV you know.

[mdmc]

17. yes - but why would the government do this?

Why are they forcing the change?

[question everything]

6. What a wonderful tribute. His "bring them home" and even "waste deep in the muddy"

(I may not have the name exact) are very relevant today.

[Hardrada]

7. His career and songs are part of my own time on Earth.

I remember when Goodnight Irene was a hit! 1950 or so. We sang his songs at antiwar rallies in the 1960's. I bought his LP's and sat listening to them in dark lonely hours and I was encouraged and inspired not to give up the struggle. I am so glad he's still around fighting the good fight and protesting the Iraq war.

And I want to hear again crowds singing "Where have all the flowers gone?" and "This land is your land.! Where have all the flowers gone? Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. The Weavers 1963 Carnegie Hall Reunion LP is a classic.

Pete, Ronnie Gilbert, ole' Lee Hayes, and Bernie Krause made one of the most incredible live LPs ever. It was one of those rare occasions where the music, the message, and the mastering all came together. I discovered Pete Seeger listening to that LP as a teenager back in the early and mid 1960s. Remember the days of the hootenannies?

[Hekate]

9. I have that excellent album -- and I remember hootenannies with great fondness.

The PBS biopic is just a wonderful tribute to a wonderful man. He's radiant when he sings.

Hekate

[Hardrada]

10. I have that LP. I have two Weavers LP's in fact. I should check to

see if there is a comprehensive Weavers CD. They left out of the program some of the fiery Spanish Civil War songs Pete really revived. Viva la Quince Brigada for one and Vengo Jaleo for another. Viva Pete Seeger! Viva La Republica!

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. There is a rare Part Two version of that LP

on Vanguard VSD-79161 with some of the songs not on the original. The Spanish Civil War songs you mentioned are on there though.

Pete Seeger is one of the most talented, kind, gentile, and unselfish human beings ever to set foot on this earth. Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and so many other greats admired him, yet the networks kept him off our airways for 17 long years.....

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Hardrada]

16. I may have that one. I didn't know it was rare.

I'll have to put these on casette ot CD! I hope they have a DVD of the show on Seeger. You notice it was PBS that special was on so the general public still isn't seeing him. I don't recall seeing Joan Baez on the major networks either though she had a PBS concert about 20 years ago.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. TWO Excellent shows on PBS tonight. (Seeger & Guthrie)

The TWO American Masters shows on Pete Seeger, for 90 minutes, followed by Woody Guthrie, for another 90 minutes, was a fitting counterweight to being reminded of William F. Buckley. Blech.

[alphafemale]

13. I saw him at the SOAW protest a few years back.

Mr AF and I actually got to talk to him for a few moments and he signed Mr. AF's guitar.

He told us a remarkable thing. Mr Seeger is a committed pacifist but he told us he has for decades always carried around a rock. He related that he has often grown angry enough at the injustice around him to reach into his pocket and grip it. But nothing has ever made him bring his hand out of that pocket and throw that rock.

"Yet," he concluded. "Not yet."

I was struck that even he, Pete Seeger, still struggled with the impulse to react against injustice with violence.

[Reader Rabbit]

14. Is it "The Power of Song"?

If so, I was lucky enough to see it in a movie theater. It's good to live in a lefty town like Portland!

[arendt]

18. I felt sad and ashamed as I watched...

every time I see something about the 60s these days, the loss is overwhelming to me.

How did we lose the spirit, the intelligence, the resources that we had then as a country and as a people?
Music has become mass-produced corporate crap. Protest has been corralled and ignored by the media. The country couldn't manufacture a good bong.

To see then and now is to weep.

arendt

[mdmc]

19. we shall overcome my friend

:cry: