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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on January 28, 2014, 01:56:11 AM
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To Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, the singer/songwriter/activist who died Monday at the age of 94 was "the father of American folk music."
But Seeger, who popularized This Land Is Your Land and We Shall Overcome and wrote If I Had a Hammer and Turn, Turn, Turn, never liked the term folk music.
"It's been defined as the 'music of the peasants,'" Seeger told USA TODAY in a 2009 interview, "and then you get someone saying (of Seeger), 'he's no peasant!'''
Seeger, who dropped out of Harvard University in 1938 to ride a bicycle across the country, quoted his father, Charles Seeger, a musicologist: "My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'" ... link (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/01/28/pete-seeger-obit-appreciation/4781403/)
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I went by his property in October. It's near the city of Beacon in NYS. Up a dirt road, accessable (ideally) in a 4-wheel-drive vehicle. The guy I was with at the time (head of the Beacon Municipal Water Company) told me that he would still be seen working on the property from time to time, and that it was possible to see him. He wasn't out that day.
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I went by his property in October. It's near the city of Beacon in NYS. Up a dirt road, accessable (ideally) in a 4-wheel-drive vehicle. The guy I was with at the time (head of the Beacon Municipal Water Company) told me that he would still be seen working on the property from time to time, and that it was possible to see him. He wasn't out that day.
malaise thinks we hate him. Have any idea why?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024399509
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 04:32 AM
Star Member malaise (114,552 posts)
Just remember when you hear comments about Pete Seeger from the Right wing
They hated him.
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malaise thinks we hate him. Have any idea why?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024399509
He was a communist.
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Looked him up. "Seeger has also been an engaged activist, supporting such causes as international disarmament, civil rights and environmental awareness." according to http://www.biography.com/people/pete-seeger-9542618
He was a communist.
Gotcha.
Edit: I now realize just who the guy was.
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In the middle of this video he finally admits that he was a member of the communist party. For many years he either wouldn't answer the question or denied that he was a member. His dad was also a communist....like father, like son.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/417414/august-06-2012/pete-seeger
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Response to malaise (Original post)Tue Jan 28, 2014, 05:40 AM
Hoyt (15,147 posts)
1. The right/white wing needs to show some respect. RIP.
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Will show the same respect you idiots would show if Ted Nugent died.
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In the middle of this video he finally admits that he was a member of the communist party. For many years he either wouldn't answer the question or denied that he was a member. His dad was also a communist....like father, like son.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/417414/august-06-2012/pete-seeger
A card carrying member. The "This Land is Your Land" guy.
I read somewhere (might have been here) that "This Land is Your Land" was a communist diddy. I was shocked that a song we had repeatedly sung at school growing up was commie tripe.
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He was a communist.
This. He was very good at trying to hide/deny it. As far as I'm concerned he was a P.O S.
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Why would anyone who is making a good, easy living off the capitalist system want to bring about a communist system?
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A card carrying member. The "This Land is Your Land" guy.
I read somewhere (might have been here) that "This Land is Your Land" was a communist diddy. I was shocked that a song we had repeatedly sung at school growing up was commie tripe.
It was written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie, who was tired of hearing Kate Smith's "God Bless America" on the radio. It was originally titled "God Blessed America."
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It was written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie, who was tired of hearing Kate Smith's "God Bless America" on the radio. It was originally titled "God Blessed America."
Well, I was certainly confused, and still am. I should have had my coffee this morning. ;)
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RIP, Commie POS.
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Good riddance, asshole. :fuelfire:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQi2pqUB9iA[/youtube]