harpdude61
1961 posts
Jan 28, 2014
6:32 AM
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Great write up here! Anyone ever meet Pete?
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=849541&ocid=ansent11
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tmf714
2384 posts
Jan 28, 2014
6:39 AM
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I met him and saw him play many times-he lived about an hour away from me-great man-its a sad day-
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DukeBerryman
99 posts
Jan 28, 2014
6:41 AM
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They just don't make 'em like Pete anymore - a national treasure
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robbert
262 posts
Jan 28, 2014
6:56 AM
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A life very well lived.
Whatever social and political conscience and awareness that exists in our society today I think is largely due to Pete Seeger.
Thanks for posting the clip. Great stuff.
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isaacullah
2616 posts
Jan 28, 2014
8:57 AM
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Sad to see him go, but at 94, he really lived a full and meaningful life! He leaves a really strong legacy, and that's no small feat!
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Goldbrick
285 posts
Jan 28, 2014
9:08 AM
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An amazing , gracious and talented man. Few have had as much influence on American music as Mr. Seeger
Looks like he had a great life - he will be missed
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TetonJohn
184 posts
Jan 28, 2014
10:56 AM
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Huge thanks to Pete for the television show back in the day so we can now see folks like Gary Davis, John Hurt, Roscoe Holcomb, etc.
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joshnat
220 posts
Jan 28, 2014
1:18 PM
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I met him once and played with him in a singalong once at a festival. My earliest memories of live music are seeing Pete and sometimes Pete and Arlo together. He was one guy I really thought would live forever.
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nacoran
7513 posts
Jan 28, 2014
3:18 PM
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The first concert I ever went to was Pete Seeger. He was just about my mother's favorite (she called me this morning to let me know, (and check up on me, I've been laid up with the flu and a nasty cough). My mom thought I should see him because she wasn't sure he'd be around much longer. I was in about 4th grade, back in the early 80's, at the time. :) I was lucky enough to see him in concert twice this year, once with his wife, before she passed. Also saw him with Guy Davis. Apparently he was out chopping wood just 10 days ago.
He wasn't just a musician either. He was a great activist for the working man, and a tireless crusader to get the Hudson River cleaned up.
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BigSteveNJ
51 posts
Jan 28, 2014
10:35 PM
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I met Pete over 15 years ago; probably closer to 20 by now. Humble, gracious with his time and absolutely genuine. He got our little crowd singing while he held up a CELL PHONE, of all things, so that David Crosby (who had been scheduled to sing with Pete that day) could hear from his hospital room where he lay ill.
An acquaintance of mine got to know Pete when Mr. Seeger began singing one of this fellow's songs about getting out to vote. This acquaintance has been a performer for over 20 years himself, and it began largely because of Pete Seeger.
Pete always loved playing with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, whom he considered a terrific harp player in the old-school folk tradition.
Pete will be missed, and there will never be another like him, ever... and he would say that's a shame. He always hoped people would take up music for themselves and cure themselves of what I call "star poisoning".
Play a blues when you can and let Pete's memory sit in.
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Ugly Bones Ryan
47 posts
Jan 29, 2014
12:56 PM
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The Hudson Valley will miss him. A few of my band members and some friends played a cover of Where have all the flowers gone at our schools meeting for worship. RIP.
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