RIP Pete Seeger

[Superbowltrashcan]

Folk Music Icon- Inspiration for so many musicians.....

[KCUnited]

Apparently his blood Type was O Negative.

[MahiMike]

Bob's middle name was Pete?

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Bob's middle name was Pete?

No Pete is Bobs Uncles Brother. Remember in the movie? They turned Pete into a Toad

[Superbowltrashcan]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

Pete was an old granola eating tree hugger who hung around the backlots of the music scene back after the beatniks and before the hippies. A Hero in the coffee house culture of the campus riot days of the 70s. Bad Voice. not much with a guitar but his kooky fans wanted a message man

You may know a great deal about many things, but Seeger isn't one of them.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

guess now we can all "Turn the page"

Q

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Call me a relic call me what'cha will
Say I'm old fashioned say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock and roll

[ChiefGator]

Always loved the message on his banjo: This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

Kind of telling the difference between that and Woody's 'This machine kills fascists'.

Gonna miss him, but his message resonates on.

And may I live as long and as full a life as him..

[Aries Walker]

94 years and inspiring millions is a pretty good run.

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Superbowltrashcan

You may know a great deal about many things, but Seeger isn't one of them.

Old tree hugger pre hippie love it all dude is dead as hell. Tits up. Mommas and the Papas. Go Pete.

[ClevelandBronco]

I never caught onto his music, but he was loved by some of the artists that I love. Well done, Mr. Seeger.

[Road Hog]

"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignomin"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignominy

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Road Hog

"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignomin"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignominy

That can sound a little simplistic or jingoistic, but it's true he crafted sing-along songs that could easily turn into mantras toward virulent Communist/Stalinist movements.

I've loved the music, and took the message with a grain of salt. I thought it important to remember, as Johnny Cash intoned in gblow's post above 'nobody's perfect.' Occasionally worried that the grain of salt was a salt lick for many.

OMFG, my baby learned in a government school that because WWII was an important undertaking he's excited to go off an die some day!!!