RIP Pete Seeger

It's sad that another icon falls.  Pete's legacy and his music live on.  
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
 
 

R.I.P.

The flowers are gone.

rip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czk2hj4VISg

Hi,
 
There is a side of me, that wants to say something gallant and important. There is a side of me that finds what Bruce is doing as completely superficial, and I doubt that today's generation can relate to it and buy it, when RAP has much more to say via the Eminem's and anyone else.
 
Somehow, it just does not bite me enough to wake me up and make me want to care.
 
But I marched with Martin Luther King, and him and Father Groppi and others in Madison, a long time ago, and I remember that here was someone that was not just fighting for one cause, but fighting for the inner spirit and freedom that a lot of us never had, or understood.
 
Today, it doesn't matter. As much as it did then, I thought. Maybe I was younger and believed in these things and today no one does around me!
 
I've always had a lot of respect for folks like that. Portugal and Spain, had their "heroes" that stood up during the Spanish Revolution and then later in Portugal fighting the Fascist Government (at least Franco in Spain allowed the arts more freedom), there are many folks that stood up, and spoke, and died for it.
 
Here, the media has a way of hiding a lot of these things, and then in the end of his life he is a hero. He has been a hero all the way, because it was who he was as a person. I'm not sure we see that, and that we look at ourselves as valuable folks doing their best to help people understand themselves adn get stronger for it.
 
Bless the heart ... that can speak ... for its words ... will live ... forever!

I am saddened that somebody of Pete Seeger's stature and influence - a truly great man - can pass away and all they want to talk about on TV is an actor who killed himself through his own stupidity. I know, that sounds awfully callous, but it shows where our cultural values lie and it saddens me.
 
Watch the documentary "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song", then the PBS doc "'Til the River Runs Clear". There is a third film whose title I cannot recall, also documenting the Clearwater story and also very moving. Then listen to Mick Jagger in 1965 bragging about how pop musicians were going to change the world. Mick never did, but Pete did.

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I am saddened that somebody of Pete Seeger's stature and influence - a truly great man - can pass away and all they want to talk about on TV is an actor who killed himself through his own stupidity. I know, that sounds awfully callous, but it shows where our cultural values lie and it saddens me.
 
Watch the documentary "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song", then the PBS doc "'Til the River Runs Clear". There is a third film whose title I cannot recall, also documenting the Clearwater story and also very moving. Then listen to Mick Jagger in 1965 bragging about how pop musicians were going to change the world. Mick never did, but Pete did.

Nice. Very nice Bit.
 
It's hard. America has not had the hardcore political edges that I saw in Portugal and Spain, or in Brazil, we were there during the coup in '63. People really do not know, or understand what these do to the media and everything else around you. Likewise, in Brazil, in 1964 there also was a massive amount of music deploring the state of affairs and the military.  It becomes your inner theme, and you remember it forever.