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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:28:31 -0800 (PST)

I watch Pete Seeger last week on youtube singing "ticky tacky houses". Sage
had to refresh my memory on the name of the song. My memory , on details,
has really been slipping .....anyway, ..... I like him on banjo ......bobford


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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
> To: "Homestead" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:17 AM
> Our television is not connected to anything that will bring
> in
> whatever is on tv these days. But we do like watching
> movies, so we
> are subscribed to Netflix. Chris and I go look at the
> offerings from
> time to time and she chooses chick flix and name-actor
> films and I
> choose other stuff. One of my choices--the one in the
> subject line
> above--showed up today and we watched it. Chris thought she
> would
> probably not like it at all. She loved it.
>
> The documentary starts by showing the Seeger homestead,
> including the
> house he built himself. Various scenes show him working
> with an axe.
>
> While his life is irrevocably intertwined in activist
> politics, his
> music is the thing. From his gift ukulele as a boy to the
> guitar and
> banjo, he spoke most loudly with his music. He made
> mistakes. He was
> briefly a communist, refused to say what Congress wanted,
> became
> blacklisted, came back bigger than ever. In 1966 he
> co-founded the
> Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which has done good work to
> clean that
> polluted waterway.
>
> There are fun vignettes of Dylan, Baez, Springstein, Arlo
> and Woody
> Guthrie, various members of his old groups. Lots of scenes
> from old
> performances with The Almanac Singers and The Weavers.
>
> Those who like folk music but don't like his activist
> politics can
> still enjoy the movie. Seeger did much to popularize the
> five-string
> banjo and the twelve-string guitar. He wrote music, he
> taught music,
> he most loved to play and sing with an audience in full
> participation.
>
> Pete Seeger is now 89, so I'm glad this movie was made
> while he is
> still alive. He's an American classic, to many a hero.
>
> "I like to say I'm more conservative than
> Goldwater. He just wanted to
> turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want
> to turn
> the clock back to when people lived in small villages and
> took care of
> each other."
> -- Pete Seeger
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