Pete Seeger has died

[djf]

One of the great voices of folk rock...

[Fightin Whitey]

I always thought he looked like he smelled.

Amazing! I always figured he smelled like he looked!

[Revolting cat!]

There are already two threads here with links to articles. Why are you celebrating evil?

[Liberty Valance]

folk rock? lol

[Fightin Whitey]

I listened to his Carnegie Hall concert over and over and over as a child.

How long did the feds have your compound surrounded?

[KC Burke]

Jack Cashill has done a marvelous job in Hoodwinked and elsewhere over the years documenting fellow travelers of the 30s and 40s and how they eventually helped found the New Left Progressivism.

In a WND review in 2007 he cites in a movie review how Seegar finally repented from his support of Stalinsm and actually gives him some credit for coming clean about it.

But it focuses more on the folksinger as hero and victim, rather than shill for Soviet Stalinism.

But, if the movie doesn’t quite get it right, Seeger himself seems determined to repent of old sins.

In a letter to his former banjo student and writer Ron Radosh, he confesses: “I think you’re right – I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in USSR.”

Pete Seeger testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955

Seeger has even written a song denouncing Josef Stalin, a song inspired by what he thought his mentor, Woody Guthrie, might have written about the fall of the Soviet Union had he been around.

It’s called “The Big Joe Blues” – a song Radosh says “makes the point that Joe Stalin was far more dangerous and a threat than Joe McCarthy

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/10/44217/#2cI526PC4Ah6PQw4.99

If Cashill can cut him a little slack, I think we should cite the instance to go along with our just criticism.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.

[OKSooner]

So?

[Rock N Jones]

Great voice?

Satire?

[maxwellsmart_agent]

He was a depressing slob. He turned me off to his kind of folk music the first time I saw him. My thought was why are these people complaining about everything. When I listen to music I like to come away happy, not seriously depressed. Seriously depresssed is how Pete Seeger made me feel.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Seriously depresssed is how Pete Seeger made me feel.

And we'd have to wait nearly half a century until Alanis Morissette came along and was nearly as good at it.

[dfwgator]

folk rock? lol

[SoFloFreeper]

LOL! None, just had a mom who loved his music. Some of the songs were quite delightful.

[drpix]

You're right Newport not Monterrey and in fact it was 1965 not 1968. My mistake for relying on a faded memory and not a source.

But I'll never forget that Seeger was a Commie rat who could not bring himself to denounce Stalin's crimes until 2007 - 51 years after Nikita Khrushchev’s denunciation.

[Liberty Valance]

Ha! Missed this last time around. Perfect!

[nickcarraway]

You are way confused!It was the 1965 Newport Folk Festival that Bob Dylan went electric. Dylan was booed, although there is some dispute as to why. Seeger allegedly made the remarks about cutting the cables because the sound quality was poor.

It would have been foolish to complain about him going electric at the Monterey Pop, which was mostly electric.

[nickcarraway]

Does even the most loathsome of beliefs invalidate the level of talent someone has? You may not want to listen to them, but that doesn’t change the underlying beliefs.

[drpix]

See post # 33. You’re too late!

[Revolting cat!]

There are 1,000 songwriters in Nashville, and I don’t think that is an exaggeration.I suspect that at least half of them have as much talent as this supporter of Stalinist terror who composed an anthem to the abolition of private property. How many of the 1,000 do you know, admire and listen to? Who decides for you what to listen to? Wasn’t another Communist “folk rock” hero Dean Reed talented? Do you listen to him? Who does?

[nickcarraway]

I am not disputing what you say, just that talent and worldview have no correlation.

I had never heard of Dean Reed before, but it sounds like he was never successful in the U.S. He moved to East Germany and still filed tax returns to the IRS? What a tool.

[Revolting cat!]

We agree, certainly. Unfortunately, so many times an excess of talent is combined with a utopian worldview, Leftist or Rightist. Dean Reed, by the way, was probably murdered by Stasi.