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So glad I got to participate in his last sing-along at Farm Aid last year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9jWoXmrLw

The world lost a force for good yesterday.

I met him a few years ago, too.  Very sad.

He had a good, long, and productive life.  I'd die happily if I knew I had the impact that Pete did.

The sad truth is that many people don't remember his legacy.

You can praise him as a great musician and I won't disagree, but please do not ignore the darker parts of his ideology. 

I will refrain from more provocative comments in respect of the intent of the thread.

Hey, go ahead and bring it on, you wouldn't be much different from the McCarthyite fuckers who hounded him five decades ago--there might be radicals who have something to answer for, but Pete Seeger was pretty much a humane, good person in every struggle he was involved in.

A bit overly religious for my taste, but I appreciate his pacifist beliefs.

94!!!  Holy Morgan Fucking Freeman!  I hope I don't live to be 94.  I'm still reckoning that 69 is a perfect and humourous ages to pop your clogs.  If I live past that, I will just sit in the rain.  Alone.  And wait to die.  Too bad, though.  I always get him confused with that bloke from Peter, Paul and Mary but that's not the right Pete, right?  I don't much care for most folky type music but I find nearly any sort of protest music awesome - if not the sound, the statement. 

That's Peter Yarrow.  Who I've also met. 

#folkstarfucker

It was very melancholy at Farm Aid. Such a great moment in such a sea of narcissistic apathy.

To me, even more important than his activism and his own music, both of which mattered, was his work in preserving old folk music in general (his father and especially his stepmother also were important contributors in that.) Hard to say exactly what would have been lost without his work, but it would have been significant.

I was tremendously sad to hear he passed. I'm an unrepentant folkie and loved his stuff. He did a lot to preserve the tradition of folk music as actual folk music that was performed live.

He wasn't just a great singer though, he was a great American. You can hate on his politics, but I can't think of anyone who approached so many issues in such a quintessentially American way. He was always positive. Always picked himself up and just got back to work. I can't think of anyone who cares about politics, including myself, who seems to have so little cynicism or bitterness. He always kept that American belief that we could make things better, in the inherent good in people.

Where did all of you sudden folkies come from? Sheesh. All these years and you never mentioned it once.

Well, I'm not a folkie but I do love a good protest song.  From Dylan to Rage Against the Machine to Senser.  If you're angry enough, I'll listen and probably like it.  Get you guitar and post an angry song and I'll take you off my soft list and put you on my hard list.

Hey... I saw O Brother Where Art Thou.

Have I posted my song "Get Off My Back (Get On My Pecker)" yet?

Not kidding, it's an actual song, heh. My fiancee loves it (she doesn't).

No, post it so I can see if I don't love it as much as your fiancee.  :p

It's not done yet, it's only got two verses. Last year out of the blue my buddy added the second verse. It was pretty funny, we're watching football and he just turns and says "I have a new verse for your song".

But it was actually pretty good.

I figure the song will be done in another eight years. I'm pretty lazy.

Crowdsource your lyrics on f13.

As for being a folkie, I suppose meeting Seeger at something called "The People's Music Festival" qualifies me.  Though it's more by association, since I used to hang out at a bunch of open mics in college.