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11 November 2005

First let me say that I very much enjoy and respect the music (and to a large extent the beliefs) of Pete Seeger.... [mi]
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posted by greasy_skillet 11 November | 21:05
thank being said, it's hilarious to listen to the album "Songs of Hope and Struggle", a compilation of Union ballads and Civil Rights songs, with my soundcard transforming the audio to "Chipmunk voice".


posted by orthogonality 11 November | 21:06
I very much enjoy and respect the music (and to a large extent the beliefs) of Pete Seeger....

I don't. He led the charge against Dylan going electric at Newport. For that alone, he goes in the asshole file.
posted by jonmc 11 November | 22:22
I though Seeger came across like kind of sanctimonious, self-important fuck in that recent Dylan documentary.

I bet he sounds funny with chipmunk voice though.
posted by Marxchivist 11 November | 23:30
Seeger's also an unreconstructed Stalinist.

But the Newport business is overblown. Some people think the booing was mainly because of poor sound. It's not like it hurt Dylan's career, any.
posted by stilicho 12 November | 02:07
I've always been a bit standoffish about Seeger. I had an early Newport LP ('61 or '62 I think) and really liked his stuff.

Then over the years I've heard interviews (and saw the Dylan doco the other night) and he really does come off like a smarmy thinks-he-knows-it-all git. It's like he's on ether with his head above the clouds and he just trots out his selfimportant role in the protest movement with that smile that wants to be whacked I'm better 'n you are attitude.

But I agree with stilicho. The whole anti-electric-Dylan thing was blown way out of proportion. Crashing his bike silenced them!
posted by peacay 12 November | 07:10
If we threw out all the contentious pricks in music, there wouldn't be many people left. Anyone for another round of "Little Boxes"?
posted by briank 12 November | 08:36
I love his music. I couldn't care less about how much of an asshole he is in real life. But I'd love to hear him sound like a chipmunk.
posted by goatdog 12 November | 13:05
Dylan had already been employing electric guitars before the festival anyway.
posted by kenko 12 November | 15:25
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