Pete Seeger Nobel Peace Prize petition

PJ_Lukin

Please sign if you agree.
http://www.nobelprize4pete.org/index.html

Bu2

Thank you so much for posting this.

I grew up listening to his songs, singing them in Chorus in school...but didn't come to truly HEAR them, and their meaning, until recently.

The man speaks for the world. Rare, that.

PJ_Lukin

Bu2 wrote:

Thank you so much for posting this.

I grew up listening to his songs, singing them in Chorus in school...but didn't come to truly HEAR them, and their meaning, until recently.

The man speaks for the world. Rare, that.

This is gaining some steam...I noticed a jump in the petition signings of about 20% in the past couple of days.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Peace my arse. He tried to take an axe to the PA system, when Dylan went electric at Newport. Fuck him.

PJ_Lukin

According to Seeger in an interview published in Gadfly magazine, he said to the person doing the sound, "Clean up that sound so we can understand the words," and they shouted back, "No, this is the way they want it." I said, "Goddamn it, if I had an ax, I'd cut the cable." Not all that surprising since Seeger toyed with electric guitars in the forties and there were electric guitars on the albums The Weavers recorded for Decca Records, not to mention that various other performers including Howlin' Wolf and Johnny Cash had appeared at Newport with bands. Some contemporary writers, based on tapes of the show, are claiming no one booed. However all press accounts at the time as well as people I've spoken to who were there said there was booing and shouting.