You two guys are the music itself. The music you guys performed together may never be matched. Instincts gave you two a level of communication that only requires let's do it. I hope to see you two work together in the near future. I feel our people need y'all's hardcore form of bluegrass to shake loose from the paradigms of the matrix. You guys surely could bring on a Great Shakening for the great Awakening.
13:15 …it’s really much more than a story about rowing… it’s about the human heart 14:03 it’s a story about the American genius would define long odds about the democratic idealism comes face to face with the fascist cynicism…
"ROLLING IN MY SWEET BABY'S ARMS!" This is one of the songs that made me love bluegrass music the first persons I ever heard sing it was Louise Mandrell she was and is a lover of bluegrass music. Louise Mandrell also taught me how to play Backgammon she may or may not remember me but I was a 13 year old boy just hanging out at the Michigan State Fair cavalcade of country music Eddie Jay was the vantriloquist Carlton D Crow was the puppet he showcased that year if she sees this she may remember the blonde haired kid she taught to play Backgammon it's still my favorite game to play
My grandfather rowed for UW in 1929-31. At Grandpa Burleigh’s funeral in 2004, my Uncle Pete mentioned that he was most proud of rowing crew for UW. He was a poor dry land football player from Great Falls MT. Grandpa ended up being a MT cattle rancher for most of his life and thankfully grew up on a MT ranch due to my Tough Grandpa! Thank you for this wonderful book!
Please journal your opinion rather than sharing it. Who cares whether you liked the amateur better. Stating that as fact is a disservice to the writer giving the talk.
This is a little late as the video was posted 9 years ago. I am revisiting the topic now because of the imminent premier of George Clooney's screen adaptation of Daniel Brown's book. I like to read, but there are very few books that elicit a visceral reaction the way BOYS IN THE BOAT does. There are many passages in the book where I felt my heart rate elevate, my breathing sped up, and the butterflies were dancing in my gut. As the video reveals, one of the turning points in the whole story is when George Pocock has a conversation with Joe Rantz and challenges him to trust his teammates and to care about them. It is after Joe, whose childhood abandonment has left him with a deep reticence to trust people, decides to take Pocock's advice that the boys really begin to row as a team and win consistently. On a personal note, I rowed for Pacific Lutheran University in the late 80s and 90s. In our boathouse we had several shells and most of them were fiberglass. But there was one old wooden boat in particular, "the Pocock", that we took out fairly routinely. To be honest, we knew it was old, it was heavier, that the slides were not as smooth, and, to be honest, we weren't always thrilled to take our turn in it. We knew that the boat was on loan from the University of Washington, which had a bigger budget and boats to spare. What we did not know at the time was that it was the same boat which the boys had rowed at the 1936 Olympics. Had we known that, I am certain it would have changed our entire perspective. (I found this out when the University of Washington asked for the return of the boat so that it could go on permanent display in their new boathouse about ten years ago.) Oh, I share one other little piece of rowers' nostalgia with those guys: I recall throwing up in Lake Union after rowing through "the cut" that connects Lake Washington and Lake Union and crossing the finish line.
how is he playing for like 15 people??? Even when he was that young he was incredible! Lol - jeez anyone there congrats for buying the ticket of a lifetime. Oh yeah and Don- you are the best I have ever heard, incredible duo and great music!
