Jerrald Eldridge: WHAT? Jerrald, the music you've missed. You can pick at any stage of Pete's life and career and you'll be rewarded with this American treasure.
there are a lot of episodes of his educational roots music program Rainbow Quest on here. the one with Johnny and June Carter Cash takes some fortitude, Johnny is all messed up on pills. It's still worth watching, just be prepared to see a great man at a low low.
Pete Seeger was one of the people who brought up the problems in our society and wrote and sang the stories about them. He was the greatest and most respectful folk singer of his time. We need to heed his words before this 2024 election.
I am fortunate to have wonderful memories of hearing Pete Seeger performing in the Melbourne Town Hall in September 1963, 58 years on, listening to this again is heart warming.
I forgot how beautiful his voice was. What a story. What story tellers - Dylan & Seeger. I am the blue-eyed son and I've walked the paths the song describes. But then, haven't we all...
Wow, Seeger adds one line to the song that really hits home (at 3:12): "...heard the sound of one person who cried he was human..." Considering the context of the 60's civil rights movement just emerging, that's a beautiful lyrical addition to this great song.
Wow!!!! Never heard Pete Seeger cover this song. Always so used to only Pete singing with his banjo. Love his singing and playing the guitar here. I don't always get into the banjo sometimes.
Arguably Dylan's greatest song. He said every line was the start of a new song. He put them all together as one because it was the height of the Cold War and he didn't think he'd have enough time to write them all.
Pete singing this made a younger Billy Connolly cry and decide to become a musician. 'I became a different man' - but still me, he said. He was still moved to tears describing it decades later.
I had tears of homesickness for those times when the rains seemed gone for so long. Now the tears are for all those young people being old and gone from life now.
You could clearly see by the faces of the audience they were very uncomfortable, confused and not ready for the depth of darkness in this song. Yet when he was done they all clapped enthusiastically, I think because they knew they had just witnessed a profound moment even if they didn't really understand it!
Also, audiences didn't have mosh pits then. This looks like a college audience from in the day where you sat quietly at a performance until the song ended. Lots of stuffy professor types. 😆 This is the same audience that went insane and murderous when Dylan broke out the fender at the folk festival. 🤣
I’ll respectfully disagree. On all the videos I watched of Dylan and others at Newport and other folk festivals during this period, the audience is almost completely still and silent throughout the song. While that’s a bit foreign to us, it seemed perfectly normal in that setting. I think they really were studying and pondering each word. (The Beatles’ fan base would drop a nuclear bomb on any such reserved model of concertgoer, just a year or two later, lol. Couldn’t hear a single word of their singing over the interminable shrieking, which is what led the Beatles to quit playing live and focus on creating masterpieces in the studio.)
Nothing compares to driving through WV over into Ohio via 50 as the suns coming up listening to some pete seeger. wonderful music with wonderful mountains of trees... the best.. even better when he's covering dylan!!
At the age of 77 I still perform every week. I have covered many of Bob's songs but never this one. Sometimes I need to see an interpretation like this to inspire me. Some weeks ago I watched an aged Pete sing "Forever Young". i was at University with Bryan Ferry and liked his rocked up version of this song (athough he only covers three verses). From that I got the idea to perform a rocked up version of "Masters of War" with my rock band through the nineties. Now back solo gigs only, I follow the slow pattern.
Pete Seeger is one of the most important Americans ever - up there with MLK, Dylan, JFK. Thank God we had Pete Seeger, because he nudged Dylan, who nudged a British band called the Beatles, The Byrds, Burrito Bros, Judy Collins, Neil Young, CSNY, etc
Pete Seeger always sang the greatest version of this song. He sang with all of his being, in complete earnest, all of the time. He deserved and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all he did for humanity.
@@stevenmeyer9674 I couldn't agree more! Every time I hear Pete singing this song, I get chills all over my body...and that's true of many songs he sang.
One of the most prophetic songs written by one who wrote what we felt and sung here by one who felt it more intensely than most of us, and through his interpretation made us feel it again in our current times. Where has this vision in music gone? I just hope it's not forever.
In that era, it was normal. The incompetent did not go on stage, so you can often see how guitarists tune during a concert. Not like today's guitarists who sit with electronic tuners...
how wonderfully this man sings, how valuable are his songs. and take a look at the people their souls are reflected. thank god and ask him that we get comforting songs into the world again that we humans need so much.
The hard rain is still falling, many oceans ARE dead, there are at least 7 sad forests, more than 6 crooked highways & not enough people are getting the point! This is Bob Dylan's most prophetic song.
Y'all are right, and that's the song Bob had Patti sing at his Nobel prize acceptance celebration (he having other engagements). Its a hard one, but Patti and Pete they managed to slip only once or twice! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-941PHEJHCwU.html&ab_channel=NobelPrize This one with Baez harmonizing is quite the moment too :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hFv33g79q_g.html&ab_channel=fairbayer
@@phyaide Patti's brain freeze and the responding encouragement from the audience (mainly royalty) made her performance even more powerful. At least in my opinion.
In 1963 Bob Dylan was a young man who sang this song with an edge reflecting his youth. This 1963 version has Pete Seeger as a middle age man singing with the same depth of feeling, the feeling with which he sings is just as deep, but is more mature. I appreciate the fact that Pete Seeger knew in 1963 how important Dylan was to the protest movement and to the development of folk music. Of course a few years later he pulled Dylan's plug at the Newport Folk Festival . . . . .
+Kevin Scudder Pete claimed he never pulled the plug and was probably telling the truth because as far as I know he never hid anything. Probably one of those good stories someone made up but gain credibility by being retold so often!
+Arkybark Thanks for the note. Interesting for me to use google to search the story. Thank you for pointing out that version of history is not correct. Wikipedia has an interesting entry on that history, which shows that human recollection is never going to be consistent. All I know is that I was not there and will stop passing on that version of the story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy
Arkybark Yeah, in an NPR interview he said that he actually appreciated his musical transition. The problem Pete had was that he ruined beauty of a guitar with horrible distortion. And he apparently went to the sound guy asked him to fix it, the dude said no. So Pete said "If I had an axe right now, I'd cut these wires!!"
recién hoy conocí y le presté atención a la obra de Pete Seeger. Que belleza. Lo conocí por un gran programa de radio Universidad de la Universidad más antigua de américa que se encuentra en Córdoba. El programa se llama GPS y lo conduce Víctor Pintos una persona que conoce mucho de músicos estilos y personas muy comprometidas con causas nobles. Gracias por subir estos temas que son himnos de paz.
la música, la poesía y la la literatura reflejará la triste humanidad desde los principios de los tiempos. La belleza universal les da dones a muchos que se adelantan a la realidad y a Dios gracias que personas como esas existieron y existirán.
Plus jeune je ne comprenais trop le sens de ces paroles , je le regrette même si c'est trop tard. Dommage . Rip der Pete, bon voyage dans ce temps infini.
Un músic i persona íntegre. No va renunciar mai a les seves idees. Un músico y persona íntegra. No renunció nunca a sus ideas. La caza de brujas no pudo con él. Ojalá que este gran país, EE UU. encuentre el camino a la verdadera democracia y la paz. Todos dependemos de ello.
It was the late 70s. Prior to Pete Seeger performing at Sonoma State, I suggested that he visit a protest site where Sonoma Springs Dam was to be built. He went there and I was told he was tired at the evening concert. I felt sad about this... and more so when the dam was built anyway.
Perhaps it was this particular version they didn't like. Myself, though I adore Pete Seeger, I prefer Dylan's version and also the one Patti Smith did at the Nobels.
I've seen nothing to indicate that we, as a species, have learned anything from Dylan's apocalyptic vision. A hard rain's not a-gonna fall; it's falling now.
For all Dylan's amazingly prescient visions of the present apocalypse,... he himself seems blithely aloof and unaware,...... Pete on the other hand remained steadfastly strong against this plague of idiocy until his end... In so doing he lives on and still gives us a little hope in humanity and some kind of future....
It is time that we are going to ask ourselves the question what the message of the Lord to us, citicens of the world, is. Since the rain is so hard that we cannot gather to celebrate easter.
People can sit quietly to listen, and dress fairly smartly, but have the most revolutionary of spirit, and take part in protests, and totally comprehend a lyric. Students were often at the forefront of the protests, along with lecturers.
I wonder if these two giants of music have ever met or performed together? RIP Pete, what will happen when Dylan is the next to pass away. Music will never be the same again
They have met, many times. They both were part of the scene in Greenwich Village during the height of the folk era and both appeared at the Newport Folk festivals. They more or less parted ways after Dylan went electric.
did you think about that: you feel accepted by god. your sins are forgiven, your joy is great, the promise has seized you. and then you have to step in front of the people who mock and want to tear you apart because of your weaknesses and mistakes. jesus lives in you and neither accuses you of the bad, nor does he emphasize the good in you. but he has given you a great promise and has put joy in your heart. and now you confess to him and at the same time you are misunderstood by the crowd, burned out, thrown into the abyss. you fly into the abyss but you are free and happy and you can take it. you take off! you don't have to be afraid anymore. jesus does not carry the past behind you, neither in good nor in bad. he leads you into the new. nothing can burden you, nothing must destroy you. neither in good nor in bad do you have to pay attention to the past if you leave it behind in jesus. jesus cleanses and loves and guides!
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin' I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin' I saw a white ladder all covered with water I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin' I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin' I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin' I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son? And who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony I met a white man who walked a black dog I met a young woman whose body was burning I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded in hatred And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? And, what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison And the executioner's face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin' And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I've watched three of Seegers' songs in this Aussie crowd. What a wooden crowd, it was a real long uphill road to get any animation out of any of them.
