I can hardly think of how to express my gratitude for the faithfulness of the folk singers and country singers who have persisted with this kind of music. In and out of popularity, getting crowds of people to sing together, finding ways to knit our souls together and make us strong in this crazy old world. Whew! Such warriors!
We go around the circle taking turns playing whatever songs we pick when it goes around the circle till it's my turn....I'll be 68 September 1st and my friends from kindergarten and even before kindergarten are still the best of friends and I have a 2 bedroom trailer outside my home town, so that I can still get together with friends and family to share the music.... I'm so blessed...I'd rather be there with them 5han on a vacation somewhere with strangers. They mean the world to me
You said what I feel very eloquently....it's such a feeling of comradeship and a feeling like being a part of a big family...love the live concerts too especially..my friends and I get together all the time and get in a big circle with our instruments banjos guitars mandolins ukelele, and we take turns picking songs and playing singing harmonies and a lifelong friendship ...I'm 68 in September and I went to kindergarten with most of them.... I keep a trailer there year round on a small lake and all my nieces and nephews and cousins all play and sing too.... I love them all.. music keeps us all together...
My dad & I found this concert Nov 2020, 3 years later, were still testifying our love!! I love my parents more than anything on God's green earth & im testifying until I die
This is what I am talking about when I tell younger people that America was once on the right track - not perfect, but trying harder to advance the common man. Would prime time ever feature someone like Arlo now? We need him more than ever now.
Well, I agree with Arlo. It was a dingleberry folk song. I'm a huge Arlo Guthrie fan. I saw him twice. He changed my life. I'm actually a folk musician and a big part of that is Arlo. But that was still dingleberry folk song.
arlo is the only singer who can get away with it. He makes the asides, the repeats, everything, part of what he is and does. I never tire of this guy. I think we're growing old together, even though he has better hair than I do now =)
I have folk music in my heart and soul. The late Pete Seeger is one of my favorites"The Midnight Special is my favorite song by Pete Seeger. My absolute favorite is Arlo Guthrie, I love his voice, his storytelling, and his singing. Nobody has a voice like Arlo.❤
saw him many, many times. so sorry to hear he won't be traveling around anymore and my kids didn't get to see him in person. amazing songwriter and storyteller as well as a beautiful soul. yes, we need more souls like him 💕
I missed my chance to see Arlo Guthrie in the late 70's when his concert was canceled in Pocatello, ID due to lack of ticket sales. This broadcast gives me a good idea of all the good music I missed. Thank you for posting!
Boston 1980. Walking with my girlfriend on friday evening.Approached by a ticket tout for a concert across the road. It was Arlo Guthrie. I paid 10 bucks over the price but was blown away and married that girlfriend and have been lifelong fans of Arlo.
Thanks Dave. These recordings are priceless. I appreciate you making them available to everyone. Something we always agreed on has been Arlo,, ( including all the family) , Pete and the music of the many folks that Arlo and Pete have shard with us through the years. That''s pretty important stuff to agree on. I'm grateful for that.
I was quite disappointed when I pulled out my VHS copy of this to transfer it to digital... it had badly degraded. Luckily I found a copy online and was able to clean it up - and figured since it was no longer available even through RSR, it was fair game for sharing. I'm still looking for a COMPLETE show of the one PBS aired years ago with Arlo & Pete... but it seems as if that only aired once. All subsequent airings were cut for length.
This was sooo awesome! I was lucky enough to have seen Arlo with John Prine in Baltimore in 1979. I don’t know why, but thought too many people wouldn’t be there…got to the box office & I bought 2 of the last 4 tickets!!! Single seats, too. Someone I didn’t know gave up his seat so that me & my friend could sit together! I just love how most of the people I’ve been around at concerts I’ve been to are so much kinder than some of your neighbors. I find that pretty amazing. Also have been listening to Pete Seeger for years! This was a real treat! Ty!
I too, have watched this a dozen times or so. I have an endearing feeling towards Arlo. Saw him only once in concert. He won't read this most likely. But i love Arlo.Dont know him personally or anything like that. Still, he makes me feel good. So I love him, his gift, his performances...sorry my names not here . John
@@lindawer A double whammy - first you tell me about Arlo's health issues & a few hrs later we are told the sad news of Jerry Jeff's passing. There are a lot of people in Show Business but the number of Entertainers is declining at an alarming rate.
@@kurtfoulke5130 I hate to say it...2020 sucks! Gonna miss both Arlo and Jerry. A big hit to the entertainment industry. Rest in peace Jerry and get well soon Arlo!
I saw Arlo Guthrie with Pete Seeger at The Greek Theater in So. California about 81-82 The Garden Song was included and Changing My To Chrysler. Didn't know it at the time but it was one of the best concerts I would ever see.
I've lived folk music and almost every other kind of music since I was little. Arlo Guthrie is a great storyteller!❤ Lots of Love to you and your music❤🙏
When I was young I had a big ol' Cutlass with a cassette player. Alice's Restaurant got stuck in there. It would play, it just wouldn't eject for anything. Because of that, I can still recite the Massacree verbatim.
Back in 2006 I was lucky enough to see him play live at the Church outside of Stockbridge. I was visiting friends when word came that Arlo was going to play an impromptu concert that week. He was joined onstage my his son Abe. Near the end he played some never heard before recordings of his dad Woody playing live. It was a great night.
I remember watching this so many years ago. Taped it on my cassette recorder and listened to it over and over. Been searching the Internet for the video ever since. Thanks for posting!
This took me by complete surprise. I only started really watching when he stopped his first song for an intermission. Wow. What an awesome rockstar. That is real American legend
as we get older, we end up outliving all these guys. I listen as much as I can, as h ard as I can. Maybe I can take some of them with me. you know. after.
Thank you for posting this! I came looking for this specifically. I remember watching this over and over as a kid. My uncle recorded it on beta. Maybe I was an odd duck generation x kid. While the other kids were playing air guitars pretending to be Metallica…I was pretending to be Arlo Guthrie!
back in 2011 or so I found this on iTunes after I discovered Bob Dylan and went down this folk world. I guess 10 years later I needed this back in my life. Still to this day do I love the inch by inch song. Fortunately during that spree I had a chance to see Arlo live, Dylan live and even Ramblin Jack Elliot. Glad all 3 of them are still around. Jack is getting way old, too. I hope I can see him again.
I've seen a lot from Bonnie Raitt..... Got to see her live only once.... Her performance of "Angel From Montgomery" on this show may the best out of everything I've seen her do...... Breathtaking!
Absolutely ❤️! R.I.P. Jerry Jeff Walker. P.S. The problems of the world cannot be solved in inches and miles, and neither can they be solved in metres or kilometers.
An All-Time Favorite of mine! Been singing, humming it since I first heard it sometime early in my teens! Absolutely crazy over Arlo's interpretation! He was born to sing it! Thank you so much! My 76th birthday is in a couple weeks! A looking time to be crazy over a song!
OMG....I must have watched this 100+ times. It was decades ago a now I can see it again! Summer Wages by Bromberg and Gates of Eden were my fave songs that evening. Thank you!
I grew up in Alberta where I grew to appreciate Ian Tyson who wrote and originally recorded Summer Wages. Though I love the original version I really enjoyed Bromburgs version...
Fantastic concert! Thank you so much for posting this. Just love Arlo.💜💗🌹 And all the the others are wonderful, of course. I went to one his concerts that year.
A wonderful concert I recorded back in 1987 on vhs. I looked all over hoping to buy this fantastic group of musicians and singers. Especially moved by Victor Jara, by Arlo. Thank you for sharing this treasure.
Remembering "The Arlo Guthrie Show" which first ever aired as part of KPBS San Diego's Festival '87(March 1987 Membership Campaign), Circa March 7, 1987!! TV Worth Watching and TV Worth Paying For!!!
18 minutes in and "Victor Jara" comes alive, revived, renewed and ready to take on pandemic plagues. P-R-E-S-E-N-T-E Bless Arlo, Pete, Shenandoah, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Lee, David Bromberg, Austin Song Chasers and the same Maker that gave us Victor Jara, took him in such sadistic way and keeps bringing him back when "the people" are in need...There have been others, Maker willing, there will be more...I ain't the scriptwriter...just a bit player. Grateful Alive even when hurting or grieving or looking for a way to get away from blues...Hope Pete and Victor and mebbe even Mother Jones and Joe Hill jamming up in the Green Room with Terry Callier and his Chicago Sufi Combo, with Okie time-keepers Cale, Russell, McCreary keepin' or dispensin' wid time...Whatever the Song calls for... Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Disc us sion List and Looksee
Coming Into Los Angeles (Arlo Guthrie) Starts at 1:16:50 (Dialog starts ar 1:10:00 Coming in from London from over the Pole Flying in a big airliner Chickens flying everywhere around the plane Could we ever feel much finer? Coming into Los Angeles Bringing in a couple of keys But don't touch my bags if you please Mister Customs Man There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico No, he couldn't look much stranger Walking in the hall with his things and all Smiling, said he was the Lone Ranger Coming into Los Angeles Bringing in a couple of keys But don't touch my bags if you please Mister Customs Man Hip woman walking on a moving floor Tripping on the escalator There's a man in the line and she's blowing his mind Thinking that he's already made her Coming into Los Angeles Bringing in a couple of keys But don't touch my bags if you please Mister Customs Man
What a great show. I saw John Prine, with special guest Bonnie Raitt in Columbus, Oh in 1988. Then the next year I saw Bonnie and her band touring her album Nick of Time. I saw Arlo on his 50th year anniversary of Alice's Restaurant tour in SA TX. I saw him in the late 70s with Pete, Holly near and Ronnie Gilbert in C-bus. In 2019 I saw JT and BR in Austin.