From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   Sad how other newsgroups completely unrelated to folk music (or even   
   music) has already had posts on this, but for the record, Pete Seeger died   
   on Monday, after about a week in hospital, not sure for what.  It's all   
   over old media.   
      
   I'm sure as a kid fifty years ago we had some Pete Seeger albums around,   
   if they weren't his they were from people like maybe Burl Ives influenced   
   by Pete.  I certainly remember "On Top of Old Smokey".   
      
   The first time I saw him it was 1978.  I'd almost seen him the year before   
   with Arlo Guthrie in Vermont, I think part of the concert tour that ended   
   up on PBS around that time (I think it was a "Live at Wolftrap" but maybe   
   some other concert series).  Pete looked "old", but then I was young, with   
   his beard and greying hair.  Only 59 actually. He probably performed in   
   New York City on June 12th 1982 for nuclear disarmament, but having walked   
   to NYC and spent a week there, the big demonstration was kind of   
   anticlimactic, and I remember little of what happened on stage in Central   
   park.   
      
   I definitely saw Pete, with Arlo, here in Montreal in December of 1986.  I   
   missed the concert in 2008 or so at some church here in Montreal, a big   
   surprise since he had mostly stopped touring, and I saw the notice and   
   when i got back to getting a ticket, it was sold out.   
      
   I remember around that time the PBS AMerican Masters about him, most of   
   the documentary about his life up to 1978, the later years squeezed into   
   about 15 minutes.   
      
   I also remember seeing Arlo here in the fall of 2009, just after my 50th   
   birthday.  Arlo was 62, a few years older than Pete had been when I first   
   saw him, content to let the kids and grandkids perform, a patriarch of the   
   family, in effect taking Pete's role.   
      
   So that's it.   
      
      Michael   
      
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