General Discussion

It made me sick enough that I just closed up my iPad and walked away. It is the kind of thing that is driving me away.

TY for your input, your memories, your perspective, your accuracy. Monterey Folk Festival of 1963 is the stuff of legend — I’m in awe that you were there.

You hit the big 80 about 2 months before I do. I, too, was steeped in folk music — there was a group of us in high school who would gather before classes and just sing. I couldn’t afford vinyl albums, but I memorized everything I heard & when I read the lyrics, the music played back in my head.

As for Dylan — never liked his voice. But everything he wrote that other people recorded was amazing. I don’t understand people who get rabidly invested in their fantasy of a performer acting out the fantasies of their fans.

And I surely don’t understand why there are people who want to rip apart an old artist who built his career 60 years ago. They desperately need to start their own projects — I’m getting tired of the crowd-chants from BushCheney’s invasion of Iraq almost 25 years ago, they are lame by now, and I want something new from Peter, Paul, and Mary, dammit!

Oh right, I forgot — two of them are dead now. In fact, Pete Seeger is dead too. Harry Belafonte — dead. Woody Guthrie of course is long, long gone. Hey, half the Beatles died long ago as well. Anyone in our age category who is still walking around above ground, much less still composing and performing, deserves a nod of respect, not a barrage of rotten tomatoes.

Time for the youngsters to write their own protest music.