MLF-958

PETE SEEGER TALKS ABOUT HOW NEWPORT AND FOLK MUSIC WAS ANTI COMMERCIAL MUSIC

SONG ABOUT AN ASSASSINATED UNION MAN

PETE TALKS ABOUT YOUNG JOAN BAEZ, "IF I HAD A HAMMER" WITH PETER PAUL AND MARY -

PETE TALKS ABOUT NEWPORT BEING A PLACE WHERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE WERE PUT TOGETHER - TALKS ABOUT RICHARD AND MIMI FARINA
TALKS ABOUT THE FUN AT NEWPORT 1960 IN THE RAIN - RALPH RINZLER SUGGESTED THE SMALLER WORKSHOPS AT NEWPORT AND HOW IT BECAME ORGANIZED THAT WAY - SMALL INTIMATE STAGES AND ONE FOR BIG CONCERTS - FIDDLE STAGES, IRISH BALLADS STAGES, BOB DYLAN IN 1962 BEING HEARD AT A WORKSHOP

PETE SEEGER TALKS ABOUT THE BANJO - IT'S AFRICAN AND LATIN HISTORY AND WHY HE LIKES IT - DEMONSTRATES BANJO STYLES - AFRICAN BANJO IS DESCRIBED - PETE SEEGER TALKS ABOUT HOW HIS FATHER SUGGESTED HE WRITE A MANUEL INSTRUCTION BOOK ON PLAYING THE BANJO - DEMONSTRATES THE BANJO

TALKS ABOUT HOW THE HUMAN RACE NEEDS TO WORK TOGETHER TO SURVIVE - TALKS ABOUT KURT VONNEGUT AND HIS BOOK "CAT'S CRADLE" SEEGER SAYS HE IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE - TALKS ABOUT THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION AND HOW IT CAN HELP CREATE A MORAL REVOLUTION

PETE SEEGER ATTEMPTS TO SING THE SONG BUT CANNOT - TALKS ABOUT HIS DEFINITION OF FOLK MUSIC AND TALKS ABOUT JOHN LOMAX COLLECTING THE COWBOY SONGS - AND THE FIRST BOOK OF COLLECTED SONGS CIRCA 1910 - TALKS ABOUT JOHN AND ALAN LOMAX USING PORTABLE RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND GOING AROUND TE COUNTRY RECORDING FOLK MUSIC - ERIE CANAL - TALKS ABOUT LOMAX'S EARLY FIELD RECORDING SESSIONS - PETE SINGS " WHEN WE GET TO BUFFALO" - TALKS ABOUT THE COLLECTING OF FOLK SONGS BY LOMAX TALKS ABOUT ALAN LOMAX BEING THE PERSON WHO STARTED THE REVIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC - TALKS ABOUT LEADBELLY - RETELLS THE LEADBELLY - LOMAX STORY

SEEGER TALKS ABOUT WHY THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CAME TO NEWPORT RESPONDED TO THE SCENE - IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE SONGS - TALKS ABOUT THE "GREAT FOLK BOOM OF 1964 " AND THAT THE NEWPORT FESTIVAL WAS THE FIRST OF IT'S TYPE BUT NOW THERE ARE MANY OTHERS

SEEGER TALKS ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE BOARD MEMBERS AT NEWPORT AND WHO SHOULD PERFORM - TALKS ABOUT HIS FAMILY MEMBERS WHO STARTED NEWPORT FESTIVAL " I WAS FURIOUS AT THE SOUND SYSTEM WHEN HE FIRST WENT ELECTRIC" AND ABOUT RUNNING OVER TO THE SOUND SYSTEM " IF I HAD AN AXE I'D CUT THE CABLE" TALKS ABOUT HIS REACTION TO WHEN DYLAN FIRST WENT ELECTRIC - "THERE'S GONNA BE LOTS OF DISAGREEMENTS"