[Coco] Read it and weep

[Tim Fadden]

On 1/28/2014 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:45:39 Bill Pierce did opine:
>
>> Gene, I read that this morning and it saddened me greatly. I learned a
>> lot from Pere Seeger. I was too young to be a part of the whole
>> "protest movement", but discovered an old Pete Seeger album in a box of
>> radio station "demo" records a friend gave me. It was just an album of
>> some simple folk songs played on 4-string banjo. I then collected
>> anything I could find on the man and saw a few performances on PBS. He
>> showed me that a couple of chords and a simple line of truth could say
>> more than any 10 page speech from a podium.
>>
>> As Jimi sang it: "If I don't see you agin in this world, I'll see you in
>> the next one... and don't be late!" And as Arlo would say: "We're just
>> waitin' for it to come around again on the guitar...."
>   
> And a lot of it did, covered by quite a few others.  But no one seemed to
> have quite the easy flowing, but great diction that Pete did.
>
> I wonder if his 4 string will ever show up at Christy's?  It should draw a
> pretty good bid I'd think, since it positively reeks of music history.
>
> Cheers, Gene
To set the record straight, Pete Seeger played a long neck 5 string 
banjo, not a 4 string.  He played a style known as frailing/clawhammer, 
some times drop thumb.

Tim