[Coco] Read it and weep

[Bill Pierce]

Tim,
>From the albums I have, his playing style always sounded like the old folk 4-string "strum" style so I just assumed that's what he was playing. Now that you mention it, I remember when I saw him on a PBS special, he was playing a 5-string and thinking to myself that he must have changed up. As with any other artist/instrument, it's in the artist, not the instrument. He would have sounded the same on a ukulele or a toy piano. 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 5:03 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Read it and weep


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

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