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Thread #117831   Message #2542633
Posted By: Dan Schatz
18-Jan-09 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Seeger & Springsteen at Obama Inaugural
Subject: RE: Seeger & Springsteen at Obama Inaugural
We don't have cable, so we watched it on my computer in our family room. (HBO.com is going to rebroadcast it, too).

WOW. As a whole, the concert was surprisingly good. And Pete's performance was especially inspiring, not least because of everything he has gone through and been put through by this country. If anything can symbolize the change to a government that respects individual rights and liberties, it's including someone who had been blacklisted and charged with Contempt of Congress by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

And not only did Pete sing This Land Is Your Land - HE SANG THE SUBVERSIVE VERSES (Subverses?) - all those verses that never made it into my old elementary school music books. To see Pete at the innauguration singing, "But on the other side it didn't say nothin' / That side was made for you and me" was amazing. What a wonderful moment.

Dan