COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET - OPINIONS WELCOME!!

[grumpybob]

As a Marine and Nam Vet I will fess up to this.

I really like 'PROTEST MUSIC' from the '60's & 70's'.

I just heard that Pete Seeger died. He did 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone, & was a Communist if I remember correctly. I have a CD ' Protest Songs Of The 60's' that is one of my favorites. There isn't any protest songs I do not like. Many of them are in my favorites. Would like to know if other Vets have the same issue, or am I an outcast? For some reason I never felt that they were against me or other Vets.

 

[Bob Denman]

ANY song, that tells a poignant tale; is all right by me! :thumbup:

 

[Pennyrick]

As a Marine and Nam Vet I will fess up to this.

I really like 'PROTEST MUSIC' from the '60's & 70's'.

I just heard that Pete Seeger died. He did 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone, & was a Communist if I remember correctly. I have a CD ' Protest Songs Of The 60's' that is one of my favorites. There isn't any protest songs I do not like. Many of them are in my favorites. Would like to know if other Vets have the same issue, or am I an outcast? For some reason I never felt that they were against me or other Vets.

Pete joined the party in the 30's but so did a whole bunch of other folks at that time. He also joined the army in 1940 and served his country but always claimed he was a communist with a small 'c'. In today's language we would call him a liberal or maybe a socialist. He refused to talk about his beliefs in front of the HUAC folks and was sentenced to jail. He was later cleared but by then he had lost his recording contract, and his career.

I love most of the protest songs but my service goes to time in the RCAF so I didn't get into the Vietnam stuff... thank goodness that wasn't 'our' war.

 

[cuznjohn]

did ya

hear about the midget that came out of the cupboard

 

[grumpybob]

hear about the midget that came out of the cupboard

No! What about the midget that came out of the cupboard?

 

[cuznjohn]

lol

not even a BA RUMP BUMP lol

 

[SNOOPY]

I don't get what this thread is about, what is a protest song?

 

[ARtraveler]

Have to agree, music with a message is usually pretty good. :thumbup:

 

[grumpybob]

I don't get what this thread is about, what is a protest song?

This is a hint.

 

[Dan McNally]

I can love a song, but not agree with its politics. I loved Pete's music, Woody and Arlo Guthrie's, too, but did not agree with their politics. Here is a great song . . . and I recall it being sung, loud and hard, by many a GI after a bunch of beers!

 

[Pennyrick]

My Favorite protest song

 

[Bob Denman]

Let's face it; some of the BEST music, came out fo the most difficult times... :shocked: :thumbup:
Agree or disagree with the politics; just enjoy the music!
One from Pete... and very appropriate for today...

 

[Chupaca]

Not a vet..!!

either one, but love that music and have a lot of them on vinyl, tape, cassetts and disc..sad news about Pete...