1:30:00
And when the concert was over...
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Bob called me over and he said:
1:30:06
"Is anybody in the stage door
waiting for me?"
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The fact is that I do not blame
any artist for seeking fame...
1:30:15
which is in a sense, recognition.
1:30:17
You want to know
that you've pleased an audience...
1:30:20
you want to know that
the audience is interested in you.
1:30:23
He was, in his way, a dynamic performer.
1:30:27
But I think mostly the material
that he was doing was so great...
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that everybody responded to it.
1:30:35
Oxford Town, Oxford Town
Everybody's got their heads bowed down
1:30:38
The sun don't shine above the ground
1:30:40
Ain't a-goin' down to Oxford Town
1:30:43
The topical song movement
was a product of the Left.
1:30:52
And the Left, at that time,
would have been Pete Seeger...
1:30:54
and the Weavers, and Woody Guthrie.
1:30:56
These people created material
based on topical situations.
1:31:04
Pete Seeger, very tall, like a towering figure.
1:31:07
I didn't realize he was a communist.
1:31:09
I really wasn't sure even
what a communist was.
1:31:16
If he was, it wouldn't have
mattered to me anyway.
1:31:21
I really didn't think about people
in those terms.
1:31:24
Bobby was not really a political person.
1:31:28
He was thought of...
1:31:32
as being...
1:31:35
a political person and a man of the Left.
1:31:38
And in a general sort of way, yes, he was.
But he was not interested...
1:31:44
in the true nature of the Soviet Union
or any of that crap.
1:31:48
We thought he was hopelessly
politically naive.
1:31:51
But in retrospect, I think he may have been
more sophisticated than we were.