:51:04
songs, though.
:51:06
I mean, whatever it was about,
it wasn't about...
:51:10
anything that they were hearing.
:51:12
Well, he hands you a nickel
Hands you a dime
:51:16
Asks you with a grin
if you're having a good time
:51:20
And he fines you every time
you slam the door
:51:23
I ain't gonna work
for Maggie's brother no more
:51:27
You could not understand the words.
:51:29
And I was frantic.
I said, "Get that distortion out".
:51:33
It was so raspy,
you could not understand a word.
:51:37
And I ran over to the sound system,
"Get that distortion out of Bob's voice".
:51:41
"No, this is the way they want to have it".
:51:43
I said, "God damn it, it's terrible.
You can't understand it.
:51:46
"If I had an axe,
I'd chop the mike cable right now".
:51:50
Oh, you've gone to the finest school
all right, Miss Lonely
:51:54
but you know you only used to get
juiced in it
:51:59
Nobody's ever taught you how to live
out on the street
:52:03
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
:52:08
We ran backstage and there was
mayhem going on.
:52:11
Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel
and all the old guard...
:52:14
the old leftist, protest-singing factions...
:52:17
were horrified and thought:
"This is pop music, this isn't folk music".
:52:21
And there was just a big battle
raging backstage and...
:52:24
Pete, I understand Pete Seeger had an axe...
:52:27
and was going to go cut the electric cables
and had to be...
:52:31
you know, subdued...
:52:33
and Theodore Bikel was saying,
"This is what the young people want!
:52:38
"We have to go with the change,
this is what's happening now".
:52:41
So they were all arguing among themselves.
:52:42
Seeger...
:52:45
from all reports, was very upset by this.
:52:49
And I had heard that he tried to cut
the wires and that he'd gone into a car...
:52:53
and wouldn't come out
after this whole thing.
:52:56
That's not my interpretation. You see...
:52:59
Pete's father was there, Charlie Seeger...