Peter Yarrow talks about Peter, Paul and Mary: 50 Years in Music and Life
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2014
- Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame talks with Dr. Michael Wayne in an installment of Interviews with the Leading Edge, the exclusive video series at www.LeadingEdgeInterviews.com. In this interview, Peter Yarrow discusses his new book at length, "Peter, Paul and Mary: 50 Years in Music and Life" and within talking about the book, reflects on the life of the band and his life. He talks about his beginnings as a musician, how Peter, Paul and Mary began, how the March on Washington in 1963, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., turned them into serious activists, being in Dallas, TX the day President John F. Kennedy was killed and what that was like, his life as an activist, and what he means with the line he used at the end of the book, “Maybe it’s about recognizing the spirit of goodness in us all…the caring for the least of us…and the work that is to be continued…”
I met him several times and he was a sweet and nice guy after the PPM concerts. Love ya Peter...
Peter Yarrow takes me back to my 20' 50 years ago.
I started out playing guitar and playing Peter Paul and Mary songs. I learned the Travis picking method before playing rock music. I appreciate hearing Yarrow talk. Thank you. Somersworth, NH.
The Concerts generally included a chance to discuss politics with Peter of sometimes Paul after the Music stopped.
They were inspiring Folks.
PETER PAUL & MARY. Thank you for the MUSIC & LOVE.
Bless you Peter and Noel Paul and our Mary in the heavens
This guy was THE voice of PP&M. They were each great. But this guy just had that special sound.
Very underrated singer from that entire era, the Sixties and the Seventies. Consider his singing on a song like "The Great Mandala."
Brilliant guy.
Just last week I was singing "Rudolf the Red Nose Raindeer" to my grandson's pre-school classroom. I asked them if they would laugh at me if I had a red nose. And they yelled "Yes!" Then I asked them if doing that would be kind of like "bullying." Then they stopped laughing. And they thought about it. One little girl, after a while, said, "I don't get it. Laughing at Rudolf is like bullying but then afterwards they became his friend. So they weren't bullying him." And I said, "Well that means that you can learn not to bully someone that you used to bully."
When I sing to kids I ALWAYS remember Peter, Paul, and Mary."
Peter, your concert at Trinity university in San Antonio in 1964, I sat in the front row.
Beyond words when I go back to the early sixties and beyond. Kingston Trio, Big Three with Mama Cass, Bob Dylan and Peter Paul and Mary, were mind blowing beyond compare. Thanks Peter, Paul and Mary for curing depression for the times I listened and continue to listen to you.
Lord Bless you Peter. We all love you.
+CHUCK1213 I agree, Peter is all heart.
Was Peter all heart when he sexually molested that poor girl and her sister in his hotel room in 1970?
oh yeah, if its a liberal icon, they are excused for raping children by hollywood and the left
Dump Drumpf!
mange le marde..maudite republican
How refreshing. Now, I know why I loved their music from the moment I first heard them sing.
Thanks Jackie. Peter Yarrow is a very special person, and Peter, Paul and Mary were a very special band.
Yes J.Allison I agree.... it was like a positive vibratory frequency, a radio signal, that I could never again turn off..... their thoughtful Music and lyrics to this day gives me hope for what Micah the prophet spoke, “what does HaSheM require of you O’ man, but to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your
G-d?”
Peter speaks about present and past modern sociey - and the place for music and activism in it - in a positive, hopeful and integrative way. This interview is worth igoring the10,000 distractions for one hour.
Thanks. Peter is such a bright light for the world, and someone who
keeps the fires burning for all of us, to help us be inspired to do our
best for the world.
I am a child of the 50's and 60's. and I always loved music thathad a message to improve humanity.
Just met Peter and his daughter at an anti-pipeline Rally in Schoharie, NY and enjoyed their music and community spirit and love his vision to bring people together and his understanding of the " spirit of goodness in us all "
Vera Scroggins Thank you for your comment Vera. As Peter (and Paul and Mary) sang in "If I Had a Hammer," it's all about "the love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land."
thanks, Michael; yes, can emphasize the love and community and working together for a better world for all...
Vera Scroggins I agree with you Vera. Indeed, working together, we can make this a better world. Feel free to subscribe to my channel, as I continue to post interviews in my Interviews with the Leading Edge series with remarkable men and women who are thought leaders and change agents for transforming the world and making it a better and more enlightened place.
Funny how the groups with the biggest tour buses hate the pipelines the most. Bunch of hypocrites.
Recall my folk singing days and the sing along at our Scout Summer Camps...
What an amazing man. I just love his wisdom and outlook in life.
Indeed. Peter has been an inspiration to many people for decades and decades.
Thanks for this. It gives hope.
Thank you. We must always maintain hope, even when things seem dark.
Peter Yarrow. One of my favorite musicians :D
Johann Cole Indeed. And he's a very special human being.
amen. peter is my fave rate. singerq
Yarrow is a very talented individual - talented in singing and guitar playing. He could use this to express his political-societal views, which, largely with the help of Bob Dylan, he did effectively - all the while entertaining us. As a 60s folk singer myself, I played theirs and other folk songs for groups of people. Too bad the folk music renaissance quickly died out, surviving for awhile as folk-rock. The solutions espoused by those folk songs did not always square with reality but maybe it was a step in the right direction.
I love PP&M . I would have never learned guitar and voice if it had not been from them. They were so different in their time. All the other trios were average but the guys with the goatees and Mary's long banged shiny blonde hair were like no other. Also their early guitar works were different. Asoalin is a prime example..
Must go on record sometime.. The first time my parents offered to buy us kids an LP for our new stereo, we wanted to make the most of it, so we chose a double album - of PPM - which we listened to inside & out. So it's great to hear from Peter about what was going on then to inspire their music, and continues to go on.
+jimmydearing Indeed, Peter, Paul and Mary's music will live on forever!
Bring back the Hootenanny!
dsthorp ha ha. I rem it well because I played at them.
very interesting
Bless you, Peter Yarrow . ----------Wolfsky9, 69 y/o
Wolfsky9 m
I am a child of the 60's and 70's. I have always been a huge fan of
Peter, Paul & Mary's music, as well as many other folk singers and groups.
However, I am probably in the minority in that I am more on the conservative side with politics and other issues. I have listened to
Joan Baez, Judy Collins and of course their beliefs and causes are for the most part, politically liberal. I am not extremely on the right but maybe closer to the middle. So, maybe it is strange that I can absolutely love folk music more then any other genre but not always of the same page with their political views. Now a lot of country musicians are more conservative politically, (not all of course) but I am not a big country music fan. Just love folk music the most - but not the politics.
I commend you on your open mind and the fact that you don't let your political convictions sway your taste in music. If only more people were like that.
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Thank you Michael. I appreciate your comment.
Loved the music -- really -- Yarrow has a poetic heart, but he misses the fact that the hard-working person also needs to survive. That's capitalism, and it isn't bad.
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I agree with you! They pick their injustice and totally miss the cause of it or the injustice others deal with. Still loved their music..
Says Peter who was charged with having a sexual encounter with under age girls. Now that’s what we call a Love In.
Anyone else thinks he looks like Pete Townsend?
A little bit! I am a huge fan of both men as well as Peter, Paul and Mary and The Who!! ❤❤😊😊
good interview but questions should have been more about his music and his family background I know he is jewish they were for me the best of folk music rest in peace mary travers
bien sur....je ne comprends pas grand chose à ce qu'il dit mais je sais rien qu'à l'intonation de sa voix que c'est bien....
Horn practice.
Q: What is that annoying keyboard playing in the background…….? A:An annoying keyboard!!
Bassoon practice.
Never brings up or stands against mind control by the government. Sounds good though. I guess it doesn't exist in his universe.
race relations?
Somebody called my attention to this beautiful song and it has made me want to consider what happen to this overwhelming denial by the united states congress for people not to demand that these labels or promoters are force to record lyrics that bring joy to peoples hearts.
Obviously, you'll not reach all the youth as was the case in the 40s 50s 60s. Things would not of been allowed to grow so cowardly and cold blooded heading back in vain today. Truly short of authoritarian better yet moving towards Authoritarian rule. Or should I say socialistic which is an igniter of both.
Anyone reading this must admit some of these kids that are being taught in America today are being brain washed by whatever evil means you've allowed by so called Hillary, Barack, debunking. Sounds like a wilful omission of payola-hush money or better yet high treason.
I believe yesterday's musical revolution that Bob Dylan, made claim, that less has now become better, and that less doesn't sell records, is an obvious omission of growing closer to communism or worse.
If you believe that the world has plenty of songs and it will not suffer for one less song. Then It does seem to me that you are overlooking that poetry of wisdom never grows nostalgic. Moreover, can bring tears to any coldblood political heart like Barack Obama as when Aretha Franklin brought tears to his eyes in 2015.
Mr. Obama wasn't crying I contend because Aretha brought joy to his heart but because he knew that Aretha along with all the rest of these famous musical roads will disappear. Why because of the censoring of the music industry by the deliberate above intent.
Does money and the power it wills with these successful yesterday stars blind them? Does the little piece of green paper carry so much weight they cannot see the overwhelming malfeasance intent here?
Too much you say? Well, just a thought when you are loving yet living in a world so cold. Believe "MICHAEL", all nightmares are real if you'll not come around and see this light.
Finally does seem to me somebody most powerful most evil is truly wanting to rewrite American History. That would mean if true, all you Super Stars of yesterday better consider who you really owe. The Devil, that you compromised on your young roads to your A/Raisin' Or your Nation's Future better yet what you will be allowed to leave behind. Perhaps in a 55 year subtle way you to have been had. God Bless American
(first...is it really necessary to have all that damned 'lutes/flutes/and oboes' NPR-type crap as a 'soundtrack?' WHY?) I can barely hear what's being said! Yeah...be sure to mention 'Cornell' at least every five minutes! ("Mr. Folkie" is losing his 'street cred' with this 'elitism bullshit') Ah, yes! It's good to 'remember while wearing the 'rose-colored glasses of age' in telling 'how it came about'. What dreck! It 'came about' because Zimmerman's "Free Wheelin'" LP was a 'Hit' and EVERY record-company wanted to'cash-in' before the 'fad' ended (it did...pretty quickly after 2/9/64!) and everyone with 'beatnik-beard & harmonica & 'gee-tar'was signed...and it didn't hurt that every guy wanted to nail Mary Travers! That's the 'true truth' of 'what happened'...it was all about $$$$$$$$. (nothing wrong w/that!)
Are you always this cranky? The reason there are "damned lutes/flutes/and oboes" is because Caffe Lena, where this interview was filmed, sits above a music store, and while we were filming, they were giving music lessons on the different instruments.
And are you always this completely obtuse? They have this 'new-fangled thing' now called 'filters' that can dampen or completely suppress the 'lutes/flutes/oboes' (and of course, banjos! mustn't forget them!) Have you more 'insipid observations of absurdly obvious acoustic ambience' to inform me of?
how depressing
My God Peter how can you use Mr. Trump and not foresee that the real enemy to brings joy to the youths hearts has been deliberately censored that. Mr. Trump never had time to learn better yet know. Courage you say I'm sure must begin or have something to due with understanding. Never seems to faze me that some people can be so intellectual yet I've struggled as a voice never granted the opportunity that makes me want to say. Stay out of politics just Sing.
Like so many before you Money has blinded you. Although sure I'll speed read your book. Cannot afford to buy it I'm spending most my time trying to figure out how to insure there be another child born to carry on. What you fail to realize you've been trick by Politics.
Yes I agree you want change you must keep your fate in justice by kicking their asses up and down the courthouse halls so you can once again feel and sing, ///The pursuit of happiness and liberty justice for all. I should have become a Lawyer and made the young girls scream at forty one assassinated at 42. Yes Peter America has talent but you'll never see it because a great many are chained. Not necessarily because they tried to sell dope or poison to children or to be able to afford to buy your book. If you are one of those that believe pardoning over seventeen hundred of them from federal prison was sane or something that President Trump would have done, then be careful with putting a lite fire out with gasoline.
I remember when Yarrow was such a 'woke' weakling that he began singing new lyrics to the great tune "River of Jordan".
Originally, it was already a collectivist-leaning tune with the lyrics saying "We are the father, we are the son. From the dawn of creation, we are one."
But no, that inherent collectivism was not enough, it was too patriarchal for the woke commies, so they changed the lyrics to:
"We are the father, mother, sister, and son. From the dawn of creation, we are one",
feeling the need to add the matriarchy into the tune.
One of the original 'woke' bastardizations of a folk song for 'equality'.
Yarrow probably now supports trans men winning trophies in women's sports. You should have asked him.
Fucking hell, don't have a stroke
@@steersteer Don't worry about me, pal, you are the sick one here.