Chrissie commented on Ology's Battle Of The Fans: '80s Semi-Finals (Duran Duran Vs. Depeche Mode):
“Duran Duran -- I remember the first night I was truly cognizant of the individual band members. It was the first Friday of December, 1984. My BFF Pam and I suffered the same affliction of not having cable TV and had to get our music video fix via NBC's "Friday Night Videos." I'd seen Duran Duran videos and knew their songs, but just wasn't all that into them. The video for "Do They Know It's Christmas" came on and I was like, "Pam, who is this hot guy with the long blonde hair???" "Oh, that's Simon LeBon. He's the lead singer of Duran Duran." Hmmm... "I guess that guy with the red and black shirt that says 'Duran Duran' on it is in the band, too, huh?" "Yeah, that's John Taylor. Like EVERYONE thinks he's hot." (And I remember thinking, "He's okay, I guess," LOL!) "Hey, Pam! Who's this guy back here? Shoot, I keep missing him! They just barely show him, with the amazing make-up and the gorgeous eyes???" "Oh, that's Nick Rhodes. He's in Duran Duran, too. I think he plays keyboards." Hmmm... The next video up? "Wild Boys" by Duran Duran! Just a few moments earlier, during "DTKIC," I had picked out these three men who would fill my dreams, diaries, and Duran-induced imagination for years and years to come, three talented musicians whose band's music would, from that night forward change my life forever and whose music would literally save my life more than once.”
This week, American folk icon Pete Seeger announced plans to release two new albums—A More Perfect Union, featuring collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and others… and the two-CD Woody Guthrie retrospective Pete Remembers Woody—on September 25. To promote those and his new anthology Pete Seeger: His Life In His Own Words, the 93-year-old music legend stopped by The Colbert Report to talk country life, socialism and commercials… and to perform an almost painfully beautiful version of "Quite Early Morning."
Check it all out below.
Interview
"Quite Early Morning"
Holy wow. Just imagining the entire life and its sum of feelings and experiences that go into performing a song when you're 93 gives me the goosebumps. How many times do you think Pete Seeger has performed this song? Performed period? How different do you think he feels now than he did when he first learned it? Serious shudder. This is the sort of thing you think about watching the real masters still reveling in their craft after decades and decades of work. Can't wait to check out the new albums and do some serious digging into Seeger's catalogue—it's certainly as ripe a time as any for his words and music.
Anybody else catch Pete Seeger on The Colbert Report last night? What did you think? Get the conversation started in our comments section below.
Katrina Henricks:
What a powerful performance this was. The words to the song became more meaningful than ever, in a time when words have lost their meaning in so many ways. When the song was still haunting me by morning, I knew I had to hang on to this. Painfully beautiful, indeed.
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