[Pluto]

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G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzzzzz


Has this site gone dead?

Where have all the flowers gone? PPM song

[modest]

Originally Posted by Pluto

Where have all the flowers gone? PPM song

"Blowing in the wind" (PPM song)

~modest

[Pluto]

G'day from the land of ozzzzzz

Whatch where you stand up wind or down wind?

I keep on forgetting.


So! you people up there know of PPM songs.

I thought its only the people from ozzzzzzzzz

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Taking a rest from reading so many darn papers.

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Pluto

So! you people up there know of PPM songs.

I thought its only the people from ozzzzzzzzz

Only an ozzz thing? PP&M are a ‘60s New York folk scene band, as American and Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and the others that PP&M got so many of their songs from, or who Seeger, Dylan, and all those got their songs from, like Woody Guthrie.

I’m surprised to hear that some part of that scene is well known among Australians – but then, I know next to nothing about the folk scene, past, present, or future, south of the equator. Did/do you have local folk folk? Bluegrass?, or what?

The main determiner in familiarity with PP&M, methinks, is age. Born in 1960, I’m barely old enough to remember them and others of their era – they were more my parents band than mine, with less cross-generational staying power than Dylan, who’s long-running popularity was due in large part, I think, to his not remaining exactly a folk singer. My youngest son, born 1984, is a pretty serious musician of the folk scene of today – some sort of metal-y prog-y pop-ish blues-based rock with tinges of bluegrass, as best I can tell – but I’d wager that while he can whip out a small set of Dylan, he’d not be able to produce one Pete Yarrow tune, or tell which Dylan songs PP&M covered, and more often than not, can’t correctly connect a Pete Seeger song to Pete Seeger.