: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...
:53:02
and he had a hearing aid,
and Charlie was very distressed...
:53:06
when he couldn't hear things clearly.
:53:08
And with all this sound coming
from the speakers...
:53:10
Charlie Seeger was quite upset.
And I think that affected Pete.
:53:14
You used to ride the chrome horse
with your diplomat
:53:18
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
:53:23
Ain't it hard when you discover that
:53:27
He really wasn't where it's at
:53:31
After he's taken from you
:53:33
everything he could steal
:53:38
How does it feel?
:53:41
Rock 'n' roll was considered
a real sellout music for a lot of folk fans...
:53:45
and Like a Rolling Stone seemed like
the direct slap in the face...
:53:49
to everything that topical songs represented.
:53:51
"How does it feel to be on your own".
And they took it as this most...
:53:55
extremely negative...
:53:59
you know...