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HalvOnHorseracing
12-01-2018, 10:37 PM
One of the things the public broadcasting stations do as part of their begging you for money is to show taped concerts. I was watching PP&M in concert at Montery on one of our public stations. I think in college I thought they were really cool, but watching this I'm wondering if it was just an expectation in the early 70's on campus to like them. Anyway, watching them last night, I thought it was the kind of thing that about a million people could have done as well. They just didn't seem original.

Listen to Gallows Tree from Led Zeppelin and PP&M, or compare their version of Blowin' in the Wind to Dylan.

The best part of the special was when Joan Baez joined Peter Yarrow on some old folk song.

What do people think. Great band or a waste of time to listen to?
ultracapper
12-01-2018, 10:45 PM
Isn't it Gallow's Pole?

Anyhow, Puff the Magic Dragon. That about sums up their audience.

"Whoa dude, these guys are just so smooth. Yeah man, mellow. Yeah. Hey , don't bogart that man"

They always sucked, and I never had any inhibitions when it came to Puff.
summersquall
12-01-2018, 11:01 PM
their rendition of Puff The Magic Dragon remains a childhood favorite. How well they performed alongside the virtuoso's is somewhat unfair as they should never have ascribed to the Tom Joad genre.
highnote
12-02-2018, 06:38 PM
They were a good folk act that made it big. I liked their version of "Jet Plane". John Denver wrote the song and his version is better, but PP&M usually get the credit.
HalvOnHorseracing
12-02-2018, 07:57 PM
Isn't it Gallow's Pole?

Anyhow, Puff the Magic Dragon. That about sums up their audience.

"Whoa dude, these guys are just so smooth. Yeah man, mellow. Yeah. Hey , don't bogart that man"

They always sucked, and I never had any inhibitions when it came to Puff.

It is gallows pole.
headhawg
12-02-2018, 10:17 PM
Maybe I am being dense, but this is in the General Racing Discussion because...???
highnote
12-03-2018, 12:32 AM
Maybe I am being dense, but this is in the General Racing Discussion because...???

:lol: I didn't make that connection until you mentioned it. :bang::D
HalvOnHorseracing
12-03-2018, 11:46 AM
Maybe I am being dense, but this is in the General Racing Discussion because...???

It was an accident.
KyRacer
12-03-2018, 01:24 PM
Their link to racing.

Stewball
sonnyp
12-03-2018, 03:41 PM
of this group, but started to do some research because of the movie. this may be one of the greatest performances ive ever seen:


https://youtu.be/A22oy8dFjqc
dilanesp
12-03-2018, 03:49 PM
I always wondered how they got the horse to fall like that in this one.

https://youtu.be/PX-KPI9G6iM
Spalding No!
12-03-2018, 05:13 PM
I always wondered how they got the horse to fall like that in this one.

https://youtu.be/PX-KPI9G6iM

It wasn't staged. That's the Queen Mother's Devon Loch near the finish in the 1956 Grand National. The jockey was future mystery writer Dick Francis.

Later in the Mick Jagger video there's an odds board of some fantasy race between Derby winners Shergar, Henbit, Troy, and Grundy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fPLtL8h7s