Pete Seeger - American War Songs Medley

[dodokski20]

I'm a Filipino and I pardon you.

[voiceforveterans]

Great music and a soothing song. I wonder how many American veterans have cried everytime they listen to this song. 

[trilobright]

Even though Pete is closing in on 100 years old, he could still take on an entire legion, armed only with his banjo. 

[MrJihadJesus]

Holy Smokes! Can anybody give me a list of those songs? Awesome.

[MegaZultan]

what kind of banjo is that one?Tenor...no is 5 string...but too much long neck for a standard bluegrass banjo...

[amerblowsuup]

@techepix faggot

[dinavienna]

one of the most fascinating videos in a long time, thanks!

[skjelv]

True, true...

[RomZomCom]

I'm Filipino and I now have "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipino" stuck in my head.

Civilize me with a Krag...

[shomesengupta]

Love and respect from India.

May your songs and message live forever, Pete.

[nood711]

LoooooooooooooooooooooL wtf :)))) 

[stevens8777]

Thanks Pete, I will always love your music and the stand you took for equal rights, pacifism, unionism, and to love instead of hate.

[knotryder]

Pete's a folk singer, chronicling America through Folk songs singing about both the good and the bad

[elsoultero]

The Joe Strummer of folk..... twenty years before...

[gham619]

Funniest shit in the world fucking hell

[talma16]

Pacifists like Pete and Joan Baez wanted us to disarm and acquiesce to communism, because they thought it was a better system. The two Germanies and two Koreas would prove otherwise. Now the pacifists want us to disarm and they think that Al-Qaeda and Iran would be kind and leave us alone. They didn't understand communism, and now they don't understand fundamentalist Islam.

[MattinTexas]

@talma16 You're just a fuckin' idiot! Get your head out of your Fox-sponsored ass!!

[TZEITEL10]

@MattinTexas Only in in medieval Texas could some idiot say that,this is 2010 kid.

[lennhart]

@TZEITEL10 Texas has became medieval with the gubernatorial regimes of Bush-Perry. Texas SANK to DEAD LAST in education, beat out by the likes of Kansas, Mississippi and Arkansas. Jeeez! If you can't even keep up with those bastions of medieval ignorance, what frickin hope have you? there is method to this madness. You see, CRIME in TX has increased as a result. MORE CRIME means the CORPORATE-OWNED Prisons are making out like BANDITS. The corporations owning the prisons are BIG GOP contributors.

[mmm413]

@talma16 Sorry, bub. But the only really powerful commnist country anymore is China. And they own all our paper, borrowed by GWB & Co. Al Qaeda will not be defeated by military "might." They're criminals. You go to war with them and you're giving them stature they don't deserve. Throw them in jail (like Clinton did).

[PMishkin]

@talma16 that's quite a leap in logic

[bornagain66]

@talma16 YOU know nothing!

[elsoultero]

@talma16 Man you are one serious media victim..... keep watchin the CNN baby!

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

Pure Genius -Peace And Love From Canada

[flowersfrdan]

JUNK THE VFA  JUNK THE VFA

ECHOES IN THE PHILIPPINES

[MrElgordoandres]

Barny sing the same song... the reason why the kids in EE UU are violents.

[uzb1]

Help Pete Seeger getting the Nobel peace prize! Join the facebook group "Give Pete Seeger the Nobel Peace Prize".

And spread the words LET a man who deserves the price win it!

[Sak1776]

Pete Seeger loves America, all of it. He doesn't even REGISTER party, color, or creed, just as it declares in our Constitution, and I wish more of us were like him -- or even that we all TRIED to be like him. What a good man.

[jr788]

Pete Seeger is more of a an American than Rush, Sean, Glenn and their ilk could ever hope to be.

[wulfshelmut]

Well Im going back to the German military marches. This hippy shit blows. Then I might go listen to some heavy metal and hard rock. Man this shit blows.

[yerk3]

@wulfshelmut What the fuck are you doing here then?

[BroughamConspiracy]

I'm a GI with two combat rotations. I never learned that last song. Wouldn't sing it to save my life. I appreciate that he had people like Roscoe Holcomb and The Stanley Brothers on his show, but the guy was an outright seditionist using war songs to stab GI's in the back. A Green Day for the Viet Nam era if you will. How inspiring. And now Hollywood and the Music Industry have followed in his footsteps. How proud you must be. One big union, brother. Gaahhh.

[G1le]

@BroughamConspiracy I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, it makes me sick how Hollywood and "celebrities" bash out country, but Pete Seeger himself served in the army in World War II in the Pacific.

[AnarchistCommunity]

@BroughamConspiracy well in all fairness, I have a feeling most GI's do plenty of stabbing as well, only the backs are real, also, greenday is horrid with their political music.

[BroughamConspiracy]

@AnarchistCommunity That's right. We're just a bunch of babykillers, you pathetic, pedantic bucket of bilge. There. Are you happy? I know you groove on people being angry at you, you twisted fuck. I noticed you're an anarchist. You should move to Juarez. Plenty to go around there. Enjoy practicing your free speech rights there!

[Cimiar]

@BroughamConspiracy Oye somebody sounds like they have issues repressed

[BroughamConspiracy]

@AnarchistCommunity Besides which, pal, I'd never stab anyone in the back. Strictly the front! haha!

[ExUSSailor]

He's a national treasure. One of those people that realize this country was built out of dissent, and rebellion.

[50TNCSA]

whats the first song from the mexican american war

[hasefuchs]

Can someone post a list with the actual song-titles please?

[1canyonguy]

thx for the posting

[jmorrow22]

Beautiful.

[Ascaidh]

Wow the man can play that Banjo!

[PMishkin]

A war every 20 years since inception- discounting the "unofficial" ones.

[Ascaidh]

@PMishkin Yep seems to be a rythm to things.

[hoosierbud]

his timing sucks

[erb1kay]

lol yankee

[backbeats100]

flattilere,, i am very impressed, how is it your able to talk with your head that far up your ass,,you GOOF!!! lol.

[margot980]

Pete Seeger is one of my heroes, like Theodorakis. For the usual songs, and history like this, which people need to know.

Thanks 2old.

I am waiting for him to sing something against Obama's same as usual foreign policy. Joan Baez, too.

[ajferet]

Won't happen...

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Don't worry your leftist head though, Obama is all for preemptive surrender (unlike G.W.), but combined with even further incompetence...

[maximushylandiam]

I don't know what planet you're on, but you'd best go back there.

[ajferet]

Namely... The "reset" button given to Putin, the refusal to recieve the Dalai Lama, the failure to recognize the Micelletti government, the talking to Iran without preconditions, etc. ... His shameful history of sucking up to Castro and Chavez. ...

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Accepting an unearned reward as a slap to his predeccessor, etc

[ajferet]

@ajferet

I'm happy to say that President Obama has agreed to meet with the Dalai Lama...

[ajferet]

The term I was looking for is appeasement

[IntelArt]

the tragedy about racism is not against a particular race itself...

the sadness about racism it is racism against the human race... Intel Art

[aperezx90]

kool dude.

[flattilre]

Ironically, the heirs of the Seeger protest genre are the brave artists who play White Power Rock 'N' Roll. They are today's true heroes.

[boomac62]

ummm.....no, i'm quite sure pete would not agree with you on that..

[flattilre]

Hmmm. Please don't tell me that Mr. Seeger would support the Affirmative Action genocide currently underway. I cannot believe that.

[boomac62]

hate to burst your baloon but you may want to find another hero if you preach hate. Pete wrote the civil rights anthom, we shall overcome, and has never seen color.

[flattilre]

Yeah, Seeger loved the Great Unwashed so much, he moved as far away from them as he could, up in the mountains. Affirmative Action is ultra-hate. Affirmative Action is simply anti-Semitism re-cast. Oh, and let me guess, there are no black families living on your block, are there?

[boomac62]

blacks,mexicans,indians,...we got 'em all...you really ought to live in a city my friend where people of all cultures come together...oh...and we even have some conservative whites....and we can all learn from each other...peace!

[flattilre]

Yeah, and maybe your car should break down in a black neighborhood. And so exactly what is Mr. Seeger's view of communism? Did he ever write a song denouncing that most evil of ideologies? Nice to hear from you.

[boomac62]

I'm guessing Pete never wrote a saong about communism but thats not the point, your hatred of minorities is disturbing but...at least you listen to Pete so maybe there is hope! (and there is ALWAYS hope!)

Peace and have a good life!

[OlavVilhelm]

@boomac62 Actually, "We Shall Overcome" is a traditional African- American spiritual, Seeger just made it popular.

[dejapooh]

@OlavVilhelm You got it. Originally it was called "I shall overcome" and it was a spiritual. The union activists and socialists got a hold of it in the 1930's and changed it from I (To hell with you), to WE (we are all in this together). Seeger learned it from them, and eventually retaught it to the Civil Rights Activists in the 1950's.

[mattniles007]

@OlavVilhelm MLK heard it from Seeger to be accurate. He noted to his aid how powerful the song was.

[jugglestang]

@boomac62 hmm it was a union song. seeger among others added lines to it, but seeger did not write it. However, he helped popularized it.

[apike6]

@boomac62 While were Bursting Baloons Seeger DIDN'T Write it!

"We Shall Overcome" is a protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement. The lyrics of the song are derived from the refrain of a gospel song by Charles Albert Tindley. The song was published in 1947 as "We Will Overcome" in the People's Songs Bulletin (a publication of People's Songs, an organization of which Pete Seeger was the director and guiding spirit).

[WadeBlazingame34]

flattilre - I just went to his 90th B-Day Party in NYC, and I can happily report that there was no "White Power" bands preaching hate in Madison Square Garden that day. Rest assured... And take care my friend...

[flattilre]

To be clear, White Power bands cannot be racist. To be racist means to possess some type of political or other power over others. As you know, WPRR bands are mercilessly persecuted, and not allowed anywhere (except on YouTube!). To me, WPRR is brilliant social commentary, and funny as hell. My WPRR collection is vast, and I have Black friends, and they know all about it. Inclusion for all! First Amendment forever!

[poleske]

what are you talking about

First of all there are no laws prohibiting white power rock it is just looked down upon. I am not a cop but if you are playing skrewdriver I will smash your sterio system. I will be the one breaking the law.

Now you don't need political power to be racist. you simply need to identify racially and have a dislike for people who are racially different.

[flattilre]

First, to attack somebody just because they are listening to a Skrewdriver jam is insane. Would Mr. Seeger approve? Second, are you saying that the declining white population in America is of no interest to you? And let me guess, there are no black families on your block, are there?

[poleske]

Firstly I believe you should be able to express yourself however you wish. To play white power music in a public place is expressing that we need to mobilize white people against some minority. Also I find it disgusting.

No I am not concerned at all about the future of the "white race." I know for certain the human race will stay diverse because none of us have forgotten how to fuck

I don't live on a block, I am currently traveling.

[flattilre]

First of all, I would guess that at least 70% of all WPRR could be played on the radio, and nobody would even know that it was this supposed "hate rock." Second, when you are done traveling, why not settle down in a neighborhood that is predominantly African American.  Will you do that for us? Third, sounds like you are unable to distinguish between America (what's left of her) and failed nations like Mexico. Fourth, you need to get out more.

[poleske]

First of all I am from Queens, plenty of black, arab, latin and white immigrants. In Greece I have lived in Omonia which is one of the largest Ghettos in Europe. My girlfriend in the states is African so I interact with black people a lot.

now I have said a lot and asked nothing.

My question

Why do you feel a sense of racial loyalty?

2 how diverse was the area you grew up in?

[flattilre]

1) I feel white people have been dispossessed, that we are now second class citizens, that it's getting worse for us, and that only about one percent of white people even care. Thus, I feel some kinship with that one percent.

2) I was born in a white suburb of Chicago. Around 1965 blacks drove us out, turned my birthplace into a ghetto, and it remains a ghetto today.

3) Would you ever consider moving your family into an all black town?

[poleske]

I used to work with a guy from West Chicago who had similar thoughts. There seems to be a strong sense of solidarity amongst minority groups in the U.S. and that is not considered racist. You, being on the front lines of this alleged race war feel betrayed by "white people" who do not express a sense of solidarity while most minorites do. The fact is, black people acting in solidarity is racist. It has been accepted because it was seen as neccessary for survival.

[poleske]

This is the second part.

Well the concepts of Black solidarity or Latin solidarity are racist and will be less acceptable as society progressess.

Now as for the black neighborhood, I would not want to grow up in an undiverse neighborhood. My main concern would be safty and education. If it was a nice neighborhood why not? If it is Caprini Greens than of course not because it is a drug invested ghetto. Personally I want my potential children to grow up in a multilingual neighborhood.

[OnTaRiOkId123]

You do not have to have any power to be racist. If you hate a certain ethnic group just because of the colour of their skin then you are racist. Its one thing to find racisum funny , but quite another to completly hate a group of people just because of the coulor of their skin.

[OnTaRiOkId123]

ni we cant because a swastika symbolizes hatred and genocide while cheGueverra is a relitivly unknown person that people wear as a fashion statement. He tried to over throw a dictatorship which in my opinion is a way better thing than genocide. Im all for tolerance but i can not tolarate someone openly wearing a symbol that is worldwidely known for hatrid and intolerance. No matter why you are wearing it the origins of the symbol are still the same, origins of genocide and distruction.

[ajferet]

Che murdered around 700 Cubans... personally... with his own pistol. These were mainly "enemies of the revolution" who were minor functionaries under Batista (a scummy dictator too)... so I agree

[MhicWombat]

Pete points out our history -- often violent, usually vast amounts of disagreement, and not as pretty as it is painted in school textbooks, but all the more real therefore.

[Geostars]

America is one of the greatest terrorist nations of the last 150 years and Pete was never afraid to stand up to the foaming at the mouth war whores. Pete Seeger is one of the great American patriots.

[kostas6667]

The last 150 years no, but since 1945 till today it consists the greatest threat to humanity itself.American people has to wake up from it's sleeping bag and revolt against it's tyrrans that rule their land and the planet as well.

[AdamSheets18]

Since 1492 actually. The killing of Native Americans is far worse than the Holocaust could ever be. And technically, the people who fought the Revolution were terrorists against their country.

WWII was neccasarry, but Hiroshima and Nagaski were not and were acts of terrorism, as was our bombarding of Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq. And if you think Reagan was a great President, Google the words "Nicaragua 1980s".

[misterflip20]

hey, im filipino!

damn mckineley....im gonna get in my time machine and boil himin oil

[Chapels]

the one about the phippines is "God Save Ireland"!

[poleske]

All the songs are popular songs with the words changed

[pedonbio]

Bullwalk is one of those Bush voters who wants to pretend America never invaded anybody, never fought on the wrong side, and never butchered civilians. He wants to pretend we didn't invade the Phillipines in 1898, butcher tens of thousands of Filipinos, and justify it by writing racist songs. He wants to pretend that we were never a racist society, and if we ever were, we're not any more, and he doesn't like Pete to show us that face of his grandpa. Bullwalk is a twit who likes big cars.

[pissingofftyler]

You're both wrong...

"This should be a lesson If you plan to start a folk group, don't go mixing politics with the folk songs of our land"

no one gives a shit which side you're on, folk music exists to capture the opinions of the people at a certain time. Some lessons the songs give are just timeless, and that's why they stick on...

[puelemueix]

chill dude it's an old song..he's explaining songs throughout the country's history. Why not complain about bugs bunny and his blackface routines or his racist asian character. take a xanax. for all this wonderful man has done with his music is amazing. shame on you for being such an ignorant shallow person. i'm sure Pete is losing sleep over your damnation of him.

[yerk3]

bullwalk17: No, shame on you. He didn't write that song, you idiot. He clearly said that it was an old song, probably written before he was born. If you really went to high school in the 1960s, you're old enough to know better. The same applies to your use of ALL CAPS. That's something 13-year-olds do. You have to be at least in your 50s, have some goddamn dignity.

Oh, and another thing, the man is 89 years old, he's earned his dues, he's not going to re-write an antique song for you.

[bullwalk7]

Thank you ILL-MANNERED BABOON FOR YOUR COMMENT. SHOW YOUR FACE SO HUMANS LIKE US CAN SEE HOW YOU LOOKED-LIKE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN A SPITTING-MONKEY WRITE SO WELL. KEEP IT UP.

BULL

[yerk3]

bullwalk7: Give it up. You're an old man acting like a teenager on the internet, and that's just sad. You heard him say, in no uncertain terms, that this song was 1.) not his, 2.) that he did not agree with the sentiments in the song and 3.) he was singing it for the historical value only. Would you rather have him white-wash history? How can anyone live 45+ years on this earth without once hearing of the notion of context?

[suaibah222]

haha how ya know the person is a baboon? it takes one to know one. so you're a babboon yourself haha noob.

[killoger]

how do you know he's a noob?

[Snotra]

Communism sucks dingleberries!

[mark51153]

Those who get it, get it. Those who don't, never will...

[jmorrow22]

@mark51153 Thankfully you are wrong....they're are plenty of people that don't get it that eventually will.

[goldenheartjustin]

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[BrettRandell]

Hey everyone,

Please check out my song "Soldier (Original)".

I hope it moves you.

Brett

[bkayser05]

Does anyone know the name of the song that Pete Seeger starts doing at 2:32?

[bobbied3]

Apparently its called Gee But I want to Go Home

[bkayser05]

Thanks, I wasn't sure if those were the first lyrics or the actual name of the song.

[alaindavid17]

mabuhay ang mga DULENG!

[dougkess]

I think you should all go back to the country you all came from. Yeah, that's it! Leave!

[renegadetrip]

whats americas obsession with war?

vietnam had there own war goin on with each other and the americans thought "hey, i wanna go over there and kill them too"

but yet its still regarded as 'americas longest running war'

IT WASNT EVEN YOUR WAR!

[reelanrock]

he only joined the communist party to get on their softball team.

[randall2020]

Mark Twain was the VP of the Anti-Imperialist League and strongly opposed the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.

Too bad here that Seegar didn't include the very popular WWI song, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier". You can find it on internet.

[synal]

Nope. They were overwhelmingly Christian.

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A deist is someone who believes in (a) supernatural being(s) that does not interfere.

Ben Franklin is a good example. Many claim him to be a deist when he believed "that without His(God's) concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building(America) no better than the Builders of Babel".

He believed that God(singular)interferes in worldly affairs and he even alludes to the Bible.

[synal]

He's a good artist.

[JunebugBpt08]

Seeger left the Communist Party in 1950."I realized I could sing the same songs I sang whether I belonged to the Communist Party or not, and I never liked the idea anyway of belonging to a secret organization." wiki

[JunebugBpt08]

"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail." Pete Seeger

[porkinwitz]

long live the wobbies,....

long live pete seeger and men like him,....

and god bless america,......

[aardvark1111]

Pete Seeger WAS a communist and worked actively for the establishment of communism, one of the vilest, soul-deadening, murderous philosophies that has ever existed. To his credit, he has come clean and has since regretted it.

[mirikam8]

good, a commie turned capo.

I don't wanna start a debate but it's good to see people finally see flaws and the absolute real dangers of communism.

[canfor5]

Hey! I don't like communism myself. That don't mean I can't respect people like Che Guevera or even Ho Chi Mihn. Just cause the bastards beatcha don't mean they aint smart. I'm a Canadian and Proud we did'nt join you in the Iraq escapade. But, then again...that's Freedom...whether you like or not.

[aardvark1111]

That's okay, Canadians, I used to live in Canada. I know that most Canadians aren't like this, and thank you for your brave soldiers in Afghanistan. They kick ass. :)

[canfor5]

I appreciate yer civility. When i was a kid i went and saw Seeger at UBC. And yes..we DO kick ass..but killin' people ain't somethin' to be proud of. Also..I'm a Socialist (old school) Like Sweden..a mixed economy. Gov needs to be involved in helping people..as opposed to bein' detrimental..or, like George Bush..semi-mental.And again, YES..I would fight to the desth to defend your right to say what you damn well feel. K?

[harryit]

pete seeger still plays and sings communist songs(sidewalk sessions) hes still a communist. establishment of communism? yea he walked right into the communist headquarters and joined up dude where did you get this bull?

[aardvark1111]

harryit, I read on Wikipedia that Pete Seeger became a communist because his father was a communist. He did support Stalin by writing songs, notably about pacifism (to keep the US out of WWII) but had to stop that when Hitler attacked the USSR. He claims he left the party in the 50's, and that corresponds with what I've heard elsewhere. True, he's a socialist, and I wouldn't shake his hand, but the guy is old, so I cut him some slack.

[Joel5992]

America has always fought for the right thing's.

Defending our Allies (WW2)- for help the people (Iraq) - (Vietnam) we left Vietnam mostly because the US civilions diditn agree with it. and we did help alot of people in Vietnam aswell as Korea

[xavean]

Pete Segger led (and still leads) a life championing for nothing but social justice, solidarity, and peace. If he isn't a true American, I dunno what is.

[juliusvf]

HAHA not taking anything away from Pete but do u honestly thing peace is something Americans stand for?? This is funny because America have there fingers in most wares and mostly the wars they can benefit from.

Stupid nation, well more like idiots in the goverment that runs the country.

[xavean]

Exactly. Idiots in the government. Pete Seeger is a much better representative of American values (something we've lost in the past 70 years) than someone like George Bush or Bill Clinton.

[randall2020]

It has never been illegal to be a communist in the U.S.

A communist is a better American than a jesus freak.

[Sarendil]

Yes. It was illegal to be a communist in America "land of the free". People were convicted for being communists in the '50s like we in Europe trialed witches hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

[blender7]

it was illegal to be a communist in america at one point. and people were calling everyone out just like the witch hunts, even if they were found innocent (funny term, makes communism sound like a sin eh?) it destroyed their lives. oh and i agree the jesus freaks are a pain in the ass, i dont know which is worse.

[sixshootersteve44]

A Communist is not a better american than a jesus freak since 1st America is a capitalistic Economy (communist dont really like that) and second our country's founding fathers and still most of its population are in fact christians and not athiest who love sticking their two cents into everything they can. so im just letting you know since you seem to not know a damn thing about america's background

[randall2020]

jesus freak is a good definition of dumb. The founding fathers were mostly deist, not xian.

Anyhow, what does a stupid superstition created 2000 years ago have to do with capitalism? Mythological Jeebus was more communist than capitalist.

sixshooter, you don't know your ass from a hole-in-the-ground about history.

[sixshootersteve44]

if you knew how to read you would see that i was going against communism with capitalism, not comparing jesus and capitalism and i was saying that most of this countries population and its founding fathers were, in fact, some form of christianity so dont call me stupid when you cant even read what i said right

[porkinwitz]

wrong, wrong, and more wrong

or "founding fathers" were deist, not christians. look it up. p.s. jesus was a liberal jew

[boomac08]

Thats preety true, but some of the founding fathers were indeed Christians...gotta be fair there.

Jesus was jewish of course...and yes he was radical...I'll buy that.

peace

1 Cro. 10:31

[cosette2193]

You cannot characterize the 55 attendees of the Constitutional Convention as any particular religion or ideology. They represented millers from New Hampshire and planters from South Carolina. They were men of the Enlightenment one generation after the Great Awakening. The temper of their religion, whatever variety, was milder than their grandfathers and their grandchildren.

[rickschill]

Yes a true American, He was a communist until 1950.

[victorolsson]

So you can't be american just because you're a communist?

I'm glad you guys in the U.S are so open minded to people and you let them think whatever they want :) (irony? ofcourse!)

[residentmagnum]

history is full of irony

[porkinwitz]

long live the wobbies,....

long live pete seeger and men like him,....

and god bless america,......

[airportman15]

That is the glory of America, you can be what you want and think what you want, and I can disagree with what you think and believe and express that opinion too. Youre the one that is close minded, saying just because I dont believe what you do, I cant express my opinion. We say, "express your opinion, and if I disagree, Ill express it"

[DaraghPhelan]

If you think what you want why is it in the 50 this man was arrested for believing in equality (COmmunism)

[paradoxfox93]

Yeah...that's the idea...freedom of speech...unless...?...

[twinsbubbe]

Pete is so very talented. A true American icon.

[thiger89]

oh yeah..its nice to hear him a second and a third...

[JohnnyBazooka]

Yes, true and good. When I hear this I miss a lot in our "plastic betrayed society".

[thiger89]

true and good!