American Pie - Don McLean LIVE!

"Whoopie! I'm on YouTube!" said Don McLean performing his 1972 hit AMERICAN PIE in Stamford CT on 8/9/07. I had to edit out the middle part of the song (halfway through I saw the opportunity to get closer to the stage--little did I know I was SO close that the sound overloaded my trusty lil SD600. But I think this is an accurate edit of the event...)

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Music

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• don
• mclean
• music
• stamford
• outdoor
• concert

[fartwordify]

@Pacer120 you're an idiot.. EVERYONE knows why he wrote it... wow..

[MrScruff101]

Wow. Nothing else to say. Amazing.

[klleonard]

@Pacer120 he wrote it because of the way Buddy Holly's death affected him when he died in a plane crash.

[Pacer120]

@mrspoof96 no he didn't noone knows why he wrote this song!!!

[natashabedingfield04]

Why'd youtube change so you can't see the whole reply thread

[natashabedingfield04]

Did you find you had to put it on youtube because of what he said...?

[natashabedingfield04]

What did he screw up? or am I just reading this the wrong way?

[natashabedingfield04]

Had to replay this part so much...Woooopie I'm On youtube...crack up!! Funny

[jfq722]

Well.....Don could give his definition ANY time. The REAL meaning as you say...if thats what you want???....Whatever you are thinking as the verses go by IS THE REAL MEANING. The song laments the decline of the kind of music that insired imagination. The kind of imagination occuring as you try to figure what is being said. Thats why people can't figure this song out. Don't you get a "feeling" when you hear this song? THATS the meaning of the song. Thats its tghe "last" of its kind...

[VoiceBear]

Hey Don, I know you read these once in a while. You have kept the story behind this quite... please tell the real story about the song after your gone if not before! I play and sing this all the time and everyone asks what the real story behind this is... I have to tell them you have not reveled it yet.