{"id":10841,"date":"2019-01-04T22:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2019-01-04T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T06:51:43","slug":"when-seeger-sang-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/01\/when-seeger-sang-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"When Seeger Sang In Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Bill Crow writes &#8220;The Band Room&#8221; column in <em>Allegro<\/em>, the monthly journal of the New York chapter of the American Federation of Musicians. Now and then, Bill allows <em>Rifftides<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0to borrow one of his anecdotes. This one is too good not to share:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Richard Chamberlain posted the following story on <em>Facebook<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> In the 1970s the fascist Franco&#8221;\u00a0government was still in power in Spain. A pro-democracy movement in Barcelona was gaining strength, and they invited Pete Seeger, America&#8217;s best known freedom singer, to perform there. Thousands of people were in the stadium. Rock bands had played all day, but the crowd had come for Seeger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/465564603_wide-c4a298a87cbbb60e12972679d6c48e6005cbeb5b-e1546669977138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/465564603_wide-c4a298a87cbbb60e12972679d6c48e6005cbeb5b-e1546669977138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Pete prepared to go on, government officials handed him a list of songs he was not allowed to sing. Pete studied it, saying it looked a lot like his set list. But they insisted that the must not sing any of those songs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pete took the list and strolled on stage. He held it up and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been told that I&#8217;m not allowed to sing these songs.&#8221; He grinned and said, &#8220;So I&#8217;ll just play the chords. Maybe you know the words. They didn&#8217;t say anything about you singing them.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He strummed the banjo to one song after another, and the people all sang the songs they knew and had been singing in secret circles for years.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Bill Crow for permission to use the best freedom story we&#8217;ve heard in a long time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bassist Bill Crow writes &#8220;The Band Room&#8221; column in Allegro, the monthly journal of the New York chapter of the American Federation of Musicians. Now and then, Bill allows Rifftides&#8221;\u00a0to borrow one of his anecdotes. This one is too good not to share: Richard Chamberlain posted the following story on Facebook. In the 1970s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}