tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143088625756367367.post4696593533266543839..comments2023-07-12T07:00:42.975-05:00Comments on News McNabb: Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary RememberedNewsMcNabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040170736717649659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143088625756367367.post-47560549588797216972009-09-17T09:42:32.094-05:002009-09-17T09:42:32.094-05:00Jim,
It hit me much the same way.
Celebrity deat...Jim,<br />It hit me much the same way. <br />Celebrity deaths at most usually get an "Aww, that's too bad" from me. However, with Mary Travers' death some part of me is missing now.WDYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315233472316269799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143088625756367367.post-6930532562349914352009-09-17T07:59:09.433-05:002009-09-17T07:59:09.433-05:00It was 1967, I was visiting Baylor as a potential ...It was 1967, I was visiting Baylor as a potential transfer student. A friend from Tulsa invited me to go with her to hear P,P, & M at Marrs McLean gym. That incredibly intimate setting was the beginning of a transformation for me. the next week I heard them in a huge concert hall in Dallas. Amazingly, the effect was the same. Their passion filled the space and the people who heard them. Her voice, her beauty, her humor, the tossing of that hair, that incredible harmony made it okay, attractive even to think beyond the conventional wisdom of childhood.It was their music that carried me along for years. I heard them 6 times over the years and was never, ever disappointed. <br /><br />I didn't keep the vinyl. I had Mary's solo album for years and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Mary Travers for the voice and so much more....<br /><br />Rogeraustinokiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00782298770189726107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143088625756367367.post-41487755254856556452009-09-17T03:15:37.418-05:002009-09-17T03:15:37.418-05:00Jim,
I'm up at 2:30am, each morning to check ...Jim,<br /><br />I'm up at 2:30am, each morning to check weather, news, and all things that could relate to our morning show. At 43, I can remember Peter, Paul and Mary. I have a "Live" album of theirs and possibly another. As a 5-year-old with my dad's record player, I was able to listen to a world that was otherwise unavailable. My dad flew Hueys in Viet Nam for 2 tours, but he didn't care for the war. There were reasons why he went. Everything from the fervor of serving your country, the thought that we were invincible and the failures in Korea were widely unreported, and we had the technology to take us in to space which surely meant we could flush out some uneducated folk from a jungle. Well, that technology to flush "them" out, was what eventually lead to his death. Agent Orange is "dropping" chopper pilots from that war at a very high rate. They were exposed to higher concentrations of it, and that stuff was blown into the cockpits of choppers, so heavily that people stripping them down, decades later, would also have serious health issues.<br /><br />I'm by no means a "hippie" or anti-war type, but I miss my Dad. Like you, he played guitar, ya'll probably enjoyed the same musicians from back then and probably would have agreed on many reasons why we shouldn't have been in Viet Nam. The reasons he went, were based on trust in the government and military, a since of pride in everything he did and he also knew it was a very good way to further a career. He loved flying and although was shot down 4 times, kept flying. He knew his fellow troops needed him to do his part. <br /><br />I respect and love all of those facts about it, and I miss him terribly, and although I was just a little kid with a record player, I enjoyed the same music that you did as a a teenager. <br /><br />Mary Travers isn't a personal loss, and it's not just simply a loss of a popular musician, but to a degree, it's a silenced voice that once exercised it's right to speak out in dissent, yet do so in a pleasant manner. Manners, respect, civility and many other qualities that members of our society once held, are either long gone or widely missing. There are still many that have these qualities but sadly, they avoid politics. The nastiness of today's politics has kept respectible types from wanting to expose themselves and their families to it.<br /><br />So where is civility? It's aging, it's dying, it's hiding from the beasts of today's media. Mary Travers contributions to music and society represent that civility even in dissent. <br /><br />A piece of my childhood returns to remind me of the mortality of us all, and the fragility of a respectful society. We had Mary, now we have Kanye. <br /><br />Where have all the flowers gone... <br /><br />Keep up the great blog, Jim.<br /><br />shawn r.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com