pete seeger performed. crosby, stills, and nash performed, and adam yauch was a teenager, probably couldn't drive yet, came down and handed out leaflets for antinuclear activism. now, he grew up with that tradition. his parents were against the war, but he remembered-- and he told us this-- he remembered that-- looking out and seeing that musicians can attract all these people around a cause, and fast forward 20 years later, he realizes, "hey, i can do this too. i've got a band; i can have an impact." you know, it's-- david's right. it's not about passing the torch. maybe some of the techniques, maybe some of the methodology-- there might be some inspiration, but it wasn't the way we thought it would be where we could pat ourselves on the back. there is a generation, i think, that believes all the meaningful music took place between 1960 and 1969, and you tell an extraordinary story in the book about your own childhood. at age ten, you hear a song called strange fruit. could you talk a little bit about your

responsibility and the powerful singing and into the total aesthetic, almost amish approach of pete seeger to life. so i was talking to ronnie about it once before, and i said, "it looks to me that your band, like our band, "all combined together to make "one sort of complete human being, you know, with all their faults and all their vices and virtues." they combined to make one whole unit that was very impressive to me. so i built what was our band on a--unconscious, actually-- but a format of what the weavers had done, both in social responsibility, in terms of doing benefits, in terms of helping people that you were in a position to help. 'cause it's so easy as a rock and roll band to go out and raise a large amount of money for a serious cause, which most people cannot do. and all we have to do is just, like, go out and play. and so not to do it almost becomes a sin, in the catholic sense-- a sin of omission. and it's so easy to do, and the weavers made it look easy despite all the mccarthy and the h.u.a.c. hearings-- made it so easy to do to help so many people so quickly. that's one

started investigating, of course, just to know a little bit about what we were doing, so i called up pete seegering of 1941, when the u.s. government was actively trying to deport him. why? not because he'd done anything wrong. because he'd been too good a union leader. anyway, here's the song. ♪ let me tell you of a sailor ♪ harry bridges is his name ♪ an honest union leader ♪ that the bosses ♪ tried to frame >> ♪ he left home ♪ in australia ♪ to sail the seas around ♪ he sailed across the ocean ♪ to come to 'frisco town ♪ there was only ♪ a company union ♪ and the bosses had their way ♪ us workers ♪ had to stand in line ♪ for a lousy buck a day ♪ when up spoke harry bridges ♪ said us workers ♪ must get wise ♪ our wives and kids ♪ will starve to death if we don't get organized ♪ ♪ oh, the fbi is worried ♪ and the bosses ♪ they are scared ♪ they can't deport ♪ six million men they know ♪ and we're not gonna let them ♪ send harry over the seas ♪ we'll fight ♪ for harry bridges ♪ and we'll build the cio ♪ we built a big bonfire ♪ round the matson lines ♪ that night ♪ we threw ♪ their fink books in