and it is not enough that your daddy is woody guthrie, but you are hanging out with pete seeger i remember when i went to visit pete and his wife toshi and i was 5 or 6 years old and we were living in queens at this time in new york, and i went out to their place, and pete had built a log cabin on the high bluff over the hudson river, and i said, whoa, this is like davy crockett stuff or something. and so we got there and i was really excited. i remember my mom saying, okay, arlo, go out to play with the other kids. i was not hanging out with pete seeger, but hanging out with his kids like any family, and over the years, and i thinking maybe that in the mid-'60s at that time when there was so many people out on the streets, and so many things going on and there was, and the war and the ban the bomb, and change your sho shorts and do the laundry, and pete was always there. you could hear the banjo of his from blocks away. i remember walking through wshgd a -- washington, d.c., and i could hear his banjo, and him singing, and there is no other instrument like that. so i met up with him at al