Doing my best to maintain a healthy level of cynicism, here, so can maybe be pleasantly surprised, but won’t be disappointed if Obama turns into four years of the brown acid…

Pete Seeger is playing if I heard right – cannot exactly see him as the James Watt type either.

Didn’t Pete play Lincoln’s inaugural as well?

Pete Seeger not only played, he sang Woody Guthrie. The whole show was beautifully put together, very moving, and totally the Victory of the Hippies, with all that peace, love, and understanding stuff in the songs.

Yes, but I ask anyone who watched it again: Bishop Gene Robinson, Gay Episcopalian was slated to give the invocation. I turned in on the dot at 11:30am PT, and saw the color guard – but no Gay Bishop.

Were teh Gays left out AGAIN?

Good question. I think that was the Gay Men’s Chorus at one point, wasn’t it?

I didn’t see the gay men’s chorus – hmm. Lots of gospel groups for backups. It was a great show, I just don’t want to hear “we are One” unless we are ALL one.

I am completely with you on that.

I was incredibly moved by the sight of Pete, pushing 90, leading the biggest sing-along even he’s ever led and playing that battered 5 string for all it’s worth. By the time he got to “Nobody living can ever stop me/As I go walking that freedom highway,” my face was bathed in tears, and stayed that way through Beonce singing “America the Beautiful.”

I’m an American liberal. I have every expectation that President Obama will disappoint me on any number of occasions over the next four or eight years. But he’s my President, and it feels like my country again for the first time in thirty years. Right now, that’s enough for me.

Who knew Jon Bon Jovi could sing so good? Not me. I hate to ask, because I’m sure I’ll recognize the name even though I didn’t recognize the face, but who did he sing with?

Boxkar
with Spunk Opening

I guess the question is, band named “Spunk,” opening for Boxkar? Or band named “Spunk Opening?”

More than once I mused on the “what if” of a McCain victory. The line-up would perhaps be: Pat Boone, a few Osmonds, the corpse of Sonny Bono, with a hilarious opening act of stand-up with Doughy Pantload. That would draw dozens…

Bon Jovi sang with Bettye Lavette. They were phenomenal. The joy on their faces…

Replay starts in about 16 minutes on HBO. I am getting it free this week, so even if you don’t pay for HBO, you should be able to watch the concert.

JimTourtelott : It really does feel like OUR country, again.

Thanks, jnfr. I thought I’d know who she was but I didn’t. However, her belt buckle in the first photo on that site that you posted is enough for me. Plus, she sings good.

All else aside, which of us wouldn’t pay to see Obama knock out a few bars of “Voodoo Chile”? The explosion of wingnut heads would do more to raise the average IQ than even the most ambitious education program.

make sure to watch her performance of The Who’s “love reign o’er me” that’s linked at her site. she performed it at the Kennedy Center honors and blew away every other performer there. i had never heard of her before that night, and knew when she walked out on stage today it was going to be good.

jacqrat, I sent you a note at Facebook, but I have more info and thought I’d post it here.

Rev. Robinson has posted his prayer here, at his Church’s web site. But HBO apparently chose not to show it. Pam Spaulding has a post about it at Pam’s House Blend.

This is a terrible shame. I’m not at all fond of this trend of sprinkling the inaugurals with prayers, not being a Christian myself, but to hide Robinson away after all the hoopla about Warren is disgraceful.

And if you want to catch up with 3 Doors Down,
check out your local multi-plex for their craptastic
National Guard recruitment music video before the previews.

Benen’s posted it.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.c…..016497.php

Annoy the wingnuts and ressurect Jefferson Airplane’s Volunteers and We Can Be Together for the inauguration.

“We are all outlaws in the eyes of the” wingnuts…

Damn. Can’t make it out to Lisle this Saturday to see Boxkar but I was able to score a couple of tickets to see Trash Martini on the 31st at The Lodge.
Maybe Boxkar will make a surprise appearance – sort of like Springsteen does at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park one or two times a year.
I know it’s a long shot. But I got my fingers crossed anyway.

At the 50th anniversary of the Columbia River dams, James Watt refused to let any of Woody Guthrie’s songs written for the project and paid for by the Federal government be sung or his name be mentioned. Now Pete Seeger sings the full version of “This Land…” on the steps of the Lincoln Monument, including those verses Woody made Arlo memorize because he has afraid they were too radical to be remembered “officially.”

Lots of good moments in that concert and may they only build throughout the next four years.

You left out the best part about the Boxkar gig:

with Spunk Opening

Bet they will, phwoar!

I consider Hillary Duff redeemed for the faux pas by the hilarious character she played in War Inc.