Respect The Shooter: David Gahr

Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, Carnegie Hall, 1962

David Gahr, on Pete Seeger: “Progenitor of generations of singers, mountains of songs and waves of impassioned poets and poetry.” On Bob Dylan: “Numero Uno; He goes, others follow.”

Caption: Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger on stage at Carnegie Hall, September 22, 1962 in New York City. The occasion was ‘A Hootenanny At Carnegie Hall’, sponsored by Sing Out! Magazine, and featured Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, the bluegrass group The Lilly Brothers, and folk singer Peter La Farge, amongst others. Dylan’s three-song set included the first public performance of “A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall”, a complex and powerful refrain pattern of the traditional British ballad “Lord Randall” published by Francis Child.© David Gahr Estate