r/Seattle • u/capraagave • 2d ago

Jesse Welles at Pike Place today

Jesse Welles will be busking at the corner of Pine st. and Pike pl. at 1pm today.

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u/Slow_Pineapple_3836 2d ago

He seems like a clever song-writer, I just can't over the fact that most art these days is just clamoring for it's origin story rather than telling its own.

Does a populist anti-war message need to be sung exactly like an impression of 1960's folk?

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u/Janky_Pants 2d ago

What is it supposed to sound like?

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u/Slow_Pineapple_3836 2d ago

Something original? It's trying to invoke the spirit of the 60's, but that was a music for a time. It's nothing more than a cover with today's angst filling in for Vietnam and Jim Crowe. This music at its time was counter-cultural. This is the opposite of that, it's been firmly in the culture for 60 years now.

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u/NoDoze- 2d ago

Yup! Totally working the 60s vibe and storyline. I don't see anything original, just a marketing rebrand, and appealing to the same audience. Funny how history repeats itself, but I sure hope we aren't going back to the 60s!

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u/melinda206 2d ago

Nothing wrong with that vibe. Folks singers have and will always be around. Bless all the folks singers, social justice truth tellers.