the john fahey appreciation thread (1 Viewer)

[Pantone247]

"this is a C...uh... this is an F, uh... uh.... there's chords everywhere..."

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

"ahhh don't know what this one's called but.....i use it a lot"

 

[Mitchum]

if you mean fahey, he's dead. quintuple heart bypass that he never woke up from. see red cross liner notes for the story of his funeral. he did play live here in c.1999/2000 in whelans but it was closer to the sound of the altanta struts album than any of the takoma stuff - serpentine, improvised, electric guitar.

He played in Slattery's on Capel Street in the Seventies and eighties too. There's a great photo of him put up at the top of the stairs and as well as looking like an extra from Gummo you can see that his demons were getting the better of him.
Stunning guitar player, natch.

 

[Cian Nugent]

Bump. More John!

I just got the two albums with the dixieland band, and they're surprisingly good.

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

shit. its been a long time since i listened to fahey, must fix that.

me and henpest used to work with a lad called john fahey. used to begin every sentence with 'ah yeah' and was once featured in that bit of the slate where they took pictures of people in clubs and then tore the piss out of them.

 

[zehner]

Fahey is the man! Guitar heaven and more class than a million Bob Dylan's lashed together with frayed strings

 

[Nate Champion]

For the uniniated:

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

kinetic.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

and this. Blisterin'

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

you really can't have too much

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[Nate Champion]

Maybe someone could shove those up Bill Drummond's hole?

 

[shidheat]

i've been pulling the john fahey lp's out over the last couple of days. vols 3, 4 and 6 so far. incredible stuff. i initially found him quite stale, almost soulless - i've completely changed how i feel about it as time has gone on. i picture him sitting by a rail track in the middle of nowhere. total desolation. dourness (this might have been what was putting me off initially). what really blows me away is the use of sound/recording effects - train noises, backwards guitar, voices. also the variation in his style of playing, going from tight renditions to more experimental looseness. he was out there on his own imo - comparisons to robbie basho, etc don't stand up for me. inspirational character and wonderful music

 

[Unknown Convict]

 

[shidheat]

there he is now! look at him there - on a rail track in the middle of nowhere