i wonder if there's any more writing left over, stuff like what's in 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a DVD of that rockpalast broadcast, it was so boring I ripped it to CD
great performance
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
any chance of uploading that rip? pretty please.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
what so you can turn around and it put it on your BLOG?
sure ok
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
help me bore the dozen people who read my site.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
!
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 1 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure there's odds and ends, but they were pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel w/ the letters at the end of vampire vultures. however the stuff on the site is good
― ogmor, Monday, 1 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
that dust to digital thing looks boss. not as boss as their africa box set though!
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
btw weirdest fahey thread title ever. what the hell?
trollers gonna troll
― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
boring pics of this fucking amazing box set http://thewiremagazine.tumblr.com/post/9665885879/the-wire-magazine-john-fahey
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
massive idiots/obvious trolls who think fahey is boring better bypass this kickass bootleg:
http://youtu.be/0cTdPTrihlI
(untouchable, mysterious, ethereal, massive. hold onto yer butts for this shit.)
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
wow, thank you, global tetrahedon
is that from the university of washington show?
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
This is great. I'm sure there's a lot of Fahey I have yet to hear which I would like. One reason I haven't dug as deeply is that there are certain sides of his art I'm not really into. This is definitely from one of the sides I love (so far).
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
i checked, and yeah, it is from the 1973 UW show. avail in its entirety here:
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/18138392878/john-fahey-university-of-washington-1973-01
^ hope it's ok to post that link...
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
you should really ask that blogger for consent before posting such links, I heard he is a real madman. you better watch out buddy.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the best fahey like the live versions of dance of the inhabitants should be hid away on a mountaintop monastery somewhere which is a couple of day's hike to get to. i was going to link to a video of another version of it but it's been pulled from youtube, hopefully being interred by the monks as i type.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the best fahey like the live versions of dance of the inhabitants should be hid away on a mountaintop monastery somewhere which is a couple of day's hike to get to.
hahaha this is otm & how the world should work
― , Blogger (schlump), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
I have lots of Fahey bootlegs, most came from Delta Slider, I'd poke around there if you like the above... the main problem with the site is that the MP3s are tagged like shit (or not at all), hence why I had to upload it to Youtube to share it. Perhaps the difficulty associated with unzipping and properly tagging MP3s is corollary to a long hike to a monastery?
Also, to the dude above, what sides of Fahey don't you like? I could totally imagine what sides you are talking about, but in the interest of further Faheychat perhaps you could elaborate.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
And does anyone see what I'm saying about how this evokes Branca? Just the cacophonous reverberations piling onto one another, adding up to a bigger whole?
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
As a shoegaze fan I heard a lot of the same melodic progression sensibilities Kevin Shields as an example would share.
― Evan, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
tbh, i don't really get the branca comparison
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that u of w show is close to a religious experience. the sausalito recording from around the same era is a far better recording with a similar setlist, but the u o w thing is uhhhhmazing.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
I still like Fahey records but I think he was "an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player" even more rarely than he thought. He relied too much on the same few tricks and effects and fills too much time with adolescent stoned-fascinated noodling.
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
you speak poop
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
mentioned above from way back Also in the works is a separate two-CD set called Roots of Fahey, which will showcase the songs and musicians that inspired and influenced John throughout his recording career. Each track comes from the 78rpm record collection of John's lifelong friend, Joe Bussard.this didn't ever come out did it?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
don't espeeecially hear the branca, but the low notes are cosmically booming, sounds more like some brass/percussion combination than guitar.
― (500) Days of Sodom (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
What's the most far out stuff? His weirdest shit? Hurting's second sentence up there is my prob with Fahey too, but I haven't heard much.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
his weirdest shithttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/The_Mill_Pond_John_Fahey.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/john-faheys-mil.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I can definitely hear the Branca comparison. I didn't realize he was doing that sort of thing pre-Womblife.
― Romney's Kitchen Nightmares (WmC), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
This is more like it, cheers!! xpost
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha umm enjoy!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
if someone could just list all the fahey records that aren't americana-ey fingerpickin or the blooze that'd be great thx
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
well I mean a lot of them are raga-y fingerpickin mixed in with americana fingerpickin and the blooze.
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
as far as the studio stuff goes, it sounds like you might be interested in his very late albums: womblife, city of refuge, hitomi, and red cross.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
the mid period where fahey was experimenting with concrete sounds and doing duets with other instrumentalists is my fave -- these records:-requia-days have gone by-vol. 4-voice of the turtle
prob my faves.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. not boring
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
fahey went pretty far afield at times, but it seems to me that looking for things he did that weren't informed by "americana-ey fingerpickin or the blooze" is like looking for james brown recordings that didn't have anything to do with R&B.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
that is OTM. you might just be better off listening to some classical guitar stuff, or robbie basho or someone, if you don't want rural american nostalgia trips.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
guys i've discovered this great guitarist - really adult and sober - anyone interested?
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ik25cEsfHFw/R91qflx6X9I/AAAAAAAAAnM/y93pVT6Kan8/s320/julian_bream.jpg
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
i heard it said once - by a fahey fan, in fact - that julian bream broke a nail on tour, and spent the afternoon getting a synthetic replacement superglued on so that he could play a concert that evening. a few tunes into the performance, the glued nail pings off into the audience and catches a woman in the eye. apparently the woman died & j bream was arrested for murder, playing out the end of his life in gaol. i saw glenn jones play a few months ago and he had also had to have emergency manicure treatment at some korean nail salon in the arndale centre in manchester, but no superglue was involved.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
I guess what I meant by the Branca thing is less about the process/instrumentation really but more the music's use of space and how the music bypasses *notes* exactly into more of a microtonal region, especially when he busts the slide out into those long, loping, descending lines accompanied by the furious arpeggiation on the open strings, and the massive overtones conjured up by that, etc.
I think there's stuff simliar on like the first movement of Symphony no. 5? Take a gander at that to see what I'm getting at. Not even saying they are of some lineage or something but they evoke the same atmosphere to me. I dunno. This could all be just stupid.
And thanks for the heads up on the Saualito stuff, checking that out now... and of course the mediafire link is down on Doom and Gloom... some really sketchy looking site called 'Rockin CD' asking 10 bucks to stream... guess I'll pass on that.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
jim o'rourke says something similar in the liner notes to live in tasmania reissue, comparing him to charlemagne palestine - "ice cubes in a blender"
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i'll re-up that sausalito set, give me a sec
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
annnnd here it is: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/21030078332/in-christ-there-is-no-east-or-west-john-fahey
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
3 years after that recording, Fleetwood Mac would come in to that studio to record Rumours.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link