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what book is he talking about?

Fahey is, was, and always will be the epitome of a guitarist.

I've listened to tons of Fahey over the last 40 years. This might be the most spellbinding -- and that's saying a lot.

Hitched from SF and heard him play Berkeley coffeehouse in ’69. He stayed well lubed during the outstanding set. Hitching back on Telegraph Ave, he picked me up in VW bug. Guitar case in back seat. Talked about his deep distress over turtles becoming road kill. DUI. Alas, a good man gone down!

What tuning is it in?

I worked for the Takoma Records co-founder, the late ED Denson, and didn't know for some time that he was connected with a guitar player I enjoyed hearing. Sometimes the world has ways of bringing us together. Never saw that coming...

Love this whole performance

I've been listening to Fahey since I first got turned on to him in 1995. I "discovered" this on youtube about 3 weeks ago and I love it

Robbie Basho brought me here❤

Don’t care about negative John Fahey opinion of Basho. Robbie is amazing! 🎉❤

He is speaking like a Hindu. Very nice.

“God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 So from this video we can see that John Fahey was lost and on the road to hell. I pray he came to know Jesus Christ before it was too late.

Why does every Fahey comment section have to be full of people acting like they know about shit they don’t and trying to prove they’re the smartest person listening to the upload. Talking about music has never been interesting or constructive beyond just giving a brief description and saying if you like it or not.

John was brilliant Vive la Fahey!

JOHN FUCKIN FAHEY

handier @sixstringmeditations301 6 months ago (edited) 0:00 Thus Krishna On The Battlefield / Fare Forward Voyagers 27:51 Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain 39:54 Intro / Christ Saints Of God Fantasy / Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania-Alabama Border / In Christ There Is No East Or West / Beverley

The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick and Live in Tasmania are far better Fahey live albums

Hermoso leer los comentarios, y sentir que no estoy sola en mi admiración por Basho <3

during his 70s gigs his guitars were micd with an sm57 or other dyn mics pointing right to the soundhole, giving a very booming, bassy, aggressive sound. In few interviews during the 90s he complained about sound guys not being able to decently mic acoustic instruments and he said that was also one of the reasons for him going electric. That and the fact that apparently he wasn't able to play acoustic guitars without feeling pain on his left hand fingers the day after the shows. And of course once you go electric is kind of hard to switch back to acoustic and I am actually quite surprised to have found a '96 gig without his electric. Anyway blessings to him and to all Fahey fans still here celebrating his incredible spirit

Robbie believed he was the poet, Matsuo Bashō. Meditate his most famous poem. The old pond - a frog jumps in, sound of water.

Thank you for giving us the space to be, just to be , John

Perfect live version. Thank you for the post !

Superb version of Beverly One of the great American composers

Thank you - this is fantastic.🙏🏾

Is he high???

first bit had me laughing

I love it when you play something fahey and people that play in let’s say a conventional manner lol say like what the fuck was that ? Who how what the oh ,I smile n say it’s primitive and unlearned ! can you show me ? Give them tab and then the breakdowns commence forthwith with syncopation saying it’s only three or four cords wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I can’t work the timing out ha ha ! god bless John I hope he has finally let that poor naughty turtle 🐢 out of the gold fish bowl up there lol 👆 peace ✌️

i love the change he made in this version to the dissonant section. sounds much less indulgent and more fun but i still like the other too. any reason why this guitar sounds so shitty though? LMAO

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Fare Forward Voyagers is the first Fahey album I ever bought. Because I thought it might be the most intense. FFV is an amazing track, and apparently the fastest Fahey ever managed to play. Next LP was Blind Joe death, After The Ball, and so on. I have never tired of his music, even after near fifty years. The most extraordinary composer of guitar music. Jaya Shiva Shankarah is one of the greatest guitar pieces ever.

The most underrated artist in the last 50 years.

learning this song rn am im watching as many different versions he played as possible

The guys music is fantastic!

I've been a John Fahey fan since the 60s. I actually met John, he had come to Montreal to play at a local folk music club. Apparently he had a girlfriend in Montreal. In between sets I would talk to him in the green room. He had been to India and so I also had been to India. Apparently he was or had been a follower of a woman saint, Anandamayi Ma. After the gig, I drove him back to his hotel. The next morning he was flying back to the states. I still love his music, an originator of the guitar style called "Americian Primitive Guitar".

where did you get this interview from ? THX

wow, what a find. also this version of Thus Krishna On the Battlefield is fantastic.

0:00 Thus Krishna On The Battlefield / Fare Forward Voyagers 27:51 Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain 39:54 Intro / Christ Saints Of God Fantasy / Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania-Alabama Border / In Christ There Is No East Or West / Beverley

jamming :)

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fuck. i wonder if anyone has his notes for the orchestral stuff.

The day youtube auto-recommended blue crystal fire to me after watching a video of that folk song from the twilight zone, laying on my floor on acid too lazy to get up to change it, that was the day my soul grew back, i literally cried on the floor because i was about to change it and it was so beautiful i had to stop myself and I was taken so aback by his voice and his style, I was like "what the fuck is this how is he doing this who is he how does this sound like every genre at once but none of them either" I feel a little of him in me, he's not dead

Absolutely love his 90s stuff.

This is amazing. Many thanks for posting this gem.

This man is brilliant. Not to mention a phenomenal guitar player...

LEGEND

I loved his obsessive tuning on this version, and his weird comments were so ... John Fahey. This was my favourite song of his, early on.

This man live n my heart rent free. I truly never came across a person so resonating with my self as this man, thank you Robbie.

What model guitar is that?

Yeah, Greil Markus is full of it -- Agreed !!!