John Fahey live at the New Varsity 1981

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  • 01 Sunny Side of the Ocean 1:22
    02 Spanish Two-Step / Hawaiian Two-Step 5:08
    03 Spanish Flang Dang 6:52
    04 Lion 9:08
    05 Steamboat Gwine Round The Bend 16:47
    06 How Green Was My Valley 20:45
    07 Poor Boy A Long Way From Home 22:50
    08 Wine and Roses / The Red Pony 27:10
    09 Guitar Lamento 36:06
    10 Candyman / Brenda's Blues 42:30
    11 When The Fire And The Rose Are One 44:33
    12 Imitation Train Whistles / Steel Guitar Rag 50:20
    13 Revolt Of The Dyke Brigade / Funeral Song For Mississippi John Hurt 56:00
    14 Southern Medley 1:03:04
    PS: The banter about George Winston, the Urantia book and bourbon for a common cold are hilarious
    I've edited the tracks together from: / rlutge hoping to get the full concert without gaps, some cuts when the camera was off are still there ...
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  • @AlyseNicoleO
    @AlyseNicoleO ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I wish I could express to him just how much his music means to me. If anyone on this earth ever understood what's underneath, it's this man and his guitar.

  • @migsea7830
    @migsea7830 9 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    "What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." Delacroix

  • @wstr9963
    @wstr9963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Music is about expressing emotions, and on guitar, nobody did it better than Fahey. In my opinion.

    • @Flatwin4ever
      @Flatwin4ever 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This speaks to me also !

    • @DjNikGnashers
      @DjNikGnashers ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like Fahey a lot. I think John Martyn was better at expressing emotion though, but hey, both are awesome.

    • @DjNikGnashers
      @DjNikGnashers ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wstr9963 John Martyn was not just a Folk Artist at all, in fact he played a LOT wider range of music than Fahey ever did, MUCH wider.
      I have listened to lots of both artists, and play myself.
      Your comment suggests you have only scratched the surface of Mr Martyn sir.

    • @wstr9963
      @wstr9963 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know John Martyn’s music and I didn’t want to be disrespectful. I just think he was totally different than Fahey. I dont think we can really compare these two artists. Fahey was in a totally different world, in my opinion.

    • @DjNikGnashers
      @DjNikGnashers ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wstr9963 Thank you for your none abusive discussion, it makes a change on TH-cam.
      Have a good weekend sir !

  • @Astralpains
    @Astralpains 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The way he throws back that one strand of hair before plowing into “sunny side” as if in his mind hes a majestic lion. John was something else

  • @tomgreen6889
    @tomgreen6889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was there in Palo Alto on that wonderful day. A privilege.

  • @dirtwolf
    @dirtwolf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Such a punk performance. His influence on Sonic Youth is so clear here. So cool. A legend

    • @frgnvola
      @frgnvola 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      can you point me to some Sonic Youth songs/albums that exemplify this influence by Fahey please?

    • @rajusjoseph
      @rajusjoseph 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@frgnvola Teenage riot by Sonic Youth. The riff in that is inspired by what Fahey plays at the start here

  • @j0lleytunes
    @j0lleytunes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Saw him many times during this era. Often had concern that his head was just going to come off his shoulders and roll across the stage, but trusted in providence. Always transfixed by his music, his mumbled non-sequiturs, the Whole Thing. The sound track of another time...

  • @jrw344
    @jrw344 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Every time I went to one of John's concerts in Seattle, as soon as he began to play he was transformed from an ordinary human being.

  • @evansgate
    @evansgate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    lol this is great just to see him interact with the crowd. He seemed to be in good spirits. And that hair doesn't get enough credit. He just said "fuck it" and that's why he's great

  • @woodeze70
    @woodeze70 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    You can tell he’s enjoying himself and the sound in this concert

  • @nirvilchigs7871
    @nirvilchigs7871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    John Fahey tuning up is better than most in full flow

  • @baronperche9942
    @baronperche9942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In John's hairs there is no east or west.

  • @macl653
    @macl653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Can honestly say I've never seen anyone rock a 'comb over' as good as Fahey, maybe it's the fact that he's mad genius, but I mean he's giving me faith for my someday bald head. Edit: Ah but I'd probably have to grow the sideburns too

  • @InfiniteRhombus
    @InfiniteRhombus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    im just now discovering john fahey after stumbling upon the term "american primitive guitar", what a monster player, totally mind blowing.

  • @johnstewart7025
    @johnstewart7025 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When he starts Days of Wine and Roses, he talks about making train songs on his guitar and then, just before he starts playing, he says "but now, into the void."

    • @jasonw4053
      @jasonw4053 ปีที่แล้ว

      By this time he'd renamed the song "Touching the Disco Void"

    • @RickyBlackwell_X
      @RickyBlackwell_X ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@jasonw4053 the approaching of the disco void*

    • @jasonw4053
      @jasonw4053 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RickyBlackwell_X thanks, Fahey was so awesomely weird!

  • @patrickfinn9560
    @patrickfinn9560 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just discovered John Fahey last month and now the evangelical power of my devotion is hopefully making up for all my ignorant years. I play at least an hour of his genius every day. This performance is one of my favorites so far, but like I said, I'm just starting out and have a whole lot to discover.

  • @walterneff
    @walterneff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how he wears his watch half way up his arm when playing

  • @taiyoinoue
    @taiyoinoue 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "But now it's time to go into the void. Look! We're on T.V."

  • @charlieleger1
    @charlieleger1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    i love to play gtr. THANK GOD FOR JOHN FAHEY

  • @41landser
    @41landser 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    plays what he means, means what he plays...JF the Maestro

  • @bufatutuagonistes8876
    @bufatutuagonistes8876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wine and Roses/Red Pony is perhaps my favorite song in the world. Also favorite Fahey other than that is When the Fire. But the best part is from 50:20. Southern Melody is shockingly good on that guitar and he's just in a superb place. He's finally warmed up! Probably that wine! He's so funny!
    Thanks to Randy Luge, who owned the Varsity Club back then, who recorded this in a quality way back then and then didn't throw it away. And thanks to Randy for sharing this with us. I am a devotee of such wonderful players as John McLaughlin and Eric Clapton, and Jimmi, they are my gods! But Fahey is God! (Yah, I know. We used to say that about Eric.)

    • @Astralpains
      @Astralpains 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was port, dude slugged that whole pint back like nothin

  • @michaelhockin1984
    @michaelhockin1984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the mid 80's I took my girlfriend (who was a rich diehard classical purist snob) to see John Fahey at the Julia Morgan theater in Berkeley, CA. He blew both me and the babe away! She couldn't rave enough about his playing. Of course he looked like a homeless dude but who cared? When he finished there was a momentary silence as the audience recovered from their bliss states. Then we all acknowledged what we had just witnessed. Applause wouldn't be the correct word but I guess it comes close.

  • @704studio
    @704studio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love Fahey, and this concert was insanely strange, even for his standards, haha. I think he was poking a stick in the eye of the new age genre

    • @josephtravers777
      @josephtravers777 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's smearing a few numbers, like Candyman. He mentioned being pressured to play faster by the likes of Kottke. Makes sense. Dig the mid-tempo he was so great at playing. So much feel.

  • @MrJsodd
    @MrJsodd 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Awesome fidelity, like he said,"nice PA". Truly one of a kind and he could do no wrong in my book, Thanks for this buddy

  • @DiamondSoul
    @DiamondSoul 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just beautiful.

  • @BillyBob-il4gy
    @BillyBob-il4gy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My cousin played in his bands. I never listened to any of his music until today, so I am binge listening today at age 58. LOL

  • @JD-vv7tq
    @JD-vv7tq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My Brother was the one who listened to Fahey for the most part and i started listening myself and loved it !

  • @eths1966
    @eths1966 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for posting this concert. Brings back many memories, mostly from the early 1970's. Enjoyed his concerts with my wife at both Amazing Grace locations in Evanston. And I enjoyed his music one rainy night in about 1974 in Rockford, and also in the early 1970's I believe at Tulagi's in Boulder.

    • @beckchristian67
      @beckchristian67 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I heard Fahey twice. First time in NYC in 1971 in a Mahattan church. econd time in
      the Chicago subburds in 1985 or 1986

  • @jroc2201
    @jroc2201 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the phenomenon that is music

  • @petemacdonald1744
    @petemacdonald1744 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    amazing!! I love how he just almost falls into Sunny side of the ocean! a great start!

  • @HowardHello
    @HowardHello 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THANK YOU

  • @CS-mo7xp
    @CS-mo7xp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great upload thanks!

  • @leeinoregon1326
    @leeinoregon1326 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    thanks for editing & sharing this! Fahey is joy to my ears.

  • @chokysenge
    @chokysenge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pure energy!!!

  • @woodeze70
    @woodeze70 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting these John Faye concerts

  • @rpdugoni
    @rpdugoni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you! I saw John play at Stanford Univ. in 1974. Amazing talent!!

  • @danjacobs6029
    @danjacobs6029 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so much power in red pony. the extremes of dynamic

  • @nelsonx5326
    @nelsonx5326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    His hair is amazing. It says, "I don't give shot".

  • @JonasA
    @JonasA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was happy to pick up a few of Johns albums in the early/mid 90's. Still enjoy his playing 25 yrs later.

  • @dadaveda
    @dadaveda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is an amazing performance. It should have one zillion page views by now.

  • @jaystretch01
    @jaystretch01 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Holy comb-over! But still, the best live Fahey on TH-cam

    • @dantean
      @dantean 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ditto. Only I think that's more a wrap-around than a comb-over.

    • @timzechiel7114
      @timzechiel7114 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Sublime Music Channel the hair is american primitive.

    • @dantean
      @dantean 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tim Zechiel Oh, dear.

    • @matthewpaterson5216
      @matthewpaterson5216 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not the hair, its what under it.

    • @acutehalitosis2021
      @acutehalitosis2021 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      theres also Hamburg footage on the youtube

  • @BrianDavis-zr2zj
    @BrianDavis-zr2zj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    John was a railfan, as I am. Love the reference to the Union Pacific-Western Pacific-Missouri Pacific merger at 22:45. "Lament for the Western Pacific"

  • @mariellemaple
    @mariellemaple 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    BRILLIANCE

  • @ivanbanovic8977
    @ivanbanovic8977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While playing the melody from "Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel" at 49:03 he does this great transition from E minor to E major and I can't get that into my fingers for the life of me, I can't even find words for how he conveys emotions and things through his style

  • @deenibeeni3938
    @deenibeeni3938 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    love the strum on the neck.

  • @garyyeigh6098
    @garyyeigh6098 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why I love guitar you can go so many directions, Fahey shot beyond the North Star.

  • @harveyhensley875
    @harveyhensley875 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A genius at his peak!

  • @jajdr
    @jajdr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sounds like there's some of Dalhart, Texas 1967 in Southern Medley. Great concert and video.

    • @adolin1338
      @adolin1338 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahhh is this the melody he slows into at 1:09:56?
      My favorite part of the song

  • @Nihil-kj4ih
    @Nihil-kj4ih 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Genius!

  • @aldoali6173
    @aldoali6173 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    JohnFahey, the MAN

  • @tomandaj1
    @tomandaj1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The new varsity … in Palo Alto Ca. Saw some amazing people.

  • @tonyrigatoni766
    @tonyrigatoni766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the shoutout to George Winston. Winston is a brilliant pianist and is a huge inspiration to me as a musician.

    • @SWHBOYCE
      @SWHBOYCE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's a great guitar player too .He's got a large Hawaiian guitar songs catalog .

    • @metalmarks04
      @metalmarks04 ปีที่แล้ว

      huge inspiration here too, long live

  • @spallis
    @spallis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a legend

  • @wmialil
    @wmialil ปีที่แล้ว

    This makes me feel happy. The first line of the first song - is it called Over the Ocean? - says all I need to know about America and why it is a great country. Spanish Fandango is a blast.

  • @henkn2
    @henkn2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great show, thanks for posting! To be honest, I was pretty exhausted at the end 🙂

  • @brucedeane8
    @brucedeane8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    bliss

  • @parkt6792
    @parkt6792 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    1:07:17 brilliant

  • @tdb517
    @tdb517 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    His haircut is just as wild as his music. My favourite guitar player for sure

  • @pikeywyatt
    @pikeywyatt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it's the way he troughs his hand from the neck ..so easy,

  • @vintagefuzz
    @vintagefuzz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Noobi, his incoherent rambles are your greatest moments of clarity

    • @deweypug
      @deweypug 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EXACTLY!

    • @partner348
      @partner348 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Although noone's been in 2 years, if the future finds you here, I'm gonna have to agree with Noobi, that this is just incoherent rambling. I was gonna call it disconnected, but incoherent will do.

    • @grahamfarris252
      @grahamfarris252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      partner348 drunken actually. Fahey was an exceptionally smart dude he’s just blitzed here

    • @jamespollock11
      @jamespollock11 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@partner348 you are t familiar with the tunes, the setlist, you jerk. Flamenco-ized Poor Boy...you try it.

    • @MarkSeibold
      @MarkSeibold 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@partner348
      I don't know exactly but it's not incoherent. My daughter might call it cognitive dissonance. But I would just call it some of the most euphoric bliss ever performed on a guitar by a human being. And then John adds his great philosophies and narratives at times - I don't think anybody could complain about that. He's obviously well beyond genius.

  • @gatomalomusic6081
    @gatomalomusic6081 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it ... South Valley NM

  • @chiconmaui
    @chiconmaui 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You John

  • @uglyawesome
    @uglyawesome 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You have to hand it to Fahey for doing something that today seems very obvious but was completely new at the time. He's the grandfather of a whole group of genius guitarists.

  • @eschuber8
    @eschuber8 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    now this is good stuff.... guitar is always nice, but the hair is nearly always spectacular

  • @joaquinodriozola4963
    @joaquinodriozola4963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    very eclectic performer

  • @JohnSmith-ij6ms
    @JohnSmith-ij6ms 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a fucking legend

  • @romanshiryaev335
    @romanshiryaev335 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    причесон замечательный

  • @romanoznobishin947
    @romanoznobishin947 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ok, he was the best

  • @joshuabrown3654
    @joshuabrown3654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    He looked in the mirror before the show and said "cool. This is fine."

    • @adolin1338
      @adolin1338 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'd bet $100 that looking in a mirror never crossed his mind

    • @RickyBlackwell_X
      @RickyBlackwell_X 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I guess this generation just don't give a shit about their hair.

    • @joshuabrown3654
      @joshuabrown3654 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Clearly@@RickyBlackwell_X

  • @jennifers6435
    @jennifers6435 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @markcrowley6906
    @markcrowley6906 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John Fahey played and improvised on the guitar as Keith Jarrett does with the piano.

  • @garyyeigh6098
    @garyyeigh6098 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shear genius, enough said.

  • @KCBarr1
    @KCBarr1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    By any standards, this is a guitarist that really to this day has still no equal, although Leo Kottke and Terry Robb do justice to Fahey, I'm positive both will still bow to him.

    • @ibeate
      @ibeate 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Robbie Basho

    • @isaacdodson1565
      @isaacdodson1565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ken barr I would say Jack Rose is very close to John Fahey according to style of play and creativity. Both amazing.

    • @salvandorum
      @salvandorum 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jimmy swaggert in motel with prostitute

    • @LosHuxleys
      @LosHuxleys 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m certain that John Fahey knew that Leo Kottke was a genius too.

  • @crashstitches79
    @crashstitches79 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A masterful musician, very expressive and fluid, but DAT COMBOVER HEADBANGING THO. That is the punkest thing I've seen today.

  • @mlwsf
    @mlwsf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He certainly is chatty (for him) today.

  • @ConcreteJungleSickness
    @ConcreteJungleSickness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fahey sounds much better as a slow rhythmic player rather than a fast technical one.

  • @SingleMalt77005
    @SingleMalt77005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is wonderful stuff. As for the Southern Medley, I can detect (in order of appearance): Camptown Races/Dixie/???/???. What am I missing on those last 1 or 2 bits where he re-tunes his guitar in mid performance?

    • @adolin1338
      @adolin1338 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe Dalhart, Texas 1967 is one of them, the other I could not say but would love to know

  • @jrw344
    @jrw344 ปีที่แล้ว

    John's guitar would sing for him...

  • @jimmetesky6019
    @jimmetesky6019 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like the combover got a little out of control. Saw him in Atlanta around this time. Mesmerizing.

  • @user-yx1zs1fi2u
    @user-yx1zs1fi2u ปีที่แล้ว

    Legendary haircut. For chosen one only

  • @FunkyCrumpet
    @FunkyCrumpet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "A strange time of day to play the guitar".
    I get it, i don't know why but i get it.

    • @maxroyle6750
      @maxroyle6750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HE HAS MUSICIANS HOURS

    • @nirvilchigs7871
      @nirvilchigs7871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@maxroyle6750 I get Funky Crumpets joke but I don't know why I get it......

  • @chiconmaui
    @chiconmaui 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just practicing here.

  • @JosefRosam
    @JosefRosam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    damn the guy had a power huh?

  • @castormuerto
    @castormuerto 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rompe rejas en rejas

  • @dc9291
    @dc9291 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    he can make a 6 string sound like a 12 string

  • @brendonleary
    @brendonleary ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is he tuning, or playing?
    Whatever it is, I like it!

  • @mo2heaven704
    @mo2heaven704 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He gives serial killer vibes, a rockstar one

  • @seamusbrowne4909
    @seamusbrowne4909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Only John could get away with that Fucking Hair cut. Due to Advancing years I've now got my own Comb Over. Can't drag myself away from the Mirror.😱😱😱Love it so much, Narcissis eat your Fucking Heart Out.😂🤣😂

  • @JohnDoe-gk7ok
    @JohnDoe-gk7ok 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fahey was in top form here. I’d say his peak was from the late 70s through the early 80s. Sadly, he went off the deep end during the 90s and did these bizarre electric shows in which he noodled around for an hour.

  • @mlwsf
    @mlwsf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That is one serious comb over. Almost detracts from the incredible playing, almost.

  • @geraldhugley3618
    @geraldhugley3618 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m still wondering if George Winston has read the Urantia Book !?

  • @JPVanderbuilt
    @JPVanderbuilt 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every Fahey song is the same drone song, each with a different interpretation.

    • @grahamfarris252
      @grahamfarris252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A beautiful destitute American drone

  • @susangrossman410
    @susangrossman410 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    what was the first tune he plays on the slide?

    • @TVLIES2YOU
      @TVLIES2YOU  9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's called Steamboat Gwine Round The Bend

  • @spadalino
    @spadalino 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    how about a track list for us new fans?

    • @TVLIES2YOU
      @TVLIES2YOU  10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You need to click the 'show more' button, it's already there

  • @happyraccoon4791
    @happyraccoon4791 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The reader doesn't know this but Fahey invented dreadlocks.... the braiding thing came later.

  • @lanceuppercut2013
    @lanceuppercut2013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    talk to me more of the burgandy

  • @lowtunesinc.2926
    @lowtunesinc.2926 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What tuning is he in?

    • @maxroyle6750
      @maxroyle6750 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      C,D,G,STANDARD,MODAL C

    • @RickyBlackwell_X
      @RickyBlackwell_X 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      First three songs is in open G, on slide guitar it's a open D or G I gess, then open D in Poor Boy Long Way From Home, open Dm in Red Pony, then standard tuning and open C with modal open C.

  • @mickeylosordo4757
    @mickeylosordo4757 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    peter buck and thom yorke learned a lot from this guy

  • @hodshonf
    @hodshonf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you can hear Vaseline Machine Gun

  • @albertneal3730
    @albertneal3730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most people do become less talkative post mortem

    • @alcoholya
      @alcoholya 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      this deserves some love.