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!
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.
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
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 ✌️
@@julianv1828 This first tune is based on a pedal point, but it's a lot more than "three or four chords." Most of the changes are out of the mode and quite dissonant. The rough-hewn bitonality is evocative of the self-taught spirit of Captain Beefheart.
@@Snardbafulator I've played that tune for a while now, and although theoretically it is complex and very eclectic, playing/shape-wise, it's simple and uses only a few shapes throughout the neck, thanks to the open tunning.
@@julianv1828 You don't hear the playing shape, you hear the modality and in this case the non-functional violations of it. And that's Fahey's art -- the contrast between the form of a fingerpicked steel string guitar you'd expect to hear in country blues or bluegrass and the idiosyncratic harmonic / rhythmic content.
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
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.
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The most underrated artist in the last 50 years.
I keep waiting on him to be rediscovered with a surge of interest.
🙏
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!
Which coffeehouse? The Jabberwock on Telegraph was gone by 1969.
I know the kid who managed the Jabberwock (Jesse Cahn, Barbara Dane's son). He didn't whitewash it - He said John was a drunk and a surly drunk lol.
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.
I've listened to tons of Fahey over the last 40 years. This might be the most spellbinding -- and that's saying a lot.
Robbie Basho brought me here❤
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
Superb version of Beverly
One of the great American composers
real
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
You should put this in the description.
or . . pin it to the top of the comments, please. oh well, I'll stick it up there...
JOHN FUCKIN FAHEY
Love this whole performance
wow, what a find. also this version of Thus Krishna On the Battlefield is fantastic.
Perfect live version. Thank you for the post !
Thank you - this is fantastic.🙏🏾
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 ✌️
The mastery of sounding hypercomplicated when in essence it's just a few open chords and a great rhythmic sense.
@@julianv1828 This first tune is based on a pedal point, but it's a lot more than "three or four chords." Most of the changes are out of the mode and quite dissonant. The rough-hewn bitonality is evocative of the self-taught spirit of Captain Beefheart.
@@Snardbafulator I've played that tune for a while now, and although theoretically it is complex and very eclectic, playing/shape-wise, it's simple and uses only a few shapes throughout the neck, thanks to the open tunning.
@@julianv1828 You don't hear the playing shape, you hear the modality and in this case the non-functional violations of it. And that's Fahey's art -- the contrast between the form of a fingerpicked steel string guitar you'd expect to hear in country blues or bluegrass and the idiosyncratic harmonic / rhythmic content.
@@Snardbafulator I agree
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
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.
It's the guitar players.
Musicians listen to music differently
I don't see the point of your agressive comment. Talk about irony.
The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick and Live in Tasmania are far better Fahey live albums
but there are different songs