Robbie Basho - Reed College, Portland, OR (1967-04-08)

Robbie Basho soundboard recording from April 8th, 1967 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Co-billed show with John Fahey, Robbie played his set second. Credit for audio to Steve Halpern, zuma11, and grner1. Additional details are quoted below.
"In late 2019, fellow Neil Young fan and Reed College alumnus, Jim B contacted me. He said that Reed College alum Steve Halpern had a group of late 60's/early 70's Reed College recordings of Reverend Gary Davis, John Lee Hooker, John Fahey & Robbie Basho that needed transferring.
In 1985, Steve found the recordings among a cache of reels in a Reed College library backroom while researching poet Lew Welch. It appeared that most of the reels were of official college business - board meetings etc, but others were student run campus events including lectures and music. He borrowed a few of the music related reels and transferred them using a reel to reel player from the library's AV dept, to a radio shack "y" cable plugged the reel to reel's RCA jacks into one of those ubiquitous, small, portable Panasonic cassette player/recorders. He doesn't know if the originals were mono or stereo.
The library was remodeled in 2008. As Steve was later told, most of the miscellaneous contents of the library was stored in bins in another building while the remodeling occurred. Steve thinks the reels, many of which had no labels, may have been discarded afterwords."
Uploaded for the love.
0:01 Medicine Raga
16:13 Lost Lagoon Suite
30:05 Track 3
44:26 Track 4 (cut)
Link to John Fahey’s 1967-04-08 set:
• John Fahey - Reed Coll...
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[@BroadcastsFromPoorFarm]

0:01 Medicine Raga
16:13 Lost Lagoon Suite
30:05 Track 3
44:26 Track 4 (cut)
Link to John Fahey’s 1967-04-08 set:
th-cam.com/video/bX14WJ1CWkc/w-d-xo.html

[@AACG1622]

Both Basho and Fahey are invaluable national treasures of folk music. Maybe their influence and recognizement is not like that of Bob Dylan, but they truly deserves it.

[@SingleMalt77005]

So great. Wish I had seen Basho and Fahey live.

[@subson23]

Cheers from a huge Basho fan down here in Eugene. This is an amazing recording- and from a very rare era of Basho to be documented live. I noticed in the Fahey companion video someone inquired about a FLAC version- could I make that request for this recording? Would be great to crank this alongside my old Basho vinyl. Thanks for posting!

[@tomparker8748]

The music, the story behind the existence of these recordings, just astounding. Thanks!

[@Majnun74]

Robbie Basho!🔥♥️

[@SingleMalt77005]

So great to hear this stuff. Wish I had seen Basho and Fahey live.

[@JohnSmith-ij6ms]

holy shit

[@trapezoidspangle934]

Thank you sincerely for uploading this. It’s mesmerising and beautiful. It’s just what I need.
These performances remind me of an Australian trio called , ‘The Necks’ ? Upright bass, piano, drums. Instrumental long-form tracks. Mostly improvised I think. Started in Australia in the late 80’s early 90’s. Chris Abraham’s piano has a similar quality to this brilliant guitar playing.

[@herbbirdsfoot]

Ecstatic minimalism. LaMonte Young, Lubomyr Melnyck and Charlemagne Palestine are the piano players who come to my mind. Basho also has his incredible voice which adds a whole other dimension. A true genius.

[@sooahkwak6814]

Thank you so much!!

[@sudabdjadjgasdajdk3120]

wow where did you find this omg