I too am very grateful these Fahey performances have been posted. I first saw Fahey play in 1967 in Annapolis Maryland. The stage was a flat bed truck and the venue was a car repair garage. He was extraordinary. I have loved his music ever since. What a rare talent he was!
This opens with "I'll See You In My Dreams", which Fahey has on his "Time, God, and Causality" album at the end of the last track. "Take A Look At That Baby" is on his "Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes" LP, but I don't hear it on this video. It's all freaking great, no matter the title! Fahey is mind-expanding; we're lucky the government didn't ban his music as a Schedule 1 drug.
He's at least got to be given Schedule 2, highly habit forming but with medically backed and recognized use. After "I'll See You In My Dreams" it mainly morphs into "Ann Arbor / Death By Reputation" from that live in Washington album.
One of my favorite guitarists. I remember, after graduating high school, I moved to Silver Spring, MD. As a young guitarist, I wanted a connection to the area. Fahey, being from Takoma Park, seemed like a promising one at that. I loved his steel-string fingerstyle, his eclecticism, his ear for melody and emotion. It really was unlike anything I ever heard. Too bad I was several decades too late to ever see him live or anything. Definitely the most underrated guitarist in history, as well as just flat-out one of the best.
Me too, man. It's the one that introduced me to his music, I first watched it shortly after you uploaded it, about ten years ago in the summer of '07 and he became my favourite musician. I still come back from time to time because it's so beautiful.
I was 12 when he played in Rockpalast, i looked the complete Conzert with my Mum and i wont forget this great time. thx for this beautyful remember and thx for the Upload.
From 1:12 and onwards, this performance is Ann Arbour/Death By Reputation from the John Fahey Visits Washington, D.C. album. "Death By Reputation" starts at 3:06 - it's actually a take on Leo Kottke's composition by the same name
Can feel the words he can't or chooses not to express in all his music, so much beauty and pain in his music. Your the man John! Don't need words bro I can feel it!
Whenever I listen to this, I have nostalgia. I think of my boyhood trips to the smokeys, both celestial, reviting expeirences, thanks for the upload mate, this is what makes TH-cam Worthwhile. God Bless
For all you asking: this is also known as "Ann Arbor/Death By Reputation" ("Death by Reputation" by Leo Kottke and an interpretation of the evergreen "I'll See You In My Dreams") on John Fahey Visits Washington D.C. (1979)
To my ear, this is a mashup of three tunes. The first is obviously See You In My Dreams. The third one, the long one, is new to me. The middle one is close to a Fahey piece I used to know as Take a Look at That Baby . . . but not exactly the version I used to play.
@walterneff Is there a full video of this concert? The world needs to see this in total. This is one of the finest live acoustic guitar concerts ever recorded.
I'll see you in my dreams,,followed by some slack improvisation,,simple basic finger style,,,but,,I still love him ,,after 50 years of guitar playing,,he is unique,,🤗
People saying this is a different version of Take a Look etc., that's because it isn't. It's a medley of several songs run together. None of them resemble Take a Look.
death by reputation on the album 'best of fahey vol 2'. and yeah, i agree that the strumming bit is definitely pretty tricky. hard to get the rhythm right.
@sabbathdisciple94 No, Maybe a third of them are, he used many different open tunings Open C and variations on it, Standard, Dropped D, Open D, Dm, G, Gm and others.
well, i think the strumming is difficult for me since i have exclusively fingerpicked since i started (never bothered learning even basic strum techniques). anyhow, i was wrong about the cd. but i'm pretty sure it is death by reputation. and the first bit is 'ann arbor', i believe it's supposed to be a medley. check out 'John Fahey Visits Washington DC, Takoma 7069, (1979)' the song title is 'ann arbor - death by reputation'
' American Primitive Guitar'. He's as much a Minimalist and Modern Classical composer as he is an acoustic guitar player. That he excels at all of these forms simultaneously sets him apart.
It IS the song 'I'll See you in My Dreams' - and good as he is - check ouit Django Reinhardt's version - Fahey was wonderful, Reinhardt was Transcendent.
None of those tunes were Take A Look At That Baby but they were all quite awesome and I would love to know the title of the penultimate track from that performance
I really want to play this version of the song, i heard the original version but this is REALLY diferent, can anybody have a tab of this version? I don't want the original version i want THIS version
no, it's quite easy "strumming". i'm actually playing with thumb and fingerpicks. i've figured out about 90% of it now. the beginning is pretty much "I'll See You In My Dreams", but the rest i don't recognize. plus niieuportll doesn't even recognize any of the song as "Take a look at the Baby". also i don't see a "death by reputation" on "The best of john fahey" vol 2 at all. Years 1964-1983 right? i don't even see the song 'death by reputaiton" appear in the discography until 1987. so, what???
also sounds like theres a nod to Elizabeth Cotten -"Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" in there too, the Ann Arbor section. I hear nothing of Fahey's Take A Look...Baby, which itself does not resemble much the original by Two Poor Boys: V7KEYSjGOGU
Although that was a wonderful medley by Fahey, none of the songs were "Take A Look At That Baby." Although his version (and it's his tune) seems to be absent on YT, here's a cover (much slower than Fahey's version, and very nice) of that tune: th-cam.com/video/kOUmuPbEFnk/w-d-xo.html
i'm having a hard time figuring this all out. can someone please tell me what this song is actually called? newswood is right, this is mislabeled. anyone know what this song is actually called?
OK I listened to this three times, all the way through, to try to find "Take A Look At That Baby", and I gotta say, it ain't in there. Great playing, though. th-cam.com/video/EEGneNOMf7Y/w-d-xo.html
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John is buried 2 miles from my moms house. I pay my respects every time I visit Oregon.
hope 2 visit there 1day turtles on the grave stone?
longliverocknroll Yes. 1 turtle. I fixed a flat on his station wagon once also. He gave me a signed copy of God Time and Casuality.
wow that's cool I woulda tried to play guitar with him what year was that u helped him?
you're a good man... people keep telling me he's my dad, but I'm too lazy to do the research.
@@alcoholya John Fahey? Well, if that's true, then there is an easy way to check:
1. Are you sick with baldness?
2. Are you attracted to turtles?
I too am very grateful these Fahey performances have been posted. I first saw Fahey play in 1967 in Annapolis Maryland. The stage was a flat bed truck and the venue was a car repair garage. He was extraordinary. I have loved his music ever since. What a rare talent he was!
That sounds like an awesome time :)
I'm obsessed with this performance its captivating!! Fahey was something special.
Thanks John
From Ray Fahey. Awesome
This opens with "I'll See You In My Dreams", which Fahey has on his "Time, God, and Causality" album at the end of the last track. "Take A Look At That Baby" is on his "Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes" LP, but I don't hear it on this video. It's all freaking great, no matter the title! Fahey is mind-expanding; we're lucky the government didn't ban his music as a Schedule 1 drug.
He's at least got to be given Schedule 2, highly habit forming but with medically backed and recognized use. After "I'll See You In My Dreams" it mainly morphs into "Ann Arbor / Death By Reputation" from that live in Washington album.
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I'm not just the president of Hair Club for Men....I'm also a client
Hair Forward, Voyagers. Hair Forward.
respect
just.... absolutely... beautiful
One of my favorite guitarists. I remember, after graduating high school, I moved to Silver Spring, MD. As a young guitarist, I wanted a connection to the area. Fahey, being from Takoma Park, seemed like a promising one at that. I loved his steel-string fingerstyle, his eclecticism, his ear for melody and emotion. It really was unlike anything I ever heard. Too bad I was several decades too late to ever see him live or anything. Definitely the most underrated guitarist in history, as well as just flat-out one of the best.
OP here.......this is my favorite fahey video...
+Walter Neff This was the video that first introduced me to Fahey, and made me pick up the guitar for the first time. You knowww!!
and its in standard tuning! thanks for upload
;_;
i wish the quality of the sound was a bit better this is the best version of him playing this song, doesnt sound anything like the studio recordings
Me too, man. It's the one that introduced me to his music, I first watched it shortly after you uploaded it, about ten years ago in the summer of '07 and he became my favourite musician. I still come back from time to time because it's so beautiful.
I was 12 when he played in Rockpalast, i looked the complete Conzert with my Mum and i wont forget this great time. thx for this beautyful remember and thx for the Upload.
From 1:12 and onwards, this performance is Ann Arbour/Death By Reputation from the John Fahey Visits Washington, D.C. album. "Death By Reputation" starts at 3:06 - it's actually a take on Leo Kottke's composition by the same name
Can feel the words he can't or chooses not to express in all his music, so much beauty and pain in his music. Your the man John! Don't need words bro I can feel it!
Whenever I listen to this, I have nostalgia. I think of my boyhood trips to the smokeys, both celestial, reviting expeirences, thanks for the upload mate, this is what makes TH-cam Worthwhile. God Bless
Its an honor to simply comment after someone who witnessed this live. Really
3:06 starts probably the most unique/awesome riff i've ever heard on guitar.
Fahey is the soundtrack of my mind!!
What a wonderful musician John Fahey was.
JOHN FAHEY 3 there is not on boring song from this man, everything he plays, like he's speaking from my heart...
this clip beings me so much joy and light
So many thanks for giving us the opportunity to see what we missed all those years ago - amazing wonderful musician
Fu*kin Legend!! Sound so simple but it's so hard to play. LEGEND!!!
The most amazing guitar player I have ever heard....outstanding sir!
john fahey and rory gallagher together now theres a thought would make you melt !!!! beautiful stuff
just stumbled onto him yesterday renewed the blues bug in me! Just about the only thing in the world to get me through accounting assignments.
The first one is I'll See You In My Dreams. It is pretty much like Merle Travis plays it, but a little more three finger folky-ish.
thank you for the referral of "Merle Travis" its one of my favorite songs but never hear of that performer
AHH that country western version......much appreciated
I was thinking also about Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler playing it together!
thanks so much for posting this concert ..i never got to see him play...I have loved his music since the late 60's
For all you asking: this is also known as "Ann Arbor/Death By Reputation" ("Death by Reputation" by Leo Kottke and an interpretation of the evergreen "I'll See You In My Dreams") on John Fahey Visits Washington D.C. (1979)
no realy Fahey is hard to track down what he plays
he's right you know
isn't this the greatest song evar?
Hossein Alizadeh Moghaddam Yup. Until the next John Fahey song I hear, and then it becomes the best song ever.
Wow. Incredible.
He could have been making shit up as he went along....a goddam genius
i only found now about his music and it is extraordinary. his music is very melodious
Now THAT'S a comb-over...
Who cares about the names of the songs, this is brilliant, just enjoy it.
There's a Joplinesque charm about this stuff.
The first one is definitely 'I'll see you in my dreams',an old ragtime tune.
Nevér forgotten
The king of the comb over.
This is wonderful.
That might be the first time i've seen anyone do a one-fingered bar-chord.. why didn't i think of this ages ago....
To my ear, this is a mashup of three tunes. The first is obviously See You In My Dreams. The third one, the long one, is new to me. The middle one is close to a Fahey piece I used to know as Take a Look at That Baby . . . but not exactly the version I used to play.
at about the 3 minute mark, i think fahey is playing 'death by reputation' which is track 9 on the best of fahey volume 2.
superb!!
Made me feel good.
fantastic!!
@walterneff Is there a full video of this concert? The world needs to see this in total. This is one of the finest live acoustic guitar concerts ever recorded.
Fahey has forgotten more than I'll ever know....
I'll see you in my dreams,,followed by some slack improvisation,,simple basic finger style,,,but,,I still love him ,,after 50 years of guitar playing,,he is unique,,🤗
People saying this is a different version of Take a Look etc., that's because it isn't. It's a medley of several songs run together. None of them resemble Take a Look.
death by reputation on the album 'best of fahey vol 2'.
and yeah, i agree that the strumming bit is definitely pretty tricky. hard to get the rhythm right.
Still is...no comparisons
U got that right
@sabbathdisciple94
No, Maybe a third of them are, he used many different open tunings
Open C and variations on it, Standard, Dropped D, Open D, Dm, G, Gm and others.
Yep, can see clearly at 2:30 ish onwards he's doing a C first inversion chord, comes out sounding the same on my standard tuned guit.
Totally
well, i think the strumming is difficult for me since i have exclusively fingerpicked since i started (never bothered learning even basic strum techniques).
anyhow, i was wrong about the cd. but i'm pretty sure it is death by reputation. and the first bit is 'ann arbor', i believe it's supposed to be a medley.
check out 'John Fahey Visits Washington DC, Takoma 7069, (1979)'
the song title is 'ann arbor - death by reputation'
See You In My Dreams starts it off
they're both pretty rad
The actual name of this tune is ''Ann Arbor/Death By Reputation.
That is definitely not take a look at that baby but there is a proper version of it on the tube, I have it listed in my favourites
yes!!
Sometimes I feel John is not so much playing guitar music, more like he's deconstructing it.
I think that's a good analogy.
' American Primitive Guitar'. He's as much a Minimalist and Modern Classical composer as he is an acoustic guitar player. That he excels at all of these forms simultaneously sets him apart.
I'm unfamiliar with the penultimate one as well but recognise the rest.
It IS the song 'I'll See you in My Dreams' - and good as he is - check ouit Django Reinhardt's version - Fahey was wonderful, Reinhardt was Transcendent.
Django played it with another guitarist though.
Different players, different styles, different approach. Both phenomenal.
None of those tunes were Take A Look At That Baby but they were all quite awesome and I would love to know the title of the penultimate track from that performance
Love the video, however, it is not properly titled.
Oi mate, you seen that baby over there?
ya
she's hawt
No more like from the goonies look at that baby!?!?
I really want to play this version of the song, i heard the original version but this is REALLY diferent, can anybody have a tab of this version? I don't want the original version i want THIS version
You can't do Fahey, no one can.
This is the same melody as I'll See You In My Dreams.
didnt feast do a cover of this, sounds just like the harmony's she sings in one of their tunes...
anyway this is sweet without question..
This piece fucking rules
see you in my drams....
all the way from killy begs boi!
This is a medley of several songs, and "Take a Look at that Baby" ain't one of them
Does anybody has notes of this masterpiece?
oh sensei!
no, it's quite easy "strumming". i'm actually playing with thumb and fingerpicks. i've figured out about 90% of it now. the beginning is pretty much "I'll See You In My Dreams", but the rest i don't recognize. plus niieuportll doesn't even recognize any of the song as "Take a look at the Baby". also i don't see a "death by reputation" on "The best of john fahey" vol 2 at all. Years 1964-1983 right? i don't even see the song 'death by reputaiton" appear in the discography until 1987. so, what???
also sounds like theres a nod to Elizabeth Cotten -"Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" in there too, the Ann Arbor section. I hear nothing of Fahey's Take A Look...Baby, which itself does not resemble much the original by Two Poor Boys: V7KEYSjGOGU
He certainly had his own style, can't tell if it was awesome or autism... great posting, I like it...
nobody plays the guitar like that..period
Although that was a wonderful medley by Fahey, none of the songs were "Take A Look At That Baby." Although his version (and it's his tune) seems to be absent on YT, here's a cover (much slower than Fahey's version, and very nice) of that tune: th-cam.com/video/kOUmuPbEFnk/w-d-xo.html
yeah it's definitely standard.
did anyone buy/want to buy those finger picking things after this performance?
or buy a cheap raised strings guitars......things......
Hunter Patterson you dissapoint me... Maybe you dont knowwwww after all..
be thankful that he uploaded the vids
I was trying to find a tablature source for this one, I figured out much of it by ear/video, but could use some more assistance. Anybody?
all I know is it's in the key of drunk.
No need...we allknow
you knowww
most definetly not candy man. dont think i've ever heard chet atkins play that lol (where i know i'll see you in my dreams from)
i'm having a hard time figuring this all out. can someone please tell me what this song is actually called? newswood is right, this is mislabeled. anyone know what this song is actually called?
@tubby6411 Causality, Not Casualty
Too cool. Wikipedia said he was self taught. Is that true?
YEP....www.guitarvideos.com/interviews/john-fahey
but he studied music it didn't just come 2 him in a dream maybe some did tho.....and I think he had a few lessons early on
dis guy got sweg
I've tried and tried but the best i can do is fast forward 10 second intervals looking for a reason to like his playing.
Would be nice to know when/where this was.
Hamburg germany in 1978
Anyone know what song he is playing at 3:06?
Death by Reputation
This looks like it's in standard tuning. Can anyone confirm?
he is
No need
OK I listened to this three times, all the way through, to try to find "Take A Look At That Baby", and I gotta say, it ain't in there. Great playing, though.
th-cam.com/video/EEGneNOMf7Y/w-d-xo.html
That comb-over is not very convincing. Guitar playing on the other hand, is:P
No big deal...0nly open tuning. Lol