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!
It's interesting that your name is Raymond Fahey and that there's a great guitarist in a similar vein (but still unique!) to John Fahey named Gwenifer Raymond. Check her out if you haven't! I assume by the way you phrased your statement that you are a relative of John. Just an interesting coincidence in names. If you have any personal anecdotes to share about Fahey or any from your family who knew him, I'd be glad to hear them. I'm a big fan of him and have deep inspiration. I hope you're doing well!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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)
@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.
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
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.
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'
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.
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.
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.
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,,🤗
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
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?
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
' 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.
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
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
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'm obsessed with this performance its captivating!! Fahey was something special.
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 :)
Thanks John
From Ray Fahey. Awesome
It's interesting that your name is Raymond Fahey and that there's a great guitarist in a similar vein (but still unique!) to John Fahey named Gwenifer Raymond. Check her out if you haven't! I assume by the way you phrased your statement that you are a relative of John. Just an interesting coincidence in names. If you have any personal anecdotes to share about Fahey or any from your family who knew him, I'd be glad to hear them. I'm a big fan of him and have deep inspiration. I hope you're doing well!
just.... absolutely... beautiful
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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
Its an honor to simply comment after someone who witnessed this live. Really
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.
JOHN FAHEY 3 there is not on boring song from this man, everything he plays, like he's speaking from my heart...
Fahey is the soundtrack of my mind!!
3:06 starts probably the most unique/awesome riff i've ever heard on guitar.
The most amazing guitar player I have ever heard....outstanding sir!
What a wonderful musician John Fahey was.
this clip beings me so much joy and light
Fu*kin Legend!! Sound so simple but it's so hard to play. LEGEND!!!
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.
So many thanks for giving us the opportunity to see what we missed all those years ago - amazing wonderful musician
thanks so much for posting this concert ..i never got to see him play...I have loved his music since the late 60's
john fahey and rory gallagher together now theres a thought would make you melt !!!! beautiful stuff
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!
i only found now about his music and it is extraordinary. his music is very melodious
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.
Who cares about the names of the songs, this is brilliant, just enjoy it.
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
This is wonderful.
@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.
superb!!
The king of the comb over.
The first one is definitely 'I'll see you in my dreams',an old ragtime tune.
fantastic!!
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
Made me feel good.
He could have been making shit up as he went along....a goddam genius
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.
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.
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
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.
Now THAT'S a comb-over...
yes!!
U got that right
Fahey has forgotten more than I'll ever know....
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.
they're both pretty rad
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.
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.
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,,🤗
Nevér forgotten
Love the video, however, it is not properly titled.
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
Totally
The actual name of this tune is ''Ann Arbor/Death By Reputation.
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.
Oi mate, you seen that baby over there?
ya
she's hawt
No more like from the goonies look at that baby!?!?
Still is...no comparisons
I'm unfamiliar with the penultimate one as well but recognise the rest.
oh sensei!
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?
all the way from killy begs boi!
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
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.
Does anybody has notes of this masterpiece?
Anyone know what song he is playing at 3:06?
Death by Reputation
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.
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..
did anyone buy/want to buy those finger picking things after this performance?
or buy a cheap raised strings guitars......things......
This is a medley of several songs, and "Take a Look at that Baby" ain't one of them
This is the same melody as I'll See You In My Dreams.
you knowww
@tubby6411 Causality, Not Casualty
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
He certainly had his own style, can't tell if it was awesome or autism... great posting, I like it...
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
Would be nice to know when/where this was.
Hamburg germany in 1978
yeah it's definitely standard.
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)
see you in my drams....
Hunter Patterson you dissapoint me... Maybe you dont knowwwww after all..
be thankful that he uploaded the vids
nobody plays the guitar like that..period
This looks like it's in standard tuning. Can anyone confirm?
he is
dis guy got sweg
No need...we allknow
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.
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 need
No big deal...0nly open tuning. Lol