stoked.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 4 October 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
who is doing this? Dust-to-Digital or Revenant?
― beta blog, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like dust to digital is taking the reins, but i think revenant's involved.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― Matt P, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
wow awesome!
― 69, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
good news!
― original bgm, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised not to see a mention of Georgia Stops, Atlanta Struts and Other Contemporary Dance Favorites, which is probably my personal favourite Fahey album (even over the Takoma material). Is it generally not rated?
Re the box set: this is his earliest recorded material, right? Is it an obsessives-only kind of deal or something a dilettante fuxxor could love?
― seandalai, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Georgia Stomps..." of course
― seandalai, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think Georgia Stomps is particularly well thought of - a few ppl love Juana & I remember Fahey regretted releasing it at some later point - but who cares. Prefer the tone on hitomi & other similar live sets that are floating about, some amazing stuff, a little Heavy though.
― ogmor, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm ok...for me Hitomi was a less interesting album from that era.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
was listening to The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick just the other day, wld make a really gd intro disc for Fahey newcomers, imho - really strong playing, great sound and some v. funny patter between songs. had avoided it before cuz fahey was always meant to be an inconsistent, even willful live performer, but he was totally ON that evening.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:58 (thirteen years ago) link
love the live in tasmania set and after the ball too (listened to after the ball a hell of a lot more though). never noticed that the "live" set borrowed a track from the latter. lol.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to both to check, and yeah. they sound quite a bit different for me, cuz i've only got after the ball on CD and live in tasmania only on LP, but it seems to be exactly the same performance. so, is the rest of tasmania, uh, "externally sourced" or what?
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 08:31 (thirteen years ago) link
...for me Hitomi was a less interesting album from that era.
certainly not one of my favorites. much prefer red cross and that "hard time empty bottle" thing.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
at the moment after the ball might be not just my favorite john fahey record, but one of my very favorite records period. i notice that whenever a track from it comes up on shuffle, i immediately want to hear the rest of it, the whole thing, from beginning to end, and usually more than once. so good.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^ not highly regarded by fahey fans, i know. too close to arlo guthrie territory, maybe. but i love it to death.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Tasmania is just two reels, the 14 minutes of Introduction by Stefan Markvitch/On the Sunny Side of the Ocean/Tasmanian Two-Step and then on side B, the 9 or so minutes of Fahey Establishes Rapport with the Tasmanians/A dissertation on "Obscurity" (spoken)/The Return of the Tasmanian Tiger/Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt. I have it on CD but I haven't listened in ages; "Beverly" is definitely the same recording, I suspect the rest of the stuff is studio catchall as well, filler to pad running time.
That said the performances on this slay me, the aggression and tension in volume, plucking, the tempo fluctuations, it's stunning expression. "On the Sunny Side of the Ocean"...[∞ hyperbole].
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
after the ball is awesome -- I think it's handicapped because it has some of the lamest album artwork of Fahey's oeuvrehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GPVJVM1BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg"Beverly" is top five Fahey for me ... and I dig the dixieland stuff on there, too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah "Beverly" is way up there, his last-best in my view. "Sligo", "Sunny Side", "Princess" and "Catfish" would round me out on a Top 5 I think.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
last two tracks on Live In Tasmania sposed to be studio efforts w/ dubbed applause. love the Approaching Of The Disco Void & jim o'rourke's description of it as 'ice cubes in a blender', and waltzing matilda is fantastic too.
the first two dixieland albums have really grown on me I love the enormous disco ball moon on after the ball&the gloss of hawaiian two step & om shanti norris, but of rivers & religion is my favourite, first true emergence of big drunk fahey playing big reverberating medleys w/ glacial syncopation & supreme relish, love Visits Washington DC, God,Time & Causality and Railroad for when the same thing shows up. maybe this was what old fahey was talking about more when he felt his earlier music was dishonest, idk, but it has Heft.
― ogmor, Saturday, 9 October 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2011/03/glenn-jones-on-john-fahey-fonotone.htmlwow, lots of info about the upcoming box set from glenn jones here. can't wait. crazy stuff about losing everything via hard drive failures. also, anyone know about the legal trouble that the ayler box set caused revenant, which jones refers to? terrible that it caused the label to cease functioning!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
just sent these guys an outlook calendar notice reminding them to back up their files
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, yeah. can you imagine?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
have never heard the ayler story either. amazing box and it really comes off like a labor of love from those involved. to have it kill your label as a result... well, that just sucks!
― original bgm, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, backing up my files tonight. have been ignoring my google calendar reminders for about a month. :-o
The soundtrack to the game Diablo is pretty good (not really) and sounds kind of like Fahey. What I've heard of his stuff is dull, especially the record with Cul De Sac.
― adam, Saturday, July 20, 2002 12:00 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i have no idea what john fahey i had heard 8 1/2 years ago (besides the boring cul de sac one) that would have led me to write this. diablo sndtrk is totally faheyed out tho.
― adam, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
can't wait for the next deepening in yr fahey/diablo thought in 2019
― ogmor, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the diablo sdtk?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
a little more infoDTD-21 : Late September / Early October 2011Edited by Glenn Jones 88 page book with 5 CDs115 tracks, most available on CD for the first time A co-production between Dust-to-Digital and Revenanthttp://www.dust-digital.com/fahey
― tylerw, Friday, 1 July 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere, but don't recall seeing it here, & they've got a lot of money still to raise in the next few days:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/963556219/in-search-of-blind-joe-death-the-saga-of-john-fahe
(I'm nothing to do with the movie, just interested in seeing it get made)
― Wandering Boy Poet, Sunday, 10 July 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmmm, just over 9 grand needed with 28 hours to go.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
I have probably heard it a hundred times but "Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday Blues" is probably my favorite thing by Fahey ever -- the perfect balance of blues, dissonance and rhythmic hypnosis.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 4 September 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m1kvbphaBmw/TngYVLEY71I/AAAAAAAABiM/7gJlrIEzK2w/s1600/tumblr_lqr1p665z41qg4e4uo5_1280.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
As I've always found Fahey to be particularly enjoyable when listened to on a record-by-record basis (as opposed to comps), I've now spent the last month buying every record of his used on Amazon that I didn't own already. I think the most exciting thing about it is listening to all the different renditions of songs at different points. Like, "Wine and Roses" on Dance of Death is revisited, raga-style as "The Approaching of the Disco Void" (from Live at Tasmania) and again, post rocked out as "The New Red Pony" (from The Epiphany of Glen Jones.
Or "When the Springtime Comes Again," which returns as part of the epic "Mark: IV" on America. And those are just his own pieces. Part of what's so interesting is that you really hear Fahey the Musicologist come out in Fahey the Composer -- see www.faheyfiles.com for a complete listing, but reading thru his career and seeing the connections and how all the strands, riffs, melodies and patterns become mutated and regurgitated is pretty remarkable. Given how zonked out Fahey was for so much of the 70s and 80s, I actually wonder how much of it was subconscious.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
rip
http://www.wowwee.com/static/images/PaulyD.jpg
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is out now?, is up on the honest jon's site.
― fleetwood banc (schlump), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Just got this. Looks amazing.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 7 October 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
that kickstarter funded doc upthread is a go, apparently
― LaMonte, Friday, 7 October 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the box set is out. kind of pricey but i'm going to go for it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 8 October 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
so what the hell is THIS box? Volumes 1-6 reissued?
"John Fahey - The Transcendental Waterfall: Guitar Excursions 1963-1967 6xLP box set $124.99 (4 Men With Beards)"
― sleeve, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
he Transcendental Waterfall - Guitar Excursions 1963-1967 is a 6-LP box set drawing from John Fahey's best, and most influential, period. Included in the set are Blind Joe Death, Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes, The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites, The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and Days Have Gone By, all reissued on 180 gram vinyl with deluxe tip-on jackets. Also included are a t-shirt, poster, and a postcard, all of which are housed in a deluxe box with stunning graphic design. An amazing package featuring some of the most important guitar solo recordings of the 20th century. Limited to 2000 numbered copies!
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
expensive times to be a fahey fan. hoping to get the dust to digital box for xmas. will shell out for it if i don't.
― tylerw, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
mmmmmm those are all great records. worth owning. cheaper and easier than trying to get originals.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
also a postcard
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
i think i might feel weird wearing a t-shirt with john fahey's face on it.. any pics?!?!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
important records do a cool fahey t-shirt (all their shirts are next to nothing, also, so)
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://importantrecords.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_node/apparel/fahey_tee.jpg
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
originals of those recs are really $20+ these days? jeez.
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=john+fahey&incldescr=&sortord=ddate&thumbs=&currsel=
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
fonotone box saving my life
― ogmor, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link