isn't that an unofficial release?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
I mean, all the copies of that record, not just this edition
DISGRACEFUL
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
?
― grandavis, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Claiming it is from "Newbury Comics and Takoma". Who would Takoma be at this point?
― grandavis, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Concord Music Group?
In 1979, Fahey sold Takoma to Chrysalis Records, owned by Terry Ellis and Chris Wright, which had artists such as Blondie, Pat Benatar, and Huey Lewis.[3] Jon Monday continued as General Manager of the label for Chrysalis until 1982 when Chrysalis sold the Takoma catalog. During the Chrysalis years, Takoma released albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Maria Muldaur, Canned Heat, Mike Bloomfield, and T-Bone Burnett. The catalog was purchased in 1995 by Fantasy Records,[1] which in 2004 was taken over by the Concord Music Group. Fantasy has a handful of the Takoma recordings on the market as CDs as of this writing in 2007.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Howdy ILM, what record has Fahey at his most "slack key"?
Alternatively, his most "slack key" tracks in your opinion would be nice.
Note: I don't necessarily consider "Hawaiian Two Step" to be particularly slack key, would you dis/agree?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 07:23 (eight years ago) link
although he loved his tunings fahey was not of a v slack key disposition imo. hawaiian two step is a cover of Spanish fandango (i think fahey knew the john dilleshaw recording) which is probably originally euro-african. closest fahey gets to slack key in vibe might be on the sunny side of the ocean, which iirc he wrote on piano aged 14 & quite possibly totally oblivious to slack key
― ogmor, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 08:45 (eight years ago) link
https://images.eil.com/large_image/JOHN_FAHEY_THE+BEST+OF+JOHN+FAHEY+1959-1977-416332b.jpg
underrated photo imo
― NickB, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
TS: Sandy Bull w/ Squirrel vs. John Fahey with Stuffed Wolverine
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
some (I believe) never before seen footage cropping up around FB. seems there might be more of this to come. late 70s, filmed in his house. hopefully will make it to youtube...
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah i was just watching that, i haven't seen it before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDs7UMy7Mo
very nice. late 70s/early 80s?
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
guess early 80s -- this is greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5bBvQfE1Y
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
also of the utmost importance
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJWc2AwO_iE/WEwSSedkzZI/AAAAAAAAFZo/qBJ3gJOAZrAVzKeRT-_eBBkWQYm62JJegCLcB/s1600/gd1969-01-17.caption-el_gaucho-19690117p01.jgmf.jpg
check the caption -- that would be a tough choice.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
oh! they are on youtube! i couldn't find them. awesome stuff. hadn't watched the steam engine train one yet.
i'd go check out fahey first, nothing to say you wouldn't be able to catch both in the same night especially given the predilections of both artists
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Christmas has truly arrived.
first four a half minutes are great especially
― ogmor, Thursday, 22 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
what is that first four and a half minutes? just a typically big prelude/intro from that era? i recognize the last portion
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
full video is up- it's a joy. could honestly just watch him tune and bullshit with the crew for the whole video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vObBlcBn7UQ&t=2s
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Is it down?
Lol "The Santana Blues Band"
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
hmmm not sure what happened with the embed, maybe they disabled. try adding this to end of youtube url
watch?v=vObBlcBn7UQ&t=2s
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 December 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
severely underrated/slept-on fahey is 'old fashioned love'
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 19 April 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
Yep. Phased production on some of those duets is pretty sweet too.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
yep, tons of compression and phaser going on. and 'dry bones in the valley' is top tier fahey
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 20 April 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
air getting crisp, it's fahey weather
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 9 September 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/index.php?p=digitallibrary/getfile&id=13212
― tylerw, Monday, 9 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Bbc0U3n.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 9 September 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
well played ogmor
fahey looking pretty healthy in that picture
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 9 September 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
nothing to add here, but yeah: fahey fucking owns.🤘
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 9 September 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Worth noting that almost all of Fahey’s Spotify catalogue has fucked up audio that sounds like it’s partly underwater.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 14 September 2019 05:56 (four years ago) link
There's an excellent essay on Fahey by Ian Penman in Fitzcarraldo Editions' It Gets Me Home This Curving Track.
― Doran, Saturday, 14 September 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
I slept on Days Have Gone By Vol. 6. This is so good. Finally watched the doc in Prime last night – it left me wanting more. So I’m digging back into the first volume of the handbook and cursing the fact that Vol. 2 is $57(?!?!).
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 14 September 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
I think I heard there is a new edition of volume 2 coming out soon
― ogmor, Saturday, 14 September 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Worth noting that almost all of Fahey’s Spotify catalogue has fucked up audio that sounds like it’s partly underwater.― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:56 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
these are weird comps with like corel 1998 clip art for covers. they applied some strange panning and reverb also, and some of them aren't even albums. one has studio outtakes i haven't heard anywhere else. not sure what bizarre publishing/licensing shenanigans went into those ending up there
if fahey had a 33 1/3rd book i think it should be about days have gone by
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 September 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
Some days I wonder if “Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt” is the best thing he ever did. The transition to the B-section at 1’04” is just glorious. On others, I feel like the man may have said it all with Blind Joe Death. I mean, those dissonances on “Sun Gonna Shine on My Back Door” ... or the melodic and rhythmic variation on “Sligo River Blues” ... in 1959? At twenty years old? Fuck.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 September 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
has there ever been a fahey albums poll? i have like, idk, fifteen albums and still kind of feel like i don't know THE DEFINITIVE one.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 16 September 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
ahh, yes there has!
so, i see i have three of the top ten.
(sigh)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 16 September 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
those results are demented. NTI are you thinking of running the big Fahey poll that you've had in the queue for years?
― ogmor, Monday, 16 September 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
I'd probably vote Red Cross if this was tomorrow (and I had to pick *one*). Or America.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Monday, 16 September 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
of the ones i know, i'm partial to the yellow princess. the version of america i have is the two disc vinyl reissue that is still somehow abridged i guess?? but yeah: it's pretty solid.
gonna have a relisten of transfiguration of blind joe death right now!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 16 September 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 September 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
unpopular opinion: all fahey songs are the same song.
that song just so happens to be awesome is all.
but yeah, a fahey poll would be a gargantuan task.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 16 September 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
uh you haven't heard Red Cross huh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
or City Of Refuge
or The Mill Pond
etc
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
I would treat different versions, renamings and live versions as remixes: aggregate scores but note which version gets what. mb have a side poll for medleys (tho quite what counts is ambiguous so I'd leave it open) (a cpl of medleys wld probably/hopefully show up in the main poll too). wonder if it would be worth sending out the bat signal to the Fahey Yahoo list, would be v intrigued to hear the opinions of ppl who have heard like 25+ Fahey albums
― ogmor, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
as for fahey songs being the same, on one hand there is all sorts of disparate stuff being pulled together w/ fahey, even on the same song, that he normally doesn't get credited for & ppl will instead compare anyone who plays mellow alternating bass in an open tuning with notes played more or less at random over the top to fahey. on the other hand: i agree w/ austin and there's a good reason the first bit of guitar instruction in vampire vultures was to contemplate the notion of the eternal snake
― ogmor, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
lol i was just making fun re: nti's observation of how difficult a fahey poll would be because of the numerous guises he put song into.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
I do agree that there is a certain contemplative, searching spirit that remains present in his work regardless of external stylings
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Just was gifted The Transcendental Waterfall: Guitar Excursions 1962-67 (blue!) vinyl box of the first six records on 4 Men With Beards. Has really nice packaging reproducing the original Takoma records – thick cardboard sleeves, liner note inserts, a poster, postcard and green fluorescent(!) T-shirt. Takoma probably has my favorite label stickers too: https://www.cvinyl.com/images/labels/takoma3a.jpg
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
want!
was sure this was a New Possibilty revive...it remains the only xmas music I can handle repeated listens of
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link