hmm that didn't work ... oh well, check the Fahey Railroad coverhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gun5Xkdl7TY/SqnPYQSzJmI/AAAAAAAACFE/fykYIElVbAw/s1600-h/bffa9330dca0c4ef07d06010.L.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 11 September 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5mHAy6zjs
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 July 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome, never knew he appeared on any Rockpalast broadcasts. Lovely tune too.
BTW, dunno if this got posted anywhere:
2011-06-07: John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You // The Dust-to-Digitrial box set
Announcement:
The John Fahey 5-CD box set for Dust-to-Digital was completed today, as of a few hours ago! It goes into production almost immediately. It's street date is October 25th, this year.
As many of you know, I've been working on this project for 11 years. The last time I hung out with John, in the summer of 2000, was, ostensibly, to discuss the Fonotone recordings and this project. He died the following February.
I think the set honors John and the significance of his work with such thoroughness and in such detail, in a way that has never been achieved before. It is, I feel certain, a critical piece of the puzzle that is John Fahey, and it will be a significant resource for future scholars / fans.
There is, first of all, six+ hours of music here, virtually all of it unknown.
The set comes with a 90-page, 12" X 12" hardback book filled with the photos Melissa Stephenson (moderator of this site) and I got from Jane Hayes (Fahey's mom) in Louisiana in 2003, almost none of which have ever been published.
The book also includes extensive liner notes: there's a song-by-song analysis by our own Malcolm Kirton; essays by / contributions from some of the most knowledgeable Fahey scholars in the world (from Germany, the UK, Australia and the U.S., including a number of people on this chat group: Paul Bryant, Chris Downes, Claudio Guerierri, Charlie Schmidt and several others); reminiscences by childhood friends; a never-before-published interview with John from 1967, and much, much more.
Layout and design is by Susan Archie, who's overseen such sterling productions as the Charley Patton box for Revenant, among others.
Lance Ledbetter at Dust-to-Digital has discussed the possibility of doing record release events in various cities around the country following its release. If and when they happen, you'll be among the first to know.
I, for one, couldn't be happier!
Glenn Jones Cambridge, MA
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Saturday, 30 July 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
More on what the box actually is here:http://www.clashmusic.com/news/john-fahey-box-set-approaching
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Saturday, 30 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
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― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 31 July 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
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― buzza, Sunday, 31 July 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Now available for pre-order from http://dust-digital.com/
http://www.dust-digital.com/fahey
Track list
― just call me brian (krakow), Sunday, 31 July 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
$80 -- actually a little better deal than I thought it would be. looking forward to this!
― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
yawn
― juliamen, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I feel exhausted already. There are some real quality items on here though, Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River is amazing. The titles are irresistible too, obviously.
― ogmor, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ insightful ^^^
xpost
― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
c'mon man, that's an extremely on topic post
― ogmor, Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
so bored by how awesome this is going to be
― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/MarksDailyApple/nubbin.jpg
― (am0n), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if there's any more writing left over, stuff like what's in 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a DVD of that rockpalast broadcast, it was so boring I ripped it to CD
great performance
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
any chance of uploading that rip? pretty please.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
what so you can turn around and it put it on your BLOG?
sure ok
― big triffid in my backyard (Edward III), Monday, 1 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
help me bore the dozen people who read my site.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
!
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 1 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure there's odds and ends, but they were pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel w/ the letters at the end of vampire vultures. however the stuff on the site is good
― ogmor, Monday, 1 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
that dust to digital thing looks boss. not as boss as their africa box set though!
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
btw weirdest fahey thread title ever. what the hell?
trollers gonna troll
― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
boring pics of this fucking amazing box set http://thewiremagazine.tumblr.com/post/9665885879/the-wire-magazine-john-fahey
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
massive idiots/obvious trolls who think fahey is boring better bypass this kickass bootleg:
http://youtu.be/0cTdPTrihlI
(untouchable, mysterious, ethereal, massive. hold onto yer butts for this shit.)
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
wow, thank you, global tetrahedon
is that from the university of washington show?
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
This is great. I'm sure there's a lot of Fahey I have yet to hear which I would like. One reason I haven't dug as deeply is that there are certain sides of his art I'm not really into. This is definitely from one of the sides I love (so far).
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
i checked, and yeah, it is from the 1973 UW show. avail in its entirety here:
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/18138392878/john-fahey-university-of-washington-1973-01
^ hope it's ok to post that link...
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
you should really ask that blogger for consent before posting such links, I heard he is a real madman. you better watch out buddy.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the best fahey like the live versions of dance of the inhabitants should be hid away on a mountaintop monastery somewhere which is a couple of day's hike to get to. i was going to link to a video of another version of it but it's been pulled from youtube, hopefully being interred by the monks as i type.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the best fahey like the live versions of dance of the inhabitants should be hid away on a mountaintop monastery somewhere which is a couple of day's hike to get to.
hahaha this is otm & how the world should work
― , Blogger (schlump), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
I have lots of Fahey bootlegs, most came from Delta Slider, I'd poke around there if you like the above... the main problem with the site is that the MP3s are tagged like shit (or not at all), hence why I had to upload it to Youtube to share it. Perhaps the difficulty associated with unzipping and properly tagging MP3s is corollary to a long hike to a monastery?
Also, to the dude above, what sides of Fahey don't you like? I could totally imagine what sides you are talking about, but in the interest of further Faheychat perhaps you could elaborate.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
And does anyone see what I'm saying about how this evokes Branca? Just the cacophonous reverberations piling onto one another, adding up to a bigger whole?
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
As a shoegaze fan I heard a lot of the same melodic progression sensibilities Kevin Shields as an example would share.
― Evan, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
tbh, i don't really get the branca comparison
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that u of w show is close to a religious experience. the sausalito recording from around the same era is a far better recording with a similar setlist, but the u o w thing is uhhhhmazing.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
I still like Fahey records but I think he was "an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player" even more rarely than he thought. He relied too much on the same few tricks and effects and fills too much time with adolescent stoned-fascinated noodling.
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
you speak poop
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
mentioned above from way back Also in the works is a separate two-CD set called Roots of Fahey, which will showcase the songs and musicians that inspired and influenced John throughout his recording career. Each track comes from the 78rpm record collection of John's lifelong friend, Joe Bussard.this didn't ever come out did it?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
don't espeeecially hear the branca, but the low notes are cosmically booming, sounds more like some brass/percussion combination than guitar.
― (500) Days of Sodom (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
What's the most far out stuff? His weirdest shit? Hurting's second sentence up there is my prob with Fahey too, but I haven't heard much.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
his weirdest shithttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/The_Mill_Pond_John_Fahey.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/john-faheys-mil.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I can definitely hear the Branca comparison. I didn't realize he was doing that sort of thing pre-Womblife.
― Romney's Kitchen Nightmares (WmC), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
This is more like it, cheers!! xpost
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha umm enjoy!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
if someone could just list all the fahey records that aren't americana-ey fingerpickin or the blooze that'd be great thx
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link