Why is John Fahey So Boring?

ah well, at least we know it'll be well done -- Revenant and DtD know how to do box sets!

Amen to that.

just to plug a local mpls dude that is brilliant, fahey fans should check out paul metzger (of mpls cult art punx TVBC in the early 80s)

http://www.myspace.com/paulmetzger

that contemporary guitar comp is grrrreeeat! it shouldn't be that there tbh.. there were several different cover variations. mine was a later pressing than the one pictured there.

speaking of fahey http://grown-so-ugly.blogspot.com/2006/12/contemporary-guitar-spring-67-this.html

― tylerw, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:37 PM (1 hour ago)

noise board lurker

lol i did see that on the noize board -- all credit where credit is due, noise dudes ...

Missed this from Dust-to-Digital's last newsletter, which says the Fahey box should be out by the end of the year:

We are very excited to announce that John Fahey's Fonotone Years is in production, and we are doing everything we possibly can to have the title out by year's end. As we wrote in a previous newsletter, the set will be a co-release between Dust-to-Digital and Revenant Records. As for the music the set will feature, we are including every recording John made for Joe Bussard's Fonotone record label. The result will be a five-CD box set of music that was only available in the 1950s and '60s in limited pressings on 78rpm acetate records. We will be mastering the audio from the original, pristine reel-to-reel tapes.

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.

whoa.

wannnnnt

Looks great. And there was me thinking I'd bought enough Fahey for a lifetime..

Just been inspired to put on the "On Air" live set.

I never realised that Bussard recorded so much Fahey, i.e. enough for 3 whole CDs.

Did you ever get the Fonotone set, krakow? It is a lovely, joyous artifact. I don't play it that often, but when I do, I can listen to it all night.

And there was me thinking I'd bought enough Fahey for a lifetime..
ha, yeah, i think this all the time -- "well, that's enough of that!" and then I hear something I haven't heard and I'm back into it all over again. Happened most recently with the Sea Changes Coelacanths set ...

just to plug a local mpls dude that is brilliant, fahey fans should check out paul metzger (of mpls cult art punx TVBC in the early 80s)

paul metzger's serious. dude is amazing

I've heard about Paul Metzger a few times. He plays a 16 (or more?)-string banjo (see here: http://www.paulmetzger.net/art/metzgerRM.jpg ) . I've never investigated further.

the metzger cd that archive put out a few months back is real nice. banjo ragas.

I never realised that Bussard recorded so much Fahey, i.e. enough for 3 whole CDs.

looks like it's actually FIVE cds! and yeah, pretty crazy.

That large Fahey quote by Dan Bunnybrains near the beginning of this thread reminds me of Gertrude Stein's "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them" in content (and a bit less in tone, but that too, funnily).

looks like it's actually FIVE cds! and yeah, pretty crazy.
― picture me lolin' (Alan N), Thursday, 10 September 2009 20:05 (1 hour ago)

Ah, I thought 3 of them were Fonotone and the other 2 from Revenant vaults, or something. Even more astonished...

glad some ppl are digging metzger, yeah he plays a bunch of weirdly modified instruments...

my friend has a great label that has put out two great metzger records you can order them here:

http://www.roaratorio.com/

(he's got awesome stuff overall a great joe mcphee record and lots of cool shit)

Did you ever get the Fonotone set, krakow? It is a lovely, joyous artifact. I don't play it that often, but when I do, I can listen to it all night.

― Duke, Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:47 (Yesterday)

No, unfortunately not. I tried, but that one's out of print. This thread made me think about it again and I've contacted Dust-To-Digital to see if it's going to be repressed, before I start my exhaustive hunting.

Some cool looking OOP Fahey over here: http://grapewrath.blogspot.com/ Haven't heard either of these. Dude has a lot of albums!

<3 this cover
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gun5Xkdl7TY/SqnPYQSzJmI/AAAAAAAACFE/fykYIElVbAw/s1600-h/bffa9330dca0c4ef07d06010.L.jpg

hmm that didn't work ... oh well, check the Fahey Railroad cover
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gun5Xkdl7TY/SqnPYQSzJmI/AAAAAAAACFE/fykYIElVbAw/s1600-h/bffa9330dca0c4ef07d06010.L.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5mHAy6zjs

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

More on what the box actually is here:
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/john-fahey-box-set-approaching

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Now available for pre-order from http://dust-digital.com/

http://www.dust-digital.com/fahey

Track list

$80 -- actually a little better deal than I thought it would be. looking forward to this!

yawn

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.

^^^ insightful ^^^

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c'mon man, that's an extremely on topic post

so bored by how awesome this is going to be

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r154/MarksDailyApple/nubbin.jpg

i wonder if there's any more writing left over, stuff like what's in 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'

I've got a DVD of that rockpalast broadcast, it was so boring I ripped it to CD

great performance

any chance of uploading that rip? pretty please.

what so you can turn around and it put it on your BLOG?

sure ok

help me bore the dozen people who read my site.

!

i wonder if there's any more writing left over, stuff like what's in 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'

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

that dust to digital thing looks boss. not as boss as their africa box set though!

btw weirdest fahey thread title ever. what the hell?

trollers gonna troll

boring pics of this fucking amazing box set
http://thewiremagazine.tumblr.com/post/9665885879/the-wire-magazine-john-fahey

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.)

wow, thank you, global tetrahedon

is that from the university of washington show?

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).

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...