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Re: Fahey: a couple of questions



I'm a fan of Fahey's electronic stuff. I'd recommend City of Refuge,
Womblife (produced by Jim O-Rourke), Hitomi (his last recording)
and maybe the most accessible is Red Cross which is sort of
transitional. As far as I now they are all out of print, though I
found Red Cross at this blog:
http://kicktokill.blogspot.com/2007/12/john-fahey-red-cross-disciple-of-christ.html


On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jeremy devros <deafrose58@hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> Happy New Year, Rick!
> Not sure of the below mentioned tuning Fahey used but I saw him at the
> Catalyst in the mid '80s ( I got turned on to him in the '70s with the
> Kottke, Fahey, Peter Laing album) He was so drunk he kept asking the
> audience if he was in tune. But once he started playing, ooh, boy!
> The best part of that evening was he opened for Odetta --The stage was
> barely lit and we heard her singing loud and clear--She was in the back 
>of
> the hall and sang her way to the stage without a mic! Incredible evening.
> J.D.
>
>> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:35:59 -0800
>> From: looppool@cruzio.com
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Subject: Fahey: a couple of questions
>>
>> Much has been said about Fahey's experiments with electronic music and
>> electric guitar
>> later in his life but i can't seem to find examples of any of it on the
>> web.
>> I subscribe to Rhapsody but they only have his acoustic stuff up to as
>> late as 2003.
>>
>> What electric records did he put out and has anyone heard the fabled all
>> electronica record
>> he's rumored to have released? I'd love to hear that.
>>
>> While we are at it.........................
>> take a gander at this lovely rendition of the Red Pony from an early TV
>> show.
>>
>> Can anyone hip me to the tuning he's using on this song.
>>
>> It looks like he rarely frets the lowest three strings (are they
>> referred to as the top strings or the botton strings, as
>> they are physically on the top of the guitar relative to the floor but
>> they are the lowest notes on the guitar)
>> except in the intro and outro with the short walking base line played
>> with a thumb.
>>
>> I know it's considered bad technique but I'm loving using my thumb to
>> fret the bass strings on some chords.
>> It just feels more comfortable to my hand than the typical barre chords
>> that everyone uses.
>>
>
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