John Fahey - Wine and Roses

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Watlter Neff

Watlter Neff

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@gentphilistine
@gentphilistine 12 жыл бұрын
These videos from the Hamburg concert are truly special. Every one of them. Audience members consistently look stunned when you see them. John the Baptist totally absorbed, a demon on the stage, haloed by two rays of light breaking the darkness. How can anyone not desire to become a musician after seeing and hearing this?
@adolin1338
@adolin1338 6 жыл бұрын
"John the Baptist, totally absorbed, a demon on the stage, haloed by two rays of light breaking the darkness" Hands down the best youtube comment i've ever had the pleasure of reading, rock on mark. Cant agree more about the clips of Fahey in Hamburg, other-worldly, truly incredible. I hope they still find you well after all these years
@oobieo
@oobieo 4 жыл бұрын
Love it
@BuddhaVSZeus
@BuddhaVSZeus 13 жыл бұрын
I am glad I am related to this man! he is my grandpas younger brother
@jrh11254
@jrh11254 5 жыл бұрын
BuddhaVsZeus - wow...really?!
@duckface524
@duckface524 4 жыл бұрын
That's cool
@plemgrubern
@plemgrubern 9 жыл бұрын
this is still one of my favorite fahey tunes. there's just some melancholy and ghostly mystery to it.
@tomguitaronline
@tomguitaronline 10 жыл бұрын
I started playing guitar at age 15. At that time, the beatles, stones, led zeppelin were my teachers. Since then, I studied classical Segovia style but did not become a true spiritual guitarist until I was exposed to Blind Joe Death. I listened and collected all of his albums and became a freestyle finger picker playing from the heart and soul. Many guitarists are technically greater than Fahey but few play with the feeling and inner quality that he exhibits. He has inspired a new following of acoustic guitarists that will continue to explore, splice, and improvise the blues with country, indian ragas, classical, jazz, folk and everything that is music! Enough said, His spirit lives on through my playing and others and I hope he is upstairs smiling down on us!
@KCBarr1
@KCBarr1 10 жыл бұрын
Amen friend. I have for years been a guitarist, albeit a hobbyist, more than anything else. I do a bit of finger picking, and a bit of slide, both acoustic and amplified. I had the pleasure of seeing Leo Kottke way back in the 70's. Technically, he was awesome. I had heard some John Fahey at that time, but not enough to be aware of how truly talented this man really was. Since then, it's been like, Fahey's better. No Kottke's better. Then I realized that it doesn't matter a damn who's better. It's what your ear and your heart tell you that matters, and my ear and heart love them both, along with many, many others. That said though, Fahey was something else.
@ficheye00
@ficheye00 5 жыл бұрын
Great comment.
@LosHuxleys
@LosHuxleys 4 жыл бұрын
Name technically better guitarists than John Fahey, please. I can only think of Leo Kottke and maybe Paco de Lucia... but then again I wouldn’t say they are better, just different and virtuous in their own way.
@rememberpast3985
@rememberpast3985 3 жыл бұрын
really dont think he could smile haha))
@RRLeimbach
@RRLeimbach 13 жыл бұрын
For what it's worth, I've played Fahey's stuff since about 1970 and met him about 1981, helping him carry his guitars out to his old Plymouth after a concert. He was a very nice man, contrary to legend. Also, the primary creator of fingerstyle modern guitar.
@OspreyD40
@OspreyD40 13 жыл бұрын
Also, by this time, he was commonly calling the piece, in this scary iteration "Approaching The Disco Void". Earliest title, I believe was "Wine and Roses". Then "The Red Pony". The piece evolved over time, becoming less the gently mournful song of the Red Pony days, more anxious and ... bleak.
@MososarkusN
@MososarkusN 11 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that the audience is not making noise. This deserved reverent silence, as almost everything he wrote did, for it needed space to ring. It does here.
@deenibeeni3938
@deenibeeni3938 9 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Love your dog, BTW.
@Shamino1
@Shamino1 7 жыл бұрын
The fact he could do all of this while absolutely hammered and in the deepest throwes of drunkenness is, in itself, absolutely incredible.
@dennisjcny
@dennisjcny 6 жыл бұрын
Shamino Warhen with as little as know about the human brain, don't discount the inebriating effects on some of the more creative portions of the brain. Simply don't know the effects, but we can enjoy the evidence.
@alcoholya
@alcoholya 6 жыл бұрын
this is a comment from someone who doesn't play guitar and drink heavily.. It's nearly impossible to maintain these kinds of levels of skill after a certain amount of inebriation. Which is why Shamino made that insightful comment above yours..
@jasonterry2096
@jasonterry2096 5 жыл бұрын
@@dennisjcny as a person who drinks a lot & tries to play the guitar I can tell you (at least for myself) I wouldn't be able to do anything even remotely close to this while drinking.
@IustinNitza
@IustinNitza 4 жыл бұрын
He was not drunk during this performance. You can find an interview that he gave before this concert
@TheBestBoyyeeehehe
@TheBestBoyyeeehehe 3 жыл бұрын
​ @Machete Moonlight @@jasonterry2096 It depends on the kind of drinking. Most alcoholics do not drink in the same way as somebody who parties. A regular person reveling will try to slam down drinks and get their buzz up, an alcoholic will usually just try to maintain the buzz they need. I used to sit around in my apartment and drink and play guitar all day and when the drinking habit reaches a certain point the drunkenness doesn't necessarily affect your behaviour.
@jimicoop
@jimicoop 16 жыл бұрын
John Fahey = Depth of feeling. His music reflects so much of lifes ambiguity. Mesmorizing.
@tuckercahillchambers1361
@tuckercahillchambers1361 9 ай бұрын
“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.” - Henry David Thoreau, talking about John Fahey
@woobi4739
@woobi4739 11 ай бұрын
The first video of John Fahey I ever saw. It was enough to send me down a fucking rabbit hole and influence the way I see acoustic guitar forever.
@verbaud
@verbaud 14 жыл бұрын
Saw Fahey at the Cellar Door in DC in the 70's. He wandered on stage. I thought, "Oh no, some local drunk is touching Fahey's guitar!" Then he sat down and played into heaven. Spoke all of 2-3 words, mumbled a thankyou and wandered off stage and left. A stunning performance.
@Cosmicladybug
@Cosmicladybug 3 жыл бұрын
I love this...
@nnnnnie
@nnnnnie 2 жыл бұрын
A friend and I drove from UVA/Charlottesville to DC to hear him about that time ('72/'73?) , maybe at the Cellar Door. He didn't show up. I did get to see Leo Kottke, John Prine and Mike Auldrdige about that time in small venues.
@bufatutuagonistes8876
@bufatutuagonistes8876 6 жыл бұрын
I've loved Fahey for a long time. But never thought to look for him on utube...until watching Michael Hedges got me into becoming a viewer. This is really an incredible piece, full of creative tension, peak skill, and heart. I think Wine and Roses/Red Pony are his most beautiful compositions. In my little musical world, this is one of my top two or three songs. The entire first two plus minute are an insanely intense improvisation. He was flying...but not yet gone. His fingers are moving insanely fast and with feeling. I've honestly never heard him play better. He excels.
@legbider
@legbider 15 жыл бұрын
I watched him give a radio interview at the Denver "underground" FM station Feb. "71". The interview lady mentioned "studio overdubbing", and he declared, a little peeved, that he " never overdubbed anything in his life". She got real embarrassed. He was awesome. A memorable moment for me. Thank you John!
@JDBoelter
@JDBoelter 11 жыл бұрын
"Red Pony" (or whatever the working title) is still one of the most haunting pieces I've ever heard (or ever expect to.) Wow.
@ficheye00
@ficheye00 5 жыл бұрын
Unbelievable. One of the best pieces of picking I've ever heard.
@robertchallen
@robertchallen 15 жыл бұрын
I used to play this one years ago, and if my memory is correct, it's in D minor tuning. DADFAD, instead of DADF#AD which is the regular open D tuning.that he used a lot. Have to get my guitar out to be sure though.
@bobgreen8142
@bobgreen8142 Жыл бұрын
The secret of John Fahey's technique is in how he places the guitar - on the left leg, held in balance by the right, and tilted in to the body. That way, the guitar is supported and neither hand is needed to take any of the weight of the guitar, or to balance it, so you are free just to play, and it's very comfortable too. I can sit that way for hours, my main differences are that 1) I favour a smaller-bodied guitar like my Guild M-20, and 2) on a good day I'm maybe 20% as good as Fahey (but I'm still on that trip).
@chrissteinblondie
@chrissteinblondie 16 жыл бұрын
!!!! Fahey was one of my main influences for playing modern rock guitar... he was one of the most innovative players around... i saw him in NYC in the early seventies... Wine and Roses one of my favorite of his pieces... i cant say enough how huge a fan of his i am... he was a very crazy guy though and died too early
@dancochran1689
@dancochran1689 6 жыл бұрын
Everytime i listen to Fahey i swear i hear two guitars picking, but NO..it's just John..Superlative....i heard that later on someone requested him to play this song, and he said he would never play it again, because it was way too dark...
@luminol2079
@luminol2079 10 жыл бұрын
Think about constantly changing to different open tuning, in concert, without a digital tuner. Easy for some (like Fahey, obviously) but not for most. That alone is pretty cool in my opinion.
@ficheye00
@ficheye00 5 жыл бұрын
It's fascinating to see him tuning his guitar during a song. Probably using a tuning fork in the morning, but who knows?
@stratmen
@stratmen 5 жыл бұрын
Leo Kottke, a one time student of Fahey, does the same thing made all the more difficult because he’s playing a 12 string guitar. Lots of Kottke on KZbin.
@soldelcumpleanos9535
@soldelcumpleanos9535 9 жыл бұрын
Its very spiritual... you can feel his soul on the song :)
@Fakovnik
@Fakovnik 6 жыл бұрын
best acoustic guitar song ever ?
@jrod9104
@jrod9104 4 жыл бұрын
Best acoustic guitar player* ever
@toughlikerocks
@toughlikerocks 3 жыл бұрын
Don't mind me, just here for my weekly watch.
@omnirath
@omnirath 3 жыл бұрын
See you next week !
@rpdugoni
@rpdugoni 7 жыл бұрын
I caught him in 74 on Stanford campus. Amazing!!
@mstrultan
@mstrultan 13 жыл бұрын
@phishhead11 Agreed! I am an amateur photographer and once knew a man who taught photography at a little neighborhood craft shop. He was much like your description of Kottke - technically proficient, but his pictures were soulless. Like so many who do weddings, proms, family portraits, etc. - all technique, no vision.
@TrademarkRecordings
@TrademarkRecordings 15 жыл бұрын
Is there seriously anyone out there who would give this any less than 5 stars? FYI in 2009 the audience would be all weird long-haired metalheads into Fahey, John McLaughlin, and Ian Williams. FTW.
@SerialPortExperiment
@SerialPortExperiment 13 жыл бұрын
Never realized before hearing this exactly how much John Fahey seems to be a large influence on Ben Monder's finger style pieces. Fahey was amazing.
@tommypickles7
@tommypickles7 12 жыл бұрын
what truth in his music. what freedom and truth
@communty
@communty 14 жыл бұрын
Both, depends which version you're listening to. Sometimes it's called "The Approaching of the Disco Void" aswell.
@NickBaracchi
@NickBaracchi 14 жыл бұрын
On his website johnfaheydotcom you can find some interesting tunings, tabs and lesson.
@danielackerman3159
@danielackerman3159 2 ай бұрын
Once he was lost but now he is found
@nnnnnie
@nnnnnie 12 жыл бұрын
I am a Fahey fan. I have a lot of Fahey's records around here that I used to listen to back in the day. Yes, we had big, round plastic disks that had to have a needle on it to play the sound. Now I play it mostly in my head, but I remember.
@gxtmfa
@gxtmfa 4 жыл бұрын
Dude, you know records are still quite in vogue with millennial listeners nowadays, right?
@calypsojimmy
@calypsojimmy 13 жыл бұрын
1 Leo and John loved each other's playing. 2. Strings don't break solely due to increased tension. Bigger reason for breakage = kinks in string, which can occur in 4 places: (i) the nut, (ii) the saddle, (iii) the place where string enters the tuning post, and (iv) somewhere else in the string, i.e. a defective string. Strings (esp. un-wound ones) can break @ kink-spots identified by (i-ii-iii) above, regardless of whether you are tuning up or down. But: If strings r new, theres no problem.
@je7647
@je7647 Жыл бұрын
Strings dont break if you tune down been playing forever lol
@rebeloj
@rebeloj 11 жыл бұрын
Haha that's a rather coarse way to express your pleasure, but even as a life-long metal fan I don't disagree. The power and emotion that Fahey brings out of 6 steel strings and no other accompaniment trumps anything else I ever listen to. If I could only ever listen to instrumental solo guitar for the rest of my years I would not be upset.
@global_tetrahedron
@global_tetrahedron 7 жыл бұрын
haha thanks for being nice, was just trying on some hyperbole to make a point
@jdtube
@jdtube 17 жыл бұрын
great stuff... much thanks for the posting... i have a dvd of his, with the guitar guitar appearance and the later in life show's - but these are great clips of him is younger day's - i only wish i could have seen him live... atleast i got to see kottke... 8^)
@naprode
@naprode 14 жыл бұрын
three thumbs down??? how impaired do you have to be to not like this great sound...
@angellacanfora
@angellacanfora 13 жыл бұрын
God this is gorgeous....gives me chills....
@LateNotes
@LateNotes 16 жыл бұрын
rocking blues raga magic man !
@hyperpoesia
@hyperpoesia 11 жыл бұрын
that is amazing and beautiful. do you have memories of him that you care to share?
@wertherellerbrock
@wertherellerbrock 13 жыл бұрын
Breaking strings from tuning down is more common than you think. The reason is that, unless you have several guitars -one for a given tuning-, if you tune down, you will eventually tune up, and going back and forth weakens the string to the point where it eventually may snap regardless of whether you were tuning up OR down.
@OspreyD40
@OspreyD40 16 жыл бұрын
While Fahey used thumb and index and middle finger, he explains to Laura Webber on the Guitar Guitar TV show that he drags the index finger across strings at times (When The Springtime Comes Again, and its iterations such as Mark 1:15), but that he's been unable to teach this to others. Use of your ring finger, a typical classical approach, can make up for less-than Fahey technique. He's amazingly fast with just two fingers and thumb. In this show, about at his peak of technique and speed.
@sesshomaru322
@sesshomaru322 13 жыл бұрын
This song is in Open Dm isn't it? So many of the songs he played at this concert are in such different tunings and it looks like he played them all on the same guitar. How on earth did he not break any strings retuning?
@je7647
@je7647 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it is. Pretty hardy to break strings likw that when you're never going higher than standard
@Beardaux
@Beardaux 17 жыл бұрын
this guy is amasing
@mradamcooley
@mradamcooley 16 жыл бұрын
lifechanging.
@notthebannerboys
@notthebannerboys 13 жыл бұрын
@phishhead11 Love them both and see no need to compare then as if they are sports franchises.
@OMGWUNSIU
@OMGWUNSIU 13 жыл бұрын
@phishhead11 Not everybody understands your simple but oh so accurate statement. I do and agree 110%.
@gerby90
@gerby90 12 жыл бұрын
@sandysuicide yes its the same composition. he changed the composition as well as the title throughout his career..
@gallopinghost74
@gallopinghost74 12 жыл бұрын
It's a medley. It commonly played them live. I often wondered if it was pre-meditated, but he seemed to just go with it.
@whoisit01
@whoisit01 16 жыл бұрын
i feel so lucky to have discovered this guy out of nowhere when everybody else in my generation likes hip-hop and "pop-punk" emo shit from delta blues to classic rock...im never goin back to that pop crap EVER this is the best!
@slubberde
@slubberde 16 жыл бұрын
Buna ziua meloman: back in the early 80's before I went to England to live, I attended a Fahey concert @ Canal St Travern in Dayton, Oh. and gave Fahey the record "Cornflower Suite" by Suni McGrath, which sites Fahey for the concecption of the art on the liner. Fahey responded by giving me his "Christmas" lp. Any interested in the music of Fahey should check out the music of Suni McGrath on my channel. This will graduate the listener to the next level of solo 6&12 string guitar.
@guillermodeolloqui329
@guillermodeolloqui329 3 жыл бұрын
increible
@HawertyAlt
@HawertyAlt 16 жыл бұрын
Yup, there is classical, which uses the ring finger as well, among other styles...
@54spiritedwill54
@54spiritedwill54 16 жыл бұрын
fahey rules!
@mark1800
@mark1800 15 жыл бұрын
this video is too good to not have the sound track synchronised properly.
@Greenalex89
@Greenalex89 13 жыл бұрын
This is footage from the german TV channel WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), I´m surprised, when was that? If it´s for that purpose I need my TV back..
@russelsheartinacage
@russelsheartinacage 16 жыл бұрын
this is such a brilliant song. I posted a vid of Red Pony, based on the version on the "John Fahey plays "Red Pony" 1969" vid. Check it out and let me know what you guys think! Im working on this version at the moment, so hopefully that will be up soon.
@SkiyeSounds
@SkiyeSounds 15 жыл бұрын
brilliant
@FinalCurve
@FinalCurve 13 жыл бұрын
@shazaaammm Go to his website, look up the tabs :)
@rebeloj
@rebeloj 13 жыл бұрын
@moneyquickeasy I do. :) It's great music to program to.
@genesssa
@genesssa 13 жыл бұрын
@Adeptmind i understand his point. i still think promoting that kind of comparison, and encouraging people to go one way or another, is counterproductive. i happen to be a fan of both. i am not concerned with their different techniques. i am concerned with my enjoyment of what they do, not the relative benefits of what one does over what the other does. g
@dantean
@dantean 13 жыл бұрын
@phishhead11 You are now the winner.
@extinctlyville
@extinctlyville 14 жыл бұрын
@lemonsdontcry I've played for almost 20 years now and love screwing with tunings, can't say I've broken a string tuning down to my memory. If I did, I'd be looking for a reason why, as steel strings don't break easily on a properly set up guitar. For open E, use a capo so you don't put your guitar through hell and end up doing odd things like breaking strings while tuning down.
@je7647
@je7647 2 жыл бұрын
Yes this guy is just wrong you don’t break a string tuning down
@genesssa
@genesssa 13 жыл бұрын
@phishhead11 so no one is allowed to appreciate both of them, each for what he is, two different things, really? one has to win and one has to lose? what a warped view of music. g
@fenderboy88
@fenderboy88 14 жыл бұрын
@bjoel125 Idol has also being a competition where the contestants play thier own musical instruments not just singing ive seen a fe wof these contestants with a guitar in thier hand. The so called singer song writers on Idol that think they are the next whatever they are proclaiming to be,using idol as a quick and easy road to fame. As Tommy Emmanuel said''there are no shortcuts''
@CfenlightenmentOrg
@CfenlightenmentOrg 14 жыл бұрын
@robbieborne Weren't they roommates? And Dr. Demento was his manager.
@mwmlol
@mwmlol 13 жыл бұрын
love the people in the audience at 3:29: " O_O "
@89kids
@89kids 16 жыл бұрын
If you want hear something special check out anything by Leo Kottke; he the guy that upon first hearing made fahey reply "what the "F", how did he do that?".
@shazaaammm
@shazaaammm 13 жыл бұрын
Does Fahey have any more songs that are in this tuning? (Dm tuning, right?)
@davo171
@davo171 16 жыл бұрын
Some say he was at his prime in the mid 70's. The 80's were not good to him.
@je7647
@je7647 2 жыл бұрын
He was still a phenomenal player up until about the mid 90s
@SoftCouch
@SoftCouch 17 жыл бұрын
Not to mention his finger style only uses Thumb, Pointer and Middle, watch closely, look at the metal finger picks on the mentioned fingers. That is mind boggling.
@DianeRicco-no5nh
@DianeRicco-no5nh 2 ай бұрын
My first picking😊
@OMGWUNSIU
@OMGWUNSIU 13 жыл бұрын
@WildRenegade01 4 people need to discover "Q-tips". Great for cleaning the sh*t out of the ears!
@clappzzz
@clappzzz 3 жыл бұрын
Primitive magic
@mark1800
@mark1800 15 жыл бұрын
good comment.
@friendlier
@friendlier 13 жыл бұрын
@genesssa I find so many people think that way about music. "Are you a Beatles or Stones person?" etcetera. Choosing a side like that is supposed to show that you are an expert on both. Inane and childish.
@hyperpoesia
@hyperpoesia 11 жыл бұрын
ain't that the truth
@omnirath
@omnirath 2 жыл бұрын
If you don’t hear god at the moment man you’re deaf
@jeannenorris
@jeannenorris 14 жыл бұрын
aa6757 just stating the obviouse (sic) and missing the sublime.
@PSLegend999
@PSLegend999 4 жыл бұрын
Isn't this red pony?
@je7647
@je7647 2 жыл бұрын
a few of his tracks have interchangeable song titles
@VladTepeshu
@VladTepeshu 11 жыл бұрын
uh!
@fenderboy88
@fenderboy88 14 жыл бұрын
Wow,ripping introduction and so underrated,you dont see any of the American idol signer song writer wannabes play guitar like this
@flippingbutterfly
@flippingbutterfly 13 жыл бұрын
Is that a metal fretboard?
@sandysuicide
@sandysuicide 12 жыл бұрын
isn't this red pony?
@bufatutuagonistes8876
@bufatutuagonistes8876 6 жыл бұрын
Red Pony and Wind and Roses are the same song. Red Pony is the most intense and consistently remarkable piece of music I've ever experienced. Wine and Roses too. I'm a Fare Forward Voyages boy.
@fgldnglbs
@fgldnglbs 12 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately because of his bout with Epstein-Barre, his ability to play as he did was gone by the late 90's. His style by then was slow and ghostly, as when I heard him at the Khyber Pass Pub.
@barutha
@barutha 13 жыл бұрын
@flippingbutterfly gay
@BikeIntelligencer
@BikeIntelligencer 11 жыл бұрын
Unfortunate that the sound is not sync'd to the visual.
@alcoholya
@alcoholya 6 жыл бұрын
this drunken wizard from planet Alcoholia needs a haircut.
@studiotrans
@studiotrans 16 жыл бұрын
You must be deaf. Even Fahey said Kottke was better. I love Fahey's music and have spent many years learning to play a few of his songs. Kottke's version of Fahey's songs were always better than Fahey's original. Kottke loves Fahey too.
@alkahol6289
@alkahol6289 6 жыл бұрын
studiotrans kottke’s playing is emotionally/spiritually dead. He does not have personal relationship with the instrument. Technique wise he’s generally more skilled than fahey but that’s it, in all other aspects he falls miles short.
@je7647
@je7647 2 жыл бұрын
if you actually think Kottke is better you probably dont even like music
@Beardaux
@Beardaux 17 жыл бұрын
this guy is amasing
@darkworld8
@darkworld8 17 жыл бұрын
fahey rules!
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