Alan Bangs interviews John Fahey about his guitar style and influences. German TV.
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@BroadcastsFromPoorFarm10 жыл бұрын
It's strange to finally see Fahey speak in such a lucid and articulate form.
@lucianotaroni44223 жыл бұрын
It's the glasses
@danielstoddart2 жыл бұрын
@@lucianotaroni4422 He could speak well when he wasn't drunk. I'm pretty sure this interview was filmed before the show. I'm guessing right before showtime he got loaded as usual.
@gachitadamunga24039 жыл бұрын
Any film makers out there looking for a fresh untouched subject for a documentary - this is it. He's not just another fascinating, underapreciated artist who deserves more recognition.
@TVLIES2YOU9 жыл бұрын
Gachitadamunga There is a documentary about him and it's quite good: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX_SiayYbqadgNk
@AnthonyMonaghan Жыл бұрын
@@TVLIES2YOU It's excellent documentary. Small, unassuming, deferential and funny. Highly recommend it to anyone.
@alanpiper2061Ай бұрын
What a great interview! I bought Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death when it came out in the UK in the early 70s. I’ve heard Fahey could be very difficult but here he’s really relaxed and speaks candidly and lucidly. Magic!!!
@MontyCantsin510 жыл бұрын
Rhythm really is everything. So great to hear John Fahey talk about this in such an insightful way.
@alexyames351810 жыл бұрын
For all the Fahey uploads, you are heroic, Sir. Probably more peeks behind the mask than In Search Of Blind Joe Death in these interviews. You have done the internet a massive service. Cheers!
@TVLIES2YOU10 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this is exactly why I felt I needed to share these, lots of candid and funny insights into his very personal take on music and playing the guitar.
@FinalCurve10 жыл бұрын
TV LIES Ditto to what Alex Yames said. Thank you, TV Lies!!!!!!
@danielstoddart10 жыл бұрын
TV LIES Is the complete interview available? Is this all there is, or are there more clips?
@TVLIES2YOU10 жыл бұрын
Daniel Stoddart I hope the rest will turn up some day but this is all I could find
@scaredypicker8 жыл бұрын
Musicality over technical prowess any day of the week! I think Fahey sells himself short though. He was a very technical guitarist too, but he still had a great feeling in his playing
@guitarsmasher134 жыл бұрын
One day our culture will appreciate musicality completely over technical skill, cuz we will be more interested in the product of the imagination than the image of the artist
@asiangoofs46973 жыл бұрын
What? Technique is part of musicality
@guitarsmasher133 жыл бұрын
@@asiangoofs4697 I worded that poorly. I think a better word would have been songwriting instead of musicality, although it's a bit of both. I find John Fahey's music much more enjoyable than somebody like Eddie Van Halen even though their technical skills aren't even comparable. EVH takes the cake there, but it feels like his music exists solely to impress his audience and facilitate his image of some sort of guitar god, even if that's not intentional, while Fahey's music is very simple and accessible and it feels like he's really trying to express himself or some spiritual connection he has with his music.
@je76473 жыл бұрын
@@guitarsmasher13 they aren't comparable, but I'd argue fahey is technically adept as evh in his own right. I agree with what you're getting at though.
@gerardobarrientos31542 жыл бұрын
@@guitarsmasher13 eddie van hallen no es superior a john fahey en técnica ni nada ni john fahey superior a el los dos son de estilos muy diferentes y cada uno es muy bueno en su estilo en cuanto a lo demas si comparto contigo con lo de la espiritualidad y todo obio john fahey transmite algo enorme con su música
@kennethnick3213 Жыл бұрын
@@asiangoofs4697He never said technical skill wasn't musicality. I think he's just saying that people will stop focusing on how a person moves their fingers and if it's cool looking or fast and instead focus completely on the music itself. It's not about image but sound. I always feel like a really technical, fast, and flashy guitar players are like magicians; they're distracting you with this physically showy technical stuff from the actual sound of the music and people just stare in awe about the physical image of their moving fingers rather than the sound of what is being played.
@1HandGuitar10 жыл бұрын
U know I just heard of this guy tonight while watching A Clockwork Orange for the 200th time on TV. 1 of his albums is on the rack in the record store right next to 2001 space odessey soundtrack. What I've been missing!
@losnos793 жыл бұрын
thats amazing that is my favorite movie and I never knew that! Kubrick was a man of great taste
@1HandGuitar3 жыл бұрын
@@losnos79 yep he was a talented smart guy, like me.
@andrewpearson19036 жыл бұрын
"Most of 'em weren't any good, but a few of 'em were great" is record collecting in a nutshell. 😂 Props to this courageous dude for telling the truth about our habit
@andrewpearson19036 жыл бұрын
Also, a note: the banjo comes from Africa. The slaves imported to the US brought the instrument design with them
@dreamofshrooms9 жыл бұрын
straight to the core, genius man....
@deenibeeni393810 жыл бұрын
While he was talking about "spurious notes," I was reminded of the quote "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" (Antoine de Saint-Exupery). Most of the time less is definitely more. Pretty irritating to hear that guy call Leo Kottke one of Fahey's influences, when Fahey is the one who found Kottke & got his third record made (the first one to actually sell).
@zatoichimasseur67672 жыл бұрын
Dude Leo kotke is a pimple on John Faheys foot at best.
@gerardobarrientos31542 жыл бұрын
@@zatoichimasseur6767 toda la razón
@zatoichimasseur67672 жыл бұрын
@@gerardobarrientos3154 sin Duda.
@danielschaeffer12946 жыл бұрын
The Briish guitarists he's presumably referring to, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, did a lot of transposing of Lute music onto steel string guitar, which is why they sound "stately," though Jansch could play some really fine jazz-influenced blues. (As witness his influence on Jimmy Page.) But he never got into down-and-dirty Delta slide.
@michaelhaydn34936 жыл бұрын
Where I didn't 'know' John Fahey, I saw him live at the Hippodrome in Gainesville, Florida in 1985. I sought John out 'backstage' and we exchanged a few words. John wasn't allowing for an extensive, casual talk and that impressed me. I had bought one or two of John Fahey's guitar albums in the late '60s. I was at University in Ohio at the time. John Fahey played some part in rediscovering the late Bukka White ( Booker T. Washington White ). The late John Fahey and he had estabished his own 'Takoma' records.
@clumsystrummer6 ай бұрын
Would love to hear the complete interview. Just this clip reaffirms my acceptance and my being fine with my fanaticism of Mr. Fahey.
@lowdownshakinchill10 жыл бұрын
Hell yes, Blind Joe Death droppin some serious wisdom
@deniscassiere8 жыл бұрын
2:47 i think this is the most useful advise a musician could ever receive
@jeffreysims38312 жыл бұрын
I've always had a theory that modern electronic dance music is the logical successor to Fahey's music It's all based on that driving and shifting rhythm. What Fahey tried to capture was the early dance halls, with a solo guitarist banging out as much sound as possible, just getting the crowd going and not concerned any sophisticated melody or chord structure, just a background sound to having a helluva good time.
@ryangunwitch-black Жыл бұрын
Gonna go play guitar now!
@deefjohnholler10 жыл бұрын
i've never seen this. thank you!!!!
@pupusaslordking56173 жыл бұрын
i didnt know tom cruise and john fahey were friends !
@thomasbellino156910 жыл бұрын
Fahey is awesome
@JakobSpooner10 жыл бұрын
awesome guy
@bralingii1635Ай бұрын
I believe Kottke cites Fahey as an influence.
@HalfManThirdBiscuit7 жыл бұрын
not a musician myself, but this clip helps explain why I'm not more of a fan of someone like Geoff Achison. He's technically a marvel, a genius!, but I get no feeling from his playing. It's completely hollow emotionally.
@alexyoungen10 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know the Monroe albums he's referring to?
@TVLIES2YOU10 жыл бұрын
Fahey first exposure was 'Blue Yodel #7' and it's his favourite Monroe song: Blue Yodel No.7 - Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys 1941
@lipby4 жыл бұрын
He looks like an English professor
@je76473 жыл бұрын
he was. read this thesis on charley patton
@charliewecker10 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thanks for uploading this. ...Also, that journalist blows. Bringing up Kottke around King Fahey..tisk tisk.
@joshisanonymous10 жыл бұрын
I've only found two interviews with Fahey on KZbin, but both ask about Kottke, and his response is about the same both times. It must've been annoying being asked about the guy he signed in his own interviews, particularly this one where the interviewer doesn't even acknowledge that the influence could've went the other way.
@TVLIES2YOU10 жыл бұрын
joshisanonymous There was some influence both ways, they liked eachother a lot, Kottke covered quite a few of Fahey's songs and Fahey used some of Kottke's licks and bits like Death By Reputation. I have to agree with Fahey though: that the faster Kottke style (listen to The Last Steam Engine Train for example) doesn't have the grace and soul Fahey's version has for me, but it is exciting hearing Kottke doing his version at breakneck speed too.
@JamesScottGuitar10 жыл бұрын
TV LIES and shall we not forget Robbie Basho...who was pretty influential on Kottke as well.
@robertanderson49134 жыл бұрын
yes! , i too; am much more familiar with fahey as a grumpy old drunk !
@hearingroom10 жыл бұрын
Tom Cruise has done a great job pretending to be American!