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DanaB
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CT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 15, 2015 - 05:51pm PT
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I'm sure there are fans of John Fahey that post here, and I just finished watching a documentary about him, "In Search of Blind Joe Death." Pretty nice. Fahey's book is worth checking out, as well. "How Bluegrass Music Ruined My Life."
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DanaB
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CT
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2015 - 07:06pm PT
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Is that pillar near Sixish?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Feb 15, 2015 - 07:14pm PT
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No NO It is here in the suburbs of Connecticut!
this is now sitting in plain view of a very busy road! (not the same pinnacle as the other one)
5.6 - 5.12d thirty plus lines + more to do!
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DanaB
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CT
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 16, 2015 - 03:27am PT
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Yes, something about the nature of the rock told me it was not the 'Gunks, but it was the only guess I had. How far is it from Little Poland?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2015 - 06:06am PT
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And the voice of the turtledove was heard throughout the land.
Let us play a hymn and see if Fahey comes out of his shell.
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I'm Mouse. I'm the biggest fan of John.
I'm glade he's not a singer.
I purchased my first LP in Berkeley, California, where the misguided John was at one time a philosphy student, and who came to loathe the folkies like Pete Seeger.
I was introduced to John Fahey "hiart music" by one Terry Miller, a collector of blues records.
I became instantly a collector of liner notes with that purchase.
See Mr. Flea, Fahey's collector acquaintance.
I have been to Tacoma, Wahington, but never to Tacoma Park, Maryland.
There was an article in the SF Chronicle years ago, like maybe ten, about some guys from Berkeley, California, who were resurrecting Mr. Fahey's musical style.
I once heard him in Newport Beach, California, in 1972, at the Bear's Lair, on the beach, right off the coastal highway, a difficult road to travel.
I once WITNESSED his glory at the A.P. Gianini School auditorium in SF in late 1968. He was preceded in that performance by Mr. Sandy Bull, who had just gotten ripped off for his electric Black Widow.
Do you have any good stuff hidden away in your closet or attic?
How about your grandmother, who is probably my age, which is not as old as some mossbacks, but close/
R.I.P., John, you iron man.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnown Among the Diabase, I see your five pound fish and raise you.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 16, 2015 - 06:37am PT
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John and Leo were big among climber/guitarists in SoIll. We even have an overhanging route there called 'My Feet Are Smiling'.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2015 - 07:21am PT
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TT, days are gone by.
Golden Bear it was.
The mem dims.
It is simply complicated.
Thx.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 16, 2015 - 08:31am PT
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Great thread!!
The stories behind the stories are always fascinating to me, and Fahey's is another that grips the old heart strings.
His brilliance, his troubles, his disappearance, up to the point where he is "re" discovered living pretty much penniless, in a flea hotel and helped back to his feet?
Damn....
Why haven't they made a movie about this guy yet?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 16, 2015 - 10:05am PT
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Going on road trips and searching for "lost" Charley Patton records was one of Johns early drugs of choice.
Very interesting, Charley Patton. I swear that man had some white blood in him. I mean look at his features!
Anyway, Spoonful Blues, he never actually completes a sentence about cocaine. Check it out!!
That's some haunting sh#t right there.
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Spoonful Blues
(spoken: I'm about to go to jail about this spoonful)
In all a spoon', 'bout that spoon'
The women goin' crazy, every day in their life 'bout a...
It's all I want, in this creation is a...
I go home (spoken: wanna fight!) 'bout a...
Doctor's dyin' (way in Hot Springs!) just 'bout a...
These women goin' crazy every day in their life 'bout a...
Would you kill a man dead? (spoken: yes, I will!) just 'bout a...
Oh babe, I'm a fool about my...
(spoken: Don't take me long!) to get my...
Hey baby, you know I need my...
It's mens on Parchman1 (done lifetime) just 'bout a...
Hey baby, (spoken: you know I ain't long) 'bout my...
It's all I want (spoken: honey, in this creation) is a...
I go to bed, get up and wanna fight 'bout a...
(spoken: Look-y here, baby, would you slap me? Yes I will!) just 'bout a...
Hey baby, (spoken: you know I'm a fool a-) 'bout my...
Would you kill a man? (spoken: Yes I would, you know I'd kill him) just 'bout a...
Most every man (spoken: that you see is) fool 'bout his...
(spoken: You know baby, I need) that ol'...
Hey baby, (spoken: I wanna hit the judge 'bout a) 'bout a...
(spoken: Baby, you gonna quit me? Yeah honey!) just 'bout a...
It's all I want, baby, this creation is a...
(spoken: look-y here, baby, I'm leavin' town!) just 'bout a...
Hey baby, (spoken: you know I need) that ol'...
(spoken: Don't make me mad, baby!) 'cause I want my...
Hey baby, I'm a fool 'bout that...
(spoken: Look-y here, honey!) I need that...
Most every man leaves without a...
Sundays' mean (spoken: I know they are) 'bout a...
Hey baby, (spoken: I'm sneakin' around here) and ain't got me no...
Oh, that spoon', hey baby, you know I need my...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 16, 2015 - 10:57am PT
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I saw Mr. Fahey perform in Berkeley.
Did anyone ever go to the Four Muses in San Clemente? I saw John Hammond there, did not see Jackson Browne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROXT6hf3MU
Anyone ever go to the Finnish Brotherhood Hall? I did not. Hardly even knew I was Finnish in those days.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Feb 16, 2015 - 01:01pm PT
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Once saw Fahey and Kottke play in Jackson, Wyo., summer of '90 or '91, I guess. I was hoping for a Last Steam Engine duet, but no luck.
If you like John Fahey, I'd suggest checking out Mance Lipscomb and Rev. Gary Davis. Less similar and better known, Mississippi John Hurt.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 16, 2015 - 01:33pm PT
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Yeah, one of the SoIll boys went on to Rev. Gary Davis, Fats Waller, Joplin/Ragtime, jazz, and of late mainly playing competition Sambas from northern Brazil.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 17, 2015 - 05:37am PT
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Ah yes Max head Room, room to move on outa here. I had a close friend with that flat top hair cut, A natural, with a gift, a well shorn climber.
but a lazy drunken sott, by lazy I mean don't tie me up, or tie in!
He climbed with us till into the tens then he retreated into the PBR'z
and stayed at the bottom, Of the bottle.
He taught snow boarding at a family mountain,Loon in jacksonN.H.? I think it is there?
also his living worth, he was kept at a cool place, The lost River tourist trap camp spot,
His name was a fantastic one, and one I use with no shame,
Trace Reddington Mason the third, I wonder an' doubt that he made a fourth.
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We laught that on climbs in the gunks in the mid grades, he would spend time and leave in
sticks and twigs, his moniker, T R M III, and a picture, well, actually a stick picturgraph,
That showed in arrows that this chalk trail was not the easy line but some harder,variation.
edit: She and Ryan Adams too do somme sweet stuff
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