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DanaB
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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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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.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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
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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
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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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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 17, 2015 - 07:11am PT
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Here's the money shot for those willing to invest a well spent hour.
Reawakened my Fahey lunacy, HA!!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 17, 2015 - 08:05am PT
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There was always something inside of, behind, the way he named things.
Something climbers can appreciate, bizarre names!
The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
I mean c'mon, that's freeking brilliant.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 08:16am PT
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^^^Do Not Miss This Filmic History of The Man Himself.
You will know so much more about YOURSELF if you watch it than I can say.
The CHOICE is the VOICE of the Turtle or the SILENCE of the Lambs, and it is YOURS TO DECIDE.
--Old Blind Joe
http://www.johnfaheyfilm.com/the-film.html
Thxnk you, Survival--I had never heard of this till now.
Have a beautiful decay today!
MFM
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 08:37am PT
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Dancing stars over the grape vineyard
Lights from Fresno State over there a half a mile away.
Debbie lay sleeping and I lay peeping
At the fertile ground between her legs where she lay.
Get you a drink of water, babe?
I'd love one, thanks.
Will the hose do or would you rather I went into the house for some ice cold?
You'll maybe wake Terry and Joyce needs to get up to go to work. Hose.
The lights of Clovis were barely distinguishable.
The air outside the little house out back was redolent with reefer madness growing right under their bedroom window.
Terry and Joyce said in one voice through the screen window,
"How's the weather, Mouse?"
I filled the cup from the nozzle and grinned silently back, "She's a hot one."
We'd sit for hours contemplating our own transfigurations on Terry's porch.
He would put on a stack of Fahey LPs and we would pass Little Soldier Boy around.
He was Terry's Army Man roach clip, a GI in standing position who guarded our lips from being burned.
Fresno was different then, in the sixties.
You could hitchhike there in an hour from Merced.
They have since moved to the area around Eagleville, taking their nude Joyce photos,
Terry's guitar and record collection, the roach clip, and the kid.
I spent my twenty-first birthday there on their porch and didn't even know it was my birthday till the NEXT EVENING.
The bartender in the place I hitched to on Highway 41 told me I was a day late.
I slept in a field that night and made it in to work at Yo Lodge on time the morning after.
Fahey touched my life like no other musician, not even Smetana the Deaf Czech composer.
From Sligo Creek to the Moldau, streams of consciousness abound.
Fahey, Melody.
Visual artist.
http://steamboats.com/hobbies/melodyfahey.html
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 18, 2015 - 03:02pm PT
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The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions
[Click to View YouTube Video]In Fahey's own words, this is "a histrionic, disorganised outpouring of blather"
"Edited together from several pieces, the 19-minute "The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party" anticipated elements of psychedelia with its nervy improvisations and odd guitar tunings."
--Richie Unterberger in Allmusic
According to the WikiWonks, "Alan Wilson, who appears on this recording and was a member of the band Canned Heat, had once assisted Fahey in his UCLA master's thesis on the music of Charley Patton.
Fahey and Wilson duet on "Sail Away Ladies"; this version of the tune displays an eastern influence, with Wilson playing the South Indian veena.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Alan Wilson, no relation, was the Blind Owl.
He played harmonica with John Lee Hooker often and Hooker is known to have claimed that "Wilson is the greatest harmonica player ever."
The Good only die young once, but we all keep resurrecting their stuff after that. It's probably because they were better than the rest.
Greatness deserves respect. In The Case of the Blind Owl, respectacles, maybe.
He died from accidental acute barbiturate intoxication two weeks before Hendrix and a month before Janis.
Wilson was a student of early blues, writing a number of articles for Broadside of Boston newspaper and the folk-revival magazine Little Sandy Review, including a piece on bluesman Robert Pete Williams.
Robert Pete Williams - Old Girl at My Door
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOH7ebGkhQ
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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David Curry, paterfamilias of clan Curry, aka "The Stentor," passed away in 1917. He had been at war with the gov't over this and that, among which was the order to desist from the practice of Letting the Fire Fall.
After his death, Steven Mather, first director of the NPS, became sick and took a leave of absence, his spot being taken temporarily by Horace Albright, according to Shirley Sargent, the Yosemite historian.
Shirley relates, too, that
"The highlight of the summer was the reintroduction [at Albright's suggestion] of the Firefall. 'My greatest thrill was being given the assignment of throwing the first Firefall from Glacier Point,' John Fahey reminisced.
'Another fellow and I climbed the Ledge Trail to gather pine cones, start the fire and, at 8:30 p.m., when the lights were out in the camp below, we heard the Stentorian voice of Foster Curry [David's son] shouting,
'LET 'ER GO, GALLAGHER.'
Once more glowing embers spilled over the granite cliff, fanned out in a crimson veil, and died harmlessly on a ledge far below. Spectators held their breath, then expressed thrill in gasps or muttered adjectives."
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In another true-life drama, during one night a fire flared outside the gateway of Camp Curry, blamed on the ongoing rivalry with the concession calling itself The Yosemite National Park Co. Marjorie Curry, young John Fahey, and Mother Jennie Curry starred in this.
The main hydrant had been turned off. Arson was suspected.
At the same time, the mail run to Camp Curry, where there was a seasonal post office, was threatened with closure--all mail would go through rival Desmond hands at the Sentinel Hotel post office, and stagecoaches would not continue on to Camp Curry.
Mother Curry counter-attacked by giving John Fahey a loaded gun to guard the camp all night while she and Marjorie drove through wind and rain to reach San Francisco in time to persuade an influential congerssman to intercede. He was successful, and the post office remained an entity.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Here my projects rest sour rounded by the best,
A common man and so well chosen, his pick in'
So true to the blues that it makes ones hart ache
A way to wake but no bake, so hard to see
My winter hopes still un-realized, rocks,
Rocks and boulders, rocks, a soldiers ire,
The mix of me and Jar head ( with, Respect)
Is most likely a lot better un-tried,
The rocks await some very hard tries.
My pathetic form has me fallin' off
all of the above at the grade of eleven.
Gym grade? May be twelve?
Calling on and calling out all you,
plastic-pullers in the soupy nor'east
To find and send my beasts. . . .
You can use chalk but t is not needed.
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John Morton
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Dec 18, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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Here's something for you Fahey obsessives:
A friend found Fahey's dissertation in the UCLA library while doing research for an assignment. Here are his photos of 60 assorted pages: https://www.sendspace.com/file/7ojad0
title page:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 18, 2015 - 08:56am PT
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I'm not obsessive about paying to see this thesis.
Charlie lived, died, and played the blues should be a fine enough thing to say about him.
Using that as a model, let me tell you about John Fahey, who lived, died, and played primitive blues, hymns, Christmas carols, and his own "hiart" compositions on his own record label, Takoma. He liked turtles, too.
Wunnerful stuff.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 24, 2016 - 01:14pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Has not been heard on ST since November 16, 2013.
Doctor Harouni posted it.
San Bernardino has since acquired new meaning.
This musical message still reads the same.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Jan 24, 2017 - 02:09pm PT
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Is this the same John Fahey that wrote the most excellent book "The Flathead Indians"? I'm thinking not but anyways it's the best book I've read on that topic. How many JFs could there be? Copyright is 1974
Arne
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 24, 2017 - 04:27pm PT
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Kinda doubt it, but anything's possible.^^
Sharpheads, maybe. :0)
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 24, 2017 - 07:23pm PT
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University of Oklahoma
By the sixties, Guitar man was a Califorian and then Oregonian
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You are getting very sleepy.
Your eyelids are getting very heavy.
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An explanation in here of "American primitive" style (all BS).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Thinking of nita. Kind thoughts. Andy, yer so blessed. Merry Christmas.
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D A D F# A D
I sometimes come to this thread to grieve.
Some days I come to sit in the sun.
Missing my thumb tonight--bless you, Big Boy.
Wish I had a guitar--one that reaches the stars.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Steffan Grossman interview...
http://www.guitarvideos.com/interviews/john-fahey
S: The name Blind Joe Death, where did that originate from?
J: (Laughs) Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the label say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
The reason it said "blind" is because a lot of the people I learned from were on old 78 RPM records and a lot of them were blind, and their names were Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Joe Taggart, on and on, a whole bunch of them were blind.
So me and a guy named Greg Eldridge we were sitting around drinking a beer one night and I was trying to find a catchy name for the other guy and he was helping me and he finally said "Blind Joe Death", and I said "Um, that’s it".
Also I was thinking, when ever you print the word "Death" people look at it and I was thinking of record sales already even though I was only going to have a hundred copies pressed. (laughs).
Rev. Gary Davis - Candyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ
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