Talk:John Fahey (musician)

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Contents 1 personal comment 2 miscellaneous 3 Asperger's Syndrome? 4 Fair use rationale for Image:JohnFahey.jpg

[edit] personal comment

I worked with John for a few months in 1999 to shortly before his death. First as tour manager on his UK tour in 1999 and then getting some bookings for him in the USA and Canada.

John was a hero, a great guitarist and a really nice person, once you got past his prickly exterior.

I wrote something about him on my website http://www.pkmusicstuff.co.uk/fahey.html.

It sums up what I think about John and his music.

Fare Forward Voyager!

Paul Kelly —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.39.112.50 (talk)

[edit] miscellaneous

Minor Edit, added American Primitivism and wikified Takoma.Felix-felix 21:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Needs something adding about Fahey's often bizarre humour and prickly relationship with the "folk revival". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.3.248.243 (talk)

12 Feb : Note : I removed the following phrase: "including the extremely obscure but influential Blind Joe Reynolds (who recorded one 78 with Paramount in 1929)," as it isn't true, and even if it was, why pick out one of the dozens of influential 78s Fahey immersed himself in? P Bryant —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.30.26.150 (talk)

[edit] Asperger's Syndrome?

There has been quite a lot of discussion among those who knew him about whether John Fahey had Aperger's Syndrome. I knew him back in Berkeley during the early 1960s and in retrospect, i think that this was part of his oddness, and that the drinking may have been his way to subdue his social awkwardness. Look at the videos of the 1969 interview with Laura Weber (currently on youtube) and notice his lack of eye contact, inability to take or make a joke, flat literalness of speech, strangely skewed head movements ... then fast forward to the 1978 Hamburg concert -- by then his drinking had bloated him, but he was still doing very weird things with his head and body and making no social gstures at all. When i knew him, he was not only strange but he drank a lot, and so i also think that delaying any mention of his drinking problem until the "later years" section as it is now on the page is bogus. Anyway, think about the Asperger's thing, whoever is writing this bio, because it explains a lot more than mere alcoholism does, when you put it all in place. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.142.90.34 (talk)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:JohnFahey.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)