John Fahey on steel (!)

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

I had no idea he played steel, and plays very well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=axgzD4XOE9g

From '78 at Hamburg Uni.

Gary Lynch · From: Creston, California, USA

That's all he played every time I saw him. The earliest photos I have seen of him he is playing a guitar on his lap.

Check this link for a photo of him when he was really young.

http://www.slackertone.com/bands/fahey/photos/fahey1.jpg

Ben Sims · From: New Mexico

This previous discussion of a Fahey Weissenborn video on Youtube might be of interest:

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/009251.html

I was unimpressed with his playing on that one, but here he sounds a lot better.

Ben Sims · From: New Mexico

I would actually like to hear more of Fahey on steel after seeing this ... any recommendations for Fahey albums that have a significant amount of lap steel on them?

Glenn Suchan · From: Austin, Texas

Ron, Thanks for posting this. As you can tell, John Fahey was a major influence on Leo Kottke's slide guitar playing as well as his fingerstyle playing. Check out the associated link to John playing In Christ There Is No East Or West. 'Gives me chill bumps....

Incidentally, if he were still alive, tomorrow would be John Fahey's 68th birthday. (He died February 22nd 2001)

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Gary Lynch · From: Creston, California, USA

Died when he was 61 years old? I guess you need to exercise more than your fingers to keep on keeping on.

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