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Thread #31542   Message #414461
Posted By: Art Thieme
09-Mar-01 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Memories of JOHN FAHEY
Subject: RE: Memories of JOHN FAHEY
I think I may have posted my only memory of John in another thread but what the heck.
It was at a festival at CHELSEA HOUSE in Brattleboro, Vermont. I had been paid $50.00 to ride a Geyhound bus 1000 miles from Chicago to do this. Actually it was quite nice except for the bad payday, but all I remember of that week was Fahey. He was quite drunk when he came on stage to good applause. Then he sat down to pick. The audience was completely quiet !!! John tuned for a good 10 minutes, looked up and yelled at the top of his lungs into the mike, "SHUT THE FUCK UP !!!" Then he began to play.

That's it. I don't remember the music other than it was his typical "head music"-----as we called it in the '60s.

Art Thieme