Any like this guy John Fahey? Its pretty interesting to read

Fahey is my idol. Probably the only guy I can think of who basically played music that was already well established in musical canon but made it into something completely different while still revering it. /mu/ rarely talks about him.

Check out Jack Rose, Robbie Basho, and Daniel Bachman if you like him OP

>>69343269
this fahey bio? i wanna read what you read
https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Death-Fahey-American-Guitarist/dp/1613745192

>>69343630
>ly guy I can think of who basically played music that was already well established in musical canon but made it into something completely different
are you joking?

>>69343269
Sandy Bull
Sir Richard Bishop
Leo Kottke
John Renbourn
Six Organs of Admittance

>>69343630
>/mu/ rarely talks about him.
How's the first month treating you?

>>69343676
no just general shit

its like the song composition became more complex but bizarrely so, like there was a rhythm going on only he could hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qd7pWITPQQ

This guy was John Fahey's 'student'
He was broke and homeless so this guy let John Fahey live with him who was also broke I guess and they had no electricity or anything and recorded a couple albums as a band called Cul De Sac

He is OK. Once you learn a little fingerpicking, and switch to open tuning, you realize it's very easy to make copy-cat songs of his though.

>>69346371
lol

This is the kinda shit you say when you just learn how to dick around in open tunings. But no, it's not at all easy to replicate Fahey, hopefully you'll realize that soon enough.

>>69346921
Sorry, it really is. I can play pretty much any of his tunes and not hard to make one very similar.

Not saying he wasn't talented or innovative - just takes away some of the magic when you realize there isn't a whole lot to it.

>>69343630
t. embryo

>>69346955
I'm not talking about actual technical difficulty, none of his stuff is particularly hard to get down, especially by classical guitar standards, but people have been trying to compose like Fahey ever since he started doing his thing and no one has been able to match him.

Believe me, I thought the same shit whenever I got mildly adept at fingerpicking, but there's a magic to his work that is not so easily captured.

>>69347065
Nah. It's actually the opposite. People have to try NOT to sound like him because it's very easy to.

>>69347106
lol whatever dude