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John Fahey - Desperate Man Blues

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Uploaded by on Oct 8, 2006

John Fahey tune set to a few of Edison's humorous short films

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  • Its a great tune.

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  • first time hearing this guy...i was missing out

  • Damn.... there are a lot of great guitarists out there as everyone knows. The common ones : Hendrix,Halen,Page,Clapton etc. but fahey is a league in his own. Can't be compared to any of them. Guitar music wouldn't be the same without him.

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  • One of my favorite Fahey songs.

  • @smp156 Screw edison tesla was king.

  • Thomas Edison was a tyrant and a corporatist.

    Nikola Tesla wanted to electrify the entire world, entirely for free.

    but thank you for this video. its really charming

  • this is, as always has been, magical.

  • Just think of the epic guitar players we wouldn't have without John's influence. Wish I could have seen him.

  • @nighttripper84 The basic tuning John Fahey used for this piece is GGDGBD. This is essentially open G tuning, but with the two base strings tuned in unison. This requires tuning your "A" string down a whole tone and the "E" string up two whole tones. Doing this puts quite a bit of tension on your "E" string. To remedy this, you can tune everything down a half tone. That is precisely what John Fahey does in this version. In reality then, the tuning used here is F#-F#-C#-F#-A#-C#.

  • @specialrider54 hey there. thanks for the info on the tuning . i am not particularly adept at open tunings so i just wanted to verify what you were saying. so is it d,G,d,g,b,G ? thanks in advance. great tune. cheers.

  • Fahey was not the fastest, or the flashiest, or the most technically adept guitarist. But he WAS the deepest!

  • @etancixelsyd Yes. He was Leo's mentor!

  • John Fahey made wonderful music. If there's a heaven he belongs there!

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