Are they lazy or awesome?
I'm a lousy guitar player, but I can entertain myself for an hour sliding around in open G with a drum machine for structure.

Shut up and make some shit.

I love open E. Great for lousy guitar players!! lazy AND awesome.

Finger-Pick that shit!

I love Open G. Lets you play cool riffs effortlessly. The only problem I've noticed is the guitar doesn't stay in tune very well once I've switched back to standard tuning. For this reason, I always use my "special open G guitar" ($99 strat copy) if we're gonna play a song where I play in open G.

My cyclical obsession with John Fahey has gotten me interested in open tunings again. Gotta retrieve my 12 string sos i can tune to low open C.

John Fahey

Schooley keeps talkin bout this dude...I have yet to hear him.

OPEN G RULES!

Open D is fun.

Look, Ma, no hands!

open E. i like that. ANd yea its fun with a drum machine. One man jam sessions.

John Fahey
he did the blind joe death stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Joe_Death

you can find the reissues every now and then

Yeah, check out Fahey already, Edgar! There's a Rhino anthology double cd that should be find-able just about anywhere. Blind Joe Death is where it's at, tho', if you can scrounge that alb.

I use open G and open E. Good enough for R.L., good enough for me.

I have been nerding out on the fingerpicking for the past few months, and it's paid off enough that I can actually play some of Leo Kottke's first alb now. A Fahey protege, but more technically proficient, his first alb came out on Fahey's label. His later stuff tends toward lame, but that first LP , "Six and Twelve String Guitar," is most fine. "Busted Bicycle" is completely bad-ass. He uses some open-C-tuned-down-to-E super low tuning that sounds pretty heavy. But I don't have a twelve string, unfortunately. Don't know that I'd want to have to tune one, anyway.

Yes, lazy AND awesome indeed. Donna worry 'bout it.

somewhere here are fahey comments

http://www.goner-records.com/board/index.php?action=vthread&forum=4&to pic=29591&page=0#msg410074

His later stuff tends toward lame,


i think he matures after that first: more comfotrable with singingg, more range in material

Mudlark
Greenhouse are awfully good from that same period

but you're right: then he becomes a leon redbone figure in the 80's

open pussy rules,
you bunch of gay twats

(and fahey ruled too)

red eyed willie?

Well I'l be damned.

As you wish.

Nah, just hadn't seen your name in a while.
Move back to Vegas yet?

Fuck no! If I never see that town again it'll be too soon. I just moved from Oaktown to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. I've been a goner goner for a long time but Bazooka Joe's wedding reminded me that you all were here so I'm back from the grave.

i tune to EBEEBE