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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Guy Van Duser (actually, John Fahey)
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 18:56:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 18:56:11 1985
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>
> John Fahey is another story.  
> . . . he appeared to be drunk.  His
> face was red, his speech a bit slurred, and his playing seemed sloppy.
> He played aimlessly for a while, stopped to make some strange comments,
> and then played aimlessly for a while longer before leaving the stage with
> a promise to be right back.  

	Yep . . . sounds like Fahey.   He goes on and off the
wagon.   I was real into Fahey in about 1968-1972.   He was
famous for getting on stage with a gallon of rot-gut red wine and
drinking the entire gallon by the time the concert was over.
I have seen him 1/2 dozen or so times.  Occasionally, he will
drink 7-up instead of wine, indicating that he is in a sober
period of his loosing battle with alcoholism.

	Tom Waits is another one whose concerts are a chancy business.


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