Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Guy Van Duser (actually, John Fahey) Message-ID: <420@scc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 18:56:11 EST Article-I.D.: scc.420 Posted: Wed Feb 13 18:56:11 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 21:41:04 EST References: <549@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 24 > > 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. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ 109 Torrey Pine Terr. ucbvax!twg --> scc!steiny Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 fortune!idsvax -/