John Fahey Double 78 rpm

John Fahey

double 78 rpm
Perfect (1404) 78rpm 1996

Morning

Evening (Not Night)

So I get a call from Fahey's soon to be manager, Dean Blackwood. he asks me if I would go to Salem, OR and record John Fahey in his hotel room. My first question is, "Who is John Fahey?" After I get the low down, I decided that he was a legend and it would be in my best interest to do it. Besides, I always dreamed about those Folkways recordings that were done in hotel rooms. Now was my chance. I rent a car and travel down there to record for about 2 hours. Damn this guy is good and he doesn't mind that I want to record experimentally by moving one of the mics around the room hand held. From this session, this set of discs was born. I used a DA-P1 with two TOA K-4 condensors. One pointed at the point were the strap should be connected on the bottom side of the guitar and one pointed where the neck meets the body. Sorry...the hand held recordings are in the archives.