JOHN FAHEY LIVE IN TASMANIA LP ORIGINAL PRESSING NEAR MINT
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I am selling some of the records I've had for many years in my great collection. John Fahey is as important a guitarist to me as Hendrix was. The nuances in his music are amazing, and he combines an acoustic kind of Americana in his music that both singular and yet entirely familiar. He combines the old blues masters guitar techniques with the minimalism of contemporary artists, and does it without copying anyone. While his early LPs are the one's that collectors get excited about, the later one's are just as hard to find, and offer such beautiful music. Here's a review by All Music;
AllMusic Review by Richard Foss [-]
John Fahey was well known as a perfectionist who played concerts for over two decades without releasing a live album. It was therefore something of a surprise when he not only recorded a full album in front of an audience, but did so at a concert booked on four days notice, at a hall he had never seen much less checked for acoustics, and with almost all material written on the spur of the moment. Fahey hadn't even planned on visiting Tasmania, but during an Australian concert tour he got drunk on an airplane flight and decided on the spur of the moment that he wanted to record an album there. A hall was booked, an audience rounded up, and the resulting show was recorded. The results were fantastic. The notoriously unpredictable Fahey was in a cheerful mood, playing an outstanding set and genially favoring the audience with a rambling monologue about the strangeness of finding Tasmania less wild and esoteric than he expected. A thoughtful version of "Waltzing Matilda" was a predictable crowd-pleaser, but so were more, er, esoteric pieces like "The Approaching of the Disco Void." The transcendent moment of this album, and one of the finest pieces of Fahey's career, is "Indian-Pacific R.R. Blues," a complex work that has elements of ragtime, blues, and Americana strung together into a magical whole. It was a marvelous gift to an audience that had probably never heard of him five days before, and it is fortunate indeed that this concert was not merely recorded, but captured brilliantly so that not a note was lost.
The cover front and rear are shiny and show minimal signs of wear. There are no split seams, and the spine is perfect. The labels show no sign of wear, and are beautiful. The vinyl shows the full shine as if it was just opened, and is in pristine playing condition. The sound is beautiful. A keeper of an album!
PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER LPS FOR SALE NOW ON EBAY. I AM POSTING SOME TREASURES. SOME ARE RARE AND COLLECTIBLE, AND OTHERS ARE JUST GREAT ALBUMS LIKE THIS ONE IS.price rating
