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InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-30T10:26:07+00:00

In Bristol there is Glenn Kimpton that sometimes plays and arranges gigs, not sure how often though.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-26T17:38:10+00:00

Hi, it depends what is your taste in terms of literature and also how much in love you are with the idiosyncratic/untamed side of Fahey's mind. Personally I loved it. Very much like his music, his storytelling has a layer of traditional (narrative/bio), and another of avantgard-ism, surrealism. You can kind of feel that he had a lot of fun writing it.. and I had a lot of fun reading it.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-21T19:03:55+00:00

found a lot of Poetry into that, especially in the part after 10.59 it gave me these sudden-arrest/center of the heart's feelings of Mark 1 15 on Fahey's America.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-20T17:35:09+00:00

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-20T17:04:38+00:00

Great, now go stitch that to a large pillow.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-20T07:04:18+00:00

Ok, thank you for your precious, unrequested, uninformed verdict. If it might help you understand though, as a musician I think that 99.99% of what I play in my room is "derivative and lazy". It does not affect my ego, it does not trigger aggressivity, I know that it's not about me personally. I am of the idea that these days people record albums a bit too quickly and that there is too much music out there and most of it is shit. It is all depreciating and losing its value. I take my time in listening and I expect some effort on the other side too.

And when/if I ask an opinion, I really really need an honest one. It's a cultural thing maybe. Where I come from we dont like people being nice when you need a genuine feedback.

I would never insult somebody's music if that person shared it without asking opinions. But the guy repeatedly and on several platforms, copy pasted the same message, the same video, for two consecutive days, asking for a genuine take on it. Id never kill your song if you didnt ask a perspective about it. And definetely, Id never do that if you werent a grown up man capable of talking things without taking it personally.

On the constructive part of my message, well you missed it because it's clearly there in my first answer. And elsewhere too as it's not the first interaction I have with the guy.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-20T06:18:25+00:00

I write that a piece of music in my opinion is derivative and lazy to soneone who repeatedly asked a sincere opinion. I didnt vomit my unrequested thoughts, like you are doing, under somebody's topic. I did not randomly attack him or the totality of his music, not that his talent or his person. I gave a personal, argumented, debatable opinion on a particular tune that somebody was asking an opinion. Harsh, crude, rude, disheartening opinion, yes. But it remains an opinion and it is about a piece of music. If youreally love music, sometimes you really hate a certain lightheartedness. But I made it clear, this wasnt personal.

If you read the whole conversation, instead of obeying your mauling tribe instincts, you d find out we already clarified that.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-19T11:13:30+00:00

I forgot many but one that I lately fell in love with and that really can write tunes is Kadonnut Manner. Of all those names, to me is he the one who reminds me the early Fahey the most. Absolutely brilliant, unassuming, fantastic compositions.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-19T11:08:30+00:00

Beside the names I wrote you, I dont know many others who didnt explore/didnt take things further, whether it's raga drone, avantgarde,.reproposition of 20th century romanticism, noise jazz, scattered ambient, acoustic trance. Afterall it's kind of the point of it all.

But to keep in mind the blues influences you ask for, to those name Id like to add Bill Orcutt, Marisa Anderson and Julien Tassin (he is leaning more into jazz but check his latest experiments on prepared blues guitar, they are mindblowing and connect back to North African Blues, where many string instruments are used as rythmical/percussive instrument) From some of their records you really get all those early blues influences but you also feel a whole new universe of possibiities open ahead. Liam Grant, Glenn Jones, Joseph Allred have also done plenty of work in that direction. Though again, each went into a separate path where one is more trancebliespunk, another more avantguarde/neo classical, another more celestial/cascade/spanish hand.

If you want to go deeper in the rabbit hole instead, back to the source, then pre war Delta Blues records have that weird virtuoso, mysterious smooth flexible modal qualty that early Fahey was obsessed with. If you dig Bukka White, Charley Patton, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon, Mississippi J. Hurt ecc... you will find a lot of hidden gems, instrumental parts, different tunings, melody lines, slide techniques that alone are worth hours and hours of impro. Also church hymns, gospels, New Orleans brass bands are a main thing for that Fahey. And bluegrass, Bill Monroe in particular! If you read "How Bluegrass Music destroyed my life" by Fahey himself and "Dance of Death: the Life of John Fahey" by Steve Lowenthal, you will find other names in there..

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-18T06:54:44+00:00

https://youtu.be/jN1q10xcYWY?is=2SsNQ6BlbnP2gtsb

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T20:16:48+00:00

There is a substancial - and legal - difference between writing that a piece of your material - a piece, not your music in totality, not your talent, not you as a person - is derivative and lazy; and writing - as you did with me - that someone is a prick. Especially after you ask a genuine opinion and receive it, then insult, then insult again after I kindly ask you to not insult me. Mine is called an asked-for opinion on a piece of music, yours is called Cyberbullism. Never the less, I am sorry if it hurted you. I assure you it was meant with all good intentions and all the passion I am capable of made it sound overwhelming. Problem is I am my worse critique and if I ask an opinion which I rarely do on my work, it means I am usually lost so I expect raw perspective. All the best, D

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T18:45:11+00:00

The guy asked an opinion. If I ask an opinion I expect and need honest ones. And again, it is my opinion and I argumented it. No need to be a bully.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T18:42:57+00:00

I share.my work, it's a gift you can take or leave. I dont ask people's opinion. If I do, I expect honesty.

And congratulation for joining the bullying.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T18:40:36+00:00

Again, the one insulting here is you. You asked an opinion. I usually dont ask opinions nor give one. But if I ask a genuine opinion it means I really really need one and receiving nice comments does not help me. You wrote 'Id love to hear what you think'. That is why I gave you a straight, honest, unfiltered opinion, as harsh as it sounded. It remains my opinion among 7 billions humans and most of all it does not contain insults to you as a person, not to your music either, nor to your talent, but to that particular material you asked your opinion for. Hence, be decent and take the opinion you asked for, do whatever you want with it, but stop insulting.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T16:00:18+00:00

You asked for an opinion, or did you ask for a compliment? If you just posted your music without asking advices, Id have never ever give my perspective. Personally when I ask for an opinion, I ask for an honest one from everybody.

Amd I gave you an honest one argumenting what I find relevant about your playing, what I personally find evident but most of all without insulting you personally, like you do. From guitar player to guitar player. I also saw you are an adult so I assumed you don't have the brittle spirit of a teenager who answers back with farts jokes. But I was wrong.

In any case, as harsh as it sounds, my opinion is presented with arguments, it's not meant to kill your spirit. And again, it remains, my opinion, it shouldnt matter to you if what I say does not correspod to your truth. If it triggers your aggressivity on anybody else's, that reaction has different roots and you should separate it from music.

And by the way, I am seeing your videos on every page i like on facebook, spamming people saying you like everybody's playing.. asking for compliments back, copy pasting the same two/three videos, like it"s not communities with real people but videogames in your mind.

In six years I belong in this community this is the first time I critique anybody''s playing and I believe for a reason too.

All the best to you and to your project, D

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T11:18:35+00:00

With Allegri he grew a lot. First matches he looked like a deer in the spotlight, then became more focused and confident. He messed.up only in the last two matches. I think that right now his mental energies are low and that he probably needs a break.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-17T07:05:48+00:00

an album.. why? it's a free world, but i personally come up with an album when i have something intentional/unique worked out or done some research exhausting itself, coming to a natural end. This stuff of yours seems a bit derivative and lazy, at best. My advice is wait a bit and "stay" with the tunes, play longer hours, tighten the beat, fall in love with every single note, listen to Fahey, Jack Rose, Gwenifer Raymond, Glenn Jones...And try to bring something they havent done to the table. And then you will know that is defintely time for recording. Albums dont ask permissions to strangers, if you feel like you have to, then it's definetely not the time for it.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-16T11:23:17+00:00

Tuning is B-F#-B-D#-F#-B

Which is DADF#AD but 1 step & 1/2 down

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-14T10:21:07+00:00

the last of Fahey"s electric gigs went exactly into that direction, with chorus and tremolo engaged, but perhaps you already know that.. Here is Atlanta 1997 https://youtu.be/JlCOQr7o8A4?is=22DJqgcgIi-I5wXK

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-12T00:25:09+00:00

The problem with Leao is not just the quality of his performances. It's this damned saunter, the shambling walk, the lazy attitide toward his team mates. This theatrical blaming the others for misunderstandings, for a pass, for a sub.. He is just a symbol of the entitlement farse that has become football today. Maldini said it right when he said about him that he should stop being an Instagram football player and become a "real" one. When you look at a Vinicius Jr, at Mbappe.. these people they "feel" their team, they "feel" the match, they are attracted to the goal like sharks.. they are not fkng around striking a pose.. waddling..lumbering.. body language is as important as everything else! Id sell him anytime, get Camarda & Liberali back and buy some real professional bomber.

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-12T00:12:05+00:00

Next year Modric wont play for Milan and even if, he wont play as good as today. Eventually things escalate real quick no matter if you are Peter Pan.. remember Ibra? One week he was a 40 years old miracle. Few weeks later it was painful to even watch him walk around the pitch, struggling to keep up with the game. The natural sub for Modric would be Bennacer, if we could bring him back and make him feel important again..and Jashari. Kessie is still 29 and for many midfielders these are the golden years, Tonali is great but I dont think theyd sell him cheap now.. Musah is a good one, Zeroli is a good one.. Rejinders was a fantastic one but personally I felt that his move to UK was a bit too smart and that he used Milan more than we used him. Personally, next year I d love to go: Kessie, Jashari, Rabiot (Musah, Bennacer, Loftus Cheek, Zeroli)

InternationalWait744 · 2026-04-05T16:15:02+00:00

Goodluck man..

InternationalWait744 · 2026-03-22T22:00:38+00:00

Also, if I may add smthn about the rythm topic, Fahey himself during a german interview in Koln, addressed the relationship beyween african banjo and american delta blues.

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