While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.John Fahey
Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
John Fahey
Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here.
John Fahey
Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.
John Fahey
How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
John Fahey
They are too focused on the audience rather than on their own emotions, or they are too focused on technique or perhaps on both.
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