tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743312903639628209.post2903736630013942723..comments2023-04-09T04:15:23.823-07:00Comments on Gimme An F: Bacon and Day Senorita guitarCountry Joe McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00443052178109282811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743312903639628209.post-7616798761277581962012-10-23T20:21:12.453-07:002012-10-23T20:21:12.453-07:00Fahey played the Bacon & Day on a TV interview...Fahey played the Bacon & Day on a TV interview show called "Guitar, Guitar" in 1969. It's pretty funny to watch him interact with the rather straitlaced classical-playing lady host. Here's a portion where he plays a pretty devastating version of "The Red Pony": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSh-YsyjpXk<br /><br />Great story, Joe and John. That guitar's had quite a life!Hank Tilburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13570882542670808159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743312903639628209.post-56528604230269846272012-05-06T06:01:41.056-07:002012-05-06T06:01:41.056-07:00News for Country Joe and others:
My name is John T...News for Country Joe and others:<br />My name is John Titford, and I live in England.<br />I was inspired to play guitar by a high school pupil at a school in Cambridgeshire at which I was teaching in the mid 1960s. He in turn was inspired by John Fahey and others.<br />We admired Fahey's Bacon & Day Senorita (don't you love the mirror image of the guitar on the Fahey album? As if he was left-handed!).<br />Later, I was at San Francisco State College in the early 1970s, and many times paid a visit to Jon Lundberg's place.<br />After returning to England to live, I paid a visit to California a few years later and literally stumbled across Subway Guitar Store in Berkeley.<br />The guy there showed me a few Martins, and asked if anything else might interest me. Jokingly (and to get safely out of the store without making a purchase) I said: "No, not unless you've got a Bacon and Day for sale, ha, ha".<br />He asked me what I knew about the Bacon and Day that John Fahey had played. I said that I'd read that it was then owned by Country Joe MacDonald. <br />"True," he said. "Country Joe has had a messy divorce, is away playing in Oregon, and has left instructions with his brother to sell the B&D".<br />"Where does the brother live?" I asked.<br />"About four blocks down the street..."<br />I couldn't believe the coincidences involved in all that. I garnered some dollars from a friend, and went back to Berkeley to buy the guitar.<br />When I got there, a consortium of guys (Marc Silber and others) said (quite rightly) that they weren't happy about this classic American guitar going to some jerk from England whom they didn't know, unless I could prove that I was a worthy owner. They auditioned me. In those days I could knock out Fahey and other pieces quite well, so they agreed to let the guitar go. I was thrilled and astonished.<br />When I arrived home, I took the guitar to a repairer in London, Sam Li, because it had a badly busted neck near the head. <br />Then a friend and I took the B&D around to the house of our friend who had inspired us both to play in the first place. We blindfolded him and told him to play the guitar. What does it sound like? We asked. My God, it sound like Fahey's Bacon & Day! Blindfold off. Amazement and amusement all round.<br />Some years later I sold the B&D to this same friend.<br />When America friends come to England on tour, they are always keen to hear about the guitar and to play it - Woody Man, Roy Bookbinder, Stefan...<br />So the guitar has found a good home.<br />Thought you'd like to know that!<br />All the best<br />JohnJohn Titfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07763064406206720804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743312903639628209.post-75409721538228736772010-10-06T03:35:06.803-07:002010-10-06T03:35:06.803-07:00Beautiful guitar! Have you seen the story on rest...Beautiful guitar! Have you seen the story on restoring Fahey's Recording King? http://www.parachodelnorte.com/AGRKArticle.htm <br /><br />Bacon and Day made some over-the-top banjos as well.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17677704707427236435noreply@blogger.com