Found on a VHS tape in a Chicago record shop in the late 1990s and now uploaded in the best quality available, this 1969 appearance by John Fahey on ‘Guitar Guitar’ with host Laura Weber is the kind of footage that reminds you why archival preservation matters, a loose, genuinely transfixing conversation and performance session featuring Fahey playing “Red Pony,” “The Death of the Clayton Peacock,” and more, complete with the moment he ashes his cigarette directly into the body of his guitar and sends the host into a complete tizzy.


