(TV) Peter Laughner

["Brian Young" <raggedglory57@hotmail.com>]

Awhile back I mentioned that I had a couple of Peter Laughner boots coming 
to me.  Now, with the sad passing of John Fahey, one of them is even more 
poignant.  It's a tape called Nocturnal Digressions, a tape supposedly made 
on the night before Laughner's demise.  It was a spooky thing to hear, and 
full of life and talent.  Armed with an acoustic guitar, a six of Genny a 
pack of Lucky Strikes and God knows whatever other substances, he played 15 
songs that filled 60 minutes of tape.  Guess what the first song was?


"See No Evil."

Other tell tale tunes included "Calvary Cross", "Slim Slow Slider", "Blank 
Generation" and "Wild Horses."  Especially haunting/haunted was his version 
of Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues." Chilling. Definite hellhound 
on this man's trail.  When Lester Bangs stops hangin' with you because you 
party too hard, you've got to believe the writing was on the wall.  To hear 
him sing "Hello, Satan, I believe it's time to go", and "Baby, I don't care 
where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone" on the night before he died, 
well, you've gotta think part of him knew.  The next to last song was a song 
called China, and I'm unfamiliar with it, but it was slow and sad and 
possibly about junk.  Right after he finished it, he says "You didn't think 
I was gonna leave you like that, did ya?" and plays a rousing version of 
"Summertime Blues."

Also on this tape was 30 minutes of a jam in the Creem office earlier in '77 
between Peter, Lester Bangs and Pete Stemphel.  A lot of fun. Here's the 
complete tracklisting of both sessions:

Nocturnal Digressions, 6/21/77

See No Evil
Come on in
Right through your heart
Calvary Cross
The Dream
Slim Slow Slider
Blank Generation
Wild Horses
Do it
Resistance
Me and the Devil Blues
Ain't got you
Pale Blue Eyes
China
Summertime Blues

Laughner/Bangs/Stemphel:

Drugstore Cowboy/I'm so bored
Goodbye Lou
Cry your blues away
Heaven
Seventeen
"Lester" Ray

n.p. John Fahey-Live in Tasmania
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