Davy Graham: 1940-2008

why whould you write phish when an extremely talented legendary man has just passed. you phish people need to get over it, the boys care only about taking your money as they passed their prime about 1994. used to love phish but their last show was one of the worst things i have ever heard.

^ I agree wholeheartedly. This site is overrun with teenagers who never saw Phish and think that Phish are the be all and end all of jam music.

YOU HEARD IT HERE....YOU ALL WILL BE EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED WHEN RETREAD PHISH COMES BACK.

It's over Johnny....over!

I'm pretty sure that was a joke making fun of the people who post "PHISH" comments in threads that have little or nothing to do with phish.

wow. i will always regret that i never got a chance to see this man before his passing. he has had a huge influence on how i approach the acoustic guitar and that was before listening to him at all. you can hear his playing in just about any acoustic fingerpicking songwriter since. from jimmy page to trey, they all have immitated the man (some more than others) with their acoustic style writing. everyone NEEDS to listen to this man. he is indescribably important to roots and world music as well as improvised song structure outside of the jazz genre. undoubtedly one of the most important people to ever pick up a guitar. until then davey....

to be perfectly honest, i never heard of davy graham until just now when i read this article. it's sad to learn of his passing, but at least his legacy will live on thanks to his recordings which will allow people like myself to stumble upon his work and appreciate all that he did in his musical career.

RIP -

haha futhepharmer....you make the jokes your grandparents make that you feel obligated to laugh at, but your not my grandparents...so its just crickets...but keep up the good work

man how have i never heard of this guy. his playing reminds me a lot of how i imagine myself playing, if i were better than i am.

this is sad, he was a wonderful musician

The phish this was an obvious joke, get over it. Obviously kudzu can't take a joke or enjoy a going away party and pharmer has a crystalball in his mind. Good work guys your negative post are worse that the original one. Typical.

RIP Davey

vultured the phish comment was not a joke because you kids are writing similair comments on just about every post. when you graduate from high school and get out into the real world expand your music tast and maybe you won't be so stupid

Never really heard of him till now, but that song that's included with the article is beautiful...

The dude was a giant. I you look into fingerstyle guitar, all roads pretty much lead back to him. There might be no Renbourn and Jansch, then Fahey and Kottke, Bensusan, then Hedges and Legg, then Kaki King, etc., as we know them, without Mr. Graham. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word. His legacy will virtually never end- that is pretty cool.

As far as the Phish bit goes, if you really love music, work backwards and learn their influences, then who influenced the influences, etc., you can see a bigger historical picture and often make discoveries that can literally change the course of your life.

Thank you for your wisdom breadloaf.

A similar experience with Panic started a long list of favorite artists for me: JJ Cale, P-Funk, Dr. John, The Meters, Traffic, Talking Heads, Neil Young... I owe them a lot because of this!

And now I'm going to check this guy out, who I have never heard of.

Thanks JamBase!

burn, thanks, that is exactly what I am taking about. Low Spark! I learned so much from admiring Jerry Garcia- it led me to all sorts of discoveries- bluegrass, old time, maritime, country, blues. And I was thinking later that, for Phish fans, even though the dude above was joking, there is a link between Davey and Phish- it would be Leo Kottke, who Mike admired enough to mail him tapes jamming with his music, starting their partnership. So, you can link Phish and Davey Graham within 4 degrees.