The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration

The question remains: did John Fahey purposely stage his own death for his own occlusive purposes? His music, a collusion of folk, blues, ethnic, and modern classical methods, suggests both the trickster and the shaman and has attracted a cult of musician followers over the years, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. Another cult that worships Count Saint Germain - a Rosicrucian adept who is said to have never died and assumed various identities over the centuries - believes Fahey to be "The Great Koonaklaster" - the most recent incarnation of Saint Germain. They view Fahey's music as a synthesis of Saint Germain's abilities as a classical composer and have absorbed his guitar style in order to pay homage to him. Whether or not you choose to believe is up to you.