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Jad Fair

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Jad Fair

Also known as Jadwin B. Fair, Jadwin Fair

American singer and guitarist (born 1954)

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ENJOY YOUR LIFE / Jad Far & Tenniscoats Japan Tour 20112012
The Devil and Daniel Johnston — Self2006
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King — Self1993
My Dinner with Daniel — Self1988
Sublapse Video Mag 11986

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Total plays: 404,724

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1954 births American noise musicians American outsider musicians American rock musicians Art rock musicians Fire Records (UK) artists Joyful Noise Recordings artists Living people People from Carroll County, Maryland People from Coldwater, Michigan

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Jad Fair is a member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese. Both Jad and his brother David rejected typical notions of tuning and stringing guitars, believing that they could only create truly original music by inventing their own ways of playing. Jad has been playing guitar for over thirty years, but cannot name a single chord. He has worked with numerous alternative and outside musicians including: * 1989: Daniel Johnston, releasing It's Spooky, <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi

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5 total works indexed

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,084x
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,591x
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
· 2017 · cited 2,930x
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
· 2016 · cited 2,811x

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Official website: www.jadfair.org
Image: JadVillette.jpg

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