David Fair

Musician, instrumentalist, and artist David Fair is best known as the co-founder of Half Japanese, the long-running experimental rock band fronted by his brother, Jad Fair. The Fair brothers, born in Michigan, are believed to have been living in Maryland when they launched Half Japanese as a bedroom project in 1975. The band's music was founded on the notion that anyone could make music if they pleased, and their early recordings made clear that neither David or Jad had much use for traditional rules of music-making. David penned a widely circulated short essay, How to Play Gu...