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John Martyn dead

gnoriac said:
Solid Air was about Nick Drake wasn't it?

Wish I could get BBC London, here it's Cov & Warks and I doubt the useless buggers would even do a Specials special if they got wiped out. :(
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Yep he was a big mate of Nick Drake
 
I can't listen to BBC London, listen live on the BBC always stops Firefox from working :(

I'm listening to Sweet Little Mysteries though and am a bit sad :(
 
it's odd, this Danny Baker tribute album is on the one hand sad, and on the other reminds me i mostly didn't like his stuff :(
 
idioteque said:
I can't listen to BBC London, listen live on the BBC always stops Firefox from working :(

I'm listening to Sweet Little Mysteries though and am a bit sad :(
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Just use IE for the beeb and firefox for everything else.
Danny Baker's body language on stream looks distressed .
 
Ahh, that's sad.

I wasn't a big fan, either, but I watched him one afternoon at The Elephant Fayre many many years back and enjoyed it a lot.

RIP.
 
NVP said:
Ahh, that's sad.

I wasn't a big fan, either, but I watched him one afternoon at The Elephant Fayre many many years back and enjoyed it a lot.

RIP.
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He wrote a lot of his stuff just up the road from us at Ding Dong apparently.
 
Got it streamed off BBC now, but why do they insist on using shitty RealPlayer, just spent ages setting the poxy thing up and the sound quality's shite.
:mad:
 
From the BBC link:
He collaborated with many musicians throughout his life, including Phil Collins, and his song May You Never was covered by many artists - including Clapton.
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"He collaborated with many musicians throughout his life, including Phil Collins"

:confused::D A lot of better ones, more interesting ones, but fuck it, we're just mentioning Collins. And only him.
 
madzone said:
He wrote a lot of his stuff just up the road from us at Ding Dong apparently.
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I didn't know that.

Solid Air is one of those albums I revisit every five years or so, play to death and then forget about again, but I can't say I was much fussed with anything else he recorded.
 
He lived there in the mid 80's I think, GE, but don't quote me on that. It was 84 when I saw him and I seem to recall people saying he lived locally then.
 
he's been a big part of the soundtrack of my life. I saw him a couple of times, years and years ago when his acoustic guitar covered in pickups and gaffa tape, hooked up to the pedals and echo machine, marked him out as being so different from anyone else.

Recently I've been listening to a lot of Road to Ruin and Stormbringer, with his then wife Beverly.

thanks John, RIP
 
newbie said:
he's been a big part of the soundtrack of my life. I saw him a couple of times, years and years ago when his acoustic guitar covered in pickups and gaffa tape, hooked up to the pedals and echo machine, marked him out as being so different from anyone else.
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Eloquently put ...

I never saw him live, but I was going to attempt a description like that as the definitive Whistletest for me - for a man who so loved footpedals to lose his leg - but he seemed to accept it with humour ....

"Big muff ... get away with your terrible stuff ...."
 
saw him do solid air at the barbican last year....his music has been through a lot with me, listening to small hours now...wish I could see the stars.
 
It's one world

Yeah his music, the earlier stuff in particular, is intrinsic to my life and to some special folks who've played a huge role in it. I heard the news at lunchtime & had to text 3 of 'em immediately before pasting several links on arsebook. Still play his stuff regularly.

I feel very fortunate to have seen him down at the Thekla sometime in the nineties, again in May '04, and lastly at the roundhouse to celebrate my 41st in '07. I hope the beeb screen the documentary "Johnny too bad" again.

Some of us live like princes, some of us live like queens
Most of us live just like me and we don't know what it means
To take our place in one world
To make our peace in one world
To make our way in one world
To have our say in one world


I may be a nostalgia soaked middle aged fool, and yeah it's just one man reached the end of this particular journey, when hundreds of thousands are living or losing their lives in the most abominable circumstances, but he resonates with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

love and peace, stormbringer
 
I have seen him play several times doing accoustic sets with a double bass player Danny Thompson. (during the 80s). The man was a genius. I was allways a bit jealous of his outward confidence and cockyness. I did't know that underneath he was struggling with self destruction.

RIP John
 
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