John Martyn publica el álbum Solid Air en febrero de 1973, dedicado a Nick Drake que se encontraba sumido en una profunda depresión (moriría de sobredosis el año siguiente). En este largo explora por primera vez el jazz, con la colaboración esencial de Danny Thompson al contrabajo, Tristan Fry al vibráfono y John "Rabbit" Bundrick con el piano electrónico, y por supuesto, el propio Martyn a la guitarra acústica.
Oh that Babe (0-:4 :-))) caught me in the beginning. Message from afar.;-)) John Martyn wrote from his heart; when it was broken His songs you hear reach right to the core of your Being. To be here with these beings playing how blessed you all were to know John. (Danny on the big-ole-bass like my daddy played--memories galore a flowen) My heart is still feeling its powerful vibrations. What my Soul was in need of and My Angel (From UK) sent it to me Just on Time. Go figure. ;-)) 5*'s++++
Sadly I'm only just discovering John Martyn (and I've been on the planet 21 years, I blame my parents). This is truly incredible music, his voice is utterly magical and isn't just a superfluous addition to his sublime guitar playing; he really understands the way in which his vocal melodies compliment what he's playing and work as a composite. I truly think that this is rare these days.
Anyone have any recommendations where I can go next with his music? He has a very overwhelming back catalogue
Fukin awsome. As the late, great "Big John" fans would say. Danny was also an incredible double bass player with John. Let us appreciate such greatness and hope that future generations will hear it.
I don't think many of our young are as blind as we presume, or fear, from my experience. In fact many young ppl are very informed & tuned to this time period & music.
Aye, takes me back to days at Edinburgh Uni late 70's...the excitement of a John Martyn concert. The creative genius can never be understated. According to auntie Kitty , he had the IQ of a genius...a dinae doubt it!
@scony2001 Heyup Don...came here for a blast of solid air by the man himself (and his mate)...and saw your comment here...this may just be my favourite ever rendition of my favourite John Martyn song .this really hits the spot eh? Keep in touch. -Ian
johns voice and dannys bass are so thick and sticky beautiful. this song in particular takes me right back to childhood, in particular sunday mornings mixed in with a smattereing of motown windows steaming and thje smell of roast .
Solid air is a masterpiece, as much jazz as folk as .... John Martyn... as his health deteriorated, he kept gaining so much weight - sad about his early passing.
Oh man that is just the wrong question about John's work, it's all about feel - what is a good key for your voice? Groove on the chords in that key and you'll get there, being accurate to this version is much less important than getting that feel,
Shit, stay on the one chord if you like, it worked for John Lee Hooker!
I just find out today this great performer has past away ( the Dutch news only reports that performers like Michael Jackson die ), I've seen him perform twice, ones in Paradiso in Amsterdam and ones some 20 years ago in a little café somewhere in Germany ( I can't remember ), were he and Danny Thomson just entered into the front door just like anybody else and both of them blazed this tiny café away.
Thanks John for your one of a kind voice and songs !
and you can't sum it up better than that- his stuff is so well played - it is a shame he is dead but his music will live on, he will influence peoples moods long after he has "shuffeled off this mortal coil" - how many of us can say that"- we should be glad that we had 60 years of him
what this song means to me cannot be put into words... my soul hurts, my very being hurts when i hear this song.. long and cold nights in Girvan, walking along the beach in the cold with John Martyn in your ear, even with solid air.....follow you...solid air...seen the big man 20 odd times and aways a blessing. R.I.P. J.M.
When John (and Danny) started as an artist, I wasn't even born. But when I had my first encounter with Johns music and musical genius It left me longing for more and more and more. It seems, while listening to this, that his music always comes with a tear smiling or a smile, accompanied by tears. Dunno why. May you rest in Peace, John. And thx a lot for passing this along, mnemonyxx!
Absolutely sublime! I've always loved 'Solid Air' since I bought the album back in about 1971, but this version beats the lot. Unhurried, relaxed and totally together. Danny really takes it somewhere in that beautiful bass solo and John's voice coming back in afterwards scores a 5 star dog's bollocks rating. Brilliant!
I met John at the 1981 Glastonbury festival when he was camping next to us - Beverley his ex wife was playing on the main stage and he'd come to see her. He was lovely to meet in such an unexpected situation and really sociable, he'd join us around our fire and share a few beers in the evening and his humour was so dry and understated, I'll never forget that weekend - Roy Harper, Gong, Hawkwind, Ginger Baker, John Cooper Clark and of course Beverley Martyn...those really were the days!
As a Yank who only got into these guys as a teenager in the late 1980s, I am very jealous of your good fortune to hear them in their natural setting. Fortunately, I've been able to catch Roy and various lineups of Gong over the past few years. I hate that I never got to see Martyn, but always will treasure his recordings. "Solid Air" and "Live at Leeds" are my favorites.
Yes I was very lucky to see him live so many times and in better days before his health deteriorated, I actually had an original signed vinyl copy of his 'Live at Leeds' albumn which he produced and sold from his Hastings home which was only a few miles from me and I foolishly lent it to a 'friend' who never returned it ..it would be worth a small fortune now as he only made a few because the record company refused to release it! Grrrr, I still feel the pain since last seeing it in 1982. : (
I used to absolutely love Roy Harper, I actually sat on the old pervs lap when I was seventeen after managing to sneak backstage when he performed at the 'London School of Economics' He was so letcherous but charming & I still remember his last words to me which were "See you in a dream or two" -really corny but I floated home on a cloud! I must have seen him about thirty times over the years, I even roller skated with him at Keele university's student union bar in about 1984/5 what a character!
I love those albums too and also 'One World' and 'Bless the Weather',but I also loved some of his really early sounds - 'London Conversation' is enchanting and even 'The Road to Ruin' with Beverley Martyn has some beautiful tracks on it, but they are very 'folksy' and worlds away from the echoplex and funky/bluesy sound he developed later.
...but getting back to the person who stole your album. I'll go and get it back for you on principal. Cheeky little sod! You can't nick music. That's bad karma and frankly wrong.
Hooooo. Feel much better!
John Martyn's wicked. Excellent life lead though. Ups and down's. Yin n Yang.
@panzermort It was strange because I was only about 16 at the time and to me he seemed like just a regular bloke, if I'd been ten years older and more familiar with his achievements I'd have been catatonic, but I remember being quite cheeky with him and teasing him a bit about the fact that Beverley was playing on the main stage and not him - which was quite surreal with hindsight.
@sleepypoodle Hi ya....I met John a few times backstage at Festivals, also when he played at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, I was DJing there, he was awesome, and also when he came and played some guitars on an album I was making...He is a hero of music and I miss him.
i never heard of john martyn before, but a week ago while in my car i was listening to bbc 2 on the radio and heard this song , wow what can i say i i had to find out who john martin was and why, i'd never heard of him before, any way its a fantastic song, i got alum from amazon solid air for £3.00 what a bargain. plz go get this album you won't be disapointed:)
A profound influence who's passing will be greatly mourned. Is it that inadvertatnt self destruction provides the requisite muse or is it the constant exposure of such private depths of the soul that destroys? Either way another brightly shining light has burned all too short but will continue to illuminate through the treasure trove of work he left behind. Thanks a million John. God rest your soul.
You've put my thoughts into words. Born in '74 the greats of this generation were in their prime and as one by one they slip away my music archive grows. I find myself missing them all.
Beautiful, moving.......Bearing in mind the subject matter (a heartfelt commentary on his fellow Island artist Nick Drake's state at the time) the lines "I will follow you ....anywhere ,,,even through solid air" do resonate right now. The song isn't just a bland plea to Nick to change, or even "get better": it just accepts, with due agonising, that what moves artists to create isn't necessarily the beat of the same drum as the rest of us move to....as John showed for the next thirty odd years
beautiful sentaments thedoplinpost i think you captured most of what I was thinking , its thoughts that live inside us like the ones John left us with , that makes living a truley wonderful experance , may your music ring in my ears for ever ,,,, Adie
t's a comment on the man's brilliance that my sense of loss is equally that I wont be able to hear any more new music from him as for the sadness that someone with a incredible body of work that I savour on a regular basis is no longer with us.
While in many ways the news was not surprising because of the well known demons of his life - it did nevertheless make my eyes water.
This is for the dolphinpost: There is one album of new material to be released...I don't know if they got the vocal takes that JM wanted, I think the roughs are great but JM was a perfectionist.
politics will hinder this one but it will come out at some point.
Sad to think he isn't around any more. Grateful I got to see him play with Danny in the tiny City Varieties in Leeds. One of the very best gigs I've ever seen, seeing those two play up close from the front was absolutely mesmerising. RIP John, thanks for all that beautiful music and soul.
Music to last forever. THAT sound -Danny and John together- the ultimate in any acoustic way. Play solid air with a smoke and six pints of newky brown-and time travel back to 1973-74.
A guitarists guitarist and a bassists bassist, with a real soul voice on top it all. At some stage music is made that cannot be bettered -heres one example
An unbelieveably good track...thank you for posting this. The album Sold Air remains one of my all time favourites...for anyone that hasn't yet listeded to this...please...please take the time to listen....
Someone else said that John had written the soundtrack to their life; amen to that.
The man has more soul than anyone I can think of and is still moved to genuine tears by songs he must must have performed a thousand times. Every time he plays is unique though - I can vouch for that having seen him first in 1968. Forty years on, still with us and still absolutely amazing.
danny is a god..can u imagine being that talented on the base.....and john well where do u start..a formidable force the both of them..long live love.
In my lifetime (54 years) of listening to all kinds of music, this is simply one of the best performances I have ever heard. I've seen it dozens of times (I taped it off the Transatlantic Sessions on Ovation Channel), and it never fails to slay me: two of the best musicians on the planet right now. I realize this clip is about ten years old and John is getting on, but even a fraction of his talent is more than most performers will every hope to possess.
Absolutely superb. John Martyn singing and playing as great as I`ve ever heard him and Danny Thompson showing why just about every musician in the known universe wants to play with him. Glorious clip as well. Thanks so much for posting it.
beautifulll, theres only 1 john, no one sings like that,............cept me,saw him at the free trade hall in manchester,70s, still one of the most mezmorising concerts , agree with u scooternerd,
Can we look at John's work and not have the accident and following amputation diminish the brilliance that is his work? Just be glad he's been here with us and shared his wonderful gifts with us. We'd all like to remember his young face without change but that isn't how life works. He's certainly not the only genius that has had problems in his life...look beyond that.
I played support for John Martyn in Liverpool Neptune theatre in 1982 he was always searching then and still is now...GOOD LUCK OLD FRIEND AND GODSPEED.
He sustained a foot wound following a car accident which wouldn't heal due to obesity and poor circulation from heavy smoking, he develpoed cellulitis and gangrene in his foot so had the amputation to save his life, it's very sad but unfortunately due to self neglect and various addictions, it just seems such a waste.
It is such a tragic waste that John has been in self destruct mode for most of his life,I have seen him live about 20 times since 1980 and each time he looks iller than before,he's so fat he can barely sing for wheeziness,he has to be wheeled on and off the stage and can't even change guitar without assistance.SAD!
I would rather remember him as he was and wish I hadn't seen him last year on the Solid Air tour, it was pityful, he was stoned and mumbling and incoherant and it all could have been avoided with a bit of self control and some genuine encouragement and support from people who really care about him.
Two of my favorite artists!!!
SuperMuseMo 4 days ago
Dear friend, welcome! There those who'll never know him. I saw Jonh twice here in Italy: the first in 80 e and the other in 83. Absolutely great!!!!!
livianadare 1 month ago
John Martyn publica el álbum Solid Air en febrero de 1973, dedicado a Nick Drake que se encontraba sumido en una profunda depresión (moriría de sobredosis el año siguiente). En este largo explora por primera vez el jazz, con la colaboración esencial de Danny Thompson al contrabajo, Tristan Fry al vibráfono y John "Rabbit" Bundrick con el piano electrónico, y por supuesto, el propio Martyn a la guitarra acústica.
giro8900 2 months ago
Oh that Babe (0-:4 :-))) caught me in the beginning. Message from afar.;-)) John Martyn wrote from his heart; when it was broken His songs you hear reach right to the core of your Being. To be here with these beings playing how blessed you all were to know John. (Danny on the big-ole-bass like my daddy played--memories galore a flowen) My heart is still feeling its powerful vibrations. What my Soul was in need of and My Angel (From UK) sent it to me Just on Time. Go figure. ;-)) 5*'s++++
nancyl2 3 months ago
The legendary missing Transatlantic Sessions Series Two is at long last available on DVD
LochMeikle 5 months ago
thankyou not short of buying the recod ? - al
tritonormore 6 months ago
Divisional DT on bass.great guy
hospitalfood1074 7 months ago
love this song . guitar sounds out of tune really but that adds a little something to the song
Souperlative 7 months ago
Did any two musicians ever gel together as well as these masters? What a pair!
GuitarPlayerGeo 7 months ago
He said this was for Nick Drake at one time
roton89 8 months ago
Don't want to spam, but I prepared a channel, dedicated to big john ...
johnmartyntribute 9 months ago
Damn this is yummy sounding.
torch9t9 10 months ago
Sadly I'm only just discovering John Martyn (and I've been on the planet 21 years, I blame my parents). This is truly incredible music, his voice is utterly magical and isn't just a superfluous addition to his sublime guitar playing; he really understands the way in which his vocal melodies compliment what he's playing and work as a composite. I truly think that this is rare these days.
Anyone have any recommendations where I can go next with his music? He has a very overwhelming back catalogue
Ellie8D 10 months ago
@Ellie8D Buy it all. The man was a genius ... you won't find any duds.
Zingthing34 10 months ago
The fiddler at the end is a regular in the supermarket where I work!
connordoh 11 months ago
Fukin awsome. As the late, great "Big John" fans would say. Danny was also an incredible double bass player with John. Let us appreciate such greatness and hope that future generations will hear it.
I don't think many of our young are as blind as we presume, or fear, from my experience. In fact many young ppl are very informed & tuned to this time period & music.
Kristopful 11 months ago
I know words are superflous here but I just want to put my marker down and say thanks to John (RIP) and Danny for all they've given me. Peace.
MrDavis746 11 months ago
Aye, takes me back to days at Edinburgh Uni late 70's...the excitement of a John Martyn concert. The creative genius can never be understated. According to auntie Kitty , he had the IQ of a genius...a dinae doubt it!
scony2001 11 months ago
@scony2001 Heyup Don...came here for a blast of solid air by the man himself (and his mate)...and saw your comment here...this may just be my favourite ever rendition of my favourite John Martyn song .this really hits the spot eh? Keep in touch. -Ian
ianmcgeachy 11 months ago
what a truly beautiful version of this classic track,john and danny worked together so fluidly,rip curly haired boy
bangform 1 year ago
I WANT TO THUMBS UP PRETTY MUCH EVERY BEAUTIFUL COMMENT HERE!!
WOW....
steunitpassword 1 year ago 2
johns voice and dannys bass are so thick and sticky beautiful. this song in particular takes me right back to childhood, in particular sunday mornings mixed in with a smattereing of motown windows steaming and thje smell of roast .
mojo761000 1 year ago 2
This IS the best thing on You Tube.
markgamon 1 year ago 7
@markgamon Indeed it is. Never heard Danny play such a wonderful bass solo as in this version. It's pure gold!
Cabronosidad 1 year ago
For when only John Martyn will do
LexHills1 1 year ago
Don't these two just compliment each other to the most exquisite and most beautiful level...DT & JM,.......... wonderful...!!!
caferive 1 year ago
solid air blows me away.....
im4out 1 year ago
Is there anything better on youtube??????????????
gerardmanleyh 1 year ago
@gerardmanleyh its hard to follow something as beautiful
bangform 1 year ago
Solid air is a masterpiece, as much jazz as folk as .... John Martyn... as his health deteriorated, he kept gaining so much weight - sad about his early passing.
Baruchyoseph8 1 year ago
wow.
andyalibi 1 year ago
my god i dont think there is a better version than this
MrLespaul01 1 year ago
I was there sleepy, such good days...do you remember john playing with Air the year before?
russuk34 1 year ago
Great artists like John dont die....they just become immortal.
Kristopful 1 year ago
Can't be done these days. Such great atmospheric music.
Takes a special soul.
GeoStratocaster 1 year ago
unique in many ways.
Jedi musician club .
GuildF40 1 year ago
The soundtrack to my life. Words can't describe what this song means to me.
So the comment is pointless really
However "i drank all the whiskey"
jontyvictor 1 year ago
mesmerizing
blinkyblinkyblink 1 year ago
smoother than a Silk worms socks
GuildF40 1 year ago
Such good music.
Psychoyeti 2 years ago
perfection - thanks.
garyhosty 2 years ago
anyone have the chords of this sond please ?
chevrotyne 2 years ago
Oh man that is just the wrong question about John's work, it's all about feel - what is a good key for your voice? Groove on the chords in that key and you'll get there, being accurate to this version is much less important than getting that feel,
Shit, stay on the one chord if you like, it worked for John Lee Hooker!
Scotsovertheborder 2 years ago
A song written about Nick Drake. Exactly a year ago John and Nick started making music together again. What great music that must be!
catweasel28 2 years ago 2
I just find out today this great performer has past away ( the Dutch news only reports that performers like Michael Jackson die ), I've seen him perform twice, ones in Paradiso in Amsterdam and ones some 20 years ago in a little café somewhere in Germany ( I can't remember ), were he and Danny Thomson just entered into the front door just like anybody else and both of them blazed this tiny café away.
Thanks John for your one of a kind voice and songs !
flamevlam1 2 years ago 3
@flamevlam1 I envy you that you saw him perform live. I never did. Life is moments..
auckland37 1 year ago
Staggering!
dazzhiggins 2 years ago
so cool ! so sweet
scottstanton1 2 years ago
this just my soothed my soul..so beautiful
beetle5908 2 years ago
Holy shit!!!
Why has it taken me 30 years to find John Martyn?? I'm such a buffoon.
That was an astonishing performance! Thanks so much for posting it
wow! I love finding a whole new back catalogue to explore
daddymorg 2 years ago 8
the holy grail of music,aspirants aspire
zimmy81 2 years ago
My goodness, this is perfection...plain/simple...deep/complex...may the talent be reborn into a happier time. RIP John Martyn
tmay102436 2 years ago
never heard a better version of this before
and what a bass player ??????
peterthomas700 2 years ago
Bless the weather that brought you to me, John
ticticboom1 2 years ago
Beautiful.. WE love you John!!!!!!!!!!
farmista 2 years ago
Who says there's no such thing as perfection?
Scotsovertheborder 2 years ago 3
Beautiful, even more sorrowful and pained than the recorded version. A truly unappreciated genius.
Lizardcuckoo 2 years ago 3
thanks for this - an under appreciated genius, er..two in fact.
garyhosty 2 years ago
saw him @ the paradiso in A'dam.. me n my girlfriend.......... thanx John......... you gave us so much brother.. luv u dude..R.I.P
freekmunky1 2 years ago
It doesn't get much better than this!
alexsblues2009 2 years ago
and you can't sum it up better than that- his stuff is so well played - it is a shame he is dead but his music will live on, he will influence peoples moods long after he has "shuffeled off this mortal coil" - how many of us can say that"- we should be glad that we had 60 years of him
all the best
trevor
themonkeymorton 2 years ago
no comment
no critique
no praise
just blessed
CCBBW 2 years ago
Bless you, John. Thanks for being an inspiration. Now you can teach the angels the blues.
rihojo007 2 years ago 2
The synergy betwen Martyn and Tompson is incredible. What a loss.
TheElasicLobster 2 years ago
what this song means to me cannot be put into words... my soul hurts, my very being hurts when i hear this song.. long and cold nights in Girvan, walking along the beach in the cold with John Martyn in your ear, even with solid air.....follow you...solid air...seen the big man 20 odd times and aways a blessing. R.I.P. J.M.
ScotlandMoffat 2 years ago 3
When John (and Danny) started as an artist, I wasn't even born. But when I had my first encounter with Johns music and musical genius It left me longing for more and more and more. It seems, while listening to this, that his music always comes with a tear smiling or a smile, accompanied by tears. Dunno why. May you rest in Peace, John. And thx a lot for passing this along, mnemonyxx!
raasporaa 2 years ago
Absolutely sublime! I've always loved 'Solid Air' since I bought the album back in about 1971, but this version beats the lot. Unhurried, relaxed and totally together. Danny really takes it somewhere in that beautiful bass solo and John's voice coming back in afterwards scores a 5 star dog's bollocks rating. Brilliant!
Cabronosidad 2 years ago 2
Let's hope Danny Thompson keeps his hand in the game.
gymwill 2 years ago
Brilliant Scot lives forever in hearts worldwide.
ScooterNerd 2 years ago
Love you John Martyn - the light faded when you moved on - Thank you for leaving us with your magical sounds :)
onelovepeeps 2 years ago 2
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onelovepeeps 2 years ago
astonishing ... i have the solid air album, and love it, but this live version is incredible.
gilliesb 2 years ago 2
I met John at the 1981 Glastonbury festival when he was camping next to us - Beverley his ex wife was playing on the main stage and he'd come to see her. He was lovely to meet in such an unexpected situation and really sociable, he'd join us around our fire and share a few beers in the evening and his humour was so dry and understated, I'll never forget that weekend - Roy Harper, Gong, Hawkwind, Ginger Baker, John Cooper Clark and of course Beverley Martyn...those really were the days!
sleepypoodle 2 years ago 28
As a Yank who only got into these guys as a teenager in the late 1980s, I am very jealous of your good fortune to hear them in their natural setting. Fortunately, I've been able to catch Roy and various lineups of Gong over the past few years. I hate that I never got to see Martyn, but always will treasure his recordings. "Solid Air" and "Live at Leeds" are my favorites.
llawfhionn 2 years ago
Yes I was very lucky to see him live so many times and in better days before his health deteriorated, I actually had an original signed vinyl copy of his 'Live at Leeds' albumn which he produced and sold from his Hastings home which was only a few miles from me and I foolishly lent it to a 'friend' who never returned it ..it would be worth a small fortune now as he only made a few because the record company refused to release it! Grrrr, I still feel the pain since last seeing it in 1982. : (
sleepypoodle 2 years ago
I used to absolutely love Roy Harper, I actually sat on the old pervs lap when I was seventeen after managing to sneak backstage when he performed at the 'London School of Economics' He was so letcherous but charming & I still remember his last words to me which were "See you in a dream or two" -really corny but I floated home on a cloud! I must have seen him about thirty times over the years, I even roller skated with him at Keele university's student union bar in about 1984/5 what a character!
sleepypoodle 2 years ago
I love those albums too and also 'One World' and 'Bless the Weather',but I also loved some of his really early sounds - 'London Conversation' is enchanting and even 'The Road to Ruin' with Beverley Martyn has some beautiful tracks on it, but they are very 'folksy' and worlds away from the echoplex and funky/bluesy sound he developed later.
sleepypoodle 2 years ago
...but getting back to the person who stole your album. I'll go and get it back for you on principal. Cheeky little sod! You can't nick music. That's bad karma and frankly wrong.
Hooooo. Feel much better!
John Martyn's wicked. Excellent life lead though. Ups and down's. Yin n Yang.
x
Note to self;
Must check out some of his stuff with Beverley
971alien 2 years ago
@sleepypoodle Roy Harper, Gong and Hawkwind!!! I envy you in a good way xx
little69111 1 year ago
@sleepypoodle gods bless really great times be well and enjoy the times.
thepaganwain 1 year ago
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@sleepypoodle gods bless really great times be well and enjoy those times.
thepaganwain 1 year ago
@sleepypoodle wow you make me so bloody jealous
Id consider myself blessed if that happening to me and gong hawkwind wow and ofc others
panzermort 1 year ago
@panzermort It was strange because I was only about 16 at the time and to me he seemed like just a regular bloke, if I'd been ten years older and more familiar with his achievements I'd have been catatonic, but I remember being quite cheeky with him and teasing him a bit about the fact that Beverley was playing on the main stage and not him - which was quite surreal with hindsight.
sleepypoodle 1 year ago
@sleepypoodle so jealous
panzermort 11 months ago
@panzermort It was definitely my favourite of all the Glastonbury festivals, it just got too big and became a victim of its own success.
sleepypoodle 11 months ago
@sleepypoodle Hi ya....I met John a few times backstage at Festivals, also when he played at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, I was DJing there, he was awesome, and also when he came and played some guitars on an album I was making...He is a hero of music and I miss him.
drummiedan 10 months ago
Thanks John, for being there when I needed you. Eternally sorry now that I missed your last date at Barbican last november. Rest in peace, mate.
honeybozo 2 years ago
john martyn hes a legend my dad always plays his music im the only 17 year old i know that likes him hes lethal:)
THEDONOFDUBLIN 2 years ago
thank you JM and Danny for beautiful music
CMTPlant 2 years ago
for Nick for John together again Make beautiful music again
Someday we will meet?
eviebot1956 3 years ago 6
...incredible. wow.
unah14 3 years ago 2
i never heard of john martyn before, but a week ago while in my car i was listening to bbc 2 on the radio and heard this song , wow what can i say i i had to find out who john martin was and why, i'd never heard of him before, any way its a fantastic song, i got alum from amazon solid air for £3.00 what a bargain. plz go get this album you won't be disapointed:)
100kingfisher 3 years ago 2
where've you been?
randommental 3 years ago
Better late than never!
sleepypoodle 2 years ago
I will light a candle! Bless Him!?
ContryGent 3 years ago 2
A profound influence who's passing will be greatly mourned. Is it that inadvertatnt self destruction provides the requisite muse or is it the constant exposure of such private depths of the soul that destroys? Either way another brightly shining light has burned all too short but will continue to illuminate through the treasure trove of work he left behind. Thanks a million John. God rest your soul.
Rich
scripsis 3 years ago
You've put my thoughts into words. Born in '74 the greats of this generation were in their prime and as one by one they slip away my music archive grows. I find myself missing them all.
limmho 2 years ago
dont it always seem to go....you dont know what you've got til its gone...?
DamianNixon 3 years ago 3
Oh John... how I miss you...
juniusmaltby 3 years ago
Beautiful, moving.......Bearing in mind the subject matter (a heartfelt commentary on his fellow Island artist Nick Drake's state at the time) the lines "I will follow you ....anywhere ,,,even through solid air" do resonate right now. The song isn't just a bland plea to Nick to change, or even "get better": it just accepts, with due agonising, that what moves artists to create isn't necessarily the beat of the same drum as the rest of us move to....as John showed for the next thirty odd years
fortunesfool123 3 years ago
Wise words fortunesfool. Great version of the classic. Go Down Easy John.
Thx for posting mnemonyxx.
rlippiett 2 years ago
Bless the man.
bftadecneed 3 years ago
God rest the man.
Never have a pair worked so well together.
garyhosty 3 years ago 3
BAD CAT!!!Peace...till next time..
theoxwhocan 3 years ago
great stuff
strawbfan 3 years ago
I saw John in my freshers week at Dundee Uni and thought life cannot get better than this?
I saw him much later in Bradford, and it was just as good.
Thank you John
539278 3 years ago
God bless you indeed John Martyn.... we'll miss you. And thank you...
ShinoNoMono 3 years ago
Solid Air...........the LP that brought most students to John Martyn in 1973 & what an Album it was!!.......Good Old John!!
WE remember him when he was 25!!
& that's always how we will remember him..Young, Vital & scary!!
I feel loss at this time but having met Him
I also feel that his Music speaks for itself
We will never replace John........He was
a superb musician I only wish that I could
be at his funeral to pay my last respects,
Doug Reid
dougreid1 3 years ago 2
beautiful sentaments thedoplinpost i think you captured most of what I was thinking , its thoughts that live inside us like the ones John left us with , that makes living a truley wonderful experance , may your music ring in my ears for ever ,,,, Adie
aceofhearts102 3 years ago
what a loss... never saw john but met danny a few times in florida w richard thompson.
wolftoes 3 years ago
t's a comment on the man's brilliance that my sense of loss is equally that I wont be able to hear any more new music from him as for the sadness that someone with a incredible body of work that I savour on a regular basis is no longer with us.
While in many ways the news was not surprising because of the well known demons of his life - it did nevertheless make my eyes water.
'Bless the Weather that brought you to me
Curse the Storm that takes you away '
That sort of says it for me..........
thedolphinpost 3 years ago
This is for the dolphinpost: There is one album of new material to be released...I don't know if they got the vocal takes that JM wanted, I think the roughs are great but JM was a perfectionist.
politics will hinder this one but it will come out at some point.
mart3442 3 years ago
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thedolphinpost 3 years ago
Thanks for the music, John. May you rest in peace
0thediamondsea0 3 years ago
Perfection
gloriousfool 3 years ago
Stunning. Perfection. Our John and Danny
gloriousfool 3 years ago
top tune ! love it :) dont know what else to say except it`ll always be a part of me :) :) . . . . john martyn you`ll not be forgotten :)
nanospasm 3 years ago
God Bless you John.....love you Man
00boog1300 3 years ago
peace
softskyarms 3 years ago
rip big man..... gone but not forgotten...... may you always have somewhere warm to lay your head...
Jeffbhoy 3 years ago
RIP John Martyn OBE, a true legend
shergold 3 years ago
Sad to think he isn't around any more. Grateful I got to see him play with Danny in the tiny City Varieties in Leeds. One of the very best gigs I've ever seen, seeing those two play up close from the front was absolutely mesmerising. RIP John, thanks for all that beautiful music and soul.
paulmillermakesfilms 3 years ago
John died today. This is a fitting tribute.
marmiteboy99 3 years ago
Music to last forever. THAT sound -Danny and John together- the ultimate in any acoustic way. Play solid air with a smoke and six pints of newky brown-and time travel back to 1973-74.
A guitarists guitarist and a bassists bassist, with a real soul voice on top it all. At some stage music is made that cannot be bettered -heres one example
iainmcgeachy 3 years ago
Have to agree john and danny are so bluesy, jazzy, folky together, john martyn's music comes from the soul
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iainmcgeachy 3 years ago
Rock on John. Badly let down to see that DT was not a gong recipient in the New Year's honours list. Fuck 'em.
chachangue 3 years ago
An unbelieveably good track...thank you for posting this. The album Sold Air remains one of my all time favourites...for anyone that hasn't yet listeded to this...please...please take the time to listen....
alphaboy1967 3 years ago
this song was written originally as a poem for Nick Drake
scoopscoop 3 years ago
the Greatest Video, please come back to New Zealand,it has been far to long!!!!!!!!!!!!!
leehay1411 3 years ago
love is made of part of Johns music x
1peoplesun 3 years ago
saw them last night, amazing
jjamlax88 3 years ago
Someone else said that John had written the soundtrack to their life; amen to that.
The man has more soul than anyone I can think of and is still moved to genuine tears by songs he must must have performed a thousand times. Every time he plays is unique though - I can vouch for that having seen him first in 1968. Forty years on, still with us and still absolutely amazing.
w33ping 3 years ago
danny is a god..can u imagine being that talented on the base.....and john well where do u start..a formidable force the both of them..long live love.
thanks guys
for love
x
flitts 3 years ago
An unforgettable song, by an unforgettable songwriter. Thanks for posting this pure piece of beauty.
cappan03 3 years ago
You don't get better than that. For all your life.
harounalrachid 3 years ago
Brilliant Scot wrote the soundtrack for a large part of my life.
ScooterNerd 3 years ago
Listen to Solid Air on "Live in Leeds" LP - gorgeous!
nIndianerin 3 years ago 2
Solid Air is, for me, one of the greatest albums. Get it listen, be amazed
nimmegeers 3 years ago 7
Saw John a Danny play in Glasgow few years back...i was gobsmacked
jimbob1969 3 years ago
I Love this song -----
tita78 4 years ago
In my lifetime (54 years) of listening to all kinds of music, this is simply one of the best performances I have ever heard. I've seen it dozens of times (I taped it off the Transatlantic Sessions on Ovation Channel), and it never fails to slay me: two of the best musicians on the planet right now. I realize this clip is about ten years old and John is getting on, but even a fraction of his talent is more than most performers will every hope to possess.
tisfortomi 4 years ago 7
The harsh thing is that John was probably only 49 when this was filmed.......
mart3442 3 years ago
I am crying !
rabbitgrey 4 years ago 2
John . . . you have taken my breath away since I first heard you all those years ago. And you continue to do so. An amazing performance!
Toyboy789 4 years ago
Incroyable!!!
gmtdiato 4 years ago
Haven't we all brother...
grahampl 4 years ago
this is a beautiful piece of music.
AndrewHozier 4 years ago
Beautiful and magnificent. The best piece I have seen/heard on you tube since Boubacar Traore.
darrencrowhurst 4 years ago
john u changed my life..what more can i say..i pray to god u stay safe.x
flitts 4 years ago
Couldn't agree more with Mouldytone's comments. Saw him on his last tour - still magical but this clip shows him at his magnificent best.
majorclanger52 4 years ago
Absolutely superb. John Martyn singing and playing as great as I`ve ever heard him and Danny Thompson showing why just about every musician in the known universe wants to play with him. Glorious clip as well. Thanks so much for posting it.
Mouldytone 4 years ago 2
John and Danny at their best, feeding off each other, it couldn't get any better could it. Thanks for posting these sessions. Makes me very happy.
Macintoshmatty 4 years ago 2
beautifulll, theres only 1 john, no one sings like that,............cept me,saw him at the free trade hall in manchester,70s, still one of the most mezmorising concerts , agree with u scooternerd,
zimmy81 4 years ago
Can we look at John's work and not have the accident and following amputation diminish the brilliance that is his work? Just be glad he's been here with us and shared his wonderful gifts with us. We'd all like to remember his young face without change but that isn't how life works. He's certainly not the only genius that has had problems in his life...look beyond that.
ScooterNerd 4 years ago
Gaun yerself, Big Man!
chahil 4 years ago
Just reading (again) biography of Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries. This song is about Nick.
HeartShapedBoxxxx 4 years ago
I played support for John Martyn in Liverpool Neptune theatre in 1982 he was always searching then and still is now...GOOD LUCK OLD FRIEND AND GODSPEED.
Savages
FrankSavages 4 years ago
apparently he lost part of his leg a few year ago?
to do with a cyst that went bad...hence the weelchair and the gaining weight. Tragic
AndrewHozier 4 years ago
He sustained a foot wound following a car accident which wouldn't heal due to obesity and poor circulation from heavy smoking, he develpoed cellulitis and gangrene in his foot so had the amputation to save his life, it's very sad but unfortunately due to self neglect and various addictions, it just seems such a waste.
sleepypoodle 4 years ago
The sunshine boys at their best.
mart3442 4 years ago
It is such a tragic waste that John has been in self destruct mode for most of his life,I have seen him live about 20 times since 1980 and each time he looks iller than before,he's so fat he can barely sing for wheeziness,he has to be wheeled on and off the stage and can't even change guitar without assistance.SAD!
sleepypoodle 4 years ago
Thats the second (same)comment I read from you: while he is arround ; just enjoy him, period.
Qpidon 4 years ago
I would rather remember him as he was and wish I hadn't seen him last year on the Solid Air tour, it was pityful, he was stoned and mumbling and incoherant and it all could have been avoided with a bit of self control and some genuine encouragement and support from people who really care about him.
sleepypoodle 4 years ago
thanks for this its grand
KWStudd 4 years ago
Great video - where is this from? I have rare JM stuff if you are interested in swapping DVD's best Goat:)
shiveringgoat 4 years ago
yes please, where can we locate all of this magnificent performance?
boot or legit or what?
the word of gord
thewordofgord 4 years ago
I LOVE JOHN MARTYN!!!
drummiedan 4 years ago
Cool!I saw them both a few times in Amsterdam! His own website is cool too!
bfunkmaster 4 years ago
wow
misti69 5 years ago
this works...what a joy to behold...could watch it all day.
Just off to get a double bass on ebay....
newinnhadlowdown 5 years ago