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1 month ago
Bless The Weather - LIVE 78 - JOHN MARTYN
Bless The Weather by John Martyn from a gig in Germany 1978. Have digitally improved sound & video of this legendary Scottish Singer Songwriter.
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2 months ago
'GOD's WHITE NOISE' (Gottesrauschen) - Bristol (excerpt)
Christian Jendreiko - Arnolfini Bristol 26/11/2011
7 Hour performance for 20 players, electric guitars & amplifiers
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3 months ago
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The first of two tunes in the set he played on BBC 2's OGWT in January 1975 to publicise the newly released 'Sunday's Child' LP . (It's the opening track). He is tuned C.F.Bb.Eb.G.C same pattern as standard tuning but 4 semitones lower. It's why seems to be fingering in the key of A major, but ...
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3 months ago
John Martyn talks about Nick Drake
Saturday Live Radio 1 with Richard Skinner. May 25, 1986.
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3 months ago
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I was able to extract and slow down this audio track. There is a quick paste of the result uploaded in my account. It is John, he's using his meditative London accent.
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3 months ago
Bliadhna Na Caoraich ('The Year Of The Sheep')
The opening tune of "Life Among The Lowly", a suite of songs about the Highland Clearances that I wrote and recorded with 'Avanti Popolo' in 1985.
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3 months ago
Martyn on Drake
A radio interview with John Martyn talking about his memories of fellow Island label recording artist Nick Drake from May 1986 (Transcoded and spee...
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3 months ago
Nick Drake - The John Peel Session
Nick Drake, recorded for John Peel's Night Ride, 5th August 1969 and broadcast the next day. These tracks were long believed lost until of two of ...
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It is indeed a still picture of Nick playing live. I first recall seeing it published in the late 1970s in a fringe UK music magazine called 'Dark Star'.
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4 months ago
You can discover - John Martyn (1975)
Live at The Old grey Whistle Test (1975). Recorded a week before the release of the album Sundays Child. From the album Sundays Child.
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The mics are AKG C451 condensers with a CK5 capsule screwed onto the end of a VR1 extender tube. The BBC had acquired a large number of these kits from AKG in the early 1970s, and you often see them used on BBC2 music programs of this period.
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It's a De Armond moving coil pickup mounted in the sound-hole for the Echoplex effects chain , and a Barcus Berry piezo-electric bug just below the bridge (stuck on with grey tape) for the acoustic clean feed.