Johnny Marr - How Soon Is Now?

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Uploaded by on Jan 24, 2011

Former guitarist of The Smiths explains his inspiration for this famous riff. NOTE: This video is an excerpt from a longer posted segment and not my own original work. Be sure to check out the full clips though, they are well worth it!

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  • i love the way everytime Johnny is interviewed he is surrounded by amps in a darkened room

  • @Blinkyboy99 true 'nuff, Water is only 2 H's and an O, but when you put them together, you get wet. It's not the mechanics of it, it's the poetry. The Edge's work has a lot of effects, too. The total composition is guitar plus effects, plus the time and space around them...

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  • It's all about the tremolo. Marr is a genius.

  • 0 dislikes, why am I not surprised!

  • @Blinkyboy99 Yeah, def overrated, largely down to studio trickery and couldn't be played properly live, I love the song and consider Johnny Marr the greatest guitarist ever but this song seems to take pride of place over other songs he's written which I'd say are better.

  • I am a son and an heir of nothing in particular

  • the mother of all riffs your not kidding, how soon is now is just the best

  • @Blinkyboy99 did you do it?

  • @Blinkyboy99 they released it as a b side everyone else freaked out about it

  • @Blinkyboy99 some of the greatest things created by man are some of the simplest things. It'sall about the idea not the execution.

  • Whoa! Hamilton Bohannon was the genesis of How Soon Is Now?! I'm a pretty well-listened guy and can usually hear where stuff is coming from (and a guitarist, to boot), but I never would have caught that if Marr hadn't divulged it here! Cool!

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