John Martyn - Spencer the Rover

Hippodrome Golders Green 15/10/1977

Category:

Music

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• john
• martyn
• spencer
• the
• rover
• folk
• acoustic
• guitar
• live
• music
• martin

[niallvan]

Cannot believe 1 person does not like this.

They must think Lady Gaga is relevant.

[RT83]

@niallvan *yawn* Comments about people pressing the dislike button seem to be the new "FIRST!" on youtube these days.

[RT83]

@TheJaytnt Standard tuning?! Heresy! :p

[TheJaytnt]

@ecojot There is an instructional video on youtube that shows the tuning and fingerpicking sequence, as John plays it. There is also another video that shows how to lay it in standard tuning.

[ecojot]

@puckduim is there a good tab for this somewhere? Would love to learn it.

[ecojot]

My all time favorite artist - so natural. Couldn't read music and didnt care to. Check out the documentary of him which is on youtube.

[Staplesz]

@niallvan I find this humorous and true

[niallvan]

@RT83 Well looks like you are the first dislike to my comment about dislikers therefore you're the first second dislike.

[jtpinnyc]

Ah yes, back in the days when people actually went to the trouble of miking up acoustic guitars instead of just plugging them into the desk along with that farty electro-acoustic sound. JM's guitar always sounded natural, this is great.

[AK2927]

John always seemed a little embarrassed by his talent - I can't think of many artists whose between-song persona was so far removed from the gentleness and intense beauty of his performance. Check out his self-conscious looning right at the end of this clip - it's almost as if he's saying it's all a send-up.

[AK2927]

Is this the video of the version on BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert? (With the black and white photo on the cover) It sounds very similar.

[freeflyinmik]

@niallvan

hey don't knock our lady ga ga ooh lah lah.

i was lucky to see jm 3 times in my life,it's all music... well except for michael jackson that is.