John Martyn - Backstage Interview - MOJO Honours List 2008

Behind the scenes at this year's ceremony with the great guitar genius...

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[missremorse]

thank you Mr Martyn, you are one of the greats.

[TheOuttakeman]

I think he means John McClaughlin, guitar player with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Jack Bruce etc

[jpstirling]

@packoftwenty You my good man are a an imbecile...And after visiting your youtube channel i can see that i am not the only person that thinks so......John Martyn like all legends had his demons. Deal with this simple fact.

[TheMrgaztop]

He was a handful when drunk! And would fight anyone, for any reason you care to name. Often, he would pick on the biggest bloke first. He could have a row! and knew how to fightm even when plastered.

[lcboo9]

He has problems with accents... when he is in scotland he has a broad scottish accent when he is in london. He is a londoner. lol I love the guy,

[echo680]

@dav2777 FWIW , just picking up on you saying that you "bet he would have [admitted] he was a monster after a skinful" -you're exactly right. A friend interviewed him in Aberdeen in late 80's and he quoted him as essentially saying exactly that about himself. For myself, I saw enough gigs to get some idea at least of the possible extremes. Worst was Perth on last tour (rambling, incoherent)-best Edinburgh (early 90's)-utterly stunning, and ,interestingly, apparently sober (or near sober)

[echo680]

@freshinit nice comment :)

[echo680]

@nigusberries yep, (like"theouttakeman" said) it surely has to be John McClaughlin that he's talking about ?

[echo680]

@TheOuttakeman exactly -  has to be

[echo680]

@packoftwenty so, lets see, you start off by kind of agreeing with the point I made , then you slag me off for apparently not seeing his imperfections...which was kinda the point I was making. Look, if you're going to be a fucking TROLL, you simply need to do better than this adolescent attempt.

[packoftwenty]

@angefox1 I can well believe it. And here we see him in the ultimate stage of his selfishness - mumbling so badly that nobody can understand what he is saying - because he doesn't CARE if you can understand him or not. Grossly overweight, giving dreadful 'performances' of his already crap 'songs', and the 'fans' line up because they think it makes them 'cool' and 'trendy'.

Britney Spears sold millions of records too, does that make her good as well?

[packoftwenty]

@echo680 How dare you! Don't you know that nobody is allowed to tell the truth about the 'god' that was John Martyn? Just because he was a miserable, self-obsessed tosser - i.e. he was an ALCOHOLIC, who drank so much that he had to have his f-ing leg amputated, and still couldn't face reality after that happened, doesn't mean he wasn't just 'wonderful'.

Reading the pathetic hero worship by all the tossers on Youtube is sick making. Didn't you watch the BBC documentary on this sad character?