The Simmer Dim John Martyn Live 1980 Full Concert
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- A Very Rare & Special Night, When My Close Friends & I, Became A Part Of Musical History & A Part Of The 560 Stamping Feet On A Foggy Night In August @ The Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, The Shetlands.
John Martyn "Time Will Break Your Heart, Your Love Will Carry On".
I have this recording on a cassette tape from that time its always been a favourite of mine glad to see it shared and hear it again
I also recognise some of the faces and have some photos from that fondly remembered time
Beautful.
Cheery looking place, Lerwick. Absolute gem of a concert
Geez I wish someone had Video'd this show. I met John in London 1973 & found him to be amiable & just a nice person ! We shared a joint (privately) & a drink at the Red Lion in Dawes Road Fulham, no one butting in or bugging him. Treasured memories. A few months later I flew back to Durban South Africa & never got the chance to speak to him again. RIP beautiful person & great musician !
His step mother lives on the Isle of Islay(inner Hebrides Scotland) as at this time so I did.Anyway she was a lovely old lady and she knew that I used to know I smoked the green so she asked me could I get some for her step son who was due to come and visit her.I did and she gracefully thanked me,she said she would introduce me to him when he arrived and we could have a smoke together.Her step son arrived it turned out to be John(what a legend)but from then on in we became good friends and every time he came over we privately went for a smoke and we went for a pint or twenty,he would always play a song for me.The last time I saw him he played me “the dealer”.He moved back to Ireland and he gave me an open ticket to go and visit him,so long as I would get him some more of that green wee man(that was what he always called mej God Bless him the Big fella RIP my special friend.The is never a days goes by without me having a joint and I always raise it to the heavens and salute him.
My favorite version of Over the Hill. Breathtaking
I have the chance to see John Martyn often on the 70's. He was always great !
(Except one time, he fell on his knees after ten minutes. Too much drunik etc... I had traveled 500 km to see him in a festival 😩). I never heard him play Over the Hill. Lucky you are ! But, he plays always Solid Air, even if he complained about the people who asked him the song 😊.
This is just great - many thanks for posting.
Oh my. I just heard about this recording. I was actually there! It has stayed with me
I was there as well when camping at the loch at the back of Lerwick and bussing up to Sullom Voe everyday
How great it would have been to be there!
Wonderful atmospheric JM concert. Listening is like being there. Magic Thank you for posting.
Wonderful!...Particularly enjoyed Seven Black Roses....one afternoon back in the 1970s I visited my pal Jim Gilbert in a West End Glasgow flat, during a period of high unemployment for us both...after the statutory premilinaries of a jazz cigarette and cup of coffee..Jim showed me what he'd been working on, for a month on his Martin - John's seven black roses - he madea reasonable stab at the first minute or so then stopped saying he couldnt work out the next bit...without thinking of the consequences I said "hang on Jim Ive seen him do that , he uses a stretch capo and slides up the fretboard."...Jim put down his guitar and lay on the floor howling, while I was in tears of laughter...for a full five minutes!..wonderful times...
Yes, wonderful time 🌌 ! I think that to play Seven Black Roses, you need a good old capo.
over the hill / spencer the rover / one world / one day without you / jelly roll / could not love you more / big muff / certain surprise /dealer / visual guitar piece / inside out? / may you never FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE!!!!
Visual guitar piece is called Seven Black Roses x
Good god what a gem this is. Such an intimate setting to hear and see the master being wonderful. Seen John so many time but would give my right arm to have been at this
Over the hill. Great intro :) EDIT: As I listen 5 years later, I love the cheeky Scouse woman who perks up throughout the show. And the crying baby interrupting Certain Surprise - if you put headphones on it really is like you are transported to that foggy night in 1980! Thanks for the upload!
Lucky enough to have seen John many times but what I would give to have been at this gig. Just perfection. Thanks
These are all my friends and me who lived in the Shetlands and we were all at the concert. Thanks for listening
Do you still live in Shetland? What a man John Martyn was!
My grandfathers side is from Shetland and I’m coming this year! Can’t wait man
my good friend John came up from Belfast and set up a little delivery van in Shetland, he still goes back now and then and still plays JM
bollocks
@@peterperry268 double bollox
Wonderful Concert, Thank You.
Thank you very much for posting this. JM's brilliance shining .. plus his humour and personality.. Awesome!
From the beginning of the 80's, when a major gives him the chance with a band (great musicians), he lost his sense of humor. Probably too much c...
Magic,thanks for posting this,quite rare to hear John from this year....Cheers
Miss you Mr Martyn, If my life was a musical, you wrote the score..
Great stuff. Thanks.
John just moved you
Great post, not enough of the early john around this time.
Hey John, thanks for this I am on the admin at the John Martyn fbook page, having been John's close mate for thirty years, hope you don't mind but I have posted the link to that sight to let the two thousand fans on the page hear this, please feel free to join, Gary Pollitt is going to mail ya as well, aint sure if our paths crossed met that many thru John, cheers hope life is treating you good.
Great stuff...really appreciated. Would love to know how this got officially released too. Thanks again for the upload.
Grandissimo john.
That was lovely, not heard that one before
god the sweet Anna part vanishes me
Keep coming back for that.
Grew up a dirty town where they like to kick when you're down...
GRANDE ARTISTA
Nice one!Whats the story behind the pics?
Big desl.
I know he was half-Scottish and spent some of his youth in Glasgow but he was born in Surrey and spent most of his life in England which makes the Scots accent more puzzling. Did he feel more Scots than English like Rod Stewart who was also 50/50. The difference being that Rod has never adopted a fake Scots accent. A sweet little mystery indeed
He spent most of his life in Scotland actually - other than the period 1967-1980.
i love John's music and have most of his albums . This is a memorable and unique gig and how wonderful it must have been to have witnessed it. BUT! and I have to say this: listening to John talk in his natural accent makes me wonder why he adopted the FAKE Scottish accent later on in his career. Here he sounds utterly home counties English but listen to him several years later and he is talking as though he was born in the east-end of Glasgow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why? Does any one have any idea about this??
Blair MacEwan Crosbie, who cares?
Not you, obviously. But then i suspect you don't give a toss about anything.
Blair MacEwan Crosbie How very presumptuous of you
There is nothing presumptious about my question.It is a genuine enquiry as to why John decided later in his life to adopt a billy Connolly-esq Scottish accent. I suppose the real question is this: why would any one want to pretend they were Scottish? Perhaps it was sort of regression to his childhood which he spent in Glasgow? If your comment is the best you can come up with then I would suggest you take up finger- painting or something similar that would not stretch your obviously limited intellectual capacity. It also concerns me that you as like many others are not brave or honest enough to use their real names on YT. Troll.
John was brought up in Glasgow with holidays down south during the year. He only spent 1967-80 living in England after which he moved home to Scotland. The double accent thing is far more common than you may think, for kids of divorced parents who are not of the same nationality.
Not enough photo's of OTHER people.👎