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Well I'll just say two years feels like forever and a blink of an eye. I miss seeing him play live every year. John had a profound impact on my music tastes and life and outlook. We still have his timeless music and I play it daily.
ReplyDeleteSorry, posted this in the guestbook. I figure it belongs here. From Stephen Spender, one of the great quiet voices of poetry. Bless you Mr Martyn.
ReplyDelete"I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the Spirit clothed from head to foot in song."
Two years already. He left us his songs, but he is always in my heart. My biggest regret, while he was a few meters away in a "Bistrot" in Paris, after a concert, not to have offered him a beer and exchange some words. Just by shyness.
ReplyDelete" Now we rise and we every where are "
From Nick Drake ' song " From The Morning "
Got the candles lit, some incense, a glass of brandy & a pint of bitter & a recording of Danny Baker's Radio London tribute on hearing of John's death.
ReplyDeleteBless the weather that brought you to me. Curse the day you go away...
ey up ev'rybody, the loss remains, but the sadness eases, a celebration in ev'ry song,and i know , at the very least, he would want us to smile, and I smile now at every memory, at ev'ry wry insight - be it musical, lyrical or otherwise...JM, a shining star you always were and always will be...the beauty and the beast, the lover and the fisherman,the prince and the fool...my glass is raised in your name...x
ReplyDeletestrugglin' about where to post this...could we have a tribute album bit within the discussion board area???...to which - the Bombay Bicycle Club's rendition of Fairy Tale Lullaby was not specifically recorded for the tribute album, it is on their own album, entitled 'Flaws'...well worth checking out, a bit of a retro folk anomally, fans of JM's early years will find much pleasure within its gentle antiquity and pastoral hues...I'm guessing that the tribute album is quite a way off any incoming release date...looking forward to it greatly nontheless...with baited breath and splashes of impatience.
ReplyDeleteI missed the Danny Baker tribute radio show at the time and wondered if I could get hold of a recording anywhere. Can anyone help please?
ReplyDeleteI am 26 and listened to John from age 13/14. He was my inspiration for going acoustic, including the awesome jamming in many fab sessions and songs written. Miss you John, I never got to see you play live but you live on with me.
ReplyDeleteI am 30 years old. I discovered Johns music in a pub in Glasgow where I had to ask the bar man who it was playing on the jukebox. He looked at me funny and replied "Its John Martyn". From that day until now I have loved his music. I love the variety of genres he covers (folk, blues, jazz, soul, etc). Like others on here I am gutted not to see him play live. Your music will always live on...
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