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It’s hard to believe (and we are a little late on this but bugger it) but January 29th was the third anniversary of the death of John Martyn. Awkward, occasionally aggressive, totally unpredictable, Iain David McGeachy was in no small part responsible for his limited commercial success (several writers here recall seeing a very worse for wear Martyn play live), and entirely responsible for his own early demise due to excessive boozing habits and unrepentant laddishness, and yet this cussed individual, who on a bad day only his mother could love, also possessed a beautiful voice that could move a grown man to tears, an astonishingly deft touch with six guitar strings and the unerring ability to write songs that remain absolute classics to this day. Despite his failings as a human being devotees love John Martyn with a passion most musicians could only dream about, so we‘ve decided to dig out the last interview we did with the man just to remind you all what you're missing...
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Jazz Is Not Dead
Not news as such but a debate raged here at TM-Towers over the Christmas period about who we would vote the finest guitarist of all time. Needless to say we arrived at no concrete results (comparing Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and Robert Fripp is a bit like comparing eggs, wind and a hairstyle), however what everyone did agree on was how incredibly underrated Allan Holdsworth was and how we should do our bit to combat that lack of profile, so we have and you can find Al' right now in our bright and shiny video section
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Out Of My Brain
We like this one, The Who posted an open invitation November last to animators, filmmakers and The Who’s fans to submit a video for the classic Quadrophenia single ‘5.15’. The winning video, picked from numerous submissions was directed by Jeff Rodenberg from Minnesota – who was awarded $2000 in prize money, a Fender guitar signed by Pete Townshend and Quadrophenia: ‘The Director’s Cut’ Boxset – reminded us of the mighty Rolf Harris’s ‘can you tell what it is yet’ segments in his TV show, see how long it takes you……
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Pusher Man
It’s no secret that we’re a bit fond of Tom Squarepusher Jenkinson and his demented bass and breakbeats around here but we have to admit to not really falling madly in love with his recent Shobaleader One effort. So it is with no small amount of joyousness that we can report his latest album, Ufabulum, is a stonking great return to form (watch out for the review coming soon) and you can hear for yourself just what we're banging on about by checking out the following video for 'Dark Steering' which is taken from the album in question...
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