So much to unpack here. Put it simply: creating simple, catchy things like this was fresh and exciting when they were young. Very difficult to keep that going as you age. You see it all the time in pop music. Johnny was "better off" young and with Morrissey too.
The artistry of Johnny Marr makes him one of THE best.......I love his style of playing. As a failed guitarist, all i can do is listen in wonderment and watch. Truly awesome! :)
haha everytime he explains the riff "it's like a uh you have this thing here where I um do this and then get the thing on top like that y'kn *starts playing chord with loop pedal*"
If Johnny Marr only knew how many great things i acomplished in life inspired by this riff and many others by him & the smiths... ill be eternally grateful!!!
Johnny Marr - made The Smiths complete, with his riffs, which many found difficult to play at that time, ask Noel Gallagher ..Cool, ..Brilliant band, still love em today as then !!
I would like to sit down all the widdly widdly merchants in front of this video and make them watch it. Deceptively simple, tuneful, melodic, memorable and individual. If there’s a finer guitar player / songwriter of the last 40 years I’d like to hear him or her.
he writes proper long / paragraphs / motifs / stories... absolute boss. went into a guitar shop myself tried a jag and I was dogshit (I'm average anyway but I couldn't "feel" it). Johnny is prob one of the tightest electric strummers around. understated cool
No one comes close,Johnny plays individual notes instead of full chords and they're all so clean,if they're eligible and not in the hall of fame that's some grade a bullshit,they were all virtuosos,bass lines,drums,and of course Moz
The HoF is a joke. I'd bet that any successful musician that truly cares about their legacy wants nothing to do with it. The Smiths were not corporate. Corporate bands are the only bands buying recognition via RRHoF. Even John Lydon knows this.
@Samwellisation Try the Four Track shop, alternatively get an audio workstation for your PC such as Reaper and you'll have a lot more than 4 tracks plus enough FX to shake a stick at.
I'm assuming he's probably using a Line 6 DL-4 to loop. Hit a button and it can record up to 28 seconds to loop for you. I have 2 of them--one I use for guitar and one for my voice to harmonize 3 or 4 parts. Look up Howie Day to see some great looping techniques mainly in songs like "Ghost" or "Bunnies"
