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About Smiths On Guitar
I created this blog to showcase the guitar work of Johnny Marr from the Smiths, and to help those who want to learn his guitar parts or learn more about his gear and production techniques.
I will cover the catalog song by song, using youtube videos from guitarists, chords, tab, and comments from Johnny when they are available. Many of the songs feature many different guitar tracks; often one person will capture something that another will not, so I will be posting everything that I feel helps with the understanding of the overall song, or any part of it. If anyone has anything to contribute, please email me at thom@smithsonguitar.com
I will cover the catalog song by song, using youtube videos from guitarists, chords, tab, and comments from Johnny when they are available. Many of the songs feature many different guitar tracks; often one person will capture something that another will not, so I will be posting everything that I feel helps with the understanding of the overall song, or any part of it. If anyone has anything to contribute, please email me at thom@smithsonguitar.com
Features
Interviews
"The Smiths"
"Hatful Of Hollow"
- William, It Was Really Nothing
- What Difference Does It Make?
- These Things Take Time
- This Charming Man
- How Soon Is Now?
- Handsome Devil
- Hand In Glove
- Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
- This Night Has Opened My Eyes
- Accept Yourself
- Girl Afraid
- Back to the Old House
- Reel Around The Fountain
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
"Meat Is Murder"
"The Queen Is Dead"
"Strangeways, Here We Come"
"Louder Than Bombs"
- Is It Really So Strange?
- Sheila Take A Bow
- Shoplifters Of The World Unite
- Sweet And Tender Hooligan
- Half A Person
- London
- Panic
- Girl Afraid
- Shakespeares Sister
- William, It Was Really Nothing
- You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
- Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
- Ask
- Golden Lights
- Oscillate Wildly
- Rubber Ring
- Back To The Old House
- Hand In Glove
- Stretch Out And Wait
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
- This Night Has Opened My Eyes
- Unloveable
- Asleep
Unreleased
Magazine Interviews & Articles
- Magazine Clippings, Unknown Dates and Issues
- Guitarist, Volume 1, Number 9, Feburary 1985
- No. 1, August 1985
- Sound Engineer Producer, August 1987
- Musician, September 1989
- Sonics, December 1989
- Alternative Press Vol. IV no.27, 1990
- Guitar Player, January 1990
- Guitar For The Practicing Musician, July 1990
- Guitar: The Magazine, June 1991
- Record Collector, November 1992
- Select, December 1993
- Guitar: The Magazine, Unknown Date
- Total Guitar, May 1995
- Future Music, October 1996
- Guitar: The Magazine, January 1997
- Total Guitar, August 1997
- Guitarist, June 2001
- Guitar Player, Feburary 2003
- Total Guitar, Feb 2003
- Chart Magazine, March 2003
- Guitar: Music - History - Players by Richard Chapman, August 2003
- Uncut, November 2004
- Sound On Sound, January 2005
- Total Guitar, Summer 2005
- Guitar Techniques, October 2005
- Bass Player, March 2006
- MOJO, June 2007
- NME, June 2007
- The Word, September 2007
- Uncut, Feburary 2008
- Guitarist, September 2009
- Total Guitar, October 2010
- Guitarist, February 2012
- Total Guitar, February 2012
- Total Guitar, March 2012
- Guitar and Bass, March 2012
- Guitar World, July 2012
- Q, December 2016
- Q, January 2018
- Uncut, May 2018
- Premier Guitar, September 2018
Recommended Sites
Posts
5 comments:
very well explain..but really hard for me anyway.. I try and I try.. :-)
Thanks for this great blog!
Thanks for posting, Thom! I'm awaiting my copy in the mail and was really hoping we might get a Johnny-sanctioned breakdown of these riffs... but alas! As you pointed out, that breakdown of TCM isn't even right. So much for a great revelation. :P
I heard Johnny say not long ago that he was hoping to eventually revamp his website and possibly include some tutorials since people are always asking him how to play this or that. Would be amazing to have his "official" word on some of these riffs, eh?
Yeah Ben, I'm always disappointed when these interviewers rehash things that have been covered in maybe 15 other interviews. I mean, ask him something we DON'T know... ask him how to play the end of Well I Wonder!!! ;)
Where did you read about Johnny adding tutorials? That sounds great!
In January, The Cribs played San Francisco, and I was fortunate to meet him afterwards outside the club. (Dream come true, of course!) We talked for a minute about how hard it is to work out some of his songs, and he made the comment that he'd like to eventually put some tutorials up on his site. Who knows if that'll ever happen, but at least he's aware of our plight. :)
Thank you so much for the time you put in this site. Do not ever take it offline. This last post is a gem !
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