I hope everyone is having a nice holiday. As you have probably noticed, the blog recently moved to smithsonguitar.com. So far, it seems to be a smooth transition.
I have just tonight published an overhaul to the gear section, with several new guitars added and new info and photos added to the ones already listed. There will be another update to the gear page coming early next year which will cover Johnny's amps. Other than that, I think it is fairly comprehensive at this point.
I have several more updates coming in the new year including a new interview, a section on Andy's bass gear, and several rare tab books which I haven't posted yet. I will also try to hunt down all of the remaining dead links and fix them, as soon as I can.
I'd like to thank all my readers, especially everyone that has made contributions to the site. If anyone has any further suggestions or ideas, please let me know in the comments.
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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
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Happy Holidays and thanks for this wonderful site
"If anyone has any further suggestions or ideas, please let me know in the comments. "
The site is beyond compare, but since you asked.
I would suggest
1. A link to the homepage thats accessible from all pages.
2. A notation on the home page saying when the recently updated was last updated
3. All this smiths marr work seems to me to beg the question guitar wise how has he progressed since the smiths..what directions has he taken...perhaps an expanded section for post smiths work?
4. also influences..maybe a section for influences...'these are the guitarists that johnny first studied...'
5. some of the guitarist on youtube doing smiths songs are fantastic....I bet they could give some good insights into what they see as unique about Marrs playing in an interview format
this site is already something out of my dreams, pls take these suggestions with a grain salt,
thanks and happy new year
This site has changed my life, thank you so much for your work!
Also, I love uglow's suggestions.
Happy New Year!
Hey uglow, thanks for your comment.
1. I want to make the top banner clickable, but I haven't ever been able to figure that out. It's some kind of weird code due to it changing banners upon reloading. I'll look back into that. If anyone is a Blogger pro and can help with that, please let me know.
2. I have added a recent updates section which is linked in the "about this blog" paragraph on the right. Updates are typically too complicated to sum up in a few words. Blogger has no widget for "recently modified or updated posts", so that's as good as I can do for now. I will try to keep that up to date with all changes I make to various pages.
3. I may do a post-smiths section at some point, but the whole reason I created the site was due to a lack of Smiths related material in guitar mags, etc. I want to be careful not to dilute the focus too much. Also, within this year I will have 95% of all the published tab on the site, so I want to focus more on improving the accuracy of the guitar pro tabs... which is a tall order and will take years. Johnny's later period work has very little tab dedicated to it, and other sites do a fairly good job of cataloging that. Also, I post every guitar magazine interview I can of Johnny, throughout his whole career, so in some ways his post Smiths career is covered there.
4. I have an influences section that I have been working on for about a year, I will definitely organize that and post it when I can.
5. Believe it or not, I have tried to interview some of the outstanding guitarists that do Smiths covers. But many don't want to make a big deal about their covers, and some have their own music to promote. Usually their advice and methods are the same: study the records and live shows, and try to get an understanding of what's going on.
Also I want to thank you uglow for all your help with hosting, I really appreciate it!!
Just wanted to say how awesome this site is!!! I think if Johnny saw it he would definitely endorse it maybe contact him!?
Thank you for this site, by the way I can share with you 4 GP tabs I have (This charming man, William it was really nothing, How soon is now, and please please please let me get what i want...)
Let me know how to do to send it to you.
Hi Anonymous, thanks for the offer and nice comment. You can send files to me at the address listed on the home page, thom@smithsonguitar.com.
Does anyone know if the Off the record songbook is any good? And roughly what they sell for? Seen one on ebay but no idea if it's any good or overpriced
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