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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
4 comments:
Miguel from Spain,
Great Guitar Player, I love this man!
Thanks for share it!
Thanks for sharing...
He is a great guitar player. I love him and also he is playing method.
Mar is one of the most underrated guitarists alive today. Nice to see him get some kudos!
An experience that happened just moments ago, that only this list can appreciate.
Short backstory: huge jm fan, have the sig jaguar, play his music see his shows, big fan. live in nyc. out in la with my girlfriend, who is here for work. she has seen jm show (recently) with me.
she had a lunch in venice, ca today with her team. she calls me mid-meeting freaking out...Johnny Marr has just walked in the restaurant. I don't think I've ever heard her freak out this way. I don't even think I would have freaked out that way!
She was paralyzed and didnt know what to do. I'm 30-45 minutes away so no chance of making it just for a chance encounter.
Amy has to say something to him, its been decided.
She is scared, anxious and needs coaching from her team to do it. I tell her to simply be polite, apologize for the interuption but quickly tell him that your boyfriend is obsessed, per the above.
She ends up having a conversation with him! He hugs her twice. He gives her his guitar pick to give to me. The icing on the cake: He tells her that if he had one more day or more, he still wouldn't change a single thing on the jaguar. on that, I definitely agree. when I heard this, just afterwards, amy was literally crying. literally. hyperventilating. (ok, so she got a bit carried away, but who can blame her!).
that was such a memorable experience for her, as well as me even though I wasn't there, that I'm glad it was her rather than me. but at least I've got a guitar pick handled and played by his lordship!
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