This interview clearly displays the torment that is brewing within JM.

Did JM not say recently

" things would far easier if we could be friends"?

In this interview he talks with extreme pride , sadness and biterness.

Its time that the past is laid to rest and stop the venom and hatred towards one another.

Ok , so neither will never reform the smiths , contrary to what Andy Rourke has said that "they would all love to do it , but M will not forive Mike"

But why the hatred , surely things were not that bad whilst as a band....were they?

It is really hard as a fan for 20 years plus to constantly read the sly little remarks at one another.

Ok the court case blah blah has taken it a step further beyond repair , but Life is to short , it really is.

I love Morrissey's work , I love JM's work with the healers , and The Smiths I will love till the day I die.

Message to M and JM , enough is enough , you were friends once who both had a combined vision to make music and you can see from early TV interviews that you did like one another.

Sorry for the rant.

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I would happily lose
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No matter how hard you try, you'll always be a Smith.

in interviews johnny cant get away from the smiths, he would like to talk about his current work, but time again the interviewer asks about the smiths, which this you can tell he does not like, it is a shame and like the previous post, why dont at least mozz/marr chat and enjoy the ongoing and lets face it even more popularity of the smiths than when they were together, anyhow i for one am so grateful for morrissey and j.marr for giving me the best music and lyrics that i have ever heard, goodnight and thankyou

In view of the fact that 70% of our population feels immigration is out of control, we sorely need a leader to address the issue.

If not, civil war without doubt ---

is it civil war when half the populants are foreign?

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America F off

Q: Never trust anyone...
A: Whose sideburns are a different colour from the rest of their hair. I don't need to explain that one.

JM is funny.

I've just got back from Switzerland and I noticed Modest Mouse are playing the Greenfields Festival in Interlaken this weekend. Coincidentally Barney Sumner has a chalet in Wengen (not 10 miles up the road.)

"In the last year of the Smiths, I was stuck with a load of ideas and nowhere to play them. So I disbanded the group."

If any of those 'ideas' were used in his stay with Electronic, I can see why that happened.

-DAVIDismyHERO!

o johnny why dont u just shove ur nose in Modest Mouse's ass and stop whining on how the smiths wouldnt be anything without your riffs. So what if you dislike Morrissey at least he can still sell out shows as Morrissey-solo....

It's beyond me where the ideas Johnny were having - and thought to be hindered by the group he was in - went to.

It's embarrassing to hear him say he disbanded the group because of that.

Johhny has not produced anything worth of listening to since them, which makes us all be sure that Morrissey was indeed the salt in the Smiths' omelette.

Electronic, the Pretenders, The the...most os all very mesmerizing crap. The first Electronic album did have a good 6 to 8 wonderful songs, but, hey, he was not alone. And thoe songs sound sooooo much like NEW ORDER and the pet shop boys that I actually keep wondering where Johnny came in.

Morrissey was the heart and the soul of the Smiths. He wrote the lyrics, came up with all the vocal melodies( the most amazing thing in Smithsdom )tagged to Johnny mar's otherwise worthless music.

I am so very tired of JM.I do not have anything agianst him but when will he stop talking about the smiths on his current interviews? And in some ways critizing Moz. Moz has proved us that he can certaintly stand by himself--alone as a solo artist. He is an idol--with or without the smiths. I know Johny contributed with the sounds but morrissey's voice and lyrics wow what else can I say they are just poetic and irreplaceable.On the other hand Johnny has done nothing relevant till this moment (even though, I will not deny that I like his single with Modest Mouse--dashboard)He is a good musician. I have no doubts about that but compared to Moz. I think we all know who has proved to be the best in that aspect..goodnight and thank you

i work at mcdonalds. my favorite manager and a guy i work with...we constantly talk about the smiths. it's my fault for being obsessed, but kind of funny. seeing as we sell primarily meat, and johnny seems so anti-mcd's.

I used to respect JM but he is becoming a bit of a bore. God knows how Morrissey put up with him for so long, and no wonder he still hurts. Yamaha

Read the Marr interview in the latest Q magazine. There is a lot of good insight into the last year of the Smiths and reforming the Smiths.

I see now that it isn't just Morrissey that bears grudges...

Actually, he seems to be the less mordant of the two here.

Because I know, we all know he bears ancient grugdes too, but have you ever read about Morrissey letting us now that he suspects all folks that are short, and wear a "grundgy" hair style?

"I've got secrets and insights into the whole pantheon of rock'n'roll that belies a man of my tender age. And I'm pretty good with a guitar."

So says the bloke who's 44 later on this year!

He was really stabbing at Morrissey in that interview, wasn't he?

"You were one
You knew you were one
And you slipped right through my fingers
No not literally,
but metaphorically
and now you're all I see....as the light fades..."

Pick any Alex Lifeson solo from any Rush album...

Don't imagine anyone here has heard of Rush except for HiLo Indie

He never said it in so many words but a guy
over 40 should leave his shirt on.

Elvis never stripped off.

Then again, it was never rumoured he batted for the other side..ha ha

American/fathas piss off

Sorry to beat this dead horse, but I must.

Did I miss something? What were his "loads of ideas" that forced the breakup of the Smiths?

Playing backup guitar for Talking Heads? Filling a roster spot with the Pretenders for a few months? Lending his name to a mediocre New Order side project? Boomslang???

Or is he still saving them for the right moment?

i just wonder how it got away with it for so long

homos hide for just a short period

you big handbag

I listened to a few clips from the Modest Mouse album that Marr plays on, it could be the worst thing I have ever heard. It is just depressing that someone like Johnny could go from Smiths to that crap in 20 years. He should have appologized for it in the NME interview.

I mean who cares about this loser. It's been like 20 fucking years. He's meant nothing at all since The Smiths, and Morrissey has meant something. I am sick of the Marr / Smiths were so much better pyschophants. Move On People.

I finally read the interview last night and, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, where has your compassion, humility and charm disappeared to?
It wouldn't surprise me that, if Morrissey reads your words, he sheds a tear or two; the things you said were really quite hurtful.
You criticise his hairstyle, his age, his clothes, and his songwriting ability; his omission from your list of intelligent lyricists was glaringly obvious. And making light of the courtcase that nearly killed him was doubly cruel. I've fallen out or drifted apart from a few close friends in my time, as I'm sure many on this site have, but it's a no go area to belittle and criticise them in such a personal manner.
Somehow you seem to see your work with Morrissey as though you were one entity and after you left The Smiths, he no longer existed. You aren't just an extension of one another's subconscious Johnny, you and Moz both have feelings. What has he done to hurt your's that would cause you to be so vicious? Perhaps it was him turning down those millions to reform, which (if I remember correctly) you were keen to accept at the time.

Obviously he won't see this, but I had to get that rant off my chest, because I hate it when people snipe for no good reason. And obviously, I'll defend my (im)perfect hero to the death. Being a fan of The Smiths and Morrissey for 8 years, I'd always given Marr the benefit of the doubt, but these comments had no other interpretation than slagging off his former friend and tainting the memory of something that was quite beautiful, namely, The Smiths.
To my mind Johnny is rather like Paul McCartney, desperately clinging on to what he thinks is cool whilst riding on the back of former glories and a more revered partner. Please Johnny, retain some dignity and apologise to the fans (and Moz) who still hold you in high regard for what you did, and those who still follow what you do.

As much as I like the bloke, he hasn't come up with the goods. Also the Smiths were almost 20 years - YES 20 - ago so why bother speculating the past?
Marr made his money but everyone knows that Morrissey is the STAR. So why bother? There's only so many times Manchester Evening News will interview Marr.
Morrissey keeps selling out the Hollywood Bowl for Gods Sake.
So why bother with another Smiths documentary? Everyone has heard/listened to /read the Smiths story so why keep milking it?
One more Smiths "Documentary" with Joyce, Marr & Rourke and we will be SICK.

That drugs comment is one of the most childish things a grownup can say. What a shame.

I don't read anything in the forum anyway! But I am on my way out right now to buy my copy (which I have been intending to do all week!

You're out of order - he's done us all a favour - the NME is £2 or whatever and takes about 12 minutes to read

Of course! Thanks for reminding us that all visitors to this site are from the UK and would have bought the NME anyway. You love him really.