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this guy should never talk anymore and just play his guitar in a nice band.....
this guy should never talk anymore and just play his guitar in a nice band.....
I say it's mostly because of the vocal melody.
Eh..?She's a Croatian teenager who migrated in Italy.
Be gentle to her.
Ooohh Uncleskinny!!! I really really thank you so much!!
It was really a treat to read that interview and I value so much your typing effort.
I'm curious about this one:
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.
What he was talking about??
Paulie from The Sopranos??
Or.... Or....
How can he have the cheek to say its "healthy to know" something then recommend drugs?! the arsehole. DONT TAKE DRUGS KIDS. Morrissey doesnt take them and is more successful then jonny marsbar features. enough said. Plus marrs stuck in the 90s with liam gallager and and all those glow sticks!
Q: You don't know the meaning of the Dark Side until you've...
A: Been in The Smiths. There you go, I got it out of the way straight off. The last year of The Smiths, I was stuck with a load of ideas and nowhere to play them. So I disbanded the group. Was I worried I wouldn't have anywhere for those ideas? Absolutely. But if the worst case scenario is better than the situation you're in at the time, you've got to go.
"The last year of The Smiths, I was stuck with a load of ideas and nowhere to play them. So I disbanded the group."
I don't understand this.
If Marr had these ideas and Morrissey rejected them, then Morrissey should not/would not have been so surprised at the break up of the group. If Marr consistently came to Morrissey with new styles of music and Moz didn't like them, and this was a trend then Moz would have known the group was in jeopardy. But as I recall Moz was and the other two were surprised/shocked at the break up.
If Marr had these ideas and never approached Morrissey with them, then he has other problems.
Or was Marr's idea of "ideas" being that he didn't want to do cover songs?
And what happened to all these ideas?
There were no ideas. It's complete rewriting of history. They had to do cover versions because Johnny had no music left. Everyone who was in that last session agrees on that (except Johnny).
And why did he not put all these fabulous ideas into practice instead of going off to work as a session musician with Bryan Ferry and Chrissy Hynde? He could have put together a band straight away.
Then later on he hooks up with Sumner and goes all Pet Shop Boys and tries to pretend that's what he'd always intended. You can tell he was just a rudderless ship at that time just following the lead of whoever he hooked up with. And nothing has changed.
She's a Croatian teenager who migrated in Italy.
Be gentle to her.
"The last year of The Smiths, I was stuck with a load of ideas and nowhere to play them. So I disbanded the group."
I don't understand this.
If Marr had these ideas and Morrissey rejected them, then Morrissey should not/would not have been so surprised at the break up of the group. If Marr consistently came to Morrissey with new styles of music and Moz didn't like them, and this was a trend then Moz would have known the group was in jeopardy. But as I recall Moz was and the other two were surprised/shocked at the break up.
If Marr had these ideas and never approached Morrissey with them, then he has other problems.
Or was Marr's idea of "ideas" being that he didn't want to do cover songs?
And what happened to all these ideas?
Wait a sec.
It's not fair to say "Johnny had no music left". He was exhausted for whatever reason and didn't want to be at the Streatham sessions in the first place. Johnny and Morrissey have both said that "Strangeways" was The Smiths at their creative peak. If Johnny could have had a vacation, I'm sure the ideas would have returned in full force. As we know from the box set chatter, The Smiths did not have a silo piled full of songs waiting to be recorded. Whatever they wrote, they recorded and released. The fact that Johnny didn't have a batch of songs for Morrissey at Streatham is meaningless.
Was he re-writing history? Okay, somewhat. As I said this interview doesn't put him in the best light. But in the NME in 1988, one writer mentioned that word circulating around The Smiths' camp was that "Johnny wanted to be Sly and The Family Stone and Morrissey wanted to be Herman's Hermits". The notion that Marr wanted to get into "forbidden" forms of music and couldn't use them in The Smiths is at least 19 years old now. Although it's hard to say what Johnny's "ideas" were at the time, this version of events could be backed-up by Morrissey's refusal to write music for "The Draize Train", which was one of the funkier tracks Marr had written.
Regarding Marr's alleged "sterile period", Q Magazine said that Marr was approached by Bernard Sumner in 1988, so that would mean he started his solo career roughly half a year after Morrissey. Marr and Sumner remained under the radar for about one year developing the project and then released "Getting Away With It" in December 1989. He also recorded some highly praised material for The The during that period. Well behind Morrissey's schedule, yes, but then again we've always heard that Marr was burned out and needed a break, so that's consistent. Besides, this dry spell is no big deal. It hit both of them. The only difference is that Marr had his immediately after The Smiths broke up, whereas Morrissey's occurred between 1989 and 1991.
Wait a sec.
It's not fair to say "Johnny had no music left". He was exhausted for whatever reason and didn't want to be at the Streatham sessions in the first place. Johnny and Morrissey have both said that "Strangeways" was The Smiths at their creative peak. If Johnny could have had a vacation, I'm sure the ideas would have returned in full force. As we know from the box set chatter, The Smiths did not have a silo piled full of songs waiting to be recorded. Whatever they wrote, they recorded and released. The fact that Johnny didn't have a batch of songs for Morrissey at Streatham is meaningless.
Was he re-writing history? Okay, somewhat. As I said this interview doesn't put him in the best light. But in the NME in 1988, one writer mentioned that word circulating around The Smiths' camp was that "Johnny wanted to be Sly and The Family Stone and Morrissey wanted to be Herman's Hermits". The notion that Marr wanted to get into "forbidden" forms of music and couldn't use them in The Smiths is at least 19 years old now. Although it's hard to say what Johnny's "ideas" were at the time, this version of events could be backed-up by Morrissey's refusal to write music for "The Draize Train", which was one of the funkier tracks Marr had written.
Regarding Marr's alleged "sterile period", Q Magazine said that Marr was approached by Bernard Sumner in 1988, so that would mean he started his solo career roughly half a year after Morrissey. Marr and Sumner remained under the radar for about one year developing the project and then released "Getting Away With It" in December 1989. He also recorded some highly praised material for The The during that period. Well behind Morrissey's schedule, yes, but then again we've always heard that Marr was burned out and needed a break, so that's consistent. Besides, this dry spell is no big deal. It hit both of them. The only difference is that Marr had his immediately after The Smiths broke up, whereas Morrissey's occurred between 1989 and 1991.
You're ignoring the fact that Marr said he was having wonderful ideas and couldn't put them into practice and Seekers good point that if that was so why was the break up such a shock to Morrissey. Did he just keep all these great ideas secret and not tell Morrissey?
If the opposite is true as you said (and this is my belief) that he was burned out, why won't he admit it? My suspicion is because he knows that version doesn't blame Morrissey enough for the break up. And he wants the blame to be on Morrissey.
I suppose it depends on whose version you believe, my opinion when I compare what he says to what others say about that time is that Johnny's story is full of holes and doesn't ring true. He contradicts himself with every public statement. That's why he should stop being a professional ex-Smith and shut up about it.
The terrible thing about all this is that it's been 20 years and things should be getting better. Yet Marr seems to get worse with each interview. He should be at his most happy at the moment yet he's wasting his time on childish cracks. I'm sorry but every interview he does these days I lose a bit more respect for him and this one is by far the worst. I can't help but feel he really resents Morrissey's success.
The man formed The Smiths at 18 and quit at 23, just keeping things in perspective.
HE said "once." Even dear old Mogsy has been known to be "bang on one, nice one, top one, get sorted" in his time (Q interview 1992) Wonder if herubbed vaseline.... NO DON'T GO THERE!!!!
Morrissey is stuck in 1972 but none of us seem to mind!