Last night the Shaw theatre was packed to capacity for his solo concert, and be demonstrated both the reasons why he is so admired, and the reasons why he has not done any better.
6 minutes.
Good version of Rather Be The Devil with stereo effects, recorded BBC Langham Studios, London.
BBC6 claimed 2004 this 'Devil Got My Woman' to be the oldest surviving recording in their archives.
John Martyn, whose solo spot opened the show, fared quite well in the face of appalling sound.
Two solo acoustric tracks recorded in BBC London studio.
How do you begin to describe a guitarist as sensitive and as accomplished as John Martyn?
Reviewing this sort of album is a bit like dissecting a meat pie after you've eaten it. I could resort to pages of pseudo intellectual wofflé, or I could do Charles Shaar Murray and wax effusively. The safest bet is to say that this album is superb, and Ain't No Saint and Make No Mistake sum the whole album up. There's some thing for everyone here. So this can't be bad at all.
This advert supported the release of Solid Air. At the bottom nine tour dates for March have been included. This served to reconstruct the publishing date.
The last two dates, Slough College of Technology 23rd and Euston Shaw Theatre 25th, must have been cancelled as John was touring the US at that time.
27 Jan 1973
John Martyn will talk about anything without the slightest provocation, except his music. He's suspicious of words.
30 Dec 1972
"I'm trying to pull electric music into acoustic and acoustic into electric," John Martyn told me earlier this year1. It's been said a million times before, easy words to find, but Martyn moves nearer to that end than any artist I've heard.
19 Feb 1972
"I'M trying to pull electric into acoustic and acoustic into electric."
