How can you not know Johnny 'fuckin' Marr !!!

Johnny's been on countless records as a session guitarist. Several artists have repeated the story that he likes to turn up cold and hear the track for the first time while he improvs the first take - which is often the one they use. He's one of those guys.

Johnny Marr !!!! the SMITHS GUITARIST ... TOO MANY CLASSICS BRO !!!

Fender issued Johnny Marr’s signature Jaguar in 2012 and it’s still in production. Some argue the best spec’d Jaguar since the original’s introduction in 1962. Johnny got it right.

It seems like Johnny Marr has a future as guitar player 😅

Check out Johnny Marr's playing when he was in The The. Just amazing.

I was never the biggest Smiths fan.. But.. I always loved this song ... And hearing it again on here I've not changed my opinion. It's a bloody epic tune.

Johnny Marr is a LEGEND!!!

Johnny Marr is an absolute legend… he’s come up with some of the most interesting and innovative songs and guitar parts going and he’s one of the greatest guitarists ever to come out of the UK. The players and bands he’s been the inspiration for over the years are too many to count… And the even crazier thing is just how young he was when he created much of the music he’s famous for with the Smiths… he was 18 when he formed the band and 24 when they disbanded 😱

Love your reaction, analysis and enthusiasm. Those Brits didn't shy away from not doing things the way they were supposed to. A logical follow up to this for me would be Suede - Animal Nitrate. Bernard Butler is a genius, and this is an amazing piece. The original studio version would probably be best suited for a reaction - but there's also an interesting video floating around from may years later with some of the story and instructions from the man himself, that I bet you'd get a kick out of seeing afterwards.

Johnny Marr is one of GOATs Michael. Enjoy discovering

Takes me back to the 80s. Love this tune!

Love me some Johnny Marr. The work he did with Matt Johnson of The The is actually my favorite work of his. Amazing stuff.

Johnny marr is the reason i play guitar. This track is great but there are many amazing riffs - Girl afraid being my favourite :)

The outro to ' some girls are bigger' is one of my favourite bits of music ever. Hypnotic and heavenly. Also , did anyone else notice that Michael kept somehow stumbling into ' this charming man' parts whilst looking for how soon is now? Great stuff Michael, i love your channel.

Love this. Marr is wizard - such an inventive and original player. People should check out Bert Jansch one of Marr’s biggest guitar influences and a genius on the guitar as well.

Love your videos, Michael!!! This song is probably one of the best songs in existence!

I remember seeing/reading a Johnny Marr interview about this riff, said it was a take off of the Bo Diddley riff, at least that's where it started out, ended up as The Smiths.

Johnny is my favorite guitarist ever!

The legendary Johnny Marr i will always remember when and where i first hear this song!

I've always loved this song.

Bo Diddley foundations by design, Johnny Marr chords and arpeggios edifice, topped off with Morrissey's melancholic words and melody. Typical Smith's song given a live solo Marr guitar workout. Marr was the antidote to hair metal guitar in the 80s - a guitar hero without the soloing bombast of sweeping, the Floyd-Rose and tapping. A gifted songwriter. His major influences included British folk guitarists (as were Paul Simon's) like Bert Jansch and Martin Carthy. Listen to the guitar on This Charming Man for typical Marr chords and arpeggiation approach. Slightly surprised you didn't know Marr but another top video Michael. Music - the gift that NEVER stops giving. Barry McMurdock 7/V/24

Heard this song dozens of times and somehow never noticed the strong Bo Diddley influence. Great breakdown and analysis!

Welcome to Marr town! What a bloke.

Love this, thank you Michael. I have to learn it now

Thank you for the courage to show the true process of learning -- struggling, reaching, finding, experimenting -- a tune. Many might think it comes automatically, but it's work

If you really want to hear Johnny flex his guitar playing muscles try William It Was Really Nothing by The Smiths. Just an incredible song and guitar playing is spectacular.

Loved the working out of this... as I aways do when I dip in. The Smiths were a band that came up when I was 30 and some would have said I was "too old" for it, but I was well versed in the Beatles, Stones, and guitarists like Thownsend, Hendrix, Clapton, Green, Gilmour, Howe, Hackett, Trower, Frampton... etc, etc, etc.... so when I heard this I knew it was something special. As is all Johnny Marr's work. The guitar work on the original recording of this is all Johnny... in this version Johnny obviously has a support guitarist to give the full effect. Keep on Rocking.

Love your videos but particularly love this one…Johnny Marr is my all time favourite guitarist…truly original and a great interviewee . Would love you to look at more of his stuff….more specifically his writing with The Smiths ❤❤

Johnny Marr, how soon is now...amazing amazing song. love his work with the smiths.

A lot of Marrs guitar work isn't the most technical, but most of his songs DEFINITELY How Soon Is Now, are absolutely iconic.

Johnny doesnt have the flashiest solos or the most complex songs written, but he is an absolute song writing genius. I don't think I've heard anyone make a guitar talk the way he has in The Smiths

There’s a wealth of good interviews with Johnny. He’s got some great stories. If you want to geek out guitar wise watch the one from That Pedal Show. And check out his book Marr’s Guitars.

One of the most famous guitar riffs in history... "I don't know if I know this song"...... I cannot even right now. ;)

Funny that you’re doing this tune…a month ago I was crushing hard on this same live version. Killer tune and so much fun to play with the hard tremolo!

Love it. Thanks

Damn, just brought me back to my college days. Long live the 80’s. Smiths

That harmonic behind the nut bend was a frequent Rory Gallagher move. Johnny is a massive Rory fan! Johnny relates a story in a Rory TV documentary when he saw Rory at Salford University change a broken string whilst still playing the song and not missing a beat. I was there that night too. I might have been stood next to Johnny and not known it. The gig was 19th Nov 1981! Here is a Rory video you might like to analyse! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqmcqdR-m8rOZ4E.htmlsi=ttjQRKXYftGJKd14

For the slide part i think the b string is tuned down to b flat. Love Johnny marr, thanks for the vid.

I’m a huge fan of The Smiths first two albums. My brother turned me on to Meat Is Murder then I bought The Queen Is Dead when it came out. Both great albums. Johnny also played with The Pretenders.

Johnny Fuckin’ Marr! Awesome reaction, more of Johnny please

Always keep it if it sounds good!

Johnny Genius Marr

I walked past him in my Local Tesco a couple of weeks ago, (Portwood in Stockport) it left me beaming like an idiot the rest of the day.

Ole 60, Brother Joe! You'll love it!

I’m glad someone hipped you to Johnny Marr but of all the songs for the guitar teacher, my word, you’re just scratching a little surface with this particular song. I suggest “This Charming Man” or my personal favorite “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.”

love it

I love it how he appreciates him

You, Sir, are brilliant. I enjoyed your reaction very much. I loved your "so British" comments. I am British btw.

Dude, how can you be unaware of the Smiths? Some of the most unique rock music ever written.

Such amazing melodies and chord progressions he's composed in his career. I only recently found out, he played the guitar parts for the score of Christopher Nolan's Inception.

He doesn't know Johnny Marr.. fucking 'ell. Only one of the biggest British guitar legends

I learned how to do an acoustic version of this song last year and it took an age. I sing the part with the slide. It's one of my fave tunes of all time. I can't believe you viewed this cold. It's one of the Smiths' biggest tunes. Classic. I actually just live up the road from where this video was recorded as well.

Such a great song. U2 used a similar f#min vibe on occasion and tbh, the overall rhythm is quintessential Bo Diddley in my twisted mind.

That was fucking awesome

Johnny Marr !!

I just watched the video as he released the video.

Great podcast with Adam Buxton and Johnny Marr from 2017 where he talks about coming up with some of the Smiths tunes 🤗🤗 well worth a listen 👍

Love the high hat shout out 🙏

He done the guitar on the live version of the calm tune Time.

Got to check out Marr’s playing on other Smiths songs some of the most sneakily complicated licks and runs I’ve ever attempted to play this while being arguably the best Smiths song it’s simple for them. Songs like “William it was really nothing” or “Some girls are bigger than Others” He also played with The The and Modest Mouse!

Brilliant and British.

You my friend have just been 'Johnny Marr'd'

Nice!

It's that Bo Didley beat that drives it

Loved that you did this video! Big time marr and smiths fan (every smiths fan should read Johnny’s book btw). But yes isnt the harmonic too hand bending the string above the nut a wicked move 11:16?!

Enjoyed that. 😎 hard to imagine someone not knowing JM though. 🤔

Johnny Marr did a great version of The Smith's There is a Light That Never Goes Out with Neil Finn and his Seven Worlds Collide project with some of the Radiohead guys. It's so damn good, well worth checking out if you haven't seen it.

You don’t know Johnny Marr??

Every day is a learning day. 😉

I learned a new term today, isolate. Didn’t even know that’s what I was doing when I was figuring out a tune!! 😎

That's the best live Marr song. He actually does it just as good as Morrissy. Him playing with the tuning at the end is classic. Nobody has the balls to grab knobs.

If I was ever going to teach "how to write a song", How Soon is Now would be at the top of my list. The song is chalk full of instrumental hooks, that keeps the listener engaged throughout the song. An absolute masterpiece imo. In regards to Jonny Marr's guitar, you need to get the right effects to sync up with the correct guitar rhythm. I'm not sure what effects are used, but when I try to play the song kicking around at home I use a tremolo effect. There's information on YT on how to actual get the correct voicing for the guitar. On a separate note, I was checking the Canadian guitar content you have on your channel and noticed you haven't reacted to Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush. Before SRV or Van Halen, there was Frank Marino. FM hit the music scene around the time of Hendrix's passing (early 70's). Highly influenced by Jimi, FM was a monster on the guitar. One of my favorite songs of his is, "It's Begun to Rain" live at the Agora Theatre. It would be cool if you could break down the verses, would be a great song to learn. There are two guitar solos. The first solo fall inline with the song. The second solo is a jazz scatting solo sorta.

Johnny Marr, George Harrison, Paul Simon and Robert Smith were my guitar references for teaching myself from back when i was a teenager. Um now 54, stil dont read any music but have had plenty paid gigs with two bands and paid by an amateur talent show to transpose for singers in any key they suit. Only problem to this day i dont know any names of chords i play as i learnt by listening, so i can play How Soom Is Now but i can'tt tell anyone the chords!

his songs where he layers arpeggios are gorgeous. he has such a distinctive playing style. this song isnt the best example of it to be honest. but its still iconic love marr❤

🙏🙏🙏

“When you say it’s gonna happen now, what exactly do you mean?”

That capo tuning bit is wild

He alone kept guitar playing alive and real for most of the eighties. Bit of Fire on the Mountain?

He gave an interview showing how he grabbed bits of Bo Diddley for the rhythm parts.

Johnny 'Fucking' Marr!

After you You did the high part with triads. I started hearing Bo Diddley, after that I heard Bo didley all over that song, especially the beat!

Michael is such a cool guy lol

Kicked off British jangly guitar style. Did last Bond film. Legend.

Check out his guitar on "This Charming Man". Check out the guitars on "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" and "Cemetry Gates" and "Rusholme Ruffians" etc etc etc

For more British bands try out Big Country, track Porroh Man. Twin guitar parts, very hipgnotic.

I was this many days old when I realized Johnny is paying homage to Bo Diddley in the verse

Hey Mike - review Love Spreads - Stone Roses (John Squire)........................please

I suggest listening to the whole Hatful of Hollow album. The whole album is bloated with epic guitar work in all various flavors. 🔥

Yeah, maybe Johnny is the luckiest guitarist in the world, randomly coming up with amazing extended chord voices *so many times on so many songs.* Or, you know...maybe he's just amazing.

John Squire is another good British guitarist to look into.

anyone know what tremolo Marr uses on this? Its amazing. Or maybe it's a leslie emulator?

The dude's guitar chops were already cemented but he has a legitimate voice.

L.A.B - Give me that feeling (Live at Massey Studios) a New Zealand band 👍🏽

The Smiths classic. The "topline" is probably just as much a Morrissey-part as it is Johnny Marr. Amazing song, amazing guitar player and songwriter.

Listen to Johnny Marrs part on greetings to the new brunette with Billy Bragg

The indie musicians guitar hero.

the wizard of moz

He has credits on the new dune movie too

This is the song Keith Richards wishes Mick Taylor had stuck around so he had thought of it. It's more late '60's Stones than just about anything they've done in 50 years.