Sunday 31 January 2010

REQUIEM MASS, JOHN MARTIN, DIED 29TH JANUARY 2009

4 comments:

call me ishmael said...
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call me ishmael said...

Ain't it funny how time slips away.....?

I couldn't help but think that this was the only shot in his locker, although enough, in itself, to repel all boarders. This version, lacking that syncopated, modal, highwire walking of the studio version, battered and subdued by that awful lap slide guitar which was all over these Transatlantic Sessions like snot on Gordon's tie, is haunting and beguiling for all that. Old age and infirmity came early to John Martin, as if, almost wilfully, he gave Mr Death a complimentary ticket and before you knew it, they took him to the graveyard but they didn't bring him back.

mongoose said...

I missed that one, Mr Ishmael. Magnificent hippy stuff. May you never make your bed out in the cold.

call me ishmael said...

Nor you, mr mongoose.