Media: 1 DVD
Running Time: 1 3/4 hours
Source: TV Broadcast (FogOnTheTyne DVD#4)
Format : PAL inc menus
Audio Quality: Ex rating
Video Quality : Ex rating
Artwork: unavailable
originators comments: This is Pal DVD fully authored with menu and song selection. Footage is direct from TV. Before any John Martyn fan thinks I'm sick - the title comes from a joke John makes on the Jools Holland show regarding his leg amputation. If he can laugh so can we.
Menu 1
John Martyn: Old Grey Whistle Test 1978
Bob Harris introduces John Martyn in concert at the Collegiate Theatre, UCLA.
London in 1978
Broadcast Sun 30 May 2004, 00:35-01:05 am
May You Never
Small Hours
Certain Surprise
Couldn't Love You More
Big Muff
Menu 2
Later.....with Jools Holland
Broadcast Friday 28th May 2004
One For The Road
Interview
Johnny To Bad
Menu 3
ORIGINALS documentary: JOHN MARTYN - JOHNNY TOO BAD
Broadcast Friday 28 May 2004
John Martyn is one of Britain's originals; a musician whose distinctive,
drawling vocals and virtuoso guitar playing have been an inspiration to
household-name musicians for decades.
This intimate documentary follows John Martyn as he emerges from a near-fatal encounter with "a dark cow on a dark night", a "hangman's fracture", infected cysts... At the beginning of filming, he's recording a new album in his front room and facing an operation to have his right leg amputated below the knee.
With extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, we spend time with him cooking, drinking, recording, trying on silly hats (and latterly his new prosthetic leg) as he makes the painful progress towards getting back on the road.
Along the way, we dip into the past to learn more about his career - from London's folk clubs in the 1960s, to his best-loved album Solid Air, to his
continuing musical experimentation.
The programme includes extracts from the following performance archive:
May You Never (1973)
Couldn't Love You More with Danny Thompson (1977)
Outside In (1973) with Danny Thompson
Make No Mistake with Danny Thompson (1973)
Small Hours (1978)
Sweet Little Mystery with band (Alan Thomson, Danny Cummings & Max Middleton) &
Phil Collins on drums (1981)
Hurt In Your Heart with band (Foster Patterson, Alan Thomson, Jeff Allen, Danny
Cummings) from A Little Night Music (1981)
Johnny Too Bad with band (Foster Patterson, Alan Thomson, Jeff Allen & Danny
Cummings) on A Little Night Music in 1981
Couldn't Love You More on Jock and Roll (1982)
Gun Money with band (Ronnie Leahy, Alan Thomson, Jeff Allen and Danny Cummings
(1982)
Step it Up with band and backing singers (Emma Heywood, Ernestine Pearce, Jerry
Underwood, Alan Thomson, Miles Bould, Spencer Cozens) on Later With Jools (1996)
Unless otherwise indicated the performances are taken from The Old Grey Whistle
Test.