After really getting into the big guy's music over the past year or so, I went hunting for bootlegs online, only to find that there really aren't many out there. This prompted me to get off my backside & make a few of my own, so I turned the place upside down looking for some minidisc recordings I made of him in Croydon in 2004 & 2007, and also this show from Cambridge in 2001.
John Martyn & Danny Thompson
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Cambridge, summer 2001 (June?)
60 min.
01 - The Glory Of Love 5:17
02 - I Don't Wanna Know/The Creator 9:46
03 - Bless The Weather/Make No Mistake 9:57
04 - Spencer The Rover 4:42
05 - Danny Thompson monologue 9:51
06 - Blue Monk (Danny Thompson) 5:05
07 - Dealer 12:46
08 - Over The Hill. 3:25
Recorded by Davey sometime in summer 2001, in venue I can't remember in Cambridge. I've googled to within an inch of my life, and have been unable to find a date for it, and I've even rifled through my ticket box without luck.
I know it was near the uni. as a friend that I went to the gig with was studying there at the time.
Unfortunately, it is incomplete. I think the battery ran out & for that reason it has languished in a drawer, unlabelled, gathering dust as it annoyed me that it was incomplete. I wasn't really that into John Martyn at the time, but over the past year or so I've become hooked. I was surprised at the apparent dearth of field recordings of his, (this appears to have changed recently, check Dime), so I decided I had to look for this show. I've only found it over the past few days & really was surprised how good it sounded, so decided to rescue the disc before it failed on me.
The audience is very quiet, almost 1960's folk club quiet during the songs, and it's a nice, steady mono recording.
Highlights are an absolutely beautiful Spencer The Rover, and an utterly compelling & intense version of Dealer, but all the performances are mesmerising to be totally truthfull.
It was recorded on a minidisc, can't remember which make of machine, in mono mode using one of those long, thin mic's that came with computers around the turn of the century. I used to have to smuggle it in hidden in my coat sleeve!
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