John Martyn - Solid Air video free download

Roel Lassche

From a loving and worried friend for Nick so delicate and true,brings water to my eyes.what a loss.

Craig L

Nick would go to visit john and Bev and barely say a word all the time he was there, He im sure would have had better treatment now for his illness than he did then,they are i hope together again now

John Thorne

For Burt472 and your comment: "Why the pic of Nick Drake?"This must have been asked and answered a number of times in the preceding 200 comments.And a casual Google search, on either John Martyn or Nick Drake, would produce the answer.Anyway, the answer is this: in the wake of his initial recognition, Nick began a descent - or a retreat, if you wish - into mental illness. A number of people tried to reach Nick during that time and recover him - and could not. John was one such. The culmination of Nick's mental state was the taking of his own life.As he worsened, Nick was difficult to engage in conversation - he moved and spoke only with effort, would take a long time to reply (if he replied at all) and sometimes the waited-for responses did not even relate to what had been said to him. He moved and responded as slowly as though the air around him had solidified - moving through solid air, just as the lyrics reflect. He was survived by his sister, Gabrielle Drake (you might read her own Wikipedia entry, for a life well lived). A number of people have said that, in respect of Nick and his issues, "Nobody understood him". Gabrielle recently went on record as saying:"It's trite to say nobody understood Nick. We did understand him - and it still happened." She couldn't be more right. Many people, with depression and parallel mental health issues, have people to whom they are dear all around them who know exactly who they are, exactly why they are depressed and exactly what should help - and it *still* doesn't, which only compounds the distress of all involved. As John says: "I know ya, I love ya....I don't know what's going wrong in your mind". The song is heart-breakingly beautiful because it's Martyn (an oft-times loud, hard-drinking, working-class, rough-housing bear of a man, whom the world repeatedly tried to break and failed) setting out his feelings about his friend and polar opposite: a quiet, fragile, Oxbridge type unable to cope and whom the world was only too happy to devour. If you consider the lyrics, they comprise very little - and yet they say everything. I have a little son who loves this song. He's far too young to know or understand anything about it. When he asked, I told him that it's about a man, who has a friend; the friend is feeling sad. The man wants him to know that they can talk about it but only if his friend wants to, otherwise the man will just sit with him. And that's probably about right, whatever the age of the person who asks.

Burt472

Why the pic of Nick Drake?

Robert Thomas

Twice seen live! awsome performance. My inspiration on the guitar. 

Roger House

Coming home, any time I take a train, any train out of Gatwick airport through the Surrey countryside I listen to this. 

Kevin Trebell

The most beautiful tribute to Nick Drake that could have been made I think.

edward johnson

thanks to danny thompson on this one

dangus1055

14 thumbs down? Those people shouldn't even be listening to music.

Pierfrancesco Plastina

John Martyn: "Solid Air" dall' album omonimo (1973).John Martyn musicista fra i più talentuosi della scena britannica, dedica questo brano al suo amico Nick Drake che sarebbe morto un anno e mezzo dopo la pubblicazione di questo album. Solid Air, assieme al successivo Inside out, è fra i più bei dischi degli anni '70.

MsJulie49

This album is a wonderful example of the late great John martyn's amazing singer/song writting ability. I first heard his music about 25 years ago and it still makes my heart sing. RIP Mr Martyn

Bruna w

Essa musica é um solid air...sinto ele entrando nos pulmões e ascendendo tudo.

captainawsomeface

RIP Nick, RIP John

Augusto Hernández

beautiful song to nick drake

JOINTY MCBLUNT

hey nigger

Vlad q.s

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Burt472

Had the privilege to see him perform in Italy many years ago..Unforgettable. Ciao John. Thanks.

Giovanna Vignoni

Have no idea how I ended up in this song, but I am soooo glad I did.

Tomas Horn

You’ve been taking your timeAnd you’ve been living on solid airYou’ve been walking the lineAnd You’ve been living on solid airDon’t know what’s going wrong insideAnd I can tell you that it’s hard to hide when you’re living onSolid air.You’ve been painting it blueAnd you’ve been looking through solid airYou’ve been seeing it throughAnd you’ve been looking through solid airDon’t know what’s going wrong in your mind,And I can tell you don’t like what you find,When you’re moving throughSolid air.I know you, I love youAnd I could be your friendI could follow you, anywhereEven through solid air.You’ve been stoning it coldYou’ve been living on solid airYou’ve been finding that goldYou’ve been living on solid airI don’t know what’s going on insideI can tell you that it’s hard to hideWhen you’re living onSolid air, solid air.You’ve been getting too deepYou’ve been living on solid airYou’ve been missing your sleepAnd you’ve been moving through solid airI don’t know what’s going on in your mindBut I know you don’t like what you findWhen you’re moving throughSolid air, solid air.I know you, I love youI’ll be your friendI could follow you, anywhereEven through solid air.You’ve been walking your lineYou’ve been walking on solid airYou’ve been taking your timeBut you’ve been walking on solid airDon’t know what’s going wrong insideBut I can tell you that it’s hard to hideWhen you’re living onSolid air, solid air.You’ve been painting it blue,You’ve been living on solid airYou’ve been seeing it throughAnd you’ve been living on solid airI don’t know what’s going on in your mindBut I can tell you don’t like what you findWhen your living onSolid air, solid air.I know you, I love youAnd I’ll be your friendI could follow you, anywhereEven through solid air.Ice blue solid airNice blue solid air.

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