Indie icon Johnny Marr has praised his band mates in The Cribs claiming there was nothing he could teach them.
Johnny Marr was one of the 80s most renowned guitar heroes. At a time when synth pop groups detested the instrument, and post-punk bands celebrated their lack of musical ability Marr was capable of wrenching symphonic sounds from his six string.
After The Smiths disintegrated in 1987 Johnny Marr walked away from the group to become an in demand session guitarist. Playing with bands such as The The, Marr also helped to found all star experiment Electronic.
However the guitarist has lacked a full time band for over a decade. Working on solo material, Johnny Marr received a call from The Cribs asking if he’d like to contribute to their forthcoming album.
Becoming a full time member of the band Johnny Marr toured with The Cribs last year, and his glistening guitar playing is all over the band’s new album ‘Ignore The Ignorant’.
Widely thought to have been a massive part of the new record’s success, Johnny Marr has insisted in a new interview that he entered The Cribs on an equal footing with the Jarmans.
“There’s nothing I could teach them. They’re not kids. That’s good for me, because I couldn’t be in a band where there was a big gulf in experience,” he told BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat.
“It wouldn’t be good for anyone. It wouldn’t be appropriate. I think people expect there to be cultural differences when there aren’t any.”
Marr went on to claim that despite the age difference there is a definite bond between the quartet, which he puts down to being “from the same part of the world”.
