684. - Johnny Marr

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Johnny Marr is the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths. He has since performed with numerous other bands and had a solo career. His 2003 record, Boomslang, is being re-released next month, followed by a tour. We chat with Johnny about The Delta One lounge at JFK, The Oasis reunion, the Charli XCX David LaChappelle cover, Blur, Broadcast, Primal Scream, New Order, Portishead, Jeff Buckley, Noel Gallagher, and The Killers stories, how much he actually plays guitar, the music, comedy, and restaurant businesses, doing three things really well, he'll sell a guitar for the right price, and what the music biz was like 20 years ago. instagram.com/johnnymarrgram twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The How long gone?
0:17.5	on, a special recording time today for a special guest them jeans back in LA how you feeling
0:24.4	feeling pretty good I'm still sleeping too much but happy to be home had a lovely
0:30.7	flight you know the airport is crazy crazy busy and Vic had to pick me up from
0:36.0	departures. Yeah that's it that's a classic yeah when it's that busy I mean it is the
0:41.6	end of summer I think I feel like because Labor Day is coming up this is like the biggest travel time yeah you know all these people with jobs taking time off to go to the beach and play in the sand. Sounds great.
0:53.1	I'm very, I mean, just like, how are you doing?
0:55.5	But I'm very glad that I don't have to go to the airport again,
0:59.8	even though New York is already kind of calling me back every day I keep getting these invites to these cool shindigs and I think to myself it's not worth it. I have to leave. But I got to experience the Delta One lounge at JFK for the first time
1:17.6	you've done this before I'm assuming right yeah I don't I can't get excited about a lounge
1:22.1	because I'm not eating any I'm
1:24.1	basically drinking water it's just a nice place to sit and as we've discussed before you
1:28.2	can leave your bag without and go to the bathroom that's the main that's the main appeal of the lounge.
1:33.6	Everyone there is more rich than you and they're not going to steal your to me.
1:37.5	Yeah, but it's a, but it's a, it just feels like a Kempton lobby to me.
1:45.4	Is that, you know what I mean? It feels like a kimpton lobby to me is that you know what I mean it feels like a kind of like a boutique hotel owned by a hotel group is what the Delta One lounge feels like
1:50.4	there a little bit I there was some some cool things that were going on like they have
1:56.2	a full restaurant where you can sit down and have like a three course meal which you know if you're a weary traveler with a lot of time and the menu did look pretty good and then and then they also have like facials and massages and things like that and they're like would you like to join the put your name down on the queue for a
2:17.8	massage chair you know missa reports have massage chairs everywhere.
2:31.9	They're not that crazy, but I put my name down on and I got a text saying thank you for joining the massage chair virtual cue at the Delta One lounge
2:35.8	Your expected wait time is 178 minutes. That sounds for a chair.
2:37.6	Which is three hours.
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