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"    Photo: Getty Images   Brit Johnny Marr has been making generation-defining music for the last 30 years, from writing and playing guitar with The Smiths to producing for R.E.M. and Modest Mouse. We sat down with the ever-cool musician to talk about the importance of mentoring, the differences between Glastonbury and Coachella, and his plans for the upcoming albums. ELLE: You had such a great set! Johnny Marr: Yeah, it went well. You never really know how it&amp;#039;s going to go from a technical point of view. You just kind of throw yourself out there, and cross your fingers that it&amp;#039;s going to sound good. But it sounded good straight away and the audience was behind me right from the [start]\u2014and that always makes me feel good.   ELLE: What is the festival vibe you&amp;#039;re getting? Is there a different feel at American festivals and European festivals? You&amp;#039;ve had a storied experience with them. JM: I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s a particularly different vibe. It&amp;#039;s an opportunity for people from several hundred miles radius to let off some steam and, in some ways as well, celebrate a culture. In that regard they&amp;#039;re the same the world over. Coachella reminds me of Glastonbury in that it&amp;#039;s almost become like an institution. I used to think that they were different because Coachella people know what they&amp;#039;re getting in Coachella, because the weather is so reliably great. ELLE: Hot! JM: It&amp;#039;s the same at Glastonbury because the weather is so reliably lousy. So they&amp;#039;re exactly the same\u2014people know what they&amp;#039;re getting themselves into. It&amp;#039;s like in England; it brings out this real WWII spirit of were battening down the hatches. ELLE: Fortitude! JM: Fortitude\u2014and we&amp;#039;re going to get through this experience together with a bunch of bands as a soundtrack. Strangely, there&amp;#039;s a unity between the bands and the people in the crowds, because let me tell you, its not pretty backstage either. No way, man. ELLE: Just sweaty and hot? JM: No\u2014horrible and muddy! No, in England, Glastonbury, it&amp;#039;s just as treacherous backstage. ELLE: Is there anyone you&amp;#039;re very excited to see? JM: I always like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time. ELLE: That&amp;#039;s huge coming from you. JM: I love what he does, and I like the new record\u2014I&amp;#039;m a fan. I&amp;#039;m looking forward to seeing Modest Mouse, of course, catching up with those guys. Also Palma Violets, who are just starting out from the U.K.\u2014they put on a good show. Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you&amp;#039;ve heard but not had the chance to check out. ELLE: You&amp;#039;ve been so generous with your time through your career and worked with so many different bands and younger bands. Does that come from a philosophy you have? Is there something behind it, or are you just a curious person? JM: I am curious. If there is somebody I like it makes no difference to me whether they have one record out or two hundred. There is a connection that you have. In my case, the people I&amp;#039;ve come across were younger. They&amp;#039;re all musicians who I thought were going to be in it for the long haul. I sometimes come across musicians or artists in other fields that unmistakably are going to stick around. Lifers, you know. When Beck first came around there was no mistaking he was going to be around for a long time, right. I also think that some people gave me a few breaks when I was starting out. ELLE: Like who? JM: Oh, just people around the Manchester scene, you know, who believed in me. If you can loan somebody a guitar, give somebody some studio time, or listen to their demo or whatever, that&amp;#039;s a privilege, and something you really should do. ELLE: You mentioned in the New York Times that you had a vision of three solo albums\u2014are you telling a story? JM: Well I hope so\u2014I hope that it has a narrative arc. I think that&amp;#039;s just to do with having your own style. I don&amp;#039;t have a narrative concept as such, over the three albums. I had one over this album, The Messenger, I&amp;#039;ll go into the next one as a continuation of it. I&amp;#039;m trying to stop myself saying that it will be a concept. It&amp;#039;s just a manner of having a style as a lyricist, which I&amp;#039;m excited about exploring. I know what I&amp;#039;m not, I know what I don&amp;#039;t want to do.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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