Comments on: Happy Birthday Jim Martin

By: Sasha

Sasha — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:42:04 +0000

I REALLY REALLY don’t like John Hudson. If they had to fire Big Jim they should at least keep Tray or Dean in the band… this guy Hudson just sucks! Happy Birthday JIM and thanks for the riffs!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:06:39 +0000

I agree with the previos two comments. The Real Thing was not only good, but one of the best albums of all time. And it was Jim Martin’s monster riffs that drove the whole thing. The other band members blew it, they could have made a couple more ‘epic’ albums with Jim. Post Jim albums are okay because of Patton, but nowhere near the same league as the JM albums. If you don’t like metal, then don’t worry about Jim. But if you do like Metal, Jim, Patton and FNM were pure genious for far too short.

By: ajck

ajck — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:57:42 +0000

FMN was the best live band I had ever witnessed, period. After Jim left/faxed/ or whatever, I never bought another FNM album because FNM lost their metal sound that made them great in the first place.

By: Bishman

Bishman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:49:55 +0000

Big Jim was the best guitarist FNM ever had. His playing on The Real Thing and Angel Dust is killer. They were never the same band without Jim imo.

By: K.

K. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:35:10 +0000

@Mike Bolger : I’m sure Jon gets respect from a lot of people, beginning with me

By: iiti

iiti — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:05:50 +0000

Don’t be schocked, Master Martin looks a bit different than in the old days…
http://www.hauntedbay.com/features/HMBWO/HMBWO2003photos3.shtml
I wonder if he still has, even turns on someday that flying V…

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:44:57 +0000

Happy Birthday, Jim. FNM does it very well without you, but there’s one word that condense my respect for you: “JIZZLOBBER”.

By: jgs

jgs — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:52:40 +0000

it is obvious that jim would never fit FNM in the KFAD era (and for the coming years as well) but as a former member of my favorite band ever and also for making some other nice songs in his “milk & blood” album, he gets my eternal respect.

By: karakenio [Ze]

karakenio [Ze] — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:08:56 +0000

Happy B.

Nice post thx

By: Mike Bolger

Mike Bolger — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:23:51 +0000

Jon Hudson is like the Rodney Dangerfield of FNM, poor guy gets no respect.

But it was Jon, not Jim, that co-wrote Ashes to Ashes, which is one of my favorite FNM songs. Especially those guitar chords, it’s very much classic Epic-era guitar work there but that song doesn’t get anywhere near the same amount of radio, VH1, or MTV airplay that Epic does.

No, wait a second, I just remembered that MTV and VH1 don’t play videos anymore. It’s all Rock of Daisy of Real World Love.