The Wife's Out, And I'm In A Richard Thompson Mood...

[MrBump]

One of my favs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

... but this one is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HApy-Xoix-g

[Philly Q]

For me Richard Thompson is a bit like Frank Zappa - in the sense that I don't listen to him very often, but when I do I can't believe how utterly godlike he is.

[Frank]

RT is the best! I've seen him about five times now and I'm always stunned how he can play superb solo acoustic sets and utterly excellent gigs on electric with a backing band. He deserves wider recognition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKkhUkxvc4

And this is utterly hypnotic ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFx9LIkb3qg

[Elliot]

I love RT too! - In my head there are four electric guitar reference tones - Jimi Hendrix's Hear My Train A Coming, Peter Green's Black Magic Woman and Richard Thompson's P90 Les Paul on Liege and Leif and his thin tinny Strat on I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight


But this is the best RT song by far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDjRRUNADA&feature=related

[HTH AMPS]

I've seen RT four times now, always a great show.  I saw him do Abba's Money, Money, Money in York a few years back - never laughed so much.

This is probably a popular choice, but you can't go past '1952 Vincent' imo...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

oh, and the guitar outro on Dimming Of The Day (aka 'Dargai') is beautiful as well, just breathtakingly honest music in its purest form... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZAKHSr57lo