First listen to Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (REACTION)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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Richard Thompson should be on everyone's list of great guitar players.
this is not a traditional song, RT wrote it
that's his stock in trade, he can make you think it's 100s of years old when he just made it up last week
It's 100s of years old, and it's about a 1952 motorbike? 😆
Richard Thompson DOES do lots of traditional songs hundreds of years old PLUS he's an amazing songwriter in his own right. This song is in a folk style, but the lyrics are obviously modern.
Like his other favorite of mine, Beeswing. Sounds old as the hills but isn't, and the guitar playing is phenomenal.
@@TheAndersox that song's about Anne Briggs, another British folk icon
@@e.nowbodhi144 yup!
Not an Irish folk song. Richard is Anglo-Scottish and wrote this in the 1980s/90s
Yes, I wish we could claim him - a true artist :)
Daniel, Richard Thompson is probably one of the most talented singers/songwriters/guitarists that sadly most people (especially in the US) have never heard of. He combines guitar playing comparable to Clapton, songwriting/storytelling skills similar to Neil Young or Mark Knopfler and vocals in a class with James Taylor or Steve Winwood . Add some dry British humor like Benny Hill and you have a great performer whether he is on acoustic or electric guitars, solo or with a band. Anything from Rumor and Sigh is great as well as his Shoot Out The Lights album with his then wife Linda (Peters). His stuff with Fairport Convention is also worth of checking out if you want to hear real English folk music. He has 22 studio albums and most are really good, if not exceptional. He is a great performer live in case you ever get a chance to see one of his concerts.
Richard Thompson is a genius. Take the time to watch him perform live. How he manages to make one guitar sound like two is beyond me! He also rips on electric. His cover of "Oops I Did it Again" is simply brilliant! So glad you shared this one with us. Thank you.
"1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
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"Oops I Did it Again"
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He’s recorded many albums with his wife as Richard and Linda Thompson. Don’t forget their son Teddy Thompson who has a string of wonderful albums.
Fairport Convention, a duo with ex-wife Linda, numerous collaborations and a couple dozen or so solo albums - all featuring his fantastic guitar work. Wall of Death, Walking on a Wire, and Shoot Out the Lights are a couple of my favorites.
Now you’ve heard him on acoustic, you need to hear one of his electric numbers. I’d suggest Can’t Win, Put It There Pal or Shoot Out The Lights. Make sure it’s a live version to really see him stretch out.
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Put It There Pal ua-cam.com/video/bFBtwS8_Pqg/v-deo.html
Shoot Out The Lights ua-cam.com/video/RxKB1Ej8Mag/v-deo.html
A simply amazing guitarist (acoustic and electric) who's been performing since the '60's. I highly recommend Beeswing, a lovely acoustic ballad, or Wall of Death and Shoot Out the Lights, both with Linda Thompson.
His guitar work on Fairport Convention's "Unhalfbricking" is some of my favourite. Especially the groundbreaking "A Sailor's Life".
A masterpiece, not just for his playing but also for Sandy Denny’s vocals and the drumming of Martin Lamble who died shortly after the recording.
@@Macilmoyle Yes indeed.
Among the greatest songwriters and guitarists. Beeswing, Dimming of the Day, Will I Ever Be Simple Again, From Galway to Graceland, Down Where the Drunkards Roll are among my suggested reactions. Well worth a deep dive.
Frost! Uh...Firth! Uh...anyway...Never heard this before but it grabbed me immediately. Great singer, and brilliant guitar playing. Damn. I mean...damn.
To me he is like john prine. Not known by everyone but adored by those who know him
Please listen to RT's "Beeswing"........wonderful, wonderful performer and song. And as we are talking about ex-Fairport Convention alumni, you really MUST listen to Sandy Denny "Banks of the Nile" or "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" are great starting places....
Motorcycle of great note for sure. While all other fast bikes hovered around 100 mph in those days the Vincent could blast past 130 mph. An iconic piece of motorcycling history. There is one at the Guggenheim museum. and maybe just maybe somewhere behind a thousand cobwebs and tractor parts and dust in an old barn . If only
Only 36 were built.
Love this song! "Red hair and black leather...my favorite color scheme" - great line. There's a brilliant live version of this out there in UA-cam land.
Some of my very favorite albums are of Richard and Linda Thompson.
Seeing Richard play this complex guitar part solo while singing is an awesome experience. Really his entire career is worth a listen. He was a founding member of Fairport Convention when he was 17; notably he played guitar on Nick Drake's albums; his work with his ex-wife, Linda, was brilliant, and his solo work after they broke up (like this) was great. However, the song is inaccurate to a small extent: A Vincent Black Lightning doesn't have keys. I agree with the suggestion that you cover Beeswing, but also go back to his earlier work like Shoot Out the Lights or Dimming of the Day.
YES! You've discovered RT, known as Britain's Bob Dylan but plays guitar like Jeff Beck. And like both of them he has taken care & kept working & still turns out viable art going back more than 50 years. I love his writing but check out his electric guitar playing too.
I know it is sad song but it is also a very good song. Don't worry Daniel.
BEESWING is favorite Richard Thompson song of mine
Red hair and black leather. Great song and reaction.
To watch this live is really amazing, just him and his guitar, if you get a chance watch it. Thanks for doing this song, totally made my day ! Sometimes this song feels happy, sometimes sad depends on your mood.
Wonderful as usual 🎶
I see angels and aerials in leather and chrome/coming down from heaven to carry me home, should be every motorcyclist’s epitaph.
My brother is named Vincent because of my Dad's love of motorbikes. I imagine my brother would have had a more difficult childhood if the Ariel had been my Dad's favourite bike.
Richard Thompson is one of the finest guitarists on the planet. His writing tends towards the dark, buy he's brilliant. He's been doing this since the 60s. By the way, Del McCourey, another talented guitarist. does a nice version of this. I also highly recommend the songs "Beeswing" and "King of Bohemia"
If Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans" is the "best damn train song ever written," (no argument from me!) this is easily the best damn motorcycle song ever written.
R.T. is seriously underrated as a guitarist. His career/timeline roughly parallels that of Clapton, and anyone who thinks the latter is one of the GOAT, would do well to spend a little time with Thompson.
-> > > Fairport Convention w/ Sandy Denny "Who Knows Where The Time Goes"
Love this song it's so beautiful..You should hear the the cover of his beautiful song ''Dimming of the day'' by Bonnie Raitt her singing it live with him playing the guitar..it's magic! And ''Valerie'' another song but fun.
My Richard Thompson fandom began with buying "Rumor and Sigh" on cassette back in 1991. He has all sorts of connections to British folk/folk-rock, including playing on Nick Drake's first album. You could pick any song off "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" or "Shoot Out the Lights" and not go wrong (including both of those title tracks). His song "Meet on the Ledge", written for Fairport Convention when he was 19 or 20, was covered by Greta Van Fleet a few years ago. And "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" was a big bluegrass hit for the Del McCoury Band in the 2000s.
Remember, that is one guitar and one guitarist. I've only seen him once (2006 IIRC) but he was impressive. Sean Rowe does a good cover. edited to say that it is a folk song, albeit not a traditional one. A traditional song of course lists "trad" as the song writer.
Love the Sean Rowe version!
@@jeffreyjernigan7125 I saw him doing it live from about 6 ft away. Sean is an interesting dude to talk to as well.
Richard is an excellent guitar player. Not flashy or much of a showman, just hot licks, as you can hear in this. He is also an excellent songwriter. He got his start with the English folk-rock band, Fairport Convention.
Fairport also gave rise to one of the most beautiful voices, singer, Sandy Denny. Who Knows Where the Time Goes is classic. For electric RT, try Calvery Cross. I agree with others here, his live versions tend to allow him to open things up a bit. There is a live version of CC with his ex-wife Linda.
As well as being a famous beauty spot, Box Hill is well known meeting spot for motorbike enthusiasts.
The Del McCurry Band's version of this song is so much better
Should have done a live version to get a better look into Richard Thompson 🌹
Try Richard Thompson' s amazing electric playing on 'No more Gypsy love songs'
150 miles an hour, tube tires, and wholly inadequate drum brakes. By all accounts, Vincents were terrifying.
Richard Thompson is the probably the most underrated great musical artist alive today. I congratulate you for featuring such diverse material on your channel.
Richard Thompson - British music royalty!
Jason Isbell knows this - went on tour with Thompson in 2018. :)
This is awesome. Thompson is great both in folky as well as in electric mode. His love for sometimes dry and sardonic humour is a great bonus.
Seen him live twice and his guitar playing is immaculate!
Please react to Richard Thompson "For Shame of Doing Wrong" live from 84
Other songs of his to react to: Cooksferry Queen and Mingus Eyes from Austin City Limits
so many to choose from..if it's with his then wife Linda Thompson or his solo work...
One of the reviews about him read "writes like Dylan, plays like Hendrix"
Don't worry too much about RTs UA-cam channel. He has many thousands and tens of thousands of worshipful fans who found him in "the old ways", and who still own physical media for his work. He's a remarkable guitarist (hybrid style picking, using a flat pick thumb and forefinger and two for fingerpicking) and maybe the best songwriter of the last 50 years.
Quite a lot of his most popular stuff doesn't do much for me TBH. But a lot does; Dad's Gonna Kill Me & Hard On Me spring to mind (Oh & Bright Lights Tonight). And of course his early work with FP.
It is a modern take on the tale of the highwayman and his lady, a common subject of traditional English folk songs.
A Great Reaction.
Love the way you paused the song to say that you disagree with it being dark, just as it’s actually about to get very dark. The shock in your face about the shotgun blast and the genuinely crestfallen look on your face as he lay dying but smiled to see her cry then gave her his beloved bike .
Richard Thompson one of UK’s finest songwriters. Sadly hardly anyone from the US has heard of. Although I have heard many cover versions of this song, some great, some not so great, some done in an American folky style with lyrics changed to appeal to an American audience. box hill changed to Knoxville , Nashville etc. and one of the other bikes changed to ‘Harley’s’ (Sacrilege)
Lots of his songs have an Irish feel and sound to them but he is in fact English with some Scottish blood but as far as I m aware, no Irish
I would love to see you do a reaction to another of his finest classics ‘Beeswing’ His stuff with Fairport Convention well worth a listen too. Keep up the good work
This is not an Irish folk tune, it's written by Richard Thompson.
Amazing guitar picking. When he does it live, he speeds it up, changes all the locks, and all with his eyes closed! And what lyrics! I could go on and on about this song….
Your fans have led you to some extraordinary music that is often in the realm of artists that either “you get it or you don’t”.Todd Rundgren, NIN , Glen Campbell singing Jim Webb and Richard Thompson make music that isn’t always immediately available on the first listen. Thompson is an active composer, musician And performer. The form of the song is in a traditional “murder ballad” format. There were many songs in the folk catalogue of the UK. Thompson has written many in his career. Shoot Out The Lights, The Wall Of Death are some of the best. Virtually all of what seems like picking is often almost exclusively hammered on the fretboard. Watch Richard Thompson Live on Austin City Limits and you will be gobsmacked at what is happening on that guitar.
Loved the story telling. Nicely done with the guitar work! Stirred my emotions for certain.
One of the funniest songs ever, from the same album, is Psycho Street. Although Beck's 'Satan Gave Me A Taco' gives it a good run for the money.
Daniel, check out the work with his ex wife Linda Thompson. The album and song Walking On A Wire is great.
That's only one guitar playing in this song. Check his catalog. Starting with Fairport Convention in the 70s.
Calvary Cross live w concertina is just short of perfection.🙂
You would like to watch the live version. He is a great guitarist.
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other songs
Beeswing
Dimming of the day (bonnie Raitt)
"Farewell farewell" and "who knows where the time goes" with fairport convention. Sandy denny is the only singer to appear on a Zeppelin song.
Many more
Sad!!! Better get prepared to cry your eyes out with Beeswing. The live version from the Late Show is rather perfect.
If you want the opposite - a song of great joy with a morbid title, listen to his "Wall of Death"
Not an old Irish song, A Richard Thopson original
Try Sean Rowe's version, of this classic it is very different! Peace.
Box Hill is a noted motorcycle gathering area near London.
Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention
all new to me. Thanks for the introduction. I enjoyed the music, looking forward to your journey. keep up the great reactions as you are able.
He has another song called beeswing that is also incredible, but the flutter of guitar he does on that downscale arpeggio reminds me of a beeswing, so delicately oscillating.
One of my favorite artists. Incredible guitarist. Fairport Convention with him had several incredible albums.
The first four Fairport Convention albums (especially the second, third, and fourth) are masterpieces.
You have to do " I feel so good " from the same album sometime
One of the great story songs.
E Nowbodhi has pointed out that this is not a traditional song - in fact here on this side of the pond there are a couple of things which tend to be regarded as requirements for the “traditional” label. First, they should be very old (“Vincent Black Lightning” dates from 1990/1) & secondly the writer/composer should be the hugely prolific “anon” (ie, “anonymous”). Richard’s first group, Fairport Convention, did muddy the waters for a lot of people by recording an album (Liege & Lief, in 1969) comprising traditional songs they “rocked up” and new compositions which they arranged in such a way they could be mistaken for traditional……..confused? A lot of people were!
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He does it way better live.
During his taping of "Shoot Out The Lights" on Austin City Limits (the show), he broke his high "e" string on at the end of his first guitar solo. After another verse he breaks into the WiLDeSt guitar solo I've EVER heard! All without the e! And with n9 other guitar players, just bass, drums, and him! I was fortunate enough to see it happen, but you can hear it on the Richard Thompson Live at Austin City Limits record, and it's really worth it.
🦉 For me, Richard Thompson's greatest tune will always be "It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft" off of the first Fairport Convention album.
A great songwriter AND performer - you can find on You Tube his live versions of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock and Black Crow, amazing. Virtuoso on both acoustic and electric. If you go through his collaborations through the years, you'll end up listening to Nick Drake, Bonnie Raitt, Rufus Wainwright, Cat Stevens, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Robert Plant, Los Lobos...
Many excellent comments. I live in Calgary Alberta Canada. We have a Province wide listener supported Radio Station called CKUA, that boasts the second largest music collection in the world behind the Smithsonian Institute. CKUA has 2 annual fundraising drives. This song was the most requested a few years ago during a fundraiser.
Richard Thompson is my nominee for most under-rated and most under-appreciated singer/musician out there. He has a vast library of nothing but great songs. His vocal style is very distinct and takes a bit of getting used to. More importantly, he's a fabulous guitarist . . . maybe the best. On this song you hear him, and only him, playing acoustic as only he can. But you need to give a listen to some of his electric work. He's unbelievable. His solos are works of art. The always surprise. You never know what's around the next sonic corner. I recommend "Tear Stained Letter", electric band version. You've never heard solos like he fires off on it. You've only experienced the tip of the RT iceberg, Daniel.
Oh, finally some RT on this channel. You've got a lot to look forward to if you continue to explore this guy. I'd suggest "God loves a drunk" to start with.
Just saw this drop, and although I can't listen right now I am PSYCHED with anticipation! This is a brilliant piece of storytelling and solo acoustic guitar wizardry!
EDIT: Okay; I got to watch and am glad you enjoyed it. As others have said, seeing him perform this live is a joy. Thompson is a fantastic songwriter and performer, who was already an "old soul" when he co-founded Fairport Convention at (I believe) age 17. His guitar style (and you MUST hear him on electric!) is unique among his contemporaries in that it's not Blues-based; rather it harkens back to medieval times. I concur with recommendations of "Beeswing", "Shoot Out The Lights", "Wall Of Death" and others mentioned, adding "Tear-Stained Letter" and "Al Bowlly's In Heaven" from his solo work and a couple with Linda that are stunningly beautiful - "The Great Valerio" and "Walking On A Wire". Oh, and from his Fairport days: you like story-songs, so check out "Matty Groves" and "A Sailor's Life", both of which showcase Richard's electric guitar style and throw in Sandy Denny's vocals as a bonus.
Richard Thompson is a wonderful singer songwriter. He had does many wonderful songs. Not as many as Chris de Burgh, but few have done that.
Richard Thompson is the musicians musician so to speak. Not as well known as say a Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jeff Beck to the masses but highly respected among his peers.
He didnt really have many (any?) hits? But has a distinctive style that harkens back to an old old medieval type sound. A Scott. And his musical roots reflect this.
I could listen to this song 100 times and never tire of it. I prefer this live version. It is magical. Also you can really get a sense of just how great a guitarist he is.
I think youd really dig this solo acoustic version:
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An Irish group called the whistling donkeys do an amazing version of beeswing you really should check it out. Also for an alternative version of this look up a singer called miranda russell she has an amazing version of this song
I remember seeing Richard Thompson at Maxwells in New Jersey right after he wrote this song (and probably a year before it was released) and everyone was blown away. An instant classic, as they say! Great story set to beautiful music.
Rumor and Sigh great album. Another sad song from it is Behind Grey Walls. Listen to the story and feel the weight on your heart. Words can't describe the talents of this man. Woefully unrecognized.
So much to recommend from Richard Thompson Turning of the tide, Sights and Sound of London Town. A heart needs a home. He is a much admired guitarist and songwriter and has a catalogue of songs.
It's amazing that whenever someone writes an acoustic song some bright spark will claim it's a traditional Irish folk song.
I've seen him a half dozen times. He's the the best living guitar player
Man, you've been doing some great stuff lately, this is such a great song. Thompson has had an interesting career, is a great guitarist, great songwriter, and has made some great stuff over the years.
Just a fantastic song!
I like the Dell McCoury version better
2 of the greatest songs ever written and you have misinterpreted them. This song, which was written by Thompson and is the greatest love song of all time. The other was your reaction of Any Major Dude by Steely Dan. This was the most feel good song ever by Steely Dan. The major dude is comforting a friend in a time of need. You somehow construed this to be a negative song.
You're probably not going to see this, but . . .as a guitarist, Richard Thompson is the guitarist I most wish I could be -- I wish I had his skills and ability and repertoire more than any other guitarist, and any runner-up wouldn't be close. I won't say he's the best acoustic guitarist I've ever heard, and I won't say he's the best electric guitarist I've ever heard. But he's *among* the best at seemingly everything, and can seemingly play anything. And his voice just gets better every year.
Incidentally, his live performances of this song are far better than the studio recording -- even more elaborate and impressive and emotional. I saw him 10 years ago at the 9:30 Club in DC; NPR was there too and simulcast the show, so it's out there to be heard. His performance of this song at that show was one of the best things I've ever heard.
If you want to hear his electric playing, try a live recording of "Calvary Cross" or "Can't Win" or "Hard On Me" or "Night Comes In". If you want more acoustic, try a live recording of "Beeswing".
Incidentally, this song is not a cover of a traditional folk song. I don't know where that came from, but it's wrong.