Some of the most stunning, unrepeatably brilliant playing I've ever seen from Richard. Jaw-dropping on 'Don't Let A Thief'. Linda is a revelation as a live performer. Better versions of 'Pavane' and 'Sunnyvista' than the album tracks. And songs like 'Sisters' and 'Lonely Hearts' that as far as I know aren't on any of the albums..? Twin lead on 'Civilisation'-who'd dare to play along with RT? But Nicol does great! What's the surf-guitar bit, anyone...? My God what a gem. If this is an under-par gig what in God's name would a spot-bollock-on one be? Thanks for posting and preserving. My only whinge would be with the change of chords to 'Night Comes In'...but I'll be rewinding the master's solo for intensive study for years to come. Magnificent bass from Pegg throughout but especially under the solo. And only Linda can do justice to a song by her dear friend Sandy. These aren't just people but gods on earth, they can wear what they like!
They were breaking up and they were on two Island but still made great music together. I saw them around this time at the Paradise in Boston and when Linda wasn't the lead singer she'd head off state. But it was an amazing show.
Had the great pleasure of Riichard Linda and Simon at Manchester Uni Folk Club in 1974. In a smallish room folowing on Bright Light Tonight. First half mostly from LP but second half turned in to a rock and roll session never to be forgotten. Lovely Linda was wonderful.
0:00 For Shame Of Doing Wrong 6:38 Strange Affair 12:08 Hard Luck Stories 16:21 Crying In The Rain (Everly Brothers cover) 20:13 You're Going To Need Somebody (Mis-labeled on the video as "Standing Waiting For You") 24:38 Pavanne 30:23 (Band Introductions) 32:02 Sunnyvista 37:06 Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart 43:11 Lonely Hearts 48:40 Sisters 54:29 Civilisation (as spelled on the Sunnyvista LP credits) with a version of Pipeline (Chantays cover) tacked on 1:01:47 Night Comes In 1:14:17 I'm A Dreamer (Sandy Denny cover) 1:19:15 Borrowed Time 1:26:56 I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight 1:30:26 No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry cover)
Wonderfully all around. I didn't get to see Richard play live until the Hand of Kindness tour some years later and so this is the only live material I've heard and seen from both of them together pre-divorce
This is absolutely wonderful, thank you so much for posting. I saw Richard and Linda in the early/mid 70s, as a Fairport fan I expected it to be more like Fairport, and was quite disappointed. I wish I had known better and paid more attention.
What a glorious recording. My phone is linked into my amplifier and the stereo image is perfect. For a 40 year old mixing desk recording that is one hell of sn achievement.
The members of Fairport Convention have something one does not see in any other band in the world. They may not want to play together full time but they are still on each others albums, tour with each other and are still friends.
I've been a Richard Thompson fanatic for 35+years,but I never got to see any of this stuff! I've always been intrigued. ..this is both more AND less than I expected. He always surprises me! Thanks SO MUCH for posting this!
I know what you mean, I think. My conclusion is that he just didn't have the backing that he deserved.The likes of Michael Jerome and Danny Thompson are in a totally different league from dear old Simon Nicholl and Dave Pegg.
Yeah I had never heard Richard singing that, only the June Tabor version which is extraordinary too. Those lyrics - "Wake up from your sleep that builds like clouds upon your eyes". An amazing song.
If Linda is a bit “shrill’ she’s compensating on top of mix. I’ve seen Richard a dozen times. He’s one of the finest guitarists and songwriters of his generation. But, watching this, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Linda. I don’t think Richard looked at her once except to cue her for Lonely Hearts. The rest of the time, he’s playing to the “boys club” with Nicol and Pegg.
Interesting that Richard does not offer a duplicate of the album versions, but each song is altered a bit. I like the cover of Crying in the Rain. Shows how respected the Everly Brothers were in England.
Lovin' the up-tempo version of "For Shame of Doing Wrong." It's quite sorrowful that I missed seeing this pair in their prime by a country mile, especially during their post-Sunnyvista, pre-Shoot disintegration.
the first time i saw Richard and Linda they were on the break up tour...she would kick him during guitar solos....my drummer buddy cried because Dave Mattacks was so damn good...it was an amazing night....and there were many more Thompson shows after that....
I saw them at the Roxy in 1983. She was in splendid voice, Richard was subdued, other band members Dave Mattacks and Simon Nicol played great and made some humorous remarks but there was a sense of unease on stage. Linda made a comment about the wine "Love your California wine...tastes like nail varnish remover" and someone shouted out "Love your English cooking". No violence but still a tense night.
Simon Nicol looks like he's in the Small Faces and the drummer looks like he's in Sniff 'n' the Tears. 8-) (Thought it was Dave Mattacks but I guess not, per machendave's comment).
I just recently discovered Richard Thompson's music and folk music projects he's been in with the wifey Linda but never seen a picture of her. Now I have and she looks great and can sing & front a band! Too late to tell Richard now what I was told 20 years ago by an old black man I met & told about my marriage breaking up..and he said "..you ain't gonna find nothin' better than what you got..." Word!
boboala 1 - welcome to the R & L T fan club - lol!! So much to discover!! On the romance side of things you might like to know that Richard has recently hitched up with a woman called Zara Phillips - English but living in the US - they live together in New Jersey and have done some lock down concerts available here on youtube - unfortunately the first two are marred by some kind of sound issue - but the third is sublime - their chemistry and love is clear - and - like Linda - she can sing!!
andymrice - I thought they had to carry on and do the tour (because the album was doing well and they were contracted by the record company) even though they'd split - isn't there a story told by Linda about how she went on a drink and drugs bender in the US - and how she would try and trip up Richard on stage?? Or was that the tour before the '82 one??
@@andymrice - thanks - I misread your comment and thought you mean't the 1980 tour - soz!! I have only seen RT plugged in and with a band once (Pete Zorn, Michael Jerome, Joel Zifkin and Taraz (sorry can't spell the bass player's name!!) at Brighton Dome during the Dream Attic tour - RT's guitar work was blindingly good - searing - my brother really only likes his acoustic stuff and isn't in to the 'heavier' guitar stuff - but I loved it!! Since then I've seen him solo acoustic a few times and missed a performance with just the drummer and bassist due to car trouble. Hopefully I'll get to see him electric at least once more !! Would've loved to see him in the early days but I didn't even know he existed until 15 years ago!!
@@andymrice - I had the chance to see Dave Swarbrick with Martin Carthy (whom I've met and what a nice, normal chap he is!!) in my own town a couple of years before he died. I had returned from Sidmouth folk week, was knackered, and couldn't be bothered - little did I know he wasn't going to be with us much longer!! His fiddle playing, song writing, and singing were all amazing - I see him as a kind of gypsy punk fiddler - lol - his style was so irreverent - so instinctual!! Fairport also played at the same folk festival but I didn't get a ticket - sold out!! Love to go to Cropredy - maybe next year!!
Well, actually, there was also a commercial VHS tape of them playing material from Shoot out the Llghts, which was sold by Carthage/Hannibal Records, but this show is better. Maybe this one is from just before the marriage fell apart?
Some viewers/listeners may want to search "Richard and Linda Thompson biographies" and read that material, "caveat lector" "reader beware" of the summary form of lives described from outside, of course!
Hayden Childs has written a great little book about the recording of the 'Shoot Out The Lights' album. Fascinating reading even if Childs gets a little too poetic at times when interpreting the meaning of each song.
Is it just me, or is Linda struggling a bit with her voice? Sounds like she's having trouble hitting some notes. Every other recording I've ever heard of her - live or in studio - she sounds perfect.
She has suffered from dysphonia for decades - one opens ones mouth and the musculature just doesn’t cooperate. It derailed her career pretty much permanently excepting a brief but welcome comeback album several years ago.
I think also that it was very loud and difficult to hear what was happening. If the monitors aren't quite right you can't hear yourself above the cacophony of the guitars and drums. It's very far from the luxury of the studio where you can go in relaxed. It was probably at the end of a long tour. Some songs are easier to sing. Strange Affair, for example is quieter and as a consequence is much more successful for Linda's vocals.
Wasn't this gig, although early in the year, the period where Linda was struggling to come to terms with Richard wanting the marriage to end ..?? I have read stories made by some of the tour group that there were very icy moments going on.... possibly this set is earlier than the time of that miserable tour, but I'm sure it was in 1980... A horrible shame at the time, now thankfully Linda has recovered that lovely voice and with the aid of their children they have found their way back to each other even if they are only friends.
No. The tour from hell was spring 1982. As far as I recall, none of the Shoot Out the Lights material is in this brilliant show, fully two years before.
There's a wonderful little book by Hayden Childs which centres on the recording of 'Shoot Out The Lights' and the difficulties the Thompsons were having at the time. Well worth reading even if it gets a bit poetic at times.
@@petermackie7233 That's right, isn't it. I saw a show from that tour in Toronto. It was great but like a raw nerve. I seem to recall Simon consoling her quite often. But it is just life. When they were good -on and off the stage- they were great together.
The words to Strange Affair are very different from the recording. I thought Linda was improvising them but Richard joins in. It was originally a song about Islam, as in 'the world has no comfort at all; the only peace comes from Allah', but they seem to be talking about relationships, or theirs?
Didn't they become SUFI for a while - maybe they just want to put it behind them. I'll always LOVE them - just for who they are. The heartache of their relationship has defined them
Wrocker Paul - my understanding is that they were only allowed (by order of the Iman) to do music if it was about god - this means that songs such as Dimming of the Day are supposedly about god - but, just like Strange Affair, it makes more sense when considered as being about a human love affair: do we think that the Thompsons were playing it both ways with these songs??
@@iaingoodwin8514 I'm pretty sure they both left the group. It was a Sufi-based cult really. They now trade as the Murabitun and are notorious for antisemitic conspiracy theories and grandiose schemes that never come to fruition as the leader moves them from place to place. A lot of talent being wasted. It has been described as having a "staggering drop-out rate" and the drop-outs are better off out.
+GreenhouseCeltic I've only watched the first 4 songs, but I'm sure it's old faithful Dave Mattacks on drums. Terrific close-ups of R playing and Linda singing.
@@philmus1 Perhaps, but Peter is a more accomplished songwriter and bandleader, while still playing a pretty mean guitar. And Peter has continued to create, while RT has been treading water for at least 20 years.
Too bad they had to try to "Keep up with the "times" " - it's boring and repetetive - NOT DISTINCTIVE and UNIQUE which they definitely ARE. I've always loved them for who they ARE.
I know i shouldn't pry, but how could Thompson leave behind such a superb woman ? The sexy way she draws out the syllables, ever so slightly falls off pitch, and injects wail and sultriness. Maybe those comments below ( e.g. kicking Dicky on stage) suggest Linda was a difficult woman. Or maybe RT was a prick who drove her to it. Or maybe that's unfair to each. But such a shame. I love all they did together.
musik102 - I agree that at times she sounds off key - when singing "Don't let a thief " the two voices do not fit - but this could be a bad choice of harmonies that just didn't work? Mostly she sings fine and has a beautiful voice though.
What on Earth has this to do with Trump mate? It's spurious comment. I could say it's 2023 and the USA is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine that could possibly lead us to a nuclear war led by Joe Biden and the war mongering Democratic Party.
They don't look very happy do they? And it's noticeable they don't look at each other. The sound and mix aren't great, but there's not much wrong with the actual performances; they were very professional. If anything the situation gives some of the songs an extra poignancy. And they can't underline the point much more clearly than by covering Crying In The Rain...
Some of the most stunning, unrepeatably brilliant playing I've ever seen from Richard. Jaw-dropping on 'Don't Let A Thief'. Linda is a revelation as a live performer. Better versions of 'Pavane' and 'Sunnyvista' than the album tracks. And songs like 'Sisters' and 'Lonely Hearts' that as far as I know aren't on any of the albums..? Twin lead on 'Civilisation'-who'd dare to play along with RT? But Nicol does great! What's the surf-guitar bit, anyone...?
My God what a gem. If this is an under-par gig what in God's name would a spot-bollock-on one be? Thanks for posting and preserving. My only whinge would be with the change of chords to 'Night Comes In'...but I'll be rewinding the master's solo for intensive study for years to come. Magnificent bass from Pegg throughout but especially under the solo. And only Linda can do justice to a song by her dear friend Sandy. These aren't just people but gods on earth, they can wear what they like!
They were breaking up and they were on two Island but still made great music together. I saw them around this time at the Paradise in Boston and when Linda wasn't the lead singer she'd head off state. But it was an amazing show.
Had the great pleasure of Riichard Linda and Simon at Manchester Uni Folk Club in 1974. In a smallish room folowing on Bright Light Tonight. First half mostly from LP but second half turned in to a rock and roll session never to be forgotten. Lovely Linda was wonderful.
0:00 For Shame Of Doing Wrong
6:38 Strange Affair
12:08 Hard Luck Stories
16:21 Crying In The Rain (Everly Brothers cover)
20:13 You're Going To Need Somebody (Mis-labeled on the video as "Standing Waiting For You")
24:38 Pavanne
30:23 (Band Introductions)
32:02 Sunnyvista
37:06 Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart
43:11 Lonely Hearts
48:40 Sisters
54:29 Civilisation (as spelled on the Sunnyvista LP credits) with a version of Pipeline (Chantays cover) tacked on
1:01:47 Night Comes In
1:14:17 I'm A Dreamer (Sandy Denny cover)
1:19:15 Borrowed Time
1:26:56 I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
1:30:26 No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry cover)
Great job with the set list! Thanks!
I feel lucky to have gotten into Richard & Linda's music in the early 1970's while living in the USA. Richard's
career has been brilliant.
I've always thought "Sunnyvista" s massively underrated song. Unusually political for R&L but still, it bites and I'm listening 40 years later.
Wonderfully all around. I didn't get to see Richard play live until the Hand of Kindness tour some years later and so this is the only live material I've heard and seen from both of them together pre-divorce
This is absolutely wonderful, thank you so much for posting. I saw Richard and Linda in the early/mid 70s, as a Fairport fan I expected it to be more like Fairport, and was quite disappointed. I wish I had known better and paid more attention.
What a glorious recording. My phone is linked into my amplifier and the stereo image is perfect. For a 40 year old mixing desk recording that is one hell of sn achievement.
The members of Fairport Convention have something one does not see in any other band in the world. They may not want to play together full time but they are still on each others albums, tour with each other and are still friends.
The guitar interplay on Civilization/Pipeline is terrific. I knew Thompson
was a maestro but Simon Nicol is swinging it pretty nicely too.
always loved Civilization. Much underplayed
I've been a Richard Thompson fanatic for 35+years,but I never got to see any of this stuff! I've always been intrigued. ..this is both more AND less than I expected. He always surprises me! Thanks SO MUCH for posting this!
I know what you mean, I think. My conclusion is that he just didn't have the backing that he deserved.The likes of Michael Jerome and Danny Thompson are in a totally different league from dear old Simon Nicholl and Dave Pegg.
Regardless, RT's guitar is on fire here!
The band are Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Michael Spencer-Arscott
I don't know what to say, but thanks for posting this. So brilliant!
You are most welcome.... 🙂
Damn they're great!
second track - Strange Affair - absolutely stunning.
Yeah I had never heard Richard singing that, only the June Tabor version which is extraordinary too. Those lyrics - "Wake up from your sleep that builds like clouds upon your eyes". An amazing song.
Amazing, all this & a mad version of Pipeline too!
Strange Affair beautiful and heartwrenching.
YES! The sequin beret. Great song selection
If Linda is a bit “shrill’ she’s compensating on top of mix. I’ve seen Richard a dozen times. He’s one of the finest guitarists and songwriters of his generation. But, watching this, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Linda. I don’t think Richard looked at her once except to cue her for Lonely Hearts. The rest of the time, he’s playing to the “boys club” with Nicol and Pegg.
Interesting that Richard does not offer a duplicate of the album versions, but each song is altered a bit. I like the cover of Crying in the Rain. Shows how respected the Everly Brothers were in England.
His creativity is the joy in seeing him repeatedly.
Thank you!
Seem like a wonderful time a wonderful life some good music together
Don't think they were finding it very wonderful at this stage! Sadly the marriage broke up not long after this.
Lovin' the up-tempo version of "For Shame of Doing Wrong." It's quite sorrowful that I missed seeing this pair in their prime by a country mile, especially during their post-Sunnyvista, pre-Shoot disintegration.
the first time i saw Richard and Linda they were on the break up tour...she would kick him during guitar solos....my drummer buddy cried because Dave Mattacks was so damn good...it was an amazing night....and there were many more Thompson shows after that....
I saw them at the Roxy in 1983. She was in splendid voice, Richard was subdued, other band members Dave Mattacks and Simon Nicol played great and made some humorous remarks but there was a sense of unease on stage. Linda made a comment about the wine "Love your California wine...tastes like nail varnish remover" and someone shouted out "Love your English cooking". No violence but still a tense night.
Hats off to recorders
Simon Nicol looks like he's in the Small Faces and the drummer looks like he's in Sniff 'n' the Tears. 8-) (Thought it was Dave Mattacks but I guess not, per machendave's comment).
I have the same Rick 360 as Simon!
“Lost a plectrum” at about 31:10. Love it. :)
I just recently discovered Richard Thompson's music and folk music projects he's been in with the wifey Linda but never seen a picture of her. Now I have and she looks great and can sing & front a band! Too late to tell Richard now what I was told 20 years ago by an old black man I met & told about my marriage breaking up..and he said "..you ain't gonna find nothin' better than what you got..." Word!
boboala 1 - welcome to the R & L T fan club - lol!! So much to discover!!
On the romance side of things you might like to know that Richard has recently hitched up with a woman called Zara Phillips - English but living in the US - they live together in New Jersey and have done some lock down concerts available here on youtube - unfortunately the first two are marred by some kind of sound issue - but the third is sublime - their chemistry and love is clear - and - like Linda - she can sing!!
Wow.
I wanted to see them on the "82 tour. But they split up at the start of the tour. So I saw Richard and his band.
andymrice - I thought they had to carry on and do the tour (because the album was doing well and they were contracted by the record company) even though they'd split - isn't there a story told by Linda about how she went on a drink and drugs bender in the US - and how she would try and trip up Richard on stage?? Or was that the tour before the '82 one??
@@honeychurchgipsy6 I think it was 1982. Linda was no longer with the band.
@@andymrice - thanks - I misread your comment and thought you mean't the 1980 tour - soz!! I have only seen RT plugged in and with a band once (Pete Zorn, Michael Jerome, Joel Zifkin and Taraz (sorry can't spell the bass player's name!!) at Brighton Dome during the Dream Attic tour - RT's guitar work was blindingly good - searing - my brother really only likes his acoustic stuff and isn't in to the 'heavier' guitar stuff - but I loved it!!
Since then I've seen him solo acoustic a few times and missed a performance with just the drummer and bassist due to car trouble. Hopefully I'll get to see him electric at least once more !! Would've loved to see him in the early days but I didn't even know he existed until 15 years ago!!
I have been a fan of Fairport Convention most of my life. I was able to see them in 1975.
@@andymrice - I had the chance to see Dave Swarbrick with Martin Carthy (whom I've met and what a nice, normal chap he is!!) in my own town a couple of years before he died. I had returned from Sidmouth folk week, was knackered, and couldn't be bothered - little did I know he wasn't going to be with us much longer!!
His fiddle playing, song writing, and singing were all amazing - I see him as a kind of gypsy punk fiddler - lol - his style was so irreverent - so instinctual!! Fairport also played at the same folk festival but I didn't get a ticket - sold out!! Love to go to Cropredy - maybe next year!!
Well, actually, there was also a commercial VHS tape of them playing material from Shoot out the Llghts, which was sold by Carthage/Hannibal Records, but this show is better. Maybe this one is from just before the marriage fell apart?
Some viewers/listeners may want to search "Richard and Linda Thompson biographies" and read that material, "caveat lector" "reader beware" of the summary form of lives described from outside, of course!
Hayden Childs has written a great little book about the recording of the 'Shoot Out The Lights' album. Fascinating reading even if Childs gets a little too poetic at times when interpreting the meaning of each song.
Caveat Emptor or Hannibal Lecter?
Hair. Those were the days.
@@susanrichard6913 What?
Dave Pegg with full beard - rare footage
Can we please get timestamps? Thanks!
Richard looks like Clapton in that baggy suit
LOL
He's better than clapton.
Think they forgot to plug in the bass at first, didn't they?
Is it just me, or is Linda struggling a bit with her voice? Sounds like she's having trouble hitting some notes. Every other recording I've ever heard of her - live or in studio - she sounds perfect.
Yeah. RT mentions this is his book. Linda was experiencing vocal struggles after having given birth.
Still very fine
She has suffered from dysphonia for decades - one opens ones mouth and the musculature just doesn’t cooperate. It derailed her career pretty much permanently excepting a brief but welcome comeback album several years ago.
I think also that it was very loud and difficult to hear what was happening. If the monitors aren't quite right you can't hear yourself above the cacophony of the guitars and drums. It's very far from the luxury of the studio where you can go in relaxed. It was probably at the end of a long tour. Some songs are easier to sing. Strange Affair, for example is quieter and as a consequence is much more successful for Linda's vocals.
Her troubles continued, . Apparently it was a challenge to record her voice for Shoot Out the Lights.
Those were the days of turtle neck jumpers and over-sized jackets.
37:00 THE THIEF ***
Hahaa "thank you, mother"
Wasn't this gig, although early in the year, the period where Linda was struggling to come to terms with Richard wanting the marriage to end ..?? I have read stories made by some of the tour group that there were very icy moments going on.... possibly this set is earlier than the time of that miserable tour, but I'm sure it was in 1980... A horrible shame at the time, now thankfully Linda has recovered that lovely voice and with the aid of their children they have found their way back to each other even if they are only friends.
No. The tour from hell was spring 1982. As far as I recall, none of the Shoot Out the Lights material is in this brilliant show, fully two years before.
Thanks Peter... By strange coincidence I was listening to a Richard Thompson cd ( Mock Tudor ) when your reply post arrived in my inbox.
There's a wonderful little book by Hayden Childs which centres on the recording of 'Shoot Out The Lights' and the difficulties the Thompsons were having at the time. Well worth reading even if it gets a bit poetic at times.
@@petermackie7233 That's right, isn't it. I saw a show from that tour in Toronto. It was great but like a raw nerve. I seem to recall Simon consoling her quite often. But it is just life. When they were good -on and off the stage- they were great together.
Cool concert. It's not the concert of hell, however I see little interaction between Richard and Linda. He's mostly focused in leading the band
The “tour from hell” was 2 years later in the US for SOTL. Towards the end she apparently got violent with him onstage.
Before the wine bottle went for the head?
It's like he doesn't want to look at her.
The words to Strange Affair are very different from the recording. I thought Linda was improvising them but Richard joins in. It was originally a song about Islam, as in 'the world has no comfort at all; the only peace comes from Allah', but they seem to be talking about relationships, or theirs?
Didn't they become SUFI for a while - maybe they just want to put it behind them. I'll always LOVE them - just for who they are. The heartache of their relationship has defined them
@@angelicaluce3230 Richard Thompson became a Sufi aged 23 and still is. Linda is not
Wrocker Paul - my understanding is that they were only allowed (by order of the Iman) to do music if it was about god - this means that songs such as Dimming of the Day are supposedly about god - but, just like Strange Affair, it makes more sense when considered as being about a human love affair: do we think that the Thompsons were playing it both ways with these songs??
@@iaingoodwin8514 I'm pretty sure they both left the group. It was a Sufi-based cult really. They now trade as the Murabitun and are notorious for antisemitic conspiracy theories and grandiose schemes that never come to fruition as the leader moves them from place to place. A lot of talent being wasted. It has been described as having a "staggering drop-out rate" and the drop-outs are better off out.
@@honeychurchgipsy6 I think they're songs about love of God couched in the language of love songs and that he wrote them in all sincerity.
1:00:20
9:12
Mattacks is electrifying, totally majestic and underrated.
Agree totally but this is Michael Arscott
It's not Dave Mattacks though you could be mistaken for thinking so. Richard introduces band members at 30 mins in.
@@alternativevoice2541 Glad I'm not the only one who was confused.
Simon Nicol on guitar. Who's on bass and drums?
Dave Pegg on the bass guitar-
I've heard him with Jethro Tull.
According to Concerts Wiki it's Dave Mattacks on drums and Andy Brown on bass. You're welcome.
@@apolloc.vermouth5672 not Dave Mattacks. Partway through Richard introduces the band and it is most definitely not Dave Mattacks.
OK, he just introduced them: Dave Pegg and Mike Oscar (?)
+GreenhouseCeltic I've only watched the first 4 songs, but I'm sure it's old faithful Dave Mattacks on drums. Terrific close-ups of R playing and Linda singing.
+Paul David Martin The drummer is Michael Spencer Arscott.
Who were the other band members on this gig?
Dave Pegg on bass guitar; Simon Nicol on Guitar. Not sure who the drummer is though.
@@alternativevoice2541 Dave Mattocks or Gerry Conway?
@@alternativevoice2541 Dave Mattacks?
@@stevengaber7977 Michael Osgood.
@@alternativevoice2541 - Michael Arscott ? (Who played on Sunnyvista)
He looks like Pete Townshend, if he were prohibited from jumping. :-)
I think even Townshend would agree, a more accomplished guitarist
@Brad Reed Love them both. Sublime players.
Thanks for posting. x
@@philmus1 Perhaps, but Peter is a more accomplished songwriter and bandleader, while still playing a pretty mean guitar. And Peter has continued to create, while RT has been treading water for at least 20 years.
And if Pete could actually play anything complex
Too bad they had to try to "Keep up with the "times" " - it's boring and repetetive - NOT DISTINCTIVE and
UNIQUE which they definitely ARE. I've always loved them for who they ARE.
I know i shouldn't pry, but how could Thompson leave behind such a superb woman ? The sexy way she draws out the syllables, ever so slightly falls off pitch, and injects wail and sultriness. Maybe those comments below ( e.g. kicking Dicky on stage) suggest Linda was a difficult woman. Or maybe RT was a prick who drove her to it. Or maybe that's unfair to each. But such a shame. I love all they did together.
She is a good musician, but not comparable to RT. I think she might have restricted his music if they had stayed together.
Richard was committing adultrey, that's why Linda was kicking people. I love Linda! A beautiful woman and a great singer!
Relationships die sometimes, even seemingly perfect ones. It happens.
If she could sing in tune it would help!
musik102 - I agree that at times she sounds off key - when singing "Don't let a thief " the two voices do not fit - but this could be a bad choice of harmonies that just didn't work? Mostly she sings fine and has a beautiful voice though.
well, it's now 2017 and Trump is president, so what a wonderful UA-cam find to help cure the blues with the blues.
It's 2022 now. Are you happier with Biden?
What on Earth has this to do with Trump mate? It's spurious comment. I could say it's 2023 and the USA is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine that could possibly lead us to a nuclear war led by Joe Biden and the war mongering Democratic Party.
So now it 2024 Joe Biden is president, what a wonderful utube to find to cure my blues.
This was not very good,; I guess it's RT and LT relationship derating. Good musicians though, better vibes 1983 when out with Richard alone.
They don't look very happy do they? And it's noticeable they don't look at each other. The sound and mix aren't great, but there's not much wrong with the actual performances; they were very professional. If anything the situation gives some of the songs an extra poignancy. And they can't underline the point much more clearly than by covering Crying In The Rain...
"RT and LT" ...Hell Freezes Over tour.
Linda sounds a bit shrill imo.
@@lilblackduc7312 - that was 1982, I thought.