I’ve been a fan of RT’s for over 25 years. Easily one of my cherished musical discoveries. It’s so cool reading all the YT posts on how much they’ve enjoyed discovering his music as well. He really is a musical treasure.
@Lauryn74K15 жыл бұрын
one of my biggest musical heroes - catch Danny Thompson on bass!! awesome. Richard is one of the best songwriters.
@Nummymuffincocobutter15 жыл бұрын
It's a shame he isn't as popular as he deserves to be!!! Been a big fan since the 80's..
@dsdomestic11 жыл бұрын
This drummer is a joy to watch... awesome sound
@RubesGoodBrainCoffee3 жыл бұрын
That's Michael Jerome.
@davidwaterhouse25524 жыл бұрын
Great performance! The drummer is amazing! dx
@LordC1nder13 жыл бұрын
Not only has SAMCRO given me hours of tv enjoyment, they have also turned me onto hours upon hours of great music catalouges. Especially Richard Thompson.
@ReverendEd33013 жыл бұрын
Fantastic live performance, just what to expect from RT.
@lokdi15 жыл бұрын
What a group! More energy and more power then lots of young groups today!
@cootman11 жыл бұрын
I saw RT in Birmingham on Thursday(21/2/13) and he was superb. When I have seen Clapton live, he leaves me cold as though he is just coasting and by the end of the gig he looks as though he has enough energy to go and play a game of squash, Richard Thomson looked as though he had given the 1 hour and 50 minutes he was on for, everything he could, never holding back.
@18Windwalker9 жыл бұрын
someone asked me what "style" of music Thompson plays... and I found myself unable to answer the question. Seems he can and does play about any style there is, and VERY well. Just bought my 1st CD (Sweet Warrior) and am blowing out my car speakers. Amazing artist! He and Susan Tedeschi are both diamonds in a world of coal. Music is wonderful... and RT is wonderful.
@kolloduke33415 жыл бұрын
Diamonds in a world of coal ..priceless , and im a miners son ..haha lol..
@Brody666Ed15 жыл бұрын
Freaking awesome. The man can do no wrong. Thanks a million for posting this.
@syffuf2513 жыл бұрын
Over the past couple over years I've been to dozens of show. I've seen Rush, Tommy Emmanuel, John Butler Trio, hell even Slipknot. But seeing Richard Thompson so far has blows everything out of the water, simply an incredible artist and performer.
@godburger310 жыл бұрын
thinking peoples' guitar monster
@richard6234 жыл бұрын
you nailed it.
@Tessietots15 жыл бұрын
This was the first song I ever heard from RT.. It was instant love. I cant get enough of his music. Brilliant"! Thank you
@bigsuey16 жыл бұрын
thats my new fav song iv been listenin to it solid for 5 days now
@lokdi16 жыл бұрын
thx very mutch!
@twangalot17 жыл бұрын
Great stuff!! Thanks joni36. Don't know about the ageist, patronising slant but otherwise I agree, hope someone will post Dad's Gonna Kill Me from the same episode. Blew everyone else on the show away-Rock and Roll and RT at their very best. Mind you we born of the 50s and 60s should be good at rock-we invented it.
@treehouse72211 жыл бұрын
Fantastic song, fantastic performance.
@bonoix13 жыл бұрын
Great performer. Love me some Richard.
@LetMeGoForever15 жыл бұрын
Said so perfectly!
@liegebricking6 ай бұрын
And the great Danny Thompson on doublebass.
@dixiedragon5413 жыл бұрын
JUST heard of these guys and this music is hot hot hot LOVE THEIR SOUND (they are pretty freaking hot too !!!!!) Gotta find me some of their CDs this is just great stuff
@RTFan5216 жыл бұрын
Drummer is Michael Jerome. There's a video of this band doing Hard on Me on which the drumming is just spectacular.
@alantaylorfc15 жыл бұрын
Jools Holland show rules. Also this song is amazing. Guitar solo is superb, too.
@raimondgrafvonpolier6566 Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@GaryAura9611 жыл бұрын
How come I missed this guy??? Wicked
@christopherwhite75026 жыл бұрын
I saw him in Denver in 2012-ish (with this lineup). I stood 20 feet from him in an intimate venue. He is easily the greatest rock guitarist I have ever seen (with Billy Gibbons, Steve Howe, and Martin Barre on the short list). Hard to compare Thompson with jazz/Spanish virtuoso Al DiMeola, but I enjoyed Thompson more, I know that. He was an entertaining storyteller between songs. And I was even blown away with his singing. The man is the complete package!
@degalisto12 жыл бұрын
85 my f.....ass he was born in '49. Used to play with Faireport Convention.
@Kegwithlegs16 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see live, basic, music again! Yes, the drummer does well with his "basic" kit, what would he be like on a Ginger Baker style kit???
@MoiraRussell11 жыл бұрын
Fierce! Every one of them.
@kolloduke33415 жыл бұрын
perfect for those.....! who live next door !lol
@jaymc211215 жыл бұрын
this smokes! and i just might! bubble up!
@chbooboo15 жыл бұрын
one more: "there's no halfway with you": you're either with us or against us
@22rawrrawr14 жыл бұрын
Dude i heard their song dads gonna kill me on soa but i fucking love this its really good
@mando3b13 жыл бұрын
@GrungeHippie95 True enough, but he lives in LA, I think.
@lokdi16 жыл бұрын
Who' s the drummer? He's cool and good!
@daf82714 жыл бұрын
I agree with your analysis! I have always thought this song was about Bush//Bin Laden...from Bin Laden's perspective.
@googalsalot9 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me which album to find this track on, I love it, thanks
@bigsuey9 жыл бұрын
+googalsalot Its on sweet Warrior. I'm sure you will have found it by now, but just in case
@xander432012 жыл бұрын
Give the man a damn knighthood!
@KaPenonick13 жыл бұрын
@MonaLaMoyne u meant 58?
@GrahamRobertson-cq4do Жыл бұрын
Interestingly - looks like he's playing in standard tuning not Drop D
@lladsbid11 жыл бұрын
This is as good as anything from his glory days
@WatTyler1312 жыл бұрын
It's about supporters of the British Nationalist Party.
@nanomagnetic12 жыл бұрын
@adjrean57 why analyze? because music is a tool for communication. last i checked, all communication analyzable.
@departments200611 жыл бұрын
Well he's certainly pissed off with them. Rightly so. A lot of anger in that song and all the better for it.
@mando3b15 жыл бұрын
Four guys playing--but it sounds like 6 or 7. Strictly in terms of chops, it's hard to imagine a group playing any better or tighter than Thompson-Thompson-Jerome-Zorn. (Of course, you really can't do any better than RT's songs, either!)
@LetMeGoForever15 жыл бұрын
They're two different breeds, brother. SRV copied, RT invented! Most guitarists who solo sound bluesy, and RT is devoid of all of them. He invented a style, he plays stuff that took him years to perfect, and not any guitar player can do it.
@Maxmason.artist12 жыл бұрын
is he? or is that wiki's doing?
@departments200614 жыл бұрын
You want an angry old man? Look no further that the great Rchard Thompson. If only Weller could claim such dignity and vitality even at 8 years younger.
@xijack11 жыл бұрын
I just read a comment that Mark knopfler got his style from this guy, you can really hear that in this solo
@daf82715 жыл бұрын
IMO Richard has no peer. While most of his contemporaries settle into semi-retirement or rest on past laurels, RT keeps pushing himself as an artist and producing work that, if anything raises the bar even further. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what this song is about?
@WatTyler1312 жыл бұрын
It's about the BNP.
@brucec4311 жыл бұрын
So, how many Brits get admitted to live in Pakistan each year?
@yohei7215 жыл бұрын
How do you figure? I'd love to believe it, but I can't make the lyric scan under that interpretation. Sounds like something about someone specific from his own life - disgruntled ex-collaborator or something. Kind of the opposite number from "Put It There."
@SuperLouis1213 жыл бұрын
is anybody else here because of soa?
@octarhaberee15 жыл бұрын
and that's supposed to be a bad thing?
@LetMeGoForever14 жыл бұрын
Please, stop the song analysis. It's just a good song, and you ruin the fun for some people.
@chbooboo15 жыл бұрын
It's about Bush/Cheney.
@MonaLaMoyne13 жыл бұрын
Nobody mentions the fact that he is 85 years old in this video.
@irishace1111 жыл бұрын
Clapton=the only thumbs down. ;(
@mando3b15 жыл бұрын
I always thought this was about right-wing commentators (e.g., Limbaugh, Fox "News", etc.) smearing people who didn't agree with what the Bush administration was doing. The Bush/Cheney interpretation is basically the same thing, though, I guess.
@chbooboo15 жыл бұрын
More: "When you crawl out of your sick little hole": Cheney's undisclosed location. "reptile smile": I'd like to think this is Cheney's smirk
@celiaporter13 жыл бұрын
A Muslim guitar player with a Jewish star on his hat. Coexist!
@chbooboo15 жыл бұрын
"you want me dead or alive": what Bush said about Bin Laden "you see red white and blue": duh "when the sky fell in you cried": 9/11 "Come on, do your worst, boy That's the way, that's the way Hit me where it hurts, boy, That's the way, that's the way": torture?
@pjotr60dvd12 жыл бұрын
Oh no! He might become lazy and stop making his wonderful songs!