Richard Thompson in Conversation and Performance at Techonomy 2012
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- Noted for his "guitar technique and strange, darkly-funny lyrics," as Wikipedia puts it, Richard Thompson has received a lifetime achievement award from BBC and the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth. Here he performs and talks about his craft with Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick at the Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz.
For full transcript (and lyrics), go to techonomy.com/2012/11/richard-... - Věda a technologie
I'm just finding this video - amazing. I saw him perform in Cincinnati just a month or so ago - amazing.
the most wonderful thing about Richard is that genuine smile, that's what i love best despite the blinding triad of his talents
He has such a commanding stage presence. I love Richard.
Richard Thompson once again shows that not only is a superb musician, but also an intelligent and captivating raconteur. I love the way that once a few requests have been shouted out, he can't wait to play the songs and overrides the interviewer who has has obviously run out of steam some time before. It is great to see that after so many years in the business, it is still the love of music thqat 'floats his boat'. Great stuff!
Simply the best. What every musician aspires to!
What a shame there couldn't have been a good interviewer for this venue.
What a pleasure to hear such an intelligent and soulful musician and songwriter.
Saw him in Lowell last year with my dad. Watching his fingers on the guitar is crazy, and unlike so many artists today, he sounds better live than on CD.
What a musician!
He carried this interview perfectly.....the interviewer not so much.....beautiful and haunting
Jamie Morgan can't
This was great! I was hoping he was going to play Beeswing but none the less this was still brilliant.
What an absolutely wonderful piece of video. I don't think I need to comment on the content. Everybody has done that already and I agree with them completely.
True legend
One of the very very best.
Thank you.
For everyone slagging the interviewer - bear in mind this is a tech guy at a tech conference, not a music guy, and it's not a music audience. He's probably a light fan of Mr. Thompson's music, but more so, wanted to interview a musician who has been around long enough to have not only seen the changes to every aspect of the music industry, but has also embraced the technologies. I imagine that, when interviewing someone as larger than life as Richard Thompson, a lot of non-professional interviewers would come across very flat. He did a much better job than I would have - I would have just sat there giggling and smiling the entire time.....
On the other hand, he was an interviewer. And very ill prepared and appeared to not care about the subject, but instead the questions he wanted to ask. SURE he said that he was a fan, but he really did not have any interviewing skills. RT handled it quite well, because he's had years of experience with it.
Fair comment. Could it be true that I got the slight impression that the interviewer is (not just a little bit) starstruck?! And at the same time struggling a bit with the sense of self-importance in comparison? Please, check.
okay it's official now - after watching this for the umpteenth time and catching Richard'a gorgeous smile at the end - I must declare that my interest in Mr Thompson is more than just musical - I think I am in love.
Who isn't??!? :)
@@marianneosielworld - lol!! Now I have to watch this video again - your fault - (as if I need a reason?)
Have you watched the live at the Heartbreak Hotel video, and the more recent (2017/18)one from Shrewsbury folk festival? It has the best version of Put it there pal (IMO)?
@@honeychurchgipsy6 i've seen some of the shrewsbury festival--not sure--they all blend into one another after awhile, but that's okay!--but i will check out the heartbreak hotel video. there's one gig with his band (one version of) where he literally plays a seven-and-change minute solo at the end of the song...never-endingly passionate, fast, and beautiful! (maye shrewsbury, not sure right now)
@@marianneosielworld - it could be a live version of You Can't Win from the Scottish festival Celtic Connections - I watched it the other day and the guitar solo is epic. Or, it could be a really old one (1973???)from a gig at a University somewhere in England - audio only - and the song is Calvary Cross - the song is around 14 minutes and much of that is RT's electric guitar solo.
The Shrewsbury version of Put it There Pal has a superb solo as well though and RT's singing/phrasing of the words @Put it there Pal' are genuinely chilling!!
So much to enjoy when you're an RT fan!!!
Being a male, uuuuhhh, what can I say? About feelings?
Love him, impressed, touched, move beyond my usual sentimentality... RT was/is a Sufism practitioner, so am I. He was with Hazrat Inayat Khan in the beginnings. My in-laws are 'Khan', too. Lovely, lovely.
I've listened to RT play Vincent BL countless times (and seen him perform it a few) and it never ceases to amaze me; 1) how good it is, 2) how I don't tire of it, and 3) how masterfully he plays it (practice truly does make perfect). Here he even channels John Fahey for a bit...
Lowden guitars kick assss
he is a rare thing.....a real and true bard!!!!!!! TY Traveling Hawk for pointing my butt in this direction!!!
my musical god
When he described "she moved" as a ghost story, my first thought was that he wasn't going to play the song. Now i know why "her feet made no din."
He sings the sad stuff so well.
I enjoyed this immensely. Kirkpatrick was fine.
I really liked Richard's performance in Cincinnati last year. Despite the nerd interviewer, I liked this video.
Richard Thompson is such an inspiring singer-songwriter and amazone guitarist. What I'd give for a chat and à jam with thuis man.....
What THE fuck, my tablet distorts my words. Fucked up tech stuff. Hope you get THE Message...
peter laughner covered calvary cross and it is beautiful
Richard is a lion; the interviewer is a veritable douche bag. I've had the privilege to see him numerous times, met him thrice. I lucked into a double record set over thirty years ago as a cut out, Richard Thompson Live!, now long out of print. Not even listed on his discography. His son Teddy is accomplished, I hope to see him again, soon.
the highlights of this wonderful performance, for me, are Valerie, God Loves a Drunk, She Moved thru ....... oh hell - all of them..... does Mr T ever do a bad song?
The interviewer knows Shoot Out The Lights. Expert.
what a shame that RT hogged up the stage with his music. I wanted to hear geekboy keep talking. bloody artistes!
haha love the sarcasim!
No shit! The interviewer really was in command of the stage!
He forgot to mention Bob Dylan in his list of people who have covered his songs.
Thanks, that was great. I enjoyed it more than the Live From Austin TX dvd I bought for $15 from JB Hi Fi actually. Don't know why. Except I liked to hear him play those weird eastern jazz notes on an acoustic guitar the way Davy Grahem and Bert Jansch could before him better than I did hearing them on his green/blue electric fender.
Peter Mateer - Richard's electric work takes a bit more listening to, to get your ear in - look out for the bag pipe drone notes - no one but Richard can make an electric guitar sound like bag pipes - just fantastic. On the Austin DVD there's a fantastic version of Put it there Pal - listen to it again and you might find yourself thinking "mmmm this is good"
I don't think Thompson ever stops touring, or giving workshops as well as events like this. Don't performers get exhausted being one the road all the time?
Real music fans like to pay the musicians to guarantee that they will create more amazing music. Parker napster and spotify are killing music.
No Beeswing? awwwwww =)
as good acoustically as electric maybe a acoustic version with his cd;s
This video made me want to buy a Lowden
good luck. last i heard its a two year wait
Another great platter of Lowden guitars is Pierre Bensusan. It would be pretty amazing to see RT and Pierre on the same stage.
Vincent black lightning was so predictable. He obviously hasn't been a fan long.
have a listen VICTORIAN DAD "THE THIN THREAD" DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW...GOOGLE THEM... XX
Out of all the good interviewers that probably could have been picked, how did this clown get the job ? And what the hell was he on ? If I were Richard, I would have walked off.
This interviewer is not the greatest.
In conversation, latest left wing cliche.