Fairport Convention - RENO NEVADA - 1968 Bouton Rouge TV clip, Judy Dyble, Iain Matthews etc

[wheels1659]

WOW, had no idea. Thanks jbrilliant

[dis0gree]

3:42 Woaw.... What a woman, with an extraordinary voice :')

[xrcjpx]

F.C. is a great band... I remember hitch hiking thru Europe back in 1974 and many of the French who picked me up really liked F.C. I was somewhat in "culture shock" cause I didn't really know Europe...but they knew lots of music... my best to them all!

[m06een00]

Richard Thompson sounds quite similar to Jerry Garcia in his playing. Except Jerry Garcia didn't really start playing like this until at least a year or 2 later, assuming this was filmed in 1967. . Maybe RT got there first. He could have made it as a decent jazz guitarist instead of going down the folk route.

[mistermousterian]

What personnel passed thru this amazing band!

[finalnexus]

sounds a little like Crimso "Travel Weary Capricorn"....

[mink61]

Extraordinary clip of the Fairports, certainly the earliest film I’ve seen of Richard Thompson taking us on one of his fretboard excursions.

[georgebest55]

grande IAN MATTHEWS....VISTO AL BLUESHOUSE DI MILANO ANNI ORSONO....

[CookOfTheHouse]

AMAZING!! It''s like Jefferson Airplane with a sweet soprano, Michelle Phillips-like! Dyble was an amazing singer!

[Sixtiesdude1]

This is sheer brilliance from Fairport Convention with the underated Judy Dyble,The four albums made from early 1968 to December 1969 mark FC's golden period.I think this performance is from April 1968 before their first album had been released,and Sandy Denny joined the classic line up.Superb!

[leemcuk1]

I'm not a muso and I don't find this boring at all, in fact it's brilliant. Nothing wrong with a bit of guitar w@nkery so long as it's creative, well executed w@ankery.

Thompson never sounded so wired as he did on the first FC album, and this solo reminds me at various points of Hendrix and Robert Fripp.

[thewordofgord]

Frege100: unless you lived in London or San Francisco, this type of soloing was quite rare. Obviously he's copping modal style from Airplane/Quicksilver/Dead, but it has to be seen in its time frame, in which was daring and innovative.

[67psych]

@thewordofgord This track was Influenced by The Butterfield Blues Band Track EAST/WEST from 1966.All of the Frisco Bands were also influenced by this song seemingly!! As they mentiojn it in interviews!The Butterfields sent the crowds at the Fillmore in 1966 into a frenzy with the song,probably like Fairports did At Middle Earth with this song!!

[Frege100]

Unless your a muso, the wig-out at the end is really quite boring. Talented kids showing-off a bit, as they do. No wonder Judy has a bit of a sit down while the boys indulge themselves. Later on they learned how to take the world not obsessed by freting technique with them and that WAS special. Thanks for posting though.

[67psych]

@Frege100 She did a spot of needle work (Knitting) during the solos apparantly!! Lots of Groovy Jumpers for the Band for XMAS!! LOL

[JudyD9]

@67psych

Dishcloths and Eiffel Towers. That's what I knitted..:-)

[67psych]

@JudyD9 LOL! So i can now reveal to the world that you left the band to concentrate on your knitting!! I just have to say that The 1st Fairport album has always been my favourite,since i first heard it in 1993 when i was 18.

[67psych]

@JudyD9 Thanks for your reply Judy! Just got to say that i have loved your voice and the first fairports lp since 1992 when i was 18! My dad turned me on the music back then! My Dad & me LOVE the Trader Horne lp so much that we be have been boring visiters to our houses with it recently,we have played it so much! i have checked out your website & vids on youtube! You have a great voice and look just lovely these days.good luck for the future!

[clemo49]

I saw this band several times in the late 60s, including one memorable night at Middle Earth, Covent Garden in late 67/early 68. This is so typical of their music at the time, although it may be a bit shorter than I remember. I was so in lust with Judy and stood in front of her all night long, all the while getting angry stares from Richard (her boyfriend at the time)!

An amazing band, and still going strong, having eschewed West Coast influenced rock jams and between them inventing folk rock.

[SuperDoobrie]

What a fantastic solo! Nuts! Check the bit from 4.15 - 4.30! Would love to see the fretwork coz i'm not a musician, but it sounds superb.

[flitcham50]

If there should ever be a YouTube "Hall of Fame" this clip would be right up there! Brilliant. Judy Dyble shows why they were known briefly as the English Jefferson Airplane. Nichol still plays with the band while Hutchings, Thompson and Matthews still give so much to music. At a time when key members of bands were leaving to form so called "supergroups" - these guys were a supergroup from the very start. And so young too. Thanks so much for posting.

[Raymantico]

check out Richard & MimI Farina's original version of this

[dullsvillain]

They fly Jefferson Airplane.....trans love airways.... higher always higher

[mrbag60]

Wow i can't get enough of Richard Thompson jamming on the guitar; amazing he was 19 when this was televised. The other band members are in perfect sync with him which makes this performance almost magical.

[b1ll23h]

Fairport Convention Takes Off!!

absolutely brilliant.what a find. cheers mate

[thesyd1975]

its nice to see martin lambe, the drummer on the first three fairports lps, what a sad loss,he died so young,i wonder what would have became of him if he had not died that night in 1969!!!

[yippierb]

wow how sf is this? Love IT.

[aargoldtakesflight]

This is the first time I've heard this version of "Reno, Nevada." Matthews would record on "If You Saw Thro My Eyes", one of his solo efforts with a far different arrangement.

[thewordofgord]

Oh my god what a find! Thank you so much jonny! and it's live too! Bonus times a hundred!

Now, watching this, and the amazing, for the time, improv, we can see this band opening for Floyd at the UFO.

yours gobsmacked,

wordofgord

[ledivin1]

Les Débuts de Ian Matthews. Extraordinaire ! Tout au long de ces années, jusqu'ici, 2010. Peu connu du grand Public, mais peut-être est-ce un bien, car il est resté simple. Longue Vie à Lui, encore

[stevep0508]

Hello Elbo,

If you really like this song you should check out Richard & Mimi Farina - Richard wrote this. Both of them sadly gone too soon.

Yes, the earliest incarnation(s) of Fairport have been compared to Jefferson & other US bands - their later metamorphases into UK based 'folk rock' are well documented.

This song appears as a 'bonus' track on the latest CD release of their first album - something of a neglected near classic in my view............

[somethingofyours]

It's more like hearing a British Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick and Paul Kantner with English accents.

[isabellecent]

excellent

[elbo33]

This is the best song I had never heard before in my 43 years. How does that happen?

[elbo33]

2:01-2:20 is as good as any Dead jam.

[nostalgiahistoria67]

I totally agree with you, being both a fan of Fairport and the Dead.

[Jimala3]

@nostalgiahistoria67

Love FC....more like a Airplane Jam ...not dead...even the look with the recorder was slickish...paul is still Paul. viva la kaukonen!......and Jac-acidy!

[Sarahfreckle]

This video shows well what Judy Dyble brought to the early sound. Great camera work on those fingerboard close-ups. This belongs in a museum.

[nostalgiahistoria67]

I totally agree. Judy's contribution to the early Fairport Convention should not be forgotten. She was truely an asset to this groovy bunch of guys and her brief stint in the band paved the way for more good things to come with Sandy.

[eyeball226]

@Sarahfreckle

Definitely. So many cameramen focus on the face of the guitarist and it's such a waste.

[Giselle62]

There's a little elf who goes around putting "thumbs down" on every possible comment these days. Looks like he or she has as much time as I do on their hands as I do right now

Hey, Thumbs Down Elf, whyn't you go read a book or something with all of that time. Ahem, thanks for indulging me. That is all.

[Giselle62]

RT has fingers like a daddy-long legged spider---sure can't hurt when you're playing gitar.

[Giselle62]

While I've never been super fond of Mimi's singing part---(heresung by Judy) this is great to see and especially hear.

I read that Richard and Mimi played this at Newport Folk Fest and had people dancing in the rain. (And this was played on a dulcimer at the time.).

[Giselle62]

this is a Richard and Mimi Farina song--check them out, too.

[captainsoul1953]

Fantastic piece of film...i never saw the original band but my sister did several time and told me they did extended versions of their album tracks...heres the proof

Jim

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Truely amazing! Judy, Ian, Richard & the gang really got it together here. This song and the guitar solo kicks ass! Their debut album-one of the best ever!

[caley956]

This is absolutely fantastic. Pretty head scrambling stuff too, having seen similar closeups of Richard Thompson's guitar playing a couple of weeks ago at Cropredy.

And some lovely shots of Martin Lamble too.

By the way - the original is in colour, but presumably SECAM encoded which accounts for the B & W.

[vandergraaf78]

I would like to be in England at this time when bands like Fairport Convention started career. Thank you for this great performance! It's magic!

[Giselle62]

I know, I want to be reincarnated during that time, too. See you there...

[nostalgiahistoria67]

I definitely feel the same way.  The Fairport's early recordings with both Judy and Sandy -studio and BBC alike are sublime! Wow! What an era!

[nostalgiahistoria67]

I feel the same way you do. This was a priceless era!

[retepnamsor]

What a week. Went to the marvellous Fairport reunion at the Barbican on Saturday and now this - the stuff of legend! 40+ years ago it was a highlight as they started out around the London clubs, and it's every bit as good as my faded memory of it. It's ironic that the band that founded and became the backbone of British folk rock started out as the finest interpreters (bar none) of American singer songwriters, and half the band were only 18 or 19 when this was recorded. I'm overwhelmed!

[Giselle62]

Yes, they were doing American stuff and we had been all enamored with the Brits for those years (when I was just a baby, mid 60's)---Blues and British Isles Folk (turned American Mountain Music) parented Rock n roll, so it's always been a back and forth.

[bixby1999]

Awesome!!!! What a freakin solo by Thompson.