Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Seattle 90
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Richard Thompson is just extremely good. What else can you say?
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It's cool to watch Richard perform Vincent in 1990, when the song was newly minted. His playing is much more deliberate. When he performs Vincent today he just whips through it, the tempo is at least 10% faster, 140. He's probably performed Vincent thousands of times by now.
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@haleyt74 : wrong wrong wrong
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I watched Del's cover and it is pretty cool, i think he did the song justice... But Richard Thompson is the guy who wrote it. He definitely deserves to be better known by the general public than to be accused of covering one of his own masterpieces!
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So cool to hear this played live for a crowd hearing it for the first time !
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written by Richard Thomson
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@mbsnyderc the first line in his bio - "Richard Thompson was born at his parents' home in
the Spring of 1949, in West-London, and spent his early years in post war Britain, surrounded by a family with wide musical tastes" So his father is a Scotsman. Richard was born and grew up in the London area. That makes him English.
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@thedict8or His father was a Scot say so in his bio.
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@mbsnyderc Richard Thompson is English.
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@haleyt74 This song is about English coffee bar culture of the early 1960s, and the 'cafe racer' scene. Certainly nothing to do with rednecks as originally written and performed by RT.
Oh.. And it's written in the third person. "Said Red Molly to James..."
;o)
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I feel very sorry for anyone that thinks Van Halen is the greatest guitar player
9 months ago 4
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FWIW, the original was penned by Del McCoury, American blugrass artist. Thompson's cover is brilliant and definitive.
jerrypicker 3 years ago
It's written by Richard Thompson and covered by Del McCoury..
joni36 3 years ago 16
Did anyone cop that tuning?
songster22046 3 years ago 3
EBGDGC
joni36 3 years ago