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I had the good fortune of seeing Richard Thompson and his band Saturday night at Jackson Hall in the Tennessee Performing Arts Building. Great show. I have been a fan for a long while but had never seen him live. He has a great band-especially the drummer. He performed his entire new album-Dream Attic-and then came back and did his hits after a brief encore. i will see him again if i get the chance. 😀
I received an email over the weekend from FF member Stoger mentioning he, too, was attending a Richard Thompson show, among others. Given the location, I’m betting my bottom dollar he was at this particular show.
I’ve heard Mr. Mellencamp cover “Shoot Out The Lights” back in the 80’s with a proclamation Richard Thompson, to him, at that particular time, was probably the best singer songwriter he had heard.
Ala lwj…here is Richard Thompson performing “Shoot Out The Lights” on Elvis Costello’s “Spectacle.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJKnk09YuQU
Cool. I would have liked to have met Stoger. It’s interesting keeping up with all of you guys & gals on this forum. Taras the bass player was great. This whole band was as good as any i have seen. There is a good show at The Exit in On Fri Nov 19th-Brendan Benson. I will be coming back from Atl having seen Roger Waters the night before.
@Lefty wrote:
@tonyg wrote:
Everybody wants to meet Stoger.
That’s #93 on my bucket list!!!
😆 😀 8)
Lefty, we were close in Rochester but ne’er us twain did meet–must have timed our multiple visits to the merch table at conflicting junctures.
Thanks, tonyg and music lover and lafayette, but it was ASHE not NASH which found me in the company of former Love Band bassist Taras Produniak again. We chatted bus side a good 7-8 minutes afterward. Jim Christie just became a father again and does the occasional gig with Jim Messina. Dwight Yoakam is making the casino circuit (!). The T-man himself has moved out of “beautiful North Hollywood” and is tending the horse farm further out in the LA area in his non-touring moments. And let’s just say he seems very content as a sideman in the Richard Thompson band. No bitterness or catty remarks from him, but I believe it’s safe to say he enjoys the night to night stability of his current post, put it that way. What’s intriguing for a fan from show to show is not always the optimum for a band member.
As musiclover says, great show: prob. same set with one extra encore tune in Asheville. They play the new record Dream Attic in sequence, take an extended break (there was no opening act), then 7 or 8 “hits” (Richard’s mock term, and he played up the lowercase-ness of it), then 2-3 encores. Nothing off Rumor and Sigh, but two off Shoot Out the Lights (“Wall of Death”; “Man in Need”).
Great report Stoger. The T-man played in Ventura a few Fridays ago with his other band, The Mojo Monkeys, but I didn’t make it out to the show since I was out late the night before at a show and was attending an Emmylou Harris show the next afternoon. I also just missed Jim Christie in Ventura last week because I didn’t know he was sitting in with someone on drums.
So everyone is out there doing something. Even us.
@tonyg wrote:
Everybody wants to meet Stoger.
Not that difficult to do. Go to / travel to any Lu show on a weekend during mid-September – early June, or, any Lu show any day of the week during early June – mid-September, and chances are much better than 50-50, the Stoger will be in attendance… 😉 😀 8)
Tom
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