Re: Richard Thompson (was Re: Sandy Denny)

[davisg@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Glen Davis)]

In article <2div8d$c4s@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> orear@ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear) writes:
>david@avalanche.com writes:
>>An equally important member of early Fairport was the GREAT Richard
>>Thompson, guitarist/writer extraordinaire.
>
>I know he's supposed to be great, but the only exposure I have to his guitar
>playing is on the Nick Drake song "Thoughts of Mary Jane."  He's terrible!
>He keeps playing in the wrong fret so that he's way out of tune with Nick's
>acoustic and singing.  And the little fills he does are rather poor.  I can
>only hope that (1) he was very young, and (2) he was very stoned.  I imagine
>he got better.

Now that's blasphemy.  I don't think I've ever seen or heard the words Richard
Thompson and terrible in the same sentence.  He's an amazing guitarist and
vocalist; check out his solo albums.  I too would love to hear a Kate/Richard
collaboration (and I think its possible they may actually do one).

Glen

collaboration and it wouldn't surprise if they actually do one.