Re: (TV) Now Playing

[Jesse Hochstadt <Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu>]

At 7:17 AM -0400 4/29/01, Joe Hartley wrote:

> I saw [Richard Thompson] last Saturday in Boston - just superb.  The 
> man gets more out of
> one guitar than many entire bands!  He had Dave Mattacks com out and play
> an encore.  Dave had a snare and a hi-hat, and the two of them filled the
> sonic space completely.

[snip]

> A superb show.  Right, Jesse?

You betcha. Any TV-heads out there who aren't familiar with RT should 
take the opportunity to see him if he comes to your town. I took a 
couple of novices to the Orpheum show and got the classic reaction: 
"I can't believe all of that music was coming out of just one man 
playing acoustic guitar!" (In case anyone doesn't know, Richard has a 
polyrhythmic playing technique in which he flat picks rhythm on the 
bass notes while independently finger-picking with the remaining 
three fingers - not to mention whatever he's doing on the neck at the 
time.) The astonishing thing about RT is that even though he's now in 
his fifties, he keeps improving as a guitarist, songwriter, and 
singer.

Rick Greenwald then wrote:

> Oooh, with the band.  I am jealous.

No, it was solo acoustic except for the three songs during the encore 
when Dave Mattacks - now living in Boston - came out and joined 
Richard.

- Jesse
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