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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Quoted directly from the "Q&A" section of Richard Thompson's website:
Question: "A transporting experience in Lowell, Massachusetts, last night--thank you so much! What IS that wonderful instrument you played? Looked like a Taylor Grand Concert from my vantage point, but I wasn't close enough to be sure. Sounded like two or three guitars, but of course that's you. Fill me in? Many thanks for an exhilarating evening--well worth the six hour drive up from Jersey (New Jersey, that is). Tad Tuleja"
RT Replies: "How dare you even suggest that I might touch, let alone play. a TAYLOR!!
My axe, Sir, is a Lowden L32FC, see nerdy gear page for info." |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Priceless.......and oh so true! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | His guitar does fill a room...is the Lowden the only acoustic he plays, Jeff? Could have been the top notch sound system in the Ithaca aud when I saw him last year but it was fantastic.
Great Taylor line too. :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Acoustically speaking....
He exclusively plays the Lowden on stage. ( He has a couple of other makers that he will use to write and record, including an older Martin). He's used the same Lowden for more than 20 years and only just recently started with a new one, having worn the old one through.... |
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Location: ms | I`m sorry guys and I love Richard but his live sound is really not very good, at least what i`ve heard. His playing is great but he uses a Sunrise p/u and i think another p/u mixed and its just not a very acoustic sound. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | (Ronnie, thanks for "failing" to mention the little "foster child" I cared for a while back)
... I've pretended not read your comments above. |
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Location: SoCal | I heard Thompson live last year. He was playing his old Lowden and the sound was excellent. So now you can say that you heard how good his sound is..... |
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Location: ms | Jeff how long you gonna hold that over my head? But we did get Tupp. Moody i have now heard the truth and have been set free.... i guess. |
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Location: SoCal | Trust me GC, you're life will be better for it..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | When I saw him play in Denver last year he played the Lowden all night (don't know whether it was the old or new) but the sound was fantastic.
Ronnie, I think the sound at the venue must have sucked instead of the guitar. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | :rolleyes: |
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| I saw a Fairport lineup in or about 1985 which included Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, David Swarbrick and I think it was Dave Mattacks on drums.
Fairport opened for Steeleye Span. It was a small theater in Toronto and the sound was excellent - the harmonies sounded like the recorded versions.
Some of the guys from Fairport did a rhythm piece where they tore up newspapers in time - strange, never seen anyone do that since; they also came out during the Steeleye concert dressed as monks and mooned the audience in the middle of Gaudete which is a complex harmony sung in Latin..lol |
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| I struggle to believe that Fairport Convention opened for any other folk group on the planet at that time. In the UK Steeleye would have been honoured to roadie for Fairport.
Might explain the mooning tho. |
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Location: NJ | I saw Fairport open for Tull around that same time
(but AT that time, Pegg & Mattucks were also members of Tull) . . . |
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| Originally posted by schroeder:
I struggle to believe that Fairport Convention opened for any other folk group on the planet at that time. Well don't believe it then.
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| Originally posted by cliff:
I saw Fairport open for Tull around that same time
(but AT that time, Pegg & Mattucks were also members of Tull) . . . Yeah, that tour came through here as well but I missed it. I was reading something by Dave Pegg a few weeks ago where he said that playing with both bands on tour was exhausting and that when it was all over Fairport made nothing on the tour.
Tull played here with Procol Harum quite awhile back - that's another one that I'd like to have seen. |
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Location: NJ | Saw that Tour as well (outdoors at the (then)Garden State ArtsCenter). It was around the time of Procol's "Prodigal Stranger". |
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| Weird things happen in Canada. Reality warps. |
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| Originally posted by schroeder:
Weird things happen in Canada. Reality warps. It wasn't the only date that they did.
I was talking to Rick Kemp in the lobby before everyone went in and he said they were heading back to England next. The onstage antics from Fairport during the Steeleye set had something to do with having reached the end of the tour.
Fairport disbanded in 1979 and reformed as a full-time band in 1985 so they hadn't been up to much until then; accordingly, it's not that unusual for them to have hooked up with Steeleye Span who were engaged in a world tour at the time - they were flogging shirts and jackets with "Steeleye Span World Wide in 85" written on them - whatever that meant.
In any event, it's a minor point which has perhaps consumed more band width than necessary but you elected to take issue with it so a response of some kind seemed appropriate. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
Jeff how long you gonna hold that over my head? I was being appreciative... not holding it over your head... I gots a reputation to uphold. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
:rolleyes: Fret not, Mike... I doubt he's ever considered an Ovation...
(Though I think his "sound" would translate well on an Adamas I or Slothead as he using quite a number of dropped tunings") |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Jeff's got a reputation?
.....WORTH upholding?
(fwiw, I heard of Steeleye Span long before I heard of Fairport. Maybe it was the marketing.) |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
(Though I think his "sound" would translate well on an Adamas I or Slothead as he using quite a number of dropped tunings") Jeff, Thompson should be playing your Custom Adamas, but with electronics. I'm serious. Mid depth bowl for comfort, 1 3/4" neck, great acoustic sound and great plugged in sound. Road worthy. Something like that would be perfect for him..... |
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Location: NJ | Nah.
It's not Thompson's "sound" . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | He seems like too much of a knitter type to go with "plastic" |
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Location: Tennessee | Let's send RT a picture of Mr. Big wearing his beret and playing the Adamas. Maybe an overwhelming feeling of extreme sympatico will overcome Mr. Thompson and he will give it a go. :cool: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I've thought about asking if he has ever played an Ovation...
He doesn't strike me as a "knitter"... I've seen him many, many times (14?) in the last 20 years and his stage gear remains remarkably consistent. Seems to me, he knows his craft well enough to know what works and how to get tone through technique not the latest gadgets (or guitars)....
Let's face it, he has toured continuously since the late 70's... he's a working musician, not a "Rock Star" and he uses good tools and uses them well...
(I really am way too much a RT geek... I can't even apologize for it) |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
He seems like too much of a knitter type to go with "plastic" What's a "knitter" type? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Jeff, Thompson should be playing your Custom Adamas, but with electronics. I'm serious. Mid depth bowl for comfort, 1 3/4" neck, great acoustic sound and great plugged in sound. Road worthy. Something like that would be perfect for him..... He ain't get'n it. I have boundries.
(...He needs 14 frets to body anyway.)
I just left an email asked if he has ever tried an Adamas... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
What's a "knitter" type? A prissy, "toasted-wheat overtones" type... with deep-pockets. |
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| Originally posted by Jeff W.:
... Seems to me, he knows his craft well enough to know what works and how to get tone through technique not the latest gadgets (or guitars)....
Exactly. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Moody, you know the tutt-butt type. They think wood is the greatest invention since.....well plastic. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
They think wood is the greatest invention since.....well plastic. heh-Heh-hoo-Hoo-hee-hee-hee-eeee... |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Moody, you know the tutt-butt type. They think wood is the greatest invention since.....well plastic. Yeah, I know 'em...... |
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Location: Tennessee | Paging DrDave, Paging DrDave ... |
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Richard Thompson on Taylor Guitars....