Another great version of '1952 Vincent Black Lightning' live @ The Church of St. Anne & The Holy Trinity in Brooklyn NY back in 1992. Again, an old audience VHS recording with a very good sound..
@@captainphasma598 my view is it's a much loved song and the covers are valid and often decent if not necessarily as good as Richards original of course! 👍
I' m a huge fan since Fairport Convention. Seen him multiple times. He played at the Houston some type of festival and he started off with "Says to James to Red Molly.... He stopped and chuckled and started over. One of my favorites.
@@johnterencejr I had just moved to NYC, and me and my roommate bought tix to see David Byrne play an acoustic show at St. Ann's Church (a beautiful old venue) in Brooklyn. A guy named Richard Thompson was opening. I sort of vaguely knew who he was before the show, but from the minute he took the stage, I was absolutely transfixed. What he was doing with just his guitar was incredible. "Vincent Black Lightning" was a brand new song at the time and it just blew everyone out of their seats. "She Moved Through the Fair" was another incredible highlight but the whole show was just top notch. My roommate a cassette bootleg of it that we used to listen to all the time. I became lifelong fan of RT from that night forward. So amazing that this is online here.
Having heard him do it so many times since - most recently just last Saturday at Symphony Space - it’s neat to be able to hark back to when I saw him perform it in Brooklyn just a year after its debut on “Rumor & Sigh.” Hard to believe this show at St. Anne's was 28 years ago! I hope that wasn’t me shouting “Dymaxion” from the audience during his Buckminster Fuller bit!
Not to brag but in 2013 I played this in his style at an open-mic show. After practicing it for 2 months, I hit it very close on guitar and vocal, but, hay not this well and still I got a standing ovation. The last thing they where expecting was the "52 Vincent" by Richard Thompson. Myself born in 1952, most impressive song in this style ever....."Grateful Ted" of Reno.
I’m fully aware I’m being a penis on this one, but… what accent is he going for? 😆 I LOVE this song, but is it an Irish lad riding around Surrey? The chaos of the more recent Sean Rowe version is entirely up my street so I highly encourage folk to check that out too.
