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RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON
- June 21, 1981 -
Folkmusic-Festival auf der Donauinsel, Vienna, Austria
** audience 1st gen. analog, MWM 0186 **
>> COMPLETE PERFORMANCE - ? UNCIRCULATED ? -
PLUS BONUS: June 20, 1981 TV-BROADCAST 3 SONG AUDIO << w/ samples
Preliminary remark:
Thanks for all your kind words on our two Donovan Vienna uploads
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=308109
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=308268
and the recently torrented Arlo Guthrie & Donovan:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=308444
Was hoping for some eyewitness comments, OR the complete MASTER uploads ;-)
Maybe one of our dear fellow DIMErs was there ?
About this concert:
From an old tape trade, and it came with the - here also included -
15 minutes of the TV-Broadcast, recorded during their first show
on the first day of this "Folkmusic-Festival auf der Donauinsel".
It was the second "Vienna Folk Festival" there, one of the
headliners: The DUBLINERS (their second Austrian concert)
http://www.dubliners.at/geschichte1.htm
No further story to tell, except it was another trade with "RG"
(famous for, inter alia, his Jimi Hendrix recordings...) and
his great group of nice and truly friendy maniacs...read more
about the "New Advanced Vienna Taper Section" here:
EIRE APPARENT - January 22, 1969 - Grosser Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=295084
When you're lost in the dark and you can't find a way
When the night is so long you don't remember the day
When you're too far gone to hear anybody call
When your last deal left you with nothing at all
You're going to need somebody, you're going to need somebody
You're going to need the one who was standing and waiting for you
Richard Thompson - Sunnyvista (1979)
The Vienna concerts during the "Folkmusic-Festival auf der Donauinsel"
showed relaxed musicians with lots of fun playing their music - not
comparable to the high tension shows with the sometimes pissed couple
Linda and Richard touring through the United States, one year later -
their final tour before they separated...
They played a lot of great songs, back then - Linda introduced the
"TWO Lonely Hearts", and Richard the 'Scottisch Traditional Reggae'
called "The Wrong Heartbeat". The old Scottish tune about the attack
at the Heights of "Dargai", morphing slowly into the American "Steel
Guitar Rag" is a stunning piece of Richard's incredible guitar skills,
and the encore song "For Shame Of Doing Wrong" has here an extented
instumental part and runs close to eight minutes...
Sadly the sound quality does the high musical quality not the justice as
it SHOULD DO (IMHO...lol), but it's quite listenable - check the samples...
Highlight are the three songs added from an Austrian TV-show (maybe
someone can confirm the broadcast...). I got them dated June 20, 1981,
and either they are completely different to the ones played one day later
(a ~2 minutes shorter "For Shame Of Doing Wrong") or new on the setlist.
FOR THE FIRST TIME OUT OF THE ARCHIVE,
COMPLETELY UNTRADED & UNALTERED - PLEASE ENJOY!
RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON (the artists)
Folkmusic-Festival auf der Donauinsel (the motto & the venue...open air...)
Vienna (the city)
Austria (the country)
June 20, 1981 (the recording date of the TV-broadcast)
June 21, 1981 (the recording date of the Audience-recording)
Vienna (German: Wien; Austro-Bavarian: Wean) is the capital of the Republic
of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary
city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan
area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in
Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th
largest city by population in the European Union. Vienna is host to many major
international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC. Vienna lies in
the east of Austria and is close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
http://www.wien-vienna.com/donauinsel.php
as far as we know NONE of this torrent was used commercially...
the complete recording we've got, back then:
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We would like to get some real expert's help for the missing
two instrumental tracks #03. and #14. (Banish Misfortune ?)
all songs by Richard Thompson unless otherwise specified.
A: AUDIENCE - June 21, 1981 (54:30.50)
01. intro 0:48.29
02. Back Street Slide 5:32.18
03. instrumental #1 3:39.72
04. Lonely Hearts 5:42.59
05. Streets Of Paradise 4:42.08
06. The Wrong Heartbeat 3:42.04
07. You're Going To Need Somebody 3:52.14
08. band introduction 1:25.16
09. Just The Motion 6:53.22
10. Dargai $ 3:05.27
11. -> Steel Guitar Rag § 3:51.44
12. Modern Woman % 3:24.33
encore: +
13. For Shame Of Doing Wrong 7:51.04
B: TV-BROADCAST - June 20, 1981 (14:43.58)
14. instrumental #2 (Banish Misfortune ?) 3:06.49
15. For Shame Of Doing Wrong 6:17.12
16. Down Where The Drunkards Roll 5:04.05
17. spoken TV-outro by Richard (?) 0:15.67
total running time: 69:14.33 minutes
the notes:
$ -> An attack on Dargai Heights in the Tirah campaign resulted in the award of four
Victoria Crosses. The Heights were being held by Afridi tribesmen but were successfully
stormed by the Gordon Highlanders and the Gurkhas on the 20th October 1897. Piper George
Findlater and Private Edward Lawson of the Gordons, Henry Singleton Pennell of the
Derbyshire Regiment and Samuel Vickery of the The Dorsetshire Regiment were the medal
recipients. The action was commemorated in verse by William McGonagall, the pipe march
The Heights of Dargai by J. Wallace and the fiddle tune Dargai by James Scott Skinner.
Richard Thompson notably arranged and recorded a version of the Skinner tune for guitar
on the third album by the British duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard and singer
Linda Thompson "Pour Down Like Silver", recorded summer of 1975, released November 1975.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dargai
§ -> read more about the song and the composer here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Guitar_Rag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_McAuliffe
http://clanmcauliffe.com/famous/leon.html
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MC004.html
% -> unreleased song, written in 1980, and finally appeared for the first
time ~26 years later on Richard Thompson's "RT" Disc 5 - Real Rarities...
http://www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=571
+ -> applause cutted, crossfaded during the matering - NO MUSIC was harmed or lost
(?) -> i doubt the "Richard"...for me it's more Donovan - BUT FUNNY !...need the video ;-)
the musicians:
Richard Thompson - vocals, guitars, mandolin, banjo, keyboards
Linda Thompson - vocals
Simon Nicol - guitars
Pete Zorn - bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums & percussion
lineage:
01. including 13. -> recorded by RG (or one of his friends), audience to analog tape
14. including 17. -> recorded by RG (or one of his friends), TV-Broadcast to analog tape
the recording:
01. including 13.
unknown microphone > unknown portable Cassette-Recorder (without any NoiseReduction) > unknown cassette type
14. including 17.
TV-Broadcast (SBD & AUD matrix) > unknown portable Cassette-Recorder (without any NoiseReduction) > unknown cassette type
the snail mail trade (early 1980ies...):
Cassette Master(s) > Unknown Cassette Deck Transfer (NO HIGH SPEED DUBBING, NO DOLBY) > 1st gen. Cassette
(TDK SA 90, 1-7/8ips Super Avilyn, High Bias (CrO2) Type II, 135 meter tape)
the transfer:
My 1st. gen. tape > > Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1 (manual playback head azimuth aligned ! No NoiseReduction) >
> Analog Cable (coax) > Behringer SRC-2496 Ultramatch Pro
(Ultra-high-resolution 24-Bit/96 kHz A/D & D/A and Sample Rate Converter & Dropouts-/Jitter Remover) >
> converted to 16 bit, SP 44,1 kHz > > Oehlbach Hyper Profi Opto Set (optical fibre, TOS-Link) >
> Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI - Dolby Digital Live Soundcard with C-Media CMI8768 Soundprocessor Chip, digital S/P-DIF in >
> Motherboard with AMD Multicore Processor, Serial ATA Interface > CD Wave (recording) >
> Harddisc Western Digital with Thermaltake HD Cooler (EVER had a HardDisc burnout ??) >
> lonetaper's secret box of miracles # > CD Wave (tracking) > Traders Little Helper (SB aligned/level 6) > FLAC > DIME
# RAW FILES - so NO additional NoiseReduction or EQ'ing was used here,
and none of those compressors, Sonic Maximizers or other psychoacoustic
processors - just some of the instrumental plug-ins reduced , balanced
the stereo channels (just a touch) and finally normalized. The only
further addition to the RAW files was a short fade-in and, at the end, a
fade-out - in the audience applause, so truly NO MUSIC was harmed or lost.
this upload here comes directly from the "Men With Microphones" archives.
if you want to know more about, check the old uploads...lotta stuff to read !
And if there's some interest, maybe there is MORE TO COME...
it just depends on YOUR demeanor, and lotta useful comments ;-)
Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of 2003's Top 20 Guitarists of all-time and the recent
recipient of both an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting and the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement
Award, the iconic British folk rock legend is one of the world's most critically acclaimed and
prolific songwriters. His work is admired and recorded by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, David
Byrne and Elvis Costello. From his teenage years as a founding member of the 1960's pioneering
group Fairport Convention to duo work with his then-wife, Linda Thompson, and over 20 years as
a solo artist, to scoring Werner Hertzog's 2005 documentary 'Grizzly Man', Richard Thompson's
astounding body of work includes over 40 albums of lyrical wit anchored by such a singular
acoustic and electric guitar delivery that Newsweek recently announced, 'like all genuine art,
it satisfies completely.'
http://www.myspace.com/richardthompsonrt#ixzz0r0UVm23Q
Richard and Linda Thompson (married: 1973 to 1982)
The first Richard and Linda Thompson album, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, was recorded
in May 1973 in short time and on a small budget. Largely because of the petrol shortage in Britain
and its impact on the availability of vinyl for records, Bright Lights was held back by Island Records
for nearly a year before being released in April 1974. The album was well received by the critics,
though sales were less than stellar.
Thompson’s lyrics expressed a rather dismal world view, and it has been suggested that the bleak
subject matter of his songs helped to keep his recordings off the hit parade. A more likely explanation
was given by ex-Island A&R man Richard Williams in the BBC TV documentary Solitary Life — Thompson
was just not interested in fame and its trappings.
The Thompsons recorded two more albums - Hokey Pokey and Pour Down Like Silver, both released in
1975 - before Richard Thompson decided to leave the music business. The couple moved to a Sufi
community in East Anglia.
It was not apparent from their records at first, but the Thompsons had embraced an esoteric Sufi
strand of Islam in early 1974. I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight was recorded before this
conversion, but released sometime afterwards. The songs for the second Richard and Linda album,
Hokey Pokey, were similarly written some time ahead of the album's recording and eventual release.
It was Pour Down Like Silver, with its cover photo of a turbaned Richard Thompson gazing out at
the world, that tipped the public off to the Thompsons' growing preoccupation with their faith.
The trilogy of albums released either side of his sojourn in the commune was heavily influenced by
Thompson's beliefs and by Sufi scripture, but in the long run his religious beliefs (he remains a
committed Muslim) have not influenced his work in an obvious manner. The outlook expressed in his
songs, his musical style, the subjects addressed by his lyrics have not shown any fundamental change.
Thompson started to re-engage with the world of professional music in 1977. He guested on an album
by Sandy Denny, and had undertaken a short tour and started recording with a group of musicians who
were also Sufis. Thompson asked Joe Boyd to produce these sessions, and two days were spent on the
initial recordings. Boyd recalls that the sessions were not a success: "It was really, I felt, very
poor. I didn't have much confidence in the musicians that he was working with. The atmosphere was
very strange and it just didn't seem to work."
At about this time the Thompsons and their family moved out of the commune and back to their old home
in Hampstead. Boyd had already invited Richard Thompson to play on Julie Covington’s debut album. With
spare studio time and the American session musicians hired to work on the Covington album available,
the Thompsons went back into the studio to record under their own name for the first time in three years.
The resulting album, First Light, was warmly received by the critics but did not sell particularly well.
Neither did its follow up, 1979's harder-edged and more cynical Sunnyvista. Chrysalis Records did not
take up their option to renew the contract, and the Thompsons found themselves without a contract, but
not without admirers.
Gerry Rafferty had booked the Thompsons as the support act for his 1980 tour, and had also used Richard
as a session player on his Night Owl album. Rafferty offered to finance the recording of a new Richard
and Linda Thompson album which he would then use to secure a contract for the Thompsons. Richard Thompson
fell out with Rafferty during this project and was not happy with the finished product. Nevertheless
Rafferty kept his side of the bargain and presented the album to several record companies - none of which expressed interest in signing the Thompsons. Rafferty did not recover his investment.
About a year later Joe Boyd signed the Thompsons to his small Hannibal label and a new album was recorded.
Shoot Out the Lights included new recordings of many of the songs recorded in 1980. Linda Thompson was
pregnant at the time of the recording, and so the album’s release was delayed until they could tour behind
the album. Breathing problems arising from her pregnancy also meant that Linda was not able to sing the
lead part on some of these songs as she had done on demo tapes and the Rafferty-produced recordings.
As an interim measure, Richard Thompson decided to arrange for a low-key tour of the U.S. This tour was
set up by Nancy Covey who had been in the UK in 1981 trying to sign Thompson to play at the famous
McCabe’s guitar shop in Santa Monica. During this tour Thompson and Covey grew closer to each other,
and in December 1981 Richard and Linda Thompson separated.
On its release in 1982, Shoot Out the Lights was lauded
by critics and sold quite well — especially in the U.S.
The Thompsons, now a couple for professional purposes only, toured the U.S. to support the album and then
went their separate ways. Both the album and their live shows were well received by the American media,
and Shoot Out the Lights effectively relaunched their career — just as their marriage was falling apart.
The performances were very strong, but the tension between Richard and Linda was all too obvious on stage.
On occasion she would hit him during the performance or trip him up as the band was walking onstage.
After this stormy tour of the U.S., the Thompsons separated professionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(musician)
PLEASE support the artist - and buy all his available stuff...
Check out his websites on the net - THERE'S PLENTY TO FIND !
http://www.richardthompson-music.com/
http://www.myspace.com/richardthompsonrt
http://www.myspace.com/poppyredrt
http://www.rtlist.net/
http://www.fairportconvention.com/
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~sfy/RT/
http://www.morethings.com/music/richard_thompson/photo_gallery_01.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)
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open traded and carefully stored over nearly 3 decades by my dad Leo (all thanks go to him...),
transferred & finally uploaded by pythonmonty on Dime, June 16, 2010. This is "MWM 00186"
please consign this info-sheet with the shared music - thanks !