Five Live Box, Volume Three
Five More Unreleased Thompson Gigs
Another five live shows from Richard Thompson. All sound fantastic, and this one is the best of the lot. Included here is Richard’s entire 1992 performance at St. Anne’s Church. As fans know, the St. Anne’s show was RT’s joint appearance with Talking Heads’ David Byrne, and these files sound better than those half-Thompson/half-Byrne, abbreviated set downloads you often see. This is Thompson’s full solo set, along with the encore tunes performed together with Byrne. Volume Three also offers two RT Band shows, one from 1986, the next from 21 years later. In the Paradiso radio broadcast from 2007, the Thompson Band’s devastatingly direct anti-war indictment, “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me” (as in Baghdad’s gonna kill me), rockets along like an ominous Highway 61 Revisited outtake. The 1990 Veteran’s Memorial Hall solo gigs are fantastic, with both early and late shows (and completely different set lists). We’ve got more RT in the archives, including the refurbished and re-upped Gathered Tracks, Volumes 1-8. Don’t forget boxes One & Two.
THE RICHARD THOMPSON BAND
The Paradise, Boston, MA – November 11, 1986
A Man In Need (3:33)
Valerie (3:45)
When The Spell Is Broken (7:54)
You Don’t Say (4:53)
Like A Man (5:38)
Wall Of Death (3:50)
Long Dead Love (9:15)
Al Bowlly’s In Heaven (6:35)
The White Friars Hornpipe/Shreds And Patches (5:11)
Fire In The Engine Room (4:22)
Home Is Where The Heart Is (4:46)
Shoot Out The Lights (6:53)
Tear Stained Letter (6:57)
The End Of The Rainbow (4:36)
A Bone Through Her Nose (7:43)
Jennie (6:40)
The Angels Took My Racehorse Away (9:05)
Warm Love Gone Cold (8:34)
She Twists The Knife Again (4:36)
Devonside (4:25)
Mind Your Own Business (3:30)
Open Fire (8:19)
Everything Looks Black Against The Snow (5:39)
Missie How You Let Me Down (4:18)
Valerie (3:31)
Nearly In Love (5:37)
Bird Town (4:27)
RICHARD THOMPSON
Veteran’s Memorial Hall, Staten Island, NY – June 30, 1990
Early Show
I Misunderstood (5:36)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (5:27)
How Will I Ever Be Simple Again (4:22)
Two Left Feet (5:12)
Why Must I Plead (4:33)
Now That I Am Dead (6:04)
Jerusalem On The Jukebox (4:21)
She Moves Through The Fair (5:46)
Can’t Win (6:26)
Pharaoh (5:18)
The Days Of Our Lives (4:36)
Just The Motion (3:37)
Time To Ring Some Changes (4:15)
Valerie (4:31)
Al Bowlly’s in Heaven (5:08)
Late Show
When The Spell Is Broken (7:14)
Waltzing’s For Dreamers (4:37)
How Many Times (4:32)
I Feel So Good (3:59)
Turning Of The Tide (3:27)
Down Where The Drunkards Roll (5:27)
Intro To Psycho Street (1:54)
Psycho Street (5:01)
Rockin’ In Rhythm (3:37)
Devonside (3:44)
Wall Of Death (3:38)
Shoot Out The Lights (5:09)
High School Confidential (3:35)
Willy O’ Winsbury (5:49)
The Killing Jar (5:26)
Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me (4:09)
Genesis Hall (4:00)
Woman Or A Man (2:30)
RICHARD THOMPSON
St. Anne’s Church, Brooklyn, NY – March 24, 1992
I Ride In Your Slipstream (5:37)
I Misunderstood (6:40)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (4:59)
Shoot Out The Lights (5:30)
I Feel So Good (3:08)
King Of Bohemia (4:31)
Now That I Am Dead (4:52)
Pharaoh (4:47)
She Twists The Knife Again (4:08)
She Moves Through The Fair (4:02)
Turning Of The Tide (4:02)
Shake, Rattle & Roll (3:54)
Who Were You Thinking Of/96 Tears (5:37) (with David Byrne)
Dirty Old Town (3:30) (with David Byrne)
Psycho Killer (4:36) (with David Byrne)
RICHARD THOMPSON
Fetzer Vineyards, Hopland, CA – June 27, 1997
Intro (1:28)
Turning Of The Tide (3:09)
Bathsheba Smiles (4:53)
From Galway To Graceland (4:03)
I Feel So Good (4:07)
The Ghost Of You Walks (4:49)
Hamlet (Dog Eat Dog In Denmark) (5:33)
Drifting Through The Days (3:43)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (6:48)
Pharaoh (6:08)
Don’t Sit On My Jimmy Shands (5:10)
Hide It Away (4:33)
Wall Of Death (3:22)
Razor Dance (3:06)
Beeswing (5:51)
I Misunderstood (4:15)
Walking On A Wire (4:55)
Two Left Feet (6:13)
Waltzing’s For Dreamers (3:43)
Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me (8:18)
THE RICHARD THOMPSON BAND
Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands – October 9, 2007
Introduction (0:53)
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me (5:34)
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (4:02)
Al Bowlly’s In Heaven (7:08)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (5:46)
Who Knows Where The Time Goes (5:00)
One Door Opens (4:14)
I’ll Never Give It Up (3:51)
Mingulay Boat Song (4:35)
A Man In Need (3:33)
A Bone Through Her Nose (5:42)
Wall Of Death (3:48)
Read About Love (4:25)
Sunset Song (5:41)
Radio Announcer (0:28)
Mr. Stupid (2:46)
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As a committed RT fan, I’m extremely grateful – these posts are the best
Dig in.
Hi – thanks for all the Richard Thompson material. Much appreciated! The links to the first part of both The Paradise Boston and the Veterans Memorial Hall are broken – both FServe and DP. Both second parts have a working link. Thanks.
Re-upped, thanks.
Thanks a lot for fixing the links. Now downloaded successfully!
Cool… I’m working on the other boxes, so check back. Thanks.
Hi Willard. Can’t get disc 1 of the Paradise 1986 set to open/extract successfully, on either Windows or Mac OSX, except for tracks 10 to 14 in Windows. Any thoughts?
Thanks for all the other Thompson tho – slowly working my way thru it. What a treat.
Hi R. Normally I would say to upgrade whatever version of unzipping software you’re using. That almost always fixes what you’re describing. But, since you get other stuff here without a problem, it makes me think you just got a bad download. Did you download it only once? If so, try it a second time and see, because it opens up fine on my end. If it doesn’t work on the second try, I’ll replace it. Thanks.
My bad. Downloaded again, and it works, so its just one of those things – normally bad / incomplete zips just won’t open, but this one did partially, so file it under F Nose.
Again, thanks for all the RT. Awesome stuff – I listened thru some of the electric shows today (I’m an electric RT fanboy, not so much the acoustic – acoustic reminds me too much of Guitariista and similar high school musical ensembles, not that it should, but it does).
r
Cool. Glad it was just a fluke. Thanks for the follow up.
Another FYI – hope you can fix. Five Live Box, Volume Three, Fetzer Vineyards, Hopland, CA – June 27, 1997 disk 2 – DepositFiles – it goes past the free download, then does countdown, then gets this message “This file does not exist, the access to the following file is limited or it has been removed due to infringement of copyright.”. Please let me know what to do.
Tanx
FlashG
Fuck.
Thanks for the alert. I’ve been assuming all the Deposit File were fine if the download options came up when the window was opened. I guess that’s not the case. Anytime you see that blank page counter, don’t even bother waiting. It’s means it’s gone. Just drop me a note. Give me until tomorrow on this one. Now I’m bummed because I wonder how many others are like that. Thanks.
Yeah glad to help. I really appreciate the Balacing Act posts. A vastly underrated band – I saw them twice I think, once at the Cats Cradle. Is there a copy of just the audio for the Reunion show? Let me know. Tanx again for all the help.
FlashG
No, no audio, sorry. But, I just re-upped BA’s Curtains just 2 minutes ago.
Fetzer Disc 2 is back up. Let me know of anything you need. Thanks.
I already have Curtains, but tanx anyway. I did get The Psychodots, Raisins and the Live Bears (the last one I needed), They too are a vastly underrated band. I got introduced to The Balancing Act and The Bears (and many other bands) when I was a music reviewer/critic for the local paper during the mid 80′s, especially because I wrote about the smaller more obscure bands and courted the smaller record companies as well as the big ones. I have been collecting music for almost 50 years and still love it. This site must be a labor of love for you, since you do such an incredible job. I really appreciate your efforts.
Later
FlashG
I stumbled on both bands the exact same way, and have been at it about 45 years. Thanks for the kind words.
We must be close in age, cause I started really collecting when I was 10; I’ll be 59 soon. I can see it in some the things you post. Age of the Beatles. Yeah!
Hi Willard,
Many thanks for all this great souding RT – your work is appreciated.
Thanks for commenting.