The greatest guitarist you've never heard of, melting faces in a Canadian dive bar.
Richard Thompson (Ex-Fairport Convention guitarist) performs at Barrymore's in Ottawa, Canada. Songs Include: Fire in the Engine Room/She Twists the Knife/Shoot Out the Lights/You Don't Say/Wall of Death/Little Blue Number/When the Spell Is Broken/Did She Jump or Was She Pushed/Wrong Heartbeat/Summer Rain/For Shame of Doing Wrong/Bright Lights Tonight/Nearly in Love/Love in A Faithless Country/Ain't Gonna Drag My Feet No More/Tear-Stained Letter/Living with a Skull and Cross Bone/Withered and Died.
Acting
Thompson's deadpan between-song banter is drier than desert sand.
Sound
Those guitar tones—clean, vicious, impossibly precise.
Production
No-frills 1985 broadcast capture, all the better for it.
Director
Larry Jordan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1985 Canadian TV broadcast circulated as bootleg VHS for decades before official release—fans traded it like contraband.
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