Grizzly Man

Tomryan, I haven't laughed out loud at an Audiogon post in quite some time. Thanks for the anecdote!

TVAD: I couldn't agree with you more re. your sentiments about hearing the tape. The easy thing to do would have been for Herzog to play it (and in this day and age where everything goes..it was reaffirming to see just once some restraint from an artist).

Just joined this forum. Hi all. TGYETI, "Richard Thompson is a gifted man" is understated but perhaps in that understatement we give him the greatest praise, although hyperbole is virtually impossible with someone of his talent. I've been singing his praises for thirty years now and I have to say that no other artist I know so consistently advances his art as a guitar player. The recordings of his live playing are a study of endless inventiveness and risk-taking. He must have more riffs than any three other players combined---I know that sounds absurd, but you have to have the experience of hearing him live over and over and over again; it's mind boggling.

Of course, he tends to be known for his songwriting, which I find amazingly eloquent; it's compact literature--the four minute novel. He's brilliant; that's all I can say. (But I still don't have Grizzly Man!)