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| Richard Thompson
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it? I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that. And then you do. I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers. Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world. The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. |
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