Drowned Dog Black Night - French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson video free download
Obscure RT song hidden on first album by supergroup French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson titled "Life, Love, Larf and Loaf." Album featured efforts by John "Drumbo" French, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser and of course Richard Thompson. Thompson's absolutely heaviest song ever (which makes "Shoot Out the Lights" sound like a nursery rhyme) is a perverse apocalyptic vision of a storm. Video is made up of random violent storm footage intercut with stills from the 1951 Oscar nominated "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," based on the legend of the sea captain doomed to sail the seas forever unless he can find a woman to love him and go with him on his ghost ship. James Mason as the Dutchman, Ava Gardner as Pandora. The song strangely fits with the cataclysmic and mystic ending to the movie. I own no part of any of the recorded content here, and everything is posted purely for the sake of the art being shared.
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8 years ago
Mats Frånlund
@AJ Calhoun Thank you, my thoughts too. Listen how Richard bends, teases, fools this guitar. Aint words for it, almost. Could he have done Drowned Dog without his fellow musicians here? I don't think so. He was free enough.9 years ago
Sono Vox
Brilliant album, this the best track on it, RT's heaviest track (as AJ also says above), but in my book PROBABLY also the best RT track of all time. Thanks for uploading.9 years ago
David Jackson
And whatever happened to the famed FFKT Christmas album - maybe this year guys, please. :-)9 years ago
Chris Dansey
Exemplary soloing from all concerned.10 years ago
BucksStudent
The band did not hate The Beach Boys. Richard Thompson likes Petsounds.10 years ago
TheRumJumbie
Still have this and Surfin' on the 'Don't Read while you listen' compilation cd. Great stuff. And yes, it *does* trump The beach Boys!10 years ago
Ferret1900
That great Richard Thompson guitar sound...certainly a classic11 years ago
Peter A Allen
They loved it. Especially Hai Sai Oji San - named their resto Hai Sai - "welcome" in the Okinawan language11 years ago
Peter A Allen
I made some nice friends when I gave them a copy if this CD!11 years ago
AJ Calhoun
That's a confusion worth leaving alone. :)11 years ago
julie taron
My 6 year old thinks French, Frith Kaiser and Thompson ARE the Beach Boys!12 years ago
Mats Frånlund
A GREAT GREAT classic in my book! Unbelievable guitar, feelin.12 years ago
AJ Calhoun
It is one of the greatest albums of the past 25 years, in my oh-so-humble opinion. :) I hope to add Surfin' USA, simply because it expresses better than I can my hatred for the Beach Boys, while still rocking the hell out of it. Thanks for the comment!Related Videos
