Yes, yes, he is, submitter. No question about that.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there.

No sane Farker would argue.

Damnit subby now I have the urge to listen to Dire Straights all afternoon.
Wait - that's not bad - that's awesome.
Thanks subby!

/cues up Calling Elvis

You got your Knopfler in my Jones (new window)!

Heh. I watched the 'Heavy Fuel' video on youtube just this morning. And ever since someone posted Knopfler/Clapton doing 'Badge' yesterday morning, it's been in my head.

How does he get that tone? I want that.

I just caught this song today from my new favorite online station and just had to pass it along. Glad y'all like it. Sadly his tour next year doesn't come anywhere near me.

Great guitar player, one of the best ever, excellent songwriter, but I don't think "cool" is the right word...

Indeed.

Very ...Very cool
The mike looks just like a Telefunken U47

urger: cues up Calling Elvis

somebody call my name?

/cues up side 1 of Making Movies

AlwaysRightBoy: TelefunkenU47

god i miss that guy.

Dancin_In_Anson: I just caught this song today from my new favorite online station and just had to pass it along. Glad y'all like it. Sadly his tour next year doesn't come anywhere near me.

His tour does come near me--about 75 miles down the road, in a small theater. Unfortunately, the tickets sold out for his nearby show within about 15 minutes after they went on sale, even though they were about 100 bucks a pop. I wanted to go, but when I checked for tickets about an hour after they went on sale it was too late.

rotsky: How does he get that tone? I want that.

Funny story, paraphrased from memory from a concert program I bought at a Jethro Tull show and have long since lost...

Martin Barre, Tull guitarist, walks into Marshall's music shop in London, early 1984. One of the clerks, who Barre has been dealing with for years, tells him that Mark Knopfler was in the other day. Seems Knopfler wants to know what kind of kit Barre uses, because he wants to imitate the sound for some stuff he's working on. The clerk shows him a bunch of stuff Barre had recently bought, Knopfler buys the lot. Barre and the clerk chuckle over such a pre-eminent guitarist as Knopfler "copying" other peoples style.

Flash forward about three years. "Brothers In Arms" has been a top selling album for over 24 months, dominating the charts all over the world, and Tull releases "Crest Of A Knave". A reviewer in a major music publication (NME, possibly?) accuses Barre of 'ripping off' Knopfler's guitar sound. Barre and the clerk at Marshall's find this hilarious.

I'm not in any way knocking Knopfler, I think he's awesome. I just thought it was an amusing story.

Tresser: AlwaysRightBoy: TelefunkenU47

god i miss that guy.

amen brother,
If I could have one more day of Frank screaming about the Establishment

I would even bet he would of been made President.

god i miss that guy too

Cyberluddite: His tour does come near me--about 75 miles down the road, in a small theater

It looks as if that's the plan for the whole tour. Maybe you can get lucky and score a couple. You've got a few months to come up with them. A client maybe?

A few years ago, we scheduled a whole trip to England and Scotland around seeing Knopfler perform live at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert, and indeed he, are beyond cool.

What's so cool about him? His silly headband? As a guitarist, he's okay but he's no Steve Howe (heck, he's no Steve Hackett). And he totally stole Billy Gibbons' sound on "Money For Nothing", one of the most obnoxious songs of the 80s.

rotsky: How does he get that tone? I want that.

Marshall Amplification...accept no substitute.

/not really, there are plenty of cromulent substitutes out there...long as 12AX7s and 6L6's are involved.

Gotta make a run to the store tonight....

Dancin_In_Anson 2009-11-19 01:34:44 PM

Cyberluddite: His tour does come near me--about 75 miles down the road, in a small theater

It looks as if that's the plan for the whole tour. Maybe you can get lucky and score a couple. You've got a few months to come up with them. A client maybe?

I've been wanting to see him for years, with the same result: sold out before I scored tickets. But I got a pre-sale email notice from Ticketmaster about show next year. My cousin and I jumped on it and are finally going to see him next year!
Keep the faith! Maybe you can score from a scalper or ?

NewHairGrowth: What's so cool about him? His silly headband? As a guitarist, he's okay but he's no Steve Howe (heck, he's no Steve Hackett). And he totally stole Billy Gibbons' sound on "Money For Nothing", one of the most obnoxious songs of the 80s.

6/10

the_rev: Heh. I watched the 'Heavy Fuel' video on youtube just this morning. And ever since someone posted Knopfler/Clapton doing 'Badge' yesterday morning, it's been in my head.

holy crap, WHERE can I find this??

seal614: WHERE

HERE!

Dancin_In_Anson: seal614: WHERE

HERE!

Just watched for about the ninth time since yesterday. Gives me chills.

Last night I was loaded, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Dude's a legend. Fark needs a "LEGEND" tag.

Also check out the video of Clapton with Knopfler/Dire Straits performing Money For Nothing.

Link (new window)

There's cool then there's beyond cool. Mark Knopfler is beyond cool

He is, in fact, even cooler than that.

He should be publicly flogged for "Money for Nothing," "Walk of Life" and "So Far Away From Me." In fact, if someone could erase the entire year when "Love Over Gold" dominated the radio, that would be fine with me.

LonMead: There's cool then there's beyond cool. Mark Knopfler is beyond cool

He is, in fact, even cooler than that.

Approaching absolute fcucking zero.

Every Knopfler video/song/interview/whatever I see makes me want more and more to run up to him and stuff a handful of pebbles in his mouth and yell "when you can say 'The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly in the Plain' intelligibly with those in your mouth, THEN you can speak in public!"

Seriously. That man can mumble.

My theory: If you took an infinite number of Mark Knopflers, and infinite number of Bob Dylans, and an infinite number of Ozzy Ozbournes and put them in a room for an infinite length of time, they would eventually say a complete understandable sentence in English.

That sentence would probably be: "I like toast."

Cyberluddite: His tour does come near me--about 75 miles down the road, in a small theater. Unfortunately, the tickets sold out for his nearby show within about 15 minutes after they went on sale, even though they were about 100 bucks a pop. I wanted to go, but when I checked for tickets about an hour after they went on sale it was too late.

What I did when wanted to see the Krauss/Plant tour is engaged in a game of chicken. I browsed Craigslist about two hours before the show and asked how people wanted for the tickets. Prices started to drop closer we got to showtime. Until some ticket broker said if I could get to his office in 10 mins. before he went home I could pick up $100 tickets for 35 a pop. And yes, the show was great. And this was a cool story, right bro?

Oh, this is sublime:
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Why Worry (new window)

I'd walk from Boulder to Birmingham for Emmylou.

That was truely mediocre. Although I did get it right figuring most of the Fark music snobs who hate everything would like this. Further perpetuating my theory that most of Fark is pun-loving old geezers.

dire straits will be forever placed in my memory as a 'grown-up' sounding band among the lolteen stuff that permeated the radio airwaves in the 80s. and this is so even after the grotesque overexposure of the 'brothers in arms' material.

/did 'love over gold' ever dominate the airwaves? i dont remember that.
//maybe in europe?

AlwaysRightBoy: ...
The mike looks just like a Telefunken U47

/with leather?

wouldestous: /did 'love over gold' ever dominate the airwaves? i dont remember that.

I don't think anything on that album got substantial airplay. "Telegraph Road" was too long to get played on the radio (I had it on vinyl, and as a recall it took up all but a couple of minutes of Side 1), and I don't recall any of the other songs getting airplay. Maybe "Industrial Disease" was played a little bit, but not much.

Now I have the overwhelming urge to listen to that album again. I no longer have any of my old vinyl, and that's the only Dire Straits album I never got around to rebuying on CD. I'll have to buy or download it.

hempheh: Further perpetuating my theory that most of Fark is pun-loving old geezers.

I wish I had never senior post.

H31N0US: rotsky: How does he get that tone? I want that.
Marshall Amplification...accept no substitute.
/not really, there are plenty of cromulent substitutes out there...long as 12AX7s and 6L6's are involved.

Also his fingerstyle playing is a big part of the tone.

Cyberluddite: Now I have the overwhelming urge to listen to that album again. I no longer have any of my old vinyl, and that's the only Dire Straits album I never got around to rebuying on CD. I'll have to buy or download it.

I have that album. Telegraph Road and Private Investigations take up side 1. It's got a great sound to it on vinyl, but the broad dynamic range really brings out the clicks and pops.

The Get Lucky album is a little different that the last ones. More "British" I guess would be the best way to describe it.

if you like MK, check out 'So Far From the Clyde" about the death of a ship
or 'Boarder Riever' about hauling freight in an Albion (youtube video no longer avaliable)
or Rememberance Day (self explanatory)
Before Gas and TV which is a little more personal, albiet nostalgic. (I really like the toneful but simple guitar solo at the end)

Is this that country song about the dad telling the boy who's going to take the daughter out.. he'll be up all night cleaning his gun?

NewHairGrowth: What's so cool about him?

What I like is that he writes songs where you can actually lean something. (Check out his take on Sonny Liston, for example) In addition, the acualy music can carry the emotion to drive the point home. If you have the attention span of a typical tween, it is probably going to go right over your head and you are likely going go miss the point.

Plus I like the fact that he is pretty much devoid of the complete excess that plauges much of today's music. It is still about the music to him

waiting4godot: Is this that country song about the dad telling the boy who's going to take the daughter out.. he'll be up all night cleaning his gun?

Um, no. Lyrics are:

I keep a weather eye on the horizon, my back to the wall
I like to know who's coming through the door, that's all
It's the old army training kicking in
I'm not complaining, it's the world we live in

Blarney and Malarkey, they're a devious firm
They'll take you to the cleaners or let you burn
The help is breaking dishes in the kitchen - thanks a lot
We hired the worst dishwasher this place ever got
Come in below the radar, they want to spoil our fun
In the meantime I'm cleaning my gun

Remember it got so cold ice froze up the tank
We lit a fire beneath her just so she would crank
I keep a weather eye on the horizon, tap the stormglass now and then
I've got a case of Old Damnation for when you get here, my friend
[ Mark Knopfler Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
We can have ourselves a party before they come
In the meantime I'm cleaning my gun

/hopefully this helps

We had women and a mirror ball, we had a dee jay
Used to eat pretty much all that came his way
Ever since the goons came in and took apart the place
I keep a tyre iron in the corner, just in case

I gave you a magic bullet on a little chain
To keep you safe from the chilly winds and out of the rain
We're gonna might need bullets should we get stuck
Any which way, we're going to need a little luck
You can still get gas in Heaven, and a drink in Kingdom Come
In the meantime I'm cleaning my gun

^Misplaces shashy is misplaced/^

rotsky: hempheh: Further perpetuating my theory that most of Fark is pun-loving old geezers.

I wish I had never senior Señor post.

Sorry. Pet peeve.

Am I the only one who thinks 'Brothers In Arms' is one of the greatest songs ever?

There is nothing quite like a Knopfler solo outro.
Examples:

Telegraph Road
Tunnel of Love
Are We In Trouble Now?
Speedway at Nazareth
Piper to the End (from most recent album)

He's my favorite musician.

Boyd Schidt: Am I the only one who thinks 'Brothers In Arms' is one of the greatest songs ever?

Not by any means. I'm partial to Trawlerman's Song myself though.

Can't say I've ever seen Farkers unite behind a musician like this. Never thought he was that cool - Dire Straits had some good tunes, hadn't heard any of his solo stuff before this. I like this.