+David Knopfler Very nice song. I have a question for you. Would you ever (not for the money but for the music) consider playing with Pick, John and Mark again? And have the 4 of you ever been in a studio together since 1980? (Btw in sultans of swing the rhythm guitar is my favourite part of the song and i play guitar and bass myself). Thanks a lot Mr Knopfler!!! Happy new year!
+David Knopfler Really like this song. Love your guitar playing on it. FWIW, I loved everything Dire Straits did up to and including Making Movies. After that (i.e. after you left), Dire Straits became massive commercially but not better musically. Hope you and Mark are back to being best mates. Forgive and forget, no?
This was a wonderful song. I do wish that interviewers would leave the old dIRE sTRAITS story alone. We all know what happened and it was a long time ago. Love your work David.
Yeah, sibling rivalry or clash of egos I suppose. I always loved both of them. I bought all his albums (records) with my hard earned money back in the day. I had huge admiration for both of their talents and creativity.
You are FANTASTIC David. What a great song and performance! I always wondered, what happened to that good looking guitar player in Dire Straits and i had no idea you were Marks brother.
Typical older-younger bro rivalry... Older had more ambition and possibly talent, and the younger has better looks and better hearline... Perhaps Mark just couldn't handle that kind of competition :-)
+ReCarrie Mesmerized is exactly the right word. And, no, Mark is/was not a handsome man. But he is/was and will always be absolutely (mesmerizingly) gorgeous. He transcends handsome. When he's in the frame you can't take your eyes off him.
+ReCarrie David seems to think that Mark hijacked the band out from under him. Mark could have walked, but would have had to build a new band from scratch. I think the other band members recognized that Mark had the special, and David did not. I'm speaking of the lyrics in particular. I write fiction, and I write verse, and I know outstanding work when I see/hear it. Mark is a master with words. And with editing, what to leave in, what to leave out, as Bob Seger said. That's it, in a nutshell, the make or break. No bullshit from him, ever. Well, a blanket statement like that is never a wise thing to do. I cheat with my own verse sometimes. Sometimes you give up on a troublesome thought and surrender to the easy. I get that, believe me. I'm in the middle of one of those weeks-long wrestling matches with a few dozen words right now.
John and Mark were intimate friends and they knew where they re taking the band obviously they didn't the other two talented band mates David and pick It was history now they're old and relaxed and no-one wants to tackle the subject anymore
Hey! At least he’s got most of his hair!!! He’s recently stated that Mark was the extrovert and he was the introvert of the family and he’s come to appreciate that as time’s gone by.
This is a standard guitar sequence commonly played in many folk-blues type songs using a drop D through a D - D/C - D/B walk down using a basic Travis picking style...BoB Dylan would not have been the originator of this popular drop D run
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