You know what makes this song so f*cking brilliant “ like the waves coming to the shore “ - makes the guitar sound like waves crashing and receding on the beach “ hangs it on the wall “ - makes the guitar sound like a hammer hammering a nail in the wall. Just insane he’s making sound effects mid song that’s also part OF the song. Masterpiece
U sound very not intellectual. Chords and notes are already there, no one is gonna come with new ones. What matters is what u make out of them. Same chords or not, the music he makes is so awesome and unique. Instead of crying in the comments, go make better stuff and post it :)
@@das250250 he is just jealous that he can't make something better out of notes and chords. That's why he is crying in comment section. 😉 You are right MK is all over this tune.
Harry R Phillips, Leeds sculptor - He couldn't be in the gallery. This song tells the story about a sculptor from Leeds called Harry R Phillips. The lyrics say how he was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds. While the dealers they get together, and they decide who gets the breaks, and who's going to be in the gallery. Mark was a junior reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in the late 60's. One of his assignments was to interview a musician from Leeds called Steve Phillips, his father was the sculptor Harry Phillips. Mark and Steve played the Leeds pub circuit as a duo called The Duolian String Pickers. Mark bought the famous National Resonator guitar from Steve that featured on the Brothers in arms album cover. The idea for the song came about when Mark visited an art gallery in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He found the exhibits to be laughable and a con, subsidised by the public purse for "all the phonies and all of the fakes" while genuine talented artists like Harry R Phillips were Ignored. The lyrics tell of Jesus on the cross, which is a sculpture Harry Philips made. It can be seen above the altar in St. George's church, Letchworth Garden City. The fallen angel is the other sculpture that can be seen on the tower of St Michael's church in Lewes. I've no idea what the skating ballerina was though :-)
Always one of my fav songs for the guitar work. Now I know more about the lyrics. Thank you! He does more bio songs and first person POV of a person or character songs than anyone I can think of. Mason/Dixon, Elvis, Sonny Liston, Basil and Beryl just off the top of my head besides this. Such a unique lyric writer.
Two backbones fused together: MK and PW gave the Dire Straits the real impetus for it's well deserved glory. My most favourite drummer and guitarist together made music richer than anything in this world!
when people debate who was the best guitarist of all time gotta be Knopfler. Look at his era he was a freak mixing blues and rock like never before. a diamond
An often overlooked super-talent on guitar, much like Richard Thompson. But the world (or at least men-children jacked up on testosterone) hails the senseless, showy shredders without a tenth the musicality of a Knopfler or Thompson. It's a deplorable state of affairs.
I love how raw this was, and yet still sounded pretty close to the album version...testament to the band's musical ability and structural purism. Add that to Knopfler's song writing ability, and you know the trendy boys in London and Leeds couldn't ignore them.
Pricklyhedgehog72 How right you are - songwriting and arranging are as strong as his playing, which is world class. As you've pointed out, his side-men are amazing also.
This is the Dire straits I identify with, not so much the satin jacket wearing stadium act. This is a hungry rock band f**kin' bringin' it. I love this show so much.
yea me too. they were the band they sung about in sultans of swing. the first album with that washed out cover and mark in a dirty vest killing it. Great band. I even liked the later stuff but this was the best
Agree. I saw them on the “Every Street” stadium tour and Mark seemed to cram a whirl of rapid notes into every beat as to be “entertainment” rather than music. I love the rawness of the early stuff….although side 1 of Making Movies was incredible.
@@Captain_Rhodes The first three albums do it for me. The ones that came later were great but they'd moved on to a place I wasn't interested in following. Much in the way of Elton John and James Taylor with their first albums. People change, and musicians are people.
@@deanallen927 My personal favourite is the debut but my second is actually Love over Gold which is very different. Very cinematic and not particularly commercial but I liked that. The only one I disliked was the last one.
@@Captain_Rhodes Pick Withers quit after that. He didn't like it getting over-sized and all "stadium rock", opting not to comment on personality issues.. I just watched a great interview with him.
Pick Withers is amazing. It's no coincidence that as soon as he left, they lost the swing and groove that was present in every single one of their songs, in favor or constant busy fills and loud dynamics. Pick's playing style married Mark's in a perfect way.
What a great picking and singing performance of one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes! Love the lyrics about the father of one of Marks friends who was an artist that passed away in 1976. "Harry made a bareback rider, proud and free, upon a horse." Harry Phillips dies in obscurity. "Then you get an artist, says he doesn't want to paint at all. So he takes an empty canvass, sticks it on the wall, WOW!" "Birds of a feather, know the phonies and know the fakes. While the dealers, they get together and THEY decide who gets the breaks and who's gonna be, IN THE GALLERY!" Great lyrics. Crazy but sadly it's true. Think I'll go nail a banana on the wall!
superb musicians, Pick Withers on drums is jazzy and perfect, brother David subtle and rhythmic, bass man John Isely steady and serious, and Mark a gift of writer, guitarist and balance.
I remember the first time I heard In the Gallery... in my car in the Fall of 1979. I knew it was a classic then...... and here we are, 40 years later and it is still in a class all by itself. Who else can play guitar like that???
See him in young time enjoying to play his guitar makes me drop some tears and become emotional, BEAUTIFUL, i enjoy dIRE sTRAITS every day, the OST of my life.
Dire Straits first album/cassette takes me back to the good ole days of riding around in my '74 Monte Carlo and wearing that cassette out. How in the world "In The Gallery" wasn't a smash hit is beyond me.
What a sensational performance, the energy is just jumping out of the screen. Always loved this track, great story, love-love-love these guys. Can't imagine life without the first Dire Straits album.
I also love how the audience is fully with them. I know crowds still cheer and clap and so on, but we seem a distracted people nowadays in comparison with all our labeled clothing and gadgets.
A performance like this shows why Rolling Stone is smoking something when they rate MK as the #27 greatest guitarist. The whole series from Rockpalast is killer. Move over Jimi , MK is here.
This is one of my favourite line-ups for Dire Straits - the original band, so together, so alive. Brilliant song. Mark Knopflers guitar playing and singing interweaving together - he sings with his guitar. I LOVE THIS! Inspirational.
And the audience applauded... While I jumped everywhere.... dancing the stars away!! And I used this song to teach my students.... Really a great work of art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be well!!! Horseflowernl
Kendall Rich I'll have to look up Withers' discography. I love his performance on this song and its my favorite on the album. I just like hows his playing compliments the guitars. Like the guitars are great and everything but lets not forget about the great drum licks.
These guys went against the grain as Punk rock was the flavour at the time and Dire Straits shone through like a bright light!!! As we all know Punk didnt last and Dire Straits came through unscathed!!! Legends!!!
mark's playing is amazing but what most surprised me about this performance is how quickly his hand can move up and down the fingerboard and so accurately! shoutout david knopfler and the other guitarist tho
No other way to put this except this is a better performance than anything else I've ever seen. I came onto this video randomly and my mind went Manhattan Project.
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