hey!! these guys rock.. im 30 years old and im from norway, but my parents grew up im the north of norway, so that means a lot of time driving a car.. every summer.. it took 3 days up to mu grandparants... dire straits made my dad have a good time all the way up, and theyre great listening to whwn youre driving... my father is a great guy and i love him.
OMG!!! Mark & Nils- what a fenominal gathering! - 2 of my all time favorites together on one stage playing a great song too! Could watch & listen to Nils anytime! Actually- I saw Nils the last time in 2008 in Baltimore Rams Head Live- Just an incredible person to see live and a great guy. Since I'm from Maryland where Nils is from , he's that much more special to me.
This is amazing. I love both top guitarists but never imagined that they had played together in the Dire Straits band so many years ago. Just fantastic!!!!
Nils was playing in Bruce's E Street band at Wembley week before Live Aid, I was at the Bruce concert on 4th July Independance Day, what a gig, Nils was the best. Dire Starits were at Empire Pool and we could hear them from inside the Stadium. Didn't know Nils went over and played with them, wish I'd seen that!!.
I believe Nils played across the road at Wembley before he played on this !! I had the show on VHS somewhere, it's obviously worn out now, but this track is still playable ! Awesome Nils !!
Not sure why any one is making a comparison of Nils and Mark .They are both distinctive in their styles . Superb guitarists the pair of them . I had not been aware till now they had played together . Just be happy to see these two greats on the same stage .
Well, damn. Two of my favorite guitarists together. They both have what I call a Country and Western sensitivity. Nobody tries to out play the other. Rather they play off each other. Mark and Nils may have the most unmistakable sounds in music (save Chet and Les) and to hear them play together is amazing. If you have not heard Mark and Emmylou Harris give it a listen.
MK has such an amazing right hand - looks so solid and relaxed. And his thumb sticks out so much. I've never seen a fingerstyle/clawhammer player with such a hand position. Obviously something he was born with.
I have a Shecter, and I replaced the stock pickups, which I hated, with Bastard and Fat Bastard single coils... Now would you believe, people that hear it like it better than my Les Paul Gold top, Firebird VII, 62 strat.... played through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Never fails to amaze me. The thing sounds pretty good.
Wow! I did know a video from this tour existed! I remember reading about how all the other bands who played Live Aid had to fly to either London or Philly especially for the concert (I remember some of the morning performers announcing they'd have to hop on a plane so they could go play a show someplace else that night). Dire Straits just had to cross the street! :-)
yeah even as a teenager Nils was a more fluid, technical player than Neil could ever be...just different styles...but of course Neil is Lead Guitar...so he put Nils on piano...but mostly, he got Nils his start in the music biz.. Check the Tonights the Night CD, Nils is part of Crazy Horse on that session...and some great guitar work by him on one song too.
Wow, a couple of the great Guitar Gods of R&R! Now if only they'dplay the Bridge School Benefit jamming with Neil, be one great aural orgasm! WTG Nils! Thanks for posting this!
i take it back, Nils had 20 seconds, was almost always blocked by a stage filled with large men except for Knopfler son? Thanks for asking Nils to join you, but when you get a talent like lofgren He is the one that is honored. At any rate when his 20 seconds were up he proved why the English guitar legends don't want him around. He simply plays on a different level.
Guess they were both touring in the same town at same time...both are lefties that play right handed, and w/no pick, tho Nils uses thumb picks...both are viruosos w/not only vast amounts of technical skill but also huge amounts of soul
nah, i have read both Nils' and drummer Ralph Molina's account of how they worked out the part together...Nils' FIRST instrument was the accordian, so he was an accomplished keyboardist
Those piano parts were not written by Nils. Neil put him on piano...an instrument he had never played in his life and Neil told him to play the piano part in Southern Man. That song is completely written by Neil Young.
You bring a guest named nils lofgrin in with any band and I don't care if their leader is Mark Knopler, Neil Young- you better give him more than 10-15 seconds to teach the crowd and the band that Nils' style is without peer in what HE DOES. Yes Knopler changed my life a bit when I heard Sultans of Swing- he too of course is without peer in his style in what HE DOES. It is simple good manners that Nils should have had the bulk of the song and if given the chance would have showed us that he had mastered Knopler's style but there is no way Knopler could copy Nils' because it is constantly changing depending on his mood.
