INSANE!!!!!!! 🔥 We react to Dire Straits - Telegraph Road (Alchemy Live)| REACTION 

Arguably one of the best songs ever written.

My late dad took over teaching English from Mark Knopflier at a tough school in Loughton on the outskirts of London. In those day teachers just had to pass or fail their first year on their own. But Mark Knopflier regularly came in to help him, especially with the most difficult classes. Even thought he didn't have to, wasn't paid to. My dad said he was hard to follow as he was so well like by the pupils, and such a good teacher.. In those days you couldn't buy teaching resources, you had to make them. He gave my dad his as he said he wasn't returning to teaching. And that Mark Knopflier was a kind and lovely man. .

The Telegraph Road is a major north-south 70 mile thoroughfare in Michigan. Mark Knopfler was inspired to write this song while riding in the front of the tour bus, which made the journey down Telegraph Road. At the time, Knopfler was reading the novel The Growth Of the Soil by the Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and he was inspired to put the 2 together and write a song about the beginning of the development along Telegraph Road and the changes over the ensuing decades. This was a metaphor for the development of America and the ruining of one man's dreams in the wake of its decline, in particular focusing on unemployment. Now must listen Tunel of Love (wembley 1985), Brothers in Arms (one the night, 1992), Private Investigations (on the night). All live, DS must listen live versions

It's only the tip of the iceberg! Your never ending journey for Dire straits has just begun ! Dire Straits and the lead man Mark Knophler(the singer, song writer, lead Guitarist and the composer) is an Institution!

You guys mailed it - Telegraph Road is a m=masterpiece and is a better song that Sultans of Swing. I am a lifelong Dire Straits fan - first heard them in 1979 as a 15 year old. Telegraph Road is their best song - I was fortunate to see them 6 or 7 times, and then saw Mark Knopfler solo many times.

Tunnel of love and Romeo and Juliet are also amazing. Glad you enjoyed.

there's another masterpiece: Private Investigations

Definitely my favourite Dire Straits song, possibly my favourite song of any band ever..

Two very happy faces says it all. Thank you❤❤

Telegraph Road is a masterpiece, and that's probably the best live version out there. The entire band were incredible on the Alchemy Tour. The pianist, Alan Clark, really delivered a phenomenal performance. Glad you guys enjoyed it, this is one of my favourite songs of all time. The lyrics and composition are genius. Mark Knopfler, too, is a musical genius.

Mark Knopfler narrates the story and his guitar sings it. The Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler music is the best.

This is my all time favourite track and performance of Dire Straits. Awesome ❤❤❤

Rumour has it the drum kit was carried out on a stetcher and on life support! Such a flawless performance, a true masterpiece. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet, Brothers in Arms…

Dire straits Tunnel of love Alchemy live ❤

Hey guys ! My favourite track from the album Love over Gold is Private Investigations , in my opinion , it's a masterpiece , Worth listening to with your eyes closed . Great reaction !

It's absolutely wonderful that such young people are so surprised and smiling. Your reactions are wonderful, THANK-YOU ❤

Carol,,,you said everything about this song, you didn't just take it as a "song", you understood the composition to it and explained your emotions truthfully,,,well done you, your both top class reactors and have my like, and sub. God bless you both. ❤ 👏

One of the best songs ever written. From the music to the lyrics a masterpiece. I heard it when it came out ( yes, I'm that old ) and I still know the lyrics by heat.

Great reaction you two, for me there's nothing better than watching you youngsters transfixed by master musicians..oh and don't worry about feeling like crying, most people do.

Have you both heard Brothers in Arms ? This really hits your soul

Nice to see your smiles at the end of this groovie song..... Thats what Dire Straits do to people.... 😀

Musicians playing 'effortlessly' just show they are masters of their craft - these guys know music and musical storytelling.

You're not the only people who feel very emotional listening to this. It hits me the same and I've been listening to it for 40 years! It hits you in the heart and soul. And you're right that it's as relevant and relatable now as it was then. So glad you enjoyed it ❤❤

After I bought the Love Over Gold album, this was the first track. When it was over, I thought Holy...., what did I just hear? I had to move the needle back and play it again before I could listen to the rest of the album. Not many songs hit you that way

The masters of story telling, Mark is a modern day minstrel. Fantastically written magnificently played, totally involving master class.

Dire Straits doesn't sound like anyone, and no one sounds like Dire Straits. Beautiful musicianship.

Once you're a Dire Straits fan your a fan for life. There's something about their music that takes you places. Genius ❤❤❤

🇨🇦 In my humble opinion, the Best music created, written or sung in the last Century, was performed between 1959 and 1989 ! This was 1982 ! 🇨🇦

Great reaction! The great blond American guitarist, Hal Lindes, left the band a year later to dedicate himself to being a film score composer. About 8 years later he had a daughter who became a top model.

I got to see Mark play a solo show in Indy about 20 years ago. It was magnificent.

I adore this band! For me this is their masterpiece. Creates pockets of music, the story telling, the journey... Classic Mark!

Hands down the best outro in rocknroll

All of the Dire Straits songs are stories. Some personal, most true. Sultans of swing was one such. This song came while on tour. Mark Knopfler was reading a book (I forgot the title but someone will know) on the tour bus crossing the USA, and thinking about the rise and fall of things as society develops. Et Voila. One of the great story songs, and arguably their best recorded live performance. Tunnel of love if you get the right version is great too. Largely autobiographical, and talks about places he'd known then. In the stone steps outside of the Spanish city (a building in the north east of England) a line from the song is etched. A love story of sorts, and homage to his past, even down to the use of the Carousel Waltz as an Introduction. Romeo and Juliet is a great song too, and Brothers in arms, Walk of Life, and all of them really. Great reaction, good to see the love of things artfully rendered. Hope you, family friends and all who drop by here, are, and remain well.

What an angel Carol is,you are a very lucky guy.

Once Upon A Time In The West Romeo And Juliet The Walk Of Life So many more

I agree with all the comments - what a song, and what a delivery by the band! I haven't heard Telegraph Road in decades, but the storytelling lyrics, the mix of melancholy and exhilaration, the layering of instruments, the changes of pace, are just wonderful.

That is what they call talent.

Everyone praises Mark Knopfler on guitar and Terry Williams on drums (and rightly so), but let's hear it for Alan Clark on keys and piano. He's the unsung hero of this song and others such as Tunnel of Love. The orchestration of these songs is superb, particularly the interplay between guitar and piano. Mark just hands over some of the most important melodic lines to Alan and he carries the whole song at these points. This is a masterclass on how musicians should play together in band...

I'm 59 years old, I grew up with Dire Straits and other bands of that time I won't write anything more I love your reactions I cried

'Telegraph Road' is a fabulous track off their amazing 4th album, 'Love Over Gold' released in 1982. If you sit and listen to it all the way through, you immerse yourself in a quality musical experience. There's only 5 tracks, but it's an amazing 40 mins.

Love seeing folks new to this grow smiles as this song unfolds in all its beauty and incredible musicianship. It feels like welcoming others to the ride! Love that you loved it.

Yes more dire strsights

I had a feeling you might like that one!

Now you have to listen to something from the ‘On the Night’ concert- I’d recommend ‘Calling Elvis’!

Really enjoyed your two Dire Straits reactions, glad I found you.

I try,but I can't really imagine what it would have been like to be there and see this EPIC moment of musical magic live ! Marks fingers are just magical to pick the strings as he does!❤ ABSOLUTELY unbelievable!😂

Just another walk in the park for Mark as he nonchalantly melts your face off and finger picks the F out of his guitar!

"Tunnel of love" from the same concert is amazing !!

:o... I thought you'd never do it. ❤‍🔥 TY guys

Man , this band was absolutly fantastique

I just love those long jams that never seem to end 😅😊

I don't find it in art, literature or mathematics. I only find it in music. It is these vibrations and frequencies that can only be expressed with music.

Amazing performance! Thanks guys big fan awesome reaction as usual!

Tunnel of Love, also from Alchemy. Pure genius

Thank you guys for your reaction. Telegraph Road Is a masterpiece of rock .i sow your emotions,evry time i go in paradise with the Guitar of Mark .

Tunnel of love from Wembley 1985 classic Dire straits ❤

Mi banda preferida, mi guitarrista preferido.. y una obra maestra de esta increíble banda.. una leyenda y una de las mejores de todos los tiempos.. la voz de Mark siempre es como un instrumento diferente que la hace única.. Gracias por difundir esta genial banda a las nuevas generaciones que no tuvieron la suerte de vivir los inigualables 80s .. Por último, les recomiendo escuchar de este mismo concierto el tema.. TUNNEL OF LOVE... masterpiece.. Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷

You can tell by their faces as they played together towards the end that they knew they'd pulled off something very special. .. incredible concert. Was privileged to see them live and Mark Knopfler solo a few times. Great reaction guys

Great reaction and interpretation. A beautiful piece of musical art.

Best song ever 👍👍 They have so many though.Romeo and Juliet live 👍

Passion, joy and talent. The "Love over Gold" album is one of my favorite 80s records and still on my Spotify playlist. Great choice - guys...Cheers

I've always loved this song. Its message about a rural paradise slowly being ruined over the years by more and more people moving there until it's become the very place that the people were trying to escape in the first place mirrors one of my favorite Eagles songs, "The Last Resort," from Hotel California. I prefer "Telegraph Road" though. It's faster-paced (give me fast over slow any day) and more complex musically. And I agree with Elie 100%... the music of that era puts today's music to shame.

This is from a great album called "Love Over Gold" which features two of my favorite lines in music 1) From "Industrial Disease" - "Two men say they are Jesus, one of them must be wrong" and 2) From "It Never Rains" - "Oh, but it's a sad reminder When your organ grinder has to come to you for the rent" Mark Knopfler is such a good lyricist to compliment his amazing guitar skills.

Mark Knopfler, Lead guitar Hal Lindes, Rhythm guitar John Illsey, Bass guitar Terry Williams, Drums Alan Clark, Keys And for these shows July 1983 additional guest keys, Tommy Mandel.

One of my favourite Dire Straits songs, Mark Knopfler is an amazing guitarist and songwriter 👍👍😎😎👏❤️❤️

Simply incredible, after nearly 40 years I still get goosebumps

Elie and Carol, your enthrallment with the music, so freely shown and expressed, bring an even more beautiful dimension to the experience. Thanks for that!

One of their longest tracks and a really good one. From the same studio album Love over Gold 'Private Investigations' is another great track-Colin Ward

I'm with you! My favourite Dire Straits song of all time! Well, maybe - there's always Brothers in Arms. Oh, and Sultans of Swing. Lets face it, it's Dire Straits, what's not to love. Pure musical genius.

First... Love you guys, all reactions. Now... this is THE BEST DIRE STRAITS SONG. The story-telling, the subtlety, the transitions, the artistry, the band-members' individual performances. It's a rhapsody, is just superb. Of course I love the other tracks (Romeo & Juliet, Sultans, Tunnel, funny-enough, not-so-much Brother in Arms) but this is THE ONE.

What a brilliant song, they have so many great one's 👍👍

One of the best live albums in rock and easily one of the best live shows.

More Dire straits please!

The first time hearing that song is a life changer

Give "Private Investigations" a go from the same Alchemy tour. It doesn't quite resolve musically, much like the subject matter of the song, I think on purpose. It has a six note run on the piano that is unmistakable.

WHERE DO YOU GET MUSIC LIKE THIS NOWADAYS ? IM SO GLAD THAT I WAS A TEEN AGER IN HE 70S., GREAT REACTION GUYS, GIL FROM ISRAEL

DAMN, I wish I’d seen them live! I did not make use of the opportunity. Regret that.

😅 half the crowd initially clapping on 1 and 3

Es musica atemporal. A mi sigue emocionandome !!! Y me alegra que a vosotros también.

What i always try and remember in these reaction videos is that they are wearing headphones... so they are getting a far better sound than we likely are. I know what the songs sound like on headphones, so understand the reaction....😀

Excellent reaction, guys, but unlike 'Sultans of Swing', the studio version of 'Telegaph Road' is actually better than the live version. The sound is far clearer, for example. I'd post a link but RU-vid delete comments with links in them. The version on RU-vid is easy to find, and it has a thumbnail picture of an actual Telegraph Road on the video link cover. After that check out Dire Straits, 'Tunnel of Love', live Wembley Arena, 1985. Amazing!

At their very, very best.

You two nail it .. such a good song. Everyone playing together. One of my all time favorites. I saw them in 1985 on the Brothers in Arms tour. You may want to check out the song Brothers in Arms. It is not as much "rock" more soft.. but is beautiful.

I thought I'd drop off another song by Dire straits, if interested. "Dire Straits - Private Investigations LIVE (On the Night, 1993) HD" (by the channel: SingleHandedKnopfler) --This song is from their fourth studio album, and it was a big hit in the UK, reaching number two #2 on the Billboard charts.

Sheer brilliance!!!!!

Hey guys just loving your reactions to my favorite band and artist Mark Knopfler. I really recommend the song Brothers In Arms from the performance Dire Straits Live " On The Night" 1993. Every reactor I've seen said it had a massive impact on them and it's hard not to cry on this one. This time he uses a Pensa guitar that goes right through your body. Anyway Cheers and all the best from Australia 👍🎸🎸🎸

Mark Knopfler is still singing, playing and composing music. He has just put out a new album in the last couple of months. Please keep going through both Dire Straits and Mark's solo catalogues. If you want another banger, check out Industrial Disease...

Quality,nuff said,great reaction 👍🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️

Dire Straits - Private Investigations LIVE (On the Night, 1993)

I just subscribed to your channel. Good reactions guys🤟

Such a great version.

This makes me so happy! Here I finally find two lovely people who feel exactly as I do about this performance! And even better that you are so young and can appreciate this fully! Bless you!

Beautiful song...I saw it live in Manchester

Tunnel of Love , Once Upon a time in the West ,...from this same concert !

In summary.. The rise and fall of a town symbolised by the road going in and out.

dont try try to understand ! just sit back and take in the greatest finger picking rock guitarist who has ever lived, and the phenomena that was Dire Straits. There will never be anything like it again . I am now 77 years old, I still pick up one of my guitars every day and dream about playing like Mark Knoffler. I was there when they hit the ground running, and have followed them all the way through, There are not enough superlatives to apply to that magical group who were so ably led by Mark. It is my considered opinion that The Alchemy live concert album is the greatest live rock album ever composed, Pure and clean perfection and all without a pick ! - Just his fingers, and what is also amazing is that he mostly plays right handed when he is naturally left handed. Unfortunately, his phenomenal talent tends to overshadow the other members who are incredible in their own right !! Just watch Terry Williams, the drummer at this gig - he was peerless ! what a drummer !

Truly, it's a rare gem, a pure classic. An ultimate composition. Loved your reaction.

Wait for it!

What a fabulous choice of song to react to guys. Legendary song and insanely great live performance. I highly recommend you continue with the live performance of Private Investigations from the same concert. Can’t wait!! Great reaction guys.