Cause they are 70 in the shade. That’s why. Never in my life have I witnessed people asking multi millionaire 70 + year olds when they are going back to work. We don’t live forever people. Remember old age and death? It still exists.
We're not "asking them when they're going back to work", we're dreaming of the possibility❤❤❤....you can't blame us for doing that as regards a band who created such magic together!! (even if it's extremely unlikely it'll ever happen).... Of course there's a difference between dreaming about something and being annoying about it - that at least is clear....
Exactly Granddad's belong at home with their family enjoying the slow pace and family time , Marks made his millions and owes the fans nothing, je toured the World for decades with Dire Straits, it's done, get over it people, move on, enjoy the Alchemy Live and On Every Street Tour dvd😂
It's funny.... people think entertainers aren't real.....can you imagine your 75 year old grandpa running around a stage, touring, and heck, staying up past 9pm!
@@marcdaniels9079 It's called an opinion. Who is the best can only be based on opinion, there is no absolute measure. In your world, I am the equal of Jimmy Hendrix and that can't be argued.
I just had a 53-year-old reunion with my fellow ex-pupils at a Memorial Service to celebrate the school in Central London. We left each other @ 17 then embarked on life's journey and met up when we were all retired or semi-retired. Quite surreal, like arranging a meet-up for current 17-year-olds in 2077 :)
A one hit wonder? You've just GOT to be kidding! Have you been living on the moon? In their lengthy and hugely successful career, Dire Straits have released six globally popular studio LPs (one of those was their 1985 magnum opus 'Brothers In Arms', which sold a staggering thirty million copies worldwide and is officially classed as one of THE bestselling albums in music history), two live concert albums, lots of big hit singles and they've also had several huge sold out stadium world tours to their credit. So after me explaining all of those very impressive statistics to you, they could hardly be classed as being one hit wonders, now could they?
Saw them in Southern California in the 90s and left the concert thinking "these guys are even better live" which isn't always the case with great bands. Best wishes to all the band members for your truly inspirational music.
I think knofler, the only player in the top 20 guitarists of all time who is a finger picker, is actually the only gun guitarist who is an unbelievable writer. His playing was brilliant but his writing on the melody even better.
@bwilson5401 I think the playing is just repetition, arguably Gilmore is the best as he was responsible for the sound of pink Floyd.... never understood the obsession with Hendrix, not many great songs
Dire Straits my favorite band of all time. As a guitar player, Mark is in my top 3 favorites with Hendrix & Santana. Dire Straits live Christchurch NZ March 1986 was musically the finest of many gigs ive been to. An amazing night & only $25. Thanks for the video
@@bradmodd7856 I think there needs to be some clarification, because the album and tour was well-received, it just wasn't thought to be of the same standard. But then, how could you top something like Brothers In Arms? It'd be a massive achievement to even do an album with as much success once. I think it's better to say - the album was great, it just wasn't Dire Straits-great. It was a commercial success, after all.
@@bradmodd7856 Fair enough, 'On Every Street' didn't manage to sell a whopping 30 million copies worldwide like it's predecessor 'Brothers In Arms' did (which would obviously be extremely difficult to do), but it still sold a very impressive 16 million copies in it's own right, which I don't think is too shabby at all. The sold out world tour that accompanied that LP was also probably their biggest ever in terms of sheer scale. So 'On Every Street' was hardly an underwelming flop.
There's nothing "disrespectful" about desiring a "great band" to get back together again....I do it regularly!! Of course there's a difference between desiring something strongly, and being annoying about it....
‘Dire Straits then became a 2 member ensemble..’….(what?!?) So David leaves in 1980 and Pick leaves in 1982 and that suddenly makes them a ‘2 member ensemble’. Remarks like that and the one about David being a ‘backup guitarist’ are embarrassing to listen to. Please do your research before mashing together a story like this.
Yes, I agree. And that was Terry Williams you showed when talking about Pick Withers. You missed out most of the relevant points of the band's progress. You know nothing about the subject, it's just a bunch of stock images, and misinformation.
Although the band, every member was an excellent musician, I agree with you. Knopfler is the most underrated, guitarist, songwriter, and arranger in rock. Although he does have a great following, it still amazes me that he is not universally recognized as the master that he is. My favorite musician.
@@roberteberle2305 I agree. While he's gotten tons of recognition over the decades, he is still underappreciated by the rock community at large. Although I've never been into what is probably their "greatest hit", his talents are on full display in Sultans of Swing - Alchemy Live.
@@MrSparklespring When I say that he's underrated, I mean that he's not talked about in the same vain as other great guitarists of his generation or is rarely mentioned. I am not speaking of his popularity. They are two very distinct things. 😏
Dire Straits is absolutely one of my favorite bands. I loved them since 9th grade when Sultans of Swing first hit the airways and I was in awe of the sheer talent, unique sound and control the band had. In America, he wins the most underrated guitarist. Maybe now that new good rock bands are practically nonexistent and the "classic" rockers are getting more attention. Also missed in this video is they played LIVE AID when their mega hit CD Brothers In Arms was released. Perfect Timing. And correction for the video- Money For Nothing is on this CD. I am looking forward to seeing Mark Knopler if really comes to Philadelphia atea again. It seems he keeps his tours lately mostly in the UK. I am now putting on my Making Movies CD, now that I am craving Dire Straits. Another underrated cd that is brilliant!
The story of the way Mark started fingerpicking seems apocryphal. In at least an interview Mark has said he started to fingerpick because he was dropping frequently the pick. Later he found out that gave him freedom to do things he was not able to do with picks, and that was that.
oh my God! He is a friend on the other email of mine . He was fun and sport. brilliant guitarist in the live concert in Sydney of Australia 1986. May be he was tremendously affected by death of his daughter. By the way , he was a bookworm! 😢
Mark Knopfler has been producing sentimental drivel for the past 10 years that sounds like one album blends into the next, who's listening to this sleepy stuff? He seems more interested in making music he likes than the music his fans like. If you watch any live performance of the last 10 years, the audience only wake up when he plays a Dire Straits song! What would be appreciated and a lot more popular is an acoustic version double album of Dire Straits songs!!
@@stephenalanmoore7278 I don't think so. No one in England would know how to pronounce it either. There's many countless Scottish towns which are pronounced different to their spellings (such as Kircaldy, Milngavie and Kircudbright) and which only locals would know how to pronounce properly. There are many in England too.
You are too big dense and talented indeed to be simply tied to a Band, my dear Mark..... you belong to a borderless world and we all wait much from you cuz we know your endless and brilliant skills ...❤
They won't, the Floyd were actually able to produce a great little set and gilmour can still sing comfortably numb which would be one of the hardest songs a 70 year old has ever sung....
Sadly, I had quit the concert scene before seing Dire Straits live. But when I discovered them I quickly got all their albums and began mixing up a tape with all my favorites, which I keep on my portables today. They had a sound and presence - and lyrics - like no other band of their era.
I’ve been in the same band for 23years. We still have the same, original lineup. I am closer to my band brothers than my own family. It’s certainly a unique relationship.
It’s a shame you didn’t mention David when talking about what they are doing now. He’s still making albums as a solo artist and has done so since leaving the band. Mark has even played on some of them.
Sometimes we want to relive our youth, or moment. Its selfish to keep people "in a box" for nostalgia's sake. Savor those moments, and understand artists like to be known for work, but dont want to be 1 trick pony either.
I can understand why they don't want to do it anymore. I'm in my 60s now and even I have no interest in the partying jumping around stuff anymore. I'm at an age which I want to use the remainder of my life to be much closer to GOD and right with HIM along with spending more time together with my Wife and Family. I don't care about material things and goofing around partying anymore. When Parents, almost all my Uncles, Aunts, Cousin, and a bunch of Friends I went to Schools with have all died the stuff I use to enjoy in my life I don't care about anymore.
Dire Straits fronted by anyone other than Mark Knopfler just isn't Dire Straits, to me, just as 1:00 Brian and Roger fronted by Adam Lambert isn't Queen.
Great guitarist. So melodic. So clean. So rhythmic. I was truly blessed to see Mark and DIre Straits play live 5 times. I was there at Hammersmith odeon the night Alchemy was recorded. Blew me away to the point where i vowed to do my best to learn how to play my favourite DS songs just like Mark does. Well......40 years later and i can sound similar. I am just so addicted to the sounds he brought us.
Dire Straits were untouchable but Mark's solo work since has been just as good and developed in several new directions. When he tour(ed) he still did some Dire Straits songs among his solo stuff, and John Illsley also did a tour in the last year or so supporting a book - he played a couple of his own songs and a lot of Dire Straits stuff with a stand-in lead guitarist. Mark and John are still great mates and meet in John's pub in the New Forest (England) regularly. Dire Straits did reform for a one-off gig - John's wedding reception. Mark also did a song recently about the folly of old bands getting back together which eloquently made his feelings on it very clear. Always been classy, always chased the music and not the fame and not the money. And still in his mid-70s is an awesome songwriter who if anything has grown completely into his voice.
Interesting that he started finger picking the guitar because of an old beat up acoustic guitar he was playing. Finger picking allows you to do certain things that you just can't do with a pick, or at least it sounds different and it definitely became Mark's unique trademark.
It would be fun if his earlier band, Brewer’s Droop reformed. The high point of a gig of theirs I went to was when they divided the crowd into the ‘Fkrs’ and ‘Wnkrs’. The ‘Fs’ had to yell ‘Ws!’ at the ‘Wkrs’ and vice-versa. It was great fun, never to be forgotten.
@@stephensmith799 Hello Stephen. Your question prompted me to just ring them and they told me that 7 years ago "Fullers" took over and made it a Private Function Room,I expect, as always, these days, it will come down to ££££.:( The reason I asked is that one of the regular musicians on the circuit then was Stevie Smith, who played a mean Harp/Mouth Orga. Good Luck:)
I’m not defending anyone, but it’s between the brothers. Outside of them, it’s really not our business. And I’m glad they didn’t reunite. If the momentum and spirit isn’t there, reunions pretty much suck.
I started learning guitar because of Hotel California and Sultans of swing. Even to this day after thousands of listens I will pickup another nuanced note that I haven't heard before. There are many awesome guitar players, but few have as much impact on learning guitar players as Mark.Mark himself says you have to really want it, it isn't easy. But put in the effort and you can be just as good. Likely not as famous though!
Steely Dan is on tour, Kansas is on tour, Neal Sedaka is on tour. These people retired on the royalties from their back catalog. People quit paying for music years ago. There's a little money in streaming services, but the record companies wrote those contracts so the record companies get the bulk of the money despite the fact that they don't do anything except collect the money. That's why Def Leppard wasn't streamable until they re recorded all their old stuff. The record company owns the original recordings, and the band has to accept almost no money to get anything. They said "No." So if you don't have money from when it was good invested to take care of you, you're going on tour.
Because its all about money with the roc roll hall of fame not the music,go and watch when steve miller band was inducted what he said was the truth,clip is on youtube,then you will understand
They wanted him to give them his stuff for free and charge $100k a table just to go to the ceremony. I don't blame him for skipping. Just look up what Steve Miller and Cheap Trick had to say about it.
@@V10ViperSRT I agree with all of this. Still, it would have given the fans closure. Perhaps I'm just being selfish-I would have loved to have seen them perform one last time.
