I'm with you David. That was BS!

Special place in hell for the drone that did that.

Ah, yes! Keep the plebs on their toes. Allow no time to reflect, to ponder. Our god forebid that they ever begin to think for themselves.

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YES!!!! Sound was SO so good!! Thnx for that shout out!!

I can't believe this was recorded on a phone! The sound IS amazing!

@@hurschmann The video maybe...the sound is sub out for sure.

Was he really underated? I can remember how big Dire Straits was back in the 1980s. I still have their most popular album in my collection from 1985. It sold over 30 million copies.

A Master❤🎸🌹

Proper thread created with a proper comment 👍 Mark Knopfler is a magnificent gift to all, a humble man on and off stage. ❤️

Knopfler is GOD

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​@😅😅Th4thWiseman

Rt on my good man ! Spellbinding...

You lucky bastard. I just hit the scene in the late 70's and the crack (original pronunciation - its a Northern English/Southern Scottish word nicked by the Paddies) was about Free and all the old rock stuff. I got AC/DC, Whitesnake, Rory Gallagher and Blue Oyster Cult (just misse Motorhead) and other stalwarts - yer just gotta roll with it. Be happy with you have got and listen to the old stuff (with headphones and a cotes de Rhone)

@@ronhall9039 I get a real kick out of telling folks that I saw Hendrix and Cream live in '68. One of the things I remember about the Experience show is when Jimi was introducing one of the big hits like Foxy Lady he said "This is where we were a million years ago, but I know this is what you want to hear". Electric Ladyland had just come out and you could hear that he wanted to move on musically, but the fans wanted the "old" stuff. Joni Mitchell once said "They hate you if you change and they hate you if you stay the same. You can't win, so I decided to go ahead and change". (Paraphrased). Only saw her once but was lucky (again) that it was the tour she did with Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and other great jazz musicians. When Jaco took his solo slot he was playing some amazingly beautiful stuff, quite soft and subtle, when some clown in the audience shouted "Get it on!" (The rest of the audience was being respectfully silent). The look on Jaco's face would have killed the guy, if looks could kill. Not much of today's music grabs me, although I must say that Buckethead is the most amazing musician I've ever heard in my life. Check him out if you haven't already.

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David Gilmour, Comfortably Numb.

Amen, Brother!

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He's just one of the very best!

Mark, thanks for keyboards! 😊

Surely only EPIC if slapped?

They have to keep the vibration low.

Pay your monthly fee and they disappear!

UMMM, pay up.

The person putting the video up makes money off ads

So sorry hon

Sorry for your loss.

If your mum loved mark and his music, what can I say,peace bro.She too is a legend

Thinking of you and sending love from Australia. She's "going home " as my mum did 3 years ago.

All mum´s die, and so do we all... My mum is fighting cancer but we all know it´s a question of time... She knows, we know... It´s a struggle, she is my idol, the best person ever lived and I´m not sure I can cope with the loss of her! But I know she would want me to carry her torch and try to warp the world in the right direction,,, And I will try for her sake, and for all those who will come...

And always will!💓💓

Find the Beauty Frans. We’re all in this. ✌️

And I'd like to add a thought to your comment, Reading your comment has given me the same and Ditto as well ❤🤙🏼

Oh... you got that right!! Those two masters top Everyone else!!❤️❤️🌵🌺😎

Ahem--Jimmy Page (COUGH) 😁

@@danielvandersall6756 @so true …every one of them have so much true talent….and there are others deserve a mention but these three are my favorite!

My thoughts EXACTLY!👍

There are many, many of us music lovers & fans who feel exactly the same way about these two extraordinarily special & gifted human beings. I wish Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour could read, understand and grasp what their music has meant to millions of people around the world in the last 40 to 50 odd years.

Totally agree, as keyboard player and pianist I know just how hard this is to play. Greatness personified, name one group today that can even come close to the bands of yore?

Agreed. Beautiful touch and phrasing.

Well spotted me in Herr from OZ.❤

I wonder how the piano, keyboard and sax lines for his best songs came to be what they are. Did the available musicians improv something, or did Mark already know where the notes would go?

@@Cloxxki The songwriter typically shows the chord progression to the other musicians and lets them know the "mood" he wants to create. Good, creative players, at least most of the time would listen, "feel" it out, fall into it and play until it worked. I would guess this is what takes place in the beginning here (there's no sax so I'm assuming you're referring to the flute part). Beyond that, I'm guessing, by watching Knopfler here, he's almost acting as an orchestra leader in a way, as he turns to the other musicians to cue, approve or whatever.

AAAAAAA-men

Mark the man! His fingers flow like a river, so smooth, such a genius! Underrated for his talent - maybe because not many have heard his solos or Dire Straits Alchemy and all the rankings are based on popular vote?!

Unfortunately not now

@@cataclem28 Why?

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Nice comment. Same experience here in Amsterdam

Agreed, a fantastic song, well written and so well played.

played on a softball team named Sultans of Swing

I dropped by a friend's house. He said, "You've got to hear this." It started with "Down to the Waterline." When the album had finished, all I could say was, "Again." I was blown away. A sound all his own. I knew Mark was one of a kind and even today, he still is.

He was borned with a guitar at the hand of his hand...A french woman in love till 20 years every morning get up with a solo...Plse be curious and go and listen a french guitarist who Clapton congratulates...PAUL PERSON SOLO BA BA BA XXXXX

So many great talents that are no longer. Still listen. And will till I die

@@jp-mc2bp Same here.

hes a legend that's why

There is so much evil and pain in this world, but hearing Knopfler makes the price worth paying.

Let's hope Mark does as well.

yeah i mean he has a strong legacy, might as well leave out on a bang. he just looks exhausted these days, sad to see age has slowed him down. nevertheless, still GOAT.

He's not exactly holding back or hiding in that solo, now is he?

Discovering Dire Straights Better late than never. What songs have you heard and whats your favorite. I love Brothers in Arms, Romeo & Juliette cant beat a bit of Money for nothing and the Sultans of Swing....

I just turned 60 and am right behind you! Let's catch up!

It's never too late!

I think it’s one of the best songs of all time.

One note suspended in time. My man. Same thoughts.

You are so right 🙏

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That's true, his fingers are magic, and no one can play like him, how much fingers the man have, not many fingers to play like Mark Knopfler, and his brain are full with sounds, music and good stuff, in other Heads are a lot of Shit, Mark is a genie and I hope his live is long, when he's gone no one can beat him, no one come after him with this fingers and so full of music

OMG Yes!🔥💥🌟 Those WERE the Times!!❤️😎🌵🌺

Have all their songs. I think

True, but don't discount all of us kids - some of us still care to try.

There's a young guy called Marcin. And a lot of others stil practicing, some will get there. Hang in there!

The sublime Jim Cox

My understanding is, he is left-handed! and learned to play on a right-handed guitar.

@@sscholle That's exactly my point. Our favorite hand remains our premier tool, with natural, instinctive, subtly superior capabilities. I am left-handed, I play piano and my accompaniments come out more "special" than my melodies. When I watch Mark Knopfler play, the hand that "makes" the music is the one caressing the frets.

Makes him unusual. Imagining playing a left handed guitar fretting with my right.

After reading the first comment about an advert spoiling someone's enjoyment of this live performance, I feel particulary lucky to have watched this without the intrusive ads! Beautiful.

Well u play it upside down steph. Imagine been playing guitar. Great fair play. Music is life🎸🎶👌

Jeff Beck

Thanks Marie always interesting to understand the root meaning and background of a song especially a masterpiece like this.

@@TheLRider Thank you so much for this kind feedback, Brian. Warmest regards to you.

Never knew that. But always felt a connection between these two pieces of art. Very interesting! Wonderfull stories.

@@hansvanderiet5129 Thank you for this kind feedback. Best regards to you.

I worked in Detroit years ago and had to ride on telegraph.when I heard this I thought it fit for the Detroit area I guess I was right

Couldn't agree more. The title track is epic.....

Fascinating how people perceive things so differently, and everyone is entitled to their view. For my part, Brothers in Arms was their worst album by a country mile. Pure commercial junk, and coming after the excellent Love over Gold made it even more of a disappointment. A friend once described it as "music to Hoover to" and he wasn't wrong IMHO.

@@BM-jy6cb There are only two particularly commercial (radio/TV friendly) tracks on Brothers in Arms, “Money for Nothing”, and “Walk of Life”, and frankly, it’s a bit surprising that Money For Nothing got much radio play with it’s play time of over 8 minutes. Of course, they did release two 4-5 minute single versions, so that’s probably what got most of the airplay. I’m sure the MTV video had much to do with that as well. But the rest of that album is where the good stuff is, and none of it is the type of stuff that’s likely to be played anywhere but “Classic Rock” and “Album Oriented Rock” stations.

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Agreed.And Ride Across The River is one of then alongside Brothers in Arms

Mine too, Mark is brilliant his solo,s always bring a tear

While I’d like to believe that story since I’ve traveled that “Telegraph Road” many times, it’s unlikely. There are many Telegraph Roads!

It was, according to Knopfler, inspired by a tour bus drive along Telegraph Road (US 24) in downtown Detroit, while he was reading Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil.

Could be true, been up and down that road many times. So have a little faith or make the cat wise. It's your choice!

Ah fella’s who cares which Telegraph Road this masterfully written song is about. Mr. Knopfler writes mesmerizing stories, linking the words with spellbinding music and finishing it all up with a performance that he makes look as effortless as pulling up his britches in the morning.

I worked at a Ford Dealership on Telegraph Rd in Redford Michigan for 27 years on that route

And a master composer and a master story teller .

There are no words for it. He pays so beautifully, so sensitively, it brings tears to my eyes. What an effing genius he is.

I was reading a post about Nazareth Speedway which lead me to find Speedway at Nazareth which lead me to again, find a new live version of Telegraph. Blast of song. I own the original Alchemy albums which I had to make into mp3 because they were getting old. Me and my friend went to a place to play pool in the 90's and they had this music box and every time we'd play Telegraph Road and the guys who knew us were "not again a 15 minute track" but they ended loving the shit out of Dire Straits thanks to it, I'm talking in a place north Argentina where local style music is popular. Anyway, I always love to find what Mark's doing lately and I love that he's still playing and there's always a great solo from him.

So did Bob Dylan. He didn't want to write or record anymore without the benefit of Mark on his team :)

And the colours keep changing. MK must have created a hundred different versions of Tel road outro. I get the impression he just makes it up as he goes along with just enough consistency so that the band can keep up with him. He's just enjoying himself. I can't imagine he pens out a new score for every live performance. The reality is that this version only has snatches of the original, but what is consistent is his smooth performance of what is an incredibly piece to replicated.

He fell in love with the guitar and many have been reborn as a result. For me, Sultans shows a unique tenderness, truly unique..Notes just like kisses come out and just hang in the air. I want to send him.a.thank you card for Christmas...

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Well said! His best guitar solo period!

In the perfect way

He never misses a single note/ the absolutely paranormal as in his ability to create such complex melody and phrasing I am so very humbled and appreciative that there are periods of emotional intensity that I feel that my heart will break🎼🎶🎼🎶🎸🎸❤

alas, at 11:55 he messes up. Unfortunately after 2005 Mark gradually started losing his fluidity

Well said, me too. Mark is the GOAT imo.

Bought my first cassette direstraits album. Brothers in arms with his metal guitar on the cover when i was 16 years old. Hook to his music eversince.

Get chills when I hear this, still.

Others can play those notes. He comes up with them first and as he goes along. Has anyone else ever been able to compose another Knopfler song?

Absolutely, exceptional musician!

I'm utterly impressed by how quiet people are when he starts singing. You hear absolutely no one

Sorry for the misspelling, etc, You know what I was trying to convey

Especially Eric Clapton. . who has admitted he had always taken a back seat to Mr. K