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06-03-2010, 08:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: New Jersey | | | Mark Knopfler is my new hero
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So I have a few people that I hold close to my heart when it comes to musical inspiration. I want to add Mark Knopfler to my list. His guitar playing is so perfect. Great feel, incredible tones. And when I read that he plays mainly a finger style similar to Jeff Beck I was sold. I have heard Dire Straits for years and never considered the guitar playing. It was a little to 80's for my age when I heard these songs. Now that I am older I have discovered a great influence. It was like a light bulb went off " why have I never noticed this great guitar playing after hearing these songs so many times."
Similar experiences were with when I really listened to Steely Dan for the first time, heard "Heavy Weather" for the first time or "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
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06-03-2010, 08:39 AM
| | | | Listen to something like "Industrial Disease" for some amazing tone.
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06-03-2010, 08:43 AM
|  | keepin' the beat since the 60's | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Studio City, SoCal, USA | | | Check out the CD with him and Chet Atkins playing together!
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06-03-2010, 08:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: France | | | my fave are "calling elvis", the last dire straits album and "sailing to philadephia" from knoplfer. Great artist. |
06-03-2010, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gio S  Check out the CD with him and Chet Atkins playing together! | Thanks, Chet Atkins I think may be added to my list once I "discover" him.
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06-03-2010, 09:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Geordie Delta, UK | | | Went to MK's gig in Newcastle recently. It was astonishing. What a band... Glen Worf is a legend. |
06-03-2010, 02:38 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | One of my favorite musicians and guitarists. I saw him play at the Berkeley Community Theater years ago and he just slayed. Incredible tone, playing, and song writing. He's still going strong.
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06-03-2010, 02:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Alabama | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gio S Check out the CD with him and Chet Atkins playing together! | OMG They were amazing together. One having as much respect for the other. Was an instant classic.
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06-03-2010, 04:27 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | As I said in a thread I created some time ago, the signature riff created by Mr. Knopfler for "Money For Nothing" should be awarded as the catchiest guitar riff ever created   . He's a truly awesome musician. |
06-03-2010, 04:32 PM
| | | | That first album that Dire Straits put out is SO GOOD. I was never able to stand behind any of their other stuff, it's just too cheesey for me. Same goes for what I've heard of MK solo.
....but that first album IS JUST SO FRIGGIN' GOOD! |
06-03-2010, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn and Hudson Valley | | | I am a big fan of Knopfler as well. I wanted to cover a tune or two of his but our guitarist said MK's style is very unique and hard to cover. "Border Riever," one of his new songs, I like a lot. Also hard to cover - it's kind of a jig with some kind of Irish whistle in it.
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06-04-2010, 06:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southern New Jersey | | | +1 on "Sailing to Philadelphia", one of my favorites from the Dire Straits era. Too many people have never heard of it, though...
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06-07-2010, 01:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: France | | | mmmm; "sailing to philadelphia" came after the Straits era.. That was the second solo album from Knopfler after "golden heart", his first solo act, which was already a good one. |
06-07-2010, 02:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | His work on Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" record is fantastic.
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06-07-2010, 03:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado USA | | Add me to the list of Mark Knopfler devotees. Only thing... until now, I thought I was the only one.  |
06-07-2010, 06:24 AM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheVoiceless I have heard Dire Straits for years and never considered the guitar playing. | That's a bit like having heard Frank Sinatra for years and never really considered the singing. 
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06-07-2010, 06:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Athens, Greece | | | I actually happen to appreciate him more than most guitarists I know. Shows how much they know... Maybe I need to find other guitarists to hang around with. |
06-07-2010, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck3 I am a big fan of Knopfler as well. I wanted to cover a tune or two of his but our guitarist said MK's style is very unique and hard to cover. "Border Riever," one of his new songs, I like a lot. Also hard to cover - it's kind of a jig with some kind of Irish whistle in it. | Yeah, its so original. Its hard to try a replicate something that unique.
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06-10-2010, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Madrid | | | I have about 1 week listening to Golden Heart every day...great album in every way
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06-10-2010, 11:57 AM
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One reason he's hard to cover is that he uses his right hand fingers instead of a pick (mostly? or exclusively? don't know). But most guitarists are plectrum players, and his banjo rolls and such are hard to dupe with a pick. Unless you do "Tele grip"--pick with fingers.
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