I just saw bama posted this about a year ago.

Maybe a few haven't seen it

Damn! If I knew it was that easy, I would have stuck with it a little longer!

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Mark Knopfler on Guitars

Outstanding. One of my favorite guitar players. Saw him live a few times, all great performances. He uses A LOT of guitars in his shows.

He sure does make it look and sound easy......

I've seen this several times and it never gets old. He's a master!

Thanks, sdy.

Thanks for that; listened to some MK to end the night.

--k

Hadn't seen that. Thanks for posting. He's got crazy talent. It was really interesting to me to see how much difference in sound there is between the various guitars.

Great video, thanks. Got all his original vinyl and saw him play a couple of times. Really like him and Dire Straits

Sultans of swing, one of the best guitar solos ever played!


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what a treasure
Thanks for posting

The tone...

One of the guitar greats, when he dies he goes right to hang out with Jimmy and BB and all the others…

Fantastic player and one of my all time favorites. Great sounding acoustic btw. I had to check as the first time I saw that video I never recalled seeing a double slotted headstock with back tuning machine heads on an acoustic Martin. It's his Mark Knopfler Ltd Edn 000-40S. A beautiful tone to match.

Unfortunately I never saw them in person but loved my last album purchased Brother in Arms.

Watching Knopfler play is something else. His grace and fluidity on the guitar are really something to behold.

He is my favorite.

I saw him on his last tour and some of his comments while introducing songs gave me the impression he was saying "farewell".

I sure hope not.

Always liked his work. This one stands out in my memory. Apologies for the ads but at least there's a "skip" options.

https://youtu.be/2S4zN3kOqY0?t=49

This is one of my favorites from him, I never really knew the story of the British who left to find work in post-war booming West Germany while their country was an economic mess from the 1950’s to the 1970’s:

Another big favorite of Mark Knopfler in a duet with James Taylor, song was written by Knopfler about the two men the Mason-Dixon Line is named after:




Sailing To Philadelphia

I am Jeremiah Dixon
I am a Geordie boy
A glass of wine with you, sir
And the ladies I'll enjoy
All Durham and Northumberland
Is measured up by my own hand
It was my fate from birth
To make my mark upon the earth

He calls me Charlie Mason
A stargazer am I
It seems that I was born
To chart the evening sky
They'd cut me out for baking bread
But I had other dreams instead
This baker's boy from the west country
Would join the Royal Society

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason-Dixon Line

Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon
But I swear you'll make me mad
The West will kill us both
You gullible Geordie lad
You talk of liberty
How can America be free
A Geordie and a baker's boy
In the forests of the Iroquois

Now hold your head up, Mason
See America lies there
The morning tide has raised
The capes of Delaware
Come up and feel the sun
A new morning has begun
Another day will make it clear
Why your stars should guide us here

We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
A Mason-Dixon Line

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Originally posted by PASig:

Sailing To Philadelphia

It’d be hard for me to say which is my favorite, but Sailing to Philadelphia would be in the running. Just a terrific song.

But when it comes right down to it, I think Are We In Trouble Now? is my all time favorite Knopfler song.

Seen MK twice. I hope to again.




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