Thanks Stu! Thanks for being a part of bringing great videos and interviews to a generation of Canadians and being one of the pioneers of the format. You and TDM deserve high praise for what you did.
When I first heard “Sultans” (I was probably 19 or so) I was in the student center of Kent State, and it absolutely knocked me out. From the very first listen, I thought that it was an incredible track, so much so that I ran down to the record store just off campus, and bought the album that day. Regardless of how many times I’ve heard the song since, I STILL think it’s an incredible track. Knopfler is one of my favorite guitar players; he plays with such taste, soul, and feeling; but it’s also his TONE that knocks me out, too. His tone is, well, “magical”... not just in this song, but on any song he plays on. In that regard, I feel the same about him as I do about David Gilmour, in that I love listening to their guitar/amp tone(s), as much as I love listening to what they play. (Knopfler’s playing and tone on the song “Brothers In Arms” can still give me goosebumps). I think that “Sultans” (and Knopfler) grabbed me with such immediacy, because the track was just so unlike so much of the other music that dominated commercial FM rock radio at that time - bands like Journey, Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, KISS, etc., (and I’m not comparing those bands to each other, nor am I demeaning them either, it’s just that Dire Straits was so very different in contrast to popular 70’s bands like these.). The song, and the style it was played with and produced in, were very different from the other popular hit records of the day, and to me, it was like a breath of fresh air. It’s also a track that was sonically recorded and mixed very well. The song didn’t take any time to “grow on me”, and I’ve never grown tired of hearing it, either.. I doubt that I ever will. 😉 IMHO, of course. 🙏
Stu, you sound like me when I first heard Sultans......and told my friends "Listen to this!".........and I told myself that I will learn guitar just to play this song.....I'm over 50 now and finally working on learning it....I will do it.
I appreciate the part of his story where he tells his friend in the car to shut up so he could he listen to the song. That was me every time I was in a car when music was playing.
Wow. I didn't hear this song until the mid to late 80s. But my story is the same. I was (and still am) a huge Rush fan who stood firmly planted in the music of Slayer and Metallica... Maiden... Stuff like that. But I remember the first time I heard this tune. A friend and I pulled into a store to get some smokes right quick and the song came on the radio. We were heavy metal dudes. Balls to the wall. But we sat there silently the entire length of the song just taking it all in. There was no distortion, no crazy double bass or Neil Peart drum fills... Just straight up honest music with a good clean guitar. Listened to every note. Totally blown away. And that song still awakens whatever it was it triggered inside me that day. Great tune.
I was passing by a night club here in the UK one evening in 1978 it said on the door £1 entry fee, the band playing to night is Dire Straits who are they never heard of them before, there at the back of the club there was a small stage, down and one of the club a bar and with bar stools and dotted around some small tables with chairs a bit scruffy . Dire Straits came on stage they were fanstastic very enthusiastic crowd in front of the stage. while others at the bar did not seem to care this is about six months before their hit single Sultans Of Swing came out and as they say the rest is history. It was just fait that intervened that was the only one time I managed to see them in their early days.
I found ‘Behind the Vinyl’ only a few months ago. Now, going forward in 2021, because of this series, Boom 97.3 has become my go to radio station. Just love everything about this series, and the station absolutely rocks!
I was 17 years old living in Orange County California when 'Sultans of Swing' hit the radio in March of 1979 (album was released in late 1978). The 2nd song from the 'Dire Straits' album that got a lot of airplay in the Los Angeles radio market was 'Down To The Water Line'. Great album, great band.
I’m a guitar player wannabe. I pluck out lame originals. I’m most certainly not a “by the numbers” cover song guy. However, for some reason, since the day I first heard Sultans back in 78, I’ve always fantasized about performing the song. So, about 3 years ago, I started the monumental(for me) task of trying to lasso this song in on guitar. Still trying. My fellow band members have displayed extreme patience with me as I fumbled through the song countless times. We’ve actually performed the song a few times and despite nearly drowning myself in my own concentration sweat, we got through it without getting booed off the stage. So, now I can feel good about putting it away and scratching this item it off my bucket list. Meanwhile, on the other end of the talent spectrum, Knopfler likely ad libbed all those brilliant licks in one take.
Perfect commentary on an even more perfect song "Sultans Of Swing", from Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits-love it : ) thanks for putting this one up-great job Stu!!
I didn't realize it had affected others the same way, but I still remember exactly where and when I heard this for the first time, also... It was pleasantly relaxing, and strikingly different at the time.
That album was an instant home and hi-fi shop test record and it still is. It also didn't hurt popularity that it was an early CD release also.....every hi-fi enthusiast and shop had a copy to show off their CD players. I still play it now and then, and then ask whatever happened to good recordings and good production values. Long live the wonderful capture of the music of Dire Straights.
I used to listen to this in a record shop in the North East of England every lunchtime. I was blown away, and felt that me and the owner of the shop were the only people who knew about this amazing sound.
Funnily this is one of my favourite songs and I went through all different genres accross 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s. Mark’s originally from Glasgow so he knows what it means being in dire straits - didn’t even realised what their band name refered to until now 😒. They had this US band image in my view due to the “I want my MTV”/Money for nothing song. Great to hear the story behind this epic song
I just had a lunch conversation with close friends about how much we all love this song. And I was telling them they needed to watch this great series!
Great clip! Enjoyed this . I was 7th grade, in Iowa when this hit the airwaves. My buddy in Art Class would make fun of the verse "AND HARRY DOESNT MIND"...… as flick his wrist as a gay person. lol. It was a big hit. I remember digging it , cause nothing sounded like it, on US radio in 77/78.
Triple J was the first station in Australia that picked this song up and started playing it on air back in 1977. This was when Triple J was known as Double J and they were on the AM Band
As a Disc Jockey/FM Programmer/On-Air Personality (or whatever I am this week), I loved announcing copy or front-selling whatever and then slam that play button for that first drum beat into this song. And yes, he is absolutely correct, you let this song fade out as much as possible and then find that exact moment to drop the next song and it was usually at the 05:37 mark when the song was only down to the final 00:11 just to keep the flow on-air going.
Agreed. For me it was on a jukebox in the cafeteria at Centennial College in Toronto. I'd been wearing out the grooves on Slow Train Coming and thought for sure this was a new single from Dylan. I remember the counterpoint of the booming bass line and the hi-pitch licks. Unforgettable moment.
There are certain songs, that once they come on simply must, I say deserve to be played till they are complete...mostly with me also playing air guitar whether it be while driving my car or at home.
Although not the original artist, he tells a great stories about it from a totally different perspective - nice job. One of the best in the series, and I'm a big Behind the Vinyl fan...
My experience is so similar to his. Really loved this. Yeah I REALLY wished Mark Knopfler was interviewed here, but on the other hand I have seen plenty of MK interviews. I am happy to hear someone else's similar life changing "where were you when you 1st heard it?" moment.
I saw them play this album as a support band. The audience gave some heckling as is the norm but that stopped as they played their way thro' the album. By the time they got to this song and those gtr runs we knew we were witnessing something special. The sound of his gtr and his playing style was/is captivating.
Right at the absolute height of the mercifully short Disco era, along came Dire Straits and Sultans Of Swing, and I thought, "Maybe there is a god after all ! "
Hey Stu!!! ....... I really think upon hearing this track for the first time, you stumbled upon a moment....... and what an appropriate time for you to have your "MUSICAL AH-HA MOMENT!!" For me it was "Running with the Devil" from VANHALEN's Break out album..... I guess I could really Say that the entire album became my "musical ah-ha moment!!" That of course was immediately followed up by "BOSTON'S" Break out album ....... ohhhh man!!! What a magical time in music history.... or at least it was for me, and after that, well let's just say that Christmas presents that were distinctly given away by their dimensions and wrapped to mask the musical album enclosed, were never the same for me again....!! My parents "GOT IT," yes sir they understood that while the musical albums they had previously gifted me were some of the greatest music ever recorded, they were very likely their music and even quite possibly their "musical ah-ha moments," but the music now being played in the house on "Pleasant Avenue" was forever going to change!!!! This Album being featured would also find it's way under the Christmas tree in a year later, and it is still a "go to" album at almost any party or gathering where celebrations take place!!!! GREAT CHOICE STU, GREAT CHOICE!!!!! PEACE 🤘
Your story could be me. I had just got home and it came on the car radio and I was as like this Dylan, who is this? The announcer never said so I had to investigate, I knew right off I would get the album
Maybe he doesn’t know about this, but I wish he did and would have mentioned how Vandenberg ripped off part of the lead from this song on their debut album in 1982 on a song called “Lost in a city“. Adrien Vanderburg is an amazing guitar player, but he rips off the fast part of the solo big time. Check it out on RUclips or Spotify if you’re a fan of Dire Straits but haven’t heard Vandenberg rip him off in the solo on that song.
No offence intended to Mr. Jefferies but after watching videos with Tom Cocrane, Gowan, Mo Berg or even Kon Kan, having a dj give a commentary is some what of a let down. You don't have to get Mark Knopfler (thought that would be amazing) but at least someone in the band when that song was made would be nice.
For those of you who haven't kept up to Knopfler's solo work; on the subject of telling Stu that success is great; "Always think it's funny, gets me every time, the one about happiness and money, tell it to the bread line" from "Get Lucky"
Why is it whenever someone has a really good thing going they just cannot help them selves..... they have to fuck it up! I’ve been binge watching this series for days and I run into this crappy video of some fucking dude talking about some shit he had nothing to do with making! I’m a musician, what I love about this series is listening to the musicians who created the music talk about what was going on and what went into the song, when it was written , how it was written what was the inspiration yada yada… This guy can’t tell me any of that! Don’t make this a habit you’re going to blow it!
Homeboy says no talking during song then continues to talk over song. Also takes 2 seconds to explain its inspiration so he can listen to the sound of his own voice again! Thanks Inspector Gadget for enlightening us!
Why did disc jockeys think it's necessary to sprout out whatever is in their heads through the beginnings of these classic rock songs like hotel California until the very last second when the vocal begins? Just shut up and let us hear the song instead of just babbling on about nothing. One good thing about Spotify and some of these others is we don't have to listen to that garbage.
It's called "hitting the post" in the industry. It goes back to many years ago in the 60s, 70s 80s. We keep the music moving and in order to do that, we don't have much time to talk, so we use the song intro to talk over and give information that way.
The only thing I got out of this was that band that was so bad, you wanted to get as far away from the bar where that noise was coming from. The band who's guitarist was so bad that he was trying to disappear on stage. The bass player who played the basic notes--the one who made me want to scream, "Why are you holding back? You're so awful. The guitarist told you to play basic lines. You're awful. The band is awful. F it. You're going to be awful no matter what so why don't you cut loose?" Missing the right notes isn't worse than the lack of confidence and energy.
This is such a great series!
Thanks Stu! Thanks for being a part of bringing great videos and interviews to a generation of Canadians and being one of the pioneers of the format. You and TDM deserve high praise for what you did.
When I first heard “Sultans” (I was probably 19 or so) I was in the student center of Kent State, and it absolutely knocked me out. From the very first listen, I thought that it was an incredible track, so much so that I ran down to the record store just off campus, and bought the album that day. Regardless of how many times I’ve heard the song since, I STILL think it’s an incredible track.
Knopfler is one of my favorite guitar players; he plays with such taste, soul, and feeling; but it’s also his TONE that knocks me out, too. His tone is, well, “magical”... not just in this song, but on any song he plays on. In that regard, I feel the same about him as I do about David Gilmour, in that I love listening to their guitar/amp tone(s), as much as I love listening to what they play. (Knopfler’s playing and tone on the song “Brothers In Arms” can still give me goosebumps).
I think that “Sultans” (and Knopfler) grabbed me with such immediacy, because the track was just so unlike so much of the other music that dominated commercial FM rock radio at that time - bands like Journey, Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, KISS, etc., (and I’m not comparing those bands to each other, nor am I demeaning them either, it’s just that Dire Straits was so very different in contrast to popular 70’s bands like these.). The song, and the style it was played with and produced in, were very different from the other popular hit records of the day, and to me, it was like a breath of fresh air.
It’s also a track that was sonically recorded and mixed very well.
The song didn’t take any time to “grow on me”, and I’ve never grown tired of hearing it, either..
I doubt that I ever will. 😉
IMHO, of course.
🙏
Stu, you sound like me when I first heard Sultans......and told my friends "Listen to this!".........and I told myself that I will learn guitar just to play this song.....I'm over 50 now and finally working on learning it....I will do it.
And this song was the "B" side of the 45 as well.
Knopfler's guitar, Wither's drums, Ilslay's bass line . . . pure magic.
Cfrw and 92 citi fm were go to radio in winnipeg in late 70's n 80's! Thanks for the memories!
I watched Good Rockin' Tonight (I had to stay up late to see it!) with Terry David Mulligan then Stu Jeffries...our Saskatchewan boy done good!
I appreciate the part of his story where he tells his friend in the car to shut up so he could he listen to the song. That was me every time I was in a car when music was playing.
Wow. I didn't hear this song until the mid to late 80s. But my story is the same.
I was (and still am) a huge Rush fan who stood firmly planted in the music of Slayer and Metallica... Maiden... Stuff like that. But I remember the first time I heard this tune. A friend and I pulled into a store to get some smokes right quick and the song came on the radio. We were heavy metal dudes. Balls to the wall. But we sat there silently the entire length of the song just taking it all in. There was no distortion, no crazy double bass or Neil Peart drum fills... Just straight up honest music with a good clean guitar. Listened to every note. Totally blown away. And that song still awakens whatever it was it triggered inside me that day.
Great tune.
I was passing by a night club here in the UK one evening in 1978 it said on the door £1 entry fee, the band playing to night is Dire Straits who are they never heard of them before, there at the back of the club there was a small stage, down and one of the club a bar and with bar stools and dotted around some small tables with chairs a bit scruffy . Dire Straits came on stage they were fanstastic very enthusiastic crowd in front of the stage. while others at the bar did not seem to care this is about six months before their hit single Sultans Of Swing came out and as they say the rest is history. It was just fait that intervened that was the only one time I managed to see them in their early days.
Dambuster that is one cool story! On a rainy day I’ll put on the live at the bbc CD, close my eyes and imagine just what you’ve described.
No matter how many songs are released until the end of time, this will always be top 25, easily. Unforgettably great.
I found ‘Behind the Vinyl’ only a few months ago. Now, going forward in 2021, because of this series, Boom 97.3 has become my go to radio station. Just love everything about this series, and the station absolutely rocks!
Thanks Bob! Unfortunately we've had to put the series on hold until Covid is done as we can't have anyone in our studios. Glad you like the series!!
I heard this song yesterday. And immediately got hooked with riff and the solo. Mark's vocals were amazing in this song.
Dire Straits cruising around Winnipeg in my 67 Chevelle Bridge Drive In miss the old hometown
I was 17 years old living in Orange County California when 'Sultans of Swing' hit the radio in March of 1979 (album was released in late 1978). The 2nd song from the 'Dire Straits' album that got a lot of airplay in the Los Angeles radio market was 'Down To The Water Line'. Great album, great band.
Stu is awesome!
Every guitar slinger I know listened carefully to this song!! lol
Ah yes,hot summer nights with that whole album,over n over, very well crafted and clever tunes.
I completely agree. This song is fantastic.
Pretty sure this is the greatest song of all time.
I’m a guitar player wannabe. I pluck out lame originals. I’m most certainly not a “by the numbers” cover song guy. However, for some reason, since the day I first heard Sultans back in 78, I’ve always fantasized about performing the song. So, about 3 years ago, I started the monumental(for me) task of trying to lasso this song in on guitar. Still trying. My fellow band members have displayed extreme patience with me as I fumbled through the song countless times. We’ve actually performed the song a few times and despite nearly drowning myself in my own concentration sweat, we got through it without getting booed off the stage. So, now I can feel good about putting it away and scratching this item it off my bucket list. Meanwhile, on the other end of the talent spectrum, Knopfler likely ad libbed all those brilliant licks in one take.
Perfect commentary on an even more perfect song "Sultans Of Swing", from Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits-love it : ) thanks for putting this one up-great job Stu!!
And this is Good Rockin' Tonight!
Awesome mate.Thanks 👌👌👌👌
One of the best songs ever written and 3 insanely good solos in it
I didn't realize it had affected others the same way, but I still remember exactly where and when I heard this for the first time, also... It was pleasantly relaxing, and strikingly different at the time.
That album was an instant home and hi-fi shop test record and it still is.
It also didn't hurt popularity that it was an early CD release also.....every hi-fi enthusiast and shop had a copy to show off their CD players.
I still play it now and then, and then ask whatever happened to good recordings and good production values.
Long live the wonderful capture of the music of Dire Straights.
I used to listen to this in a record shop in the North East of England every lunchtime. I was blown away, and felt that me and the owner of the shop were the only people who knew about this amazing sound.
Funnily this is one of my favourite songs and I went through all different genres accross 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s. Mark’s originally from Glasgow so he knows what it means being in dire straits - didn’t even realised what their band name refered to until now 😒. They had this US band image in my view due to the “I want my MTV”/Money for nothing song. Great to hear the story behind this epic song
Fantastic song. Beautiful music and great lyrics
I just had a lunch conversation with close friends about how much we all love this song. And I was telling them they needed to watch this great series!
Great clip! Enjoyed this . I was 7th grade, in Iowa when this hit the airwaves. My buddy in Art Class would make fun of the verse "AND HARRY DOESNT MIND"...… as flick his wrist as a gay person. lol. It was a big hit. I remember digging it , cause nothing sounded like it, on US radio in 77/78.
Triple J was the first station in Australia that picked this song up and started playing it on air back in 1977. This was when Triple J was known as Double J and they were on the AM Band
I just discover this series and i can't stop watching! A new subscriber for sure.
As a Disc Jockey/FM Programmer/On-Air Personality (or whatever I am this week), I loved announcing copy or front-selling whatever and then slam that play button for that first drum beat into this song. And yes, he is absolutely correct, you let this song fade out as much as possible and then find that exact moment to drop the next song and it was usually at the 05:37 mark when the song was only down to the final 00:11 just to keep the flow on-air going.
Agreed. For me it was on a jukebox in the cafeteria at Centennial College in Toronto. I'd been wearing out the grooves on Slow Train Coming and thought for sure this was a new single from Dylan. I remember the counterpoint of the booming bass line and the hi-pitch licks. Unforgettable moment.
The Bridge Dive in. Best Ice cream in the Peg to this day!
Brilliant album!
There are certain songs, that once they come on simply must, I say deserve to be played till they are complete...mostly with me also playing air guitar whether it be while driving my car or at home.
One of my all time favourite songs. I tried learning it but gave up. I need to revisit it.
Although not the original artist, he tells a great stories about it from a totally different perspective - nice job. One of the best in the series, and I'm a big Behind the Vinyl fan...
Cool stuff I loved the song too lol
Thank you for this!!!
One of my top ten favorite songs of all time 🔥😎
Winnipeg born here. Jeez CFRW takes you back lol
And damn, I just recognized you Stu. I used to stay up late to watch G.R.T.
It was on around 10 or 11 CST when I was a kid lol
Stu Jeffries: Candian tv/radio personality. Currently in Toronto. Love Dire Straits. One of their best tunes.
My experience is so similar to his. Really loved this. Yeah I REALLY wished Mark Knopfler was interviewed here, but on the other hand I have seen plenty of MK interviews. I am happy to hear someone else's similar life changing "where were you when you 1st heard it?" moment.
I useta book it back from the arena on Friday night so I could see Good Rockin Tonight on CBC. Hey Stu!
I'm not sure why but this song always hits my emotions hard. I absolutely love it. Been way too long since I've heard it.
Cause it's in d minor. The saddest of all keys :-D
I saw them play this album as a support band. The audience gave some heckling as is the norm but that stopped as they played their way thro' the album. By the time they got to this song and those gtr runs we knew we were witnessing something special. The sound of his gtr and his playing style was/is captivating.
One of my favorite songs to play on the drums that swinging ride cymbal
That album is their debut self titled album.
every time i see stu i think of his show switchback in the late seventies or early eighties he was the second host of that show
Wonderful
Right at the absolute height of the mercifully short Disco era, along came Dire Straits and Sultans Of Swing, and I thought, "Maybe there is a god after all ! "
Hey Stu!!!
....... I really think upon hearing this track for the first time, you stumbled upon a moment....... and what an appropriate time for you to have your "MUSICAL AH-HA MOMENT!!"
For me it was "Running with the Devil" from VANHALEN's Break out album..... I guess I could really Say that the entire album became my "musical ah-ha moment!!" That of course was immediately followed up by "BOSTON'S" Break out album ....... ohhhh man!!! What a magical time in music history.... or at least it was for me, and after that, well let's just say that Christmas presents that were distinctly given away by their dimensions and wrapped to mask the musical album enclosed, were never the same for me again....!! My parents "GOT IT," yes sir they understood that while the musical albums they had previously gifted me were some of the greatest music ever recorded, they were very likely their music and even quite possibly their "musical ah-ha moments," but the music now being played in the house on "Pleasant Avenue" was forever going to change!!!! This Album being featured would also find it's way under the Christmas tree in a year later, and it is still a "go to" album at almost any party or gathering where celebrations take place!!!!
GREAT CHOICE STU, GREAT CHOICE!!!!! PEACE 🤘
It was clean a bit jazzy, tells a story and clean. A great tune!
Stu, You Kick Ass!
“Never missed a lick --on air guitar!” 😊
Legendary 1950s American disc jockey Allan Freed's high school band was called the sultans of swing.
That's Stu Jeffries? Like the 80s guy? Cool. I would've never've known if it wasn't pointed out.
Any Dire Straits fan should watch their "On the Night" dvd.
Classic.
What speakers are those?
Bridge Drive In still has great ice cream!
You should try getting Terry David Mulligan to do one of these with David Clayton Thomas's "Brainwashed". I've seen him gush about that before!
Saw him do this live in Thunder bay
AT95e on the arm
Definitely a great album by a great band but for some reason, Communique was my go to.
Your story could be me. I had just got home and it came on the car radio and I was as like this Dylan, who is this? The announcer never said so I had to investigate, I knew right off I would get the album
Maybe he doesn’t know about this, but I wish he did and would have mentioned how Vandenberg ripped off part of the lead from this song on their debut album in 1982 on a song called “Lost in a city“. Adrien Vanderburg is an amazing guitar player, but he rips off the fast part of the solo big time. Check it out on RUclips or Spotify if you’re a fan of Dire Straits but haven’t heard Vandenberg rip him off in the solo on that song.
You're nuts. And for the record, I'm a big fan of neither artist, so there's no ear bias happening here.
No offence intended to Mr. Jefferies but after watching videos with Tom Cocrane, Gowan, Mo Berg or even Kon Kan, having a dj give a commentary is some what of a let down. You don't have to get Mark Knopfler (thought that would be amazing) but at least someone in the band when that song was made would be nice.
What a ludicrous comment. And "offense" is spelled with an 's'.
DJs rule
He's giving his experience of hearing the song and how it changed his perspective.
Good talk. Cheesy how he refers to Knopfler as Mark like they’re tight.
For those of you who haven't kept up to Knopfler's solo work; on the subject of telling Stu that success is great;
"Always think it's funny, gets me every time,
the one about happiness and money, tell it to the bread line"
from "Get Lucky"
Anyone else from Winnipeg?
I guess the sultans were swinging elsewhere and couldn't make the behind the vinyl gig.
Sorry I just got captivated by the guitar again.....
you can't do nothing. you'd have to "not" do nothing.
Who is Stu Jeffries?
Canadian radio and tv broadcaster.
What what? Some guy talking about the song instead of the artist? Not good.
If you want to pay all the travel, hotel, etc. bills for Mark Knopfler to go there and do it (if he'd do it), then speak up and show them the money.
Why is it whenever someone has a really good thing going they just cannot help them selves..... they have to fuck it up! I’ve been binge watching this series for days and I run into this crappy video of some fucking dude talking about some shit he had nothing to do with making! I’m a musician, what I love about this series is listening to the musicians who created the music talk about what was going on and what went into the song, when it was written , how it was written what was the inspiration yada yada… This guy can’t tell me any of that! Don’t make this a habit you’re going to blow it!
Homeboy says no talking during song then continues to talk over song. Also takes 2 seconds to explain its inspiration so he can listen to the sound of his own voice again! Thanks Inspector Gadget for enlightening us!
bro who is this. where is David Knopfler?
That would have been nice. Unfortunately, he hasn't stopped by our studios.
Why did disc jockeys think it's necessary to sprout out whatever is in their heads through the beginnings of these classic rock songs like hotel California until the very last second when the vocal begins? Just shut up and let us hear the song instead of just babbling on about nothing. One good thing about Spotify and some of these others is we don't have to listen to that garbage.
It's called "hitting the post" in the industry. It goes back to many years ago in the 60s, 70s 80s. We keep the music moving and in order to do that, we don't have much time to talk, so we use the song intro to talk over and give information that way.
The only thing I got out of this was that band that was so bad, you wanted to get as far away from the bar where that noise was coming from. The band who's guitarist was so bad that he was trying to disappear on stage. The bass player who played the basic notes--the one who made me want to scream, "Why are you holding back? You're so awful. The guitarist told you to play basic lines. You're awful. The band is awful. F it. You're going to be awful no matter what so why don't you cut loose?" Missing the right notes isn't worse than the lack of confidence and energy.
Why in the world does anybody want to hear this guy talk about somebody else's songs? It's like watching some of those really bad VH1 shows.
If you want to pay all the travel, hotel, etc. bills for Mark Knopfler to go there and do it (if he'd do it), then speak up and show them the money.
who cares? just some fan in a chair
Disc Jockey, but nice if they could get Mark
Who the f*** is stu Jefferies
Great song, but terribly overplayed.
It is. But if you don't hear it for a while it still sounds fresh when you hear it again.
Yeah just like any Hit song on the radio
what do you expect?? Lol
Jesse Wright no way jose
The behind the vinyl videos are a great series. But this is lame. Get the artist who recorded the song or don't do it at all.
If you want to pay all the travel, hotel, etc. bills for Mark Knopfler to go there and do it (if he'd do it), then speak up and show them the money.