Underrated by whom???? By your neighbourhood? By your fellow citizens???? You are the one Who decides if you like It. I Will never understand that statement
Nobody plays guitar like Mark. That finger picking style is all his and he owns it. He makes that Stratocaster sing, cry and wail like nobody else could. Lions is my favorite from the debut album.
No matter how much I listen to Mark throughout the years and all the different Strats that he had it still comes down to this single first strat he started with. Mark's tone is a masterpiece!
Lions grew to one of my fav Dire Straits songs over the years as I appreciate it more every time I hear it. Can't say enough about Mark's virtuoso talent.
The more you read into the lyrics the deeper mark takes you on another journey. This whole Rockpalast Gig is top notch. Truthfully I like anything by Mark and DS including syndey but this concert is the best. Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits before they were big and just doing what they loved. Thank you so much for the Music, The memories and the tears that I have shed throughout the years I have followed you Mark. You are truly my Hero.
This is the best ever line up of DS in my opinion. Mark and David Knopfler , John Isley and the great Pick Withers created a sound on the first 2 albums that was so evocative and different to what everyone else was doing ( except maybe JJ Cale ). Great musos, great songs, well produced, this sound hasn’t aged at all. I still listen to all their albums all the time and never get tired of it, but to me the first albums are special.
Thank you for posting this. This is my favorite song from their first album. It has such a somber but at the same time magical mood. The lyrics are picturesque, "high heeling across the square. Wind blows around in her hair." Church bells, drunk old soldier, starlings, lions. A great piece of music and lyrics. This version is a very good quality. Thanks again.
Salve a tutti, ho 17 anni e sono appassionato enormemente ai dire straits da quando avevo 13 anni circa. Sono sempre più convinto che i dire straits siano una band particolare che ti deve piacere il genere. Qua in Italia purtroppo c'è solo musica spazzatura. Nei bar, discoteche, scuole... ma dopo aver subito tutta questa immondizia musicale mi rifugio nella musica dei dire straits, e mi sento un'altra persona.❤🎸👋
wasn't lorry driver at all, he was hitchhiking quite often trying to get from the North to London and back (Southbound again), very often lorry drivers were giving him a lift
I can't believe how much better this sounds in HD. Before you could barely hear it. What a show this was.They played the whole first album and Communique.I don't think the people in this audience knew what a treat they were getting.
toujours dans la lignee des hendrix .MARK KNOPFLER .fait partie des meilleurs guitaristes mondiale avec sa tecknique en finger picking sans mediator .il fallait oser faire les solos avec ces doigts .magnifique DIRE STRAITS FOREVER
Those were the grand old days! I'll never forget the day when I heard their first album with this piece on it for the first time. I was simply stunned. Thanks so much for posting this great live version!
I actually stopped my car on a highway, pulled over, because this song came on and I had no clue who it was. I already loved SOS by them, but this song surpasses any song by them in my book, because, I fucking pulled over on a highway just because I heard it - no song has done that to me except Lions.
Funny, that's the very same experience I had hearing Sultans of Swing. It came on the radio and started cutting out as I drove. I pulled onto the shoulder and kept creeping forward until reception was better. Thankfully, at the end they mentioned Dire Straights. I scralled it into a college notebook and went looking for it the following day. I knew a guy running a local record shop and he had gotten the album in the day before. I was the first guy in town to buy it. those first two records are still my favorites.
@@REM1956 Beautiful, serendipitous experience! I was a kid when I first heard Sultans of Swing. Something wonderful hit my ears and then my soul. What is this sound? I wanted more! I never really got it.
Red sun go down way over dirty town Starling are sweeping around crazy shoals A girl is there high heeling across the square Wind blows around in her hair and the flags upon the poles Waiting in the crowd to cross at the light She looks around to find a face she can like. Church bell clinging on trying to get a crowd for Evensong Nobody cares to depend upon the chime it plays They're all in the station praying for trains Cogregations late again It's getting darker all the time these flagpole days Drunk old soldier he gives her a fright He's crazy lion howling for a fight. Strap hanging gunshot sound Doors slamming on the overground Starlings are tough but the lions are made of stone Her evening paper is horror torn But there's hope later for Capricorns Her lucky stars give her just enough to get home Then she's reading about a swing to the right But she's thinking about a stranger in the night I'm thinking about the lions tonight What happened to the lions.
God I've drank so many bottles of wine sat on my sofa while my wife's upstairs watching all her crap. I've never been so content while listening and watching this fantastic gig.
@kissthesettingsun i can listen to this song at least 100 times and not get bored, perhaps even more.......it's amazing the rhythm-section of this song!
I am here in WA. ST. smoking cannabis oil & I just had something like an out of body experience while listening 2 Mark Knopfler make his guitar gently weep just as well, if not better than Eric Clapton. WOW can! M.K. play. PEACE-OUT & By 4 Now
Almost every studio track would end with a disappointing fade out yet live the endings are dynamic, dramatic and form such melodically natural conclusions that one wonders why he didn't record and release the songs that way?
Always wanted to ask Mark how he takes care of his fingertips. If I ever get the chance I will ask him to show me the insides of his hands, so I can examine his calluses. Thanks for posting!
i can see his soul is floating around the stage. so he could thin like that. how dare a human could plays guitar in this level. this is another league. sorry my poor english. but that's my opinion actually.
I start sweating everytime I watch this, good grief, your shoulders, hands, arms, voice got to be sexiest ever.... Oh, sorry, did I just write that??? I should know better....
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TRULY PHENOMENAL AMAZING TREMENDOUS BEAUTIFUL THANKYOU SIR......WOW WHEN STRINGS SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES
SEVERELY underrated and one of my favorite songs on their debut album
every straits song is underrated
The BBC version is brilliant
Everything on that Album is underrated except Sultans.
100% agree.
Underrated by whom???? By your neighbourhood? By your fellow citizens????
You are the one Who decides if you like It.
I Will never understand that statement
Nobody plays guitar like Mark. That finger picking style is all his and he owns it. He makes that Stratocaster sing, cry and wail like nobody else could. Lions is my favorite from the debut album.
Totally agree wonderful track
Lions is my favourite dire straits track of all time
The only other person I can think of who’s a great finger picking guitar player is Lindsey Buckingham
@@AstroWrLd44 Agree..don't think Lindsey gets enough recognition
His mind is strictly rhythm he don't wanna make it cry or sing
I would give my life for this mans
No matter how much I listen to Mark throughout the years and all the different Strats that he had it still comes down to this single first strat he started with. Mark's tone is a masterpiece!
Lions grew to one of my fav Dire Straits songs over the years as I appreciate it more every time I hear it. Can't say enough about Mark's virtuoso talent.
The more you read into the lyrics the deeper mark takes you on another journey. This whole Rockpalast Gig is top notch. Truthfully I like anything by Mark and DS including syndey but this concert is the best. Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits before they were big and just doing what they loved. Thank you so much for the Music, The memories and the tears that I have shed throughout the years I have followed you Mark. You are truly my Hero.
Multi Pass are you still listening
@@terrydavidson5052 Always
Ma chanson préférée de Dire Straits. Quel bonheur...Je ne m'en lasse pas...
I love how they all seem so relaxed and enjoying themselves, Mark especially.
The most underrated rock song ever
This guy was and is still unbelievably good, he will be my guitar hero for my life
🎉no joke this is my favorite song 🎉
This is the best ever line up of DS in my opinion. Mark and David Knopfler , John Isley and the great Pick Withers created a sound on the first 2 albums that was so evocative and different to what everyone else was doing ( except maybe JJ Cale ).
Great musos, great songs, well produced, this sound hasn’t aged at all. I still listen to all their albums all the time and never get tired of it, but to me the first albums are special.
Yes the first 2 albums are warm, comforting, mysterious, adventurous, melancholic and exciting
I agree. I like them the best too! Making Movies is in there too.
@@cryptodave2619
I love this comment Dave!! So well said brother!
Yaa Knopfler is amazing, he plays his stuff with fingers and he has the most recognizable sound on stratocaster, no one can beat him
One of my favorite songs from this band...my god, that cool groove...
Beautiful chord progression too.
This is one of, if not my favorite, DS songs!
I was a teen when this album came out. We would cruise Grand Avenue at night in my buddy's Camaro with the 8-track blasting this song.
Yep still listening ❤
Thank you for posting this. This is my favorite song from their first album. It has such a somber but at the same time magical mood. The lyrics are picturesque, "high heeling across the square. Wind blows around in her hair." Church bells, drunk old soldier, starlings, lions. A great piece of music and lyrics. This version is a very good quality. Thanks again.
Salve a tutti, ho 17 anni e sono appassionato enormemente ai dire straits da quando avevo 13 anni circa.
Sono sempre più convinto che i dire straits siano una band particolare che ti deve piacere il genere.
Qua in Italia purtroppo c'è solo musica spazzatura.
Nei bar, discoteche, scuole... ma dopo aver subito tutta questa immondizia musicale mi rifugio nella musica dei dire straits, e mi sento un'altra persona.❤🎸👋
Sappi che ti capisco, son contento che sebbene pochi, sia rimasto qualcuno a cui piaccia musica decente.
Auguri Fabio!!!
dire straits One of my favorite album.....😊
he doesn't miss a note... what an amazing guy
MK's guitar spooky ,haunting, unforgetable
So many friends of mine who love music don't ever play this or even know about it! I must tell them the news of this glorious song!!
Working-class Shakespear...that is Mark Knopfler to me. This is breathtaking.
Vanessa Creech That's a brilliant description.
True. But when he started out her was a school teacher and a lorry driver. Plus he is from Newcastle.
the only problem MK is no working class himself, highly educated as you know, grew up in educated family
wasn't lorry driver at all, he was hitchhiking quite often trying to get from the North to London and back (Southbound again), very often lorry drivers were giving him a lift
Beautifully put.
I can't believe how much better this sounds in HD. Before you could barely hear it. What a show this was.They played the whole first album and Communique.I don't think the people in this audience knew what a treat they were getting.
Can’t agree more
Awesome song beginning to end.
The debut is such a great album. Love their other work too, but it has such a live, fresh sound mixed with Dylanesque surrealism and JJ Cale stylings
MK is a genius who has just gotten better with age.
Amazing guitarist, the great one
toujours dans la lignee des hendrix .MARK KNOPFLER .fait partie des meilleurs guitaristes mondiale avec sa tecknique en finger picking sans mediator .il fallait oser faire les solos avec ces doigts .magnifique DIRE STRAITS FOREVER
Mark on guitar is always best. I love this tune. ROCK ON!!!!!!
One of the best songs of the album
No
Best 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Probably my FAV by them.... can NEVER hear to much just that damn good!
Mark ,
I am daying of cancer , i hope they will play brother in arms on my funeral (live from stocholm 92)
THANKS MAN
Im so sad to hear that
Those were the grand old days! I'll never forget the day when I heard their first album with this piece on it for the first time. I was simply stunned. Thanks so much for posting this great live version!
All time best channel, thanks Dog! Can't get enough of this whole Rockpalast-Colonge performance! Peace!!
this is an extraordinary song by an extraordinary talent, thanks for the up Dog
I actually stopped my car on a highway, pulled over, because this song came on and I had no clue who it was. I already loved SOS by them, but this song surpasses any song by them in my book, because, I fucking pulled over on a highway just because I heard it - no song has done that to me except Lions.
Funny, that's the very same experience I had hearing Sultans of Swing. It came on the radio and started cutting out as I drove. I pulled onto the shoulder and kept creeping forward until reception was better. Thankfully, at the end they mentioned Dire Straights. I scralled it into a college notebook and went looking for it the following day. I knew a guy running a local record shop and he had gotten the album in the day before. I was the first guy in town to buy it. those first two records are still my favorites.
@@REM1956
Beautiful, serendipitous experience! I was a kid when I first heard Sultans of Swing. Something wonderful hit my ears and then my soul. What is this sound? I wanted more! I never really got it.
Excellent audio and video, thanks for the upload
Wonderful song
Anyone still listening?
God yes, and still with tears in my eyes
❤❤❤
His music is absolutely uplifting ❤❤❤
For sure
Absolutely!
It sounds incredible !
When music smiles...
Great song, the chords add a lot of deep.
My Fav Band Ever!!!🎸🎶❤
They just hit right in the soul!!
adore this song. MK is brilliant :-)
Simply awesome!!
I love them
Strong feeling...kind of melancholy.
Red sun go down way over dirty town
Starling are sweeping around crazy shoals
A girl is there high heeling across the square
Wind blows around in her hair and the flags upon the poles
Waiting in the crowd to cross at the light
She looks around to find a face she can like.
Church bell clinging on trying to get a crowd for Evensong
Nobody cares to depend upon the chime it plays
They're all in the station praying for trains
Cogregations late again
It's getting darker all the time these flagpole days
Drunk old soldier he gives her a fright
He's crazy lion howling for a fight.
Strap hanging gunshot sound
Doors slamming on the overground
Starlings are tough but the lions are made of stone
Her evening paper is horror torn
But there's hope later for Capricorns
Her lucky stars give her just enough to get home
Then she's reading about a swing to the right
But she's thinking about a stranger in the night
I'm thinking about the lions tonight
What happened to the lions.
Thank you
Thanks man it’s been so many years trying to work out the lyrics!
Are the lions the Coad stone lion on Waterloo bridge? Just curious
Mark is a genius !!
He really is! Only God could give someone this ability to evoke such feeling with sound!
Beautiful song.
WTH!!! I cannot stop listening to this song!!!
first time hearing ,great
My favourite song on them
perfection
Great Song , Great Video , Great !
God I've drank so many bottles of wine sat on my sofa while my wife's upstairs watching all her crap. I've never been so content while listening and watching this fantastic gig.
I call that my quiet time. I don’t seem to get enough though.
😎
@JMAC1265 they like to give us the 'silent treatment', and we pretend we don't like it....
@@Sssthpok 👍🏻😁
amazing!!
Me ist still listening :-)
The beat versión of this fucking song. What a pleasure
Great Jam at the end!
Oh yea!!!!
Удивительно,чем больше я слушаю Марка,тем больше мне нравится.Прямо какая-то зависимость😍🎸❤️👍👏🎸❤️
Excellent stuff
@kissthesettingsun i can listen to this song at least 100 times and not get bored, perhaps even more.......it's amazing the rhythm-section of this song!
I want to listen to it with you brother. I feel the same way. So good to have people in this world you connect with in music!
Mark is the true lion in guitar...
Are you ok after this song? I am flying! :D
So awesome!
Amazing guitar player. Very unique 👍
@kissthesettingsun that's so awesome. this is one of my favs. Dire Straits is so good, I don't know how to describe it. Favorite band for life!!!
"high-heeling out across the square"
Always loved that description of a woman's walk.
😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
I am here in WA. ST. smoking cannabis oil & I just had something like an out of body experience while listening 2 Mark Knopfler make his guitar gently weep just as well, if not better than Eric Clapton. WOW can! M.K. play. PEACE-OUT & By 4 Now
He is the f**** man. No doubt. I love all his stuff.
この曲大好きなんだよな
Gorgeous
Almost every studio track would end with a disappointing fade out yet live the endings are dynamic, dramatic and form such melodically natural conclusions that one wonders why he didn't record and release the songs that way?
Back in the day when you could show up on TV looking like a sleep-deprived philosophy professor, and it was totally ok
Because back then musicians had REAL talent and skills and didn`t have to hide their lack of talent behind their looks like these days....
The best Mark
Why is this my favourite band 😂.
amazing
How can you be that stoned, and still play that good 😂.
Always wanted to ask Mark how he takes care of his fingertips. If I ever get the chance I will ask him to show me the insides of his hands, so I can examine his calluses. Thanks for posting!
Genial
Mark is a master! The Lion he is referring to is Leo, his astrological sign.
Да...такие песни и их исполнение заряжают мощно.
Adel Houdrouge. M.K on his guitar is always the best.
i can swear, that i had my pants on, when i started this video.
bruh are you a boy
i can see his soul is floating around the stage. so he could thin like that. how dare a human could plays guitar in this level. this is another league. sorry my poor english. but that's my opinion actually.
Your English is fine.
If you haven't heard this album on MoFi vinyl or SACD on a decent system, you're really missing out.
Cool as fook.
youre the best
if songs were women, i'd definitely be in love with this one
Just ripped! Controlled trip!
....Crazy lion he's howling for a fight....
The starlings are tough but....the lions are made of stone....
What happened to the lions..?
very good
Mark Knopfler is fuck*n underrated
I start sweating everytime I watch this, good grief, your shoulders, hands, arms, voice got to be sexiest ever.... Oh, sorry, did I just write that??? I should know better....
Epá demais.
Niceee. The best
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