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Re: Dire Straits

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Slowy wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:33 pm
kdawg2a wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 5:29 pm You guys all know he has no indie, shoe gaze, goth, surf, hip hop, r&b, gangsta cross over right?




Shoe gaze & sorta surfy? surf
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Bg wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:54 pm You made three points....

You didn't like bacon roll song

You enjoyed noodling to the first dire straits album

He used to use Reinhardt amps.

Which one did you want to lead with :P just saying rasssssssssssspppppppppperrrrrrrbbbbbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyy
I couldn't decide so went with a scatter-gun approach.

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and yet that still makes no sense...

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jeremyb wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:55 am Always dug his guitar playing, and watching a recent video of brothers in arms live it brought a glisten to the eyes...

that was an amazing listen. It's like the song aged like a fine wine or waited for him to grow into it. What a master.

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Dharmajester wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:23 pm
Molly wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:18 pm He used to use Reinhardt amps (pretty high gain as far as I know). These days I believe he's using Kemper live.
He was using the Reinhardt Storm which was Bob's take on a Jcm 800. Odd choice I thought ( as did Bob haha )
I think a JCM800 makes a lot of sense, isn't it essentially the same kind of thing as a JTM45? Classic tube Marshall with a little more gain?

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rickenbackerkid wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:31 pm
I think a JCM800 makes a lot of sense, isn't it essentially the same kind of thing as a JTM45? Classic tube Marshall with a little more gain?
Well they both say Marshall on the front but other than that apples and oranges.
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Dharmajester wrote: Sun Jul 19, 2020 10:09 am
rickenbackerkid wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:31 pm
I think a JCM800 makes a lot of sense, isn't it essentially the same kind of thing as a JTM45? Classic tube Marshall with a little more gain?
Well they both say Marshall on the front but other than that apples and oranges.
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I love Mark Knopfler's tones. He has a few very different ones - that strat quack, les paul breathing, etc. Great player. I'm also a fan of his voice.

He has done some corny stuff - but i'm just a little bit younger than the average dire straits fan so I was never sure if they were consciously corny or if they thought that stuff was cool. Twisting by the Pool etc doesn't seem to be serious.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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Delayman wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:34 pm He has done some corny stuff - but i'm just a little bit younger than the average dire straits fan so I was never sure if they were consciously corny or if they thought that stuff was cool. Twisting by the Pool etc doesn't seem to be serious.
He's serious all right. Most of the famous musicians who were teenagers in England in the late 50s and early 60s were blown away by rock and rock and rockabilly. After they were famous and could do what they wanted, they started playing that style.
Billy Joel: It's All Rock n Roll to Me, Uptown Girl, Tell Her About It
Jeff Beck: a whole album covering Cliff Gallup
Jimmy Page: covers of Elvis songs at Led Zep concerts
Robert Plant: his Honeydrippers work with Brian Setzer.
Paul McCartney: a cover album of old rockers the name of which I forget.
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Twisting by the pool is an abomination and an aberration, made him some money though so...
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Listened to a playlist on Spotify today, he seems to use the same riff a lot on the lesser known songs...
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