Originally posted by st dominics previewMark Knopfler - Dublin 2015-05-15
Hi
Big MK fan
However, I suspect that he played a lot of his latest album?
Nothing against that, it has just aged a bit, like Mark. I LOVE his energy and attack on the first 3 Dire Straits albums. As a guess, he only played 'Sultans' from them?
Broken Bones
Corned Beef City
Privateering
Father and Son
Hill Farmer's Blues
Kingdom of Gold (with Ruth Moody on backing vocals)
Skydiver (with Ruth Moody on backing vocals)
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes (live premiere)
I Used to Could (Nigel Hitchcock on sax)
Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits song) (Nigel Hitchcock on sax)
Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits song)
Mighty Man
Postcards from Paraguay
Marbletown
Speedway at Nazareth
Telegraph Road (Dire Straits song)
Encore:
So Far Away (Dire Straits song)
Our Shangri-La
Wherever I Go (with Ruth Moody on vocals and… more )
Going Home: Theme from Local Hero (Nigel Hitchcock on sax)
Mark Knopfler - 2015-05-16 - Manchester
Broken Bones
Corned Beef City
Privateering
Father and Son
Hill Farmer's Blues
Kingdom of Gold (with Ruth Moody on backing vocals)
Skydiver (with Ruth Moody on backing vocals)
Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes
I Used to Could (Nigel Hitchcock on sax)
Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits song) (Nigel Hitchcock on sax)
Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits song)
Mighty Man
Postcards from Paraguay
Marbletown
Speedway at Nazareth
Telegraph Road (Dire Straits song)
Encore:
So Far Away (Dire Straits song)
Our Shangri-La
Wherever I Go (with Ruth Moody on vocals and… more )
Going Home: Theme from Local Hero
Originally posted by st dominics previewMark Knopfler has played 641 solo concerts since 1986 and these are the 10 most frequently played songs (and how many times they were played)...
Nothing against that, it has just aged a bit, like Mark. I LOVE his energy and attack on the first 3 Dire Straits albums. As a guess, he only played 'Sultans' from them?
1 What It Is ~ 506
2 Romeo and Juliet ~ 492
3 So Far Away ~ 480
4 Telegraph Road ~ 478
5 Brothers in Arms ~ 450
6 Speedway at Nazareth ~ 445
7 Sultans of Swing ~ 428
8 Sailing to Philadelphia ~ 373
9 Marbletown ~ 339
10 Hill Farmer's Blues ~ 333
On his current "Tracker" tour, after 15 gigs, Knopfler has played Romeo and Juliet, Hill Farmer's Blues, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing, So Far Away [all from his Dire Straits catalogue] each 13 times [blimey, he may be using a spreadsheet!] and Brothers In Arms twice.
Originally posted by FMF"Hill Farmer's Blues" is not a Dire Straits song.
On his current "Tracker" tour, after 15 gigs, Knopfler has played Romeo and Juliet, Hill Farmer's Blues, Telegraph Road, Sultans of Swing, So Far Away [all from his Dire Straits catalogue] each 13 times [blimey, he may be using a spreadsheet!] and Brothers In Arms twice.
Originally posted by FMFThank you very much, excellent research. 5 each from DS/solo then? I would feel very cheated if he didnt play Sultans ~ the version on Alchemy is sublime.
Mark Knopfler has played 641 solo concerts since 1986 and these are the 10 most frequently played songs (and how many times they were played)...
1 What It Is ~ 506
2 Romeo and Juliet ~ 492
3 So Far Away ~ 480
4 Telegraph Road ~ 478
5 Brothers in Arms ~ 450
6 Speedway at Nazareth ~ 445
7 Sultans of Swing ~ 428
8 Sailing to Philadelphia ~ 373
9 ...[text shortened]... ts catalogue] each 13 times [blimey, he may be using a spreadsheet!] and Brothers In Arms twice.
I gave this tour a miss ~ saw MK in Mcr 5 years ago, and supporting Bob Dylan (I think) 3 years ago. (I mean I think it was 3 years ago, sure he was supporting Bob!!)
His duet with Van Morrison on the recent Van album 'Duets' is one of the stronger tracks on that album
Knopfler had a terrific band with him last night in Zurich, incl. Richard Bennett and Guy Fletcher. He played a mix of recent and older songs going back to his first DS album. I don't recall everything he played last night, and some of it was unfamiliar to me. Roughly: bits from Privateering and Get Lucky, Sultans of Swing (probably about 12 minutes long), Romeo & Juliet (again about 12 minutes), Telegraph Road (ditto), Speedway at Nazareth, Post Cards from Paraguay, and others, to a standing ovation, followed by three encores: So Far Away, Bros. in Arms, and Local Hero Theme. 2 -1/2 hours all told. He clearly enjoys playing. He makes it look so easy, hardly worked up a sweat. 3d time I've seen him (twice w/ DS in the 1980s in Germany); he's aging well, like good wine.
I've seen Clapton, Page, Santana, BB King, Allman Bros. Band, Zappa, Andres Segovia, and Pat Metheny. Jeff Beck still to go before one of us kicks the bucket.
Segovia, btw, held an entire auditorium breathless for an hour; he took his stool, gave the audience one stern look, and waited until the room was silent. No one dared to cough or clear his throat until he finished. I have never since seen one man w/ one acoustic instrument command such respect.
Originally posted by Suziannewell then, I would like to be the bass player playing bass at the concert where Eric Clapton first played Layla.
Sorry, but "gigs" are where musicians go to play and get paid to play. A "gig" is a musician's job for the night, not a performance a non-musician pays to see. You can't appropriate the musician's lingo to talk about something you paid to see, it just doesn't make sense.
When you pay to see a musician play, that's called a "concert". It may be just an ...[text shortened]... "gig" for him, but it's not a "gig" for you. You're not getting paid to perform. He is.
