Found this in the Panorama (Dutch magazine) today. It's about the (great) Belgian guitarist Dany Lademacher(Herman Brood, The Radios).
Translated:
Mark Knopfler once called you with a proposal...
"Yes. I've never seen my dad so angry. The man that didn't want me to make music at all. He's never been at one of my concerts and that's a shame, I think. My mother neither, my dad forbade her. My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 17 and from that moment on it was exit. Until then my musical development wasn't public, after that my father read about it in the papers. But yes, Mark Knopfler on the phone. If we could meet, so we went for diner, very cosy. He had just kicked his brother out of the band and was looking for a guitarist. That evening I told him immediately:'I'm sorry, but I'm not the man your looking for'. He could well imagine. He even said: 'I wouldn't have done it myself'. I didn't want to bring someone's tea to his bed. I was writing my own music, didn't feel like standing back on stage and do nothing else. I'm not better than my neighbour, but when I play guitar, I play guitar. And not someone else. And with Dire Straits you're just standing next to Mark Knopfler playing along, I find that uninteresting. So no."
New information to me.
