A pic from 1979-03-31 Old Waldorf, San Francisco, USA

[boboDS]

OK, maybe 'often' is not the best word here. I have no idea how often they jammed with a support act.

At least, on these pictures it was Barooga Bandit:
http://www.motorcityrock.com/bands/barooga_bandit/barooga_bandit.html

I know that they also did a jam with Ian Gomm on  the September '79 US tour.

Maybe they did not do a jam when they recorded the show for the radio like March 31, 1979, but the pics here are from the next day April 1 (according to Corbis), but you are right, I don't know of a bootleg on which we hear them doing this.

Interesting, I had the impression that MK wouldn't have been too eager to do something like this.

It still would be very interesting to hear one of these "jams".

There was a chapter in Palmers' book about Gomm I think, gotta reread that.

[peterromer]

Can someone clarify why this thread is sticky ?
(just wondering) 

[Simon]

Something odd here. That's not Pick on drums either. Did I miss something?

[localhero1986]

Strangeeeeeeeee, mysterious stuff there! Have to say the pictures are heavily overpriced... I've vinyl bootleg from one of the shows of that tour (Philadelphia), for the DS fanclub of Hamburg.

[Dutchessy]

Strangeeeeeeeee, mysterious stuff there! Have to say the pictures are heavily overpriced... I've vinyl bootleg from one of the shows of that tour (Philadelphia), for the DS fanclub of Hamburg.

I think they play done with bonaparte on that picture

[Hoops McCann]

You can find the image at http://www.corbisimages.com but the strange thing is that they say the picture is from 1 april 1979.

Maybe that's because the second half of the latter show lasted after 00:00 on April 1st.  :-)

But who's the extra drummer here?  And is David sharing a mic with John?

I received the following email today from someone who seems to want to remain anonymous:

I joined just to make a comment about a picture from the 1979 Dire straits concert, someone asked who the second drummer is- it's a guy named Franz DeRaad, he played with Barooga/Barooga Bandit, is from my home town and that pic showed up on my Facebook homepage,

(Also mentioned by Ingo here.)

[JeroenvG]

Look at this poster:



and another date 09-march-1979?

http://www.motorcityrock.com/bands/barooga_bandit/barooga_bandit.html

sorry to bring this up again but if the 31-march-1979 show was a soundboard, you can think that the other dates were soundboard recorded maybe too?

At least we van listen to 31 march here: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/dire-straits/concerts/old-waldorf-march-31-1979.html