Chris Whitten interview

[knopflertom]

I have not seen the answer yet 

[Klaus74]

Yes, indeed. Please calm down, all. So, it is a very big honour to us all fans around the globe to have Chris here on the AMIT-Forum. 

I´m very interested personally in various background-knowledge, as a fan and concert-visitor. What about the organisation of such a worldtour, or how does the studio and recording-work looked like. So, dear Chris, are you feeling free, to explain for example how a day in a sound-recording-studio was organized with all other musicians, the engineers and so on ? That will be very interesting for me to know.
As a concert-visitor and fan, i shurely can imagine, how precise the technical-staff had to work, incl. the truck and busdrivers, the management-office, the different organisation-processes and so on.
What are your experiences with that ?

[SamGolden]

 I got up this morning, I had a good coffee while listening to "Donkey Town", a very beautiful piece, very melodious, a very beautiful voice from Mark, simply the sound of the guitar and the harmonious voice of Emmilou Harris in the background. And there... I said to myself "but that's the real talent of MK", to write a beautiful melodious song.

...And there was no drums.

I started the day in a good mood.

[Pottel]

all i wanted to know was how he got here in the first place......will never know now....

[cannibals]

I am very happy that someone like Chris W is here on this forum. Hope he comes back sometimes…

[jbaent]

Lolz, yes, how do we know it's the real Chris Whitten on Instagram?!

He upload a lot of videos of him playing, personal pictures, tells about his career, his recordings... looks like him. 

[jbaent]

all i wanted to know was how he got here in the first place......will never know now....

why not? he usually answers messages on his instagram...

[Darling Pretty]

It's actually an embarrassment that an actual member of DS comes on to our forum and it descends into this complete shit show, what a disappointment.

Exactly thought the same.
I felt very happy when Chris appeared here and gave some insight.
And I liked his drumming on the OES Tour.
Especially on Elvis and Sultans. He had this drive...
Thanks Chris for showing up on AMIT

[NicoMK]

I got up this morning, I had a good coffee while listening to "Donkey Town", a very beautiful piece, very melodious, a very beautiful voice from Mark, simply the sound of the guitar and the harmonious voice of Emmilou Harris in the background. And there... I said to myself "but that's the real talent of MK", to write a beautiful melodious song.

...And there was no drums.

I like this song much. It was played once or twice at the very beginning of the MK-EH tour but was quickly dropped from the set, sadly.

A bit of drums by Sir Danny though. 

Aah the 2006 tour. Good times long gone.

[Darling Pretty]

Saw it in Hamburg luckily.
In Rotterdam it was dropped already

[dustyvalentino]

I got up this morning, I had a good coffee while listening to "Donkey Town", a very beautiful piece, very melodious, a very beautiful voice from Mark, simply the sound of the guitar and the harmonious voice of Emmilou Harris in the background. And there... I said to myself "but that's the real talent of MK", to write a beautiful melodious song.

...And there was no drums.

I like this song much. It was played once or twice at the very beginning of the MK-EH tour but was quickly dropped from the set, sadly.

A bit of drums by Sir Danny though. 

Aah the 2006 tour. Good times long gone.

Did we get it in Dublin?

[NicoMK]

I got up this morning, I had a good coffee while listening to "Donkey Town", a very beautiful piece, very melodious, a very beautiful voice from Mark, simply the sound of the guitar and the harmonious voice of Emmilou Harris in the background. And there... I said to myself "but that's the real talent of MK", to write a beautiful melodious song.

...And there was no drums.

I started the day in a good mood.

Thank you SamGolden, I've re-listened to this song and now I feel depressed. 

Not because of the song which is great, but because I loved this MK period so much… and now it's gone for good. 

[NicoMK]

I like this song much. It was played once or twice at the very beginning of the MK-EH tour but was quickly dropped from the set, sadly.

A bit of drums by Sir Danny though. 

Aah the 2006 tour. Good times long gone.

Did we get it in Dublin?

Unfortunately not

[quizzaciously]

Back to topic, either I'm such a noob of a musician or doesn't care about things, but I see absolutely NO PROBLEM in the way Sultans was played in 1992 drums-wise. Just got here after watching Basel 1992 video and it sounds amazing, on par with all other songs. I know a lot of people apparently hate this drumming, but I'm like — what's all the fuss is all about? If nobody told me, I would never even think about it. Some people can even hear drum heads being changed on that tour, please give me your ears...

[Robson]

 
Yes. I have the same feelings. These are details that are beyond me. For me, every street tour was fantastic and very important.