Classic Rock Show

[superval99]

Don't know if anyone has seen this show, but they perform songs from some of the classic rock bands, including DS.  Here is Telegraph Road:

[foma]

I like that. Actually I listened it from the start to the end, which never happened with The Straits, Strats, Starts, Rats, Stars, Stratas, etc.

I think the whole trouble of most cover-bands is OVER-thinking about MK songs. I can't explain this, but overthink is the right word.

These guys just really PLAYS THE SONG, without pretending anything, without overthink, but with concentration on their sound. I like that!

[LoveExpresso]

Yes they stick pretty close to the album  version, which works perfectly well, much better than almost anything from Mark since 2008.. this guitarist plays very good and unpretentious which I like very much. And like foma, watching this felt a lot better than all that AC/JS crap...

Didn't check: Do they have any other MK stuff in their programme?

LE

[superval99]

Here is their website:

http://www.theclassicrockshow.com/the-band/howie-g

[JF]

I like that. Actually I listened it from the start to the end, which never happened with The Straits, Strats, Starts, Rats, Stars, Stratas, etc.

I think the whole trouble of most cover-bands is OVER-thinking about MK songs. I can't explain this, but overthink is the right word.

These guys just really PLAYS THE SONG, without pretending anything, without overthink, but with concentration on their sound. I like that!

+10000

[superval99]

I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard this version of TR.   It was played very close to the album version, but the guitarist didn't try to emulate MK either vocally or in mannerisms - it was just a good, honest rendition of TR.   I enjoyed it very much.      

Here's MFN:



I liked it that they ran the DS video as they performed!   

[dmg]

All of your posts I agree with (to an extent), especially the guitar sound on TR - but why do it?  If you are going to do a version perhaps your own interpretation is best;  at least you are showing some improvisation or that you are capable of rearranging a song.  To copy to the extent that the song is almost an exact replica is something I don't see the point in.  Is he just arrogantly saying "look everybody, I can do it too."

[superval99]

All of your posts I agree with (to an extent), especially the guitar sound on TR - but why do it?  If you are going to do a version perhaps your own interpretation is best;  at least you are showing some improvisation or that you are capable of rearranging a song.  To copy to the extent that the song is almost an exact replica is something I don't see the point in.  Is he just arrogantly saying "look everybody, I can do it too."

I know what you mean, dmg, but this is essentially a show, playing lots of bands' music as faithfully as possible to the albums. I don't think MK would have a problem with this, like he has with The Straits, because there doesn't seem to be a hidden agenda. In fact, he may even be amused by it   

[foma]

[LoveExpresso]

Foma, where is that from? Never heard that quotation.. 

LE

[rudiger]

Foma, where is that from? Never heard that quotation.. 

LE

It's taken from the booklet of the CD Marbletown by Blue Highway. Here's the cover to which Mark refers

 

[LoveExpresso]

Thanks!

Nice version!

LE

[jakehadlee]

I've seen these guys and they are excellent musicians and do a very good show. They play TR very well, but there's just something wrong with singing Dire Straits in a "rawk!" voice! ;-)

[Pottel]

nice version.

[vgonis]

Loved the music, hurt by the voice. Need a husky one, that more narrates than sings.