A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: nando_5994 on March 23, 2024, 12:52:48 AM
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This Sunday on Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt we chat to Mark Knopfler about his new album 'One Deep River' out on April 12th, his introduction to the guitar and his time fronting one of the greatest acts of the 80s, Dire Straits and those huge decade defining hits, like Sultans of Swing... The podcast is out on Sunday on all podcast channels.
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Wow this is a really good episode.
More info on Uncle K 8)
What more could you want on a Sunday than 69 minutes of MK talking.
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I sometimes wonder how he manages it to not be bored to death himself by always the same stuff he literally must have told hundreds of times. Is he really thinking people don't detect it?
LE
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I sometimes wonder how he manages it to not be bored to death himself by always the same stuff he literally must have told hundreds of times. Is he really thinking people don't detect it?
LE
That's a good question... Mark is a smart guy, one of the smartest guys I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot, and NO WAY he's not noticing that he's telling the same stories over and over again. I think some of the clues here might be:
1) He's "complete" as a person and it manifests itself in answering all questions the same and doing the music pretty much the same way too
2) He probably knows that die-hard fans are a small percentage of people watching and for the majority of people, it's a new info
3) Answering questions differently requires time and effort, and Mark is telling all the time how he's careful about time
4) The interviewers are usually not die-hards, not prepared properly anyway, or too "official" like Mr Paul Sexton
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Ok he answered the question why he is not touring anymore. He wants to stay home and write more. It seems he doesn't think it's optimal to write songs while on tour. So One Deep River will be a first proof if the quality of his writing has become better by not touring.
LE
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Ok he answered the question why he is not touring anymore. He wants to stay home and write more. It seems he doesn't think it's optimal to write songs while on tour. So One Deep River will be a first proof if the quality of his writing has become better by not touring.
LE
But we all know that's not true. He has been writing songs while on the road all his life. Many of his songs are inspired by touring (ex.Telegraph Road, Rudiger, So Far Away, Silver Eagle, etc.)
It can't be that only now at 74 he realized he wants to write at home
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It also means we won’t get geographical masterpieces like Lights of Taormina.
It’s not my favourite song by any stretch but how he got so many rhymes with Taormina is incredible.
However, he does also write when on holiday. I believe The Trawlerman’s Song was written while he was on holiday in Capetown.
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Is it worth the time? If it's up to the standard of the Twiggy interview, count me in, but if it's almost all new info, then not so much.
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Imho it is worth the time. The interview is nice because a) MK is in a good mood and quite talkative and b) the interviewers are fellow musicians, hence they ask questions from a different angle. I really enjoyed it.
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Imho it is worth the. The interview is nice because a) MK is in a good mood and quite talkative and b) the interviewers are fellow musicians, hence they ask questions from a different angle. I really enjoyed it.
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Will give it go. I remember I liked the one with John Illsley. The interviewers were funny and asked interesting questions.
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9 minutes in. Oh, yeah. Definitely worth it, much due to the interviewers, but Mark is in good form too.
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It's amazing how much depends on the atmosphere, the "chemistry", and on the right questions. With MK this seems to be the case more than with some other artists.
Sometimes I wonder what questions I would ask him, if I ever had the chance to interview him. Maybe this could be worth a new thread: What questions would you ask MK in an interview?
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Totally! These interviewers know how to ask the right questions, and they are able to make even the extremely well-known stories become interesting topics of conversation.
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Like Twiggy, this was very nice.
Seems MK is much more comfortable speaking to fellow professionals than journalists or broadcasters.
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It's amazing how much depends on the atmosphere, the "chemistry", and on the right questions. With MK this seems to be the case more than with some other artists.
Sometimes I wonder what questions I would ask him, if I ever had the chance to interview him. Maybe this could be worth a new thread: What questions would you ask MK in an interview?
I think I had a thread exactly about this recently, it wasn't popular though: https://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=8351.msg167362#msg167362
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Thanks. Sorry, I hadn't seen that.
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Thanks. Sorry, I hadn't seen that.
No problem, no need to be sorry! I'm sorry though that this topic was forgotten from the start as I think it's quite interesting. We've all seen a million interviews with MK and heard him a million times telling stories about his uncle, but what needs to be asked is another question.
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Thanks. Sorry, I hadn't seen that.
No problem, no need to be sorry! I'm sorry though that this topic was forgotten from the start as I think it's quite interesting. We've all seen a million interviews with MK and heard him a million times telling stories about his uncle, but what needs to be asked is another question.
Well, in this podcast they need to get information about all the career of the person they are interviewing, from the start (or before the start) to the very last minute, and this is something Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt do very well if you check his other interviews, that they are very interesting as they interviewed some of the biggest names in rock history.
And also they are very clearly fans, as in many of his previous podcasts, specially the very early ones, they mentioned MK and DS everytime they could, which was very very nice!
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Two minor mistakes though . Roy Bittan on Love Over Gold and Slow Train Coming from 1983.. ;D
LE
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What is a bit irritating is that they interrupt the person being interviewed, and each other, quite a bit. And sometimes I wished that they stayed on topic a bit longer. Some of the transitions felt a bit random. But overall a good interview.
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What is a bit irritating is that they interrupt the person being interviewed, and each other, quite a bit. And sometimes I wished that they stayed on topic a bit longer. Some of the transitions felt a bit random. But overall a good interview.
At the end of the day their podcast is a commercial enterprise and as such they are told to stick to the "optimum" podcast length which I believe is under an hour. But the MK was one of their longer ones.
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Way too many interruptions for my liking. As soon as MK starts to answer their question, they cut him off with another random fact.
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Way too many interruptions for my liking. As soon as MK starts to answer their question, they cut him off with another random fact.
I feel like MK himself was like "WTF" a few times after being cut off mid-sentence. Not good indeed! Let the man talk. But other than that, a great podcast!
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Couple of clowns. Didn't really appreciate their manner personally and very surprised to find Mark on a show like this.
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I agree on the interruptions, that was a bit disturbing.
But these two are actually two high-profile musicians, each of them every bit as famous and as professional as MK.
Gary Kemp was the lead guitarist and songwriter for Spandau Ballet, and Guy Pratt was a bass player for Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Madonna, Michael Jackson and a few others.
Perhaps they just got carried away with all the things they wanted to ask him.
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I agree on the interruptions, that was a bit disturbing.
But these two are actually two high-profile musicians, each of them every bit as famous and as professional as MK.
Gary Kemp was the lead guitarist and songwriter for Spandau Ballet, and Guy Pratt was a bass player for Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Madonna, Michael Jackson and a few others.
Perhaps they just got carried away with all the things they wanted to ask him.
It's just their style, they are the stars of the podcast as much as the guest is.
That said I would dispute that Guy Pratt is anywhere near as famous as MK, and MK isn't that well known himself.
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I agree on the interruptions, that was a bit disturbing.
But these two are actually two high-profile musicians, each of them every bit as famous and as professional as MK.
Gary Kemp was the lead guitarist and songwriter for Spandau Ballet, and Guy Pratt was a bass player for Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Madonna, Michael Jackson and a few others.
Perhaps they just got carried away with all the things they wanted to ask him.
This sort of thing clearly isn't their forte then.
I don't think Mark helped either; he sounded so sluggish and boring. TBH I couldn't bring myself to listen to most of it.
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"Pre-coffee grumble" ;D
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I enjoyed this interview, it was great to hear Mark talk about Pick, and even Brewers Droop :o Not sure I have ever heard him talk about his time with them.
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Wish these things went on for longer - appreciated this but I do agree the interruptions cause half finished tales