A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => News Articles and Interview Transcripts => Topic started by: JF on March 09, 2012, 07:53:49 AM
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blind test for Mark : the journalist play some songs to Mark, and he has to tell if he know this music, and if he like it or not
as I did some patchwork "collages" with magazines articles when I was a teen , I still only have the numbers 12 and 13, but I remember there was some JJ Cale, EC's give me strength, and Ted Nugent.
It's from the french magazine "Best", I guess in 1982 or 1983, not sure.
the translation of the part about Van halen is something like that :
"technically it is very developed, but it's the kind of thing that leaves me totally indifferent. I understand that it impresses other people, but in terms of sensitivity that leaves me cold. you have no other JJ?"
and the part about Cooder :
"It is Ry, he is inimitable, he is one of the guitarists I like most with JJ, he is capable of anything with a guitar but he has mainly a prodigious sense of feeling. More, what he does looks simple as it is so natural that it looks obvious, and yet it is not that easy, it's technically very hard to do because it is an hypersensitive approach "
Yes I confess I use google translation ; I know it's not always good, but I guess you get the whole idea.
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Very interesting, thanks. That kind of blind test would be an interesting thing to do again, or maybe MK should do a radio show about his favourite artists - just like the other guy, whatever his name was, Bruce Dillan or so.... ;)
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Thanks, JF.
Here are the two songs mentioned:
Van Halen - Eruption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7XiJgt0vY
Ry Cooder - Always Lift Him Up (in my opinion, not the best example of Ry's work ...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYo3byPgC5o