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OfflineViervalen

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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2024, 10:51:03 PM »

A new one….

As long as you didn’t have the nerve to ask your dad for an amplifier, where did you plug your first electric guitar?


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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2024, 11:21:33 PM »

A new one….

As long as you didn’t have the nerve to ask your dad for an amplifier, where did you plug your first electric guitar?


 ;D

Good one!  ;D
I'm not sure if ever told us when he actually got his first amp in the end, did he? The Fender Twin Reverb he used on the first album must have cost a pretty penny even in the 70s, so probably he had something cheaper before that?
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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2024, 12:02:58 AM »
I remember seeing a picture of him before DS playing a Selmer amp!
But was it a Twin used on the first album? I always figured it must've been John's Fender brown Vibrolux...


A new one….

As long as you didn’t have the nerve to ask your dad for an amplifier, where did you plug your first electric guitar?


 ;D

Good one!  ;D
I'm not sure if ever told us when he actually got his first amp in the end, did he? The Fender Twin Reverb he used on the first album must have cost a pretty penny even in the 70s, so probably he had something cheaper before that?

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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2024, 12:33:29 PM »

A new one….

As long as you didn’t have the nerve to ask your dad for an amplifier, where did you plug your first electric guitar?


 ;D

Good one!  ;D
I'm not sure if ever told us when he actually got his first amp in the end, did he? The Fender Twin Reverb he used on the first album must have cost a pretty penny even in the 70s, so probably he had something cheaper before that?

He got a selmer amp during Cafe Racers days. He said he put it on a chair for Cafe Racers gigs

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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2024, 12:36:55 PM »
Thinking of Jimi: has Mark ever tried to play a lefty guitar?

he tried to play a lefty tennis racket though  :lol

but his sister Ruth told him to play the other way around  ;D


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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2024, 03:01:54 PM »
I'd ask him the following:
 - When he looks back on his musical career, which event stands out in his mind as being one of the most significant? Being asked to play for Bob Dylan, for example
 - Same as above, but what was the worst point (professionally) and why
 - If he could only keep one of his remaining guitars, which would it be?
nice one (or better, 3)!!
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #21 on: April 11, 2024, 06:18:05 PM »
Who would he liked to share a stage with that he hasn’t had the opportunity to (both living and dead.)

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Re: Questions for MK
« Reply #22 on: April 11, 2024, 06:47:02 PM »
I thought about that, too. The Great Big Band in the Sky.
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