3 Chord Trick (Legacy)

[Love Expresso]

Before this gets it's own life I just might point out that I just assumed or guessed about any drugs related to him.

LE

[quizzaciously]

Before this gets it's own life I just might point out that I just presumed or guessed about any drugs related to him.

LE

I listen to the "Wonderful Tonight" right now with Eric and Mark and I know Alan's playing there. It's like there's two Alans — DS one and post-DS one. DS one, as was mentioned before, is a world-class musician and awesome arranger. After this we all know what's happening... I don't know about drugs, but it's some drastic changes right there. You can have different opinions about Mark, but I think there's a reason for him to stop public communication with certain people, especially given the fact that Danny Cummings manages to sit on both chairs perfectly fine.

[Robson]

Has any journalist ever asked Mark what the Terminal of Tribute To is about?

[jbaent]

Has any journalist ever asked Mark what the Terminal of Tribute To is about?

Since the song it's "hidden" in the special deluxe box" I guess nobody even notice about it.

[jbaent]

Before this gets it's own life I just might point out that I just assumed or guessed about any drugs related to him.

LE

I assumed it too, long ago. There must be a reason MK has cut with him definitely, specially since MK didn't call him for the MK and friends gigs in 2002...

[quizzaciously]

Has any journalist ever asked Mark what the Terminal of Tribute To is about?

Funny, when 99% of journalists asks Mark about how he started on guitar and he tells, for the 7 millionth time a story about blowing his family's radio, I don't think anybody will ever ask such a personal question about a track hidden deep it "bonus tracks" section. Ask Guy if you want to get even more bonus laughs.

[Robson]

It is true. Always the same questions ... No one has ever tried to ask why sometimes the best songs are hiding additional CDs.

[jbaent]

It is true. Always the same questions ... No one has ever tried to ask why sometimes the best songs are hiding additional CDs.

Yes, many of us already asked that question, many times, and his answer is always something like "the songs that are not in the cd are not by a very good reason"

i understand they choose what they think fit better in the cd, all the songs together, and the rest, if they worth, go to the bonus tracks, and the rest go to the vault.

[ds1984]

Only the inner circle knows exactly what happened between Alan and Mark.

Alan and Guy stopped surfing together.

For long Alan almost muted.

One day on his own site he started to express his dissatisfaction about the way he joined Dire Straits without the helpful hand of a manager on his side - I guess in that case he would never have had the job like it happened to McGinnis in similar conditions.

Alan worked for EC and Tina Turner, he's a gifted musician but it seems something went wrong for him during the nineties as he disappeared form the musical scene. Since he has become its own shadow.

[Eddie Fox]

Alan was an outstanding musician. Highly creative with incredible technique and knowledge. I think he simply didn’t move on and got bitter instead of paving his own way outside DS. He had the skills and the name but chose another path. Now I see him in those interviews and he sounds pathetically delusional.

It’s a shame cos as a musician he was largely superior to GF.

[dustyvalentino]

Alan was an outstanding musician. Highly creative with incredible technique and knowledge. I think he simply didn’t move on and got bitter instead of paving his own way outside DS. He had the skills and the name but chose another path. Now I see him in those interviews and he sounds pathetically delusional.

It’s a shame cos as a musician he was largely superior to GF.

How do we know all this?

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[Robson]

It's hard to say if he was better. Everyone is different. Everyone has their own style

[Eddie Fox]

Alan was an outstanding musician. Highly creative with incredible technique and knowledge. I think he simply didn’t move on and got bitter instead of paving his own way outside DS. He had the skills and the name but chose another path. Now I see him in those interviews and he sounds pathetically delusional.

It’s a shame cos as a musician he was largely superior to GF.

How do we know all this?

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Well, what did Alan get up to after 1992 and before his tribute band? A world class musician like him? If he was to be credited as a songwriter for many DS songs as he claims why didn’t he start another band 20 years ago to prove his point? It’s all there.

[Eddie Fox]

It's hard to say if he was better. Everyone is different. Everyone has their own style

Guy fills all the gaps: good musician, good technician, good friend, good guy... but solely as a keyboardist I think he’s far behind Alan.

[Robson]

Alan was very good at some stage of DS's activity. But GF is more versatile