A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Dutchessy on February 02, 2024, 09:46:21 AM
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I was wondering.. Could we make a list of guitars Mark still owns? We never know it for sure ofcourse..
So, please shout and i will update the begin post with info..
1)58 Les Paul
2)red Schecter strat
3)white "Fender" strat built by John Suhr (The Bug guitar)
4)White Don Grosh Electrajet
5)61 strat
6)BiA National
7)Beltona resonator
8)Beard resonator
9) Pensa that was lot 32
10)Blue Pensa
11)New blue Pensa that he got from Rudi the other day
12)Martin Ragpicker’s Dream
13)Gibson Advanced Jumbo
14)Gibson Southerner Jumbo
15)Gibson ES-335 (1959)
16)Martin HD40MK
17)Martin D-18
18)Gretsch 6120?
19)Danelectro (Donegan's gone guitar)
20)54 Strat (he also had a reissue that I don't think was in the sale?)
21)Gibson ES330
WIP!
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At least one, maybe more signature Les Pauls as used on the last tour
The 58 Les Paul
The red Schecter strat
The white "Fender" strat built by John Suhr (The Bug guitar)
White Don Grosh Electrajet
61 strat
BiA National
Beltona resonator
Beard resonator
The Pensa that was lot 32
Blue Pensa
New blue Pensa that he got from Rudi the other day
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Pensa 1993
Pensa MK2 1996
Pensa Super MK1 2005?
Telecaster styled Pensa (used on Tracker Tour)
Black Pensa Suhr
Blue Pensa
White Stratocaster ( STP)
National
Schecter Stratocaster (Red)
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At least one, maybe more signature Les Pauls as used on the last tour
The 58 Les Paul
The red Schecter strat
The white "Fender" strat built by John Suhr (The Bug guitar)
White Don Grosh Electrajet
61 strat
BiA National
Beltona resonator
Beard resonator
The Pensa that was lot 32
Blue Pensa
New blue Pensa that he got from Rudi the other day
A new blue Pensa? Is this off Facebook or something? Got any pics/details?
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Martin Ragpicker’s Dream
Gibson Advanced Jumbo
Gibson Southerner Jumbo
Gibson ES-335 (1959)
Martin HD40MK
Martin D-18
Gretsch 6120?
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At least one, maybe more signature Les Pauls as used on the last tour
The 58 Les Paul
The red Schecter strat
The white "Fender" strat built by John Suhr (The Bug guitar)
White Don Grosh Electrajet
61 strat
BiA National
Beltona resonator
Beard resonator
The Pensa that was lot 32
Blue Pensa
New blue Pensa that he got from Rudi the other day
A new blue Pensa? Is this off Facebook or something? Got any pics/details?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=938685527626281&set=a.287152606112913
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Danelectro (Donegan's gone guitar)
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54 Strat (he also had a reissue that I don't think was in the sale?)
Gibson ES330
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White Fender Strat (1964)
Mini Martin
Possibly the National Style ‘O’ replica (the one first seen in 2006)
Sunburst 1966 Telecaster
Blonde 1954 Telecaster (though he may have gifted this to Richard Bennett)
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Can we try to give an example of a song he used it on as well? Then we make our own mini-catalogue ;)
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Monteleone
Erlewine Automatic (Industrial Disease)
Gibson SG (Two Young Lovers '83)
Red Pensa from Neck & Neck cover?
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Monteleone
Erlewine Automatic (Industrial Disease)
Gibson SG (Two Young Lovers '83)
Red Pensa from Neck & Neck cover?
John Suhr said he thinks that red Pensa was on loan. I believe it turned up at the Italian Pensa days a while back and is in the hands of a collector.
Wasn't the SG Hal's? I think he has posted it on FB recently.
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What about his Signature red Strats? Does he still owns a couple?
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So, no worries, he still has more than enough guitars :thumbsup That new Pensa looks lovely.
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So, no worries, he still has more than enough guitars :thumbsup That new Pensa looks lovely.
Don't like it. A bit of a messy design around the bridge I think.
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I agree, it is, but, it's the colour I like, although the ice blue is even better.
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The brown Pensa he used for Romeo and Juliet outro during the NA leg of 2019 tour.
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The brown Pensa he used for Romeo and Juliet outro during the NA leg of 2019 tour.
Oh yes, the Tele lookalikey. A beauty.
Reminds me he was also given a similar looking Pensa in Milan in 2005 he used on TR from there onward. The one with ivory coloured trim.
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I might be completely wrong, but I think he still owns much more than we would think.
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Also some Monteleone guitars
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the National Tricone was sold ?
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the Martin D18 was sold ?
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the National Tricone was sold ?
When was it last seen?
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Telecaster used in Why aye man lately?
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the Martin D18 was sold ?
A Martin D-28 was in the auction. I don’t recall seeing the D-18 in there.
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Telecaster used in Why aye man lately?
That, I think, is the sunburst 1966 Telecaster. Pretty sure he still has that one.
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The Boswells.
I suppose there's more than one.
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I might be completely wrong, but I think he still owns much more than we would think.
Maybe so but it's not the number he now owns, more the historic ones he doesn't own. :'(
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the National Tricone was sold ?
When was it last seen?
I think during the last record sessions, unless Richard Bennett has one and it's his one in the pictures.
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Red Pensa from Neck & Neck cover?
John Suhr said he thinks that red Pensa was on loan. I believe it turned up at the Italian Pensa days a while back and is in the hands of a collector.
This one. https://guitarmotel.net/guitar/pensa-suhr-1990-flat-top-strat-played-by-mark-knopfler-on-neck-neck-duet-album-with-chet-atkins/
He also has the replacement schecter strat.
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He also has the replacement schecter strat.
you mean the sunburst ?
No he hasn't it anymore. it was sold in auction in late eighties or nineties I think
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the Martin D18 was sold ?
A Martin D-28 was in the auction. I don’t recall seeing the D-18 in there.
yes you are right I meant D-28
this one
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He also has the replacement schecter strat.
you mean the sunburst ?
No he hasn't it anymore. it was sold in auction in late eighties or nineties I think
When I said "he" I meant this collector guy https://guitarmotel.net/guitar/schecter-1980-stratocaster-sunburst-ex-mark-knopflerdire-straits/
Unless it's not there anymore, that I do not know.
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So, no worries, he still has more than enough guitars :thumbsup That new Pensa looks lovely.
Don't like it. A bit of a messy design around the bridge I think.
Well, It's a different shade of blue, it has a Bigsby tremolo and it is semi-hollow ,so it will probably sound a bit different. ;D
Also note the guitar cases on the floor in that photo.
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He also has the replacement schecter strat.
you mean the sunburst ?
No he hasn't it anymore. it was sold in auction in late eighties or nineties I think
When I said "he" I meant this collector guy https://guitarmotel.net/guitar/schecter-1980-stratocaster-sunburst-ex-mark-knopflerdire-straits/
Unless it's not there anymore, that I do not know.
ah ok, thanks :)
Ingo met the guy and played the guitar
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the National Tricone was sold ?
When was it last seen?
I think during the last record sessions, unless Richard Bennett has one and it's his one in the pictures.
I remember RB had a square necked national that he used on All That Matters.
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the National Tricone was sold ?
When was it last seen?
I think during the last record sessions, unless Richard Bennett has one and it's his one in the pictures.
I remember RB had a square necked national that he used on All That Matters.
yes indeed, but not the same as Mark's Tricone
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The Jizzblaster (or is that the same as the Donegan's Gone guitar?).
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The Jizzblaster (or is that the same as the Donegan's Gone guitar?).
the Donegan gone's guitar is the Danelectro DC isn't it ? the same as on Corned Beef City
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The Jizzblaster (or is that the same as the Donegan's Gone guitar?).
the Donegan gone's guitar is the Danelectro DC isn't it ? the same as on Corned Beef City
Yes
The Jizzblaster was put together by an American looney for luthier. ;D
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He also has the replacement schecter strat.
you mean the sunburst ?
No he hasn't it anymore. it was sold in auction in late eighties or nineties I think
There were also at least two other red Schecters, one was a red backup that Hal used, it retained the original black pickups. The other had a rosewood fretboard and matching red headstock (it's in one of the Infidels videos). He may have leant them out or given them away though. The sunburst one had been in the hands of a friend of his for years before he recalled it for the Crossroads auction.
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Lest not forget the amps.
Reinhardt
Komet 60
Tone King Imperial mk1 + 20th anniversary
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Is there any real evidence that he actually owned the “Jizzblaster”?
By the way, the Boom Like That Silvertone that was sold at auction had been modified before it was sold. The tremolo was replaced with a modern bridge.
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Mark still has 50 guitars "at home"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/morgenmagazin/christie-s-versteigert-knopfler-gitarren/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL21vcmdlbm1hZ2F6aW4vMmEzZTkxOWItOGYyMy00NDRlLTlhOTctNDNiN2JjZGRjNTc3
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What about his Signature red Strats? Does he still owns a couple?
Didn't he have the first two or three made? SE00000 & SE00001??
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Mark still has 50 guitars "at home"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/morgenmagazin/christie-s-versteigert-knopfler-gitarren/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL21vcmdlbm1hZ2F6aW4vMmEzZTkxOWItOGYyMy00NDRlLTlhOTctNDNiN2JjZGRjNTc3
Thank you! I especially like the part where MK is sitting all alone tapping his foot to the music! :)
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Me too Val, do we know what song he was listening to? I was hoping for some coverage on the news channels in the UK but I didn't see any, did I miss them?
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Me too Val, do we know what song he was listening to? I was hoping for some coverage on the news channels in the UK but I didn't see any, did I miss them?
I can't be sure, but after a few listens I think it's MFN.
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Is there any real evidence that he actually owned the “Jizzblaster”?
By the way, the Boom Like That Silvertone that was sold at auction had been modified before it was sold. The tremolo was replaced with a modern bridge.
http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html (http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html)
MK News had it on a dedicated page but it's dead. At least that must mean something.
www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html (http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
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Mark still has 50 guitars "at home"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/morgenmagazin/christie-s-versteigert-knopfler-gitarren/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL21vcmdlbm1hZ2F6aW4vMmEzZTkxOWItOGYyMy00NDRlLTlhOTctNDNiN2JjZGRjNTc3
And A LOT MORE, I guess! ;D
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Is there any real evidence that he actually owned the “Jizzblaster”?
By the way, the Boom Like That Silvertone that was sold at auction had been modified before it was sold. The tremolo was replaced with a modern bridge.
http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html (http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html)
MK News had it on a dedicated page but it's dead. At least that must mean something.
www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html (http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
Buried but not that dead ;D
INTRODUCING ....THE DANELECTRO JIZZBLASTER (http://web.archive.org/web/20120323180130/https://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
"For the best prices tell them you heard about them from MKNews"
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Is there any real evidence that he actually owned the “Jizzblaster”?
By the way, the Boom Like That Silvertone that was sold at auction had been modified before it was sold. The tremolo was replaced with a modern bridge.
http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html (http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html)
MK News had it on a dedicated page but it's dead. At least that must mean something.
www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html (http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
Buried but not that dead ;D
INTRODUCING ....THE DANELECTRO JIZZBLASTER (http://web.archive.org/web/20120323180130/https://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
"For the best prices tell them you heard about them from MKNews"
Cool!
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Mark still has 50 guitars "at home"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/morgenmagazin/christie-s-versteigert-knopfler-gitarren/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL21vcmdlbm1hZ2F6aW4vMmEzZTkxOWItOGYyMy00NDRlLTlhOTctNDNiN2JjZGRjNTc3
Does that video exists just in English?
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Is there any real evidence that he actually owned the “Jizzblaster”?
By the way, the Boom Like That Silvertone that was sold at auction had been modified before it was sold. The tremolo was replaced with a modern bridge.
http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html (http://www.fatdawg.com/danelectro.html)
MK News had it on a dedicated page but it's dead. At least that must mean something.
www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html (http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
Buried but not that dead ;D
INTRODUCING ....THE DANELECTRO JIZZBLASTER (http://web.archive.org/web/20120323180130/https://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html)
"For the best prices tell them you heard about them from MKNews"
Thanks. I mean, it still doesn’t say that MK owned one, much less played one.
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If memory serves, I believe Mark played the Jizzblaster (a word I cannot utter without sniggering) on the recorded version of Gator Blood. But I cannot for the life of me remember where I read that.
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If memory serves, I believe Mark played the Jizzblaster (a word I cannot utter without sniggering) on the recorded version of Gator Blood. But I cannot for the life of me remember where I read that.
Maybe here ?
Gator Blood live on the white 1964 Strat (https://www.mk-guitar.com/2013/05/07/gator-blood-live-on-the-white-1964-strat/)
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If memory serves, I believe Mark played the Jizzblaster (a word I cannot utter without sniggering) on the recorded version of Gator Blood. But I cannot for the life of me remember where I read that.
Maybe here ?
Gator Blood live on the white 1964 Strat (https://www.mk-guitar.com/2013/05/07/gator-blood-live-on-the-white-1964-strat/)
Hmm, no. I’ve never read that before. I have a feeling it was Guy’s forum.
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Mark still has 50 guitars "at home"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/morgenmagazin/christie-s-versteigert-knopfler-gitarren/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL21vcmdlbm1hZ2F6aW4vMmEzZTkxOWItOGYyMy00NDRlLTlhOTctNDNiN2JjZGRjNTc3
Does that video exists just in English?
So far I haven't found it
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What about his Signature red Strats? Does he still owns a couple?
Didn't he have the first two or three made? SE00000 & SE00001??
Mark for sure toured with SE00000 & SE00001. Neither of which were in the sale, nor have surfaced elsewhere. I would suspect he still has them. The red schecter "Strat", it was last seen in public in 2008 being played by Richard on Fish and Bird as far as I know.
SE00011 was the first serial number available to the public. Presumably, 0-10 went to Mark if they all actually exist. The MK serial number game is a bit head scratching.
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I would think that Mark would not bore getting all the 11 first serials for himself.
I would guess that some went to Fender insider or Mark did offer some to friends.
But I could be wrong.
Yesterday I was asking myself about when Mark started being a serious guitar collector.
Because now he is into crazy expensive guitars but in my mind this is a turn he had taken over the years.
For many years he owned guitar in somewhat "standard" range price for a professionnal musician.
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Mark definitely gave signature Strats as gifts. I'm pretty sure a few of the band have them.
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Mark definitely gave signature Strats as gifts. I'm pretty sure a few of the band have them.
He even gave his Signature Strat to some of his family members ;D
What a guitar hero.
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Does anyone know if MK kept the brown Strat that he used to play TR at the Dijon, France gig on 30 June 2013? The video is on You Tube. My favorite DS song of all time.
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Does anyone know if MK kept the brown Strat that he used to play TR at the Dijon, France gig on 30 June 2013? The video is on You Tube. My favorite DS song of all time.
Interesting question. My first thought was that it looked like a Pensa that Mark retrieved from the auction, Lot #32, however, it's a completely different Pensa. So Mark kept it!
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There's obviously still a place for the single coil pickup Pensas. He used this one for Telegraph Road on the 2013 & 2015 tours and It wasn't in the sale.
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/privateering-18513/mk_0104/
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/mark-knopfler-20515-tracker-tour/mk_0082lq/
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Pensa 1993
Pensa MK2 1996
Pensa Super MK1 2005?
Telecaster styled Pensa (used on Tracker Tour)
Black Pensa Suhr
Blue Pensa
White Stratocaster ( STP)
National
Schecter Stratocaster (Red)
can you check with the first post, which ones are already included? i miss the expertise to compare.
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There's obviously still a place for the single coil pickup Pensas. He used this one for Telegraph Road on the 2013 & 2015 tours and It wasn't in the sale.
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/privateering-18513/mk_0104/
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/mark-knopfler-20515-tracker-tour/mk_0082lq/
He actually has been using that one since GH tour, on which at a certain point he received the MK2 to be used for SoS and TR instead of the MK1.
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I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it. He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005. The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece. The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/
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I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it. He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005. The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece. The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/
He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEB2qI1fFZU&t=7603s
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I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it. He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005. The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece. The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/
He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEB2qI1fFZU&t=7603s
I was just saying to a friend this morning after listening to Sultans from OTN on the live box, the MK1 is terrible for that song IMO. Far too muddy.
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For Sultans, he overcomplicated things for decades; the Fender was always the best choice IMO.
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For Sultans, he overcomplicated things for decades; the Fender was always the best choice IMO.
Dunno, Alchemy is probably the peak for me.
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Most famous (Alchemy), but the sound is a bit too sharp or thin for my taste. I liked the back-to-basics Sultans after 2001, especially in 2005.
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I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it. He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005. The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece. The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/
He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEB2qI1fFZU&t=7603s
Yep, that's it. That's two months after I saw him in Newcastle and he had dropped the Pensa MK1 in favour of a Les Paul as well. I wonder if the Pensas he kept have fatter necks, or if it's just the single coil pickups he prefers in them.
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
This is definitely tier 5 MK iceberg content ;D
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
This is definitely tier 5 MK iceberg content ;D
I know. This is weapons-grade Knopflering!
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
This is definitely tier 5 MK iceberg content ;D
I know. This is weapons-grade Knopflering!
I was there in Copenhagen back in -96. It was the MK1
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
This is definitely tier 5 MK iceberg content ;D
I know. This is weapons-grade Knopflering!
I was there in Copenhagen back in -96. It was the MK1
in lyon on july 9th, it was the MK1 on SOS and TR
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I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.
I really must know these important things!
This is definitely tier 5 MK iceberg content ;D
I know. This is weapons-grade Knopflering!
I was there in Copenhagen back in -96. It was the MK1
Ah, so my original assumption was correct. Thanks for the confirmation. I can breathe easy now ;D