A Mark In Time
Previous Tours => 2010 Get Lucky Tour => Topic started by: joanzimm on January 12, 2010, 01:30:07 AM
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I noticed that the concert I'm attending on May 2nd in Washington, DC says "Mark Knopfler with Pieta Brown". So I assume this is who will be opening for him in the U.S. I haven't taken the time to listen to her music and I don't know anything about her but here is the link to her website if anyone is interested.
http://www.pietabrown.com/fr_index.cfm (ftp://http://www.pietabrown.com/fr_index.cfm)
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Thanks joanzimm for the info. I haven't had a chance to check it yet. For me the ideal opening for MK would be a giant Video screen showing Mark from many previous years of tours. That would really warm the atmostphere and get me all fired up. I only need MK to do his own opening act.
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I remember when I was at Radio City hall in 2005 some drunk "Noo Yawker" shouted out "Play Calling Elvis" to support act Bap Kennedy. :)
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I remember when I was at Radio City hall in 2005 some drunk "Noo Yawker" shouted out "Play Calling Elvis" to support act Bap Kennedy. :)
I always wondered why someone will need a support act, even it
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For me the ideal opening for MK would be a giant Video screen showing Mark from many previous years of tours. That would really warm the atmostphere and get me all fired up. I only need MK to do his own opening act.
I would love that, too! We can never get too much of MK :P
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I remember when I was at Radio City hall in 2005 some drunk "Noo Yawker" shouted out "Play Calling Elvis" to support act Bap Kennedy. :)
I always wondered why someone will need a support act, even it
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Only if it is Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, David Gilmour etc for a support act.
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I remember when I was at Radio City hall in 2005 some drunk "Noo Yawker" shouted out "Play Calling Elvis" to support act Bap Kennedy. :)
I always wondered why someone will need a support act, even it
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Yeah, quite often the support acts are crap, but not always. At Steve Earle a ccouple of weeks ago I heard a support act called Joe Pug, who was truly amazing.
http://www.myspace.com/thejoepug
MK doesn't tend to have support acts in the UK and Europe, I wonder if it's something to do with the Union rules and stuff in the States? Also, I think quite often these acts or their record companies actually pay to get them on the tour, so I guess that's an incentive to PCM.
"Everybody pays to play..."
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Could it also have sound mixing reasons? I mean the opportunity to use the time of the opener for making everything perfect in the mix could be great in terms of not having enough time for a "proper" soundcheck because of a tight schedule...
LE
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I just checked out her site. Interesting lyrics, but hard to understand. Not much to the guitar or tune. Maybe I'm missing something.
"Hallelujah is for the damned/Forever is just a scam." from one of the tracks. This from the daughter of two preachers. ;)
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Only if it is Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, David Gilmour etc for a support act.
I would absolutely have no problems with that.
Excellent points everybody contributed here. Does MK have any says in decision making for a supporting act?
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i am pretty sure that mark, and mark only decides who is the support act...
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I got to check Pieta on youtube. She is not too bad. IMO Curious what everybody thinks ? I wonder what criteria Mark uses to make the decision.
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i am pretty sure that mark, and mark only decides who is the support act...
If that's the case, then I am curious about the performers he picks. The last two have been young female guitarists & songwriters.
I got to check Pieta on youtube. She is not too bad. IMO Curious what everybody thinks ? I wonder what criteria Mark uses to make the decision.
Maybe he looks for original talent, perhaps struggling newcomers. I just listened to her, too, for the first time. I thought she had a nice voice. I wonder if MK will buy her a Martin guitar :o
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Joan, I was thinking the same about the two performers being female. Will be an interesting question to ask Mark.
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Here's some additional information about Pieta Brown. She is the daughter of Greg Brown, an accomplished singer-songwriter (link attached). Perhaps this is the MK connection .....
http://www.gregbrown.org/ (http://www.gregbrown.org/)
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Is she any good? I didn
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Didn't he say in an interview about Ragpicker's Dream/Old Pigweed that he prefers to listen to female singers?
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pics from Temecula CA show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkhansen/
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Great find - thank you allen!
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She has a lovely voice and is a pleasant sort of girl. She's also pretty. Bo Ramsey is a good guitarist, but silly. His rockin' days are over, but he sure tries hard. Some one yelled "Bo Baby" during one of his solo parts, and he grinned as wide as a human can, then played and hammed it up for that person for a while. ;)
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He has a nice hat on.
LE
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She has a lovely voice and is a pleasant sort of girl. She's also pretty. Bo Ramsey is a good guitarist, but silly. His rockin' days are over, but he sure tries hard. Some one yelled "Bo Baby" during one of his solo parts, and he grinned as wide as a human can, then played and hammed it up for that person for a while. ;)
There is a very funny mention in all the Isaac
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About his hat: forgive me for being smart ass. That high crown was designed to keep the head cooler with air, and the brim was designed wide to keep the sun and the rain off the neck. Rolling it in certain ways would cause the rain to run off outside, not right down a person's neck. The brim was also useful for shade. All of these are important when you are riding for days in Nevada country gathering cattle.
Bo's hat is strictkly a cosmetic stage contraption. I think he took it from Little Jimmy Dickens, who needed a tall hat indeed. No self respecting cattleman would roll a hat that way.
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She has a lovely voice and is a pleasant sort of girl. She's also pretty. Bo Ramsey is a good guitarist, but silly. His rockin' days are over, but he sure tries hard. Some one yelled "Bo Baby" during one of his solo parts, and he grinned as wide as a human can, then played and hammed it up for that person for a while. ;)
There is a very funny mention in all the Isaac