A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: SirDogg on November 08, 2011, 01:29:53 AM
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I posted this on the Dylan forum, might as well post it here too:
I read an article yesterday which was in Swedish.
He wrote that Knopfler worked with Dylan on the record "Dylan" back in 1970.
I emailed him to ask for a source on this, and he gave me this link:
http://www.markknopfler.com/music/discography/cd/mk_affiliatedDetails.aspx?albumid=ec211477-a762-45de-83b9-8a8bcd7ffae1
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Dylan
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I posted this on the Dylan forum, might as well post it here too:
I read an article yesterday which was in Swedish.
He wrote that Knopfler worked with Dylan on the record "Dylan" back in 1970.
I emailed him to ask for a source on this, and he gave me this link:
http://www.markknopfler.com/music/discography/cd/mk_affiliatedDetails.aspx?albumid=ec211477-a762-45de-83b9-8a8bcd7ffae1
Quote:
Dylan’s association with Mark Knopfler dates back to 1973, when Knopfler played guitar on Dylan’s album Dylan.
Does anyone have any more info on this? Which song is it?
Knopfler was absolutly unknown by 1973 as a guitar player, he wasnt playing in any band with any success, apart of the Brewers Droop, and you cant call it a success band... I doubt very very much that Dylan had an association with such an unknown musician not only a band leader but as a musician himself.
That info is wrong.
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"Dylan
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I have heard of the same rumor, but surely is a mistake. After all Dylan was not a proper album, but left overs, mainly from Self portrait, that Columbia released in order to cash in, when Bob signed to a different label.
Jerry Wexler in his biography, claims that he had just finished recording Communique, when Dylan came with the new songs (Slow train...) and Wexler had MK on his mind as the most fitting player for the new material.( It doesn't actually say when and how he suggested MK to Dylan but it is the easiest thing to understand that he implies. It is also funny, but he mentions asking MK to play like Albert King and not MK!).(Rhythm and the blues pages 290-292)
I also have read the other version, that Dylan heard MK's guitar sound for the first time in 1978 at a concert and suggested him to Wexler. Which ever is the case, it is quite obvious that the first MK encounter with mighty Bob took place no earlier than 1978.
But such mistakes do happen, when journalists (or at the press) make mistakes and then someone recycles them, without checking them out from the source. I have read from a magazine that MK plays at J.J.Cale's album 8, and we all know that is not true. Or is it? ;)
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I emailed the webmaster. He said it was a mistake :P
Knopfler did cover "Lily of the West" though
Someone must have been sleeping on their job..
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They have corrected it. I have spotted some more mistakes in the official sites and forums, but it is not the time or place. Maybe a competition is in order, to see who finds the most. ;)
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Lily of the West (Bob's version) is quite addictive ,probably heard it like 100 times already! I prefer the folk version over the Celtic one by Mark much more now!