A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Vesper on September 17, 2012, 09:55:46 PM
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Found this on the web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Dire_Straits
It's kind of interesting!
It also mentiones some outtakes on albums:
Making Movies:
"Making Movies"
"Suicide Towers"
"Twisting By the Pool"
"Sucker for Punishment"
Love over Gold:
"I like to go to work"
"Worth your while"
"Music"
"Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts"
"Private Dancer"
"The Way it Always Starts"
Does anybody know of the outtakes of love over gold?
I don't know 4 songs!
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Found this on the web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Dire_Straits
It's kind of interesting!
It also mentiones some outtakes on albums:
Making Movies:
"Making Movies"
"Suicide Towers"
"Twisting By the Pool"
"Sucker for Punishment"
Love over Gold:
"I like to go to work"
"Worth your while"
"Music"
"Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts"
"Private Dancer"
"The Way it Always Starts"
Does anybody know of the outtakes of love over gold?
I don't know 4 songs!
Will we ever be fortunate enough to listen to such rarities?
And I always thin about the two songs MK gave to Tina Turner. Is said that MK didn't record the lyrics to Private dancer. Has the same happened to Overnight sensation or he actually did the voice on the song before giving it to Tina?
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The first from LOG sounds like a line from TR, perhaps it was incorporated into that grand song.
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Private dancer is really great but overnight sensation is crap for me !
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
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Private dancer is really great but overnight sensation is crap for me !
hehehehe. I would say it was not one of hist best moments...
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the way it always starts, did that not turn up on the local hero soundtrack?
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
I thought Making Movies was "turned into" Expresso Love?
Interesting to see "I Like to Go to Work" as that's obviously the line in TR. I wonder if it could be two songs merged...
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the way it always starts, did that not turn up on the local hero soundtrack?
Yep, sung by the late Gerry Raferty. Who knows if the demo - if there's is a demo after all - sounds exactly the same or is completely different...
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
2nd one
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
I thought Making Movies was "turned into" Expresso Love?
Interesting to see "I Like to Go to Work" as that's obviously the line in TR. I wonder if it could be two songs merged...
You can here the song Making Movies played by Mark on an acoustic guitar and by the band on the Arena documentary, on the Alchemy Blu-Ray. There music be a recording of that track in an archive somewhere.
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
2nd one
Merci :)
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The first from LOG sounds like a line from TR, perhaps it was incorporated into that grand song.
And "worth your while", also mentioned, it's a line on "It never rains". The same thing could have happened here,as ITN is almos 8min long.
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"Suicide Towers" ended as TOL (or Expresso Love?)
2nd one
Merci :)
my reply was a bit short and dry, but it's not easy to post via an iphone ;D
it's explained in the Oldfield book, something like : "Mark wrote a song called "suicide towers " (there's even some pieces of lyrics in the book, but can't remember them exactly, kind depressive if memory serves, must have been about the Holly Vincent break-up), it wasn't achieved, but the riff evolved in Expresso love"
I thought Making Movies was "turned into" Expresso Love?
yes indeed, the riff sounds a bit the same, but the lyrics became parts of Skateway.
It's likely Mark tried different things, and mixed original ideas to reach to the songs we know
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And "worth your while", also mentioned, it's a line on "It never rains". The same thing could have happened here,as ITN is almos 8min long.
The new song Seattle should be followed by It Never Rains in the new setlist.
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The guitar featured on the album cover is a National Style 0 Resonator. The Style 0 line of guitars was introduced in 1930 and discontinued in 1941. The guitar is now owned by a guitar shop in California called Fretted Americana. The photographer was Deborah Feingold.
I think that Mark is still the owner of the guitar.
Fretted Americana sold a similar guitar, but it isn't Mark's one.
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In the Michael Oldfield book about Dire Straits (officially aproved by MK and the band) says that Suicide Towers turned into Expresso Love, and Making movies into Skateaway.
In the first case was just a guitar riff, in the second just some verses...
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The guitar featured on the album cover is a National Style 0 Resonator. The Style 0 line of guitars was introduced in 1930 and discontinued in 1941. The guitar is now owned by a guitar shop in California called Fretted Americana. The photographer was Deborah Feingold.
I think that Mark is still the owner of the guitar.
Fretted Americana sold a similar guitar, but it isn't Mark's one.
which guitar are you talking about ?
if it is the National style O on the BIA sleeve, of course Marks still owns it
He's got also another national, a tricone one, you can see on some videos :
He still owns it too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PRc1ghRt8
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The new song Seattle should be followed by It Never Rains in the new setlist.
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Yes, most definitely. That way, we could hear two of his greatest songs, one right after the other. But then again, if he really were to play "Seattle" live (I think he won't), I guess Guy's synth work would ruin it all. :-\
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Well, Guy might and might not. It Never Rains had some beautiful organ in it, and Guy can play a mean organ, as someone pointed out on Guy's forum today.
Tried to play the songs back to back. With some clever transitioning I think they could work very well together.
By the way, INR sounds very "Bob" - maybe Mark could get Bob to sing on it? Haha.
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I agree, INR always sounded as a Bob influenced song to me and by far now my favourite from the LOG album. It was performed on the early leg of the tour that followed the album but was dropped from setlist after sometime. And I don't think that Mark is in that trip anymore although I would be delighted to be proved wrong next year.
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man, it never rains live,....for me the same level of awesomeness as tunnel of love being put back in the list. think i would prefer to hear the first...