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Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: JF on October 13, 2014, 06:01:21 PM

Title: songs that Mark plays with a plectrum
Post by: JF on October 13, 2014, 06:01:21 PM
for those interested, I wrote an article on Ingo's blog about songs that Mark plays with a pick :

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/ (http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/)

I tried to be comprehensive, but of course it can't be 100% sure, there's always a bit of speculation

Thanks to Ingo for giving this oportunity  :)
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: dmg on October 13, 2014, 06:11:38 PM
Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band?  ;)
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: JF on October 13, 2014, 06:14:33 PM
Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band?  ;)

ah yes good one dmg, it took me few seconds to understand it though... :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: dmg on October 13, 2014, 06:15:33 PM
Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band?  ;)

ah yes good one dmg, it took me few seconds to understand it though... :lol :lol :lol

Reading your article now. 

Very interesting and comprehensive.  A lot of research in that article - well done.
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: Silvertown on October 13, 2014, 06:22:16 PM
for those interested, I wrote an article on Ingo's blog about songs that Mark plays with a pick :

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/ (http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/)

I tried to be comprehensive, but of course it can't be 100% sure, there's always a bit of speculation

Thanks to Ingo for giving this oportunity  :)

It is a good article. Of course there is speculation, but I think that many of these are right.
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: dustyvalentino on October 13, 2014, 08:40:40 PM
Nice one dmg.
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: 3Strats on October 13, 2014, 09:49:19 PM
Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band?  ;)

I have to say that was my first though too, LOL !  ;D 
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: LoveExpresso on October 13, 2014, 11:32:16 PM
I was about to write exactly the same when I found dmg already saying it..

what does that show about the quality of the joke?  ;D

LE
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: sweetsurrender on October 14, 2014, 06:04:08 AM
Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band?  ;)

Not exactly sure I got it if it was meant as a joke :hmm

Thanks for the blog. It was interesting for me. :thumbsup :clap
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: JF on October 14, 2014, 08:36:49 AM
Sweet surender, dmg meant pick Withers  :lol :lol
I should have wrote "with a plectrum" to avoid any confusion  ;D
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: JF on October 14, 2014, 08:40:32 AM
strange, wikipedia named him David "Pick" Withers   :hmm ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Withers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Withers)

I guess it's another wiki mistake... :think
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: Silvertown on October 14, 2014, 09:30:23 AM
It is David indeed http://www.pickwithers.co.uk/
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: foma on October 14, 2014, 09:48:23 AM
Pick is a strange name isn't it? Always thought it's a nick, but all the uncertainty now revealed!

By the way, at first I thought this topic is about songs played with Pick-the-Drummer :hmm

But DMG joke is good :lol This happend in "someone else very well known" topic also.
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a plectrum
Post by: JF on October 14, 2014, 01:50:18 PM
as the original thread title seemed so much "confusing", I changed it to "plectrum", but all previous answers kept the original title  :)
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: JF on October 14, 2014, 02:17:32 PM
It is David indeed http://www.pickwithers.co.uk/

ah yes indeed, the text on wikipedia is surely a coy/taste from here

I didn't know this. It's not mentionned in the Oldfield book (like Ruth is not mentionned neither), and noone booklet got his real first name

indeed, Pick sounds like a nickname, but often in booklets, nicknames are between quotation marks, like e.g. Calvin "fuzzy" samuel, Donald "duck" dunn, franck "poncho" sampedro, chris "whipper" Layton, etc...
sometimes so you can read Philip Collins, Stephen Hackett, etc...even  EC's 2nd first name (patrick) features in his album booklets, so it's strange that Pick Withers was never quoted with his real first name in any record
Title: Re: songs that Mark plays with a pick
Post by: dmg on October 14, 2014, 02:25:49 PM
It is David indeed http://www.pickwithers.co.uk/

ah yes indeed, the text on wikipedia is surely a coy/taste from here

I didn't know this. It's not mentionned in the Oldfield book (like Ruth is not mentionned neither), and noone booklet got his real first name

indeed, Pick sounds like a nickname, but often in booklets, nicknames are between quotation marks, like e.g. Calvin "fuzzy" samuel, Donald "duck" dunn, franck "poncho" sampedro, chris "whipper" Layton, etc...
sometimes so you can read Philip Collins, Stephen Hackett, etc...even  EC's 2nd first name (patrick) features in his album booklets, so it's strange that Pick Withers was never quoted with his real first name in any record

...and Alan "Hurricane" Clark!