A Mark In Time

Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: ybot on October 28, 2017, 02:31:40 PM

Title: Best live intros
Post by: ybot on October 28, 2017, 02:31:40 PM

I could name some of them:
TOL
WOL
Romeo and Juliet(oes tour)
One world(1985)
So far away(sidney)
Private investigations (1992)
Many others

Which ones are the best?

Title: Re: Best live intros
Post by: Eddie Fox on October 28, 2017, 02:53:19 PM

Telegraph Road, Money for Nothing and What it is  :clap

Title: Re: Best live intros
Post by: dmg on October 28, 2017, 05:37:09 PM

LOG live.    :lol

I love the sax/guitar exchange on the live intro to TOL.

Title: Re: Best live intros
Post by: Love Expresso on October 28, 2017, 07:05:47 PM

Solid Rock had a great one, that from the  Mandela show for example. Also Money For Nothing in 2001 with that blugrass style intro was great. The intro from Postcards in 2013 was better than 2015 and quite original. And I loved Calling Elvis from 2001, too, that atmospheric  and astonishingly meditative sound that made Mark's first words sound so impressive.

Agree about Broken Bones being a failure. It WAS cool in theory to really pick that song from the record and play it live. The clapping and Richard's part are cool, but Mark's lazy rhythm playing and half-arsed singing really annoyed me. It just didn't work. Mixing up two threads here ...  :smack

The synth intro sounds and the flute at the beginning of Ride Across The River were phantastic, too...

LE