A Mark In Time

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Title: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: hunter on October 23, 2020, 11:28:27 AM
The first part was linked to on Guy's forum not long ago; the second part was released today. Lots of drum talk, as expected, but many bits and pieces about DS and MK, Dylan and more. Pick is very talkative, but he's a great storyteller.


Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUHGkkfh6DE


Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1TBnAlRuJM
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: Mudrian on October 23, 2020, 01:35:43 PM
I' ve really enjoyed both parts , he seems to be a very nice guy , down to earth ,and his conception of music is great....
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: hunter on October 23, 2020, 01:48:56 PM
Lovely fellow and great musician. It's kind of sad to see how his mood kind of changes when he discusses DS. He looks sad then, and you can sense the distance he has to Mark. In the second episode, when he talks about Love Over Gold, it's quite clear that he had less and less input into the creative part as things became Mark's show.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: Mudrian on October 23, 2020, 05:57:26 PM
Lovely fellow and great musician. It's kind of sad to see how his mood kind of changes when he discusses DS. He looks sad then, and you can sense the distance he has to Mark. In the second episode, when he talks about Love Over Gold, it's quite clear that he had less and less input into the creative part as things became Mark's show.
Exactly ....it must be hard to be treated as a mere performer....
The more I read things about Mark 's behavior, the more I think that he must be some kind of grumpy bear  , or a true dictator ....
This will no keep me from being a fan (been for 35 years), but I don' t know if I would like to meet in , afraid of being very disappointed.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: straitsway75 on October 23, 2020, 06:40:54 PM
Yes Pick, besides being a great drummer, he is also very nice. IMO when you enter into the particular relationships that Mark had with those who worked with him, without knowing him in person, you tend to discredit him, I disagree.
Pick was certainly a great drummer but his luck was to play with Mark for only 5 years and the world is aware of him too...
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: rmarques821 on October 23, 2020, 10:35:43 PM
Didn't know Pick was an A.S Roma fan.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: Pottel on October 28, 2020, 01:12:52 PM
thnx for the links. gonna listen to this gem soon.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: MagicElliott on November 03, 2020, 11:34:19 PM
I rarely find time to sit down and watch something like this in its entirety but I made a start in it tonight and I like him a lot.

I think he looks a bit like Danny Cummings in ten years.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: the visitor on November 08, 2020, 01:23:02 AM
Thanks for sharing these, really interesting.

Its strange how similar one of the comments Pick makes is to one which Terry William's makes in an interview  I heard with him.

Both of them say that in recording that there were long periods of time where they were just waiting around for weeks to be recorded and felt detached from the process. In Picks case for LOG  this seems to be one of the things that contributed to him moving on.  Seems Mark and Neil Dorfsman were a bad combination if you were a drummer.

What is clear is that Pick was a driving force in the band , also that he contributed heavily to live arrangements
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: 2manyguitars on November 08, 2020, 05:08:31 AM
Thanks for sharing these, really interesting.

Its strange how similar one of the comments Pick makes is to one which Terry William's makes in an interview  I heard with him.

Both of them say that in recording that there were long periods of time where they were just waiting around for weeks to be recorded and felt detached from the process. In Picks case for LOG  this seems to be one of the things that contributed to him moving on.  Seems Mark and Neil Dorfsman were a bad combination if you were a drummer.

What is clear is that Pick was a driving force in the band , also that he contributed heavily to live arrangements

Having run a small recording studio and produced a few bands here and there from my experience it's as much to do with the nature of the recording process as it is to do with band politics and a lot depends on how well prepared an artist is beforehand  and what their expectations are.

Unless a band is looking for a pure live recording (Much easier and more fun imho) usually the drummers parts are laid down over the first 3 days or so and then that's it, maybe half a day of fixes if necessary. Lots of sitting around in between.  But then I have had the odd client who wanted to spend infinite amounts of time on bass drum compression levels, and on occasion I've ended up completely rerecording drum parts.  I completely understand his frustration.

It was interesting to hear Picks take on the drum programming on ID. Those old machines were a complete nightmare, programming a speak and spell was easier!.....
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: knopflertom on November 08, 2020, 08:48:15 AM
At which time are the mk related parts?
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: Pottel on November 09, 2020, 10:27:15 AM
he's wearing a pink floyd shirt. interesting.
also, real good storyteller.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: hunter on January 20, 2021, 05:34:42 PM
Another interview with Pick. Much of the same as the previous interview, but there are some added details - he mentions for instance how after Dire Straits he and his wife visited John and his wife and found that he and John had nothing to talk about :) Worth a listen.


https://www.facebook.com/PickWithersOfficial/videos/881659015903098
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: MagicElliott on April 09, 2021, 11:06:56 PM
This interview has quite a sad story in. It’s part of a playlist.

https://youtu.be/nbNtifdzA8k

Nasty that MK could behave like that I think.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: mschaap on April 10, 2021, 09:23:25 AM
What an insight to what was going on in the band at the time and how their succes changed the personal dynamics.
I can totally understand Pick and much respect him as a person as well as his artistic integrity. And of course he was a fenomenal drummer, really special, and irrreplaceble imho.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: quizzaciously on April 10, 2021, 03:04:04 PM
This interview has quite a sad story in. It’s part of a playlist.

https://youtu.be/nbNtifdzA8k

Nasty that MK could behave like that I think.

David seems to be a little bit on the over-sensitive side of things in my opinion. Mark is not an angel, but his "enemies" so to speak, not really enemies, just the guys who had known "battles" with him, often shows this strange, naive, and childish attitude. So much so, they are arrogant enough to cut all ties with Mark but come out dry from water.

And the irony of David not wanting to be known as "the drummer of Dire Straits" and that he's marketing himself now as "the founder member of Dire Straits" is astonishing. I don't want to hate or anything like that, but I sometimes feel extremely sorry for guys who could not see a little bit further into the future.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: quizzaciously on April 12, 2021, 11:45:21 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPstRakIV8
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: quizzaciously on April 12, 2021, 01:52:12 PM
I agree with David Knopfler. It's hard to be a leader and sometimes people seem to demand far too much from Mark. The guy wrote all the songs, sang all the songs, had to remember all the lyrics, gave interviews, AND played solos and fills while doing all that. And people be like: "I thought he would be nicer with me".
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: hunter on April 12, 2021, 02:06:14 PM
Oh, man, that interviewer is trying to get "clicks" by stirring a very old pot. This is just silly. And that magazine incident that Pick mentioned, we don't know anything about the circumstances or context. Not saying that Mark wasn't an a-hole at times, but Pick should have been graceful enough to leave that in the past.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: KnopfleRick on April 12, 2021, 06:42:01 PM
I agree with David Knopfler. It's hard to be a leader and sometimes people seem to demand far too much from Mark. The guy wrote all the songs, sang all the songs, had to remember all the lyrics, gave interviews, AND played solos and fills while doing all that. And people be like: "I thought he would be nicer with me".

Yes, you are right, Pavel. Mark had the hardest job within the band. With lots of responsibilities for all kinds of issues. Not easy to do justice to everyone.
As a leader you can't always be an angel and things can get a bit rough now and then. But after all, most of them who have worked with him talk good about him.
And more important than this, all of them have benefited from HIS hard work und deep down inside they all know it.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: Pottel on April 14, 2021, 10:14:14 AM
crap YT interviewer imho. milking it to the fullest.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: hunter on April 14, 2021, 11:36:01 AM
crap YT interviewer imho. milking it to the fullest.


Awful. Seriously.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: MagicElliott on April 16, 2021, 08:46:12 PM
crap YT interviewer imho. milking it to the fullest.


Awful. Seriously.

Unfortunately, I think that technology enables people to do things they’re not necessarily skilled in. With YouTube, anyone who has got a camera can become a teacher (of anything from guitar to origami) , regardless of whether they have got the skill of teaching or not. Now with zoom, anyone can be an interviewer if they can set up a meeting. It hardly makes them an experienced chat show host.
Title: Re: 2-hour interview with Pick
Post by: quizzaciously on April 16, 2021, 10:46:38 PM
crap YT interviewer imho. milking it to the fullest.


Awful. Seriously.

Unfortunately, I think that technology enables people to do things they’re not necessarily skilled in. With YouTube, anyone who has got a camera can become a teacher (of anything from guitar to origami) , regardless of whether they have got the skill of teaching or not. Now with zoom, anyone can be an interviewer if they can set up a meeting. It hardly makes them an experienced chat show host.

I agree. An interview is an art form and something much bigger than "just asking questions". In my lifetime I've read and watched probably a million interviews with actors, musicians, politicians, scientists, businessmen and sportsmen, criminals, poets, journalists, movie directors, everybody. And I love when it's being done properly, like this guy who interviewed Richard Bennett and Glenn Worf. He asked pretty simple questions, but he was well-prepared and allowed guests to open as much as possible, probably the most difficult skill for an interviewer. And of course, asking "burning" questions and milking it to death is a prerogative of a paparazzi stalking somebody to ask something, not a guy who wants genuine talk.