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Title: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Kris-b on September 14, 2021, 06:42:03 PM
Available on Spotify

https://countrymusichalloffame.org/podcast/mark-knopfler/
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: quizzaciously on September 14, 2021, 06:47:03 PM
Available on Spotify

https://countrymusichalloffame.org/podcast/mark-knopfler/

And, luckily, as a transcript: https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2021/09/09154600/VITH-Mark-Knopfler-Episode-Transcript.pdf (https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2021/09/09154600/VITH-Mark-Knopfler-Episode-Transcript.pdf)
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: quizzaciously on September 14, 2021, 06:48:15 PM
Can't say I've learned a lot of new things out of this podcast, I'd say I learned nothing at all. But it's nice of course to hear (or read) Mark anyway.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: superval99 on September 14, 2021, 07:22:18 PM
Many thanks Kris!    I loved listening to this podcast, even though I have mainly heard it all before.  The thing is, I am absolutely addicted to MKs speaking voice, it's so warm and it doesn't matter what he is talking about -  it could even be something like reciting the telephone directory -  and I am hooked!    ;D
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Kris-b on September 14, 2021, 07:38:43 PM
Many thanks Kris!    I loved listening to this podcast, even though I have mainly heard it all before.  The thing is, I am absolutely addicted to MKs speaking voice, it's so warm and it doesn't matter what he is talking about -  it could even be something like reciting the telephone directory -  and I am hooked!    ;D
I can only agree!
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: skydiver on September 14, 2021, 08:57:50 PM
Many thanks Kris!    I loved listening to this podcast, even though I have mainly heard it all before.  The thing is, I am absolutely addicted to MKs speaking voice, it's so warm and it doesn't matter what he is talking about -  it could even be something like reciting the telephone directory -  and I am hooked!    ;D
you said it so beautifully
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: KnopfleRick on September 14, 2021, 09:23:37 PM
Many thanks Kris!    I loved listening to this podcast, even though I have mainly heard it all before.  The thing is, I am absolutely addicted to MKs speaking voice, it's so warm and it doesn't matter what he is talking about -  it could even be something like reciting the telephone directory -  and I am hooked!    ;D

I totally agree!
His voice is my drug.  ;)
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: quizzaciously on September 14, 2021, 09:33:54 PM
Spotify podcasts are still not available in Russia, so I had to resort to the Transcript. It's funny that the interviewer remembered Chet Atkins and guitar on the sofa story incorrectly and Mark had to correct him. The only thing, unfortunately, missing from this interview is the radio story, what a letdown :lol
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 14, 2021, 11:32:59 PM
Many thanks Kris!    I loved listening to this podcast, even though I have mainly heard it all before.  The thing is, I am absolutely addicted to MKs speaking voice, it's so warm and it doesn't matter what he is talking about -  it could even be something like reciting the telephone directory -  and I am hooked!    ;D

MK just has 'that' voice. One can easily relax listening to him speaking or singing a song!!
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: 2manyguitars on September 15, 2021, 09:38:55 AM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: quizzaciously on September 15, 2021, 11:03:07 AM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

I think it was recorded well before. It's more astonishing to me that pretty much every interview with Mark is a set of the same old questions and same old answers over and over again, each time I find something new is like a breath of fresh air to me. And it's not like Mark can't answer more questions, but nobody asks them.

But that's the price fans got to pay for Mark wanting to be away from the spotlight. Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: KnopfleRick on September 15, 2021, 11:07:34 AM

MK just has 'that' voice. One can easily relax listening to him speaking or singing a song!!

It's exactly like that! :thumbsup
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2021, 11:12:25 AM

MK just has 'that' voice. One can easily relax listening to him speaking or singing a song!!

It's exactly like that! :thumbsup

It's a job to explain but you know what I mean with regards MK's voice.....
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: superval99 on September 15, 2021, 11:36:02 AM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Robson on September 15, 2021, 11:45:34 AM
I always wonder why journalists don't ask about new songs. A new album is released and there are no questions about new songs. I do not understand this.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2021, 11:56:29 AM
I always wonder why journalists don't ask about new songs. A new album is released and there are no questions about new songs. I do not understand this.

You'd also think they'd run through their questions with the person first too??
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2021, 11:57:44 AM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.

1962-63 Entering his teens, he stops to gape in a Newcastle guitar shop window at a red Fender Stratocaster. He becomes more interested in mimicking ‘Wipeout’ runs on his school desktop than in his studies, and persuades his father to spend £50 on his first guitar, a twin pick-up Höfner V2. It’s cheap, but it’s red.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: superval99 on September 15, 2021, 12:10:03 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.

1962-63 Entering his teens, he stops to gape in a Newcastle guitar shop window at a red Fender Stratocaster. He becomes more interested in mimicking ‘Wipeout’ runs on his school desktop than in his studies, and persuades his father to spend £50 on his first guitar, a twin pick-up Höfner V2. It’s cheap, but it’s red.

I have a friend who was in the same class as Ruth Knopfler at Archibald Primary and then Gosforth Grammar and the Knopflers lived in Briarfield Road, Gosforth.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2021, 12:20:28 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.

1962-63 Entering his teens, he stops to gape in a Newcastle guitar shop window at a red Fender Stratocaster. He becomes more interested in mimicking ‘Wipeout’ runs on his school desktop than in his studies, and persuades his father to spend £50 on his first guitar, a twin pick-up Höfner V2. It’s cheap, but it’s red.

I have a friend who was in the same class as Ruth Knopfler at Archibald Primary and then Gosforth Grammar and the Knopflers lived in Briarfield Road, Gosforth.

Oh wow, fantastic info - small world or what!!
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: dustyvalentino on September 15, 2021, 03:07:35 PM
I believe this is the first and only podcast MK has ever done?
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2021, 03:14:23 PM
Can't say I've learned a lot of new things out of this podcast, I'd say I learned nothing at all. But it's nice of course to hear (or read) Mark anyway.
i actually liked  this one. it was all just a bit different. no by much, but still.
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2021, 03:14:58 PM
I believe this is the first and only podcast MK has ever done?
cannot remember any other no
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2021, 03:16:54 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.

1962-63 Entering his teens, he stops to gape in a Newcastle guitar shop window at a red Fender Stratocaster. He becomes more interested in mimicking ‘Wipeout’ runs on his school desktop than in his studies, and persuades his father to spend £50 on his first guitar, a twin pick-up Höfner V2. It’s cheap, but it’s red.

I have a friend who was in the same class as Ruth Knopfler at Archibald Primary and then Gosforth Grammar and the Knopflers lived in Briarfield Road, Gosforth.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Briarfield+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/@55.0036625,-1.6307591,166m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487e76d191f3c33f:0xde16e3a2df1e7276!8m2!3d55.0036245!4d-1.6298987
now all we need is the number...
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Pottel on September 15, 2021, 03:18:25 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.
https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Salters+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/Briarfield+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/@55.0042222,-1.6328986,644m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d1f8f89afd:0xb29f780e3e880c83!2m2!1d-1.630088!2d55.0050696!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d191f3c33f:0xde16e3a2df1e7276!2m2!1d-1.6298987!2d55.0036245!3e0
am starting to become a Rüdiger...
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: jbaent on September 15, 2021, 05:07:09 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.
https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Salters+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/Briarfield+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/@55.0042222,-1.6328986,644m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d1f8f89afd:0xb29f780e3e880c83!2m2!1d-1.630088!2d55.0050696!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d191f3c33f:0xde16e3a2df1e7276!2m2!1d-1.6298987!2d55.0036245!3e0
am starting to become a Rüdiger...

You should get a life.

 :lol
Title: Re: Mark‘s episode in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Post by: Knopflerfan on September 15, 2021, 06:36:06 PM
Seems like either this is a couple of years old (Presenter states mark is 70) or his research is badly wrong!

Nobody's interested in his life as much as it deserves and of course, the chance that the interviewer would know more than a Wikipedia article is minuscule.

Wikipedia is not always correct, of course.    Journalists still copy and paste the same incorrect information from Wikipedia that MK was raised in Blyth, which is about 12 miles from Gosforth, where he was actually raised.   MK has often told the story about walking to school down Salters Road to Gosforth Grammar and looking into the window of a guitar shop on the way.  He couldn't have done that if he lived in Blyth.    I blame it on lazy journalism.
https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Salters+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/Briarfield+Rd,+Gosforth,+Newcastle+upon+Tyne,+Vereinigtes+K%C3%B6nigreich/@55.0042222,-1.6328986,644m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d1f8f89afd:0xb29f780e3e880c83!2m2!1d-1.630088!2d55.0050696!1m5!1m1!1s0x487e76d191f3c33f:0xde16e3a2df1e7276!2m2!1d-1.6298987!2d55.0036245!3e0
am starting to become a Rüdiger...

Starting???!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣