A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Rolo on March 13, 2023, 11:03:45 PM
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Years ago i listened some radio/podcast show that MK himself talked about the MM and LOG albums.
The interviewers play the album and Mark comments about everything. He talks about DK, Roy Bittan...
I cannot find this show anywhere.
You guys can help me?
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It's a pity that i cannot find these interviews anywhere.
In my opinion, it's one of the most relaxed interviews that MK has taken.
He talks about the process of making the records and talks some interesting stuff about making the MM album.
He talks about DK as a very basic guitar player and the Springsteen influence when Roy Bittan join the band for the recording sessions.
I always talk about these interviews with my dear friend Brunno Nunes.
Seems that i am the only one who had listened to this :P
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Sorry I can’t help.
This is the most comprehensive site, if Jeroen doesn’t have them, it’s going to be tough to find them.
https://www.oneverybootleg.nl/
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I agree, you should ask oneverybootleg.com, however, he most certainly can't remember a random interview with vague whereabouts.
I stopped caring about collecting interviews because everything you collect is bound to be lost somewhere, so I rely on my memory.
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Jim Ladd interviews come to mind... I think that are the ones you are looking for.
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http://www.oneverybootleg.nl/jimladd1980.htm
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http://www.oneverybootleg.nl/jimladd1980.htm
unfortunately isn't this one.
I believe that this interview occurred in past 5 or 6 years.
I remember that was featured on MK-News website.
I searched there but the website don't have storaged "news" before 2018
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Hmm, MK famously "doesn't look back". I think there was a new interview about Love Over Gold included on the vinyl reissue maybe? But it wasn't audio.
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There are some really good interviews with Mark here:
https://www.inthestudio.net/?s=Dire%20Straits
There is also one discussing the 15th anniversary of KTGC.
https://www.inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/mark-knopfler-kill-to-get-crimson-15th-anniversary/
There used to be a couple of others but they seem to have disappeared from the website.They do have a presence on Spotify,but I don't use that so don't know what's available.
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There are some really good interviews with Mark here:
https://www.inthestudio.net/?s=Dire%20Straits
There is also one discussing the 15th anniversary of KTGC.
https://www.inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/mark-knopfler-kill-to-get-crimson-15th-anniversary/
There used to be a couple of others but they seem to have disappeared from the website.They do have a presence on Spotify,but I don't use that so don't know what's available.
Interesting, was not aware of these, thanks!
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
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These in the studio interviews have to be the right ones. They are really good.
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There are some really good interviews with Mark here:
https://www.inthestudio.net/?s=Dire%20Straits
There is also one discussing the 15th anniversary of KTGC.
https://www.inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/mark-knopfler-kill-to-get-crimson-15th-anniversary/
There used to be a couple of others but they seem to have disappeared from the website.They do have a presence on Spotify,but I don't use that so don't know what's available.
Yes, is this one!
Thanks!
This MM interview are really good.
Listening to the KTGC...
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Yeah, I missed these interviews. Great stuff! But they are so buried in the deep web that I would never find it not without little help from this thread, so thank you! From the Making Movies episode, I can say right away I'm not a fan of mixing whole songs with spoken parts, which makes it difficult to listen, especially when there's a song playing over Mark's infrasonic low voice.
P.S. The interviewer seems to be a nice chap and asked some good questions I would also want to ask, and Mark certainly opens up a little more than usual. Note that 15-year anniversary of Kill To Get Crimson interview was recorded in 2007, and I thought it would be recent. But overall, a huge thumbs up!
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That MM interview is recent or they took and old interview and recorded the questions as they were new?
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That MM interview is recent or they took and old interview and recorded the questions as they were new?
My guess is maybe 2005? I think he mentions playing with his current band for about 10 years or so at some point.
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That MM interview is recent or they took and old interview and recorded the questions as they were new?
I believe that is from 2008 or something.
The MM and Communique interviews are snippets from the main interview that is the DS part 1 and 2, witch is centered on MM and LOG.
really nice interview.
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It's surprising to me that MK spoke so much, and so freely about DS, given he "doesn't look back".
I think the context was promotion of the Private Investigations compilation?
Even more surprising that he agreed to do the littel intros "This is Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits".
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It's surprising to me that MK spoke so much, and so freely about DS, given he "doesn't look back".
I think the context was promotion of the Private Investigations compilation?
Even more surprising that he agreed to do the littel intros "This is Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits".
It reminds me of this video where Rowan Atkinson says "I don't do introductions":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2T1h6tgDY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2T1h6tgDY)
Also, hearing MK talk like this makes me feel sad again that British Grove Broadcast would last for only 24 episodes.
Yes, it probably was a Private Investigations compilation. I wonder how many stories remain untold, so great to hear all that.
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Also, MK gently saying that "Dave" probably wasn't cut out for the tough gig that is the music business made me even more convinced that Everybody Plays is about him.
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Also, MK gently saying that "Dave" probably wasn't cut out for the tough gig that is the music business made me even more convinced that Everybody Plays is about him.
I've always thought EP was about David. The lyrics fit like a glove
I wish some journalist would actually ask him this kind of question. Is EP about David, is HFB about a suicidal farmer who got cheated on, is Kingdom of Gold about Sir Walter Raleigh, etc.
He would probably run away from the question like he always does, but worth a try I suppose
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"is HFB about a suicidal farmer who got cheated on"
" is Kingdom of Gold about Sir Walter Raleigh"
Very interesting.
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"is HFB about a suicidal farmer who got cheated on"
I always thought it was the case. didn't he say that in the EPK, track by track, officially published on MKnews at the time ?
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I know Hill Farmer's Blues is about that.
"who got cheated on"
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I've always thought HFB is a cheaton song.
Thanks for sharing all
these interviews. :thumbsup
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"is HFB about a suicidal farmer who got cheated on"
I always thought it was the case. didn't he say that in the EPK, track by track, officially published on MKnews at the time ?
No, he said something more vague like "I wrote it at the time of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK, and I've always had a sympathy for the hardships of hill farming"... But I don't think he ever went further than this
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I've always thought HFB is a cheaton song.
Thanks for sharing all
these interviews. :thumbsup
Yeah, I think the most of us do, but those lyrics are incredibly mysterious:
What kind of "fun" is he going to have in Tow Law?
"Behind my back, Lord, you made a fool of me" - Cheating?
"And don't wait up for me?" So he is not ever coming back from Tow Law... why?
And then the painful, emotional repetition of "so bad, so bad..." Committing suicide, maybe?
One of MK's best solo songs, in my view. Everything about it is brilliant and thought-provoking
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I've always thought HFB is a cheaton song.
Thanks for sharing all
these interviews. :thumbsup
Yeah, I think the most of us do, but those lyrics are incredibly mysterious:
What kind of "fun" is he going to have in Tow Law?
"Behind my back, Lord, you made a fool of me" - Cheating?
"And don't wait up for me?" So he is not ever coming back from Tow Law... why?
And then the painful, emotional repetition of "so bad, so bad..." Committing suicide, maybe?
One of MK's best solo songs, in my view. Everything about it is brilliant and thought-provoking
Yes, that's true, but why is it ending so soon.
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"is HFB about a suicidal farmer who got cheated on"
I always thought it was the case. didn't he say that in the EPK, track by track, officially published on MKnews at the time ?
No, he said something more vague like "I wrote it at the time of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK, and I've always had a sympathy for the hardships of hill farming"... But I don't think he ever went further than this
I'm sure I've read something about farmers suicides at the time of the release of the album, and it was by Mark
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Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
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Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
yes I thought the same
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Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
yes I thought the same
Yes! Those high priests of money....
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Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.
"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"
"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"
Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.
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the first two stanzas talk about modern times and the next two about ancient times.
The same old fears and the same old crimes
We haven’t changed since ancient times
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Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.
"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"
"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"
Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.
Like many of Mark's songs, I believe he uses allegories and imagary and he doesn't write in a literal way here.
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Yes, I think those are allegorical lines. Listening to KOG I always imagined a rich banker looking at the river from his very expensive flat near the Parliament house.
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Mark about Hill Farmer's Blues:
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... I've tried to make it wok for me"
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thanks Robson :)
that's what I was talking about
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
That's what he said, but can't find the interview.
Anyone knows in which interview he said that?
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela. It was very much a landmark moment.
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela. It was very much a landmark moment.
Exactly!
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela. It was very much a landmark moment.
Exactly my thoughts!
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela. It was very much a landmark moment.
Exactly my thoughts!
Mark was always a bit uncomfortable with politics and charity in general. How did he put it, something like he liked to go about good works in a quiet way rather than with a blaze of publicity. Perhaps this is another case of self deprecation.
Great day, great memories...
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I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.
Of course he was aware....
I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela. It was very much a landmark moment.
Exactly my thoughts!
Mark was always a bit uncomfortable with politics and charity in general. How did he put it, something like he liked to go about good works in a quiet way rather than with a blaze of publicity. Perhaps this is another case of self deprecation.
Great day, great memories...
:thumbsup
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"Perhaps this is another case of self deprecation"
It sounds interesting.