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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Once Upon A Time In The West lyrics
« Last post by JF on August 27, 2025, 07:05:53 PM »
The good, the bad and the ugly main theme
OK.
So which was which?
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Once Upon A Time In The West lyrics
« Last post by dustyvalentino on August 27, 2025, 04:54:50 PM »
The good, the bad and the ugly main theme
OK.
So which was which?
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Once Upon A Time In The West lyrics
« Last post by JF on August 27, 2025, 04:29:44 PM »What track was played?
The good, the bad and the ugly main theme
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Mark and the Nylon Strings
« Last post by dustyvalentino on August 27, 2025, 02:30:47 PM »Never told a soul by John Illsley features Mark on nylon ovation guitar :
OK, so it's not the most expensive video ever made, but I wonder how much money was lost on this ego trip.
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Once Upon A Time In The West lyrics
« Last post by dustyvalentino on August 27, 2025, 02:20:48 PM »What track was played?
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Mark and the Nylon Strings
« Last post by JF on August 27, 2025, 01:13:04 PM »Never told a soul by John Illsley features Mark on nylon ovation guitar :
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Mark and the Nylon Strings
« Last post by JF on August 27, 2025, 01:11:23 PM ». those first three albums, although there was an "acoustic" element, with the National Steel in Wild West End and Portobello Belle
you can add Water of love and where do you think you're going wich features a proeminent folk guitar
and also Romeo and juliet which have National arpeggios and folk rhtyhm guitar
even TOL and Hand in hand has one !
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Once Upon A Time In The West lyrics
« Last post by JF on August 27, 2025, 01:04:58 PM »Maybe a good clue about the lyrics of OUATITW is in the song that opened the shows of the On Location tour 80/81, I was thinking about that, that theme is not by chance, since the first song is OUATITW.
of course. The good, the bad and the ugly
and Mark met Morricone during that tour in Italy
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: A Modern Tribute to Dire Straits – AI Creates an Original Track with Knopfler’s
« Last post by Chris W on August 27, 2025, 09:38:16 AM »You may well be right Chris, and you don’t have to like the direction the music business is taking, of course. But I too know the music business quite well (and it may be different in Norway/Nordics from the Uk, US and the rest of the world.), but there used to be large record companies and demos and a few hyped, famous and quite wealthy artists. The rest had to play at hotels, pubs and cruise ships to survive or take a day job and play music as a hobby.
Must be different then, because the latter group is much larger and the group that are being heard like never before and earning money like never before are much, much smaller.
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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / A Modern Tribute to Dire Straits – AI Creates an Original Track with Knopfler’s
« Last post by Mossguitar on August 27, 2025, 12:22:30 AM »You may well be right Chris, and you don’t have to like the direction the music business is taking, of course. But I too know the music business quite well (and it may be different in Norway/Nordics from the Uk, US and the rest of the world.), but there used to be large record companies and demos and a few hyped, famous and quite wealthy artists. The rest had to play at hotels, pubs and cruise ships to survive or take a day job and play music as a hobby.
Now there are fare more smaller independent and alternative scenes, festivals and artists, niche markeds seems bigger than ever (since the companies no longer alone decide who’s gonna be heard) and many distribute their music directly from their own website, promote themselves on social media platforms, sell merch, give music lessons or teach music at music schools, high schools or college, work in studios, tour extensively etc. Few can live off record and streaming sales alone of course, but they still live off music and are heard.
People have played music for 300 000 years. I guess it was harder to be heard 100, 300 and 1000 years ago than it was 40 years ago or today.
Now there are fare more smaller independent and alternative scenes, festivals and artists, niche markeds seems bigger than ever (since the companies no longer alone decide who’s gonna be heard) and many distribute their music directly from their own website, promote themselves on social media platforms, sell merch, give music lessons or teach music at music schools, high schools or college, work in studios, tour extensively etc. Few can live off record and streaming sales alone of course, but they still live off music and are heard.
People have played music for 300 000 years. I guess it was harder to be heard 100, 300 and 1000 years ago than it was 40 years ago or today.