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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Brothers in arms 40th anniversary edition

« Last post by Pieter on April 30, 2025, 12:39:35 PM »

Received it yesterday. Haven't had time to listen yet...

more photos here : https://www.facebook.com/TextBlogRNRoll/posts/pfbid033Hv1v1tfFjf7N8mGdAevUShQADT7rrcbiWRpuBuvcuTThdhkh7dwofoAZPhuMFg2l

There will be an article on franceinfo culture and a listening conference at the HIFI LINK Lyon store at the time of the release.

More information to follow very soon.
Stay tuned!

Amazing! How did you get the CD so soon? The official release date is the 16th of may right? Is it because of your listening conference?

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Guy's Forum

« Last post by Pieter on April 30, 2025, 12:38:11 PM »

BTW, it's all nice info to know, but it really doesn't matter if you're looking for his tone. It's mostly in his fingers, the way he phrases, choice of notes, etc. He can make a $50 amp and $100 guitar sound like him. I've seen people buying incredibly expensive stuff, copying all his effects, pickups, and not sound like him in a thousand years.

Yeah you are completely right about that. It's not that I want to buy these amp but all the time you see these big red amp's standing behind Mark so I was wondering where he uses these big things for. I have an Vox Valvetronix tube amp which I use with an Les Paul tribute and Fender replica guitar and it sounds amazing for the money and to sound (a littlebit) like MK.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Guy's Forum

« Last post by TheTimeWasWrong on April 30, 2025, 12:23:27 PM »

BTW, it's all nice info to know, but it really doesn't matter if you're looking for his tone. It's mostly in his fingers, the way he phrases, choice of notes, etc. He can make a $50 amp and $100 guitar sound like him. I've seen people buying incredibly expensive stuff, copying all his effects, pickups, and not sound like him in a thousand years.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Brothers in arms 40th anniversary edition

« Last post by Jules on April 30, 2025, 12:08:23 PM »

I don't get all that UFO's at the San Antonio cover 

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Guy's Forum

« Last post by TheTimeWasWrong on April 30, 2025, 12:02:23 PM »

So here I am, asking it on a fan forum Does anybody know for what guitars Mark is using his Reinhardt amps? And on what songs? I thougt he used his Les Paul on a Marshall JMT45 and his Fender guitars on a Vibrolux or something but I can be wrong.

Before the Kemper in 2019, he used Marshall cabs with different amps. Off the top of my head: Soldanos from 1988-2001, then he moved to Komets in 2005 and Reinhardts in 2008. I think in 2008 the Tone King also made its debut on stage for clean stuff like True Love Will Never Fade and Seattle. In the studio, he's used the Vibrolux a lot over the years.

Ingo has a lot of info on this (mk-guitar.com)

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: That Ain't Workin' - My New Book

« Last post by TheTimeWasWrong on April 30, 2025, 11:52:31 AM »

My copy still seems to be stuck at customs 😅

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Brothers in arms 40th anniversary edition

« Last post by JF on April 30, 2025, 11:52:08 AM »

Received it yesterday. Haven't had time to listen yet...

more photos here : https://www.facebook.com/TextBlogRNRoll/posts/pfbid033Hv1v1tfFjf7N8mGdAevUShQADT7rrcbiWRpuBuvcuTThdhkh7dwofoAZPhuMFg2l

There will be an article on franceinfo culture and a listening conference at the HIFI LINK Lyon store at the time of the release.

More information to follow very soon.
Stay tuned!

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Guy's Forum

« Last post by dustyvalentino on April 30, 2025, 11:36:31 AM »

https://www.mk-guitar.com/2015/05/31/the-mark-knopfler-rig-on-the-2015-tracker-tour/

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: That Ain't Workin' - My New Book

« Last post by Jules on April 30, 2025, 11:30:32 AM »

Jules....thanks.
I took one roll of colour on the whole tour. I think it was the soundcheck at Nimes (for On The Night). There was no great shot, I also had better shots on a B&W roll I took at the same soundcheck. So as colour complicated the book printing I decided to stick to the B&W only.
There is no amazing image you are missing, just similar images to the ones I included in B&W.

I probably had about 300 shots, of which I chose 80 to best tell the story. Some lovely shots of buskers in New Zealand and people playing outdoor chess in Stockholm, but I had to choose and those images seemed to have little to do with Dire Straits.

Maybe if you have any colour one that is worth, you can sell them digitally, also with the rest of the B/W ones not in the book.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Guy's Forum

« Last post by Pieter on April 30, 2025, 09:57:40 AM »

So I asked Guy about the rheinhardt amp's and here is our Q&A:

Q: "Hi Guy, I have a question regarding the amps that Mark used on stage during his tours (and probably during the recording sessions). Since when en for what is Mark using is Reinhardt amp’s? I see these amps all the time standing next to each other on a lot of footage. Thanks in advance, Pieter."

A: "That’s probably a question for a fan forum. I honestly can’t remember."

So here I am, asking it on a fan forum Does anybody know for what guitars Mark is using his Reinhardt amps? And on what songs? I thougt he used his Les Paul on a Marshall JMT45 and his Fender guitars on a Vibrolux or something but I can be wrong.