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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)

« Last post by jbaent on February 28, 2021, 01:06:32 pm »

The author already messaged me, he will include the references at a second edition.

In the end what's important is that info reach the fans, but credit the sources is important. Sometimes you can forget one when you are working.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)

« Last post by dustyvalentino on February 28, 2021, 11:41:38 am »

Speak to a lawyer.




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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)

« Last post by jbaent on February 28, 2021, 10:33:34 am »

The author has copied, word by word, fragments from an interview I did to Joop de Korte years ago, and didn't mentioned at all the source, not in the text in the book, not in the bibliography...

Very uncool from him.

This is the interview I made to Joop de Korte, if you check the fragments in the book, you will notice its the same word by word.

http://mural.uv.es/jubria/index.htm

I don't matter he uses it, in the contrary, but he could had mentioned the source at least.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Mark's 58 burst - amazing revelations!

« Last post by dustyvalentino on February 28, 2021, 10:18:22 am »

It's not really an abuse. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy it.

The selling price is what it is worth.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Mark's 58 burst - amazing revelations!

« Last post by Tomcaster on February 28, 2021, 08:47:44 am »

Here is an abuse that should be exposed. Hessy Guitars from UK sells a Knopfler Les Paul VOS for 19k Euro (!)

https://reverb.com/item/39095429-gibson-custom-shop-mark-knopfler-58-les-paul-standard-vos

These guitars went for about 6k last summer.

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Almost Straits / Re: The Mark Knopfler Songbook — Featured on MK's official YouTube channel

« Last post by quizzaciously on February 28, 2021, 12:45:13 am »

New video! Our Shangri-La... One of my favourite Mark's songs, a fan favourite, a diamond, whatever you want to call it, it's a masterpiece. And a masterpiece, that's not hard to play! But hard to sing (I tried). I always loved this song since the day it was released, I hope to share some love for it with you. You can't say a lot about a simple 6-chord song, but surely it's not about how many chords are there. Anyway, hope you like it. And welcome to a new camera and 60 frames per second! Pavel.

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: MK and DS pictures

« Last post by PensaGhost on February 27, 2021, 09:42:31 pm »

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)

« Last post by KnopfleRick on February 27, 2021, 08:29:45 pm »

I think it is a good book, pretty up front and packed with lots of well referenced detail

Absolutely. It`s a very enjoyable read even for a long time fan like me. Always a pleasure to read about DS and MK.
Once you have started you hardly can stop. 

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Re: Chris Whitten interview

« Last post by PensaGhost on February 27, 2021, 06:00:33 pm »

Even More

Is there a specific gig you remember vividly (maybe the crowd, set list, energy etc)?
"Well Nimes and Verona, both beautiful Roman buildings"

could you PLEASE do another video on your version of SULTANS OF SWING, Basel 1992. of all the previous straits drummers, you totally nailed it and is the best version ever!
"I’ll put it on the list. I don’t actually think i ‘nailed’ it. I think I understand better how it should be played now"

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Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum / Lost video

« Last post by Melcuer on February 27, 2021, 05:10:02 pm »

Does anybody recall a video where MK was training with an acoustic, wearing a cap, playing licks from Mississippi blues and Thats alright mama among others??
Can’t find it anymore.... Does anybody have the link?