The Story Of The Guitar

[Fieneke2]

Fieneke - Don't get too excited - in the first episode Mark is only on for about 10 seconds! 

Haha Val, yeah I saw Mark!  Reading your comment, I knew it would be a small part, BUT didn't expect it was that small!  I think even 10 seconds was too long!

Well I wait for the next part and hope he will be on TV much longer!

Fieneke

[dustyvalentino]

So... I'm in the middle of a busy/stressful house move and went to bed without watching this last night, any good?

[superval99]

I have recorded the first two parts and so only one left to record now!  Last night's episode was very interesting, but still not very much of MK, but more than last week!  I'm still of the opinion that Mark's parts were recorded sometime around the release of KTGC - end of 2007, perhaps?  He played a few notes of slide guitar and a few notes on a red Fender and there was the usual bit about his dad buying him a Hofner, but couldn't afford an amplifier, etc...!  Still no Clapton, though, but a small piece of DG!   

[dustyvalentino]

From the clip I saw last week it seemed that he had more hair than he's had for a while...

[superval99]

Yes, I think it was before the newish hairstyle!    I suspect it may have been filmed around the time of "Seven Ages of Rock".   BTW Dusty, best wishes for the move.  I hope you will be very happy in your new home.  At least you will be handy for the next concert tour!   

[FenderBender]

If you can, check out the video exclusives on the BBC Story of the guitar website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/video/markknopfler/


I think you might enjoy!

[shangri la 1]

Thanks for the link FenderBender. Great videos.

[Ingo]

Thanks for the link

However, we have the seen the same lesson - even in detail - in some interviews before, but still nice 

[qjamesfloyd]

That is fantastic, Mark seems very relaxed, I guess that is because he's in his studio, and how cool is it, to see him surrounded by some of the most famous and expensive guitars ever made!!! any guitar player famous or amature in the world could walk into that room and be in heaven I liked watching him play the acoustic guitar, when he plays an acoustic you can just see what an acuarte player he is, and it was great watching him play that ragtime improv piece again, there is a video of him in a French studio in the 80's playing it too, i'm amazed he can remember how to play it.

[FenderBender]

On that webpage I mentioned before there is also a link to a short video of Mark discussing "Sultans of Swing" that is headed "Seven Ages of Rock". And it seems pretty obvious that Superval99 is absolutely correct. All the videos look like they are from the same recording.

[qjamesfloyd]

Well, the thing is he talks to a lot of famous guitar players, and to get to interview them all for this program probably took a long time, as they would all have busy shedules. So it's not supprising it doesn't look like the interview with Mark was recent.