Worst Cover Versions

[LEPI]

My God

[knopflerized]

Uuuhhh how it can be allowed to play SOS this way... But Mk seems to laught  about it

[Hophead]

O M G...Poor Mark...I don't think he knew whether to laugh or cry after a while. It sounded like someone threw SOS, Ghostriders In The Sky  and a Ventures surf tune...maybe Wipeout...into a blender!!

[Hoops McCann]

The look says it all...

[Hophead]

I wonder what he was thinking..my guess is "is this a joke?"

[Jon]

Haha - only in Norway (no offence to Norwegians by the way, I work for a Norwegian company and really enjoy it). 

I'm going to be the voice of dissent and say that for some reason I don't understand, I quite enjoyed bits of that.*  I've heard worse (sometimes during our rehearsals  ).  Definitely some Shadows flung in there - I wonder if that was nod to one of Mr Knopfler's influences.  He certainly doesn't know whether to laugh or cry at points, but I think more than anything he was a bit embarrassed to be sat there for that length of time in that situation.  It must have felt quite odd.  The keyboard player pulls some even more amusing faces than MK though.

*We won't be changing our arrangement to this version though.

[LEPI]

Seeing this video one more time I must notice something. Someone said, Mark is laughing. Yes he is, but only to the guy playing lead guitar. Check out his shirt and hair. Talking about appearance.

[Waterline Man]

Is this you in disguise Dusty

C'mon own up we're all friends here

[Fieneke2]

Was that really SOS??  Just like Jon says, I recognized a few pieces too! 

Well we must be honest. They didn

[dustyvalentino]

unfortunately the link exist   

 W0vJzR8kyxU

anyway it's funny 

Well I just watched this and I thought they played quite well, as has already been said the guitarist didn't just try to copy MK's style but added in some Shadows style elements before using the wah-wah and stuff at the end and overall I thought it was pretty interesting, much more interesting to me to do the cover a bit differently instead of just copy the original.

However, and pardon my French, can I have a very big WHAT THE FUCK? for the guitarist's hair??!!!!

Yes, MK was kind of laughing a bit but surely only at that guy's hairstyle which is the most bizarre haircut I have EVER seen.

Also found it a bit weird that they ended the show like this at all. I don't know what usually happens on Norwegian television, but here in the UK (or on Letterman for example in the US) the house band would only play at the start, over teh end credits and maybe while guests are walking on. Who wants to sit and watch some unknown band cover a classic song on prime time TV? If this happened on a UK show I'd be reaching for the remote control.

[AFknopfler]

IMHO I don't think Mark was embarrassed, come on. 
The band in the TV show just played a version of Sultans with a new arrangement and musical ideas..
Yes, Mark smiled and laughed......but it does not necessarily mean that he did not like this version.....probably he was enjoying it....he is so kind and relaxed, he does not need to compare his songs with other versions that fans play everywhere.
He sees things from another perspective.

[Giggs]

There's some Norwegian TV show that interviewed MK, and then horror of horrors, their stage band played SoS, while MK had to sit there and endure it.  It was awful and embarrassing and you could see it on his face.   I don't think there is a link.  Come to think of it, the interviewer was a little over the top, too.
I am writing this, as I'm listening to the SOS link just above.   Sad business.  Well, as Val says, it's flattering.  OMG, I just heard the end.    Heavy sigh.

unfortunately the link exist   

 W0vJzR8kyxU

anyway it's funny 

I'm norwegian guy at the age of 18, a huge fan of Mark Knopfler. I saw him in Oslo last year, loved it!
You guys have no idea how glad I am to tell you that the talkshow isn't norwegian at all, in fact it's finnish ( Finland, Suomi). So please: don't blame the norwegians

[Kay Edvin]

It is NOT from Norway!! 

It is from Finland!!!

[LEPI]

We are all to be shame of our self. To confuse Finnish with Norwegian. I can understand confusion with Danish which, I recon, is similar to Norwegian, but Finnish is something totally different.
Sorry guys.

[Giggs]

Apology accepted