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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2021, 05:51:55 PM »
Yes, I will have a closer look over the weekend.

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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2021, 09:21:44 AM »
I have received the book. It's poorly setup as the text is in most of the page, looks quite amateur...

But the content is good. It takes info from the Michael Oldfield book, also from the Myles Palmers, many interviews from the past with all the musicians and also special interviews and questions to 9 musicians involved with the band, the real ones not just studio musicians. It's a very interesting read and I totally recommend it.
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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #32 on: February 20, 2021, 10:17:41 PM »
I have received the book. It's poorly setup as the text is in most of the page, looks quite amateur...

But the content is good. It takes info from the Michael Oldfield book, also from the Myles Palmers, many interviews from the past with all the musicians and also special interviews and questions to 9 musicians involved with the band, the real ones not just studio musicians. It's a very interesting read and I totally recommend it.

Thanks, jbaent. Sounds good. Is there anything written by Mark in the book?
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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #33 on: February 20, 2021, 10:53:37 PM »
I have received the book. It's poorly setup as the text is in most of the page, looks quite amateur...

But the content is good. It takes info from the Michael Oldfield book, also from the Myles Palmers, many interviews from the past with all the musicians and also special interviews and questions to 9 musicians involved with the band, the real ones not just studio musicians. It's a very interesting read and I totally recommend it.

Thanks, jbaent. Sounds good. Is there anything written by Mark in the book?

Not specifically but lots of words by MK from interviews along the years.
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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2021, 12:53:47 PM »
I found a very big mistake in the book...

It says that "In My Car" was written by David Knopfler, but it was written (and sung) by MK, confirmed by David himself.
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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2021, 09:28:15 PM »
I think it is a good book, pretty up front and packed with lots of well referenced detail

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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #36 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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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #37 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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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #38 on: February 28, 2021, 11:41:38 AM »
Speak to a lawyer.




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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #39 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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Re: Dire Straits On Track(book)
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2021, 09:14:28 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.

Shit happens sometimes but I'm glad you both could sort things out at the end.
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