Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK

[qjamesfloyd]

[naif]

Great song!!

[Stiglar]

I don't think of John Mayer as being an MK acolyte (at all), but Wild Blue sounds like it belongs on Communique. The riff and the soloing all sound just like Mark from that period.

I always thought the outro of this song (about 3:00 in) is 100% going for the "On Every Street" calling elvis style outro with the pedal steel , piano tinkles and restrained lead guitar that creeps in later. Tone is similar too!

https://youtu.be/cSdjo0W4Tvs?t=177

[stratmad]

Does anyone know Allan Taylor? Check out http://www.allantaylor.com/

First time I heard him, around the time of KTGC, I actually thought it was MK singing and playing!

[Iron Hand]

Phil Carmen always struck me as sounding Knopfler-ish. His Montreux live album features none other than Pick Withers playing drums.

[Knopflerfan]

Mike Oldfield plays a Knopfler influenced solo for Moonlight Shadow, in terms of melodic approach and sound, even to the extent of playing the Sultans "Twiddly" bits when playing Moonlight Shadow live in the 90's he has also namechecked Mark in an interview, and stated that although he doesn't generally listen to other people's music, he did enjoy Private Investigations.

These days he plays an MK strat too.

4 real? got a pic or something?

https://mike-oldfield.es/verfoto.asp?id=8692

[hunter v2.0]

I was reminded of a sampler CD I bought years ago with country gospel songs, with Johnny Cash amongst others. One artist is Mike Reid, whom I know nothing about, but I liked this song a lot at the time. A bit Walk of Life-ish with nice clean Stratocaster lead lines.

Edit: I just saw that Albert Lee plays on the album where this song is from. Could be him playing lead on this track. Sounds great.

[tobi777]

Chris Rea has lots of Knopfler sounding song, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder is a great example.

I think Chris once said that he wanted to be MK if he had a choice or something like that, he obviously has huge admiration for him.

And here, from 3:20:

This great outro solo is the one and only Jerry Donahue - not Chris Rea!

Jerry is famous for his crazy string bending techniques and his Telecaster twang - but he also played some very fine licks on this album by Chris Rea (for me the best one) and also among many others the great "North and south" by Gerry Rafferty.
On YouTube there's a concert of Chris Rea playing live in Japan - and Jerry was on tour with him.

[quizzaciously]

Chris Rea has lots of Knopfler sounding song, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder is a great example.

I think Chris once said that he wanted to be MK if he had a choice or something like that, he obviously has huge admiration for him.

And here, from 3:20:

This great outro solo is the one and only Jerry Donahue - not Chris Rea!

Jerry is famous for his crazy string bending techniques and his Telecaster twang - but he also played some very fine licks on this album by Chris Rea (for me the best one) and also among many others the great "North and south" by Gerry Rafferty.
On YouTube there's a concert of Chris Rea playing live in Japan - and Jerry was on tour with him.

Thank you so much for clarifying! I'm not a Chris Rea expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I wasn't aware of this. I do know a Russian expert on Chris, he almost single-handedly runs a huge fan club because Chris Rea for some reason is VERY popular in Russia, sometimes I think more popular than in the UK itself.

Thank you for recommending "North and South" by Gerry Rafferty and Chris's Japan tour.

[Peter1981]

There's a strong Knopfler guitar-feel in this one as well:

[hunter v2.0]

There's a strong Knopfler guitar-feel in this one as well:

The electric rhytym guitar playing very much so. The song itself feels like a mixture of 5:15AM and True Love Will Never Fade.

[qjamesfloyd]

Mike Oldfield plays a Knopfler influenced solo for Moonlight Shadow, in terms of melodic approach and sound, even to the extent of playing the Sultans "Twiddly" bits when playing Moonlight Shadow live in the 90's he has also namechecked Mark in an interview, and stated that although he doesn't generally listen to other people's music, he did enjoy Private Investigations.

These days he plays an MK strat too.

4 real? got a pic or something?

https://mike-oldfield.es/verfoto.asp?id=8692

Thanks for finding that photo, I spent a while yesterday looking for a picture of it, the one place I forgot to check is where you found it, so, thanks, Mike plays some wonderful stuff using that guitar on what looks like his final 2 albums.

[dustyvalentino]

I was reminded of a sampler CD I bought years ago with country gospel songs, with Johnny Cash amongst others. One artist is Mike Reid, whom I know nothing about, but I liked this song a lot at the time. A bit Walk of Life-ish with nice clean Stratocaster lead lines.

Edit: I just saw that Albert Lee plays on the album where this song is from. Could be him playing lead on this track. Sounds great.

I enjoyed this, thank you. Would appear to be Albert - I'd say Albert and MK influenced each other to be fair. I see Eddie Bayers played drums on this track, he also played on Darling Pretty. And Paul Franklin is on the album but I can't hear them on this track.

Also, Mike Reid has come a long was since the Runaround days

[Pottel]

Phil Carmen always struck me as sounding Knopfler-ish. His Montreux live album features none other than Pick Withers playing drums.

am i the only one that saw Pick withers on that second vid?

[dustyvalentino]

am i the only one that saw Pick withers on that second vid?

The OP literally says Pick is on it you tool