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Author Topic: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK  (Read 5062 times)

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2022, 01:47:30 PM »
Yes he does :)
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2022, 11:03:00 PM »
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?
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2022, 08:22:53 AM »
There might be a photo in the booklet for his last album, Return to Ommadawn, which is the album he used it on, but I don't have it to had right now to look in. I haven't found a photo online.
Knopfler, Oldfield and Gilmour is all the guitar I need.

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2022, 05:53:54 PM »
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.

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2022, 06:23:44 PM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2022, 11:14:24 AM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2022, 12:09:33 PM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

Haha, a great finding! "He occupies that space". But that's actually ridiculous. Musicians can't "own" a sound and accusing people of stealing "Mark Knopfler's sound" is an insane idea on its own. It's like accusing someone of wearing boots... You just do it, naturally.
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2022, 12:44:44 PM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

Haha, a great finding! "He occupies that space". But that's actually ridiculous. Musicians can't "own" a sound and accusing people of stealing "Mark Knopfler's sound" is an insane idea on its own. It's like accusing someone of wearing boots... You just do it, naturally.


And if you listen to the early JJ Cale albums, it becomes SO obvious where Mark got his sound from, especially on laid back tracks like Six Blade Knife.

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2022, 02:00:22 PM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

Haha, a great finding! "He occupies that space". But that's actually ridiculous. Musicians can't "own" a sound and accusing people of stealing "Mark Knopfler's sound" is an insane idea on its own. It's like accusing someone of wearing boots... You just do it, naturally.


And if you listen to the early JJ Cale albums, it becomes SO obvious where Mark got his sound from, especially on laid back tracks like Six Blade Knife.

Especially "Okie".
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #24 on: May 20, 2022, 03:29:19 PM »
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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

Haha, a great finding! "He occupies that space". But that's actually ridiculous. Musicians can't "own" a sound and accusing people of stealing "Mark Knopfler's sound" is an insane idea on its own. It's like accusing someone of wearing boots... You just do it, naturally.

Sure!
But since I'm a huge fan of JM as well, I'm very proud of him acklowledging Mark.

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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2022, 04:02:43 PM »
When I first heard this on radio (1988) albeit from a workplace background radio, I was convinced it was something new from Dire Straits!!

Homage to MK maybe?


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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.

And funny enough, John said, "Wild Blue" is his favorite song from his newest album ;D

John was on a podcast with Cory Wong and they talked about Wild Blue and the Dire Straits feeling of it.
Listen to this: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Caz7KZIlpjb/?utm_medium=copy_link
I love how John says he's not trying a Mark Knopfler solo but it kinda is.
And then he plays the Calling Elvis riff...

Haha, a great finding! "He occupies that space". But that's actually ridiculous. Musicians can't "own" a sound and accusing people of stealing "Mark Knopfler's sound" is an insane idea on its own. It's like accusing someone of wearing boots... You just do it, naturally.

Sure!
But since I'm a huge fan of JM as well, I'm very proud of him acklowledging Mark.
Wow!
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2022, 10:44:03 AM »
Chris Rea has lots of Knopfler sounding song, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder is a great example.
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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2022, 11:18:42 AM »
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:


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Re: Songs where the guitarist appears to have been "influenced" by MK
« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2022, 11:39:21 AM »
imho the Chris Rea song with the most knopflerish sound is Windy town, but it's not Chris playing, it's Jerry Donahue



 

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