first Dire Straits Demo recorded 45 years ago today

[JF]

45 years ago today, Dire Straits recorded their first demo tape at Pathways studios

5 songs were recorded : Wild West End", "Down to the Waterline", "Water of Love", "Sacred Loving" (composed by David) and of course "Sultans of Swing".

here's is my chronicle about the song : https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/une-chanson-a-la-loupe-sultans-of-swing-de-dire-straits/

longwhile avalaible on bootlegs, these demos were reissued few years ago on vinyl but without "Sacred Loving"

[Robson]

I have several dates written on my heart and memory. Here is one of them. Thank you JF.

[JF]

[jbaent]

David has a patreon account in which he shares lots of things, between them, a podcast, and he played the whole Sacred Loving in one of them.

That patreon is subscribe only paying a monthly amount, so anything shared there, remain there.

[KnopfleRick]

Enjoyed reading your article. Thanks for sharing, JF! 

[Robson]

The first demo tape is from July 24th

[JF]

The first demo tape is from July 24th

Yes ineed the direstraits.com site says that


BUT, Terry Kilburn wrote on mknews in Mark's bio the 27th...

https://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/biogs/mark-knopfler/

during years that was the reference site, so I trusted it  it seems it was wrong indeed...

[JF]

and today, the 28th was the first gig with the name dire straits 

[Pottel]

cool poster!

[Robson]

and today, the 28th was the first gig with the name dire straits 

 

[qjamesfloyd]

The good old days of 70p a ticket

[brickbat]

I wonder who would have the original tapes of the other demos recorded in 1977, Mark or David?

[jbaent]

I wonder who would have the original tapes of the other demos recorded in 1977, Mark or David?

Or John?

[JF]

I wonder who would have the original tapes of the other demos recorded in 1977, Mark or David?

Or John?

John wrote in his book that it was his aunt's heritage that paid the record session from july. I wonder if it paid the two other (october and november) too. if it's so, then it would be fair that he got the original tapes

[brickbat]

I wonder who would have the original tapes of the other demos recorded in 1977, Mark or David?

Or John?

John wrote in his book that it was his aunt's heritage that paid the record session from july. I wonder if it paid the two other (october and november) too. if it's so, then it would be fair that he got the original tapes

We should ask him then.