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Finally-Free

I like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pralShcl9E&mode=related&search=

W

Brothers in arms was the very first CD I ever bought along with my Technics CD player. I will never forget the power and clarity of the opening guitar rift from "Money for nothing". I was the first one of my circle of friends to get CD player and it was cool to see thier rection to how clean a CD was compared to cassettes.

keyser soze

I remember a class in Junior High where our assignment was to make a video. Our group picked Walk Of Life. I was the bass player.

AK - Jeff

Is the ability to play a set of strings so perfectly all 'learned' behaviour? Surely there is something inborn in those people with such talent.

Jeff

Guest with Questions

I really like Money for Nothing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpMqKSrr7Y&mode=related&search=

ninja

ah dire straits.....and mark knopfler....another scotsman contributing to the music world

OnTheWayOut

I have to go with Money For Nothing as the best Dire Straits song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpMqKSrr7Y&mode=related&search

Even LIVE, it needs "I want my MTV" on the beginning. IPOD-wearing youths of today
just won't get it. We older ones remember when M meant nothing but Music Videos.

hillary_step

Jeff,

To be honest I think the quicker tempo in the live version of the song makes more exciting live listening but loses a little of the relaxed by forceful "chugging" of the studio version which imo was its greatest strength.

Is the ability to play a set of strings so perfectly all 'learned' behaviour? Surely there is something inborn in those people with such talent.

A question, as a long-term player, that I have pondered for many years.

Most learn their gifts in music through years of heavy practice, some like myself are always destined to be mediocre players and usually we have to work twice as hard as those who have gold dust sprinkled on them, from who knows where. These are very few and far between in all forms of music and they are the ones who are the innovators.

Nick Drake, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jxjv0HkwM who died in his early twenties, is a good example of the unusually gifted. He picked up acoustic guitar in his mid teens and forty-eight months later cut his first album which in many ways revolutionized the English Folk genre and is still as fresh today as it was in the late 60's.

Then you dig deeper and find this man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFB6xj1xHnM

Just a couple of examples of musical innovators. Where does this gift come from? I have seen enough musicians in the throes of an extraordinary creative ecstacy to admit that I have no clue at all, and this from an unbeliever!

HS

brunnhilde

I loved the Brothers in Arms cd. I had the album, wore it out, bought the tape, wore it out and I've gone through two cds since I lost the first one. The final album cut is so haunting it still gives me chills. brunn

hubert

If you like Mark Knopfler, how about with Chet Atkins and the Everly Brothers? Check it out.

Why worry now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rD6qiffsIA&mode=related&search=

Hubert

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