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For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
Mark Knopfler talks about - and plays - the most significant guitars in his life (including the iconic National resonator on the cover of Brothers in Arms). Guaranteed to bring on a GAS attack for guitar lovers. The interviewer is John Illseley, longtime pal of Mark's and co-founder (along with Mark's brother David, who was John's roommate) of Dire Straits.
It's also a bit of a history of Dire Straits. At around the 20-minute mark you can hear the original demo of Sultans of Swing, which sounds remarkably like the released version. Knopfler's post-Dire career isn't covered much, but I guess by then his guitar collection was nearly complete. BTW, the luthier shown at the end is quite famous; the waiting list to buy one of his custom-made guitars (assuming you can afford one) can be as long as 10 years.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 13:00:56
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Very nice programme, saw that last year on Sky Arts.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 13:14:37
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bitflipper
BTW, the luthier shown at the end is quite famous; the waiting list to buy one of his custom-made guitars (assuming you can afford one) can be as long as 10 years.
Is that the guy that built Clapton's acoustic? I read a book about him. IIRC he didn't even know who Clapton was pretty much up to the day he delivered the guitar* *Clapton actually commissioned two. One for him and one to auction off.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 13:21:56
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THIS is what I was referring to.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 13:33:41
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THIS is what I was referring to.
The luthier in the Knopfler film is John Monteleone, immortalized in this beautiful song;
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 13:42:36
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Oh, I did not watch the MK vid yet.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 14:18:47
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Cool! Something to watch later tonight. 
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/18 23:49:25
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Oh yeah, that was worth the time!
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/19 01:03:30
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open ur mouth and say *AAAA* haha
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/19 06:05:53
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Looks like a nice one to watch later. Has he got one that "can't be played."
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/19 11:20:59
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Very nice video. Thanks for the suggestion.
I thought this odd though. Under the YouTube video description it is described as:
Published on Dec 18, 2012
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Category: Comedy
'Comedy' category????
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/24 23:35:47
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Thanks Bit. Started watching a litlle earlier. Gonna put up some coffee and finish watching now.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/25 14:09:39
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BTW, the luthier shown at the end is quite famous; the waiting list to buy one of his custom-made guitars (assuming you can afford one) can be as long as 10 years.
Is that the guy that built Clapton's acoustic?
I read a book about him. IIRC he didn't even know who Clapton was pretty much up to the day he delivered the guitar*
*Clapton actually commissioned two. One for him and one to auction off.
The builder of Clapton's guitar was Wayne Henderson.... a wonderful luthier and player (bluegrass) from Virginia near the borders of NC and Tennessee. I hate to shamefully drop names but I got to meet Wayne while performing a festival in France back in '99... not far from Lyon. He is one of the nicest people I have ever met... it was later I learned how great a builder he was. There is some great you tube footage of Wayne and his shop, including some wonderful Doc Watson moments.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/25 14:10:50
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Hey Bit.... thanks for sharing this. Great video...
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/25 22:53:26
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It's a really excellent video. Gave me insight into where Mark's techniques came from. With the exception of his toy first guitar, I think his first guitars were the ones that had the magic. Those later guitars were associated with his more distorted songs and didn't win me over like the songs through their first 4 records. Once he started distorting and using those later guitars shown in the video I thought the sound wasn't as inviting.
He's still my favorite or in my top 3 at least.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/26 01:00:00
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Thanks very much for that. Fantastic to get that insight into Mark knopfers' playing and instrument choices. So sad that I at one time had the very near perfect copy of that 61 strat and sold it when I was a young man. Wish I had it now.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/26 09:04:42
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Hi,
I don't mind watching these, but every time I see them, it's like ... a nice home movie ... and I don't feel that the work itself gained from it as much as it could and we, the audience, did not learn anything about the craft ... so the craft for 2 songs, is a guitar ... and the rest of the work?
I sincerely doubt that anyone plays anything, strictly because of one guitar ... you play for the sound, and for the words, and the music within you, which may have, or not have, that instrument, as the sound is so different ... or the feel is so specific, but that is not something that is always visible to the public, or audience.
Pretty soon, we will hear about Keith Richards and his guitars ... and then Mick Jagger and his microphones. And ..... sorry! There is more to the art of it all than just an instrument and a song.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 03:00:10
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Thanks Dave I really enjoyed it a lot. It is very easy to under estimate how much influence the actual guitar had on Mark and the songs he wrote at the time. There were ideas from inside of course but the guitar itself somehow has quite an impact on how those ideas come out. You only have to listen to the way he played Sultans with that Strat etc. The fact he could bend multiple notes at once etc..Check out the other songs with the other guitars. They are all related to the guitar in some way. It is really about a combination of three things. The ideas, the instrument and the expression/playing. As a synthesist myself I experience the same thing. If I am fiddling with a Moog Modular the music will come out sounding like Tangerine Dream. If its another wierd wild instrument then the music is often reflected in that. Instruments should and do inspire. But then it is not always that way either. if you think of how the Beatles wrote their music, it was not heavily influenced by the instruments they were using at the time. Lennon and McCartney probably sat down at the piano and held the same guitar in many instances when they wrote some classic tunes. In this case it is more about ideas and performances. But there is no doubt though that the instrument itself can have a huge impact, as often it does.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 10:56:32
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Hi,
It was an enjoyable watch ... no doubt about that. It usually is, although one does not really learn how the musician got his results, and this is better shown in a film like "It's Gonna Get Loud" when you even get small discussions of how something brought out something else ... although, nowadays, I am not sure that a special guitar will show as much as it could have 40 or 50 years ago, since so much stuff these days is computerized and from a DAW, and not necessarily an instrument.
I was asking a friend, if he played one of the basses in Trillion, and then his own, would an outsider know the difference? He said he doubted it but there would be a side of it that could help you define it, and it would be playing details ... strings bend, stretch, the finger sticks and clicks, the little things that can add to the piece that he can see on his recording from listening, but an audience would not have any idea. But that for the most part, few people would know the difference, and nowadays, you can treat a guitar so much, that no one can determine pretty much anything.
I think that we will be entering a phase in music history where the individual ability to create something is going to be hidden more and more ... and hopefully we can get it back ... someday.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 11:18:01
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Really enjoyed that, thanks Dave.
I never knew he was left handed.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 12:10:30
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2016/03/27 19:09:36
Moshkito
I don't mind watching these, but every time I see them, it's like ... a nice home movie ... and I don't feel that the work itself gained from it as much as it could and we, the audience, did not learn anything about the craft ... so the craft for 2 songs, is a guitar ... and the rest of the work?
Hi. Er...... it's about his guitars. The clue is sort of in the title.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 18:18:32
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Thanks Dave - I have become more and more of a Mark Knopfler fan as I get older and have been listening to him almost daily for the last six months or so. I really enjoyed seeing this!
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/27 18:55:51
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Really enjoyed that, thanks Dave.
I never knew he was left handed.
That's just the camera angle Steve. When Mark looks at himself playing in the mirror, he's right handed. HTH. 
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 11:59:49
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I, too, have become more of a fan since his pop star heyday ended. I've always recognized his unique playing abilities, but in the past 10 years I've also come to appreciate what a great songwriter he is. Only Paul Simon bests him when it comes to song topic diversity. Napoleon, Imelda Marcos, emigration and cannibals all on one album!
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 12:04:22
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I, too, have become more of a fan since his pop star heyday ended. I've always recognized his unique playing abilities, but in the past 10 years I've also come to appreciate what a great songwriter he is. Only Paul Simon bests him when it comes to song topic diversity. Napoleon, Imelda Marcos, emigration and cannibals all on one album!
Me too. I like his solo albums much more than the Dire Straits stuff, especially 'Privateering'. 'Dream of The Drowned Submariner' from that album is one of my favourite ever songs.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 12:12:36
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Good video pops up on the Sky Arts channel every now and again always worth the watch.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 12:32:15
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I, too, have become more of a fan since his pop star heyday ended. I've always recognized his unique playing abilities, but in the past 10 years I've also come to appreciate what a great songwriter he is. Only Paul Simon bests him when it comes to song topic diversity. Napoleon, Imelda Marcos, emigration and cannibals all on one album!
Boy, he does have an ability to grab a hold of an idea and turn it into a story! My favorite solo album is Kill to Get Crimson. In general, I prefer his solo stuff to the Dire Straits catalog, but it's all good. :)
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 12:51:51
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"Sultans of Swing" is a truly great song. It's just that we're so tired of hearing it. Still, it's bound to remain a staple of cover bands forever - it sure gets crowds going when we play it. And "Brothers in Arms" is an enduring masterpiece. But you're right, walking away from Top 40 freed him to create his best lyrical material. Sting seems to be taking the same path.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 18:00:58
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Thanks Dave another very nice video. Just goes to show how nice Sting is. I think in an older previous thread that was talking about great song writers eg Paul McCartney I mentioned Sting also. Someone put me down and said he was not in the league as Paul but I still don't agree. On another level he is in a league of his own. Especially melodies over chord changes. Sting is a prolific and masterful song writer and one of the greats in my opinion.
That would not be an easy gig to do either.
I like all the later Knopfler stuff too. Especially all that filmic music he did using synths and stuff too. But Dire Straits had to come first and it was so very fresh at the time. I do remember that. Very basic lineup instrument wise and the songs were so great too.
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Re: For guitar nerds: Mark Knopfler's guitars
2016/03/28 22:53:59
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I would not have disagreed with you, Jeff. McCartney wins due to the sheer quantity of great tunes under his belt, with extra points for (co)penning "goo goo goo joob". A master of melody, but he's no storyteller.
I think they all pale beside Paul Simon. Lasers in the jungle...
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