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following on from dezB's excellent post of gimme shelter, i found this isolated guitar solo from sultans of the swing the other day and thought it was pretty cool...
Yay 😀
I very nearly wet myself at the front of The Point Depot in Dublin sometime in the early nineties when they launched into this. 😳
Oh, that's full of win. Good find, sir.
It was the On Every Streets tour - same one as you saw wasn't it Cougar?
(brilliant concert...pity about the OES tracks 🙂 )
Very cool. GH seems to be a goldmine for this kind of stuff.
I grabbed an unclipped copy of the latest metallica album from a previous version.
Stones -> Dire Straits? Not for me matey 😉
My Dad liked Sultans of Swing though!
Just goes to show, Mark Knopfler's not actually very good. 🙂
Great find! Saw MK on his first solo tour at the Point Depot too, brilliant gig 🙂
Am I too young to say I'm quite enjoying listening to this?
Yes, go n listen to some of that Hipity Hopity stuff young man.
I've just been reading the lyrics to 'Diary of a Madman' I feel I've redeemed myself 🙂
It says something that I listened to all of it 🙂
Great post Gav....
I really enjoyed listening to that. There's months/years of study worthy stuff there in just that one song.
SB
It was the On Every Streets tour - same one as you saw wasn't it Cougar?
Sounds about right, aye. (-:
Wow, loads of dead space and bum notes.
bum notes ????? Are you joking?
Anyone got a decent single-guitar tab? I suddenly fancy trying to learn this again!
Not sure I understand why he's not very good - the compositions, distinctive finger-picking style and intervals, and guitar tone always makes him stand out for me.
Sorry for being late to the party, just found this thread (Hey, not all of us get to lark around on the internets all day...) 🙂
Great link! Embarrassingly, this is the very first thing I ever tried to learn on guitar when I was about 17. Not the rhythm, but the solo... Before I even learned barre chords. Only slightly ambitious then...
I still can't play it all. But I'm not ashamed to say that I'll always be a staunch Dire Straits fan... IGMC
Quite like it, but it's pretty much a copy structurally and chromatically of Rory Gallagher's "Shadowplay" which I prefer personally.Some of it could be better, it's got a few dead or poorly damped notes and the timing is a little off in places.
Having said that He's a terrific guitarist, it's just that I don't like his work very much.