Mark Knopfeller?

Dire Straits had their moments.

Yes, they did. But Mark Knofler is a consistent performer and a great guitarist. I have two CD's that I play the hell out of: Mark Knopler and Chet Atkins - "Neck and Neck", and a recording of Dire Straights playing at Albert Hall with Eric Clapton standing in for an absent band member.

BTW - any Delbert McClinton or Roy Buchanan fans in the house? Roy's "Livestock" LP rocks the house.

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Too bad Col. J isn't here...he's away for the weekend, but I know he's a big fan of that kind of stuff Bossman.

I agree about Knopfler, he's a real pro. I've got a good folksy kind of album he did called "The Ragpickers Dream". Its good.

They just did their "Farewell" tour in the US back in March. Flogging Molly is cool too...as are the Dropkick Murphys

yeah but did you catch that flogging Molly song in a car commercial? Sellouts! :)

Actually it might have been the Pogues. I get them mixed up.

Which reminds me, one of the great shows I've been to recently, Devotchka. ANyone else here into them?

I like Dire Straights a lot but when I put them into Pandora I get all kinds of 80s fluff rock. When I put Mark into Pandora I get lots of nice folk and Emmy Lou Harris and stuff like that.

cuz they all sound pretty much the same.

I can probably think of half a dozen american punk bands that all sound the same too :lol:

try putting "tribe called quest" into pandora. Its been blowing my mind with good hip hop.

Oxymoron. :D

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that was way too easy of a set up.

i'm sorry but Eric B. & Rakim is cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1Emb7Jyks <--this is probably PG-13 rated.

I had no idea they were touring, I wonder if Shane MacGowan was with them? I played a horrible venue on Cape Cod with the Dropkicks in the mid 90's, I think it was a smoothie bar.

Speaking of car commercials, did you catch the Mitsubishi ad with the Fall's "Blindness?"

I think the 'farewell' part of the tour was that this was gonna be Shane's last tour with them. I'm not sure if the band is gonna continue without him or not.

+1 on Devotchka.

Got to see them perform at a local radio station for a live session.

......and three times at local clubs.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/dis.../02/devotchka/

Wow, I don't read a thread for a day and look what happens, nine pages.

Complete thread-jack too, well done.

...carry on.:)

Emmylou connects the dots to so many vibrant people. Colin Linden/Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Lyle Lovett, Mary Gauthier...

I played in a alternative band in the 80's in Philly and Dean from Ween used to hang around all the time. Played at the Khyber pass about a zillion times as well. Just saw Mike Watt at the North Starr. Good, but man I miss the minutemen!

Saw the Surfers at least 3 times, Dead Milkmen, Chuck Mangione, Steve Ray Vaughn, Violent Fems, sheesh, too many to list. Worst show experience, being talked into walking to see the Cult open for Metalic, the venue was too far away, listened to the entire Cult set while walking through the woods only to arrive in time For Metalica to set up. Metalica was good, I just wasn't as into them. Worst show experience I actually saw.. the Cure on the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me tour. Bad sound in our seat location, just an unbearable mix. Best show still might be the BH Surfers with the setting fire to the cymbals, naked dancing girl and sex change operation on the big projector screen. Just a singular moment of being so young and alive.

Opened for the Surfers on that tour in Richmond Virginia, quite a show! People were fainting when that movie was playing........

Marshall Tucker Band

My mother once told me she was friends with Steve Miller in high school. Don't know about that statement's veracity, but he is from around me.

Best show I ever saw: Fishbone. Opening band were Living Color. Fishbone played for like 3 hours in this tiny theater. Amazing.

Second best: INXS back in 1987.

I made the mistake of listening to Steely Dan while working the other day, you know just to give them a fair shake with fresh ears. Now Kid Charlemagne is stuck in my head along with memories of roller skating, dirt bikes and the Captain & Tenile variety show with that skit about the watermelon.

Some of it seems like the musical hook comes in the middle of the verse and then it just leaves you hanging out for a while before they start in again.

Khyber isn't a venue anymore...it seems so unnatural. Especially since Dobbs is back. North Star is an awesome venue, I didn't know Watts was up here. Minutemen were fantastic.

Can't You See is a great song.

RE: Marshall Tucker Band - "Desert Skies", for the win. For some reason, I can't hear that tune enough.

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i will admit that there is one eagles song I can stomach. 7 Bridges Road. But its mostly because it sounds like a Crosby, Stills and Nash tune. Those guys still sound good.

Peter Gabriel era Genesis........before The Lamb album? Anyone?

Oh, and these guys are awesome....

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoatRide...c?feature=mhee

Oh, and Mothers Of Invention/Frank Zappa.....before the 80's hit.

I thought Steely Dan sounded old when it was new. But now that I'm feeling older, it is sounding newer. I still like cutting edge sounds. I remember when the pierced dude kinda chuckled when I bought the Radiohead "OK Computer" CD which seems aeons ago. I still like my 70's blues-based rock which is my wheelhouse. But, I hate stale music; and I hate listening to the same things over and over. I think the world has passed us and makes better music then we hear today on lame-ass radio. Just another sign that this country is on a retrograde path. I want to listen to what the kids are listening to.

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And here we are, post 240. Tied with "creme"

G'night, everyone.

"With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down

Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town"