You know what makes this song so f*cking brilliant “ like the waves coming to the shore “ - makes the guitar sound like waves crashing and receding on the beach “ hangs it on the wall “ - makes the guitar sound like a hammer hammering a nail in the wall. Just insane he’s making sound effects mid song that’s also part OF the song. Masterpiece
Harry R Phillips, Leeds sculptor - He couldn't be in the gallery. This song tells the story about a sculptor from Leeds called Harry R Phillips. The lyrics say how he was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds. While the dealers they get together, and they decide who gets the breaks, and who's going to be in the gallery. Mark was a junior reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in the late 60's. One of his assignments was to interview a musician from Leeds called Steve Phillips, his father was the sculptor Harry Phillips. Mark and Steve played the Leeds pub circuit as a duo called The Duolian String Pickers. Mark bought the famous National Resonator guitar from Steve that featured on the Brothers in arms album cover. The idea for the song came about when Mark visited an art gallery in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He found the exhibits to be laughable and a con, subsidised by the public purse for "all the phonies and all of the fakes" while genuine talented artists like Harry R Phillips were Ignored. The lyrics tell of Jesus on the cross, which is a sculpture Harry Philips made. It can be seen above the altar in St. George's church, Letchworth Garden City. The fallen angel is the other sculpture that can be seen on the tower of St Michael's church in Lewes. I've no idea what the skating ballerina was though :-)
Always one of my fav songs for the guitar work. Now I know more about the lyrics. Thank you! He does more bio songs and first person POV of a person or character songs than anyone I can think of. Mason/Dixon, Elvis, Sonny Liston, Basil and Beryl just off the top of my head besides this. Such a unique lyric writer.
U sound very not intellectual. Chords and notes are already there, no one is gonna come with new ones. What matters is what u make out of them. Same chords or not, the music he makes is so awesome and unique. Instead of crying in the comments, go make better stuff and post it :)
@@das250250 he is just jealous that he can't make something better out of notes and chords. That's why he is crying in comment section. 😉 You are right MK is all over this tune.
What a great picking and singing performance of one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes! Love the lyrics about the father of one of Marks friends who was an artist that passed away in 1976. "Harry made a bareback rider, proud and free, upon a horse." Harry Phillips dies in obscurity. "Then you get an artist, says he doesn't want to paint at all. So he takes an empty canvass, sticks it on the wall, WOW!" "Birds of a feather, know the phonies and know the fakes. While the dealers, they get together and THEY decide who gets the breaks and who's gonna be, IN THE GALLERY!" Great lyrics. Crazy but sadly it's true. Think I'll go nail a banana on the wall!
Two backbones fused together: MK and PW gave the Dire Straits the real impetus for it's well deserved glory. My most favourite drummer and guitarist together made music richer than anything in this world!
Pick Withers is amazing. It's no coincidence that as soon as he left, they lost the swing and groove that was present in every single one of their songs, in favor or constant busy fills and loud dynamics. Pick's playing style married Mark's in a perfect way.
This is the Dire straits I identify with, not so much the satin jacket wearing stadium act. This is a hungry rock band f**kin' bringin' it. I love this show so much.
yea me too. they were the band they sung about in sultans of swing. the first album with that washed out cover and mark in a dirty vest killing it. Great band. I even liked the later stuff but this was the best
Agree. I saw them on the “Every Street” stadium tour and Mark seemed to cram a whirl of rapid notes into every beat as to be “entertainment” rather than music. I love the rawness of the early stuff….although side 1 of Making Movies was incredible.
@@Captain_Rhodes The first three albums do it for me. The ones that came later were great but they'd moved on to a place I wasn't interested in following. Much in the way of Elton John and James Taylor with their first albums. People change, and musicians are people.
@@deanallen927 My personal favourite is the debut but my second is actually Love over Gold which is very different. Very cinematic and not particularly commercial but I liked that. The only one I disliked was the last one.
@@Captain_Rhodes Pick Withers quit after that. He didn't like it getting over-sized and all "stadium rock", opting not to comment on personality issues.. I just watched a great interview with him.
when people debate who was the best guitarist of all time gotta be Knopfler. Look at his era he was a freak mixing blues and rock like never before. a diamond
An often overlooked super-talent on guitar, much like Richard Thompson. But the world (or at least men-children jacked up on testosterone) hails the senseless, showy shredders without a tenth the musicality of a Knopfler or Thompson. It's a deplorable state of affairs.
I love how raw this was, and yet still sounded pretty close to the album version...testament to the band's musical ability and structural purism. Add that to Knopfler's song writing ability, and you know the trendy boys in London and Leeds couldn't ignore them.
Pricklyhedgehog72 How right you are - songwriting and arranging are as strong as his playing, which is world class. As you've pointed out, his side-men are amazing also.
I remember the first time I heard In the Gallery... in my car in the Fall of 1979. I knew it was a classic then...... and here we are, 40 years later and it is still in a class all by itself. Who else can play guitar like that???
superb musicians, Pick Withers on drums is jazzy and perfect, brother David subtle and rhythmic, bass man John Isely steady and serious, and Mark a gift of writer, guitarist and balance.
See him in young time enjoying to play his guitar makes me drop some tears and become emotional, BEAUTIFUL, i enjoy dIRE sTRAITS every day, the OST of my life.
Dire Straits first album/cassette takes me back to the good ole days of riding around in my '74 Monte Carlo and wearing that cassette out. How in the world "In The Gallery" wasn't a smash hit is beyond me.
What a sensational performance, the energy is just jumping out of the screen. Always loved this track, great story, love-love-love these guys. Can't imagine life without the first Dire Straits album.
I also love how the audience is fully with them. I know crowds still cheer and clap and so on, but we seem a distracted people nowadays in comparison with all our labeled clothing and gadgets.
A performance like this shows why Rolling Stone is smoking something when they rate MK as the #27 greatest guitarist. The whole series from Rockpalast is killer. Move over Jimi , MK is here.
This is one of my favourite line-ups for Dire Straits - the original band, so together, so alive. Brilliant song. Mark Knopflers guitar playing and singing interweaving together - he sings with his guitar. I LOVE THIS! Inspirational.
And the audience applauded... While I jumped everywhere.... dancing the stars away!! And I used this song to teach my students.... Really a great work of art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be well!!! Horseflowernl
Kendall Rich I'll have to look up Withers' discography. I love his performance on this song and its my favorite on the album. I just like hows his playing compliments the guitars. Like the guitars are great and everything but lets not forget about the great drum licks.
These guys went against the grain as Punk rock was the flavour at the time and Dire Straits shone through like a bright light!!! As we all know Punk didnt last and Dire Straits came through unscathed!!! Legends!!!
mark's playing is amazing but what most surprised me about this performance is how quickly his hand can move up and down the fingerboard and so accurately! shoutout david knopfler and the other guitarist tho
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You know what makes this song so f*cking brilliant
“ like the waves coming to the shore “ - makes the guitar sound like waves crashing and receding on the beach
“ hangs it on the wall “ - makes the guitar sound like a hammer hammering a nail in the wall.
Just insane he’s making sound effects mid song that’s also part OF the song.
Masterpiece
Harry R Phillips, Leeds sculptor - He couldn't be in the gallery.
This song tells the story about a sculptor from Leeds called Harry R Phillips. The lyrics say how he was ignored by all the trendy boys in London and in Leeds. While the dealers they get together, and they decide who gets the breaks, and who's going to be in the gallery.
Mark was a junior reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in the late 60's. One of his assignments was to interview a musician from Leeds called Steve Phillips, his father was the sculptor Harry Phillips. Mark and Steve played the Leeds pub circuit as a duo called The Duolian String Pickers. Mark bought the famous National Resonator guitar from Steve that featured on the Brothers in arms album cover.
The idea for the song came about when Mark visited an art gallery in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He found the exhibits to be laughable and a con, subsidised by the public purse for "all the phonies and all of the fakes" while genuine talented artists like Harry R Phillips were Ignored.
The lyrics tell of Jesus on the cross, which is a sculpture Harry Philips made. It can be seen above the altar in St. George's church, Letchworth Garden City. The fallen angel is the other sculpture that can be seen on the tower of St Michael's church in Lewes. I've no idea what the skating ballerina was though :-)
Many thanks for the information!
great info - thank you
If this is true, I'm speechless. All of my life I was wondering what the lyrics meant. This song is one of my favorite top 10
Thank u 4 the story behind the groovy tune!!!!
Always one of my fav songs for the guitar work. Now I know more about the lyrics. Thank you! He does more bio songs and first person POV of a person or character songs than anyone I can think of. Mason/Dixon, Elvis, Sonny Liston, Basil and Beryl just off the top of my head besides this. Such a unique lyric writer.
MK is one of those rare guitarists with a signature sound that's instantly recognizable.
That's what guitarists live for...their own sound
Abolutey true
i personally simply love how mark touch the guitar, his finger dynamics is astonishing. he can play so many ghost notes at -200 db
MK is all over this tune ... he plays around his chords like a bee around a flower ..
He is truly amazing...
U sound very not intellectual. Chords and notes are already there, no one is gonna come with new ones. What matters is what u make out of them. Same chords or not, the music he makes is so awesome and unique. Instead of crying in the comments, go make better stuff and post it :)
@@issambelfakir6577 you don't understand and that's ok
@@das250250 he is just jealous that he can't make something better out of notes and chords. That's why he is crying in comment section. 😉
You are right MK is all over this tune.
Issam Belfakir knows all the chords. He doesn't want to make it cry or sing.
Dire Straits? The nearest thing I've got to an addiction. Keep making my insides swing Mark!
What a great picking and singing performance of one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes! Love the lyrics about the father of one of Marks friends who was an artist that passed away in 1976. "Harry made a bareback rider, proud and free, upon a horse." Harry Phillips dies in obscurity. "Then you get an artist, says he doesn't want to paint at all. So he takes an empty canvass, sticks it on the wall, WOW!" "Birds of a feather, know the phonies and know the fakes. While the dealers, they get together and THEY decide who gets the breaks and who's gonna be, IN THE GALLERY!" Great lyrics. Crazy but sadly it's true. Think I'll go nail a banana on the wall!
I identify myself so much with this, as I struggle to get my writing out there, but the dealers won't listen...
The drummer and the bassist are on the same level altogether with Knopfler it's nice to see
Love the way Mark goes back and forth playing rhythm and leads. And Pick Withers is amazing.
Vanessa Creech Me too, I hope you are well
Love pick withers, one of the most underrated drummers of all time! Great band! Love the first album,their best,hands down!!!!
Two backbones fused together: MK and PW gave the Dire Straits the real impetus for it's well deserved glory.
My most favourite drummer and guitarist together made music richer than anything in this world!
@@douggroethe1989 You're very correct. Pick had always been the driving piston in the DS engine.
@@douggroethe1989 sooo true!!!
Pick Withers is amazing. It's no coincidence that as soon as he left, they lost the swing and groove that was present in every single one of their songs, in favor or constant busy fills and loud dynamics. Pick's playing style married Mark's in a perfect way.
This is the Dire straits I identify with, not so much the satin jacket wearing stadium act. This is a hungry rock band f**kin' bringin' it. I love this show so much.
yea me too. they were the band they sung about in sultans of swing. the first album with that washed out cover and mark in a dirty vest killing it. Great band. I even liked the later stuff but this was the best
Agree. I saw them on the “Every Street” stadium tour and Mark seemed to cram a whirl of rapid notes into every beat as to be “entertainment” rather than music. I love the rawness of the early stuff….although side 1 of Making Movies was incredible.
@@Captain_Rhodes The first three albums do it for me. The ones that came later were great but they'd moved on to a place I wasn't interested in following. Much in the way of Elton John and James Taylor with their first albums. People change, and musicians are people.
@@deanallen927 My personal favourite is the debut but my second is actually Love over Gold which is very different. Very cinematic and not particularly commercial but I liked that. The only one I disliked was the last one.
@@Captain_Rhodes Pick Withers quit after that. He didn't like it getting over-sized and all "stadium rock", opting not to comment on personality issues.. I just watched a great interview with him.
when people debate who was the best guitarist of all time gotta be Knopfler. Look at his era he was a freak mixing blues and rock like never before. a diamond
An often overlooked super-talent on guitar, much like Richard Thompson. But the world (or at least men-children jacked up on testosterone) hails the senseless, showy shredders without a tenth the musicality of a Knopfler or Thompson. It's a deplorable state of affairs.
Rory Gallagher mane.
@@davietaggart764 yesssssssssss!!!1!1!!
MK music is like fine whiskey. It gets more robust with age. 40 years to be precise!
everyone praises MK but don't forget about David, he's SUPERB rhythm guitar player
I love how raw this was, and yet still sounded pretty close to the album version...testament to the band's musical ability and structural purism. Add that to Knopfler's song writing ability, and you know the trendy boys in London and Leeds couldn't ignore them.
Pricklyhedgehog72 How right you are - songwriting and arranging are as strong as his playing, which is world class. As you've pointed out, his side-men are amazing also.
Pricklyhedgehog72 Great commnet
Your comment is akin to that bareback rider, the fine coal miner. Perfect.
@Julie Gustafson thanks for making me watch this again...
@@Pricklyhedgehog72 want to watch again?
I remember the first time I heard In the Gallery... in my car in the Fall of 1979. I knew it was a classic then...... and here we are, 40 years later and it is still in a class all by itself. Who else can play guitar like that???
Most artist today (if that what you want to call them) can't play anything. Agreement with ya, a classic then and now!
This song is top notch smooth like a scotch.
He is special. I was 11 when i got the first dire straits album on cassette for xmas. Still have it to this very day.
greatest guitarist on this planet or any other
kingoftomatoes True
yep
I saw this GENIUS...this MASTER, in concert in 2014.
what luck, wish he'd come to France.
Before I saw your comment, I was listening to On Every Street, from his concert in Nimes. One of my favorite performances!
The syncopation in this song is unreal. Creates such an exciting
Rhythm.
I'm addicted to this concert *.*
superb musicians, Pick Withers on drums is jazzy and perfect, brother David subtle and rhythmic, bass man John Isely steady and serious, and Mark a gift of writer, guitarist and balance.
+koffee alexander Absolutely..this is the best line up...
He has the whammy bar on his guitar here. A very rare sight in deed...
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,....................this album ====== MASTERPIECE.....................................forever....
Marks guitar playing is mesmerizing. I love this raw version, what a group.
who the hell would down vote this? Jeez, this is such a terrific performance
Just like someone will always write a generic comment like this.
@@longtalljay ! Don't blam her. She needs to take her medication on schedule. She says bullshits
See him in young time enjoying to play his guitar makes me drop some tears and become emotional, BEAUTIFUL, i enjoy dIRE sTRAITS every day, the OST of my life.
I love the tone and the energy and attitude that DS had at this point in their career ! 😃
Dire Straits first album/cassette takes me back to the good ole days of riding around in my '74 Monte Carlo and wearing that cassette out. How in the world "In The Gallery" wasn't a smash hit is beyond me.
74 Monte Carlo. Classic car, classic album. I drove around listening to it in a '78 MGB.
@@georgehorniman Wow! The girl I dated back then had a MGB, don't remember the year but a fun little car to drive around.
Some early Straits stuff I've never seen before! Mind blowing!
Loved the first two albums….. This performance was so good….
I can't get enough of this song
What a sensational performance, the energy is just jumping out of the screen. Always loved this track, great story, love-love-love these guys. Can't imagine life without the first Dire Straits album.
I also love how the audience is fully with them. I know crowds still cheer and clap and so on, but we seem a distracted people nowadays in comparison with all our labeled clothing and gadgets.
Reminds me of my Dad we sang this together before he passed he loved Dire straits....xx
Fantastic guitarist, incredible talent!
Loving Pick Withers' drumming!
crazy fingers playing!! uniqueness. no copyable!!
Six blade and gallery, still my go to tunes in their first album with the original four members of course
Never seen this played on stage before. What cosmic musicians!
A performance like this shows why Rolling Stone is smoking something when they rate MK as the #27 greatest guitarist. The whole series from Rockpalast is killer. Move over Jimi , MK is here.
No truer words said the greatest of all time
This must have been one hell of a concert. Lots of other videos on CZcams of other songs from same event.
The whole show you can find on youtube also
Mark's shirt exuded high class and the enthusiasm of being in rock history, and maybe he didn't know it yet
I really love the lyrics to this! Too bad it doesn't get much play - it deserves more!
.....reggae,fusion,ska,rock......
dei geni
..blues..
The best song of dire straits , is true
man, he's on fire..
IN THE GALLERY ΚΑΙ SIX BLADE KNIFE ΔΥΟ ΦΟΒΕΡΕΣ ROCK ΚΟΜΜΑΤΑΡΕΣ ΜΕ ΚΟΦΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΑ SOLO ΚΙΘΑΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΓΚΙΚΑ ΦΩΝΗΤΙΚΑ!!
this is one of my greatest loved dire straits songs!!!!!! wunderbar!!!!!!
Genius - in all ways. Supernatural focus and assuredness. And yes, truth in the lyrics --the way it is in the so-called art business.
Bloody marvellous
Fantastic performance of one of my fave DS tunes. God, I wish they'd kept this line-up through Love Over Gold. They are as pure as the driven snow.
Good, good , very very good!!
The early Dire Straits with Mark playing his red Strat, iconic.
Mark is Awesome
This is one of my favourite line-ups for Dire Straits - the original band, so together, so alive. Brilliant song. Mark Knopflers guitar playing and singing interweaving together - he sings with his guitar. I LOVE THIS! Inspirational.
My favorite!
One of the many outstanding pieces on their debut album...
I really love this tuning
The best music
wow this version is so groovy!!
Ooooh boy!! Desert island...this band comes in!!
Most underrated band of all time
Peak Dire Straits. Magnificent.
Fabulous performance of a brilliant song
C'est ma musique préféré. Je l'ai écouté des centaines de fois et pourtant elle me procure autant de plaisir à chaque fois. Merci pour ça!
And the audience applauded...
While I jumped everywhere....
dancing the stars away!!
And I used this song to teach my students....
Really a great work of art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be well!!!
Horseflowernl
Ja pi****lę! 36 lat i widzę pierwszy raz ten live! ❤🎉
Вещь!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stavo perdendo di vista questo capolavoro..
The drummers just awesome. Kept my chin a rockin.
That's Pick Withers...one of the greats of his time. He played on Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" album released the same year as this show.
Kendall Rich I'll have to look up Withers' discography. I love his performance on this song and its my favorite on the album. I just like hows his playing compliments the guitars. Like the guitars are great and everything but lets not forget about the great drum licks.
Who wouldn't like this??? Unbelievable...
Fuck this is some good shit. I'm 33 and grew up with their hit songs, but this is beautiful.
Fantastic! There are no adequate words to describe this...pure magic...Mark is the Best.
yes, this song is ultra special to me. Just perfect!
First 2 albums was, this is what we have, it’s the absolute limit, take it
David 'Pick' Withers - one of the Greats
Essa banda, pra mim ela é a melhor de todos os tempos!!!
c'est un véritable chanteur et vrai guitariste ....j'adore ce groupe et j'adore le look Mark knopfler
Best live ever in history
Pick Withers is truly amazing on drums!!
And them there Knophler Boys are great!!
This song is really amazing. The lyricism is just great.
Happy Birthday Mark Knopfler. This is one of the greatest songs.
Le bon vieux temps
you must admit that it's awesome that MK can do this, even through he's lefthanded, and playing on a right handed guitar
Amazing❤️
Incredible song!
These guys went against the grain as Punk rock was the flavour at the time and Dire Straits shone through like a bright light!!! As we all know Punk didnt last and Dire Straits came through unscathed!!! Legends!!!
He's just spectacular!
Never gets old !!
Just amazing! That’s all, just amazing. Thank you Mark!
Amazing!!! The energy they put into this is fantastic...
mark's playing is amazing but what most surprised me about this performance is how quickly his hand can move up and down the fingerboard and so accurately! shoutout david knopfler and the other guitarist tho
Other than Sultans, MK rarely played live, after 1980, the other pieces, like Gallery, from the original DS album.
one of their best!
5/5
Genius 😍
some of the finest live playing on youtube !! wow
thanks for posting all these HD videos!
!
👍👍👍👍🔥
Mark your simply one of kind man!
Fucking great. Totally underrated, and brilliantly stunning live.
awesome
Wow!
Love :)