Brothers In Arms Live ft Eric Clapton (Dire Straits Reaction)
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Not really featuring Eric Clapton> More like Eric graciously playing rhythm while Mark slayed it.
I think Clapton was a little blown away by the solo
More that just strumming a basic rhythm. Listen to the song using good quality headphones, and you will hear Eric's guitar through the right channel.
I think most people who listen to Mark's solo are blown away; he was inspired
Eric Clapton is a psycho racist.
@RhiannonFan it's brothers in arms. Nuff said.
You're right though. Listened again.
I heard that Eric is in awe of Marks talents and loves the chance to join in
As a classical and jazz guy, Mark Knopfler is the one and only rock guitarist I admire. His play, his lyrics, his composition are genuinely sublime.
This guitar is like a " _mourning guitar_ " accompanying a dying man.
This is Mark's song . . . Clapton is playing back up, which shows massive respect.
Clapton did not solo on this song - would have spoiled it in my opinion as this is so iconically Knopfler's. He did solo on other songs at this gig - Walk Of Life, Solid Rock and Money For Nothing [where he broke a string]. He also sang Wonderful Tonight. I used to have a bootleg copy of one of the warm up gigs they did in early June 88 getting ready for this one!
Knopfler played in Eric's band over the next couple of years [until Dire Straits started up again]. I saw Mark play in Eric's band in Birmingham in January 1988 and at the Royal Albert Hall in January 89. I went to 15 of Eric's RAH gigs between 89 and 93 including blues nights with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Albert Collins and Buddy Guy. Great times and great memories!!!
The fact that Knopfler was lost for words at the end says something about the music, the lyrics and the fate of Nelson Mandela. Very emotional.
Knopfler and Clapton played rhythm guitar for each other on various shows a fair few times in this era.
Dire Straits was one of the best live performers ever. From pub rooms to giant stadiums they built a solid confidence I haven’t seen matched.
This performance should be the 8th wonder of the world 🥺
I cannot listen to this song without tears welling 😢❤
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Momma momma many worlds I've known since I first left home.
I can never listen to this song without tearing up. Sooo beautiful.
so right, every time for me lol
That is just so so so so beautiful. 💙💙 Knofler and Clapton are guitar Gods in my eyes.
mark knopfler and dire straits are amazing, I really wish the younger gen had what i had, this song on Vinyl and the old huge brown speakers you cant get better quality music than that, you can only hear it, hard to explain unless you're gen X
You can detect in Knofler that this was a great honour to be invited to. Remember that in the late 80s the awareness of apartheid was really getting it’s international notice. With the cry freedom movie leading the way. A film we watched in school that affected many strongly. A friend of mine wrote a bunch of songs about apartheid after seeing that film he was so moved and devoted his life to the cause. Proud of him 35 years later, because he never wavered. As stubborn as you find them and made a difference helping individuals. Anyway. This was a special concert that was in the news prior, during and after in the late 80s.
Probably the greatest guitarist that ever lived
Absolutely Charles!!!
Greatest guitarist is one of the most difficult ranking problems of all.
Greatest golfer; There are two to debate.
Greatest Quarterback; Tom Brady although there's an argument for Payton Manning at his peak.
Greatest rock keyboard player; Keith Emerson
But there are too many amazingly great guitar players.
There are those that can play the guitar into submission. Jimmy Hendricks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others.
Then there are those that make amazing nuanced beauty with the guitar. Two of my fav's are David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler.
But what about Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Glen Campbell, ...
But what about the many many legends I'm leaving out from the Who, LZ, and on and on and on.
Best guitarist of all time!? I haven't a clue but I just enjoy all of them.
@@danwood4171 very well said. There are a lot of great guitarists that I admire including Gary Moore. Great point Dan. It's so subjective but Mark Knopfler touches my soul. Take care.
@@danwood4171 whilst I appreciate your point, I find the examples you give over-simplistic. The greatest QB for example. Just because Brady has been the most successful doesn't necessarily make him the greatest. He's had all the benefits of playing in an era where all the rules favour the position. Joe Montana could just as easily be in the conversation, with 4 Super Bowl wins and 3 Super Bowl MVPs to his name in an era where the QB could be hit high and low and well after the ball had been thrown. No 'tuck rule' for him either. You simply can't compare players from different eras. As for the greatest rock keyboard player, Rick Wakeman says 'hello'.
@@danwood4171 This GOAT business infuriates me too. We've had it recently with Messi, Pele, Maradona and so on. All great players, just enjoy. Your list of guitarists misses Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery, for instance. How do you compare those two with SRV? Why bother? ☺
In this version you can tell he was very emotional singing it that night. You can hear the tears in his voice. 😢 Such a beautiful song
POWERFUL. That's the word that comes to mind watching this.
The guitar sound is utter brilliance. I had a poster on my bedroom wall of Knopfler from this concert when I was seven. My parents who were passionate about supporting the anti apartheid movement let me stay up for this concert. One of my earliest memories was Mandela being released from prison.
Interesting that he was playing on Suhr guitar although the song is usually thought of as having a Les Paul sound. Mark Knopfler sounds like Mark Knopfler whatever guitar he plays!
Mark is my favourite concerts late 70s still memorable
The synths are the result of Guy Fletcher the younger of the two keyboard players. He joined Knopfler to play on a film score in ‘83 & Dire Straits in ‘85. His skills and brilliance meant he carried on working with Knopfler after Dire Straits disbanded in ‘93 and has been a core part of his recording band, co-producer on his eight solo albums. Fletcher is also the musical director for Knopfler’s live band.
Eric and Mark have toured together and you can find quite a few instances of them playing together.
Clapton was there as a rhytmn guitarist, apart from on "Wonderful Tonight," which was his contribution to the set. A wonderful set.
Clapton plays one of the solo‘s in Money For Nothing at the same concert. Actually snaps a string during the solo. You should also check out the live version of Layla where Knopfler plays with Clapton and casually fingerpicks the tune.
Wonderful emotional song. Great review Syed. 10 out of 10
Mark Knopfler is a guitar virtuoso.... all the gods look up to him lol
Clapton is a guitar God.
And a racist. I suppose you can’t win ‘em all
Backing up another guitar God, both superb composers and singers.
You have to check out ”money for nothing”. First the studio and then a live appearance of the same song with Mark Knopfler, Sting, Eric Clapton and Phil Collins. Loved this video as well.
I wish people could know the history and why this song is so touching to some of us.
Mark and Alan ( on keys ), went on tour with Eric in 88, Mark played rhythm and some lead and one ore two dire straits songs! After the first split up Mark did some other records, one with Chet Atkins and he founded the Notting Hillbillies, till they came together for the last album in 91. Mark wrote over 15 film soundtracks too and a lot of songs for other musicians like Tina Turner and played with so many awesome artists on there record! A good one is „Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler - Cocaine“!!!. Thank you for your reactions and time to make these videos.
This is amazing I was there the guitar 🎸 from Mr knopler is other worldy.
Timely, timeless. Ukraine comes to mind. "... Someday you'll return to your valleys and your farms..." To my mind, Mark Knopfler is right up there with Bob Dylan. They certainly inspired each other. I hear some of Jimi Hendrix and "All Along the Watchtower" in this song. Listen to Bob Dylan singing "Mississippi," released on September 11, 2001. "...Sky full of fire, pain pourin' down ..." Grateful to have found your CZcams channel.
It's another brilliant reaction Syed and of course, you're spot on about Mark Knopfler's abilities but Clapton has done a number of these with other guitarist 'headliners' and he just backs the main man rather than encroach on their very personal territory. That's the class of the man. If you get the time, plesae check out Clapton and Stevie Winwood playing 'Cocaine' the great JJ Cale track. The two of them together are just wonderful.
That's what I like about Clapton, too. The Crossroads performance of After Midnight with JJ Cale is another example.
There is a performance of Clapton and Knopfler doing "Cocaine" from one of EC's tours in the 80's floating around out there somewhere along with other tunes.
hey syed, I've just started watching your channel a couple days ago and I've got a list that's already hours long, but my favorite live Clapton solo that you can find online is "don't think twice" from the Dylan 30th anniversary concert … you should watch that and then the whole concert … but watch the video, not just listen to the song.
Welcome to the channel. Syed is awesome. He has an organic understanding of things which is refreshing and insightful.
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@@jaewok5G Nope just a subscriber
A lot of reaction channels or OK and some are better than that. I like the ones where the person or persons are more knowledgeable. Your channel is one of those.
Eric had the best seat in the house that night he watched a masterclass from 10ft
sultans of swing at this same concert!! amazing guitaring
You got to check out the Live in 85 concert !
I remember seeing this live on TV and it was an incredible set, Eric Clapton played a bigger part in Solid Rock which they closed with, but he was essentially there as a guest guitarist for this show.
Although Brothers In Arms was the standout song from their set as you've pointed out, the emotion it conveys is incredible.
You need to watch sultans of swing live at this same concert
Check "music for Montserrat"
Full of great artists collaborations.
The concert was arranged and produced by George Martin, and starred many iconic British and American rock musicians such as Phil Collins, Ray Cooper, Carl Perkins, Jimmy Buffett, Mark Knopfler, Sting, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Midge Ure, Arrow and many more, all of whom had once recorded or produced on the island. A DVD was released with the most famous songs from the concert, such as "Your Song", "Layla", "Brothers in Arms", "Blue Suede Shoes", "Money for Nothing", "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", and "Message in a Bottle".
I saw a Clapton show in Dallas where Mark Knopfler played 2nd guitar. They played two Dire Straits songs, and the rest were “Motherless Child”, “Layla”, of course: guitar songs. Great show. When they’re playing together you realize how fluid Clapton is: he makes Knopfler seem almost wooden by comparison, at least in that show he did, and Knopfler’s brilliant.
I think Clapton is the lesser guitarist. Pioneer or not. Knopfler is just more unique as well.
Research Mark's background and you will see where his music comes from , Eric 's also . Check out other greats the have played with .
This exact concert has also, the very best version of Sultans of Swing.
Agreed
MK never missed a note
Knopfler has some outstanding solo work. "The Rag Picker's Dream" , and "All the Roadrunning" with Emmylou Harris are standouts. He has made an exceptional career in soundtrack work as well. Dire Straits was just the beginning for his career.
Dire straits was the epitome of his career. Yeah, he did decent solo work, but the dire straits albums are his legacy.
@@eirikrdberg1161 with regards to his commercial success, yes, but he has really stretched himself artistically. He does not sell nearly as many records, but his artistry has grown. To say his relatively few years with Dire Straits was his legacy is to sell him short. He is still building his legacy, and it has already gone far beyond Dire Straits, as good as they were.
@@eirikrdberg1161 Mark's legacy goes way beyond just Dire Straits.
@@eirikrdberg1161 I feel Knopfler solo is great storytelling but the solos have become less the fore
Knopfler is Bruce Lee, Eric Clapton is Chuck norris
Oh sorry, my mistake - I thought we were going to see the performance, not 12.53 mins of your reaction to it and comments over it. You're a good looking guy and all that, but would prefer to see the artistes.
If you haven't seen the movie, The Princess Bride, do so, Mark Knofler wrote music for it.
Pink Floyd are also genius live ❤
Hungry Freaks Daddy, Frank Zappa
You should see Mark live ,not a live video , same with Eric . Hearing them live ,or for that matter any good musician LIVE is well worth it .
Jack Sonni had just left Dire Straits and there was no new rythim guitarist yet, but durng this time Mark Knopfler had played a few shows playing rythim guitar for Eric so he asked Eric to join Dire Straits for this concert. A few years later Eric also played with Dire Straits at Knebworth music festival where they played a song that was written by Mark but never recorded by Dire Straits, it ended up being recorded by Jeff Healy, but the performace by Mark and Eric was great czcams.com/video/GHY0pGRh0ok/video.html
Technically Jack hadn't left the band at this point. They were all taking a break after the gruelling Brothers in Arms world tour and got back together specially for this concert. Jack's wife had just given birth though so he couldn't be there, which is why Eric stepped in. Incidentally Mark played second guitar and sang backing vocals on The Jeff Healey Band's version of I Think I Love You Too Much, although he recorded his parts entirely separately and was never in the studio with the guys. As much as I like Jeff Healey's version, that live performance with Mark and Eric trading solos is truly special. 😃
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I wonder why CZcams blocked you? I have watched many times this video on youtube in other reactions.
Metallica has made a cover of Thisted song
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This is a great performance aurally but the director did an awful job, a better version is this one: czcams.com/video/4haa3ElkrrM/video.html
From Dire Straits last tour, you can see Mark and the band actually playing. Or this one: czcams.com/video/Z3_HTGdLXL4/video.html Which is a Mark Knopfler solo performance
You can hear Eric’s guitar throughout this track but he didn’t play lead at any point. The tone of his guitar wouldn’t have suited it. He did play lead at different times on other tracks at this concert though. Added a different flavour to Money for Nothing for example.
The narrator is dying in this track as well bu the way.
Too much going on with your video arrangement. You have 50% of the screen..should be the ARTIST as the feature.. ..
Somehow unique (once seen is enough?), but also disappointing. Really terrible camerawork; no one who felt the music and who knew who was in front of him. Eric Clapton played rhythm guitar and, in my opinion, totally got lost in the soundscape.
It's a pity a missed opportunity, which - yes Mr. Knopfler - could have been solved differently.
I wish everyone finally peace, confidence and good health!!!
I couldn't disagree more. The cameras do a great job of capturing Mark's emotion. Clapton was playing rhythm guitar, which meant he wasn't the focus of the 'soundscape'; he's supposed to be in the background. There was no place for him to launch into his own solo in this song. This was a Dire Straits performance. Eric was just helping out his friend by stepping in when the band's rhythm guitarist was unavailable because his wife had just given birth. There were other numbers where Eric was given the opportunity to play more to the fore, but for this song it wouldn't have been appropriate.
This is universally considered one of the greatest live performances ever.
@@twpsy634 let's be honest, if a list of the Top 100 live performances of all time was compiled Dire Straits, Pink Floyd and Queen would fill half the slots between just the three of them!