Pick Withers Talks about Drumming on the First Dire Straits Album
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Brilliant interview. Pick's drumming put the Swing into the Sultans, listen to the isolated drum track, the deftness of touch is perfect.
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It must Really be a Mind F💥ck to be SO talented and still feel you are on the outside looking in. Millions of us thank you for fighting through it. ❣
Very interesting to hear Pick talking about his drumming. The first three Dire Straits albums are the one's I keep going back to. Two of the reasons I like them so much are that the interplay between the two guitars is wonderful without a keyboard filling ALL the gaps and Pick Withers' drumming is so complimentary to that. His feel is wonderful. When he was with them, their music had blue seude shoes, afterwards (for better or worse) it had big boots on.
I don't agree. Every album is different as Knopfler's music was evolving, developing his songwriting, he needed to have different arrangements, production, instruments etc. Don't forget you have keyboards on Communique already (on the 1st one MK played it a bit) whereas on Making Movies Roy Bittan plays really fruitful parts. The music was still superb and has been an up till now (as MK)
@@ekstradycja They only did 6 studio albums and Pick played on the first 4 which are definitely my favourites and his drumming was indeed ‘complimentary’ compared to the guy that replaced him who was a bit more flamboyant and less technical in his playing which you can see on the Alchemy vid (Pick must have left between the album being recorded and the tour). For me Pick kept the band ‘original’ in its sound and that was lost from Brothers in Arms onwards. It was a shame he left although you could see why he did! Even Mark & John Ilsley had ‘had enough’ by ‘On every street’ which for me was the weakest of the lot. Don’t think I played that one ‘through’ more than a couple of times and I wasn’t surprised when there wasn’t a 7th. They even sounded jaded on the tour compared to the previous ones. I always used to get to a couple of gigs on each tour. Even managed to sit in row 2 at the NEC on the Brothers in Arms tour. Even at the time you couldn’t see how the Brothers in Arms tour could ever be topped.
@@SteveInskip just listn to basel live 1992
I agree with Pick. If you are sleeping through a set of music, its time to move on to bigger things.
that is because the brain of all was mark
Great interview, great drummer
Love Pick .
Such a talented guy.
Six Blade Knife.
Pick is a great drummer and I think he has a great attitude too. I'd love to aee him play himself in a remake of Spinal Tap, maybe Spinal Straits, with all kinds of comic indignities and shit going down. Finished off with a stonking rendition of Sultans of Swing of course!
Me and my friends started a band by the time the first DS album came out. I will always remember the first discussion we had after intensively listening to all of the tracks. All of us were amazed by Pick’s drumming (guit came second!). The way he „played“ was a big hint on how talented he is. We never heard anything like it before. Pick, imo, was very much linked to Marks playing and therefore very very important for DS. T.Williams... total basher. I mean listen to Alchemy’s „Sultans“... what the hell !? TW was one of Rock's most fatal replacement picks, imo.
The Timebell Rings fill... priceless.
I agree. Terry Williams drumming style was "too much too loud". He would fit better in a heavy metal band. Pick was just perfect.
You know John, that first Dire Straits album reminds me of nothing so much as JJ Cale's "Naturally." Do the two albums correlate in your mind too?
Hah, "almost like gunslinging"
His attitude is more of a jazz musician than an arena rock player. Maybe that's the direction he should have gone.