Former Dire Straits rockers: We'd love a reunion - but Mark Knopfler is busy

[@JuanManuel-il5qf]

I'm still amazed by every Alan Clark's keyboard arrangement on Alchemy album, even almost 40 years later

[@flofy8382]

Alan Clark is the best keyboard player

[@CarinTibellAhlin]

How on earth can they play Dire Straits songs without Mark Knopfler? Impossible 😮

[@AgentRafa]

They're shameless!

[@letsgococo288]

Exactly! Mark moved on and creates music to this day. These guys are living in the past and trying to milk Marks creations.

[@strato9223]

MK is not a religion, everybody can play his songs. Using the name Dire Straits is something else..

[@whicked_stone7566]

Give them a break. There are a lot of former Dire Straits members that wants to play the material. Mark is feed up, and dont whant to and thats OK. I would very much like to see Alan Clark or anybody really play the material in any configuration.

[@gerrychauveau2925]

Yes, another Dire Straits reunion would be great 👍

[@flofy8382]

Mark will never accept.

[@davidjames81]

Mark will never do it he doesn’t need to or I suspect want it

[@garyshannon4798]

Anything Dire Straits without Knopfler should be a no go zone. Alan Clarke seems like a lovely bloke and is a DS legend but has to accept that DS is in the past and well put to bed by Knopfler.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Knopfler made a mistake there

[@letsgococo288]

Watch him speak, he did the tour life for many years. It's not what he wants for his life, he wants to create new music and art not live in the past.@@RideAcrossTheRiver

[@ekstradycja]

That's funny as they're nice lads and talented players ( Alan's contribution especially during LoG era cannot be overestimated) but it's like they'd chosen to be ghosts and live in the past, being stuck there. We all know Dire Straits was in fact a vehicle for Mark Knopfler's songs. He's s moved on and is still active. His last tour was a tremendous success (again) and as we know from his long time co-worker Guy Fletcher (also from DS era) he's recording the new material in his British Grove studio. I like all kinds of tribute bands etc but this one (along with its mirror version - DS Experience) has very often been commercially advertised by promotors as some sort of DS reunion or emanation and that obviously misleads untrained public. No DS without Mark as we all know. Second issue is a constant need to make money on someone else's material. They don't write their own stuff. Anyway, MK once wrote a great song called a Terminal of Tribute to and it seems to be so accurate here as a situation song kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXzbZGCtaLucqaM Alan's latest album is great by the way

[@djurt02]

They did write their own songs and recorded an album called Jesus Street.

[@ekstradycja]

@@djurt02 well, I don't think this is what they mainly play. They actually use Mark Knopfler's songs. And that's fine as long as it's advertised as a tribute band :)

[@CaptChaos1964]

I think you are correct in everything you say. MK has moved on, he’d never put the band back together.

[@RoyHodgson97]

@@djurt02 And nobody cares about their album.

[@lollokolehmainen]

I wanna see Mark Knopfler live so bad😭😭

[@Assarkask]

Stop creying ffs!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

While I'd love to see Dire Straits reunite and record music again, that has to be the band's (including Mark Knopfler's) decision to make whether that happens. No one should force that to happen.

[@freedomfighter5335]

These guy's played in the Fford Green in Chapeltown/ Harehills in Leeds on their way to becoming worldwide known artists

[@AzErradi]

Actually before Mr Clark joined the band, the album Making Movies features gorgeous keyboard parts, so....

[@CarinTibellAhlin]

Great piano playing on the Love over Gold album and onward.❤

[@frankiefourfingers6717]

A lovely interview. Gave the guests time to speak. Often forgotten with big networks

[@letsgococo288]

These guys trying to grift off the past and Mark's music.!! A tribute band is tacky! Move on guys and make your own music, Mark has and he is incredible.

[@angelmedia9051]

Alan ain't lost his Lumley accent :)

[@jaysterling26]

Anthony Hopkins has always been a musician on the side.

[@JohannesYtterstrom]

The artist Dion has a new song out with Mark Knopfler. Check out the video called "Dancing Girl" here on KZbin!

[@ruigen8046]

top tip - stop talking over and interrupting your guests.

[@steffenbrix]

Irritating interviewer...but wonderful to see this interview

[@babblingdabblingmom4603]

Why does the reporter look like a barney stinson playbook trick

[@joer2513]

Get Eric Clapton on and ask him about covid etc, interesting views as he suffers with nerve damage and vaccine injury.

[@JohannesYtterstrom]

Would be interesting. Eric Clapton seem to get much heat right now. Here two people who clearly played with many people mention him as a favorite. The easy answer would have been "Dire Straits, offcourse!" but they said Eric Clapton.

[@AgentRafa]

@@JohannesYtterstrom If playing with Eric was "the highlight of their careers" why don't they cover Eric's songs then? It just proves they are two pathetic grifters and I wouldn't even pay 1€ to watch them play. Scumbags is another term I can think of to describe them especially Phil.

[@tarteampion8039]

Mark Knopfler is not busy but tired.

[@DuncDis]

MK was in touch to wish Alan luck? I'm somewhat skeptical about that!

[@theyeastinfection9871]

I believe David, Pick and John should tour with a talented guitarist and play material from the first three albums.

[@AgentRafa]

An absolute moronic statement, you're not a DS fan.

[@lisazack6459]

David & Mark Knopfler no longer communicate so it wont happen

[@philiproscoe2968]

sorry, but I am an original DS fan, so cant relate to the guys you put on screen. Anyway, siffice to say, for me as an ORIGINAL DS fan, albums 1 & 2 are the only TRUE originals. Hence I find it hard to take these 2 guys seriously.

[@JWS1968]

So, Telegraph Road, Private Investigations, Love over Gold, Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet are all none charters for you then.

[@glyn5385]

pathetic

[@wp7187]

Although it was a very different band in the 80s and 90s, surely you individually recognise the tremendous merits of the Dire Straits that they were a part of? As John has already mentioned, some of the songs from the later era were true accomplishments. Whilst some aren’t fans of the almost clinical production of Brothers in Arms, nearly every song on that record is expertly constructed and performed.

[@varsityathlete9927]

those first two albums are classics for sure, but there is a lot of great music on the other albums... good solid non-pretentious rock band. was always about the music not the ego.

[@philiproscoe2968]

@@JWS1968 on yeah, they are good songs too. But for me the original DS sound was much more "pub band" than flashing lights and over production it morphed in to. I just prefer the orgiginal, cleaner sound.

[@jockmctodger]

Good lads, proper clobber

[@AgentRafa]

No they are grifters, not good lads at all. Think about it!

[@jockmctodger]

​@@AgentRafaEH?

[@AgentRafa]

@@jockmctodger They're traveling around playing music that MK wrote, he put his heart and soul into creating all those master pieces. Phil had a very short tenure with DS towards the end and it seem like he didn't even like it that much, the highlights of his career was playing with Clapton he says, but still he's not traveling around covering Clapton's songs is he? Nope he's traveling around trying to make money off of Mark Knopfler's brilliant work, it's sickening to watch. So wrong on so many levels. A true DS fan should never ever watch that "DS experience" crap. I watched 2 mins of them before my stomach started to turn, seeing Phil 30 years after DS trying to be MK was disgusting. And they're not doing it with Mark's blessing, you should search for the song Mark wrote to them, it's called 'Terminal of Tribute'.