Paranoid, if it were written by Dire Straits

[@Lexcoaster]

This is awesome! 🤟 Now I would like to hear Sultans of Swing as if written by Black Sabbath... 🙂

[@LaszloBuring]

We're gonna have to get a Black Sabbath expert for that one 😂 At least someone with a higher vocal range than me

[@JIKwood]

​​@@LaszloBuringyou probably don't have to go far on KZbin to find some other talented artists that you could maybe work with or help. Richaadeb, Little V, and Jonathan Young are all talented and work together so maybe reaching out to them. At least Little V or Jonathan Young for vocals. Then have Richaadeb on the guitar (maybe with you) and you got something going.

[@MariusDanielsen]

@@LaszloBuring Epic cover. And if you're doing a Black Sabbath version, I would love to join :P I did this one many years ago. I am the guy in the Ozzy sunglasses :P kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2aYiIWdmJuch7c

[@thatcheapguy525]

fantastic idea!

[@megaglock22]

Man....that would be extremely difficult to execute, but would really be interesting to hear! Kind of like if Sabbath's 'Electric Funeral' were written by Dire Straits! 🤯 Would definitely blow my mind!!!

[@jriamyou8156]

This version captures the sadness and loneliness contained within the song.

[@Screaminwitchdoctors]

Absolute genius! The contrast is hilarious... The solos are amazing, more 70s Knopfler than anything he is doing today! You have to be a very accomplished guitarist to develop this style creatively in such a way. Congratulations

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you very much!

[@59Marcel]

Mark and Ozzy would be very impressed. Just stunningly perfect.

[@iFixJunk]

I often wonder if Mr. Knopfler has seen this channel.

[@59Marcel]

I'm sure he has.@@iFixJunk

[@simonpratley3301]

Amazing! Your playing and vocals are 100% Knopfler 🤯, composition 100% dIRE sTRAITS. I-m sure that Mark , Ozzy and Tony, would all love this arrangement! 🤘🎸🤘

[@gustavobuenovittorino474]

hahahahahahahaha

[@dandylion188]

I think you mean Tony (Iommi).

[@megaglock22]

WOW, I'm like....stunned!!! Being a Sabbath fan for 50+ years, I'm blown away!! You are VERY talented, you've got Knopfler's bright, crisp, but gentle rhythmic style down like it's your own! It's definitely Sabbath's song, but Dire Straits took control of it! You are a musical genius, very talented axe-man, and a joy to listen to! Subscribed!!!

[@ericfielding2540]

Amazing reimagining of Paranoid. It sounds like Dire Straits so much that it is hard to tell the original song notes.

[@andreask3218]

Exactly. True.

[@alexandermauder7274]

this guy is pure genius, his playing is more art than music.

[@davideciattaglia4136]

defintely agree

[@wellesradio]

Now that’s the way you do it.

[@ivanimhof6550]

On one hand it's delicately funny, as a kind of musical paraphrase, on the other hand awesome playing, really Knopflerish! Actually, Black Sabbath and Dire Straits were the 2 main bands inspired me to play guitar, so it's very exciting to see the mix of them!

[@ryanmillar9607]

A good song is a good song. The ability to showcase it in a different style is proof positive.

[@LaszloBuring]

Agreed! In most cases at least.

[@workdevice7808]

Awesome, Lazlo!! Just sat my wife down, played her some Black Sabbath Paranoid off KZbin then said "now watch this" and played her your video. Her comment: "you've got to be even better than Dire Starits AND Black Sabbath to be able to do that!"

[@LaszloBuring]

Hahaha thank you very much!

[@poiuyt975]

I can't think of a less Knopfler-ish song and yet you still make it work. :D

[@InnerPeaceSounds]

That's awesome!!! Especially the fills and the solo, they sound so knopflerish ❤

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you!

[@naynaynay324]

Really bringing out the musical qualities with this transscription + that solo at the end which is just pure dire straits mix bliss.

[@AlpineRaven]

It’s insane, your stuff is so good it actually fools me into hearing new Dire Straits songs that don’t exist. 😂

[@LaszloBuring]

Hahah, welcome to my brain!

[@madeirafonseca6383]

Another Laszlo Buring masterpiece. You never disappoint.

[@flyingbeaver57]

This is great, in terms of music & musicality, and a dose of whimsy and humor. You've really added some "Essence of Dire Straits" to this, and your vocals are definitely Knopfler-ish in tone and style. I bet Mark will enjoy this, if he hasn't already heard it. And (surprise surprise) you've actually given me a mental poke to have a try at "Dire Straiting" another piece of music, completely different original style, but well known to many musicians who've played in jazz ensembles as well as rock bands. The idea kind of passed in one ear and rattle around for a few day, then I set it aside. However, your work has given me some new inspiration, and a new approach. Perhaps I'll post it for general comment, if it turns out as a halfway decent tune. You've done a really nice job on this - thank you for composing it, and posting this video. Truly enjoyable.

[@startaiger49]

It's blasphemy, but it's also very fun. Well done! 👍

[@javiercastillo-wd1wj]

😮ohh

[@arightscepter]

What, like Blasphfunny?

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

Mark and Ozzy approve of this incredible mash up 🏆 And i thank you Good Sir 🎩

[@84homey]

Wonderful - I almost prefer it! :)BTW I'd love to hear you do "Don't Fear the Reaper if i were ritten by Dire Straights" - assuming you can cope with the cowbell of course ;)

[@LaszloBuring]

I've thought about doing that one! It's been suggested a couple of times. I might give it a try

[@TonyWesley]

​@@LaszloBuringAdd 1 more vote for Reaper.

[@briebelbus1524]

I’ve got a fever.

[@jeromewagschal9485]

Oh yes...Please do it 🙂🙂

[@DouglasB42]

It always fit some more cowbell 😂

[@antonioeasypiano]

I always have been in love with "Paranoid" and "Sultans of Swing", so this video is spectacular, the best of both songs all at the same time!!!! 👏👏

[@alwallace4538]

That was the best thing I've heard in ages!

[@arredond]

hell yeah i love both iommi and knopfler

[@Brain_Juice]

This guy is making that guitar talk!

[@MandyFlame]

OMG! What twisted union is this? Dire Sabbath, who would have thought it. Appalling to contemplate, yet so so good.

[@LaszloBuring]

Dire Sabbath for the win!

[@Mike98006]

Love the Dire Straits style and the sound of that guitar!

[@iFixJunk]

I can absolutely hear this playing at some upscale restaurant.

[@stephenlondon3363]

Absolutely awesome!! You’re a such an amazing guitarist but all your videos like this doing other artists’ songs as either Dire Straits or others is always just BRILLIANT!! (And your vocals and all other musical parts are always spot-on as well 🎼🎤🎸🥁🎸🎹🎸)

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you!

[@zepp2498]

Great, great, great.....just great! You play exactly the way Mark does....especially the right hand. I last heard this song some 40 years ago: so yes, it's different, but who cares.....it's just great. Well done. 👍👍👍

[@kevinleighton7255]

This is simply amazing 👏 😍 everyone knows the original, but if you didn't you say, think is really fresh! It just blows my mind of how you can take such a well known rock song and make it so soulful and still keep the essence of the song! It's just pure genius ❤ Bravo 👏 ❤

[@LaszloBuring]

Thanks Kevin!

[@MisterSoundminister]

I think what I like even more than this ingenious mashup ist your no nonsense video style, it's like the old KZbin has come back to life.

[@LaszloBuring]

Thanks! Yeah, I like to get to the point in my videos 😂

[@delt19]

I'm sure MK would approve!

[@ukchris64]

Holy balls this has got to be the very cover of paranoid I have heard, well done to you sir you have very much made my day today

[@PsychedelicChameleon]

Man I hope all the Dire Straits members are fans of yours!

[@scrimmerman]

EXCELLENT! You got that Knopfler thing down!. Great job my man.

[@Eatzbugs]

Finally something that is not crap on poo tube. Throughly enjoyed every second

[@LaszloBuring]

Hahah, thanks!

[@marcosgomes7681]

​@@LaszloBuringyou are a special man, please give us more

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

I actually subbed after reading some of the comments This is my first time hearing of this channel

[@Zontar82]

absolute masterpiece

[@sikksnakk]

You have something special here. A feeling for greatness .

[@LaszloBuring]

Thanks!

[@frankfrausto]

As MK fan I love this version! Outstanding!

[@thomaskotch4770]

Wonderful playing

[@Jimbo-in-Thailand]

👍👍Laszlo - LOL extremely well done but gotta admit I never ever would have imagined Paranoid performed this way. 🤣😲🤣😲🤣😲

[@mcathawk1490]

I was gonna skip by this video, but I just couldn’t, and I’m glad I didn’t

[@chrisjamesr77]

I gotta say, yeah, this is totally what I imagined from the video title! Nice job, very well done!

[@АлександрНекрасов-ф4п]

Тот случай, когда кавер ничуть не хуже оригинала👍 А может даже и лучше🙂👍

[@TheHKBerry]

Another great one! Lovely tasteful playing. Well done.

[@MrHemlock51]

I've just noticed you don't use a plectrum. Amazing.

[@LaszloBuring]

Like the man himself! 😁

[@MrFlyingalabama]

Great interpretation. On the solos you have some crazy harmonics!

[@BaxterStoneTV]

Really enjoyed this well done. It made me laugh as well as admire your incredible skill as a player 😀

[@nihilioellipsis]

Restructuring reconfiguring revising something like this is a pretty serious creative act. Imagine Black Sabbath playing Iron Man in the style of Dire Straits.

[@CluelessSheepNazi4270]

Perfect,.....that's exactly how they'd sound.

[@arightscepter]

Dire Straits or not, this is beautiful.

[@dancurtis461]

crazy knopfler vibe mon. best i've ever heard.

[@brewsmith]

Nice work, man! I would never think those two sounds could be integrated but you nailed it.

[@kenanacampora]

Great fingerstyle and soloing....perfect touch man!

[@claudedumont6918]

Wow!!!!!!!! Wow!!!! You've realy captured the Dire Straits vibe on that classic metal song. Bravo,

[@silvercrowflysilver1662]

Интересно, а что-нибудь из репертуара Dire Sraits в стиле Black Sabbath будет звучать?))))

[@joeritchie7286]

Paranoid Sultans

[@themandolinmaniac]

Wonderfully played and produced. I'm sure Mark Knopfler would LOL as loudly as I am now! Thanks

[@briebelbus1524]

Wow, this is impressive. Souds great 👍

[@LaszloBuring]

Thanks!

[@egrintarg230]

Can you help me? Thought you were my friend. That is what it says. I love how you made the leads sound like Dire Straits while yet retaining the underlying musical idea from the original. Very clever pentatonic restructuring.

[@dmitryWeirdo]

That major 6th after "Can you help me?" gets me all the time xD Great job, keep on!

[@therealstevedye_121]

Brilliant. In concept, and in execution.

[@dixonite]

This is just beautiful.

[@MrRoundwound]

You sound exactly like him. Wow. Fantastic

[@stuartzoo]

Goes to show how much tone counts for. And attack. And arrangement. This is fucking awesome!

[@sheilaf5732]

Utterly fantastic!

[@johnedwards1685]

We are the Sultans, We are the Sultans of Sabbath!

[@cedricmilford5254]

I didn’t think that I’d like this, but I DO! Great stuff! 👍🏻

[@dracsspago]

Your arrangements are off the charts! 🤟

[@scottmiller1729]

Absolutely amazing!

[@scottpeterson7500]

A Blue Grass version of Paranoid would be amazing 😎🍹❤️

[@rrecioe8869]

Hope its on Spotify bc I'm adding it to my list rn

[@LaszloBuring]

Not yet, soon though!

[@Socritiques]

i would love to see snow by RHCP if it were written by dire straits. I think that would be magical.

[@LaszloBuring]

The guitar parts would be cool! The lyrics would be a challenge, hahah

[@francescodomenichetti3787]

Love your channel dude! I watched tons of your videos and it's one of the best out there. Plus because we both have a vintera and the OCD!

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you! The vintera strat is awesome, I'm very happy with it.

[@MichaelHolmgaard]

This sounds legit like something off a 70s Dire Straits record. Well done

[@michaelkaspar8240]

We all agree, Knopfler is a great and very unic player! He's special and awesam. But dude, you nailed it. I Listen to your Song, tried to hear Ozzys voice in my head. But your arrangement is that outstanding remarkable... Even though I love that song by Black Sabbath, I'm sure i Listen to Dire Straits. Great work!

[@tbalci]

What hell of a song Black Sabbath had written - however you play it, it is always wonderful.

[@istemihanvarisli]

Dear Laszlo, this is beautiful :) Kudos and thanks!

[@AgentRafa]

Wow!! Possibly your best one yet. Your guitar playing here is so MK it's mesmerizing, I'm on my 4th replay now. I absolutely love it. Your outro solo is banging!

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you!

[@MrJacobThrall]

Great that you went early Straits for this - really suits it. I did wonder where you might pitch it... I'm thinking that although it's very Sultans-based, there's maybe a Communiqué-esque polish to it? Just a touch more lyrical and a bit more harmonically sophisticated than the first album sound. But unmistakably pre-1980 - and totally brilliant.

[@schrumpfkopftv1952]

this is absolutely wonderful ...

[@samvs1259]

Niiiiice work, my friend!

[@tomask.3983]

Haha, excellent!!! Love both songs but especially Sultans of swing! You really nailed Marks guitar sound there!

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Subscribed. Really don't know how I haven't before. These are sublime.

[@LaszloBuring]

Thanks man!

[@22knightx]

Brilliant offering Lazlo. You are much appreciated

[@csabapapp8481]

Zseniális! Így kell használni az AI-t. Gondolom a vokál AI generált. A gitár fantasztikus. Nagyon kíváncsi lennék egy Mark Knopfler reakcióra. :)

[@LaszloBuring]

The vocals are just me. No AI involved

[@csabapapp8481]

@@LaszloBuring Wow! Impressive!

[@andyledger2307]

We’re the Sultans … we are the Sultans of Metal.

[@JaredMOfficial]

Oh my god! This is amazing!

[@eforentertainment1420]

Truly awesome! No doubt!!

[@milenkovicradisa2884]

Brooo 😊stvarno, ovo je dobro.

[@jacekk4258]

Świetny pomysł na cover. Coś nowego.

[@leisuresuitlarry8311]

Friggin' Awesome!!!

[@PlebanMuzeum]

You got the Dire Straits feeling, you got my approval :P

[@paulderby2117]

Brilliant stuff I've subbed

[@paulpokorny1238]

Damn. Incredible dude!!!

[@GBWagner1]

Again here. Again THANK. I mentioned You, and now I send this vid to a fine bassist friend of mine.

[@LaszloBuring]

Thank you!

[@michaelblaine6494]

And you didn’t use a pick,just like Knopfler. Bravo sir

[@stevefick3919]

I think Tony Iommi would love this.