I think Side 1 of Making Movies is one of the best Sides of any album EVER. I burnt through it when I was young. Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet and Skateway. What an amazing trio of songs!
I remember staying home on Friday night as a teenager just to watch Dire Straits perform this song live. I wish Mark would perform this song again on his tours, its become sort of a lost classic, but one of my favorites from DS and this album in particular.
@@beverlyrankin5421 Caus there a songs like Romeo and Juliet and songs like Skateaway or Ticket to haven which are not as big as the Hits. They have too much to play all live.
@@grokur9714 But this WAS a sizable hit for them. Dire Straits was not Prince or Madonna. They didn't have dozens of well known songs that they had to pick from to pare down to a tight setlist. They could've done a solid set of well known songs that included this one, "Industrial Disease", and "Twisting By the Pool" night after night.
It exists ! And it's so many ! Just different . Search: Jamie Colier, Dirty Loops, Domi Degale and Beck, Rob Araujo, Cory Henry , The Midnight, Anomalie, Alma Deutscher.... so so many . This is just a glimpse of new generations.
This is a tremendous performance....the video was one of the early mtv spins in heavy rotation....fantastic feel good vibes man i miss those days down at my grandmoms beach house in ocean city maryland.....it was right on the water....all summer late 70s early 80s...mini golf video games football frisbee on the beach with my buddies Leo's pizza billys sub shop....chasing girls smoking pot staying up all night........and watching the early days of mtv.....time of your life kid....time of your life
I've been a performance skiier my whole life. I'm 67 now & this song still speaks to me. I connected to this song way back when. I haven't skiied professionally for awhile and I'm re-evaluating what I want in my life now. I danced tonight, by myself, in my house tonight and your music gave me back the energy of my young self. I'll ski to it this season. I'm still one of those girls you sang of. I'm eternally grateful! I hope you can still rekindle that spirit too. Thank-you
I have been a Dire straits fan since the first time i heard sultans of swing as a teen. I always wanted to here a live version of skateaway thanks for posting it.
My favorite Dire Straits song from my favorite album by the band...I remember watching this as a stoned 16-year old. Ah, memories...still love music and keep up with it and see lots of live music. Haven't touched any illicit music 'enhancers' since I was 18...
"Remain in Light" released October 8, 1980 "Dirty Mind" released on October 8, 1980 "Making Movies" released October 17, 1980 "The River" released October 17, 1980 I was busy that week, running from my turntable to the record store and back. Music was an embarrassment of riches back then. Now, it's just an embarrassment.
Mark Knopfler visited the studio while Springsteen and the E. Street Band recorded The River. He was seriously smitten by the way Springsteen led everything, and he saw himself as someone who could be such a leader. What he forgot to consider was his lack of experience as a band boss compared to Bruce. David Knopfler left Dire Straits soon after.
I remember this! I was in a bar with a friend just after work, and I looked up at the screen, and there was my favorite band. Mark's guitar grabbed me from the first time I heard it.
THANK 😊 🙏 YOU so much 😊 🙏 💖 ❤: Love this album and especially every single song 🎵. Skateaway is a girl's fantasy to roller skate 🛼 as good as her, and my other favorite is the Bug 🐛, like Mark says ENJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR, even when you're the Bug 🐛. What a incredible imagination. Enjoy 🎶 TO the whole album and have yourself a time ⏲ ✨ of your life! See 👀 ya 🎶 👍 my friend!
Do you remember bein a kid listening to this and staring at all your dire straits album covers thinking, well maybe not thinking... knowing that these guys had your back
Making movies has accompanied me throughout my adolescence. I have consumed the cassette so far and it is still one of the most expensive things I have. A life with Mark!
This song was acknowledged 1 year go,dont recall ever hearing it,but when I first heard it I heard it maybe four times in one week,and realized why i never heard it before,cause i never had so many radio stations like satelite,and im in the midwest.
Thanks for sharing this clip. Hadn't realised Alan Clark had played with the band this early - I knew he was with the band by '82 for the making of Love Over Gold but this is a revelation!
Yep, David Knopfler left during recording sessions of Making Movies and was replaced by both Alan Clark on keyboard and Hal Lindes on guitar for live performances.
Pound per pound, tons per tone, Making Movies is the greatest album of all time to me...and that includes Beatles, Stones, Dylan and Neil Young. Dire Straits. Only 7 songs on that album...Skateaway, Romeo & Juliet, Espresso Love, Tunnel of Love, Solid Rock...man oh man...just great songwriting and music from Mark Knopfler. Genius. And still comprises great music in 2018..
Dire Straits são grandes heróis na minha adolescência, Mark, Pick, Jhon, Alan, Hall, só o Guy Fletcher pra completar o que seria minha formação preferida 😉
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I think Side 1 of Making Movies is one of the best Sides of any album EVER. I burnt through it when I was young. Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet and Skateway. What an amazing trio of songs!
I agree. And, I strongly believe Douglas Adams did too.
Expresso Love ?
Absolutely and this song in particular is criminally underrated
Great live version of Skateaway, can never understand why this wasn't played live more often.👋🎸
Never understood why Putin didn't invade 6 years ago...life's a mystery I suppose. Toro toro taxi see you tomorrow my son...
Thanks
Absolutely, one of my favourites, I wish there were more live versions to see on youtube.
Because you would need Pick Withers..
It's hard to play live. The studio recording is so perfect - very hard to live up to!
@@mcpappysgolden dunno .. I would say the same for the News, but it was played live
The emotional height of the chorus but still restrained brings tears of joy and makes you want to listen again and again
Absolutely! Its something inexplicable.
My favourite Dire Straits song off my favourite Dire Straits album. This is my jam.
100/100
I couldn't agree more!!!!!
Ditto! My heart soars!
This and Industrial Disease are phenomenal 💪
I remember staying home on Friday night as a teenager just to watch Dire Straits perform this song live. I wish Mark would perform this song again on his tours, its become sort of a lost classic, but one of my favorites from DS and this album in particular.
So you know why they stopped playing this song live? I can find nothing past late 80's.
Me too.
@@beverlyrankin5421 Caus there a songs like Romeo and Juliet and songs like Skateaway or Ticket to haven which are not as big as the Hits. They have too much to play all live.
@@grokur9714 But this WAS a sizable hit for them. Dire Straits was not Prince or Madonna. They didn't have dozens of well known songs that they had to pick from to pare down to a tight setlist. They could've done a solid set of well known songs that included this one, "Industrial Disease", and "Twisting By the Pool" night after night.
@@birddogger5150 In 1980s they were the successful band on the globe. After BIA, they have so much know songs: MFN, BIA, WOL.
When you watch and listen to this song the first thing that comes to my mind is what ever happened to talent in the music industry?
It exists ! And it's so many ! Just different . Search: Jamie Colier, Dirty Loops, Domi Degale and Beck, Rob Araujo, Cory Henry , The Midnight, Anomalie, Alma Deutscher.... so so many . This is just a glimpse of new generations.
You wanna see a girl play guitar, drums en singing all at the same time? Check out Ghalia Volt. Typh Barrow is good too
The good musicians seem to steer away from writing commercially...
Richard Hawley. All is not lost!
They all got industrial disease....;-)
Dire Straits with Pick Withers was at another level. Another universe. Pick is just amazing.
Hated it when Pick left the band. He was amazing, set the groove in every track.
I agree with you
Totally agree! Pick just drives the band!
@@luislonewolfsanchez1378 Is better,in my opinion
@@joseramonperez5756 But who was better? Colleagues (professional drummers) say that comparing Pick to Terry is like comparing Messi to Zlotan.
Skateaway, Espresso Love, and Tunnel of Love are probably my favorites from Making Movies
Yup,in the top three of the best LIVE bands in the world! Greetings from Scotland.
They don't make GREAT MUSIC like this any more !
Always admired Mark Knopler for his talent for writing songs that always told an interesting story
The chorus has something spécial..
This outstanding and I love the way Mark sing a story to us... Unbelievibble 😘
Mark Knopfler is awesome..I always admired his style of playing
Incredible performance
Sounds great live, the 80s were so magical
One of the few bands with a solid oeuvre. Every song on every LP is solid. No filler.
This is a tremendous performance....the video was one of the early mtv spins in heavy rotation....fantastic feel good vibes
man i miss those days down at my grandmoms beach house in ocean city maryland.....it was right on the water....all summer late 70s early 80s...mini golf video games football frisbee on the beach with my buddies Leo's pizza billys sub shop....chasing
girls smoking pot staying up all night........and watching the early days of mtv.....time of your life kid....time of your life
Don't want this to end😍
awesome songwriting as always with Mark Knopfler. Brillant album one of my all time top five.
for some reason, I love this melody. This make me calm, relax...
No backing track here.
This tune has got to be a challenge playing live. Moreover a testament to true talents involved. Knopfler killing it.
Can see his joy at nailing this at the ending, literally jumping for joy. The song is fresh here and challenging to play.We know he's a perfectionist.
Great song, great band, and Mark is one of the greatest guitarists!
I've been a performance skiier my whole life. I'm 67 now & this song still speaks to me. I connected to this song way back when. I haven't skiied professionally for awhile and I'm re-evaluating what I want in my life now. I danced tonight, by myself, in my house tonight and your music gave me back the energy of my young self. I'll ski to it this season. I'm still one of those girls you sang of. I'm eternally grateful! I hope you can still rekindle that spirit too. Thank-you
I have been a Dire straits fan since the first time i heard sultans of swing as a teen. I always wanted to here a live version of skateaway thanks for posting it.
My favorite Dire Straits song from my favorite album by the band...I remember watching this as a stoned 16-year old. Ah, memories...still love music and keep up with it and see lots of live music. Haven't touched any illicit music 'enhancers' since I was 18...
This is my jam since 1980
Love the live version..!
Love the huge schecter pickups on this strat and the mini switches, too.. Schecter was Mark's guru and a sound monster ..
I am dying for this guitar
Hello from 2022!
👍👍
Very tough song to play live. Great job boys!
November 2021. This stuff is still great. Hint: That's cuz it always will be great.
True that....
God i love listening, and watching Mark play. I play with a pick, my lord he makes fingerpicking sound soooooooooooooo good.
From Making Movies, the best album of Dire Straits, from far
Ahh the good ol'e 1980s!!!
Great live performance !
Such a shame they didn't play this on the Alchemy and Brothers in Arms tour. Great Song and a very underrated one.
What a performance!!!
Ahhh someone else commenting in 2020, great band great song.
If I had a cover band of Dire Strais, I'd start the shows with this song
So cute and pure and the best musician ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Remain in Light" released October 8, 1980
"Dirty Mind" released on October 8, 1980
"Making Movies" released October 17, 1980
"The River" released October 17, 1980
I was busy that week, running from my turntable to the record store and back. Music was an embarrassment of riches back then. Now, it's just an embarrassment.
Mark Knopfler visited the studio while Springsteen and the E. Street Band recorded The River. He was seriously smitten by the way Springsteen led everything, and he saw himself as someone who could be such a leader. What he forgot to consider was his lack of experience as a band boss compared to Bruce. David Knopfler left Dire Straits soon after.
You sir, just nailed it. Music today is an absolute embarrassment.
@@WILLIEBUDDA123 there's more new music out there I love than I can possibly keep up with and even more ways in which to discover it.
Amazing performance!
I love this song 💙💙💙
Classic musical genius.
I remember this! I was in a bar with a friend just after work, and I looked up at the screen, and there was my favorite band. Mark's guitar grabbed me from the first time I heard it.
Doesn't get any better!
No words.. I'm just basking in the awesomeness of it all.
Love listening 🎶 and watching 👀 this live performance. I wish I could roller skate, two left feet. Absolute 💯 awesome 👌
THANK 😊 🙏 YOU so much 😊 🙏 💖 ❤: Love this album and especially every single song 🎵. Skateaway is a girl's fantasy to roller skate 🛼 as good as her, and my other favorite is the Bug 🐛, like Mark says ENJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR, even when you're the Bug 🐛. What a incredible imagination. Enjoy 🎶 TO the whole album and have yourself a time ⏲ ✨ of your life! See 👀 ya 🎶 👍 my friend!
Man, this is the best gift my father gave me.
"Here son, take this band, i like it. It's called Dire Straits."
and there, oh, you know...
:D
Do you remember bein a kid listening to this and staring at all your dire straits album covers thinking, well maybe not thinking... knowing that these guys had your back
Skated in middle school, then again in my 20's with roller blades...To this song!
probably one of the best videos on youtube right now..
Consummate band. Top notch
Uma das primeiras apresentações do Dire Straits com o Alan Clark e o Hall Lindes. Valeu muito. Será sempre minha banda favorita
That whole first side of Making Movies is one of the best album sides in history. This song is such an incredible conclusion to it.
excellent music makes me feel young
just love this song............ now the cars do the usual dances the same old cruse in the kerb side crawl ! how cool is that! very cool
It’s been my favorite forever! ❤
Sounds so similar to the recorded version; the mark of a truly great band of musicians.
Making movies has accompanied me throughout my adolescence. I have consumed the cassette so far and it is still one of the most expensive things I have. A life with Mark!
Great song off a fantastic album!!
Great introduction, amazing song.
That’s an art form
What a subtle guitar master he is.
Never forget Pick
Best drummer they ever had. When drumming becomes art!
This song was acknowledged 1 year go,dont recall ever hearing it,but when I first heard it I heard it maybe four times in one week,and realized why i never heard it before,cause i never had so many radio stations like satelite,and im in the midwest.
what a musicians! fantastics!
Great Sounding clip....eeets the bessst.
That kick drum triplet with the 8th notes on the high hat vexes me to this very day. How did Pick Withers play that?
The way you described that was pure poetry, and you must be a musician, or even a drummer yourself! I salute you, nonetheless!
Grazie per aver condiviso questo meraviglioso video!🎸
GREAT JOB ALL...THANX 4 MAKING Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO the music worldwide.
LOVE YOU ALL...!!!
Eternal love and music = Mark Knopfler
Thanks for sharing this clip.
Hadn't realised Alan Clark had played with the band this early - I knew he was with the band by '82 for the making of Love Over Gold but this is a revelation!
Yep, David Knopfler left during recording sessions of Making Movies and was replaced by both Alan Clark on keyboard and Hal Lindes on guitar for live performances.
right into my favorites
I will always love this song. And I will always - incorrectly - call it “making movies.”
Great find. DIdn't think any live versions of Skateaway existed. Love this song.
So Wonderful!
Uma de minhas favoritas do disco Making Movies... 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Happy Birthday Mark!!!
This is fantastic!!!
An all-time great song. Remember the MTV video well.
Pound per pound, tons per tone, Making Movies is the greatest album of all time to me...and that includes Beatles, Stones, Dylan and Neil Young. Dire Straits. Only 7 songs on that album...Skateaway, Romeo & Juliet, Espresso Love, Tunnel of Love, Solid Rock...man oh man...just great songwriting and music from Mark Knopfler. Genius. And still comprises great music in 2018..
You forgot Lez Boys
You’ve got me thinking, I reckon you are right.
the brilliant song
The early straits were fucking amazing
Awesomeness!!!
"and the music makes her want to be the story"
Epic performance
Dire Straits são grandes heróis na minha adolescência, Mark, Pick, Jhon, Alan, Hall, só o Guy Fletcher pra completar o que seria minha formação preferida 😉
What about Terry Williams?
Pick W. is the Man!
My favourite DS drummer.
holy crap...it was thirty years ago today!
Now 39!
@@indiaholicplacescultureand5266 And now 42
I enjoyed it! Thanks for uploading.
gracias sandy un buen domigo hugs ,johanna.
Johanna Busser You're welcome, Johanna. Buen domino. ~ Sandy
gracias sandy hugs ,johanna.
Esse álbum "Making Movies" é foda...Expresso Love,Romeo and Juliet,Tunel of Love são também desse discaço👊👊👊👊Dire Straits minha banda de cabeceira
Wonderful!
DISFRUTE TOTAL.....GRACIAS....ESTOS SON LOS VIDEOS DE DIRE STRAITS QUE ME ENCANTAN....!!! LASTIMA QUE NO LOS PUEDA AÑADIR A MI LISTA DE PRODUCCION....VAYA A TENER DERCHO DE AUTOR...Y NOS QUEDAMOS SIN VIDEO
He never ever beat that Schecter strat tone !
Wow
Brilliant clip! Thanks for posting.
What a great song!! What do you Brits put in your ale to make such great Rock Bands?? Per capita, you folks are the Kings!!
Jjmalone 1966 above seems to think exactly the opposite, but I'm with you.
I think it’s the weather up north...
Cold & dark so more time to sit inside, write & be creative
Um dos melhores album da banda, "Making Movies"!
i wish they played this song live more often.
Excellent !
thanks for the nostalgia
dire straits and the office, you are a good man/woman