Dire Straits - "Old Grey Whistle Test" 1980
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Old Grey Whistle Test
Saturday, 29 November 1980 BBC TV studio, Manchester, UK
Live performance of Tunnel of Love.
"Very rare video in that Mark plays an instrument other than a guitar during a live performance. He plays the keyboard intro before Allen takes over"
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Band:-
Mark Knopfler John Illsley, Pick Withers, Alan Clark, Hal Lindes.
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Can't imagine life without this song
Best song ever in my opinion
Hard to disagree it's everything about life
What a great performance. Pick Withers is my favorite DS drummer of all time. So in the pocket. He's just killing it here. They all are.
Yes very much so. Yet by most accounts he just couldn’t put up with the Uber talented ego maniacal Mark Knopfler
@@sammysouth8372 Yeah, every interview I've seen, Knopfler was, and still is, extraordinarily humble. In John Illsley's autobiography, he records that Pick left DS for two main reasons: 1. The touring, playing back-to-back shows was taking a toll on his body and he felt like the fatigue was too much and 2. He wanted to experiment with other styles of music.
Mark has always been anything but egotistical, he always treated his band mates with the utmost respect.
@@mikaylachapman9036 You want to believe I'm wrong about MK because Illsley said so? You bought that line. Look, truth is I don't really know and you don't really know but I've watched PW on this short clip and I get the sense that he wasn't happy with the way he was being treated in the band. Now, everyone knows that DS were MK's baby. So who's the band that was mistreating him? DK? JI? I kinda doubt it. Still for all I know MK is a super nice guy like you say.
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@@sammysouth8372 You're right, he could have left for a number of reasons, honestly. All I know is that after he left, honestly, it felt like something was missing from the DS sound. The groove wasn't the same. BiA and OES were good albums for the most part, but Pick's drumming really helped distinguish them. So it doesn't really matter why left, I guess. I just kinda wish he had stuck around.
I really like Pick . PICK Was a little TIGHTER TO THE MUSIC. Terry Williams I wouldve said just moves SLIGHTLY ahead overall becausec of ALCHEMY . I find it hard to go past Terry who would be a little more humble . I'm now saying Pick because it was Dire Straits was at their Best with Making Movies and then Telegraph Road Pick was on it tight. ❤.
He is simply amazing. The relationship between guitar and vocals is just perfect. At times he is playing contrapuntal lines to his vocals. His call and response between vocals and guitar is just seemless! Like, who can play like this?
No one will ever be able to get in a groove and hen peck a guitar better than Knopler.
So glad he didn't go full on rock like acdc led zeppelin etc... We'd of missed all this pure perfection 😢
GREAT live performance--true live... true artists....
Legendry song
Legendry guitar solo
Legendry piano
Wish the song would never end
OH. How youth was great
Pick Withers nailing it as ever. What a great drummer. And that solo of his in this song isn't as easy as he makes it look. A most talented chap.
This is great. One of my favourite songs of theirs with Romeo and Juliet. I remember coming home from a night shift way back in the day of Music Video Television when I was a poor student. You had to pay for the cable channel but we never had that package so all you got was the sound and a scrambled video signal. Before going to sleep I had the T.V. on and the 2 or 3 videos from this album came on in a row. I think because I was going into that sort of dream state before bed I remember this song and Romeo and Juliet sounding unreal. For whatever reason you could still see a lot of the video although the colors were off. Gave it an ethereal feel. First time I had heard the songs and I will never forget them. They went straight to my heart. Mark's guitar playing so clear and full of feeling just felt like it was crystal clear ....perfect. And the drumming....the drumming so fit the music. I wish this drummer had stayed on.....he added feel to the music and what Mark was playing. Oh well.....the only constant is change but we have videos like this to rekindle old feelings and memories. Thanks for posting!!!! I was able to pay for my University and finish...and I bought the album just after this..still have it!!!!
mark knopler is a name of music god specially guitar playing everything
Bands that can play perfect studio songs live. That's a thing of the past surely. Rock on Dire Straits
absolute masterpiece! Alan clarkes keyboard runs at the end just makes the listener want more and more. A time of seasoned well rehearsed musicians. Knopler at his best and not a sight of the pretentious celebrity X factor crap that plagues us today. a salute to youtube for linking us in with timeless class and quality!! Excuse me while I go watch it again!
totally agree with you, man! Cheers!
Great line up. Still got Pick Withers here and I always liked Hal Lindes work with the straits
Absolutely the best times of DS.....and Pick Whiters absolutely the best drummer in the band❤....Allan Clark also great keyboard an respect for John and Hal👏🎼
The bass is audible !
TH-cam videos rarely have audible bass lines.
Amazing version!
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My favourite Straits song after Sultan of Swing
Alan Clark, Pick Withers, incríveis!!! 👍🤘
This is a band that is serious about making great music. The whole 3 people playing the keyboards at the start is something no one would do today - but I loved that, They knew how they wanted the gig to sound and made it happen. You can already hear Knofler's signature licks being formed. Beautiful.
I should add that I saw them twice - Knebworth Silver Clef and Woburn Abbey. No disappointment there.
So beautiful Mark ❤❤❤❤❤
It sounds like Mark is playing direct to his amp, no effects at all, no gain, reverb, just clean notes. Not many performers do that.
Wonderful , thanks Mark for your music!❤️👏👏👏🎼🎶🎸👌🙋
The best of the best from the very beginning
Yes❤❤❤
Lindo, lindo, lindo ufa, lindo!!!!❤️
That was perfection everyone in the groove. I think that Mark was a second piano player in the beginning excellent video thank you 😊
Fab group, Fab genius in Mark Knopfler.
There's nobody playing a guitar like that these days...
Bring back the old grey whistle test
That would be so good - but I fear we don't have the musicians that could do it these days.
Ron Eve the keys/guitar technician was the mystery hand.
Eres mark, me gustaría que hicieras un especial y vinieras a,,, Valladolid,,, a tocar , saludos ramón
You can see him creeping up behind Mark! Lol.
wonderful Mark, best guitar player or the 80°
For thouse radio rockers that believes Dire Straits are only Sultans of Swings...extraordinary song Tunel of Love
My know-it-all brother-in-law heard me listening to "Sultans of Swing" on the radio in 1978. I was 15 and really liked the then new song. He critisized me and American teenagers for liking that song as he said it would be their only hit song and everything else on the first record was filler. What a fool he was. He eventually realized how talented Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits is. He never apologized to me though. Wanker.
@@amerocker I'm guessing he never really listened to the first record, then. Every song from that is amazing, Down to the Waterline, In The Gallery, Lions, Wild West End... I could go on, DS was anything but boring radio rock. They were true artists, who made songs that speak directly to the soul.
5 Stars. Best thing on TH-cam Great collection.
I always liked the waltzer best. That and the bumper cars of course.
Back in the days where there was still a few bits of quality tv available in Britain :)
Awesome
Timeless captured...
Nice to hear John Illsley's bass high in the mix :)
Tunnel of Love, um clássico do Dire Straits! Wonderful!!! 🎩
pick withers is seriously underrated, speaking as a drummer
radiopinkzeppelin2 brilliant drummer
I've always rated him very highly, speaking as a guitarist. But you're right, he's not exactly a household name. A musician's musician.
I like your taste in drummers, and I like your taste in thumbnail pictures!
I'm with you. Everything rides on Pick!
c"était un super batteur !
Il a quitté le groupe et cela s"est vu.
well spotted!
This is definitely a wake call for me about Dire Straights music. These songs I missed in the 70-ties. I only remember one song...:"Sultans of Swing"
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Já escutei essa música umas trocentas vezes, e até hoje não consegui decidir o que é melhor, se é o som da guitarra ou da bateria! Perfect Song!
E ainda tem o piano do Alan Clark que é muito bom
¡Genial!, Mark tocando el teclado en la introducción.
Yes 👍
B-R-A-V-O!
Too good. Go head dance.🎶🎶♥️😎🌹🌹
Making moves is, IMHO, DS's best album hands down, uplifting straight to the point, and without none of that murky bloated stuff that tended to be indicative of them. They were always best live. True musicians.
You must say: Mark plays the Hammond Organ.
And who’s putting the thumbs down.......his thier something wrong with them 👍👍👍👍👍🤩
Girl u look so pretty to me, like u always did...
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J'adore Hal Lindes
In my opinion, the best rhythm guitarist they ever had. It's sad that he left just before they made Brothers in Arms. Nothing against Jack Sonni who replaced him, but Hal Lindes was a guitar virtuoso in his own right. Watch the video of "Two Young Lovers" from Alchemy Live; he really shines there.
(And, OK, i also just really like looking at him. Most attractive Dire Straits member of all times, although I feel very disloyal thinking this.)
Legends palace : old grey whistle test
whistle test was live , live.close to unpluged , ,dont think they allowed the mixer guys .
Oooola...👍🇬🇧🎸
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GREAT SESSIONS. MUST'VE BEEN OVERSHADOWED BY ALCHEMY. HOWEVER, WE'VE PICK WITHERS HERE. I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY MK LET HIM GO ANYWAY.
I heard that he had a day job. He was doing alright...
I read in an interview with Pick he was always a jazz/blues drummer and was becoming bored with the rock direction Mark was obviously headed and felt this would stifle his creative and experimental style.
ledgend
You certainly hear Illsley's bass.
Pick had super feel back then-he should stop doing the grumpy old man interviews.
why do the guitars sound so dark and mellow? the record doesnt look shitty?
Miming.
at 9 minutes this was value for money ... plus the chips are free
0:48 WTF, why is the second keyboard man hiding?
church whirlitzer
Hahaha....just noticed that. Roadies are useful....😉
i notticed that hidden man too. comment from Mark Knopfler himself "Ron Eve the keys/guitar technician was the mystery hand."
Dire Straits were the definitive OGWT band, too musical for the TOTP shite. I adored OGWT. Until.....one night I tuned in and saw the excruciating Soft Cell, complete with a Reel-to-Reel tape player onstage. I turned off, folks! However, I did not turn my back on the real music! Following these days, I played drums alongside Chuck Berry, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Dr Hook, The Blockheads etc etc etc
I have seen the whole concert and it was very entertaining.
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And the other in the keyboards who is? Tommy Mandel?
I think iam younger
they look like power rangers :D hahahahah
No picks needed here
Other than Pick Withers? ;)
@@ManchesterBlackSheep Best drummer they had. Williams nailed the Alchemy gig but not much else. Pick never gets a mention these days.
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