Great job. As a 75+ old [former] hippie, I very much appreciate the younger folks like you who keep Classic Rock alive-and-well. Kudos and congrats. Join the ranks of Sina, Anastasia, Rock Milady, Grace and Chelsea Constable, UK DS Tribute Band and others who "stay true" to musicianship. ☆☆☆☆☆
Mike, I've been playing guitar for 40+ years and still cannot get this song down anywhere near as good as you have. At the time I'm posting this there are 669 thumbs down and all I can say about those folks is that they are either jealous or tone deaf (or both). I think you've done a fantastic job. You've got my "Like".
I have watched many guitar covers of this song. Thought I saw it all, then you had to go and sing the song as well. Not just that but do an outstanding job of it. I will spend the next three days laying on the floor of my room in a fetal position. You are amazing.
I must say i'm impressed that you can remember all the little licks he does by heart. To tell you the truth i'm trying to make my own version myself with a squier strat i just acquired. I like it that you sing and play at the same time wich makes your attempt at covering this amazing song more genuine and heartfelt. Second solo is not perfect but you're getting there and it's saying a lot considering the genius who wrote that. Congrats and expecting more mark Knopfer covers from you!
Mike your skill, your sound and your gift is amazing. I'm a big fan of this song and this is the best cover I've ever heard. Love&Respect from Turkey !
It's bloody scary how much you sound like Mark Knopfler... Both on the guitar and through the microphone! This is the best cover of this song I've ever seen!
Brother, you're a real Mark Nokpfler ... It's a pleasure for me to leave you a LIKE. At 42, I'm happy to see a young man who admires Mark !!!! Regards, you are really good!
No doubt this is pretty good, but I personally like cover versions that dont need any backing track though..this is my favorite for example, the guy does, voice, harmony, solos in one take.. th-cam.com/video/gJs6AC33cOU/w-d-xo.html
I am a pro musician and grew up with Mark's awesome inspiration. Congratulations! You are the BEST cover Artist for Sultan's of Swing. In fact, consider yourself a True Sultan. Nice Job Dude!
Listen to the vocal with your eyes closed, Mike you sound just like Mark in his younger years. I agree with Ernst 100%. Keep up the vibes dude. I'm 69 years old and you bring back the old memories of times past. Thanks for all the memories. Double thumbs up.
You did it, man! You're a sultan of swing already! Mark was probably right about your age when he composed it. Although the piece has some tough riffs, you still managed to bring out the same spirit! Looking at you reminded me somehow of him back those days. Glad to see the legacy is going on!
Holy shit. Are you that stupid that you can't get simplest innocent joke? For real. Well judging from your comebacks, you really aren't the sharpest needle in the hay stack.
i hear everybody praising this like its gold but im yet to see somebody do this song without mixing up the lead fills. the last solo was lacking. 7/10.
Hi Mike, this is terrific !! Could not be better. I`ve seen Mark several times on stage but your rendition is as good as his recent performances of this tune. A first class post ! Don`t mind this 87 "Thumbs downers". They are ignorants and might be jealous about your skills. They shoud not hide anly longer but show us how they can do better. keep it up Ernst
+alan fender I agree. I'll probably do it again when I've finished building my MK replica. I got a bit closer with my other version but I still wasn't happy with that one!
+alan fender I`m a little mad about people always judge on sound and not on accurate playing. I know lots of guitarist with great sound but no guitarplaying skills at all. On my channel I have the same problem about Hank Marvin from the Shadows. But if we all would play and sound like Mark or Hank why would we need them any longer ? Mike- keep it up. And try to stick tou your own style. take care, ernst
On the other hand ranting about a 1 year comment in wich someone made a very general assumption to cheer the artist up is completely anti social drone behaviour. I feel youre guilty for the same crime aswell. The real heroes read the post, recognised that it's not pointed towards anyone particular and moved along... Thanks to you Im now one of the others like you :(
It's actually very academic and mechanical and many bends are out of tune. I'm not saying it's bad. But I just don't think it's anyhow comparable to knopfler. Just beeing honnest here. th-cam.com/video/R7KFbNIig9o/w-d-xo.html This is comparable for ex
Nothing but sheer respect and awe for anyone who takes this song on. Brilliant work man, well done and thanks for sharing with the world. You just made it a better place ;-)
...wow ... I feel like I've been transported back to the 70s & I'm hearing ... and seeing ... Mark Knopfler play "Sultans" for the first time ... you nail it, Mike ... and using a Tele rather than a Strat worked out pretty damn good ...
Hey Mike you are sooooo gooood exelent.muy bueno .buenisimo.wowwww!!! marvelous..bad ass !!!. o my god!!!! from HOUSTON TEXAS U.S.A. i say hi!! LOVE IT!!!!!!
Love it. critique- good tone, volume, use of fingers, vibrato and singing. If I were you-I would multitrack so you can concentrate on guitar or vox. I might use slight slap back delay and pump up compression just a bit. Try the singing with more fr/ diaphragm for lower sound (that is, if you want more of a copy of original). btw I just put together a stratele. 2 strat p'ups plus tele bridge. To me, it's best of the two. You could easily convert yours to that. MK switches quite a bit in his songs. great job overall.
The vocals on this were just thrown in last minute to make more of a performance of it. I've used my strat in subsequent versions of this, and am currently building a replica of mark's suhr.
Would be much better having the sm57 on the amp, and the condenser mic wich looks like an mxl, to sing on it. Really nice cover though dude. You've got my like
Mike DiFiore oh OK know what you where thinking 'bout. I didn't think it that way but with that two beasts(the mics) you can do almost anything. Luck man
![Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing [Cover by Mary Spender and Josh Turner]](/img/n.gif)
For my opinion!!! He's the best cover on the world. Great job young men.
Shut up your sarcasm
Yoni Schlesinger is also pretty up there
Great job. As a 75+ old [former] hippie, I very much appreciate the younger folks like you who keep Classic Rock alive-and-well. Kudos and congrats. Join the ranks of Sina, Anastasia, Rock Milady, Grace and Chelsea Constable, UK DS Tribute Band and others who "stay true" to musicianship. ☆☆☆☆☆
Thank you!
whoaah Dire Straits Featuring Mark Zuckerberg!! :)
Holy shit, you are right :o :D
you won this youtube column
Mark Knopflerberg
clapton79 aa
Haha he did a good job! I recently uploaded a cover of this, but it only has about 200 views...
Im blown away when mark does it and now blown away when this guy does it.
don't think i've seen anyone play this w/ a tele. excellent. i like.
Great job Mike, not many people can pull off Sultans of swing with such ease and control.
Well done mate!!
Seriously dude, you are really really good. Had it playing in the background and forgot that it was a cover. Really impressive guitar play.
Had the same experience.
La mejor interpretación de esta banda legendaria con esta joya de tema lo máximo... Saludos desde Ecuador...
I love this bloke, the best copy of Sultans I have ever heard FANTASTIC.
Mike, I've been playing guitar for 40+ years and still cannot get this song down anywhere near as good as you have. At the time I'm posting this there are 669 thumbs down and all I can say about those folks is that they are either jealous or tone deaf (or both). I think you've done a fantastic job. You've got my "Like".
Thank you
You sound just like him. You rock man
just
@@ianrutherford878 beautifully sung and played...greetings from Malaysia...
I have watched many guitar covers of this song. Thought I saw it all, then you had to go and sing the song as well. Not just that but do an outstanding job of it. I will spend the next three days laying on the floor of my room in a fetal position. You are amazing.
Dude looks and plays like Mark Knopfler😂
Amazing 👏👏👏
Este toca de verdade parabéns parabéns obrigado obrigado
The best cover of Sultan of Swing so far
I do agree.
I must say i'm impressed that you can remember all the little licks he does by heart. To tell you the truth i'm trying to make my own version myself with a squier strat i just acquired. I like it that you sing and play at the same time wich makes your attempt at covering this amazing song more genuine and heartfelt. Second solo is not perfect but you're getting there and it's saying a lot considering the genius who wrote that. Congrats and expecting more mark Knopfer covers from you!
Excellent interpretation, Mike..... love the way you make that tele sound like the great guitar it really is!!!
Dude you're keeping a legacy safe of pure art and original tasty music !!
Never stop please keep up ! cheers :D
best cover, amazing work
Mike your skill, your sound and your gift is amazing. I'm a big fan of this song and this is the best cover I've ever heard. Love&Respect from Turkey !
It's bloody scary how much you sound like Mark Knopfler... Both on the guitar and through the microphone!
This is the best cover of this song I've ever seen!
This one is better than the link you posted imo.
p3rs0n42 you must have a shitty ear for music
GREAT... YOU HAVE TALENT
Brother, you're a real Mark Nokpfler ... It's a pleasure for me to leave you a LIKE. At 42, I'm happy to see a young man who admires Mark !!!! Regards, you are really good!
jOE dIRT Mardu
Mark is the best. His performance of Sultans of Swing at Alchemy is out of this world! Phenomenal guitar player!
You played this classic track with absolute ease .. ... absolutely fanstastic
8/13/2018 seven years later you are the "Sultan of Swing' Love your fluidity and tempo. Just right man.
I was so impressed that I replayed this several times...nicely done!!
Dude you need to start a Dire Straights tribute band! Excellent job!!!
I definitely want to!
Ha! Agreed; he did a great job!
if you like him, search for josh turner sultans of swing
I did, it's shit compared to this.
Dire Straits*
You gave a new life to this timeless masterpiece ❤❤❤
Holy fuck this is the best cover of this song ive seen, good job!
If Knopfler watched this video, you know he was smilin'! You have some serious skills. Somebody sign this guy!
I dug your version of this great song. Sending you warmest wishes for cool Holidays!....Will
This is my favourite cover so far. Thanks for sharing. Brilliant!
No doubt this is pretty good, but I personally like cover versions that dont need any backing track though..this is my favorite for example, the guy does, voice, harmony, solos in one take.. th-cam.com/video/gJs6AC33cOU/w-d-xo.html
amazing quality in this... for one moment I thought I was listening to the actual Mark... really good job
Worthy of one of the greatest rock pieces ever!
Great job. I have seen dozens of covers of that music, some of them incredibly well played... That version was one of the best. Congrats from Brazil.
OUTSTANDING job, Mike! Really enjoyed that. One of my all-time favourite tunes, and you did it justice! Bravo! 👏👏👏
George Pichl 👏👏👏👏👏
What a fantastic job. Congratulations
This is absolutely incredible. Amazing job.
Watch it till the end and honestly I feel very happy and enjoyed it very much. Excellent job Mike.
I am a pro musician and grew up with Mark's awesome inspiration. Congratulations! You are the BEST cover Artist for Sultan's of Swing. In fact, consider yourself a True Sultan. Nice Job Dude!
Hey, I have to give it to you. I am impressed. Heavily impressed. You have embodied Mark. Great job
Loved it dude! I sometimes prefer to hear this one and your other version just to chill a bit. Keep it up!
At 5:45 and on, your guitar actually sound like the original Mark K. Awesome!
Nicely done! That's a tough song to pull off. Great job.
Unbelievable, just perfect, we need singers and musicians of this quality. Keep up this profession.
Awesome job ! Congratulations. This shows it's all almost in the hands...that Tele based setup seems like the original Strat one
Incredible
fuck it's prince harry
yare bhor ys the sluck fuck you
Mox_au they are having fun in the military
he's got a daytime job he's doing alright...
I agree
Listen to the vocal with your eyes closed, Mike you sound just like Mark in his younger years. I agree with Ernst 100%. Keep up the vibes dude. I'm 69 years old and you bring back the old memories of times past. Thanks for all the memories. Double thumbs up.
You did it, man! You're a sultan of swing already! Mark was probably right about your age when he composed it. Although the piece has some tough riffs, you still managed to bring out the same spirit! Looking at you reminded me somehow of him back those days. Glad to see the legacy is going on!
I have that exact same tee shirt!
Jeff 😂
😂😂
Me too!
Dude thats hilarious
😂😂😂
that´s sound great man!!! congratulations from Argentina!!!
really good voice, really well played!
my friend you are the best...! I'll never saw someone to touch this music so very well...
I’m usually not a fan of covers, especially classics like Sultans of Swing, but I gotta say this is one helluva great version. Keep up the great work!
Awesome cover props
Not sure if mark zuckerberg or the dude from ratatouille
and your boyfriend's too...
Holy shit. Are you that stupid that you can't get simplest innocent joke? For real. Well judging from your comebacks, you really aren't the sharpest needle in the hay stack.
Why is that relevant? You can’t just listen and compliment the man on doing a good job. What a tool.
Why it bugs you so much that he made funny joke? You think it some sort how devalues his video? IT'S A JOKE!
😂😂😂
Good job, Mike.
i hear everybody praising this like its gold but im yet to see somebody do this song without mixing up the lead fills. the last solo was lacking. 7/10.
very precisely rendered - he could certainly do a tribute band.
much appreciated - thanks for the good music.
Você. E.o.cara.mano.👍☝👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
excellent!
Hi Mike,
this is terrific !! Could not be better. I`ve seen Mark several times on stage but your rendition is as good as his recent performances of this tune. A first class post ! Don`t mind this 87 "Thumbs downers". They are ignorants and might be jealous about your skills.
They shoud not hide anly longer but show us how they can do better.
keep it up
Ernst
+alan fender I agree. I'll probably do it again when I've finished building my MK replica. I got a bit closer with my other version but I still wasn't happy with that one!
+alan fender
I`m a little mad about people always judge on sound and not on accurate playing. I know lots of guitarist with great sound but no guitarplaying skills at all. On my channel I have the same problem about Hank Marvin from the Shadows. But if we all would play and sound like Mark or Hank why would we need them any longer ?
Mike- keep it up. And try to stick tou your own style.
take care, ernst
+BurnsErnst You´re absolutly right! Mike is a fantastic guitar player and singer too. No mistakes. Just great performance.
On the other hand ranting about a 1 year comment in wich someone made a very general assumption to cheer the artist up is completely anti social drone behaviour. I feel youre guilty for the same crime aswell. The real heroes read the post, recognised that it's not pointed towards anyone particular and moved along... Thanks to you Im now one of the others like you :(
It's actually very academic and mechanical and many bends are out of tune. I'm not saying it's bad. But I just don't think it's anyhow comparable to knopfler. Just beeing honnest here.
th-cam.com/video/R7KFbNIig9o/w-d-xo.html
This is comparable for ex
I think he is better at this than I am on air guitar. I loved the emotion he put into this.
This song 70s , outstanding young man plays .Thanks .
Amazing......incredible cover.....one or "the" best I ever heard.....(y) (y) (y).......congratulations.....
Really awesome! Your voice really suits this too!
MIKE KNOPFLER!!!!!!!!!!!
Good singer and guitarist congratulations
Cheers
Nothing but sheer respect and awe for anyone who takes this song on. Brilliant work man, well done and thanks for sharing with the world. You just made it a better place ;-)
The next mark knofner!!just wow!!!make me fill awesome
Rk Basak mark KNOPFLER
Discovering and creating are the different planet.
Excellent
I watch it till the end...
What a great accomplishment !
;-;
exactly my thoughts
Muy buenoooo qué bueno que chicos jóvenes sientan gusto por la música de los 80. Congratulations. Aplausos
...wow ... I feel like I've been transported back to the 70s & I'm hearing ... and seeing ... Mark Knopfler play "Sultans" for the first time ... you nail it, Mike ... and using a Tele rather than a Strat worked out pretty damn good ...
amazinnnnnng.
Just a question, Strato wouldn't be better for this song?
BTW, Very nice.
I think so too. check out my newest version!
Hey Mike you are sooooo gooood exelent.muy bueno .buenisimo.wowwww!!! marvelous..bad ass !!!. o my god!!!! from HOUSTON TEXAS U.S.A. i say hi!! LOVE IT!!!!!!
Filipi Braga
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Filipi Braga Great job with that guitar dude!!
Yea, still sounds nice on the Telecaster though
Love it. critique- good tone, volume, use of fingers, vibrato and singing. If I were you-I would multitrack so you can concentrate on guitar or vox. I might use slight slap back delay and pump up compression just a bit. Try the singing with more fr/ diaphragm for lower sound (that is, if you want more of a copy of original). btw I just put together a stratele. 2 strat p'ups plus tele bridge. To me, it's best of the two. You could easily convert yours to that. MK switches quite a bit in his songs. great job overall.
The vocals on this were just thrown in last minute to make more of a performance of it. I've used my strat in subsequent versions of this, and am currently building a replica of mark's suhr.
juste waw........ c'est génial.........et pourtant vu Mister Knopfler en concert...............partagé sur sa page.... quel finger picking..
Mike DiFiore can't wait to hear it. muff winwood used an aural xciter on first album...might see what that does too.
I don't really hear a need for compression, dynamically. It sounds nice and up front already also, so I wouldn't compress the vocal at all IMO.
Because there was no need for compression. Seems to me he was just throwing out terms and buzzwords. Ignored easy enough.
bravoooo
Best cover of Sultans I've ever heard. Outstanding!
bravo, bravo ,bravo...........mi hai fatto ritornare indietro di tanti anni...bravo ancora
PERFECT COVER!!!!!
Would be much better having the sm57 on the amp, and the condenser mic wich looks like an mxl, to sing on it. Really nice cover though dude. You've got my like
Elmadtu Madrid actually it was a deliberate choice. Check the description. Cheers!
Mike DiFiore oh OK know what you where thinking 'bout. I didn't think it that way but with that two beasts(the mics) you can do almost anything. Luck man
that aint no c214 on that amp thats a mxl .
David Haney definitely is a C214. Here they are on my website
www.mikedifiore.co.uk/production1/dsc02159/#main
ok . must be the camera angle it looks round lol. I`ve got 4 of those , great mics
P.D. God bless Mark, God Bless dIRE sTRAITS ;)
Nicely done
Si no es que el cover mejor realizado que he visto de Sultans of swing
Omg, you look like Mark a lot LMAO. Nice cover!
very nice.
wow you really god and sound very close to Knoffler
Nice job Mike 👍
Nice and clean... Really one of the best covers of SOS...
He nailed it .... 0_o
For sure.
Amazing! What mic are you using for your amp?
its an AKG C214
Thanks a million!
very very good version, very well sung and well played but not a Strat sounds great.
Diego
Well done!!! Greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴
ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST COVER OF SULTANS I HAVE HEARD . NICE.JOB .
Você. E.o.cara👍
Surf silva e nós 🇧🇷
wish I could find a guy like u to join my band..
+Ivan Wentzel be that guy
Outstanding, your pretty good, you should play in the Local Clubs & make some extra Money......! God Luck.....
on down south London town?
yeah blowing dixie double four time
Juda Behur he'll get his money for nothing and his chicks for free
FANTASTIC. How can anyone dislike it? Hope you come with your own music. The World needs it.
Mark's guitar licks in this song are not easy to cover by any means.....but you did it, superbly!....and timing was spot on!