Quote Originally Posted by Mike
I've been a long time fan of Knopfler ever since I saw him back in 1977 with Dire Straits and yes he is definitely one of the all time greats IMO, now I'm not a musician but his style sounds so simple yet I imagine technically difficult. His heyday was with DS and if you haven't heard of him before I suspect you are at the younger end of the generation unlike some old gits round here. I can recommend all the DS albums, I think there are only 5 excluding live albums and they are all available in remastered format, sound quality was always a feature of DS albums. Or there's at least one, maybe more pretty good comps out there. I even made one up myself a while ago which I'll throw out to you if you want to pm me with your address.

l like him so much I can even forgive him for the truly awful Twisting By The Pool track he did with Dire Straits. As for now well he has turned into a MOR artist, his last album was more folk and the latest from what I've heard sounds like he was just going through the motions. Sailing to Philadelphia was probably his last solid album.

Cheers
Mike
Yeah, the more I have listened to "Sailing To Philidelphia", the more I realized how incredible the recording is. This thing is as near to perfect as I've ever heard. So I bought his latest album called "Shangri La", and it is alot like the latter, and also is an impeccable recording. This guy is serious about his music. I can really crank this stuff up, and it sounds terrific. The track "Whoop te do" from "Shangri La" is worth the price of the album alone. I think "Shangri La" is a solid piece of work. Anyone else heard it yet??