Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, Skated Away (on the thin ice....)
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
Love those guitar swells...
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
kath wrote:soundchaser wrote:A nice bit of Springsteen inspiration...just like The Boomtown Rats.
didn't that springsteen producer dude do this one?
There is definitely a connection: I'll have to check.
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Love the opening piano lines on this....
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
i rollerskated often for one year, when i was stuck in natchitoches, louisiana and that's all i got to do on a friday night. two years before this album came out, but stillllll. in a weird way, its own kinda freedom, mwhahahaha
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
And she smells just like a rose
And she tastes just like a peach
And she tastes just like a peach
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
Nancy wrote:Love the opening piano lines on this....
absolutely. piano is fantastic on the whole album
bouncebouncebounce.
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
C, did you used to check out the pub rock scene Dire Straits were part of?
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soundchaser wrote:C, did you used to check out the pub rock scene Dire Straits were part of?
Not really Richard - enlighten me
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Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
anything as preposterously pointless as prog.
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
Expresso Love - is a corker!
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Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
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GWEETARS!!!!
Hey maestro!
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Hey maestro!
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Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
anything as preposterously pointless as prog.
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C wrote:Expresso Love - is a corker!
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it is, it IS
jusssst craaaaaaazy for the girl
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
A shame Brothers In Arms got so ridiculously huge.
I think Dire Straits would be better remembered today.
But we know. That's what counts...what a guitar player!
I think Dire Straits would be better remembered today.
But we know. That's what counts...what a guitar player!
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
C wrote:GWEETARS!!!!
Hey maestro!
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Mark can rock out on guitar when he has a mind to. Great rhythm player as well.
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
back to pretty pretty lovely.
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Where's DD - we changed the bloody date for him!
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Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
anything as preposterously pointless as prog.
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soundchaser wrote:A shame Brothers In Arms got so ridiculously huge.
I think Dire Straits would be better remembered today.
But we know. That's what counts...what a guitar player!
The big 3 from Brothers In Arms got overplayed beyond to death. I do still love some of the other songs on it, particularly "The Man's Too Strong" and "Ride Across The River".
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C wrote:soundchaser wrote:C, did you used to check out the pub rock scene Dire Straits were part of?
Not really Richard - enlighten me
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It'll be on Wiki, but coming from London, I thought it would be right up your street.
Ducks Deluxe, Kilburn & The Highroads, Brinsley Schwartz.
Bands like that.
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
you can indeed hear the springsteenish thang here... one major difference is such beautiful acoustic pickery, the interplay of the gweetars
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Nancy wrote:soundchaser wrote:A shame Brothers In Arms got so ridiculously huge.
I think Dire Straits would be better remembered today.
But we know. That's what counts...what a guitar player!
The big 3 from Brothers In Arms got overplayed beyond to death. I do still love some of the other songs on it, particularly "The Man's Too Strong" and "Ride Across The River".
Oh yes, Side 2 is where it's at with that album.
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Re: Prog Synch Listen: Dire Straits, TONIGHT Friday 14th July @ 9pm
lovelovelove the wonderful close, yet again. snifff