Well, if Mark has to participate in the editing, I don't think it will ever happen. I cite the following interview from Barnes and Noble as my reference:
B&N.com: Were you involved in the recent remastering of the Dire Straits albums at all?
MK: If it's the Bob Ludwig ones, then yes. They were sent for approval back then, a while back.
B&N.com: Did it make you go back and reexamine those songs?
MK: No. I remember once we had to make a live album. We'd been playing ten nights at Hammersmith Odeon [in London], or a week, whatever it was, and I started listening to a performance from Monday night and I thought, Shit, I can't go through this. I said, "What was a good night?" Somebody said, "Saturday was a good night." I said, "Okay, that's the album." I just couldn't wade through it all.
B&N.com: Have you ever given in and listened to it at any point?
MK: If I'm unlucky enough to be somewhere when it comes on, I guess I have to hear a few bars of it.
B&N.com: You don't like to look back, do you?
MK: I'm the last man in the world to look back on that stuff. I always want to be going forward. I think it would be sad to sit around at home and listen to your own records. There's something deeply tragic about that [laughs].
September 26, 2000
