drummers

[quizzaciously]

Listening to Calling Elvis as I type. Chris' playing for sure is extremely tight, almost machine-like.


By the way, Mark's voice then time sounds as if Mark now had a cold LOL

Yes, tight is the word. I can't say that he's a machine, his playing is pretty musical to my taste, he certainly serves the song well. You'd never tell he's not into this music, a sign of the real professional.

[schmonka]

MK just wasn't happy in the OES era and it filtered down to everyone.

A lesson for any "leader", CEO, football manager etc...

MK may not have enjoyed that era likely for all sorts of personal reasons, but back then during the '91/'92 tour his guitar playing made up for it was definitely on point at this time.....perhaps as good as it got for skill/speed/generally noodling?

[Jules]

I play drums, and always thought that Whitten playing, specially in "Sultans" didn't match with the feeling of the song, he added many toms and crash here and there,.

The most apropiate one, in my opinion as drummer, was Pick, that served the song like the song asks, Terry added more power and speed, but it was also deserved as the song when Terry was playing was more fast and with more energy. The drummers that MK had during his solo career, I think only Danny got to play what "Sultans" needed, the rest did more or less ok, and to my taste, I liked them more than Whitten that, I like him playing with Macca or with Presuntos Implicados (a Spanish band in which Whitten also played).

Pick Whiters was perfect for the first incarnation of DS, Terry was perfect for the rock and roller Straits, and Jeff Porcaro or Manu Katché would had been perfect for the OES tour, but they said no unfortunately.

[Elin N]

There is new Q&A with Pick Withers on the MK fans worldwide -page, under the Announcements section

https://www.facebook.com/groups/mark.knopfler.fans/announcements

[Knopflerfan]

I'm by no means expert but I never liked Chads style.  If you listen to any (or most) of the bootlegs from the STP tour e.g. during the louder parts he hits his symbols far too often and creates a terrible ringing sound all over the top of Marks solo's in Sultans and TR.  Try the Lucca soundboard for his symbol ruining Marks soloing at it's worst.

Haha, funnily enough did I read somewhere years ago that MK was fed up with too much cymbal playing from Chad and also Danny. Got a feeling there is clips of MK giving both Chad and Danny 'looks' when they are smashing the living daylights out of their Cymbals - pretty sure the stares can be seen on the 'golden heart' (Jools Holland) dvd and the 'all the road running' dvd

Can I add my four pence wirth and say I wasn't too keen on Chris Whitten as a drummer for DS. A good drummer but not for DS....