Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler - Don't fall apart on me tonight

[vgonis]

I thought that many bands would make it big, a decade ago,  by listening  to one of their records. But after 1-2 fine records, the rest was average and they vanished.  But you have to be consistent, producing many great records one after another with no gaps. It also helps to have good looks, be clever and reveal it in equal measures and most of all be lucky to get noticed.
MK played on the Aaron Neville cover of this song, issued on  CD single.   

[holaknopfler]

I thought that many bands would make it big, a decade ago,  by listening  to one of their records. But after 1-2 fine records, the rest was average and they vanished.  But you have to be consistent, producing many great records one after another with no gaps. It also helps to have good looks, be clever and reveal it in equal measures and most of all be lucky to get noticed.
MK played on the Aaron Neville cover of this song, issued on  CD single.

Agree with that. Not many people can do that.

[Knopflerfan]

The video has re-surfaced again....

[quizzaciously]

The video has re-surfaced again....

Yeah, great stuff. The video was terribly lip-synced, but the song is great! And the slide reminds me of recent MK a lot.

[Knopflerfan]

The video has re-surfaced again....

Yeah, great stuff. The video was terribly lip-synced, but the song is great! And the slide reminds me of recent MK a lot.

Yes that's very true of the slide reminding us of the 'recent' MK...

[quizzaciously]

[Knopflerfan]

Oooooh!!!

[dustyvalentino]

Kind of funny/weird that MK wears a DS t-shirt in a Dylan video.

Do many artists wear their own t-shirts?!

[vgonis]

Kind of funny/weird that MK wears a DS t-shirt in a Dylan video.

Do many artists wear their own t-shirts?!

Interesting observation. Maybe it is only a reference and a nod  to Brett Whiteley, apart from an indirect advertising of the upcoming (?)  Alchemy album. Although it is hard to tell when the Dylan video was shot, in order to place it chronologically.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/downloads/files/Brett_Whiteley_notes.pdf

[dustyvalentino]

Kind of funny/weird that MK wears a DS t-shirt in a Dylan video.

Do many artists wear their own t-shirts?!

Interesting observation. Maybe it is only a reference and a nod  to Brett Whiteley, apart from an indirect advertising of the upcoming (?)  Alchemy album. Although it is hard to tell when the Dylan video was shot, in order to place it chronologically.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/downloads/files/Brett_Whiteley_notes.pdf

It's not actually difficult to tell when it was shot if you look closely at the 1st second of the video.

[vgonis]

Missed that.     It was shot nearly 2 months prior the concert from which Alchemy was comprised of, so I guess Knopfler already had in mind to record the double live album, use the Whiteley artwork and name it Alchemy after it.  Unless we are looking at the most advance promoting ever (for those days at least), almost a year before the release, even months before the actual recording occurred.  What is even more striking is that Knopfler left the Dylan recording sessions as they were concluding, and Dylan went on to change so many things from this record - from mixes to removing tracks from the final tracklist,  that we lost another masterpiece, and we had to be content with  a mere excellent record.

[dustyvalentino]

Missed that.     It was shot nearly 2 months prior the concert from which Alchemy was comprised of, so I guess Knopfler already had in mind to record the double live album, use the Whiteley artwork and name it Alchemy after it.  Unless we are looking at the most advance promoting ever (for those days at least), almost a year before the release, even months before the actual recording occurred.  What is even more striking is that Knopfler left the Dylan recording sessions as they were concluding, and Dylan went on to change so many things from this record - from mixes to removing tracks from the final tracklist,  that we lost another masterpiece, and we had to be content with  a mere excellent record.

Yes, good point. I wonder if these were Brett tshirts rather than DS shirts? Do artists have T-shirts?!

(I actually have a Warhol tshirt but that’s a bit different).