On The Night - Ridiculously Bad???

[schmonka]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations. 

[peterromer]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

I dont think so. The number of concerts that has SB recordings from the OES tour can be counted on one hand.

[iorch82]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Also I would say that we were lucky with that official YAYF recording,  other renditions in the tour are not even close to it! He was really inspired that night.

[dmg]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Milan 09.09.92 is quite a nice recording.

[tomtom51]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Milan 09.09.92 is quite a nice recording.

Hello folks! A passionate and very interesting discussion about a much cherished live album of mine. It's funny how the live versions on OTN have become the reference for me and every time I listen to another OES show I'm expecting this  exact same sax solo in R&J. That's not to say I don't enjoy the numerous subtle variations that happened along the tour, quite the contrary (for instance, one can lend an ear on the incredible 02/02/92 audience recording).
It's just that these OTN versions are engraved in my memory and I'm really grateful we got an official live release from that tour, and now just expanded thanks to Guy Fletcher 's hard work.
One thing I would have changed is the piano mix, which I think is better in Basel (more upfront).

[Pottel]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Milan 09.09.92 is quite a nice recording.

Hello folks! A passionate and very interesting discussion about a much cherished live album of mine. It's funny how the live versions on OTN have become the reference for me and every time I listen to another OES show I'm expecting this  exact same sax solo in R&J. That's not to say I don't enjoy the numerous subtle variations that happened along the tour, quite the contrary (for instance, one can lend an ear on the incredible 02/02/92 audience recording).
It's just that these OTN versions are engraved in my memory and I'm really grateful we got an official live release from that tour, and now just expanded thanks to Guy Fletcher 's hard work.
One thing I would have changed is the piano mix, which I think is better in Basel (more upfront).

nice first post.
Welcome!

[JF]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Milan 09.09.92 is quite a nice recording.

Hello folks! A passionate and very interesting discussion about a much cherished live album of mine. It's funny how the live versions on OTN have become the reference for me and every time I listen to another OES show I'm expecting this  exact same sax solo in R&J. That's not to say I don't enjoy the numerous subtle variations that happened along the tour, quite the contrary (for instance, one can lend an ear on the incredible 02/02/92 audience recording).
It's just that these OTN versions are engraved in my memory and I'm really grateful we got an official live release from that tour, and now just expanded thanks to Guy Fletcher 's hard work.
One thing I would have changed is the piano mix, which I think is better in Basel (more upfront).

in many cases, what become "reference versions" are the first one we hear.
For me, the Mandela version of Romeo & Juliet was the first one I heard with the sax solo. And it's my "reference version" of the song in that form

[dustyvalentino]

Also what we had access to in the early days. It wasn't like now when you can easily access hundreds of bootlegs at the touch of a button. You had to work for them!

[tomtom51]

OTN was never that bad. Not bad at all actually. Come on guys. Imagine you never had that live recording.   YOU AND YOUR FRIEND was on there, which was enough for me. Love that track.

Me too! After all these years this song always gets me. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to it. The stunning communication of his guitar and Paul Franklin's steel guitar, and Mark's end solo is out of this world. Takes you into another atmosphere.  Nobody makes the guitar sing like Mark Knopfler! Nobody!

I am also another huge YAYF fan - Are there ANY other soundboard or equivalent quality recordings with You and Your Friend apart from OTN?  I have Munich...but the quality is nowhere near the same - so keen for any recommendations.

Milan 09.09.92 is quite a nice recording.

Hello folks! A passionate and very interesting discussion about a much cherished live album of mine. It's funny how the live versions on OTN have become the reference for me and every time I listen to another OES show I'm expecting this  exact same sax solo in R&J. That's not to say I don't enjoy the numerous subtle variations that happened along the tour, quite the contrary (for instance, one can lend an ear on the incredible 02/02/92 audience recording).
It's just that these OTN versions are engraved in my memory and I'm really grateful we got an official live release from that tour, and now just expanded thanks to Guy Fletcher 's hard work.
One thing I would have changed is the piano mix, which I think is better in Basel (more upfront).

in many cases, what become "reference versions" are the first one we hear.
For me, the Mandela version of Romeo & Juliet was the first one I heard with the sax solo. And it's my "reference version" of the song in that form

Very true indeed. To the point that I first listened dozens if not hundreds of times to my Alchemy audio tape before having the CD, in which I didn't quite found the same sound. Go figure!
Also, I even became used to some boots defaults (Texan Sunset anyone?) and when clean internet versions surfaced, it was better ... in a way.