Mark and Bobby

[Pottel]

i propose we use this thread to write anything at all about this brilliant cooperation.
lemme start with the alternative version (#3) of
"I and I".
with that mega echo on Marks guitar...sweet....
oh, and don't get me started about the alternate versions of Blind Willire McTell!!!!

[superval99]

Oh, "Blind Willie McTell" - probably my favourite Dylan song and also collaboration with MK!   Now this is a song that definitely should have been included on "Infidels" imo!   I just love that song!   Oh, "I and I" isn't half bad either!   

[ds1984]

I like him playing on "Stories We Could Tell"

[SamGolden]

"Precious Angels" for me, on "Slow Train Coming" album.

[peterromer]

I never listenend that much to Bob Dylan but this  "Blind Willie" is awesome... thanks for the "eyeopener"     I had it as .mp3  but the other "Alternate versions" I have as .shn and never listenend to them, and never bothered as I could not open the files. Tried converting the files back then with Riverpast/Audio Converter or something, but the result was crappy. Do you have a link where the songs are .flac or .mp3 - its probably better to just download them again     and delete the old  .shn files

if there is quality like the above song, then there is room for some treasures in that folder ..

cheers peter

EDIT: Are the Alternate versions on the Spanish City tracker ?    there are some "rough cuts"   and "missing infidels" available there.

[dustyvalentino]

Thought this would be about Bobby Valentino.

[ds1984]

Thought this would be about Bobby Valentino.

Same for me. Was lucky to see him play alongside Mark in 2002 

[Pottel]

aaahh beaulie...great memories.
and ronnie scotts...

[dustyvalentino]

Thought this would be about Bobby Valentino.

Same for me. Was lucky to see him play alongside Mark in 2002 

On one of the Shepherd's Bush boots you can hear me shouting "lend me a fiver Bobby", as he had just won a big pay out in a court case. He gave me a little smile of acknowledgement.

[Best Brown Baggies]

"Precious Angels" for me, on "Slow Train Coming" album.

'Precious Angel' for me is the best song by far. Not only because Mark plays on it, but Bob's best song ever.
I find myself turning the sound up at the end of the song, just to hear Mark's outro, which should be extended and not faded out.
Try it

Cheers   BBB

[Jules]

Thought this would be about Bobby Valentino.

And I thought this was about Bobby Irwin and MK, Irwin was the drummer of the british band that MK assembled for the first GH sessions, that ones of the Golden Demos, together with Nick Lowe on bass and Paul Carrack on guitars and keyboards.

I read that someone mentioned that "My claim to fame" was recorded by this band, and later some other musicians played overdubs.

[Pottel]

i have really only heard little (and only here and from guy) about this other band. anyone got more details?

[Jules]

i have really only heard little (and only here and from guy) about this other band. anyone got more details?

In the www.knopfler.net site by Tomas Molin, it was an interview I don

[Love Expresso]

I remember that, too, but cannot say that I ever heard about those names?

LE

[dustyvalentino]

It's from an interview from "Record Collector" magazine, around 93 or 94 I think, right in the middle of the Golden Heart sessions. I do have it but I would need to dig it out of the loft and scan, maybe somebody could do it before me (Val? ). MK tells how he has three bands together, one in Nashville, one in Ireland and one in Britain with Nick Lowe, Carrack etc because he wrote a song about shipbuilding (which we can now assume to be My Claim To Fame) and it wouldn't have been right to have US musicians playing on it.