Mark and Bobby

[Pottel]

My thoughts as well LE

[Dutchessy]

Yeah, seems I'm wrong with that... I thought i read it somewhere that it was written around 'on every street'...

[ds1984]

Stefan Johansson did compete at Indy between 1993 and 1995 so the song was possibly not written at the time of OES but ready for GH

According to the cited races I would say that he refers to the 1993 (or 1994)*  Indycar championship as schedule is best matching although not 100% adequate (the first event being Surfer Paradise - not Phoenix).


Phoenix - Arizona (april)
Long Beach
Indianapolis (always on last week-end of May since the exact 31st of may date has been abandoned  with most of the month dedicated to testing and qualifying sessions) with reference to the Brickyard and Gasoline Alley
Milwaukee Mile
Michigan (Detroit in June on Belle Isle Park)
Portland (called "Budweiser/G.I.Joe

[Justme]

Great summary, thanks a lot!

[dustyvalentino]

Nice one.

So... maybe the original lyric was "After 1992, came 1993/there would be a new champion, I hoped it was me".

[superval99]

In fact, on Guy's forum today, someone asked if SAN was written about Kenny Brack and Guy's answer was that it could have been about Kenny, or Stefan Johansson!   

[Love Expresso]

I always loved the line "After 2000 came 2001". The year 2000 was announced for the end of the world, and the Millennium Bug hoke was the modern analogy to that. It fits perfect with the idea behind the song: No, it is not the end of the world, the world did not go down, let's carry on and try again...
or in just one word: Endurance... which is a theme in a lot of lyrics from MK of course but was never done so perfect as in this song.
I thought about the first line of it from the first moment as symbolic and never wondered how he could release such line in 2000...

Now tell me this:

How did we get to this in the thread "Mark and Bobby"... 
 
LE

[ds1984]

Now tell me this:

How did we get to this in the thread "Mark and Bobby"... 
 
LE

Clue : Bobby Irwin

[dustyvalentino]

How did we get to this in the thread "Mark and Bobby"... 
 
LE

Lesser, "official" forums would have shut the thread down for going off topic, whereas we at AMIT encourage free speech and diversification.

[Rollergirl]

How did we get to this in the thread "Mark and Bobby"... 
 
LE

Lesser, "official" forums would have shut the thread down for going off topic, whereas we at AMIT encourage free speech and diversification.

AMEN!

[ds1984]

I checked Kenny Br

[Tally]

I checked Kenny Br

[Jules]

How did we get to this in the thread "Mark and Bobby"... 
 
LE

Lesser, "official" forums would have shut the thread down for going off topic, whereas we at AMIT encourage free speech and diversification.

When you start a thread with a title like "Mark and Bobby", you can talk about everything involving MK (his name is Mark and we are in the Mark Knopfler discussion forum) and any Bobby related with him 

If you titled the thread as "Mark and Bob Dylan", or "Mark and Dylan", well, that

[dustyvalentino]

Dug the Record Collector magazine out of my loft, I now know who played the mandolin on No Wonder He's Confused!

Will hopefully scan and upload later today.

[Jules]

Dug the Record Collector magazine out of my loft, I now know who played the mandolin on No Wonder He's Confused!

Will hopefully scan and upload later today.

Thank you man, I really want to read it!