Mark writes film score!

[tunnel85]

I am only looking forward to those live recordings these days, honestly. The album will come, that is a definite, but the live recs are still in limbo...

Which live recordings are you talking about, pottel?     The last BD/MK tour or the MK recordings that Guy mentioned?    I would have thought you had all of those available from the BD tour, I know I have.    I would much rather have a promo tour!

I think he's talking about the recordings the band has made since 2005.
About the second part Pottel surely has everything available. But you know in Dylan world, there always something cooking and you never know when it's gonna see the light.
Never ending tour, never ending releases. It just takes time but it's a continuous flood.
I don't believe how these guys can be slow sometimes to release things. 

[superval99]

Tunnel85,  I'm a bit like MK in respect of looking forward - I have really gone past 2005 now - I want new stuff.  A new album, promos, an MK tour and as for BD old recordings - I've heard enough of him!   

[Love Expresso]

Excatly, Val. Since I have the Get Lucky Tour recordings from Simfy, I can't stand listen to the passalong 2005 shows - Mark's voice was so much better in 2010. I hope for some 2008 stuff because I really liked that set list and some of the versions, True Love Will Never Fade for example...

Tunnel85  (blimey, what was your last avatar??? I can't remember... did you do a longer break around here??), IF Mark and Bob will tour together again,
I always thought it was clear that the only do the US this time, because Europe once more again is too close to last year. So would you attend some US shows?

LE

[superval99]

I hope for some 2008 stuff because I really liked that set list and some of the versions, True Love Will Never Fade for example...

LE - I downloaded the Red Rocks and also the Charlotte 2008 shows and the quality is amazing - almost soundboard and both of these were fantastically performed!   John McCusker was absent for Red Rocks, due to a visa problem, but he was at Charlotte and it is interesting to hear how the songs were performed with/without him!   Both were extremely good!   

[Love Expresso]

Oh, cool, thanks! Never thought about trying that. Are they still available? I am a little bit stupid about these things... Should I have a look at the Tracker or places like that? I thought it was a pity when John was absent and Sonny Liston returned to the set, I liked Postcards more. But last year, Sonny Liston
was a real burner - so rocking guitar, much more energy and great stuff... So maybe I will get some 2008 stuff, thanks again!

LE

[superval99]

LE - If you have a problem downloading etc, I can send them to you on disc.

[Love Expresso]

Oh, thanks a lot... I was just browsing through all these shows on KnopflerTK and found some very astonishing stuff.. I have not time enough tonight but will come back to it. And maybe I might dare to send you a PM, Val! 

LE

[superval99]

Yes, that's fine!   btw I am just listening to "True Love......" from Charlotte - it's really nice!   

[tunnel85]

Tunnel85  (blimey, what was your last avatar??? I can't remember... did you do a longer break around here??), IF Mark and Bob will tour together again,
I always thought it was clear that the only do the US this time, because Europe once more again is too close to last year. So would you attend some US shows?

LE

My previous avatar was Blind Willie McTell. Maybe I'll get it back. TJW is not a nice one.
A break, that's the word. I wish my kids, my boss and my computer could give me a break sometimes. 
 I've been very busy over the last two or three months.
I won't attend any US show.  Too complicated and too expensive. I don't want my wife to kill me : I have plans for next European tour.   

[twm]

I wasn't at the Manchester show but I seem to recall that  it was all-seated. That alone would have affected the sound. But I did say that the sound was turned up during the set and stayed up. I don't know why. In such a close-to-the-front position as you had, ear-plugs would have would have reduced the impact of the bass sound, which can be the part of the sound spectrum that can have an adverse.

MK had a totally different band sound from Dylan, on this tour.

As for MK's album, I thought March 2011 was more like pre-production work than actually recording with the band. Weren't MK's recording sessions in the early summer last year? If my memory is correct on this and given that MK apparently spends a lot of time on post-production, then I'd've thought a September 2011 release was tight. As I've said before, drawing up an outline chronology would help.

And, anyway, you're still going to get all that, only later than you'd've liked. No big deal, really.

[Love Expresso]

Usual chronology would be starting serious recording in Jan to Feb, then mixing around May, release around September. Before all that, he takes his time and is in the studio only with Guy Fletcher and testing, fiddling around, and making first recordings, "working in the songs". When the band comes in, usually it all is recorded pretty fast, often in one takes. The US boys are not the ones for staying forever in London, and I think they are quite expensive, too. Betweeen mixing and release there is this gap of some months where record company work starts, making plans for promotion, producing, printing the stuff and making sure that the album is in the stores worldwide at the first day which needs some tricky work to do I am sure.
 
Since mixing has started and should be finished within the next two or three weeks, a release in July/August should be possible. Maybe Mark wants to take in the rush from the Olympic games and wants to hang as a poster at every subway store when all those extra million people are travelling in London...

LE

[twm]

I have little doubt that, if MK wishes to release his new album in the late summer this year, he will manage to do so.

My previous post was more about last year. In order to make that clearer, I've modified it.

[Jules]

The rumours I heard were that recording had to end around late october early november, then december and january mixing, comping etc etc and the general idea was to repeat the Golden Heart / All the roadrunnning chronology, release in april / may and tour in june.

Then I heard that the plans were modified because of the film score and that probably the record and tour will be delayed one or two months, but then, something happened and I was told that everything will be more delayed and recordings will resume at the end of the year and probably beguining the next with mixing and comping in spring, and the reason cant be revelead. With some weeks my sources told me about the Dylan tour.

In the end the mixing took place before spring, but looks like other new thing, that it cant be said bit anyone knows that its the screaming Bob again, has made MK to cancel his previous commitment with the film score.

Tmw, MK doesnt take all that time to post-produce his records, his records are more than ready around march/april, but the record company thinks that september is the best month to release, it happened with all MK records since STP in 2000, with the only exception of All the roadrunning that was hurried up because the only gap to tour with Emmylou Harris was in may/june, so no chance to wait.

[twm]

Thank you. That's both interesting and helpful.

When you say ...  but then, something happened and I was told that everything will be more delayed and recordings will resume at the end of the year and probably beguining the next with mixing and comping in spring, and the reason cant be revelead  ... can you say when you were told this? Month? Date?

Similarly, in respect of  ....  With some weeks my sources told me about the Dylan tour   ...  can you also say when you were told this?

[Pottel]

I am only looking forward to those live recordings these days, honestly. The album will come, that is a definite, but the live recs are still in limbo...

Which live recordings are you talking about, pottel?     The last BD/MK tour or the MK recordings that Guy mentioned?    I would have thought you had all of those available from the BD tour, I know I have.    I would much rather have a promo tour!

I think he's talking about the recordings the band has made since 2005.
About the second part Pottel surely has everything available. But you know in Dylan world, there always something cooking and you never know when it's gonna see the light.
Never ending tour, never ending releases. It just takes time but it's a continuous flood.
I don't believe how these guys can be slow sometimes to release things. 

wasn't it since 2001?? (and i truly think they started earlier...)