Guy's Forum

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[Jules]

Maybe Guy & Mk offered to record the new Bap cd, but Bap refused it and they are "kind of upset"?

I dont get why Guy would answer like that anyway.

[LoveExpresso]

My guess: When Guy (& and maybe Mark) speak about how a record "sounds", it might have been a totally other meaning than what we think has to do with sound. They developed a honest fetish when it comes to "sound" and "sonic" stuff - I mean Kill To Get Crimson is "spectacular" in Guy's ears... I wish they would skip this whole obsession with British Grove and searching for the one right of 15 identical Martin Acoustics to get "that" special sound and just play away like they did on the first Dire Straits album - that will never happen..
So if we think Bap's album sounds "good" (or better, if you think so, I never liked his voice), then it might be because how the music, well, sounds.
And not so much how it is recorded, balanced, mixed, etc...

Really, sometimes I would prefer another approach in record making then that one the are used to. I remember the pictures in Guy's "KTGC" diary of the book "how to play blues", I remember the stories about that special acoustic and "analog sound" of the Shangri-La record... and really, those records sound very much like any MK record. So much ado about nothing. Oh, they sound expectional well of course, but, KTCG sounds as good as GL, and GL sounds as good as Privateering...

LE

[Jules]

Totally agree with LE.

[Dutchessy]

Hello Doc. Here you have us, playing with your little clues and try to guess when would be the next MK tour according to your answers, LOL. I

[dmg]

I agree with LE too.  I'm very happy with the way the first album sounds and Mark seemed happy enough to record Marbletown (or Marblecity as it has become ) in his own back room studio not so very long ago, unless I'm mistaken.

I too think he's just "in the huff" as we say that the band didn't get the invite to play.

[LoveExpresso]

To be fair, there were times when I was moaning about him producing records within three weeks with the pants and I wanted him to work longer on the tracks, explore them and produce maybe well-worked-out stuff again... and now it seems he does exactly that. I will wait until the new album is out to give another judgement about their work in the studio. After all, these transparent internet times are just the reason for us being unpatient. I never heard about him recording until February 1996 for example, with the release date March. The complete time since 1992 (On The Night) was a total bleak Knopfler-era for me. Nowadays Guy mentions that they are back in the studio and the diary-alarm goes off..

It is not so easy ... 

LE

[Vesper]

I asked Guy this:

Diary and collaborations
Klaas Bouke Faber
3rd March 2014   

Q: Hi Guy. First of all thanks for the diary! Finally it is there, nice read and some great pictures! Keep up the good work and hopefully there's an update soon.... Also thanks for the contest, I've emailed my answers. After read the diary, 1 subject isn't mentioned: the collaboration you mentioned on the forum earlier. Could you please elaborate on the collaboration thing? Kind regards, Klaas Bouke

A: Not really as the project isn't released yet. It is being mixed right now though, so soon.

So the collaboration and the new album are different projects.
Anybody knows new rumours regarding this collaboration project?

[Jules]

Hello Doc. Here you have us, playing with your little clues and try to guess when would be the next MK tour according to your answers, LOL. I

[Dutchessy]

Hello Doc. Here you have us, playing with your little clues and try to guess when would be the next MK tour according to your answers, LOL. I

[ds1984]

To be fair, there were times when I was moaning about him producing records within three weeks with the pants and I wanted him to work longer on the tracks, explore them and produce maybe well-worked-out stuff again... and now it seems he does exactly that. I will wait until the new album is out to give another judgement about their work in the studio. After all, these transparent internet times are just the reason for us being unpatient. I never heard about him recording until February 1996 for example, with the release date March. The complete time since 1992 (On The Night) was a total bleak Knopfler-era for me. Nowadays Guy mentions that they are back in the studio and the diary-alarm goes off..

It is not so easy ... 

LE

Well said.

[MusicGirl1]

To be fair, there were times when I was moaning about him producing records within three weeks with the pants and I wanted him to work longer on the tracks, explore them and produce maybe well-worked-out stuff again... and now it seems he does exactly that. I will wait until the new album is out to give another judgement about their work in the studio. After all, these transparent internet times are just the reason for us being unpatient. I never heard about him recording until February 1996 for example, with the release date March. The complete time since 1992 (On The Night) was a total bleak Knopfler-era for me. Nowadays Guy mentions that they are back in the studio and the diary-alarm goes off..

It is not so easy ... 

LE

Well said.

What can we say, guess times are changing. I remember in the late 80's/early 90's (during the On Every Street Tour I was about 15/16 years old) I would simply read about a new DS album coming out and I would simply be happy about that fact and purchase the album. In 1996 when Golden Heart came out, there was internet, but no social media yet. Internet was a already a good source of info but still not like today.

Maybe we are at a point now where information and news travels so fast, that we now start to become impatient when we do have to wait a bit longer.....

When it comes to records/albums and music, sometimes I miss the "good old days".

Maaike

[Eric Genevelle]

I'm agree, When I discovered MK in 1982 (Love over gold), each month, I went to my supermarket with my mother to do shoping only to see if he had relealised a new album. I had to wait 2005, but I've found it very quick !!!

[ds1984]

If I had had internet as son as 1990 I would have probably attended Dire Straits OES kick off and got a chance to hear Pono performed live so the good ole days weren't so good...

[Pottel]

I'm agree, When I discovered MK in 1982 (Love over gold), each month, I went to my supermarket with my mother to do shoping only to see if he had relealised a new album. I had to wait 2005, but I've found it very quick !!!

soyez le bienvenue sur notre forum Eric!