Guy's Forum

[Jules]

Maybe we should ask Guy?  It is indeed interesting.

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[Dutchessy]

Maybe we should ask Guy?  It is indeed interesting.

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His answer:

Yes it means that Robbie did do some overdubs on Mark's album and Danny has played percussion on the whole record.

[peterromer]

So MK is not against everyone that does the Dire Straits Legends thing, since Danny is back with the others. Thats cool.   

[Love Expresso]

Wow, some hefty stuff going on at Guy's forum. About using auto-tune and copying Playtime Deluxe  (which is indeed a severe issue for me and can only be excused as a song for a special occasion and never again.). Guy is doing very well on those posts, my respect to him for not freaking out.

It took them a year to create Good On You Son. Blimey!

LE

[Jules]

It took them a year to create Good On You Son. Blimey!

LE

I'd say that it took them a year to create most of the new record, as they had to interrupt the recording of DTRW many times to keep working in the musical. "Good on you son" has many details that would had took them many sessions to complete, but I doubt that they spent 365 days with it.

Actually it's likely that from a whole year, they spent more than half year working in a musical and less than a half working in the new record... I'd dare to say that it's also likely that Guy had been working in the synths and other overdubs by himself in the studio while MK was working with David Greig and Bill Forsyth.

[hunter]

Playtime Deluxe is a simple blues song. There are tons of blues songs in that style, so to say that Mark copied someone is strange.

[Jules]

Playtime Deluxe is a simple blues song. There are tons of blues songs in that style, so to say that Mark copied someone is strange.

In blues world, there are many songs that are quite the same... "If I had a possesion over judgment day", "Rolling and tumbling"  and many more sounds like the same song...

[Dutchessy]

Guy said there is no auto-tune in BG studio 2, but wasn't Shangri-la made in the USA? (i'm not saying he used auto-tune, i don't care at all)

[Dutchessy]

Playtime Deluxe is a simple blues song. There are tons of blues songs in that style, so to say that Mark copied someone is strange.

Pretty similar... (understatement)

[hunter]

Playtime Deluxe is a simple blues song. There are tons of blues songs in that style, so to say that Mark copied someone is strange.

Pretty similar... (understatement)

Yes, it is, but it's wrong to say Playtime Deluxe is a copy or "rip off". Even if Mark had listened to Rollin Man and wanted to give a nod to that song. Still, it's just another blues song, such as Rolling and Tumbling, which jbaent mentioned earlier. The blues format is so standardized that it doesn't make sense to talk about copying.

[Dutchessy]

But, IT IS exactly the same.... 

[quizzaciously]

If I remember correctly in the early days of DS Mark played a song called "Nadine" which sounds exactly like "Nadine" by Chuck Berry. Man, surely Mark can change his middle name to Ripoff!

Guy said there is no auto-tune in BG studio 2, but wasn't Shangri-la made in the USA? (i'm not saying he used auto-tune, i don't care at all)

That's a hilarious point, well spotted. To be honest, I think vocals in Our Shangri-La sounds a little bit post-processed, but who listen to the studio version anyway?

[herlock]

If I remember correctly in the early days of DS Mark played a song called "Nadine" which sounds exactly like "Nadine" by Chuck Berry. Man, surely Mark can change his middle name to Ripoff!

Guy said there is no auto-tune in BG studio 2, but wasn't Shangri-la made in the USA? (i'm not saying he used auto-tune, i don't care at all)

That's a hilarious point, well spotted. To be honest, I think vocals in Our Shangri-La sounds a little bit post-processed, but who listen to the studio version anyway?

I do. Studio versions can be unmatched.
Mark never ever managed to play Sultans live like in the studio - simple and smooth groove...

[Jules]

If I remember correctly in the early days of DS Mark played a song called "Nadine" which sounds exactly like "Nadine" by Chuck Berry. Man, surely Mark can change his middle name to Ripoff!

That is because what DS played is a cover of chuck Berry's Nadine LOL

[olazabalrok]

If I remember correctly in the early days of DS Mark played a song called "Nadine" which sounds exactly like "Nadine" by Chuck Berry. Man, surely Mark can change his middle name to Ripoff!

That is because what DS played is a cover of chuck Berry's Nadine LOL