Guy's Forum

[superval99]

Fletch - You seemed pretty happy with his reply to you on the subject of "Alchemy".   

[Mossguitar]

Yeah, go easy on Guy. Remember, he's not there to speak for MK. If the question had been "Are there any young guitarists that you and MK admire?" then he may have got a lengthier answer.

I agree with Dusty and all the others who agree with him on this subject. I find GF extremely patient when it comes to answereing all sorts of questions about MK's strings on acoustics in the eighties, early DS records, the Knopfler brothers' relationship and so on. Please! It's a GF forum. Show some respect and politeness. Note that when people ask about something that has to do with GF (keyboards, GF's own guitarstrings (!), surfing, the weather, concerts and tours that GF has been a part of, bands he has played in, what speakers he use, recording techniques, restaurants he has been to, his own records etc), he give long answeres, often beguinning with "Now that's a good/interesting question!").

[Pottel]

lol, imagine getting mails like this one:
bush hall
Pedro Balbino Gutierrez
spain

24th September 2009
   Why aye man again, sonny strip again, "monteleone" to sleep. MK knows his song ? Mk does not have any more songs? Always equal , year after year. There is no solution. ?That you promote?    



Guy's reply:whatever. . . .

i mean, what else can you say to such dumbass questions? disregarding the fact that english is not this persons native language, and even then..

[dmg]

lol, imagine getting mails like this one:
bush hall
Pedro Balbino Gutierrez
spain

24th September 2009
   Why aye man again, sonny strip again, "monteleone" to sleep. MK knows his song ? Mk does not have any more songs? Always equal , year after year. There is no solution. ?That you promote?    



Guy's reply:whatever. . . .

i mean, what else can you say to such dumbass questions? disregarding the fact that english is not this persons native language, and even then..

I had a laugh when I read that too but I guess one can see what the guy's getting at;  if MK wants to promote Get Lucky, he should play more new songs.  Seems to me they're playing the easy ones that don't need much practice.

[Pottel]

sonny strip again???
monteleone to sleep??

[koobaa]

This is ridiculous. I guess that's one of the consequences of being open for fans. You get all sorts of feedback. Guy is handling it like a real gentleman though.

[allen]

If Guy doesn't like fans' comments, he can just choose which ones will be on his forum.  One man can not satisfy everyone, never.  Some fans are too much rediculous, they can choose what to listen to, no need to bear and feel uncomfortable in a concert, coz they will never be able to make the artist do what they want.   It's the artist who has the right for his choice.  

[IrisRose]

Guy is a kind and very decent guy.  And I speak from experience.    Like anyone, he appreciates people treating him like a person.    All these questions about MK.  Of course we are curious, and he is the closest thing we have to getting any answer.    But we can't expect him to be MK's spokesperson.   That's PC's job.   However he does or doesn't do it.    Nor can you expect MK or Guy to advance some kid's career based on an obscure question in Guy's forum.   Imagine the kind of pressure Guy would get it he did name some one.    It would be "Listen to my recording.   Listen to me."  Would you name me too?  Would you recommend me too?"   That would really be opening a can of worms.     He's damned decent to even acknowledge a lot of the questions that show up on his site.   

[localhero1986]

Sometimes some rude questions come by... To be honest, I don't understand the requests for (bonus) DVD subtitles: some person doesn't seem to understand the English language (can understand that) but IS capable to read the mighty GF forum and ask a question about it???

[Mossguitar]

Well, for most people it would be easyer to read or even to type in a foreign language than to understand it when it's spoken by the natives. And it wouldn't be too hard to imagine that it could be a lot easyer for our, let's say, Brazillian friends to understand what Mark and Chuck were talking about if the DVD had Poruguese subtitles, would it?

[Waterline Man]

i think that Guy is being clever when he posts those dodgy emails/questions every so often - its like he's saying "hey guys this is the type of stuff that I'm getting mailed to me every second day". He obviously looks at every one that comes in so its his decision what he puts up on the site so for example he didnt need to put the "boys from Brazil's"  rant on there but he did which I think was more to highlight these sort of things than anything else    

[Waterline Man]

From Guy's forum

"Hi there and greetings from Ireland.My question is whether Mark Knopler is touring on his own or with a band and if he has a band do you know the line up.Thanks for your time..Brendan Mulhaire Galway City Ireland"

Reply from GF,
Where have you been Brendan?, yes Mark always tours with a band. See the recent diaries for line-up.

&&&&&&& it wasn't me

[dmg]

I agree with Dusty and all the others who agree with him on this subject. I find GF extremely patient when it comes to answereing all sorts of questions about MK's strings on acoustics in the eighties, early DS records, the Knopfler brothers' relationship and so on. Please! It's a GF forum. Show some respect and politeness. Note that when people ask about something that has to do with GF (keyboards, GF's own guitarstrings (!), surfing, the weather, concerts and tours that GF has been a part of, bands he has played in, what speakers he use, recording techniques, restaurants he has been to, his own records etc), he give long answeres, often beguinning with "Now that's a good/interesting question!").
[/quote]
There's still no excuse for bad manners and sometimes Guys answers, well they're not even answers or brief to say the least.  Also, he was bound to know that most of the questions he would recieve would be about MK when he started the forum and interest in his forum would soon fade dramatically if no MK questions were permitted.  A forum is all about opinions and everybody is entitled to one and everybody should respect one anothers.  If someone wants to complain about a song being played too often then I think it should be taken in good spirit.

[Mossguitar]

I love the way Guy answeres all the questions. And the way he doesn't answere the daft ones. Shows he has a great sence of humor imo.

[Fletch]

There's still no excuse for bad manners and sometimes Guys answers, well they're not even answers or brief to say the least.  Also, he was bound to know that most of the questions he would recieve would be about MK when he started the forum and interest in his forum would soon fade dramatically if no MK questions were permitted.  A forum is all about opinions and everybody is entitled to one and everybody should respect one anothers.  If someone wants to complain about a song being played too often then I think it should be taken in good spirit.

Finally someone who understands!!!