Rolling Stone Top 100 guitarists 2011

[Pottel]

also jean-francois,
i more then often mentioned floyd or Gilmour on Guy'S forum, and i remember there was always a big admiration from MK side too.
By the way, i think it was our very own Marky49 who bumped into mr. Gilmour on the stairs in the RAH during the (i believe) 2008 tour. so he is a "fan" :-)
what we do not know of course is what shows Mark goes to.
has anyone ever read/heard anything about what concerts mark went too (and i do not mean his time as a reporter!) i mean, nowadays...

[JF]

By the way Pottel, I didn't find the itw I was talking about, well just a piece of.

You know, when I was a teenie, I used to make somme "collages" with DS pics and itws, and only pieces have survived
Yes I know, I should have keep all entire magazines 

so I managed to find this :
- an itw from Best -1980 where Mark talk about his new schecter guitars (used on MM)
- about the itw where the journalist play some songs to mark, I have only the numbers 12 and 13, but I remember there was some JJ Cale, EC's give me strength, and Ted Nugent. It's also from Best, but I guess in 1982 or 1983, not sure.

I tried to join it, hope it's ok

[JF]

here's the second one, because I didn't managed to join the two in one post (although each file is 112 ko, and it's allowed 4 per post )

[Jackal]

Very cool! I don't know French, but I think I got the gist of it. Very cool that Mark was asked to comment on different songs. Am I right that he was completely indifferent regarding Van Halen's technical playing?

[JF]

Yes jackal you're right

the translation of the part about Van halen is something like that :

"technically it is very developed, but it's the kind of thing that leaves me totally indifferent. I understand that it impresses other people, but in terms of sensitivity that leaves me cold. you have no other JJ?"

and the part about Cooder :

"It is Ry, he is inimitable, he is one of the guitarists I like most with JJ, he is capable of anything with a guitar but he has mainly a prodigious sense of feeling. More, what he does looks simple as it is so natural that it looks obvious, and yet it is not that easy, it's technically very hard to do because it is an hypersensitive approach "

Yes I confess I use google translation ; I know it's not always good, but I guess you get the whole idea.

If someone want to translate the 80 itw .....
I'll try maybe tomorrow 

[Pottel]

thnx Jean Francois!

[ferguitar]

I wonder if Mk ever commented about Ritchie Blackmore or Deep Purple? Anyone knows???

[vgonis]

I wonder if Mk ever commented about Ritchie Blackmore or Deep Purple? Anyone knows???

ferguitar, I looked it up, found no results, but came up with this. Very interesting, if you can spare 2 minutes.
http://bforgillanfansonly.runboard.com/t70638,offset=0
Purple fans talking about Mark!And Dylan!

[vgonis]

And a fan that actually calls himself "Knopflersfingers". All in a Purple forum!

[ferguitar]

And a fan that actually calls himself "Knopflersfingers". All in a Purple forum!

Guess who is this Knopflerfingers 
I already googled a lot about this, found nothing. Theres a quote about RB talking about MK. Ritchies is know for not using the midle pick up, he says thats the sound MK gets....he says its too thin.........lol. He says MK is a fine guitarist though. anyway, Ritchie is Ritchie, know for widding up journos.......in every interview he "change" his mind. 

[JF]

Of course this is about guitarists, but I find his rather high-pitched voice a bit cold and lacking in tone as opposed to MK's voice, which is beautifully warm, sexy and very comforting!    

Mark's voice is more suitable for single vocal

Gilmour's voice is great for vocal harmonies.

His singing together with Wright on Echoes is wonderful, and on Breathe, he's harmonising with himself ! he sings all vocals on this tune

I know that Mark did the same on Shangri-La, but I think he couldn't do these kind of vocal harmonies which bring songs to ethereal level.


Gilmour has a wider range of singing : from "soft" and "sweet" (fat old sun, green is the colour....) to more rock (young lust, not now john...)


Well.....I don't want to give the impression that I prefer Gilmour...because it's not the case 

But.....wouldn't it be nice if Mark would release such boxsets as PF or Gilmour ?

[vgonis]

Wouldn't it be fantastic if they performed together? Gilmour ad Knopfler, that would be a dream come true and certainly a sold out tour. They can choose the more blues based songs from the PF canon, and the most spaced out from DS's. Think twin lead guitars on Shine on or telegraph road!(and my all time favourite, It never rains. The idea only sends me to the cupboard for some soothing tea, to calm my ... nerves.
Their very sort get together for the French and Saunders show (with Gary Moore and Lemmy and all the rest) was so unexpectedly thrilling, imagine them on a whole tour.   

[Pottel]

[quote author=Jean-Fran

[Pottel]

same song here:
 

[Pottel]

got it:
   (Bad quality recording though)
also not bad