Privateering after about a month

[Knopflerfan]

Still listening (and playing guitar) to the whole album! and both extra discs too!!
Just can't stop listening to this wonderful album. I have done a single disc version for our car ommiting:
 'Don't forget your hat' 'Hot or what' & 'Radio city Serenade' as not 100 % fussed for them.
The Album comes a very close second to 'Get Lucky' for me......

[another brother]

here it is. bad sound from the device, but wow, what a live version of "yon two crows", as expected with a great solo at the end.
great drums, great guitar. welcome back dire straits hahahahaha

[zeusjazmin]

first of all i dislike all the blues songs,some people will love them,its all down to personal preferance.
the rest of the album now,yon two crows and privateering i think are great songs,haul away and seattle are good,as for the rest of the songs i feel they are really weak.
it will never stop me buying all future albums,but this time round the album just doesnt do it for me.

[stratocasteph]

here it is. bad sound from the device, but wow, what a live version of "yon two crows", as expected with a great solo at the end.
great drums, great guitar. welcome back dire straits hahahahaha

I can't understand why he didn't record the song with a great end solo like this one.

[dmg]

here it is. bad sound from the device, but wow, what a live version of "yon two crows", as expected with a great solo at the end.
great drums, great guitar. welcome back dire straits hahahahaha

I can't understand why he didn't record the song with a great end solo like this one.

...because he would never be able to live up to it live?  I agree though;  on the album this would be the guitar it is missing.

[goon525]

Yes, the sound is, er, dire, but you can hear enough to know that he CAN still pull off a great guitar solo. It's not the first time that an album track has missed the guitar solo at the end that it really needs. Ah, whatever happened to Silvertown Blues, perhaps the best song of the solo era he won't play live.

[another brother]

i think, MK loves to put 2 versions of a song into the world. and sometimes the album version feels like a teaser for that coming live.
live, he "must" play guitar, he cant

[Jules]

i think, MK loves to put 2 versions of a song into the world. and sometimes the album version feels like a teaser for that coming live.
live, he "must" play guitar, he cant

[Mark Heritage]

I'm loving the album still. I'm listening to it right now actually, and play it in the car often. I think it's his best solo album, and that's saying something considering it's his 7th. Get Lucky was good too; it needed to be after Kill to Get Crimson, which I never got into. Wasn't overly impressed with Shangri-La either, so these last two albums reinstalled my faith... Looking forward to the Guitar Stories on Sky Arts on Tuesday.

[Pottel]

I'm loving the album still. I'm listening to it right now actually, and play it in the car often. I think it's his best solo album, and that's saying something considering it's his 7th. Get Lucky was good too; it needed to be after Kill to Get Crimson, which I never got into. Wasn't overly impressed with Shangri-La either, so these last two albums reinstalled my faith... Looking forward to the Guitar Stories on Sky Arts on Tuesday.

may wanna change <your nick then :-)

[Fieneke2]

Quote Jbaent: "But when rehearsing live, they start from a recorded song, and the goal is how to translate that song to the stage, in front of a lot of people,and whats possible to add here and there to make the songs suit the stage. Here is when the songs get a new life."

That is well said Jbaent!  I didn't like for example Marbletown; Speedway at Nazareth and Telegraph Road, but when I heard those songs during the last concerts I was blown away! They sounded wonderful the way they were played live! 

Btw Get Lucky I hope you or other UK fans are able to record Guitar stories and upload them at YouTube! 

Fieneke

[goon525]

Fieneke
You didn't like Telegraph Road? I'm sure you were a member of the forum with that name many years ago! But it's such an archetypal DS song, marvellous control over tempo and dynamics, and a great MK guitar solo. Admittedly (like almost everyone else here) I'd rather he alternated playing it with Tunnel of Love. But you can't have everything!

[Marikablue]

Hi,

I still listen to the new album every day. I think it's a wonderful album, maybe the third best after GH and STP. STP is still the best solo album made by Mark. Now there is ten songs that I hear all the time, and ten songs that I rarely listen to. My little collection is here.

Disc 1 :

Redbud Tree
Haul Away
Privateering
Corned Beef City
Go,Love
Yon Two Crows

Disc 2 :

Blue Bird
Dream Of The Drowned Submariner
Blood And Water
Today Is Okay

I really like the bonus tracks. Occupation Blues and Follow The Ribbon should have been on the album 

[Vesper]

I really like the bonus tracks. Occupation Blues and Follow The Ribbon should have been on the album 

And Your Perfect Song!
It's small, sweat, lovely and great

[MisterYES]

Like vine. Even better as time pass 

Maybe three skippers from time to time Don't Forget Your Hat, Miss Your Blues, After The Beanstalk and Grog from bonuses. But for the most cases, i just like to play whole album. With many favorites. The "problem" i got with Privateering (song) and Red Bud Tree, is that full length pre-release and i did "over listen those"  so now i have trouble to put them in favorites even thou songs are great Luckily for Seattle, it was released short enough to be over listen