Your favourite quotes by MK

[ds1984]

Another tour quote:

[JF]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281

funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?

[kaleo74]

You can lead a horse to water
You can't make him drink

*Notting Hillbillies - Your own sweet way

[ds1984]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281

funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?

Maybe at one of Hammersmith Odeon gig he guested between 18-22 december 1985

[Knopflerfan]

Tour quote:

"tonight we're gonna skip Marbletown and play Tunnel of Love instead!"   

In my dreams!

When introducing Why Worry with the NHB:

"This one's been done by lots of people: The Everley Brothers, Nana Mouskouri, Nina Maskara, Black Sabbath and Chet Atkins!"

  . In all our dreams too !!!!!!

Except mine!!

[LoveExpresso]

Mine, too.

Really folks, I never understood this Tunnel of Love melancholy... today he would do it in a stripped-down version, and the intro, the massive piano, the fast drumming, the NOISE, all that would just not be delievered from Mark and his band these days. So it would be a great mess and a disappointment for sure. A masterpiece it is of course, but let it rest in peace and remember all those great versions..

LE

[ds1984]

Between then and now he has the time and opportunities to give him a new life instead of weaking to death the first half of TR.

[LoveExpresso]

It is just that he doesn't want to play too much guitar anymore these days. Marbletown is a 15 minute break, together with Paraguay nearly 20 minutes of not playing complicated solo stuff. The solo on Kingdom of Gold is very sad when you think of it as a highlight of the evening compared with earlier stuff.

But this thread is about quotes.. .

Did Mk actually ever say "You can't polish a Doo-Doo?" Where and when?

LE

[ds1984]

"A pint of beer, Pete" - MK at his local pub 

"F..ck where is that bloody plectrum" - MK waking up one morning his guitar still in hands

(we are sorry to announce that the plectrum has not be retrieved yet)

[foma]

Did Mk actually ever say "You can't polish a Doo-Doo?" Where and when?

I double that. Been searching for the source of this one for a long time, too. And, by the way, one of the greatest quotes about early DS is:

[JF]

about Tunnel of love I agree with LE. see what he has done with TR, imho it did not improve the song, so I guess it would be the same with TOL.
if he had to resurface old songs, I think that songs from the "epic" era (80-85) are not the good candidates regarding his way of playing now.
He better should chose "laid-back" songs (e.g. six blade knife, lions, communique, follow me home, wild west end, etc...) it would fit better to his current musical style imho

[JF]

"F..ck where is that bloody plectrum" - MK waking up one morning his guitar still in hands

(we are sorry to announce that the plectrum has not be retrieved yet)

"the plectrum is the best amplifier you can get in the world"

(we are working with Ingo on an article about all songs played with a pick by Mark  )

[superval99]

about Tunnel of love I agree with LE. see what he has done with TR, imho it did not improve the song, so I guess it would be the same with TOL.
if he had to resurface old songs, I think that songs from the "epic" era (80-85) are not the good candidates regarding his way of playing now.
He better should chose "laid-back" songs (e.g. six blade knife, lions, communique, follow me home, wild west end, etc...) it would fit better to his current musical style imho

I agree.  I think if MK played TOL these days, it would be a huge disappointment.   Much better to leave it in the past rather than destroy good memories.    It's much better that MK plays the songs that he enjoys playing imo.    However I do still love TR!   

[JF]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860303&id=C9RHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336,898281

funny anecdote with Clapton. I wonder which gig it was, as the article is from 86 ? prince trust gala ?

Maybe at one of Hammersmith Odeon gig he guested between 18-22 december 1985

ah yes indeed I forgot theses gigs.

I have the 19/12/85 (silver bootleg "cocaine") and just before two young lovers he says something like "what do you want ? you want Eric Clapton or what ?" but I do'nt remember the fact about the "no working guitar", maybe another gig.

it's funny to note that the guitar for two young lovers changed between 85 and 86 :

in 85 it was the Everline automatic, while the black schecter tele was used on solid rock (wembley with Nils Logfren)
in 86, two young lovers was played on the black schecter tele (the famous "clippers" moments at Sydney)

so would it mean that the change appeared in late 85 because the Everline didn't "work" ?

[JF]

And, by the way, one of the greatest quotes about early DS is: