songs that Mark plays with a plectrum

[JF]

for those interested, I wrote an article on Ingo's blog about songs that Mark plays with a pick :

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/

I tried to be comprehensive, but of course it can't be 100% sure, there's always a bit of speculation

Thanks to Ingo for giving this oportunity 

[dmg]

Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band? 

[JF]

Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band? 

ah yes good one dmg, it took me few seconds to understand it though...

[dmg]

Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band? 

ah yes good one dmg, it took me few seconds to understand it though...

Reading your article now. 

Very interesting and comprehensive.  A lot of research in that article - well done.

[Silvertown]

for those interested, I wrote an article on Ingo's blog about songs that Mark plays with a pick :

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2014/09/30/songs-that-mark-knopfler-plays-with-a-pick/

I tried to be comprehensive, but of course it can't be 100% sure, there's always a bit of speculation

Thanks to Ingo for giving this oportunity 

It is a good article. Of course there is speculation, but I think that many of these are right.

[dustyvalentino]

Nice one dmg.

[3Strats]

Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band? 

I have to say that was my first though too, LOL !   

[LoveExpresso]

I was about to write exactly the same when I found dmg already saying it..

what does that show about the quality of the joke? 

LE

[sweetsurrender]

Surely it was all songs in the first four albums until he left the band? 

Not exactly sure I got it if it was meant as a joke

Thanks for the blog. It was interesting for me.

[JF]

Sweet surender, dmg meant pick Withers 
I should have wrote "with a plectrum" to avoid any confusion 

[JF]

strange, wikipedia named him David "Pick" Withers  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Withers

I guess it's another wiki mistake...

[Silvertown]

It is David indeed http://www.pickwithers.co.uk/

[foma]

Pick is a strange name isn't it? Always thought it's a nick, but all the uncertainty now revealed!

By the way, at first I thought this topic is about songs played with Pick-the-Drummer

But DMG joke is good This happend in "someone else very well known" topic also.

[JF]

as the original thread title seemed so much "confusing", I changed it to "plectrum", but all previous answers kept the original title 

[JF]

It is David indeed http://www.pickwithers.co.uk/

ah yes indeed, the text on wikipedia is surely a coy/taste from here

I didn't know this. It's not mentionned in the Oldfield book (like Ruth is not mentionned neither), and noone booklet got his real first name

indeed, Pick sounds like a nickname, but often in booklets, nicknames are between quotation marks, like e.g. Calvin "fuzzy" samuel, Donald "duck" dunn, franck "poncho" sampedro, chris "whipper" Layton, etc...
sometimes so you can read Philip Collins, Stephen Hackett, etc...even  EC's 2nd first name (patrick) features in his album booklets, so it's strange that Pick Withers was never quoted with his real first name in any record