MK and DS pictures

[PensaGhost]

Article "Total Guitar" - February 2021
"The 50th greatest all the time"

Great little article and a great description of "twiddly bits". I figured it out when I was 15 or 16, it always amazes me the amount of impact this lick has on the audience every time Mark plays it, sounds really fast, but actually easy to play

1 thing is understanding what notes should be played,
completely another is having the same touch and sound MK has

[Klaus74]

Hi to all DS MK Photo-Fans.
Yesterday i have discovered an interesting item with documentary-character on the subject of the Dire Straits bandmembers. But later more about it.
What do you think, who is that guy

[border_reiver]

Jack Sonni from a college year book? 

[Klaus74]

Hello border_reiver.
Yes, that´s right.
I found his High-School-Yearbook from 1972 and i hope i receive it within a few days. He attended a High-School in Conneticut. To me it is a kind of a document for my collection of various Dire Straits-artifacts. Crazy but interesting to see.
Here is Jack Sonni on a promotional pic from 1985

[Klaus74]

Here are some more original publicity-pics from my collection. All pics are backwards handwritten, stickered ortherwise marked, so they are genuine and not cheap-copies from the printer.
I don´t know the photographers exactly, but the pics from the band on Montserrat could be shot by Deborah Feingold but i don´t know exactly.

[Klaus74]

Some more pics from DS. All pics are dated on March 1985.
Alan and Terry.

[Klaus74]

Another well-known group-pic from that photo-session.

[Klaus74]

Some more original publicity-pics by Dire Straits.
The Love over gold-lineup on a promotion-pic for Alchemy record. US-Pic from Februrary 1984.

[Klaus74]

Just another pic of Mark from the Brothers in arms era. US-Warner-Bros promo-pic from 1985.
But just look a little bit closer to that pic. What´s remarkable here ??

[SamGolden]

Vielen Dank Klaus für all diese Fotografien der schönen Zeit 1985.... 

[Klaus74]

Hi Sam, ja ich habe die Pics auch über Jahre hinweggesammelt, auch von verschiedenen Epochen. OES, BIA, LOG, auch NHB habe ich Promo-Pics, Press-Kits aus UK und UK in Mappen.
Ich mag ebenfalls diese Promo-Fotos aus verschiedenen Epochen.
Ich habe den amerikanischen Seller nochmal angeschrieben, ob er noch weitere Infos zu dem Jack Sonni-Yearbook hat. Bin schon richtig darauf gespannt. Wahrscheinlich wird es aber von einem/ einer Klassenkamerad/-in von ihm sein, oder von ihm höchstpersönlich, aber das gilt es noch aufzuklären.

[Klaus74]

Some more original publicity-pics by Dire Straits.
The OES Lineup. October 1991, Photographer: Paul Cox.
The LOG Lineup (with Alan Clark and Hal Lindes) October 1982. Photographer: currently unknown to me.

[Klaus74]

Here are two Notting Hillbillies promo-pics in two sizes.
Photographer: Brian Aris. Early 1990s.

[Klaus74]

Another curious promo-pic of John Illsley and David Knopfler, on a pub-scene.
A promo-pic from a BBC-produced Doku about Dire Straits called ARENA-Dire Straits. Stamped, handwritten and typed with promotional-text about the Documentary. Photo was possibly used for publication.
Date: 24. January 1987. Typed date is: 18. March 1980. That could be the date of photography, and the other date belonged to the transmission of the doku.
Photographer: currently unknown to me.

[Jules]

Just another pic of Mark from the Brothers in arms era. US-Warner-Bros promo-pic from 1985.
But just look a little bit closer to that pic. What´s remarkable here ??

I always wondered how professional photographers ended taking mirrow pictures... How can that happen to them...