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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1320 on: August 31, 2021, 11:58:16 PM »
Don't remember the year. 1975?

Most likely around that time - certainly the Brewers Droop years..
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1321 on: September 04, 2021, 05:03:50 PM »
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1322 on: September 04, 2021, 11:45:48 PM »
Don't remember the year. 1975?

Most likely around that time - certainly the Brewers Droop years..

Brewers Droop era with Mark is 1973

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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1323 on: September 05, 2021, 12:36:07 AM »
Don't remember the year. 1975?

Most likely around that time - certainly the Brewers Droop years..

Brewers Droop era with Mark is 1973

Correct! A typo on my part.... ;)
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1324 on: September 05, 2021, 06:51:10 PM »
But Brewers Droop is just Mark and Pick Withers.
« Last Edit: September 05, 2021, 06:57:50 PM by Robson »
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1325 on: September 05, 2021, 08:23:01 PM »
But Brewers Droop is just Mark and Pick Withers.

and the following personnel:
Ron Watts
Steve Darrington
John McKay
Malcolm Barrett
Bob Walker
Derrick Timms
Steve Norchi
Pick Withers
MK
« Last Edit: September 05, 2021, 08:39:29 PM by Knopflerfan »
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1326 on: September 05, 2021, 08:27:53 PM »
But Brewers Droop is just Mark and Pick Withers.

More.......
Throughout 1973, The Droop continued to record a proposed second album while undergoing various line-up changes. Pick Withers took over on drums for a short spell before Walker returned. Shortly thereafter, Timms left and was replaced by new bassist Steve Nachi.
Around the same time, Mark Knopfler was recruited as the group's primary guitarist, allowing Mackay to come to the fore more as a co-lead vocalist with Watts. Knopfler split his time between teaching part-time, and playing with the band.

Hope that helps...
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1327 on: September 05, 2021, 08:32:10 PM »
Pick Withers too :) Mark played with them for about two months.
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1328 on: September 05, 2021, 08:38:51 PM »
Pick Withers too :) Mark played with them for about two months.

He's there 'high lighted' in big print! ;)

Of note Steve Darrington who played with MK in Brewers Droop now organises a Blues Festival here in Dorset a stones throw away from me...
https://www.swanage-blues.org/
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1329 on: September 05, 2021, 08:43:53 PM »
 :thumbsup Everything is fine :) I am fascinated this story all the time.
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1330 on: September 05, 2021, 08:45:23 PM »
:thumbsup Everything is fine :) I am fascinated this story all the time.

The deeper I seem to look into MK and 'Brewers Droop' the more interesting it gets!
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1331 on: September 05, 2021, 08:47:56 PM »
Love this quote:

Brewers Droop -
'at an audition in the Nags Head, High Wycombe, Mark Knopfler auditioned with a red guitar, a flat hat, and joined the band'
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1332 on: September 05, 2021, 08:55:55 PM »
More:

Knopfler and Withers (who had not actually been in The Droop at the same time) went on to great success in the band Dire Straits.

As perhaps a bit of an in-joke, the Dire Straits song "Industrial Disease" (which Knopfler wrote and sang, and Withers drummed on) mentions "Brewer's Droop" in the context of a diagnosed malady, alongside smoker's cough.
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1333 on: September 05, 2021, 08:59:39 PM »
It is a pity that there are no videos from this period.
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Re: MK and DS pictures
« Reply #1334 on: September 05, 2021, 09:04:28 PM »
It is a pity that there are no videos from this period.

Indeed so.....
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