3 Chord Trick (Legacy)

[Love Expresso]

I agree!

LE

[PensaGhost]

I've spent two days with this album and I went in wanting to hate it. Sorry folks, its a brilliant album. Magdalene alone was worth the £13 of my money. Still dont agree with them trying to tour as Dire Straits, and I dont like Marcos voice. Its full of beautiful arrangements and melody.

Caviglia apart, the quality of the musicians has never been under discussion, some are also good composers and I agree the album
is good, not a masterpiece, but still good.

The hating comes from something completely different.

[Jules]

(Oh and I never called him an asshole.)

LE

I know, of course. Maybe some former band members do, though, in secret. What I was trying to say is that he may have acted like one occasionally (most of us do), but that overreacting about some stolen sausages hardly equals the shameless exploitation of Dire Straits' fame by Palmer, Clark etc. I'm pretty confident that I would like Mark as a person if I were to meet him. I'm not so sure about the Legacy guys.

I'm sure I won't like MK as a person. He looks nice but we only know him by what he presents to us in promotion, interviews and concerts. I know from good that he's not an easy person to deal with. Not a diva star, but neither an easy person.

So I rather don't meet him.

I met Phil Palmer and Alan Clark and they were very very nice, and they didn't had to be that nice with a random guy they didn't know at all, but they were and I have great memories of that meeting with them.

Funnily, I saw Palmer the next day at the stairs at the Hall and he said Hi to me again and asked me if I liked the Clapton concert (that's why we were at the Rah). Y could had made as he didn't met me the day before, but he was nice anyway.

[PensaGhost]

(Oh and I never called him an asshole.)

LE

I know, of course. Maybe some former band members do, though, in secret. What I was trying to say is that he may have acted like one occasionally (most of us do), but that overreacting about some stolen sausages hardly equals the shameless exploitation of Dire Straits' fame by Palmer, Clark etc. I'm pretty confident that I would like Mark as a person if I were to meet him. I'm not so sure about the Legacy guys.

I'm sure I won't like MK as a person. He looks nice but we only know him by what he presents to us in promotion, interviews and concerts. I know from good that he's not an easy person to deal with. Not a diva star, but neither an easy person.

So I rather don't meet him.

I met Phil Palmer and Alan Clark and they were very very nice, and they didn't had to be that nice with a random guy they didn't know at all, but they were and I have great memories of that meeting with them.

Funnily, I saw Palmer the next day at the stairs at the Hall and he said Hi to me again and asked me if I liked the Clapton concert (that's why we were at the Rah). Y could had made as he didn't met me the day before, but he was nice anyway.

Sorry ?

[Jules]

Sorry what?

[Robson]

Mark is more secretive and rather avoids fans. But that does not mean it has to be difficult. If you did not meet him then where can you know what is? Is not available but I just like it Everyone is different

ps. sorry for my english

[PensaGhost]

Sorry what?

are you really judging people from a brief meeting with fans ?

[Jules]

Sorry what?

are you really judging people from a brief meeting with fans ?

No

I'm telling what people I think I dont like to meet by the little I know and who I'm glad I had met even I didn't know anything about them.

[Jules]

Mark is more secretive and rather avoids fans. But that does not mean it has to be difficult. If you did not meet him then where can you know what is? Is not available but I just like it Everyone is different

ps. sorry for my english

I understand what you mean. I don't know MK but I know people who know him and had worked with him and all agree that he's not an easy person. It doesn't mean he's a bad person at all, just that is not easy

As long as I'm a fan I rather avoid having any bad experience trying to spend a while with him that is totally unnecessary for me as a fan.

I don't know if I explain what I mean with accuracy. It's difficult to do such a thing in a language that it's not my mother tongue...

[Robson]

Guy Fletcher has been working with MK for so many years. And so many guests on his CDs. Has anyone mentioned badly about cooperation with MK?

[Masiakasaurus]

Interesting comments about Mark. I agree that I think he likes to distance himself from the lyrics by "portraying characters" and historical events. It often works very well and Mark is a bit of a master at it (as you guys already pointed out). But some of you hate Terminal of Tribute to? That surprised me, I think it's one of his better recent ones  .

BTW, in my feeble attempts at understanding his lyrics, it seems that he sometimes has taken an emotional and "naked" approach as a lyricist. Love over gold and It never rains sound like very personal songs to me, and I happen to think they are probably his best songs. Maybe Why worry as well? I'm sure there are more but these are the ones that popped into my head right now.

Come to think of it, A place where we used to live could mean something to him personally, even if it maybe feels a bit like a general description of a broken relationship. But that could probably be said to almost all of his songs, except for purely historical songs like Sailing to Philadelphia and so on?

[Mossguitar]

MK is not the superstar type of person some of you wish he was, but he really seems like a nice and warm person, both on stage, in interviews and from the stories from the fan meetings. His band seems to like playing with him. He obviously had some personal problems around the On Every Street periode, but that’s history.

[JF]

Guy Fletcher has been working with MK for so many years. And so many guests on his CDs. Has anyone mentioned badly about cooperation with MK?

firsts that came to mind :
Willy Deville
Manu Katché

[JF]

Come to think of it, A place where we used to live could mean something to him personally, even if it maybe feels a bit like a general description of a broken relationship. But that could probably be said to almost all of his songs, except for purely historical songs like Sailing to Philadelphia and so on?

I always thought that "A place where we used to live" was about his childhood, when he says "there used to be a little school", and I think (not 100% sure) he says something like that in the EPK ? 

[Rail King]

Guy Fletcher has been working with MK for so many years. And so many guests on his CDs. Has anyone mentioned badly about cooperation with MK?

firsts that came to mind :
Willy Deville
Manu Katché

Did Willy DeVille say anything negative about Mark? That would be interesting. Where and when?