Does anybody think the music is good enough that we would have found it if it hadn't been ex DS people doing it?
I'm curious as to where the market is for this stuff. I know they were doing promo in Italy - will the Italians just by anything DS related?!
I always ask myself the same about MK solo records... Would I had bought and even listen more than once, let's say, Tracker, if it was a record of another artist that wasn't the voice, guitar and composer of Dire Straits?
I know the answer...
Yes, i would.
MK has been making solo albums for more than 20 years. They have all (except one) made the UK top ten.
His solo tours are still very popular, with some shows selling out more than 10,000... DESPITE the fact that there is little to no DS content anymore.
MK's solo work stands on it's own two feet, he's doing just fine without the Legacy guys, despite their protestation that they were responsible for the success of DS...
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Yes, of course MK is still selling CDs and tickets very well, of course. Because of Dire Straits.
Most of the people that still buy his records and tickets were DS fans.
Now, delete all DS history, the DS past, like if MK would be an artist that starts from zero, would he sell so much records and tickets with just his solo material behind him?
Maybe on the UK he would sell well and probably will fill theaters, but without the legion of DS fans still following, deleting all the DS past, he won't fill the O2 arena, maybe the RAH either.
Me, I'm sure I won't know MK if it wasn't by DS. With his DS past, the last single from him I listened in the Spanish radio was Why Aye Man, and it catched my attention because it was the man behind DS, my favourite band. Without his past that made me a fan, I probably had ignore that song, I would had thought it was nice, but it won't had worked to make me a fan.
And that was 15 years ago. Since then, I never heard any news in the Spanish radio about any new single, and that's with his DS past. I manage to know about what he does as a solo artist because I follow him for his DS past. Without that DS past, I wouldn't know he's doing records or tour, unless someone mentione about him, and still I'm not sure if a record like "tracker" would catch me to be a fan for itself, if it wasn't made by the DS man but by someone without that DS past behind him.
Legacy is not going to be famous because they probably won't get much radio play, but I'm sure if I listen to Jesus Street at the radio it will catch my attention. Probably I won't be a fan but, maybe it will work to make me listen to the whole record and like it, as I do, and I'll probably like it anyway if it wasn't by Alan Clark past, as it sounds to me like Toto music, and I'm a toto fan too, so if it wasn't by Alan Clark from DS, Jesus Street would had caught my attention anyway, and I also had liked their cd.
