Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler to auction Brothers In Arms guitars - BBC NEWS

[dmg]

Really wish I hadn't clicked on that link.   

Kid wouldn't even have been born when MFN was released.

[dustyvalentino]

I can't believe how laid back and lax security was at Christies! They let seemingly anyone play the guitars, without a strap, balanced on their knee, with the Schecter tele right behind just waiting to be knocked over! 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VxKSb0KJw6M

Yeah, Dusty, it's worse than posting videos of someone killing puppies, you should've at least put it under the spoiler

And doing it in the coat too. At first, I thought it was a fake video, but it's not. Unbelievable. The son of the highest bidder?

I don't think it's even that, if it was then the guy wouldn't be saying that this was something the kid would remember forever.

I kind of wish I'd just pretended I was rich so I could try them all out now!

[JF]

a french fan could hold the Pensa MK1 at the Christie's exhibition. I saw a pic on FB
He just asked and someone form the Christies staff unlocked the guitar from the wall

[quizzaciously]

a french fan could hold the Pensa MK1 at the Christie's exhibition. I saw a pic on FB
He just asked and someone form the Christies staff unlocked the guitar from the wall

Hold is one thing, play it in street clothes in something that looks like a staff room is another level. Either way, this smells shady.

[Pottel]

John Suhr replied to a comment I made on The Gear Page just yesterday!

so what did he say??

[Pottel]

do we by now know of ANY new owner?

[quizzaciously]

do we by now know of ANY new owner?

They obviously too busy playing their new guitars and writing new songs with them

[dustyvalentino]

John Suhr replied to a comment I made on The Gear Page just yesterday!

so what did he say??

Nothing too interesting EXCEPT he revealed that he had bid on the MK1!

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/weird-custom-suhr-pensa-coincidence.2520660/#post-38386764

[JF]

do we by now know of ANY new owner?

They obviously too busy playing their new guitars and writing new songs with them

 

[marki]

Actually, the guy who sat behind me won the MK-1
and the guy on my left got the purple Pensa.
They are real fans and not the 'classic' investors profile. I am sure they will play them (when they arrive...).

[hunter v2.0]

Actually, the guy who sat behind me won the MK-1
and the guy on my left got the purple Pensa.
They are real fans and not the 'classic' investors profile. I am sure they will play them (when they arrive...).

I hope there'll be some video footage of them playing the guitars at some point. Lucky guys.

[Jules]

Actually, the guy who sat behind me won the MK-1
and the guy on my left got the purple Pensa.
They are real fans and not the 'classic' investors profile. I am sure they will play them (when they arrive...).

And how do you know they were real fans?

[marki]

Well, they’ve seen him live many times, know the ‘stuff’, obviously have some money to spend.
Above all, they are different from either ‘pure’ investors who sat there or had their people buying for them.

The majority of the ‘classic’ investors communicated via representatives- either by phone or in person. For example, the Schecters went to the same buyer - who had his 2 persons in the front row.

[quizzaciously]

Well, they’ve seen him live many times, know the ‘stuff’, obviously have some money to spend.
Above all, they are different from either ‘pure’ investors who sat there or had their people buying for them.

The majority of the ‘classic’ investors communicated via representatives- either by phone or in person. For example, the Schecters went to the same buyer - who had his 2 persons in the front row.

Empty expensive homes are something I always associated rich people with. They have so many homes but can live only in one, and all the rest are empty.

If a guy made enough money to buy a £0.5M guitar, he needs to be a musician of Mark Knopfler's level or a complete amateur, there's nothing in between.

So I doubt we'll see any videos, and these guitars being played at all. And you don't need me to know you don't need MK-1 to dabble in MK's music a bit.

[dustyvalentino]

Actually, the guy who sat behind me won the MK-1
and the guy on my left got the purple Pensa.
They are real fans and not the 'classic' investors profile. I am sure they will play them (when they arrive...).

And how do you know they were real fans?

What are “real” fans? According to the Facebook people we are not real fans here because we sometimes say we don’t like MKs work.