I think Mark just became more of a control freak as time went on.
Terry wasn't 'good enough' to play drums on BIA or OES.
On the McCartney tour I more or less played what I wanted. It was my decision to stay close to the original recordings when we played the songs live.
Going into rehearsals with DS, it felt more like an orchestral rehearsal, with specific parts spelled out and dark looks shot towards you if you played them differently or forgot something.
The grumpy atmosphere of the tour in general wasn't conducive to having a party on stage either.
It was probably a mistake by Mark to commit himself to 1) the tour and 2) such a brutally long tour. I think from the rehearsals onwards he probably realised his mistake and became angry about it all with more than a year still to go.
The BIA tour was peak Dire Straits. Had they followed it up a couple of years later the next tour might have been more celebratory and fun, but DS more or less ceased to exist. Mark and John resurrected it 5 or 6 years later when a lot of the public had already moved on.
