Granted, Knopfler is a great guitarist. Love his style and he is flawless. The question I have is what qualities make him the best? Speed? Phrasing? You tell me. What I do know is that Richards, Page, Clapton, Hendrix, Trower, Beck, Taylor, Santana, SRV, Gilmore and May,just to name a few, are great in the own right.
shearer9, ummm, yeah, sure. You alright bro'? Maybe it's time for another MRI and EEG....you know, just to make sure. Sometimes after brain surgery.........
I agree man, Knophler ROCKS !!. Last time I was in London he was down playing in the TUBE (I think he was freeforming on that "Money For Nothin'and the Chicks for Free" MTV classic and I just gotta say one thing - his hat was full - almost to the top - with coins !! Obviously a very big hit with the comuters - the Dude Rocks man, underground and most likely, overground too.....
DON'T FORGET THAT MACCA IS THE KING OF KINGS. MACCA IS THE BIGGEST LADIES' MAN IN TOWN. MACCA HAS SCREWED MORE WOMEN THAN BILL WYMAN, MICK JAGGER, JULIO IGLESIAS, TOMMY LEE, GENE SIMMONS AND CASANOVA ALL TOGETHER. YOU WOULD NEED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO COOL DOWN MACCA'S HUGE SEX DRIVE AT OCCASIONS. MACCA IS THE KING OF BASS, GUITAR, DRUMS AND PUTTING UP SHOWS THAT LAST ALMOST 3 HOURS. MACCA PLAYS SMASH HITS FROM THE BEATLES, WINGS AND FROM SOLO PROJECTS. MACCA IS THE KING OF KINGS. BUFFOON SEE!!!!!!! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE A BUFFOOOOOOON NOT TO REALIZE THAT MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL KINGS EVEN GREATER THAN THE KING IN THE LORD OF THR RINGS. BUFFOOOON SEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUFFFOOONNN SEEE!!! MACCA IS THE GREATEST. WHEN MUHAMMAD ALI SAID HE WAS THE GREATEST HE REALLY MEANT THAT MACCA IS THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE.
MACCA IS THE BEATLES, WINGS AND THE MOST ESSENTIAL ARTIST EVER ON THIS PLANET AND ALSO IN OUTER SPACE. MACCA WOULD NEVER HOODWINK NOBODY AND HE'S THE MOST INDISPENSABLE ROCK STAR IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. MACCA NEVER PUT UP A MEDICORE SHOW AND HE ALWAYS PLAYS AT LEAST 2.5 H GIGS WITH OVER THIRTY SONGS. HELTER SKELTER IS THE BEST HEAVY METAL EVER WRITTER BY A BABOON AND DON'T FORGET MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL KINGS. MACCA IS LUBRICIOUS AND THE WOMEN LOVES HIM REAL MUCH. MACCA OUTDID THE STONES AT SUPERBOWL. THE AUDIENCE LOVED MACCA AND HIS BASS AND HIS TIGHT STOMACH AND CUTE ARSE. MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL COFFEE SHOPS OF AMSTERDAM AND HE'D NEVER SAY NO TO WEED, CRACK AND HEROIN. MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL KINGS. MACCA IS BETTER THAN MARK KNOPFLER WHO'D BE CONSIDERED AN AMATEUR COMPARED TO MACCA AND HIS SKILLS AS A GUITARIST.
BUFFFFOOOON SEEEEEE!!!!!! MACCA HAS BEEN AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR AND A NAVY CROSS FOR HIS HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS AS A NAVY SEAL IN COMBAT DURING THE WAR IN IRAQ.
MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL KINGS IN THE WHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE. MACCA IS A BETTER POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN THAN BONO. MACCA IS NOT A GREAT FAN OF JINGOISM. MACCA IS THE KING OF ALL BUFFFOOOON SEEEEE KINGS AND EMPERORS.
Rank Outsider, WHOA... WHOA, is Starbucks having a 20 for one sale? You're gonna pop a blood vessel... Listen, he really rocked on Larry king tonight (and his hair color was a nice nutmeg brown). I must say that the Stones were better at the Superbowl but Macca was better at the Grammy's. I also agree with words 106 to 187 but not sure about 201 to 267. All in ALL It's a Fine Line.....
Hendrix sucked on acoustic? Have you heard Hear My Train A Comin? R U 4 real. Mark Knoplfer is a good guitarist but like Clapton is too correct. He is not Rock n Roll and neither is Clapton. keith is the KING of Rock n Roll guitar and there are many other "technical" players that are just as good as Knoplfer.
And quietly in the corner is Hank Marvin - a lot of great guitar players (Mark Knopfler being one) would say it was Hank that turned them on to playing the guitar in the first place.
get out of here!!!!!!!!!!! dire straits not rock and roll????
DIRE STRAITS PROBABLY ARE THE LAST TRUE ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BROTHERS IN ARMS, ALL OF THEIR ALBUMS ARE AS ROCK AND ROLL AS IT GETS.
FROM SULATNS OF SWING , TO TELEGRAPH ROAD, FROM PRIVATE INVESTIGATION TO LADY WRITER, FROM LION TO TUNNEL OF LOVE....ARE TRUE ROCK AND ROLL SONGS WITH A LITTLE MIX OF PUNK ROCK IN THERE.
MARK KNOPLER GUITAR SKILLS ARE BEYOND COMPARE. IF YOU SAW MARK KNOPLFER AT THE CONCERT FOR MONTSERRAT, HE SMOKED CLAPTON ON SGT PEPPER /THE END SOLO LICKS. IN 1986 DURING THE PRICNE TRUST CONCERT HE SMOKED CLAPTON AND STEVE RAY ON I SAW HER STANDING THEERE ALL STAR PERFORMANCE.
THE GUY CAN IMPROVISE, AND GO EVERYTHING.
HENDRYX KNEW ONLY HOT TO MAKE LOUD NOISE ON THAT STUPID ELECTRIC GUITAR OF HIS....BUT AS FAR PLAYING ACOUSTIC GUITAR, HE SUCKED PENISES. ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR, HENDRIX IS NO BETTER THAN MICK JAGGER.......
A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER MUST PLAY SUPERB ELECTRIC, ACOUSTIC, SPANISH, FOLK, HEAVY METAL GUITAR............
MARK KNOPLER IS SUPERB AT ALL OF THE ABOVE, AND HERE S THE PROOF.
SULTAN OF SWING, LADY WRITER, TELEGRAPH ROAD, MONEY FOR NOTHING, PRIVATE INVESTIGATION, TUNNEL OF LOVE, ROMEO AND JULIET.
all i have to say is that shearer is the true england's captain, and he is the only one that can take england to the promised land.
shearer is the best striker of all time, better than ronaldo, better than vieri, better than totti, better than van nisteroid, better than owen and rooney. he is like fine wine, he gets better with time.
shearer9, listen man , I totally agree. Hendrix just made noise, yes, so very true...and Mark Knoplfer smoked Clapton for sure, yes , yes all true my friend...listen, how did you manage to slip out of your straight jacket? Don't they supervise you guys in the institution? Maybe the Doc needs to take away those Knoplfer CD's and increase the Meds strength - you think so? You and I know what's true but maybe the rest of the slow poke world isn't ready to hear the TRUTH yet, but, you know...I'm with you....Money For Nothing and the Chicks For Free...yeah, that ROCKS....I'm with you shearer9, ALL THE WAY.....
Lets see where Knoplfer would come on any best guitarist list
not in any order
Hendrix Allman Gallagher Clapton Page Richard Thompson Taylor Page Townsend Jansch Nick Drake Stills McLaughlin SRV Carthy Robertson Beck Albert Lee James Burton Clarence White Richards Raitt
I could go on but it would be a long list before Knoplfer would creep onto it.
If you want to talk about acoustic and electric Rory Gallagher would have chewed Knoplfer up and spit out the bits on acoustic or electric.
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i really love dire straits and the splendid solos of marc knopfler.
but we can't say that a guitarist is the best of all time : it's impossible to compare a keith richards to a BBKing to an eric clapton to a mark knopfler !
jseb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > but we can't say that a guitarist is the best of > all time : it's impossible to compare a keith > richards to a BBKing to an eric clapton to a mark > knopfler !
I really like Knopler too. But you must understand Ferrantes' (or Shearers') rules: There is only ONE winner, and the rest is crap. It's like a fight, where it's all about being THE champion. Very black & white.
shearer9 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > all i have to say is that shearer is the true > england's captain, and he is the only one that can > take england to the promised land. > > shearer is the best striker of all time, better > than ronaldo, better than vieri, better than > totti, better than van nisteroid, better than owen > and rooney. he is like fine wine, he gets better > with time.
I did not know that they allowed mental ward patients to have access to computers.............
I hate the Knoplfer song list. I hate the vocals. I hate the lyricism. and I hate the overall production. Romeo and Juliet and the Walk of Life and all that tedious crap. Ugh! Basically dull and shallow pop tunes with good guitar. "Here comes Johnny blah blah blah..." so the @#$%& what!? Sounds more like a merry go round tune than a rock and roll song!
i think you will find that nobody has the goals per game ratio of Ruud Van Nistelrooy,since the days of Jimmy Greaves and Brian Clough in England. and he has done it without playing in games against minor opposition in fa and league cup ties,he is always left out for those type of games.