"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms......"

[DFW]

We just got back from the Mark Knopfler concert in Köln (Cologne).

This man is one of the most musical people I have ever heard of. His melodious songs are of great variety and depth. A couple of years ago, he saw two folk musicians using Celtic instruments in some folk band and asked them to join him. They are still with him.

He did a few numbers from the Sailing to Philadelphia album (not the opening What It Is), Romeo and Juliet, Paraguay, a few later numbers, finishing up with the song (I forget the name) about the racing car circuit from the Sailing to Philadelphia album.

The crowd was roaring for more, so he came out for an encore, and did the obligatory Money For Nothing, and to calm us down, finished up with Brothers in Arms. As this STILL didn't quiet the crowd down, he then did his instrumental number the "Local Hero Wild" theme.

The guy is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and I don't know of a more creative musical mind currently performing. We had reserved this concert in 2018, and it was sold out almost as soon as it was announced.

[ADX]

1. "Brothers In Arms" is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written...

...and Mark Knopfler is indeed a brilliant guitarist/musician...

[Kurt V.]

2. Brothers in Arms is in my top 5 albums of all time.

[brewens]

3. I love Knopfler! I was in high school and was one of the first to be into Dire Straits.

I bought their second album, Communique, right when it cam out. We'd all only heard Sultans of Swing off that first album up to that point. No one I knew had that first album either until I got it soon after. I bought everything he ever put out up to a few years ago.

I never thought I'd get to see Dire Straits. The closest they ever came was about 400 miles and before I had much money. Knopfler even said he wasn't that much into touring. Then he had a complete change of heart and released the On Every Street album and toured accordingly. The played 35 miles from me! It was funny though. Two weeks before Garth Brooks tickets went on sale and there was a line halfway around the block the night before at our ticket outlet. I showed up at the buttcrack of dawn to get my Dire Straits tickets and there were like three people in line! Okay, so Garth was the big deal back then, but still!

That show was in Pullman Washington at Washington State University. It was a great show! I'd seen their rhythm guitar player before there, I didn't know that but he said he was with Clapton and I had seen that show.

The only disappointment from Knopfler for me is that Dire Straits Live at Wembley Stadium DVD. He may have been sick or something. Not a great performance at all compared to what I saw or any live recordings I ever heard.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Brothers in Arms was the very first song

I ever heard in 5.1. It then became a staple in my theater room. I love that song. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[CottonBear]

5. I saw Dire Straits at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in the early 1980s.

It was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.

The Fox is an awesome venue, which only made the concert more special.
(I saw the Grateful Dead there too!)

Thanks for the concert update! It sounds like it was amazing.

[DFW]

7. It was!

Knopfler never disappoints, and he brings first class musicians with him every time.

Even he is getting older, and that motorcycle accident he had a couple of years ago didn't help. He now wears thick glasses, gets a high stool to sit on so he doesn't have to stand the whole time, and his voice is losing some of its range (don't I know how THAT works!). But DAMN he writes great music and plays guitar like he was born with one attached in utero.

[dewsgirl]

6. I will never hear that song again without thinking of the Americans

Finale.