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DFW

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7. It was!

Reply to CottonBear (Reply #5)

Tue May 14, 2019, 10:16 AM

May 2019

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.

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"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms......" [View all] DFW May 2019 OP

"Brothers In Arms" is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written... ADX May 2019 #1

Brothers in Arms is in my top 5 albums of all time. Kurt V. May 2019 #2

I love Knopfler! I was in high school and was one of the first to be into Dire Straits. brewens May 2019 #3

Brothers in Arms was the very first song Ferrets are Cool May 2019 #4

I saw Dire Straits at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in the early 1980s. CottonBear May 2019 #5

It was! DFW May 2019 #7

I will never hear that song again without thinking of the Americans dewsgirl May 2019 #6