It was absolutely an outside, rebel thing to do.”Mark, who spent a few years working as a journalist for the “I spent a lot of time on his floor until he couldn’t stand it anymore and kind of advised me I needed to get my own place,” David said.

“Mark was going to make a career for himself no matter what…I wasn’t ready to just bend over…bullying me was not something that Mark was unused to.”“I was emotionally fragile, after too much drinking, too many drugs, too many late nights, too many shows, not a minute to reflect,” he said. Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). We also performed at a local festival as a duo.”“Mark was also playing electric guitar with a covers band called The Café Racers and I also did one show with them. They’ll ask for Roger’s passport and it will come back stamped and he won’t have to think about it, but for bands that tour at the level that I do…it becomes a bit touch and go about how difficult it’s going to be.”These days, he doesn’t keep too many tabs on his former bandmates, though he does note that he would play with Mark again, given the opportunity.“It would be a pain in the ass socially, but it would be wonderful to do musically,” he said.

David, younger by four years, was forbidden from playing it but would sneak it out when Mark left the house. We recorded a few tracks there and then I brought those recordings all back to my own studio to work on further. “I was used to being on the outside looking in… The last thing I was used to was talking in the first tense all the time, being encouraged to be as narcissistic as possible. It costs thousands of euros in pre-production costs to tour the US – if the same thing happens to the UK/EU relationship – touring will get very difficult for all but the largest stadium bands like the Who,” David added.“There’s a duality at play. Tonträger. I thought that if I could introduce Mark to John and they hit it off – and if a drummer could be found, we’d have ourselves a better band and John would ditch the other band… and that’s exactly what happened.

David played Mark “The spontaneity had gone out of it, we were really performing the same parts with the same gestures, and the smiles were getting more and more forced…it had gotten really artificial,” said David.

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