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| "New" Old Interview with Vintage Guitar; Richard Talks About How He Became a Guitarist | |
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| suprlinda | Thursday, 5. July 2018, 22:02 Post #1 |
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James's posting of Guy's interview inspired me to see if anything came up about Richard that we hadn't seen before. There was one from the 2006 June issue of Vintage Guitar. He really filled in some of the blanks with information about his career that isn't on his website. I found it really interesting. The link is below. Vintage Guitarist June 2006 :rockon: |
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| qjamesfloyd | Friday, 6. July 2018, 11:55 Post #2 |
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Thanks Linda, that was a great interview, I never knew about him being 15 and playing guitar in Mack Marge's Snack Inn, sounds like he was lucky to get out alive!! It was really interesting to hear how he got together with Mark, I don't think I knew that before, I had assumed Mark knew about Richard, but it seems not, but I guess Richard must have made a very quick impression on him :rockon: And this statement says a lot about the way Richard feels about Mark's abilities: I was getting very frustrated, and in the meantime I had really let my playing take a back seat through 10 years producing records. I was no longer thinking of myself as a guitar player first. So, when the Knopfler thing happened, it made me realize that 1) I wasn’t ready to let go of being a musician, and 2) how completely crappy I had become. I was onstage with one of the great living musicians, who happened to play the same instrument I did, and I was struggling at every turn. It was a very difficult tour for me, but Mark never said boo about it. I did a lot of serious self-examination on that tour, and when it was over I pulled myself up by the bootstraps. For the first time since I was a kid, I seriously began practicing, wanting to improve myself. I had a great role model in Mark, and I hadn’t had one in a long time. All of my role models were dead. All of a sudden, here was a contemporary I looked up to. It was really a reawakening A great quote from Richard to end: On “Money for Nothing,” I play cowbell! |
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"Yeah, me and my mate like ac-dc Hot & sweaty, loud & greasy" Mark Knopfler. | |
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| Stanko | Friday, 6. July 2018, 18:34 Post #3 |
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Yes, great interview! thank you Linda! |
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