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| Hi Qjames And All; How I was introduced to Dire Straits | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sunday, 30. May 2004, 21:00 (160 Views) | |
| Jammer | Sunday, 30. May 2004, 21:00 Post #1 |
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Hello. I was introduced to this forum by qjamesfloyd from the Mike Oldfield community forum at tubular.net I have been a fan of Dire Straits since I was 4 years old! I am now 20 Being a fan since that age they must have been the very first band I listened to properly when my Dad decided to get a tape of their 'Money for Nothing' compilation album. A year later, one of my Dad's friends was willing to part with a good number of Dire Straits albums since he had too many records in his collection and was moving. I think I was generously given the debut album, 'Communique', 'Making Movies' and 'Brothers In Arms' from him At the age of 6 I think, I bought 'Love Over Gold' from a second-hand record fair. We didn't have a CD player back then! By this time I had got into more bands and genres of music and my interest with Dire Straits was fading. Interestingly though, I was never into pop music of the time or anything typical of the 80s We got a CD player finally in 1991. My Dad bought me 'On Every Street' near to the time of its release. This was the second CD that I own From about 1999 I listened again to Dire Straits. I can't remember having a great interest in the music too much. At this time too I bought Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield which leads me to where I am now - the Mike Oldfield community. An avid interest in his music has encouraged me to take up the guitar (I am a music student at university and am a classically trained pianist and percussionist too). With an interest in the guitar again I think I will be able to like Dire Straits from a different perspective after some 15 years when I was last a proper fan of theirs! So, what have I missed? |
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| Flame-Sky Diver | Sunday, 30. May 2004, 21:07 Post #2 |
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Hi Jammer and welcome to the forum! |
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| Jammer | Sunday, 30. May 2004, 21:17 Post #3 |
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I forget the Alchemy concert! I have the double cassette album and the VHS video of it - incidentally that must have been one of the first commercial videos we bought too. I see that OES was their last album as a band. That means I've got their studio discography |
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| Deleted User | Sunday, 30. May 2004, 22:54 Post #4 |
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Welcome to the place Jammer. If you're up to date with OES then I guess you didn't miss much. I have to ask you this. Are you interested in Mark's solo stuff? You say you first started listening to DS when you were four!! Wow...just wow! :D |
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| qjamesfloyd | Monday, 31. May 2004, 10:37 Post #5 |
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Hi Jammer,i'm glad you took my advice ;) good to see you. That is cool that you started listening so young,and the fact you listen to Mike Oldfield too,means you have a good ear my friend.it's good that your learning the guitar,there is a lot to learn from MK in both guitar and composing terms,you really should get the solo albums too. |
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| Syd | Thursday, 3. June 2004, 13:09 Post #6 |
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Welcome to the forum :) |
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| seamusz | Thursday, 3. June 2004, 21:38 Post #7 |
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Welcome. |
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| ATTMO | Friday, 4. June 2004, 15:48 Post #8 |
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although "telegraph road" is my absolute favourite in general i really like his solo stuff. IMHO Sailing to Philadelphia is really good (nice instrumental half of speedway at nazareth, too) |
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