Conference mr1pst::music

    I believe that song is called "Heavy Fuel."  

Yup...

	"Cause if you wanna' run cool, you've got to run...
	on heavy, heavy fuel..."

/c

    I see where they are playing Providence, RI and Hartford, CT around 
    March but have not heard of any Boston area dates. Has anyone else?
    
    Thanks.
    
    - bob

    I saw a ticket agency ad with a March 7 date for the Centrum but
    neither the Centrum box office nor TicketMaster has officially announced
    anything but that date is worth watching for perhaps.
    
    - Bob

    When tickets for the Hartford show went on sale, the show was
    advertised as the area's only appearance. In Harford that usually
    means no Springfield, Worcester or New Haven shows.
    

I heard March 1 at either Boston Garden or Hartford or Providence (I forget
which, but it was one of them), and March 2,3 at the Centrum.

If Hartford tix went on sale, the Centrum can't be far behind (if they play
there).

adam

    A Hartford-based ticket agency advertising in the Boston Phoenix has
    been listing a March 7 date for the Centrum but that date has not been
    confirmed anywhere else (concert lines, Centrum box office, etc.). 
    Hopefully DS will not skip the Boston area.

    March 7 at the Centrum is official. Tix on sale thru TicketMaster.

    
    I'm looking for a couple of tickets if anyone has any.... send me mail.
    
    PHAROS::FANTOZZI
    

    
    
    I went to the show at the Centrum on Saturday night, it was just
    wonderful! Mark was in great form and the band was really cooking!
    It was a great performance!
    
    Mary
    

    I second the last note, although I saw them in Hartford.  
    
    
    The stage and lighting set up was the best I've ever seen, live or on
    TV/tape.  The music was great--they covered just about all the
    favorites you could want, plus a healthy dose of tracks from the new
    CD.  Mark Knopfler (sp) is probably one of the best guitarists in the
    world, and I'm not a guitar fan.  The music actually sounded BETTER
    live than on the CD.
    
    The only gripe I had was that oftentimes, you could not understand what
    he was saying when he spoke into the mike between song (he mumbles a
    bit, I think), and during the songs, the vocals sometimes got a little
    under the music.  Other than that, no bitches, no gripes.  A great
    show.  I'd see them again in a minute.

    Yeah, I thought the band and the sound were really good, too.
    
    I was less than impressed with the Centrum and the crowd, however.  
    I'm new to the area and this was my first time there.  The design of
    the arena where the third-level people use the second-level stairs
    means that the number of people walking across your line of vision
    for beer and potty breaks is doubled.  In addition the second level 
    there under the third level is too brightly lit.  There was no 
    security keeping people from sitting in the aisles...when the aisle
    is clogged up, it takes four times as long for people to get through.
    And lastly, the random wolf howls and whistles and rhythmic clapping
    in the middle of QUIET songs is annoying.  I know that's part of 
    what going to concerts is all about...but the last three concerts I
    went to were all Rush, and the last thing Rush fans do is interfere
    with the music!  
    

    My favorite songs in the concert were in the middle.  The first was
    the one that got some airplay 6 mos (a year?) back, with the tag
    line "I think I love you too much."  M.K. mumbled something about
    writing, not recording this song...but what were the radio stations
    playing?  It sure sounded like D.S. and I had just assumed it was 
    something they did while holed up in England the last few years.
    Where can I get a recording of this song?
    
    I also liked the one they played right after it, a rocker that had 
    the sax player moving around the stage, stopping at each band member
    to play a chorus.  
    

I think he wrote that song for Jeff Healey.  He did it at Knebworth '90 maybe?

Tim

    
    "I Think I Love You To Much" was written by Knopler but is recorded by
    Jeff Healey. Although I believe Knopler plays backup guitar on it.
    It is on the Jeff Healey Band CD, I think, entitled, "See the Light".
    
    Mary
    

    
    re: -.1
    
    	Isn' that "Hell to Pay"?

    
    yes "Hell To Pay."
    

    OK, This is driving me nuts.  There's this quote that's supposedly from
    a Dire Straits song, and I have all their albums, and I don't remember
    ever hearing it!  I first heard it from Carl Sagan a few years back at
    Cornell, now Al Gore is saying it:
    
    	``They don't even admit there's a problem,'' Gore said. Quoting
    lyrics from a Dire Straits song, Gore said: ``Denial ain't just a river
    in Egypt.''
    
    So, is this really from a Dire Straits song, or did Sagan tell Gore
    about this (I know they're friends) and thus has been perpetuating this
    'rumor'?
    
    	Steve

    re -1
    	I wonder if this reply is too late, I have heard I think nearly 
    everything they have recorded (including the original demo of sultans
    as played by Charlie Gillet which they got signed on)and do not
    recall that line in any song,Mark has written two songs with river
    analogy, Water of love and Ride across the river.  So unless there
    is a song out there I dont know about the answer is no.
    P.K.

    RE: .18

    I have heard the line "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" in one of
    their songs and remember chuckling to myself when I heard it.  I have
    a tape of a live Dire Straits concert.  I'll see if I can find the
    song and let you know.

    Kevin

Got this one for Christmas.  Neat CD, in their more mellow moods.  I love
the title song which is why I wanted this one.

Cheryl

    re .20
    
    Have you found where this line is?  It's not on the Alchemy set, is it? 
    That's the only commercial CD I don't yet have...
    
    	Thanks,
    	
    	Steve

The Noteworthy Catalog mentiones a CD by Mark Knopfler and Dave Edmunds called
'The Booze Brothers : Brewers Droop'.

I have never seen this album or read anything about it.

Can anyone tell me what it's like?

Thanks

- Minne

Crossposted in CD and GUITAR 

       Don't bother with the Booze Brothers disk. I'm a fan of Knopfler and
    Edmunds, but this is a real stinker! Neither of them are featured
    vocally, and are not used prominently in the guitar work either. If
    that isn't enough, the sound quality is poor at best!
    
    What a disappointment!
    
    Kevin

    Thanks, Kevin
    
    This saves me a few guilders.
    
    - Minne