Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor [Rockpalast -79 ~ HD]

[dissingdarwin]

Wow! Great post... ya gotta love this song. I've played it every year for over 30 years when I drive down our cottage road. What a great guitar song. Best song on their second album. Where are these songs today Mark? Back to basics please. The Stratocaster, compression and a Fender Twin. Bring back the 70's.

[Godza1602]

Pick is GOD!

[MrMigue143]

Only 77580 views? what the fuck listens to the world now?.

[RitaAzevedoEQ]

I'm a girl and I'm in love with him.

[LordChoxy]

Greatest Guitarist EVER

[vtxm]

Single-Handed Sailor is one of the best DS-tracks.

[LadyWritah]

Mark's God.

[Pigs3differentones]

Either this or "Your Latest Trick" is my favorite Dire Straits work.

[hoppa1979a]

DS at their best. Gutsy atmospheric lyrics and music. Pick Withers is fantastic on the drums, too.

[TheSGTNicolai]

Excellent perforance of one of the best bands ever, if not the best! thank you very much for sharing.

[wbravo66]

they seem to be enjoying themselves, pretty much unabashed pure music.

[wbravo66]

On this first album and the second, Mk was never afraid to play the low down notes, rather than high fret board wailing sounds. It enhances the melody, plenty of mid fret board "D chords"

[IhaveaPhDinTV]

and I love Alchemy ...



[IhaveaPhDinTV]

might be the best live show on youtube for the straits!! thanks!



[kjallesoft]

Waiting my turn...today a man from Brussels said to me: I have a house here

in Ostend but I'm going off to Greece. People all think life is eternal, but it isn't.

So I am off! And I tought to myself: another one who realizes that the SCHEADULE of TIME in which we seem to live un-consciously ...it is slipping away from our hands , it has never the more been in, all the time...UNNOTICED.

[mariaortensia1]

Always no plettro.

[MemeNatorius]

Happy Birthday Knopfler!!!!

[ozz85]

The one who dislike have two hands!

[pibrocher]

So much awesome and all without a guitar pick!

[mariaortensia1]

@pibrocher Mark's the best

[5B4Funky]

Knopflers understated, but at the same time very powerful, way of playing the guitar has always struck me as just ..... classy

[Thurzotron]

@5B4Funky That's actually his middle name, Mark Classy Knopfler

[76Solo712]

Mark can't be from planet earth...

[wbravo66]

@76Solo712 No he's an alien, no human can play a guitar like this guy, ever

[jonasjar]

Ja, låter verkligen lik studioversionen, det är nästan not för not i solopartierna. Otroligt ung han ser ut här och på gott humör. Så här tidigt i karriären (och innan de här elefant-arenorna) bör det ha varit ganska roligt att lira med bandet?

[bonus2010wawa]

Chyba najpiękniejsza solówka. Na pewno najsmutniejsza...

[sosmansal]

this time dire straits were as following : mark knopfler ,david knopfler , john illsley and pick withers the drummer

[zakota94]

Soon in the dictionary :

[pleɪ laɪk e nɑ:'flr]

“play like a Knopfler” (expression) : means “play like a god”, thing commonly accepted as impossible for ordinary mortals.

[FrekeOne]

Great guitar sound - nothing else sounds like Knopflers guitar.

[wbravo66]

listen to the studio version and listen to this, all most a perfect match, are they good or am i crazy, this bloke is a guitar genius, let alone his song writing

[play0creole]

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[LADYDEACON]

this song has a nice jazzy touch in it

[Ioulum]

@LADYDEACON yes love it

[powertrust71]

what a dude, a style ove his own..the knopler effect..

[Guitarstring187]

Most underrated bassist! he is really great. Stays to what is needed and plays so thickly and great

[TheBlackWhirlwind]

Love this song, definitely one of the best on the 'Communique' album. Great guitar work, epsecially the last solo/outro.

[b00nz00]

this song is perfect

[LucZamTor]

fuck awesome solo fuck fuck yeah

[angrisanicbfiggs]

I love the look on his face at 4:30 , that distant look. It's like his thinking: "god!, this is so easy, i could do this all day..." best guitarist ever!

[ABEEZY9]

Mark Knopfler - perhaps one of the most underrated guitarists of all time - gotta be my favourite straits tune. Thanks DogSwede!

[MrChanakkale]

.....ci sono state grandi rock band.....

questa è la più originale.....

[lalogreiner]

This song is the definition of cool.

[mikelo79]

great bass lines

[cjellwood]

Mark is the definition of cooooooool (like jazz - yeahhhh)

[MrWballs]

Knopfler is the man!

[lfmodestoyt]

Very nice, great song. Best band ever !

[Haufos]

ahh Mark, I would fell in love with you if I was a girl :)

[DogSwede1]

@Haufos - I have fell in love with Mark, and I'm neither girl or gay.

[SultanKostasMehmet]

@DogSwede1

Well then actually you are gay

[lombavitinho]

@SultanKostasMehmet don't say that! this guy is great, he gave us this very awsome videos, don't be fool

[beerbuddy666]

@DogSwede1

You speak the truth. I also fell in love with Mark and I do love my chunky chicks.

[tlalocyariv]

@Haufos oh our gosh xD

[SoldierOfTheNature]

@Haufos

Just he has more hair

[mariaortensia1]

I grandi gruppi come i Dire Straits, Pink Floyd. The Doors, Bob Marley, Guns n' Roses, Deep Purple ecc, non moriranno mai, le loro canzoni a distanza di anni sono attualissime, bellissime, diamanti rarissimi.

[tolvispelvis]

Bättre än så här blir det inte. Många musikstilar blandade i en och samma grupp.

Att de inte är större och mer omtalade bland folk fattar jag inte. Vad jag menar är att t ex rolling stones vet alla vilka de är, men nämner man Dire Straits för gemene man så vet de knappt vilka de är, kanske om man spelar upp en låt med dom. Som sagt, mer flyt, swing och känsla blir det inte. Bra att laddar upp såna här klipp DogSwede1. 10+

[MitchellAllsop]

Two strats = magic

[ve3kiu]

Lady Wri-tuh

[blastfromtheeast]

a mother and the baby and the college of war

D C Bb .....

[angrisanicbfiggs]

i had to pick my pieces off the floor after the solo!!!!!!!!!! absolutely amazing!

[panchogordo1]

Did anybody else notice that at 0:23 you can hear the intro before but at a very low volume level?

[panchogordo1]

@panchogordo1 TD, for what? I have headphones on and you can really hear the intro at 0:23.

[MiLemonPie]

Yep I heard it, but it might come from the second guitar, I guess

[Jaukebass]

The solo reminds me the one which plays Dave Gilmour in Another Brick in the wall part 2; the sound is quite similar :)

[ninebreaker21]

@Jaukebass Both guitars are Strats... Mark's using a Dimarzio FS-1 (13K ohm singlecoil!) as a neck pickup I believe. I think Gilmour had a Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal in his rack for his Wall sound.

[ABEEZY9]

better than hendrix...yea i said it.

[ABEEZY9]

MARK BABBYYY

[felsner1]

Lady Wri-ter.

[avamposto]

Mark, your guitar speaks!

[70201979]

I believe this song in particular is the best "live" performance I have ever seen. It is actually better than the studio version...especially the ending.

[BillNeilan]

I love the pre-headband Mark Knopfler! He is cool because he doesn't try to be. Plain clothes - no flash--just talent.

[stovlad1]

SERBIA LOVE DIRE STRAITS!

[ibuli51]

AND CROATIA TOO

[61diemai]

Was a different kinda great music back then , ....being a teenager in the late 70's , I saved my pocket money hard to buy the early Dire Straits albums .

Still love them !

[Godza1602]

Great! Amazing! Perfect!

[MrMecena]

yep, really amazing! my fav from the second album! Pick's drum sound is perfect!

[jonasjar]

great tune and cool riff! Communique was a great album and perhaps the best album if you want to study his guitar style without a lot of other sounds in the mix.

[knopflergod]

great knopfler!!!!!!

[calumcrfc]

this is amazinggg dogswede. Dire Straits in HD the best thing thats ever happened to youtube!

[beseeingyou6]

i second that.

[ABEEZY9]

@calumcrfc truest words ever spoke

[DogSwede1]

Great song!