Dire Straits - Telegraph Road -conclusion

[AECEntertainment]

At 2:38 we see a guitarist playing the theme from a railway programme but which one

[MrBigrobmjca3]

If I ever went to Detroit I would want to drive up there in a Chevy and not fly so I could drive down the legendary Telegraph Road.

[RooForce]

The best guitar solo in the history of rock, although 'solo' is probably not the correct term, considering the great drum and bass support.

[Dualshock21]

Yeah!!

[mehrtash20]

he is soltan

[numberwang2020]

in my top 3 best songs of all time.. if i was on a desert island locked away and i could play just one it would this this...rather than american pie

[totalstation]

@numberwang2020 . I Actually grew in a Desert Peninsula off the Sahara (The City of Nouadhibou in West Afrca) and we used to listen to this song a lot while the longest train in the world would come by every evening. We couldn't undertand a word. Music is true a universal language and this song is my favorite of all time.

[numberwang2020]

in my top 3 best songs of all time.. if i was on a desert island locked away and i could play just one it would this this

[ttrelph]

they say, when you do a lead guitar solo, its all about telling a story, this is the greatest story ive ever heard.

[TheGuitarjerry1126]

One of his best and mellowist songs!! Nice upload. ~ Jerry

[TiuArTTeK]

everybody OK , telegraph starting

[snookie60100]

Dear esseaindanaotinha ( ouf ) i don't know how to interprete your answer about my comment ( maybe because i'm french ). Anyway i don't consume substitutes from dreams but i can recognize good music and good videos whenever i can watch and ear one - Have a nice day my friend

[snookie60100]

Makes feel high everytime i listen to it - thanks for having introduced a touch of Nostalgy with those gorgious transcontinental carriers

Jean-Paul

[TheMkamix]

One of the best bands ever.. enough said.

[1982biker]

best music ever!!!

greetings from germany

[ppromykk]

Awesome video! Great song :)

Greetings from Poland :)

[zetawxy]

great sound

[telsport]

Mighty,

Tom Loughlin Jr, grandson of HD Cheek, Chief Dispatcher, Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad, Erwin Tn.

[olde4eyes]

Dear Sir,

I greatly appreciated the up load of Dire Straits' Telegraph Road (part 2); especially those nice images of trains naver seem to bore me (when i'm not busy playing 'air-guitar' lol).

I would like to thank you for this wonderful way of spending some pastime and, as the occasion occurs, ask you for a favour if i may:

Could you please help me with finding the predecessing part 1, as i then could double my pleasure listening and watching your videos.

Kind regards

ole

[olde4eyes]

Dear Sir,

I greatly appreciated the up load of Dire Straits' Telegraph Road (part 2); esp[ecially those nice images of trains naver seem to bore me (when i'm not busy playing 'air-guitar' lol).

I would like to thank you for this wonderful way of spending some pastime and, as the occasion occurs, ask you for a favour if i may:

Could you please help me with finding the predecessing part 1, as i then could double my pleasure listening and watching your videos.

Kind regards

ole

[jonnymac060]

Training for my third marathon at age 54 and use this song for inspiration when running the long roads with their telegraph poles and wires connecting them.

[gnomely1]

It just never seems to age at all this piece of work. I can't recall another one like it for style and content. The piano player is an unsung hero too. This will go on to entertain people well into this century as there doesn't appear to be anything coming along to replace it. Love and peace to all fellow fans.

[chris22253]

the melody of the song blends so nice with the video...really amazing work..inspired me  a lot...and of course...thanks a lot mark for creating such beautifull music!!!

[Juustokauppias]

I adore this solo. I listen a lot of music from the 60's, 70's and 80's that have great solos (one favorite from Lynyrd Skynyrd, and everyone knows witch song), but this one is at the top of my list. It's not in-your-face kind of solo, it slowly builds up into this amazing jamming full of passion, just love it.

[ciugu]

great video mate and the song ... always gives me goose bumps ! Love it ! :)

[PLACEBONO1]

the very best track..thx to uploader :)

[patopititruchafario]

Son los mejores..........

[patopititruchafario]

Son los mejores....

[VOLVORULEZ1995]

im 15 and like this song!

[DasKnitsch]

I LOVE IT!!!!!!! =D

[laphant]

i like this vud thanks..

[azapro911]

People can say what they like about this guitar solo on the live versions - and I'll admit, the one from the aLCHEMY '82 tour is BRILLIANT! - but for me, the studio version is the best of the lot. And this video proves it.

[narbaleth]

Awesome and stunning !

[rangertsj]

eines der schönsten songs seid der dmm lp ^^ und fazieniert seit den anfang 80er`n ^^

[bfnputz]

@rangertsj Yeah, what he said.

[rangertsj]

eines der schönsten songs seid der dmm lp ^^ und fazieniert seit den anfang 80er`n ^^

[LoyalRaiderFan]

Amazing how i keep coming back to this...one of the finest musical pieces in rock n roll history. A hidden, overshadowed gem. The guitar itself tells a story better than words could.

[hyadum]

Man, I love your video. Somehow, you captured the very essence of this song with all those images.

Telegraph Road is Telegraph Road. Not an ordinary song.

[usmcsniper45]

man your exactly right,i love this song...simpleally the BEST M.K. is a guitar god..

[phobiaxis]

This is just crap. It doesn't say a thing about America in the 1900th centrury. Detroit is the place, not som Californian, Hollywoodian crap. Do it again, do it right.

[machinecheck]

Eh? And here I was figuring it was about the music, didn't even watch the video :D But I guess you've got a point mate.

[sidensvans67]

Glimrende.. Helt Fantastiske

[Apdelagasindelans]

no puedo describir con palabras lo q provoca esta `parte en mi

[lynx1985]

yo tampoco...

[usmcsniper45]

GUITAR PAWNED...by Mark Knoppfler

 this guy is fonomonal with a guitar...

[pwnager11]

nice clips dude, u did a great job... and the one of the best solos i've seen

[ppickup54]

awesome video thanks one of the best songs ever

[cog7085]

rihgt outside of dc in va

[sevenheadeddragon]

this clip fits perfectly

[stroketheboat]

There is a really high pitch eletronic key tone playing all the way through this song that seems to hold it together massively

[JIMMYJIBLETS]

@stroketheboat

I noticed that to. it gives it a very wide open, ethereal kind of sound. makes it sound really, really big. best outro to any song in history imo

[fridwoow]

yeah defenetly.. somehow it sounds really pure and classic... and he builds it up so perfect.. i really wonder how this song was born... i would love to hear the first recording of it but i cant find it anywhere

[jwilson07]

As I run every red light on memory lane...Man, Mark is a true genius.

[sidh05]

The Telegraph Road is in fact the US Highway 24 of 129 km length in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, from Erie to Clarkston. Knopfler went on a bus trip on it.

[MrNotbadyou]

Mark Knopfler, guitar god...no, musical god. Exactly how he will be remembered on the awful day he leaves this Earth, which I hope isn't for a long, long time.

Telegraph Road owns.

[Pkr]

Fantastic.... I want more...

[deansusky]

Mark so great so pure instrumental and much more he is and was greatest such a pure song and from a great album just get into it and it will light few bulbs in ur head

[RooForce]

Best guitar solo ever, made even better by some fabulous backing. Thanks.

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Love the video - the energy is great!

Thank you, for posting this!

[trichoone]

thanks again roses you are realy getting through my library now .

[Predator3400]

i thought fraps is only for recording games.....

[kylek121]

I live literally 500 feet from Telegraph Road, the road that this song was based on (look it up on wikipedia). I never even knew about this song until i googled "songs about detroit" and this came up. GREAT SONG and ia have a connection to it!! Lol

[trichoone]

thanks its always interesting getting comments like yours .

[kylek121]

Thanks, nice video by the way

[AAngusD]

yeahman, wer really happy for you, dont do nothin daft on railway tracks now, take care dude

[dergrossen]

Yep...4000 miles away here in the UK I have my own "telegraph road"...bet we all do all over the world

[MrIceman001]

Great man, thanks for this video!

[August079]

Um dos sons mais intensos do Dire Straits. O conteúdo deste som se enquadra na história de qualquer grande cidade. Junto a ela existem as esperanças dos que as construiram... o preto e branco das imagens (isso poderia ser explorado - 'The Grapes of Wrath' é um ótimo exemplo que retrataria isso), o sincronismo das comunicações no solo final... cada parte da música pode retratar como um filme esses acontecimentos simultâneos. Todavia, excelente trabalho! : )

[kunszabomarton]

Exactly, addicting!

[Lambrechtsen]

Funny how this is recorded a little too fast, exactly how I recorded it, it sounds familiar.

[kazimierzskrobis]

to jest poprostu genialne!!!!!!!!! od 1979 roku slucham Dire Straits ,,,fantastyczna muzyka !!! pozdrawiam wszystkich !!!

[willoke8]

This song. 1982

[doriarama]

the best electric guitar solo ever !!!!!

no one has a flowing guitar like knopfler

[JIMMYJIBLETS]

does anyone else think it sounds even more brilliant in this vid because the pitch is a little bit higher than it is on the album? i like it better like this. to the creator of this video, would it be possible for you to upload or send me a copy of this song with the pitch put up a little just how it is in this video?

[willoke8]

Yeah!

I've got a bit of a thing for that. I like listening to songs in different keys

[iritos23]

solo just flows perfectly! addicting!

[humdidoadi]

fantastic!!!

[JIMMYJIBLETS]

knopflers solo is a masterpiece. this solo has more "howl" than any other guitar i can think of

[mancsmoveseast]

Brilliant images.brill sound track!!!!!!!!!

[ALLscaledUP]

I want to quit my feeble efforts at guitar; and work at being a train driver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[brianhourigan]

I know I stated this on one of the live performance videos but this song reminds me of my time in New York, I don't know why but anytime I hear Dire Straits my mind drifts off to the big apple and this song reminds me of it for some reason

[dLimboStick]

Back in the 80's I was stationed overseas and was able to put together an incredible high end stereo...Yamaha M80 amp, Denon DP62 turntable, dBx compander...it was beautiful. Well, I was also able to buy a virgin vinyl pressing of this album (not available in the USA), and I'd crank it on the 250W per channel Yammy amp. HEAVEN!!! This entire Love Over Gold album is a masterpiece.

[Vickithesmoke]

AB FAB - greatest guitar solo ever!

[RooForce]

The greatest guitar solo in the history of rock. And I don't say that lightly.

[kotarak1]

@RooForce Maybe only Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb second solo equals this....

[SeaAnglerExtreme]

Good ENGLISH Rock Music!!

[localhero635]

Great song!Great video!

[rudhouse1]

you like trains ? then check this video out here on youtube : "Jiskefet - Treinengek" LOL

[LoyalRaiderFan]

One of the finest pieces of music i've ever heard. "Telegraph Road" is Dire Straits at their very best.

[Luknopfler83]

Really nice video... and what to say about the music? Just love it... :)

[tonymink2004]

what a great guitar solo! Mark rules yeah!

[claronce]

phar lap what a fucking good film that was

[nhilist99]

hope no-one gets confused and thinks the Maori and New Zealand sheep have anything to do with the next cut which is 'The Ghan" across Australia. Trivial, I know, but us Aussie's may get offended - we only sometimes claim Russell Crowe and Phar Lap.

[twohandtap]

And video is great. The theme with the train fits so perfect to the song 5*

[1DENALI1]

I like the train theme. I bought this album in Berlin the day it came out. At the time, I was traveling around Europe by rail, so the theme of the video brings back memories. The solo: effortless genius.....

[RooForce]

Some rate Lynyrd Skynyd's "Free Bird" solo as the best, and I respect that, but to me nothing beats this. The slow, quiet start to the song, building up to this soaring finale (like a free bird?) puts it at the top of my list. Many thanks for posting.

[SamborRayVaughn]

Lets nit forget the driving bass lines and the continual keyboard licks and awsome drumming

[kaputol]

Great!!!!!!

[nhilist99]

Can I join the suckfest - I'm a huge metal/punk/blues fan but still rate this as best eva guitar solo. Maybe will never be bettered. Put this shit on GH3 and release it to a new generation.

[Chikh8]

Thank you so much! Trichoon.

[Chikh8]

Great great song! And very good video! Big thanks!

[trichoone]

you are welcome my friend .

[hrdrockindude]

I've listened to a lot of guitar, and I think these are some of the cleanest, most fantastic, original licks ever laid down. Awesome. I enjoy it more every time I listen to it. It's no wonder most of the postings are of the last five minutes of Telegraph Road. Classic rock, to be sure.

[mbrillson]

Time and time again, when I hear this solo, my heart rate climbs, I can't sit still, and I wonder whether anyone in the whole wide loves this as much as I do. I guess they do.

[twohandtap]

@mbrillson

I do mate, I do. And I guess many many thousands more. I know exactly what you mean. I will never forget the ecstasy I came into when I heard Mark playing this live. I cant fully describe the emotion. Really I cant..

[smashface123]

simply brilliant.

he played this at the end of his 2008 gig at the nec, 15 minutes of pure ecstacy

[Fastwunz]

simply epic. ove been listening this since the days in my dads vauxhaul Cavalier driving through france on our way to our holiday caravan. simply sublime. One of the greatest and most provoking solos ever written.

[benke02]

must be the best solo ever !!!

[deshantor]

Wish he made one more ambitious project like this album now. Just imagine, how it would sound. Ballistic; piercing through your heart's every corner like never before, comes to mind.

I strongly believe: If he really wanted to, he could write another 10 or 15 super hit singles "easily" that'll blow the charts away. I believe he has mastered that "ability". But,

his priorities have changed. Got a solution. Why not make half the album his way and the other half the fan's way [yeah, I wish].

[deshantor]

What can I say. Well, let's try, anyway

Divine intervention

Obsession [Oh yeah, most definitely]

Intense

This is what I call high "Ambition"

"Dare", to dwell and explore, avenues

Munching

Tapestry

These are the words I hear when I listen to this piece. Of course, that's just my take. Sure, it will be different with others.

[Houdu1984]

Who's the train freak? Well, that would be me! Kool add to one of my favorite songs and, of course, the studio orign of a legendary concert guitar solo. I wil pay for the whole concert when I get a chance just to hear this 4 minutes. I diagree with Snorkfort... I need that last 1:44 to come down from the peak.

[JimShadyUK]

I just realised that if someone asked me what this solo meant to me, I could talk non-stop about it for at least half an hour, punctuated by jumping up and down, bizarre hand gestures, air guitaring, shaking the person I was talking to and screaming "LISTEN! JUST LISTEN TO IT!" - and I still wouldn't even get close. The most unbelieveable song from a perfect album.

How can life be bad when music like this exists?

[trichoone]

you are right i couldn't imagine life without music .

[LoyalRaiderFan]

beautifully put. that's precisely what this piece does for me...

[daveeeed]

interesting about how mark apparently mentioned his excessive use of extended songs. But this song warrants it. i love also for example when it rains. the song starts and ends a different song, well cool

[sp42]

trippy

[sobeAdam]

Favourite part of my favourite song from my favourite band. The footage also goes really well with the song, too.

[trichoone]

thanks glad you like it .

[narbaleth]

you're simply right my friend, simply right !

hi from France.

[snorkfort]

This is a great solo. But it should have ended at about 3:00 here, with a fadeout. The rest is just filler. Kind of spoils the song. In interviews, Mark sometimes regretted his excesses on the albums. Now he saves it for the concerts.

[SGA07]

One of the best songs ever made..

[frradag]

Cancion bella, un toque de guitarra magico.

un placer para el oido

[RooForce]

For mine, the greatest guitar solo in rock.  Thanks.

[SGA07]

One of the best songs ever made...

[kazimann]

Savage song. That solo is up there with Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird' .

[morgrp]

WHAT A SONG!! - My fave song from my fave band - Footage really suits the song - top work!

[trichoone]

thanks my friend .

[ekrium]

The real song is 14 minutes

[trichoone]

yes i know that might put it all up one day .

[CasedImage]

Nice montage of a two track fix...

[hollandshoop]

It's pitched up a little , half a tone, i notice

[tnauman]

It is a pretty nice clip there. 10x!

[trichoone]

Thanks , great music too Dire Straits were a bit special with Mark Knopfler giving them class with his own unique style .

[B0zz3]

Nice!

[trichoone]

thanks B0zz3 i notice you are a great fan of Dire Straits .

[Vner]

thank you trichoone!!

[trichoone]

Glad you like it .

[trichoone]

Thanks .