Dire Straits - Down to the waterline [Dortmund live '80]

Vinyl Revival MOTM Mark Knopfler

There has been a vinyl revival in my house, my collection of many years has been unearthed because I decided to go to the DJ section of Best Buy and purchase a turntable one of the features of this turntable allows one to rip the albums onto the computer, a feature I won't use; the reason for the vinyl revival? My children...it's time that they listen to a whole albeit half of an album, i am tired of a disliked song being changed so easily, what ever happened to an appreciation of the entire record, listening to the whole work from start to finish then maybe a song once ignored finds you in that mellow mood and now sounds fantastic but as demonstrated by my sons, a song that is disliked NEVER has to be listened to, or perhaps learned to appreciate, perhaps it's not about the song but about YOU or ME or HOW WE LISTEN; I am quite fond of my record collection which includes Pink Floyd, The Doors, America, Elton John, The Call, 77's, Rush, Iron Maiden, Rita Coolidge, U2, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Wings, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, David Grisman, Miles Davis, CSNY, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Johnny Cash, ELO, Queen, Whitesnake, Styx, Doc Watson, Willie Nelson, Lita Ford, Patsy Cline, Rollingstones, Def Leppard, Van Halen and others but you get the idea that there is alot of material there and a variety of musicians to appreciate and so I must share and it is my duty as a mother of my sons to share with them the things I love most about music which is so funny because years and years ago I bought my father 'Brothers in Arms'(1985) a record put out by the British rock band Dire Straits and I bought it because 'Walk Of Life' at the time was the song used as a sound bite by some channel's daily or weekly coverage of great moments in MLB games and I can still hear it to this day and so I figured out who it was and bought the cassette tape for my dad but managed to fall in love with Mark Knopfler and commandeered this tape whenever possible and so think of how remarkable it is that all these years later and just announced on this VERY DAY that Mr. Knopfler has, on March 10, 2011, entered once again into the studio to record yet another record and I'll say that not only does he hold my personal title for one of the best moments in guitar solo history, but his confident tidy yet laid back and entirely very sexy style of playing that cherry red strat continues to make me crazy in fact, Dire Straits' first album (1978) and self titled holds another title of one of my top ten favorite albums from stem to stern, and one of my all time favorite songs on the whole entire planet earth 'Down To The Waterline' (the sweetest final note) and my kids now know every song on the album and know when to air guitar the talent of Mark which pleases me and warms me and it's so funny how things with the kids can move a parent or cause a parent to swell with pride and for me, it's in the sharing of my records and the moments I see them recognize the beauty of the notes strung together so elegantly the ones that are transmitted from the grooved vinyl to needle to speaker with a new found technique for dancing that keeps the skip at bay my children will learn about the greatest musicians of all time one at a time and I will see to it.