{"id":29714,"date":"2015-01-20T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:13:37","slug":"mark-knopfler-on-twenty-musical-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/mark-knopfler-on-twenty-musical-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Knopfler on twenty musical milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/20-mark-knopfler-milestones-mark\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Knopfler<\/a> talks to Paul Sexton about some significant way markers in his life and career:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>2. On how his love of guitars developed as a boy:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI knew what the Fender catalogue smelt like, what the grain of paper was like, I wanted this thing so badly. I was always in trouble at school. I would be making metallic noises at the back of the class and playing \u2018Wipeout\u2019 runs on my desktop\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. On his first guitar, a twin pick-up H\u00f6fner V2:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI managed to get my dad to buy that, bless him. It cost him 50 quid, which was a big stretch for him. I didn\u2019t have the nerve then to ask him for an amplifier, so I used to borrow friends\u2019 acoustic guitars. Looking back, they were pretty bad, pretty often, but I learned to play on them\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. On teaching himself to play:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI learned to fingerpick on acoustic guitars, and playing with a flat pick on the electric, so I had that sort of dual education. Being self-taught, you can really go off in the wrong direction for years. It\u2019s a guitar teacher\u2019s nightmare\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. On playing the old Dire Straits hits:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cPeople will always want you to play songs from the songbook, that\u2019s part of what you\u2019re doing playing live. You\u2019ve got to please yourself, but at the same time it\u2019s a celebration. You\u2019re all there to have a good time together. I enjoyed writing the songs, I enjoyed recording them so I\u2019m going to enjoy playing them. If I get up there and play \u2018Romeo &#038; Juliet\u2019 or \u2018Brothers In Arms,\u2019 it\u2019s because I want to play them. It\u2019s important to me that it\u2019s important to people, that you\u2019ve created milestones in people\u2019s lives\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Knopfler talks to Paul Sexton about some significant way markers in his life and career: 2. On how his love of guitars developed as a boy: \u201cI knew what the Fender catalogue smelt like, what the grain of paper was like, I wanted this thing so badly. I was always in trouble at school. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1209,200],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-direstraits","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Jg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29715,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions\/29715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}