Things Have Changed

 He's done pretty well for a guy with no grade point average .    This sweet bastard right here. You probably don’t know his name but y...

One of my favorite pieces of music.  An exquisite and moving song about a love gone awry due to bad timing.  Beautiful melody, lyrics, and m...

 Brian Johnson (AC/DC) and Mark Knopfler are both from the North of England, Newcastle to be specific.  Brian has done a series of interview...

Today marks 38 years since the release of Dire Straits fifth studio album Brothers In Arms, which has sold more than 30 million copies world...

From the second season of Miami Vice, a show I watched very infrequently.  Closing scene of the episode Out Where The Buses Don't Run . ...

 Composed by Mark Knopfler for the movie Cal (1983).

This started out as simply a post of a concert version of Mark Knopfler's Brothers In Arms from the final show of his 2019 tour.  One o...

Read recently that this year marks the 50th anniversary of Zefferelli's movie version of Romeo & Juliet which got me thinking of the...

1970s that is.  A continuation of my post on concerts I attended during the 1970s.  I'm certain I'm forgetting some from this dec...

THC feels like something relaxing right now.  The Mist Covered Mountains , composed by Mark Knopfler for the soundtrack to the movie Local H...

In October 1978 I returned to the U.S. after spending five months in Europe with no job and no place of my own so I was living with friends ...

A few weeks ago THC told you about Fat Bass .  Now's it time for Fat Guitar which occurs when the notes ooze out of the guitar so thi...

No money in our jackets And our jeans are torn Your hands are cold But your lips are warm From Dire Straits .  Saw them play this o...