Dire Straits Live ORIG OZ 2LP Alchemy NM ’84 Vertigo 8182431 Pop Rock Blues
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Dire Straits Live ORIG OZ 2LP Alchemy NM ’84 Vertigo 8182431 Pop Rock Blues
Dire straits
Alchemy: Dire straits liveOriginal OZ 2LP released in 1984 on Vertigo Records. Cat: 8182431. This album has a gatefold sleeve.
There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler's muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as "Sultans of Swing" or "Solid Rock," they are in ecstasy. That Dire Straits' introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. Alan Clark's keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler's spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that's exactly how the crowd likes it.
Tracks: Once upon a time in the west/ Romeo and Juliet/ Expresso love/ Private investigations/ Sultans of swing/ Two young lovers/ Tunnel of love/ Telegraph road/ Solid rock/ Going home - Theme from Local hero.
Records and cover are in Near Mint condition.
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