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If there is no college football this could turn out well.

I love the music from Local Hero.

Love Knopfler and find to him to be surprisingly underrated. He is known for the famous DS stuff which certainly prove his chops but I feel his best work, or at least a lot of it, is post DS and not that well known. His style has a great amount of depth. To add some names I haven't seen yet I'll go with B.B. King, J.J. Cale and Chet Atkins.

I like the Steve Winwood choice. A long and underrated career and he seems like a nice guy. I have a musician on mine who I consider to be the best combination of composer, guitarist, producer and writer music has seen in the modern era and a very well read guy. My would be top choice seemed like one of the nicest people ever and was at the top of his craft. Tony Gwynn. I would have loved to have met him. 1) Ted Kascynski's brother 2) Marv Levy 3) Mark Knopfler 4) Dave Chapelle 5) I guess I'll leave an empty seat for Tony There are a lot of others that I might pick at any given time but Knopfler would be on it for sure and Gwynn would have been.

There's smoke and flames behind me where the self respect all went And I'm behind behind with the rent

The guy is an absolute genius and has written hundreds of great lines. A phrase Now hold your head up, Mason See America lies there The morning tide has raised The capes of Delaware Come up and feel the sun A new morning is begun Another day will make it clear Why your stars should guide us here Another Well, if we go to heaven, and some say we don't But if there's a reckoning day Please God, I'll see You and maybe I won't I've a bag packed to go either way Keeping to just one line 'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane

From Dire Straits Making Movies either songs 1 and 2 or songs 2 and 3. They are 1. Tunnel of Love 2. Romeo and Juliet 3. Skateaway The videos are very 80's.

I loved season 6 and am glad there is one more. Mark Konpfler is my favorite musician and I was blown away when the last song played. It fit so well. It was a nice surprise in a show that does everything right.

I loved Ozark and Bosch. Anything else like those anyone can recommend? I thought Bosch was almost perfect and then they played Knopfler at the end and I realized there was no almost involved.

I'll add three. (Two are from the same album)

This clip shows it happening at 1:10

A little music and history. The song can be found on Youtube and James Taylor sings in the original.

Merry Christmas everyone. I thought it a good time of year to share inspirational or meaningful lyrics from songs we enjoy. There are a lot that hit me from time to time. The one below can be interpreted as religious or not, but either way, I think it is pretty on the mark. Please share yours if you'd like. - Genius Mark Knopfler summing up the meaning of life in 10 words

As a San Diego Padres fan (ouch) I usually have to dig for a reason to root in the World Series. This year I thought there was a lot to like about both teams and very little to dislike. I decided to root for the Nets, and Strasburg in particular because there was a connection to the Padres. It was my all time favorite player, Tony Gwynn. I recently found this article on his relationship with Strasburg. It is definitely worth the read. I thought the series was great. I was very impressed with several players and their approach. I guess the top ones for me were Strasburg, Greinke ,Rendon, Eaton, Springer, Urquidy and more (not Fernando Rodney). As much as I dislike the all power hitting-all power pitching that has taken baseball by storm, I thought this series had elements of how to beat that. I found two little parts of game 7 very interesting. Early in the game I noticed Greinke shake off his catcher twice just before getting a big out on the next pitch. I can't remember if it was the double play or a K. That told me he's have a good game, which he did. He was very calm. Although I'm sure it must have happened I didn't notice him shaking off the catcher again until he was 2-0 on Rendon in the 7th. They seemed locked in and I thought the shake off was weird. The next pitch was a home run. Rendon was so good the whole series I wonder if he had the pitch figured out because of the shake offs.

I saw him in Connecticut a couple weeks back. I've seen him three times and always hope it won't be the last. His post Dire Straits work is incredible. Check it all out if you haven't. He has a few songs he plays at almost every show but he always throws in some older ones too. Once Upon a Time in the West, Done with Bonaparte, and Heart Full of Holes were nice surprises this time through. I think this tour might be it for him. He's 70 and the last show on the tour is at the Garden with Bonnie Raitt. It's 3 times as big as the other arenas he is playing.

Mark Knopfler is a legitimate composer which can be seen not just in his work on albums but also on soundtracks he scored. A lot of his music is very complex. I'm not sure who composed Close to the Edge by Yes but whoever did is also damn good.

This seems to have turned into a craziest golf shots thread which is good for me since I am short on great ones. My craziest was also my first Eagle. I hit a good drive and a decent approach that was even with the hole but faded just off the right side of the green. I had one of those little 7 iron bump and run type shots and a very readable line. I thought it was makable. I knew exactly what I wanted to do and got a little excited when I started to come forward because I had executed the first part of the swing. I peaked something fierce and hit a scorching line drive far better than I had ever hit in all my years of baseball. My opponent in the trap on the other side of the green ran a quick two or three steps in an effort to avoid being hit. I was pissed but then thought "at least I hit it straight". The ball hit the flag a foot up and dropped straight into the cup. I raised my hands in triumph and my opponent called me a name. The craziest shot I ever witnessed is something I still can't believe. It was in the same league as the shot above. It was place rounds on the last week. We were in second but needed a dominant performance to pass the team we were playing. It was a fun league with wildly varying handicaps. We won the point on the first hole. I was ok and one of the opponents (an older guy that was a lot of fun to be around) was equal with my handicap. We had busted each others chops all week leading up to the match. I worked with him and knew him well. My partner was better and his partner was terrible. On the second hole the average opponent and myself were getting one shot each from my partner but his partner was getting two. I hit a decent drive on the par 5 and my partner crushed one. Decent opponent hits one equal to me and his partner barely clears a little pond and goes into a medium sized patch of woods between the mens and women's tees. We all waited while he went into the woods to look. He gave up and was going to take a drop behind the pond and hit #3. My partner (who could find a golf ball in the jungles of the Congo) says wait, and finds the ball in a nanosecond (dirty look from me). Bad golfer punches out #2, and hits a good #3 up the middle (dirtier look from me to my partner). Myself and other opponent screw up the fairway and eventually end up lying 4 with me in the trap on the right and him in the trap on the left. Partner hits a good #2 and opponent hits an real good (for him) #4 ending up just 10 yards behind my partner's ball. 3 of us are lying 4 and my partner is lying 2 so we're in good shape. Not really. With me standing in the trap the bad opponent hits a screamer that looks to be destined to go 30 yards past the large green. Similar to my shot above however, it is very straight (although standing to the side I couldn't tell at the time). This ball hit the flag 4 feet up and came back an exact 180 degrees directly at the opponent 50 yards away. It came backwards a full 20 feet (still on the green), landed with a wicked forward spin on it and rolled directly into the cup. I still can't believe I saw it. My jaw dropped (I was and still am pissed at my partner for finding that ball). The best part is when I looked up, having cursed three times already in my head and about to from my mouth, I saw the opponent in the trap across from me look me directly in the eye, smile, laugh and give me the finger. My partner failed to chip in for Eagle to get half a point. I didn't hit a good shot the rest of the night and we finished in 3rd.

Nothing is better than Chet but everything is better with Knopfler. It's a mystery for the ages. I'm seeing MK this summer. He is on tour in Europe now and he has added Silvertown Blues and Once Upon a Time in the West to his set list. He'd never played Silvertown and last played OUATITW 35 years ago. Should be fun.

Sounds like a plan.

I live near Albany too. I was hoping to see Knopfler at the Palace. He played there on his last two tours but he isn't this time. I'll be making the drive to Foxwoods in August. I've never seen a show there and considered Boston or NY. Anyone ever been to Foxwoods for a concert?

1. For the pure excitement only youth can bring I'd say Genesis post Gabriel. I also saw Gabriel post Genesis. Both in Saratoga. Add Queen. All three were great shows. For music quality and enjoyment more appreciated by old fogies, I'll go with Mark Knopfler who I have seen twice and will see again next Summer. He has an incredible band and an amazingly diverse library. 2. My worst was also my first. The Cars. I remember asking some older friends if all concerts were like that. Thank God they aren't. I still like their songs though. 3. I'm not sure there is one because most would fall into category 4. 4. I think I'll go with a Traffic for this one. Zep is obvious but has also been mentioned a bunch. Add Pink Floyd on The Wall tour.

If you like it and haven't heard post Dire Straits Knopfler, dig in. There is a ton and it is awesome. Start with Shangri-La and Ragpicker's Dream and just keep going.

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I put this one in the Pats fan thread that turned into a Wile E. Coyote thread. It fits here too.