Dire Straits were the embodiment of quitting while you're ahead. Blessed with an affinity for both pub and prog rock, and a melancholy bard in Mark Knopfler, the band had put out four albums before releasing 1985's nine-times platinum 'Brothers in Arms' and breaking up. Some six years l...
Brothers David and Mark Knopfler, along with friends John Illsley and Pick Withers, formed Dire Straits – choosing a name believed to originate from a suggestion by a musician flatmate of Withers'. He allegedly plucked it out of thin air while they were rehearsing in the kitchen of a friend...
My guests were asked to pass the time as I go prepare the next dish (sweetbreads), but Etienne insisted on a “tour” of my cellar (a small room with a few gems collected over the years, nothing like the cellars he is used to…), still not bad by local standards, I gave him t...
but he was long gone. It came with a lot of complications. A year earlier, I was hanging out at Cello Studios, which is now called EastWest. I was out in the hall and I saw [Totodrummer]Jeff Porcarostanding out there. He was upset because they were having him overdub on top of a...
This name was inspired at a Slade concert, where bassist Tom Petersson commented that the band used "every cheap trick in the book" as part of their act. Chicago Chicago Chicago In 1968, the Big Thing moved to Los Angeles at their manager’s request and signed with Columbia Records. That...
This name was inspired at a Slade concert, where bassist Tom Petersson commented that the band used "every cheap trick in the book" as part of their act. Chicago Chicago Chicago In 1968, the Big Thing moved to Los Angeles at their manager’s request and signed with Columbia Records. That...
Janis Joplin, In Concert(May 1972) Coming between the posthumous Pearl and Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, this two-LP set spanned 1968-70, including gigs with both Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Sides three and four were drawn from Toronto and Calgary ...
Janis Joplin, In Concert(May 1972) Coming between the posthumous Pearl and Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, this two-LP set spanned 1968-70, including gigs with both Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Sides three and four were drawn from Toronto and Calgary ...
Janis Joplin,In Concert (May 1972) Coming between the posthumousPearlandJanis Joplin's Greatest Hits, this two-LP set spanned 1968-70, including gigs with bothBig Brother and the Holding Companyand the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Sides three and four were drawn from Toronto and Calgary stops on ...
Janis Joplin, In Concert(May 1972) Coming between the posthumous Pearl and Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, this two-LP set spanned 1968-70, including gigs with both Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Sides three and four were drawn from Toronto and Calgary ...