Comments on: Mark Knopfler on Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming

By: Tea Dress

Tea Dress — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:52:08 +0000

i love bob dylan, he is one of the best singer songwriter *~`

By: Fletch

Fletch — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:38:23 +0000

Great review and info Ingo. It is a terrific album, with MKs style all over it, same with Infidels. Another MK gem is of course the acoustic work on Blind Willie McTell – a legendary song.

By: Morten

Morten — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:18:05 +0000

Rolling Stone, Aug. 2008: As it happened, after Dire Straits’ first hits in the U.S., one of Knopfler’s early supporters, the legendary producer Jerry Wexler, invited Knopfler to play on Dylan’s 1979 record Slow Train Coming. “I was staying in L.A. and driving over to Santa Monica every day to run down songs with Bob at his place,” Knopfler says. “There was always just the pair of us. He’d play piano, and I’d play one of his Fenders. For a guy from the north of England with one record out, it felt pretty special.”

But of course, when time came for the recording sessions, he probably brought all the guitars you mentioned, Ingo.

By: Morten

Morten — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:39:18 +0000

I tried and you are of course right, Ingo. Open G capo 4. For me I think it worked best with 78900X as the main chord. Sounds right when I play along with the record. Fun to play!

By: Ingo

Ingo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:55:18 +0000

I play it open G, capo 4th, as said, thumb alternates between g and d strings, left hand frets the b and high e strings on the 7th fret, sometimes the high e string 9th fret comes in, sometimes you slide from b string 7th to b string 5th, followed by g string 7th, g string 4th (=open)

By: Morten

Morten — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:26:03 +0000

I’ll try once more:)

By: Ingo

Ingo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:10:25 +0000

I don’t think the National was ever tuned to anything but open G, all these licks work great with a capo at 4th fret

By: Morten

Morten — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:52:05 +0000

Not open e, but open d capo 9 on Do Right To Me Baby.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:32:12 +0000

at Allen: thanks for promoting my blog, watch out, there will be more videos and more rare pics of early DS (I still have dozens it seems

By: Ingo

Ingo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:30:08 +0000

Hi Morten, the info is from an interview with Mark in International Musician, 1980. I have never heard about using one of Dylan’s Strats, but you can never know.