Tag: concert

Dire Straits/ Mark Knopfler live pictures and videos, Mark Knopfler gear, Misc, Misc

Pictures of Dire Straits, Live at the Zirkus Krone, Munchen, May 29, 1979

For your enjoyment, here are a few rare pictures of Dire Straits. They are from a concert in the Zirkus Krone building, Munchen, Germany, on May 29, 1979. After February 1979, they returned to Germany in May, still on the Communiqué tour. The gear used on this part of the tour has changed slightly against February: Mark still played the #80470 maple-neck Strat (see also this article on his two […]

Easy stuff for beginners, Mark Knopfler gear, Misc

Pictures from Hamburg Oct. 28, 1978 (?)

Edit 2012: I had to correct myself. These pictures were probably from the next day, October 29, 1978, when they played in Berlin (compare this blog post). Unlike these days, when each concert is not only recorded on audio or video, not to mention all pictures made by a million people it seems, there are hardly pictures from those early Dire Straits concerts. Too bad digital cams were not invented […]