Mark’s Privateering tour has started, and they played the first 8 concerts around south-east Europe and Italy. One song that has been played on some of these – compared to previous tours they vary the setlist a lot – is Gator Blood. I saw the picture of Mark with the white Strat – it seems to be the 1964 of Sailing to Philadelphia – some days ago and was wondering on which song it was played. The capo at the 3rd fret and the bottle neck are a hint of course, but I did not associate it with Gator Blood. In fact the sound of the album version is different from a typical Strat sound, maybe he played his Danelectro on the album, his main axe for bottle neck these days.
Here are some youtube videos showing Gator Blood. The tuning is open G (D – G – D – G – B -D), capoed at the 3rd fret (key of Bb). Mark played a similar picking 34 years ago on a song called Do right unto others on Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming album by the way. Enjoy!
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3 thoughts on “Gator Blood live on the white 1964 Strat”
I listened to the studio version again, and it doesn’t sound like his recent slide work (right now, Donegan….)
so I wonder if the studio version could also be the strat instead of the Danelectro ?
I went to the royal albert hall show on monday 27th may 2013. the man, the band were amazing, more than 2 hours of non stop magic….no wonder he is one of the top artists in the world……in saying that the band are amazing also.
Hi guys,
(Sorry if it has been cleared already)
It is a MK Jizzblaster on the record, see this: http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/jizz.html
It’s basically the same concept, like the DC58, which is used for Donegan, Corned Beef City, Right now, etc.