Mark Knopfler Guitar / More Knowledge about the guitar

Dire Straits at the Hope & Anchor pub 1977 – new picture

Ingo — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:38:30 +0000

I recently got an old Dutch magazine called JOEPIE from February 1979 with a two-page story about Dire Straits. It features two pictures that show the band on stage at the Hope & Anchor pub. Dire Straits played there several times in late 1977: on September 10 (in the evening after they played the Clapham [...]

Mark Knopfler – Portobelle Belle – the only existing live video (Belfast 1996)

Ingo — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:19:58 +0000

Although Portobelle Belle from Dire Straits’ second album Communiqué was played on so many tours, it seemed that there are no live videos of this song at all. It was played e.g. on each gig of the Love over Gold tour in 1982/3 which ended in the Alchemy live video concert but just this song [...]

Loaded pickguards now available in black

Ingo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:56:49 +0000

The loaded Strat pickguards in the vintage Schecter style have been available in brass and white aluminium for a while now, but from now on they are also available in black aluminium. You can chose between two versions: with the VFS-1 or the F500T-style pickups. As both are tapped pickups (two different sounds for each [...]

Tone King Imperial: Played on which songs?

Ingo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:52:18 +0000

According to Guy Fletcher, the songs on which Mark plays the Tone King Imperial are: True love will never fade Shangri la Prairie wedding Dark is the night/Donegan’s Gone Postcards from Paraguay Let It All Go I guess this is meant to be true rather for the latest tours than for the studio albums (click [...]

mk-guitar.com on Facebook

Ingo — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:01:27 +0000

This site is on Facebook now: check it out here. From now on you can follow interesting news there as well, or simply let the world know that you like this site I admit I am still rather new in the world of Facebook, and probably do not fully understand all possibilities and options of [...]

What are Mark Knopfler’s vintage guitars worth?

Ingo — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:51:49 +0000

This week I visited the Frankfurt Music Fair, the world’s leading trade fair for the world of music. On one floor it featured a special vintage guitar exhibition where you could see lots of wonderful guitars, even most valuable guitars like Fenders and Gibsons from the fifties. I took many pictures of all kind of [...]

The Hotcake overdrive pedal

Ingo — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:47:01 +0000

From now on you can buy the Hotcake overdrive pedal in our online shop. This is the overdrive pedal that Mark Knopfler used on his 2005 Shangri-La tour, and probably on other occasions as well. The Hotcake is built by Paul Crowther in New Zealand since 1976. It has a best reputation among players around [...]

Mark Knopfler Gear Database: first pages online plus possibility to upload your own pictures

Ingo — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:10:58 +0000

The first (today: nine) pages with Mark Knopfler guitars are online. I started with some Strats (mainly the most important ones) and also finished the ones about his 1958 and 1959 Les Pauls. I also included the option to upload your own pictures for each guitar at the bottom of the pages. If many will [...]

They all look the same – How to tell Mark Knopfler’s different signature Strats apart

Ingo — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:42:51 +0000

While working on the new gear database – especially on the pages about the different MK Signature Strats – I felt it difficult to tell from a picture which of his different signature Strats it is (Mark used alone three of these on the 2008 tour, and generally seems to use even more here and [...]

New Mark Knopfler Gear Database started

Ingo — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:16:53 +0000

I finally decided to start a new database for all the Mark Knopfler gear that was used over the years. This will take surely several weeks (or even months), and finally will be a never-ending progress. The idea is to have one dedicated page for each guitar/amp/effect that holds all info we have on that [...]