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Happy 69th Birthday, Mark Knopfler! 🎸 (Original Post) Heartstrings Aug 2018 OP
Happy Birthday! MontanaMama Aug 2018 #1
One hell of a musician. 🎂 🥂 🎸 LakeArenal Aug 2018 #2
Happy Birthday!!! CatMor Aug 2018 #3
69????? dixiegrrrrl Aug 2018 #4
Nice, thanks for posting Bob Loblaw Aug 2018 #5
A Day The Music Died ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #6
So, you're saying you don't wish a happy birthday? LakeArenal Aug 2018 #7
Both! ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #11
So name me one musician, with similar talent, who isn't? Heartstrings Aug 2018 #13
Really? Heartstrings Aug 2018 #8
Ok ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #10
Now that's just funny, Heartstrings Aug 2018 #12
Happy Happy Birthday!! Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #9

MontanaMama

(24,405 posts)
1. Happy Birthday!
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 04:49 PM
Aug 2018

Listened to Brothers In Arms just last night while watching the meteor showers. Lovely.

Bob Loblaw

(1,900 posts)
5. Nice, thanks for posting
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:26 PM
Aug 2018

Back in a golden age of friendships, one of the guys I jammed with would play that song. I miss those days and that friend and get misty every time I hear this song.

ProfessorGAC

(72,684 posts)
6. A Day The Music Died
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 06:27 PM
Aug 2018

When Mark bought that crappy distortion box.
He lost his singular voice and that tone was rotten

ProfessorGAC

(72,684 posts)
10. Ok
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 12:54 PM
Aug 2018

I was a big fan before he did that and kicked his own brother out of the band
That all seemed very Republican to me!

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