Name: Dire Straits - Alchemy - Dire Straits Live
Brand: Dire Straits
SKU: 1309941358
Availability: InStock

Dire Straits – Alchemy – Dire Straits Live

€99,99

There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler’s muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as “Sultans of Swing” or “Solid Rock,” they are in ecstasy. That Dire Straits’ introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. Alan Clark’s keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler’s spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that’s exactly how the crowd likes it.

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Description

Vertigo 818 243-1 2xLP, Album, Gat Europe 1984

Side 1.

1. Once Upon A Time In The West 13:01
2. Romeo And Juliet 8:24

Side 2.

1. Expresso Love 5:41
2. Private Investigations 7:16
3. Sultans Of Swing 10:53

Side 3.

1. Two Young Lovers 4:51
2. Tunnel Of Love 14:43

Side 4.

1. Telegraph Road 13:00
2. Solid Rock 5:35
3. Going Home – Theme From ‘Local Hero’ 5:09

Credits:

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 42281 82431
Barcode 042281824319
Rights Society STEMRA
Label Code LC 1633
Other 818 244-1
Other 818 245-1
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