Waited 3 decades for this

@ChrisWhittenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Oh.....thanks 🙂

Absolutely brilliant to hear and see a drummer discuss their own songs.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad to be of service.

@ChristianWilden-iz5qm

11 ай бұрын

@@ChrisWhittenMusic excelente, gracias por educar , es un gran desafío esa canción sin duda.

With no brillant drummer...no dire straits possible...thanks for the great job you've done on this 90 incredible tour !!! I was at Nîmes and Montauban... it was absolutely amazing ❤❤❤❤

That man was built to rock stadiums, was blown away by his playing on that tour

Chris, your live drumming on this tour had me absolutely mesmerised as a young, aspiring drummer. Thanks for this tutorial and thanks for the memories.

Brilliant. The best opening song ever for a live performance. I’ve watched this time and time again on VHS tape version and especially the drum parts blew my mind. Love it.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Chris introduce Heavy fuel , please .

@owenwrobertson8584

2 жыл бұрын

Excelente Man 👍

I can't stop watching this video... it's such an incredible memory of the best tour ever made...

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

When I discovered on every street at 14 yrs old now 43) the drumming was so good and different from anything on the radio and charts, I became fascinated, I then learnt the album beat for beat! Eventually 'the Internet' gave me amazing footage of Chris playing on every street concerts and On The Night. I thought for years it was Chris playing on the original, On Every street album, to which I now know it was Jeff Porcaro. 1000% respect and appreciation for Chris to play the same, so we get to see the drumming live and study it. Videos like this from Chris are so amazing, thanks Chris so much!!.

Jeff Porcaro RIP was my all time favorite drummer, but I would like to thank you for the amazing performance on this video and on the DS 1992 tour.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

You sir are a legend, i remember as a kid watching your performance and repeating every part of that solo, i grew with that solo as my favorite drum solo ever, thank you! Rock on!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's really a Danny Cummings percussion solo though.

@freddymiguel35

Жыл бұрын

apart from a real drummer monster you’re very humble Chris, you did it between the two

thanks Chris ! i was a very young drummer on that "on every street " tour . in Rome i was listening the concert on you on your left .... wearing a zildjian tshirt ..... shouting at you " hey Chris gimme a stick !!!! and you did ! lovely lovely memories ! she still with me ! thanks Again ! best concert in my life !

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 ай бұрын

Great….thanks.

Je me souviens de calling Elvis on the night en 1993 au moment où vous avez fait votre solo de batterie vous étiez formidable christ

Chris You are the hero drummer of my childhood. I fell in love in drumming because of you on the drums in “on the night live”. I’m so proud to say you this, thanks KZread that you are here.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks

I call this the elegant way to play drums, love it.

Chris ... Thank You for this and the amazing memory of the live performances. it's 2022 and i still want to keep see DS live and with you holding the beat. a big thank you and keep rocking .. love from Mumbai , India

Gentlemen, Chris is a true legend, every work of his is a marvel, both with the DS and with Paul Mc....and many others, Chris you are a great drummer!!!!!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

I loved the 'On Every Street ' album but it never occurred to me that 'Calling Elvis' would make such a great live song. It does. Great stuff.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

It went from about 5 minutes to nearly fifteen!

@paulcwyuen

Жыл бұрын

The live version is a showcase of guitars/pedal steel guitar/drums and precussions and is to me one of the best live performance by every band.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@paulcwyuen Thanks

Wow, what a treat to learn about this stuff from the real deal. Thanks!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks

The sound of the drums is great. Noble & Cooley forever... :-)

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

N&C = awesome 😊

Greaat. I'm from Brasil and i love on the night dvd. Please post Moreir from This dvd. Thanks yooou. Congrats

Back in ‘92 this was the first CD I ever bought, I was 12 at the time. The drumming on this album inspired me to take up drumming myself after much air drumming along to these songs… So thank you for the inspiration🙏💪🏻. Still one of my all time favorite albums, great drumming. And the sound of those N&C drums is marvelous! Rock on! Greetings from the Netherlands

Thank you so much Chris. During the On the Night tour you inspired me to learn to drum (at a late age!). It has become my main hobby and I play in a band! Cheers from Brasil (I did note you inserted some bossa nova grooves - double kicks - in one of the songs during the show)

Oh my god... How many times have I listen to the last 2 bars of the drums/percussions duet... Kum-ta-ga kum-ta-ga kum-ta-ga kum-fla-ta-ga kum-fla-ta-ga kum-tom-tom-tom-fla ;-) I love it so much !!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 ай бұрын

🙂 Great!

Chris my hero ::::!!!!

telegraph road, sultan of swing or calling elvis, the drum in there was spectacular ,you were just a beast following mark's guitar...

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Thank you Chris. This is a marvelous gift for all DS's fans. I had the pleasure and the honor to see Dire Straits live during the OES tour. I remember your great ability and your passion to play the drums and the great expressiveness of the Dire Straits orchestra. Yeah, the legendary Dire Straits wasn't an ordinary rock band but an authentic multi talented orchestra. How many awesome talents in this band! Only for the drums and percussion in the Dire Straits history it's possible to mention Pick Withers, Terry Williams, Omar Hakim, Manu Katché, Jeff Porcaro, Danny Cummings and Chris Whitten. Thank you so much!!!!!

The incredible sound of those drums.... .just fantastic! I have no words!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

22 күн бұрын

Thank you

Wonderful treat! Love from Barcelona, Chris. Saw you on the 4th of October, 1992.

Great drummer all the times,amazing song,amazing musician

Chris Thank you for this jewel, many of us would love even more songs from On The Night, btw you move exactly like 30 years ago, same moves and same grimaces

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same grimace 😆

@roderickcampbell2105

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisWhittenMusic Hi Chris. Awesome. The moves, timing and energy look as fine as ever. The grimace is cool too! This was really awesome. I didn't know your name until today. A lot a folks were raving about the drummer on a DS video and it sure caught my eyes and ears too. So I did some searching and there you are. I'll watch some more soon. I hope you're doing well.

You are the king 👑👑

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Bravo, eres un maquina, Jeff Porcaro estaria orgulloso. Saludos desde España!

I totally love this video. I spent summers seeing this live, your performance, your solo on my vhs ❤

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Enrico.

Master musician!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Thank you for the groove you bring into my life. Chris W. you are my Yoda ....

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Tour 92 must have been an incredible adventure. All these places that you could see and all these people! I see in the videos that you have fun playing, great Drums, with great sound, I love the way you play. You have been my idol for years! Thanks Chris 👏👏👏

@hihat74

3 жыл бұрын

Brand of drums: Noble and Cooley

Chris 😮, Terry Williams must of been a hard act to follow but you did it absolutely perfect, your going down as a dire straits legend in my book absolute mega, saw you twice with them sheffield 91 Woburn Abbey 92, a couple who we jammed along with asked me who the drummer was, Chris whitten I said well he's amazing, I said I KNOW the man's a genius 🙏 awesome man love ya to bits 👌🏼

@ChrisWhittenMusic

27 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thanks for sharing.

Wtf vous avez bercé mon adolescence avec ces plans de batterie . Transcendent, beau, énergique, palpitants et juste magnifiques. Merci mille fois Monsieur et du fond du coeur . Love love love !

Insane drummer.

First: Dire Straits 'Calling Elvis', a masterpiece, from start to finish. Second, Chris Whitten, you are a true, professional without a doubt, your timing, the exact time, it shows, your talent, without your drumsticks the piece would not be as masterful as it is, Chris, great drummer, few like you . Congratulations plus the pride of having been the performer of Dire Straits magic, along with MK. Golden age of rock music.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Drummasterclass

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing!

Thank you for this! I really appreciate.

My wife bought me an electronic kit last summer and this is the first song i tried to learn. I love the live version the most and i now realize how crap i am at it!

Brilliant ...just brilliant..thanks Chris..

Awesome! Thank you!

Dear Chris, I'm a long time DireStraits fan and I actually saw you guys in oslo during the "on every street" tour. I was like 18 at the time and this was my first experience with a big stadium concert. And I was blown away , for many reasons: First: TWO drummers? , learned later that this was drummer+ percussionist..........anyway, amazing............that drum/percussion part of "calling elvis" towards the end there.......oh boy.......Second..... Paul Franklin.....introducing pedal steel guitar to something other than country music!! Third and final: Why is it (on every street tour) that during "sultans of swing" you sit in front of the stage with a different drum kit? Have wondered about that since -92....Probably a good reason, I'm sure, but I can't figure it out...........please educate🙂

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Because in the main show I was way up high at the back. Sultans started out as a four piece in that show, but I was the only one far from the action. It meant my drumming seemed divorced from the music.

@havarddirdal1742

Жыл бұрын

Ahh, off course!, Can't believe I missed that for all these years! Makes perfect sense now! Memories from -92 is somewhat blurry, and by watching video recordings you can easily tell that Paul F is not there at first, but hard to tell about the other guys unless you really pay attention. And with everybody being there at the end, I always assumed they were always there, just not doing a whole lot until the last part. Anyway, the -92 tour Sultans is on the very top of the list of my favorite live performances. The drummer had quite a lot to do with that! Thanks a lot for your reply!!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@havarddirdal1742 You're welcome.

Love it love it! Thank you, very intuitive thank you

That's pretty awesome! Love it!🙏🙏

Nice to see and hear, that Chris still likes it to play, after doing this several hundreds of times in 91/92

Great drummer. I am a drummer, I saw you live in Italy in 1993. Mythical Dire Straits. Final solo with the percussionist a marvel. Congratulations!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

ive been waitng for a hundres years for this. thank you chris.

Joyful, don’t stop now keeping going I need more more

That fill at the end. Wow!

LOVE IT!!! Drums sound great!

Espectacular

I've always loved that fill at the end, I've stolen it and played it many times at the end of solos!! 😁😁😁

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

Fantastic - thank you very much!

I was in werchter concert in Belgium may 1992 and again i Rome in september 1992! And your performance Cris was just amazing! Thank you! But that years DIre straits were at the top of the world!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@marioandreacocco446

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to you Chris to give us all this emotions! You give a massive and amazing tribute and history to the music and to dire straits!! We love u

From Portugal.... GREAT!

Thanks so much for sharing

EXCELLENT.

Marvelous!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙂

Wow, very nice, thank you!

Love it Chris. Love your playing and sound.

Masssssster!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quelle classe ! Merci.

Chris!! It seems to me you haven't been given the credibility for re creating Jeff's playing, and also, knowone has played sultans of swing so brilliantly like you. As fans we've listened to all the versions a thousand times and more should be said for your playing!. We SO appreciate these videos on your days with direstraits. You smashed it and did us fans behond proud!.

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

This is fantastic to watch ,i used to watch my DVD of this concert almost every day.Almost 30 years later and still nailed it ,Excellent drummer Chris whitten !!

Thank you Chris. Amazing drummer 👏👏

Grande Chris!Cheers from Italy!!

Great video ! Thank you for posting this.

Very good!!!!!!

Legend!!!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

THE original sound by the original player !!!!!! 😉

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Mr Chris Whitten , that sir was absolutely bloomin brilliant!! I was present at The Calling Elvis tour and your drumming was superb and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up ! The whole performance that night was amazing and the qualities of all the musicians that night was memorable. Thank you for posting this video .

@ChrisWhittenMusic

5 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Great Chris!!

Been at Wembley that night, it was the first song. 30 years ago. I don't get it why I watched your cover 10 times and I keep coming back for more ... you are part of mastery of song. Legend

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Thank you chris

So grooooovy, masterpiece!!!!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Very very interesting, looking forward to more Chris. Good job.

That honor listen to you. Thank you for this video Chris ❤️

Sei un grande! This is my favourite DS song, I love both the live and the studio versions. Bravissimo

Thanks this is great I saw the show and always loved the drums an percussion on this track nice to see how it's played 😁

Great Chris !

Legendary !

@ChrisWhittenMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great stuff Chris sounds very good 😌

Master Cristopher up the back there! Keep on doing this sir, I assure you it made my day.

Very Nice!

So well explained. Congratulations. It makes look easy. Thanks. Still remember that live show in lisbon back in 1992.

Thank you, Chris. This is a great tutorial. Please post more often, you are a legend! 🥁 ❤️👍

When the Calling Elvis album came out, I thought that the opening song of that recording was really different to anything I ever heard at that moment. Although I already was a musician myself, my musical knowledge was too limited to deeply analyse and properly understand the piece. I found it odd and didn't exactly love it, but I could feel it was a really good piece of rock music and therefore I enjoyed it so much. Three decades later, I absolutely love the piece, which I often listen to, and I have finally understood that Dire Straits created a true masterwork. This song has a soul and a sound absolutely unique like nothing I ever heard before. Paul Franklin's pedal steel guitar sound blended with the rest of the band so well and with him in the band, I think Dire Straits absolutely reinvented itself. Everybody knows that Mark has always been a wonderful soloist, and Alan's keyboard textures and piano arrangements are simply perfect and pivotal for the sound of the band. But Calling Elvis brought us another genius, an absolutely wonderful player that in my opinion, could play as creatively as Mark. And I really mean that. The amount of melodic ideas that Paul presents in just that song is simply overwhelming. Nothing I ever heard before or after that album resembles that piece, and for me, the song Calling Elvis is almost a new genre in itself. Chris, what can you tell us about the piece? What did you think when you heard if for the first time? Thank you so much.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

2 жыл бұрын

It was the ultimate FM radio song of latter 1991.

Calling Elvis was my favorite Dire Straits song because of this great drum part. Thanks for posting🇺🇸

Wow I’ve skyrocketed my feel and motion on drum when I play this version wht my bandmates, they goes mental every time. Thanks so so much

Nice beats thank you for sharing Chris, loved your work on On The Night!

Great drummer

@ChrisWhittenMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Ahh great with Chris in the engine room ,love this track ❤

@ChrisWhittenMusic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks

Brilliant!!

@ChrisWhittenMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!