The Carved top I made had an EMG 85 in the bridge not the 81 but an 85. The boost on the push pull was actually the SPC mid boost I installed full blast on a push pull. 👍

@fivewattworld

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha! I love being schooled by the MAN himself. Thanks for clearing that up Mister Suhr.

@kevinjohnbetts

Жыл бұрын

The 85 would appear to suit Knopfler more. I've owned several guitars with EMGs over the years and the 81 was always a bit brash compared to the 85. Thanks for the extra info John.

@drippinglass

Жыл бұрын

Hi john. I miss you over on TGP. I got banned. 😁👍

@TomMarvan

Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, John, what a beautifully *crafted* guitar.

@FateGathersStudios

Жыл бұрын

well damn, the legend himself has entered the chat.

Mark also played a black Schecter Telecaster in the early 80s. I went to Rudy's in 82 and asked to buy the same black schecter tele as my hero. The salesman said to come back the next day because Mark would probably be there (he hung out there a lot). Sure enough, I came back the next day and he was there. He was incredibly nice (to a 13 year old kid!), and we played together and he gave me some tips. (Yes, he showed me how to properly do the final lick on sultans of swing!) He handed me the same Schecter black Tele model that he played and I bought it that day. Still my go-to guitar. Plays like butter.

@Sorrowablaze

Жыл бұрын

what a cool story !

@Mouseend

Жыл бұрын

Wow what a great story! Thats my dream, unfortunately im born in the wrong era, and wrong country :(. But at least I have the chance to listen to his and their amazing music

@RideAcrossTheRiver

6 ай бұрын

That guitar really bangs "Solid Rock" on _Alchemy._

Knopfler is simply unparalleled. There's nobody like him, he can play two random notes and you know it's him.

Hell of a player. Mark is hardly ever mentioned as an inspirational guitar player, but I’m floored by his style.

Keith has transitioned from the Magnum P.I. phase to the Blue Blood phase. ;)

@fivewattworld

Жыл бұрын

Blue blood? I don't understand the reference.

@SeanAllocca

Жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld Tom Selleck shaved his mustache off for his return to series TV in the show Blue Bloods in 2010. BTW - my smoking hot Slovak wife thinks you look much better without it. All the best from currently on the Jersey Shore but soon returning to Slovakia.

@fivewattworld

Жыл бұрын

Good news on all fronts! Thanks. Jersey shore huh? You're nearly "around the corner." :)

@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT

Жыл бұрын

@@SeanAllocca did your wife’s boyfriend let you call her hot today??

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld , so, If you live in New Jersey or thereabouts, why haven't you done an interview or at least some kind of feature about Richard Thompson? He's been living in New Jersey for about 3 years now.

Yes! Finally, a video on Mark Knopfler on one of the big music channels. They usually either skip Mark completely or talk about the boring usual stuff. This, however, is another story. Accurate and interesting even for die-hards, though not without little flukes. It's ridiculous how everybody seems to love MK but rarely talks about how great of a songwriter and guitar player he is. I often think why he's so catastrophically underrated.

@mijorchard6206

Жыл бұрын

I think there are (at least) two things at play here: firstly, the fact that Dire Straits ultimately became too popular to be thought of as cool, and suffered a little from 'dad rock' and 'corporate rock' labels; secondly, the fact that MK's solo work has not had such broad appeal. I have to say, though, that Dire Straits came online the year I went to university and, when I took my son to his first day at university almost 30 years later, Sultans of Swing was still coming out of the windows of the student residence.

@kentl7228

Жыл бұрын

I wish this channel used you for some demos. You are the most qualified player I know to show the Knopfler style. I hope all is safe and well in Turkey.

@fivewattworld

Жыл бұрын

I’ll look at his channel. Thanks!

@Reckefisch

Жыл бұрын

@@fivewattworld You definitely should! Pavel is the man when it comes to the intricacies of Knopfler's playing. Also: thanks a lot for this very detailed video on my favourite musician's guitars, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

@lessehead

8 ай бұрын

⁠@@mijorchard6206I feel sorry for people who haven’t experienced his solo work; I really do. It is unparalleled, just the most beautiful, haunting music, rich with history and interesting characters. I have a Spotify playlist just for Knopfler/Straits. The songwriting, guitar work, singing, everything about his albums is dear to my heart.

Perfectly clean shaven video to complement Mark’s perfectly clean tones. Well done (as usual) Keith!!

@guitrr

Жыл бұрын

Less wind resistance 😉

@allenmitchell09

Жыл бұрын

He even lost the soul patch!

@Mark70609

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t even notice, good spotting.

@JohnnyArtPavlou

Жыл бұрын

How to get the most face with the leastleast gear. If he were to start shaving channel, he would use a straight razor and it would be called Five Strop World. Okay, bye! 🥸

Up to now I believe the guitar in "Brothers in arms" to be one of the most haunting pieces of music I've ever heard! Great work!

@tadpoleinnit2643

Жыл бұрын

Listen to the soundtrack to the movie, 'Local Hero' if you haven't done so already. It'll blow your socks off.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

@@tadpoleinnit2643 , that's a good movie too.

@wmhhealth2018

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like Pink Floyd may have written it for Dire Straits. I know that is not the case but the influence cannot be denied.

@ix-Xafra

Жыл бұрын

The volume swell notes are pretty haunting, like when he imitated a ship fog horn on Waterline on the first album. Strats were made for volume swell lines, but I reckon he's used a volume pedal at times as well.

@Madmanmarque

Жыл бұрын

@@tadpoleinnit2643 Absolutely! And, the film is great too!

Knopfler is guitar royalty. So humble and down to earth and when he talks about his guitars you can see his passion oozing out of him. Dire straits is one of the soundtracks to my teens and I'll never forget their performance at live aid!

Mark Knopfler is the reason I fell in love with guitar so long ago. It was the Making Movies album that got me.

@leomilani_gtr

Жыл бұрын

Watch out for scams, mate.

A true guitar hero.

This one is awesome and can only be followed up by a Stevie Ray Vaughan episode. 😁

@tonysoprano2857

Жыл бұрын

Been waiting for that episode!

@Exsomos

Жыл бұрын

RIGHT?!?!? I mean no offense to the other fine players that have been showcased on these wonderful little episodes, but man o' man I sure would LOVE to see an SRV episode on here. One for his Guitars, and then one for his Amps. I'd watch that several times over. Please Keith!!!!!! Get on it Dude!!!!!

@johnnathancordy

Жыл бұрын

YES RONNIE

@caleb4687

Жыл бұрын

YES I NEED THIS

The T style Schecter is under a snooker table in a village in Leicestershire.... still with the last strings MK play on it.

@tadpoleinnit2643

Жыл бұрын

Is it like Excalibur? The snooker table will only lift and release the Schecter when The Once & Future King of Boomer Music comes to claim it?

@andreborges2881

Жыл бұрын

@@tadpoleinnit2643 yes, “along with a sad sod bearing the nickname Tadpole, writing vacuous comments in KZread”, goes the prophecy

@methyleneblue4659

Жыл бұрын

@@tadpoleinnit2643 Actually the snooker table is out of the Crucible, tournament play by some big names and much hallowed. The 'sword of Knopfler' it there to protect the table from the evil trolls of Uintoob.... as goes the prophecy??

Just when I'm looking for something he's right here with it

Wonderful job Keith, Knopfler is my favorite player, for me he is the Tone Master. Incredible sound.

How nice to see Duke Levine get some love!

For those that don't know, brewer's droop is an English expression for when overconsumption of beer makes lovemaking impossible, droop meaning limp.

@pretty.noodles3540

Жыл бұрын

These amazing Brit colloquialisms are the reason I go on the internet. Thanks for sharing.

@drippinglass

Жыл бұрын

That’s the worst! 😄

@castleanthrax1833

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was a slang term for "bromine" which was dispensed (without their knowledge)to soldiers in WWI, to inhibit erections and thus preventing them from acquiring a venerial disease.

@allan-shephard

Жыл бұрын

@@castleanthrax1833 In the Dire Straits song "Industrial Disease" some of the lyrics are "brewers droop from drinking beer". Didn't know about the whole bromine thing for soldiers. Geez.

Mark is beyond underrated. He's a guitarists, guitarist. Great video, well done as always.

@DaveTaste

Жыл бұрын

What does beyond underrated mean? Unheard of?

@RoyHodgson97

5 ай бұрын

@@DaveTaste I was wondering that too🤣🤣

Somewhere around 1987 or so, Dire Straits came to town, and I made a point of going to the venue during the afternoon, and giving a pickup to Mark Knopfler. It was an Epiphone New Yorker pickup I had foolishly taken from my late '50s Epi Windsor; replaced with a pair of humbuckers I had wound. The New Yorker pickups can look, to the untrained eye, like a minihumbucker. But much like the old "gold foil" pickups, they are single-coil underneath the cover, and have a row of adjustable screws near the outer edge, to compensate for string volume, albeit poorly. Unlike gold foils, they are actually gold-plated, and have a real ivory mounting surround - a relic from the days before we cared about conservation. Some years later - maybe a dozen - I exchanged e-mails with John Suhr, recounted the pickup, and since he was essentially Mark's builder, inquired if he had ever installed it for Mark on anything, or even seen it, for that matter. He replied that he hadn't. I hope Knopfler realized what I had given him, and it didn't end up in a trash heap somewhere. Those things are irreplaceable.

i always love it when steve albini teaches me the history of guitars

Mark is exceptional. The reason for this his exceptional natural ability and the fact that he plays from the heart.

remember when Ned Flanders shaved off the ol soup strainer?? i just had that feeling. lookin good mate👍👍🎸

Great job Hypes!

@clownhands

Жыл бұрын

Hey Rick, please interview Mark!

@tadpoleinnit2643

Жыл бұрын

@@clownhands ...and Hendrix

@a-nus

Жыл бұрын

boomer bends

@briancoyne6700

Жыл бұрын

@@clownhands Agreed!!

@FoardenotFord

Жыл бұрын

Hey Rick - have we not gotten a ‘What Makes This Song Great: Dire Straits’ video due to copyright issues? Seems like the only logical explanation at this point!

You should make a Frusciante episode, I would love that. Also a Tom Delonge would be nice

Growing up on the 80s music, the clean Mark Knopffler notes were in a class of their own(and still is!). He could play 2, maybe 3 notes, and our ears would cock up! 30 years since the Dire Straits disbanded, and our man is still out there making and sharing his music...!🙏🏼

The first Dire Straits album is a desert island disk for me and IMO one of the greatest albums ever. A perfect album from start to finish.

I sold Mark two guitars years back... A 2003 Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul '57 Reissue in Brazilian Blue with a Brazilian Board and a Stinger Headstock and a Mint 1965 Gibson Dove in Cherry Finish which he played on tour with Emmylou Harris... The Brazilian Blur '57 Reissue can be seen in his photo session to promote the album Privateering... I have also done business with Rudy Pensa over the years... He used to refer to me as The Other Rudy when I was actively dealing vintage guitars and amps...Thanks for posting this video

Keith, you are a Master Historian- once again I am taken backwards in time travel through my life by a “short history “ episode of Five Watt World. Thank you!

I had previously suggested that Jeff Beck could be an interesting episode to add to this series, but recently I've been thinking about Adrian Belew. He definitely has a history of quirky and interesting guitars.

@jaltsch1

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’ve seen him with anything other than a strat early on and then a Parker fly?

@Diax1324

Жыл бұрын

Yesss do Jeff Beck! His main guitar has a unique history, alongside the fact that his signature guitar isn’t at all like the guitars he actually plays.

@gonzalooliveraalves

Жыл бұрын

@@jaltsch1 he has a nice variety of guitars, old cheap guitars like Teiscos, some weird 3-pickup Mustangs, the Strats, his Parker guitars, a lot of ground to cover there.

I would say it's Mark's talent.

Thanks for having me! I'm late but I'm going to get the coffee now!!

Yes!!! I'm already here waiting!

I felt the same way the first time I heard Mark's guitar work. He had a style all his own and it was game changing.

Complete shock, Street scene in Newcastle, that’s my old car, 1965 Vauxhall Victor 101, 1970 it was sold to my dad seven years later given me. It’s not a guitar but it’s important to me thank you. Hank Marvin and Mark Knopfler All grew up in the same area the generation of part there must’ve been something in the water

I had the pleasure of meeting David Knophler at one of the annual Blues/Roots Festivals I operated in Canada from 2001-2012. Despite me mistaking his road manager for him, David was gracious enough to answer all my pestering questions, many about his brother - lol. David had a smoking touring band at the time! Peace

Thank you . Top notch as always. Recommend Guitar stories Mark Knopfler with John Ilsley a killer documentary of Marks career as a good vid to go with this.

when I was a teenager I was at a friend's house and couldn't sleep. I found Dire Straits greatest hits and listened to it literally all night and until the sun came up. It changed my life. I consider Gilmour and Knopfler the greatest guitar players of all time.

So nice of your brother to step in to host this episode for you, Keith. Hope you're not ill or anything. Gee, you guys could be twins!

The amount of research you have done Sir for this video is really commendable ... Mind blown ...

Instantly recognized tone and style. I just got back from my first trip to NYC, and desperately wanted to go into Rudy’s Guitars. Unfortunately, time did not allow. Next time!🎸

A very interesting day in school bud. The amount of work that goes into these videos is very impressive and that's no bare face lie. 👍🥃Respect to you mate.

Not sure how I missed this one Keith but catching up now! Thanks brother

Above all Mark is the sound of a Stratocaster for me. I’ve been hooked since the first album in ‘78 as a sixteen year old. I’m turning sixty this month and treated myself to my first CS. 60’s Fiesta Red of course. Thanks again for another great one Keith.

This is truly one of the best ever five watt world episodes (which is really saying something), and the playing by John Cordy and Duke Levine is out of this world.

Another pleasurable coffee on a Saturday morning watching your Magic Keith!!!!

Yet another great video, Keith. I live about 3 miles from Blyth where Mark grew up and instantly recognised the photo of the Evening Chronicle newspaper offices in Newcastle. Excellent research mate! Keep up the great work 👍🏼

Thank you so much for this vid! My first MK experience was a concert in Dortmund, Germany back in 1991 (on every street tour). At that time Mark was mainly playing a Pensa at it blew me away. Too bad the Straits disbanded a few years later, while I was desperately hoping for a reunion.

A video on Mark Knopfler's guitars with an intro by John Cordy! It must be my birthday...

I’ve had one of the Knopfler sig Strats, and I had a Suhr that was basically the Knopfler version but a hard tail. Both were awesome and I should’ve kept them.

Whether through an amp, a Kemper, or tin cans on a string, nobody does subtlety and nuance like MK. A hero of mine since the very first notes of the first DS album.

Robert Cray and Mark Knopfler are two very big reasons I play at playing guitar. The Brothers in Arms album to this day is in my opinion the best album to listen to all the way through. I can just set it on repeat.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

Can you play BOTH guitar lines of "Money for Nothing"?

Awesome! ‘77 started my college journey and my teac tape player (still have it) followed me.

You're one of very few youtubers I watch without browsing other sites. You always have my full attention.

Very Cool Episode, Thankyou. Seeing him in 1985 is a pleasant lasting memory. Cheers

This is an excellent history of Mark's life and his guitars . As a 14 year old in the 80s, the sight and sound of Mark and his strats were the most meaningful and exciting things in my life - your video helps me re-live those feelings!

Way to go brother ! My fave guitarist of all time. Just love this channel, but for a KNOPFLER junkie like me, this was the absolute top of the pyramid. Many 🙏🏻 thnx

⚓️ Thanks Keith 😎

My older brother, also a college freshman in '78, brought DS's debut album home with him on Christmas break. I was 14 and have been hooked ever since.

I went through three cassettes of "Dire Straits Live," which could be heard for yards and yards, blasting out of my T-Topped Turbo Trans Am. To this day, out of nowhere, the intro to "Romeo And Juliet" will suddenly pop into my head and I just stop and bask in it. And yes, between Richard Thomps, David Byrne, Adrian Belew, Mark Knopfler, that's why I had only one guitar for twent years, a 1983 62RI from the Fullerton factory. Great vid, Keith!

Mark Knopfler is such a phenomenal guitarist & story teller! Great video!

Great episode, again! Those guest players, smokin' !

AWE YEAH RIGHT ON MAN THANKS. You're the BEST.

Dude, I can't believe you shaved the stash! Man, that thing was epic and second only to Tom Selleck's moustache. 😭😭😭

Quick note that "Exchange and Mart" wasn't a place in Wales. It was a tabloid newspaper style weekly publication containing only classified ads. Kind of an "analog craigslist". So Mark saw an ad in the E&M placed by someone in Wales, drove there to buy the guitar from the seller.

New episode, new look (great, you look younger and better) and great info as always!

Just a spot-on episode, Keith (as always!). Diverging just a little, I look forward to a day where traditional music industry folks realize that programs like yours are actually beneficial to the artist, and that you can then feature the artist's original music without being de-monetized. That day will come! I believe! 🙂 Cheers, mate -

13:17, the '53 Super 400 looks to have a pair of AlNiCo V Staple Pickups. The AlNiCo V Staple pickup is my most favorite pickup due to its tonal versatility through its ability to raise or lower the magnetic pole pieces. You could almost do an entire episode on just this pickup! Great video, thank you Keith.

@tomkobialka7504

Жыл бұрын

Yes, not P 90s .

@shallyshal1

Жыл бұрын

Should have read your post first. Totally agree

@hkguitar1984

Жыл бұрын

FYI There is a SPAM/SCAM replying to my comment. I've reported it.

Great job !! Mark Knopfler has been my favorite guitarist for at least a gajillion years.

Loved this video Mr Clean-shaven Keith. As a young metalhead guitarist in the 80's, I used to cop a bit of flack from mates for liking Dire Straits. But Knopfler has a certain magic with his tone, technique and phrasing. Not to mention his laid back vocal style too.

Keith never mentioned that he had a younger brother also named Keith. Great Short History video of Mark Knopfler's guitars. Thank you, younger brother of Keith! 👍

That first album! It started me on my guitar journey of now 35 years. That sound and groove. Well done .

A-A-A-A-Again, (AWESOME!!!) Love all your videos l watch them many times over. So much info, we keep coming back. The guitar nerds and gear heads are not going away.

Turns out I knew next to nothing about one of my favourite guitar players guitars! Great video. Best way to enjoy my late morning coffee.

Missed this live so goatee-less Kieth hit me like a sledgehammer oh I was not prepared

Sometime ago I was trying to track back the history of the glassy strat tone and I guess Knopfler is the one guy who brought it back in the 70's.

Who are you, and what have you done with Keith's Beard? :)

I’ve loved that Pensa-Suhr for a long time, and so I know it’s an EMG 85 in the bridge, not the 81. Great video though - I’ve been a Dire Straits fan since my early teens so enjoyed watching this. And I finally have my own custom Suhr coming next year which will be similar (but not the same as…) Mark’s Pensa-Suhr :-)

@rdmahurin

Жыл бұрын

The Pensa-Suhr was always my favorite 👍

I can't listen to them anymore without thinking about he and David being estranged and getting sad. I hoped they'd have played at the HoF but sadly they didn't. That first album is so good and there's so many great videos of that incarnation of the band playing together and you can tell he and his brother were in tune in a way no amount of practice can do. His rhythms on Sultans and Down to the Waterline are so good and mesh well with Mark's brilliant leads.

Still listening to the first Dire Straights album. Loved his work of that era with his brother. The fact that a clean tone Strat album came out at the time is still amazing.

@mijorchard6206

Жыл бұрын

It was such a breath of fresh air and a revelation. I think people have forgotten how original it sounded at the time.

Great show. Can you put up a poll and see if everyone else wants the ‘stache grown back?

Thank you for doing this Keith. FYI: Mark had switched from Reinhardt to Komet amps for his Trainwreck style amps when Reinhardt stopped producing them. He still sounds great with Kempers.

Funnily enough Brendon from The Nottinghill Billies turned up at a jam session in Leeds yesterday and brought a guitar Steve Phillips made for me to see. A beautiful brown wood and gold metal resonator. Incredible guitar. We got pics of it on our social media. 🎯

Thank you again. I love 'The guitars of...' series. ❤️

Don’t forget the soundtrack from the movie “Local Hero” ( the film is good too!)

That's some friend and gift!😳

In the 80s, I remember one of the guitar magazines stating he had the "perfect" sound. Great damn player! Money for nuthin had just come out, and made Dire Straights more relevant again.

Oh yes, been waiting for this one , Thanks Keith

Great Video! Knopfler taught me the value of the volume knob / pedal. Kottke taught me about finger style.

I tossed my picks away (figuratively, not literally) when I started really studying his playing around 1980. I mean, I always have picks around, but they are rarely used- I do almost everything with my fingers. My weird MK story: I was with 3 friends in a VW Beetle trundling up to the Brothers in Arms tour show in Concord California. There was a lot of traffic getting to the amphitheater, so the going was slow. As it happens, the DS tour bus ended creeping up right behind us, and me, the guitar player in the car, was ecstatic to see Knopfler riding shotgun next to the bus driver. I was in the back and waved excitedly and Mark waved back. Then, my very good but practical joking friend, started slowing the bug down, slower and slower. Knopfler and the bus driver gave us dirty looks to wave us away. Oh god was I embarrassed. 😂

Nice work. Love the surprise Duke sighting too

Perfect timing for me! I’ve just finished reading John Illsley’s book and it’s reminded me of my love for Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler! Thanks Keith!

With a smile and all the right vibes, your work has just the right tone as well! It's 83 degrees in Minnetonka MN an I need a 5 Watt Hoodie... YaY!

GREAT video Keith! MK is just one of those guys I dont really think about much until I hear him playing or one of his recordings...then I get lost in it for hours. I remember fondly my dear departed cousin was a big Mark Knopfler fan. He even used some of his material from his album with EmmyLou Harris in his wedding. I remember he and his new bride walking together off the platform to "This is Us". I'll never forget it. Perfect fit!

Enjoyed this one good choice Mr Williams

I’ve gone to all fingerpicking. He’s an inspiration.

One minute and thirty-nine seconds in and already old ADD Boy is focused like a laser on your content with gleeful anticipation. Go get 'em Keith!

thanks Keith, you've made both the videos I've suggested now. Mark Knopfler and David Gilmore

Rudy built me my beautiful MK1. It’s simply the best guitar in the world. Rudy told me Mark received his just before he went on stage at the Nelson Mandela concert. Literally went on rage in front of a billion people and played a guitar he’s never played before. Awesome 😎

Another fantastic historical gear episode! Always liked Mark Knopfler’s playing, but this gave me an even greater appreciation of him, his work and fantastic tone cultivation. BTW, I like the new look!

Have always been a Mark Knopfler fan and thoroughly enjoyed this.