One of my favorite songs of all time. Just gives me goosebumps and I don't know why 😂

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

lol same!! this is def a vibe!!!

@Isleofskye

Жыл бұрын

@@oksceez Good Reaction and great to see you get into this English Band but 7 pauses is far too many as we can always hear your interesting thoughts at the end without breaking up the flow and rhythm as the song builds and builds and NEVER pause a guitar solo...lol Good Luck,My Friend...

@IwasInThe60s

Жыл бұрын

If it does not give you goosebumps, you have a problem.😆

One of the greatest live performances ever. And the drummer killed it.

@lindabergman3127

Жыл бұрын

This true Awesomeness❤️👏👏👏👏👏

@MsGeoffh

5 ай бұрын

Terry Williams dad was there to see his son playing for the first time, that's why he gave it his all! proud for both of them.

That drummer KILLED it. 🔥

@professornuke7562

Жыл бұрын

The legendary Terry Williams. Played with Rockpile and Meatloaf.

Editor and sound engineers did a great job as well - amazing

That song still gets played often on classic rock stations.

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

CLASSIC!!!

When you're so talented you can produce that performance whilst having the time of your lives. My soul leaves my body and dances with me when that guitar solo plays.

@Isleofskye

Жыл бұрын

Well Said :)

@lindabergman3127

Ай бұрын

Stellar epic masterpiece

@marktalbott3835

5 күн бұрын

They knew this was going to be a huge performance for them. It was sold out and it was going to be filmed and recorded. So they really put out their best

I love when mark turns round to look at Terry the drummer turns back laughing as if to say "let him get on with it he's in his zone" great British band.

A truly legendary band with the legendary rock guitarist Mark Knopfler ! Nobody does it like Mark !!! " You say I'm the greatest - bound for glory "` when he wrote these words of the song Setting me up, he was being prophetic, and he's still doing it at 70 plus years young ! Dire straits will be immortal, and I was priveledged to be in at the beginning in the early seventies.

A 'sultan' is like a king. And 'swing' in this case is referring to a type of jazz music (sorry no baseball references).

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

lmao Shucksss!! thank you!!!

Telegraph road from the same concert is even better!!

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

i will check it out for sure

@aidiess

Жыл бұрын

@@oksceez It will blow your mind - phenomenal !

@gege4707

Жыл бұрын

NO ITS NOT

@professornuke7562

Жыл бұрын

That's a pretty close race my friend. This whole album is fantastic. I saw them do both in my hometown in '86 for the Brother's in Arms tour, and it was still a close race which one was better.

The sound of 70s 80s UK this was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.Totally immersive musical and lyrical extravaganza,for me it's up there with Bruce Springsteen 85 born in the USA tour at Wembley Stadium. And Pink Floyd 94 Pulse tour at Earls Court

I love everything about this song! It's one of my all time favorites.

gives me the bobble head! cant stop bobbing my head along with the beat lol

Swing refers to a style of music used by Jazz groups and Big Bands. This song refers to Mark seeing a local Jazz band in a Public House (Bar) who were not very good and next to nobody watching them. They called themselves "The Sultans of Swing" Mark said they weren't the Sultans (master) of anything.

🇨🇦 Todays Rap cannot hold a candle to this Classic !

Mark Knopfler's guitar is heaven.

Goosebumps. Every. Time.

There are literally 1000s of older gen songs that you wouldn’t of heard that would make for sweet reactions bro. ❤

This is my favorite reaction from you! Dire Straits is a vibe!, but so is your energy. A fantastic Sceezeo indeed.

GREAT reaction. So pleased you recognised the drummer's talent too. He kills those drums, but Mark is the overall star

I just joined and I love your reactions to great songs, your emotions take over your body and you are really feeling every song.👍

I’m a drum & bass and hip hop head ! But this track is fuckin fire 🔥🔥🔥

Imagine being there! The atmosphere must have been electric!! Great video mate, love these reaction videos to these great, great bands. Try ‘stairway to heaven’ or ‘comfortably numb’ live. All fabulous 👍🇬🇧

I saw them on this tour in 1983, when this was recorded. An amazing show, and Mark Knopfler is a Guitar legend!

This is back when the ❄was pure!

One of a very few guitarists that does not use a pick.

Legends in motion!

Alchemy live is one of the best live performances ever and rates up there with the Allman's life at Filmore East(One Way Out, Whipping Post, Stormy Monday, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed). Epic stuff by Dire Straits.

That Is the Best guitar player EVER!!!

Sultans of Swing means kings of a style of music. I believe swing was popular in the 30's and 40's.

It’s definitely feel good music ❤🌹🌹🌹🌹

Swing is a genre of music popular in the 30s and 40s ex. Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Ruth was called the sultan of swat. Fun reaction. 😅😅😅😅

As Duke Ellington said “ it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”

Really enjoyed this!

Great reaction :D

Mark wrote this song about a band he saw in a pub in London. They were semi professional ordinary blokes just having a whale of a time regardless of who was listening

I hear that music everyday and i never get boring

Beautiful reaction

He wrote this about a time in London he took shelter in a pub from the rain and a crap band called the Sultans of Swing were playing to an almost empty pub

Thank you !

This is another one of those songs that really is better in the studio recording.

@lynnepashley4281

Жыл бұрын

Never ever better

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

@@lynnepashley4281 you lose a lot of the guitar in this live version. Whereas The Grateful Dead really only counts if it's live.

Hat off to you, cause it was a great to see/hear how fast you picked up on the whole scene guy!

A sultan was an Arab ruler or head of state. Swing refers to swing music that was very popular in the 40’s and 50’s. So the Sultans of Swing is the name of the band playing old style jazz and swing music in a bar on the south side of London and the inspiration for this song.

Masterpiece

Everyone on point just everything you could wish for in this performance It was never off the jukebox in all the bars this song in the late 70’s put Knopfler’s guitar playing sound right up there with the best of them .

I luv them

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

they are tooo goooood

You need to check out the studio version

Such great musicians :)

@oksceez

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

❤

I think sultans of swing means the kings of cool

Babe Ruth was the sultan of swat, not swing.

One of the most entertaining frontman from back in the day was Van Halen’s David Lee Roth. He was hilarious in “Hot for Teacher” video Motley Crue “Girls Girls Girls” Bad Company “Feel like making love” are some good old rock tunes too.

@gege4707

Жыл бұрын

all motley crew is soo bad

Mark Knopfler is in top 5 of all time guitarists!!

F@#$%^ great!

🔥👍🏽

❤😊

I'll always prefer the studio version. Hearing that recording on the radio in 1978 is what hooked me on Fire Straits. It was like "step aside disco, buh bye punk. We got some real music around now."

fastest 13 minutes ever lol

They are mocking a bar band in a pub in London….that was the name of the band

@Isleofskye

Жыл бұрын

They started very near me in the pubs of South East London very near where Squeeze,Boy George and Kate Bush all lived :)

Mark Knopfler .....the BEST!! Just in a different sub-category from Eddie V.

PLEEZE PLEEZE DO “WALK OF LIFE” 🔥

Mark Knopfler wonderful

story of stepping out of the rain & into a dive. The band playing there was called the sultans of swing, but they played everything but swing, including creole. Dire Straits is just mocking them in this song.

ok sceez check out slaughter to prevail demolisher. please. your my favorite reaction channel

In the song he songs about being in south London and hearing music in a club and going inside, then he tells you about all these different guys in the band, one can only afford an old guitar but when he gets on the stage he’s GOOD, one has a day job and doesn’t care if he never “makes the scene”, etc, this fictional band is called “The Sultans Of Swing”. He refers to “Dixie double four time”, that’s a reference to Dixieland Jazz, a style of Jazz from New Orleans and double four time is the way it’s played (as in a four/four beat). So in the song the singer/narrator is stumbling across an amazing band in London that calls themselves The Sultans Of Swing, they play Dixieland Jazz, and he tells you a little about the various members of the band.

@Fred-hk7wk

Жыл бұрын

The "Sultans of Swing" weren't an amazing band at all, they were a shit band and this entire song is a piss take about how bad they were. Don't take the lyrics literally, get it from the man himself. It has absolutely nothing to do with a quality bunch of musicians playing good music in a pub, and they aren't a fictional band, they're a band that he saw live and they were terrible. You couldn't be more wrong with your analysis of the lyrics.

Great soulful tune. Their studio versions are often the best.

The lyric version is better. The studio version. The live versions leave parts out.

Just weird you're not watching most of it so long

Dude it's a live performance why aren't you watching

He's got a daytime job, thank you very much

This will explain the song. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6x6s9OtZdeZZNI.html

So many alleged "fans" have absolutely no idea what the song is about and know nothing about dire straits, right down to calling this the best version of this song. Any true fan would know what the lyrics are about and also there are several better versions than the Alchemy version recorded much later in their career.

I love dire Straits, but why does everyone rave so much about this version? Clearly, it's not the best version. Any version that supersedes this version is and always will be better. There are at least 4 versions of the exact same song that are performed much later in their career and make this version look amateurish. Anyone that thinks this is the best version, doesn't know much about the band at all. Watch the Sydney 86 version and then tell me that Alchemy is better. Not possible. The later in their career that it is performed, the tighter, more refined, longer and so much better it is, naturally. No idea some people.