Guitar Solo

Rolling through some tunes tonight, I decided to fire up my copy of Alchemy by Dire Straits. It's a live album - so guess what - you're gunna get some long-arse guitar solos from Mark Knopfler. Get this - the studio version of Tunnel of Love off Making Movies gets in at an impressive 08 minutes 11 seconds. Not too shabby especially compared to todays pre-digested sub-three minutes disposable pop music. Compare that however, to the version on Alchemy. It clocks in at an even better 14 minutes 22 seconds. Guess who's fingers went a wandering....

Still - if you're going to be a little bit indulgent when it comes to the guitar wanderings, you can't get much better than Mr Knopfler.

Paging Grant-RantTM #1,392 about Joe Satriani or some such-like :)

[Listening to: So Far Away - Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of Dire Straits (4:03)]