nobody imp0rtant
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- May 23, 2018
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Big, big Dire Straits fan, and Knopfler's solo work as well. He skipped us on his last tour, played Minneapolis and I was in Vancouver when he was there, but secondary prices just kept climbing and climbing so I opted out as the cheapest ticket I could get day of was approaching $500. Was staying on Granville in a not really nice part because hotels were so booked at that time I couldn't get closer to downtown for work. Would have been very cool though as he was playing the Commodore. I've only seen him twice, once solo, sometime in 20xx and with Dire Straits in 1988 when he toured with Eric Clapton. Not much guitar talent on the stage that day.
Brothers in Arms is one of my favourite songs (by anybody) and this is my favourite live version. To borrow a phrase, he just seemed to hit all the right notes for me in this performance.