Dire Straits - "Live at The Rockpalast" - (Unreleased album).

 

Hi friends!. Here we are again after a little and well-deserved vacation. Ok well, this time I bring you another special record for you. Another record found in the trunk of memories, which should have been released in 1995 as the end to a great band: Dire Straits,but it ended up shelved until now. It was to be called "Dire Straits: live at the Rockpalast".Let's see what happened, as always, through a little story. Let's go with it.

In 1993, after “On The Night”, Dire Straits still owed one album to Phonogram Records (now Mercury Records). This album was a means to end the legal contract, before Mark Knopfler began his solo career (still signed to Mercury).To fulfill this end of the contract, some recordings were sought that would not rival "On The Night". And two were found. The recordings that Dire Straits made between 1978 and 1981 for the BBC and this one recorded for Rockpalast.

“Live at The BBC” and “Live at The Rockpalast” have almost the same content except for a couple of different songs; but both album features one unreleased song, "What's the Matter Baby?", Co-written by Mark Knopfler and his brother David , but “Rockpalast” have the B side from "Sultans of Swing”.“Dire Straits live at the Rockpalast” was recorded on 16 February 1979 at WDR Studio-L, Cologne, Germany. The group recorded 16 songs that day. Two versions of  "Sultans of Swing";.of which 9 were selected.

Side One: (22:34) 1. Introduction.(0:15) / 2.Down to the waterline. (2:59) / 3.Six blade knife.(4:09) / 3.Lady writer. (3:54) / 5.Single-handed sailor. (5:07) / 6.Water of love. (6:08)

Side Two: (21:24) 1.What´s the matter baby?.(3:24) / 2.Wild west end. (5:05) / 3.Eastbound train. (4:51) / 4.Sultans of swing #2. (7:23).

Because the BBC had made "The Beatles Live on The BBC"  released on 30 November  1994, it was decided that the next and final album in Dire Straits' career was another in the "Live at The BBC" series. bit.ly/Ds-rPT For that alone, Rockpalast recording was rejected. The original album called “Live at the BBC” was released on 26 June 1995, on  Vertigo Records Internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The year in which the group officially disbanded.Now for the first time you can listen to the original and alternative recording to "Dire Straits live at The BBC", such as  it was mixed for its release.I personally like this one more than the official one. Judge for yourself.

See you soon with more and better. Be good like Johnny, Ok?.