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Hier ganz wunderbar beschrieben, wie sich der Sound auf „Making Movies“ veränderte. Knopfler war von „Because the night“ begeistert, ein Springsteen Song, den sich Pattie Smith zu eigen machte.
Hier ein Auszug von „Disciples of Sound“: When Dire Straits made a Springsteen record“
To help Dire Straits capture the Patti Smith sound Jimmy [Iovine, Producer] convinced E Street pianist Roy Bittan to join the band as they began to record at the Power Station in NYC. It was at this time that Mark’s brother David decided to leave the band. The void that Bittan filled on keys would forever restructure the band and keys would be part of their line up moving forward.
Together Bittan and Iovine led the band to the powerful sound that comes across throughout the record. As the album opens with Tunnel of Love it explodes with a fiery guitar solo that reminds me a lot of Badlands. The guitar slides into the track and the vocals launch. Often compared to Dylan because of his singing style and tone, Knopfler here bridges the narrow divide between Bruce and Bob. The band delivers the kind of energy that you find in songs like Prove It All Night with vocals that connect to Slow Train Comin.
I can’t imagine as a fan of the band what it must have been like to have heard this record for the first time. Its such a departure from the first two releases and ironically the band would never record anything that sounded like this again. Somehow by simply adding Iovine and Bittan, Pick Withers begins to sound a lot like Max Weinberg. John Isley starts to anchor the rhythm like Gary Tallent. And Knopfler, much more the accomplished player, more technical and skilled, loosens up the strings a bit and plays with a different kind of authority. Just when you think, “Ok here’s that Dire Straits sound I’ve come to know” Bittan steps forward and it’s as though we are listening to outtakes from the Darkness sessions at the Record Plant.
I’d also suggest that lyrically this is some of Knopflers best work. The songs are beautifully written. The first four tracks, Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet, Skateaway, and Expresso Love alone being worth the price of admission.
Knopler’s <i>Tunnel of Love</i> has all of the amusement park, Ferris wheel ride, carnival arcade, carousel, shooting gallery references of Bruce’s own <i>Tunnel of Love</i> but this story is that of a romance about to begin, about to bloom, that’s innocent and new.
As the incomparable David Fricke of Rolling Stone said at the time:
Making Movies is the record on which Mark Knopfler comes out from behind his influences and Dire Straits come out from behind Mark Knopfler. The combination of the star’s lyrical script, his intense vocal performances and the band’s cutting-edge rock & roll soundtrack is breathtaking—everything the first two albums should have been but weren’t. If Making Movies really were a film, it might win a flock of Academy Awards.[5]
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