![]() ![]() Highlights are a rocking version of Expresso Love and Private Investigations featuring nice fat bass runs and sax playing as well. What makes for a great listening experience is the fact that the band do not play note for note but expand upon them led by the brilliant playing of Mark Knopfler. The set list featured a nice chunk from Brothers In Arms, as well songs from the band’s back catalog, except for Communique all records are represented. The larger contingency was needed to recreate the sound from the record, and it certainly worked and they can easily recreate that 80’s sound to perfection. For this tour the group was augmented by two keyboard players, a sax / flute player as well as the core band. There is enough audience noise mixed in to provide atmosphere and the concert is a great listening experience. ![]() An impressive list for good reason, the recording is an excellent perfectly balanced recording that if one could pick apart may be just a bit flat sounding. The soundboard from Blossom has circulated for some time, on vinyl as American Tour 1975 (The Swinging Pig TSP 088-2) and on CD as One World (Pipeline PPL 505), Live USA Vol 1 (Imtrat IMT 900.069), Live USA Vol 2 (Imtrat IMT 900.070), American Tour 1985 (The Swinging Pig TSP CD-088-2), and High Falls (Baby Capone BC 022/2). The concert was recorded professionally and the resulting document is one of the best sounding tapes in the groups “unofficial” catalog. Early in the tour the band would play Blossom Music Center outside of Cleveland in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, one of the larger “sheds” in the area that boasts a 23,000 capacity. Boasting a total of 30 million copies sold worldwide it would put the band in the center of the media eye and propel them to the world’s largest stages.įor the tour to support the record, the band would tour Europe and Australia with an extensive American tour in the late summer of ‘85. It spent nine weeks atop Billboards charts, spawned two massive hits in Walk Of Life and Money For Nothing, the latter fueled by a memorable video on MTV and would garner the group two prestigious Grammy awards. Dire Straits released Brothers In Arms in May 1985 and was the band’s fifth studio album, what happened after that was nothing short of a phenomena. ![]()
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