looking fwd to Mark Knopfler - the guitar god

Its been a while since I blogged here.
Since my last blog, I went for the Machine concert at NYC. The Machine is a Pink Floyd cover band, and unlike many other cover bands (like Australian Pink Floyd) their hallmark is improvisation. They played a lot of Syd Barrett, a song from Animals (Dogs) and the highlight of the concert was this amazing version of "Set the controls for the heart of the sun", the song lasted around 16 mins, and it was sheer psychedelic. Apart from that all the regular ones were there. The concert started with Shine on you crazy diamond, followed by Welcome to the Machine. Other songs I can recollect (the concert was more than a month back) are Comfortably Numb, Mother, Wish you were here, Hey you, Coming back to like, Run like hell (that was an encore).
In all a pretty good experience.

Then once we went to this place called Fat Tuesday at Ottawa, Canada, where this pianist duo was performing (along with an acoustic guitarist), one of them was 60+ yrs old and the other looked <20. All the songs they played were requests from audience, and the songlist looked just like my normal WinAmp playlist. Bands like CCR, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Counting Crowes, Coldplay, there were all kinds of bands, even What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong, and they even did a polka version of Eminem's Lose Yourself! Pretty good repertoire I must say, considering it was all impromptu.

Tomorrow I'll be going to watch Mark Knopfler playing at NYC, am pretty excited. He's one of my alltime favourite musicians, and can't wait to watch him perform in person!
More tomorrow after the concert....