http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjrp6qm-iI

there have been so many rockstars, and there will be so many more, but no one will be as 'cool' as Mark Knopfler.

"you can fall for chains of silver
you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers
and the promises they hold

you promised me everything
you promised me thick and thin, yeah
now you just say Oh yeah Romeo yeah
.... you know I used to have a scene with him"


amusement, sarcasm, all delivered with so much laidback nonchalance...saw him perform at Bangalore .... there too, like in every other performance, he does not care that there are a few thousand people in rapt attention ... he sings, he plays, as if he was all alone. He's a laid back, relaxed version of the Pearl Jam attitude, everytime.

Renditions of his songs are always subtly different ... both on the guitar and on vocals, each time he performs...such a refreshing change from the somewhat programmed and literally 'staged' performances of someone like Sting. You can watch three performances of "romeo and juliet" and they'd all be subtly different and improvised live.