Je vais compléter un peu sur Knopfler. A observer les photos des récentes apparitions live pour la promo de son dernier disque, les trois combos mis en avant sur la seconde photo semblent avoir été choisi par le sieur Mark. Il s'agit d'un Fender et de 2 Komet Toneking.
Les combos furent déjà utilisés sur scène lors de la tournée avec Emmylou Harris
Komet est une marque d'amplis qu'il utilise depuis la tournée Shangri-La.
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For several solos on Shangri-La, Knopfler ran his '58 Les Paul through a Komet head designed by Ken Fischer of Trainwreck fame. Komet's Holger Notzel elaborates: "Mark plays a stock Komet 60 equipped with NOS tubes from Ken's personal collection. A high-gain, single-channel amp with no master volume or reverb, the 60 uses two EL34 output tubes, three 12AX7 preamp tubes, and a GZ34 rectifier. It features a Fast/Gradual switch to allow a choice of response, and Presence and Hi-Cut controls let the player shape the high end to match any guitar and style."
Son matériel pour la tournée Shangri-La, puisqu'on en parle :
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The Komet-looking thing on top of the rack is - a Komet 60. Mark has Komet-heads both off- and onstage. The ones offstage are handled by his tech, Glenn Saggers (in the pic), and are slaved to line-level through Dr Z Airbrakes. The linesignal goes through the rack and then out to the poweramps in the Komets onstage and from there to red/basketweave Marshall 4x12's (Purdy!).
Mr. Saggers changes ampsettings on the slaved Komets offstage between songs and that is why he has changed the Komet-knobs to Fender-style knobs (easier to read). The only other thing that Mark has onstage is a Hotcake that he uses for 'Song for Sonny Liston' if memory serves me right.
I think that your pic is from the tour Mark did with Emmylou Harris. On this outing he only used one Komet off- and one onstage. He also has a Toneking combo onstage for a few numbers. On his last solotour there were 4 Komets being used.
Patrik (also a huge Knopfler-fan!)
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