Sign in. One accurate version. In preparing the Mark Knopfler guitar lesson that I just launched the other day, I was looking through a few clips on YouTube for inspiration and I came across Mark Knopfler playing “Brothers In Arms” at the Montserrat concert in London back in the mid to late 90s. Mark Knopfler has played live all around in the world, but this performance by far is his best rendition that we all have seen. The bestselling album by Dire Straits was called Brothers In Arms … Il l’avait laissé sous-entendre en interview à l’automne, lors de la promotion de son album, sorti en novembre. The album was produced by songwriter Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman, who had engineered Dire Straits 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler's 1983 soundtrack album Local Hero. A live performance from the Meistersaal, Berlin on the 10th September 2007 filmed and broadcast by German TV station, RBB. Knopfler is Jewish, although of Hungarian descent, and this song seems to speak to the hopelessness of war, and the struggle of Israel to find peace. The irony of the song asking the question, "Why do we make war with those we identify with the most, our Brothers in Arms?" Brothers in Arms was recorded from October 1984 to February 1985 at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. Justin Devereux from Auckland Lately it dawned on me this is not just about brothers in arms at war, but also about Mark's estranged relationship with his brother Dave who walked out on Dire Straits and left the band during the recording of their Making Movies album. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal Knopfler's fourth key guitar, which he played on Brothers in Arms, is a sunburst 1958 Gibson Les Paul. But, there is one more version of ‘Brothers in Arms’ on Dire Straits greatest hits album ‘Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits’, on this album the song is 4:55 minutes. In one particularly interesting moment in the film, Knopfler explains how he came up with the distinctive guitar sound for the hit song "Money for Nothing" by playing the Les Paul through a static, partly depressed wah-wah pedal. Brothers In Arms guitar tab by Mark Knopfler with free online tab player. "Brothers in Arms" is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the last track on the album of the same name. These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys an Typically, when we talk about Knopfler, we talk about those pristine out of phase Strat tones from Sultans of Swing, but he's managed to come up with some of the greatest fat tones I've ever heard as well. Watch Queue Queue It peaked at #16 in the UK. These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Brothers in Arms was recorded from October 1984 to February 1985 at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. The song "Brothers In Arms" is one example of a sound no one thinks of when they talk about Knopfler -- it's a lot more like Gilmour. Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms Lyrics. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. Together Mark and David Knopfler were the original lynchpins of one of the world's most successful rock bands. In preparing the Mark Knopfler guitar lesson that I just launched the other day, I was looking through a few clips on YouTube for inspiration and I came across Mark Knopfler playing “Brothers In Arms” at the Montserrat concert in London back in the mid to late 90s. It is in G# minor. The album was produced by songwriter Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman, who had engineered Dire Straits 1982 album Love over Gold and Knopfler's 1983 soundtrack album Local Hero. The producer of the song is Mark Knopfler together with Neil Dorfsman. It is the seventh best-selling album in UK charts history and won two Grammy Awards in 1985: Best Rock Performance by a Group with Vocal for 'Money for Nothing' and Best Engineered Recording, Non Classical for the full album. Mark Knopfler played a few teasers in a pre-tour showcase from his at the time soon to be released fifth studio album called “Kill to Get Crimson” as well as other hits taken from previous albums. Lyrics to 'Brothers in Arms' by Mark Knopfler. - Robert Sandell (from the liner notes for the 20th anniversary edition of Brothers In Arms) The fifth studio album for Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms has a decorated history.