Bands that nobody talks about anymore

[Machinegunner]

Oh no doubt about it, Knopfler's a legend and the streak of albums up until and including Brothers in Arms is a hell of a run. The thing is though, I don't hear much of Dire Straits' influence in rock since then. You can listen to bands and say 'oh, I hear the influence of Zeppelin/Pixies/Talking Heads/Velvets etc.' but I don't detect much of Dire Straits, outside of something obvious like The Killer's covering 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Knopfler's a hard guy for a garage band to cop, so maybe that cus it off at the root? Guitar, I mean. You could cop the vocals.

Well, I think as far as not being a highly influential artist…I think that pertains to the vast majority of classic rock/pop/prog era artists. Unless you’re a big name hard rock/punk/metal band, stylistically the relevance has been waning for many years. Someone like Knopfler is still influential in guitar playing circles as is the case with others. But as far as being influential, that doesn’t necessarily pertain to an artist or band being talked about or not on various places on the internet as per my previous post. In that light, and again, I think a distinction needs to made as to where (and by who) are these artists not being talked about…because by in large, most of them still are. Even if it’s by a bunch of middle age and older dudes

 

[jp_nyc]

This is only three weeks old. So somebody will has Dire Straits on his mind.

 

[cuffdc]

UB40
Dinosaur Jr.

Hey, Dinosaur Jr has been touring heavily in recent years and Mascis just put out a solo album that I feel is pretty solid. And at least in the narrow old indie circles I follow Mascis gets lots of props.

 

[Lerxst]

I’ve never heard that. I can tell why, it was horrible.

I bought the album that track is on for 1 decent song I heard played at a show between bands. Probably listened to the album a few times after, then shelved it for eternity.