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Keith Richards is one of the greatest guitarists of all time and also one of the most sincere musicians in the business. He has always been honest in interviews about any subject journalists ask him, including his opinions on other bands and artists. The Rolling Stones were extremely important for aspiring musicians all over the world, but especially in the United Kingdom. They inspired an entire new generation of artists, including Dire Straits and guitarist Mark Knopfler, about whom Richards has already given his opinion. What is Keith Richards' opinion on Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler Keith Richards is a big fan of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler and already said he rates the musician “very highly,” repeating the praise twice and adding that he was impressed by Knopfler as a songwriter as well. "How highly do you rate Mark Knopfler?" BBC asked him. "Very high, very high. I love his sound, love the touch and I love the stuff he's writing too these days. I'm very impressed with it and he is working with Bob (Dylan) for a while too. I think you got a lot out of that," Keith Richards said. He praised the band and Mark, after picking "Money for Nothing" as one of his favorite songs to be played on the "My Top 10" radio show in 1986. In the previous year, during a recorded rehearsal before the Live Aid charity festival, Richards talked with Ronnie Wood and Bob Dylan about Dire Straits and their frontman. During the conversation, Wood asked: “Did you hear the new Mark Knopfler stuff? The new Dire Straits song about the microwave ovens and MTV (‘Money for Nothing’).” Both said they had not heard it yet, and Keith replied: “All I know about Dire Straits is they are working in London and our truck is recording them. (…) I mean, it is good music. How is this Mark Knopfler? I have never met him, lovely guitar player,” he said. Dylan and Wood then responded that Knopfler is a quiet person. "Money For Nothing" was released in 1985 being featured on Dire Straits' fifth studio album "Brothers in Arms". Two years before, in 1983, the band had used the Rolling Stones mobile studio to record "Alchemy: Dire Straits Live". That record became one of the most praised live albums of all time. The Rolling Stones used Mark's studio record one of their albums Curiously, a couple of decades later, in 2016, The Rolling Stones would be the ones to use Mark Knopfler's studio. Part of their covers album "Blue & Lonesome" was recorded at British Grove Studios, owned by the musician and located in London. “Yeah, it seems to have grown (the studio). I think it’s because it’s so flexible. You can use the place for high-tech things like movies and surround sound, so it’s great for that brigade. I think we’ve done the last three Warner Brothers musicals here. And it’s great for rock’n’roll recording." “So you can use tons and tons of vintage recording gear, and the band can all play together. You can do lots of different set-ups. It has the latest digital recording gear, but it also has analogue gear from 1954 onwards. In fact the microphones go back even further, they go back into the 30s, even,” he told UDiscover Music. Like most Rock and Roll musicians, Mark was also influenced by The Rolling Stones, especially when growing up. He is six years younger than Keith and started his musical career in 1965, one year after the Rolling Stones released their first albums. When talking about how much The Beatles influenced him, Mark mentioned the Stones saying he also liked them and The Kinks. "Oh, (The Beatles were a) huge (influence)! 'Please, Please Me' was one of the first records that I bought. It's funny now, because while I've been working with Aztec Camera at Ayre Studio, I've been playing Asteroids about every other day with Paul McCartney. It's slightly strange to think 'Oh, that's him' (laughs). But I also liked the Rolling Stones, and I absolutely loved the Kinks. And I got into trouble for writing 'The Kinks' on notebooks and desks in school." Mark Knopfler continued: "I loved songs like 'Where Have All the Good Times Gone', 'Waterloo Sunset', and 'You Really Got Me'. I enjoyed that period, and then a few years later, when I was 18 or 19, I got into a lot of the American bands, like The Doors. (Also) some of the English bands that didn't necessarily make it as big. (One of them was) Head, Hands & Feet (with Albert Lee). I never really got into deep record collecting, because I was always moving around and was too impoverished," he told Guitar Player magazine in 1984. Although Dire Straits were active only from 1977 to 1992 and released just six albums, they are still one of the best-selling bands of all time. The group has sold an estimated total of more than 120 million records worldwide. These days, on Spotify, they have more than 24 million monthly listeners. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 but Knopfler didn't attend the ceremony. He remains focused on his solo career and recently organized the charity single “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero).” A large number of rock stars took part in the project, including Keith’s bandmate Ronnie Wood. https://youtu.be/IKfDFmpL7TEThe post Keith Richards’ opinion on Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

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My dream has come true.I can now place my very own Atari 2600 game on my shelf of Atari 2600 games, and the spine will tell the tale of my own game: “The Worst Game” Let me explain. I spent most of 2024 creating a series of “Worse Than E.T.” videos where I tested some of the “supposedly” worst Atari 2600 games to see if they were worse than the actual supposedly worst Atari 2600 game, E.T. The Extraterrestrial. You can see the full playlist here: The series culminated earlier this year with my own game named “The Worst Game”, as I threw my hat into the ring to see if I could take the crown for creating “The Worst” Atari 2600 game. The results were mixed. Some people thought was truly awful, while others felt I failed simply because the game ran at all. Touché! My friend T1LT!, who dabbles in retro game hardware, created a cartridge version of Worst Game and presented it to me at the So. Cal. Retro Expo. He presented me the custom board, …and then we snuck it into one of the demo machines and tested it. Game itself and the are posted for free download on Itch.io : Worst Game (Atari 2600) by Into The Vertical Blank T!LT! then sold me 10 copies of the game in 3D-printed shells for $30, so about $3 a game. I put the box in my office and forgot about it over the summer. A few weeks ago, I realized the holidays were coming fast and I wanted to give the Worst Game as Christmas gift to T!LT!, my brother, my daughter-in-law and my old friend Ian. To do this I wanted to create a label, printed instructions and box if possible. I started with the instructions. After much trial and error (and probably $50 worth of printer ink which I think currently trades at the price of gold), I was able to get the instructions printed two-sided in Microsoft Word. The key to get the 4-page instruction manual printed was to makes sure the document was in landscape with zero margins. The second page needed to be right justified so when the page it turned over automatically by the printer, it prints in the proper location. The next thing I needed to do was to make sure that when I printed, I selected the “Flip pages on short-edge” setting so the backside did not get printed upside down: Next, I tried to tackle the labels on the cartridge. T!LT! gave me the proper dimensions for them and I created images in Paint.NET based on these dimensions. My first concept for the labels was to use clear, printable label. I experimented with both Matte Clear and Glossy Clear. Both resulted in labels that could not be read with black background. They would work much better if the carts were printed with a white filament, but with black it seemed to require stickers with a glossy white background. This finally worked. Glossy white stickers would be how I worked going foreword. All in all, I spent $72.84 total on labels, but the ones I finally used cost $20 for 21 sheets. The next step was for me to tackle the box. I looked at a few custom box sites on the web, but the costs were enormous. the prices only came down to my level when I looked at purchasing very large quantities. I might e bale to get a box for $7.00 for instance, but only if I bought 150.I needed a different idea.T!LT! gave me an idea for a solution. He used a see-through plastic box for an NES game he created. and used glossy-clear stickers on the box. I have purchased box protectors for all of my Atari 2600 CIB games, and I realized that the plastic box protect might be able to act as the actual box. The protectors are fairly sturdy, and as bonus, they could pull double duty as protector itself! I paid about $25 for 20 box protectors, for a cost of $1.25 each. However, the main problem a plastic box is that there is no structure inside. I had an idea that maybe putting some Styrofoam inside might solve this problem. I tried a piece of white Styrofoam from Michaels first, but not only did not make an awful mess when I but it, the edges were ragged and it looked awful. I needed some material that was easier and cleaner to cut. I found it with some 1/2-inch thick Polyethylene Foam Sheet. While the Polyethylene was not perfect, it cut much easier than Styrofoam. Each sheet is 12×12, so one sheet can support the entire inside of a single box. I paid $23 for 12 sheets, and I made some mistakes too, so I I’d just round-up and say it $2.00 each for the basic black insert.I cut insert to the proper size using the box a guide, and then cut out a “cartridge shaped” area. With cartridge in the box, and the instruction slide in the back, I went back to my sticker printing to finish off the box.I made a single side-sticker with name of the game. I only made one per bx, because I only need the name to face-out ion my shelf of Atari 2600 games. I then made a single sheet that could support all the color-on-White stickers I needed for four games at once: I also wanted some stickers for the front and back on the box, that did not interfere with the cartridge and instructions images showing through the plastic box. I created a Vertical Blank logo with an Atari joystick pinched from the back of an Atari 2600 box. I also used the text from the box and the same joystick to create a sticker for the back of the box. Since the white glossy stickers were about $1 sheet, and I could first four sets, that makes the cost about $0.25 each. The clear stickers were also about $1.00 a sheet, so that’s about $0.50 total for the stickers for each game. Total cost For ProjectFor all of the “crafting” I did for this project I spent:-$30.00 for the carts-$74.84 on labels-$26.98 of the plastic protectors-$23.00 for the foam insertsBut I almost forgot the printer ink i used.Color ink for my HP printer costs the highway robbery amount of $85.00. with all of my various screwups, I probably used 1/2 the ink on this project, so that’s another cost to add in.-$42.00 for printer inkSo that a total of $196.82.I produced 9 total carts (leaving one for a planned “special edition”) for cost of about $22 each. Not too bad, but also not the true cost if I made another 10. Adding up the cost for each in the future, after all this work, game we get: -$3.00 for T1LT’s board and 3D printed shell-$1.25 for plastic box protector-$2.00 for the foam insert-$0.50 for the stickers-$1.50 in printer ink (estimate)For total cost of $8.25 per game, $5.25 While the final version of the box is not perfect in any way, I think it’s perfect for The Worst Game! I know some people might says “that box sucks” , “or you didn’t do it right” or whatever, but I kinda don’t give a shit. I did it my way, it worked for me, and I happy with the results. The box fits perfectly among my other Atari 2600 games, because they are also inside plastic box protectors. I’m sure this process will evolve over time, and the boxes will get better than better, but for now, I have a defined process and pathway to make my dream of creating Atari game cartridges, on my own terms, a reality

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