QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 01:56 PM)
I should also mention that on the 1976-1977 Demos, Mark Knopfler sounds precisely like a sped-up version of Bob Dylan. I'm not talking small similarities here. I'm talking Bob Dylan meets The Chipmunks.
But the demos are just phenomenal. I think that the regular version of "Down To The Waterline" is nowhere near as good as the early version because the background singers kind of suck. I mean, they don't get in the way on "Wild West End", for instance, but at times, I just don't like what I'm hearing. I wish that he could have had Sting as a background singer for every song, kind of like on "Money For Nothing".
Knopfler played guitar on Dylan's "Infidels" album.