I left in the actual street noise before song starts so you can hear what it sounds like to me out there. It took me years before I could listen to this song again. It was so overplayed, and Knopfler's 'woo hoo's' drove me nuts. I finally decided to try it on the street. I kept thinking how much better it would be as an instrumental so I super charged it and threw in many improvised fills to replace the 'woo hoo's!' and give it the pure instrumental treatment it deserves. You can hear the duck at the end of the song. At least he enjoyed it!

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I'm glad everyone is enjoying this video but I want to mention a few things.

1) Street playing is not all fun and games and dancing kids. Doing this for 7 years. I regularly face not only verbal abuse, but physical assault as I work a few blocks from downtown eastside Vancouver. I'm surrounded by addicts, drunks, and people who should be in mental homes.
2) I'm unemployed. All live music including busking, is banned. I lost all work last year and received ZERO compensation. I had a very bad year in 2020 and only recently came out of a depression.
3) I make ZERO from youtube no matter how many views I get. I don't run ads. And more importantly, even if I did, most of my videos are instantly copyrighted and auto monetized by record labels because they are COVERS. If you see an ad, it's the record label collecting. If you liked the performance, please think about supporting me on patreon/paypal tip/bandcamp.
4) I'm a musician that writes his own music and has been doing it for 20 years. Check out my bandcamp page to see what I can really do with a guitar.
5) It's a lot of unpaid work to post these videos all the time so please try to help me keep the channel going. Many thanks to those that have supported me! It means a lot!
6) I get asked this 100 times a day so here's the answer: I play on the street and not in a band because all the clubs closed years ago. I used to lead many bands from 2006 to 2018. That's all gone. Live music is dead, as well as banned. It's also a lot more hassle, and less money, to run a band than play by myself.

Anyone who has music work to offer can contact me at shatnershairpiece@yahoo.com
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