Money For Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies

drnick954 · Post by **drnick954** » Wed May 26, 2004 3:49 am

I guess Mark gets better the more he performs the song.

Mark who? Is he in Dire Straits?

Wardie · Post by **Wardie** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:41 am

Bah, that's not one of Al's best though but hey MFN has the best guitar solo, pity it's so short.

Video wasn't half-bad however.

Post by **algonacchick** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:47 am

drnick wrote: Mark who? Is he in Dire Straits?

Mark Knopfler. He agreed to let Al do the parody of Money for Nothing as long as he played guitar on it. Yes, he is the guitarist for Dire Straits.

young dumb and ugly · Post by **young dumb and ugly** » Wed May 26, 2004 4:53 am

hey, I like this song..especially the guitar solo...

Sarah

WEIRDALexis279 · Post by **WEIRDALexis279** » Thu May 27, 2004 12:42 am

Al does a great job on parodying the videos of the songs. I do like the song, I just don't listen to it as much as others.

Post by **weirdojace** » Thu May 27, 2004 1:06 am

Dare I say it...I never cared for this song. I mean, all he did was take the words to the Beverly Hillbillies theme song and sung it over the music to Money for Nothing. Not really that special...

He did do a good job with the video though.

Kitten · Post by **Kitten** » Thu May 27, 2004 3:27 am

drnick954 @ May 25 2004, 05:20 PM wrote: but i do like the guitar solo at the beginning

Yeah that solo is great!

Alberta_27 · Post by **Alberta_27** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:59 am

I remember Al was talking about Money for Nothing and in order to make the song Mark Knopfler said that he had to play the guitar solo. Has anyone else heard this?

Manda · Post by **Manda** » Thu May 27, 2004 6:02 am

Yes I've heard that. He told that story on the UHF commentary. And Al said
"Jim's guitar track sounded alot more like the original. Cause Mark had been on the road. But they put Marks on it cause you just can't copy that Mark Knopfler feel."

That's basically what Al said. Sorry been watching that way too much. But yes I've heard that.

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Thu May 27, 2004 7:15 am

weirdojace @ May 26 2004, 07:06 PM wrote: I mean, all he did was take the words to the Beverly Hillbillies theme song and sung it over the music to Money for Nothing. Not really that special...

True, but he was also continuing a comedic-song tradition of mixing TV themes with popular songs, a tradition that dates back to "Stairway to Gilligan."