Dire Straits, Lions, Cover by Steelguitar

steelguitar · May 22, 2013, 11:06:55 AM

Here my cover of a little known and underrated song of Dire Straits, "lions", coming from their first album (1978).
There are 3 tracks, one for the rythm, one the vocals, one for the lead guitar, all is a one take without any change.
All is played with my Eric Johnson Fender Stratocaster guitar, through a Princeton Chorus Fender Amp with a Tech21 Blonde Character pedal for the rythm guitar, and with a Tech21 Blonde Character pedal through the Micro Br Soldano Amp Cosm preset for the lead guitar...
https://soundcloud.com/steelguitar/lions-dire-straits-cover
All comments are welcome!
Hope you will like it

Here the instruments I used to play that song, in my great home studio (without the Boss Compression Sustainor) :

Jean-Sébastien

danieldesete · May 22, 2013, 11:24:31 AM

Jean Sé what a killer cover !
Great sound and loads of good vibes. And those beautiful licks ...
A massive well done
Daniel

steelguitar · May 22, 2013, 11:34:05 AM

Thank you very much my friend!!!

I'm thinking about the vibes
Will happens to the 'straits
We'll do together very soon
for the Variety Fest !!!
;-)

Jean-Sébastien

64Guitars · May 22, 2013, 01:08:44 PM

Great job, Jean-Sébastien. Very nice guitar tones and well performed. The first Dire Straits album is the only one I have. It has some great songs on it.