Messing about on guitar

Over the long weekend I went away and stayed with some extended family. I took my guitar along, as my Uncle is quite the guitarist and used to do, and still occasionally does, gigs about the place, and my teenage cousin is following in his footsteps. My Uncle is a bass player primarily, but he does pretty well on guitar also. We had a good time "jamming", especially playing Stand by Me, with me on the basic chords and him doing the fancy stuff I can only aspire to (but I didn't get that on video).

Apologies for my home movie here. It has real home movie "charm" (euphemism for it's rubbish). My camera takes video, but is not a video camera per se, and something was going on with the focus (another video was much better, but you don't get any of the lead guitar in it, if that's what I call it). We were also just fooling around and he hadn't played this in a long time. But without further ado, here's a bit of footage of my Uncle playing Mark Knopfler.

If you have no idea what he's playing it's Going Home. Here is a video of Mark Knopfler playing it live, and here it is in the movie Local Hero. There was a time when just about everybody in my extended family owned, and thrashed, the Mark Knopfler CD Screenplaying, a compilation of his soundtracks (tracks like this one are so nice in the background).