Maybe he was tired from the flight! ;-) It's a shame for you if he was having a not-quite-so-good night. Glad you still enjoyed it though!

I remember seeing one concert of the "On every street" Dire Straits tour on TV (92/93?) - I think it was Basel or somewhere else European - and that was sadly overtaken by MK soloing to the exclusion of just about everything else. It's good that he's reined it in since then, but I guess he does need to let it run free a bit more now, especially on the albums. I didn't feel short-changed at Birmingham though - he didn't go OTT on solos, but he did put them in where they were needed and left them out where they weren't.

Re the Cream tickets, forget that! If they had Elvis on vocals and Jesus on lead guitar, maybe I'd consider $3k a ticket...

Graham.