Karice

A Guitar fan said something like,"The difference between Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar is simple. Lead Guitar is "Ting, ting, ting, and Rhythm Guitar is,"Deng deng deng!" I personally agree with what the Guitar Fan said. How about you?

Roguette

Ok is this something like comparing Slash vs Jeff Hanneman? or Alvin Lee vs Dave Grohl?

Oh wait. Mark Knopfler vs Mark Knopfler, now there's a CLASSIC case of ting ting ting vs deng deng deng

Karice

Is Mark both a rhythm guitar player and a lead guitar player?

Roguette

Sorry for being so late to respond, was out of town and then SO many things going on after. Mark played some rhythm early on but I can't really say if he has any well known recordings out where he was playing both rhythm and lead. Like on 'Sultans Of Swing" he first played some rhythm but on the final release version maybe he only played lead? My personal opinion (yes a lil hero worship) is that he has done everything that one person can do in regard to music....well I don't know if he ever played drums or piano but for sure he can do anything with a guitar (and a recording studio) that can be done.

But what I'm gonna do this week or weekend is watch a bunch of Knopfler videos and try to see if I can catch him playing rhythm on any of them