“I remember him asking 'Do you mean like a rock guy?' I think he's one of the greatest soloists ever, so I really wanted to hear more of that. “He wasn't into that idea,” the producer revealed.
There was no additional processing on that tune during the mix.”ĭorfsman loved the guitar sound so much, he suggested Knopfler embrace more solos. Nevertheless, whether it was the phase of the mics or the out-of-phaseness, what we heard was exactly what ended up on the record. “It wasn't how I would want to set things up - it was probably just left from the night before, when I'd been preparing things for the next day and had not really finished the setup. "One mic was pointing down at the floor, another was not quite on the speaker, another was somewhere else,” Dorfsman recalled of the recording session. "The tune originally began with the guitar riff,” the song’s producer, Neil Dorfsman, explained to Sound on Sound, admitting that the band was “going for a sort of ZZ Top sound.” Still, the “Money for Nothing” guitar part ended up taking on its own life by accident.
“Dire Straits had done them before, but they showed the band playing, and Dire Straits weren’t all that interesting.”ĭetermined to write an MTV-friendly hit, Knopfler looked to duplicate the sound of one of the network’s rock staples: ZZ Top.īy this time, the little ol’ band from Texas had become MTV mainstays thanks to hit songs like “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs.” Their distinctive guitar parts were all over the network’s airways, so Knopfler attempted to emulate the sound for his new track. “Mark Knopfler didn’t like doing videos,” noted music-video director Steve Barron in the book I Want My MTV. However, the group was slow to embrace MTV. “Sultans of Swing,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Private Investigations” had all reached the Top 10 in their native U.K., though the response in the U.S. In it, bassist Dusty Hill plays a Vox Continental organ, and both Hill and drummer Frank Beard do not wear sunglasses, a trademark ZZ Top accessory.The network’s advice marinated in frontman Mark Knopfler’s brain. Marios Pinzer directed the song's music video, which used both live action and claymation. Linden Hudson - Preproduction Engineer.Guitarist Billy Gibbons played a 1955 Gretsch Roundup while recording "TV Dinners". Robert Palmer recorded "TV Dinners" for his studio album 2003 Drive. Released as a single, it reached #38 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. The song is a simple, beat-driven tune with humorous lyrics about pre-packaged, oven-ready meals. It was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. " TV Dinners" is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator.
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