DESCRIPTION:
Mark Knopfler turned up at Rod's house in Finchley one time during the spring of 1974,
and a homemade version of Mark's Newport Mount Rag was the result.

Rod Clements :
" One afternoon, in Spring 1974, Mark Knopfler from Newcastle turned up on my doorstep in Finchley with a guitar, asking if I wanted to join a group "Groups Schmoops"
I replied, having just left Jack The Lad, but he came in for a bit of a play anyway,
I used the old hollow Gretsch (to save plugging in), as we huddled round my state-of-the-art Pifco cassette recorder
I could tell that Mark knew where he was going, and had what it took to get there.
Later the two of us went to see Richard Thompson playing in Hampstead.
It was a pretty good day. "