What's In A Name?, the Bard Asked. Quite a Bit, If It's Yours...;D THE SONG - "Romeo and Juliet", by British rock band Dire Straits, was written by guitarist and vocalist Mark Knopfler. It appears as the second track of the band's third studio album 'Making Movies'. The album was recorded at the Power Station in New York between June 20 and Aug 25, 1980 and released on Oct 17, 1980. As a single, "Romeo and Juliet" was released on Jan 9, 1981. 'Making Movies' reached #19 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. It reached #3 in New Zealand, #4 in the UK, #6 in Australia, France, and the Netherlands, and #7 in Germany. As a single, the only chart info is that "Romeo and Juliet" reached #8 in the UK. Knopfler's personal inspiration was his failed relationship with Holly Vincent. He includes lyrics that suggest he felt he was used by Vincent to forward her own career. According to SongFacts, "The line, "Now you just say, oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him," came from an interview where Holly Vincent was quoted as saying: "What happened was that I had a scene with Mark Knopfler and it got to the point where he couldn't handle it and we split up." Aside from the influence of Shakespeare's classic, Knopfler artfully worked in references from songs that were themselves similarly inspired. In the second verse, the line "He's underneath the window she's singing, hey la my boyfriend's back" pays tribute to the #1 1963 hit "My Boyfriend's Back" by the American girl group The Angels. In the second chorus, the line "And there's a place for us, you know the movie song" references "Somewhere" [aka "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)"] from the musical 'West Side Story' that was made into a movie in 1961. THE DRUMMER - David ‘Pick’ Withers told 'Modern Drummer' he remembered "playing on biscuit tins with knitting needles as a child and asking my parents for drums". It took success in the "Boy's Brigade" in school before his parents bought him a simple set with no floor tom. He became a professional musician at 17 and a year later was playing a new Rogers kit for six months in Germany on the club circuit. He met Mark Knopfler in 1973 and played with him occasionally becoming a full-time member in 1977 when Dire Straits signed a record contract. Withers left the band in mid-1982 to spend time with his family and pursue his love of jazz. Sina has four previous Dire Straits drum covers - "Sultans Of Swing" (Dire Straits); drum cover - ua-cam.com/video/_q8s93klams/v-deo.html "Sultans Of Swing" (Dire Straits Cover); Sina feat DSUK - ua-cam.com/video/wSSnPL6F6sU/v-deo.html "Brothers In Arms" - Dire Straits Tribute by Sina & friends - ua-cam.com/video/NVyhoijrikk/v-deo.html "Money For Nothing"; drum cover by Sina - ua-cam.com/video/ycCunlZN8Uk/v-deo.html In addition, she has a drum tutorial for "Sultans of Swing" - ua-cam.com/video/LUC6heaG2xU/v-deo.html and two short videos based on "Money For Nothing" at ua-cam.com/video/eG0V4M1Dv3c/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RVFopXMvBFY/v-deo.html THE ICON - The Iconology clinic is celebrating Lunar New Year which starts on Saturday. It also known as Chinese New Year but is observed in a number of other countries too. If you're celebrating, or just enjoying the festivities, best of luck to you in 2020, the Year of the Rat. TRUE STORY DEPT - I suppose you wondered if I'd mention my name appearing in this song's title? Well, like Rosanna is always followed around by a certain Toto hit, I have my own little connection. FWIW, when I was in high school, the junior/senior classes staged a production of "R&J" to raise funds for prom. The faculty director wanted me to read for the part of Juliet. She thought Juliet played by a namesake would be cool, I would have loved to but I felt it was too cheesy. I ended up playing Juliet's nurse.
Awesome True Story JulietP!! As usual our Kasey Kasem duo came thru with some serious knowledge about the song, and I never knew the stuff about Pick Withers. You ladies are dynamite week in and week out.
Cute story, Juliet! If they ever asked me to play a certain famous namesake of mine I'd turn it down too. Not so much because it would be cheesy, more that I couldn't bear applying method acting to that role.
Do not worry about critisism it just goes to show that people are jealous of your talent.So Sina just keep on doing what your doing.Your video's are magical
Terrific, to my hearing the cymbals are much clearer in these older recordings.👏👏👏👏 "Romeo and Juliet," a tale so well-known, A timeless story, emotions overthrown, In the hands of Sina, the drums have grown, To breathe new life, a rhythm of their own. With sticks in hand, she takes the stage, A musical journey, like a timeless page, Her drumming prowess, a skillful sage, Bringing Shakespeare's love to a modern age. The beat, it pulses, like hearts entwined, As Sina's talent, with passion, is defined, In every strike, a story is outlined, "Romeo and Juliet," reimagined and refined. Through thunderous rolls and cymbal's clash, She paints their love, like a vivid flash, With each beat, emotions in a mad dash, A tribute to the tragic love they stash. So let us applaud this musical feat, Where Shakespeare's words and Sina's beat, In perfect harmony, they both meet, A rendition of love, both bittersweet.
A drummer doesn't need to play 250 bpm to show their skills. Pick Withers and now you Sina just demonstrated that fact perfectly with this classic Dire Straits song. Loved it!
I wrote it there in the comments. In my opinion the live-version of "Sultans" of the Brothers-in-Arms-Tour was the best version of Sultans ever played. Difference to the "Alchemy-Version", which was quite similar was the including of the Saxophone, which added something to the song for me. The original and Withers were brilliant - but for me so much 70ies-Style and the intention of Mark Knopfler to produce a counterpart to Punk, which was so famous in England these days. The 80ies-Versions puts so much more "life" in the song - in my opinion - and how Williams played the song was a big part of it. (Just my opinion, and I have no problem at all, if there are different opinions..) No discussion about Romeo and Juliet - just perfect played by Sina.
God bless whoever introduced you to the best classic rock and god bless you for getting it in the true experience in which it was intended We all absolutely love you. So beautiful thank you forever
One of the things I love the most about you is that you have the music taste of a 60 year old ( mine) and the playing skills of a pro musician (not mine) .thank you for everything that you (and your Dad) do. 🎼🎵🎶🎵❤😊🥁🎸
Apart from loving this song - As a non-drummer it is hard for me to find words of appreciation for that great performance - I just lift my virtual hat and make a bow... 💖
Saw Dire Straits perform this piece in Boston in 1983 at the Berklee School of Music Theatre. Mark Knoffler in the middle of the stage under a single street lamp playing his National guitar. Sina once again shows her great ability to not just cover the song but play it with the same feeling I remember Mark doing alone on a relatively small stage in Boston just before Dire Straits hit it really big. Well Done Sina!
Sina; On this one, I forgot you were playing. Such a beautiful song, it takes my heart. So immersed in the song... I nearly overlooked how well you did with it. And I am a fan of yours. Thanks for laying this one down. It is special to me. Mark
Pick Withers' drum creation for this song was very rudimentary and illustrates how a truly great song does not need much flash from any individual instrument to make it succeed. But Sina somehow adds incredible nuance that really makes the song pop way beyond the original! And she does it in a way that keeps the drums in their place. She is truly talented!
I heard Sina play once and that was enough for me to support her. She's worth every penny. This song kills me every time I listen to it, but Mark and Dire Straits can do no wrong. It might be a bio-anthem for anyone whose every been truly in love and lost. It's happened to me twice, and that's twice too many times.
Was a song that my wife and I fell in love to. You played it so good that my wife and I had tears in our eyes, Thanks again Sina for such a wonderful performance. Bless You for this memory.
BEAUTIFUL! There is definitely the soul of some old, great drummer living in this young woman! You can see the appreciation and respect for the music she plays and that every song is someone recording her playing and not just someone being on UA-cam like most of the other drummers that have videos on it. This young woman is a GENUINE ARTIST ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Just one word - Great! Awesome tune, perfect performance, nice video, it's from the best Sina's style. Sina, we are yours Romeos, you are our Juliet. :) But you will live forever with your videos and our love will be with you ! I hope the whole world will love you! Thanks a lot to you and your team.
Brilliant as ever. For the record, there was never anything wrong with covering Sultans of Swing in the style of Terry Williams. The drum part on Alchemy is fantastic. Anyone criticizing you for appreciating and emulating that is being silly.
I hope that UA-cam remains available for years to come. I want to be able to show these videos to my daughter when she's older and starts to doubt herself. This is an excellent example of what is possible if you work hard and dedicate yourself. Who knows, by that time we may be in line to see your latest tour by then!
This video by Sina is a wonderful way to learn of a love song I don’t recall ever hearing. My lost for not being familiar with a song having such expressive lyrics by one so heart broken. Sina’s appearance and gently drum playing in a few well placed shadows perfectly complements this song about love. In addition to supporting Sina Drums in other ways, happy I am to again being a channel member; it’s a really great way to support, and further ones enjoyment of her channel. charlie
4:00 to 4:04 - a classic Sina scene: flashing the brightest of smiles when something that might easily feel wrong works fine, like crashing the cymbals without crashing the song. Great Job, Sina! You caught the taste and perfection of the original marvellously. It is obvious: Right, you’re older now. And regarding the money? You certainly don’t get it for nothing. - YES, this IS alluding to Juliet’s 2nd snippet of Historic Sina, a true gem: you hammering off the GUITAR intro to “Money For Nothing”. Cool!!!
@@robertreed3424 Right you are, Robert! You can find this kind of reassuring smile throughout her career, for instance in "Woman from Tokyo", "Radar Love" or "Burn".
Thank you for the time stamp. I was so enamored with the drum work, I missed that fleeting bit of sugar so I went back and watched just for it it. I might have caught it on my 3rd or 4rth time through. It's something I always watch for but if you look away at the wrong moment , it's gone.
Sina I love this version of the song. You played it to perfection. In my opinion, you no longer need to post covers. You are no longer an amateur. You are a professional. I still love watching you play. I've watched you technique and your overall musicianship improve over the years. You've always been able to feel the music. I have bought music from you and will again. I'll still watch your covers but, I honestly don't think you need to do them to advance your career.
Thank you, Sina, For another beautiful Dire Straits drum cover. I don't believe Romeo and Juliet was as popular in the U.S. as other places in the world but you did an amazing job. As far as Sultans of Swing, In my opinion, it's one of your greatest drum covers. I think you know this, haters are going hate but numbers don't lie and 28M views tell me you gave one outstanding performance!!!
Ich habe es jetzt schon so oft angesehen - es ist einfach so wunderschön. Das Stück zieht einen so in seinen Bann, dass man genau so konzentriert zuschaut, wie Sina am Schlagzeug sitzt. Aber spätestens das Lächeln bei 4:03 zaubert einem dann selbst ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. 😍 Großartig.
It's great when you try to stay true to the music but you need to put your own touch in there and be yourself and do what feels right don't listen to the haters they're always going to be there always remember you're awesome Sina
Awwwwwh Sina doing dire straits. Isn't she the greatest! I love her, how'd I miss this one. Then she occasionally flashes that beautiful smile. Totally captivating!
Thank you Sina. This was the song I had played at my wifes funeral in 2011 after her suicide. She was bipolar and an awesome artist with a bachelors degree in fine arts. There was no medium of arts she couldn't create in other than music and acting (a degree all of their own). This was the song we both agreed we wanted played at our funeral no matter how old we were. She was only 45. You are so young and so accomplished. Thank you for choosing this song to play.
The feeling and caring you put into your covers was really evident on this one Sina.....great job.....a visual and audio treat to behold.....your ability is obvious and i am not talking to hear my own voice.....bravo.....
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs always reminds me of my wife and I. Sina you just simply amaze me with the talent you have. A truly talented musician seeing your music vids just makes life better. Music is definitely a drug we all need to feel better and you certainly provide that. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Wow! Just wow! I’ve been watching you awhile, but truly enjoyed the intricacies of this piece. Fantastic. And thank you for coming out from behind your hair! I can only speak for myself, and while I often will close my eyes while listening to music, the draw of UA-cam is watching the performers at their craft. Watching the artist’s skills, including their expression is part of the experience. Whether it is the concentration, or the smile relaying their enjoyment of the music, it adds to the performance. Occasionally I see you flash this little smile of “success”... or maybe just “YES!”, and I find myself smiling as well. You are incredibly talented, but don’t shy from showing YOU.
This is obviously a very beautiful song, but I didn't think there was anything special about the drum part. Now I know how wrong I was. There is something wonderful about the way Sina brings new life to these old songs. Thank you!
Sometimes - it is difficult to get past what Mr Knopfler is doing - which is so much - but the rest of the band is doing some really important and equally impressive “stuff”. Thank you Sina for all that you do. 💋🍎❤️🎼🥃🍺🌿🥹
What I like so much about Sina is that she can do it all with the drums ( but, can she cook lol? )…..Thanks Sina you always make ' TGIF ' just another reason to be thankful...
Так свежо на душе стало, вечер перекрасился в мажорные цвета, благодарю!!! ❤️ It became so fresh in my soul, the evening was repainted in major colors, thank you !!! ❤️
Sina, you are so much more than just a drummer! You bring to every performance the connection with the audience that music and the performer was meant to have! And you never fail to bring it!! 👍❤️😎
Once again a truly outstanding drum cover by Sina, this time with "Romeo And Juliet" one of many top-class Dire Straits classics. And not only that: with Pick Withers, she is taking an extremely deserved tribute to an excellent and wrongly underrated drummer of Melodic Rock. But I think that the time has come to thank all those without whom these outstanding videos would not have been possible. On the one hand there is Sina's dad, whose video work is always a real pleasure, and on the other hand there are the many sponsors mentioned in the credits, without whom the financing of such a video would certainly be much more difficult, if not impossible. For me it is crystal clear: Sina is the best female drummer in Europe!
Oh, was für eine Überraschung. Das lässt mich (Augen geschlossen) an tolle Zeiten zurückdenken, wo die örtlichen Lokalitäten noch Stücke wie diese im Hintergrund haben laufen lassen. Hatte schon lange verdrängt, wie beruhigend sich DS anhört / anhören kann. Und jetzt kann man auch dem "drummer" (`tschuldigung) bei "der Arbeit" zusehen -ein Extra-Bonus-. Super gemacht (wie immer). Vielen lieben Dank, Sina.
Never really considered how big this song actually was until I listened properly to the music and lyrics. It is now a song I play regularly in the car along with Tunnel of Love (money for nothing album) both songs for me are power hitters. Your cover version of Romeo and Juliet was lovely to listen to. Keep up the good work 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Whow !!! Absolutely great ! You play with a fine kind of dynamic and emotion and with full heart ! We like it so much ! Congratulation from a fanbase in Germany ! Congratulation for your wonderful work ! Herzlichen Dank ! Du bist SPITZE !!!
Hi sina. I just love your drum playing. You're an inspiration for me. I play guitar and violin and i'm learning drums for having fun but also to develop and accurate rhytms skills. Forget what others said. Keep doing your job. You're awesome!!! Greetings from brazil
Well I 'm not a specialist of the different styles of drumming in Dire Straits, so I will not complain about your way of playing on this tune. To me it sounds excellent and I had great pleasure listening to it !
Outstanding cover! My favorite part of every video you make is at the end when you try to hide your smile, the smile of satisfaction, knowing you did it very well! You absolutely amaze me with the vast diversity of styles you are able to play with! Thank you for sharing your passion, talents and creativity with all of us. Rock on!
A beautiful soothing song, Sina your drumming harmonized perfectly with the music, and I think that's the main point. A cover is no copy, and you are right to play the drum in your own way, which you like it. I like and enjoy your version.
Congratulations Sina! Thank you again for your great drum covers and this time for a great tribute to Pick Withers, the co-founder and original drummer of Dire Straits. (.. for some, the story only starts from Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms, which of course is not true ..) Romeo and Juliet is a really difficult task and typical Pick Withers. The drums almost become part of the melody. Withers succeeds in placing very unique and very musical drum accents on the first 4 albums of the Dire Straits, which are heavily supported by guitar and vocals, and also put a percussive stamp on the pieces. What is special about his playing is that the drums do not provide a basic rhythm in the conventional sense, but rather act in a jazz-oriented, soloistic manner and become an independent part of the melody structure. For the song Sultans of Swing e.g. (see also Wikipedia) Pick Withers developed a very special drum groove, which is characterized by the hi-hat and cymbal work, almost playfully, matching the song theme, between rock and swing. This is very unique in rock music until the end of the 70s and just as with bands like Cream, Deep Purple or The Police an incredible statement for the instrument drums. After the album Love Over Gold, Pick Withers' musical direction of Dire Straits became too rock-heavy and he left the band to pursue other projects. Thank you Sina for this great original version of Romeo and Juliet! Keep on drumming!
@Sina, just amazing your performance. When this wonderful band emerged, you and I weren't even born, however. what is good is eternalized! Congratulations Sina for always showing us through your precious talents with this one 👏👏👏🤛🤜🤞🤞
That's one of my most loved songs ever! I saw Mark Knopfler live in Cologne last year, nearly made me cry. Also the song that played when I got together with my girlfriend, which seems rather fitting. Nicely done!
OOOOOOOh Sina, you don't even know how you make my life happier when I'm listening to your music. You're my angel and keep going please, because the world needs someone like you!
MS. Sins you're very much appreciated. Your skills as a percussionist are above and beyond. I can see you soul expresses your talent. Congrats. 💘 Tommy Tombstone.
Your covers mimic my favorites playlist. You must have on old soul. LOL. In my humble opinion this is the the best song Dire Straits ever recorded and I am a lifelong fan of the band and Knopflers solo work. Keep em coming girl.
Smooth Sina, real smooth, no way you could mess this up! I just checked out Sultans of Swing again, and I just want to say, I'm no musician, but that was just as awesome as Romeo and Juliet. You are one awesome musician!! Thanks for everything.
Love it ! With all respect, Terry was and always will be my favorite drummer with Dire Straits, even Mark Knopfler stood in awe of how he played during some live performances.........the energy he brought to the songs was unbelievable.
Both Terry and Pick Withers commented on Sina's Dire Straits drumming. Terry fell just short of saying she is actually better than him. :)) From Pick's wife Linda Withers " Hi Sina. Pick really liked your Romeo and Juliet. I always hated the way other DS drummers crashed through it and he is not someone to dish out compliments but you really did it justice."
@@jimdavis9034I just saw this comment, and was hoping all is well; haven’t seen you in a bit. Always enjoyed your Sina support and running tally of how many instruments she played. Fan From Florida 🌴
Sina, your Dire Straits covers are great! I've been listening to them for years and Sultans of Swing was always one of my favorite songs. I always thought the guitar was the 'star of the show' until I started to learn the drums & watched your video. Both songs are great. It's really great to see you play the rockin' classics and also the quieter, complex songs. Keep on keeping on. You've made a great fan in Minnesota!
Brilliant work, Sina! This is easily the most faithful cover of the original I've ever heard, and that is probably far more difficult to achieve than doing your own take on it, which given how well known and loved this song is, would have created dissonance among Dire Straits fans in general, and lovers of this song in particular. By performing it exactly as the original (and I can't detect any difference on alternate listenings) you let people see what David "Pick" Withers did to produce the original. In true Mark Knopfler style, it is a brilliantly written piece of music, both lyrically and musically, so thank you for staying true to its original drum track, and doing so as precisely as you did. In defence of your "Sultans Of Swing" version, you covered a real Dire Straits live performance by a later drummer, which is just as valid - just different. Even with the same drummer (or any other musician) a live version often differs markedly from the recorded version, so who is to say which is right? The popularity of your cover shows how valid their opinion is. I say, if it was good enough for Mark Knopfler, it's good enough for me! Would the haters argue with Mark Knopfler? Or maybe they never go to a gig, as the live version of any song will always sound different than the recording - even if played exactly the same, the acoustics of the venue and audience noise will see to that!
Dire Straits…how about it, one of my favourite. But there is this song of Santana “Black magic women” which comes to mine mind watching you performing one delightful piece of music after the other accurate at high level. My accent lays in “magic women”, that’s why you enchant me more and more. In the meantime I watch/listen to your clips to relax and reminisce after work. Never bored to repeat. It works incredibly well for me, no other ingredients or therapist are needed. Not sure about an addiction… and if so, what a superbly one, right. Thanks so much Sina.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Such tasteful playing. The dynamics range from lace-delicate to gut pounding. Timing is precise as always. Wonderful choice, amazing performance. Dire Straits may not have been the most popular rock band, and they were certainly never the loudest! So your hard-rock loving fans may not appreciate what you've accomplished here. Rest assured that there are some of us out here who lap this up like the ear candy it is. Dire Straits, Steely Dan, and the like -- bring it on!
I wanted to write a comment to this lovely piece of music, but you wrote it for me - and a lot better than I could have done it :-) "Ear candy" - I just love this expression! And where can it more rightfully be used than on this elegant cover of one of the most elegant songs I know!
Perhaps we could call Dire Straits a bard-rock? It is strange that they made themselves famous on the wave of MTV and emerging videoclips industry. While their songs were so much lyrics-centered... But, hard rock. Do many fans know songs from Deep Purple's Fireball album? Gillan himself used to say he hates the album. And it definitely was a swing back from the prior hard rock epiphany. But talking about drumming, was there any other album of DP where drumming was so different and... ornamental? Mule, anyone remembers? Paice being like ocean tide....
sina is awesome she is 20 even thow she looks alot younger .she has alot of talent and can play other instruments as well as her friends .they have all gone to music school and work very hard to give us many great songs . please do me a favor and if u give other famous people comments let them know how much u also injoy sina-drums@thegirlsgotgroove so we can help get her noticed and bring all her talent to another level.thanks america would be so much better with a generation full of people as great as sina and her friends .and if money is tight at least we can each support her by telling everyone how much you enjoy sina and her music also by sending her link sina-drums@thegirlsgotgroove to other celeberties who may like to enjoy what she shares with us everyday and also how much enjoyment we could get from seeing her play with someone like paul mccarthy ..now wouldent that take ur breath away ? ...btw sina has 343 youtube videos and 832k subscribers thank you for your support and adds i do appreaciate it .thank you
Magnificent rendition, Sina! Again it's hard not to notice your perfect sense of timing with the right accents (or should I call it stick to surface angles of incidence) and the right energy at every strike, it's just perfect and, I believe, not easy to emulate :)
One of the best songs of all time... made even better by what may be Sina's best drum performance to date! None of Knopfler's drummers have ever come close to this!
Here are some other who speak highly of Sina... Terry Williams - Dire Straits drummer Linda Withers - Pick Withers wife- Linda Withers Hi Sina. Pick really liked your Romeo and Juliet. I always hated the way other DS drummers crashed through it and he is not someone to dish out compliments but you really did it justice. Danny Seraphine - Chicago drummer "Wow awesome performance Sina!!!! I love your feel and interpretation of my drum part. I hope someday we can meet and you can give me a lesson!! peace Danny Seraphine". - REO Speedwagon
- Foghat - Posted Sina's cover of Slow Ride on their FB page.
Liberty Divitto -Billy Joel's drummer. Todd Sucherman - Styx drummer Randy Bachman - BTO guitarist, singer Ian Paice - Deep Purple drummer David Coverdale - Deep Purple and Whitesnake singer. In 2016, Coverdale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Comment (FB) Nancy Bushy /Ron Bushy's wife? Drummer for Iron Butterfly (YT) Jim Peterik / Survivor (YT/FB) - Singer and songwriter. CCR drummer Doug Clifford shared Sina's cover on his Facebook pag
@@jimdavis9034 Thanks for informing us. I wasn´t aware of all the credits. And this is so great, that Sina´s work is so highly recognised by the people, which were "responsible" for the music. I had to do a lot with professional sport in the past, so I have the slight idea, that media also loves to transport a wrong idea of musicians to the audience (also many "sport heroes" are funny, nice, open guys and more normal people then the "super heroes" like media likes to present them). Maybe many of them see themselves as colleagues and even "family" more than opponents for a place in the sun. (I don´t know about the current "stars", but I think her funny video with Brian May gave me a hint, that the "old stars" realise a real talent and welcome them with open arms. Sina really deserves it. Maybe they also know, that she belongs to that kind of youth, who keeps the "good old music" alive - and maybe transport it to a new audience, who also thinks, that there must be more than rapping and electronic music.
This, as with all of your covers, is excellent. I must confess that I especially enjoy your continued drumming after the song and the flourish at the end.
I didn't expect much from this cover. I have thought that Romeo and Juliet is mostly an average song, and contrast to the song Tunnel of Love, that opens the Making Movies album, and which I consider Dire Straits' best song, is too big. So I've been ignoring this video even though UA-cam's algorithm has been recommended it to me. Until now. Well, I'm still thinking, that Tunnel of Love is Dire Straits' best song. but suddently this is a brilliant song too. Sina plays flawlessly and brings her own spices to the song. The sounds are great and the video is also well made. Great job!
I'm from Russia, from deep Siberia. Since my youth, I love the work of Mark Knopfler. Thank you for reminding me of him. You're a very pretty young lady. I wish you creative success and success in your personal life!!! If you want I will send you a photo of our wonderful magical Siberian nature.
Absolutely brilliant cover Sina. As a drummer myself, love to watch your technique and confidence when playing. Love this song and you bring a bit extra to the table with this video. Keep it up and good luck with the exams and all you do.
I'm proud of your dedication for music career, Rock Princess Sina. You are one of the best percussionist around, in my opinion. God bless you and family eternally. I love you as Jesus does. Be well, safe and happy, then walk complete in love.
Was mich immer wieder fasziniert, Sina holt aus einem Drum Kit immer noch eine tolle Nuance heraus, die positiv überrascht. Mir war früher nie klar, wie unterschiedlich ein Drum Kit spielbar ist. Erst jetzt achte ich überhaupt auf Drummer. Danke Sina.
I instantly loved this song the first time I heard it. Seeing it from the perspective of this video illustrates the brilliance of simplicity! Too much new music today lacks this quality. Thank you Sina!
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What's In A Name?, the Bard Asked. Quite a Bit, If It's Yours...;D
THE SONG - "Romeo and Juliet", by British rock band Dire Straits, was written by guitarist and vocalist Mark Knopfler. It appears as the second track of the band's third studio album 'Making Movies'. The album was recorded at the Power Station in New York between June 20 and Aug 25, 1980 and released on Oct 17, 1980. As a single, "Romeo and Juliet" was released on Jan 9, 1981.
'Making Movies' reached #19 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. It reached #3 in New Zealand, #4 in the UK, #6 in Australia, France, and the Netherlands, and #7 in Germany. As a single, the only chart info is that "Romeo and Juliet" reached #8 in the UK.
Knopfler's personal inspiration was his failed relationship with Holly Vincent. He includes lyrics that suggest he felt he was used by Vincent to forward her own career. According to SongFacts, "The line, "Now you just say, oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him," came from an interview where Holly Vincent was quoted as saying: "What happened was that I had a scene with Mark Knopfler and it got to the point where he couldn't handle it and we split up."
Aside from the influence of Shakespeare's classic, Knopfler artfully worked in references from songs that were themselves similarly inspired. In the second verse, the line "He's underneath the window she's singing, hey la my boyfriend's back" pays tribute to the #1 1963 hit "My Boyfriend's Back" by the American girl group The Angels. In the second chorus, the line "And there's a place for us, you know the movie song" references "Somewhere" [aka "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)"] from the musical 'West Side Story' that was made into a movie in 1961.
THE DRUMMER - David ‘Pick’ Withers told 'Modern Drummer' he remembered "playing on biscuit tins with knitting needles as a child and asking my parents for drums". It took success in the "Boy's Brigade" in school before his parents bought him a simple set with no floor tom. He became a professional musician at 17 and a year later was playing a new Rogers kit for six months in Germany on the club circuit. He met Mark Knopfler in 1973 and played with him occasionally becoming a full-time member in 1977 when Dire Straits signed a record contract. Withers left the band in mid-1982 to spend time with his family and pursue his love of jazz.
Sina has four previous Dire Straits drum covers -
"Sultans Of Swing" (Dire Straits); drum cover - ua-cam.com/video/_q8s93klams/v-deo.html
"Sultans Of Swing" (Dire Straits Cover); Sina feat DSUK - ua-cam.com/video/wSSnPL6F6sU/v-deo.html
"Brothers In Arms" - Dire Straits Tribute by Sina & friends - ua-cam.com/video/NVyhoijrikk/v-deo.html
"Money For Nothing"; drum cover by Sina - ua-cam.com/video/ycCunlZN8Uk/v-deo.html
In addition, she has a drum tutorial for "Sultans of Swing" - ua-cam.com/video/LUC6heaG2xU/v-deo.html
and two short videos based on "Money For Nothing" at ua-cam.com/video/eG0V4M1Dv3c/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RVFopXMvBFY/v-deo.html
THE ICON - The Iconology clinic is celebrating Lunar New Year which starts on Saturday. It also known as Chinese New Year but is observed in a number of other countries too. If you're celebrating, or just enjoying the festivities, best of luck to you in 2020, the Year of the Rat.
TRUE STORY DEPT - I suppose you wondered if I'd mention my name appearing in this song's title? Well, like Rosanna is always followed around by a certain Toto hit, I have my own little connection. FWIW, when I was in high school, the junior/senior classes staged a production of "R&J" to raise funds for prom. The faculty director wanted me to read for the part of Juliet. She thought Juliet played by a namesake would be cool, I would have loved to but I felt it was too cheesy. I ended up playing Juliet's nurse.
Awesome True Story JulietP!! As usual our Kasey Kasem duo came thru with some serious knowledge about the song, and I never knew the stuff about Pick Withers. You ladies are dynamite week in and week out.
Rosanna, just consider this a tribute to your mum ;)) Thanks so much!!
@@sina-drums Miss Sina, did you just do a Long Distance Dedication? ;) You are such a classy young lady. This is proof!
Cute story, Juliet! If they ever asked me to play a certain famous namesake of mine I'd turn it down too. Not so much because it would be cheesy, more that I couldn't bear applying method acting to that role.
thank you for great write up
Do not worry about critisism it just goes to show that people are jealous of your talent.So Sina just keep on doing what your doing.Your video's are magical
Terrific, to my hearing the cymbals are much clearer in these older recordings.👏👏👏👏
"Romeo and Juliet," a tale so well-known,
A timeless story, emotions overthrown,
In the hands of Sina, the drums have grown,
To breathe new life, a rhythm of their own.
With sticks in hand, she takes the stage,
A musical journey, like a timeless page,
Her drumming prowess, a skillful sage,
Bringing Shakespeare's love to a modern age.
The beat, it pulses, like hearts entwined,
As Sina's talent, with passion, is defined,
In every strike, a story is outlined,
"Romeo and Juliet," reimagined and refined.
Through thunderous rolls and cymbal's clash,
She paints their love, like a vivid flash,
With each beat, emotions in a mad dash,
A tribute to the tragic love they stash.
So let us applaud this musical feat,
Where Shakespeare's words and Sina's beat,
In perfect harmony, they both meet,
A rendition of love, both bittersweet.
Sina, You have a Beautiful Drum Kit... And you sure know how to play the Drum Kit!!!!-04/27/2024/Richard Bishop Spartanburg South Carolina 💙💙💙💛💙💙💙
A drummer doesn't need to play 250 bpm to show their skills. Pick Withers and now you Sina just demonstrated that fact perfectly with this classic Dire Straits song. Loved it!
I wrote it there in the comments. In my opinion the live-version of "Sultans" of the Brothers-in-Arms-Tour was the best version of Sultans ever played. Difference to the "Alchemy-Version", which was quite similar was the including of the Saxophone, which added something to the song for me. The original and Withers were brilliant - but for me so much 70ies-Style and the intention of Mark Knopfler to produce a counterpart to Punk, which was so famous in England these days. The 80ies-Versions puts so much more "life" in the song - in my opinion - and how Williams played the song was a big part of it. (Just my opinion, and I have no problem at all, if there are different opinions..)
No discussion about Romeo and Juliet - just perfect played by Sina.
0:25 good drummer even not need a bass drum sound=)
Pick Withers was a brilliant drummer.
To serve the song.
Love this
The only song that makes me cry every time,...thank you Sina.
God bless whoever introduced you to the best classic rock and god bless you for getting it in the true experience in which it was intended
We all absolutely love you. So beautiful thank you forever
One of the things I love the most about you is that you have the music
taste of a 60 year old ( mine) and the
playing skills of a pro musician (not mine) .thank you for everything that you (and your Dad) do. 🎼🎵🎶🎵❤😊🥁🎸
Apart from loving this song - As a non-drummer it is hard for me to find words of appreciation for that great performance - I just lift my virtual hat and make a bow... 💖
As a punk rock drummer, I now realize I have so much more to learn. Fantastic.
Saw Dire Straits perform this piece in Boston in 1983 at the Berklee School of Music Theatre. Mark Knoffler in the middle of the stage under a single street lamp playing his National guitar. Sina once again shows her great ability to not just cover the song but play it with the same feeling I remember Mark doing alone on a relatively small stage in Boston just before Dire Straits hit it really big. Well Done Sina!
My daily break from the world is to come here to listen to Sina play.
❤️🇺🇸🕊🙏🕊🇺🇸❤️
Sina;
On this one, I forgot you were playing.
Such a beautiful song, it takes my heart.
So immersed in the song... I nearly overlooked how well you did with it.
And I am a fan of yours.
Thanks for laying this one down. It is special to me.
Mark
Don't hear Dire Straits on the radio much anymore. A beautiful song beautifully done. 😀
Sina's drum work follows the mood of the song with a sensitive touch just like in the original version of D.S.
Pick Withers' drum creation for this song was very rudimentary and illustrates how a truly great song does not need much flash from any individual instrument to make it succeed. But Sina somehow adds incredible nuance that really makes the song pop way beyond the original! And she does it in a way that keeps the drums in their place. She is truly talented!
I heard Sina play once and that was enough for me to support her. She's worth every penny. This song kills me every time I listen to it, but Mark and Dire Straits can do no wrong. It might be a bio-anthem for anyone whose every been truly in love and lost. It's happened to me twice, and that's twice too many times.
It's the only bill I really like to receive! 😀🥁💸
Dire Straits....this is definitely my favorite. Yeah, yeah....Little Girl nailed it.
Was a song that my wife and I fell in love to. You played it so good that my wife and I had tears in our eyes, Thanks again Sina for such a wonderful performance. Bless You for this memory.
BEAUTIFUL! There is definitely the soul of some old, great drummer living in this young woman! You can see the appreciation and respect for the music she plays and that every song is someone recording her playing and not just someone being on UA-cam like most of the other drummers that have videos on it. This young woman is a GENUINE ARTIST ❣️❣️❣️❣️
SINA Doering did it again,she played romeo and Juliet to perfection.her rhythm and timing is impeccable she nailed this song great job 👍👏👍👏❤️
Just one word - Great! Awesome tune, perfect performance, nice video, it's from the best Sina's style. Sina, we are yours Romeos, you are our Juliet. :) But you will live forever with your videos and our love will be with you ! I hope the whole world will love you! Thanks a lot to you and your team.
Brilliant as ever.
For the record, there was never anything wrong with covering Sultans of Swing in the style of Terry Williams. The drum part on Alchemy is fantastic. Anyone criticizing you for appreciating and emulating that is being silly.
I hope that UA-cam remains available for years to come. I want to be able to show these videos to my daughter when she's older and starts to doubt herself. This is an excellent example of what is possible if you work hard and dedicate yourself. Who knows, by that time we may be in line to see your latest tour by then!
Soo much talent in a small lady! Thank You.
This video by Sina is a wonderful way to learn of a love song I don’t recall ever hearing. My lost for not being familiar with a song having such expressive lyrics by one so heart broken. Sina’s appearance and gently drum playing in a few well placed shadows perfectly complements this song about love. In addition to supporting Sina Drums in other ways, happy I am to again being a channel member; it’s a really great way to support, and further ones enjoyment of her channel. charlie
Oh my, what a lovely, delicate, regenerating and enlivened cover of this classic song! Bless you, Sina!😶🌫❣
4:00 to 4:04 - a classic Sina scene: flashing the brightest of smiles when something that might easily feel wrong works fine, like crashing the cymbals without crashing the song.
Great Job, Sina! You caught the taste and perfection of the original marvellously. It is obvious: Right, you’re older now. And regarding the money? You certainly don’t get it for nothing. - YES, this IS alluding to Juliet’s 2nd snippet of Historic Sina, a true gem: you hammering off the GUITAR intro to “Money For Nothing”. Cool!!!
It looked like she was just waiting for that part and that smile says "yes, I nailed it ".
@@robertreed3424 Right you are, Robert! You can find this kind of reassuring smile throughout her career, for instance in "Woman from Tokyo", "Radar Love" or "Burn".
@@yamamotoscissors4944 This may very well be the case! :-))
Thank you for the time stamp. I was so enamored with the drum work, I missed that fleeting bit of sugar so I went back and watched just for it it. I might have caught it on my 3rd or 4rth time through. It's something I always watch for but if you look away at the wrong moment , it's gone.
love to see you play the drums........excelent sina...........greetz from the netherlands......
Sina I love this version of the song. You played it to perfection. In my opinion, you no longer need to post covers. You are no longer an amateur. You are a professional. I still love watching you play. I've watched you technique and your overall musicianship improve over the years. You've always been able to feel the music. I have bought music from you and will again. I'll still watch your covers but, I honestly don't think you need to do them to advance your career.
My respect for this young woman keeps growing. She never, ever,faila. Just simply outstanding!
Thank you, Sina, For another beautiful Dire Straits drum cover. I don't believe Romeo and Juliet was as popular in the U.S. as other places in the world but you did an amazing job. As far as Sultans of Swing, In my opinion, it's one of your greatest drum covers. I think you know this, haters are going hate but numbers don't lie and 28M views tell me you gave one outstanding performance!!!
Fantastic!! Absolutely unbelievable! What a drummer!!!
That was perfect Sina do not worry about criscism your performance is magical what a talent you have.Keep on drumming.
Ich habe es jetzt schon so oft angesehen - es ist einfach so wunderschön. Das Stück zieht einen so in seinen Bann, dass man genau so konzentriert zuschaut, wie Sina am Schlagzeug sitzt. Aber spätestens das Lächeln bei 4:03 zaubert einem dann selbst ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. 😍 Großartig.
It's great when you try to stay true to the music but you need to put your own touch in there and be yourself and do what feels right don't listen to the haters they're always going to be there always remember you're awesome Sina
Awwwwwh Sina doing dire straits. Isn't she the greatest! I love her, how'd I miss this one. Then she occasionally flashes that beautiful smile. Totally captivating!
Thank you Sina. This was the song I had played at my wifes funeral in 2011 after her suicide. She was bipolar and an awesome artist with a bachelors degree in fine arts. There was no medium of arts she couldn't create in other than music and acting (a degree all of their own). This was the song we both agreed we wanted played at our funeral no matter how old we were. She was only 45. You are so young and so accomplished. Thank you for choosing this song to play.
My condolenses
You bought me with this one. One of my favourites. Great talent.
Miss sina this is one of my favorite bands an you did a fantastic job on this song, your talent as a drummer is fantastic loved it....thank you
The feeling and caring you put into your covers was really evident on this one Sina.....great job.....a visual and audio treat to behold.....your ability is obvious and i am not talking to hear my own voice.....bravo.....
Sina your cover on Romeo and Juliet is as awesome as the song. You are a prodigy and it warms my heart, thank you for sharing
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs always reminds me of my wife and I. Sina you just simply amaze me with the talent you have. A truly talented musician seeing your music vids just makes life better. Music is definitely a drug we all need to feel better and you certainly provide that. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Wow! Just wow! I’ve been watching you awhile, but truly enjoyed the intricacies of this piece. Fantastic. And thank you for coming out from behind your hair! I can only speak for myself, and while I often will close my eyes while listening to music, the draw of UA-cam is watching the performers at their craft. Watching the artist’s skills, including their expression is part of the experience. Whether it is the concentration, or the smile relaying their enjoyment of the music, it adds to the performance. Occasionally I see you flash this little smile of “success”... or maybe just “YES!”, and I find myself smiling as well. You are incredibly talented, but don’t shy from showing YOU.
This is obviously a very beautiful song, but I didn't think there was anything special about the drum part. Now I know how wrong I was. There is something wonderful about the way Sina brings new life to these old songs. Thank you!
yeah, always loved the song, never would have given the drums a second thought... but wow. most excellent.
Sometimes - it is difficult to get past what Mr Knopfler is doing - which is so much - but the rest of the band is doing some really important and equally impressive “stuff”. Thank you Sina for all that you do. 💋🍎❤️🎼🥃🍺🌿🥹
What I like so much about Sina is that she can do it all with the drums ( but, can she cook lol? )…..Thanks Sina you always make ' TGIF ' just another reason to be thankful...
Так свежо на душе стало, вечер перекрасился в мажорные цвета, благодарю!!! ❤️ It became so fresh in my soul, the evening was repainted in major colors, thank you !!! ❤️
This is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Your smile around the 4:00 Mark is lovely. Thank you.
Sina, you are so much more than just a drummer! You bring to every performance the connection with the audience that music and the performer was meant to have! And you never fail to bring it!! 👍❤️😎
Once again a truly outstanding drum cover by Sina, this time with "Romeo And Juliet" one of many top-class Dire Straits classics. And not only that: with Pick Withers, she is taking an extremely deserved tribute to an excellent and wrongly underrated drummer of Melodic Rock. But I think that the time has come to thank all those without whom these outstanding videos would not have been possible. On the one hand there is Sina's dad, whose video work is always a real pleasure, and on the other hand there are the many sponsors mentioned in the credits, without whom the financing of such a video would certainly be much more difficult, if not impossible. For me it is crystal clear: Sina is the best female drummer in Europe!
Just Europe Stefans?
And just female Stefans?
I might add that of the top 30 UA-cam drummers only one has more total views and he's been doing it 6 years longer.
Thank you for bringing us drummers to the for front that we are just as important as any other musicians
Still keep watching this it’s hypnotic Sian’s skill is amazing 😂😂😂
It’s not easy to capture the subtlety and understated brilliance of Pick Withers. Well done!
Sina, I love the emotion that you play with, you truly love being a percussionist.
Oh, was für eine Überraschung. Das lässt mich (Augen geschlossen) an tolle Zeiten zurückdenken, wo die örtlichen Lokalitäten noch Stücke wie diese im Hintergrund haben laufen lassen. Hatte schon lange verdrängt, wie beruhigend sich DS anhört / anhören kann. Und jetzt kann man auch dem "drummer" (`tschuldigung) bei "der Arbeit" zusehen -ein Extra-Bonus-. Super gemacht (wie immer). Vielen lieben Dank, Sina.
I love your music you do a very good job.. On the drums keep rocking my friend your buddy ben Brown from Cincinnati ohio
One of my favorite Dire Straits songs. And Sina's playing is rock-solid, as usual.
Never really considered how big this song actually was until I listened properly to the music and lyrics. It is now a song I play regularly in the car along with Tunnel of Love (money for nothing album) both songs for me are power hitters.
Your cover version of Romeo and Juliet was lovely to listen to. Keep up the good work 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Bob Marley said " One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain " Your game is good , i adore you .
Whow !!! Absolutely great ! You play with a fine kind of dynamic and emotion and with full heart ! We like it so much ! Congratulation from a fanbase in Germany ! Congratulation for your wonderful work ! Herzlichen Dank ! Du bist SPITZE !!!
You play such a big variety of music. Everything you cover is always spot on. Much appreciated
Hi sina. I just love your drum playing. You're an inspiration for me. I play guitar and violin and i'm learning drums for having fun but also to develop and accurate rhytms skills. Forget what others said. Keep doing your job. You're awesome!!! Greetings from brazil
A beautiful drum cover Sina.
The Dire Straits one of my favorite.
Stunning....a fantastic rendition. Very talented lady.
Well I 'm not a specialist of the different styles of drumming in Dire Straits, so I will not complain about your way of playing on this tune. To me it sounds excellent and I had great pleasure listening to it !
Outstanding cover! My favorite part of every video you make is at the end when you try to hide your smile, the smile of satisfaction, knowing you did it very well! You absolutely amaze me with the vast diversity of styles you are able to play with! Thank you for sharing your passion, talents and creativity with all of us. Rock on!
A beautiful soothing song, Sina your drumming harmonized perfectly with the music, and I think that's the main point. A cover is no copy, and you are right to play the drum in your own way, which you like it. I like and enjoy your version.
Congratulations Sina! Thank you again for your great drum covers and this time for a great tribute to Pick Withers, the co-founder and original drummer of Dire Straits. (.. for some, the story only starts from Money for Nothing and Brothers in Arms, which of course is not true ..) Romeo and Juliet is a really difficult task and typical Pick Withers. The drums almost become part of the melody. Withers succeeds in placing very unique and very musical drum accents on the first 4 albums of the Dire Straits, which are heavily supported by guitar and vocals, and also put a percussive stamp on the pieces. What is special about his playing is that the drums do not provide a basic rhythm in the conventional sense, but rather act in a jazz-oriented, soloistic manner and become an independent part of the melody structure. For the song Sultans of Swing e.g. (see also Wikipedia) Pick Withers developed a very special drum groove, which is characterized by the hi-hat and cymbal work, almost playfully, matching the song theme, between rock and swing. This is very unique in rock music until the end of the 70s and just as with bands like Cream, Deep Purple or The Police an incredible statement for the instrument drums.
After the album Love Over Gold, Pick Withers' musical direction of Dire Straits became too rock-heavy and he left the band to pursue other projects.
Thank you Sina for this great original version of Romeo and Juliet! Keep on drumming!
This version of Romeo and Juliet reaches it's peak at 4:02! Also, love the full/heavy sound of your toms on this one.
Well Done! Always pleased to hear you play the drums. You are awesome!!!!
@Sina, just amazing your performance. When this wonderful band emerged, you and I weren't even born, however. what is good is eternalized! Congratulations Sina for always showing us through your precious talents with this one 👏👏👏🤛🤜🤞🤞
Your playing is technically amazing, and even more importantly is very soulful and full of love for the music.
That's one of my most loved songs ever! I saw Mark Knopfler live in Cologne last year, nearly made me cry. Also the song that played when I got together with my girlfriend, which seems rather fitting. Nicely done!
Nach all den Jahrzehnten immer noch ein Gänsehaut Song... gewohnt gefühlvoll und enthusiastisch performnt von Sina.
OOOOOOOh Sina, you don't even know how you make my life happier when I'm listening to your music. You're my angel and keep going please, because the world needs someone like you!
As everyone can see, the drums in Romeo and Juliet is very hard. Congratulations Sina!!!! You were perfect in every beat that you played.
MS. Sins you're very much appreciated. Your skills as a percussionist are above and beyond. I can see you soul expresses your talent. Congrats. 💘 Tommy Tombstone.
Your covers mimic my favorites playlist. You must have on old soul. LOL. In my humble opinion this is the the best song Dire Straits ever recorded and I am a lifelong fan of the band and Knopflers solo work. Keep em coming girl.
Smooth Sina, real smooth, no way you could mess this up! I just checked out Sultans of Swing again, and I just want to say, I'm no musician, but that was just as awesome as Romeo and Juliet. You are one awesome musician!! Thanks for everything.
Love it ! With all respect, Terry was and always will be my favorite drummer with Dire Straits, even Mark Knopfler stood in awe of how he played during some live performances.........the energy he brought to the songs was unbelievable.
Both Terry and Pick Withers commented on Sina's Dire Straits drumming. Terry fell just short of saying she is actually better than him. :)) From Pick's wife Linda Withers " Hi Sina. Pick really liked your Romeo and Juliet. I always hated the way other DS drummers crashed through it and he is not someone to dish out compliments but you really did it justice."
@@jimdavis9034I just saw this comment, and was hoping all is well; haven’t seen you in a bit. Always enjoyed your Sina support and running tally of how many instruments she played. Fan From Florida 🌴
Sina, your Dire Straits covers are great! I've been listening to them for years and Sultans of Swing was always one of my favorite songs. I always thought the guitar was the 'star of the show' until I started to learn the drums & watched your video. Both songs are great. It's really great to see you play the rockin' classics and also the quieter, complex songs. Keep on keeping on. You've made a great fan in Minnesota!
Always a Great pleasure listening to your awesome Drumming :) Thanks so much for all your hard work and sharing with us all ! ! !
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Brilliant work, Sina!
This is easily the most faithful cover of the original I've ever heard, and that is probably far more difficult to achieve than doing your own take on it, which given how well known and loved this song is, would have created dissonance among Dire Straits fans in general, and lovers of this song in particular.
By performing it exactly as the original (and I can't detect any difference on alternate listenings) you let people see what David "Pick" Withers did to produce the original.
In true Mark Knopfler style, it is a brilliantly written piece of music, both lyrically and musically, so thank you for staying true to its original drum track, and doing so as precisely as you did.
In defence of your "Sultans Of Swing" version, you covered a real Dire Straits live performance by a later drummer, which is just as valid - just different. Even with the same drummer (or any other musician) a live version often differs markedly from the recorded version, so who is to say which is right?
The popularity of your cover shows how valid their opinion is.
I say, if it was good enough for Mark Knopfler, it's good enough for me!
Would the haters argue with Mark Knopfler?
Or maybe they never go to a gig, as the live version of any song will always sound different than the recording - even if played exactly the same, the acoustics of the venue and audience noise will see to that!
Dire Straits…how about it, one of my favourite. But there is this song of Santana “Black magic women” which comes to mine mind watching you performing one delightful piece of music after the other accurate at high level. My accent lays in “magic women”, that’s why you enchant me more and more. In the meantime I watch/listen to your clips to relax and reminisce after work. Never bored to repeat. It works incredibly well for me, no other ingredients or therapist are needed. Not sure about an addiction… and if so, what a superbly one, right. Thanks so much Sina.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Such tasteful playing. The dynamics range from lace-delicate to gut pounding. Timing is precise as always. Wonderful choice, amazing performance.
Dire Straits may not have been the most popular rock band, and they were certainly never the loudest! So your hard-rock loving fans may not appreciate what you've accomplished here. Rest assured that there are some of us out here who lap this up like the ear candy it is. Dire Straits, Steely Dan, and the like -- bring it on!
I wanted to write a comment to this lovely piece of music, but you wrote it for me - and a lot better than I could have done it :-)
"Ear candy" - I just love this expression! And where can it more rightfully be used than on this elegant cover of one of the most elegant songs I know!
Donald Boettger - I would like to echo that sentiment as well!
Perhaps we could call Dire Straits a bard-rock? It is strange that they made themselves famous on the wave of MTV and emerging videoclips industry. While their songs were so much lyrics-centered...
But, hard rock. Do many fans know songs from Deep Purple's Fireball album? Gillan himself used to say he hates the album. And it definitely was a swing back from the prior hard rock epiphany. But talking about drumming, was there any other album of DP where drumming was so different and... ornamental? Mule, anyone remembers? Paice being like ocean tide....
Yes, I’m gonna join in and say I wholeheartedly agree, and feel the same way as you three fellas. Cheers
sina is awesome she is 20 even thow she looks alot younger .she has alot of talent and can play other instruments as well as her friends .they have all gone to music school and work very hard to give us many great songs . please do me a favor and if u give other famous people comments let them know how much u also injoy sina-drums@thegirlsgotgroove so we can help get her noticed and bring all her talent to another level.thanks america would be so much better with a generation full of people as great as sina and her friends .and if money is tight at least we can each support her by telling everyone how much you enjoy sina and her music also by sending her link sina-drums@thegirlsgotgroove to other celeberties who may like to enjoy what she shares with us everyday and also how much enjoyment we could get from seeing her play with someone like paul mccarthy ..now wouldent that take ur breath away ? ...btw sina has 343 youtube videos and 832k subscribers thank you for your support and adds i do appreaciate it .thank you
Magnificent rendition, Sina! Again it's hard not to notice your perfect sense of timing with the right accents (or should I call it stick to surface angles of incidence) and the right energy at every strike, it's just perfect and, I believe, not easy to emulate :)
Thank you Sina! I love this song and you make it absolutely perfect. Hello from Madrid SPAIN
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Sina zum heutigen Geburtstag. Möge dein weiterer Lebensweg auch weiterhin von Glück und Erfolg begleitet werden.
One of the best songs of all time... made even better by what may be Sina's best drum performance to date! None of Knopfler's drummers have ever come close to this!
They know it too. Terry Williams and Pick Withers have said so in FB comments and here on YT.
Here are some other who speak highly of Sina...
Terry Williams - Dire Straits drummer
Linda Withers - Pick Withers wife-
Linda Withers Hi Sina. Pick really liked your Romeo and Juliet. I always hated the way other DS drummers crashed through it and he is not someone to dish out compliments but you really did it justice.
Danny Seraphine - Chicago drummer "Wow awesome performance Sina!!!! I love your feel and interpretation of my drum part. I hope someday we can meet and you can give me a lesson!! peace Danny Seraphine".
- REO Speedwagon
- Foghat - Posted Sina's cover of Slow Ride on their FB page.
Liberty Divitto -Billy Joel's drummer.
Todd Sucherman - Styx drummer
Randy Bachman - BTO guitarist, singer
Ian Paice - Deep Purple drummer
David Coverdale - Deep Purple and Whitesnake singer. In 2016, Coverdale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Comment (FB)
Nancy Bushy /Ron Bushy's wife? Drummer for Iron Butterfly (YT)
Jim Peterik / Survivor (YT/FB) - Singer and songwriter.
CCR drummer Doug Clifford shared Sina's cover on his Facebook pag
@@jimdavis9034 Thanks for informing us. I wasn´t aware of all the credits. And this is so great, that Sina´s work is so highly recognised by the people, which were "responsible" for the music. I had to do a lot with professional sport in the past, so I have the slight idea, that media also loves to transport a wrong idea of musicians to the audience (also many "sport heroes" are funny, nice, open guys and more normal people then the "super heroes" like media likes to present them). Maybe many of them see themselves as colleagues and even "family" more than opponents for a place in the sun. (I don´t know about the current "stars", but I think her funny video with Brian May gave me a hint, that the "old stars" realise a real talent and welcome them with open arms. Sina really deserves it. Maybe they also know, that she belongs to that kind of youth, who keeps the "good old music" alive - and maybe transport it to a new audience, who also thinks, that there must be more than rapping and electronic music.
This, as with all of your covers, is excellent. I must confess that I especially enjoy your continued drumming after the song and the flourish at the end.
Beatiful! Very well done Sina.👍
What a wonderful talent you are. Love your big smile!
Sina, controversies aside, what matters is that your performance is simply wonderful.
I didn't expect much from this cover. I have thought that Romeo and Juliet is mostly an average song, and contrast to the song Tunnel of Love, that opens the Making Movies album, and which I consider Dire Straits' best song, is too big. So I've been ignoring this video even though UA-cam's algorithm has been recommended it to me. Until now. Well, I'm still thinking, that Tunnel of Love is Dire Straits' best song. but suddently this is a brilliant song too. Sina plays flawlessly and brings her own spices to the song. The sounds are great and the video is also well made. Great job!
I'm from Russia, from deep Siberia. Since my youth, I love the work of Mark Knopfler. Thank you for reminding me of him. You're a very pretty young lady. I wish you creative success and success in your personal life!!! If you want I will send you a photo of our wonderful magical Siberian nature.
Absolutely brilliant cover Sina. As a drummer myself, love to watch your technique and confidence when playing. Love this song and you bring a bit extra to the table with this video. Keep it up and good luck with the exams and all you do.
Terrific. Classy, tasteful, accurate, dynamic and tons of feel.
This is great drumming.
Excellent drumming!!! Loved every second of it. You play with a lot of grace
I'm proud of your dedication for music career, Rock Princess Sina.
You are one of the best percussionist around, in my opinion.
God bless you and family eternally. I love you as Jesus does. Be well, safe and happy, then walk complete in love.
Sina's subtlety in her drumming fits this song perfectly. Marvelous work, abetted by excellent videography and sound editing.
Was mich immer wieder fasziniert, Sina holt aus einem Drum Kit immer noch eine tolle Nuance heraus, die positiv überrascht.
Mir war früher nie klar, wie unterschiedlich ein Drum Kit spielbar ist. Erst jetzt achte ich überhaupt auf Drummer.
Danke Sina.
Geht mir ganz genau so!
Mir geht es genauso...Mir war nie bewußt, wie gefühlvoll man Drums spielen kann. Sina lehrt mich da etwas besseres.
Da schließe ich mich nahtlos an. :-))
I instantly loved this song the first time I heard it. Seeing it from the perspective of this video illustrates the brilliance of simplicity! Too much new music today lacks this quality. Thank you Sina!
Spot on.