Erlewine
Brand Erlewine
Type Automatic
Year Unknown
Serial number Unknown
Additional info This custom guitar was used on Industrial disease during the Love over gold tour 1982-1983 and Brothers in arms tour 1986. It was also used on earlier shows as can be seen on this picture. On the Erlewine Guitars site they also talk about the Erlewine Automatic and they mention: "We liked the way Mark Knopfler used the Erlewine Automatic for that famous starting riff on Dire Straits’ “Industrial Disease.” Click here for a nice autographed picture of the Erlewine Automatic. And click here for another picture of Mark and this guitar.And here a picture taken at the Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14th June 1983.

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