Every time I hear or think about Dire Straits, I, as a drum-nerd, can't help thinking of the raging debate in the drum world about their song "Heavy Fuel." As in, did a drummer named Jeff Porcaro play on it, or a drummer named Manu Katche. The album credits either don't say, or are known to be unreliable....I forget which. Complicating things is there are about three different versions, only one of which made it to the album, but in these days where everything in history pops up on the internet, the tracks with alternate drums have been unearthed, which clearly seem to point to one drummer over the other. But, says some, that's meaningless, because musicians get bumped on sessions all the time and another guy is brought in to redo the part.
I know this bores you all to tears, but it's a thing.
It's totally Manu, btw.
