Pick Withers

David " Pick" Withers ( born April 4, 1948 in Leicester, England ) is a British drummer.

He is best known as the drummer of the band Dire Straits, whose sound he has influenced on the first four albums 1977-1982.

He got his first drum at the age of 14 years of the Boys Brigade, a uniformed Christian youth organization. He also received the only instruction on drums. Soon after, his parents gave him a set of drums, which he used to play along to popular music. During the Beatles boom he went in 1965 to Germany and traveled to other European countries. He played among other things, in a band called The Primitives, prior to signing on for five years as a studio drummer at Rockfield Studios in South Wales, where he also drives for Dave Edmunds, Del Shannon, Cuthbert Collins, Graham Bond, Andy Fairweather -Low and other grossed.

1975 Withers moved to London, where he met Mark Knopfler, with whom he now often worked. When the Dire Straits in 1977 received her first recording contract, Withers got out in the folk band Magna Carta, to which he belonged for a short time and with whom he had the album putting it back together recorded.

Withers was described by Mark Knopfler as a very sensitive drummer, which describes his style quite well. His play in the Dire Straits was characterized by soulful hi-hat and snare drum combinations that mostly harmonized with Knopfler's blues and folklastigem game. Withers played Paiste cymbals, where he had a soft spot for ride cymbal. When the drums he preferred Tama, Gretsch Drums and Eddie Ryan, handmade drums from London, which are distinguished by their dark sound.

1982 leaving Withers Dire Straits, as was his music became rock -heavy. Then it was once quiet around him. In 1987 he played in the band by Phil Carmen at the Montreux Jazz Festival with.

• Drummer
• British Musician
• Dire Straits
• Born in 1948
• Man