When the guitar God swapped his Les Paul for a red Fender Telecaster to twang the evergreen Dire Straits hit Walk of life, the audience erupted, singing along and dancing.
What it is, from Knopfler's album Sailing to Philadelphia, was next, followed by the title track from the same album.
The electric guitar made way for a shiny dobro, with a capo on the fifth fret, as the touch artist coaxed the opening notes of Romeo and Juliet. The ballad of love gone wrong was played stadium rock style, with Chad Cromwell's snare sounding like an electronic drum and reverberating across the ground.
It was the stuff of goose pimples, as Knopfler slung his Strat on to play the solo -- complete with signature staccato ghost notes.