What SMOKING music are you listening to? (2026)

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Trivia, Pt II: Although thrilled to have Mark Knopfler playing on the song, Al was disappointed in the final recording because Mark had been touring that song and playing it every night, thus it had morphed into more of a looser stage version, whereas Al's band played it spot-on, note for note, nuance for nuance -- which is what he was looking for.

The plot thickens. The original version had Knopfler on guitar but as @kann mentioned it wasn't the same as the original so what you are hearing is Weird Al's guitarist Jim West doing most of the note for note guitar work.