Name: feather duster
none
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:49:10
Comments:
"BURRRP!"............................oh shit.
Name: STEPPIN' OUT
Call the Fire Dept!!!!
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:46:33
Comments:
It was just about sunrise when I walked outside, " OH SHHHIIIITTTTT! GET THAT CAT OUT OF THE TREE!!!!!!!!!!
Name: I GOTTA KNOW!
& Conversation.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:33:01
Comments:
DR MU, OUTSTANDING!!! I do dig those glasses. I was 3 when that photo was taken. How old am I? Where were they? Was it little round disc or one very worn vinyl. I do indeed love Donald's very cool shades, I'll bet they weren't cheap either. I'll be back reel soon.
Name: Oddly Murphy
archonistic@icon.dash
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:22:34
Comments:
Testes: You'll need Explorer 4.0 if you want that Mac to chat.
Speaking of Macintosh, did you know Mac CPUs are immune to the millenium bug? Yep, Steve Jobs just KNEW his baby would last past 1999...
And what's with that DOS prompt?
Watson? St. Al?
Name: Jimi C
tuna98@prodigy.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 21:20:11
Comments:
Clas !! Me thinx that You are attempting to make something simple into a mystical-metephore! whether fiction or non.....
its just about Daddy living a life of hard drinking ,big cars,gambling which will lead to eventual self-destruction. The cigar is, fortunatley not phalic in nature, but is just something usually stuck in the face of a flashy,baudy, degenerate gambler and drunk and not a homosexual's anus!
And We can say that Daddy has passed on to a dimension where cigars are no longer available but that He's havin a helluva time wherever He is ! But there is only two people who really know !See Ya!
Name: Randy
NIGHTFLY82@aol.com
NJ USA
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 16:04:04
Comments:
Anyone else out there of the opinion that "Jack of Speed" is simply staggering? I had some reservations after purchasing the "Alive In America" CD back in '95 that messrs. Becker and Fagen were going to serve up a somewhat kinder, gentler Steely Dan upon eventually hitting the studio (witness the HORN driven "Reeling In The Years" from the live album). Don't get any wrong impressions - I think the reworked versions are GREAT, but they did cause some concern. Would there be bristling, unsettling tracks like "Don't Take Me Alive" or "Everything You Did" on the new studio CD? Or will it all be as slick as the nearly distortion free, non-ascerbic (yet still fascinating) "Nightfly"? With the '96 tour and the introduction of "Jack..." behind us, there's clearly not a thing to worry 'bout. Unless of course one expires before ever getting to HEAR the new CD.
Name: my `nar
My `czar
Location: fife,
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 13:29:06
Comments:
Ruby bay-bee: I think that whatever you want to do is OK, I was behind you on the 'Raisin Capital' thing and I'm with you on this 'Foundation Matter' as well...
Hey Maj©, can ya stop screwin' around with that kitchen sink for a minute and dig out your dictionary? I need you to fill me in on just what the hell a 'synchronicitous dichotomy' is...I may need medical attention.
my Nar (nice variant, Ruby)
Name: Clas Sigismund
c@c
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:41:34
Comments:
I've been strolling around the lawn all day thinking about this verse in "Daddy Don't Live In New York City No More". I was thinking so hard so I finally felt forced to take a spade and dig a deep pseudo-intellectual hole in the ground, unable to see the beauty on the surface.
"Daddy don't live in that New York City no more.
He can't get tight ev'ry night, pass out on the barroom floor.
Daddy can't get no FINE CIGAR, but we know you're smoking wherever you are.
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more."What I wonder is; is it a CIGAR daddy can't get, or is it something else, I mean, was dad homosexuall? And; "...we know you're smoking wherever you are..." What is it he smokes wherever he is? And where is he? In heaven? Or New Jersey? If he's in New Jersey, what's the deeper meaning with that?
O'boy, I just don't get this.
Name: ditto
duh
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:38:51
Comments:
Netscape 3.01 + Mac
Name: testes,
one two testes
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:37:16
Comments:
IE 3.01 Mac System 8 works ok
Name: JamaicanDude
same place
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:08:25
Comments:
Yah, mon. I'm all ears.
TYSON'S NEW RECORD: Mike Tyson is moving from the ring to rap. He's starting his own record label, Tyson Records, and is rounding up talent for it. "I'm into the music so intensely," the former heavyweight champ told The New York Times. Tyson is looking for an alliance with a major label and has hired industry veteran Irving Azoff (who's worked with the Eagles, Steely Dan and Brian Wilson) to help him. Tyson, still banned from fighting because of the Evander Holyfield ear-biting incident, reportedly is planning to promote his artists by putting on a showcase performance in a Las Vegas casino.
Name: stevie o'dan
blabbering with blarney
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 11:08:18
Comments:
Hey Irish Michael:
thanx for the feed back...I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy 'Heartbeat' , but I do find that early stuff hilarious in that compared to their jazzy stuff it is certainly a horse of a different color.........coming soon" Garth Brooks Plays Reeling in the years"........hows the Guiness on da' Emerald Isle??
Name: Ruby Baby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 09:42:28
Comments:
Clas: Thanx! I await...(smack! I blew a kiss to ya)To Bob Tedde & Peg: There's been a lot of talk about the very early SD music & the desire we have to see D and/or W re-invent them. New & better. I'm wondering, does Steely Damned do any of those? If not, would you consider building upon the foundations laid by the Founding Fathers of Steely Dan? Is that okay to do?
my narWorld: You know about these things; what do you think?
Dr.Mu: I learned something last fall about those old songs, particularily Boston Rag & Razor Boy. It's a long story, so I'll cut to the part where I climbed into the very back of the van full of kids & relatives all talking at once, and lay on the floor with my headphones on. I felt like a kid, looking up through the windows at the passing trees & clouds & rocks (we were driving around Yosemite). I listened to Countdown while we rolled along and the whole ambiance seeped into the music and the songs are forever changed in my mind. The background on which they are heard makes a tremendous difference, at least to me.
PS - If you would like a tape of my one & only Miles Davis record, unless you believe that to be unethical, let me know.
It's grown on me so much over the last year...rb
Name: Michael O'Jesus
turn.that.blarneystone.over.again
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 08:51:23
Comments:
Stevie O'Dan: Begorrah! How could you be sayin' that "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" isn't a swell little jewel of a jig? 'Tis me favorite; and isn't the world needing more pretty songs about robbery, betrayal, and death? When the tenor trills "..They closed the package store..", don't it put the moisture on your eyes like the dew on an Irish morn? Don't get me dander up (or me gander up). You should be learnin' from O'leander; there's a lass clever enough to make the lads feel dumb.
A Happy Sir Duke's Birthday from the FM-erald isle,
Michael
Name: clas
walkin barefootin on hissin lawns
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 03:04:55
Comments:
GoodKingRichard; yeah, I think you have a point there. I was just listening to those early, bad demos that Fagen/Becker did way back. And it strucks me how bad "Caves Of Altamira" is the way it is sounds there. I would not have believed in that song. But the men believed in themselves, and came up with this "Caves..." again, on Royal Scam, and it's a masterpiece.
Ruby-Honey; pictures has been taken on mother Goose and father Goose. The childs have not arrived yet, as soon as they do I'll send you pictures. Today it's summerhot, morningcoffe outside!
Name: Gap Brandy
letstalkaboutthegoodtimeshoney
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 00:24:47
Comments:
Oleander: Gap is the brandy you drink when your icecat stock splits for the 3rd time in 31 months. You just have to share it with a friend--and what better place than Club Hi Ho?
Your Inside Trader,
GB
Name: Ex-Clean Willie
semi@mo.jo
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 20:30:23
Comments:
Sorry Willy, no offense. Should've known somebody'd have that one sussed. Hope I didn't step on any toes.Tell Babs we had some laughs, but sayonara.
Now I have a hobby thinking up a new handle.
Name: goodkingrichard
usual place
Location: canberra,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 19:00:23
Comments:
Re. 'Worst'(mmmmm) SD song: I think basically Donald and Walter got better with the years (heaven knows what to expect with the new one). And while some of the earlier lyrics can make me cringe with embarrasment, maybe that's just a sign of those times and D&W's actual intention, I'd love to see much of the the earlier stuff (especially CBAT) re-worked in the studio with all the knowledge that they now have. Is both precision and spontaneity too much to ask for. They have the clout to call in the best (well, those still alive and willing) I only wish, that like the AIA stuff, they had the confidence to go and nail stuff in their first take (ok, so maybe two or three overdubs). They'd be great!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: fezo
@nothertangent
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 17:22:37
Comments:
wow, got Miles on (Kind of Blue) in the background and have entered a different place and time. so what the hell happenned to him in 70's--all i remember is a couple of appearances on SNL playing something that looked liked an electrified dildo.
lisa: i think igy was written just for your predicament. it's an escape song. picture yourself not in cracker North Carolina but in some futuristic utopia. it can get one through the day. then again so can Pepe Lopez
ole: u can hear a speedway from your house? Cool. Any objections if mrs fezo, the cats, and I move in with you and your brood? I'll do dishes, iron, and entertain the locals with my amazing water tricks.
bad dan: Any World, I Got The News, The Royal Scam (the title cut--like another poster said, it's a little too overwrought)
back to Miles
fezo
Name: Mock Turtle
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 15:25:35
Comments:
Um, "Rose Darling" always kind of rubbed me the wrong way. But, just as it is difficult and futile to name a favorite song, it is equally so to name a least favorite song.
BTW, long-time favorite album, "Countdown to Ecstasy." It is devoid of the not-so-excellent filler songs that pepper Pretzel Logic.
Name: when they were bad
@boy were they bad
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:41:26
Comments:
worst Steely song: the live version of 'Brooklyn' with Royce Jones on lead vocals.....I'm sure Walter and Don don't want to include that on a desert island collection!
Name: Edd
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:39:58
Comments:
Brubeck et al looking dorky? Oleander, Oleander, Oleander. I've come to expect so much more from you.
Those covers were done 40 years ago, and reflected the fashion of the time. Brubeck was one of the hippest things on college campuses back then.
I don't see them as any odder than the typical "hat on backwards, dipped in Hilfiger" types I see today...
Please recant, I'm beggin'...
Name: steve v dan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Location: Berkeley,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:36:38
Comments:
Hey everybody Happy Duke Ellington's 99th Birthday!!!!
Crank up 'East St. Louis Toodle oo' and toast the greatest (or one of the greatest) composer of the 20th Century.......
you are only as good as your influences....and thank god Donald and Walter were influenced by two of the greatest : the Duke and 'Bird!!!!
Happy Birthday Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington!!! I'm sure you've got one hell of a band up there!
Name: Clean Willy
ClnWilly@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:27:01
Comments:
Clean Willie, just thought you'd like to know... This seat's been taken. Scroll down.
Name: clas
looking for a woman to court and spark
Location: peoples park, no coines,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 13:23:50
Comments:
Dr Mu; Through with Buzz is a shit-song.
Carlman; hi there. What do you say about a Dan-Festivitas? I can be Peg if you are Maxine. But, no cotton candy! (With RockOlga and the whole old gang?) Skåne eller Stockholm?
Lisa; if you knew how I love the way you write! It felt like I was there.
By the way, naughty girl, I miss some pictures... remember?
Name: oleander
oticleander
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 11:50:19
Comments:
PS--Roy, love the ears.
Name: oleander
they oughta lock YOU up
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 11:46:53
Comments:
Roy.Scandalous--I have consulted the Hoyle of strip poker, and not only does a string of pearls count as an article of clothing, but the wearer may use EACH INDIVIDUAL pearl of each one-fourth section of the necklace in question--the pearl of the quarter. You stand corrected.
fezo--I have played the shit out of "Infidels" these many years. I love that album.
lisa--I've said it before and I'll say it again: flee to Asheville, cappuccino capital of the mountains! We'll take care of you! Though NASCAR has its tentacles in even here, and I can hear the speedway from my front porch, the rhodos and azaleas will comfort you with the abundant murmurs of their blossoms.
Mr. Stew--You woke up! Yes, "Aja" is one of rock's most nearly perfect tunes.
Carlman, Clean--I never get tired of CBAT. Have been listening to it a lot lately as my 3-year-old is heavily into "Do It Again."
stevie d--have been trying, but (though I may sound like a slavering sycophant) I don't have any picks for worst tune.
Dr. Mieux--which Brubeck? I've been listening to "Take 5" and they all look like dorks on the cover. That reminds me--who sings the "Brrrubeck, Brooo-beck" on "Nightfly?"
Name: Clean Willie
home@last
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 10:44:54
Comments:
Midnight Cruiser? Dirty Work? Some of their coolest work IMO. One or two losers, yes. But don't overgeneralize. As a matter of fact, I can barely stomach Reelin' anymore. AOR has made it by all appearances the only song they ever recorded due to overplay ad nauseum.
Name: Carlman
Sweden
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 10:15:18
Comments:
Least favs: The whole CBAT stinks. Some of it was good back then (Do it again & Reelin´) but now it sounds like two young guys just got themselves a recordcontract with nothing to do with it.
Through with Buzz; With a gun; Rose darling are other low marks in their history.
Name: Clean Willie
crouching@the.lawn
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 09:19:22
Comments:
And all this time I thought it was "dark spot on your PANTS"!!What a relief. Now I can die in peace.
Lovin' the lyrics page.
Name: DrMu
dailydouble
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 08:13:49
Comments:
Alex: What is "Hey Nineteen?"
Least favorite Dan? That's like saying which finger do I like least. If I had to pin some down, "Change of the Guard" is a decent song but sounds more straightforward (Dias gets in a couple of nice runs) than most Dan productions. "Boston Rag" as a song doesn't really excite me, BUT the instrumental break is worth the price of admission. Somedays the production on the title cut for Royal Scam seems a bit overdramatic to me...well, that's the best I can do. BTW, Through with Buzz is a great song!
Name: Dan the Steely Fan Man
dw@csi.compuserve.com
Location: Hilliard, OH USA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 07:30:58
Comments:
Q: What do these great artists have in common?
[Joe Sample, Michael McDonald, Larry Carlton]A: Steely Dan heritage.
Greatness breeds success!
Name: Paige
paige@silcom.com
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 07:17:32
Comments:
The greatest n0n-band in rock and roll. 'nough said.
"The things they pass for knowledge, I don't understand."
-Paige
Name: Alex Trabec
Alex@abc.com
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 06:01:24
Comments:
Colonial, Correct!!! Now, what is the only other track to appear on four consecutive releases.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
VA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 05:12:38
Comments:
Zeke: Did Fogerty do "Swamp River Days" and "Blueboy" at the Jazzfest? I would have gladly endured 110 in the shade to hear those 2 songs live.
Steve E. Dan: There are no bad cuts on any Dan studio album (I presume we're omitting the Soul Ram-Ida Lee material), so the question is disqualifiied. However, I don't know if it's coincidence, design, or my own prejudice, but it seems the weaker songs are the ones that Donald Fagen doesn't sing. Even at that, Brooklyn, Cruiser, and Dirty Work are darn good pieces by the standards of any other group.
lisa: to attain a copy of the sacred tape, you must ascend the uppermost himalaya without shoes or garments (on a friday at rush hour during the tourist season), recite the unknown mantra while gargling peanut butter, and execute kama sutra form 19 with a nascar pit crew. or you could e-mail me your address.
Oleander: I still say pearls don't count as an article of clothing in strip poker.
RS
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 21:12:40
Comments:
Oleander: nice riffing on Aja back there. That one and several others (Deacon Blues, FM) are what I'm hoping some life form is picking up light years from here. They sound like they float.
I could be on acid.
Name: lisa
3rd time's the ch@rmer
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 18:17:39
Comments:
random dan transmission: i was in a grocery store in rockingham, n.c...it's difficult to illustrate the stark contrast between this particular southern hell hole and the graciously melodic sounds of fagen's "i.g.y."...it is a town wholly devoted to the sport of auto racing, and provides all the tackiness one would imagine to accompany such a place...the absurdity of hearing this perfect tune among the inbreds is impossible to state...i can liken it to setting a flawless diamond in a ring of pewter...it served to bring out the shabbiness of my surroundings, allowing the cracks to glare back at me...and i was struck by the fact that everyone seemed totally unaffected by it...of course, i was in a hypnotic trance and i left without 2 of the 3 items i was there to purchase.
god i hate it here.
Name: Doc Kelly
here at the dude ranch
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:29:41
Comments:
I finally found my tape of the Letterman appearance... whew!!!
Name: lisa again
oh yeah
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:20:56
Comments:
roy: how can i go about getting a copy of your tape oleander so highly praised? i want to see the glory of the roy.scam too!
are you buck naked on the front? you know how i LOVE cover art...
Name: lisa
speculating
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:13:34
Comments:
mr. fez: on the sam reference: would that be sleeping beauty?
monica lewinsky?oh, i guess that would be me...
Name: fezo
@detoxmansion
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 09:49:39
Comments:
alas, the collective Danfest buzz has worn off, think my haiku days are over, at least until Danfest 3. Quiz for Danfest 2 participants: what current figure in the news does Sam resemble?
ole, roy: love the discussion of Jokerman . . . "the books of Leviticus and Deutoromony (sp?) are your only teachers" . . . brings back many great memories of the last year at my old school. Roy, is the video the one that projects a bunch of different paintings, interspersed with shots of Bob on a bare stage? Other great song on Infidels, "What's a Sweetheart Like You Doing In a Dump Like This?"
hmnnnn, less i get flamed for posting in the wrong GB, i'll stop the Dylan free association here and now
fezoyou kinda remind me of her when you laugh
Name: DrMu
getthatpowercableson
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 08:40:10
Comments:
Ole: ...some kind of synchornicity may be happenin'. I stepped into the local Albertson's late Sunday night and was frozen in my steps by horns of "Countermoon." Not you Muzak version, either.
got on some Brrrruubeck here...re-noticing the cover and the fact that he really had this hyper-cool dork Buddy Holly thing going. A perfect late 50's image for "The New Frontier." Mr Fagen never missed a beat...plus more "acceptable" for "pretending it's the real thing" than say Monk.
Name: Roy.Scam
take.off.those.pearls.so.i.can.see.what.you.look.like
VA
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 05:35:57
Comments:
Schwinn (the Tex-eskimo): Hobnobbing, yes we were. I didn't want to commit to that verb because I couldn't escape the ugly image of those little hobbits doing God-knows-what to one another's nobs.---In the din of the Danfest, I thought I heard a bit of YES with a funky cajun background. Nice.--BTW: No offense taken, no apologies needed; just resume being yourselves. I mean yourself.(Did I say "yourselves"?)
Oleander: Boss thesis on Aja. I presumed that Bad Sneakers is about an incarcerated mental patient. Is this a recurring theme? Am I an incarcerated mental patient imagining all this?--
Since you mentioned Dylan's "Jokerman", it has one of the greatest (and rarely seen) music videos ever. My co-alltime video favorite along with New Frontier and I Love L.A.--
Isn't a helix also the curved part of an ear? Maybe the double helix is a pair of ears in the sky tonight, as in 'God is listening'. Just kidding; yes, I knew that was a dumb idea.Edd: Since you directed us to that picture of the blue thing with Jan Hammer's name on it, I've got this Miami Vice theme stuck in the southeast corner of my brain.
Doc Mu: Another hour at the dictionary, and I shall have achieved knowingness of what you mean. The phrase "Dan-like quality" is not one that I'm accustomed to seeing in the vicinity of my name, so I will humbly accept on the part of myself and my fellow Danventioneers, before you realize what you said.
Jimi: I'm old AND impatient.
RS
Name: Claus
Mind the Gap
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 05:16:54
Comments:
Ole; yesss! "A rose is a rose is a Rose Darling"
Name: GOTANYASPIRIN?
WJAZ Archives@Liner notes,com
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 21:03:12
Comments:
If that first tune doesn't get off the ground--you know,of course,that it's going to be somewhat tight--you're deadfor the rest of the night. Luckily,this time our first tune did get us off the ground. It wasn't what you would call a completely relaxed groove, I know, but it was swinging. And what's more important, it was very daring. How? Well, unless you're in the group you wouldn't know. After all, you can't tell how much we're improvising, how differently we're playing from any other given time, unless you're in the band. But we could tell, believe me!
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 20:05:26
Comments:
Wow! A lot of ambient Dan out there. Wonder if it means something....
Zeke--Am majorly jealous. Keep it coming.
Ruby--I dig.
theI--Oh, are you pre-med?
Clas--What's to like? I can see Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein in a solemn pavane, she saying "A rose is a rose is a rose," and he "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Hank--no, but it's beautiful, isn't it? Actually, Dylan's "Jokerman" pops into my head, if only because it has angels and dancing on "Infidels." The tango seems to be a theme.
Gapper--Intrigued by your handle. Has The Gap diversified into liquor? Please substantiate your statement on Mr. Fagen's relationships.
Magellan--welcome, but I'm taken aback by the differential standing you've given Mr. B. & Mr. F. Atop twin pillars in my mythology.
"Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants"
Name: Daves88
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Location: Portsmouth, ENG Canada
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 18:38:47
Comments:
Zeke: Cool.
President C: You are a very good speaker. I listen. Your choice "Reelin' in the Years," was one excellent one. Can Congress allow you a 'third term?' I will vote for you then.
D.
Name: Zeke
hangin'over
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 14:20:18
Comments:
Jazz Fess' Update: One weekend over, one to go.
Thursday: Picking up tickets @ the fairgrounds, stage crew does the sound check to Gaucho, and IGY. Killer.
Friday: Camped out in the Jazz Tent. Great time. John Fogerty,
aka, CCR, was freakin' awesome. Great weather, cool people.
Saturday: More Jazz Tent, Steve Riley &TMP killer, Boozoo Chavis,Etta James, gumbo, po-boys out the yang.
Sunday:Funky Meters, more Jazz Tent, closed the day out with
Dave Matthews, St. Al, it was great! Killer weather all weekend.Getting ready for Michael McDoobie and his brothers.
Later, Z.
Name: World
Traveler
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 13:06:32
Comments:
SD Muzak Update: St. Louis airport. 9:30 am today. "Here At The Western World."
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 12:39:15
Comments:
SD Muzak Report: Walk Between the Raindrops, Sunday 11:30 am, Builder's Square, Cross Keys Rd and Black Horse Pike, Sicklerville, NJ. I let out a loud, "Oh Miami" and settled on a new kitchen sink.
Walter sings five?!? - that's interesting.
Ear to speaker. maj©
Name: Hank Silvers
Looking for big pieces
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 09:25:31
Comments:
Lyric mavens: The last line of Medical Science, "Wherein the angel tangoes with the infidel," sounds like a literary allusion. Anyone know if it is?
Name: theI
me@bag
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 08:50:17
Comments:
if holy lady know scalpel man then she knows another who has heard the voice, scalpel man commune with voice in the shrine of falsehood, in the white brick cave of the learning place, many vocies meet there to perfect thier lies, me like when voices take me there, help me learn what is real, what is not, me am confused of those things sometimes, like this almost place that lets me speak above the voice, me not know how it work that me here, me only know that me see self and not voice in face of the word alters that shine like rabid rainbows.
Name: mad
madder
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 05:34:15
Comments:
Sorry,should be; comma.
Name: today I am pissed
xxxxx
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 05:32:44
Comments:
Ruby, how many times have I, in private emaillessons, told you; space after coma!
Name: Cl
as
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 02:30:02
Comments:
The worst Steely song? - Through with Buzz.
Ole - "like" what?
Name: Schwinn
ofttimescomegems
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 01:09:24
Comments:
Roy,
Since you have expressed a reluctance to look up "hobnobbing" please, allow me: "To associate on very friendly terms".
By the way, sorry I missed the nobbing in Williamsburg. I hear you are a player!
Bag End,SEMB
Name: Gap Brandy
threeoclockrock
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 00:49:09
Comments:
Ruby: Donald abhors meaningless situations / relationships. The problem is that the majority of our relationships are destined to be meaningless. Donald does a good job of stating that fact and stepping out of the line of fire.
Clas: Yes, Donald calls a spade a spade. And I thought you were baffled by his "cryptic" lyrics? Ha! You make me laugh, Swedey!
Oleander: For $80.00 you can pick up a brand new JVC dual cassette deck at Best Buy / Circuit City. (TD-W106).
Gap
Name: RubyBaby
ski Iron Mountain
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 22:36:24
Comments:
Hi new Doug, Grand & Rapid! Steely Dan in a Jeep? Oh, yeah! I've got to try that out before I decide on which new wheels I'm getting. I'm waiting until I know for sure - I'll not be rushed!
(btw, I'm talking about SD,the music)
Oleander: You know, after reading your wonderful post on Aja, I realized that Aja is so complex and unique it leaves a whole lot of room for interpretation. It can be anything we want it to be on any given day. I've come to think of *dime dancing* to be what his other relationships amount to in comparison with the thing he had or has with Aja. I'm not sure if he runs to her only in his mind (memories are powerful things for escapists), or
if he actually runs to her. In either case, he has a tendency to engage in meaningless escapades, doesn't he?
But still we adore him...
rb
Name: ColonialPenn
@pancakehouse
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 20:08:57
Comments:
Answer: What is Babylon Sisters
Alec, I would like Middle-Aged Angst for 400, please
Name: oleander
see things hop
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 18:58:16
Comments:
GB--I did. Spuds--sorry I didn't mention your very cool take on the DH.
Thimk, Clas--I like it, I like it.
Hardware heads--A favor: I need a new tape deck. Any advice on what to buy? I'd like to know what you'd get if you could get anything, what you have, and what you'd get on your present budget.
Thanx.
Name: Alex Trabec
alex@abc.com
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 18:07:15
Comments:
Answer: The only song to appear on five consecutive Steely Dan releases
Name: magellan
feefiefofum@hotmail.com
Location: kirkland, wa usa
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 17:54:37
Comments:
walter becker is a genius
donald fagen is a demigod
Name: THINK
before you post®
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 04:45:09
Comments:
Dime Dancing = when you go to your job and work for the money. The guy goes to a dude ranch on his vacation god damn it.
Name: Clas
C@W
Location: Watertown®,
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 04:36:44
Comments:
Where the hell is StAl? I think it's a little scary here when he's not around. Like going on those doubledeckers with no driver on the top.
Geena - how can my empty words of love screen the flesh I feel. (Or was it flash?)
Lisa - hi girl, what are you doing? I miss your emails!
I read somewhere, a long time ago (don't ask me where Ole) that "we never write in code, never has, never will". But hell, who knows? But maybe that was a code or something. Personally I believe that the Dude Ranch is a Dude Ranch and Up On the Hill is Up On the Hill. Not down in the bunker.
Name: Gap Brandy
casualality
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 01:53:21
Comments:
Deacon Blues = Donald Becker. Such selflessness!
Oleander: Check out Spud's post on 4/19.
Clas: You are a genius.
Roy: Where there's a Will there's a Rogers.
Lisa: Are you really naked?
G. Brandy
Name: oleander
just another case of
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 22:03:14
Comments:
Forgot--The double helix of course being DNA, which raises a lot for me--I can see how you'd see it in the constellations; micro to macro to meta, great dreaming, whether hallucinatory or not; damage to DNA from drugs, illicit or psychiatric; the spiral rather than the wheel of life.... The music echoes all this for me, with dissonance and beautiful harmonies, the clinky "Chinese music" riff, and the police whistle as if someone is trying to escape or is being wrestled into the locked ward.
No, I have not been taking acid.
Name: oleander
now's the time
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 21:21:55
Comments:
Quick--check out the Digest for an unofficial conjecture on the New One (a few palpitations later).
Geena--You're only as seasonal as you feel.
Dr. Mu--Best summary yet.
fezo--chill, man, you're too far away for me to do CPR.
lisa--How the hell do I know? I can get it, but no one else can. Will keep working on it, exasperated.
Edd--Your attention to detail amazes me. BTW, this am while cleaning I had the stereo cranked up--"Miles Beyond" on Mahavishnu's "Birds of Fire," with, of course, Jan Hammer. Now that was a band.
Thoughts on "Aja"--Really enjoy the recent comments--they've got me fever dreaming. My take is that "up on the hill" is a mental institution, and not the latter-day managed-care kind where you go for 72 hours and then out, but the old-fashioned kind from which "there's no return." That's why "they've got time to burn." Nice irony with "dude ranch." That's also why "people never stare/ they just don't care," because no matter how weird you are, everyone else is so Thorazined or Haldol'd out they don't notice. Are the Chinese music, angular banjoes, and double helix delusions/hallucinations (the latter, I guess, if you're psychotic)? drug side effects? an attempt by the singer to imagine himself out of that hellhole? It reminds me of one of the Anais Nin books, where she described a young woman being "demonstrated" to a class of med students as a psychotic, but whose "visions" and words were lyrical, beautiful, and made complete sense in her idiosyncratic way. The idea was that she was actually sane in a psychotic world. Also reminds me of a movie called "Man Facing Southeast"--similar idea--what is crazy, really, and to what horrors are supposedly crazy people subjected in the name of sanity? And yet another association, with Jonathan Pryce in "Brazil," fantasizing himself out of surrealistic torture. And one more--thoughts of Charlie Parker in Camarillo. Ruby, I had the same thought about "throw out the hardware"--i.e. do it bare, but without the you're-having-my-baby part. I also had a flash of straitjackets and ECT (electroconvulsive or "shock" therapy) equipment as the hardware to throw out. The amyl ref is a good one too. Aja might be the angel he dreams to keep from drowning in madness or abuse, or an old flame who serves the same purpose. "They think I'm okay/ Or so they say": the "keepers" soothingly reassure the singer he's okay, but he doesn't believe them--he may be paranoid, or just fully aware that if he WERE okay, he wouldn't be there. Think Catch-22. I appreciate the explanation of "dime dancing"--I thought it was from the Depression, when people came up with all kinds of ingenious things to stay alive, including marathon dancing ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and paying per dance.
Otra vez: IMHO.
Name: Doug
dredford@gr.cns.net
Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 20:00:55
Comments:
First time stopping by the site. Very nice. Just finished dubbing "Citizen" from CDs to cassette to play them in my Jeep. A tremendous collection of some of the finest music ever recorded. Still waiting for the new CD which I first heard about in the summer of '96 when I saw SD live at Pine Knob near Detroit, MI. I trust we will get it before the new millenium.
Name: lisa
surfin'
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 16:26:08
Comments:
oleander: i tried to access your homepage by the address you gave me...i am getting a message that says "page not found on this server"...whazzup, girlfriend?
hi clas.
Name: Clas
Si Los Hijos De Puta Volasen, Nunca Veriamos El Sol
Location: Watertown,
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 03:49:13
Comments:
- There's a trial going on here about a man named Steven Fagen who kidnapped his daughters and made them live in luxury in a million dollar mansion.
If that's kidnapping I wanne be kidnapped.
Name: Nisse
Down At The Bottom
Location: Avenue H,
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 03:41:03
Comments:
- Well, Pompe, you better hurry!
Name: Geena
I could hold out here all night
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 20:02:56
Comments:
Clas and Roy: Thanks for thinking of me, yes, my real life is important and so is the GB. Some things just never change!
Roy: I also thank you for calling me a young lady, are the 30 somethings considered young and am i in the spring time of my life going into summer? or do I hang out in the spring into the next decade? your thoughts?
Clas: you mean to say that your Italiano-Svedese dictionary says that you have an italian substance abuse problem named Geena? WOW! how do you get detoxed for that?
Pompe: down boy, sit... good boy, now rooollllll over!
There's a trial going on here about a man named Steven Fagen who kidnapped his daughters and made them live in luxury in a million dollar mansion. Do you think he's related to DF? Something to ponder about, maybe!?
Name: Jimi C
tuna@prodigy.com
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 19:11:40
Comments:
To all of You younger Dan-ites...
I've noticed the great impatience with which You wait for the newest Dan creation. But traditionally speaking it is part of a proccess that has existed for nearly 20plus years........perfection! This work will not leave the workplace untill the Boys feel its right ! Remember what Momma said....
" good things come to those who wait !
Name: Pompe
GreatDane@petsmart.com
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 19:07:41
Comments:
"Nisse, I'll save you!!!"
Name: Paul J Jr.
@ T Baker.com
Location: Dparks, Vin cal
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 14:33:35
Comments:
Let's party on the new one---.in 2001
Name: Steve e dan
stevev@jps.net
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 11:18:18
Comments:
good king Richard:
nice ideas about future Becker and Fagen releases.....how about 'A Night With Donald Fagen'...recorded live ...with no edits ...at some high school auditorium...like Duke Ellington used to do....I mean one of Ellington's best albums was recorded in North Dakota ....live at a high school....and maybe Becker could collaborate with someone..like Don Henley or Tim Schmit.....ultimate trivia: I was just thinking the other day: what (in you humble opine) is the worst Steely Dan song??? One nomination: 'Turn That Heartbeat Over Again'...not that I don't like the song (heck I even enjoy 'Sun Mountain')but what were they thinking:::CSNY meets the Byrds meets Denny Doherty meets the Grass Roots...this song must have been a disaster in concert back in '72!
Name: Worm
@synphony.5649
Location: Franklin Lakes, N.J. united states
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 07:43:27
Comments:
Tour the U.S. please!
Name: NotsoTrickyDrMu
LetMeBePerfectlyClear
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 07:25:19
Comments:
Roy: That was meant to be a high compliment. The prose following W'fest was of remarkable Danlike quality. A subatomic synergy when a collective of rabid Danfans gather, rub the oracle. and throw out the hardware. The resulting confluence was a fractal worthy of a double helix in the heavens...knowwhutI mean?
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:41:16
Comments:
I should have kept looking before the previous post...
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/vintage.images/JANHAMMERLYNC.jpg
Name: fezo
@BlackDiamondBay
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:39:23
Comments:
Ole: Pass the nitro. I was having similar thoughts the other day when I started to believe for the first time that there actually might be a disc of new SD material released before I'm raving and drooling in a nursing home. Be still my heart . . . wait, not that still . . .
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:33:47
Comments:
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/vintage.images/LN4.jpg
While the one I saw Donald playing was blue, the above picture pretty accurately shows the controller in question. (Or at least one very similar...)
Name: think
before you post
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:18:15
Comments:
Thanks Roy; - Real life can be an important and wonderful thing for a young lady, but don't get so obsessed with it that it gets in the way of what's really important.
Did you hear that Geena?
Name: clas
cat's in bag, bag's in river
Location: Forum Romanum,
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:08:24
Comments:
Thanks Edd. (I think it says "keytar" on the cover, but I agree with you, stupid word, it's just a motherkeyboard)
Nerium Ole - thanks to you too, I love to learn. And of course I know that you're not that kind of girl. You would never drop your pearls.
Geena - my little book says that it is an Italiano-Svedese Dizionary. Ok, I said; - I am dependence on you, you are intoxicating. Sounds awful in english.
RubySugarBaby; what is a dispenser? And how do I do to make it look like Donald?
Name: Roy.Scam
nasty.hobbits
VA
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 05:33:58
Comments:
maj: The harpitar we saw in Wburg was the first I'd ever seen or heard of, but it sounded great. It's a double-necked acoustic with a standard lower neck and a large (sitar size?) fretless upper neck sticking out at about 40 degrees; this upper neck is strummed like a harp. I talked briefly to the man playing it, a Mr. Stephen Bennet, and he said the thing had belonged to his great grandfather and still held its tuning perfectly. He also said he tunes the upper neck in G, even when the lower neck is tuned to standard E. At least I think he said that: it was getting late (half past cuervo, colombian time) and I was in a hurry to get back to Fez and his harum before he sucked up all the female adoration with his famous pants trick.
DrMu: Sorry about being arcane. Every time I read this guestbook,I have to look up another word. -- Schwinn: I'm afraid to look up "hobnobbing". It sounds like some ritualized perversity from a Tolkien novel.
Krull Berner: I agree, and Florida Room is the perfect song for converting non-jazz likers to jazz. Two of my favorite vocalized words are "..mile.." in Florida Room and "..door.." in the first verse of Black Friday. Only the Don could render those words in that way.
Ruby: I got your message. Thanks. Felt good.
Fez: Very boss haiku. You obviously share Mr. Fagen's skill at Oriental appreciation. And written in a kidneyless state.
Geena: Real life can be an important and wonderful thing for a young lady, but don't get so obsessed with it that it gets in the way of what's really important.
Don and Walt: I hope your software is 2K compliant. Otherwise, this album may not be out till 1900.
RS
Name: oleander
what's your plan, boy
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 21:47:00
Comments:
maj--I don't really know how to describe it. Roy can probably tell you more. I'd like to see him in a trio with Bela Fleck (sitar-banjo) and Charlie Hunter (8-string lead-bass).
Joe--Whoa, man, you're about to give me a heart attack--you make it sound like there REALLY WILL BE a New One--I suddenly realize I'm not sure if I'm ready for this. Please continue your alert ways so I can warm up slowly and make sure my nitro is at hand.
fezo--too hot!
Gentleman Loser--please elaborate.
I-man--Indeed I do. How do you know him? Is there a Steely tie-in? Or just a scalpel tie-in?
Clas--come now, I'm not that kind of girl. By the way, it's "comma," not "coma": "coma" is what fezo is in while awaiting the return of his kidneys.
Ruby--you go, girl. Is it the same color lipstick you were wearing in the elevator with Mr. Fagen?
GKR--love your speculations. I was thinking islands would be a good song theme--they both live on islands, of very different types, and islands have a lot of versatility as metaphor....
Name: Geena
got a case of dynamite- dot, dot, dot
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 19:42:46
Comments:
Ruby: polish up those disco shoes mama and i'll teach you how to bring it on home!
Wow! you got tons of samples from the Este Lauder counter? you must of had the luck of the dan with you because it's been my experience that those make up counter "babes" won't part with their samples for anyone!
Clas: You are WHAT of me? I am WHAT? caro mio, parla inglese per piacere - dot,dot,dot
I've been a little pre-occupied with real life lately, I'll write to you soon.
All: So rumor has it that the new album won't be out until 1999, we need to find things to talk about here.... anyone? How about another recap of the Danfess weekend now that everyone's heads have cleared a little.
Name: GoodKingRichard
Here@Laughing Pines
Location: Canberra,
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 19:25:52
Comments:
Hi all... is it me, or has there been a wee bit of a party atmosphere here of late? On that warm wet April night (the sap's rising?)... drive into Springtime!
Bad news re. possible release date, though what's a year or twenty between releases. Thanks Mr Joe M anyway. [I noticed on the RiverSound site that the recording was just down as last year]
On a separate, but not entirely unconnected, note (no, not B flat) and thinking about the post-Gaucho life of SD and especially the three studio albums, 11 ToW is a real favourite of mine these days and Kamakiriad WAS much less so. But, given the fervour of some of it's supporters on this site, it's now kicked Shawn Colvin (Steady On ... great voice, Rick Marotta and nice Hornsby solo) off the portable CD. Kamakiriad’s good music for travelling... by bus! Given the autobiographical feel of Nightfly and 11ToW and, to me, the future-viewed-from-the-fifties feel of Kamakiriad, I wonder where next for Walter’s solo career? ..as an antithesis of Kamakiriad? an escape from the city to island life (‘near the millenium’!) concept album? So there’s one new project for them both. And then, of course, there’s the follow up album, which I feel could be a live recording of the SD quintet - double CD of jazz and early soul standards. In fact they could probably knock that one off in NYC while they finish the studio album - just to whet the appetite and to re-charge their own creative batteries for the next studio album. Don’t back off now guys, you know who and what you are about now more than ever... I feel a golden age of SD coming on.
Swing out to Lake Nostalgia!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: RubyBaby
Dance with me,baby,under the moonlight
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 14:24:47
Comments:
Geena: The Boston Rag is a dance? OK, teach me. I've got Dance Fever!
Earthbound: Are you referring to amyl nitrite? That's a vasodilator, so I think I know where you're heading with that. But what I've managed to pick up off the street is embarassingly little. ~This is way over my head~
WARNING - GIRL TALK: I was in Gottschalk's (dept. store) at the Este Lauder counter. I was kind of in a hurry, but the sales girl was on the phone. But before I have a chance to say anything at all, BAD SNEAKERS starts playing! The real thing! Well, I just sat on the tall, makeover chair and patiently waited til she was through yakking it up. (BF troubles) She was so grateful that I was patient, she threw in a full-sized lipstick and a bunch of samples! She didn't know how easy it was to wait. Steely Dan to the rescue!!
~(a line I stole from mWorld)~ I hope he's OK with that.
rb
Name: Edd
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 12:30:09
Comments:
I don't know what sounds Donald was MIDI'd to from the Lync (I refuse to use the "K" word to describe his controller), as it was buried well down in the mix. Actually, I couldn't swear that it was connected to anything at all.
The piano riff in the middle of the KC solo wasn't done from the controller...
Name: Laughing
all the way to the CD store
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:55:25
Comments:
Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: and Wrong
Name: DrMu
having some tea
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:21:14
Comments:
that's "letter." Jeez I might even have to make the effort to spellcheck
Name: DrMu
Iamthewalrus
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:17:43
Comments:
fez-o: and the leters "s" and "e" are both contained in the liner notes of both albums!! Of course the question is: What's in the bag?
Actually the deli link that came to mind was Bill Payne's contribution on keyboards many of the Doobie Bros. albums including the McDoobie reign.
Name: clas
one on one
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:08:00
Comments:
theI - are you on pot again? Please stop! Really. I mean it.
Edd - which sounds did he use on the concerts playing the keytar? Piano and Fender? Or more synth-sounds? Is it Donald who plays the Pianosound-like-break on Kid Charlemange on Alive In America?
Geena - I am dipendenza of you. You are inebriante!
Nerium Ole - what did you drop? Your pearls or acid?
Name: theI
here
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:45:53
Comments:
me am wondering if holy lady knows a plaincoat by name of eric whalberg, he is one who wields shiney finger knife on children.
Name: Gentleman
Loser
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:22:47
Comments:
Nothing from the new album until Summer 1999. Sample's definitely on the album. Tom Scott, too. Songs are awesome. Walter sings on 5 tracks.
Name: fezo
intheb@thtub
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:13:48
Comments:
Dr. Mu:
How about one degree of separation for LF and SD?
Both of their most popular albums, Waiting for Columbus and Aja, include a credit for "The Bagman"
Name: DrMu
swallowedupallhefound
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 07:28:35
Comments:
JoeM: Interesting...Record the sessions live with the house band then overdub with Real muscicians to give it the genuine faux live feel. Have Eliot Scheiner clean up.
Roy, Ol, fezo, et al: Sounds like you all had quite a mind-altering experience. Your posts are more poetic, lyrical, and arcane than ever. Better dust off that Dan decoder ring...who knows? MAY need it next year anyway.
Zeke: Quick test: get from Dan to Little Feat with 2 degrees of separation.
Name: Phelonious
@thetrack
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 06:37:11
Comments:
Joe M. Nice post. That kind of info is rare around here,
even if its not true. Keep us posted.
Name: Edd
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 03:30:46
Comments:
The blue thing Donald plays is simply a MIDI controller. Think of it as the keyboard part of a synth, with no sound generating circuitry, hence it makes no sound of its own. It sends MIDI messages to a synthesizer or sampler someplace else.
Donald uses one made by Lync. (Lynx?)
Name: clas
Hot House
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 01:29:31
Comments:
Oh yes, Steely Dan, I remember that one.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 20:27:24
Comments:
This may be old news to some but...
The following is a cross post from the Pat Metheny Messageboard from a fellow by the name of Ray Wells... I am still trying to verify the source and veracity of this info. More to come...
**********************************************
This is the latest info on the new SD album. Recording has been taking place for most of this year. The earliest possible release date could be November of 1998 or it could be as late as May of 99. It depends on how most of the recording sessions go. They actually started to record in November of 1997, they've used most of the same musicians from the 96 tour. The latest scoop is that they are overdubbing in some of the West Coast musicians used on some past SD albums (like Joe Sample). Maybe Larry Carlton? So its still unclear who will end up on this recording. As far as the songs go "Jack of Speed" which was part of the 96 tour has been recorded. This one has Walter Becker singing lead vocals. That's the latest!!
***********************************************Thanks Ray...
Name: Drinkinscotchwhiskey
MYYCALL@pop3.concentric.net
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 16:20:54
Comments:
BLACK COW TIPPING CONTEST...Farmers and Waitresses welcome to compete. DETAILS SOON?
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 12:15:09
Comments:
Harpitar? Is that the predecessor to Donald's key-tar. Walter seemed to love poking fun at that "blue plastic thing", also called it a "midi" or "mini" mystery instrument. Sounds good on Teahouse medley from St. Louis though.
Can anyone spare the bass line notes for Chain Lightnin? Does it go to a low G at "don't trouble the midnight air"???
"I gots to know...." - Dirty Harry villian.
maj©
Name: James
Home@Last
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 11:24:57
Comments:
Did anyone see SD sideman Drew Zingg with Boz Skaggs on Austin City Limits last week? I missed it. Any reviews? His solo on Alive in America - Third World Man - gives me the chills.
Name: Zeke
fesstime, brother
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 08:12:24
Comments:
Earth: Just a few pointers for the fess'. If your staying in the quarter, check with the hotel for shuttle service to the fairgrounds. You can purchase your tickets to the fess' when you board the shuttle. I find the drivers know the city and will bypass traffic on I-10. If your not going to take a shuttle, try to get directions thru the city.
The weather is AWESOME! Low 70's, sunny, breezy, no rain in the forcast. The fairgrounds have a new look this year. More
stages, music, food, and booze.Hope to see ya there!
Zeke.
Name: oleander
woke up
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 06:45:27
Comments:
Schwinn et al.--You can oil my chain anytime. Accepted & appreciated.
Q--The few, the proud, the Danfans.
Joe & Mu--I saw "Tain" Watts here last year with Branford Marsalis. He was incredible. Thanks for the tips on cd's.
Name: Sir Loin
outb@ck
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 01:06:00
Comments:
Dagnabbit, Luke! I asked for choice cuts, not liver at Lubys! It don't take a wizard to tell the beef from the gizzards!
Name: Earthbound
East II, eh?
Location: Laughalot, IN
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 20:17:53
Comments:
Wow. Missed a nice 13-hour ride, sounds like.
Next time, bitte.RubyBaby: Double helix...hardware...
Back in the day when amyl was only available in certain
more seedy establishments, HARDWARE was the brand of choice.
The li'l jar had a brite white plastic shrink cote with the
military-stencil lettering and a loose caution printed in lite royal blue.
Hmm, just a thought.Zeke: It's time bay-bay... more to come.
peaceout
Name: oleander
hung over
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 19:26:18
Comments:
Whoa! Was I at the same party as these people? Weird--when I got home, I found a used scalpel in my first aid kit. And a bill for a Ryder truck rented by a J. Murtha, with a surcharge for interior damage from jewel-box corners. Has anyone heard from Kinky? I'm worried. If you do, tell him they released the Ferrari to me.
ElYo--stick around, son, & let's do some pronouns.
Clas--it was uncanny, you'd think it was you dot dot dot dot SPACE
maj--no, the guy played a harpitar and looked just like Freddy Fender.
Ruby--Want me to do it again?
Name: Geena
through with buzz
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 19:25:38
Comments:
seems like you guys had a wonderful time, "sigh"... I wish I were there. I would have brought a case of Cuervo and more fine columbian. Maybe for the next "danfess", we could get together in Boston and I'll show you all how to do the "Boston Rag", but I'll need some assistance from my Babylon sisters. Ole, Rube..it's easy!
If not, then Clas and I will do a conference call and annoy everyone...
Name: RubyBaby
basking in a sea of raisins :)
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 16:42:23
Comments:
Oleander: You threw one kick-ass party! How many strands of pearls did you wear btw? Thanks for making the drop. Glad I could be of some use!
JoeM: I love the ring of rare design you created when describing your collection. Talant, man!
Dr. Lundkvist: I notice you haven't mentioned the nifty prozac/valium dispenser that Major Dude has. Since they seem to be out of those in Sweden, I will send you one. You must pretend that it looks like Donald...which won't be hard if you write your own prescriptions.
rb
Name: Krull Berner
kwberner@aol.com
Location: Portland, OR USA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 13:08:59
Comments:
Kamakiriad is the bomb. Donald Fagen is the only artist I know of that can hook you in with anything he writes. Florida Room is the most unbelievable track. If any Danheads read this and don't own Fagen's '93 release "Kamakiriad," get it now and groove, jam, chill, and kick it all in one CD!!!!!
Hopeless Fagen-head,
Krull Berner
Name: Kidneys Are Us
organ.outlet.mall
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 12:38:55
Comments:
Mr. Fezo North:
The kidney we took from you had too high a C&B (Cuervo and beer) content to be marketable. We are returning it to you by Parcel Post, with our apologies for the inconvenience. Try to avoid intake of fluids for the next few days. A diet of incinerated hemp would be advisable.
Name: RS
just.when.do.you.think.you.are
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 11:39:58
Comments:
A dose by any other name is just as sweet.
Name: Dr. Lundkvist
Bellevue@Bellevue
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 11:11:20
Comments:
theI; ehhh... double that doze of Tofranil... I think a tricyclic substance would be good for you too, try 49 mg Imipramin, start on a low doze, let's say 10 mg, double the doze every third day.
Get well soon now baby.PS If you can't sleep, call for nurse, she'll give you 40 mg Propavan (two hours before bedtime) and two Mogadon (when you go to bed).
Name: theI
meatbag@hotmail.com
Location: Asheville, NC USA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:50:55
Comments:
me am starting to feel sorry for the one called clas, the whitecoat of the almost place. me am thinking that he never get past time whem mother teach him to wipe own ass. he too concerned over stupid shit. but no worry about whitecoat, me have greater thing to say. the holy lady has heard the voice! she has heard and now she will not forget. soon the voice shall take root and bend her will. me am proud of voices, me am always proud when prophesy of voice come true. wild haired man with second set of eyes look at me, me have to go.
Name: c
should be;
Location: when he heard who I was,
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:30:52
Comments:
OK?
Name: Clas
atelje.lundkvist@mbox300.swipnet.se
Location: dots off,
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:28:10
Comments:
Ok coma I got it dot let's skip all dots and comas in our writings dot See askingsign Then I don't have to worry anymore for this obsession of mine dot dot dot Could we all agree on this one askingsign I'm not so sure of this sign is called askingsign or questionsign coma could anyone lighten me up on that one asking/questionsign Oh shit, this aint gonna work.
SunnySam; don't worry about the money. I spoke to the owner and when he heard when I was he wanted to pay ME just to keep my name on the walls. I really don't know what he was talking about, crazy Virginiaaccent, but I think he meant to keep the room as it is and take admission from visitors, mainly fans of Steely Dan-fans. Like a museum or something. So, sweet dreams honeycomb.
Steely Sue - where are you?
Aja?
Ruby?
And mr. Stewart! Did you go back to sleep? It's springtime now!
Name: fezo
@ER
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 09:01:50
Comments:
Roy, Lisa, Sam, and Oleander:
I'm missing a kidney. Please return ASAP.
fezo
Name: Roy.Scam
i.don't.know.your.real.name.but.the.fez.is.familiar
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 07:49:09
Comments:
If I may digress one last time on the Danvention subject: Some of you may be considering attending one of these Dan fan get togethers, but you're saying ,"Gee, I'll be going to a remote location to meet with people whom I only know by their electronic self-representations on a special interest web site. They could all be boring losers or, almost as bad, goggle-eyed leather-helmeted perverts who collect meat cleavers and write to Hitler." Well, my children, nothing worthwhile is done without risk, and, 9 times out of 10, you won't even end up in bite size pieces in a ravine OR in a tub of ice with your kidneys missing.
As a veteran of Danventions throughout this great land of ours (2), I'm proud to say that not one attendee wore goggles or carried kitchenware on their person. In fact, they were all nearly as normal as him...I mean me (Did I say him?).
Let me say to the funny, fezzed, follicle-faced Fez; Sunny Sam, the sweet-eyed sonambulist; the lyrically loquatious lisa (the Renoir of radioactive repartee) and Oleander, whose as perfect and personable in person as the personna portrayed in her posts, Thanks for the laughs and a fun 13 hours or so.Next time it'll be a wingding, summer smoker (no pun intended) underground, maybe with Alaskans, Seattlites, Scandanavians, Brits, Florida-roomies, Big Apples, Big Easys and other such scurvies.
RS
Name: Schwinn
atyourfeet
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 22:02:35
Comments:
Oleander: I've owed you an apology for a few months and would like to offer it now. Sometimes it's difficult to see the flesh and blood behind these posts but I won't make excuses. Forgive me?
Roy: If I'de have had a 20mg prozac I probably never would have offended Oleander, or you, come to think of it. Is there a generic version of that stuff? I know a doctor in Nuevo Laredo...
And did I mention how much I missed your posts while you were hobnobbing in Williamsburg? I missed Lisa, too, but I told her that in private...
It's a Beautiful Day,
semb
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 20:06:12
Comments:
Ole: You forgot to mention my collection of CD's by guys who were influenced by the guys who were Dan sidemen and thereby influenced by Don+Walt but who have also been more recently influenced by the resurgence of the classical Jazz musical form and thereby must have been influenced by Wynton Marsalis who is credited rightly or wrongly with said resurgence who himself has been influenced by Charlie Parker who influenced Don+Walt thereby completing the entire musical circle... or did I forget to bring those disks? Damn...
Mu: Another fine "Tain" session that I enjoy quite a lot is that live set from "Blues Alley" in DC circa '86-ish...
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 13:24:19
Comments:
Was the Dan-playing minstrel one of the Williamsburg players? It wouldn't by any chance have been a really tall guy named John, would it? John, the Millar. Just wondering....
maj©
Name: Sunny
Sunnysam73@Yahoo.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 12:05:57
Comments:
In an attempt to conquer the monstrous shame that has taken over my life since the chaotic Danfess2, I feel I must apologize to the beautiful Oleander, sensuous Roy.Scam, and freaky Fez (do you have a spot on your pants?). My lack of self control was uncalled for. Who knew Don and Walter could affect a young innocent so maniacally? I will try to prepare myself better for the next Danfess so I will not lose all manner of restraint and become a Steely devil.
Lisa? Um, honey? About that 247 dollars, ya think we can work something out in trade? It seems the kingdom of William has used its super Hoover to suck my pockets clean... I've got a really nice Milli Vanilli trading card I might be willing to let go!
Clas, Oh magnificent Swede you are, how could I not sleep when every time I closed my eyes you visited me with your strength and sweetness? I think it may be time for a nap!
Name: lisa
the@ftermath
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 10:17:35
Comments:
hmmmmm...i am still attempting to sift through the haze of events that transpired during the so-called "danfess2"...however, very little of it can be understood without the decoder strip, which samantha inadvertently swallowed...silly girl!! cuervo doesn't have a worm!
a few memory fragments would read as follows:magical sounds of steely dan played through the air conditioning unit...for some reason i found myself lighting candles...ALOT of black candles...across what seemed like an impossibly long room, i was watching oleander as she chanted...she was in a trance, eyes rolled back and flickering...SHIT! her gloriously long hair, which she wore neatly braided, began unravelling itself...
each of the three sections dancing in the smoky half-light, individual and fluid...mr. fez was a stunning vision in red velvet underwear and sequined sneakers...once he donned the magical fez (graciously provided by the QUEEN PARTY MAMA) he was absolutely irresistible! his lusty swaying made us dizzy, but we could not avert our eyes...
i believe at this point, royscam saw his window of opportunity... he yelled "banzai!" and pulled a tab on his shirt...his entire outfit fell away, revealing a handsome physique covered with
intricate tattoos and jewelry...i never knew the "ring of rare design" was in actuality a prince albert (see male body piercing site for visuals)...and you, samantha...i cannot know the shame of your actions... maybe this is a bad time, but i want to remind you of this: you owe me $247.00 for the room damages...they said that the carpets
could be saved, but the entire wall where you scrawled clas' name over and over with a hammer and chisel is surely lost...i've never seen the forbidden dance have such a strange effect on
someone...oh god!
i'm having a flashb
a
c
k..........................
Name: fezo
@confusion, state of
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 07:03:08
Comments:
In honor of Spring Danfest '98, a haiku
Colonialists
Flee, my pants: stained, my brain: fried
Sam sleeps, Fender strums
Name: hiroumi
h-taka@msj.biglobe.ne.jp
Location: tokyo, japan
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 04:07:22
Comments:
I started English version of my Steely Dan site.
Please come and visit!
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~peg/
Name: NOW I got it!
x
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 02:54:11
Comments:
It was BECKER who called you?
Name: c
las
Location: Watertown,
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 02:47:08
Comments:
Uhhhhhhhhhhh - I envy you guys!
But hell, I did NOT make any phonecall. Damn, I didn't think of that!
Roy "the cute" Scam; I have not forgot what I promised, it's just that I have to make a couple of new ones. Be patient. And yes, I'd like to hear your stuff.
Sunny Samantha; did you sleep through it all?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh - Nerium Ole in jeans and pearls. But remember - the only genes you can change is your Levy jeans.
Where is Geena/You must have seena/She promised me a Pina/Maybe I have to stick with Lena...
Name: oleander
book of liars chapter V
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 23:07:15
Comments:
QUASI-OFFICIAL REPORT: DANFEST EAST II
Contest Winners:
Best Inadvertent Steely-Related Costume: Fez O'North, "Bad Sneakers"
Best Advertent Steely-Related Costume: oleander, "Maxine," with jeans & pearls (only because that's ALL she had on)
Best guesser: Roy, awarded the Becker Red Sadowsky Wind-up Toy Guitar
"Guess the Steely Tune From The First Note" Contest: Tie, Fez O'North and lisa. God, they look good in fezzes!
"I Can Sleep Through Anything" Contest--Samantha, hands down
Most shots of Cuervo Gold and tokes of fine Colombian--uh, I can't remember
Co-Dominatrix of Ceremonies Award: oleander, the Very Limited Edition Williamsburg '98 Century's End King of the World Tour T-shirt from Roy.Scam Productions; and lisa, the Monkey-In-Your-Soul-With-The-Fez-On candle
Best Almost-Made-It: Kinky, who was stopped at the border with open containers of Jim Beam & Jack Daniels. He was tossed in the slammer, and the Ferrari was impounded. Unfortunately, he used his one phone call on us, and we couldn't scrape together enough to go his bail. Sorry, Kinkster! Hope you got sprung!
Proceedings: It's hard to add to Roy's excellent summary below, but am I ever at a loss for words? After a dramatic and suspenseful meeting at Christiana Campbell's, the convivial confreres caravaned to lisa & Samantha's pleasure dome, where the provisions were unveiled and sampled. Then on to sumptuous libations and epicurean sensations, regaled by a wandering minstrel who knew ONLY Steely tunes. And we were delightfully surprised by a call from Mr. Becker, who wished us well while disguising his voice as Clas! That rascal! Unfortunately, we were asked to leave after the table broke under the combined weight of the Babylon Sisters' Funky Broadway. On our return to the pleasure dome, we indeed found a FedEx package at the door which contained a tape and a note, to wit: "We couldn't think of a better focus group to check out this demo of the new one! Let us know what you think, and pass it on to Q. Love, D & W." Wow! Did that put a twinkle in our respective eyes! But we're sworn to secrecy (wink!)! Then things kind of blur together: we listened to this cool Swedish jazz trio (ten thumbs up!) and this fresh avant-garde guy from Austin with rhythm guitar and accordion (worked for us!).... Edd stuck his head in, said one pithy thing, and left.... Dr. Mu went through the whole puzzle again, and after enough controlled substances, it was EASY!... maj showed us all how to do symbols in our posts.... You would not have believed the Prozac contact high in that room, and it wasn't just you, Geena!... Joe brought his map of Dan-sidemen sightings, and 195 fantastic jazz CD's, all with some Steely tie-in.... Some guy was snuffling around outside, said he was hunting rabbits, but we didn't let him in.... And we set Pete & St. Al up on a shrine in the corner of the room with lots of candles and burnt offerings. There may have been more people there, so if I left you out, sorry. There was a lot going on.
Then Saturday--hmm, that's kind of lost....
Sunday morning the ragtag remnant met at IHOP for the "Little Kawai Family Pancake Breakfast," complete with mischievous sons and the ritual sharing of French fries with maple syrup. Unfortunately, we were also asked to leave there after lisa pulled out the santeria candles and the chicken.
In summary, an unforgettable Steely blast in Colonial Pancakehouseburg. Highlights available on DTS in August.
Until next time, your faithful reporter, oleander
PS--Ruby--I made the drop. And thanks for the opportunity.
Name: Musycman
and his Virtual Band, in NYC
Location: New York,
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 19:26:23
Comments:
Frustrated as I may be, but I've tried to book River Sound for the past 4 months, dammit, and I can't even speak with the damn studio manager. The chick at the desk won't put me through. I'm afraid I'll have to go Brooklyn, where I've heard they have stumbled on some used digital gear, or, at least, CHRIST, in Queens. F**ing finish it Don - i've got a project, too!
peace out to all the bro's & Sistahs
latah
Name: Lester the Nightfly
CC73647@aol.com
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 17:07:33
Comments:
My prayers have been answered. My dad just came back from a trip across the nation with a recording of a show in Memphis in May 1974. My beloved sister who lives far away in Michigan had the tape made for me. I haven't listened yet, but I'll keep us posted. Still looking for video footage. Go Kings and Lakers.
Name: Roy.Scam
shores.of.babylon
Location: Aftermath, Virginia
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 10:23:45
Comments:
Fest Up-PartI:
Alright Scam, let's go through it one more time. What really happened at that so-called Williamsburg Danvention back in 98? Why do our mind probes pick up images of strange people sitting in circles chanting cryptic phrases and using code names. Why do you keep projecting pictures of Freddie Fender playing a harp, a silver swan sticking out of a man's pants, a walking guitar, the first notes of 20 different songs, and a vehicle full of pilgrims driving past a train station 35 times? Was the Swedish government behind that mysterious phone call? Why would a middle aged Nordic person be yelling "Right on!"? Why were all those people found pummeled by their spouses and lovers the next day? Why were there trace elements of seven different altering substances in your system? What can you tell us about those missing 7 hours? Come clean, Scam; you want to get out of here don't you?...
He's not talking. We're going to have to use the cerebral holo-scan again.
Happy traveling Ole, lisa, sunny sam, & fez,
RS
Name: Paul Chernin
thefez@earthlink.net
Location: LA, Ca USA
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 09:51:05
Comments:
Anyone interested in trading for rare promotional posters from the Steely Dan, "Alive in America" album. I am interested in an original copy of Dallas / Sail the Waterway . Preferrably in original Jacket. I also have 25-30 rare interviews, and performances, and some unreleased stuff. I am not looking to sell these items, but I will trade for other cool Dan stuff.
I will post an inventory of these items on my website sometime during the next few days. Thanks.http://home.earthlink.net/~thefez/
Name: ........
.......
Location: ....., ..... .....
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 02:53:24
Comments:
......!
Name: clas
doctor my eyes!
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 02:29:20
Comments:
The dot-situation is terrible here now.
Name: Revelon
battinlashes
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 01:25:03
Comments:
Spuds: Herbal Acquiescence? That's not dog shampoo!
Name: Spuds McKenzie
15minutes
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 00:52:46
Comments:
Michael: So where was the Borzoi?
About Aja: A gentle acquiessence from god and country to just God--or at least the cognizance of something bigger than nationalism. The double helix symbolizes man as a species, not just an ethnicity.
Your Joan of Barc,Spuds
Name: Michael A. O'Toole
MYYCALL@concentric.com
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 00:14:26
Comments:
MAD AT BRUBECK? Just a saturday night, I think it was at sunset. I walked outside and I heard a Miles Davis tune in the tree, then in the next tree,just to the right, I heard a Paul Desmond solo. From hereon, it's hearsay, but I think it may have happened. My dog usually stays home, but on this night his buddies said,"Let's go down to the club". "We'll knock over some garbage cans ,Maybe lap up some half empty beers". Need I say more, those dogs were on there way. Tails waggin, there was the pit bull, wearing some cheap sunglasses and a beard, singing "She's got legs". Then there was the black lab kicking down some rap, I think it was something about raping his girlfriend's sister. Some beagle humming "Wanna hold your hand". The German Shepard singing "You don't have to turn on the red light". Paws were sore, heads were spinning but they were having fun. All of a sudden "RREEEEEOOOWWW!!!". The dogs stopped and looked down the alley. Fur was flying everywere. The great debate was on. When the cats were to tired to go on, they looked dead into each others eyes, the first one said "GAUCHO!". After a pause, the other said "FUCK YOU, IT WAS AJA!". Just above them there was a owl sitting on a lamp post smoking a cigar. The owl threw the cigar down at them. He bent down and took off flying, mumbling something. The cats looked at each other and said "what did he say?". The other replied " I don't know, something about some "Nightfly". Next time you hear a cat fight you just might grin.
Name: A Friend
of a friend
Date: Saturday, April 18, 1998 at 19:12:52
Comments:
Come on Walter get your Steely butt out here and tell us all the truth would ya?You see I have this friend that has this friend--well you get the point right?
Anyway, the real deal on this new steely dan album is that it won't be finished till AT LEAST 2000. You see the boys are afraid that if we know this, people will loose interest and no one will post here anymore. Because really, are we all going to sit here and write about a band that's not going to have a new release for another 2-4 years? Ben Folds--here I come!
What happened? Did someone get hit by a car?
I guess things haven't changed much.
Name: Geena
biked thru the ghetto in the rain with my new SD helmet
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 19:24:59
Comments:
Clas: email waiting for you my sweet!
Everyone: have a wonderful time in Williamsburg,
wish i could be there! Tell me all the gory details
when you return... I want to hear everything!
Name: mike rivette
miker@vistatech.net
Location: morganton, nc usa
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 19:22:45
Comments:
just threw out my gold teeth and they rolled to this page. great idea to think this up. greetings scurvy brothers and sisters from the king of the world.
Name: Zeke
fesswood
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 15:51:08
Comments:
N.O. Jazz Fess', 7 days and counting
Man, I am into Gaucho, again. Some damn fine music, people.
Time Out Of Mind is so smooth. This is one tune where
M. McDonald and Donald really melt together on vocals.
Some of the greatest female vocals too. Angels!
Said it before, it's a great tune for a convertible.How close was Time Out Of Mind from the AJA LP?
It sounds like it could have been a left over.I'll try to report from the activities in New Orleans.
Z.
Name: Prof.Steve v dan
it's summer in CA
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 15:28:17
Comments:
Hey Ruby: neat interpretation...makes sense to me....it's too bad no one has ever cornered B/F and asked them to elucidate some of their enigmatic lyrics...
Kashi:I don't know how much Becker and Fagen were influenced by the Vietnam experience......
maybe we can make a new 'Dan compilation: Asian Hits of Steely Dan: Aja
BODHISATTVA
Green Flower St.
Dr. Wu
Name: Roy.Scam
hey.moe.be.there
Location: nearer my williamsburg to thee, va
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 10:53:23
Comments:
ole, lisa: Williamsburg Danvention. So are we meeting at 6:30 inside Christiana Campbell's, outside, or just on the street? How will we know each other, aside from looking more musically aware than the other tourists? (I'll be the guy that looks like Dr. Katz.) If we're late should we proceed to the Trellis?
DrMu: Thanks for reminding me of that McDonald/Ingram "Ya'Mo Be There" duet. A great record that I had forgotten about.
Kashi: Another thought provoking interpretation of Aja, the un-readjusted Nam vet. I've always thought the lyrical simplicity in that song was to intentionally not distract from the music (ie: Hey, I like oriental stuff.) I guess those lyrics have been hovering over my depths, waiting to plumb them. Your interpretation would explain the police whistle and the desire to throw out the hardware. Maybe the throwing out the hardware is a call to a final confrontation, a hand to hand combat of sorts (man vs. demons, man vs. death). That association reminds me of Bruce Dern in "Coming Home", ceremoniously laying down his military gear and walking into the surf, for that final resolution of his torment and confusion.
The I: We mean you no harm. The blue men of William's kingdom are busy gathering up the spring-broken remnants of drunken college students. The white coats are all out in the valley digging a ditch. Only friends await you; just avoid the fellow in the white tuxedo tearing up the street.
RS
Name: BOB TEDDE
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: San Diego, CA USA
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 01:19:21
Comments:
Jive Miguel: A timely post as I have not even so much as lurked since my last postseveral weeks ago. "The" Steely Damned will unfortunately not be performing during your visit to San D. Our next Scheduled performance is at the Pacific Beach Block Party on May 9th, at either 11:00am or noon. after that we are scheduled to play a full night at the Catamaran on the Sunday before Memorial Day (observed), May 24th I believe. We only play San Diego about once a month so as not to burn out the locals on us. (could you imagine a Beatlemania band that played once a week in the same city? ......ok besides Las Vegas.) We are however very very very interested in playing other cities. So I'm a little more than curious when you say you are coming DOWN to San D Down from where? La perhaps? I just did a gig at the ROXY (w/ Mike Keneally's amazing Beer For Dolphins Band) and decided it might be time to try n score a gig in the City of Angels. If you or anyone else for that matter could recommend some 3-5 hundred seat venues where the discriminating Dan followers might go, please let me know. I'm in the dark when it comes to smogland.
FYI: The Rockola Hotline provides 24hr a day scheduling information for The Steely Damned as well as Rockola at (619) 558-1966. Thanks for the interest.
lovebob
iego.
Name: cl
as
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 01:07:47
Comments:
DR MU; so, there is no solution. Thanks for your help.
theI; space after coma please. And wake up after coma please.
Lisa Sugarpie; still don't get it, candy from a head?
Name: jive miguel
tkipp@telis.org
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 23:15:25
Comments:
I am heading down to San Diego this weekend, does anybody have any info on Steely Damned (i.e. do they play every weekend, are they the house band at a particular establishment arounf Mission Beach, etc?). Any info is appreciated.
Name: Danny
danforshort
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 23:03:28
Comments:
Q: Us and them. And afterall we're only ordinary men.
Daniel
Name: RubyBaby
beautiful & sunny in Fresburg, too
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 18:20:19
Comments:
Prof.Steve v dan: Nice interpretation of Aja. May I add something to it? Rap twice for yes, scroll for no.
*Double helix in the sky tonight. Throw out the hardware - let's do it right.*I've been thinking that the double helix signifies the DNA~RNA configuration. I've been believing the hardware to be some sort of birth control device. So I've taken those words to mean he wants her to have his baby.
I had a semi-Dan-Moment en route today: I heard Do It Again, but it was a version done by Paul Hardcastle (Hardscrabble? whatever) and a woman sang the lyrics (her name reminds me of Bowie's wife). It was interesting...sang rather choppy, though. Anyone else ever hear it?
*Let's do it right* sounds good to me!RubyBaby
Name: Q
danman1@tampabay.rr.com
Location: FLAROOM,
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:39:49
Comments:
Having had a few drinks, and then reviewing several pages of the GB & archives, I wonder if anyone else is struck by the fact tha tthere are really very few of us who "care". The Dan are so eminantly brilliant both lyrically and (primarily) musically BRILLIANT- and yet.......again so few - "devotees". Of course this flash look at the state of the state could simply reflect that there has been no "album"(read CD) or tour forthcoming in oh these many months, but still..... I guess it's much like the lot of..... Van Gogh - please don't cut your ear off - but damn.................... Q. No response being solicited here- just an observation.
Name: Mock Turtle
...........
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:07:40
Comments:
DrMu: Your first analysis was correct: there's no solution.
mt
Name: James
@home
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:05:28
Comments:
Dr Mu: Risking wrath by talking about artists other than SD, the Ambrosia CD is fairly new, a best hits album out for maybe 6 months. To my knowledge, it is the only Ambrosia CD. I'm looking for a discograpy of SD tour guitarist Drew Zingg and a source for a copy of the VH-1 video of the New York Rock and Soul Review. Anyone?
Name: r mena
bearandcol@aol
usa
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 16:30:51
Comments:
had the pleasure of seeing 'the dan' on the citizen dan tour here in lost angeles......twice, the first go round i missed because i was too pumped up, the following year i was calmer...
seems like a lifetime to wait for them......a million years...
would i do it again, most certainly...my reward....
a cut on the live album from the the night i was there.....
life's perfect.......
Name: kashi
kchavis@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
Location: phila, pa usa
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 14:59:11
Comments:
I have a comment about "aja" (the song). I have always been struck by it's imagery of an asian country. I believe this song is a tribute to the viet-nam veteran who "never really" came back. It's descriptions about life in washington presents the lai-za-fare(sp), of how the war was treated.
The further explaination of how the battle were fought, and what was done to forget those battles, were very striking, worthy of being filmed in APOCALYSE NOW.
what say you? Did you get the same feel for this song?
Name: theI
Meatbag@hotmail.com
Location: Asheville, NC USA
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 13:57:46
Comments:
me have seen pathways drawn in many colors on thin tree bark. town of william is far, take many suns to walk. have to cross mountain, river. voices say to catch iron buffalo with thumb. me think voices play games again. try to get me caught by whitecoats. me no worried, whitecoats can no hold me. they are weak. thier only power is the candy poison. whitecoat that dwell in almost place say candy poison good to help. me know better. candy poison make voices scream, they no like to be drowned out by poison. me think me not go to town of william, more safe from the blue-men under rock. blue-men no like me walk on black stone path,take me to whitecoats. holy lady with voice that stays no want me there, voices say so. but voices lie sometimes. voices like me to see fight, anger, like me do violence to up-rights. but up-rights can no harm me, me like when they laugh more than when they squeal like dying rabbit. rabbit, me smell prey,hungry.
Name: DrMu
sorry
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:20:23
Comments:
I thought the first post got scrambled aas the Mac froze up
Name: DrMu
goin'insane
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:18:32
Comments:
Clas: For about 15 minutes last night I was really tearin' my hair out. The key thing about the Mu puzzle when starting with MI is to eradicate all I's. (getting one U is no problem with rules 1,2,3, and 4) There is a limited # of adjustments for the # of I's: Rule 2 allows fo an increase in the # of I's while Rule 3 allows elimantion of an I when 3 I's in series can be converted to a U. Thus to eliminate all I's, there must be series (1 or more than 1) of I's which are divisible by 3. If Rule 2 is strictly interpreted then all letters following the beginning M are a string and are "doubled" in series. This would mean that the # of I's can only be doubled. Therefore, even is Rule 3 is used intermittantly. you will never reach a total # of I's which is divisible by 3. In other words, there *is* no solution!!
However, Some of your explanation for Rule 2 suggests a CHOICE of the string to "double." Mx to Mxx...If that's the case, then the solution is elementary:
Here: x=I
MI
MII
MIII
MIIII
MIIIII
MIIIIII
MIIIIIIU
MUUU
MU
James: Yeah, I dig those silky smooth Ambrosia harmonies also (I just block out the vapid lyrics); but I've never hear the song with MM and JI. May have to scour the bargain bins for this one. Is it still available?
JoeM: sounds like a winner! For a real listen for what '"Tain" can explain' check out Wynton's best: "Black Codes from the Underground." It's seeped in Miles and is the last with Watts, brother Branford, and Kenny Kirkland. To paraphrase: "It's the BAND stupid." Of course the exceptions are guess who (W&D) and Miles Davis who had at least 3 great bands!
Name: David
crhorse@hotmail.com
Location: Pinehurst, NC United States
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:14:14
Comments:
Greetings Dan Fans,
I love Steely Dan. Walt and Don are so cool. Let's hear from other fellow Southeasterners.
Name: DrMu
goin'insane
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:11:20
Comments:
Clas: Ror about 15 minutes last night I was really tearin' my hair out. The key thing about the Mu puzzle when starting with MI is to eradicate all I's. (getting one U is no problem with rules 1,2,3, and 4) There is a limited # of adjustments for the # of I's: Rule 2 allows fo an increase in the # of I's while Rule 3 allows elimantion of an I when 3 I's in series can be converted to a U. Thus to elimate all I's, there must be series (1 or more than 1) of I's which are divisible by 3. If Rule 2 is strictly interpreted then all letters following the beginning M are a string and are "doubled" in series. This would mean that the # of I's can only be doubled. Therefore, even is Rule 3 is used intermittantly. your will never reach a total # of I's which is divisible by 3. In other words, there *is* no solution!!
However, Some of your explanation for Rule 2 suggests a CHOICE of the string to "double." Mx to Mxx...If that's the case, then the solution is elementary:
Here: x=I
MI
MII
MIII
MIIII
MIIIII
MIIIIII
MIIIIIIU
MUUU
MU
James: Yeah, I dig those silky smooth Ambrosia harmonies also (I just block out the vapid lyrics); but I've never hear the song with MM and JI. May have to scour the bargain bins for this one. Is it still available?
JoeM: sounds like a winner! For a real listen for what '"Tain" can explain' check out Wynton's best: "Black Codes from the Underground." It's seeped in Miles and is the last with Watts, brother Branford, and Kenny Kirkland. To paraphrase: "It's the BAND stupid." Of course the exceptions are guess who (W&D) and Miles Davis who had at least 3 great bands!
Name: Ray
ray_wells@yahoo.com
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 07:53:02
Comments:
Anyone know the latest information on "The New One"?
The Steely Dan "alum" Michael Breckers album "Beyond The Hudson" features a guitarist by the name of Pat Metheny. There is an interesting thread on the Pat Metheny Group web page (www.patmethenygroup.com) concerning the fact that many of the PMG fans are also fans of Steely Dan. If you haven't been there check it out! If you haven't gotten into PMG yet do yourself a favor and give them a listen.
Name: lisa
girlish ch@rm
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 06:37:05
Comments:
clas: pez is candy dispensed from a plastic head...a very disturbing american icon, no? do you have a swedish equivalent?
danfess babies: oleander, the planmeister general, phoned me last night to say that christina campbell's tavern is booked...
she found another nice place called the trellis...located at merchants square, off duke of gloucester street (757)229-8610)... reservations are for 8:15 tomorrow evening...BUT we are still planning to meet at cc's tavern at 6:30 to round up the calvary...maybe go and start early on the cuervo?steely sue?
Name: cla
s
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 06:09:34
Comments:
What's a pez?
Name: Hardgroove
theunbearabletemptationtotalkinmyshoe
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 23:20:22
Comments:
We are studying an ENTP who has quite unexpectedly begun to exhibit ENFJ behavior. Try to imagine Patton on pot. He's holding a book upside down and asking Jimmy to read aloud. (Yes, Patton is in uniform. There are no apples on his desk.) Jimmy notices the upside down book just as he is about the read and immediately develops a stammer that blossoms into a stutter. My question: should Patton quit smoking pot or should Jimmy start taking prozac?
Quick, before Jim Carrey makes his butt talk again!
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 21:34:17
Comments:
Yup, another Dan alumni offering - Wish it were The Dan themselves but...
Michael Brecker has added yet another brilliant tenor session to his already long and illustrious recording career featuring Wynton/Branford Marsalis protege' Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums and the ubiquitous Brecker sideman Joey Calderazzo on piano (boy did this guy smoke on Brecker's last one "Tales From The Hudson"). The new one is entitled "Two Blocks From The Edge". Also featured is James Genus on bass.
Name: Gary Marchese
marchesega@aol.com
Location: Hendersonville, Tn usa
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 20:15:44
Comments:
Name: fezo
home@last
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 17:22:11
Comments:
damn the employer, screw adult responsibilities, i'm heading east for the danfest on Friday. looking forward much to the weekend, hanging with the mayor and all of his friends and eventually blacking out on the stairs.
i'll be the one with the beard (Roy: a new addition) and the permanent stoner's smile.
Name: Mock Turtle
...............
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:37:36
Comments:
RE: 'Aja':
Actually, I think 'dime dancing' refers to the time-honored tradition of paying for your date. People would bring a pocket full of dimes and, at regular intervals, give their dance partner a dime. Particularly common practice by male Asian immigrants (there was a lack of Asian female immigrants), and in particular, Filipinos, in the early part of the century.
mt
Name: Prof.Steve v dan
amid the stacks at Berekeley
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:06:58
Comments:
a beautiful sunny day in Bezerkeley.......
lyric interpretation #2345...lyrics to 'Aja'....
possibly desribing a prisoner of war in Korea..."Up on the hill": an army hospital....."dime dancing": his only respite dancing to an old jukebox at the village cafe....
"double helix in the sky tonight":some sort of star alignment...I once had a dj friend who insisted that 'Aja' was the name of Charlie Chan's #1 daughter...he was a cool dj too ...one day , with tricky turntable finesse he "mixed" a 9 minute version of the 'Fez'live on the air...and it was an AM station to boot!............
Name: me
whats that?
ca usa
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:01:10
Comments:
solamente un tonto le dicea a el!!!!!1
Name: James
@rest
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 14:17:36
Comments:
Dr Mu: If you liked Michael McDonald and James Ingram on Ya Mo Be There, try MM and JI with David Pack (Ambrosia lead singer) in 3 part harmony on "I Can't Let You Go" originally from a Pack solo album in the late 70's. It is now available on CD included in a Best of Ambrosia album. Awesome vocal arrangement! Patti Austin also recorded a re-make of the song and used them as back up singers on her record. She refered to them as "the Trinity".
Name: *
@
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:26:20
Comments:
?
Name: Doc Kelly
Still hear at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:15:01
Comments:
MUIGETIUMMUIAIUMMUILIFEIUM
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:06:23
Comments:
Ruby, Geena: I like the Pocket Donald Pez dispenser. Let me add this: make it a Pocket Donald Purple Prozac Pez Dispenser. Optional medication - valiums - for when you're about to go "on-stage".
Regarding personality type - slow week this week and I pulled the Sweet biio off the shelf. Figuring, "where do I start?", I just opened the thing and opened it to the chapter on the making of and post-release of the Nightfly. Excellent section for Donald makes comparisons to the song-writing and recording process for Nightfly as compared to with Walter for Dan stuff. Good stuff, from a personality type perspective. Check it out.
Gotta til the garden. Soon it will be time for "good fresh things".
maj©
Name: FezChick
"Break out the hats and hooters"
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 19:38:07
Comments:
Long time- no Dan! I'm back!!!!
Hey, Geena and RubyBaby!
What's up?Lots of good reading on the GB. I too am a huge
Michael McDonald fan. Would love to see him back
with Don and Walt on the new one.Speaking of which . . .
When is the "long awaited" coming out? I'm growing
impatient!
Name: RubyBaby
kangaa1776@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 14:25:06
Comments:
DrMu: Hey, thanks for the MMcD lyrics! (Ya Mo, Be There). I never knew what that was, but I used to sing along and fake that I knew it. Now I see that I was saying it right, unknowingly. Does that count as knowing it or faking it?
rb
Name: Clas
The MU-puzzle
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 11:42:37
Comments:
DR MU; can you help me with this one?
The MU-puzzle
Formal Systems
One of the most central in this book is that of a formal system. The type of formal system I use was invented by the American logician Emil Post in the 1920's , and is often called a "post production system". This chapter introduces you to a formal system and moreover, it is my hope that you will want to explore this formal system at least a little; so to provoke your curiosity, I have posed a little puzzle.
"Can you produce MU?" is the puzzle. To begin with, you will be supplied with a string (which means a string of letters). Not to keep you in suspense, that string will be MI. Then you will be told some rules, with which you can change one string into another. if some of those rules is applicable at some point, and you want to use it, you may, but - there is nothing that will dictate which rule you should use, in case there are several applicable rules. That is left up to you - and of course, that is where playing the game of any formal system can become something of an art. the major point, which almost doesn't need stating, is that you must not do which is outside the rules. We might call this restriction "Requirement of Formality".
The first thing to say about our formal system - the MIU-system - is that it utilizes only three letters of the alphabet: M, I, U. That means that the only strings of the MIU-system are strings which are composed of those three letters. Below are some strings of the MIU-system:
MU
UIM
MUUMUU
UIIUMIUUIMUIIUMIUUIMUIIU
But although all of these are legitimate strings, they are not strings which are "in your possesion". In fact, the only string in your possesion so far is MI. Only by using the rules, about to be introduced, can you enlarge your private collection. Here is the first rule:
Rule 1. If you posses a string whose last letter is I, you can add on a U at the end. By the way, if up to this point you had not guessed it, a fact about the meaning of "string" is that letters are in a fixed order. For ex, MI and IM are two different strings. A string of symbols is not just a "bag" of symbols, in whuch the order doesn't make any difference.
Here is the second rule:
Suppose you have Mx. then you may add Mxx to your collection. What I mean by this is shown below, in a few examples.
From MIU, you may get MIUIU.
From MUM, you may get MUMUM
From MU, you may get MUU.
So the letter "x" in the rules simply stands for any string; but once you have decided which string it stands for, you have to stick with your choice (until you use the rule again, at which point you make a new choice). Notice the third example above. It shows how, once you posses MU, you can add another string to your collection; but you have to get MU first! I want to add one last comment about the letter "x": it is not part of the formal system in the same way as the three letters "M", "I", and "U" are. It is useful for us, though, to have some way to talk in general about strings of the system, symbolcally - and that is the function of the "x": to stand for an arbitrary string. If you ever add astring containing an "x" to your "collection", you have done something wrong, because strings of the MIU-system never contain "x"'s! Here is the third rule:
Rule 3: If III occurs in one of the strings in your collection, you may make a new string with U in place of III.
Examples:
From UMIIIMU, you could get make UMUMU.
From MIIII, you could make MIU, also MUI.
From IIMII, you can't get anywhere using this rule. The three I's have to be consecutive.
From MIII, make MU.Rules are one-way, this is wrong: From MU, make MIII.
Rule 4: If UU occurs inside one of your strings, you can drop it.
From UUU, get U.
From MUUUIII, get MUIII.There you have it. Have fun.
From Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID
Name: Scott Shelton
scottgov@aol.com
Location: Clarksville, TN USA
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 11:30:46
Comments:
Been lovin' Dan music for 25 years and am distraught that I've never seen the group in concert. I'm listening to SD "gold" at work now. Thanks to everybody for making the Dan happen in all its many forms. Peace...
Name: djed
djed3@hotmail.com
Location: Inglewood, CA
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 10:14:27
Comments:
RoyScam, please set my time machine to do what yours did! Dr. Mu, I concurr on Doobie Bros; for me "It Keeps you Runnin" and "Minute by Minute" get my groove on every time I hear them. This would be an "oldies" concert worth going into debt to see: Doobies & Dan, 4 hours long, 60 songs.
Name: DrMu
not your Doctor Robert
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 07:58:52
Comments:
I may be out of line since I don't have personal experience here, but 10-40 mg generally is used for the big D, and 40-80 for obsessive-compulsive behavior...but then that could have been easily deduced from these proceedings.
Micahel McDonald is still the best Caucasian singer around. I wonder if Michael DOLTon's inexplicable popularity is partly due to the fact that MM is scarce on the radio these days (Did you hear MD massacre "Go the Distance" at the Oscars - he can't phrase worth a s***. In a better world, James Ingram would have sold as many records as Michael DOLTon has today, and MD would be singing back-up for the Isley Brothers. As a matter of fact does anyone remember the duet with James Ingram and MM - "Ya Mo' Be There?" I'd love to have a copy: SPECTACULAR, SOARING vocals!!
This MD thing has me on the soapbox: Aren't some of the biggest RACISTS in America the pseudo-liberal weasels of the music recording and filmaking business? Where the hell was "Eve's Bayou" on Oscar night? Surely, there is more art in 5 min of this film than in the entire Full Monty...and Paula "armpit shot" Cole as best vocalist & newcomer? Where the hell was Erykah Badu? OK, I'm going to towel off here and go back to my technical writing.
Name: Roy.Scam
hows.my.little.girl
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 07:36:00
Comments:
Schwinn: "pumped with prozac" , Boss phrase. Is that the sequel to Reefer Madness? I think you just invented pharmaceutical bigotry.-- But I like your costume idea: dress up half green/half yellow and come to the Danfest as a 20mg Prozac. Then you can keep an eye on your little girl; otherwise, you might as well be in Detroit (with lots of money in the bank).
Animal dumb but Razor sharp,
RS
Name: Schwinn
risingsap
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 01:10:12
Comments:
Lisa--the mere thought of you sucking a straw in front of a passel of strangers makes my blood boil like the loose head gasket on Kinky's '78 Italian Stallion. However, knowing that many of the attendees at this weekend's Dan Fest will be pumped with prozak gives me some modicum of relief. Nothing but an even temper could keep the razor-boys away--and even I cannot kill a dumb animal.
Dressed in Yellow and Green Just Like a Child,SEMB
Name: Ahhhhh!
Now I got it!
Location: You mean that, you are
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 00:13:26
Comments:
bicycling! That's ok, but wear Rubys helmut.
Name: clas
Stockholm Mood Disorders Center
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 00:08:33
Comments:
Q; thanks again.
Geena - "I take them for anxiety and panic attacks..." 10 mg? Does that help? My doc prescribed 80 mg for the same reason. But damn I felt funny. I had to go back to 75 mg Anafranil.
Any hotel will do. I'll throw roses for my little girl at the Spanish Steps.
Roy; see above, Prozac, Anafranil, Nefadar and other antidepressives are excellent for agorafobia and panicattacks. Much better than bensodiazepines.
I didn't like the Doobies before Mike Big Mac Donald. I think "What a fool believes" is the best song ever written. If you don't include Steely-songs.
Steely Sue; no, this is not a meatmarket. This flirting is just for fun. This is a meetmarket.
Name: Aja Tim
chops@pacifier.com
WA
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 23:41:58
Comments:
I should have looked into this sooner, but my wife is always on the chat...
Name: *
emily l@tella
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 20:07:38
Comments:
Never mind.
Name: *
l@dy chatterly
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 19:57:40
Comments:
Hey, what's with the chatroom?
Name: Mock Turtle
Steppin' up on the platform
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 19:27:08
Comments:
g. Steely Dan - Best album, 1999.
Name: Geena
nothing but booze and Elvis
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 17:44:37
Comments:
Clas: Huffy as in two wheels, no engine.
How about meeting at the Hotel Esquilino across the street from the spanish steps... and i'll buy you a coke with a cappuccino chaser. I got your email... will try to send something soon..Roy: WOW! yours are green and yellow? mine are just green... a a beautiful mint color (10mg). I know it's usually prescribed for depression... but i imagine it does work for those who are clinically depressed... I take them for anxiety and panic attacks, don't know if the two are related... and they seem to be working quite well... so far
Steely Sue: Ok... this is your first message from a female... Hello and welcome to the GB!
Name: Q
@@@@@@@@@
Location: FLAROOM,
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 15:27:11
Comments:
C, you can purchase a decoder directly from DTS to play the discs in your home. They have a small catalog at this point
(@ 40 titles) but they are very well done. The remix is simply part of the audio separation process to keep the output true to the original(obviouly we're glad Elliot was on the case).
Name: DrMu
lovetotourthesouthland
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 13:58:01
Comments:
Roy, Sounds like a machine I'd even pay retail for. I believe you're right about the song "What a Fool Believes." Credit for the Grammy goes to the songwriter's there: Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald. I concur that although"The Captain & Me" is great stuff for chuga chuga rock, the Doobies were flailing before MM joined on "Takin it to the Streets" (Cheat the Hangman's haunting melody and Skunk's guitar on Rock Me are the only highlights on the run-down Stampede).
I remember hearing "Takin' it to The Streets" and "It Keeps You Runnin' and being blown away as a pubescent young 'un. I'd never heard anything like it. As Motown, Gamble & Huff, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Aretha, and Atlantic Rec. Soul were fading away to the friggin' Disco craze, the McDoobies were able to transform theselves into blue-eyed pop soul. Even one of Hall & Oates decent songs - later on - "One on One" definitely has the MM flavor. MM for a while found the leadership he could not have as a Dan backup. While what I've heard of his solo work does not light the same fire, McDoobie songs like "Here to Love You," "There's a Light," the McDoob "You Belong to Me," "It Keeps You Runnin', How do those Fools Survive?" etc. are about as good as pure pop gets IMHO. I don't think I'm going to trade'em in for "Cycles!"
Name: Roy.Scam
april15th.time