More rants and rave about a band we all love. Interesting how popular this band remains. Judging from the response these pages have been getting, I'd say its' time for more!
Name: SynthE Sis
...
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 21:19:34
Comments:
Happy New Year, may it be our best ever...
sis
Name: Synth Sis
...
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 21:07:47
Comments:
Happy New Year, may it be our best ever...
sis
Name: aja
sierraluna@juno.com and SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Location: Near The Magic Kingdom, Sunshine State eerfehtfodnaleht
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 19:29:58
Comments:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ORLANDO DANFEST~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
well looks like the weekend of Jan 10-11
I don't have details as to place and not enough out of towners to try for a group hotel discount, yet. Anyone interested in coming please E mail me. Anyone that can help with a place to hold this wing-ding please contact me.Happy New Year to ALL, Peace aja
Name: edbeatty
edbeatty@pe.net
Location: temecula, ca usa
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 18:22:25
Comments:
Its gonna be a dan-filled year..
All the best in health and _______ fill in that blank for what ever you need!
Name: edbeatty
edbeatty@pe.net
Location: temecula, ca usa
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 18:19:36
Comments:
Its gonna be a dan-filled year..
All the best in health and _______ fill in that blank for what ever you need!
Name: Double Felix
m@nh@tt@n
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 18:13:50
Comments:
Only three hours before the ball drops and I'm debating what kind of shoes to lace over my two pairs of socks. The Wilderness Explorer Foot Joy 5000's or the funky platforms that only smell decent at sub-40 temperatures? (That's fahrenheit for you metric monkeys).
Anyway, I feel a bit guilty knowing this is really the only decision I've got to make tonight. The party has already nixed the Hong Kong Chicken at Mr. Chows. Guess it's weiners and Wellers unless any of you have a better idea.
Hoppy Nu Yeer,The cat in the flat hat
Name: mWhurled
@the home for terminally plugged nasal cavities
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 14:57:59
Comments:
Happy New Year Gang…
If any of you folks in the New Yorkish Vector want to hip me to your favorite casual food places within walking distance from 44th/45th and Broadway it would be mighty scurvily brotherly/sisterly of you. I'll take my answers off the air @ khillman@lightspeed.net.
Chow?
mW
Name: David
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Location: Woodstock, N.Y. Estados Unidos
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 14:06:19
Comments:
Double Felix: Like you don't already have a T 1 or a T 9? Check your ISDN.
Happy Near Year to All, Planet Dans ! !
Name: oleander
happy now year
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at 11:27:35
Comments:
Joe--my man! Wish I could be sittin' around the front room with you & jon, quaffing an eggnog or two, listening to "Concierto!" So, do you think the bass clarinet solo in "Girlfriend" is a nod to Dolphy?
GKR, mo'ray, ebound--so good to see you check in again.
JohnPaul and the precocious Kevin K--Stick around.
Doc Mu--Uh, "Ruby Baby?"
maj--another trip to the Southland and no word from you. Alas. Well, better you should stay out of the mountains anyway, as we have several inches of lovely snow best viewed from the Piedmont, not driven through like the loco locals.
Roy--Hate to tell you, but it's all the same to me. I have this Masters' paper with a rigid deadline of 4/1 and a long way to go. I'm pretty much stuck with working on it in all my (minimal) spare time--a pre-April Fools' trip is mighty unlikely. However--if ACC fans wish to repeat in the spring or summer--I'm there. (Do I feel guilty spending that precious spare time here? Nnnnot really.) BTW--re PS--an old Bay Area friend sends us a Hanukkah tape every year with fave tunes on it. This time, he included a song from a Tracy Nelson album with a power quartet comprised of Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, and Phoebe Snow. Unfortunately, I don't have an album name or know how old it is. You have any idea?
Last riddle of the year: Where in the Dan oeuvre is "Jitterbug Waltz" quoted?
Bright moments to all....
Name: Aunt Tithesis
sweetb@byjazzbo
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 23:00:07
Comments:
Bunky,
That was funny as shit! More, more, more!
Your Aunt "T"
Name: Double Felix
lasttraintocl@rksville
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 22:52:12
Comments:
Mr. McKay: Proposed title to your ideal compilation..."My Old Fool".
Betty: Yes, pink as cat litter.
Dave: Another fantasy lyric segment like that and I'm getting cable.
Everyone: Listen to Les and Larry Elgart's "Command Performance". Particularly the first track, "Sky Liner".
Let Us Now Praise Famous Dans,
D.F.
Name: David
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 22:16:54
Comments:
she's a callin' herself, so - .
extremely cynical, 'specially for a femme. .
we all know she's so very extra special - .
between all 'us and them.' .
.
she's a charmer - .
no one could be warmer. .
won't someone tell her... .
that we love her so. .
.
'fore herein all time's pages, .
amongst so very many stages - .
"Lay down the law Josie." .
you're the "best friend we ever had." .
hertofore within all life's cages. Thanx Josie, D. .
Name: bunky
KB305@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 22:03:17
Comments:
Two homeless guys met one morning.
First guy: 'So what did you do last night?
Second guy: 'Aw man, I had a great night! I crawled into my dumpster for the night and I found a pizza box with half the pizza left and two dollars stuck in the cheese. I bought a bottle of wine and had a great dinner! You?'
First guy: 'I had a night to remember! I was walking down by the subway, and I found this woman tied to the tracks. So I untied her, right? And I took her back to my dumpster, and we made wild love all night long!'
Second guy: 'Hey, that's great! And did she go down on you, too?'
First guy: 'Naw, I never could find her head.'Thank you very much. Drive through please.
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 18:17:59
Comments:
ATTN MAJOR DUDE, a.k.a. The Dreamer. I need to ask you something and I don't have your latest e-mail address. Please e-mail me....
StAl
Name: goodkingrichard
rlongman@dca.gov.au
Location: Canberra, ACT Australia
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 16:01:12
Comments:
Hi all!
It's been a while, but I've been lurking in the shadows. Still can't get the hang of reading backwards but good to know some are still hanging in here.
Just popped by to wish you all a Happy Dan-filled New Year: I will briefly gloat that I'll be one of the first to be celebrating a year with a new Dan studio album - gives me a rush just to think of it (I was just finishing up school the last year that happened)... and, with baby no.2 on the way, it looks like being a vintage year.
And also to thank you for making this site such a great place to be (in good times and in *name censored* times). I've had a great year which included a first visit to NYC, rediscovering Miles Davis (AND Paul Kelly... a quick plug for 'Songs from the South') and starting my son on the road to Dan-fandom. Now armed with a CDwalkman (courtesy of an ever-thoughtful partner) I can now experience the Dan in a new way in new places.
Outside, the mercury's also in the high nineties and hopefully there'll be a stormy welcome to 1998. The guests are due and dinner's all but ready, just a question of putting the kids to bed, filling the glasses and breaking out the games(!)... and the music of course.
Have a peaceful and prosperous new year
Ring out the past, their name lives on and on
Richard&kangaroos
Name: kevin kolb
kevin.kolb@dtg.com
Location: Sioux Falls, sd usa
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 13:27:04
Comments:
Nice to find a whole wad of Dan freaks here. And a lot of info about them. I started listening to them when I was in the single digits and they stuck.
Name: ygk
con't
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 11:17:05
Comments:
strangers in the night
wearing poly-
ester is a sight
such is their folly
Dancing to the Dan
Where strangers in the night.....
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 10:57:55
Comments:
Oleander opines:
"Eric Dolphy's 'Conversations' on the box....I love what he does with 'Jitterbug Waltz.'"
Yeah... and I LOVE what he does on "Tennies Blues" from Oliver
Nelson's classic "The Blues and the Abstract Truth"... Eric was
a true inovator. Imagine if he had lived past 35.Thanks in part to a previous post from thou (and Jon Stone) re:
Jim Hall's "Concierta", I picked up said session and am mightily
impressed indeed... Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Paul Desmond and Chet
Baker! Jeeez... I still like Miles/Gil Evans "Concierto de Aranjuez" better but "Two's Blues" and "The Answer Is Yes" are scorchin'...Happy New Year all,
Joe
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 10:16:05
Comments:
Peg - thanks so much for introducing yourself at the DAMNED show on Saturday - it was a pleasure to meet you and glad to know that you're involved in the band. BTW, I couldn't hear every note you sang due to the mix, but the back up singers definitely "had it all on"
TO ALL: A review of the 12/27/97 Steely Damned Show will follow as soon as I get some sleep from the red-eye coming back to NYC. I'll give the set-list and assorted comments. Unfortunately, half of the regular players were MIA, so bob had to rely on newbies to fill the gaps. Also, bob had a cold, so he couldn't sound like Fagen - and NO, bob you didn't sound like Fagen WITH the cold. I'm sure it wasn't the best show they could've produced, but it was fun nonetheles. And there were stand out songs in each set.
Mike Keneally of Zappa fame played some keys with the band and stretched the limits of Steely tonality - even for a cover band.
Bob: Did you see that tall guy with the Zebra striped, skin-tight shirt dancing the two step to Black cow? I think Kinky finally made it to a show!
More later,
YGK
The most amusing thing for us was watching the populace - there must've ben at least 200 people at this gig - dance to the Dan tunes. I mean, I could understand
Name: DrMu
climbingasetoftwistedstairs
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 09:27:19
Comments:
Almost belated Holiday Greetings to one and all. Just peeked in as I'm trying to catch up at the office (speaking of which, Ole, Holy lycopene! Can you believe that ketchup was a "vegetable" after all?)...got lots of scrolling to do.
Wtih the brouhaha of Dylan's, album with the Dan title, Time Out of Mind (is it his best or worst in 20 yrs?), it occured to me that there are probably a liberal # of song/album titles by other artist (preceding or following Dan) which are also Dan titles or grafted from/into their lyrics. One came to mind. Can you all think of some others? There could be door prizes.
Home at Last is a song recorded by Dave Brubeck (New Frontier Dave) with piano only from his Jazz Impressions of the USA (1957). As you might imagine, it sounds a lot more like Maxine than Aja's Home at Last...Oh. Also, Brubeck's classic exploration of rhythm, Time Out, has been mentioned by Edd and others previously in the GB.
Name: Race of Angels
R@M@D@N
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 04:06:22
Comments:
I am still fasting, for the new album. Til Dan do i part.
Name: The Big Failer
Yak@Esmakedy.spam
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 at 03:16:33
Comments:
For Dr. Fagen: a Book of the Next Century, Don't Let the Bed Pens Bite.
Name: moray eel
dave20012@aol.com
Location: Chicago,
Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 at 22:24:08
Comments:
Hello to all.
It has been awhile. I thought that I should stop in and wish all of you a happy new year.
I "Fed-Ex"ed Donald his X-Mas gift. "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Toilet Paper!" I hope he received it.
Did anyone go to the Chicago Dan Fan get-together? Was it fun?
Ah, bum, bum, bum...
m.e.
Name: Peg
CA
Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 at 21:54:49
Comments:
maj: Wish you were here, too.
YGK: Was nice to meet you. Hope you and Ms. Columbia had a good time.
Name: Earthbound
danfan@expert.cc.purdue.edu
Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 at 14:35:33
Comments:
YGK: Time's up. How was the 'damned' show?
All: Long time.
Hoops: Sorry to miss the Dan-gathering. I was even in Cook Co.
on that day. Schucks! Love that Gino's stuff.Zeke: You da man.
Anxiously waiting,
Earthbound
Name: Dug
dcl@home.com
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 23:16:15
Comments:
I have an American Bandstand video of the Dan playing My Old School. Would be willing to trade anyone for video of the David Lettermen show with the Dan.
Name: Bodacious Cowgirl
@home
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 15:17:18
Comments:
Howdy folks! Happy holidays to all!
Manhattanites--I will be in town on the 31st, any good
shows worth checking out? A friend and hubby have rented
out the Orchard Bar (I think that's the name), so I plan
on popping in for a few, but after that, I'm not sure.
Would appreciate any tips that will take me where da
music play.My elementary school art teacher roomed w/ Patti Smith in
college, I don't remember what she said about her, other
than that she had some astronomical B.O....Sure fire way to pull yourself from holiday stress/depression:
Stand in front of a mirror and mimic Donald singing "I wish I had
a heart like ice". The way it contorts your features will have
you giggling, and forgetting all you ate and all you charged.May the new year bring us an album and tour,
BC
Name: Steve Andrews
SAndr27921@aol.com
Location: Bonn, Germany
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 11:31:40
Comments:
I've been a fan since 1973. I saw the Dan in Manchester on one of their only 2 appearances in Europe and they are still the best band I've seen live!!Any chance of another European tour?
Name: John Paul
cdennehy@indigo.ie
Location: Cork, Ireland
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 10:33:40
Comments:
Was introduced to the Dan about two years ago and have been hooked ever since.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 09:43:34
Comments:
lisa, Ole, North Fez, all others: Any objection to changing the Mid-Atlantic Dan get together to January 17th instead of 19th? This would make it a Saturday, instead of a school-night Monday, which would make it easier for you folks who DON'T rise when the sun goes down. Still plan on 6:30 PM @ Campbell's. E me.
Oleander: An acquaintance of mine said he recently attended a Patti Smith show at Chapel Hill. Perhaps you were at the same place and locked eyes and shared a moment of rock-induced mind melding or something. Small planet.
RS
Name: Ricky Battaglia
no email
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 09:02:08
Comments:
TWWDIMFTSOPP
To the fan who was in the chat room the other night figuring these out in 5 seconds, (he told me it's because of a photographic memory) can you figure this one out for me. Thank you.
Name: Bim
R@M@D@N
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 01:59:53
Comments:
Fasting 'til new album is out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
One Dan 'o Tricks.
Name: D.F.
r@m@d@
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 01:20:37
Comments:
Yes Bims, Texas it is.
Your Bag 'o Tricks,
D. Felix
Name: Skater
Bims@Bearsville?
Date: Sunday, December 28, 1997 at 00:52:19
Comments:
Quick New Years Eve? Big Band of Snow Birds? Toast the East.
Name: Double Felix
h@rdw@re
Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 at 22:40:05
Comments:
The perfect gift for Mr. Fagen? How 'bout a slot on Letterman pushing the new album. Are you listening, Dave?
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 at 22:38:52
Comments:
Roy: Looks like I'll be hitting Williamsburg too soon. Will be there 1/1-3.
Then NYC for minahW the next week. River Sound, anyone?
Heading for NC tomorrow. Dan in the CD carrier includes Kama and Citizen 3. Others: World Party - Egyptology, SRV-one of the last shows, Brand New Heavies-Brothers and Sisters, blah, blah....
WIsh I was in California....
Tumbling,
maj.
Name: YourGoldKeith
@Escondido
Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 at 18:12:56
Comments:
With just a little less than 3 hours to the Steely Damned Show in Pacific Beach, I'm thrilled and excited to see bob and PEHHG! and the band. I'll try to post a review once back in NYC.
Hey, Kinky, are you gonna show for this one?
"A (now) Mellow NY-er in Southern California"
ygk
Name: oleander
oleander@buncombe.main.nc.us
Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 at 10:50:01
Comments:
Wow, whole lotta rough shit going on, as usual I guess in this made-for-madness season. I just keep ticking off the Hanukkah lights as the glow from the menorah gets brighter and brighter, to lead us into nature's growing post-solstice light. BTW, if you haven't heard Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song, it's a sure antidote to the seasonal downers. I'll post lyrics if anyone's interested.
Pkg miss--Quick, grow gills & fins; embrace that world and you can't drown. And remember that Poseidon, like Zeus, often took nubile mortals as mistresses. Maybe you can cut a deal with him. Or you can e assorted gbers for words of support, like me.
Ruby--lawyers are the worst of poseurs (OK, so I'm a doctor and one expects lawyer-hating from me.). I figure that if I can take the same attitude--do something as hard as you can, and when it's over, let it sluice off your teflon suit--I'll make it through legal encounters of the worst kind. The difference, of course, is that I say what I believe to be the truth.
Slim--It was raining here on the solstice. I went out the other night to look at the stars, but the mountains hid the lovers/planets from me. But I did see a force of nature that night--Patti Smith was here in a smallish club. As a friend said, "That bitch can rock"--still. She was annoyingly Applecentric at first--made some stupid mountain-culture jokes, and even said, "You all must be really deprived"--but came around and rocked the joint with "Rock & Roll Nigga" and "Because The Night." While recovering from a broken back yet. I'm not a fan, really, but she is certainly a rock & roll survivor and one of an elect sorority of uncompromising rock women. Who else is going to quote "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" in a thrash tune?
The night before, same spot, went to see Bioritmo, a very hot salsa eight-piece. Infectious. Cookin'. In their repertoire is a very funny Puerto Rican version of "La Bamba." Check them out. (in a related development--would have given my right arm to go to the Havana Jazz Festival. Anyone go?)
Betty--The sand in the Caribbean is fluffy. It's like walking on pillows. I like "Eleuthera" because it's such a great combination of "elusive" and "ethereal."
Roy--Creative spelling. Often better than the real thing. My oldest is reading John Barth--now there's a guy with a vocabulary.
Eric Dolphy's "Conversations" on the box....I love what he does with "Jitterbug Waltz."
Hang in. Hang on. The Titanic may go down, but the music remains.
Name: Lester
Lester@compuserve.com
Location: Mexico City, DF Mexico
Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 at 10:18:34
Comments:
"...Mexico City, it`s like another world..."
Yes indeed! That`s why there`s a radiostation in this
MONSTER metropoli trying to produce a 12 hour Steely Dan
Special. But! we need actual interviews with Don & Walter.
I know how candid it might seem but it`s all true.
Check the radiostation www.wfm.com.mx
You can check on air(Real Player5.0)check our Studios
and send some e-mail.
I`m the one behind the idea here at the western world
WFM 96.9 and i`ve exhausted all my resources, not even
the record company can help!(UNIVERSAL/MCA)
Please someone answer me!
Name: AJA
SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net and SIERRALUNA@juno.com
Date: Friday, December 26, 1997 at 20:46:41
Comments:
I've been dreaming of my own green world...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ORLANDO DANFEST~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
January 10-11, 1997 For Details E- mail me
Name: Dave Emry
LDEmryplus2@WebTV.Net
Location: Sumner, Wa USA
Date: Friday, December 26, 1997 at 18:19:26
Comments:
My grandsons,Michael 13 and Matt 10 and I 62 are your huggest fans. Been twice to the Gorge in eastern washington to see you. Can't wait til your next visit!
We're gonna travel the US this summer and would like to know if and where you will be performing. Could you have your staff E-mail us your schedule? We look forward to hearing from you.
Name: u.p.s.
puny mortals!
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 20:53:10
Comments:
the shark was not a shark at all, but the god poseidon diguised as a man-eater...remember he is ruler supreme of the sea and of horses...perhaps he is the protector and not the foe you want him to be...the seed of doubt has not taken root here in the deep six.
young fury
Name: package bitch
the phony @merican
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 18:50:16
Comments:
i tire of treading against the tide in this famous pirate story...best to let the shark devour me...i prefer a quick demise to a slow spiral.
melancholy and the infinite sadness
Name: ReachThrowRowGo
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 16:17:49
Comments:
To: the package mistress: Punch Sharks with your fists. Save your legs. There is safety in numbers, from any ship. Punch together. Group together. THE PACKAGE STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN. I HEARD IT WAS YOU. ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT. THE MAN WITH THE DREAM. AND YOU ARE YOUNGER TAHN YOU REALIZE. I HEARD IT WAS YOU. ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT.
Name: Martin Holland
113113.425@compuserve.co.uk
Location: london, uk
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 13:47:24
Comments:
It must seem like London is another world.
The Dan conjures up warm nights, waves, beach and dunes.
But London is wet and rainy.
Even today on Christmas Day.
The wind is drivin in my face, but no smell of prickly pears.
From the third world man
Martin.
Name: AJ
Bones@TheBoneyard
Location: On-the-Hudson, NY USA
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 13:15:27
Comments:
Stranger: Bob Zilla, long time no see, give us a call. Rock & Roll will never die. AJ
Name: Aja
juno, you know (as well as prodigy)
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 13:10:30
Comments:
RS- I forgot to ask you why ttubruoygnippohwsisamx?
Happy Holiday season to all. Toodles, Aja
Name: Aja
SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net or SierraLuna@juno.com
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 13:04:43
Comments:
The Orlando DanFest is now tenatively set for the weekend of January 10-11, 1998. We now have about 8 people attending, maybe more if a few of my friends decide to come. Anyone interested drop me a line. We have about 5 people coming in from out of town, if there are at least 10 I could probably get a group discount (after all second week in Jan. is one of the slowest for the area and competiion between hotels is very big). [Totally unrelated to the DanFest FYI - this is one of the best times of the year to visit the theme parks in the area due to slow traffic and moderate temps. No long lines (in some cases *no* lines) and you're not likely to get overheated.]
RS - so what restuarant was that? Alice's? Mark my ravings up to a fever. But seriously analog is better for some things. Most people have lost enough of their hearing due to normal aging and activities that they could not hear the difference. I have not heard PS's latest yet, but I hope to soon.
Peace, Love and Light,
Aja
Name: ReachThrowRowGo
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 12:59:16
Comments:
To; the package mistress: There is always faith, within ourselves, lifelines will be there, just keep the sharks away, if you can. Dry land is close. Your ship has left you, there is a lending hand, not far away.
Name: the package mistress
breakfast@tiffany's
Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 at 02:32:44
Comments:
you know, i can't recall ever being so fragile in my entire life...where is this reason that god has supposedly tucked inside my pea brain? i guess it's xmas day now...i dunno or care...if i could have just an instant of understanding about what's going on, i might be alright...but no answers.
you posted on the gb, but have given me no word from you.
throw me a lifeline now that i am drowning slowly...the water seems to be in my eyes and i have lost sight of dry land.this is the story of how we begin to remember.
Name: Schwinn the Eskimo Mountain Biker
pe@ceone@arth
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 22:51:36
Comments:
It's nights like this that get even the the strongest man a little weepy--the stars of the southern hemisphere--the masts announcing the ship's arrival on a spherical planet. Glad I have my bike and happy that Lisa's gift arrived--a 6 gallon gas tank with "ozone return" technology so I won't have to worry about dirtying up the air so much in '98. Thanks for being who you are. I'll always be me.
Further to Fly,
Schwinn
Name: RubyBaby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 12:03:56
Comments:
I'm down with bronchitis and I just finished some long hard days in court. My kids have been whisked off to Delaware til God knows when, I haven't finished my shopping and the dog next door is howling because they neglect it. BUT-
I find myself filled with joy and peace beyond any explanation. (It's NOT the medicine. Really!) I've discovered that Christmas is in my heart and no one can take it away! As soon as I finish my tea, I will go take care of that poor animal next door.
Aja: I've said the exact same thing you did about country: sometimes nothing else will do. But today is a Nat King Cole day. And a Charlie Chaplin day. That happens to me when I get sick. So maybe I'll listen to Cole's version of Smile later on.
Clas: Glad Jul and I love you
Peace & Joy to everyone, RB
Name: Aja
SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 11:46:47
Comments:
While surfing the web I found this story that made me LOL. Thought I might share it with you here is the URL in case you want to read more: http://www.tiac.net/users/lees/book.html
I was 16 years old and was hanging out in Woodstock, N.Y. for the summer. One day I went up to Bob Dylan's house and knocked on the door. He answered it and I was so dumbfounded on what to do or say I blurted out "just in the neighborhood so I thought I'd drop by." He said "if I knew you were coming I'da baked a cake" and then politely shut the door in my face.
Laughter, Mirth, Goodwill, Peace on Earth
Name: Aja
**SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net**
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 10:29:33
Comments:
The above email address is correct, email may also be sent to SierraLuna@juno.com. I request that people send a copy to each. with prodigy remember it end with *net* not com and handle must be in all caps.
Sometimes the only music that will do is country. I know a lot of you out there disagree, but I don't mind. I listened to k.d. lang's "Shadowland" again the other day, and except for glorifying caffeine and tobacco (and a some whining from Kitty Wells on song) it's a masterpiece. But then what can you expect from one of the strongest voice country has ever seen and the best producer (Owen Bradley) of that genre? Another voice from country is the wunderkind LeAnn Rimes, whose voice bears so many similarities to Patsy Cline that it alone is enough to make one contemplate reincarnation.
Happy Holidays, Love and Peace, Aja
Name: Phelonious
clepsydra.com
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 10:09:24
Comments:
Merry Christmas everyone. Lift your glass of Drambuie, salute!
Here's hoping Santa has the new one in his workshop, and in
next year's sleigh.
Name: Mac Slayor
Panning theism
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 05:05:09
Comments:
Aja: "The choices are limited and the stakes are high." I ate at that same restaurant last night.-- Relax. These existential anxieties are seasonal. Comfortable confusion will return as soon as the bills start rolling in.
Happy holidays,
RS
Name: sbk
@distant constellation
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 1997 at 04:54:31
Comments:
a bird called dreams was set free
over lush terrain of what could be
in the stillness, she sang to me...
Name: Aja
SIERRALUNA@prodigy.com
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 19:53:43
Comments:
Forget what you have been taught by other men, forget what you thought it was, for it is not like that. We are pieces of a puzzle and we must connect. Free your mind and the rest will
follow. Do not let logic pull you off course, follow Pretzel Logic (twisted). There is free will but the choices are limited and the stakes are high.Love & Peace
Soon I could say OOoooo, and everybody would know what I was talking about.
Name: Aja
SIERRALUNA@prodigy.com
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 15:26:43
Comments:
Of course on Graceland Paul Simon did a duet with Linda Ronstadt, "Under African Skies". At the end of the song I thought I heard something, but cannnot confirm it without a turntable, which is just as well, since I'm not sure I want to hear it. Too much strange crap has been going on in my life for a while and the last 24 hours have kind of freaked me out.
Dave- thanks for the insight re: my ISP. The rest of you stop taking things so *literarlly*. Schwinn may be from a song by Donavan, but B. Dylan said it quite well: "The answer, my freind is blowing in the wind". There is free will, so exercise it, stop looking for clues and put away the books and the recordings, and listen to the wind and the voice within.
Those of you who don't know what Pantheism means should look it up, and remember I said that's the closest I got to labeling my spiritual beliefs. I've gotten some harassment in the chat room in the past few days regarding this matter. "StAl" had it correct when he said it was an open forum. So stop picking sides and bickering amongst ourselves and come together.
Love
Name: RubyBaby
@Zippy's
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 15:11:05
Comments:
OK - I've got it! We'll send Donald a singing telegram dressed as "something else" and a box of Napoleons from the bakery. Those things are yummy!rb
Name: Jim McKay
jjmckay@uiuc.edu
Location: Urbana, IL USA
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 12:31:58
Comments:
It's intertesting to note that "Gone at Last" was written as a duet with Paul and Bette Midler in mind but then Bette cancelled out and so NY R N S Revue'r Phoebe did it instead. Speaking of backup vocalists on Dan albums, I know the recently deceased Nicolette Larson was a backup vocalist for Mike McDonald but I keep thinking she also appeared in the same capacity on a Dan or Fagen-solo ditty. I haven't been able to find her in the credits though. Am I wrong or right about that?
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 11:05:48
Comments:
Paul Simon + Phoebe Snow on the song "Gone at Last".
Same album, Paul Simon + Valerie Simpson on "Have a Good Time".
Great tunes.
Name: Roy.Scam
Hooked on Foniks
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 10:08:40
Comments:
Please change that last phrase to "self delusion" and delete all previous spellings from memory. It takes a true intellectual to commit three misspellings in one word.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 09:56:40
Comments:
How's this sound?: First ever Mid-Atlantic Dan Session, January 19th of the year Century's End minus 2, Williamsburg, VA., Christiana Campbell's Tavern, 6:30 PM (the Dan Steely party). It'll be like a good old southern shit-shoot but with enlightened intellectuals. I'll bring a door prize (Don't get excited. I'm a cheapskate.) Suggestions? Changes? Confirmations? Agenda items? Who's coming? Bruce, you're invited.
Betty: So why AM I soft in the middle when the rest of my life's so hard?--- Have you heard his new one yet? The reviews were good.--What song did Paul Simon and Phoebe Snow (PS&PS) duet on?
Vinyl > CD=self dilussionmnet
RS
Name: Betty
Graceland
Under African Skies
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 07:09:08
Comments:
Oleander is Eleuthera where the beach sand is actually tiny seashell? I remember in high school my Earth Science teacher brought in some pink sand, but when we looked at it under the microscope it was actually tiny sea shells. I was wondering if this is where that sand was from.
Name: Aja
SierraLuna@juno.com
Location: Graceland, Moonlight sleeping on a midnight
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at 06:32:28
Comments:
I sat down and listened to one of my all-time favorite nonDan albums the other night. I listen to it all the time but this time I was just listening, not doing any housework, bill paying, etc. For those of you that didn’t instantly recognize the line above the album is "Graceland" by Paul Simon. I heard the first few bars of "You Can Call Me Al" and couldn’t get to the store to buy the album or home to listen to it fast enough. I orginally bought it on vinyl, I’ve worn out many tapes of it and had of course have it on CD. So how does this relate to the Dan? Well, besides The Hit Factory, Steve Gadd, Rob Mounsey, luthier & Chevy Chase...; a few months ago I had someone tell me that WB was going to play the accordian on 3 tracks off the new album. I laughed, but also said that I believed that our boys could make anything sound good. It wasn’t until I listened to "Graceland"
again that I consciously realized that there was an accordian playing. Which goes to show you that instruments like the accordian, banjo and yes, the bagpipes are a part of some
incredibly good music, if used properly.you can call me Betty
Name: Jim McKay
jjmckay@uiuc.edu
Location: Urbana, IL USA
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 at 12:37:02
Comments:
CHICAGO DANVENTION
FRIDAY 26 DEC 1997I want to thank those of you expressing your interest and support for the Chicago Danvention/Social Event. It's hard to accomodate everyone BUT a day had to be chosen. The event will take place this FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26.
We will begin at Gino's East on Superior Street at St Clair Street, just east of Michigan Avenue. We will get started about 6:30 PM. Gino's accepts Dan fans of all ages and class levels and most of us are damn classy. We will have to do a little waiting in line; I will be wearing a Le Bar Bat Sweatshirt (the establishment where I wish we were having our Danvention). Gino's, in case you are not familiar with it, has the reputation for the best pizza in the world. It also has a reputation for its graffitti covered walls so be certain to bring a white, silver, or gold pen--or least a bottle of Liquid Paper.
PLEASE RSVP VIA EMAIL to jjmckay@uiuc.edu BEFORE NOON, FRIDAY DECEMBER 26. Getting a table at Gino's is kind of strange and I will explain via separate Email. So when you RSVP, please indicate if you DEFINITELY plan to come or if you MIGHT come. Also indicate if you will have email if we need to communicate on the day of the event. I will not be that accessible via phone that day BUT you may leave messages at 217/344-1651.
After we get done at Gino's (perhaps 8:30 or 9:30 PM) we will mosey around the area to various clubs and establishments in the
near north area.Looking forward to it,
hoops
Name: Jim McKay aka Hoops
jjmckay@uiuc.edu
Location: Urbana, IL USA
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 at 12:27:29
Comments:
I already got my gift for D + W over the weekend...wasn't sure whether to give it to them for the holidays or the birthday thing. I got them some new just-out compilation CDs of their 1968-71 demos, the ones that have already been re-released about 120 times. I will feature the CD covers and song selections for these and other similar CDs on the Dandom Living web page in a week or two. Here are a few ways they (might) have come up with repackaging the early years yet another time so that Cyd The Schmuck can put another illegitmate child through college while not paying D + W royalities.
* "Deaf, Dumb, and Mime: Shields and Yarnell pay tribute to Becker and Fagen, 1968-71" Listen to one great duo mime the early classics of a duo without equal.
* "Becker and Fagen, The Early Years A-Z" Breakthrough Technology (ie the MS Word "Sort" Command) now allows the track order to be DIGITALLY ALPHABETIZED BY TITLE for the very first time! Hear 28 pre-Dan songs as never before!
* "Do It Again: The 120th Edition of Becker & Fagen's Early Years" (Title track not included.) A collection benefitting the 401K of almost every songwriting exec associated with Becker and Fagen's early years, except the artists themselves receive no royalties. It's D + W's charity tracks that keep giving to others.
Happy Hannukah! Merry Christmas! All the best to you all in 1998.
Name: lucky henry
stuck inside
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 at 11:46:02
Comments:
YGK: contact me, if you will, before you leave; i have a request!! the maj. has my #. "say, thanks awfully..."
Name: Roy.Scam
@the P.C. stowed out on Avenue Z
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 at 07:45:42
Comments:
I heard a MUZAK version of "Don't Take Me Alive" in a restaraunt the other day. I can understand "Home At Last" and "Only a Fool..." as easy-listening selections, but it's hard for me to picture the Muzak guys saying 'let's do a rock song with guitar distortion about a SWAT team standoff'.
Ho,ho,ho. Spandex jackets, one for everyone.--- Mr. Fagen's a difficult person to select a gift for. Remember when we all chipped in and got him a 19 year old? And he still complained! ("Can't dance, can't talk, doesn't know Aretha.")
Eb: Your only hope is to contact code name Girlfriend. Don't listen to the rabbit, and DON'T hide here. The zero was a reference to my personal net worth after this Christmas.
!ssaymgnikcikisamX
Oleander: The Washington Zoo is a splendid place to convene; maybe next year, at the armadillo cage. Just be absolutely SURE you wake me up before the wolves come out to play.---Thanks for all the new words to look up. You've elevated the quality of my ostentatiousness.
I was browsing through a book called "Ultra Lounge.." wherein they quoted Donald Fagen as saying that good music should sabotage the listener's expectations. I'm ready to have my expectations sabotaged, Messrs B & F.
Have a cool yule and a frantic first,
RS
Name: Mr. Haney
*
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 at 00:15:24
Comments:
Can I interest any of you in taking a look at my fine selection of Napoleanic memorabilia for your friend who's havin' a birthday?
Name: Slimmy, Son of William
Pule@se!
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 22:56:37
Comments:
Oleander
The Sun entered Capricorn at app. 5:00pm est. If you were fortunate enough to have clear skys, you may have noticed Venus and Mars conjunct within a degree about two fists above the south / south west horizon--(now you know where the sign of Aquarius begins on the celestial sphere.) The conjunction will be visible for several more days so try and see it if you can. Venus is very bright. Mars is very red. They move swiftly so do your sky-gazing 45 minutes after sunset. It is lovely and quite stimulating.
In other words, yes, you were a little late announcing the solstice, but the planets are still celebrating.
Red Light, Green Light, Strawberry Wine. A Good Friend of Mine Follows the Stars...,Slimmy Jilson
Name: Kinky
@the Blue Note
Location: Osaka, Japan
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 22:46:33
Comments:
McMurtha - What about Joe Sample at the Blue Note all this week? (esp. since rumor has it that he may be appearing on the new Dan album)...huh? huh?
C'mon Murth, tell us the WHOLE story, wouldja?
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 22:20:47
Comments:
I've got a better idea. How about a singing telegram dressed up as Napoleon....or something....
StAl
Name: oleander
goin' moon
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 21:21:52
Comments:
I'm a little late, but happy solstice to all. Mr. Stewart & Clas, frozen northerners, the dark is on the run.
Name: Joe Murtha
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 19:49:08
Comments:
Dan related blowing date:
Hiram Bullock and Will Lee this week at The Blue Note, NYC.
Happy Holidays...
Name: RubyBaby
dyed in the wool
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 17:09:38
Comments:
Aja: I love your corny idea for Donald's birthday! It shows true imagination and would probably be great fun. A blast and a half from the past.You know who I think would make a great Napoleon? Robert Downey, Jr. (if he could stay out of jail)
rb
Name: Not Bob D.
HistoricSite@D.C.B-15
Location: Europa,
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 08:53:06
Comments:
Dear Doc: For your birthday and Christmas, we should all pitch in for a pump, with a handle, that no vandals can steal. Signed, NotaVandal.
Name: Aja
thinking dying my hair
Location: Auburn,
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 at 06:55:20
Comments:
Anna and Santa, concerning DF's gifts, I don't really know anything about him other than he studied Napoleon. Now, since it's unlikely any of us have a time machine and we could send him back to see Napoleon (when he finds the time), the next best thing would be to get an expert on Napoleon to play the role of Napoleon for a hours or so and talk to Donald, or show him around Waterloo. Ok, so it's a little corny, but it beats socks.
love, Aja
Name: Mrs. Douglas
just call me Leezsa, darlings
Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 at 23:15:28
Comments:
I know what I will do for Donald - I'll make him flap-jacks! Olivah says he can have them all!
Name: Santa
belowtheozonehole@northpole
Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 at 19:34:21
Comments:
Splendid idea, Ann. It's been difficult for me to choose the proper Christmas gift for Donald and any suggestions would be appreciated. All feedback will be considered except those involving Chesterfield Kings, gift certificates to Starbucks and Johnny Walker Red. Save those for his birthday.
You Guys Sleigh Me,SC
Name: oleander
oleander@main.nc.us
Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 at 13:13:46
Comments:
Ex Man--cool! You should have seen me standing transfixed by memory in the middle of Taco Bell. The only Snow update I know is, of course, NYR&SR.
Mr. LaP I--Washington, eh? Roy's & my old stomping grounds. Now THERE'S a good place for a Danvention--the Washington Zoo. (Washington Zookeeper, where are you?) Next time you're in Carolina--e me.
Mr. LaP II--If, as I surmise, you're in Knoxville, you're just two hours over the mountains from me. Maybe we can carpool to Wmsburg.
Doc Kelly--I'm edging on a year--babe in the woods.
YGK--have a ball. However--an objectivist wearing crosses? Tilt.
maj & Ann--How about a set of those Steely action figures? Mr. Fagen's comes with a little melodica and a pair of shades; Mr. Becker's with a couple of guitars. You can buy a "Becker Accessory Pack" with forty-five more guitars.
Now Roy--May I put in with the voice of Ol' Man Winter? The MLK weekend is enticing because it is 1) three days long and 2) imminent, but does this have to be at a time when the roads are likely to be only iffily navigable? How many hopes would be dashed by an inopportune ice storm? Not everybody has a Humvee. Re BFF--missed Letterman, darn it. Did see them on MTV Live, and as noted they'll soon be on SNL; I think their unsung days are about over. BTW--no effusive, effluvial, effluent, or effulgent offense taken, you big nondescript lug.
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 at 06:02:37
Comments:
Ann Archie: Something to sharpen those canines! Perhaps, I can check the Sharper Image catalogue.
Other gift ideas:
A high-powered booster shot to inject before the tour that lasts the whole tour.
A glass of brandy and a valium - premeasured and prepackaged, one for each show. Just open the package and pop those V's and wash them down with the glass of brandy. Gauranteed to break into, "I know a girl and RubE is here name...."
A new trenchcoat to replace that sorry one from the cover of "The Early Years".
An original portrait from the hand of Lucky Henry. One that gets to him this time, right Hank!!
The fifth Pocket Donald!
Name: Eb
ringmr.dougl@s
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 23:39:11
Comments:
Roy
Are you a prophet? We've combed every square inch between Hooterville and Pixly and still haven't found our County Agent.
We haven't seen a rabbit either--although there is a talking pig in the area.
Please explain, "zero".
Eb
Name: Ann Archie
xploded@lready
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 20:49:08
Comments:
With the illustrious DF's birthday less than a score of days away, I propose a challenge to Dansters everywhere to come up with a suitable gift for our renowned rock of ribalder.
Socks? Titanium toilietries? C'mon gang, it'll be fast and furious fun!
AA
Name: fez
soonondunes.com
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 13:43:33
Comments:
Lisa:
Places to stay in Williamsburg . . . On the southwesternn end
nearest to W & M, best places are the Hospitality House and the Days Inn; on the northeastern end, close to the entrance to CW, the Patrick Henry Best Western rules.Looking forward to the January Danfest. for now, off to the beach until the new year. happy holidays to all
Fez North
Name: mWorld
@Work
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 12:57:52
Comments:
BF5 on SNL Jan. 10th as well...
Peg: Thanks for the Pin-shot, Mrs. mWorld wants to adopt to youngest of your Molecular tribe.
YGK: I'm switching coasts w/you, I'm in NYC Jan 7-12. Enjoy the Damned...
Doc: Still shanking, man...
mW
Name: Guy
Guy@aol.com
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 12:35:01
Comments:
Stop it!
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 11:11:37
Comments:
I also consider myself an audiophile, with a very high-end turntable system at my house, and I have tried listening to these very expensive "heavy vinyl, 180-gram" vinyl releases, but I still think a high-quality CD blows away a high-quality LP anyday. All that talk about "vinyl warmth" and "CD coldness" is just in the ear of the listener, I guess. If you've got the proper CD audio system, with the settings correct, you can hear the low-end bass parts better than on the best vinyl system.
Name: Aja
SierraLuna@juno.com
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 10:00:18
Comments:
Dr Mu - sorry I missed BFF on Letterman too. Danm. Completely forgot to heed Roy. Scam's announcement! Does this mean I'm going to be banished to Mizar5?
Some interesting discussions in the chat room last night. Some audiophiles prefer vinyl to CD, personally I have yet to hear it but I haven't done a side by side comparision of ADD versus digital. But the sound people I know (at least the good ones) prefer analog for a "warmer" sound. Also the subject of favorite song/album came up a few times. While I maintain my favorite (either song or album) changes depending on my mood I must admit Aja is my favorite more often than any other. All this discussion about the bass on Aja and analog makes me wish I could hear Aja on vinyl to hear that low end.
Aja
Name: Roy.Scam
redux
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 08:09:00
Comments:
Dr.Mu: Ben Folds Five was, as expected, excellent on Letterman; however, they performed "Brick" which is a great song but doesn't really let him show off his piano prowess. I'd rather have seen him cut loose insrumentally on "Philosophy" or "Uncle Walter". Might have won more public attention. Like Steely Dan, BF5 is grossly underappreciated by the general population of salt of the earth common folk (You know, morons.)
BTW: Does the song "Steven's Last Night in Town" remind you of anyone on this guestbook?RS
Name: Roy.Scam
@the.shady.rest.reelin.in.the.bass
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 07:59:31
Comments:
Hank K.: Don't let your quest for whoppers take you too far past the Ziffel place, lest you wander from the green acres of good intentions into the twilight zone of zero self control. And DON'T follow that rabbit.
Rube-E Babe-E: My favorite bass work is on "New Frontier" which is approximately equal to a Steely Dan song if rounded to the nearest whole group.
Steviedan, Mr. Stew: "Hang On Sloopy"-now there was some bass guitar. Eight notes in ten seconds. They don't write em like that any more.----Sloopy, Spooky, Spooky Tooth, Stormy, Snoopy: the sixties are too confusing, man; get me back to the nineties.
Ole&Expanding: My favorite PS song: Either or Both.
RS
Name: DrMu
Billy Pilgrim Pl
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 at 07:51:50
Comments:
Ben Folds Five will be releasing a new album "Naked Baby Photos" on Jan 13. I missed their performance on Letterman. How was it? Roy? Ole? Aja?
Turn up the bass; the neighbors are listening
Name: Hank Kimball
pixley
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 22:59:51
Comments:
Talk about big bass! You should check out the whoppers they're hookin' over at the Ziffell place!
Your County Agent
Name: ruby, baby
gettin' hungry like a child
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 16:49:51
Comments:
MajorDude: I've always loved the bass (and the drums) on Royal Scam!I've never thought of Aja as a bass album, but I can hear it now in the Audio Daily Double. What is PEG!
rb
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 11:27:23
Comments:
Indeed, there were many differences in the SD sound among the tours. Different players make different music. As for Walter's playing, since he's been there for all tours, he had a much fuller sound for Art Crimes. Big differences between Chambers, Lawson and what's his name from 93. Check out AinA and some boots. Boring, that's a matter of opinion. Same? Only a fool would say that!
maj.
Name: YGK
..
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 10:55:22
Comments:
Expect a short haired bearded East Coaster with an adorable short-haired girlfriend. I wear 3 crosses on chains and she may be wearing a hat. We're not beach-people....
Name: Peg
totzke@tpims.org
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 09:48:27
Comments:
YGK: Great - I'm looking forward to meeting you. I'll make sure you get put on the list. Dress code is casual (no sequins required), but not sloppy (which is a lot to ask of the beach crowd).
How will I recognize you?
Name: YourGoldKeith
@PackingMyBags
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 07:10:09
Comments:
Boblovesbob/Peg: Well, G-friend and I are definietly going to be at the Damned Show the 27th - we'll get set to arrive at 8:00 PM, unless I can get everyone there at 7:30. Reservations? Put it under 'Hunter - 2+'....there's a possibility that we'll be 4, but we'll at least be 2.
So we will be at the Cannibal Bar at the Catamaran Hotel in Pacific Beach on Saturday, December 27th, at 9:00pm.
Is there a dress code?
thanx,
ygk
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 02:57:23
Comments:
Bingo Gringos! God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
c
Name: Colonel Cling-On
hog@an!
Date: Thursday, December 18, 1997 at 01:08:34
Comments:
Clas
I once thought Schwinn and Lisa were one in the same till Schultz pointed out their secret tunnel under the stalag.
Now I know them as Moose and Squirrel, though Hardgroove's official folder still bears the codename, Graphite and Glitter.
Hey Buddy, Can You Paradigm?
Lis...I mean, Schwinn
Name: Classic Schwinnola w/ extra caffeine
meatme@thedeli
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 22:45:21
Comments:
Roy
I can forgive the Fred Sanford falacy, but using the word, "effusive" in two consecutive posts? How do you ever expect to concentrate if you keep drinkin' out of a dribble glass?
Lisa: I need you! Please explain your motives and the meaning of those ancient Sumerian "staff" symbols in your most recent private correspondence to me. Are those really the mountains of Europa or the foothills of Ganymede?
Markin' Cards,Schwinn
Name: David
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 20:30:39
Comments:
Mr./Ms./Mrs. Boring:
Steely Dan with 200+ musicians will not be boring. The problem with 'Steely Dan' is that it is always the same. D.
Name: Q
FLAROOM
Location: TAMPA, USA
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 19:41:42
Comments:
When is "Orlando Danvention"-Fezzy??
Name: David
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Location: Woodstock Nation, Nuevo York Estados Unidos
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 17:30:06
Comments:
Roy.Scam: CH-53E is a type of Chinook.
I'd like to hear Steely Dan with a full orchestra, and throw in a Chuck Leavell type on keys for a couple songs. A Les Paul for a few, and even a Buddy Rich type to 'Dan' out a few drums.
Name: boring boring boring
boring boring boring
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 15:08:58
Comments:
boring boring boring boring
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 13:27:55
Comments:
RubyBaby: Favorite bass SD songs... that's easy - Green Earrings. Second choice, hmmm, so many to choose from easpecially from Scam, but I'm gonna go off Scam to "Aja for 500 Alex!" and say Black Cow and Josie. Just me.
BTW, someone mentioned that Manic tape I suggested last year. Obviously, it didn't help my sister any. As for me, Dan works for me every time.
...the spreading haze...
maj.
Name: lisa
wondering@bout my mammories
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 11:44:34
Comments:
scam: guess i'll be the man with the big casabas...
biz
Name: Roy.Scam
Junkyard in the Sky
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 11:40:30
Comments:
Schwinn the Eskimo: I have besmirched the memory of Fred Sanford with my inexcusable mistyping of his name (Who the hell is Fred Sanders?) I retract in dishonor. I have no choice but to uncover a rusty blade in my junkyard and impale myself upon it. Coming to join you, Fred and Elizabeth. Right after the January Williamsburg Dan meeting.
lisa Fez et al: Christina Campbell's is good. Famous enough to be easily found by pilgrims from afar.-- I'm easy to spot; I'll be the nondescript one.
RS
Name: MrLaPage
@the edge
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 10:42:34
Comments:
Oleander: I believe there is a new/additional mr la page. I haven't gone anywhere. I'm always out here. Just haven't had much to say or much time to say it. I've tried to catch up on the posts, but I seem to have missed too much. Although, it appears that while the names change, much remains the same. Happy holidays to you. Spent a few days at Thanksgiving in God's country, North Carolina. Miss it quite a bit.
clas: Glad to see you're still out there making waves and keeping everyone honest.
Name: Doc Kelly
Here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 10:23:47
Comments:
Any old timers out there? (18 months +)
Name: lisa
@real occasion
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 08:56:25
Comments:
scam, fez and mr. whatever: i suggest if we want to really discuss the dan, that we convene in one of the taverns around the corner from william and mary...i know christina campbells and there are many others...ideas? hotel suggestions? are you planning to join us mr. lapage from tennessee?
clas: i think you missed the boat on this one pal...i am very much a woman, and certainly a separate *physical* entity from schwinn...as fate would have it, we are one in another realm...he is my defender and my hero...do have this in swaziland, or wherever you are from?
what proof do you need of my femininity?
shall i phone you and sing a show tune?
one singular sensation,
showbizkid
Name: YGK
..
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 06:26:31
Comments:
Tomorrowsgirl: Danvention in Southern California sounds great, considering this NYer is going to be in San Diego on the 27th for the DAMNED show - any other takers????
ygk
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: near Wburg,
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 06:00:50
Comments:
Schwinn the Mighty: You talking to me? You talking to ME? Please re-read carefully before going into your Fred Sanders haymaker dance. I would never insult the celestial goddess of uncapitalized web-born poetry. Nice chivalrous gesture though.
Fez (of the North) & lisa & who else: Jan 19 is a holiday and good for me for Williamsburg. Should we convene at a bar with live music, a quiet bar, an elk's club, a Christian Science Reading Room? Bring you ax, your Dan artifacts, and your eskimos.
Oleander: Please don't construe my effusive dork comment as an insult. You are the Athena of usage, the Joan of Ark of language, the Fabulous Moolah of sentence structure.---BTW-Ben Folds on Letterman tonight.
RS
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 05:50:56
Comments:
LISA! I have my own GuestBook. But I keep it at home, where it belong. And in my book love doesn´t always mean sex. So, theirfor I can say I love you, although I know you are a man. And we all know that the Eskimoe is Lisa.
Keep cool,
Clas
Name: Schwinn, Friend of Man
anothercruelhoaxdirected@you
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 at 01:25:28
Comments:
Gosh, Aja, thanks so much for giving me your blessing in regards to my relationship with the randy, yet radiant, Lisa. Now, would you please remove the Dan from its safety seal and clear the area?
Hey Roy: What can I say? You have a "star upon thars" that transcends every light in the sky. But if you ever insult the love of my life like that again, I'll personally show you what "effluence" really means...
No Billy Idol Threat,
Loving, Nourishing Schwinn
Name: Expanding Man
not@all.coherent
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 23:42:29
Comments:
Oleander - Thanks for clearing out some cobwebs in the nether regions of my cerebrum....Phoebe Snow's phrasing in 'Poetry Man', et al, are phenomenal. About the only contemporary who has impressed me as much with turning a lyric has been Cassandra Wilson.
My synapses, or what has passed for them over the years, are grateful for making a long lost connection.
Now, not to sound like a sleazy producer (redundant, I know), but what has Ms. Snow been up to lately?
Name: Aja
SierraLuna@juno.com
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 23:26:09
Comments:
Schwinn - bizkid may be considered "high maintenance" but if you two are as compatible in person as you are here, well then, she's well worth the extra effort.
Fezzy - no details as of yet, I'm flexible as to timing, although the sooner the better. Location is also flexible, as long as the air is breathable and you can carry on a conversation without shouting. Email me with suggestions. A bag of fresh Florida organically grown citrus to the first confirmed guest.
Which Aja am I? I know of only one Aja that has posted to this GB in the past 4 mo., and that's me.Aja
Name: tomorrow'sgirl
upinthesky
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 17:03:01
Comments:
how about a danVention in southern Calif? we could all go to the Steely Damned concert. i would like an excuse to drive down and see that band. anyone?
Name: fez
not fezzy, @ivy.com
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 15:21:18
Comments:
why can't we all get along, as rodney king once said. rather than invoke my j.d. and point out my valid copyright in the fez designation, i suggest we both keep the name with a slight variation. i'll be fez north and "fezzy" can be fez south.
scam and lisa: so is the 19th of January the date for the ACC danfest in Williamsburg? any ideas on location?
fez north
in the summer all the swells
join in their search for sun and sand
Name: Fezzy
bermuda8@mailcity.com
Location: Orlando, FL USA
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 13:56:26
Comments:
thats someone.....
Name: Fezzy
bermuda8@mailcity.com
Location: Orlando, FL USA
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 13:55:17
Comments:
I am Fezzy dammit! I delurk for a few weeks and some tries to shanghai my name! Ok Aja - whats this about a Danfest in Orlando? and which Aja are you anyway?
Fez
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 10:20:15
Comments:
And part of the appeal of this guestbook is interacting with people who can effectively use the words 'effusive' and 'dork' in the same sentence.
The Snowbound video was on VH-1 two nights ago. This time it was the straight up version, without Beevis and Butthead making fun of it. Perhaps someone can interpret if and how that video relates to the song. It seems to be eluding me.
Ruby: Boss Shakespearitization. To schlepp, perchance to dream.
RS
Name: marvellous
meeting@fog city
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 10:09:44
Comments:
roo-be-bay-be: how nicely you put this, exposing a sea of troubling possibilites. May I use this some day? Yes, there is a certain nervousness when you get to matching faces to posts / emails :-)
And yes again, I am. And I had! And you are, too. And let us stay in the fog to maintain some curiosity here. Oh, btw: we might have gotten us some lunch and even a decent haircut, as they did not head out of the "capital of some sort" until 2pm!
How's the basses? I particularly like Aja which is the one that comes to me mind right here&now. Will get back to you again.
Name: lisa
@i forgot the important part...
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 09:43:34
Comments:
schwinn, you delicious cupcake...you left your underwear in tme microwave, but damn you looked good in "hot pants"!!
your immortal beloved
Name: lisa
boxing helen@
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 09:39:43
Comments:
regarding the "dantasm 98"--
ok...perhaps the validity of my opinions have lessened somehow due to my judgement regarding schwinn...but i don't give a crap, and here is my nickel in the bucket:
part of the thrill of posting on this gb is the outrageous and brilliant people i have come in contact with...persons i am sure i would have never had the opportunity to "meet" otherwise...
i admit it's easy to romanticize the possible identities of all of you...but i am aware that these conversations are issuing out of real people...i am convinced you HAVE to be more interesting/cooler/smarter than the shmucks i intersect with in my daily life...at least you don't communicate in a series of mono-syllabic words and grunts, all the while skeeting tobacco juice on my brand new platforms.as roy said, i'm sure we won't disappoint each other.
oleander, dear: you are more than welcome at the hut anytime...maybe you can help me go over some fabric swatches?
clas: even though you love every woman on the gb like a pimp-daddy street urchin, i have never gotten jealous...
who's the swedish private dick,
that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
C L A S!! (damn right)
wondering why clas doesn't have his own guestbook,biz
Name: oleander
danmoments, danmoments
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 09:28:09
Comments:
Ruby--1) The other night, a dj on one of our local public stations introduced his program with "FM." I tried to call him with effusive praise, but the dork wouldn't answer. 2) Another late night, as I walked into my local carnivorous chain bookstore (just to look at the magazines!), "IGY" was on the PA. 3) Today, as I stopped for fast food, Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man" wafted through the taco aroma. Man, I miss that album! I about wore it out when it was new. I love her voice & delivery--very fat & soulful. Gotta get the turntable fixed.
Kidnotes--The 3-year-old now refers to "Hard-Up Case" as "my song," and the 9-year-old has figured out the drum part. Good thing I never get sick of it.
Name: damm!
again
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 03:08:58
Comments:
Mr Stewart; "...the light is on, the darkness is just outside..." I didn´t put it, that´s from a Cristopher Cross-song.
And you´re right, fear the booze, and I think you should fear that cannabis just a little too. Cannabis is a hallucinogen, like those funny mushrooms and LSD. Bad for the brain.
Today it´s minus 1 celsius in Stockholm. Perfect weather for me.
Stockholm audi and out.
Name: clas
c@w
Location: Tomtestaden,
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 02:51:13
Comments:
Madge; if I did understand what you are talking about maybe I could give you an answer. My English she are more better now, but not that good.
AJA! I AM in love with you too, but this love for you is true and I would not write about it on the GBook. I have been to Orlando once, I spent my time there sitting on a motelroom, sippin whiskey from the bottle, feeling real bad. Took a walk, and heard a wonderful gospelchoir from a church. Maybe that was supposed to be a Burning Bush, but at that time I wasn`t susceptible to it. ( susceptible, is that the right word for it? )
Merle Haggard/ One Who Knows And Keeping Notes/BW; if I am a liar, you know where to hang that Silver Star, don´t you?
c
Name: Aja
2sday weld
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 02:06:24
Comments:
Maj - I told you not to leave the dot off..
Aja
Name: Aja
2 bee or not 2 bee
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at 02:04:46
Comments:
Some turnout.. I have yet to recieve any email regarding a
~~~~~~~~~~DANVENTION IN ORLANDO~~~~~~~~~~~
interested parties, email me at SierraLuna@juno.com..anybody home? Aja
Name: Madge
you'reso@king in it
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 23:31:40
Comments:
You know, even though my commercial endorsements have made me enough money to eat at Denny's 3 times a day, 7 days a week well into the next century, I can't help feeling as if there isn't something more...as if livin' it up with a Senior's Pass falls a little shy of the full dance card I once held as a young blasting-cap technicianette and regular USO concubine a mere 54 years ago...
What do you think, Clas? You seem to be more intuitive than most. Should this Ol' Gal call herself lucky to have had on-air relationships with Palmolive and Bounty and just accept that it's nothin' but Kirk's Hardwater Castille from here on out, or should I press for that "cherry" role as Tommy Lee's mother in his wife's production of, "That's Not My Daughter In-Law...That's Barb Wire Performing Oral Sex on a Dummy!"?
For Tough LegislationMadge
Name: RubyBaby
not lost but found in the barrio
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 14:11:52
Comments:
To meet, or not to meet - that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to harbor our fragile impressions of outrageous Danfans or to take risk of exposing a sea of troubling possibilites, and I'm supposing, end them.
To the Danfan with whom I kept company @the airport until the fog lifted: Are you glad or not? I had fun! You are a marvellous person. You exceed your cyber-reflection. (I'm not sure if you want your name mentioned)
Does anyone else get the urge to tango to Throw Back the Little Ones?
rb
Name: Mr. Lawrence Forde
lawrence@journalist.com
Location: BEVERLY HILLS, CCA U S A
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 13:52:27
Comments:
December 15, 1997.
Dear Donald, Walter, Tom and the Steely Dan Orchestra,
Hey you guys it's Larry, Tom's cousin...When is the new album
going to be released?!?!?!??!!!
Loved the show at Shoreline August, 1996.Hey Tom, answer your e-mail!
A Devoted Fan and Family Relation,
Lawrence Forde
Lawrence Forde Enterprises,Inc.
Beverly Hills, California
Name: DrMu
Billy Bathgate Blvd
Location: Mizar 5,
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 09:39:41
Comments:
Stepping off the platform for a moment...you don't want to know...I can tell you that Dave Barry will take over This Week from Sam Donaldson after one very cold and dry Sunday morning where Donaldson's toupee creates a Van der Graff sparking so intense that all he can mutter is "gotta have tax cuts' over and over as he is wheeled off the set.
From now last week's papers: The Houston Chronicle listed their Top 40 (critical) fave releases including Chris Thomas King (one for you Zeke), Boz Scaggs, Dianne Reeves, Erykah Badu, Ornette Coleman, Roy Hargrove (relation to Dr Hardgroove?), Steve Earle and in the can't believe it didn't suck category: Paul McCartney.
Maybe more interesting was the 1997's Worst list which included Oasis (of course), Wynton Marsalis' unbelievably pretentious "Blood on the Fields" which inexplicably won a Pulitzer, and Dylan's Time Out of Mind. I've been a fan of some of Wynton's earlier work such as Marsalis Standard Time III (with his dad), Black Codes from the Underground (with Brandford, Jeff Watts, and Kenny Kirkland), and Majesty of the Blues but his most recent releases are becoming unlistenable. The Chronicle described BotF as "...long-winded, deeply flawed..." Having listend to some of it, they're being kind. Time Out of Mind was characterized as way overrated by some: " Who else could rhyme 'Missouri' with 'in a hurry' and have it hailed as his best work in 20 years?"
H-Ole: take off your flat hat and go
Name: Roy.Scam
Tide 2 dumb assed
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 09:23:33
Comments:
Oleander (Not Menorah, not Messiah, not mazuma; she's one of tomorrow's girls.): You have a strong point; there are pitfalls in meeting Guestbook people in person. The results could range from loss of mystique, to anti-climax (which is urologically dangerous), all the way to undiluted horror. But what's the worst that could happen?:-- Only one other person shows up and he's a psychotic fugitive from Oregon with a case of dynamite who takes you hostage and waits for the police to come.-- O.K., so it's not your dream weekend, but it will make a great chapter for your book.
How to prepare for a Dan-vention: Visualize the other attendees as Deliverance-looking, Slingblade-talking stalker personalities with more friends on the internet than in real life. They probably won't be, or might not be, and the odds are your expectations will be exceeded.
Clas: Fair in height. Sorry. I forgot to use the international unit for the coldness of water swallowed while kneeboarding.
El Gidar (guitar?): To my knowledge, yours was the first mention of Charlie Weaver on this website. Sigourney, Jodie F, and Jeff G have been discussed, classified, and filed away.
Aja: Good casting on the Ben Stiller~Donald Fagen choice. And Fagen would be great doing Stiller's Pig Latin Lover schtick.
RS
Name: lucky henry
out of the rain
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 08:43:29
Comments:
oleander: astute observations on Idooru. haven't read through it, but my autographed copy should make a nice b'day gift for the Donald...
since picking up a gig-bag for the 88 keys, i'm jamming with some fellow co-opers from R.E.I., many of whom have even heard of mr. whaddevah...anyway, anyone in the phily area ready to run through some dan covers lemme know. have cool rollin' bubble will travel...
love 'n hugs to The Damned (and offspring). when do you play in San Francisco again? i will be there...
looking forward to the next danvention,
lh.
Name: El Gidar
slightlyoveratrillionind@nyears
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 at 02:10:00
Comments:
Congrats to the faithful Dans among you! I'de love to be more formal, but my short-term memory seems a million years behind me.
Even Sigourney Weaver seems timeless, as her Uncle Charley once appeared to be.
Call it entropy. Call it gravitational lensing. Call it Jeff Goldblum in a black leather jacket. Call it the Secret Square. Call it Jody Foster dressed in a Starship Trooper uniform kissing god's ass. We Dans converge on the head of a pin and find there is no room for Angels. No room at the Inn. Call us pin-heads, just don't expect a daily-double. It's tough enough living single and harder still to do it without cable.
Wait. Did You Hear That?
EG
Name: Lou Chang
danm@thefleamarket
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 23:15:09
Comments:
Aja
Just trying to restore a modicum of accuracy in a "close-enough" world. No problem. I'de like to help.
Oleander: Do me a favor. Open the door. Let 'em in.
Visors Down,LC
Name: Aja
SierraLuna@juno.com
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 17:06:07
Comments:
Oleander - Thanks for the offer. Please, go ahead and yank the thing out. 12 hour drive - Sorry no can do, even if I could afford the gas and car repair I would need. But at the next party forget the celery, how about some of those baby carrots?
Mr. Stewart, Clas, and other sun-deprived individuals - Since you guys would have to travel a long way to get to any Danvention anyway, why not come to Florida?
Lou Chang - OK, you can blame me for the inaccurate lyrics on StAl's link, since I had volunteered to edit them and make necessary corrections. I'll get to it soon.
Clas - You don't have to be old to enjoy those simple pleasures in life, although some difficult experiences make it a little easier just to appreciate what others take for granted. So, you love Lisa and Ruby still, what did I do to fall from your graces? Oh, well at least your getting closer to calling those dots elispses.
Aja
Name: Stewwy
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 14:33:28
Comments:
Dr. Ole: Eleuthera? Sounds warm and maybe like you could snorkle there.
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 14:29:55
Comments:
Clas: "Darkness is just outside..." Well put. Yep, Anchorage has the Japanese currents flowing in that help make the bowl warmer than greater Alaska. A fine powder snow has fallen all night and I believe I'll strap on the skis.
Good god I'd like some of that scotch my folks left with me. It went fast and I'd soon become a hopeless alcoholic if I didn't curb it. Funny though. The whole time they were here I was craving cannabis but martinis were socially acceptable. I fear alcohol.
Dr. Ole: I definitely want to run into you some day. Same with all the other regulars. That was a great summer meeting the inimitable St.Al et. al., Mr. Pete, Hoops, Mr. Teflon, Maggie and everyone at the Gorge show '96. The Guestbook made it possible. I wouldn't have gone without St.Al's badgering. Best time of my life. By the way, I will be going to Texas for x-mas so my sun is coming.
Lator:
Mr. Stewart
Name: Sparky Mc Shmokus
tokin@way
Location: Spliffberg, Of Mind
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 13:48:32
Comments:
You "Dan-o-philes" are really in a class by yourselves.
More fat than a porterhouse...I am a hungry camper.
As the coals turn to ash,Sparkster (Mine is Kitchen Clean)
Name: oleander
no hesitation
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 11:24:10
Comments:
Lou--You rang?
Name: A. Dannagut
Vicksburg@MightMo
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 08:58:14
Comments:
Lou C: It's Danm the Dan-tee-dos. Vote one for merge. Napolean says "IN WAR, men are nothing; the 'Dan' is everything."
Name: clas
c@work
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 06:45:45
Comments:
Mr Stewart; ...it´s alright, the darkness is just outside... but tell me, is it colder where you live? I am thinking about the Golfstream that runs outside Norway that gives us a little warmth.
Roy Scam; celsius? Damn hot. And I will NEVER try kneeboarding again.
Ruby; hi, you should visit Sweden round midsummer. Sun around the clock. That´s something to long for. And the winter can be great, if you are on the countryside, if there is snow, and you are sitting in the kitchen, fire in the ironstove (ironrange?) and some candles.
Uhhh, I am growing old, I am beginning to like those simple things in life.
LISA! Lets forget about the dots or Status Epilepticus which is the real name forem. You are OK, but you know, I crave attention and I am in love with you (and Ruby), so I am damn jealous on the Eskimoe.
Clas, with a sense for snow
Name: Lou Chang
dan@damnthewarpedos
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 at 00:45:11
Comments:
"The urge to merge or the compulsion to convene?"
THAT IS the QUESTION!
(Stay tuned for the answer)
Oleander?
Name: oleander
over easy
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 23:19:16
Comments:
PS--I was deeply gratified to see the medical theme of the new ODP front door.
Name: oleander
lone d(ea)r.
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 23:14:24
Comments:
Aja--right. "Treyf" means non-kosher. Want me to take out that gall bladder for ya? And what, you can't make that 12-hour drive for a few precious hours of more northerly Dannifying?
Doc K--welcome back! I thought I was the lone doc since Dr. Mu became a mere symbol of his former self.
Mr. LaPage--are you the Mr. La who was here before?
Mr. LaScam--Aha! So the gauntlet is down! Let's see how laryngeally enabled YOU are! How I hope to come--sort of--but honey, you don't know my ball and chain. And, I don't know, do we all REALLY want to meet each other? What if all these mini-Danventions happened and everyone looked at each other and said, "Yucch, what a bunch of losers! How could I ever have wasted so much time, even virtually, with them?" The GB would self-destruct! This is analogous to my not wanting to meet Messrs. Becker & Fagen (should I ever be given the chance); I have these musal constructs of them which, if sufficiently wrong, might conceivably color how I hear the music--and if I lost the music, you might as well lobotomize me. It's like the way the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" screwed up the book for me....Anyway, if I could pick any Danvention, I'd go to Schwinn & lisa's for the housewarming. (S&l--I'll bring the hors d'oeuvres. There're lots left over from that party where you met.)
Mr. Stew--Hang on. The Solstice is almost here. I'm not THAT far south, but if you need a hit of sun, you're welcome here anytime. Or we could just take off for Eleuthera....
Neurotically yours
Name: Schwinn
dakt@ri
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 21:23:51
Comments:
Lisa
Tell me where to go. Hardgroove wasn't kidding when he surmised I was not java enabled. barn@flash.net
Name: lisa
vodk@-rocks
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 20:54:47
Comments:
schwinn: come and chat with me beefcake
Name: Scwinn the Undaunted
@zimuth
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 20:13:53
Comments:
Lisa: It's not easy bulding a forge from river clay, transporting sand from the banks of the Amazon, melting the sylicate and floating it on the river just to make glass for your windows--but I have done so. Not to mention constantly jamming radar with a pair of tortoise shells and sharpening bungie sticks just in case the oafish, yet persistent Hardgroove is serious about his efforts to caprture me.
Fortunately, I have assembled a crude generator based on the Professor's ingenious design on Gilligan's Island--and have sufficiently schooled a baboon to do the pedaling. Thus, not only do I have power, but a good link to a virtually limitless supply of bananas--a necessity when testing the durability of our "hut". Please respond. The ape is tireless and the modem is digital.
Don't Take Me Alive,Dr. Schwinnlittle
Name: Karl Brown
karl.brown@ns.sympatio.ca
Location: Halifax, N S CANADA
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 19:30:32
Comments:
I SAW STEELY DANS SHOW WHEN I WAS LIVING IN VANCOUVER BC AND IT WAS THE BEST CONCERT I'VE SEEN YET. I SURE HOPE THE DAN COME BACK TO CANADA SOON AND MAYBE THIS TIME NOVA SCOTIA
Name: SouthernSodomizer
southsod@colon.com
Ala-fuckin'-bama U.S. of A
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 19:13:52
Comments:
Hey all y'all out there in Dan Fan land! GRAB YOUR ANKLES!!!
Name: RubyBaby
in our plot of frozen space
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 18:59:17
Comments:
How is everyone? So far, it's been a strange but wonderful season. I fed carrots to an elephant under a real, live Banyan tree. Man, those trees are big! I was aching to climb one, but my family said they would die a thousand deaths from embarassment, so I didn't. I regret that. I saw Aja on the wall at the Hard Rock Cafe. (Is that all they could come up with?)
To Clas & Mr. Stewart: I see it must be difficult to be in the *shade* all the time. If I could, I would tip the world for you. Since I'm not allowed to do that, I can only offer a suggestion or two. 1)Play the Nightfly. It's the happiest of the Dan music, all in all. 2) Last year, MajorDude made a tape of Dan songs. One side A he taped the lighter stuff. On the B side, he recorded the more serious stuff. He claimed it had a good effect upon his sister & himself. I guess they LTAO.
Q: Which SD songs have the best base guitar?
holidaylove, RB
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 12:38:51
Comments:
Been away from the Guest Book for a couple months... you know, it doesn't look like I've missed much...
Still lurkin' - Doc
Name: Commander Q-Mix
@large
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 09:46:09
Comments:
Attention DanFans: It is my proud privilege to claim, on behalf of the CyberFree Fusicians Coalition, full credit and responsibility for the most recent blackout of the so-called "Official Steely Dan Website". This heinous puddle of late-capitalist netbile will continue to be subject to periodic harassment unless and until its vile creators show themselves willing to respect the rights and talents of accomplished jazz-rock instrumentalists everywhere - especially those who wish to perform on their latest studio recording. Demands to follow. Q
Name: mr lapage
jrwalkr@aol.com
Location: k-town, Tn USA
Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 at 08:59:58
Comments:
Howdy from THE SD maniac in east tennessee..Any other kindred spirits must email
Name: lisa
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 23:58:22
Comments:
fez and roy: so, are we all set for the weekend of january 19th in wmsbg? feel free to email me with any thoughts on activities, locations, etc. i look forward to getting together with other serious fans.
dr. hardgroove: i am no closer than your are to the truth regarding the origins of schwinn...i am an innocent in this matter...i was merely defending wb & df against the foul slanders he was spitting out...next thing you know, i was his paramour... have i been brainwashed? turned into a cerebral smoothie?
clas: what foul sin have i committed to displace me from your good graces? was it the dots? friggin dots...
schwinn: how long will you torment me with your vaguely calming words before you reveal your true identity? i have sacrificed for you, love...i have sold off my worldly belongings...i have explained to my waspy family that i have fallen for an eskimo dude i met on the steely dan gb...i am packed and ready to go.
edited out of the will,
biz
Name: Andre Gardner
andre@andregardner.com
Location: New York (West Side), NY USofA
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 22:44:45
Comments:
Hey all -
Love the site. It always gives me a yuck or two when I visit.
Speaking of visiting, please visit my web site and, if you're feeling particularly charitable, drop me an e-mail...would love to hear from/post an e-mail from you. Go ahead, let me have it.
FYI, I'll be linking to the "Dan Cam' from my web page.
Finally (thankfully!), I had the distinct pleasure of visiting River Sound a few years back (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were doing a "Rockline" show there)...what a bitch to walk up those stairs, eh? Lovely facility, though.
Peace out.
Andre@andregardner.com
Name: Slimmy
yak@yak
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 20:13:05
Comments:
Heard a radio interview with Becker a while back and he stated he thought the reason Aja did so well was because 77-78 were great years for records in general. He specifically mentioned Fleetwood Mac's Rumours as a case in point. He gave a couple of other examples too but I forget...
Name: Aja
SierraLuna@juno.com
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 19:49:17
Comments:
StAl - see you've been doing some editing, someone got a little overexcited earlier today. You would have thought the poor guy had just discovered fusion or something.
Lone Dear - Your not the only one not infected with the holiday spirit. Ooh, latkes! I prefer sourcream, but due to these damn gallstones I'd better stick to the applesauce. Treyf is not in my dictionary!! Is that an antonym for kosher?
Re: The Fantasy Docu-Drama of SD - I just started reading Sweet's Bio on the boys, and after seeing some of the photos of WB and DF in the late 60s and early 70s I'd have to say I would cast Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Stiller, respectively.
Anyone wishing to get together for a soiree a la Dan in Orlando email me.
Aja
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 17:59:47
Comments:
Rick Derringer did a show in Anchorage about two years ago. It was mostly blues and he was in great form, just playing the shit out of the guitar. No "Hoochiecoo," though he did the first few bars, stopped and made some comment I can't recall now. But as usual, it was too damned loud. Same with the Gorge show '96...I had to get up and move away for a while and get hassled by security.
Clas: A year ago you were hard to read. A lot of hate. You've calmed down some it seems. Yes, same latitude, same morose outlook on things especially in the dark here. Ick. I've had no intense sun on my skin in three months.
Anchorage Danvention: Is official. June 21-23-- Summer Solstice-- sun won't set. There are already at least three people confirmed to be there.
Mr. Stewart
Name: steviedan
stevev@jps.net
Location: NO.CAL,
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 14:12:29
Comments:
Hey Maj.: You are probably right about Fagen playing sax on that track....but my Ultimate Trivia question mainly concerned "official" Steely Dan tracks....it is hard to classify any Fagen Becker tracks recorded before 1972 as a Steely Dan song...most of that stuff was recorded with a condenser microphone in Kenny Vance's office (under the influence of assorted drugs!)....
Roy:'Bent Over Backwards' was an early bootleg that featured rough versions of much of 'Katy Lied' and 'Chain Lightning' had different fade with Derringer's guitar on top of the keyboards...not really an improvement over the final mix....Derringer incidently is really named Rick Zheringer and he was a friend of Beckers (along with the late great Randy "California") in Queens and had a #1 in 1965 with the Real McCoys (Hang On Sloopy)......
new album rumour: Fagen and Becker are working on an "acapella greatest hits collection"... you heard it here first!
Name: fez
@morningline.com
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 13:25:04
Comments:
Scam: Any date in January works for me. Well, not the 1st as i imagine i will be incapiciated.
As i key, deacon blues plays in the background. Anybody out there ever hear the tale that the whole song is a gambler's lament brought on by the lenghty losing streak of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons basketball team's twentysome odd game losing streak in the mid 70's. i read that somewhere once i think . . . or maybe i just dreamed it
Fezchasing the mystical sphere
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 12:18:32
Comments:
I stick by the Donald playing sax on I Can't Function. Can't remember where I heard/read it but.....maybe it was a dream!?!
It sounds like Donald. It must be.
Dan-vention Philadelphia anyone?? One of the brew houses, maybe?
maj.
Name: lemke
@theweatherchannel
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 09:30:07
Comments:
Ed, Ole --
No mystery on the official site being down. It was.....
!El Nino!
of course
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 09:20:57
Comments:
Oleander--Williamsburg. January. Be there. No excuses. No busy-Doctor shuffle. We need to see if your still as clever without a 24 hour delay between statements. Do you fear the challenge of real time dialogue? Besides, I've got this racquetball injury for which I need some free consultation. Bring some pretzel latkes left over from that old-fashioned traditional Yiddish Christmas.
Clas; Bring your kneeboard. There's plenty of 50 degree river water to swallow in Virginia.Zeke: At the next Nawlins meeting, can the boys and girls pair off, drop acid, and get busy in the graveyard a la "Easy Rider"?
Steviedan: I'm not familiar with the Bend Over Backwards bootleg. I don't see how RD could improve on his Kati Lied solo on Chain Lightning. Did you ever hear the record with Derringer accompanying Johnny Winter?
RS
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 at 06:38:00
Comments:
ZEKE; "Many of the bands are gone..." Thank God for that. I guess we have to wait a while before Chicago lay down their horns.
Have you figured out wich canal I´m talking about, the kneeboard-canal?
CONNIE LEE;
"My hands are shaking and my heart is breaking
My hair is fading and my sternum is May Daying
My eyes are crying and my lips are lying"
Thanks for your kind response.
ROY; Am I welcome? Let´s see, left over Greeneland, is that right? And when I get to avenue D, I just ask my way?
OLEANDER; if you are talking about Book of Liars; when Becker promoted the CD, he did an interview in Expressen, the largest newspaper in Sweden, with Måns Ivarsson. They were talking about the songs and I recall that Becker said about Book Of Liars that it was about politicians and corruption. That was what was written in the paper, I didn´t HEAR Becker say it.
Today it is a year ago I received a strange email from a D.Fagen@xxxx;
"be nice else your Audi will explode."
Dear mr Whoever you are, I´m doing the best I can, is that good enough? Because my wife are beginning to wonder why she has to go down 5 minutes before me and start the car every morning.
audi and out,
C
Name: Your Special Friend
gaucho@migo
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 21:32:39
Comments:
oleander: You da' man! You da' man!
clas: Remember when you weren't a wretched bore? Back when you had no hesitation in stripping an extension cord and taping the copper leads to a couple of nails in a board? It's time to perfect it.
Schwinn, lisa and hardgroove: If this keeps up I'm buying you all shoe phones.
The Stars that Match Your Eyes.
Name: oleander
uninfected with the holiday spirit
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 20:25:15
Comments:
Ed B--Maybe I did it! When I logged on tonight, I ritually checked the ODP. The letter was still on, but when I hit refresh it was down. Anxiously waiting with you to see what's up.
Roy & Doc Mu--Maybe we can work something out here. I'd trade with both of you for some ethnic rarities--"Pretzel Latkes," "Turn That Dreydl Over Again," and "I Got the Gelt." Many kisses to you both for being at your hilarious best.
Re Danvention Prime--Williamsburg, eh? The Triangle would be better for me (but haunts? I never went anyplace where it was too dark to read)--but the likelihood of my attending is slim. Perhaps I can manage a virtual presence, in keeping with this netherspace. Hoops--excellent idea.
Aja--sorry! Shrimp is treyf, but do you like sour cream or applesauce on your latkes?
Clas--I guess something got lost in translation again. Just like when I tried to quote "What goes around comes around" to you in Swedish, eh--and so it did! Thanks for the humility. PS--what interview with Mr. Becker?
Stan the skinny funny man--Help me out here. Did not the nefarious RS publish this summer the top 200 albums of all time? And was not PL the only Dan rep? Did I hallucinate all this? Doesn't anyone else wallow in this rag from time to time?
Here's to the urge to merge, or the compulsion to convene....
Name: ed beatty
edbeatty@pe.net
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 17:31:56
Comments:
Anyone aware why the OFFICIAL SITE is down?
Name: steviedan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Location: Berkeley, Cali.
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 16:28:41
Comments:
Hey Roy(al) Scam: yes that was Rick (hang on Sloopy) Derringer on 'Chain Lightning', there is a "alternative" version of that on the bootleg 'Bent Over Backwards' that finishes with some sporadic e licks from the D man......YADAH YADAH YADH
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: Free, To Bet
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 09:00:02
Comments:
Fez, lisa: Williamsburg in January (maybe the holiday weekend of the 19th) sounds good for a Danfan brain trust/hoedown. I like the idea of assembling at Dan-referenced locations. If we have a good time, we can hold ensuing meetings at Haiti, Guadalajara, Vegas, East St. Louis, Santa Fe, etc. Then, after the holocaust, we can all get together on the shores of Babylon.
As for concert pilgrimages, they played the Virginia Beach Amphitheater on their last tour. That would be a good place to convene. Clas, just turn left at Greenland; you can't miss it.
New Dave: I personally have written the song "My Old School" on several occasions. Then I play it for Kim Basinger, she falls in love, starts removing her clothes, and then the boss wakes me up.
Steviedan: I forgot "Chain Lightning" on the guitar solo list. Wasn't that the Rock & Roll Hoochiecoo man.
Did you ever notice that the Bodhissatva guitar solo sounds like Les Paul for about 3 seconds (during the part where the guitarist is cutting back and forth with the keyboard)?RS
Name: Zeke
'nawlins
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 08:50:53
Comments:
Fezz, & The Bunch: I think Nawlin's would be a great locale
for a "Dan Fess". If 'da boys do go out again, they MUST come
thru "the big easy". We can start with dinner at
"Pascal Manally's". Great food. Then to the show. Afterwards,
dive into the quater, bring Lisa and Schwinn along so those 2
can just "get it on", and party till the sun comes up! End up
at Cafe' du Monde. There.As far as the Kama issue a while back, be thankful.
We live in a great time for music. For some of us, the Dan was
here when we were in high school, college, and still today.
Many of the bands are gone.Carmen sez "kick ASS".
Z.
Name: ConnieLee
@laughingpines
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 06:20:04
Comments:
Yes, Clas, you have been. Your apology is much appreciated.
Name: clas
c@odd job
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 01:52:42
Comments:
AM I, or have I been such pain in the ass for you guys as those lisas and schwinns are to me?
If I am, I can´t say how sorry I am, cause these two are just killing me.
Clas
Name: S C H W I N N
between a hut and a hardgroove
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 at 01:02:11
Comments:
Lisa: Your whispers engaged my ganglia hours before that damnable Hardgroove spilled the contents of his laughable Big Chief Note Book all over this GB. I swear I'm not using you, honey. I've been a little busy if you know what I bee. It's Hardgroove who uses a big, fat pencil and sits at a tiny desk. He is jealous as he should be. I can't wait till you see the hut...
Applying the Red Paint,
Schwinn the Amused
Name: Dr. Hardgroove
Sorry, it's a security thing
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 21:34:19
Comments:
Lisa
Certain individuals are very interested in this structure Schwinn is building for you. Have no doubt, our nation's finest satellites are tracking every whiff of smoke in or around the ecuatorial zone in search of a jungle clearing operation. Of course, you two could be speaking in code and don't think for a minute we're not analyzing your discourse with every cryptographic tool known to the free world.
Alas, our information on this barbarian is pathetically incomplete, however, we do know from the "cookies" we have gathered from his past messages that he does not appear to have a java enabled
browser. That would explain why he has not engaged in real-time communication with you....What's that chief? I've compromised our surveillance? But, OUWWW!
Name: lisa
bl@h
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 20:59:07
Comments:
fez: they will more than likely play walnut creek in raleigh, in addition to the bb pavillion in charlotte...i agree that we should come together for some shows.
so how is sometime in january for our conference?
fan: golly...whatever will i do with myself now that my one purpose in life, amusing and interesting you, has come to an abrupt halt?
me and schwinn on the unemployment line.
biz
Name: fez
@expanding.com
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 17:26:33
Comments:
biz & scam: i like the suggested williamsburg locale. I'm chasing the waves and fresh scallops the last two weeks of the year but after that, most any date works.
also, thinking farther into the future, assuming there's a tour this summer, we should think about converging as well at a centralized concert venue. Va. Beach or Manassas come to mind. Is there any place in NC besides Blockbuster in Charlotte?
fez
languid and bittersweet
Name: FAN
shad@ct
the united states
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 16:29:43
Comments:
Fagen did not play the sax on "East st.L..."
he did however on "everyones gone to the movies"can anyone guess the name of the band that did a cover of "don't let me in" back in the 80's?
Biz and Schwinn: lets keep your online romance off the sign in stranger guest book please.
noone here is amused or interested.
thank you for the cooperation.peace out F.
Name: steviedan
@alextrebeck.com
Location: too much coffee, Cappacino,CA
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 16:02:33
Comments:
You are correct sir.....according to the credits on the CD 'Decade' (which won the award for worst album cover ever) Donald Fagen played sax on 'East St. Louis Toodle-oo' which was originally a hit for Duke Ellington in 1927 just a few years before the original Steely Dan went on tour with the James Gang,....of course Charlie Parker toured with them during the winter of '48 and we all remember that great tour Steely Dan did with Miles Davis and Gil Evans and who can forget when Fagen guest appeared with the Beatles during the 'Let It Be' sessions...and how about that week in 1974 when Becker subbed for Johnny Carson?!!!
Name: lisa
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 15:42:59
Comments:
fez and roy: what about williamsburg for the bash? it is tied to a sd song and everything...christina campbell's or another tavern would be an appropriate setting...however, i am flexible as to the location and details...possible date(s) for the shindig??
schwinn: why have you abandoned me?
biz
Name: BS
just the facts?
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 14:07:56
Comments:
Didn't Brian Sweet's book claim that DF played sax on "East St. Louis..."?
Anyone? Anyone?
BS
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 12:20:57
Comments:
steviewonderdan: Donald played saxaphone on "...I Can't function, honey when you run me down..."
Any major dude will tell ya,
maj.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 10:16:41
Comments:
Fez: All the sites you mentioned for the mid atlantic danorama are good. I was kidding about Danville, but you gotta like the name. My cultural familiarity with Richmond is mostly in the area of which restaraunts have chicken tenders on their Kid's Menu; but I'm certain that a good libation location can be easily found. Speaking of cool college towns, Ben Folds Five is from Chapel Hill; if they did a home court appearance, that would be a good enough cause to commit to a pilgrimage. I think Oleander knows the haunts thereabout. (..or maybe someplace where Duke is embarrasing a basketball opponent.)---Here's a thought on the UVA bowl snubbing: Maybe the bowl hosts fear a breakout of alcohol accidents.
Still would like to go to Chicago and suck up some Old Style and talk about Da' Dan.Dr.Mu: Well done. I can't wait to see if I perish in the infamous internet apocolypse.-- I want a copy of "Any Manger Dude"; will trade bootleg of "It Came Upon a Midnight Cruiser".
Maj: Thanks. Sniggering put downs of people who are more succesful than me is what I do best.
showbizkid: i've noticed. and i'm peering upward, as we speak, to see if you're wearing donald and walter underoos.
Steviedan: Your humble opinion on guitar solos lines up very closely with my own. I might have removed the teeth and earrings, let Rose have Rikki's spot and placed Mr. Becker's "Black Friday" solo very near the top. Hollerable mention: Josie, Pretzel, NightXNight.
How about 'other insrument' solos: 1) Ruby 2) Dr. Wu 3) Toodleloo 4) Fire ITH.RS
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 06:54:12
Comments:
Sorry for the inconvenience. Glad I checked this morning. Also, if anyone has sent mail to the above address in the last 2 weeks, please be patient with me because I haven't been able to check it in over 10 days.
Thanks, now you can go back to your sordid business....
StAl
Name: StAl
testing
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 at 06:48:52
Comments:
Test
Name: lisa
walking in@winter schwinnderland
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 15:03:46
Comments:
o mighty schwinn: despite the numerous warnings i have received to the contrary, i intend to remain your servant now, and ever.
i am roaming the earth at regular intervals, trying to escape the reality of our love...i long for the night we are on the gb together, simultaneously posting, and i peek into the chatroom and find you, eyes ablaze...will you not meet me there tonight?
i will whisper in your ear.s c h w i n n . . . .
Name: fez
@whyhoosnotinbowl.com
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 14:35:16
Comments:
scam, lisa, and whoever else in SD ACC region: oh god, not danville for the regional fete. I spent the proverbial week there one day. It's the only unpleasant part about the drive to the Carolinas. Well, that, and the fact you're soon driving through states where Helms and Thurmond are senators
But I digress into political commentary . . . Perhaps Richmond (Scam -- what are the good bars there? All I know is Hooters) will work as the fete site or maybe a cool college town in North Carolina like Chapel Hill or Raleigh (Lisa -- any thoughts?)
Fez
. . . the water will turn to cherry wine
Name: steviewonderdan
1972@abcdunhill.com
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 14:28:37
Comments:
Best guitar solos in Steely Dan hiztory (one man's humble opinion)
1.My Old School -Baxter/tie with Reelin In The Years-Elliot Randall
2.Kid Charlemagne- Carlton
3.Gold Teeth II- Dias
4.Bodhisattva- Dias/Baxter
5.Green Earrings- Carlton(?)
6.Don't Take Me Alive- Carlton
7.Bad Sneakers- Becker
8.Peg- Jay Graydon
9.Aja (medley)- Dias/Becker/Carlton
10.Rikki...-Baxter..............Ultimat Steely Trivia #8796 (good for 3500 bonus points in the Steely Dan Jeopardy Board game)...Name the only Steely Dan track Donald Fagen played saxophone on?
True or False- The name Steely Dan was derived from the names of Fagen and Becker's fathers (i.e. Steely Fagen and Dan Becker)???
Name: Dave Cannon
davec@themurdockgroup.com
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 13:49:27
Comments:
Once, I actually "wandered in from the city of Saint John without a dime."
I am a keyboardist, have been professional and semi-professional since 1984. I cut my teeth on Donald Fagen's interesting voicings and progressions. Thank God for Steely Dan--I swear, they were among the few really interesting groups of the 1970's.
Have you ever just wished you had written a song--damn the royalties and the fame--just wished you had written it? "My Old School." 'Nuff said.
Name: µ (The Poster Formerly Known As DrMu)
in the Year 2525
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 12:56:31
Comments:
ITK: Deadline: December 7, 2525: The long awaited (forgotten) Steely Dan opus (still untitled) is finally released in the AVNN (audio-visual nerural net format). The 1 inch wafers can be purchased as susual through Sam Goody's and are compatible with Series IEEE2425 VP (virtual plugs) for those having the VPI procdure performed after 2015. See and hear the result of 30 years of noodling and mugging for the "Dan-Cam" It is anticipated that the release will be available in the shareware bargain bins next week as only 2 elderly inviduals going by Edd and Kinky have pre-ordered. Most of their fans were vaporized in the bizarre internet "accident" on January 1, 2000. President Bill Gates will honor Mr. Steely Dan at his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year
lisa: alas, i am an expatriate suffering from another alamo humiliation at the moment.
HolyOle: The µ-let is threatening to begin recording a Dan Christmas album (y'know, with Your Gold Wreath, Silent Night-by-Night, Any Manger Dude..., etc. I've been demoted from agent to roadie and bodyguard and am now on a fixed salary.
Name: clasµ
c@w
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 09:16:33
Comments:
Hej, Steely-meeting? I am down in Borensberg during the christmas and new year and we are going to have a real Steely-meeting, that´s for sure.
It will be me, santa Claus, Pompe, gamla gumman Jansson på åsen, Scooter, Ångjanne, Gösta och Gösta.
Flickorna Andersson får tyvärr inte komma. Their father is an old jazzmusician without any rockfeel.
Hej hopp, ta vara på er.
Clas
Name: lisa
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 07:52:36
Comments:
roy: ever notice that i have the delicious habit of posting right on top of you?
meeting in virginia...anywhere...sounds good to me...isn't dr. mu
a local boy also??anyone else??
the biz
Name: lisa
prozac waiting@the pharmacy
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at 07:39:42
Comments:
dr. hardgroove: why must i always fall for the dangerous man of intrigue? this schwinn character has paralyzed my frontal lobes with his infectious banter...frozen my pouty lips to the window of life with his carelessly tossed about phrasings...yet his identity is as tightly concealed as a cross-dresser's cock at a biki