SIS Archives -- December 1999

forgot to turn off the ol' iMac will huddling with my one and only - rolled over and we're at 1/1/00...kind of surreal to finally see it.

Got the last great musical opus of 90s in my mailbox this afternoon!! What a wonderful quilt you have put together, JW! Artists: magnifico!! An incredible array of talents and diverse sounds – all great! …and many play numerous instruments with great alacrity ala Steve Wonder or Paul McCartney!! It is certainly a humbling pleasure to know you all even virtually. I’ve almost forgotten about that new Dan song!

Clas wins the Dan soundscape award. Great musicianship. Kudos to your son – beautiful tone on the guitar. The engineering and production are absolutely world class!! I can’t believe that’s drum *programming* – so damn lively while maintaining that tight groove! You’ve really captured an essence heard in the Gaucho/Nightfly days.

YGK: You have an incredible gift for composition and arrangement! Model Prisoner - love the organ and the lively vocals. It’s got a real Michael Franks flavor – except East Coast with the drive and grit. A Zingg-like guitar solo for sure!! WUNDerground is a real knockout…a splash of Royal Scam funk and jazz and a Led Zep-type theme driving the onset… funny too. When the guitar solo morphed into the sax, I just about fell out of my easy chair! If you and Clas could ever get together in the studio without killing each other, the results would be astounding!

JW: Masterful smooth LA jazzz. Much better than a large majority of the stuff I heard driving down the 105 a few years ago. Nice integration of some complex keyboard runs. Wow, and the flute! What can’t you play superbly? **applause**

Mr. Chow: Expansive aural wall. All the keyboard virtuosity on the compilation. A lot of nice touches…Really moves along.

Roy: You hookmaker you...man what a groove! We’ll all wake up with party feet! your wit shines through as on your posts!

David: Another one man band! Nicely layered, balanced and fun sound. You’ve got a real nice vocal style – like Paul Barrere of Little Feat…Is that a slide? Awesome. Hey Zeke – here’s your man!

Hutch: Excellent complex syncopated percussive rhythms. Lyrical guitar voicings – man this is great stuff! Whoa – that was some channel switch. This has a nice Metheny feel.

Schwinn: You’ve got a real jazzed up Austin sound. I think you all would throw Fastball a few curves – tight sound and excellent compositions and a little butt kicking thrown in for the chorus on Hollywood.

F#: Another Metheny sound at first with Prince and Al DiMeola thrown in for good measure. Nice interaction with the drums – absolutely scorching runs!

RixHex56: I hear some Allman Bros….maybe a little Neil Young. Another rock guitar god on the compilation!

Midnight Cruiser: really really excellent guitar style and technique. Very lyrical. You’ve got a super feel for emphasis and rhythm…another master!

Happy New Millenium One & All!!!

It's 8:00 PM out on the West Coast ~ I'm gonna' turn in early to get up at 5:30 AM and go snowboarding, provided all hell hasn't broken loose. Nothing like blazing down a steep mountain with "Alive in America" cranking on the Walkman to bring in the new year/century/millenium!

I'm really glad you guys & gals are enjoying "Technicolor Motorhome"; it was a labor of love. Major props to the incredible composer/musicians within our ranks ~ it makes producing a great album a piece 'o cake. It's amazing how the album fits together like a puzzle...keep it in your CD slots; the album definitely grows on ya'! The US Mail is a strange beast; a CD got to Washington, DC in ONE DAY! I have a feeling a LOT of CDs are going to hit you guys on Monday. Please, let me know if anyone has a problem with their copy. I ordered four extra just in case...

Finally, a major salute to those of you burning the midnight oil right now to make sure 2000 doesn't become 1900! Our technies are at the office now as well...YGK & Edd ~ you 'da man!

"..doin' what I can, as a man" ~ "Model Prisoner" kicks ass! Can't get that song outa' my head, Malc!

A Y2K Compliant JDubs

edd: what part of the country are you?

Good to be back home before the real mayhem starts....the fireplace is stoked and so are we....Gonna raise up a glass to all you guys and gals looking out for us at Midnight! Aretha's wailin' and we be ready!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

only 365 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes 'til the new millenium!!!

Yes, things look good from my post also...

....am watching the network world from the command center here....no problems so far...

best wishes to everyone here on the GB, and thanx again, JWMalibu for your sumpremely generous and professional efforts...

see in in the first quarter of '00

ygk

Technicolor Motorhome arrived.. Just as I suspected.. It's better than most of what's on the radio.. Well done Everyone!
Oleander: Yours truly was one of the first jazz DJs on KPOO.. While it was still on the pier.. KPFA went through a bunch of wierd mangement from hell stuff this past year.. I guess they'll
be OK.. Berkeleyites are used to chaos..
Just watched midnight in the UK.. 15 minutes of solid fireworks..
Ain't this just Great?!

So "The Big Party" in Seattle has been cancelled out of fear. Handgun sales are surely booming in The Rainy City. Listen closely...I think we can hear the sound of the Campbell Soup Company and the NRA high-fiveing in the Great Northwest.

Here in Chicago, reporters asked Mayor Daley if he was going to cancel the city's millenium celebration.

His response, "Cancel New Year's? Sure, why not? While we're at it let's cancel Christmas too."

I know that when I watch that glorious, golden sunrise over the near frozen waters of Lake Michigan tomorrow -- terrorist attacks, computer malfunctions, and automatic teller machines will be the furthest thing from my mind.

m.e.

Miz Ducky: I couldn't put it better. Happy Century's End to everyone.

JWMalibu: My hat's off to you, mate. Kudos to all involved. Goes to show there are a lot of talented people who hang around here.

BTW, here's Sarah Knauss's story, from her hometown newspaper (and mine):
http://www.mcall.com/news/top/47408.htm

greatful - "yeah" (no, not "yeah baby yeah"!)

I bought a paper today with the intention of time capsuling it to look back on ten years gone (or even tommorrow)

Hutch - your sentiments were wonderful and heartwarming and Mr Ducky's sentiments on your's were as well - CHSIBIOT

Dr Mu - loved the D Awards terrorist story! thanks for sharing - God does have a wonderful sense of humor

Mr Ducky - insightful comments on your local seattle situation - that jambalaya sounds great, I've actually (and a little ironically) decided to going ice skating at midnight down here in New Orleans, no lie.

thanks St Al for the GB and all you warm and intruiging Danites

I just won a tight auction on e-bay for a steal on an audiophile cd player, so what a great way to ring the new one in than with 2vN, an armchair and aural treat

Happy New Years to all

one of these, surely will screen out the sorrow
but where are you tommorrow?

Happy Dan2KvN everyone...see you in the upcoming year.

Pre-millenial greetings from beautiful fog-bound Seattle, the one major burg in the USA to have cancelled its public New Year's Eve gathering--due to our illustrious cojone-challenged, post-WTO-traumatic-stress-syndrome-victim of a mayor getting spooked by an arrest at a Canadian border crossing ... but I'm not bitter. I mean, it's not like I would have gone anywhere near that Amateur Hour zoo that would have cropped up at the base of the Space Needle in the first place.

Naw, I've got a much nicer plan. I've got a big batch of jambalaya cooking in the oven, and a fifth of Wild Turkey 101 resting on the kitchen counter, destined for a party later in the evening at the abode of Ms. Jackofdays (of alt.music.steely-dan fame).

Before I forget, I want to add all my best New Years wishes to the chorus. Here's to all frequenters of the GB--past, present, and future--long may you rock! Here's to the illustrious proprietor of this virtual space, the noble StAlphonso--groove on, m'man!

And last but by no means least: Mr. Donald Fagen and Mr. Walter Becker--sirs! For all the joy, delight, laughter, illuminations, grooves, and other assorted musical orgasms you have brought me over the years, and those still to come, blessings! You guys are two of those few creative geniuses I turn to whenever I begin to wonder if the world has indeed become fucked up beyond recognition, to be reassured that, well, yeah, the world may indeed be FUBAR, but there's at least a few folks out there who redeem it for me! Ride on, dudes! Here's to the day I might finally get to tell you this in person!

(Raising virtual tumbler of Wild Turkey 101 straight up): L'Chaim!

/Miz Ducky
waxing sentimental as she runs to stir the jambalaya

Hey Now! Just got my GB CD in the Mail and Put it right on.
Wow,What an honor to be included with such a fine group of Musicians!
JWMalibu- Nice Job Johnny Boy...a lot of work.(been there, done that)
A Special Happy New Year to all The GB residents..old and new.
We have a lot to look forward to in the coming months...TAN, Tours,etc.
All of you posters provide Ideas for songs with your Words...keep it up.

Safe Trips everyone, David

Hutch....very well put. As a longtime poster/lurker here on the guestbook that was about as well expressed a sentiment as I've seen here. I'll be here with the wife, 3 hours south of you and 3 hours north of Oleander as we all bring it in together.

Edd....I think you'll have smooth sailing tonight but thanks to you and the thousands like you around the country for looking out for all of us this special New Year's Eve.

I had an offer to jam tonight with guys and gals from bands I've played in over the past 20 years tonight and as appealing as it sounded I've decided to spend a quiet evening at home with my wife, in front of the fireplace, toasting a saliente with a cold Killian's in the way only we can. I love you Shirl.

best wishes for a fast recovery for George Harrison and wife. George was stabbed repeatedly before his wife, after suffering a wound of her own, broke a lamp over the intruder's head to end the attack.

Peace and Love to you all....Please have a Safe and Happy New Year's celebration!

MC & Optimystic

It has truly been a pleasure for me to be on this board these last few months. It's full of beautiful, intelligent people and I've had a great time! I can't wait to see all of our interpretations and preferences when 2vN comes out. The hive will surely come alive then!
So I'm hoping everyone has a great New Century. Here's to all the GBers (old and new).

And lift up your glasses to Walter Becker and Donald Fagen... one of the finest songwriting teams the world has ever produced!

Happy New Year to all!

Hutch

Just when you thought 1999 could not get any better or worse the final selections for the Darwin Awards are in!!! Thanks to those on the other side of the dateline for checking in. Glad things are AOK!

LIVING ON ZIONIST TIME

1999 Darwin Awards Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin

(5 September 1999, Jerusalem) The switch away from daylight savings time caused consternation among terrorist groups this year.

At precisely 5:30 Israel time on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially believed that the devices had been detonated prematurely by klutzy amateurs. A closer look revealed the truth behind the untimely explosions.
Three days before, Israel had made a premature switch from daylight savings time to standard time in order to accommodate a week of Slihot, involving pre-sunrise prayers. Palestinians refused to "live on Zionist time." Two weeks of scheduling havoc ensued.

The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set on Daylight Savings time. The confused drivers had already switched to standard time. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives detonated, delivering to the terrorists their well-deserved demise.
 

www.DarwinAwards.com © 1997 - 1999 Submitted by: Jacob Butcher and Dave Weintraub
Reference: Margot Dudkevitch of the Jerusalem Post, Ron Kampeas of the Associated Press

FATAL FOOTSIE

1999 Darwin Awards Runner-Up
Confirmed True by Darwin

(22 March 1999, Phnom Penh) Decades of armed strife has littered Cambodia with unexploded munitions and ordnance. Authorities warn citizens not to tamper with the devices.
Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard.

He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror.
Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. "Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything," the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported.

re: 100 year birthdays

I heard in this morning's news that the woman listed in the GBofWR as the world's oldest living person died today at 120, hours short of having been able to claim to have lived in 3 different centuries.

KD & FANODAN - nice to know aussieland is a-ok

then again warning - you guys were the safehaven in "Black Friday", so don't rest assured west hemi kids, looks like we're sure for massive cat-o-stroph

Edd - yes reassuring your holding up the fort, I'll break out the horns and hooters for ya

Roy.Scam - you forgot "posting to the sd gb" in your 13 hour itineary. Care to rank these projects by priority?...

E-sharp - give your son the earlier versions as you upgrade, unless he has the better hifi

catching the grey men as they fall from the 14th floor

fuck...Muswellbrook rules

everything is fine, we're in 2000

I've been searching for the song...

things are going very well....

hey F sharp!
(sorry can't finger the 9th root very well)

like your interp slant as well, yes I'd forgotted that Hilter's Olympics were the first telly broadcasts, so would fit the time, but how many tv's were really available to the general public back then and would this crowd (I still invision the scene in the festering jazz circles) be hanging around one?

our PL protagonist as a racist? ouch, that one certainly has a credible ring to it and spoils it from this end, how could you? Yes he has a Napoleanic complex, but I saw that as he can't measure up to his contemporaries so hence the offhand Napolean "haven't found the time" remark of self importance settles him.

As for the platform, I envised it a stage where one performs - and he as hipster but not quite that hip (as his friends let him know ("where did you get those shoes")). In this scene he gets his humiliating measure up not so sunny day in the sun

note the song uses a first line repeat motif very common in blues and folk settings for that time period (and still today)

enjoying the ongoing dialogue....

over a long time ago

Happy New Year to everybody!
It's almost 4.00am in the morning here and so far everything seems to be AOK as far as the Y2K bug that everyone is making such a fuss about.
Looks like fireworks seem to be the go everywhere tonight.
Watching all the broadcasts from around the world,starting in the South Pacific then onto New Zealand and then somewhere a bit closer to home,Sydney.
I hope you people get to see our part of our celebrations!

JW Malibu
Thankyou for your efforts and generosity in putting together the Technicolor Motorhome CD.I'll be keeping my eye out for the postman in the next week or so.

FOGHorn
Thanks for the MP3 of Cousin Dupree.
I know there seems to be a bit of controversy on how the song has been received so far,but the more I listen the more I like it.It has the groove and the swing,it has definite Fagen influences ie:- Karamakiad sound in some ways but then its got Beckers,drive and guitar input,there both individuals but together there Steely Dan.

I realize that not everyone is going to like the new one but I think its unfair to draw comparasions with their past records.
Why should the NEW ONE sound like anything from the past.
Did Katy Lied sound like CBAT,or Aja like Pretzel Logic.
NO!!!
WHY????
Because its Becker & Fagen!!!!Steely Dan!!! always striving to be different.

If the rest of the album is as refreshing as "Cousin Dupree" I'll be a happy FANOFDAN!!!!!

Happy New Year from DOWNUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's see: Cure cancer, write the great American novel, get organized, get in shape, learn the Black Friday guitar solo. Shit! Only 13 hours left in the century. Must get busy.

So despite innumerable errors in judgement, it appears I'm going to actually see the end of this century. Why so much luck was directed at me , I have no idea. Anyway, thanks to Steely Dan and to this site and its Danizens for helping make this last 3 or so years less painful than most. As spiteful, erudite, humorous, learned, and talented a group as I could name. -- If Steely Dan becomes a Mega sensation and big business in the coming year and this guestbook becomes too frequented for lazy people to keep up with, well, I'll sort of miss the way it was back in the 1990's.

Edd, It's comforting to know that you'll be on Y2K watch tonight while I'm in search of pure hedonism. You can do double sensation and libation next year when the real Millenium turns.

Doc, let's start our own religion and go to the binary calendar; then we can have a Century's End every four years.

One last thing: 184 Americans turn 100 tomorrow. From my brief experience with old age, I have to acknowledge that these are some bad-ass , no-quitting motherfuckers. God bless them.

RS

StevieDan: if you're a whole hemisphere ahead- does Dick Clark look any older to you?
Stranger: still waiting for mine [and still haven't heard CousinDP. sheeesh.] your sentiments, i'm sure, are appreciated by all contributors- also gave idea to expand participatory whackiness- a compilation of non-musical stuff? a cyber- literary/art/etc compilation for all things that could be put up on a compilation webpage. get out your digitizers. and after that, virtual groping. i mean a sculpture contest. have you read about these devices?
tom- free associations on your post as follows: first tv broadcast was A.Hitler at Games. pretzel logic? twisted corporal becomes body politic. traveling minstrel show- zeig heil, baby! everybody into the tent. this holy roller is very convincing. [cue Guido's presentation on the master race from Life is Beautiful. Que Bella] the man gave me the news- maybe a junk line to set up the rhyme. but the platform [well, in NYC you step *down* to the subway platform] refers to the shoes.
platforms for trains, platforms for shoes- and maybe storm trooper boots [platform politico] i said freely associating. put down the flame thrower and take two steps back. love your "circular tension with a present that's passing him by". nice line! the protagonist has a Napolean Complex and aspirations of killing a lot of people who make him feel smaller still. he's no hipster. he doesn't even have the right features for his master race. go figya. so how does one convince a major population that it is entitled to execute a moral imperative to execute?
with pretzel logic.
and,we share this gene pool. each and every one of us. heavy year-2000 sigh. [well, probably each and every one of us...]
Hey! my son is *finally* offering me back all the SD CDs he "borrowed" last year. i miss them. only, he wants to trade them for the new one as soon as i have it.
i'll need to think this over.
have a safe and wonderful night yooze guyz.
F

Tom: Indeed!...and you'll notice that December was the 10th month! (September = 7th, October = 8th, November = 9th) The Roman calendar originally had only 10 months! They just said the hell on the first 2 months of winter and hid in a dugout with supplies until it got warm again. January and February were added later.

what a coincidence- just got my Technicolor Motorhome.

JW Malibu is THE SUPERIOR HUMAN BEING !!!!!!!!!!

JW,thanks - I've got something coming back at ya.

Q

amphitheaters - what a concept !
with DTS perhaps???????????

break out the hats and hooters...

Q

Hey Dr Wu

The Hebrews actually used a lunar type calendar, based on the moon cycle and not the sun. That's why the Jewish Holy days and Easter (which is set off Passover) are never lining up with specific fixed solar Julian calendar dates - the Hebrew year was a bit shorter, I believe 360 days so we missed the damn mill by almost 29 years! (go ahead sliderulers and check my math)

Any TOm Robbins fan would enjoy the lunar end of things, I won't elab, but Still Life with Woodpecker indeed

Dr Mu, funny your rigs are bigger, damn looks like no Julie here,
but those sportcar boys have us both beat, or do they?

yes he looked so fine, upon that hill,
they say that he was loney, he's lonely still
those days are lost forever, over a long time ago, oh yeah

Happy Fake Millenium Everyone!

So nice we get to do it twice!

Aside: Did you know the Hebrews did not use base 10? I'm pretty sure they used base 8 (as in 64 cubits or 8 to the second power - I'll have to double check the base 8 - don't think it was 4 and definitely not 2 - could be 12? no). Anyway 2000 would have no significance for them. Most of our math comes from the Babylonians, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Isaac Newton and assorted French mathematicians with a propensity for gambling.

Julie: my rigs are bigger

See you on the other side...

...just want to wish the GB'ers the best for the upcoming century.

I'll be spending "the moment" locked away in a computer lab watching a lot of consoles.

who needs the hole?

kind of ironic if you fit the song to the latest millenium hoopla (today is a friday, righto?), then again the guy leaving has made a mint off a catastrophy. Gee maybe in today's twist he sells generators and dried food supplies ;-)

fave new New Orleans restuarant - Y2K-Pauls
I'll have the "trout armageddon outtahere"

fezo - I particularly loved the "dreary architecture of your soul" as well, what a blueprint

julie - need a cousin?

oleander - yes the ski waxing shows her independance, she probably has a good kicking style as well shall cousin D step any closer, no niave 'roller skater" here

and I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway

wow cant belive i gust got in 5am and i gtrtat do it again tonight. but you bet i'm going to be waering Capris tonight and well my tops are always little, sorry.

So if walter is in socal tell him I 'll teach him that new dance

'nite

Julie manchino

well it is already 4pm on New years eve......jus wanted to wish you all a gear fab sort of end to this crazy century's end
goodbye
becker,fagen
rock nroll,jazz,charlie parker, duke ellington, the mets,the Stones, the beatles, the korean war, racism, JFK, MLK, bobby kennedy, the yellow kid, bill burroughs, kerouac, ginsberg, tim russert, al gore, bill bradley, jerry brown, liberal politics, true conservative, barry goldwater, jimmy carter, carter field, Planet of the Apes, film noire, antonio carlos jobim, antonio banderas, sting, stevie wonder, quincy jones, seinfeld,twin peaks, the age of aquarius, good pot, world war II, robert mithcum, the roaring 20's, babe ruth, joltin joe, sinatra, north beach cappuccino, berkeley bookstores, st.petersburg sun, philly chesse steaks, the spectrum, the Plymouth Meeting Mall, the Massapequa Mall....Long Island, mid town, upstate for a cozy winter blizzard, kenny burrell, boston though I've never been there)...Cincinnati, rod serling, Bulworth, really cool things, the Invaders, Beatles 45's....steely Dan in Quad....good bootlegs from the pretzel logic tour, ken casey, that girl i roomed with in '89..., the girl i roomed with in '93 (who didn't know who world Party was or the Smiths) haircut 100 china crisis, 12 inch singles, especially when they had alternative re-mixes on them...the NY Public Library, my great-gradndad, lee Morgan....elenore roosevelt, elenore faga aka billie holiday, u2, the irish peac process.... the israeli peace process..., tropical thunderstorms, my little baby boy, Guiness Stout, message boards,,, did I miss any one
c u all next CENTURY-bye steveo'

Got home all bedraggled and beat, holiday blues beginning to sneak in. Then I open up this Technicolor Motorhome, slip it on the CD player and plop onto the couch, kind of steeling myself for amateur hour. And wham, I was blown away. The stuff is FINE, as in exquisite. I feel like you people have been secretly working behind my back, hiding talent. Every track shows artistry that is from someone who appreciates Steely Dan, but none of it is derivative. It stands alone as a sweet piece of work. It seems like a lot of work went into this. Not just artistry, but also organization. How did you get it all done? Who do we thank? Who paid for studio time and pressings and mailings and everything? And JWMalibu, how could you have consented to take on such a monumental task? It's all a surprise. A sweet one. For the very first time I see this gbook is for real, not virtual. These are real people with real talent. Thanks to all. What a wonderful gift.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!!

Andy's takin' a stab at the lyrics for Cuz:
http://members.home.com/metzger/dan/2vn/dupree.htm

Ole: We've made bastardizing the French a national pasttime. I just heard Fagen singing Kulee the way Andy did:

KULEE BABA
My nom-de-vage is Mexuine (?)
I carry the proper papers
I seek the primal rhythms of the bush
I preserve great moments as they come
And sure this must be one
Brightly colored dancers on the screen
Are no more than a prelude to the ritual unfolding
No white man's eyes have ever seen
The cruel primeval rite that you're beholding

CHORUS:
Kulee Baba
Coming your way
Every Sunday
Live from nowhere
Satellite relay
Hell on Broadway

...

Hi, and a pre Happy New Year to everyone! I want to thank JW not only for your hard work on the GB cd, I'm anxiously checking the mail for it, but also for your post re: Roland Kirk. I'm not too much of a jazz afficiondo, I like some of it, but mostly into rock/blues. After reading your post, went out and bought a Kirk cd, and am very delighted! The guy wails!!! And I don't think I will be able to listen to Jethro Tull again without yelling "Thief!!!". Franky--I've not seen the Royal Scam, I live @ S Jersey shore, few miles s of Atlantic City, so don't get up north that often. I saw on their website they are playing Garwood on the 15th, I might be in for a little road trip if I can find a hotel near there, its about a 2-3 hour ride from here.
BC

... look and see, is there a cd in your bag for me?!?

jk--Great!! What do you mean "real"? I liked "waxing her knees" because it gave a real Lolita feel to the song (remember the toenail polish), but I hear "waxing her skis" now.... It gives a hint of the oh so capable of taking care of herself Cousin Janine. And Arkansas? That's topical for sure, but how about "keyboard man in a rock 'n' soul band," as in NY Rock & Soul Revue? (I know, I know, that's not what they say, but what a fit!) "Life is surely quid pro quo"--I'm howling. Damn, the thing isn't even OUT yet and I've already listened it to death.

fezo--agree on that line too! Not to worry. I'd recognize you anywhere.

the truth--yee-ha! More good news! Need it to balance out the hijacking, attack on the Harrisons, more disgruntled mass murderers--no foolin', it's a fucked up world.

BK--I'm so glad you asked! For lyrics go to St. Al's homepage (see above), and for chewing the fat over what they mean, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~oleander1/Index.htm

OMIO--Could you get KPOO? People's radio for SF? There was a guy there called the Autumn King of Rock & Roll who had an exclusively doo-wop show that was my absolute must show of the week. And KPFA had Low Rider Radio--doo wops AND the best dedications ever! Bend down a little--here's a kiss for New Year's.

Lars--me too! The only time I saw him he went from table to table by the stage and told people to stop smoking during the show. I love how he did "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."

Mu & Edd--As soon as I stop laughing at the Cuz lyrics you get me breathless again!! Edd, you sound positively punchy. PS--nom de voyage, the name travelers would take to stay incognito abroad.

Don't take--You are a kind, kind soul. That's me in the little top and tight capris.

My GB compilation CD arrived today too! I don't know what impresses me more--the groovy music on this CD or the speed of the U.S. Snail!

Seriously--this is some fabulous work, you guys--both the quality of the music, and of the production/packaging. Y'all should take a bow!

/Mam'zelle Canard
like, wow, man ...

I found Technicolor Motorhome waiting for me when I got home, and it is just delightful! I'm listening to it for the first time now; you all are a most talented bunch of musicians.

hello and please see www.amusementbusiness.com/latenews.asp -- "Steely Dan will tour amphitheatres in the summer"

hooray!

ever notice how much better music sounds after a week's absence? i was out in Studio City playing uncle and the only stuff i heard was from the Annie video i watched about 25 times. now i'm back in Virginia and with every disc in the player it's like i'm hearing it for the first time. everything is so clear and i'm picking up little bits i've never ever noticed before. in heavy rotation are "NYRSR", soundtrack for Grosse Point Blank, "Achtung Baby", and some Christmas stuff for which I would surely get flamed.

"the dreary architecture of your soul". that line alone is almost enough to make TNO worth it for me.

ole: sorry about the confusing email. i'm always forgetting that my name isn't in the from line.

A Christmas pic of Deacon Blues....the newest member of the family....he's 14 weeks old now and was 13 weeks at the time of the pic.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6974/DeaconBlues.jpg

If I don't see you guys before Saturday I hope you all have a safe and Happy New Year!!!

MC & Optimystic

in the big rigs

Pretzel logic a concept album

alot of the tracks have Parker's direct inference for sure:
PB, TWB, WAG, CF, MIYS

but I think alot of the tunes are period pieces and not directly tied to Charlie: RDLTN, NBN, AMD

the title track seems to be set in the era with words like "minstrel" and "phonograph", but then again "seen them on the tv" sorta sets that off, unless it's a later in life look backwards

I've always interpreted the view from one of the local hipsters, Bird's contemporary's pleas for meaning and substance and a longing for something lost

"stepped up on the platform" - time machine? sounds like Donald pulling the leg, I thought the platform signified his recalling when he was playing for his croonies - yet he's not quite accepted or measuring up here - "where did you get those shoes?"

anyway the neatest line

"well I've never met Napolean, but I plan to find the time"

could be his laid back comment on self significance,
like I'll meet him (an inherent impossibility) when I can get around to it (more important things fill this cat's agenda)

the pretzel logic part of it? perhaps the hipster is living in a past that he never quite measured up to, a circular tension with a present that's passing him by as well

Big "B" jest-a- stow'in away the time, (at work),
I like steely dan o'so much, though you could'a had
more lyrics. Am I miss'in something?

Big "B" jest-a- stow'in away the time, (at work),
I like steely dan o'so much, though you could'a had
more lyrics. Am I miss'in something?

Seasons Greetings Everyone..
KFOG gets to do occasional neat things because they pay the mundane dues the rest of the time..
The best stations in you could hear in SF weren't in SF..
KJAZ in Alameda was the best jazz station ever.. Nothing like watching the sunset above the Golden Gate with a little
"Mr. Magic" on the ray-dee-yo...
KTIM in San Rafael was simply the best free-form station that ever graced the airwave.. No Rules!!
KSAN was a bunch of drunks & junkies with waaay too much money & Star Attitude... Memories of Dusty Street barely able to read those Boones Farm pop wine commerercials...
Special Thanks to JW! Haven't got it yet, but I know it's on the way (right???)
Gee.. Donald & Walter think this place is entertaining?
They really need to get out more.. Lots more..
And On To The Next Century...

hoops-Your mail was full of "can´t help it" thats why I said ashamed. Im not american and ashamed was probably the wrong word. nice to know that there´s so many Vanfans!

oleander- you´re also into mose. nice! I like the older material best.

I think that 1999 has been a terrible year: Curtis Mayfield; Lester Bowie, Joe Willams, Art Farmer... and know this Harrisonthing. Let´s forget it.

re: DruM
^^^^^^^^
Red Rum! Red Rum!!

Mr. Chow-actually, I didn't want to comment individually on the songs because they're all works from the heart and soul and I didn't want to inadvertently slight anyone. Obviously some were more to my taste than others, but the overall effect is that this is a room of fine musicians! It's so good to hear original music-most of the popular bands here in San Diego do covers 'cause that's what most people want to hear-but there's nothing like hearing something completely new and letting it carry you away to another place.

tom-never been to a Danfest before myself. I'm just going to have some fun and revel in Dan worship!

aja

hope they mentioned jk

jk

but perhaps a bit too cynical. It might be hard to believe, but sometimes you just have to open up your mind to the possibilities. Just thought you might like to know. maybe I was wrong.

My "Technicolor Motorhome" arrived yesterday! All I can say is damn you guys are good! JWMalibu-brilliant! And you composed a beautiful tune to go along with it. To you and all the artists who contributed, I'm sending a big smile and an image of me dancing and grooving away to your tunes! To whoever thinks they're clever by posting TvN lyrics (other than "Cousin Dupree") eat your heart out while I listen to "Technicolor Motorhome"!

aja

I don't remember.

Yes, and some musicians will play a newly developed instument anagram to this nom de vage - the DruM

And the rightwinger?

I have it on good authority the SPARS code will be modified from the expected "DDD" to "EDD"...

Sorry, but I can't say who I am, other than letting you know that in my job's capacity, I have been working rather closely with Don and Walter for the past six or seven months. I've known them for a couple of years now. About four months ago I happened to hear them mention this web site, this one right here, and said that I should check it out because it's somewhat interesting. Turns out of of them was noodling around at the computer one day, I forget now which one it was, and they came across you guys. They said they dug the analysis of their songs, a few which were eerily close to the truth, and they thought the attitude of the place was pretty cool.
The reason I even mention this is because I wanted to tell you in advance that there are a few veiled references to this place in Two Against Nature. I won't say where, I'll let you guys figure it out, but I can say they there are a couple of contributers to the guest book that they really dig, and it is those few people who will be "mentioned". They wanted to do more, but since so many of you have names that correspond to their previous songs, they felt that they couldn't make too many remarks about you without the uninitiated thinking they were merely retreading old material. This is a room filled with humor, sass, attitude, and angular thinking, and it hasn't gone unnoticed.
Take care, and good hunting.

Whoa, you're quick...

Where is he from? Arkansas????

She turned my life into a living hell
With little tops and tight capris

rolling on the floor on that one!
damn calm down the oozing testosterone Dupree

yet another demented dan character

3 rules of common decency 1) nobody you work with, 2) even distant relatives are out, 3)jailbait skipping down to the next generation is a no-no

ala Meatloaf - two out of three ain't bad

Well I kicked around a lot since high school

I worked a lot o¹ nowhere gigs

From keyboard man

In an rockin' style

Haulin' cross the land(?) in those big rigs

Now I come back home to plan my next move

From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch

When I see my little cousin Janine walk in

Well all I could say was "Ouch!"

Honey how you have grown

Like a rose

Well we used to play when we were three

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

She turned my life into a living hell

With little tops and tight capris

I pretended to be readin¹ the National Globe

While I was watching her wax her skis

Saturday night she walked in with a date

And backed him up against the wall

I tumbled off the couch and heard myself say

In a voice I never knew I had before

Honey how you have grown

Like a rose

Well we used to play when we were three

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

I'll teach you everything I know

You teach me how to do that dance

Life is surely "quid pro quo"

And what's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night you¹re playing gin by a cracklin' fire

I decided to make my play

I said "Babe, with my boyish charm and good looks how

Can you stand it for one more day ?"

She said "Maybe it's the (squeamy? Seedy?) look in your eye

That your mind has turned to applesauce:

The dreary architecture of your soul"

I said, "But what is it exactly turns you off?"

Honey how you have grown

Like a rose

Well we used to play when we were three

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

* Missing one or two words but those are the real lyrics.*

Listened to "Listen to the Lion" every day for one whole semester, Screaming they lyrics at the top of my lungs with my roommate - very therapeutic - try it!

Donalds voice and their great lyrics are 65% of why most people listen to SD. If many of you think that you shouldn't have to struggle to hear them, then maybe you (the customer) are right.

Who said that the single will be out in 6 DAYS - still haven't heard anything. HELLO OFFICIAL SITE!

jk

(my thoughts go out to my man, Mr. Harrison!)

George and Olivia Harrison were attacked by an intruder at their home this morning.

He's in stable condition with a stab wound to the chest. She was hit on the head.

JW Malibu - Thanks for all your efforts with "Technicolor Motorhome". Great management. I'm proud to have taken part and I'm sure it will be worth the wait. For those of you receiving the first batch, can we have a review sometime soon?

A recommendation for everyone - Pat Metheny "A Map of The World" - just beautiful stuff.

Happy New Year to all GB'ers. We've got about 24 hours to go down here. Talk to you all next century.

Mr Chow.

was you

When in walks Frannie from NYU
We were quite an item back then
We talked about her films and shows and cds
Don't know what else
She said Yeah, Hollywood's been good to me
But tell me, how about yourself?

I'm still working on a novel
But I'm just about to quit
I'm worried about the future now
Or maybe this is it
It's not all that I thought it would be
What a shame about me

Nice job, Duck & Uncle Fog!

I said, Babe, with my boyish charm and good looks
How can you stand it for one more day?

What a hilarious song.

Alan, I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

I couldn't help but notice all of the Van Morrisson comments. I also am a fan of the Van. It always strikes me odd the way that this GB seems to have a really cool taste in music outside the obvious. My favorite song by Van has got to be hands down, "Listen To The Lion" off of St.Dominics Preview. It litterally gives me chills every time I hear it. As far as albums go I still think Tupelo Honey has got to be the best although Astral and Dominicks are close. I've only been able to see Van in concert one time. It was incredible. I was just a kid.
That must have been 15-17 years ago. As far as Cousin goes, I don't think Donalds' vocals are buried at all. How did anybody hear that. Sounded great. As far as the lyrics go, I think they are funny as hell. Glad to have all the nubies posting on the board. In a couple months its going to take 2 hours just to read one day worth of posts. Have a Happy New Year===Monkey

Somebody told me in the early 80s
You were gonna be the next big thing

Well now that was just a rumor
But I guess I'm doing fine
Three weeks out of the rehab
Living one day at a time
Sneaking up on the new century
What a shame about me

... but of course if we take the line "When we were three..." literally, then she's not younger and disregard interpretation below.

Thanks to all who painstakingly recreated Cousin Dupree lyrics. I haven't heard it, but it appears to echo some of the theme of Hey Nineteen -- a guy lusting after a younger femme and able to laugh at himself for doing so.

Boy! I said Boy! Can you help me *make out* these last bit of lyrics? *Make out*...that's a joke son!

COUSIN DUPREE

Well I kicked around a lot since high school
I worked a lot o’ nowhere gigs
A keyboard man
In an Arkansas band
Haulin' cross the land(?) in those big rigs
Now I come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
Well all I could say was "Ouch!"

Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

She turned my life into a living hell
With little thoughts (or toss??) and pranks to please
I pretended to be readin’ the National Globe
While I was watching her wax obscene
Saturday night she walked in with a date
And backed him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself say
In a voice I never knew I had before

Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

I'll teach you everything I know
You teach me how to do that dance
How'd you shut ‘em torquoise cold (???)*
And what's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night you’re playing gin by a cracklin' fire
I decided to make my play
I said "Babe, with my boyish charm and good looks
Can you stand it for…(????) ?"
She said "Maybe it's the steamy look in your eye
That your mind has turned to applesauce:
The dreary architecture of your soul"
I said, "But what is it exactly turns you off?"

Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?
How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

Repeat and fade

*Could be the funniest line, boy, if I'm right son!

Oleander: Okie-doke--now I can't resist posting my own stab at the lyrics of Cousin Dupree, especially because I think I got a lot of your "something somethings"--though I still have a few mystery gaps marked by elipses, and guesses from context marked by (?).

*************

Well I kicked around a lot since high school
I booked a lot of nowhere gigs
The people that ran in my Arkansas band
Are now haulin' cross the ... in those big rigs
Now I come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
Well all I could say was "Ouch!"
Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree?

She turned my life into a living hell
With little thoughts and pranks to please (?)
I pretended to be reading the National Globe
While I was watching her wax obscene
Saturday night she walked in with a date
And backed him up against the wall
I tumbled off the couch and heard myself say
In a voice I never knew I had before
Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree?

I'd teach you everything I know
If you teach me how to do that dance
How'd you ......
And what's so strange about a down-home family romance

One night we're playing gin by a cracklin' fire
I decided to make my play
I said "Babe, with my boyish charm and good looks
How can you stand it not to let me (?) on in?"
She said "Maybe it's the steamy look in your eye
Cause your mind has turned to applesauce;
The dreary architecture of your soul--"
I said, "But what is it exactly turns you off?"
Honey how you have grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree?

*************

La fan-grrl, c'est moi,
Mam'zelle Canard

kd et al--Love Van Morrison. He's possessed. He sings like no one else. He's a wild, wild man.

Lars--Ditto for Mose! I'm a big fan.

tom--Ha! that's great, the ultrasound analogy. Yes, they meant abstruse.

Ruby--Thanx. But, um, I'm really not a brother.

OK, sorry hoops!, but here's a very very weak stab at the lyrics for Cuz. And there are a lot of them. Very Becker, with his signature "make my play." My listens are very fuzzy; you all help me out:

Well I've kicked around a lot since since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
A something man in a rockin' style band
Hauling 'cross the something in the big rigs

Now I've come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Jade's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
Well all I could say is "ouch!"

Honey how you've grown
Like a rose
Well we used to play when we were three
How about a kiss for your cousin Dupree...

She's turned my life into a living hell
with little something something
I pretended to be reading the national something
I was watching her wax her knees

Saturday night she walked in with a date
She backed him up against the wall
I tumbled off a chair and heard myself say
In a voice I never knew I had before

Honey how you've grown...

I'd teach her everything I know
She'd teach me how to do the dance
Something something grow cold
What's so strange about a down-home family romance?

One night while playing gin by a cracklin' fire
I decided to make my play
I said something something
I said something work all day

I said maybe it's the scheming look in your eyes
That your mind has turned to applesauce
It really oughta catch you on your soul [?]
I said but what is it exactly turns you off?

Honey how you've grown...

Well, it's a start anyway. And I know, there's not THAT long to wait for it to come out. But who can resist?

The FL version is definitely an winMP3 file that was the type Miz Ducky heard. That's why it sound different than the RealAudio sound I heard that night: crisper and Donald's vocals are up front. He sounds great!!!! ... more lively than most of Kama. The song's hilarious - Walter is definitely a HUGE influence here. Looking forward to snagging a "hi-fi" CD single. I wonder how different the rest of the CD will sound?

I thought Walter's guitar solo had a whiff of Skunk...What do y'all think? Beasely's keys were appropriately quirky in places - like a raised eyebrow.

Tom: I'm a big fan of Colorado. A number of friends used to live in Colorado Springs - and loved it. The thing about the flatlands east of Denver that would take some time to get used to would be the paucity of trees. It get's hot in the summer, but it's low humidity: Verga (rain that dries out before it hits the ground) is real common in the summer). You should try the Houston or New Orleans area in say July!!!

I remember a comedian once remarking dryly: "I know i'm going to hell... (pause) But the thing i want to know is 'Is there humidity?' Cause I can take the dry heat!"

aja - green with envy and all the way to your earrings (pun intended (sorry)... I guess to each their own

I'm a transplanted northerner (michigander) who was transferred in the mid eighties out of heaven in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, so the flat land end of things and summer climate can be hell... now this time of year it's quite delightful down here

definitely bloomed where I was planted so made the most all the charms here, as you mentioned the food and music are first rate, and most of the good spots are not actually even in the Quarter.

Heading out tonight to see a great local band which consisits of 5 excellent studio guitarists who really cut it up - TWANGORAMA indeed!

as for these dan-conventions, just how big and informal are they?
sounds like alot of fun

oblig Dan quote - thanks breezemaster on the canadian article

and I quote the following small bit for those who also missed it over the Holidays

"The themes they explore are appropriate to their years. One cut on the new disc, What a Shame About Me, is a cynical take on the failed potential of a New York writer, while the closing number, West of Hollywood, is an equally dark glimpse at an emotionally frozen man. Not all the songs are as easily unlocked. Those who revel in the abstruse nature of the band's songs will find much in Two Against Nature to keep them happy and occupied.

Some themes carry over from previous discs. The new album contains a few songs with drug references, though nowhere near the frenzy of Gaucho."

sounds real encouraging! does he mean "obtuse" instead of "abstruse"?

signing off - the emotionally frozen man

Aja, Ruby Baby: there's still a chance I might get myself free for a Las Vegas Danfest, especially if (according to this new scheme) it happens around a SD summer tour date. So count me in on any "hen party" side excursions, too! :-)

/Miz Ducky
double-checking her beaded gown

tom, hoops, Lars-It's funny how so many of us are huge Van AND Dan fans given that the style is so different, but Van sings to a part of my soul that few others reach (I'm sure you all know what I mean!). I got a huge laugh about people attempting to pin one meaning on Van Morrison songs. Yeah, the man rarely speaks publicly and writes some of the most enigmatic lyrics ever put on paper, sure, there's only one meaning there!

Turning green with envy at the idea of a stroll down the Quarter! Been there once, heard the best music and ate the best food in the world-Disneyland for adults! If money were no object, I'd say a Danfest in New Orleans would be ideal.

ruby baby-we're gonna NEED some girl time. We'll do our shopping thing and the men can do something, well, male-oriented. Don't need to know more than that!

aja

Lars: Me ashamed of being a Van fan? I don't understand.

hoops - nice to know a few other Van/Dan fans out there

hadn't checked out the morrison internet sites, but if it's anything like the books in print, yeah - they seem to have to pigeonhole the man's every move and thought, almost a Dylanesque religion. So funny that you slinked away from that.

As for the remasters, me too, to a lesser extent. Been rebuying the dan one's - have KL, RS and Aja so far (at least their priced write and the liner notes are hilarious)

Humm, Don and Walt and George Fame , I won't go there

Hoops - why are you ashamed for beeing a vanfan? He´s probably one of our continents biggest heros. I love all his works and when he sings Mose Alison songs - whoa!

Clas - I think I heard your friend playing baryton with one of those old farts. Can´t remember who... . I´m definitively sure I heard that cd I mentioned. Sweden have a good tradition of barytonplayers. Lars Gullin´s "Fäbodsjazz" is one of the best swedish albums ever.

Regarding Van Morrison comments, I couldn't get help get all goose pimply as Van gets me all excited like the Dan. In fact in the early 90s I started a Digest for Van along side the Dandom Digest. After a few digests I stopped as one, there seemed to be a few other Van internet resources and, two, unlike the folks that hang out here and in the greater Dandom, Van fans are so fucking anal as to having one literal interpretation of what Van's personal and subjective songs are about. So enough of that shit. I rarely feel the need to discuss Van songs with anyone...and they are so sublime. Art Siegal has his hands full with the Van fans--he does a great job running internet services for a difficult bunch.

Like the Dan, I run out and buy Van remasters whenever they come out...can't help it. When I went to Europe, one of my highlights was getting to purchase four Van remasters from 1979-83 that aren't out remastered in the States. I'm pathetic I guess.

Van and friends have a skiffle album coming out in January; Completely 180 from the Dan in this respect--Van basically called a few friends up one day; told them to get to Belfast; they did the tracks live and boom--it's coming out! WoW!

Obligatory Dan content. In '76, D + W were on the radio and played T.B. Sheets...and I believe somewhere, somehow Fagen said that he loved Morrison's singing.

And how about D + W covering the Title track version of The Healing Game?...Coltrane and Dan and 11TOW.

aja - early 70's van as well, man 73 was so productive (that many great unused tracks is astounding, but a pleasant surprise now)
I agree completely on WR and BSOTR. Like the Dan, Van's music for the most part has a timelessness about it that seldom disappoints

too nice out out here as well, so spontaneously walked to the Quarter and picked up a great Monk disc over lunch at my fav jazz store "Live at the It Club" - a generous reissue of the Monk quartet letting go in 64. Got alot of work done while listen to this baby.

Hutch - the Doors with Jim and Badfinger, an interesting combo to say the least, envy is rising

I love that little synth splurge/sputter near the end of Aja, it only lasts for a few seconds during the drumming disarray, but it kind of "feels" like celluloid burning on a projection screen

before the fall, when they wrote it on the wall

aja: Unless they're bringing their women, you and I seem to be the only females on this Vegas Danfest. Let's make the most of that! However, we must schedule some girl time - shopping, etc. I'll be glad to hear about that good love&faith message.

MizDucky: I kinda forgot You,Me & Irene. I thought that was a figment of my imagination. Thanks, pal!

YGK: I went on the whirlwind trip to Manhattan last week. It was great! I got car sick in those blasted cabs - so we had to make a side trip into Trump Towers so I could drink a coke and spew it back out. But we saw the most beautiful Christmas tree in there. My travel mates were thanking me all day. Then, we stopped to rest in a small area called Father Fagen park. He was a great hero - died at the age of 27 while saving some kids from a burning building. More to tell, but time prevents me. Thought of you off & on all day, though.

rb

Stranger-sounds logical. As soon as a tour is announced (I'm sure they've already got it planned now) we can do our planning!

Midnight Cruiser-I thought that'd be too perfect, new SD AND Eric Johnson. After all, EJ's last album only came out in 1996 (IMHO, he's the second worst offender for long stretches between albums, after our beloved SD) I'm glad I didn't have to pick, but I probably would've done what you did, too.

tom-yes, must be some aural vibes in the air! "Wonderful Remark" and "Bright Side of the Road" were interesting to hear in their early manifestations-I think I like the earlier version of the former and the later version of the latter, if you can follow that! I particularly love his early seventies work, so Phil Stone was, uh, music to my ears, so to speak!

aja

Doc ~ Please e-mail me your mailing address, I have a copy of the GB Compilation with your name on it, courtesy of Ole...

Howdy, All!! Been awhile since I've had time to post... hardly any time now... now that I look at my watch. It's good to see the oldsters and the newbies! I hope all went well and will continue thru the next holiday. Sorry I couldn't contribute to the GB CD... maybe next time.

Ruby Babe, Aja, St. Al, JWMalibu and all others interested in Vegas danfest,
I'm hoping we'll know more about a Dan tour around the time the CD is released. Winter, summer, it's all OK. Vegas doesn't change.

Y2K ALERT -- Remember that Ahmed character who was nabbed at the Canadian border? He had an accomplice who got away. First Lurker, is that you? Come in for counseling.

ruby - I'm with you on a fresh set of ear's hearing Cousin Dupree off the CD release - excuse the crude analogy but the mp3 is kinda like an ultrasound, when you really want to be genderly surprised at the birth of your child.

and this baby (2AN) is well overdue

aja - thanks on the musical tastes compliment, mine are a bit wide spread and ecclectic. Are we experiencing a little Van the man audio telepathy? How do you like the development of Van's Wonderful Remark from Phil Stone to album release 10 years later?

another small embelishment for Oleander's gisha girl

Rose Darling - the setting is a boarding school and "Snake Mary" is the woman assigned to watch over the boy's after curricular activites. She's a real killjoy, hence her nickname by the boys in tow, but thankfully she sleeps through his night time visitations with dear Rose. the rest as other's have aptly stated is a little hand of fate gesture.

and what's all this fixation on snakes anyway?

love those snakehips on the trans island skyway

Yeah, you Newbie, YGK is one of the very problematic posters. He used to accuse me for sexually harrasing woman over the phone, he's also accusing me for inserting perverted porno-stuff on the guestbook. So take everything he says with a ounce of salt. All he "knows" is that he loves Manhattan.

He actually loves a junkyard!

The Stranger - well, it's not excactly a farm, a two-story red cabin with a bathtub. You're welcome.

Lars - yeah, Gunnar B is great. His real water is the old be-bop-thing.

Hi Zeke.

D Fla Room - the letter is on its way!

Clas,

free Palestine.

you lostsomm kinda feelin yea

wright rides good .well=do

wright rides good .well=do

Ruby Baby: Aha! Re movies with SD songs, you've got the right star but the wrong movie. The Jim Carrey vehicle that's going to have all the SD covers is a Farrelly Bros. opus called "Me, Myself, and Irene," which I think is still being wrapped up and won't be released until next year sometime. The *current* Jim Carrey vehicle, "Man in the Moon," has a soundtrack that is full of songs by the group REM. So ... there you go!

/Miz Ducky
ever seeking to be helpful

Fan '59- I haven't seen you in a coon's age!

How's it going??

fan 59
logfild

Foghorn Leghorn - Thank you for my first glimpse of TAN! I loved Cousin Dupree; cool, funky, and fun. And Donald's voice sounds as good as ever; it didn't sound to me like it was buried in the mix. I thought I heard a bit more Cringemaker than I did Kamakiriad, but that might have been a combination of poor speakers and only one listen. I like it, and I'm looking forward to more of something in the same vein. And I'm glad they don't sound exactly like they did 20 years ago; I want to hear the sort of sound they produce now - everyone changes and develops, even our guys.

Foghorn-thanks for the url...I listened to the hissy,crappy MP3 and loved it! Those guys have not written a song I didn't like...but that's just me.also the reason I have not participated in the best and worst Steely lists...I can't go there.
...you've grown...like a rose.

David

My song is cute - I've always heard that line as "My place is good."

Aja....I don't think there's a new Eric Johnson CD out. The cut that went head to head with "Cousin Dupree" on KFOG the other night was "The First Noel" from the "Merry Axemas" CD that was released a couple of years ago featuring various artists doing different Christmas tracks....I think the song EJ did for that CD was the best on the album and I really thought it was better than "Cousin Dupree" but I *had* to vote for Steely Dan.

RubyBaby....I've got the MP3 of "The Chanukah Song" and have been playing it to death lately....funny stuff!!

JDubs....1,000 thanks in advance!!!

ruby baby-hey! I was just thinking about you. I learned a good lesson about Love and Faith this morning, for which I am very grateful. Yes, let's get this Vegas Danfest off the ground! St. Al suggested timing it around the summer SD tour schedule, if we can wait that long (and if SD come to Vegas) but if they do that could be a lot of fun! If not, I'm open to going anytime-it's Vegas, y'know, gonna be fun no matter what! I think the attendees are going to be you and I, Stranger, JWMalibu, and possibly St. Al. So what we need are some votes for either going for the summer tour or just going for the hell of it!

Hutch-If I become an East Coast Danizen I'm going to come see your band, buy you your beverage of choice and you can tell me concert stories all night.

aja

I've read every article about Man On The Moon I see, ask all my friends who've gone, and they never mention the music. They don't even remember one song in it. Wasn't there supposed to be some SD covers in there? Has anyone seen it yet?

I have a feeling the first time I hear Cousin Dupree will be when I load the cd into the player. That's life in The Valley! I don't want to spoil it with realcrappyaudio or wiMP3 cyber sound, either.

JDubs: We appreciate all the work you've done! A smile is not too much to ask for. I'll jpg one over to you. Is that sufficient, or should I wear something more?

stranger: who is this turkey lurkey bad-talkin you?

aja: who's going to set up this Vegas danfest? I'll help.

Oleander & other scurvy Jewish brothers: I've been meaning to say Happy Chanukah. May the miracle of Chanukah shine in your hearts always.

And I can't seem to get that Adam Sandler song about Chanukah out of my head. It's the only Chanukah song I know so don't be too mad at me.
You might be interested to know my great,great grandmother was a Russian Jew who escaped persecution by boat to Sweden. She searched for the handsome Swedish man who visited her village when she was a girl. She found him, married him and gave him 5 sons. Life went well for her because she didn't sit around waiting for stuff to happen - she made things happen. I know she would have loved Steely Dan music. At least, she would have loved the spirit of it.

rb

aja - Scroll down to FOGhorn Leghorn's post. There's an MP3 of Cousin Dupree recorded off KFOG that you can download. You have to download it to a file and it takes a long time (at least it did for me) but, of course, well worth the wait. The sound quality is a little lacking but, hey... who's complaining? Catchy little song, I think.
Actually I did see The Doors in Hampton, VA in the very early Seventies but it was right after Morrison had died and Manzerak was doing all the vocals. As you can imagine, there was certainly something lacking! We were in like the second or third row front and center. The opening act was Badfinger and that was really the main reason I went.

Hutch-now don't tell me you saw The Doors, too......

tom-love your taste in music! Been listening to "The Philosopher's Stone" all weekend and I love some of those songs more than what was released at the time, too. He sings some of the best spiritual music-soulful but not preachy.

Oh when oh when am I going to hear Cousin Dupree?

aja

and it's thin and full of static....

FOGhorn: That Dupree mp3 doesn't work. It sounds like a CD being fast-forwarded.

first lurker - You're a very amusing individual. I'm quite sure all of those who have been "ignored" are awfully glad that you are looking out for them. The last time I scrolled back it appeared as though the various holiday greetings used the words "all" and "everyone". Chill out.

Stranger - Amazing, isn't it?

Wet side. Music excellent. lyrics horendous. background singers horendous.

Cousin Dupree. "Hey Donald we need a new bouncy single like hey nineteen"

"Yeah, and we can ad our patented wicked twist just like the cradle robber in the afore mentioned big hit. What could we do diff? Hmmmmm . . . INCEST - that'll get us banned in Boston!"

"Don't you think that after R. James, prince and the rappers, that this ditty sounds a little tame/lame?"

"No, We are gonna shock em!"

"Couldn't we at least say UNCLE Dupree?!?!?!?"

uncle.

Hoops: I love Jack of Speed from Art Crimes 96, I know Walter sang lead on tour, but i hear Donald sings lead on 2VN........Walter did a credible job ,but i bet Walter`s version is the way to go.........

I double posted , sorry about that and said that the female backround singers was a " new twist" . I just heard Brooklyn Owes The Charmer Under Me and it had females in the backround...... any others I forgot?

Was listening to Van Morrison's surprizing "Philosopher's Stone" 2 cd set 70-80's of early demos (some 10 years prior) and unreleased jems (some better than the album material released at the time) and couldn't help but wish that the Dan box set would have had much more material along these lines.

Then again I guess TAN may be the opening up of ever evolving jems mined from the Dan collective soul in the 90's as surely not every idea they had several years back would have fit into a Kamakiri conceptual vein.

So if Wet Side Story doesn't make this cut, perhaps the floodgates will be opened up a little later on

Yes I'd love to tour the southland in a traveling minsteral show

I was under the impression that Wet Side Story was a sure thing on the NEW ONE. The cut was played regularly on the ART CRIMES 96 TOUR.The backround female singers was a new twist for D+W . I thought it needed a little polishing, but was suitable for recording..... The nine cuts on it must be excellent for it to be left off......... but then again Second Arrangement was also never recorded......

Can't believe I left work several hours before the Paul Revere post went through the GB and missed "Cousin Dupree"! Even more of a bonus-is there a new Eric Johnson album out as well? Be still my beating heart! Anyway, for us latecomers, please post any hints of scheduled replays :)

tom-good to have you back, and your thoughtful, nonhostile posts!

Miz Ducky-but when necessary, a good flame soothes the ruffled feathers, especially when it is done with style and wit! Got a good chuckle, as I usually do from your posts.

JWM-what can I say, you've made my dreary looking new year's eve bright. Here's a big smile on my face :) !

aja

Ragarding Mitch's comments on the omission of "Wet Side Story;" I, like pretty much everyone else, have yet to hear the new album (save for "Cousin Dupree") so it's premature to have an opinion as to whether it was it good idea for WSS to be left out. For me, WSS is a vague 96 memory so I'm not sure I will have a stronger opinion on its omission from the album unless it gets released as a CD bonus track.

I will say this, I don't remember WSS very well from 96 but I DO remember "Jack of Speed" quite clearly so the latter stuck in my head a lot better. Maybe that says something--like I was drunk on my ass by the time they played WSS

peace,

hoops

Mitch, buddy ~ e-mail me your mailing address: JWMalibu@msn.com...

Iam a little surprised to see that Wet Side Story was left off the New One. The cut which I`M sure that most of you heard on the ART CRIMES 96 TOUR was pretty good and featured some female backround singers , a little change from SD material and certainly qualified for the 10 th song on it. I wonder what the GBer`s think of this omission ?

stranger: who said they don't like me other than you? are you that self important that you feel you can speak for the entire gb? are you their self-appointed leader now? notice how often I had to use the word "self" when discussing you? Here, I have another one - if your dick was as big as your mouth, I'd tell you to go fuck yourSELF, but you probably couldn't get a hardon big enough to touch your bellybutton. hopefully it's an outie anyway and you can just pretend.

It's the people like you that I was reffreing to you sad fuck.

Oleander,
Sorry about your plague down there. Try killing the rats.

FirstLurker,
Ah, you're a sensitive type. And people don't seem to appreciate you. You have my utmost sympathy, shithead.

can you hear what I hear

http://www.ri.to/sd/dupree.mp3

Listening to the opening of "Cousin Dupree" I found myself wanting to sing "New York, New York is everything they say, And no place that I'd rather be..."

It must be the flu affecting my brain. *Please* let it be the flu affecting my brain...

it's "then it's dark again"

AND

"Slow Hand Row" - is that the Pointer Sister's favorite makeout point?

building the dish to channel Kubrick on 12/31/00

First Lurker - I'm sorry; I didn't mean to offend. Of course you can handle yourself quite well here, you've taken your measure of us and you'll fit in just fine. And I appreciate your kind greetings; I hope your Christmas went well. I'll still extend my greeting, and I look forward to hearing more from you.

..in the mail

That's an amen to what Roy.Scam said about Curtis Mayfield as well as an invite to all lurkers who are so inclined.

dlee--I thought it was "and then it's dark again." Which really resonates with me during those dark pre-solstice nights of the soul.

Edd--glad your neph' is going to make it. I'll send you on a little something to sustain you. Hold out for NEXT New Year's to party like it's 2000.

tom--thanx re page. Keep writing. Fingular banjos--that's great.

Stranger--well, we're having a bit of a hepatitis outbreak to keep us festive. I WAS on vacation.

JDub--it'll be a long week.

f#--at last, the origins of the Sharp One! grins from afur.

Obviously it's "slow hand row"

any idea just what that is?

I was merely looking at a play on words

"rogue" has a nice ring to it

we could stay inside and play games

that's where they're driving to.

IT'S SLOW HAND ROAD.

THAT'S WHERE THEIR DRIVING TO.

my god you guys are self-involved spazs!I wasn't complaining about poor little me, and I certainly wasn't soliciting any advice on how to get better known or accepted. I was merely saying Merry Christmas to the people who obviously got ignored in all of the previous greetings. Thanks but no thanks. Fucking headcases. There, stranger, was that hersh enough to get noticed? gee, I hope so, because my fragile ego won't be able to handle it.

Hey Newbies - I'm new here as well

Altamira suggested posting often as the GB will get to know you better. From my relatively new experience here (read wet behind the ears and flat out stupid) that sounds like good advice. Then again I may be way over extending my welcome mat

the first few times I posted with a question, I didn't really get any response, but with further tact (or lack of), the feeble attempt at discussing something SD musically related, and a warm glow of good intentions, I was actually able to get some insightful responses on the list

as for GB handles, I was thinking about "Slow Hand Rogue" myself

hey zombie be born again my friend,
won't ya sign in stranger?

Dr. Mu - I remember Expanding Man posting back around April or May, so I think that name has been taken recently.

Lurkers I and II - Welcome. We are not really a cliquish group here; we're pretty friendly and welcoming once you get to know us. There are some flamers here and there; watch out for the Newbie Police!, but they've been quiet lately so I doubt they'll bother you, and if they do, they crawl back into their holes after their attacks and won't bother you again. The best way to become a part of this group is to post often so we can get to know you.

Tom - Good to see you back. Interesting take on Bad Sneakers; it makes a lot of sense.

David in the Florida Room - Thanks for the kind words. Actually, I have felt better today; the bad times are fleeing away.

The Stranger - That sounds like one dreadful Thanksgiving. Damn, life can sure get rough! But the really bad days make the others seem good in comparison.

So i'm peeling garlic and listening to hip Deeetroit area radio hoping maybe i'll get a glimmer [Mick and Keith] of Cousin D and
maybe like i'll make a lasagna, too. i got the week off and i haven't heard it yet.
okay, well- on comes Aja, but it's the middle after the police whistle and Wayne Shorter is going vvvuhvvvvvuhwuvvvwuhhhh...
you know the spot.
okay, so it's a commercial. Wayne Shorter is going to play "...the jazz event of the season..." with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aja is swelling like the tide under the announcer and it re-cues back to another Ajaitic vvwuvvwuuhhh...
someone correct me if i'm wrong- but doesn't Shorter claim to have no recollection of doing the Aja session [maybe because these two smarmy suburban boys are outselling the real jazz folk 20:1?]???

suddenly, his memory seems to have improved.

welcome newfolk: take stranger's well-put advice and enjoy. there are people in here who have known each other for years and you have to respect their familiarity. otherwise, people respond to whatever tickles their fancy. however, i've been waiting for someone to log on as Clean Willie so i could flame their shit crispy. just kidding.

I've thought about changing my handle to Jackson, 7th.avenue, Babbs, Fistula [from the website], Rooster, Soul Survivor [would love to hear Steve Vai do Expressway to Your Heart], Spreading Haze, Daddy G., Savoy Sides, Minstrel, Cherry Wine, Muzzwell B.
[Harvey's brother], Motorscooter [hooters flirts with political correctitude], Laughing Chance, Flies on Me [i played bball with the Police Athletic League]; there's a bunch more but my real favorite is Italian in their eyes. Hiyo, Fistula. Away.

F#maj9 [not exactly a Dan-related moniker; sentimental]
the night i first logged on i had been teaching my daughter "Mother Nature's Son", by request. The capo was on fret two, good for her range but actually a [attention teachers] *really* good trick for teaching anyone with a smaller hand a more complex stretch- like the Emaj9 Paul plays in that song. fret two shortens the reach and makes it less frustrating to learn the chord! so, after one week- get this, i moved the capo down to F. after the next week...yup.
there's some really smart people in here.

The remittance would be: the smiles on your collective faces...net 30!

just wanted to give a huge thumbs up plug to Oleander's great site and all the thought provoking comments there

One thing which always endeared me to SD during the 70's was the fact that they could be singing what sounded like a perfectly pleasant song, yet underneath upon closer inspection it really has a darker and sometimes humorful or sarcastic core.

Anyway songs like Every's GOne to the Movies, Rose Darling, etc, but one I find even more enchanting in that vein is Time Out of Mind. It sounds like such an uplifting ready to go out and play type of pop song. I always knew it was landmined with drug references "I am holding the mystical sphere, it's direct from Lhasa" but actually reading the comments related to opium smoking brought a true chuckle. Thanks for the insight

It's perfection and grace, it's the smile on my face

JW - Pardon if I missed this info, but will your address be included on the package for remittance purposes?

...and the remittance would be?

Edd

goodies - from the muscial gods herein

Lurking,
The way to get noticed is to attack without mercy. But keep in mind that if you post something interesting it will be noticed even if there is no written response. And don't be so touchy, whatsyourname.

JW: Looking forward immensely to the goddies sometime during the 12 days of Christmas.

That's how I heard Cousing Dupree with a touch of Time Out of Mind.

Lurkers I and II: Welcome. I have a feeling this room will be packed soon. I don't know what the statute of limitation should be on unused pre-owned nicknames? Here are a few that are unused or used a long time ago (>3 yrs). Caution: My memory may be porous.

Woman's voice
Expanding Man (long time ago?)
Cringemaker
Little Kawai (too personal?)
Good King John? Richard is a frequent guest
my father
Jack (as in "you go back")
Fool
maid
William Wright (in this venue?), Michael, Jesus
Bodhisattva
any man left
DaddyG?
halfway crucified
men in the treeez
some of the tomorrow's girls
Brubeck
ladies talkin'
you fella

you get the picture...

Sounds great...some slight variations in level from track to track, but close enough for Rock n' Roll! I won't be able to get to the Post Office (for stamps) until tomorrow, so they will go out Wednesday morning. The So/Central-Cal contingent (Stranger, Ruby & Aja) should have it by New Year's Eve, the rest of the US Danizens by early next week or sooner (they're going 1st class). The Euros and Aussies can expect it in the next two weeks or sooner...

Initial impression of "Cousin Dupree" ~ "Kamakiriad" meets "Cringemaker"...some definite hooks in that song!

Curtis Mayfield was one of the best r&b and pop songwriters of the century whose end he just missed seeing. The duet that Eric Clapton and D'Angelo (sp?) did of Curtis's "I've Been Tryin'" at the Mayfield tribute was beyond great. And Curtis's taped speech for that event made tragedy seem inspiring. What a guy he was.

Sad month for great musicians,
RS

Lurking also: I've seen both used here, tho not recently....FYI...welcome to the board!
But check out the archives for problematic posters....

ygk

I can understand your comments here as I am relatively new also

yes it is may appear hard to break in to the perceived "clique", and questions may not be responded to or threads taken off on, as your new, but hang in there... a little creativity on our part and going with the flow on the GB seems to pay off, and this is a very warm group with minimal flaming

I guess we both need a flashy user name, I'm sure el-supremo is taken, clean willie anyone?

A very Merry Christmas and a Happy and productive New Year to all of those gb-er's who are constantly ignored because they somehow don't fit into the little clique. Everyone else has gotten their greetings and airtime, now it's your moment.

Hope everyone had a great holidays

Oleander - loved your 4 monkeys see no, hear no, speak no, cover the sports car analogy! Had me rolling

Altamira and Aja - thanks for the warm comments, I missed you too

Hutch - I'll get back with you on the headphones thing, been trying it out here at work with it slow over the holidays. Generally I like the Dan crystalizing in my listening room over speakers and filling the rooms aural spaces, as opposed to dancing around vibrantly totally confined well inside one's cranial passages.

Hal Leonard transcrips - I have the Best of SD full scores and the only misquote I saw was "fin-gu-lar banjos".

last comment on Bad sneakers - I always imagined the song set in a minimum security prison / mental hospital. The fellow isn't particularly violent and "I can see the ladies talking... fearsome excavation" line as either viewable from his cell window or his vividly picturing the outside world and it's colder realities. In the chorus section he remembers the more positive freeing memories "on the avenue".

Alta and Edd, This too shall pass....Hang in there my friends.

Hey, 2vN is currently No.1 at Amazon.com in pre-order.

MizD: I was up to 1 am getting lasagna sauce, meatballs, and Italian sausage ready for the next day. Day 2 is for boiling the noodles, drying during the Children's Mass, then layering the sauce/meat, pasta, and cheeses for baking @ 350° Then turkey on X-mas day for descending family members. My wife was conjuring up sweet potato and broccoli caseroles, fudge, cakes, cookies. It will take the entirety of next year to burn off these calories once the leftovers are finally gone!

Edd: wishing you and your nephew the best

Got my wife the new Moody Blues CD Strange Times as she's a fan. It turned out to be a better recording than I had thought - and the samples were hopeful. While John Lodge's insipid Forever Now and Graeme Edge's dreadful poem at the end are worth skipping, that leaves 12 decent to excellent tracks. Essentially this is a pop album, but a well-crafted one musically. The lyrics range from mildly elegant to spacey to banal as one would expect, but the songs have fine melodies. The production and engineering are truly first rate. An extaordinarly clean recording with nice balance and mix. Patrick Moraz is gone - and the album benefits. The songs and production touches provide some lushness and sound a little reminiscent of their first 7. They were more orchestral, powerful in places but simpler in structure and a tendency to be overbearing at times. I'm also finally hearing in recent digital recordings mastered the warmth of vinyl...and you of course skip the noise as well.

The sum of this album is probably greater than the whole - it takes a few listens. The tracks English Sunset and Strange Times are 2 of the standouts and could hold their own with many classic Moody tracks. English Sunset is essentially an electronica -type track with that Moody sound...sure beats the hell out of Madonna, Cher, and Depeche Mode. Haunted, Foolish Love, and The Swallow are quite good in the classic Justin Hayward vein. Ray Thomas contributes a nice liitle children's song, and John Lodge's Love Don't Come Easy is the best George Harrison song released in over 20 years. The lyric sheet is a waste of a good tree, but this is an enjoyable album by the Moodies - their first consistent effort since Long Distance Voyager which had some realy nice tracks (The Voice, 22,000 Days, etc.) and one crappy one (Gemini Dream).

Listening to the re- re of Royal Scam. It is kickin' major ass! Klemmer's solo on Caves, Carlton's solos, piano on Sign in Stranger are reaping the benefits of remastering - dynamic range and sonic impact are up. From the liner notes, these guyz wanted to be a badd ass black funk-jazz band...my wife surprised me - her fave is Green Earrings.

MEMORIES OF UGLY HOLIDAYS
Ed's description of his cycle-crashed newphew, the flu, and then, the bollixed water heater and then an approaching work day is graphically depressing. What comes to my mind for nightmare holidays of the past is simpler. I love Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. A day of thanks. I remember being in a strange city (Kansas City) with no friends or loved ones, at a new job. Worked Thanksgiving night. Got 45 minutes off for dinner. Went with a very depressed co-worker, Tom, to a flourescent diner. Only a few customers. Everyone had long faces. Had the awful turkey special. Waitress sullen and introverted. Turkey was room temperature. Tom had a breakdown about a year later and went into an institution.

Anyone else care to share screwed up holidays of the past or present? Cheer up, Ed.

Dleestan - Good quote; Snowbound is most appropriate for certain areas in the northern hemisphere this time of year; I'd been thinking about that quote recently myself.

Edd - I wish your nephew all the best; it sounds like he's in a pretty bad position right now. I hope you're feeling better; a flu compounded by sleeping on a cold water bed must be pretty nasty.

GirlFred - Sounds like a good way to spend the day. I am intrigued by that book you mentioned; I'll look for it.

Miz Ducky - I'm glad you had a good day; it sounds most joyous and I'm glad you've been able to spread the good fortune around.

I have heard from a friend in Atlanta that Curtis Mayfield passed away today at a hospital near Atlanta - he was in his mid 50s and there is no information about the cause of death. I wish him all the best in his new life, and we lose a good musician.

Favorite SD cold weather holiday moment

Kamakiriad:
We sailed our ice caps on the frozen river
Some loser fired off a flair amen
For seven seconds it was like Christmas Day
Then it starts again ooohhh-----
Then it starts again

(horns)
(chorus)

oh.. the first part of that disappearing quote was just me saying something like " you mean i can now just HEAR it, but can't have a copy anymore?" and then something to the effect of "Oh.... man, i was really looking forward to" and "blah, blah, blah" and so on...
you know... just your basic grovelling with a side of understanding ...

excerpted from an e:

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i have only one. VERY touchy. people lose their jobs and such.

(gf here/now): but surely folks were taping off of KFOG Thurs. evening

still cautious about my internet activity due to continuing strangeness... that.. hmm.. sucks.

MizDucky - a few months ago, I had dinner at a friend (a Native American) of a friend. I admired a little rock on her table, and she gave it to me ... said that since I had talked my admiration, it was no longer hers to keep.. said it never was.. I've since passed it on, and try, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, to keep that brief exchange in mind/heart.

Edd - wishing well to your nephew and you, too!! a cold waterbed and big K on Christmas Eve ...ooo shivvvver. hope someone gave you an insulated headphone helmet

Alta - the Holidays can be tough sometimes.. I didn't go to church Friday or yesterday, but did spend a small part of the day with my ex's mom, who, due to alzheimer's, could only smile and sigh a lot. The best part of the day though was walking around a nearby lake with my son, thoughts of the people I love making me warmer... my cats just wanted to EAT. ... 'can opener frenzy'
'ooo, more TINNED MICE' ... 'tinned mice' is from a book, 'Felonious M. Cat, an autobiography' ... a sweet story written by someone who has obviously spent a good amount of time living with those of the feline persuasion who allow him to participate in their daily life...

living a 36 hour day,

GF

Duck Chick: Cool! Sounds like a truly festive occiasion that "resonates".....

Edd: I'm working 8-8's starting Friday through Monday....that's PM to AM....damn this y2k

yg(riping)k

Oh my! My sympathies and encouraging thoughts to all GBers who, for whatever reasons, are experiencing the shadow-side of this holiday season. Been there, done that ... and why do you suppose I now live on the other side of the continent from my birth family? Okay, so that's hardly the only reason. But it has had the side-effect that I've been able to crowbar at least some of my personal sources for holiday angst outta my life. Not that I've still managed to have some lulus on my own ...

This holiday I was unexpectedly blessed to be invited to the home of friends of Native American heritage. We didn't do a tree or sing carols. We had a drumming circle, a feast (with venison stew!) and a potlatch. I was blown away and humbled by the amount of *stuff* the potlatch host gave away, including to me, a relatively new acquaintance. Good thing she told me it's an acceptable part of the tradition to pass on gifts to others who can use 'em better--I'd be a little embarrassed to keep the whole lot!

Anyhow--To all my Dan-friends, a happy remaining-holidays season, and on into the New Frontier.

/Miz Ducky

My holiday went down hill starting Tuesday when my nephew crashed his motorcycle, inflicting serious hurt on himself. Estimate is 5-6 weeks in the ICU. An easy 2 months before he's released.

Thiugh it pales in comparison, I came down with the flu as I was leaving work Thursday. Went home and practically straight to bed, not realizing the heater in the water bed had died. Since I keep my room cool, the bed was down to about 75 degrees by the time I woke up Friday and realized something was drastically wrong. So in my flu-ridden, hypothermic state I had to hit the local K-mart for another heater. K-Mart on the day before Christmas is my idea of hell.

...and NEXT Friday night I get to work!

Does it get any better than this? If so, when???

Happy Holidaze to alluh ya...

YGK - Yes, I hear you - reality is a good thing - better to take life as it comes. I've spent a quiet weekend in my apartment with the cats (along with a few forays over to my church). I was planning to get a lot done this weekend, but ended up feeling too awful to get anything accomplished. I hate this fucking miserable, lonely holiday and I'll be glad when it's all over.

I'm still excited about TAN, though; it's good to have something to look forward too.

I hope you all are having a pleasant holiday, and if you're not, remember that it will be all over soon and we'll be back to normal life, where pain and loss aren't magnified as they are during the holiday season.

Greetings and Happy Holidays to all my Dan friends!
I'm in San Antonio with my brother and his family for a few days.
Missed the Cousin Dupree premier but hope to hear it soon. Been giving some guitar lessons to my niece's husband. He's picking it up pretty fast. These Texans party hearty for sure. Last night the neighbors were having a big party with a DJ and lots of Tejano music with periodic YEEEEHAHHHs filling the air. Lots of fun.
Blessings to all!

Hutch

......arrived back in the Apple this morning - approximately 8:45am - couldn't get out of the desolation of the Maryland suburbs fast enough; boarded a 6:30 train back home. Taking the Amtrak up to NYC is unique in that you get a steady shot of the twin towers and the full NYC skyline from just outside of Newark. Upon arriving at Penn, I quickly boarded my uptown train for home, but took time to notice the post holiday dreariness in this wonderful, lonely city. The question always resonates with me, as it has for years once I woke up from my parental protection/seclusion, "what's it all for? can we just all stop pretending?" I can't deal with all the fakery. I need reality. In New York, I saw people just getting by, many homeless in the subways this mornings.....wishing merry christmas in order to obtain guilt change. But they were all there, being who they are.....refreshing.....and it is home. Just as I am.

1 week from now we'll be in the New Frontier, a few days away from the Pre-order date. Did anyone figure out if that pre-order will deliver before 2/29?

Melancholy in Manhattan

ygk

Hey everyone, have a great Christmas and holiday season.

Going to Oz tomorrow, a good day and a half of flying and a lot of SD tapes to help make for an easier ride.

Peace and good will...don't use 'em lightly...

Jeez, missed the whole KFOG episode, but thanx to the more quick-witted and alert who passed along the tip, including Andy & the Duck, and for the comments.

Prof SteveV--Thanx for the advice. I suppose I'll just wait until it's available here.

GKR--Greetings from the winter side! I'll be lookin' for it.

Stranger--whoa! I was simul-listening to IGY today, and to Patti Austin's version last night.

Hoops!--so sorry to hear about him. What a terrible struggle it must have been.

moray--hey man. good to hear you back.

JW, 'fred--JDub, thanx for the bio. Rahsaan Roland Kirk is one of my abiding heroes. I saw him a couple of times at Keystone Korner in San Francisco--one time after he'd had his first stroke, and was playing wistfully, beautifully on a flute he'd customized so he could play it with his functional hand. Todd Barkan, the prop. of the Korner, played on "Bright Moments." "Inflated Tear" is the most heartbreaking song in the world--it distills pathos to its most intense form. The whole album is so fine. He was able to blow not only multiple instruments at the same time but was the first to perfect circle breathing. I heard him hold notes for seemingly ever. You had to see it to believe it. He also could blow the wildest free jazz and switch immediately to a poignant ballad without missing a step (see "Volunteered Slavery"). "The Return Of The 5000 Pound Man" is a late effort (1975) which is a sweet reminiscence. I love his "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"--with words yet. "The Case of the Three-Sided Dream In Audio Color" is probably the closest I or any other sighted person will come to understanding blindness. "A Standing Eight" is a good compilation. He was a unique, sightless visionary of the highest order.

Christmas Eve GB Compilation Report ~

~ Armadillo Digital is done with the project. I'm sending a messenger over the hill into the valley to pick it up on Monday...I can then ship on Tuesday morning.

~ I made an Office Depot run this afternoon on the way back from work and picked up Avery labels, "Mail Away" padded CD mailers and artistic letter stock for the inner booklet.

~ I formatted the credits into an four page double wide booklet; they came out very nice...you can acutally READ the darn thang!

~ I pulled the address database into Word and generated mailing labels, then assembled the entire thing. All I need to do is stuff 'em, stamp 'em and mail 'em!

MISSING MAILING ADDRESSES:
1. RixHex56
2. Mitch
3. JosieDanFan
4. JQSJR
5. Hank Silvers ~ mea culpa!
6. Doc Kelly

please mail to: JWMalibu@msn.com

Had to attend some festivities last night, so I missed "Cousin Dupree"...those in the know - please let us know if it's going to be played again!

Happy Holidays,

JDubs

Look at the company these guys used to keep - back in the twilight years of classic rock...........

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http://home.tampabay.rr.com/danman1/sdrr2.JPG

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder who really put out the best LP that year ???????(and yes it was better than "Blood On The Tracks"!)

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Happy Holidays and Peace to All,

Q

Andy....KFOG said last night that "the cage match" would be taking a few nights off so I don't think it'll be played at the same time tonight....I'm guessing it'll start to get pretty heavy play in the rotation considering the response though....thanks again for the tip off last night!

Merry Christmas to you all....we'll likely be back Sunday.

{{{HUGS}}} all around!

MC & Opti

The DJ played the song and at the end he said, "Boy, that's some song. The end couldn't come soon enough.. err.. or long enough or whatever. I could have listened to it for 10 more minutes. Good song."

The first several callers were on cell phones, driving around doing their last minute Christmas shopping. They all voted for Steely Dan. Some of their comments were:

"I didn't know that they were making another album."

"If it has Becker and Fagen in the title(?) it's all right by me."

"I have 3 words for you: 'Steely'... 'Frickin''... 'Dan'."

One caller that voted for Eric Johnson said that she was a Steely Dan fan, but the she was disappointed with Cousin Dupree. Another caller said the song sounded "too poppy".

The DJ said that Cousin Dupree won the Cage Match 94% to 6% (pretty impressive when you consider that it blew away a Christmas tune on December 23rd) and that it would defend it's title in about a week because he was going on vacation.

m.e.

YGK: will be talking to my brother this weekend- he will undoubtedly have suggestions [if not the old dot-dense spiral bound thing itself]. email your coordinates if you wish to:
w.side.studio@usa.net [stained glass] and i'll be most delighted to send you stuff.

cheers
F#

So Cousin Dupree won the cage match or whatever they're calling it. Does this mean they're playing it again at 8:30 PST tonight against another "challenger"? Come to think of it, they'll probably have some Christmas Eve stuff on. Any regular KFOG listeners out there have any ideas?

Hope everyone has a pleasant Christmas.

-Andy

ha

went to the kfog link just in time to hear that Cousin Dupree got 94% over Eric's Firt Noel..

STILL haven't heard it. but did find a RRKirk double cd in the 11.99 and under bin at Tower... truly amazing.

anybody heard the elvis costello/burt bachrach/bill frisell (2 s's? hm)
cd?

mercy, mercy.

Well, I guess I zigged when I should have zagged and missed that KFOG notification. That's what I get for working and buying presents for loved ones. Should have been glued to the gbook.

Anyway, this morning I was listening to Nightfly, which I haven't done for awhile and was once again knocked over by just how fine it is. What a Beautiful World this will be. I love it. There'll be spandex jackets, one for everyone. I've got my TAN ordered at Amazon and everything looks good for now.

Happy holidays to all.

Duck: but to be honest, really, KFOG's overall programming - other than the slight chance of hearing Cousin - is less than desirable....

I hope y'all realize I have no problem whatsoever with the reasonable discussion of levels etc. that had been going on before the anonymous doomsayer decided to crash the party. Carry on, dudes and dudettes.

YGK: Ooooh! That is ***so*** Nightfly! I'm gonna have to keep listening to KFOG too ... I'm getting no response out of KMTT regarding the single so far.

/Miz Ducky
feathers un-ruffled now

... who keeps posting trash about the mix on 2vN, like he's showing off that he "somehow" has access to the new CD ahead of the rest of us: I've got two words for you: piss off.

No, I've got more than two words for you: if you can't show a good attitude and a recognizeable non-anonymous handle whereby you can be tracked on this GB via your reputation and track record, I for one have no use for you and your jive-ass opinions. And especially since I was listening last night and had absolutely no trouble hearing Don's vocal track, I personally believe you to be full of shit. Now get the hell out of here and get back on your meds, you're obviously decompensating and letting your dissociated-personality bullshit loose on the Web.

There. I've broken down and flamed on the GB. So shoot me if and etc.

My apologies to my friends on here, but this shit just irks the living shit out of me.

/Miz Ducky
remember, duck-bites can be nasty.

Donald must have had a reason for not wanted anyone to understand the words he's singing without a lyrics sheet.

Duck Chick: I'm all over KFOG about CD....the concept of "I'm listenin to you across the country - please entertain me" is one that is extra special for me and dates back to when I worked in radio and used to receive requests. Gazing over the city and all the lights, and trying to reach that listener is hauntingly special. I imagine the radio beacon broacasting through the fog in SF - a solitary experience.
I've e-mailed them a couple of times - I hope to hear it...

ygk

after a good nights sleep I still think Cousin Dupree could be a nice funked up hit....nice track!....My wife said she dreamed she heard it last night (she was asleep when KFOG played the track last night)....I asked her what it sounded like in the dream and she said different from anything else they had done but cool. I told her what I posted last night....I don't think there was any new ground broken by the boys but it's a good song and I feel like it's going to be a really good album.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

MC & Optimystic

And he mumbles through most of them. They lyrics are mostly unintelligable. What a shame about the mix. It ruins the album.

DrMu: Yeah, it does seem like KMTT's RealAudio link is a little cleaner than KFOG's (RealAudio has several modes that suck dead warthogs IMO--especially their attempts at stereo). And the KFOG WinMediaPlayer feed was cleaner than both. And I don't have an especially terrific soundcard/speaker set on my 'puter either. But then again, as I said before I think I've got weirdly sensitive hearing anyway (not necessarily to the point of hearing dog whistles, but getting there ... ).

Anyhow, I just emailed Fisher at KMTT that "we" can't let the Bay Area get away with this coolness coup, and that I'm counting on him to uphold Seattle's and KMTT's honor by playing the single ASAP!!!

BTW--what are you doing starting to make a lasagna this late in the evening? All-nighter cooking for the holidays? Good luck! Been there, done that--fun in a masochistic way, but exhausting!

KD: Overwhelming? Well, maybe not quite that. But I'm still pretty jazzed and excited a good couple hours later, so that
should tell ya *something*!

(I'll also be the first to admit that there's a sort of Harriet-the-spy secret-decoder-ring aspect to all this that I find a real laugh, in addition to enjoying the music.)

YGK: Sorry, dude! I need your decoder-ring code! :-)

/Miz Ducky
gathering intel

m.e. I think Cousin Dupree could be a hit...funkier than The Symbol has been lately

kd: Don't get us wrong - it's damn fine. I prefer vocals up in the mix as in The Nightfly or Gaucho or Flordia Room when compare to Trans-Island Skyway. I think what we heard on Real Audio was not as true as the stream Miz Ducky heard on the Windows Media Player. I noticed that KMTTs link had far superior fidelity. Is that me? when will thy play it? could Fisher stand being upstaged by the Bay?

Logged on to KFOG too late for the cut, but left a message and sent an e-mail to be notified.....
if only I had given the Duck-chick my remote e-mail, I would've known....

psyched!, and bummed....

ygk

Jagger's vocals were mixed low on 'Exile' too...

damn.

Nothing too overwhelming, though, from what I can tell from you guys...

I agree that the Aja comparison was off. I think it sounds like Tomorrow's Girls and Wet Side Story. Good song with all the Steely elements:

-A touch of funk
-Sweet harmonies
-Twisted lyrics
-And some melodic surprises

Good stuff, Stanley.

m.e.

You know, I keep hearing this from any number of people whose opinions I respect, that this or that cut has Donald's vocals too far back in the mix, and I confess I've never heard this. Then again, I'm notorious for ***not*** boosting the bass on ***any*** of my pop/rock listening, because, frankly, I feel I can more fully hear all the textures and *stuff* happening in a song's full range without the bass blatting it all out. (I have reason to believe I also have rather more over-sensitive hearing than a lot of people--there have been some Incidents :-) ).

Not trying to start anything with anybody at all here--just wondering out loud. I mean, the only hearing I can possibly know is my own, y'know?

Also, to be making a distinction between low-volume level and low pitch: I noticed that in "Cousin Dupree" Don was singing mainly in the lower octave of his range, which I like a lot, but as a singer myself I can tell you that *everyone's* voice sounds a little quieter down there, all other things being equal.

Eh--I was listening through Windows Media Player and the vocal track sounded just right-level to me. But again--dunno if that's my weird ears, or my turning down the bass habit, or what.

/Miz Ducky
it's a puzzlement!

Yes, Miz Ducky that's gotta be Walter on the solo. Donald's vocals were in the right channel, and the broadcast of the right channel on the Real Crappy Audio was attenuated...so don't give up guys - the vocals may in reality be higher...If the CDs aren't pressed yet, they should punch 'em up. I agree - first 3 songs + Tomorrow's Girls had the vocals too low in the mix on Kama.

Lasagna sauce is burnin'... gotta go

Peace y'all

Immediate first impression of "Cousin Dupree:" SCORE!!!

Slightly more detailed impressions: for my money, this isn't so much a throwback to "Aja" as a natural progression from the stuff Don and Walt have been doing since then--in their solo stuff, and on the road (i.e. the new material as well as the revamps of old songs). In fact, the uptempo boogie-ing keyboard riff reminds me very slightly of the one from "Wetside Story" that I liked so well--glad they salvaged it! And Donald's doing some of that more soulful stuff with his vocal that I love so much on Kamakiriad (think the intro to "Springtime", for instance) as well as the live show work. What else? Ditto Midnite Cruiser re the rocking guitar solo--I'm laying bets that was Walt on the axe there. AHHHHHHH! Feels so good!!! Wanna hear it again! Wah!!!

Thanks, youze guys, for sharing these moments of madness together. Isn't it just too bitchin' kewl or what?

/Miz Ducky

I'm a huge Eric Johnson fan and that was a beautiful rendition of "The First Noel" but Steely Dan kicked it's ass:

Cousin Dupree --- 94%
The First Noel --- 6%

I LIKE IT!!!!

now it really is bedtime......peace......I'm outtie.

low vocals -absolutely. Whats with fagen? Get those vocals up! there are some low ones on kama to!!

jk

Fagen vocals are barely audible. Kamakiriadish groove. Typical Steely Dan song. Top 40? Doubtful.

m.e.

1-800-300-KFOG

vote for Cousin Dupree now!!!

yipeeeeee!!!!!!!

through the fog...the sweetness we've been longing for!! Thanks for the heads up guyz. Real nice song. I have to say that through the tinny Real Audio, that cut doesn't emulate much of Aja. It sounds more like a flushed out version of the better songs on 11 TOW with the full Dan treatment and Donald at the lead vocals...Cringemaker is the song it reminds me of most. Can't wait to hear it in full hi-fi sound.

yeah baby! heard the song but did they mention bsides or release dates??????

haw about a kiss for your kousin KFOG!!!!!!!!!!!

Are they going to keep playing it?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Was that fuckin' cool or WHAT?????

I loved the rythym guitar and the really funky lead guitar parts! At first I thought it was a little too solo Donald sounding but by the second verse I was tapping my toes and the solos were oh so tasty.....Man, Christmas really did come early for me this year!

*grinnin' from ear to ear*

oh yeah, let me go on vote now!!!

HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KFOG RULES!!!

KFOG will be premiering "Cousin Dupree" in 15 minutes -- 8:30 PST. Listen to it at http://www.broadcast.com/radio/adult_album_alternative/kfog/

-Andy

If you want to hear Cousin Dupree, tune into KFOG
in San Francisco now (Dec. 23rd, ~11:30 pm EST). They will
be playing it in a few minutes against an Eric Johnson track.

You can pick them up on the net.

m.e.

Andy & Miz Ducky....I'm listening now too....I've been up 20 hours and am really whipped but I'm trying to make it....btw, the in-laws are here and I don't think they appreciate me ignoring them to listen for this song.

hey, a guy has got to have his priorities....to quote Frasier Crane: "I'm listening".

thanx for the tip Andy!

Maybe I did get the time wrong, math never was my strong suit ;-). If anyone out there is capable of taping the broadcast from the Real Audio feed, PLEASE do so. My computer's setup won't allow me to do so, so I have my trusty microcasette recorder next to my speakers. Even better, if anyone in the Bay Area is reading this, would it be too much to ask to record the track from your radio? Keep listening...

-Andy

Andy: Dude! I'm listening to KFOG over the Net too right now, and I could have sworn the DJ just said he'd be spinning Cousin Dupree at 8:30 PST, not 7:30! (Some Premiere slot they apparently have).

No worries--if they don't play it at 7:30, it's a real nice-sounding station, so it's no hardship staying tuned in for an hour extra. The important thing is that, sooner or later they *will* play this puppy tonight!

Aaaaarooooooo!!!

/Miz Ducky
a tad excited

Hey Andy - thanks for that heads-up. I went straight to the KFOG RealAudio stream, and just heard the DJ say they're playing the New Steely Dan at 8:30, not 7:30. (I'll be listening both times, just in case)

Right now it's 9:45 EST. I'm listening to KFOG, San Francisco via Real Audio. They played "Cousin Dupree" this afternoon and said that they will play it again at 10:30 PM EST (7:30 Pacific Time). Listen to KFOG via RealAudio at http://www.broadcast.com/radio/adult_album_alternative/kfog/

-Andy

Ole- your so full of shit

hope your fever dreams, just that.

good luck in your personal journey.

Call St. Al , he will clarify for you.

Razor Boy

Several folks have written to the Dandom Digest to say that KFOG in San Francisco is playing 'Cousin Dupree.' It's described as sounding Aja-like by both who wrote in. KFOG can be gotten via the net if you are out of the area.

Wow wow wow! Hope I hear this in Chicago this weekend. I'm so excited...to hell with Xmas gifts...I want 2vN or I'd even settle for the Cousin Dupree single.

hoops

I put up a tribute page to Dan Rinehart at http://dandom.music.uiuc.edu--follow the links. Drop his wife a line at dan1suz@aol.com

Hoops - How very, very sad. It's always a sorrowful event when someone dies, but it's especially tragic when it's someone that young. Have you written to the ODP about this? D&W would probably appreciate knowing about Dan's demise.

Aja - Thanks for your kind wishes, and I hope you have a good holiday too. I am, as always, enjoying the loving attention of my cats and will spend a quiet few days cleaning my apartment and doing some business-related things.

Custard Dome-Lovely Story, Thanks
D

Got some really sad news today. Those of you at the 1996 Chicago area shows may remember "Steely" Dan Rinehart. He had the huge Montero Sport Ute that we had a danvention out of at Alpine. He, along with his wife, Suzanne, were included in that backstage photo with Maggi and D + W at the "Midwestern" World Theatre on Aug. 2, 1996.

Suzanne just emailed me that Dan passed awayovernight in St. Louis of leukemia. (I wasn't aware that he was ill.) I'm not sure of his age but I believe he was in his mid to late 20s. Suzanne plans to bury him wearing the SD T-shirt D + W autographed for him back stage at the World Theatre in 1996.

Maggi tells me that they are already playing the new one in heaven. Now Dan hears it before us too.

hoops

Happy Holidays to all my fellow Danizens! I'm so happy to have found such an interesting, eclectic bunch who love to obsess on the Dan. Thanks especially to JWMalibu for all the hard work-can't wait to hear the creativity that was generated from everyone's souls/fingers/synapses.

Breeeezemaster-thanks! I especially loved the part about there being plenty of interpretive material for the hardcore-looks like we'll have plenty to talk about at Danfest.

Hope the holidays find everyone relaxed and with loved ones!

aja

EDITION: EP GREATER BRISTOL

SECTION: News, Pg.6

LENGTH: 618 words

HEADLINE: Steely Dan, Bristol Hippodrome, 1974;
My best gig; Win a crate of beer and a bottle of wine

BODY:

IN 1974, I wasn't old enough to drink so, in common with all my friends who were about to face the unpleasant reality of leaving school, I never
touched a drop of alcohol.

In fact, it was considerably more than a drop, but that's by the by. My real passions at the time were football and music.

More specifically, Bristol Rovers and the legendary American band Steely Dan. It is not often that the supporters' club of your favourite team,
especially one as humble as the Rovers, acts as promoter to your all-time favourite band, but in May 1974 that's exactly what happened.

In the 70s and early 80s, the Hippodrome and Colston Hall were a match for most concert halls and theatres in the land. There were no NECs,
Arenas or G -Mex Centres, so Bristol was on an even playing field when the big rock bands toured and when they toured they usually came here.

In order to keep up to date with the music scene, I was buying four magazines a week. This ensured that I didn't miss out on any tour news.

It was more than I could hope for when it was announced that Steely Dan were to tour Britain. My friend Nick and I spent all the money we had -
and quite a lot we didn't have - on tickets to the Dan shows at Sheffield City Hall, London Rainbow Theatre and the Bristol Hippodrome.

To top all this, when the advertisement appeared in the Evening Post, not only did it mention the name of the band and the support act - Kiki Dee -
but the heading went something along the lines of 'Bristol Rovers Supporters Club proudly present ... Steely Dan.' I mean, Bristol Rovers
promoting the greatest band on earth, famous for Do It Again, Reelin' In the Years, Showbiz Kids! But it was true.

And they didn't disappoint. The regular five-piece band was enhanced by Michael McDonald on keyboards and vocals and Jeff Porcaro, later to
become the drummer in Toto. They did all the hits, all our favourite album tracks - they even did a new song called 'I'm not your mobile home',
which was never released and I only ever heard twice but I can still hum the riff today! They were as tight as the proverbial duck's bottom, quite
breathtaking. And then it was over.

After the show, we agreed that we'd miss the last bus home and try and get their autographs. We stood outside the stage door and they came out,
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and the rest of the band. They even went into the chip shop in Denmark Street and Donald ordered 'some of your
pie and chips'. The guitar player Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was last on to the bus carrying a huge crate of beer. Soon they were gone.

A few days later we saw the band at the Rainbow Theatre, London, and they were just as good. And a few days after that we took the train to
Sheffield to see them yet again, but now Donald Fagen had a sore throat and the rest of the tour was cancelled. Waiting for our train home, Nick
and I went to the pictures and saw Zardoz, one of Sean Connery's more bizarre movies. We arrived back in Bristol at 5. 00am, the train having
broken down in the Severn Tunnel. (I never did understand what we were doing in the Severn Tunnel when travelling between Sheffield and
Bristol).

In 1996, Steely Dan returned to England. This time we had to go to Wembley Arena to see them because Bristol has still got the Hippodrome and
Colston Hall but now everyone else has got their NECs, Arenas and G-Mex Centres and no -one of any real stature comes to Bristol. The band still
did all the hits and the show was really great but time loves a hero and for me nothing will ever beat Bristol Rovers Supporters Club Proudly
Present Steely Dan. That was the night it all came together.

Rick Johansen,

Parsons Avenue,

Stoke Gifford

F#maj9: any chance you know where or how I can get ahold of the Lydian Chromatic Technique book you mentioned? I just got a few jazz theory books for solstice, but am looking to expand the knowledge as much as possible....if not, any other suggestions?
I still have room and functioning synapses for quick absorbtion....

ygk

JWM: roger that b-i-g time. became aware of doubleR K when i was a wee laddeee and all these beeboppping thangs came flying out of older bro's room [flutist/flautist/bassclarinetter]. My brother would ease on in at 8am [from a night out] with weird music books under his arm [eg. "Lydian Chromatic Technique"] and emerge hours later from his room and say somthing like: "...it's dark?". You know.

Anywhooo, he tells me that there's this jazz guy who has been reeking havoc in the NYC area, committing acts of geurilla guerrilla go-rilla gigging... essentially, showing up with his boys during a live show and walking onto the stage [this as a way to draw attention to the slighting of the jazz idiom by the "mainstream", ain't it the truth] and that none other than Ed Sullivan Hisself had been "given fair warning" that such a walk-on-take-over thang might occur during his variety show.

To avoid any weirdness, Ed [to whom my Ukranian-immigrant grandmother used to refer as "Ned Solomon"] went ahead and BOOKED Mr.Kirk. smart.

Kirk played for about 3 minutes, the last act brought out at the end of the hour. I remember him introducing Archie Shepp to the audience.. which sat there agape, without reaction... Kirk began to turn away but then leaned back to the one mic set before the ensemble and sternly announced, "I SAID... Archie SHEPP..." and everyone began to clap [or else???] That, fellow danizens, is what was known in my neighborhood as "the 'tude".

thought you might enjoy that. might anyone [who wasn't wearing pjs with footies at the time] do a better job w/same or similar anecdotes?

Oh- and Ed Sullivan introduced him as "errRAMMson rrROland Kirk"!

MizD: the first step is to admit that you are powerless over the Dan.

F#stoons

JW: if RRK died in 77, what's with all the recordings up until recently?

ygk

Merry Holidays guestbook-like folks, & thanks Oh Sainted One for another year of net diversion...

Oh-thee-of-leeyander-She's great! thanks, no use for the ipecac yet!

Stevie-d:Nice list, amazing how similar the danfan taste runs...

F#M7:Help yourself to those Push-ups buddy, they're in the ice chest next to the Ralph's Port.

Laughing all the way,
mW

Duckmistress: problem? what problem? you seem 'normally' twisted to me.....

ygk

JW: Living in the Past always seemed a half-decent imitation of a jazz artist. Now I know who!! Excellent story about Roland Kirk...I loved it when he cursed out the Tull fans - when I was 25 I thought Aqualung was great stuff also... I checked out the Roland Kirk site and Wow!...what an artist! "Bright Moments" is now near the tope of the ol' wish list with a bullet.

Breeeez: Thanks for the info

sincerely chagrined for referring to Roland Kirk as 'the guy'.

shees.

thanks, JW.

GF

Breezemaster: my thanks too for the Toronto Globe and Mail piece! Too bad the paper didn't see fit to post the full thing on their website (I looked). And I got a giggle out of the interviewer's take on those nasty offices Walter bitches about so eloquently in the "MSAing in Action" communique (this cubicle must have lacked any Sting posters obnoxious enough to mention, I guess).

JWMalibu: my thanks too for all that info on Rahsaan Roland Kirk. How intense! (Gad, more CDs to go spend my money on ... well, at least I'll not be tempted anymore to replace my long-lost Jethro Tull vinyl!)

FWIW, John Fisher on KMTT-FM Seattle is now regularly announcing the SD taping in January (if announcing it twice in two mornings counts as "regular"). Yesterday morning I was a little bleary when the blurb went by, but this morning I was awake enough to get the gist: Fisher refered to it as a "private" taping, said he's going to be attending and taking some KMTT listeners with him, and that more details would be available after the 1st of the year. Sounds like a contest scenario to moi!

Oh. My. God.

Am I really going to spend a week or more glued to my Walkman 24/7 listening to this one radio station for clues? Or writing doofy 25-word essays on why I am the most deserving duck in the universe to go to this taping? Or punching auto-redial on my phone over and over until my index finger is worn down to the second knuckle? Or whatever other sadistic mayhem Fisher and his partner West dream up to torture the Seattle-area Dandom in order to earn these precious tickets? ...

You bet your sweet ARP I am.

Oy. Do I ever have it bad.

/Miz Ducky
realizing that the first step is admitting that one has a problem, but not seeing any need to take any other steps (um, what other steps? I don't see any other steps ... )

JW - wonderful, wonderful piece....lost of musical references to do research on .... you ROCK!

ygk

but Donald and Walter are still extremely twisted individuals. Nice work guys!

Seems like I've been just lurking for some time, enjoying the emotional ups and downs of the GB, but it's been a bit of a tangentially Dan-day, today topped off by a nice late evening read of the GB while the rain comes down: Almost run over crossing the road by a van with the signage: 'Dan and Dan - Forestry and Landscaping (+61 2 6259 9995 if you want to call - after hours number gets you to someone whose initials are RIP, well, I had to check in the phone book!), squeezed my daughter into her Danfest Barrytown High T-shirt... now a bit short for her pot belly. The Good Queen mentioned she voiced a few ads for the holiday break today and her normally down-the-line Elton, Billy and Celine '70s-80s and Today' station was about to play some Dan (probably for the first time in a decade) and finally Ole, I posted your DMB CD package (not sure how 'rare' it is though). All good omens for the holiday break. KD: have a nice time in Muswellbrook (pop. 9988).. going for the wine? or the stud museum?!

Anyway, have a great Xmas break everyone, looking ahead to a vintage year!

Richard&kangaroos

Zeke, Mitch--I agree with you regarding My Rival and Josie respectively.

Truth is, Aja and Gaucho are great albums which have no weak tracks but for the purpose of that list, I had to pick one from each.

I think I've just heard Josie too many times. Interestingly, though, WB says on Making of Aja that it is still one of the tracks he most enjoys playing live.

I, too, love the vocals and percussion on My Rival and it was hard to put that one on there.

Fans in the U.K. may be interested to know that London's GLR station are promising to play something off TvN on January 3rd in the programme starting at 2pm.

The Toronto Globe and Mail piece has really stoked up my anticipation. I'm glad to hear there will be no radical departure in style but i'm sure there will be suprises nonetheless.

GirlFred ~ The guy they were referring to was Rahsaan Roland Kirk: b. Columbus, Ohio, 7th Aug 1936 -- d. 5th Dec 1977)
Kirk was blinded soon after his birth, and was educated at Ohio State School for the Blind. He played saxophone and clarinet with a school band from the age of twelve, and by 1951 was leading his own group for dances and playing with other bands around the Ohio area. At sixteen he dreamed he was playing three instruments at once, and the next day went to a music shop and tried out all the reed instruments. He was taken to the basement to be shown "the scraps", and found two archaic saxophones which had been used in turn-of-the-century Spanish military bands, the stritch and the manzello; the first is a kind of straight alto sax, and the second looks a little like an alto, but sounds more like a soprano. Kirk took these and worked out a way of playing them simultaneously with the tenor sax, producing three-part harmony by trick fingering. As there were often slight tuning discrepancies between the three instruments, the resulting sound could be harsh, almost with the characteristic of certain ethnic instruments, and this gave Kirk's music an added robustness. He also used sirens, whistles and other sounds to heighten the drama of his performances.

He made his first album in 1956, but it went virtually unnoticed. Then in 1960, through the help of Ramsey Lewis, he recorded for the Cadet label, and immediately caused controversy.People accused him of gimmmickry, and Kirk defended himself, saying that he did everything for a reason, and he heard sirens and things in his head when he played. He was, in fact, rooted very deeply in the whole jazz tradition, and knew all the early music, including thre work of Jelly Roll Morton (and Fats Waller) in which sirens, whistles, car horns and human voices had figured to brilliant effect. For Kirk, jazz was "black classical music", and he steeped in its wild, untamed spirit; in this he was "pure" - there were virtually no discernible influences from European classical music in his work.
In 1961 he worked with Charles Mingus for four months, playing on the album Oh Yeah and touring with him in California. His international reputation was burgeoning, and after his stint with Mingus he made his first trip to Europe, performing as soloist at the Essen Jazz Festival, West Germany. From 1963 he began a series of regular tours abroad with his own quartet, and played the first of several residencies at Ronnie Scott's club. For the rest of the 1960s and into the 1970s he led his group the Vibration Society in clubs, concerts and major festivals throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

In 1975, Kirk had a stroke which partially paralysed one side of his body. With tremendous courage he began performing again with one arm - an almost impossible handicap for a saxophonist - and he managed to tour internationally, play some festivals and appear on TV. In 1977 a second stroke caused his death.

Kirk was much loved, not only by his audiences but also by other musicians. He was unclassifiable: a completely original performer whose style carried in it the whole of jazz history from early New Orleans roots, through swing and bebop, to the abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde. Throughout his career he recorded tributes to people he particularly loved, and they included Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Sidney Bechet, Don Byas, Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus, Clifford Brown, Barney Bigard and John Coltrane. Yet he could be classified neither as a traditionalist nor as an avant-gardist; his music was always of the present, but contained the essence of past forms. Even in the 1990s his music does not sound dated - it sounds ever-present, beyond time. Playing one instrument - either tenor sax or the manzello - Kirk showed clearly that he was one of the great improvisers. He was an enthusiast who was always listening and learning, and he was generous in his encouragement of aspiring young musicians. He was a composer of memorable tunes: some of the better-known ones are "From Bechet, Byas and Fats", "No Tonic Pres", "Bright Moments", "Let Me Shake Your Tree", "The Inflated Tear".
J.E. Berendt said that Kirk had "all the wild untutored quality of a street musician coupled with the subtlety of a modern jazz musician", and Michael Ullman wrote: "Hearing him, one can almost feel that music, like the Lord in 'Shine On Me', can 'heal the sick and raise the dead'."
For a great site on Kirk, go to: www.alfanet.hu/kirk/index2.html
JW note: As a flutist growing up in the '60s, I was entranced with the music of Jethro Tull, and learned Ian Anderson licks like a journeyman guitarist studying Hendrix or Clapton...little did I know at that time, but Anderson's "overblowing/double-tonguing/sing-playing shtick" was a blatant rip-off of Kirk's style.
In the bio "Bill Graham Presents", movie director ("The Accused") Jonathan Kaplan tells a great anecdote from the Fillmore Years...
"The best show I ever saw at Fillmore East, just from an interest point of view, was Roland Kirk opening for Jethro Tull. Here was Roland Kirk, a genuis. Without question, the greatest musician that ever set foot inside the Fillmore. Just in terms of sheer technical brilliance. He could play anything. And here was this very white, very nice English guy. Ian Anderson. Very bright and very sardonic, who picked up the flute because he figured that was how he was going to become a rock star. Because there were already too many guitarists. Basically, he copied Roland Kirk. One of (Kirk's) many styles was Ian Anderson's ONLY style. Roland Kirk was getting paid maybe one-eighth of what Jethro Tull was getting. After the first night, Kirk was in a rage the whole time. He would get the audience going by saying, "Who's this?" And he would play somebody's style and they would guess. And he would say, "You funky, stupid white-ass motherfuckers!"...And he would play all of Jethro Tull's songs in like two minutes...BETTER than them. And he would say, "That's right. How come I'm getting paid one-eighth of what those guys are getting?"
The thing is that the guy could just be standing backstage and he would have two saxophones and some new African instrument he had found. Just him warming up would make you cry. The guy has so much poetry inside of him..."

11 30 haircut
1 00 cousin and what a shame (!)
1 01 listen
later resist posting anything about it here.

beignets? ah. that reminds me.. café du monde sells in a tiny little shop here for 3.59/15 oz can. just across town, they get 9 bucks for the same.

season's parties were all great - especially the last one.

the best tho was that 2 week gig with the flecktones. i came in one night, heard two saxes, counted cars outside .. no extras (no roger on this one, either.. he had good stories during 'left of cool'). They come down for dinner and I ask about the other sax.. Bela says, "Oh, that was Jeff playin two. Got the idea from (hmm don't remember the guy's name...) who was blind and was known to be able to play three at once.

It was funny.. here on the GB, there were a couple of days of angular banjo talk, with cookies from Mrs. Fleck. B says it wasn't really his mom ....

wish you all the best. i think the gb's about to explode with new kids.

fondlyFred

Oleander:
unfortunately VHS pal will NOT work on US vcr's......but there are many palces to get it transferred (but they mite charge you more than the price of video....yadah yadah, yadah.....

I'll look for it on bootleg DVD here in Singapore....let you know if i find anything

....

The best albums of the late 20th Century by year are: (in my opinion,and posted strictly from memory mind you);
1970-'Let it be'-Beatles 9all right I'm a sentimentalist)
1971-IV- Led Zeppelin
1972-Talking Book-Stevie Wonder
1973-Innervisions-Stevie Wonder tie w/Countdown to Ecstasy
1974-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway-Genesis (ancient Peter Gabriel w/Eno(?)
1975-Physical graffitti-Led Zeppelin (intense, funky)
1976-Songs In the Key of Life-Stevie Wonder
1977-Aja-Steely Dan (honourable mention; Live at the Bijou-Grover Washington jr.)
1978-My Aim Is True-Elvis Costello
1979-Fear of Music-Talking Heads
1980-Gaucho-Steely Dan
1981-Ghost in the machine-Police
1982-Pelican West-Haircut 100 tie w/The Nightfly
1983-No Parlez-paul Young
1984-My Ever Changing Moods-Style Council
1985-Flaunt the Imperfection-China Crisis
1986-So-Peter gabriel
1987-Nothing Like the sun-Sting
1988-Private Revolution-World Party
1989-Revolutions-Jean-Michel jarre
1990-Seeds of Love
1991-Rhymthns of the Saints-Paul Simon
1992-Pocketful of Kryptonite-Spin Doctors
1993-Drive (lp)-REM
1994-11 tracks of Whack-Walter Becker
1995-Amplified heart-EBTG
1996-Seal-Seal
1997-Red,Hot + Rio-Various
1998-Heavy Soul-Paul Weller
1999-Brand New day-Sting- hon.mention(Dead bees on cake-David Sylvian)

2000-Two Against nature-Steely Dan (I've already heard the album in hallucinegenic dreams caused by consuming too much thc between 1977-1994)/.....
anyway...Happy Holidays, pagan or otherwise and please check out my Steely bibliography at http://www.geocities.com/stephenvincent/steely.htm it's fun, its cool its free...information!!!

Matt, Franky--welcome. It's funny how different tastes run even within Dandom.

Mu, F#--I'm with you on the millennium. How about let's go someplace warm and far away next New Year's Eve?

jk--great list. Are the halter tops for the band?

RS--Wow. You just sent me on a Proustian journey with 2 songs, "Come Go With Me," which I can see is going to play in my head for at least the next week, and "Just My Imagination," one of the greatest indeed, which I heard them do at the IMA Auditorium in Flint, Michigan on the reunion tour. All the women in the audience were singing along like a choir of angels.

Zeke--hey mon. If there's a concert in Nawlins, I'll be beating a path to your door! Get that hot grease ready for the beignets!

aja--I thought the interviews were OK, since I only had one, but the thing itself was something else altogether. Would be glad to talk to you about it sometime. Gotta give you props for going for it!

Breezemeister--whoa! Many many thanks! Great article--I can just hear them.

YGK--As a veteran DanFester, I have to tell you that the rules are: 1) all participants and their pets, spouses, SO's, and other hangers-on must stay at your place, usually for less than a week; and 2) you have to buy the first two rounds and the melted butter. Everything else is up for grabs.

Kinky--so are you up for it?

Lots of good stuff on the Digest this time--a fair amount of it from here! Thanx Hoops! Does anyone know if "Pal VHS" is compatible with US VCR's? If so, the making of Aja is available from www.blackstar.co.uk

Happy Solstice, indeed. I feel better already.

Hey All! Just wanted to give you guys a progess report on the GB Compilation...

- I spoke with Steve Katz over at Armadillo today. Everything transferred successfully from the source CDs/DATs/cassettes to the master CD! He got the levels as close to one another as possible, without having to do any excessive compressing or limiting. Steve normalized the cassette transfers, and compensated for the Dolby on the tapes that had it. He says out stuff sounds pro, and was impressed by our collective eclectic talent.

- He had slight problems with the traycard, which frankly I don't understand why - I measured correctly; maybe the software he uses enlarges the graphic ever so slightly. The net/net on on the traycard is that the tiny lettering on the spines are slightly cut off. We also had to jettison the disc graphics; lettering only for this particular package deal...no biggie though. The single-fold insert booklet (really the important graphic) came out like a charm! The printed interior with credits will be in nice, large print...unlike some, which you practically need a magnifying glass to read.

- I anticipate that he should be done by Christmas Eve. In the meantime, I'm going to get a jump-start on buying those bubble-wrap interior CD mailers & printing out labels for the mailing. Assuming everything runs smoothly, I should be able to ship early next week, and some of you should be able relax to the sounds of the GB Compilation during the Y2K meltdown!

Happy & safe holidays to all!

What the hell is "Come Go With Me", paly baby? A song about pissing with a buddy? Maybe 'yer thinkin' of my song, "Come Fly With Me", or "Come Dance With Me". Get with the program, Chester. Right now I gotta nail me a couple of ghost broads.

Frankie

Breezmster,
Thanks for the report out of Canada.

I am starting to believe Two Against Nature is real. I just ordered it from Amazon (to be delivered when available).

A little pre-Dan trivia: What song by The Band recorded 5 or 6 years before Katy Lied, mentioned the term 'chain lightning' in the apocalyptic lyric: "Chain lightning, frightening as it may seem, should not be mistaken for just another dream." ?

My nominees for pop song of 99: "Feeling Good Again" by Robert Earle Keene, "Meet Virginia" by Train, "L.A. Song" Beth Hart, "Magic" Ben Folds Five, "All the Way to Heaven" by Guster.

Album of the 80s: Nightfly

Album of the 70s: Countdown to Ecstacy, Blood on the Tracks, Good Old Boys, Aja, The Band

Album of the 60s: Highway 61, MMT, Revolver, Hendrix Experience

Single of the 60s: Just My Imagination

Single of the 50s: Come Go With Me

At peace with my own opinions,

R.S.

Happy Holidays to everyone in Danland. I hear that we are the favorite so far in the latest poll for the Danfest. Manhatten Skyline, Rockefeller Plaza, Little Italy, Chinatown, The LadY, the Delie`s, the shopping, The Rockettes, we got it all baby , and its a beautiful thing ! I forgot to mention that Iam gonna beat Hilary....... and you can bet on it.......I LOVE N.Y.

Matt, I think you have way to many songs on your don`t like list to call yourself a DanFan......Josie is funkiest SD cut ever made.

" since Becker recently commented that "there's nothing scarier than a 40-year-old shaking his booty to My Old School"...

It was actually the seattle dj guy who said that during his phone call with Becker

Breeezeeemeister: God bless your hands. thanks.

re: the wonderful article - but, "jazz guitarist Keith Jarrett"? Huh? oh, those Canadians!

ygk

Happy holidays to all. I came across this article in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Thought some of you would be interested. I've cut it down a bit:

Steely Dan, doing it again: Can an unreconstructed Seventies rock band flourish in today's music environment? Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are set to find out

By SIMON HOUPT

Walter Becker hangs up the phone, rubs his left ear and pries himself out of a cramped room in a tiny, airless office. He turns to a chirpy public-relations executive and, grasping for a prison metaphor, pleads: "Can we go outside in the yard and exercise awhile?" He and Donald Fagen have been on the phone most of the morning with foreign press, trying to navigate the shoals of the interviewers' perilous language skills. They really need a rest, but they perk up when presented with a Canadian journalist. "Ah, English!" sighs a relieved Becker.

Not that he should complain. It isn't every band that can emerge from the studio with its first new album in 20 years and be greeted by an international chorus of interview demands. But Steely Dan has never been just another band.

When last we heard from them, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were touring Canada and the United States in the summer of 1996 on a circuit that took them to Vancouver and, for the first time since the group formed in 1972 Toronto. In concert, they played a couple of new cuts from what they enticingly called a "forthcoming" album. The Pocket Oxford Dictionary offers limited assistance in helping us understand the Steely Dan way of doing things: Forthcoming: (adverb) . . . approaching, coming or available soon. Hmm. But after spending an extraordinary 21 months in the studio, Becker and Fagen will finally bring their new album, Two Against Nature, into stores at the end of February.

Ironically, it was the desire to tour that sent them back into the studio. Before breaking up in the early eighties, Steely Dan rarely played live concerts. Renowned aural perfectionists, the band was often dismayed by the quality of sound systems available to them on the road, so they stayed in the studio and turned out seven albums instead, beginning with Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), and including the platinum-selling Aja (1977) and Gaucho (1980). When the two founders reunited in 1993 for a brief tour, under far better financial and technical conditions than they had experienced in the seventies, they were thrilled with the results. Two more summer tours pursuaded them that if they were going to continue playing live, they owed it to their audiences to come up with some new stuff. Thus Two Against Nature and, next summer, another tour.

But the recorded music scene circa 2000 is vastly different from the one Steely Dan left in 1980 with Gaucho. If that album was released in today's market, would Hey Nineteen, which reached No. 10 on the Billboard charts, even register? The band has always had a cooler than cool sound unlike anything else getting airplay. (Reviewing Gaucho, Billboard said: "If Steely Dan gets any more laid-back, the group may cease to function altogether.") Long-time fans will be pleased to hear that the new disc features a sound awfully close to late-seventies Steely Dan , but music-industry execs would be right to be nervous about its chances of airplay in today's La Vida Loca radio environment.

"It's certainly not a radical break with what we've done in the past," acknowledges Becker, sinking into the generous leather folds of a couch next to Fagen. And the disc's commercial prospects? "We have no idea what to make of any of this," Becker laughs. "We've always sort of done this, from the very beginning, on just some sort of idiotic faith that people would like what we were doing and enough people would be amused by it."
Fagen picks up the thread. "We pretty much write for ourselves. We don't have any demographic idea in mind."

"We don't really fit into any of the slots that we know about," continues Becker. "But we never have, so we're just hoping that whatever carried us through before, will again."

Becker is the voluble one who retails most of the stories, while Fagen chimes in every few minutes with half of an anecdote or a wry, mumbled turn of phrase. Together, they are like a seasoned vaudeville improv team.

The pair's present relationship with pop music isn't limited to irony, though. Riffs from Steely Dan tracks often turn up in rap tunes, including the 1998 hit by Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz, Deja Vu (Uptown Baby), which was based on Black Cow from Aja. That particular case was unfortunate, though, as the rappers had failed to ask for permission for the sample, and it was already licensed to Puff Daddy for a number he was working on. (The possibly apocryphal story has it that when Puff Daddy heard Deja Vu on the radio, he screamed, "Hey! Somebody stole my track!"

The mess was resolved when Becker and Fagen were granted the writing credit on the song and wound up with an award for Rap Song of the Year. Tariq groused to Rolling Stone that the incident showed "a lack of respect for hip-hop." Fagen tartly responds: "I'd say it's a lack of respect for piracy." (Those with long memories will recall the Dans were themselves once accused of piracy by jazz guitarist Keith Jarrett, who was less than thrilled when the title cut on Gaucho was shown to closely echo his song Long as you know you're living Yours. Though the duo doesn't see the parallels with the Lord Tariq situation, Jarrett ended up with a writing credit on the Steely Dan album after a 1980 interview with Musician magazine in which Fagen said: "Hell, we steal. We're the robber barons of rock 'n' roll." He said it jokingly. Jarrett wasn't amused.)

The fact that Steely Dan 's music is popular among rappers suggests the band's new disc may be welcomed by today's radio audience and could cultivate a new generation of fans. Good thing, too, since Becker recently commented that "there's nothing scarier than a 40-year-old shaking his booty to My Old School [from 1973's Countdown to Ecstasy album]." Nevertheless, the two insist a performer's age shouldn't deter audiences from enjoying music.

"When I was first going to see live music, I was a kid going to see 50-year-old guys, jazz musicians," says Becker. He mentions Thelonius Monk. "His music was utterly startling and fresh and energetic. It's an artifact of the preconceived notion of rock 'n' roll that people need to be young. I suppose it's true that there's something silly about people pretending to be younger than they are, or playing music that's very juvenile, once they get to a certain age, but we don't do that."

Fagen continues: "If the band's output is mostly adolescent themes, or dating stuff or whatever, I'd say it can be kind of silly. But I think we've always dealt with reality on a somewhat more authentic level. And it's no sillier than, you know, corporate raiding. It's no sillier than investment banking, on a certain level. Maybe it's less silly than investment banking."

Becker: "Well, obviously we think so. That's why we ended up doing this in the first place. We wanted to get into the least embarrassing line of work we could find. That was it. It still is."

Fagen: "Not that it's not embarrassing."

Becker: "Well, yeah, it's plenty embarrassing."

The themes they explore are appropriate to their years. One cut on the new disc, What a Shame About Me, is a cynical take on the failed potential of a New York writer, while the closing number, West of Hollywood, is an equally dark glimpse at an emotionally frozen man. Not all the songs are as easily unlocked. Those who revel in the abstruse nature of the band's songs will find much in Two Against Nature to keep them happy and occupied.

Some themes carry over from previous discs. The new album contains a few songs with drug references, though nowhere near the frenzy of Gaucho. The two men note that their own recreational drug use is behind them. Fagen was never much of a user, but Becker's drug-taking was well documented.

Big Fan: its called "follow the sun", and if you don't like what you see ahead of time....RUN!

YGK: I like the Greenwich idea - that would work out great for me. Maybe we could all rent a bus and take an afternoon trip to the casinos - listening to SD tunes all of the way. Come on Kinky what do you say?

Should I be flattered?

Has someone already mentioned that a new edition of Metal Leg is supposed to come out soon?
http://members.tripod.com/metaleg/news.html

I'll be without computer access from Dec 26 through the 30th - not that anyone cares, I 'll get back online just in time to see if the whole thing crashes - so have a Happy Holiday everyone. It will be interesting on the 31st to see what transpires in Asia and Europe as the new year hits ahead of us.

Long time no post. High to Ole, Clas, Sam, Leeza, found some cool photo's from Dan/Jazz Fess' in Nawlin'z.

Matt: OUCH!!! I really dig the way Don sings, "he wears a heeearing aid". And those snippets of percussion, awesome.

Don't feel to much like scrolling down, glad to see stuff about the new one. I hope the band makes a trip down South, if there is a tour.

Thx Don for Maxine. What a cool tune. If there ever was a holiday tune from the Dan, I think this is it.

Never posted before but couldn't resist.

Least favourite list.

Only A Fool Would Say That
Your Gold Teeth
With A Gun
Everyone's Gone To The Movies
Fez
Josie
My Rival
Goodbye Look
Tomorrow's Girls
Girlfriend

To all My GB Friends:
Here's hoping you all have a safe and wonderful Holiday season, and that 2000 brings happiness and better pay and bar tabs and and free hotel rooms and cheaper Pentiums and good sounding house systems and less Karaoke singers and better snow tires and 3-set gigs for everyone!!!

David

YGK,
All right, the West Coast family approves of NY as a suitable meeting place for EastCoasters. WAnd w look forward to the day when the Barzinis, the Corleones and all the other families can get together for a sitdown. But no Tataglias. Tataglia's a pimp. He could never beat Sonny in a fight.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention NYDaddy and Everyone's Gone To the Movies.................awesome.........

I think the live '96 tour version of "Movies" was absolutely
phenominal ! DF on vocals was killer.the band was hotzo, and the groove and funk was totally there..........wow,that was good stuff.

Just think of the next tour.

A shoot from the hip "Top Twenty"
1)Aja

2) Gold Teeth I

3)Gold Teeth II

4)Josie

5)Peg

6)Do It Again

7)Reelin

8)My Rival

9)3rd World Man

10)Time Out of Mind

11)Green Earrings

12)Don't Take Me Alive

13)Night By Night

14)Gaucho

15)Only A Fool

16)Pretzel Logic

17)Show Biz Kids

18)I Got The News

19)Razor Boy

20)why bother...........

you tell me........

Q

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Yo da Bigfan havhi shit togetha,yah!!..................

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Back at home now, for now.

Whoever's dropping the 'Cousin Dupree' lyrics-stop. We don't want our first time to suck...

least favorite album tracks:

1. Change of the Guard
2. Show Biz Kids
3. Through With Buzz
4. Everyone's Gone to the Movies
5. Fez
6. Peg
7. My Rival
8. Ruby Baby (or, if we exclude covers, I.G.Y.)
9. Trans Island Skyway
10. This Moody Bastard

What a great album!

JK: lol

In a week I will be in the actual Muswellbrook, of 'Black Friday' fame. Hopefully I'll have a digital camera to record all the fun.

I've been away from my email, have they sent out a new newsletter?

The Dad doesn't think so much of the "dirge-y" 'Jack of Speed,', but loves 'Wetside.'

And the 12year old Korn-lovin bro loves 'Second Arrangement': "Kelly, they don't write songs like this these days! It's awesome!"

We used to play when we were three. How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree? How about a kiss for your Cousin Dupree?

I would just like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a safe New Year. That even goes for Q. No hard feelings bud.I was going to get both you and that kinky so-and-so a golden SoulRam for a gift but decided to wait and see what the new year brought before I was so generous. Lord knows you deserve it. I think I'll just let sleeping dogs lie and ignore the silly commentary from now on. It's time too move on.

Top Ten suprising tracks when first heard:
(one from each album)

1. Only a Fool Would Say That
2. Razor Boy
3. Monkey In Your Soul (hence my name)
4. Everyone's Gone to the Movies
5. Sign In Stranger
6. Home At Last
7. Glamour Profession
8. The Goodbye Look
9. On The Dunes
10. Surf and or Die
11. Mister Sam--- best non album song.

Christmas wish list: YGK: a place for the Dan party
Malibu: a cool breeze, a cool bud, and a
thank you---job well done
MizDucky:a Happy belated B-Day in my best
New Yawk drawl.

P.S. STRANGER: The drunk guy is named Jerome, and he rules.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, or whatever you celebrate!!!

Edd: It's still there

After an afternoon spasm of last minute shopping with spouse and adorable semi-destructive imps posing as our offspring, and downing a chicken fajita followed by a nightcap of triple chocolate ice cream...I stumbled across the threshold on a methyl xanthine buzz, and ripped open my X-mas presents early the re- res of Aja and Scam. The drag race between the Mobile Fidelity gold foil turbo vs. the '99 alum. fuel injected Le Mans. crystalline cymbals, delineated bass, more up-front vocals belonged to...yes, the new '99 edition!! Carlton on Scam was now a Texas Chain Saw, although I have to admit that I expected a little more improved channel separation...but nonetheless very satisfying, especially on a day where I hear no airplay of Cousin Dupree but it's not over yet - should I call in my first request in 25 years? ...probably a hoax anyway. Damn, now I have to rewrap these babies and feign surprise in 4 days.

Happy Holidays!...off to decipher my notes for the Christmas eve lasagna

".............listening to AJA now, on vinyl.................."

Deacon Blues seems to fit my life so much right now........somehow I can see the lights of the city moving quickly past in a blur during this song......the 'soul center' of the album....

Anyway, I might as well just throw this out.....
but it seems to me that a NYC Dan-Fest 'round the release date is the best solution for a Northeast Fest....
the most common suggestions have been for the first weekend in March, which, I believe, not looking at my calendar, would be the March 3-5 weekend....

As I didn't read the 'how to set up a Dan-fest' manual, I don't know what to do, however, I'm sure I could interface with Pete Fogel at LBB for a Dan-friendly eve, and/or some other places not in Mid-town for an overall Dan-friendly weekend.
Hotels could be suggested, places to go (jazz downtown, maybe even Brooklyn), places NOT to go (Hard Rock, Hooligans on 42nd Street, ANYTHING on 42nd street) stuff like that....
(its funny how people used to tell you not to go the 42nd street because of all the crime and sleaze, and now I'll tell you not to go to 42nd street for all the cleanliness, UNREALITY of the disnification and all the plasticity - nothing unique anymore)

so how 'bout it?

or, for the really daring, you could all crash at Kinky's Manse up in Greenwich, CT?

I'm living confortably in Manhattan, but actually don't know my living situation that 'far ahead' right now, but I do know that I will definitely be involved in this somehow......hopefully, I'll still be in the same hood and may be able to accomodate a truly needy Danite, depending.....

nonetheless, what say you for a Dan-fest in the lights of Manhattan? where the lights never dim, and our boys still roam?

ygk

Oh, yeah, Happy Solstice!!

Franky - I checked out The Royal Scam tribute band's site. That little snippet of Black Cow is pretty impressive! The girls' back-up vocals are right on the button. Very nice.
You should check out:
www.steelydamned.com and www.stealindan.com

Clas- you got yourself a very nice saxplayer on your contribution. I´ve heard a cd by him. Something with 'good life'. Very good!

Thanks for not flaming me for that Santa Baby thing! I was afraid to look. Y'all are so inspiring!!

Q: you're such a great sport! I like you.

altamira: thanx! I never heard Eartha Kit. But I love her name. I must check her out sometime.

MCruiser: My own stray cat (well, she's been with us for a year now) has brought home another stray. She actually took her to the food bowls. This cat was so shabby I've named her Scruffy. I realize now that she's a Maine Coone. Interesting paws. Anyway, she is pregnant. I don't know what I'm going to with all these felines! I have 2 big canines...

JW: You da bomb!

Oleander: If you get me slightly tipsy and start singing with me, then I'm likely to belt it out for ya. It's those first few notes that are the hurdles.

rb

Following in the footsteps of Elvis, the GB Compilation has left the building! The music, artwork and credits are now in the hands of Armadillo Digital (www.armadillo.digital.com)...

I'm fairly certain that I got all credits correct, but, in the off-chance that I got something wrong, just shoot me! Disregard what's on the site for the next day or so; I made the changes on the original Word document and have not uploaded those changes onto my site just yet. I'll do that later this week.

With armadillos fresh on my mind, I went over to my CD library last night and revisited "Tarkus", the second Emerson, Lake & Palmer album ~ released in 1971...which featured a tank-like armadillo on its cover! That album had the ultra-gnarly dirty Hammond organ sounds on it; a "goosebump" moment almost 30 years later is the transition from the ultra-energetic opening piece "Eruption" to the smokey smoothness of "Stones of Years"...the lyrics are slightly hokey, but the music kicks major ass! Well worth another listen...

hell i'd ciss cuz dup if i could get a copy of the new one.

melfan

So they want to know what they should sell at their merchandise area on the official site. this is what i'd tell 'em

1. Nicely printed parchment booklet with the age of consent for each state and/or commonwealth (and country) with applicable laws and statutes.

2. fezzes *

3. Steely Dan Cherry wine

4. chalupas

5. Steely Dans with likenesses of walter and donald etched on them for the discerning madames and mamselles.

6. A live CD of cover tunes from a gig in a small club in nyc or western mass. (ie. Drowning in the sea of love, mary mary, I got news for you, rapunsel )

7. tix to that gig

8. lyric sheets to vocals that are buried in the mix on some songs

9. Entire catalog of jay and the americans cds

9. primo seats for the upcoming tour.

10. VHS of D&W's guest starring roles on Baywatch - hell the beach boys did it and they aren't as sand and surf savvy as D&W

11. Very tiny and thin SD halter tops.

jk

*(would you not love to look out at the audience at your concert and see everyone wearing one?!) or spangled leather ponchoes

Smokin!

lica: I'd seen rumors about those players...looks like they are true. I'm excited about Hugh McCracken, Dean Parks, Joe Sample, etc. No mention of horn players though. It also confirms the fact that the album is self-produced (i.e., Donald Fagen and Walter Becker). Notice that Donald's name is first...comments?

Hello to all of the Dan Fan's...I am always reading these interesting posts on the site but hardly ever send anything in. Guess I'm a little post-shy.--- To BC and any other fans from the NJ/NY area, has anyone gone to see the Royal Scam (the Steely Dan Tribute band)? They're the closest thing to the real thing in the area. They played on Friday night in Lyndhurst, NJ..check out their site for upcoming shows and some other interesting stuff... www.royalscam.com. It's great to be around so many other fans.
--Franky

Stranger: ditto for Antoine. I'd laugh if he weren't drunk [or kept on for amusement from same]. It makes me squirmy- also makes me wonder about our less-than-perfect heros [the humanity]. Being young isn't a good excuse. Can't help it. Susan, my son is your age! [and he "borrowed" my SD Cds- almost a year ago...]

JWM: posting credit correction, assuming time is running out and you've done so much as it is. Instrumental segment you included called "Cool Shirt/Cool Guitar" [part of a larger work].

Had sent a 3-part "musical post":
F#major9 Unplugged [20secs acoustic KidC guitar, my daughter interupts shouting "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad..." for bogus [!] call from DF; ho ho. Theme from "The Little Rascals" [publicdomain]]
F#major9 Unglued [cool shirt...]
copyright: what's to steal?
credit: confiscated. will you take a check?

hopefully, that was good for a giggle.

*Much thanks* added to all previously expressed. Marvelous arts- glad you enjoyed the project. eager to warmly embrace labors of love.

Re: TAN- thanks for the post regarding guest artists. Pulse quickens at mention of Dean Parks. Cannot tire of the way he blows sax lines on his guit-fiddle... makes me forget to breathe.

Oh, and Stranger- I love E.St.L! especially how they each took home a part to learn. Have you heard the original? it just might convert ya. However, the changes to Deacon Blue make me nauseous.
not that it's a bad thing...

Edd: friendly amendment for the records- Pet Sounds/Sgt Pepper a continuum of intercontinental 60s consciousness emerg/convergence
Well, for that matter I should include the four freshmen and Phil Spector... but, when you said SP I synapsed: what about those sleigh bells???

a musical pseudomillenium to all [agreement with DrMu and Arthur C Clarke]
F#
[Santa- about that digital 8 track? First, world peace. then, if it's no trouble...]

Does anyone know any good places to go for music in Philadelphia? I'm going to be there in January for a med school interview (!) and I'd really be interested in knowing where some good jazz clubs are-San Diego is notoriously bad for jazz. Thought about scheduling the interview to coincide with Danfest East, but gotta get my foot in the door as soon as possible (oleander-aren't you glad those days are over?!)

aja

No mention whatsoever on KMTT Seattle this morning about an SD single.
My, how the rumors fly!

Absolute Bottom of the Dan Barrel ---
East St. Louis Toodloo.

2nd from the bottom:
The drunken fool who takes forever to introduce them on that strange, live compilation. You know the one I mean.

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature [2/29]

Title Out of Stock

Shopping @ MuZicDepot.com is safe & secure.

Producer: Donald Fagen; Walter Becker Label: Giant

Originally Released: 2000 # of Discs: 1

Mono/Stereo: Stereo Studio/Live: Studio

1. Gas Lightning Abbie

2. What A Shame About Me

3. Two Against Nature

4. Janie Runaway

5. Almost Gothic

6. Jack Of Speed

7. Cousin Dupree

8. Negative Girl

9. West Of Hollywood

Performers include: Hugh McCracken (guitar); Joe Sample (keyboards); Ricky Lawson, Sonny Emory, Michael White, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Tom Barney, Paul Jackson, Jr., Dean Parks, John Beasley.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

MC--Congrats, but I'm BUMMED that you were in Asheville and I didn't get to meet you! Next time PLEASE look me up let me take you & your P-squeeze out for whatever. Same goes for anyone who wanders through.

Mock, the way--A question I also had. Thanx for the ? and the explication.

Stranger--I know, I know. But it's a very Steely quality to be able to find unexpected wealth in seemingly unlikely places. Ergo, ACC DanFest! How about Nassau for the tour?

Hutch & fezo--speaking of which, e me if you want any planning help from a distance--whatever I can do. oleander1@earthlink.net

YGK--wazzup with NYC Fest?

fezo--I'm in and breathing a sigh of relief that I don't have to actually go to a basketball game. TV I can handle. Should I bring a dram of Dr. Wu's Tasteless Liver Tonic for halftime?

RS--I just love how you always can find the bright side of the dark side.

johnboy--well put! Of course gender symbolism should be equal opportunity! I just get tired of all these things being labelled phallic symbols when they can be other things. I submit that a sports car could be a very female symbol: it's a vessel, after all, that you get into, sit in a semi-fetal position in your seat, are closely surrounded by creature comforts [listening to loud music is like hearing the maternal heartbeat], and you are always driving toward the new--ie birth. It's a very high-performance womb.

tom--OK. I remember now. I thought it was 1) you, 2) me, 3) the chimp, and 456) the Trinity. Then as an afterthought I was trying to picture them all as chimps. Couldn't do it. Fun anyway.

Grrrlfred--Ooh. But I don't know what I'm more jealous of missing, TNO or your tapenade. Mmmmm....

Kinky hon--Actually, in retrospect, I thought he was talking about the Aja DVD. Maybe not, but I really DON'T give a rat's ass about who's got it or not. I'll hear it if I live that long, and that's enough.

Rubay--whoa, girl! That was fabulous! I wanna see you belt it out in the slinky dress and everything! Can you have it worked up by DanFest?

JW--Awesome. Can't wait.

We used to play when we were three...

*unexpected thing of beauty* - nice list

Fire in the Hole
Razor Boy
Rikki
Your Gold Teeth II
Caves of Altamira
Aja
Babylon Sisters
New Frontier
Florida Room
Book of Liars

Unexpected* thing of beauty album:

Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
Boston Rag
Night By Night
Dr. Wu
The Caves of Altamira
Black Cow
Time Out of Mind

*unexpected in the sense that I was expecting certain songs to be great when I bought the album ("King of the World", "Aja", etc., hence they are omitted) but these were the ones that took me by surprise when I heard them for the first time.

Rixhex6-yes, it is funny when things like that happen-and satisfying when you get to find out about it!

aja

I sez

hypothetical

...hangin' on 'til the pseudomillenium

wandered: I think you made my point.

I sex - "Lesse, pick the weakest from each album:"

...meaning that I took my least favorite recording from each album. Does not mean that ANY of the are less than the best of others.

"Royal Scam" and maybe "Everything You Did" appeal to me less than say Kid Charlemagne, Don't Take Me Alive etc. Everything is too damn funny to put in my hypotheical album...tells us a lot about the album Royal Scam n'est ce pas?

Dr.Mu - Royal Scam as a weak cut ? Are you with us at all?

Assuming St. Dan will do a show in Vegas around the same time we want to be there is a lot of assuming. But it's possible. I mean, hey, Dan Quayle got elected vice president, right?

That's Swedish. Lars or Clas? where are you now?

Lesse, pick the weakest from each album:

Change of the Guard
Show Biz Kidz
Charlie Freak
Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Royal Scam
Peg
My Rival
Ruby Baby
Springtime
My Waterloo

Pretty darned fine album

OK, I've got the artist credits assembled, and have posted them on the GB Compilation page. ARTISTS: please proof your credits and let me know if you want to include/exclude additional information and/or correct any typos on my part.

Those GB folks for whom I don't have a physical address (check the list on the site), please send it to me via jwmalibu@msn.com.

Back to playin' hooky (hey, Christmas falls on a Saturday - now that's some justification!) and getting my zip drive to work on my new PC in order to get those massive art files over to Armadillo Digital. Did a final mix on my piece yesterday; I'm glad I got to listen to everyone else's first ~ it pushed me even harder to dot every 'i'!

We should do this once a year!

Happy Holidaze,

JDubs

Herm-you won't miss that snow, and although my preferences for So Cal run decidedly south of LA, you'll love it out here. Especially if you could see what it's like today! Welcome to the Southland. And since you'll be in the vicinity, we have this great party planned for Vegas sometime this spring...

St. Al has thrown out a suggestion to plan Vegas Danfest around a tour. This could be great, assuming a. they actually play in Vegas, and b. we could actually get seats (for less than $500 each). What does everyone think about this?

aja

I'm giving my Danfest vote to NYC, as I will be there the first weekend in March for an unrelated matter.

Have been cleaning house all afternoon to 'The Last Waltz', I hadn't listened to it in a long time, and forgot how much I enjoyed it. It made me almost not mind doing the bathroom!

BC

Hi everyone,

It's sort of been a while since I last posted, so, even though I have nothing to say in the way of Steely Dan, I still felt compelled to drop in and say, "Hi".

Winter has finally made it's appearence, and it looks like it's here to stay. I'm in the process of trying to sell my place and move to L.A.; I've had my fingers crossed daily that I'd be able to move before I had to deal with cold and snow again, but alas, that was not to be my fate this time. I do want to move rather soon, though, so perhaps I should uncross my fingers, (since that wasn't very effective before), and try something else.

I purchased a new computer over the weekend ~ a Hewlett Packard Pavilion. It will still be months before I've fully grasped all of it's capabilities, but so far I can say that it is a major step up from my stupid old Acer Aspire. The sound and picture quality is amazing.

JWMalibu, I need your e-mail address so I can send you mine, which probably won't be for a couple of days anyway. When I bought the computer at Best Buy, they had this promotion where if you signed up with MSN for three years, they'd deduct $400 from the purchase price. I already was an MSN member, but for $400... Anyway, I had to pick a name while in line with ten angry customers behind me, on the last Sunday before Christmas, while the cashier enrolled me into a new MSN account. None of the names I wanted originally would take, so I just chose something to get out of the line. I know need to change it, and that might take a few days. I'm rather pissed, because they told me that I cannot usse my old name, or transfer any mail from previous account to the new one. Ahh, the trials and tribulations of life.

In case I don't get the chance to post again before next weekend, I hope everyone has a tremendous holiday, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwaanza, Ramadan, whatever you celebrate! Have fun, and stay happy and healthy.

Later,

Herm

Clas,
Got the email. Where's this farm? I need a rest too.

Just some reading to pass the time until 2AN arrives in the mall/mail:

http://www.strato.net/~wdrr2/music.html

http://www.perigord.com/westcoast/NEWS/news.html
Gas Lightening Abbie????? lol

http://www.sr.se/p4/program/mbol/mvvp.htm
what language - you got me

http://www.cibm107.com/cjfp/inforock.html
French Canadian

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/nf/0,1518,46954,00.html
German

OK Q I understand

Count me in on Vegas, whenever we decide to do it!

Hutch-if it's raining in Virginia, those are my tears after reading about that last, extraordinary Stevie Ray show you saw!

aja

Dennis Miller is The Man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best irreverent comedy anywhere........

Q.........

Ruby: Nice work. Perhaps an annual holiday update will be in order.

Dr. Mu Susan (satan-satan-nnn-satan-satannnnnn) : Happy belated birthday.

Stranger: Anticipating possible disappointment with TvN , I did a little mental exercise. I made a list of what I considered the ten weakest cuts on all the SD, Fagen and Becker releases. {I assume they wouldn't foist a "Soul Ram" or "Ida Lee" on the paying public.)-- Then I imagined buying a CD and listening to those ten songs; and, by God, it was a pretty damn good collection. I will fear no disappointment as I walk through the valley of the Dan.

"Bill Gates is now the world's wealthiest man. But is he happy? ..... He is? ........SHIT!."
Dennis Miller

RS

Update on Bill Gates' personal wealth:

Mon Dec 20 11:03:28 EST 1999
Microsoft Stock Price: $113.25
Bill Gates's Wealth: $127.891000 billion
U.S. Population: 274,163,688
Your Personal Contribution: $466.477

"If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to."
-- Old Irish Saying

I'm sorry Bigfan , you'll have to rely on Kinky for that since he is currently, but for only a short time) a "superior human being"( according to himself and S&S) and therefore only he can derive such topsecret information. I'm sure he will dutifully plumb the depths of someone's asshole or use his engineering friends to steal more product from Donald and Walt in the name of " I have it first!".

I have much more to say on the recent past events, but will do so later as my penis is out being measured for new clothes(it always swells during the holidays!).

I decided this place is just too much fun to leave behind.

Q

That was camp not amp.

PS:
Cost of 2AN $17.98 list, $12.58 from Amazon.com. CDNOW.com is not listing it yet. Q maybe some calls to Japan to see if there is in fact a Japanese release with an extra track. I can't belive, based on Reprise's and Giant's past history that there won't be some extra stuff floating around out there eventually.

You can pre order Two Against Nature on www.Amazon.com if you care to do so - no word on a single.

I haven't forgotten about the video info, I just haven't had time to look up the info.

Happy Holiday's to all!!!!!

May no terrorists amp on your doorstep on New Year's Day.

YGK, please post your email address again.

sure I´ve found out that. On this board you must be able to discuss important issues like cookies and american gaytowns. My vote goes for Södertälje.

Lars, haven't you figured out that this community doesn't like out of towners ?

Kinky - nice work - but haven´t you learned by now that this community cares very little about clear arguments?

Hey Clas; More about cookies.The classic Ballerina was marketed for the first time in 1965 by Kungälv. Later (1967) they introduced the Singoalla. Great information from the fantastic book "Älskade pryl! - reklam- och prylhistoria för rekordårens barn". A must for those who can reed swedish.

I don´t eat cookies!

Stranger - did you get my email? Strang(er) things happened.

Damn JW, must email you again.

Wait.

C

DrMu: Alas, the only "in" I have with KMTT is the same as any other local and/or internet listener--via their phone lines, website, and e-mail. Nobody on the air has dropped any further hints about Dan-stuff since my last report, so I can't help there. However, if our esteemed Mysterious Informant :-) below is correct, I am betting that John Fisher, KMTT's resident Danfan, would receive the honor of spinning the single first. He and Mike West have the weekday on-air slot from 5am to 9am Pacific Time--which is, what?, 7am to 10am in Texas? Still a long time to spend glued to the computer for the RealAudio broadcast, but at least that narrows things down from the full 24!

I'll leave it to StAl to chime in if he has anything to chime in with. Dude?

Stranger: I *think* I'm still up for Lav Vegas too ... but I was also getting mightily tempted by the idea of going to New York for the Big Release. But is there still a NYC release thang? And if I somehow scam my way into going to New York for this PBS thang ... oh hell. I dunno. Maybe I'll go to Luxembourg instead. My brain's in a total post-birthday-party state of maceration, and people are expecting me to know where I'm going? I mean, how can I be two places at once when I'm not anywhere at all ... ?

Erm. Excuse me.

D'oh, I guess I come back to "I dunno." How many other people are still into the Vegas thang? It's got to have a certain critical mass to make it sing, I should think.

/Miz Ducky
a marvelous maelstrom of indeterminate indecision

Screw the jinx. We'll assume the album is terrific. I'm up for Vegas. Mandalay Bay is nice but expensive. Treasure Island is clean and centrally located. It has a tram every five minutes to the Mirage, which is nicer but hugely expensive and has one of the last of the old-time Vegas lounges -- that means good live music. No one-man bands connected to drum-machine computers.

Richmond? What the hell's in Richmond? Don't you EastCoasters have any imagination? Either meet us in Vegas or put something together in Nassau.

Ruby Baby,
I like the Vegas idea. But planning to celebrate a CD before it's out is a good way to throw a jinx. We've got to consider the possibility that that CD won't meet our expectations. If it were that easy for Steely Dan to give us what we want, we'd have had this CD 19 years ago.

Ruby - That was brilliant! And I so love Eartha Kitt; I'm enjoying imagining her singing this new version of her song (forget Madonna, that lightweight!).

JW: kudos, man

Hey St. Al and Miz Ducky: Any way of finding out *if* KMTT will have a copy and when Fisher and West will play Cousin Dupree on Tuesday? Since the single is not a Garth Brooks release, I don't have a chance of hearing it Tuesday in central Texas...unless I click the magic blue button of this site:

http://www.kmtt.com/frames/highf.html

Thanks for all the positive feedback re: the artwork for the GB Compilation...I'm glad you guys like it!

He Mock -

Its my understanding that cds are released in japan about a day earlier than in the US -- but they are way more expensive (in keeping with the pricing over there). Japanese buyers will normally wait the extra day just to get the US-released (and US priced) cd....but that's less common if you put a bonus track on the Japan release. So that's why bonus tracks often show up on Japanese versions of cds

Does anyone have any idea why the Japanese version of 11TOW would contain "Medical Science," but not the US version? Why the hell would this have been done? Did WB's parents play a role in the Japanese internment camps? Or maybe the track has some sort of subliminal messages in it to help reduce our trade deficit. Whatever the reason, it's clear the Orient occupies a special place in the heart of Steely Dan.

I had to chime in to say "well done" to ruby baby for a for a great non partisan Christmas carol....

Happy Holidays and New Year to all on the GB

See ya...........................

Q

What sets "us" apart is not that we recognize no God, either in history or in nature or behind nature -- but that we find that which has been reverenced as God not 'godlike' but pitiable, absurd, harmful, not merely an error but a CRIME AGAINST LIFE... We deny God as God... If this God of the Christians were PROVED to us to exist, we should know even less how to believe in him. In a formula: Deus, qualem Paulus creavit, dei negatio. [God, as Paul created him, is a denial of God.]

Incest is best. LOL! Nice to see the boys are still a couple of sickos!

Stranger: Hey, there's talk of a couple of Danfests to celebrate 2AN - one in Richmond for those on the Right side and one in Vegas for us on the Left Coast. March or April. Even St.Al wants to go! Bright lights, gambling, show girls, decadence, and outrageous SD fans - I can't resist. (OK, I tolerate the show girls)

everyone: the parody bug bit me. It's been a few years since it did that. Just imagine Madonna singing this version of Santa Baby...

Santa Baby, slip the New One under the tree
with glee
We've waited 20 very long years
Santa Baby, we really gotta have it tonight!

Santa Baby, an outer space convertible,too
like Q
It's gotta be worth one hundred grand, Santa Baby
And if you can't, a penis will do.

Think of all the fun we've missed
Think of all the asses Kinky must have kissed
But now he's got the tunes we crave
"It's fan-*%&#-tastic!" we hear him rave.

ba doo pe doo

Santa Honey, we want a DVD or we'll not
be hot
How could we show our face around here?
Santa Baby, just toss it down our chimney tonight.

Santa Cutie, could yo arrange just one little thing-
a ring
We'd love to hear from Donald & Walt, Santa Baby,
We're hanging by the phone - waiting!

Come and trim our Banyan Tree
Let there be on every branch a signed cd
Fill our stockings with all the outtakes
A few good bootlegs would be really great!

Santa Baby, bring all the scurvy brothers some cheer
for all year
Leave laughter, joy and love in your wake, Santa Baby
And all the happiness they can take!

And don't be late, for goodness sake!

rb

hey all! can't wait for new tour! summer of 2000 right? was so bummed out about jerry, that i did,nt see their last tour. i did see skunk baxter at the house of blues, he was on stage for the legendary Les Paul;it was really good.what's up with the damn hall of fame? I just luagh at their selections, how can they snub the dan? i wonder all the time why they never get the credit they deserve! their so underated, misunderstood i think, anyway what do you think? smoke em if ya got em!

wetside would be great but not the live! Those lyrics are horendously bad!

jk

Hutch - I've told it before, but in the green Steely-book the lyrics to Black Friday is saying "...I fly down to my swell Brooks". Crazy.

And I'm sorry, Hutch, but I have to tell people when they're wrong (you know the type uh?). It's Civic Center, Santa Monica.

When I went for my jog this morning I suddenly, after 50 minutes, realized it was too cold. And though I don't like to be sick, cancer/shrinkliver/ or so, I started to walk instead.

And while I was walking there in the darkness, I came to think about that almost everyone in my family (when I was a kid) was jogging; grandma, aunt Greta, my brothers and even my father.

So I smiled to my self, jogging surely was running in the family.

Free Palestine,

Clas

sorry;

"C/F(add A with your nose, close to the nearest G)"

Everybody's talking about Grover Washington but nobody's recommending some titles so here they are:

1. Mister Magic
2. Reed Seed
3. Winelight

Winelight is his most famous because of the hit "Just the Two of Us". However, Mister Magic is the gem. Reed Seed has an early AOR staple entitled "Santa Cruzin"

Say Goodnight Grover,

Goodnight Grover

accaional + occasional

Oleander: That was a pretty sexist response. Why on earth are women are immune from aquiring and displaying symbolic penises? I'll grant you that men more commonly exhibit that kind of behavior, but more than an accaisional woman does the metaphorical dick thing. And why is that a bad thing?

Schwin & Mu: Asimov died (in 92 or 92 I think). One of the most readable science authors ever.

Midnite Cruiser - Congratulations on the new cat! Maine Coon cats are my second favorite breed, although I never tell my little darlings that. I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. I should take advantage of the free web page provided to me by Erols so I can put up the pictures I took of Nyja and her kittens; whom I had not initially wanted her to have, but whom I loved and treasured once they arrived - I still have one, Gwynedd, with her gold eyes and soft, fluffy fur - her father must have had a longhaired cat somewhere back in his family tree.

Stranger and Stranger - But Kinky does have an amusing website!

Fezo - Speaking of the Statler Brothers, have you been to Staunton, Virginia, the hometown of the Statler Brothers and Woodrow Wilson, and their accompanying museums? The city is gorgeous; it was founded in the 18th century, but most of it was built during a very prosperous period around the turn of this century - it's the best collection of really spectacular late 19th- and early 20th-century buildings I've ever seen, and they have recently been restored as part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street Project. Definitely worth
the trip.

Speaking of Stevie Ray Vaughan; I am most envious of you for having seen him live. I really do like him; when I was in college, I had a big poster of him that a record shop was giving away. I once heard Garrison Keillor sing one of Vaughan's songs on his radio program; what a travesty!

Nietsche - You bring up some good points. I don't take the Bible literally, but it can be useful as a history of a group of people - we can always learn from the experiences of others. Some of the prose is rather good, too; especially the psalms. And you are right about a person's religious views changing over the years; that's a natural result of living and learning. I've always liked your namesake; he wrote some odd things about that Superman image, which were later used to nefarious ends by some people, but he wrote a lot of sensible, thought-provoking things too. I read, in one of Hans Kung's books, I think it was _Does God Exist?_, that toward the end of his life, when Nietsche had sunk into a deep despair, he was walking down the street and saw a thin, unhealthy-looking horse hitched to a carriage, and felt such a conneciton between the miserable animal and himself that he put his arms around the horse's neck and cried. I can relate to that; I liked him even more after I read that.

Susan - I got rid of my last car eight years ago, and I now get around on a humble, beat-up Jamis hybrid bicycle (although one that has been customized with a rear rack, suspension stem, and bar ends). I think that this shows that I am practical, cheap, and self-sufficient, and have strong legs!

Being an atheist is fine if it suits your needs; we are happiest when we find what suits us. You don't have to believe in God to be a happy, healthy person; you can still find what is good in life.

JW - Gorgeous cover art! I love that light breaking through; it's most hopeful, and, in a way, relates to our guys finally producing a new album after 20 years - there is always the possiblity of new creative efforts, as you and all the contributors have shown also. I like the patterns of black on purple - they remind me of pictures I've seen that show the growth of crystals (or so I remember; I'm not a scientist!). They also remind me of maps of bodies of water; the same patterns show up in different parts of the natural world.

I am sorry to learn of the demise of Grover Washington Jr.; I always enjoyed his music. I wish him all the best in his new life.

RIP Grover Washington, Jr....I hadn't heard until I read it here.

Altamira, Hank Silvers, JDubs and all other cat lovers:
My wife and I have a new member to the family....we picked him up in Asheville, NC last Wednesday and I should have some pics available within a week or so. We talked for quite a while on the nearly 4 hour drive back to Danville and about an hour into the ride, having gone though a hundred names, I finally said "We could name him after a Steely Dan song." The first thing that came to mind was Deacon Blues and since the wife loved it and I thought it was cool too we now have our new Maine Coon kitty....Deacon Blues aka Deac....pics in a few days.

MC

It seems upon further review of Kinky's quotefest, that Kinky knows how to manipulate and twist context better than a Jersey politician. You're still all wet Kinky.

Kinky talk about "stinkin up the joint" - get over yourself !

Just think, on Feb. 29 we'll all be "superior human beings" like Kinky
Oh no , what will Kinky do when he isn't superior anymore ?

And what has Kinky ever contributed to this board?, talk about "stink"

S&S

Ruby Baby,
What's this about Vegas? I feel I've missed something somewhere back in the GBook while I was living my life and not paying attention. Silly me. And what kind of car do you drive to prove your value as a person (just kidding, as I'm sure you know, you sweet, hip smart person, you).

aja - I saw Stevie Ray three times. After all, he's one of my biggest heros too!
The first time was at William & Mary Hall in Williamsburg. There were three acts on the bill: The Pretenders headlined (they had just hired Robbie MacIntosh), The Alarm was the second act and Stevie Ray opened the night. This was when it was a three-piece band. I think he had just done that album with Bowie. He came out with one of his trademark black hats (I dunno what you call 'em) with the silver dollar hatband looking like the very image of a resurrected Jimi Hendrix jamming right off the top of the set with "Scuttle Buttin'" and the audience was just mystified!
Then I saw him a year or so later at The Mosque in Richmond after they had added the keyboard. And the last time I saw him was about two months before he died. It was at The Carpenter Center here in Richmond. This was at the time when he had totally cleaned himself up from coke & booze and I have to say it was the best that I ever heard him play. He was on top of it in a way that's hard to describe. And it really was a rather moving show. At the end of "Third Stone From the Sun" he did a long extended jam with a lot of Hendrix-esque feedback and whammy bar stuff and then at the very last note of sustaining feedback he knelt down on one knee in front of the sound coming out of his stage monitor and bowed his head as though paying his respects to his mentor.
He played with an intensity that was dazzling at times.
If you haven't seen it you should pick up the DVD of his Austin City Limits shows.

JW - The cover art looks super! You couldn't ask for anything better than that. Great work.

Roy: Tournament is in Charlotte, not Richmond, so we would only be able to see via video waves. I thought such viewing might be a useful diversion during the needed downtime for our livers.

Hope you and the Mrs. will be able to attend.

Hutch-if you tell me you've seen Stevie Ray Vaughan (on top of the list you gave me) then I'm really gonna cry! But I saw Grover Washington, Jr. at the Playboy Jazzfest in '97, I believe. Thank you for a wonderful performance, and rest in peace...

JWM-have I told you how much I appreciate all this work you've done? :) I'm salivating just thinking about running to my mailbox and seeing...

tom-ditto to Altamira! I'm gonna miss your insight and interpretations. Come back soon!

aja

Hi Everyone- I got a message on the guest book of my website from a fellow named Martin. He asked a strange musical question to which I have no answer. I wonder If one of the Esteemed Musicoligists that frequent the GB might know.He sent me this:

re: Smokie Robinson song"Tracks of my Tears".The arrangement of the
horn section during the chorus,"Well,take a good look at my face" has
been given the "human" quality of a "belly laugh".Just wondered if you'd noticed this.Or if anyone had.

Well folks, Have at it....and show a little more inthusiasm than you did for my Release. (except,Altamira,Edd and Oleander who each took the time to give me a review)

David

Shoot, I clean forgot to compliment JWMalibu on his sterling art for the GB Compilation CD! Sweet work, sir! As one who has patchked around with Kai's Power Tools and the like, I am all the more impressed with your Bryce work there! Can't wait to have the CD in my hot little paws, er, wings ...

/Miz Ducky
flying upside down?

DrMu: Thankee kindly!

As to the "Cousin Dupree" single: as I posted below, the source I quoted mentioned nothing whatsoever about the single's B-side. Zero. Zip. Nada. Now, obviously there's got to be a B-side, unless the Guyz have found a source of Moebius discs. So I guess we'll all have to stay tuned to see what that B side B. 'Twould be sweet if it were "Wetside," I really liked the groove on that tune. But ... I'm just wishing here. I know nuthin more.

RIP Grover. Man, it creeps me out when there's a notable obit like that so close to my birthday.

/Miz Ducky
who suspects she needs a cuppa caw-fee

JW: Outstanding artwork. The back sheet makes me think of that empty room in which John Lennon played his white grand in "Imagine". Set, of course, against a backdrop of Mizar 5. Downer surrealism at its best.

Hutch: In defense of Richmond as a meeting place, I've been to some great concerts there, including Randy Newman, The Band, Bonnie Raitte and Ben Folds Five. I saw BF5 at The Flood Zone, a bit noisy and youth oriented for a Danfest; the concert acoustics were good, but the average age was fetus.

fezo: I've heard that ACC Tournament tickets are a bit pricey. were you suggesting that we attend the games during the meeting. I'm for that; UNC and TvN.

RS

ATTENTION ALL WEBMASTERS! I've just started a Steely Dan Webring. Any of you interested in participating, please send me an e-mail and I'll fill you in on the details.

For those that don't know what a webring is, it's simply a network of Steely Dan related web sites. You navigate from site to site via hyperlinks as if you were reading pages in a book. For more information, go here:

http://www.webring.org

The only drawback I see is particiapant sites will be subject to a banner advertisment which pops up when you click through to the next site. I don't have a problem with this cause I close that crap before it has time to load anyway...

Kinky: you are so sad.

This has to be the lowest.

Schwinn: over 1000 publications before retirement. Amazing. Aside all the sci-fi stuff, he wrote a great, concise book on algebra which all high school students should read.

Grover, RIP. My brother is a big Grover Washington fan. I remeber especailly the quality of the recordings. Damn fine performances and engineering.

Had to re-read Dear Mitsi again. It's difficult to type when rolling on the floor. Have the words "rhomboid" and "multiorgasmic" ever been written in such close proximity?? NOT

Sorry folks, but it seems that a few people here are accusing me of making false accusations about our good friend Q. I've reposted the following for those suffering from memory failure, and/or who are just unable to comprehend simple phrases.
______

Name: Q
FLAROOM

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 at 08:52:28
Comments:

Got it !
It's on the way........... "it's a real occasion" !
______

Name: oleander
TNO-2AN

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 at 17:02:02
Comments:

Q--it? you mean IT?
______

Name: Q
FLAROOM

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 at 17:07:40
Comments:

good catch ole !
______

Name: NO way I'm telling
bigred@aol.com

Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 at 01:04:01
Comments:

Q- email me! I have the "new one" (on cd). Let's talk price. Remember you'll be getting it almost 5 months before it's released to the public. What's it worth to you BIG boy? You won't find this on ebay!!
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Name: Q
FLAROOM

Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 at 06:36:01
Comments:

"No way I'm telling" at bigred@aol.com - sorry, I've already got it........maybe I'll put it on eBay!
______

Name: Q
FLAROOM

Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 at 08:24:00
Comments:

Man I wish I could hide behind dummy ID's all the time.]

Envy is a horrible thing.

Most of the pathetic little geeks around here still can't take a joke - and still have to hide.......
______

*(Envy, of course. So that's what Q is after. But wait a minute, is Q saying this is all just a joke? That he really doesn't have the new album? Read on...)
______

Name: Q
danman1@tampabay.rr.com

Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 at 05:17:41
Comments:

2AN kicks butt - definately a Gaucho on uppers or an Aja on downers.........
______

Name: Your Second Grade Teacher
@school

Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 at 09:54:00
Comments:

Q: If you're going to bring candy to class, you must bring enough for the whole class. JW has the list dear.
______

Name: Q
sworn by the Gods

Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 at 14:25:49
Comments:

to obfuscate all further inquiries...........
______

Name: oleander
in clover

Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 at 18:28:54
Comments:

Q--Extravagant luck. Really, man, it stings for us shadedwellers to know someone else who really cares is basking alone in the Danlight, but hey, it'll swing around to us.
______

*(Hey Ole, thanks for backing me up on this one, I mean, I realize you didn't want to rehash the fact that you got duped by Q's pathetic little game, but I'm surprised that you, of all people, would let this error go unrevised)
______

Oh sure Q recanted his statements after he'd received more attention in those four days than he'd gotten in the last four years (as did Clas). But, please people, if you don't know what you're talking about, keep your posts to yourself... boy, this guestbook's going to be a lonely, desolate place.

By the way, Q, wrong again, that was not me posting as "Big Red".

Hi y'all

I still haven't heard Cousin Dupree or What A Shame About Me,
but after coming out from under this last party I'm catering on Sunday, I'll get my tapenade encrusted fingers clean enough to touch a copy. I'll let you know.

JW -
Can't wait. nice,nice,NICE. more than 'Thanks' again.

Sumptuous
mmhmm

whoever posted -
the bit about women and cars was umm... kinda off base, methinks.
whatever. I pull my trailer behind a little Saturn - black velvet Elvis bumperstickers - my ex tho, drives a huge red pickup truck that is quite reminiscent of a ... well, use your imagination. It has a heated, vibrating seat cushion.

Richmond is a fine town. lived on Boulevard for a year or so, catered at the museum, baked for a couple of restaurants on Cary.

break's over, back to the kitchen..

Fred

Sorry Geena. I put your name where mine was supposed to go.
I'll go have another cup.

Hutch

Geena - Sadly, the rumor you heard is true. He collapsed last night in New York while doing a taping. Only 56 years old. What a loss.

cnn.com/1999/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/18/washington.obit/index.html

I heard that Grover Washington Jr. passed away, don't know if this is rumor, but i can't find any information on this. Does anyone know?

Yes, and happy belated b-day to you as well, Dr. Mu. Isaac Asimov turned 82 on the 16th and how much you wanna bet he'll hang on till at least 2001?

Like a Movie,

SEMBthelesser

JW: Super groovacious ultra funky work, dude! How do you find time to shop?

Three Cheers for Mr. Malibu,

SEMB

The guitar solo of course is the bridge: a musical adjective for the chorus in this song

Miz Ducky: Happy Birthday!

18 days until the single: Cousin Dupree. Was it Wet Side Story (live) on the "B" side (I guess that technically doesn't exist)?

Ole: I hear the chorus as reminiscing. The bouncy piano chords with Walter's guitar over the top are a joyous reminder of those stompin' days

I finished the GB Compilation artwork tonight, and I've posted low-resolution of the images going to Armadillo Digital this week, including jeweerI'll be posting song order and credits in the next few days. All artists: please proof your credits from the GB Compilation page, thank ya' very much!

I still don't have 5 or 6 physical mailing addresses for GBrs who requested a copy on a timely basis. I'll drop e-mails to those MIAs who haven't responded...check the site to make sure I've received your addy, thanx!

Rest in peace, Grover...