Signed in stranger

Here are a few more days worth of posts. Interesting how popular this band remains. Judging from the response these pages have been getting, I'd say its' time for more!


moray eel that ditch out in the valley Sat Feb 1 00:23:30 PST 1997

Lucky Henry: You mentioned Jack of Speed(any version). Is there another one besides Re: The Video? I sent him my money a month ago and I haven't received anything...very similar to my Metal Leg subscription. I feel like I should be wearing a big sign on my chest that reads:

"Desperate Dan-Fan...Take My Money...Please!"

I am not ready to yell, "Fire!" at this time though. The tape could show up in my mail tomorrow. (sniff)-(sniff) Does anyone else smell smoke?

San Fran Knight: I am pretty sure that "IF" DF read your message, he understood that you were only being whimsical. However, sometimes in a setting like this, it is difficult to distinguish those small nuances because the absence of vocal inflection, body language, eye contact or whatever. And there are other posters here who clearly appear to be contemptuous of their efforts.

SDWD: Your writing style is very similar to "W" writings that have appeared in the past. They both include extremely heavy use of sarcasm, large quantities of business/legal verbiage and very humoruos content. You also referred to W as "*he*". Perhaps you were trying to indicate the indicate the identity of the author...or perhaps not. BTW, I like the new home page. I appreciate the effort you guys have put into it. It looks great. Thank You.

Rudy: Your graphics make all these pages look excellent. Thanks.

StAl: I found some new and interesting sites to surf thanks to your new cool links. -Gracias-

m.e.

P.S. Bodacious Cowgirl says, "Good things come to those who wait". No kidding...just ask all those Woody Herman fans.


Beautiful Survivor 73201.2511@compuserve.com Sat Feb 1 05:44:58 PST 1997

Lucky Henry: Too late to offer condolences? Nah, I think you just did.

Later, Beautiful Survivor


Info Boy iboy@credit.com Sat Feb 1 09:31:43 PST 1997

Click here to see Donald's credit rating.


Info Boy iboy@credit.com Sat Feb 1 09:32:21 PST 1997

Click here to see Donald's credit rating.


Info Boy iboy@credit.com Sat Feb 1 09:37:48 PST 1997

Click here

Info Boy iboy@credit.com Sat Feb 1 09:42:40 PST 1997

Can you believe I have a college education. Ok, fuck the html shit. It's http://api1.databaseamerica.com/servers/bizfinder/credit.cgi?level=1&chain_num=1000366587.000000


Hank Silvers just passin' thru. . . Sat Feb 1 12:20:49 PST 1997

How do we justify our actions? Or our text?
Pete petefogel@asan.com Sat Feb 1 13:35:29 PST 1997

Moray Eel, oh yeah, I remember that check, played a nice game of stickball with it as a matter of fact.


Danny Boy ... Sat Feb 1 16:47:37 PST 1997

Hath not a Steely Dan Fan eyes?

Hath not Danny Boy eyes?


Q QGB@AOL.COM Sat Feb 1 21:19:43 PST 1997

Yes- to Night By Night, St. Alphonso - & Gold Teeth I and/or II!(some of my personal favs)for the " '98" tour..., as far as the new album - let them get it out when they are "good and ready"- as they always have........ Q


Paul M. Turner paultrnr@worldnet.att.net Sun Feb 2 10:31:40 PST 1997

Loved Saratoga, Hartford needed work. Anxiously awaiting the Lake Placid Tour.


Danny Boy ... Sun Feb 2 13:17:16 PST 1997

Thou hath seen Danny Boy, and he is insane.

Yet can we not say Steely Dan Fans are insane?


(Good King) Richard rlongman@dca.gov.au Sun Feb 2 14:16:49 PST 1997

This is the day of the expanding man (or was, as it's now Monday and I'm back at work): I've had a great Sunday and I thought I'd share a Dan moment or two with you while you enjoy yours. I broke out some vinyl and listened to Aja, scratches 'n all (it's seen a lot of action over the years)... all very atmospheric, lying flat out on the floor with the fans working overtime in the heat, Brian Lara sticking it to the Aussies in the cricket on the telly (just for you Jamaican Dude), Good Queen R in the shower, baby having his siesta, and watching the sunlight through the trees play upon curtains to the rhythm of the Dan and the sound of Donald blowing his police whistle (what make? and, which force? Mr Fogel please), the beautiful drumming and Michael McDonald's dulcet tones in Peg... and then the shower waters stopped and it all became a little blurry... Hey! It's Summer here (let me enjoy it a little won't you - as you enjoyed yours, tours 'n all) and, it seems to me, it's always Summer when listening to the Dan. There's an essential sultry heat about their music and I can't think of any particularly wintry SD songs (any suggestions, apart from DF's Snowbound, etc of course). So if the rigors of Winter are getting to you a little, maybe put on a little Dan.

I like the rhythm, if not the quality, of listening to SD on vinyl. The notion of a side of music will, no doubt, disappear with the ages - though, to me, only through frequent playing does Aja have some sort of greater flow (emotional, sylistic?). Given D&W's fabled quests for perfection in each track, a greater thematic sequence would be tricky - though a while back someone made a good case for Gaucho having overall guiding concept and, of course Nightfly and Karma have their themes (though ironically I think Karma's other qualities suffer as a result) and 11ToW has a distinctly autobiographical feel to it. So, where this is leading? Well, what chance a SD concept album next up? Did the three new tracks fit into a pattern? Anyone?

Anyway, have a great day - upon the hill, under the banyan tree, at Rudy's, tied to the mast(!) - wherever you are. As the sun goes down on these suburban streets and the evening breeze plays through the gum trees (and hey 'Body Heat's' on (again) tonight)...

This brother is free, I'll be what I want to be

Richard&kangaroos


JamaicanDude 12345@compuserve.com Sun Feb 2 20:15:55 PST 1997

G.K.Richard--I'm with you, mon.


Danny Boy scruffer@pacbell.net Sun Feb 2 22:46:42 PST 1997

Steely Dan Fans, now thou hast no hope of heaven. What will you do now? For I can tell you, you'll be cursed with bell, book and candle.


fezzy bermuda@magicnet.net Mon Feb 3 05:28:10 PST 1997

Brubeck cooked!!!! And ues Joe, he did play "Blue Rondo a la Turk"

The show blew me away!

later

fez


Sittin' And Listenin' And Still Can't Figure It Out Mon Feb 3 10:21:12 PST 1997

Okay? Anyone have a clue about what "Wet Side Story" is about? Is it about food? A restaurant? What the heck is Steamer Heaven? Help!


Lucky Henry Dusted Down Mon Feb 3 12:13:36 PST 1997

Bodacious Cowgirl: Count me in for Brubeck/Metheny et. al.! Mind if I tag along? Besides, it'll give me something else to brag to Murtha about. I've seen Metheny only once before.

Good King Richard: I, too, listened to Aja yesterday--cranked, whilst spending my day just cruisin around in my cool rollin bubble. Great stuff for a balmy day with the top down. Pehhhhhhhhhhhhggggggg....

Major: Awesome! But please don't upload them to the net: someone might mistake me for a keyboard player. While setting up in my studio yesterday, my keyboard stand gave way, sending all 88 weighted keys crashing to the floor, driving a metal locking piece into the base of my board leaving a gash 4 inches across. It missed my neck by inches. Thank the Donald-God it still works. That was a close one.

"Throw out the hardware..."


maj. frontier@rsabbs.com Mon Feb 3 15:26:04 PST 1997

Lucky: Hard to imagine what is funnier -- watching you trip and fall into your keyboard, affectionately referred to as the "Fall of 96", or what you described above. Thanks, indeed, to the Donald-God. Thanks also to you for the Beck's cans.

What's up with Wawa?? In my last three visits to the convenience store chain, I've heard "Ruby Baby" (in Hatboro, Pa.) and today I heard "Goodbye Look" (Mt. Laurel, NJ). Great coffee, even greater tunes. I drank an extra "Big Gulp" while waiting for the song to end.

"....a skinny man with two tone shoes...."

maj.


Doc Kelly Here at the dude ranch Mon Feb 3 16:51:17 PST 1997

Webdrone: Looks good... one assumes you're receiving some sort of compensation for your efforts... Not everybody equates sarcasm with Walter... I tend to see more of a combination of cynicism and wit in Walters writings... its just my 2 cents, for what its worth...

My comment regarding the pulse of the guestbook was meant to be a concise way of saying that those of us who frequent this site reside in the tail of a somewhat bell-shaped curve representing a graphical rendering of the spectrum of SD fans, from fanatics (for lack of a better word at the moment) like most of us to those that don't like our boyz... In other words, we are the tip of an iceberg! Myself, if I owned a studio and had the artistic talents that our boyz had, then I'd always have something cookin'... I'd try to balance artistic productivity (driven by demand) with maintaining my own sanity (i.e. do whatever I damn well please).... I guess my point is that we may be our boyz least biased (as biased as we are) conduit to the masses without pro pollsters...

BTW, we all know that you owe your very existence in the capacity of SDWD to us...


Ben Tatar bctatar@eagle.cc.ukans.edu Mon Feb 3 17:23:44 PST 1997

Well, just thought I'd check in with the gang again and tell everyone that I now have in my collection the Gaucho Out-takes and all (I think all) of Fagen's B-sides, the trans-island skywy bass/drum/vocal mix, plus YGT II by Herbie HAncock.

Anything I should be looking out for with these tunes?

More to come....

Ben


rabbit nissho@neosoft.com Mon Feb 3 17:42:19 PST 1997

good king richard--lp's, right on. without that sense of two-sidedness inherent in lp's, we now have these discs wherein (usually, anyway) the songs get progressively worse and worse as you track through.

besides, with cd's you end up starting over again every time you listen. so if you stop in the middle, the next time you pick the album up, it's back to song one. i have cd's where the last couple of songs haven't seen the light of day in years. at least with cassette tapes, you generally start up again where you left off.

i guess that's what the 'random' function on the cd player is for, but that doesn't exactly lend itself to the 'flow' of the cd either, does it?

lp's broke it up a bit, so often some of the best songs were right in the middle, starting off the b-side. i still love the whole idea of listening to 'the second song on side b,' or 'the last song on the a-side.'

lp friday, anyone?

peace,

rabbit


(Good King) Richard rlongman@dca.gov.au Mon Feb 3 19:03:08 PST 1997

rabbit: you're sooo right!... especially 'the second song on side b'... and after a brief discussion here at work, we decided that the padding used to be the last track on side a and the second last on side b... which just goes to show what great and consistent albums D&W have turned out. Sorry I can't make lp friday, gotta mind the baby while the missus goes to the movies, but will check out a few sides tonight right after '90210' (required viewing... just love Donna's fashion sense, David's hipness and how Brandon gets to snog a different woman each week... they do, however, need more Dan music)

Rchard&kangaroos


Danny Boy ... Mon Feb 3 21:19:55 PST 1997

Who buzzeth in my ears I am a spirit? Be I a devil, yet God may pity me- Yea, God will pity me if I repent.


Doc Kelly Still here at the dude ranch Mon Feb 3 21:36:17 PST 1997

To Ben: I'd like to check out your out-takes and b-sides... besides that (no pun intended) we need to set up a jam... I saw a band from St Louis at the Jazzhaus a week ago Saturday called "Sky Bop Fly"... they played a midwesternized acid jazz/funk/hip-hop/rap... pretty good stuff!! What friends/instrumentation can you contribute to a jam? I can provide bass and 2 killer guitarists.... maybe a drummer... P.A. and maybe a site... Reply to my real address...


The San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 4 01:04:46 PST 1997

Lonnie & Jonnie: Thanks for the Herman CD pointer. Given that I am in London, UK though, might be a bit tricky...

Perhaps someone could let me know the name of said CD. Maybe, I could track it down in a specialist store...

Moray Eel: I quite agree...

Ummm. My new hi-fi is great. YGT2 swings through and KC does the business now on a major scale. God bless Tannoy...

My wife still does not understand. Every time I put on AIA, RS or whatever, she says "don't you know every bar of this CD" so I reply, "yes, I do know each and every song at a macro level. I am now trying to appreciate every rest"... -kinda musical joke-

Anyone got the new Phil Woods CD yet. I would like an opinion before I buy. CDs are fucking expensive over here...

I must step off the platform now...

laters pretzel amoebas

Jimmy


Big Brother G. O. Tue Feb 4 02:25:46 PST 1997

Rudy: When will the kitchen be open again? Fr a real Mar...... Tobasco rules.


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Tue Feb 4 07:58:18 PST 1997

Time Out Of Mind - Indeed!

One of the thing Donald and Walter do best is the twisting of rhythmic phrases, making the “normal” seem unexpected, and the unexpected seem normal. “Keyboard” Magazine did a little article some time ago using “Tomorrow’s Girl’s” as an example of how Donald can sublimely drop two measures and make it absolutely seamless. I find an even more interesting example in “Time Out Of Mind”...

So many pop, and even jazz tunes, are built on powers of two that sections built on 2, 4, 8, 16...etc. bars are considered "normal." At first glance, TOOM seems to adhere to this, yet closer inspection shows lots of curves. I suppose the tip-off should have been the intro. Ignoring the 3/8 pickup on toms and hat, B&F start the song with a 1 measure drum intro. Not two, not four, but one. Only a prelude to the quirks that follow...

Now we get to the basic vamp, a syncopated little 4 bar comp that effectively ignores "1", and locks to "1&". While the phrase itself is the "standard" 4 bars, Donald pulls a fast one on us with the vocals. It's not unusual to have a few "pickup" notes that intro a melodic episode (like the first 6 notes of "Reelin...") but the pickup phrase (“Son, you better be...”) occurs in bar one of the four bar phrase, throwing us off balance as the start of the phrase now seems to be in measure two. Just to keep it interesting, this wierdness repeats only once before the B&F throw us another curve, and it’s not one, not two, not even three, but four rhythmic twists! (Now how much would you pay?) Not only are the phrases trimmed to two bars (twist 1) while retaining the “pickup notes in measure one” thang, but the chords are now repeating only the last two measures of the original phrase (twist 2). Now the song seems to be wrapped up in some sort of demented game of catch-up with itself. Adding to the starboard list, these phrases are repeated three times (twist 3) before tossing in an extra measure (twist 4) which contains, of all things, the pickup notes to the next two bar phrase which is at this point entirely baffling. (Who’d have expected the usual?) Again a two bar phrase is repeated 3 times before we appear to get some sort of resolution as the vocals break into the “Time Out Of Mind...” refrain. Finally, it seems, all is right with the world. Wait! There’s that damn pick-up (“I am holding a...”) in measure one of the second verse.

What is going on here!!! If we count out the apparent 4 bar phrases starting from the beginning (again ignoring the 3/8) everything seems cool if we accept the odd vocal phrasing. Cool, that is, until we get to the part about chasing the dragon, where we find ourselves chasing our tails having mysteriously picked up a measure relative to the vocals. Don’t worry about it. Everything returns to its’ original state by the time we start the second verse. (Notice I didn’t say “returns to normal”.)

Our second option is to use the vocal intro (“Son, you better be...”) as a pickup, and measure our four bar phrases from there. This seems much nicer (you have to ignore the instrumental intro but, hey, peace of mind has a price) until we get to the dragon (draggin’?) part where now we’re either two measures early, or two measures late. None of which matters because by the time we get to the second verse we’re all sync’d up again. My suspicion is we could start counting someplace in “Gaucho” and things would still collapse and revive themselves.

At this point I am absolutely terrified to start work on the instrumental section. There are monsters in those measures, I’m sure.

I can’t help wondering if the title of the song doesn’t somehow allude to this. Could “out of mind” be an allusion to “insane”? This would give us “Time Insane” and then it’s not a far stretch to “Rhythmic Insanity.” Brubeck used this type of punning during his metric experimentations (“Unsquare Dance”, “Take Five”, etc.) and, of course, he shows up in Donald’s next release.

Edd


maj. frontier@rsabbs.com Tue Feb 4 08:21:59 PST 1997

Edd: thanks. that's worth about ten music lessons. copy and paste.

maj.


Cornholio Wilson Tue Feb 4 08:32:53 PST 1997

Edd: I agree with your enlightened take on the title of TOM. And with their lyrics about smoking heroin/opium. The song is just brilliant, bloody brilliant.


Maxine kouvolo@cmu.edu Tue Feb 4 08:53:39 PST 1997

Edd: that one's a keeper... will make for a fine musical adventure this evening. (MD: copy, paste, and don't forget PRINT...)

LH: ouch! but I won't ask why/how it "narrowly missed [your] neck" hope all's well in music-land.

Maxine


Amanda da@primenet.com Tue Feb 4 09:19:53 PST 1997

wow, edd, my head is about to explode.

amanda


I Know I'm In The Minority Here, But Tue Feb 4 09:44:18 PST 1997

SDWD: Do you have any "New Content" to put on the website? Some sound clips of demos from the new album or 11 tracks or "Kulee Baba" would be cool. U2 did that with their new album, released 2 "so called bootlegs" on the web for "Discotech" and another one. Thanks and keep on truckin'....


DrMu I'mspeechlessalso Tue Feb 4 14:22:06 PST 1997

Way to go Edd. No wonder they drove Mork Knopfler nuts.


Bodacious Cowgirl homeafterahellday@work Tue Feb 4 15:56:53 PST 1997

Lucky--No, I wouldn't mind, except much to my chagrin, I'm not going. Enjoy if you go, and tell us about it!

Edd--definitely one to print!!!


Hank Silvers c/o Hugo Spaak Tue Feb 4 16:43:33 PST 1997

Edd: Yowie. The Loyal Fandom salutes you.


rabbit nissho@neosoft.com Tue Feb 4 17:11:00 PST 1997

edd--'demented game of catch-up with itself'? yeah........... i'll be sitting down with that one tonight. thanks man.

by the way, are you posting from your 'tour of the southland'? i'm getting some weird interactions with my netscape nav'. some of your letters are turning into chinese characters. (don't ask.........) i've seen that with clas and some other international posts, but never yours before.........

peace,

rabbit


Beautiful Survivor 73201.2511@compuserve.com Tue Feb 4 17:25:54 PST 1997

Edd: Thank you for putting into words what my ears have known all these years!


jon @his yellow stripe Wed Feb 5 08:22:48 PST 1997

Edd: kudos on your thoughtful essay. Makes wading through the rest of muck worth the trip. I feel certain you are right--there are "monsters" in the measures comprising the instrumental portion of the tune. Berklee, I am told, at one time offerred a composition class based on the writing of Steely Dan. It's no mystery why.


DeeCon Bluz Wed Feb 5 09:16:36 PST 1997

For years I have been trying to explain to people why Steely Dan is special. Edd....I've printed out your essay because it conceisly states what I have been fumbling through. Great Job! Thanks

DCB


Joe Murtha JGMurtha@aol.com Wed Feb 5 09:34:14 PST 1997

Edd,

Your "Time Out Of Mind" dissection could not have been more, well, timely. As a result of the recent discussion about the master of time signature experimentation himself, Dave Brubeck - (brought on by Fezboy's fortuitous weekend encounter) - I went back and re-read the liner notes from Brubeck's momentous "Time Out" LP. There is a rather enlightened discussion of each and every tune with regard to their unique timing pattern and what is significant about each.

Before Brubeck, most of jszz was stuck in basic 4/4 time. Although jazz was both harmonically and melodically sophisticated, it was relatively backward rythmically. Some exceptions being the work of Max Roach and a few others. The 4/4 time having been derived from jazz's roots in marching band music and the blues.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Don+Walt are not only "mad about Brubeck", but have applied a good deal of Brubeck's ground work in advanced time signatures to their own material. Maybe "Time Out" (Of Mind) is their tip of the hat to Brubeck's "Time Out"...

Thanks for the erudite post Edd. It was much good food for thought...

Joe

P.S. Fezzy, any mention of other East Coast Brubeck appearances?


fezzy bermuda@magicnet.net Wed Feb 5 10:40:42 PST 1997

Joe: Brubeck went straight to Europe to do a tour and said he would be back in time for a spingtime tour of the East Coast - sounds promising! If you get a chance, definitely check him out.

fez


Washington Zookeeper cool@sshit Wed Feb 5 10:52:31 PST 1997

New band Super Furry Animals sample Show Biz Kids! "show business kids making movies of themselves you know they don't give a fuck about anybody else." Apparently they said (they sample it 50 times) "Saying fuck 50 times isn't big or clever, but sampling Steely Dan certainly is." Plus their album is called Fuzzy Logic. The legacy lives on, n'est pas?


Wolfie The canadian@north Wed Feb 5 17:01:47 PST 1997

Just a note for this board. I know The Bar Bat took a bit of abuse earlier this year on this guestbook but I have some positive feedback for those who are interested. Because of the postings here, on my last trip to NY city from the frozen tundra I went to TBB. I lucked out. Cornelius Bumpus was playing with his club act. The band put on a first class show. I also met Pete Fogel out of sheer coincidence and we might be bringing Cornelius to Canada. I wanted to pass on my thanks to the contributors to this guestbook as you lead me to this opportunity to hear Cornelius and company live!! Also thanks to Cornelius (if you read this page)for your work. BTW, who was the female lead. Absoloutley UNBELIEVEABLE!!!.

To Pete Fogel, Nice meeting you. Nothing new on the Toronto gig front however I'll look into it again. To The Bar Bat: Thanks for a great night!!


Wolfie The canadian@north Wed Feb 5 17:02:01 PST 1997

Just a note for this board. I know The Bar Bat took a bit of abuse earlier this year on this guestbook but I have some positive feedback for those who are interested. Because of the postings here, on my last trip to NY city from the frozen tundra I went to TBB. I lucked out. Cornelius Bumpus was playing with his club act. The band put on a first class show. I also met Pete Fogel out of sheer coincidence and we might be bringing Cornelius to Canada. I wanted to pass on my thanks to the contributors to this guestbook as you lead me to this opportunity to hear Cornelius and company live!! Also thanks to Cornelius (if you read this page)for your work. BTW, who was the female lead. Absoloutley UNBELIEVEABLE!!!.

To Pete Fogel, Nice meeting you. Nothing new on the Toronto gig front however I'll look into it again. To The Bar Bat: Thanks for a great night!!


The Man From Rio @Holding Hands With Wed Feb 5 18:23:35 PST 1997

Ladies and Gentlemen, a drum roll please...

Steely Dan has a featured "corner" in this month's Columbia House CD Club selection catalog, on page 15. Check it out! This is the first time I'm aware that the boys have gotten this lofty honor from the nation's premier music buying ponzi scheme. They've had a few choice offerings featured in the past, but this time each of their studio albums, AIA, the expanded Gold album and the Citizen boxed set are all included, as well as a picture of the dynamic duo in what appears to be good spirits.

Congratulations Don & Walt! Forget the numerous awards, gold records, etc. This event proves you really have arrived in show business.

Adios, gauchos amigos!


Danny Boy ... Wed Feb 5 21:39:04 PST 1997

O thou bewitching fiend, 'twas thy temptation hath robbed me of eternal hapiness.


San Francisco Knight @Mr Chows Thu Feb 6 09:25:30 PST 1997

Boing

Boing

Hello guys. I'm off for a while, whilst I trip to Singapore. I'll be back though in a few days!!!!!

Laters

pretzels at home still!


Lonnie and Johnny in their playrooms Thu Feb 6 12:59:58 PST 1997

Sittin' and Listenin': we thought Wet Side Story might have something to do with photography, because a darkroom is typically divided into a "dry side" (where the printing is done) and a "wet side" (where the chemical processing is done). Hmmm....


DrMu andfourtogo Thu Feb 6 13:12:36 PST 1997

JoeM: Great analogy with Dave Brubeck's TIME OUT. It's probably the gold dard for rhythmic experimentation. In my favorite, Three to Get Ready, there is an initial exposition of 12 bars in 3/4. Then the theme is repeated and the song goes from 3 bars of 3/4 to 3 bars of 2/2 (or is it 1 and 1/2 bars of 4/4?) This is repeated 3 times. It gets a bit more complicated after that for me, but it's way cool.

I thought that one of the musicians out there might be able to explain another surprise. The 2 chords which summon Bob Sheppard's sax solo after the 2nd verse of Book of Liars. It seems to come way out of left field but it's perfect. I was absolutely stunned the first time I heard it (and really every time)


Steve Cox a440@voy.net Thu Feb 6 15:38:44 PST 1997

EDD COTE!: Your excellent observations set me to pondering some of w+d's other quirky musical habits. One of my favorites is in "I Got The News". It's based in C, but at the end of the first verse and chorus, for a grand total of 1 bar, the key temporarily goes to D and we hear Dmaj7, Ab7, and Gmaj7. Normally, a 5ma7 chord doesn't lead to a 1dominant chord, but it sure does in this tune! Maybe since they are in D momentarily, and the Gmaj7 is actually the 4maj7 of that key, might be the reason our ears get fooled into thinking its really a 4 chord instead of a 5. Or, are we still in C, and we're hearing a version of 2(7)-5(7)? (In this case, 2-#5-5? Except the first and third chords are Maj7 and the second one is Dominant7, keeping F# constant as the top note of all three chords! This stuff keeps me awake at night and we're talking one bar here. BTW: The drummer on I Got The News was Ed Greene. He lives here in Nashville now and a guitar player friend of mine is involved in some recording with him. I couldn't resist; I had my friend get his autograph. It says: " TO COX, HERES TO A GROOVE! ED GREENE" Very cool...


a citizen @ the deck Thu Feb 6 16:01:44 PST 1997

Re: Wet Side -- as in the real world, wetware (a term PDS types use to describe for eg the human brain), as contrasted with hardware and software. It's a story about a computer nerd who contemplates stepping out of the safe world of virtual (computer) interaction and jumping to the Wet Side ("where it's way complex; hacking through all the harsh effects"). like that.


Still Sittin' & Listenin' And Startin' To Make Some , But Not Enough Sense Thu Feb 6 20:58:04 PST 1997

of Wet Side Story. Let see Computer nerd takes a break from some heavy duty geeking? Goes to get some food at a place called "Steamer Heaven"? Has a hard time dealing with the people who work in the place? Sits in a corner with his food and a book and doesn't want to be bothered? "Covers his eyes with his hands/'Cause everyone knows that it's scary out there when you jump to the Wet Side/Where it's cold or it's loud or it's screaming with light/Where it's way complex, hacking through all the harsh effects". Message, Spock?


on the wet side Fri Feb 7 10:12:53 PST 1997

wetware

/wet'weir/ /n./ [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers." 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See liveware, meatware.


a whining stranger with time to kill Fri Feb 7 10:38:38 PST 1997

"Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers" = human short term memory. This is a reference to Miller's (a cognitive psychologist) research on "chunking": We can remember a long strings of digits for eg if we "chunk" them into pairs or triplets. And seven (plus or minus 2) is the average number of "information chunks" we can manage to hold in short-term memory.

Boy am I bored today or what.


Amanda da@primenet.com Fri Feb 7 11:58:23 PST 1997

i'm bored too. and i don't have anything useful to say. but i figured i'd post anyway.

amanda


Edd Cote too.much.time.on.my.hands:^) Fri Feb 7 12:59:30 PST 1997

I'm bored also. This is a picture of my cat. The only relevance to this page is that her name is "aja."

She didn't like being scanned...

Edd


YourGoldKeith .. Fri Feb 7 13:13:15 PST 1997

Oh, yeah. Well. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Yep. Here I am.

Just surfin' on o'er to to the, uh, SD GBook.

Uh huh.

Yep. That's what I'm doin'

Yepper.

Good to see ya.

OK Now.


Fan Boy in Big Noise New York Fri Feb 7 14:16:20 PST 1997

So how 'bout those Knicks?


YGK .. Fri Feb 7 14:40:29 PST 1997

da Bulls are a goin' down this year...


Hank Silvers c/o Hugo Spaak Fri Feb 7 14:59:12 PST 1997

Edd: See what you've done? Nobody can follow up your masterwork. Plus, thanks for sharing Aja with us. But I hope that's not taken as an open invitation for all to share their photos as well.

Thanks to all Wet Side Story interpreters -- I like that thread.

See you at the Sprangle. . .


minorWorld khillman@heiskell.com Fri Feb 7 15:27:01 PST 1997

Hey Edd,

Is it just my monitor, or is that cat Pink?

rubbing my eyes, mWorld


RubyBaby c@ in the hat Fri Feb 7 15:33:09 PST 1997

Can't you just feel a song coming on? Like, "Cat Too Flat"?


Hank again Fri Feb 7 16:40:16 PST 1997

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Although no doubt Bucky Fuller used the line, too. .

And happy birthday, da! Don't forget to lean on Dean!


Amanda da@primenet.com Fri Feb 7 18:30:01 PST 1997

thanks, though my birthday was in november. : ) due to the long-term absence of the official site, the letter didn't get posted till now. but anyway, a reply will follow, sometime. : )

amanda


Janine Johnson gaucho@king.cts.com Fri Feb 7 20:37:20 PST 1997

Haitian Divorce Video!! DO IT!!! Use poise, tact and reason and simply squeeze them...


Bodacious Cowgirl @ the grotto Fri Feb 7 21:17:21 PST 1997

mW--The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

Bored as well, but the cat looks white on my monitor, BC


PPPaulCCC Check.the.archives.it's.there Fri Feb 7 21:33:45 PST 1997

Whoa, one very boring day in Dandom...Not even so much as a hint of a flame war...I wish I could wake Kinky up from that nap which by now is rivalling Rip Van Winkle...Somebody break out a sewing kit, and find a new thread...

Ruby, what's your second favorite song by the D? If you were to choose a song by the D that you would not want them to perform, what song would that be and why? I personally would not want to hear them perform "When I was Mary's man"...how about you?

I got a Steely Dan T-shirt, Paul C.


ignoramus geofflloyd@lucent.com Sat Feb 8 00:36:26 PST 1997

So who gets to play 'Josie' on NPR? I heard it tonight on Marketplace. It wasn't LK . More like ALegg.

Tim: Thanks for the photos (Wembley).

Sleep Sleep.


Lonnie and Johnny in their playrooms Sat Feb 8 11:53:44 PST 1997

San Francisco Knight-- I finally found the Web address of that Acoustic Sounds place. It's http://www.btown.com. Their e-mail is asounds@aol.com.


JamaicanDude 12345@compuserve.com Sun Feb 9 08:35:46 PST 1997

Everyone is very quiet lately. Has anyone heard the songs "American Lovers" or "Jones", both written by DF & WB?


FrozenRainMaker sameol'sameol' Sun Feb 9 12:27:26 PST 1997

It's looking like a ghostbook again. Its getting a little too spooky for my liking. I can't think of any games to share, except thinking of dumb Steely Dan sequel songs like Your Gold Teeth III, The Third Arrangement, Do It Again Again, Razor Man, Haitian Remarriage, I think you get the picture. Well, I'm trying. Also, a question, was or wasn't Larry Carlton a member of The Crusaders?


roy.scam rmoats6211@aol.com Sun Feb 9 13:57:44 PST 1997

To Fronteir, who heard Goodbye Look at the convenience store. I heard a MUZAK version of Home At Last in the Food Lion Lion the other day in Newport News , VA. I was so impressed, (It was actually a pretty good version with the horns faithful to the SD version), I bought some extra groceries. I also hear Green Flower Street as a background for advertisements on the radio a lot. It hurts a little , though, when they play the SD originals on the elevator.


roy.scam rmoats6211@aol.com Sun Feb 9 13:57:56 PST 1997

To Fronteir, who heard Goodbye Look at the convenience store. I heard a MUZAK version of Home At Last in the Food Lion Lion the other day in Newport News , VA. I was so impressed, (It was actually a pretty good version with the horns faithful to the SD version), I bought some extra groceries. I also hear Green Flower Street as a background for advertisements on the radio a lot. It hurts a little , though, when they play the SD originals on the elevator.


to roy.scam rmoats6211@aol.com Sun Feb 9 14:32:51 PST 1997

Post twice, rap with your cane...

feels nice...!


Amanda da@primenet.com Sun Feb 9 14:52:11 PST 1997

i heard a muzak version of igy once at a restaurant... i didn't know it wasn't the original until the vocal came in and it was a soprano sax.

amanda


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Sun Feb 9 15:35:13 PST 1997

Larry Carlton did indeed play with The Crusaders.

Edd


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Mon Feb 10 01:03:09 PST 1997

Lonnie & Jonnie: Thanks for the addresses! I will mail appropriate enquiry!

Frozen precipitor: you made me laugh very much!!! Razor Man! Ha ha!!

I have just come back from Singapore!!!!!!!! Hot hot hot and wet! Still I like it out there!!!

Edd Cote: Yes, I have 'Those Southern Nights' by the Cs. Larry does a great pick on mama told me so. I am a bit of a Carlton person actually. But he is a bit of a manic christian now. Still, he did cop a bad shot from some hoodlum who still remains at large, so he does have a lot to be thankful for.

Re my new Tannoy monitors, the Dan just keep getting better and better!!!!

Laters pretzel ovens


DeeConBluz @homenearchicago Mon Feb 10 04:09:16 PST 1997

Finally caught up. There are some really misinformed of just plain dreamers posting on this page. Face it the Bulls are a lock. DEAL WITH IT. The Knicks, now that is really funny. If it wasn't for a bad call they would not have even beaten the Jordanless Bulls four years ago. Not that I'm upset, The Knicks made fine Rocket foder. The only question for the playoffs if can the Bulls do it in 15 straight.

The record is now straight.

DCB


wooly bully Mon Feb 10 09:09:10 PST 1997

"Bull!"


YourGoldKeith .. Mon Feb 10 10:56:00 PST 1997

DeeConHead: "The Bulls are a lock".

Yeah. sure.

Just like taking the Packers WITH the points was a sure win. (Pats win WITH the push.)

Air Jordan's got too much air in his 'ead, he's too busy worryin' about what promotion he'll do next, he'll get sick of Rodman and/or Rodman will do something Rodman-esque before the season's over. The safe bet is to bet against the Bulls.

they will go down in flames via, yes, the "coached-by-a-34-year-old-PatRiley-protege" Van Gundy Knicks. And New York will Rule Once Again. (The announcer says, "The Yankees Win, Theeeeeeee Yankees Win.")

NOW your record is straight.

Da Bulls are full of it. See ya.


Marv_Albert YESSSS@NBC.com Mon Feb 10 11:22:38 PST 1997

YGK: Shut the fuck up! What is this, the NY Knicks guestbook? Take it the fuck off line!


Ruby where it's @ Mon Feb 10 11:26:07 PST 1997

Ho, DeeConBluz!! Do you rise when the sun goes down? Do you cover every game in town? ~~ I predict if they get the first 9, the last 6 will be cake.

PPPaulCCC: You're a curious beast, but I'll answer your querries: My 2nd favorite is Home At Last. Except I sing it, "he pours the smooth Retsina, he keeps me safe & warm; it's just the calm before the storm" So...here I remain - tied to the mast. BTW: Retsina is anything but smooth!

What wouldn't I like to hear them do live? I guess, King of the World, because I have my doubts they could pull it off the same way as in the studio. But who know? (Edd, probably!) I would love to hear them do When I Was Mary's Man! Even they, themselves have probably not heard them do When I Was Mary's Man. They could do it right after Rose Darling.

So...you've witnessed some scortching @ this site and it turned you on? Tell me, do you participate or just like to watch?

RubyBaby

lapin - maintiens ton oreille sur la terre, encore? (pardon mon francais - c'est comme une vache espagnol, oui?)


DeeConBluz @risingwith the sunset to cover every game Mon Feb 10 11:39:02 PST 1997

Ruby Baby!!! A true beliver!!

YGK life must be nice living in a dream world....Rodman or no Rodman the Bulls bring home the fifth.

BTW who do you think can stop them....The 80's all stars in Houston? Brick O'Neal and the Lakers?? Ain't NOTHING in the East Come June the apologies shall be long and sincere.

DCB


mWerld @call and response center Mon Feb 10 11:51:37 PST 1997

BCGirl, That's some couplet, but I must ask to borrow your sense of context as I am still unable to reach the crux of the situation...

mW

Announcer:

"...meanwhile, back In Medford, NJ..."

(we hear the faint sound of the wind, the camera trolleys up a darkened staircase to a small room with a glowing computer monitor, but no user. Hanging askew off the vacant chair in front of the monitor is a well-worn sweatshirt that reads simply "Fuck Off, I'm The Major". The camera then begins to close the distance to the monitor and we see that someone has written ON the screen with what appears to be black magic marker. The words are shaky, but legible: "Eschew Obfuscation" ...then, with a quick turn the camera reveals the source of the wind - the room's window is full open...resting under the sill is an antique porcelain sink, and a twisted 3-iron...

Announcer: "...it seems the Major must have stepped out.."


Lonnie and Johnny in their playrooms Mon Feb 10 11:54:12 PST 1997

Ruby: anyone who heard SD do King of the World live on their '74 tour would probably say it was "cookin'" and maybe even better than the album version. We think some of their tunes sound better when reworked for live performance, not just recreating the original.


YGK .. Mon Feb 10 12:08:28 PST 1997

Marv, 1) get some real hair. 2) take a chill pill. 3) develop a deeper vocabulary that excludes the word 'fuck'. 4) practice principled acts of self-interest and ruthless logic. 5) go jump off 30 Rock...


babs u.s.a. Mon Feb 10 12:40:40 PST 1997

Lonnie 'n Johnny: exactly, although, for me, it's not a matter of one sounding 'better' than the other. I enjoy hearing how they've reinterpreted their songs...how they've chosen to present them in a form which is sometimes very different from their studio versions.

King Of The World from the '74 tour is way cool...just listened to it Saturday, as a matter of fact...


clas clas@work Mon Feb 10 12:50:58 PST 1997

EDD; Did you notice at Pearl Of The Quarter; after the C-chord they go out of roles and plays a G, and then... surprise, surprise, that follows of a F. And breaking the roles again they go down to Emi...

Wow!


FrozenRainMaker here&there Mon Feb 10 14:17:34 PST 1997

Did they ever get to play Night by Night? I think that would make a smokin' showopener as would King of the World. They both could be reworked in so many ways. Did The Nightfly ever get an airing on the last couple of tours?


clas clas@work Mon Feb 10 14:19:38 PST 1997

RUDY; I looked at your aquarellpaintings again. I must say they are GOOD. I think painting with Aqua is the hardest thing to do (except trying to read Ed´s long post above). You can´t change anything after. I also like you graphics, your use with typefaces and so. Right on man!

Well kids, gotta work And a speciall little kyss to Ruby.

The second story man


from Ruby to the workingClas Mon Feb 10 15:15:25 PST 1997

I knew you'd hear me honking! (I wrapped it in a hug)

(tucking kyss into pocket)

bye!


eddcote @ultranet.com Mon Feb 10 15:37:57 PST 1997

"King Of The World" is one of my faves from D&W's early catalog, I'd love to hear it live.

Given that the only indication of a synth being integrated into the current show is Donald's Lynx (which must be MIDI'd to something, but damned if I know what), it would be all but impossible to reproduce that gorgeous portomento synth solo. A rework is always possible, but that solo is just so much a signature of the tune...

Edd

P.S. If anyone has a 4-op FM synth (DX-21, 27, 100, TX81Z, not fb01) and wants a pretty good patch for that solo, I can provide the sysex...


Bodacious Cowgirl sick of winter Mon Feb 10 18:57:20 PST 1997

mW--Sorry to befuddle you, there is no meaning. I cut out of work early for an afternoon out with my galpals, which turned into a very late evening. Suffice it to say, I consumed more than my fair share of Absolut. When reading your post after I finally made it home, that song came to mind. Did you get alot of snow? We got about 5", but it's melting, thank God!

I recently questioned my bud at ticketbastard re: any word on the boys touring this summer, but there's no info yet. KOTW would be a fantastic opener!


clas clas@work Mon Feb 10 19:06:45 PST 1997

Down at the bottom of your wine dog sea... has anyone of you middleclass kids ever been to the bottom? You have´nt, theirfor you can´t hear the pain and the agony in Walters best song. You drive in daddys cars and eat applepie and think you know anything about Steely Dan. You don´t. You don´t understand shit. And worst of all, you think TopGun is the best movie ever made. Edd Cote talks about nanos here and delay here but I think he never listen to the music, or the lyrics. Join the Navy!

No More Blues


Roy.Scam Rmoats6211@aol.com Mon Feb 10 20:51:08 PST 1997

On my 50th birthday, recently, I dreamed the following infomercial:

ELEVATOR MUSIC presents Steely Dan for really old people,Volume 1. They got the house in Clearwater,they got the wrinkly bodies, they got the Lawrence Welk teashirts, and for the coup de gout...they've now got SD for the geriatric.

You'll hear: YOUR FALSE TEETH ("Do you take out your false teeth? Do you sleep while they soak?) HEY NINETY ("Skate a little slower now.") PEARL BUCK OF THE QUARTER ("I took my walker down the miracle mile.") BAD SLIPPERS ("Five hairs and I can hardly stand or hear.") AGE YA' ("Over the hill, they think I'm okay.") and all your other favorites: DO WHAT AGAIN? , CHANGE OF DEPENDS , TIME OUT OF BED

Order now. Not available in stores


Roy.Scam Rmoats6211@aol.com Mon Feb 10 20:51:58 PST 1997

On my 50th birthday, recently, I dreamed the following infomercial:

ELEVATOR MUSIC presents Steely Dan for really old people,Volume 1. They got the house in Clearwater,they got the wrinkly bodies, they got the Lawrence Welk teashirts, and for the coup de gout...they've now got SD for the geriatric.

You'll hear: YOUR FALSE TEETH ("Do you take out your false teeth? Do you sleep while they soak?) HEY NINETY ("Skate a little slower now.") PEARL BUCK OF THE QUARTER ("I took my walker down the miracle mile.") BAD SLIPPERS ("Five hairs and I can hardly stand or hear.") AGE YA' ("Over the hill, they think I'm okay.") and all your other favorites: DO WHAT AGAIN? , CHANGE OF DEPENDS , TIME OUT OF BED

Order now. Not available in stores


clas clas going home@ Mon Feb 10 21:59:21 PST 1997

I also had this weird dream, the kids grew up and became 40. And still, they did´nt understand a shit.

"I guess you never gonna let her down..."

RubyBaby; do speak french? I always believed it was class over you. Paris in springtime?

On the sunny side of the sea, Blue Swede Shoes


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 11 01:23:24 PST 1997

Clas: hey cool down baby...Not all of us drive our dad's car. My wife and I don't even have a car. And I don't like applepie, but I do listen to lyrics and dig the sound...

There has been a bit too much disection going on over the past few days. Leave the tunes alone. Some of us dig the Dan purely through the entire effect, not just two measures of rhodes intro or one dot minim rest, syncopated toms and so on. Mind you, Erskines thirds on the snare during the second bridge of 3WM on AIA were fucking incredible. There is way too much in each song to break down. Relax guys and feel it through.

Roy Scam: That was funny. My ribs really ache.

I work at a really shit outfit. Anyone no what I mean????

Laters pretzel chums


Julian Moseley 100642.3336@compuserve.com Tue Feb 11 02:15:53 PST 1997

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JulianMoseley


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Tue Feb 11 04:08:35 PST 1997

"Five hairs and I can hardly stand or hear..."

I'm rolling!

"I can't hear anyone talking, and my arteries are hard, I drive 20 mph on Magnolia Boulevard. Well, I'm nearly insane And I'd laugh but I'm in too much pain And I'm sooooo alone Since they put me in the nursing home..."

Other suggestions...

"Where is the couch, old amigo" "Hey 1919" "Babble on, Sisters, shaking!" "My Old Tool"

Edd


fez bermuda@magicnet.net Tue Feb 11 05:37:40 PST 1997

Julian Mosely: I checked out your page and there were a few mistakes (I was at the show you speak of) Dennis Chambers played drums, not Erskine and the band did not play Black Cow, that was only played in '96. I know it sounds stupid, but had to do it.

fez


JM JGMurtha@aol.com Tue Feb 11 06:44:57 PST 1997

Holy f_ck!

"My Old Tool", "Bad Slippers"?!?!?

Edd, Roy... You guys are killin' me!

Jon, Got 'em... Thanks again.


Not My Nancy Present Tue Feb 11 08:58:26 PST 1997

Hello, brothers & sisters. Haven't been around much lately, but after reading the last couple weeks' postings, I think EddCote deserves some kind of award. I can't wait to go home to listen to TOOM.

I don't know the lyrics to Wet Side Story well enough to know whether this makes sense, but (dirty old man that I am) I always made a connection to "the wet spot," as in, "He's a thoughtful lover--he always sleeps on the wet side." I like the wetware allusion too.

Back to lurk...


The San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 11 10:03:25 PST 1997

Following Edds damn funny senile lyrics, I thought that I'd jump on the bandwagon...

here goes...

Old Cow

Shoes with corners, one glass eye

I am always moody, wear a crap bow tie

Faaake bow tie!

With a whining grimace (pronounced grimaice)

And an oblong face!

At the counter, ..... I'll have to come up with something tomorrow!

Byesee bye!


Ruby from the nursing home@last Tue Feb 11 11:12:14 PST 1997

Roy.Scam! I was laughing so hard I...and I don't wear depends(yet!)

Slipped twice-hand me that cane

Here@the western wing, Ruby


DrMu I'mjustgrowingold Tue Feb 11 11:32:43 PST 1997

Oooowwww! my ribs! Nothing like beating a dead horse:

IGGY SCHWARTZ ...get into that wheelchair while there's time, the i.v. is in...

NURSING HOME AT LAST ...she serves the milk of magnesia...so long, I'v got to go again...

FEET TOO FLAT ...our women are slung down low to the ground... (Hey! didn't have to alter those!)


rubybaby i will go undersea by rail Tue Feb 11 11:36:54 PST 1997

CLAS: Hey,Mr.Blue Sky!! Didn't I tell you to think warm, sunny thoughts? Do I have to come over there and throw an apple pie in your face? Don't worry - I'll load it up with whipped cream.

I am now needing to hear the 1974 live version of King of the World. Does anyone have it, wanna share it? please?

Ruby


another fan in california Tue Feb 11 12:33:06 PST 1997

ruby baby...post your email address and maybe, just maybe, someone can help you with your request...


Dismayed In California Tue Feb 11 13:00:05 PST 1997

What a lame bunch you are. You're back on that parody shit again. Sad. Very sad. You probably think you're clever, too. Losers.


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Tue Feb 11 14:48:46 PST 1997

...and of course, for those fans whose existance depends on some sort of life support there's "Start That Heartbeat Over Again".

Edd


Fella @Radio City Tue Feb 11 15:10:05 PST 1997

Rainmaker: Donald performed "Nightfly" at a couple of the unannounced NYC club dates with Jimmy Vivino several years back, but not since he and Walter re-united. Maybe Walter doesn't like the song.


Doc Kelly mdkelly@midusa.net Tue Feb 11 17:12:21 PST 1997

Yes! I have a yearning for the '74 King of the World also... Somebody PLEEEEEASE help me!!! The above address is for real...


Q St.Pete@last Tue Feb 11 17:46:30 PST 1997

confirming Fezzy's take on St. Pete gig- Chambers,yes-Black Cow,no(unfortunately-it would have been interesting to here Zingg's efforts on BK)- even better than the show were the rehearsals!-open to all who bothered, Thundedome security were highly accomadating to fans. News Flash- my contacts @ MoFi say they are working to do 180gram vinyl 1/2 spds of the rest of the Dan catalog(even though it's all now in digitally remastered form)and are actively pursuing their quest- now that MCA has abandoned their audiophile vinyl effort(sans Who's Next 180g-has it's moments over other pressings,but overall not transcendant- like say the MCA Audiophile pressing of Gaucho-blows any other Dan pressing(in terms of sound "quality")of any album out!). Who knows - if the get Gary Katz, The Immortal, and Steve Hoffman(best mastering man in the business)together maybe there are some untapped nuances of brilliance remaining in some of the old material. And for those who don't know/remember what a turntable is anymore......... Kamakariad 32bit mapped gold CD is a must for any Dan.


Pete petefogel@asan.com Tue Feb 11 18:46:40 PST 1997

Hey Fella, not so. Donald never performed Nightfly with Vivino, nor anyone else for that matter.

I was listening to Drew Zingg play the other night, and if you think he was good in '93, you ought to hear him now.


PPPaulCCC Knooster@Home.to.stay Tue Feb 11 20:03:14 PST 1997

RubyBaby, I wonder how that kyss will look after it goes thru the wash in the pocket of your red blazer? Curious beast, indeed! As far as flame wars go, my formative Dan years were during college when I roomed with the professor of flamology...just listening to the Dan brings back such flaming memories! And yes, I got good at it.(like everyone else on this page gives a shit)

I do have a question for all of super technical, dissection freaks, don't you ever just listen to the Dan cause they're fun to listen to? I mean, criminy, you guys all must have Ph.D.'s in music, right?

And oh, Mr. Clas, you must use your English dictionary, and THEREFORE, your spelling might not suck so bad... ------------------------------------------ If you want to put a message to my heart should be out in the mornin', I'm gonna rise and shine and wake you up, and move you without warning! Call my name, I understand the reason for desire, the band of gold I'll give to you, will be the real fire! Something in your kiss that lasts forever, Burnin' in the heat for you, I'll love you round the clock! You get the best of what I got...


See_above whocares Tue Feb 11 21:07:33 PST 1997

Not for you, Clas, I repeat, not for you...

If you want to put a message to my heart should be out in the mornin', I'm gonna rise and shine and wake you up, and move you without warning! Call my name, I understand the reason for desire, the band of gold I'll give to you, will be the real fire! Something in your kiss that lasts forever, Burnin' in the heat for you, I'll love you round the clock! You get the best of what I got...


Tim Reardon treardon@junction.net Wed Feb 12 00:03:49 PST 1997

What can I say? The Dan are the Man! When's the new album coming out?


razorboy duh... Wed Feb 12 03:48:45 PST 1997

Yo Tim! Read before you ask such a dumb question!


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Wed Feb 12 04:09:19 PST 1997

"I do have a question for all of super technical, dissection freaks, don't you ever just listen to the Dan cause they're fun to listen to? I mean, criminy, you guys all must have Ph.D.'s in music, right?"

What makes Steely Dan interesting for me is the fact they stand up to the disection. I find most pop music to be shallow and uninteresting aural pablum, whereas Steely Dan has some depth. (They're not alone in this aspect, but this forum is about them.)

You speak as if "super technical" and "disection" were somehow diametrically opposed to "fun." You're entitled to that opinion (if in fact it is your opinion), but I disagree. I find the two inextricably linked.

Music that makes me think *is* fun.

Edd


clas clas@work Wed Feb 12 05:09:39 PST 1997

In case you wonder it´s alive and well, that little habbit that you left with me...

What kind of habbit can that be? Applepie?


Fella @ Radio City Wed Feb 12 07:22:54 PST 1997

Sorry Fogel, you're wrong. Donald DID perform "Nightfly". I saw it myself at the China Club on Broadway with Jimmy Vivino's band. It sounded really rough, the band had a hard time with it and Donald seemed disappointed after it was over. The background singers were good. Especially on the "WJAZ" part.


Lonnie and Johnny in their playrooms Wed Feb 12 07:40:51 PST 1997

Dear "Q", we just checked the gold Kamakiriad CD we have and it's 20-bit, not 32-bit. Was there another gold CD that was 32-bit?


Justice Stumped@The_Fogel Wed Feb 12 08:38:49 PST 1997

Fella: CONGRATULATIONS! You've officially Stumped The Fogel. Don't walk, run to the steelydan.com web site and collect your non-goof related valuable prize, maybe.

And don't try to worm your way outta this one on some bogus half-truth, technicality or wild rationalization like you've been known to pull on others Herr Fogel...


Amanda da@primenet.com Wed Feb 12 09:31:34 PST 1997

wow, a genuine fogel-stumper! i believe the correct prize would be one of those lithographs, petey... we know you still have them.... ; )

amanda


Jon @ his yellow stripe Wed Feb 12 09:51:22 PST 1997

I can't believe the Fogel has been stumped. Can ANYone out there corroborate Fella's claim?


rabbit nissho@neosoft.com Wed Feb 12 11:03:11 PST 1997

pppaulccc--gotta concur with edd there. as a fellow 'dissection freak,' i think that's one of the things that makes dan so cool to listen to for me--they do things outside of the traditional, boring pop format--things that are actually worth thinking about and trying to understand. and that means breaking it down, and trying to figure out *why* it sounds so cool.

on the other hand, another reason they are so brilliant is that they can be enjoyed on so many levels. they somehow manage to fit their incredibly complicated musical ideas so smoothly into that pop format, that sometimes it's difficult to notice how weird what they are playing actually is.

if you don't enjoy the 'musical analysis game,' just tune us out. but at least humor us sometimes, howabout? just smile and nod, smile and nod.................

'deacon blue' on the radio here at work. very cool.

now the *reason* that song sounds so cool, is..........

never mind, sorry.

peace,

rabbit


SCREWED @Bleak Street Wed Feb 12 13:20:51 PST 1997

Yeah, You've got to watch that Fogelmeister. Walter sings the 4th line of each verse on Turn That Hearbeat Over Again.


YGK .. Wed Feb 12 13:21:45 PST 1997

Applause to the rabbit. While I feel that those who can dissec just happen to know a bit more on a technical level, what you don't seem to understand is that it is FUN for some of us. No, you don't have to be in the musical anaylsis game to appreciate Steely Dan, however, those of us can analyze the music find DEEPER PROOF of their musical genius, and marvel in their mastery.

So Paul, chill out on that tip, or try to learn something...

YGK


Pete still not stumped Wed Feb 12 13:30:01 PST 1997

Sorry to disappoint you all, but I just spoke to Jimmy Vivino at the Conan O'Brien Show, and I must say those lithos look damn good on my walls. I was at all the China Club shows, and have all the board tapes, and Justice, if you don't believe me, I guess I'll just have to release them all on cd, just like Kenny Vance ;)


Fella @ Radio City Wed Feb 12 13:33:49 PST 1997

Fogel: I apologize. You are correct. He did "Greenflower Street," not "Nightfly". I always get those two songs confused.


The you know Wed Feb 12 16:58:14 PST 1997

Fella:

Why?? Because the names are similar or because you are an idiot?

The


Q QGB@AOL.blahblahblah Wed Feb 12 17:53:12 PST 1997

Go Fogel! -the man has "the goods" to back himself up-bravo Amigo!


RubyBaby kanga1776@aol.com Wed Feb 12 18:39:27 PST 1997

To another fan in CA: Thanks for your very practical observation. (If I stay inside, I might live til Saturday)

CLAS: Good. Now is not the time to start breaking habits.

BTW - are you getting your mail?

rubybaby


Amanda da@primenet.com Wed Feb 12 20:03:21 PST 1997

that sucks. poster-grubbing.... nevermind. pete's got the posters fair and square this time, but i have a friend who's gotten screwed over a time or two with non-responses...

amanda


PPPaulCCC Knooster@aol.com Wed Feb 12 20:34:45 PST 1997

My, oh, my...

Edd and Rabbit, I see your point and your politeness is duly appreciated. Thank you.

I have some thoughts though. Music, left brain. Cognitive reasoning, right brain. But what about the spirit, the soul? An F-sharp or a chord, through a violin or a digitally enhanced, synthesized wingbeat of a hummingbird? The mind is a terrible thing to waste. What's your natural frequency, man?

YGK: you wrote, "Applause to the rabbit. While I feel that those who can dissec just happen to know a bit more on a technical level, what you don't seem to understand is that it is FUN for some of us. No, you don't have to be in the musical anaylsis game to appreciate Steely Dan, however, those of us can analyze the music find DEEPER PROOF of their musical genius, and marvel in their mastery." Great! Be happy, but does it move you? The coldness of dissection denies and belittles the human and spiritural side of their music, IMHO!

YGK: you also wrote, "So Paul, chill out on that tip, or try to learn something... " Thanks again. By the way, you have no idea what I know and what I don't. If you take my posts too seriously, see a shrink!

And for the rest of you, I love you all!

Everyone's gone to the movies, Paul C.


PPPaulCCC Knoo.. Wed Feb 12 20:42:31 PST 1997

"Music, left brain. Cognitive reasoning, right brain." Hell, I hear it all over my head!

Paul C.


Doc Kelly Here at the dude ranch Wed Feb 12 21:40:28 PST 1997

Disection comes after the awe wears off...


clas clas@work Thu Feb 13 03:10:43 PST 1997

RUBY; In French they kiss on mainstreet...

"Down at the bottom where your lifeline shows"


bob tedde MrSquonk@cts.com Thu Feb 13 03:28:05 PST 1997

Pete "SteelyGod" Fogel: Just stopped by to catch up and knew before your 2nd post that you had not been stumped! Wondering if you got my last e-mail and your non- reply meant my alluded to fears were, alas, valid. In any event, I'll be calling you soon to get some background info on an old live SD video of Reelin', and Do It (w/Palmer on lead vox!) I've had murky black and white kinescopes of the "Reelin'" portion for some time now, but the video I'm about to be shown is in color and (more importantly) in complete stereo! If you know anything about it, please share!!!! (I think my friend said it was from The Midnight Special. Is that possible???)

EEEED Cote: "King of the World" is one of two new additions to The Steely Damned's repetoir! One of my biggest complaints so far is, you guessed it, the sound we're getting for the "solo" section. (I'm even less impressed with our patch for the synth part that plays during the short-wave-backed middle section that follows) I am expecting to acquire a Nord Lead synth soon for the very purpose authentically recreating parts such as these, but until that happens I would LOVE to try out your patch for the DX-100! I have no idea how Systems exclusive data tranference (same as "dumping"?) takes place. Please let me know. Any help would be majorly appec.

No Cal SD fans: The Steely Damned has just confirmed a SAN FRANCISCO show at one of SF's premiere music venues: The Great American Music Hall! The date is set for Sunday, March 2nd. Tickets will be $12.50 If you need any additional info please feel free to call The Rockola Hotline @ 619 558-1966 (starting Thursday afternoon) or e-mail me.

LH: Thanks for the info! Sorry to take so long to do so, my life is changing in extreme ways, and it's fucking up my sense of time. Mid West and East Coast travel (for both Rockola and The "Damned" is currently in limbo do to some harsh & severe financial realities, but if our Bay Area excursion is a screemin' success, it may indeed provide much needed momentum to reach your li'l corner o' Mother. Thanks again....A LOT!

lovebob


The San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Thu Feb 13 05:06:29 PST 1997

Yep siree! That Fogel man is pretty damn slick!

Never mind Fella. You at least have memories of a more personal gig than I do!!!!

Hey, I have located that woody Herman cd I was looking for. well, I haven't actually found it, I just think I know where it is.

can anyone recommend a good Chick Corea cd. I do not have any yet so I need guidance.

laters

pretzel cd hunter


Joe Murtha JGMurtha@aol.com Thu Feb 13 07:15:36 PST 1997

San Fransisco Knight,

My Chick Corea recommendations would include some stuff from Chick's early days with Miles Davis ("Filles De Killamanjaro", "In A Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew"); one or two from his "Return To Forever" days ("Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy"); Chick's all-time classic "Leprican" which features the phenomenal Chick composition "Spain" (this one's a requirement IMHO; and my absolute favorite Chick recording, the self titled "Chick Corea Akoustic Band" set. This one contains another stupendous version of "Spain" and features the incredible drumming of Dave Weckl along with John Pattitucci on bass. I was lucky enough to catch this trio live as "The Akoustic Band" several years back and they were fantastic. This same trio morph's into "The Elektric Band" on occasion and they have several recordings out. I'm not particularly impressed with the "Elektric Band" configuration though. Just my own personal taste.

That's my $0.02,

Joe


YGK .. Thu Feb 13 08:40:01 PST 1997

Paul: 1)Firstly, you write like an Objectivist - which would give me cause to applaud YOU! (If that indeed were true)

2)If you want to read some of my more spiritual posts, check the archives. I don't need to prove my capacity for soulfullness, or spirituality to you. However, I've written eloquently at times about AJA, and before that, the helpful guide to diggin' Kamakiriad. I've written passionately at times, although not as beautifully as Edd did recently. I'm concretely aware of soul and spirituality.

3)Music is a whole brain activity.

4)I AM seeing a shrink - but not because of you. Don't take YOURSELF too seriously.

5)The more you write, the more you reveal, and you sound a little "mushy", which doesn't fit in with your alleged Objectivist leanings.

However, Whatever. The End.

In truth, reality, love and harmony,

YGK


Q QGB@AOL.COM Thu Feb 13 09:27:49 PST 1997

20 bit Kama gold disc is a US promo where as 32bit is a Japanese ltd production piece. For any major dude the 20 bit works just fine.


Roy.Scam old-cow Thu Feb 13 09:30:11 PST 1997

To San Francisco Knight: On the counter at the mall / left your book of coupons and your Geritol.

To Dismayed: Lighten up, California; you'll tumble into the sea or something if you try to anally retain everything.

Gotta go; my languid, bittersweet woman wants me to crawl like a viper through her suburban streets.


Lars @work Thu Feb 13 12:24:44 PST 1997

This seems to be the right time to ask once more - anybody here with success in stumpin that Fogel?

Corea suggestions: SFK- try "My Spanish heart" that album includes "Armando´s Rhumba". Very Good! If you want to hear the above (Joe M) suggested "Spain" - dont buy "The Leprechaun" because you dont find that tune on that album. Try "Light as a Feather" instead. That´s a good pick too.


JM JGMurtha@aol.com Thu Feb 13 13:04:16 PST 1997

Lars,

Of course... Corea's "Spain" appears on "Light As A Feather". And thanks for the spelling correction on " The Leprechaun" as well. I still highly recommend "The Leprechaun" though. And the "Spain" on "The Chick Corea Akoustic Band" set is superior to the "Light As A Feather" version IMHO.

Joe


JM JGMurtha@aol.com Thu Feb 13 13:04:32 PST 1997

Lars,

Of course... Corea's "Spain" appears on "Light As A Feather". And thanks for the spelling correction on " The Leprechaun" as well. I still highly recommend "The Leprechaun" though. And the "Spain" on "The Chick Corea Akoustic Band" set is superior to the "Light As A Feather" version IMHO.

Joe


mWorld khillman@lightspeed.net Thu Feb 13 16:22:37 PST 1997

JoeM: what no 'Friends' or 'Three Quartets' (Gomez/Gadd) for you? JoeM: what no 'Friends' or 'Three Quartets' (Gomez/Gadd) for you? (sorry joe, couldn't resist...)

bcG: Thanks for clearing that up for me, the veins in my forehead are no longer visable...(BTW, Mw lives in CA, no real snow here, just Sears snow). I think I may risk my take on Wet Side Story pretty soon...you guys got me Sittin' and Listenin' too...

mWorld


Bodacious Cowgirl starting a 4-day weekend! Yahoo! Thu Feb 13 16:43:22 PST 1997

Re: Chick Corea, I dig the piece 'Tones for Joan's Bones'.


Bodacious Cowgirl again Thu Feb 13 16:49:19 PST 1997

mW-- for some strange reason I thought you were in the PA/NJ area. I think I've been working too hard lately :)


Aaron Sontag rickan19@idt.net Thu Feb 13 19:07:20 PST 1997

SOMEBODY E-MAIL ME PLEASE!!!


Aaron Sontag rickan19@idt.net Thu Feb 13 19:07:32 PST 1997

SOMEBODY E-MAIL ME PLEASE!!!


Roy.Scam rmoats6211@aol.com Sun Feb 16 12:46:42 PST 1997

Here's a useless but fun thing to do. If you're a fan of the Dan and The Band (and you should be), then you probably like the songs "My Old School" and Jupiter Hollow". Well, the two songs can be sung together, up to a point; their tunes are so similar, I can only assume that even Robbie the Great emulates those Steely Dan fellows. If you kick in with "....I remember.." right after Levon Helm sings "..Jupiter hollow..", the tunes merge; they could even be sung as a round at campfires. Unfortunately, the tunes depart for a while and don't re-unit until "..living in another world/...I'm never going back,".

I believe there's a more meaningful cosmic connection between the two greatest North American rock groups. A mutual love interes or something. Anybody know the details?

ophelia later.


Roy.Scam rmoats6211@aol.com Sun Feb 16 12:47:06 PST 1997

Here's a useless but fun thing to do. If you're a fan of the Dan and The Band (and you should be), then you probably like the songs "My Old School" and Jupiter Hollow". Well, the two songs can be sung together, up to a point; their tunes are so similar, I can only assume that even Robbie the Great emulates those Steely Dan fellows. If you kick in with "....I remember.." right after Levon Helm sings "..Jupiter hollow..", the tunes merge; they could even be sung as a round at campfires. Unfortunately, the tunes depart for a while and don't re-unit until "..living in another world/...I'm never going back,".

I believe there's a more meaningful cosmic connection between the two greatest North American rock groups. A mutual love interes or something. Anybody know the details?

ophelia later.


Roy.Scam computer-dunce Sun Feb 16 12:59:16 PST 1997

Sorry about the double posting. I swear I'm not doing it; there must be some viral invasion in my AOL. I will sincerely try not to double post this apology.


(Good King) Richard rlongman@dca.gov.au Sun Feb 16 17:46:39 PST 1997

So lovers, what's the story? I finally get to the net after a taxing morning's work to enjoy the weekend's digestion (burp) and there's almost no postings... noticeably, none on Friday and Saturday to long confirm what I'd always expected: you're really all a bunch of hardened romantics waiting for that next sublime key shift and sax solo, only looking to Donald & Walter's lyrics to give you a bit of sleaze and jaundice 'on the side'. Time to start up the Kenny G discussion again...

Alternatively, StAl what up? - Seanet OD'd on chockies and roses?

Richard&kangaroos

PS: moray eel - any news re Re:The Video?


Amanda da@primenet.com Sun Feb 16 22:47:18 PST 1997

i KNOW there were at least a couple posts between thursday and sunday... i remember reading them. there weren't many, but now they're gone! what happened to them?

amanda


Moray Eel Laurel Canyon Police Station Sun Feb 16 23:51:15 PST 1997

(Good King)Richard: "THE FIX IS IN and now I'm a witness"...I did finally receive my copy of the Re: The Video. It arrived about a week ago and it was definitely worth the wait. The day it arrived I decided to sample some "Gospel Candy" and view it several times. GREAT NIGHT. The video and sound is top notch work. I have already copied it to audio tape and it came out perfect.

Who were the posters that said Krantz sucked? He is a fine musician. He seems to be more of a rock guitarist than jazz player though. Physically he looks like a cross between the early Neil Young and the '80's Eddie Van Halen. His solo on Glamour Profession was very interesting.

LuckyHenry: You were right about Donald's keyboard work on Jack Of Speed. Amazing. Under those red lights, with that sinister music Donald could pass as Satan's personal minstrel or perhaps The Devil himself.

Nobody posted on Friday or Saturday? That must be a record. We need more postings on the weekends...parodies, detailed musical observations or even more U.S.A./Sweden put-downs. PLEASE...

M.E.

P.S. Now that I have "the video" perhaps I should keep looking for issue #27 of that fanzine I paid for...

Does anyone know if Brian Sweet is still around? Maybe he would be interested in starting up the "zine" again or something. I think "Reelin'" is first-rate because he writes intelligently about the band and their music. You won't find any fluffy crap like Rosie Vela's diet secrets in his book.


The San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Mon Feb 17 00:46:30 PST 1997

The Fagen Plan:

Recipe one:

The Gourmet Diet

Take one twinkie.......

only kidding guys!

Hey, thanks for all the Chick Corea pointers. I shall be loaded by the end of the month.

If anyone is interested, I got hold of a Wynton/Ellis Marsallis collaboration cd at the weekend. It's called the Joe Cool Blues and they have basically reworked all the music from the Peanuts TV show. It's damn good. I suggest you check it. Very Wynton but not so jazz that it sounds as though it ends were it should have started.

Quite slick, and my wife loved it. How bizarre...

Roy. Sacm: thanks for the add on lyrics, work's well but bear in mind that I'm from London so I don't know what on earth geritol is. Still, I'll go with it.

Old Cow

Shoes with corners, one glass eye

Talk incessant bullshit, wear a crap bow tie

Faaake bow tie!

With a whining grimace (pronounced grimaice)

And an oblong face!

On the counter at the mall

left your book of coupons and your Geritol.

Columbo, you'll watch it all day on TV

Until you switch to Jeopardy, dah dah dah dah dah

I don't smile anymore, I just hang around (once more I believe)

Talk away, just when they seem pissed off,

'Cos I don't talk now, to that fat old cow

I married years ago.....

Okay, ageist, contraversial etc etc. Hope you guy's laugh, well chuckle slightly.

Laters

prestzel eutnanasian.


The Jack of Dick in a Random Universe Mon Feb 17 00:59:24 PST 1997

I must agree with M.E., that video is boss! But I've got to tell you, the video (from the board) I have from 93 BLOWS this one away! And Krantz? Come on! Zingg plays circles around that guy (how did they choose WK anyway? From a hat?). He may look like Eddie Van Halen, but the comparisons stop there.

I would also like to see Brian Sweet start up that zine again, since I was unaware of it until it was too late. I've seen the ones on the web, but when are they going to be updated? Sweet's book is another story. Although it was enjoyable reading, it was just a compilation of articles from the last two decades. From the sound of things, W&D didn't give him the time of day. Intelligently written? I think the appropriate term is intelligently RE-written.

Mr.Eel I think you've spent too much time curled up in the reef(er).

Does anyone have the sheet music to King of the World???

J.O.D


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Mon Feb 17 04:23:09 PST 1997

> Does anyone have the sheet music to King of the World???

Yeah, I do, although as SD songs go, it should be pretty easy for someone to figure out.

I've got sheet music, patches, sequences, recordings... Hey wait! I bet I *am* the king of the worl...

Edd


Edd duh... Mon Feb 17 04:25:14 PST 1997

Well, now we all know where I got the second "d" in my name...


fezzy bermuda@magicnet.net Mon Feb 17 06:12:30 PST 1997

J.O.D. - email me! Lets talk about the Zingster, I dig his playing!

thanks

fez


Pepe Far Arcturus Mon Feb 17 10:13:43 PST 1997

Metal Leg the Dan fanzine was way much better under Fogel & the other guy than when Sweet did it. Sweet had no connections and was stuck in England and just regurgitated rumors from the states. Pete was in the heart of NYC during Fagen's comeback and knows all the musicians and went to all the shows. His version of the fanzine also had a great sense of humor(like Rosiee Vela diet secrets, Donald Fagen computerized psychological profile, etc.) vs. Sweet's which was pretty dry. If anyone should start the fanzine back up, it should be Pete.


Doc Kelly Here at the dude ranch Mon Feb 17 10:14:46 PST 1997

Regarding period of time with no posts: I suspect that St. Al might be able to shed some light on the situation.... It can't be just coincidence that he has archived over the weekend and we lost some posts....

Edd: You're right... King is among the easier SD tunes to figure out...


Lonnie and Johnny in their playrooms Mon Feb 17 14:15:53 PST 1997

San Francisco Knight: apparently D&W don't share your enthusiasm for Wynton Marsalis. See the new "The Future--What Went Wrong?" link on the main Dan home page.


CyberChris babelfish7@aol.com Mon Feb 17 15:38:20 PST 1997

MorayMeister!! Hey, what else is on that there video you have? Drop me a line, yeah? Mr. Chow


Earthbound danfan@expert.cc.purdue.edu Mon Feb 17 16:39:39 PST 1997

"Are you still here with me? Have you got this far?"

YGK: Could I be mistaken, or is that symbol following your name in the header truly a facsimile of a Fear&Loathing character?

major: Kindly E me, I have some Qs.

Zeke: high.

After many journeys, over hills, dales, plains, waters, and marshes, I realized that I have never been amidst a desert. Hmm... So, I request:

ANYONE WITH ARIZONA EXPERIENCES, please inform me what I should focus on while traversing that fair state next month. E me if you please.

I envision a jaunt out of PHO on Nite1 to groove on the "old" new moon(3/10). I'm thinkin' a cruise down through Organ Pipe and into Mexico to Puerto Penasco sounds fun. I know a coupla days'll be spent around Sedona. Can't leave out a jaunt up to the South Rim of the Big Hole followed by a continuation west to the dam and up to Vegas(you know what'll be cranked). We have a friend on the Navaho Res. who says their are hot springs to explore. I dream of grinding it out to include a run up to Zion in Utah. Sound like too much for 7 1/4 days?

This trip is much needed: 14 months ago, a friend of 18 years lost his bride to diabetic heart failure. Two weeks ago he went to meet her. Hard week for many here. Break is due. [WB: Walks in a snowy forest with 11ToW very helpful. Mahalo.]

I've been lurking about the GB for a month or so. Nice to feel up to scribing again.

"Now the voice on my machine is more alive than what you are"


San Fran Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 18 04:40:44 PST 1997

Lonnie & Johnny: I am not sure what the "The Future......" page is all about. I find it a bit hard to believe that D&W would find Wynton tiresome or mundane. He is a fantastic musician and has exceptional skills in illustrating music in all forms to the world. His children workshops are excellent.

I would actually be disappointed if D&W felt that way. It is because he worships Duke, and Duke did not respond to the Dan?

Still, maybe I just have not picked up on that particular page.

Still trying to acquire the Woody Herman disc. I wil get there!!!!!

Laters boys.

Pretzel Trumpeter


fez bermuda@magicnet.net Tue Feb 18 04:59:06 PST 1997

could someone please post or mail me the URL for Pete Fogel's Dan page, my hard drive crashed and I lost it....

thanks

fezzy


Howard Palmer envirocon@icon.co.za Tue Feb 18 05:17:49 PST 1997

We're new on the web here in South Africa and this was the first site we accessed. Are we Dan Fans or what ? Looking for some Dan midi. files for our SC88.


chain male Tue Feb 18 05:46:32 PST 1997

fez -- I think there's a link to Fogel's page on the SD links page


JM JGMurtha@aol.com Tue Feb 18 07:42:53 PST 1997

San Francisco Knight,

No doubt Wynton is an exceptional musican and is impassioned about spreading the word about the music. The trouble a lot of folks have with Wynton is his distaste for anything non-traditional and/or experimental. He's become a straight-ahead jazz zealot who can't tolerate the contributions of certain individuals especially as it relates to free jazz and fusion jazz. He berates his brother Branford for juxtaposing jazz elements with pop and rock elements and playing with non-jazz musicians. He all but dismisses anything by Miles after 1968. He has assumed the position as world spokesman on jazz correctness.

Don't get me wrong, I think Wynton has done a great service to us all by making traditional (bebop) jazz an important idiom once again but, man, lighten up already... Without the jazz fusion experimentations of Miles, Corea, Hancock, Shorter, et. al we would not have The Dan, who thrust into main stream pop radio in the early 70's armed with a plethora of latent jazz and jazz fusion sensibilities. So maybe this is where D&W part company with Wynton? Who knows.

BTW: If you haven't heard Wynton's "Live At Blues Alley" with Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums, I highly recommend this one. For anyone who feels that Wynton can't blow with the best of them, check this one out!

More than my $0.02 worth.

Joe


Kid bigg@swipnet.se Tue Feb 18 08:17:10 PST 1997

Why d´yall spend time on this crap instead of digging ?..

Kid


whining stranger with time to kill Tue Feb 18 09:17:48 PST 1997

Joe: at the end of Wynton's distaste list, you need to add the words "or white": he apparently doesn't believe any "legitimate" jazz can come out of a honky.


YGK .. Tue Feb 18 09:35:34 PST 1997

As I restrain myself from overheating over the Wynton thing, I just must say that although Wynton is "technically proficient" in his playing, what I consistently hear is lacking from his music is his soul. Sure, sure, he can blow over changes, but where the fuck is his VOICE?

Oh yeah, he's also a bigot.

And all of this from a deep honky.

YGK


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 18 10:07:19 PST 1997

Ummmm!

Some interesting points raised above...

A mixture of resentment and pseudo respect. I have only witnessed wynton as himself through one of the kid workshops he did for the BBC over here in London. Interestingly enough, the two pieces he used to analyse form were 'I got rythym' by GG and 'Night & Day' by IB. Now, these two guys are not top on my black list of writers.

Before you think that, being the BBC it would have a white focus anyway, the audience, kids obviously, were quite a mix of origin, most of whom could play to some level.

So, although it does not negate the black/white thing, it does illustrate his feel for using identifiable, and certainly influencial pieces. I mean Night & Day was written for Fred Astaire, who's movies usually featured those of ethnic origin as flunkies or dumb waiters. Totally un PC.

With reference to JM, I must admit that I have not heard anything on the fusion side from him either and you are probably correct in that he may be a 'trad snob' which would be disappointing. I also agree with you on the other artists that you mentioned. Although, I have never liked Miles D's sound at all. Mind you he was a funny guy!

what does wynton make of woody herman, in my view the jazz band meister. If you do not have it, Woody's Winners, recorded at Basin Street West, is the ultimate in bomb dropping horn feel. It has all the classics, Greasy Sack Blues, Woody's Whistle and Opus de Funk. Love it, shite album cover though...

laters guys

pretzel horn player


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Tue Feb 18 10:47:18 PST 1997

yeah yeah yeah

back on the old stupid dan song re-titles...

a selection of classic hits for teenage boy tossers follows...

Do it at all

Boston drag

Take whizz kids

Need a buzz

Everything you didn't

Home whenever

Hey, sixteen and a half

Fuck all profession

Featuring classic lyrics such as ...

'In the morning you don't get up'

'Hey sixteen, that reefer's crackling'

'Who had that bastard son?'

and the favourite...

'Steal some gas from that car'

bye for now

pretzel vendor


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Tue Feb 18 17:57:01 PST 1997

Oh, no! Bad news in "Brooklyn"...

Odd as it seems, today I purchased "Can't Buy A Thrill" on CD. (I've been listening to my vinyl and the tapes I made of it for only a quarter century, and it was only $6 new... go figure.)

Anyhow, I was interested in hearing the "newly remastered" cuts, so I pushed the amp into Class A, bolted on the Sennheisers and cued up my fave track from the album, "Brooklyn."

I love the way the track aurally "opens" when the backup-vocals come in for the second chorus, but listen closely during the final chorus. "Brooklyn Owes The Charmer Under Me" is repeated four times (2 iterations of 2) and then just as the instrumental "outro" begins you can here "Brook/click" on beat one. Someone fell asleep and started the chorus a third time.

Three explanations I can think of: (1)Some bu-voxen got lost and mistakenly started another chorus or (2) the backups were "flown in" from someplace else and someone misplaced the mute button or (3) at somepoint after the vocals were tracked it was decided they would be cut after the second iteration and again somebody didn't hit the mute button in time. (I know I hear the the word "Brook...". I believe I hear a click after it that ain't part of the percussion track.) I lean toward #2.

Any of you other analytical types hear it? And can you hear the one point where the rhythm guitar is simply TOO EARLY?

Edd


moray eel at the counter Tue Feb 18 18:51:14 PST 1997

Edd Cote: The extra "Brook" doesn't appear on the vinyl version? I always thought that extra "Brook" was intentional. Well, if it is a mistake my money is on number 4.

m.e.


moray eel whoops Tue Feb 18 18:55:12 PST 1997

Sorry...number 3! I was thinking that the forth explaination would be that it was intentional.

Sorry

m.e.


moray eel damn Tue Feb 18 19:03:39 PST 1997

FOURTH EXPLANATION...((yeah))...no more candy for me.

m.e.


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Wed Feb 19 00:33:44 PST 1997

Sorry to drag up Toto, but at the start of Africa, faintly behind J Pocaro's legendary intro, your can hear a couple of guys laughing.

I will try the Brooklyn thing tonight.

By the way, is there a particular affection for King of the World on this page? It has seemed to be mentioned quite a few times over the last few days.

I am not too keen on that one myself. I'm not sure why, but it is one of the very very few Dan songs that I try to avoid. Am I missing something?

laters

pretzel unfulfilled


ÔŒÅÄÁF ÔŒÅÄÁF Wed Feb 19 00:38:42 PST 1997

Hey, open up the dan mailroom!!!!

Communication required!!!!


clas clas@work Wed Feb 19 03:07:17 PST 1997

Do you know about the metric system. This is very important, 1 mile (not your mickey mouse mile) is 100 kilometers. 1 kilometer is 980 meter. 1 meter is 89 centimeters und so weiter. You need to know this because in my next post I going to show you some chapters of my Great Swedish Novel. The scene is this; A halfdark room with two ordinary chairs, Chippendale. The left chair is ungeferlich 2 meter and 45 centimeter... sorry, got to go.

Have patience..


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Wed Feb 19 03:44:59 PST 1997

I imagine (without pulling out the album to confirm) the extra "Brook" does appear on the vinyl, I'd just never noticed it.

Its' presence, and the fact I've never noticed it, both surprise me equally.

Edd


San Francisco Knight jim@businessmonitor.co.uk Wed Feb 19 04:37:31 PST 1997

Hey, more interesting facts about Wynton. having dinner last night with a saxophonist friend of mine who told me a story he heard when in the British Youth Jazz Orchestra.

Apparently, the Cardiff (Wales) Philharmonia had asked Wynton's agent if he would perform with them in a classical festival.

The request was then retracted when Wynton's agent stated the fee would be £15,000 for the night.

Now £15,000 as a session fee, rock-jazz performance or maybe a run of shows would be cool, but to assume that the Cardiff Philharmonic would stump up that kinda cash would more or less guarantee that he did not perform for them.

That is not a cool Wynton point. Just to add to his shit list.

Cheesed me off when I heard that one.

Clas: wierd posting. Shouldn't a metre be 98cm not 89?...

laters

pretzel overcharging


SDWebDrone @bounceback hell Wed Feb 19 05:23:46 PST 1997

The e-mail accounts for the SD website are not operational "due to circumstances beyond our control". The appropriate drones are and have been hard at work to solve the problem -- your patience is appreciated


ÔŒÅÄÁF ÔŒÅÄÁF Wed Feb 19 05:44:17 PST 1997

SD WebDrone: You are cool and good.

Await the great moment when communication is restored.


Zeke spike@eatel.net Wed Feb 19 06:07:06 PST 1997

Earth: High. What's new on the coffee scene? Crawling out of my cave after the winter. Winters are not brutal here, I'm ready for spring.

Been out for a while, any new info. on the CD? I believe it will happen, and when it hits the streets it will blow us Dan Fans away.

Clas: What's up??

Jazz Fest, 'round the cornah.

Back in the cave.

Z.


Kinky @ The EddCote Fan Club Wed Feb 19 10:36:37 PST 1997

Moray Eel - Just when I thought EddCote was the top Steely Dan tune decipherer, you join in with your superior knowledge. How do you know so much? Have you broken bread with Mr. Steely Dan?


Clean Willy ClnWilly@aol.com Wed Feb 19 11:27:08 PST 1997

Don't you make me come back there again young man! I'll turn this car around right now if I have to.


YGK .. Wed Feb 19 11:40:07 PST 1997

Kinky! Long time, dude - how are ya?

What wisdom do you have to impart on us today?

YGK


Earthbound danfan@expert.cc.purdue.edu Wed Feb 19 11:42:30 PST 1997

"NO he can't sleep on the floor, whaddaya think I'm yelling for!"

amanda: thanks sister, looks like no one else's been there.

Zeke: Right on dude! Never been to N.O.-- hope to make it down for at least a few days of 'Fest. The deal is, a local friend never misses JazzFest, and he invited me to crash at the house he rents annually... cool, we'll see! More later. Interestingly, the Union on campus here got a leviathan of a machine recently which conjures up Starbucks jo in the Capp, Latte, and Espr varieties. Verdict: Yuck. I'll stick with my homemade Gevalia stuff when I can't get over to the Java Roaster.

major: what's your E bro?, i've gotta Qor2.

bobtedde: Does the Damned play outside of California?

"...all the stars come out at niiigghhhhhtt"


moray eel where neon bends in daylight sky Wed Feb 19 11:43:25 PST 1997

Kinky: Nope! I have never broken bread with Mr. Steely Dan or whatever. I am merely giving my humble opinion and trying my best to make a little bit of sense out of a very cryptic band.

I enjoy it when posters share some detailed musical observations. IMHO, it makes this place more interesting when someone writes about the cool baseline at the begining of The Nightfly or the vocal fade out of Gaucho. To me, these posts are more fun to read than posts like...

I like Steely Dan. They are neat.

Fred Snerd.

But I could be wrong...

m.e.


ambrose in yellow peril Wed Feb 19 12:30:09 PST 1997

oh no, clean willy is back! everybody out!


majordude frontier@rsabbs.com Wed Feb 19 15:42:08 PST 1997

Earthbound: you talking to me?

MinahW: Don't let Ricky play through. I've never seen him or Walter fix a ball mark yet, those moody bastards.

Sorry for the absence, I've been holed up listening to Edd's analysis of Time Out of Mind. Could it be that the timing of the song is simply the way it worked out when they played it, and the result was one created by some swing in their strokes? Who counts that kinda shit?

BTW, while I was hard at work in the sound lab, I came up with the coolest shades for Steely Dan bath-robes.

maj.


Bodacious Cowgirl sayres@prodigy.net Wed Feb 19 19:17:54 PST 1997

any fans in the Philadelphia/S. Jersey area--tomorrow on 93.3 wmmr fm, Steely Dan is the featured artist of the day for 'FAT Thursday' (featured artist Thursday)! They play songs, interviews, etc. all day.

Earthbound--check out the North rim, the South rim is the more touristy part of the Grand Canyon. Although I'm not sure if the North rim is open all year. I'll email you some more stuff.


moray eel the platform Wed Feb 19 23:42:46 PST 1997

Happy B-Day W.


Pete Fogel with a new game to liven up things a bit Thu Feb 20 00:39:28 PST 1997

Yeah, happy birthday Walter!

Well, there's some new additions to my page. Along with some photos, there is a new game for you to play called "Guess the Guest Guitarist" (say that 3 times fast). The object of the game is to guess which guitarists appear in the hidden pictures with Donald and/or Walter. You get a few hints, and if someone correctly guesses all of the players (in the first try), they may or may not receive a prize. According to the rules on the page, I was going to put the pictures up when the first person answered correctly, but instead, just keep track of your guesses, either here, or through me, and I'll post the pictures and answers sometime soon. If everybody digs this game, we'll try to get Vanna White to help turn the photos next time.


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Thu Feb 20 03:56:20 PST 1997

Too easy, Pete. Read the mail I sent you.

Edd


clas clas@work Thu Feb 20 04:07:18 PST 1997

SAN FRANSISCO KNIGHT; OK, maybe you´re right, 97 centimeters, I think, don´t got the right number. We take it again; 1 mil is 100 kilometers, 1 kilometer is something between 91 - 99 meters and then we got centimeters, millimeters and decimeters, all in 90 -100 millimeters, ungeferlich... where the hell am I now... well, this halfdark, very luguberus, nordic, Bergman bluesic kind of room, halfdark, there are two chairs, the left is standing ca 2 meter and 76 millimeters from the wall. The name of the Great Swedish Novel is "The Heart Behind The Sternum". Anyway, on those two chairs there are sitting... hell, we wait with this till tomorrow. I´m in a hurry, people are yelling about lunch here behind me. Lunch, shit.

Before I go, last night I went high on music again, listened to Bruce Hornsbys "Hot House" and " Harbor Lights". Wow, that is hot music, it´s burning. Listen to the pianointro of Harbor Lights. Bruce is a genius. And Pat Metheny on guitar. I was dancing!

Hope you all can wait till later...

The Tango King


Let's Not Forget @ The Little People Thu Feb 20 05:30:14 PST 1997

Happy Birthday Emerald "Beauty" Caissons!


clas clas@work Thu Feb 20 07:50:25 PST 1997

So, long lunch.

Are everybody with me now on the metric system? For those who are´nt I strongly recommend you to watch the swedish movie Pulp Fiction, it´s a famous dialog there... "Le Bigge Mac"...

So then the "The Heart Behind the Sternum", it´s just a workingname so don´t go out in public with this now, you are just a testaudience. It´s a great honor for you, remember that!

The room is luguberusley halftone dark and there are two chairs, as I said before, two ordinary chairs. The left chair is standing cirkus 2 meter and 45 centimeter from the fond. The right chair is standing ca 185 centimeter from the left side of the scene. On those two chairs are some wireframes, hidden from sight from a ...

Shit, it´s 5 o´clock. Got to go.


DrMu redefinethefirstarrangementagain Thu Feb 20 08:17:35 PST 1997

Edd: You have a really keen ear. I can verify that the extra "Brook-" does appear on the original vinyl as Moray Eel suggested. This happens just before the end guitar solo which sounds like Denny Dias along with Skunk on pedal steel in the background. Perhaps originally the song was recorded with the "Brooklyn owes the charmer under me" line repeated to fade out. Then they decided to finish with the guitar work to fade out instead. The the rest of the vocals could have been edited out at that point with the finals Brook- left on their by accident or on purpose - I don't know. I think that this album was recorded fairly quickly (2-3 weeks?).


Joe Murtha JGMurtha@aol.com Thu Feb 20 10:02:25 PST 1997

Fogel's "guess the guitarist", a reply:

1. Hiram Bullock 2. Denny Dias 3. Pat Metheny (Pat is from Lee Summit, MO... Not Boston, MA) 4. Elliot Randall 5. Billy Cox

So, I took my best shot...

Joe


Lucky Henry wide@wakeandburning Thu Feb 20 10:09:05 PST 1997

Hail WMMR! for flooding the airwaves with Steely Dan today. (Thanks for the tip, Bod!) Mostly from CBAT and Katy so far. Among others, they've spun FM and Chain Lightning, followed by the comment: "jazzy..like an in-house Kenny G". Bleah.

m.e.: re: Donald under the red lights: absolutely.

Happy B'Day, Walt.

lovebob: (since my last post was deleted): The recent package was courtesy of the maj., who, incidentally, has been laying down some nice blues licks lately, esp. on Chain. Must be the Cyberdon book.

lh.


clas clas@work Thu Feb 20 10:24:45 PST 1997

DrMU; That´s fine, but what have that to do with my "The Heart Behind The Sternum"?


YGK .. Thu Feb 20 10:58:44 PST 1997

Clas: Pulp Fiction is wholely an American Film.

You drinkin' again, son?


ygk inspellHell Thu Feb 20 11:00:35 PST 1997

wholely=wholly


YGK .. Thu Feb 20 11:13:23 PST 1997

droppin' the idea down: Hey, is it just me, or could Carolyn Leonhart try going solo? Her vocal prowess/experience with our boys and good looks seem like an irresistible idea...


Pete petefogel@asan.com Thu Feb 20 11:24:36 PST 1997

Well, we made a little mistake in the contest, but it's fixed now, I think. So far, no one has given all the correct answers here. Thanks Edd and Joe M.


FrozenRainMaker u6b88@cc.keele.ac.uk Thu Feb 20 11:38:34 PST 1997

Happy Birthday Mr. Becker! Uk Time!


Mr Crowley crowley@crazy.com Thu Feb 20 11:48:12 PST 1997

Just remember one thing - OZZY RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"am I just a crazy guy - you bet"


DrMu TTHBOA Thu Feb 20 12:28:52 PST 1997

Clas: The heart behind your sternum pumps approximately 6 liters (that's 6000ml or 6 cubic decimeters (each decimeter = 1/10 meter)) of blood each minute at rest. If you're running as hard as you can to the nearest YMCA to piss off of the second floor, given your age and physical condition, your heart would pump about 22 liters of blood per minute. You would also consume about 3 liters of oxygen per minute doing that (or 4.29 grams of oxygen or 8.34 x 10exp23 molecules per minute).

Outside Sweden: 1 Gigameter = 1,000,000,000 meters; 1 Megameter = 1,000,000 meters; 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters; 1 centimeter = 1/100 meter

and 1 mile = 1609.3 meters


DrMu typo Thu Feb 20 12:32:29 PST 1997

excuse me, that's 8.34 x 10exp22 molecules of oxygen per minute


R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. Thu Feb 20 13:59:19 PST 1997

pissboy,

get a grip. get a clue. get a job. get a haircut. get a life. get the fuck off this board you sweedish oxfart.

r


Amanda da@primenet.com Thu Feb 20 14:51:26 PST 1997

happy birthday, wb!

amanda


ED BEATTY EDBEATTY@PE.NET Thu Feb 20 15:25:50 PST 1997

WB 46 Already?? Where did those years go?


ed beatty edbeatty@pe.net Thu Feb 20 15:27:12 PST 1997

correction 47!!!!


rabbit nissho@neosoft.com Thu Feb 20 17:29:46 PST 1997

happy birthday, mr. becker. thank you so much for dan.

peace,

rabbit

ps--lessee, that was two pints in a quart, two quarts in a gallon.... wait, was that four pints? shit, i can never remember...... 'a pint's a pound the world around....' no, that's different. oh hell, never mind.

by the way, anyone know how many pounds in one stone? i'll give my first album side choice this upcoming 'lp friday' to whomever can give the correct answer. naturally if i don't have the album in question, this offer is null and void. residents of the united kingdom or any relatives/spouses/passing acquaintences thereof may not participate. residents of sweden may participate, but must preface all responses with a minimum of five (5) lines of vaguely incomprehensible anti-american rhetoric. i don't have any pat metheny, sorry.


Beautiful Survivor In.case.you're.wondering.it's.alive.and.well Thu Feb 20 17:42:58 PST 1997

Walter: So I return home after 10 days in the Sunshine State just in time to be able to send you happy thoughts on your birthday - enjoy!

rabbit: If memory serves, a former co-worker of mine who came from London once informed me that there are 14 pounds in one stone. Just my little contest entry.

Later, Beautiful Survivor


Hank Silvers mooreje@fast.net Thu Feb 20 18:06:13 PST 1997

In case you're wondering. . .happy b'day, WB. Checking out the Guestbook, while enjoying 11 ToW one more time. . .

The name of Bruce Hornsby came up earlier today. Here's a clipping I found awhile back:

"Hornsby was asked for a list of dream collaborators. Only one came to mind: guitarist Mark Knopfler. . .Jazz/pop fusionists (sic) Walter Becker and Donald Fagen aren't tempting because 'they're into jazz on a technical level, not on an attitude level,' claims Hornsby. . ."


Phoebe Caufield/Zooey I don't have one, I'm on my friend's computer Thu Feb 20 23:55:00 PST 1997

Glad to see all of you zombies. My father would be proud, since he played "Any Major Dude" 10 times in a row while my mother was going into labor with me. I'm pretty much computer illiterate, and slighly more Dan illiterate than ya'll seem to be(that's right...Dallas, Tx) but I'm certainly not lacking in the rabid enthusiasm of any good Danfan. Maybe I'll get a computer soon and get to know some of you better. ...and Edd...you can meet me under a banyan tree and a double helix anytime, baby. The neighboors are screaming, so it's back to my bunker.


moray eel on the dunes Fri Feb 21 00:01:10 PST 1997

My guesses are:

1.Hiram Bullock

2.Dias

3.Metheny

4.Randall

5.Harvey Brooks

BTW, the pictures of the guitarists never came up on my Netscape.

m.e.


moray eel Mount Belzoni Fri Feb 21 00:46:41 PST 1997

I guess I'll just have to be patient.

A few people have referred to this Guestbook as Ego City. Well, here is your chance to boost your ego . I have several questions that I have been unable to answer and I am seeking input from anyone. The Letterman rules apply...please, no wagering.

1. Donald has stated that there are several mistakes on the cover of The Nightfly. Can you name any or all of them?

2. How did Jeff "Skunk" Baxter really get his nickname? Was it from not changing his socks(as he claimed)? Or an incident with an outdoor critter(as I believe Denny claimed)? Could it have been his preferred kind of smoke?

3. What are YGT and YGTII about? I can usually get a general idea of what most of their songs are about but these two really perplex me?

I have a couple more questions, but I think I will save those for another rainy day.

m.e.


Pete petefogel@asan.com Fri Feb 21 01:01:04 PST 1997

I had a great original band tonight at Le Bar Bat called Stir Fried. They featured Tim Kaye (the son of Thomas Jefferson Kaye, who you may know as an artist that recorded some of Donald and Walter's early songs), and Buddy Cage, the pedal steel player from the New Riders of the Purple Sage. They had a major Grateful Dead/San Francisco sound happening. Anyway, if you ever hear of these guys playing, you should check them out!

Moray Eel, pretty good, but no cigar. So far, no winners yet, but a lot of close ones. I can see now that you guys are pretty good, so wait till the next one, I'll make it much tougher. BTW, you can't see the pictures because no one has won the game, the broken icons are supposed to be there. I'll post the pictures and answers in a week or so.


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Fri Feb 21 03:55:37 PST 1997

The most obvious faux pas on the cover of "The Nightfly" would be the placement of some of the objects, most notably the microphone and the Sonny Rollins album cover.

The microphone is placed such that the cable runs *towards* the announcer, not over the back of the desk. Worse, since he's in a corner, the cable now runs between him and the exit.

The album cover is on the far side of the turntable from the announcer, meaning he'd be constantly reaching over the platter, certainly a dumb thing to do in a studio.

Edd


Lars @work Fri Feb 21 07:33:46 PST 1997

the game: 1.bullock 2. baxter 3. metheny 4. randall 5. noel redding


pearl still in the quarter Fri Feb 21 08:49:47 PST 1997

Dear "Rabbit", I thought stones were of many varying weights, not just a fixed one...??

Hey Hank, too bad Hornsby has such a misinformed opinion of B&F's attitude. As I recall Walter had some nice things to say about Hornsby in his Blindfold test on the Dan Web site.

and to moray eel, who knows about YGT but I remember some talk about YGTII containing some references to Burroughs characters like the Wild Boys.


YourGoldKeith ., Fri Feb 21 08:57:27 PST 1997

moral eel, Possible Answer to #1. When I worked in radio (WICB-FM, Ithaca, NY) doing my jazz expansions show years ago, I would always prepare for the spoken seque into the next cut. As I was both engineer and DJ, I would cue up the next track. The turntable arm on the cover of Nightfly isn't cued up. In the title track, Fagen sings, "I got plenty of java, and Chesterfield Kings" - where's the Java? And finally, as I'm looking on the CD pic, we see the Sonny Rollins cover, but can anyone tell if that, in fact, is the Sonny Rollins disc on the tt?


Roy.Scam uneducated-guess Fri Feb 21 09:22:35 PST 1997

YGT=gambling. I picture Sharon Stone stalking the Vegas floors in "Casino". When you gamble everything else away, you take the gold out of your fillings and bet that. The bridge (tobacco...Peking) says that if you rely on the same crop time after time, one year the locusts will come around and you're screwed. But then I could be wrong; I don't even know if they grow tobacco in Peking; I've heard it suggested that they could manage a good crop in Sweden, something about a surplus of fertilizer.

hide here, [HIDE HERE},..--->


Dandy Gamma Chi @ I'm Just Growing Old.Com Fri Feb 21 10:47:36 PST 1997

The Older I Get, The Better I Used To Be....


rabbit nissho@neosoft.com Fri Feb 21 12:11:12 PST 1997

beautiful survivor--i don't know if a former co-worker would fall under the 'passing acquaintence' category, but aw, what the hell, i'll give it to you. if you can give me an album side (dan would naturally be a good choice), i'll make it my first choice tonight at the 'lp friday' festivities. bear in mind the only dan vinyl i have would be the 'greatest hits' double, 'aja,' and 'pretzel logic.' Any T-Rex or Rush would also be a welcome selection. let me know.

pearl-- a 'stone' is also an archaic unit of measuring weight. some other archaic units would be, for example, a league, a rod, or even a mile....... wait, sorry; we still use that one.

anybody know how many grams in a 'scruple'? i'll even throw in my nightly 'album card' if anyone can figure that one out.

peace,

rabbit


Phil Filestrio @The Games Fri Feb 21 12:32:54 PST 1997

Steve Kahn, Dias, Metheny, Rick Derringer, Billy Cox

Doesn't YGT have something to do with David Palmer's teeth?


Phoebe/Zooey The goof in Dallas with no e-mail address Fri Feb 21 13:37:03 PST 1997

Can somebody tell me what a "squonk" is? I'd appreciate it because it's been eating at my brain for years.


jon @ his yellowstripe Fri Feb 21 13:39:20 PST 1997

A squonk is a mythical creature that could cry itself into a bag of tears, according to Gary Katz.


Ruby trapped in TheNightfly (oh,well!) Fri Feb 21 16:14:22 PST 1997

Hi y'all! I think I'm part squonk.

I've been wondering what the very best-loved, most humorous, or just awsome SteelyDan lyrics are. You thoughts will be appreciated...

hey,rabbiiiiiiit! get it on...bang a gong...

On measurements: George, do you still want mine? (and where is my package?)

Also - why do they measure horses in *hands*? How big is a hand, anyway?

CLAS: we need more action in the chair novel. How about some time warp space travel parallel universe type stuff and don't leave out the sex?

over&out

RubyBaby


Beautiful Survivor Where.the.hell.am.I Fri Feb 21 16:19:24 PST 1997

Dandy Gamma Chi: Hear, hear - and of all the things we've lost, we miss our minds the most!

Speaking of which....

rabbit: Thanks for giving me the nod, however I have given additional thought to the answer I gave. I am not sure now if it's 14 pounds or 7 pounds per stone. If you will still accept my answer, I would be very pleased to provide you with the following album side, based on your album availability:

1. Rikki... 2. Black Cow 3. Deacon Blues 4. Pretzel Logic 5. Peg 6. Home At Last

I could go on, of course, but that's about a side's worth. Have fun with it.

Raising up my glass, Beautiful Survivor


Edd Cote eddcote@ultranet.com Fri Feb 21 16:58:37 PST 1997

scruple:== 1.296 grams:== 20 grains

I don't have any.

Edd


Edd again amazed@the.stuff.stuck.in.my.head Fri Feb 21 17:03:12 PST 1997

...and a hand is 4 inches.

I have two.

Edd


Bodacious Cowgal skatin'backwards@thespeedoflight Fri Feb 21 19:32:26 PST 1997

Ruby--most loved and most awesome, I'll have to think about it; I love them all! Most humorous, I'd have to go with "Rose Darling": 'the spore is on the wind tonight/you won't feel it 'till it grows' There's a humongous fungus among us! AAAAAHHHHH!!!!

BC


Bodacious Cowgirl