Definitely a dude ranch-greetings from San Diego's finest gay bar! No, I haven't crossed to the other side (I'm the only woman in here, anyway) there's just a great internet set up here. More rumors of the New One-should we start rumors of the 2002 tour? The 2002 Danfest schedule?
Hi Lisa G., we missed you! Hi Blaisie, missed you, too!
lp-in pearls for the night meeting? I've got one, too. How the heck do you maintain family life? I couldn't imagine having this job and kids, too. I've gone from fantasizing about living Kelly McGillis's life in "Top Gun" to fantasizing about being June Cleaver and serving a nice roast.....
Back to work now (bye boys!)
Aja
Wow! Nice to be missed.
steviedan-what up? You still teaching privately?
Howard!!!!!!!!! I missed "hanging" with you, too. On MOA, I have to say, "whew!" I was missing the goods on Aja and Black Cow, and I didn't even think about it but yeah, they did virtually no board work on them, although they paid the performances some well-deserved homage. Also, I missed “I Got the News.” "Broadway Duchess" would have been cool to hear. (I needed more M. McD to satisfy me.) Yes, all the musicians were so reverent of the whole production, well with the exception of Purdie who was reverent of himself, but still he was awesome to watch and hear. All this aside, I felt like MOA was just the tip of the iceberg. I want more! Great film, through and through. Although I would have loved the live footage with the live sound, and not the album overdubs. I suppose the focus was the album with the tracks themselves, as opposed to the creative processes and the songs, but still. Live performances would have added to the "tribute."
lp-Hey girly, girl! Are you misbehaving again? Happy birthday to your girls.
Gina-It seems I still owe you a tape of stuff. I promised you a Christmas version. Hope I can still do that even thought the season has ended. Missed you!
angel-More on MOA: Agreed about having their insight on their quest for "beyond perfection." I just can't imagine how those other guitarists felt about having their solos in this film, with the negative comments. I'm sure actually, they don't really care at this point. But D and W were respectful enough to not mention any names.
Nice to be home again. DaddyG sends good vibes to all. Musser, I think. (A little non-percussionist humor.)
Blaise -- the producers of Tribute the Movie are trying desparately to get a distribution deal for indie theaters across the country. That's a virtual pre-requisite for video release. Tribute the Movie will be screening in late Feb or early March at the Cinequest festival in San Jose, CA and in March at South by Southwest in Austin. http://www.tributethemovie.com (I hyperlinked this as "my URL" above)
SteeveeDan -- The OC show was totally out of control. As you know, the advertising for the show made no mention whatsoever of Which One's Pink? Nevertheless, when we arrived at 6:00 for load in, the ticket window had a sign saying "This Show Completely Sold Out" Wild Child, alone, basically filled the place. What was insane was that the crowd had NO IDEA that they were going to see a Pink Floyd tribute that night -- none. So when we came on and launched into our incredibly brief 45 min set, jaws were dropping all over the place -- they went nuts. We asked who had seen us before, and got a very sparse reaction. We asked who was seeing us for the first time and got a massive roar. No offense to the Doors, who I love, but Pink Floyd's music is just more powerful -- in part since Floyd has a heavy bass (and the Doors have none) and Floyd has more searing, power chordy guitar work. On the other hand, the Doors get the benefit of a dynamic, entertaining front man while we stand there like wooden indians. Therefore, by comparison, I think came off quite well and we garnered a large number of new e-mail addresses seeking to be on our e-mail list!
Tian, "Which One's Dan?" -- that would be me, Dan Johnson -- the world's only remaining Los Angeles Rams fan who refuses to acknowledge the existence of some purported entity called "The St. Louis Rams" I can't believe that Georgia is rumored to have gained access to ownership of the team by shady means involving Carol Rosenbloom, then refuses to pay great players like Fred Dryer and Eric Dickerson, allows the team to be intentionally torpedoed in order to claim that the Rams got "no support" in SoCal and get a sweetheart deal from STL and then gets to take advantage of a salary cap that forces a minimum payroll expenditure to become competitive and then wins the Super Bowl in '99 saying after the game as an insult to all of us who live and die with the team despite betrayal after betrayal "see this proves I did the right thing by moving the team" What a nightmare.
Is that Ray Bann below me?
Played in the 70's heavy metal group ''Scumglasses''
Well what a couple of weeks..
I will tell you all about it when it's over but the story includes
Promises broken, lies, fraud, dodgy accountants, theft, deception, law braking, stupidity, heartbreak, drinking, sleepless nights,broken contracts, depression.
Still when the levey breaks
Last Thursday was crunch day… the last straw
I woke up & smelt the coffee & I felt sick
Trying to keep up with you all but it's hard at the moment as my heads in bits
db
P.S. Dean Friedman's touring UK again this spring that's 2 years in a row
It's a …………………………SIGN
Clas,
Sorry. Yes, I have unfortunately forgotten my name again.
The friendly staff here at the institution have assured me
that this condition MAY only be temporary. If anyone out
there remembers who I am I would appreciate the input :)
Oh! One other thing...
Why do we care about the Palestinians again?
Dano: Ok, what does "wee" mean?
Nevermind
Yep, Peter Gabriel's new one should be out this year. Says so right on his website. And we think Steely Dan takes a long time in the studio...
Football? Isn't that the sport with the round white ball that people chase all over hell and gone?
StAl
I Forgot - did you forget your handle too? In case you don't know:
Sharon is leading the Apartheid-politics against the palestines.
C
Lisa G: Girlfriend! Alright! Glad you liked it. Boy was I gonna be upset if you didn't, after spending all that money. I do understand your thoughts on the rejects for Peg, but I think you have to have a thick skin when you work with the Becker/Fagen team. They even reject their own work. It does give us insight into what they were looking for, though.
Blaise: Interesting article, especially the fact that Cheney gave the order to down Flight 93, if needed. I thought it was Bush.
Ole: Nice work getting a trip to Tucson. :-)
LP: You deserved to give a Pat yell. They earned it.
Howdy X-Ray Woman :-) Lisa G. as Howard already said, you've been missed. This forum needs its scholared musical wizards discussing charts and D flats and Emaj7's and all that jazz :-)
Here a Manic Monday Anecdote:
The URL above is to Brian Bromberg's site.
Mr. Bromberg's part of Emiel van Egdom's musical journeys and i sent him the pictures taken in Maastricht and Belgium. He replied saying thanks for this visual update on the far away buddies and we came to talk via email.
Now i wasn't that familiar with his name nor the music, although many of the musicians BB has played and recorded with have passed my listening ears, but we all know how it goes, too much music, too many names, too little time!
Anyway, i was telling him this and how once upon a blue time i felt as low as possible and downhearted on life. Then i got to see the Fabulous Baker Boys movie and it turned the world around for me again. Every shred of passion for life and music i ever felt and the soul-numbing experiences which had me close the doors, the doors were unlocked, it all came back, just by watching that movie and hearing the music.
And guess what ... mr. Bromberg replied saying he was the bassist of the Fabulous Baker Boys Soundtrack!!!!!
Very very funny and so serendipituous this thing is, eh?
So the most courteous i could do, yesterday, was to say a belated thank you for that wake up call ... And therefore a Banyan Tree Bow in his honor today!
You gotto read the biography on his website, it's written so funny!
There are few moments in an adult's life beholding changes so deep and aware when at that time you feel stuck and imprisoned .. like when i found these Trees that Fab Baker Boys is one of those turnaround things .. New Dawnings, Awakenings .. And what are the odds we get to encounter those who were part of the positive changes ... so ...
Banyan Tree for Brian Bromberg Bow,
G.
Who is Sharon again?
LP - you're not a HyperFeminist? Are there such things as HYPERFeminists?
Either you're a Feminist or no.
Being a woman and not being a feminist, well, "Flying Blind" is the expression.
C, Feminist
PS/ Fuck Sharon
HA! never knew that other meaning of spunk - another male reference to mean "strength" as in, "wow, that took some serious balls" - i'm not a hyper-feminist actually; but i have found it intriguing that such male sexual exploits are used to mean positive attributes in someone, but yet we look at the word "hysterical" and well, you get my drift - i guess it will take a few more generations to clear up that linguistic mess, now won't it? that took some serious clit to type that, huh? - did you blush? see, these things take time i guess - LOL
back in my navy blue suit dear ward, not to worry [really big meeting tonight, won't be home dear, but i made you some stew] - i haven't gone to hell just yet in style - and yes (!), oleander will be a lovely addition to our trip- but do you, ole, drink martini's, we only pack the gin and vermouth, no vodka, hope that's okay...
angel - i rarely get all wacky about football, but after listening all last week to the national sports press and the pittsburg team/fans barely mentioning the game with the pat's and only referring to new orleans for the steelers, i felt they aptly deserved a kick in the patooty (did i just type that word?) - their fans actually had already made reservations for new orleans BEFORE saturday!!!!! - i usually keep the game(s) on as background noise on the weekends but this one i was riveted during [whilst addressing birthday invitations for both my daughter's separate birthday parties coming up in February, of course, hehehe, june lives baby, right gina?] - wow, what a game, i love that stuff!
i purchased the new john mayer cd as a necessary treat for myself, haven't given a listen yet, but will post thoughts - anyone else given this young man a try? i also got that industrial band that did "put the body in motion/start a commotion" thingy that was a mitsubushi commercial (for my 8 year old, please) and it's not bad for blasting out the car window on a sunny day, but don't tell anyone, you'll ruin my rep (smirk)...
lisa g, so glad to see you back - uptown baby!
Oleander: "Aus--I am extremely concerned about you [Ward & June] taking this perilous trip. You MUST take along a physician skilled in dealing with arthropod envenomation and ciguatera poisoning, at the very least. Please don't waste a moment --e me ticket & itinerary."
My lord Ole! How could I have been so reckless??! I'm E-blasting your E-tickets (first class, of course)as well as the itinerary right away...I only pray dear June doesn't mind sharing the cabanya with you once we all fly to St. Barth's....should I also be worried about beri-beri? What about other indigenous diseases??!! Now you've unwittingly stirred the closet microphobe in me....advise asap sil vouz plait..
Ward
Welcome back Lisa G! Great to hear from you again - you've been missed.
Is that "making of Aja" feature a gem or is it a gem?!? So glad you're enjoying it.
So many highlights... nice insights into the differing personalities of the musicians too. If only they hadn't lost the damn multi-track master tapes from Aja and Black Cow though. Would just love to get some of the track-by-track breakdown on these songs. Oh well, shouldn't complain - there's so much other great material.
Howard
Awww... who cares?
Part 1 of a promising series of in-depth, insightful articles on the US response:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26.html
For those so inclined, of course.
Is it Timberlake or Logsplash?
Btw, notice both rallying drives ended with a pick. Patience, 2 minutes is a long time. Coulda run the damned thing a few times there, mix it up, no?
Jay Graydon, to my knowledge, never played on another SD track.
And there, in a nutshell, is my limited contribution.
µ - your cue...
Hey angel, happy belated birthday. Hope you had a good one:]
victor is.
good heart, good all around.
there must have been some incredible cosmic alignment when those guys got together.
shine and sparkle
Steveedan - Excellent. Where else but at Mr Chow's? That suits you too doesn't it JW? If I remember correctly, you are somewhat partial to Chinese food? Looking forward to the next time I'm in your town.
Cheers
Mr Chow.
PS. Hi to Miz Ducky. Everything alright up there in drizzle-land?
a whole house attic fan defeat me ? you do not deny the MAASSS-ta' !!!
blaise, right, pee wee in there as the manager. you realize of course that master timberlake is from n-sync...
dr k. love ? i'm down ! they kicked ass ! listen to the doc, y'all !
hey charlie tokyo...
... and who's this "Lisa G" person ?
lol
ole, okay maybe two cartoons then, counting "johnny quest". two of the old monday night weirdos caught vic at ziggy's in winston-salem. said that it KILLED. mostly extremely nimble r & b, wooten-style sans futureman as you said. have you heard that future is down in the hoosegow ? down in the hoosegow ? people put him down 'cause that's the side of town he paid no taxes in...
By the way, which one is Dan??
Scott #1710
Think I have the answer to question #1...."Peg" pegged out at #11...
that, according to some old records of mine...I would have been
at a country format station (!) at that time....lessee....the rest
of the questions...better leave those to some other experts on this
GB...any easy questions? like who played Wally on Leave It To Beaver?
HEY!!!!!!!!
How's everybody? Damn, I miss you guys. Been away too long. This is my first official post in the new format. And I must say it's strange. Guess old habits die hard.
Just had to burst in and tell angel--GUESS WHAT I JUST WATCHED ON MY NEW DVD PLAYER?
Uptown, baby. Finally to see Fagen's eyes, up close and personal without those damn shades. To hear just the background vocals to "Peg." (Who knew about the acoustic guitar part?) To hear and see those guys, all of 'em and the tracks all bare and stuff. Rainey was gentlemanly; Carlton, respectful; Herington, a pleasure to hear; and overall the anecdotes were worth the price of admission. And much was admitted. My only complaint was with the "Peg" solos segment. Playing the tidbits of the guitar solos that didn't make it was kinda in poor taste, IMO.
I've got to give it a few thousand more whirls. But quite frankly, I found it the best thing I've seen since Calle 54.
"Don't wear your heart on your sleeve." Hmm...good advice.
I’ll try to check in again soon. Right now, it’s time for bed. Early morning and two concerts tomorrow.
Nice to be back.
Lisa G
steviedan--Victor Wooten et freres (sans FutureMan) were here at a small club last night (cara, where we went to see Jonatha Brooke), but by the time I strolled up it was sold out, dammit--the place was beseiged by dreaded Fleckies. Now of course R& B was/ is the best, but are there any current cartoons you like? Freakazoid, Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack?
BigFan--Glad you're back. Wonder if the Sporting News guy knows our bud kd?
Aus--I am extremely concerned about you [Ward & June] taking this perilous trip. You MUST take along a physician skilled in dealing with arthropod envenomation and ciguatera poisoning, at the very least. Please don't waste a moment --e me ticket & itinerary.
Dr. Kruger--man, you better get your cerumen disimpacted and wipe the spunk off your glasses--that $3.80 is what the check is written for, and can only be cashed if you answer the damn question!
Paul--Very funny article. Wish I could come get a snifty at the DSO.
LP: Could you restrain yourself? Congratulations! (Not like you did anything, but what the heck.) :-)
Dr. Warren K: I did what? Must have signed that check in my sleep. :-)
Big Fan: Hey, good to see you. Thanks for the links, as always.
W1P: Did you get that riot going? I wanted to be there so bad. :-(
Raining today. Nice day to just stay at home. Off tomorrow, wahoo!
Heh,Heh alright you hepcats ?
What the heck is going on?
Do I have to beg for it again?
"Dear Prudence"= Prudence Farrow
Don't tell me you knew this one too Dr. Mu!
Well, I've got to take off for Arthur Lee's Orgone Therapy sessions, but I'm really getting desperate here, Danners.
My last chance is steviedan- the king of music esoterica-
steviedan, tell them about who Arthur Lee and his band LOVE are, and why it's so important that we get him back to something resembling sanity so he can make his comeback and make me rich!
Orgonically Yours,
Dr. Warren K.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never underestimate your opponent - be careful how far you plan your future for you JUST NEVER KNOW
PAT'S RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!! BBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations Patriots fans!
The Pats win 24-17 to advance to Superbowl XXXVI in
New Orleans...who woulda thunk it? A special pat on
the back to coach Bill Belichick who finally steps
out from under the shadow of Bill Parcells.
Enjoy the Superbowl Pats fans, you deserve it!
Half Time , Outlaws have legged it and left me to watch the game.
Man City one side , Pittsburgh the other , but i wish John Madden was doing the commentary over here ??He is a real top guy.
Paul , had a quick snifty at the list will try and get to one??will be in touch mate??
Bac to the sauce and the fitba"
nice web page
First of all, I'd like to thank the many Steeley Dan fans for the generous contributions they have made to the Rehab Arthur Lee Fund. I knew you people were easy marks- I mean, very quick with the buck, as far as rock and/or roll trivia is concerned.
That backwoods "voodoo queen" Oleander, was very generous for someone coming from that type of socio-economic background, although I was puzzled by the $3.80 remark.
Angel also showed that her wallet was as big as her uh heart- happy birthday from Dr.K. BTW.
The 2 Stev-ie-ee-dans came thru splendidly, although I could've used cash instead of comps for the tribute band thing. I'm sure I won't have any trouble scalping them in Sherman Oaks.
I've still yet to hear from some of our overseas friends, but I'm sure that's due to some mail strike those backwoods-I mean backwards countries are always going thru.
However, the rehab is not going so well. Indeed, it is almost as difficult to rehab a psycho rock and/or roll legend as it is to convince a 130lb. otterhound that he is not the Alpha-dog of the household.
So I guess it's necessary to reveal some more rock and/or roll esoterica that the good doctor has picked up from his once thriving practice.
From the Beatles' White Album- the song "Dear Prudence" was about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence's bout with agoraphobia whilst learning the secrets of the soul from that swingin' old Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.
So don't thank me, just send me some more money, Arthur Lee has not made a smooth transition to life on the outside. The plastic tubing, the timed-release deludin, the EST equipment- that's all very expensive stuff!
As another one of my rock and/or roll patients said before that unfortunate accident I had with his eyesight- "Don't delay, send yours in right a-way!
Nouveau Richely Yours,
Dr. Warren K.
LuckLess Pedestrian: Dearest June....in a recent salvo on these very pages you wrote: "but sad to say to ward, june does not have pearls and heels on doing this, an old eddie bauer sweatshirt and kahki's (sp)"
Now I'm really starting to worry my little shnook-shnook. Prescription to be administered ASAP: A WEEK of beauty, massages and relaxation at Canyon Ranch Spa in Tucson, Arizona....thereafter whisked away to St. Barth, West French Indies for another week of sun, sand, surf and wild passionate sex. Hang in there love....help is on its way...I'll be there as fast as I can.
Love.....Ward.
ps. Khakis.
GINA........Sorry about the tornado leftovers coming your way.....must be something to do with all this commonality in Europe now.....the €, EEC etc etc....it seems we must have standardised weather too!!!! Don't forget you're on The DSO guest list any time!
Also I didn't know what the reference to GB was.......now I understand...sorry for cluttering up the pages with our listings!!
One point always amuses me: the use of the word "Spunk" in your last posting and used throughout American writing.....Don't you guys know what it means over in the UK? SEMEN!!!!!! I used to cringe with embarassment when the word would get used on tv in front of my parents....red faces all round...nothing said....all understood though! Still can't ever see us using the expression over here! Same with Fanny...it ain't the BACK side!
Oh the joys of linguistic mangling!
I HAD to bring this one back....now that you're all using Monopoly Money over there....Rule Britannia......as always...last in the pool....AND we keep our pants on just in case!!!
The New Euro Language "VAT DER FOK"
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the
other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have
1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond
year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will
make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraseful, and they
should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such
as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze
unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar
changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech
uzer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
STEVEEDAN......thanks for all the warm greetings..feels real good to have a whole new branch of the family Stateside.
byeeeeeee for now...got some practicing to do,,cheers Paul
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open."
Frank Zappa
Gina - you're excused. But what is this shit, have you left Your Dog with your parents? Hmmm...
Scotch - what "palace" means in Dallas? Well, if you ask me; it rhymes with Dallas. That's all there is to it.
C
LOL LOL LOL
I seem to be stuck in yellow today ... had a little wingding with Gaucho who's keeping my parents from depression and illness, i miss that little muffin but he's in my heart and now my folks are young again and have fun playing soccer with a tennisball, Gaucho the Pele or Johan Cruijff, yes, why not throw in another one of those dutch wizards, eh?
Steveedan ... because i put it there with my own hands LOL
Nice to have access to Beasley's server and website, imagine, all those miles and water in between locations ... must give some credit to "Eg Man" Emiel van Egdom too since he's the one holding the reigns and the access in his Mac-kingdom, haha! Speaking of E. he's got plans to fly back to the States and work on projects with Tom McCauley who's also connected to bassist Brian Bromberg ... for a dutchman not bad, given the fact here in the Netherlands all he's experienced ever since his first band CULEA was jealousy and mayhem. I remember how folks reacted when they found out he recorded an album in the Chick Corea studios ... And recently, when he played here in Maastricht, i saw and heard people first get excited because of the music, then suddenly a negative swirl took over and they slammed him for working in the States ... When he was granted a scholarship for Berklee the same things happened ... Funny how people can't stand someone they "know", from their own neighbourhood to receive acknowledgment for his gift and talents ... And not because of connections or a network, but because of his talent! And he had to work hard as well in the States.
The conservatories here don't teach the way Berklee does for example .. Twenty years ago, when E. was a student there they knew computers would be the tools musicians had to use in the future .. Finale, Pro Tools etc etc.
A lot is more professional in the US.
DF and WB might take to the socio-economic structure of western Europe, at least back then in the seventies ... when it comes to music your country can't be surpassed in mastership, masterhood?!
Timberlakey B, okay, you want that name???
Clas, you're also a man of hidden treasures, all that knowledge stuffed in you, no wonder the Sternum Ache tries to get a hold of you sometimes ...
Somehow it seems to come with the territory ... but you have a rich life, rich awareness floating in you, ain't that what life's about, really ..
Gosh, from sentimental to goofy i go, may i be excused?
Banyan Tree Flower Power Peace Bow,
G.
Blaise - yes, bootlegger, in a hard competition with our Swampman. No, in fact, I won it here, on this very GBook, I could connect the names to the faces on a pic from the very first Steely Dan Fest ever. "St Louis, SEEE YOU NEXT YEEEER" was the First Prize.
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Scott, is it Scott? As the whiskey? - Jay Graydon and David Foster (piano) have composed and produced a lot of stuff during the years. Al Jarreau, you know tha Sticky Whicket or whatever the album was called.
They also had a band called "Airplay" (I think).
They also wrote the mega hit "After the Love is gone". I saw Graydon with band (Bill Champlin, Porcaro, that Toto singer etc etc) a couple of times here in Stockholm. They were damn good live. But Graydons Albums are so fucked up with machines, no fun.
But he's still Big in Japan.
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Howard - clavinet? I always thought that was a muted guitar. But you're right.
Have to check the chords again. I got the chords from Steely Dan Complete, the one who ends with Gaucho. There's a lot of stuff in that book that's wrong. I have been playing along with "Night by Night", "Any Major Dude" and "Barrytown" now for several days, it's so good, I just love that Steely Dan period.
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Hi Cyn, Gina, LP and HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL!
C
PS/ By the way: FUCK SHARON!
Please notice new eamil. Cable modem is the way to go. I also set up a wireless network in our house to our son's computer - one floor down and about 40 ft away at the the other end of the house. Some things they don't tell you. 1500 ft is measured with a female carpenter's ruler. Metal doors, brick chimneys and even the metal box of your computer completely block the signal. In fact your body does a pretty good job too. New cell phones work on the same frequency. You must point both antennas at each other
OK Steely Dan stuff.
I miss Excite - I always used their news search to find out current info on the band. Geeez rumours of the next one. Thank God Hoops added my new email address to his list promptly. Such secrecy.
A few links concerning the band - perhaps new:
Spin Magazine leaves SD off their 50 greatest bands list.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020109/re/music_greatest_dc_2.html
Gaucho slated for spring reales of new CD format - Super audio:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020108/en/music-universal_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020108/n08253665_1.html
I know this was in Hoops newsletter, but here's the link about the next one:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/rolls/20020102/en/in_brief_townshend_alanis_1.html
Sporting News picks Steely Dan comeback as a pleasent surprise (Not as pleasant as the Eagles winning today):
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sn/20020123/sp/midseason_report_surprises_disappointments_and_predictions_1.html
Yes stevie dan, I saw that video recounting a typical Elton John backstage scene circa 72. And there's Pee Wee Herman going ballistic on a fan there. Ha! Didn't recognize the Timberlake (Is that like. a real name? What a cool name! I want that name!) character though. Guess that spoils it for me.
Best video these days: Canadian outfit (hehe) Barenaked Ladies use all their old videos into this one retrospective, making it seem like they were lip-synching this new song. And it works. The illusion is real. Amazing technical stuff.
Runner up: That Fatboy Slim dittie with Christopher Walken dancing and jumping all over the place, mostly improv. Inspired. There are still people up to the task of pushing the video envelope out there.
Can't believe I'm talking about music videos. For the record, stevie dan started it. Blame him.
Yes, October sounds good to me. It does for now.
And Peter Gabriel in 05, providing there still is a viable music industry.
Gina - No.
And nice pages documenting the current jazz scene in Holland. Must-see. Beasley playing Santa, priceless.
Pink - Will this tribute movie make it out on video anytime soon? Looks like a lot of fun.
Hi Scott - your questions in post #1710 are intriguing to be sure. I hope that someone here has some of the answers for you, and the rest of us.
Hi Steviedan - always interesting to read your posts.
Belated Happy Birthday Angel - and many happy returns. Please send my regards to husband and J for me.
W1P - here am I, bummed again, had to handle nursing duty for my sick little guy. I hope you guys showed the folks in Orange County at the Anaheim House Of Blues that Which One's Pink can fill any house any time just like you did at the more famous and chic Hollywood House Of Blues. So sorry I could not be on hand.
To fellow keyboardist extrordinare Paul Shotan - your tour schedule is huge! How do you find the time to do anything else? You have another epic return e-mail from me. Let the questions, answers and shop-talk begin.
Congratulations to the Swedish tennis fans. Johansson beats Safin in the finals of the Australian Open.
Gina - a question for you ... how did my quote get onto the Beasley site? Not that I am complaining ...
I am working on a new chart for "Do It Again". I am re-creating one of the live versions with the re-worked chords and that killer rhythm jam at the conclusion of the song. This one might be proprietary, but maybe not, we'll see ...
The wife is up ... she caught me staying up way too late AGAIN on the computer. Off to bed (it sure beats the couch - ouch !!)
Good morning Campers !!!
Stevee-uncle ernie-Dan
(In reference and reverence to the DVD of The Who live at the Isle of Wight 1970 - Keith Moon was amazing to watch.)
Howdy Steviedan!!!!!
VICTOR WOOTEN, YES YES YES. The Yin and Yang ... and that shivers down the spine thing he does with his kid .. where his bassline is gliding along the intonation of her baby-toddlerish yabbadabbadoo ...
There's also a mean version of Ray Brown, Christian McBride and John Clayton doing their PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE thang ..
aah, these basses ...
renovating stopping time in the musical archives ...
don't hold out on us if you come across something special!!!
Banyan Tree Bassline Bow,
G.
return from cosmic cathartic de-materializing and reorganization...
fear and loathing in the attic and basement with the complete bird on verve...
in other words, phase one of renovations complete. our second floor is prepped to be transformed...
while artfully organizing my music magazine archives, i noted that downbeat and musician have both always been dan-friendly. also, an archivial thanx to pete fogel for the metal legs i enjoy re-perusing...
"steviedan album of the week or two" (TM): "just add water" by bass extremes aka victor wooten and steve bailey. guest list: dennis chambers, oteil burbridge, anthony jackson, john patitucci, & billy sheehan. i think this speaks for itself.
2 words: rocky and bullwinkle. there are no other cartoons.
dr warren, yeah i've heard the clock thing (25 or 6 to 4) but more specifically, on ACID. ah, early chicago with terry kath. or through the sixth album, maybe...
miz d, i caught a remy shand video and despite slight repetitious tendencies (see also- craig david), he is definitely soulful and skilled. very curious to hear the whole record...
happy birthday to our angel...
brubeck was one of the nicest cats i've ever met. he and woody herman both...
dave, thanx for the enviable namm colour...
jjeff, drag about the rankins. goosebump harmonies...
hi to gina and aja...
anyone catch that elton john video with justin timberlake as early reg ? interesting...
back
hey all-
just a few questions:
1) How high did "Peg" chart?
2) Did Jay Graydon play any other solos besides "Peg"? What else has he done outside of Steely Dan?
3) What has Denny Dias done outside of the Dan?
4) Who played the solo on "Everything You Did"? How about "Rose Darlin"?
5) What/where is "the palace" referred to in the song "Dallas"?
6) Why was "Bodhisattva" never released as a single?!!! Was it at least a B-side? I know the live version was...
7) In the Sweet book, he mentions that Don and/or Walt made a few comments about YES during an interview in the 70s. Anyone know what was said?
Thanks in advance for any answers to these!
Aloha Paul, here across the North Sea small pond in the Netherlands we suffer the leftovers of your Tornado, it's around the yellow bricks of the house i live in and against the windows. Very funny i live in a YELLOW house and my zipcode includes GB ... how's that for wacky coincidence, how can i forget about these pages ever this way??????
I saw that, i've been roaming around the Danny Steel pages a few months ago. I remember enthused people and now you post this long long impressive list here .. Dano, think of it, continious muellering&Danmusic, how's about that! :-)
LP, it was fun talking to you yesterday ... i so admire your spunk to do it all, a fulltime job, kids, household, husband, social life, cooking dinners, music and online fun .. and it's safe to say Blaise kind of is taken and charmed by your skateboarded&Ramones days, you're just as strange as most of the Steely adepts around here and elsewhere, hahaha. Strange in a way you would be wrapped in all kinds of labels if you let people stick 'em on you, throughout the years. Pogo and catching dogs in Boston ...
The prerogative of individuality, right? And so in the SD groove!!
Have a great Sunday :-)
Blaise, you don't mind me sharing this, do you? It's the sweet thing being part of a forum, over time you get to know some of the folks here, the little things painting vivid pictures and all ... Sunday morning and sentimental moods hit me, the wonders of internet communication!
yeah Tones, where are you? Steviedan? Aja? Chere? NotMyNancy?Miz Ducky .. did you finish and publish your sf story yet, those chapters on your website rang in my ear the other day, those wings and flying ...
Banyan Tree Cassandra Wilson Sounds Perfect Today Bow,
G.
Dano -- No Orlando DanNight or Day Out yet, the holidays were coming up, my sister was coming into town. Then it was January and Floridavid was going out of town and lately I've been very busy. But thanks for the reminder, I just emailed those who let me know they were interested with my new email address.
As for "NYPD Blue", that is, over here, a Television series which has been on for many years.
Angel -- Happy Belated Birthday
Dragon
Angel-Happy B-Day Girlie! David
P.S. Tell your husband to take you out on the town
Hiya one and all from a soaking wet,tornado....yes TORNADO ripped UK..heard it on the news...... somewhere up north today. Whatever, it's freeeeeeezin' here..thought I'd warm myself by the friendly fireside that is banyantrees.net
DANO here's the gig list so far (hope it's ok to do this on this site?........please tell me if not!!!), but lots more dates will be coming in very soon so please check back at the site for the latest or join the emailing list.......as for a get together...that would be GREEEAAATT...love to meet you and any other Danfans up for a night out with the next best thing:The DSO...clearly 'Dan
February
Fri 1st The Irish Centre,High St,Deritend,Birmingham,UK
Opening Night Double-Header with THE TREVOR BURTON (ex MOVE) BAND
tickets 0795 003 3155 Ł10 (bar 'til 2am)
Sat 9th ROCHDALE TRANSPORT CLUB
Baron Street, Rochdale, Lancashire
venue 01706 646070 box office 01706 632087
Sat 16th THE STUMBLE INN
264 Walsall Road,Bridgtown,Cannock,Staffordshire,WS11 3JL
tickets 01543 502077
Sat 23rd THE HARE & HOUNDS
High Street,Kings Heath,Birmingham
venue 0121 444 2081
March
Sat 2nd THE BACKDOOR CLUB at THE TORRINGTON
4 Lodge Lane,North Finchley,London N12
venue 0208 4454710 box office 0208 568 0612
Sat 16th THE GREEN CLUB,The Green,Darlaston,near Walsall,West Midlands
Sat 23rd RAYNER'S HOTEL
Imperial Drive,Village Way East,Rayner's Lane,Harrow,Middlesex
venue 0208 8661666 tickets 0208 568 0612
Sun 31st THE WORCESTER PARK
Park Terrace,Malden Rd,Worcester Park,Surrey
venue 0208 337 1015
April
Sat 6th THE OLD MILL
West Heath Road,Northfield,Birmingham,West Midlands
0121 475 1337
May
Sat 11th THE BONINGTON THEATRE
High Street,Arnold,Nottingham NG5 7EE
venue 0115 956 0733 box office 0115 967 0114
Sun 12th THE OLD MILL
June
Sun 23rd THE OLD MILL
August
Sat 3rd THE GREEN CLUB
Sun 4th THE OLD MILL
September
Sun 15th THE OLD MILL
October
Sat 12th THE GREEN CLUB
Sun 27th THE OLD MILL
December
Sun 8th THE OLD MILL
Nuff advertising and self-promotion!!!!
STEVEEDAN.........emails a coming.....LOVED all your tales of Dandom!!!
JJEFF...thanks for the kind comments on the website..it's only taken me 4 years to get it somewhere near right......sign in sometime...be nice to talk to you!
Rehearsals going great..all set for our first show of 2002...now updated with IGY and RUBY BABY and the complete, full technicolour LIVE version 2000 BOSTON RAG.....whhhoooooo...tingles down the spine job! Can't wait to sock it to 'em........anyone coming along? New venue, great double show, late bar, sunny Birmingham Town (well you can't have everything!!!)
cheers, Paul Shotan: The Danny Steel Orchestra...clearly 'Dan
"close your eyes and you'll be there, it's everything they say"
hey angel - hope you had a good day
to the UK mates and those interested in cooking - have a chastleton pot roast in the simmering oven in the old AGA now - substitutin mushrooms for celery and rutebega (sp) for parsnip - everything is measured in weight in my AGA/UK cookbook, us rebels over the pond are so clueless at such things
when i was in college (82-86), my friend studying at julliard (bass - jazz/fusion) heard wb/df were "in studio" and a "new one" was due out soon and i completely bought into it, only to be disappointed later - i think he really told me that as a come-on line that i believe at the time worked and disappointment likely did NOT follow - lol, silly youth, i suppose
dano - much obliged you posting the dictionary thingy below - yes, Rob is ready for some muellering tomorrow afternoon at kick-off - pittsburg fans have mentally skipped over the game and all they talk about is new orleans, like this game tomorrow doesn't even exist - hopefully the players will have a similar attitude and we surprise them, hehehehehe, hey i can dream
aus - how are you dear? june misses you horribly (see below, she has sunk so terribly low)
gina - on my 4th load of laundry, mae is at basketball, theresa down for a nap (in underwear, yipes, did i mention she is training herself - just went cold turkey on monday on her own by request, who knew), have a cooking show on (why are they all based in california, no offense to the left coast, but come on!) as i do my pick-up - but sad to say to ward, june does not have pearls and heels on doing this, an old eddie bauer sweatshirt and kahki's (sp) - anyways thanks for the chat earlier
oleander, hey, how did you know? lol - that was at the outdoor concert at the modern art museum in lincoln, mass (hey nmn, you there buddy?)
tones, you lurkin?
ken starr, go get em, man - this will be an original USA Network movie next year for sure - but now it really is so sad, the latest death really hit me
happy saturday - GO PAT's!!!!! (there is a hilarious parody of the brady bunch theme around our quarterback, tom brady, that is on the radio now - too funny!)
Ange - Thirty years ago, we could first afford a thrill, for example... 'twas sometime in the fall of '72, October to be more precise.
That would coincide with... the Choir Olympics in Busan, Korea.
Yeah... makes sense. ;-)
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OMG! Dano, I actually understood your message. "Give you a call on the phone". Sorry you have the inlaws over, but your wife will owe you big time after it is all over. :-)
Blaise: How nice of you to say that. I fully expected you to tell me I am old again. (Remember the recent parody.)
Significant dates in '02.... 02/02/02, 02/22/02 (too early)
20/11/02 aka 11/20/02 (palendrome done european style, my husband's idea). That one would work, because it will release just before the Holiday season.
For next year. 01/02/03 (unfortunately, right after the Holiday season, but look at 2VN's release date).
Gina: Do you have the '93 recording when Donald goes, Sorry...oooh, angel.
That is my favorite. :-)
Angel Happy Birthday , I"m holed up with the outlaws give me a bell on the old Dog And Bone and rescue me Please!!
If not have a dooser of a night wee lassie??
St Al,
Kylie Minogue now she is a wee stoater (REALLY GOOD).
Going to the (Battle Cruiser) Boozer for a wee Swallie (Few Buds).
Have a wee Snifty (LOOK)at the form of that horse called Steely Dan.
PG , Album this year ??Is that right Pat??
Yeah, and Peter Gabriel's new one will be out this year too!
Actually, this statement is probably true. However, I started hearing similar statements about PG's yet-to-be-released album (called "Up") about 4 years ago...
Not to rain on anyone's parade but whenever I read these things I give 'em the serious hairy eyeball..
My money is still on 2003
StAl
Slated? As in scheduled. programmed, timetabled, agendaed?
Now that's a dooser, mates. When we leggin' it??
Remember ole, the release date for Two against Nature had this "significance". It was a leap year date and a special one at that. Is there such a significant date coming up this year?
We have to rule out angel's birthday now, since it's passed, even if it was the most significant date I could think of. ;-) I was told angels did not age and this is the closest I've come to the real thing so I never expected a "birthday" to come around.
"Where is Tones , has he legged it oot the toon or what??"
"leggin' it out the toon", meaning leaving whatever this here is, my all-time fave. I couldn't have put it better, wee mate.
Clas. a bootlegger? OMG...
Help!!!
Need to purchase an old piece of kit...
But from where?
''Panasonic 650mb 24-speed scsi PD/CDROM drive''
Any clues
db
No flies on me ... listening to the St.Louis Cd's Clas sent me ..
"I don't mind" .. light breakfast 09.03 am
Happy B-day, Ange!
re; post 1657
Mu, my boy. Your instincts are noteworthy but your facts are, shall we say Bankrupt? Perhaps Judge Rosenthal had reasons to let the Enron boys go. Afterall, the attorneys are her friends.
http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/sns-enron-probe-ct.story
excerpt:
"In Houston federal court, the judge hearing 45 lawsuits filed over Enron's implosion has notified attorneys she would withdraw. In a court filing, U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal cited acquaintanceships with two of the defense lawyers involved. One, she wrote, is her child's godfather, and the other was best man at her wedding. In a 2000 financial disclosure, Rosenthal stated that she owned Enron stock, according to Texas Lawyer magazine. Rosenthal did not return phone calls Monday."
But what troubles me the most is your assertion that Sen. Lieberman has taken in $250K of Enron graft. From the same story the following excerpt;
"The company was a generous contributor to campaigns in both parties, giving 71 senators a total of $530,000 and 188 House members a total of $603,000 between 1989 and 2001, according to a Center for Responsive Politics tally.....
In the Senate, top Enron recipients who also sit on the Governmental Affairs Committee, which is examining the company, include Sens. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., with $12,000 in contributions from Enron, and Robert Bennett, R-Utah, with $8,053 from the energy trading giant.
Other committee members who had received Enron donations include: Chairman Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., $2,000 (in 1993-94); Sens. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $3,000; Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, $3,000; Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., $1,000; and Jim Bunning, R-Ky., $769. Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., received $1,000 last June but returned it six days later.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who is not on the panel, received $99,500 from Enron in the same period."
Looks like the R's got most and the biggest contributions but that's no surprise is it?. Lieberman got his when Enron was actually earning their reputation. Your faulty information is surprising. See you in court....
Ole: Isn't that just too cool. I spent my lunch hour looking at old Steely Dan Home pages, to see if it looks like it might be getting close.
By comparing what is currently on the homepage, to what went on for the last one. The best I could come up with was, probably not very. I think the 2003 thing might be it, but I still have my hopes on a fall '02 release with a tour during this summer, if they can get enough in the can. How about just a few dates, just to keep fresh. :-)
Thanks so much for all the Birthday wishes. My favorite was an e-greeting from Snakehips, that had an angel playing a song on a piano. It was just too cool. Ended up with pizza and beer for dinner. No Cuervo Gold at that restaurant. Lots of cards and a few gifts. Almost worth seeing another year go by.
Gina: I did check out the Beasley pics. The back stage one's were obviously the better shots. Regarding Michael McDonald. As my Steely work friend said, Michael gets around. His voice is so distinctive, too. So he never gets lost in a crowd.
W1P: Inciting to riot is a federal offense. :-)
You're my a yeah ang L, come and see me tonight
Re: #1692 -- Ms. Oleander, my friend, you have made my day. I'm just so overcome with emotion ... I know there's no full moon tonight, but I feel a Howl of Excitement coming on ...
aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Damn! That felt good!
/the Mam'zelle
(Nothing like further hints of New Dan to get the pulse to racing)
P.S. Heya Ed! I know you're out there ...
P.P.S. Happy happy birthday Angel!
HEYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get over to the BlueBook and check out Ed's post--it's a stoater--or let me give you the bottom line:
"In addition to the yet-to-be-named Steely Dan CD slated for a 2002 release, Scheiner is currently in the studio with Natalie Cole, and recently produced the audio segments of the Country Music Awards (CMA)."
Are you ready for The Next Betting Pool???
Angel, consider that a birthday present, if an inadvertent one! Hoist a few for me, & happy birthday.
B(l)aiser rouge--You free? I got your ticket right here.
lp--sounds great. Now I'm getting stoked. And picturing you in beads & tie-dye swaying whitely to "Take Five."
Fr Wm--Great story. Any news on an eastern swing?
Danooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
ANGEL - Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any Colour You Like? The two most common questions we get (other than "when are you going to play Echoes again?") are (1) when are you playing an 18 and over show? and (2) when are you playing Orange County? Well, Which One's Pink? -- Southern California's Pink Floyd tribute band -- answers both of these questions Saturday night, January 26, 2002 at 9:00 p.m. sharp when we make our debut at the House of Blues® Anaheim, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. (714.778.BLUE). Which One's Pink? will be opening for one of the most famous tribute bands in the world -- Wild Child, the excellent Doors tribute featuring Dave Brock channeling Jim Morrison. The House of Blues has questioned our ability to draw a crowd in Orange County -- so please come out and help us prove that we are worthy. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and Dylan tribute Highway 61 revisited goes on at 8:00 p.m. http://www.whichonespink.com -- Sign On You Crazy Diamond!
Larry's Aussie Slang and Phrase Dictionary is quite
handy in deciphering all forms of Aussie corespondence.
http://members.tripod.com/~thisthat/slang.html
:)
As you might have suspected, Don and Walt are still
hard at work on the new CD...
Beemer,....here's my three stabs at it:
1. Stoater: A pint of ale
2. Swallie: A potent potable
3. Snifie: A line of blow.
Everybody: Have a great weekend!
Aus
Dano: Define please...
1. Stoater
2. Swallie
3. Snify
I'm pretty sure I'm down with bollox and dooser, but those other 3 are a little fuzzy.
StAl
Hey today's Angels B'day? Happy Birthday kid!
How's it feel to be 21? Hey you can't drink
legal now!
Being a grownup is too cool...except for the
property taxes thing, we could do without that
i think.
Have a happy one! You deserve it.
:)
Bad Sneakers , What about Bertie and his first game ??That was a stoater!!
I was in Spain and France for two world cups , but we need to start getting new blood soon or else we will be stuck with Dodds , Booth etc etc.
Are you in for a swallie at a Danny Steel night??
1681: Beverly Hills so nice, had a sojourn there some years ago, borrowed a house on Oakhurst Drive for a good couple of weeks. BTW have they got a Becker and Fagen menu at Larry Parker's yet ?
Couple of great LA moments: Dancing with two superbly-looking twin blondes with upgraded front parts in top floor of Roxy's; asking for the Let Me Ride video by Dre at Parker's and this black waitress retorting "Hey, you can let me ride, Honey.. " (whilst making some funky moves with her hips); ashes from Laguna Beach landing on the gold-metallic Mercedes
in the drive way; Fabio dining at a window table somewhere on so. Beverly Dr.
"Here come those Santa Ana winds again..."
Oh well..
regards,
Dirk
Ps. Fabio - where's he now ?
I had a couple of typo again. Sorry Clas, but you see, I AM lazy.
Steveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedan
(Inspired by Danoooooooooooooooooooooooo !)
Hello Mr. Chow - It's nice to get a message from you. I remember when you had come through Los Angeles a few months ago, and were trying to get a hold of JW. If all goes well (because 2/3 of my family are coming down with colds which might make nursing duty for me mandatory), I have plans to get together with JayDubs this Sunday. So, I think it would be a great plan to have the three of us get together - purhaps at Mr. Chow's on Camden Drive in Beverly Hills, so that we can eat at "your" restaurant, and reminisce about the good old "glamour profession" days.
Anyone else who would like to join in the (no-to-illegal) fun, you are welcome. Mr. Chow is a fantastic restaurant with top-notch cuisine. A little pricey, but it is great.
I would also like to say hello to the growing UK contingent of posters here on the GB - Danooooooooo, Dunk, and of course, to my new keyboard buddy, Paul S.
To all the rest, have a nice weekend. (And pray the little girls still throw roses.)
Steveedan
Dano
Whit aboot me min - Can ah no cum alang like ???
You bring the Cuervo gold ah'll organise the rest
Ach OK - Ah'm awa' tae' git swallied
No a bad draw fir us in the Euro Champs eh boys ???
Faroe Isles here ah come !
Lang Live Rabbie Burns !
Paul Shotan , can you put your gigs list up on the old GB mate , might have a snifty if your in my area??
lp , is Rob going to be Muellered this weekend ??Is the Pats gonna win ??
I will have $20 Bucks on a win double.
Talking of betting Steely Dan runs tomorrow at Lingfield in the 3.10 if any Brits fancy a bet ?? It has a good chance and if it gets beat, I will be on the Dog And Bone to Walter And Don for a Refund??
Duncan , TWM , Paul S , what about a Steely get together at one of your gigs?? Nobody is getting keen or what ??
Dragon , how are things in Florida??Did you have that mini Dan Fest yourself??
Has anyone over the water heard anything about "Gangs Of New York" by Scorsese , and NYPD Blue . Two of the most eagerly awaiting events in the world and I dont know what the scoop is ?? Anyone any clues??
Where is Tones , has he legged it oot the toon or what??
TWM , Trip to Cardiff for Worthington cup final and Back in Glaesga for oor cup final??But a bet you say Blackburn and the Huns.
Gina , Im still sneakin aboot??
Quiet weekend coming up , got the outlaws coming over so need to be on best behaviour??Bollox to that............
Have a Dooser people
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano
Aloha Ange .. as soon as that Lighthouse Browser filled my screen with the GB, i read your post and the words Michael McDonald .. guess who i am listening to right now, his Blue Obsession .....don't you just love these threads that keep on coming where you least expect ...?
Yep LP, loud & clear, thank you :-)
Does this mean i can now get any leftover from one of your extensive dinners your infamous for by now lol ...
B, you're a dead giveway each time you post, nah, you're writing style does the trick if ever there is one, you edgeful canuck :-)
Dano, Al, Tones, Steviedan, you all muellered????
Banyan Tree Have a Nice Weekend Bow,
G.
David: Well, that explains why I could not get in touch with you. Obviously, it was not to be. I am glad you had a good time.
I was listening to 2 Against Nature yesterday, I realized that it is even more layered then any other Steely Dan album. I am not the best a figuring out instruments, etc, but I was trying to work on Almost Gothic and all these wonderful sounds are coming at me. I have no idea how they did it and with what instruments. The liner notes tell part of the story, but not everything. I think I will leave it at sonic nirvana and move on.... (Help me, Mu)
For my birthday I asked for Ambrosia, Life Beyond LA. I got tired of listening to the album in 30 second snippets on Amazon.com. Since my husband is online ordering challenged, we went shopping for it. It ended up that they did not have it at the stores we visited, so I compromised and got their Anthology. It had 4 of the cuts I wanted, and a bunch more stuff. As I was listening to the cuts I had never heard before, I can hear Michael McDonald singing. So I grab the liner notes and find out that both he and Royce Jones were memebers of the group in the late 70's and early 80's. As they said in the notes, Steely Dan alumni.
Favorite line from Life Beyond LA - "Livin' out here you soon come to know that it ain't how good you are as much as who you know and how you fake it". I hear similar words quite often at my workplace. :-)
To put this birthday of mine in perspective, I was probably around 22 when Donald and Walter wrote "Hey 19". That makes me feel a bit better. Maybe I will break out some Cuervo Gold tonight, in their honor. :-)
ole - brubeck indeed tells great stories, they are a wonderful addition to his set - especially about his travels: at a show in 1987 in Lowell, Mass he spoke of his trip to japan before commencing 'kyoto song' it brought tears listening to that tune after you heard his impressions - please post your review after you go - now i'm bummin that i didn't get tickets to next month's show at harvard again, hmph! my husband and i have almost a dead-like approach to seeing him in concert, we are at about a dozen now, lol
on grunge - i went through a period where i was into it then got burnt out by the noise and sometimes a little too much angst/anger, but now with post-grunge soundgarden, creed and others, i seem to be pulled back in, it fits my mood of late:
standing with my enemies
hung on my horns
with haste and reverie
killing with charm
rhinosaur - soundgarden
gina - did you get my message?
ge - great comparison, and i did send it along to people, thanks!
sh - have a nutty day ahead of me, will write more this weekend or next week, sorry for my terseness
angel - what's new?
Yep. But StAl, isn't it our jobs as citizens of the free world to help find these evildoers? You now did your part by telling us his real name and how he acted rather suspiciously in your presence once in a Seattle bar. Good work.
Let's round 'em up!
Nah... I was just illustrating the fact that it's a tough job since we could lineup a thousand guys who'd fit this particular profile, given we'd strap a towel on their heads, of course.
That Ashcroft dude comes across as a real tough bitch, btw, very anal. Move ober Janet Reno.
Overheard Mu singing:
"I'm gonna break
I'm gonna break, mon
I'm gonna break that musky case:
Enron"
Get that one, StAl? My fave.
Recipe for Soundgarden-style Soufflé: You take a little Sabbath circa Dio, lose Satan there, keep that vague existential angst, expound on the fuzz box-driven hooks, solidify that heavy bottom a little et voila!
I like it. It's a kind of throwback to 70's glam rock, like a little synthesis of it all. And since people were left jonesin' throughout the eighties for it, when it came back, in the form of grunge or the "Seattle Sound", it all felt like a breath of fresh air, if well done. It certainly was the case here.
I like new bands if they take me back to my youth like that, sure. Just like little Gwen doing Love to Love You Baby, btw. Donna Summer's steamy sounds of love were more convincing though. She wasn't faking it back then. Nowadays, everything must hide behind this insincere facade, darn.
But I disgress...
Yes Howard and that tasteful use of the wah pedal throughout is interesting too. Who dunnit yet?
ole - I hear you're mad about Brubeck...
Ugh... I know, it's lame. I'll shut up now.
JJJJJJeff- It is my duty to warn you. Nova Scotia might tumble into the sea first. Or so I've heard anyway. Something about fast rising tides...
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jjeff - The Congolese Band were performing on the SLOPES of Table Mountain, not on top, although that would also be possible. They performed in Kirstenbosch, the most beautiful botanical garden in the world(no, I'm not biased!). Didn't want you getting the wrong idea now.
jjeff (1602) - Thanks for your thoughts. I certainly enjoy the alternate versions as well.
Paul Shotan (1638)- I couldn't agree with you more! That blood and sweat was worth bottling - the results are invaluable.
Steveedan - I didn't realise you were in SoCal. Next time I'm over I'll give you advance warning.
JDubz - Still need that contact number for next time!
Cheers.
Mr Chow
Ole: I wasn't referring to your post but to some misguided childs post. I've seen the Brubeck Quartet three times, all in the '60s when it included Paul Desmond. Two of the performances were free, one at the University of Nebraska and one at Nicholls State in La. The non-free one was the Friday night that I first arrived in Dallas after leaving L.S.U. to work for Collins Radio Company. I went to the performance site and was told that it was sold out, even the cheapest seats which was all I could afford ($2) but then they released a block of VIP seats, front row center, I got my pick of one of those. He was supposed to appear here in Boulder about five years ago but the performance, a sell out, was cancelled. That's when I learned that TicketBastard will refund ticket price but not their exorbidant handling charge.
Aus--Thanx for the reassurance re Dave Brubeck. Look, I love the guy, and badly want to see him once, anyway; this friend's comments really bummed me out. Sure, he may have had an off night, and actually, I probably wouldn't even mind spending the evening just listening to him tell stories. So I got my tickets, and we'll see.
Fr Wm--Please note that in my post I said NOTHING about retirement, quitting, age, etc. I hope to keel over into my grave busy.
Mu--But what you were saying wasn't clear to me, even in context. You were just being Socratic, no? I am even more convinced that we were separated at birth--good thing, after nine months of arguing.
Howard, Clas ... just LOVE your sign language, i have a chromatic scales watch these days :-)
well, no article yet on Beaz, a few more weeks so i have some more info on his work for Tommy LiPuma .. BUT i have a few photo albums, check the URL above ... Zan Gardner also in it, the singer who had lunch with Bernard Purdie, mentioned by Floridave if i recall right when fastscroll reading here ...
pictures of americans in Europe and europeans who footprinted across the big ponds etc etc. and funny enough, we all live in the same neighbourhoods sort of ... life's just great, right?
Banyan Tree Picture Trailed Bow,
G.
Another heavy snowfall warning tonight for most of N.S., but the coast(me) usually gets just slush.
1617-Blaise: One of the great ironies of organized religions. The richest institutions on earth whose purpose basically is to help people. Don't get me started.
1622-Paul: The Congolese Band sound like a good time, and ON Table Mountain? The only shots I've seen of it are of a road running around the edge overlooking Capetown, no? Must have been a beautiful sight. And "there's joy in repetition".
1657-Mu: Clas had me fooled. Thanks for making me double-take.
Clas: If Zevon and Browne could trade voices and lyrics, they'd both be better men. I've seen Zevon on Letterman doing Rasberry Beret. That was great!
I'm hoping for a mother of a storm. I'm one of those people who say,"Bring it on, Mother Nature. Test me( as long as the power doesn't go out)!!!"
MC must be on heavy rotation. Hibernating?
hey dirk - in the town i work in, we have an insurance agency called "lewis and clark insurance" - a little american history joke there.....
Hi all. Just discovered yesterday that a Walter Becker runs an insurance agency in the Northern part of Norway, alongside another Becker (Roger Becker) - probably his brother, son or father.
Would be great for a Dan fan to have the insurance papers signed by Walter Becker ? *S*
Regards,
Erik - writing from Norway
My computer can beat up your computer! nyah-nyah!!!
Tell me, is this what's happened to cyber-society?
I wonder what's going on at the Soundgarden site - smirk...
Lets see now Chips...,
You are running MS Internet Explorer 4.01 under Windows98.
I am running MS Internet Explorer 6.0 under Windows XP.
Who is the REAL riff-raff here?
I rest my case...
:)
Ha, yes, riff-raff-r-US
I walked into that one very directly, now didn't I? It was too easy for you, really now, think big with your challenges......
As if my posts take up any space in here, and my flames are far more generalized than others.
And my posts are very predictable, unlike Sybil - LOLOLOL
but in the case of Chips here it does'nt appear to
be working does it?
I thought this new format was supposed to keep out the riff-raff...
:) <-----how this?
On the way to the concert, St. Al assured Walter that
they would probably make it on time...
img src="http://www.hotrodder.com/NMRA/smokin.jpg"
St Al, not too many, but you can count me in. I have a friend (who is sitting in with W1P this Saturday) who has a band called Numira and was in a band called Choking Ghost. He's a Berklee grad and his vocals are very Cornellish. There's a link to his site on the which one's pink? site if you want to hear what I'm talking about. Signed, Temple of the Dog
1612-1616: Clas, who says you can't have fun talking to yourself??! Very funny...
Ken Starr: Get off the yer Malibu beachfront and look into
Judge Lee H. Rosenthal! Her office can be reached @ (713) 250-5517.
On January 9th, US District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal refused to freeze the profints of Enron officers despite her own citing of a 1999 Supreme Court precedent (source: Houston Chronicle). She declined to put a restraining order on the acounts of 29 Enron executives and board members in a lawsuit filed on the behalf of a number of worker retirement funds (401K holders). Her excuse was that she sound no evidendence that "...any defendant has, or is likely to conceal the stock sales proceeds or profits, or place the beyond reach..." In other words, no one to her knowledge has purchased a fucking ONE-WAY ticket to RIO yet!!!!!!
Typical Washington politics - while the fox (Joe Lieberman in charge of the investigation with his $250,000 contributions from Enron and staff heaviily involved with the company) guards the hen house (fer chrissakes even Ashcroft recused himself for $60,000), the real bad guy are still rolling in dough and Lexii (plural for Lexus?) and Steely Dan t-shirts!
BAN ALL SOFT MONEY FROM COMPANIES AND PACs AND UNIONS NOW
Many retirees have gone from a comfortable cache of capital (1/2 million and up) to like $5000-30,000 total capital - just try living off that interest at 2%...
Dave -- I concur on your assessment of Ricky Lawson. Very nice fellow indeed. Sounds like a gas.
And while we're dropping names, I'm wondering what that picture of Soundgarden means? If it is to imply Kim Thayil looks like a terrorist I can only tell you looks are deceiving. Last Summer I ran into him at a local watering hole and offered to buy him a drink. He turned the drink down but was nice enough to come over and introduce himself and thank me for the offer. Another genuinely nice rocker. And I've got to tell you his outward appearance can be a little intimidating. I was especailly happy with the fact I was wearing my Steely Dan tour hat when he came over. Not too many Steely Dan/Soundgarden fans out there...
Pat
Hello Everyone- yes I saw some Stars. I spent some time with Bernard Purdy
on thursday and sunday (I'd met him twice before). He gave me his new CD.
I spent a few minutes with Ricky Lawson ( He was very cool) I gave him my CD.
I was at the Zildjian Booth and they had a Table for autographs ( I'm not a big "stand in line " guy). Seated at the table were Louie Bellson, Gregg Bissonette,Sonny Emory, Alan White, Vinnie Colliuta and a couple others.At another booth I saw Alan Holdsworth receive some kind of Award. Will Lee was at the Zoom booth playing some Bass. At Remo I saw Jazz great Jeff Hamilton, and as we talked Harvey Mason snuck up on him and Jeff said" You Got me Harvey you #%!@*!".I met Drummings "Ambassador" Dom Famularo
I Saw Steve Smith (Journey/Vital Information) We'd met before and used play with the same Sax player.
I also got to Meet Mr. Remo Belli himself and I showed them Pictures of my completed "Fish Drums". They Loved That.
There were lots more I'm sure but I don't recognize everybody.
On Sunday ,at show's end I bought a Case for my Djembe drum and filled it with some extra stands for my extra Drum Kits and sent it on with my suitcase on the plane.
Monday morning , when leaving the plane had a problem with re-fueling the left tank...we sat on the Tarmac for 2 1/2 hours while they fixed it.
Other than that the flights were good and uneventful...just the way I like it.
I'm sorry I didn't get with any GBers...It ws Important to hang with my older Brother Tom for the first time since losing our middle Bro' Michael.
WP1- My Cell worked great in California...but I turned it off while down in Oceanside Friday night, all of Saturday and Sunday Morning.
I'm glad to be back in the Florida Warmth...Jeans , Jacket and T the whole time there. Later, David
Mike Tyson could NEVER type that good!
Besides, I think that's the way your boy
Mike likes it. He's up on ANOTHER rape
charge aint he?
Oily, that's the way the boys in prison
like it no?
:)
Blaise: The only time your weather gets to 70 F is when my email gets to your house. Actually, we have Santa Ana's blowing, I do believe, or something to that effect. I hate dodging palm froms! :-)
Paul: The GB has definite cycles during the day as people come and go. Early morning is usually the time of Clas, Steviedan, Blaise, Howard and Gina, among others. So you are never alone.
Bob Tedde: Let us know what is going on with you and the band. April is starting to shape up and a possible trip to SD would be real nice.
That interview about Tribute: the Movie was quite a read. I hope some of you took the time to check it out. Much more then just the movie is discussed. Fans of music groups are mentioned, too.
tiny plumes of Long Island, whatever the f'k that means.
And I won't quit talking to myself!
Right Bill?
Right!
:)
And by "plumes," you little shitter queen, I mean underage balls. Hairless balls that you like to taunt with a lighter and fondle until your little thang does its thang. You can take the pervert out of the Bill, but you can't take the.....fuck, you love it fucked-up, oily, underaged, and hairless, right?
Bill, you sick fuck, quit talking to yourself. Go back to chasing the tiny plumes of L.I.
Yeah, I think you know what I mean, you little ass-licker.
thanks cyn!
cool grey skies with slight puff cloud definition that still make you squint.....
back to you, Jane, for that riveting interview with a chimpanzee....
clas - i did sign in early in the evening now that i think about it, then switched windows and left - i don't think i binked to exit so maybe my name lived on without me for the evening
back to saving the world
Aye Myke Tysin!,
U tawkin' tuh me? U tawkin' tuh me liddle Myke?
Dont mayke mee sende Don Fagen ande hiz crewe
ova 2 yaw howze okaye? Donte mayke mee doo dat!
U wante gangsta? Eye'll showe U REAL GANGSTA!
Whudda U laffin' at Pat?
Clas - yes, Night by Night is a winner. Sounded great on the 2000 tour!
Glad to see you picked up on that subtle, delightful and crucial F# against G dissonance that comes in the chord sequence between lines in the verse. It's the horns punching this one out that really gives it the bite. I have the same right hand part as you but use a different bass note:
(low to high)
C - C E G
D - D F# G
D - D F# G
D - D F# G
C - C E G
It's almost a straight C D D D C - but a little steely spice livens it up. Of course, the songbooks completely missed this one and wrote plain C and D chords.
Also, for the main chords in the verse I have Fadd9 after the Am7, rather than Dm7 (9th voiced at the top of the Fadd9 chord).
One thing that really keep the song grooving is that ultra-staccato clavinet part that kind of chugs through the whole song. Love it before the guitar solo when everything drops out of the mix except for this part.
There's also more of that guitar-doubling-the-bass stuff in the verse - sounds good to me!
Howard
Yesterday while playing "switch that channel" I happened upon a group playing the old bluegrass favorite "Rocky Mountain Breakdown"..sounded great! But wait!...Is that Steve Martin on banjo, Paul Shaeffer on piano, one of the ZZTop guys (or Leon Russell) on keyboard, Marty(?) on guitar, and a whole host of others... Well, I believe it is. And they looked like they were having a hellva good time. Catch it on the country channel sometime, you won't be able to stop your feet from tapping
Now, back to you LP for the weather.....
Clas, you heard the man. The place is "alive and kicking". So try to appear a little more lively, perhaps? Gotta keep up appearances... ;-)
It's like -50 or so Celsius out there, btw, but 70 Fareinheit in my head all the time. Wooohooo
No news is... no news.
Clas (1642) Warren speaks highly of you. Last I spoke to him, the man couldn't stop singing your praises.
Aus (1623) Live performance BTW? Non capisco. Please elaborate.
Most of you are probably fast asleep now. Hope you're having sweet dreams. Its one thirty in the afternoon here. Temperature about 26 degrees celcius.
More. Later.
P
Warren Zevon is a Jackson Browne wannabe. But he can't live up to Jacksons standards I'm afraid.
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Howard - have been playing "Night by Night" a lot lately, I'm still amazed with Fagens song attitude, so nice. And the simplicity of the chords in that song is also amazing, it's around Am7, Dm7, Em7, C/F, E7+5-10 all the way. I think one gets the "Magic-Night by Night-feel" from the C/E - Gmaj/E chords
left hand - right hand (bottom to top):
E - C E G / E - D F# G / E - D F# G / E - D F# G / E - C E G
Our boys were just 23 or 24 years old at the time they recorded this stuff. Amazing.
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LP - who was it then?
C
Just listening to Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy". Ring any bells for anyone out there?
Bill - come here and say that.
Mr Chow I admit to leaning mostly towards note for note perfection...at least the first time around the solo..then maybe take off on your own fret/key board fantasy. Don & Walt sweated blood to find them notes...let's at least acknowledge their expertise!
Duncan.......good to see you here too! The South Shields gig was, as always, a fantastic night...warm welcome, enthusiastic Dan fans up for a good night out despite the blizzard conditions. We'll be back around Easter some time so hope to meet you then....cheers!
Bad Sneaks....when we coming to Scotland? Well as soon as someone up there gives us a call and the gig.........it's gonna take some turnout though to cover even the fuel bill to get up there!! We'd love to do it...so any ideas?
Steveedan..........a great pleasure to meet you and trade stories of life on the (rough) tribute band road...it's scarily similar both sides of the pond it seems!!!! But what the hell ...we love it anyway. Loved your LONG email....I have one in the pipeline for you.....coming soon!
This a GREAT DAN spot......certainly not in the same slough of despond as alt.music.steely-dan!!! People are alive and kicking here......must get back more often.
Thanks to everyone for the great response to my posting last week....I had no idea it was such a lively place......home at last......aaaaaahhhhh!
cheers Paul Shotan
Make that "sweetheart".
Again, a typo.
Oh that? It was a typo.
This here is quite sufficient, StAl. You have better things to do, don't you? I'm not one to stress the importance of such formalities. Btw, go easy on yourself there, geez... to err is only human.
And Flame is not a "him", with all due respect imho.
A him calling me "sweatheart" and suddendly some muscle groups tense up, you know... say it ain't so, oh please.
W1P: Whew! Glad you clarified!
Blaise: I can't find your e-mail address. I know it's probably right under my nose, but... I had intended on sending you a message yesterday but the only address you left was "fuck." Would that be "fuck@off.com" or "fuck@youasshole.com?"
Sorry for the profanity folks, but this ain't no sissy board.
StAl
Clarification -- "last show ever at the Catamaran" does not mean "last show ever as The Steely Damned" -- the lack of precision is embarrassing.
Anyone else crack up ... reading the "" PERISCOPE "" PAGE in the latest
Newsweek ?? Called "" Pretzel Logic "" !! ( Regards Bush and his
swallowing of the pretzel... Simply perfect....hope to come back here
often....that is when i figure out all of the lyrices to all of the
songs lol
six degrees of separation?
in the cyber-world, completely believable - check the url out above
Aus, you'd swear to my "good moral character"? You are a prince! Our issues were mostly state law (there was a Daubert issue). I think the 8th Cir. is the court of last resort on this one.
Which One's Pink: Veeeery nice counsellor. Now you need to apply for and get granted a writ of certiorari so you can argue in what's probably the most grandest of all courts in this fair land....of course, I never argued before the Justices but I did get sworn in and admitted there. If you care, I'd be glad to sponsor you for admittance to the US Supreme Court....let me know.
Aus
Some info: the most recent Rolling Stone also mentions that the Dan have booked studio time for the recording of a new Lp.
Floridavid -- hey man, get a cell phone that works in SoCal -- mine works in Fla!
Tribute News: Rumour has it that The Steely Damned may be playing their final show ever on 2/17 at the Cannibal Bar at the Catamaran Resort (my source is the BT Express "do it til you're satisfied, whatever it is")
Tribute News (cont): This Saturday, W1P hits the road to happy funland and plays House of Blues Anaheim as the opening act for Dave Brock as Jim Morrision in Wild Child (Dave Brock played Jim in the 1992 film Death Becomes Her). The great thing about this is that HOB Anaheim is about 50 yards from the ESPN Zone.
Tribute The Movie News: "Film Threat" -- a Hollywood indie film website has an extensive interview with the makers of Tribute The Movie -- including an explanation of why Which One's Pink? ended up on the cutting room floor!
http://www.filmthreat.com/Interviews.asp?File=InterviewsOne.inc&Id=296
Hey Aus, just argued a case in front of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis -- the most beautiful modern courthouse building I've ever seen overlooking the Arch, the River and Busch Stadium.
Is everyone ready to see Mike Tyson get knocked on
his ass again by Lennox Lewis? After his latest
tantrum I know I can't...
You can take the guy out of the ghetto but you can't
take the ghetto out of the guy, aye Mike?
;)
And why should anyone stop working if they don't wish to? Consider the possibility that work can be interesting and perhaps much more interesting than retirement. Dave Brubeck is self-employed so he get's to make his own rules and doesn't have to follow some stupid corporation's rules. Likewise for Peggy Lee.
Peggy Lee refused to STOP working
ah, LP is feeding our hopes for another New One, isn't she? starved puppies we are, always craving and raving when the Loopsville Joker gets the best of our host who has to clean up the mess each time ... nice subterraelian topic though ... like Ange mentioned, the Blue Book post, some interesting reading, yes.
Red Blazer, yep, that Sun Mountain tune does it for me i'm always up there when around the Blue Book, colors ... somehow i find it hard to picture colors when listening to Steely Dan, it's not colors one gets to see.
Emiel van Egdom is a friend of Bobby Militello who's in the Brubeck line up. Mr. Militello doesn't need to play the music for a living, it's his passion though. People around the Buffalo, NY area could be familiar with The Tralf, Militello's jazzclub in almost classic setting, reminding of the days perhaps one would gush over Peggy Lee, or way before those days, Dinah Shore, Julie London etc.
An interesting thought, though, about musicians like Brubeck and others in that league, whether they play for the money or because they still love to be on stage. Somehow i can't imagine they primary NEED the money since even Metheny and others have invested in real estate and such, like mr. Militello and his family own a bundle of restaurants too .. so my simple deduction now is, they play because they LOVE music and LOVE jazz and what else are they supposed to do, right? wait until Alzheimer hits them, or age gracefully reminiscing .. Peggy Lee refused to work and continued until it took her last breath .. now she is probably really singing "is that all there is" and giving all who passed on before her a cold shoulder .. or fever, haha!
Even Walter returned to the active scene after some years of retirement ... it is only human and understandable, especially in a professional musician's life to question one's drives, the creative well may seem like drained until it's dried up and dreary ...
Live performance isn't as inspired all the time, one gig can sound better than another ...
Banyan Tree Luciditary Looping Bow,
G.
Paul asks, where is angel? Yes, I am still alive, just laying low after your other comment. :-)
Catalyst era stuff. I too like Sun Mountain and so does Ole, if memory serves. I also love the fact that Walter does the harmonies with Donald.
Raw stuff, for sure and it hurts my ears to listen to it on headset, but once in a while, it is an interesting listen.
Floridavid finally checks in! I was afraid you got mugged or something by another drummer at the Remo booth. :-)
Glad you had a good time. Did you see anyone cool at the show?
I don't know how many of you read the Blue pages, but the dissertation by Tristan Fabriani regarding the '74 concert released, was an interesting plea. I agree with Hoops, that I don't think it would ever happen, but there are some songs from that era concert, that I would love to have a decent sound board version of. Especially, Pretzel Logic, Instrumental YGT II, This All Too Mobile Home. Dream on.
LP: I did not see anything on the ODP that said they had an album coming out soon, just that they are working on one. I think the DJ misunderstood the Holiday Newsletter.
hey now - fe fi fo fum - dave brubeck doggin it? surely you jest (airplane joke, let it rest) - i agree with aus, oleander - i saw him last year at Sanders Theater at Harvard and he was as smooth as silk, still composing, still leading his charge - i think you are in for a pleasant evening - enjoy!
not in chat last night, nope clas, wasn't me?
mu/b - loved the list of Enquirer questions, what a hoot - better than obscure celebrity references for sure
yeah i know b - every group of people assembled has their nasty closets - don't judge all for the acts of the few is the best answer i can give - i have a feeling the cardinal will step down, as he should
hiya paul, you so passed your test, i thought i posted that - but your kidneys, wow, yipes!
i found this hilarious site listing all the wacky things sold on ebay - called whowouldbuythat, i think, i'll find the url and post it later, it's pretty funny
happy wednesday!
Paul: Nice to see another Krimso fan around these parts....there are a few of us scattered around here....are you familiar with that live recording BTW?
Oleander: I saw Mr. Brubeck and his quartet play this past summer in Newport, Rhode Island. While he's visibly aged, I thought he rocked, as did his counterparts on stage. I never got the impression he was "doggin' it" for cash at all...I think you'll find the same when you catch him and his group. I'd be curious to see some granularity from you regarding the gig...
Aus
jjeff - 1611 - lurking, as you can see.
Luckless - still waiting for my test results. The Steely Dan one, not the urine.
angel, wherefore art though?
Went to see "The Congolese Band" on Sunday in Kirstenbosch - a beautiful, enormous public garden on the slopes of Table Mountain. Bongos, bass, lead, drums, vocalsist and five gyrating, grinding dancers. Had the all the white females in the audience up on their feet trying to emulate them but they just didn't get it. The band were repetitious but fun. They even had people assume the "shoot" position. Crazy mothers.
Q: If a man is standing alone in the woods and there are no women around, is he still wrong? That's what I want to know. Please.
Catalyst? It suck like a vaccuum cleaner but I guess it had to be done.
Seriously I like Ida Lee and Little Kawaii loves Android Warehouse and Gina loves Sun Mountain and...
Aussie, hi, your post 1593 took the thought right outta my mind. Was just pondering the days of King Crimson and the likes of "Larks Tongue in Aspic" and shit, there you go and mention Fripp and Eno. Well I never.
Discovered a really cool seminal Steely Dan double album called "Catalyst". A lot of their later stuff in embryonic form and some previously unreleased stuff. Raw but powerful. Makes for curious listening.
Anyone else got it or heard of it?
Oh yeah Blaise, we had a meeting in Chat last nite, you're audi. Sorry.
C
blaise - why you're still here? It's like vacuumcleaning, it sucks and it has to be done.
2 Against Nature? Haven't been able to enjoy that one, my equipment is just a simple home stereo.
C
If the Boston archdiocese can pay 10 000 000$ to settle 15 pedophilia-related suits out of 30, how much cash do these fat bastards really have? And how muck of that money is yours, lp?
OK, let's pretend they're both right, bin Laden is dead in Afghanistan and not alive in Pakistan. Can't an unmanned spy plane spot a useless, abandonned dyalisys machine out there in the field?
Can you blame the devil or its advocate, Johnny Cochran, if your wife drowns your five kids in the tub? Only in America?
Why are all terrorists tried in Virginia anyway? Is this particular State representative of America as a whole, as I always suspected? And isn't our Midnite Cruiser overworked enough as it is?
If the Rams are unbeatable, why are we even interested in the Pittsburgh game at all? Boredom?
Why wasn't that guy in Everybody Loves Raymond casted as Ziad Jarrad for the upcoming Flight 93 TV movie?
Can we really speak of art in the age of it's endless reproductibility and commodification? And why bring up Walter Benjamin if Donald doesn't read this?
If the infamous rolling stone has stopped rolling, does it gather any moss now? If rock and roll is through rehashing its three chord thang every which way imaginable, why do people pretend like it can still be relevant? If it entered the museum, can it really still rock in there or does it keep quiet now?
True, Mu. Why would I be caught dead with a Macintosh, let alone an old one? And does an Imac make a decent neo-art deco table lamp?
If you need high-end audiophile gear to truly appreciate something, is it any good?
Can I be Flame too then?
Does Gina really go beyond Western rationale through her writing style, as I initially thought, or is she being just plain loopy? ;-)
And why do people promise to email me and then elect not to? Do I have cooties or something?
Think about it: 200 000 lethal doses of Anthrax made it through our postal machines and resulted in only 5 casualties. The White House and everyone in it are still standing as well. Why does noone out there care to mention we were fucking lucky in the end here, starting with Ari Fleischer?
And, last but not least, why am I still here after telling everyone I was done? Why am I unable to pull a "tones"? Clas??
Hey now! My name is Pralen, I live in Copenhagen. I am almost 2 meters tall, my friends call me "The Great Dane", I love Steely Don, very much too.
Yeah? And Labrador is'nt a dog uh? Is that also a “Canadian Province”?
What's next? Can we expect a post from a Great Dane soon, or what?
C
What are you talking about son? New Foundland is a Canadian province.
New Foundland is a DOG, you can't LIVE in a dog fucking IMPOSTER!
C
heya all! i'm 26 old and living in port au basques, new foundland. i recently discovered steely den on the radio.
mornin' y'all
1607-mu: A Riot!! Like supermarket tabloids, the headlines are the best part.Let your mind do the wondering. That's not a put-down.
Paul in S.Africa: Were you just passing through or are you lurking?
And Paige?
Howdy Hillbilies!
How's life today? Where's Bin Ladin?? Dead???
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Stevee my old friend, I am sitting here, every day, almost, turning pages in my 50 kilos dictionary, in my struggle to spell properly, and YOU, you are so fucking lazy. Why not look up the words you can't spell?
It's UKELELE and it's GRETSCH.
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's everybody listen to the great saxophone-player at my homesite, Stefan Isaksson? Go to my webpage (URL above) click on musik in the menubar. In “Dr Warren's Heights” he's doing pretty good I think. “The Catwalk” is there too, and soon I'll add more songs as they come. “The U-Turn” is next. And then I'm about to do a new version of “Pompe's Be Bop Bodega” (going to add a banjo this time).
If you don't have broad bands, there's mini MP3's for modems.
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And catch the “grey men” in the gallery, www.ateljelundkvist.se/galleri
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So, who was the Chief of Protocol last nite in the Chat Room?
And who's responsible for tonites casting?
Luckless?
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C
Hi GB-ers --
Floridavid - well, that's how it goes sometimes. I hope that you enjoyed your stay here in sunny southern California. Now, for some NAMM annecdotes --
A friend of mine, whom I jam with periodically, is a professional drummer and he is an endorsee of Gretch drums (is that spelled correctly?).
He was at the NAMM show doing the rounds. While there he hung out with Bernard Purdie, Ricky Lawson, and Harvey Mason. It turns out that while he was at the Gretch booth, a photographer was taking shots for the Gretch website and took some photos of both my friend and also of Harvey Mason. (For those of you who are not familiar with Harvey Mason, go buy Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" CD. Then you will know, and never forget, who this great funk drummer is.) So, my friend and Harvey M. hung out for a while. It turns out that they both worked for a singer a few years back, and also both come from Atlantic City. So when my friend mentioned this to Harvey, Harvey remembered being on the same gig with him, and told my friend that he could sub for him any time. Evidently, the NAMM show is also very good for music networking.
I previously posted (a few days ago) that another friend of mine who worked in one of the presenter booths at the NAMM show spoke briefly to Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. So that's 3 Steely Dan alumnus sightings and encounters from the NAMM show alone. Not bad, my Steely brothers and sisters.
Oh, and about that line about someone playing the ueuqalaylee (how the heck to spell that picalo-guitar instrument?) equalling Larry Carlton (or Rally Calrton for our Oriental Dan fans) here's the answer:
The statement that a guy playing the ueuqalaylee = Larry Carlton is true when the guy playing the ueuqalaylee IS Larry Carlton. Yah-Huh?
Stevee-NAMM-Dan, thank's Harvey Man
Just back from Anaheim....very sorry to have missed meeting any GBers. Angel, Steveedan,Craig,JWMalibu..my humble apologies.
My Brother and Sons and wives kidnapped me friday night and took me to Oceanside to my nephews house. We Ate Ribs, Drank exotic beers and bonged our way through till sunday morning. I then headed back to the NAMM show for a few bargains before catching an early flight out. Maybe next time.
I would certainly have loved to hang with any or all of you.
Sincerely, David
Ole: Logic combined with absurd humor at a Steely Dan site??? ee-Gads!
1506: "Are the 100s of years of articles, theses and dissertations on the science of art criticism just so much hot air?"
1605: "No, just pointing out that there are whole graduate programs and enough journal articles to choke Moby Dick on this subject."
Spooky, eh?
Bill: Now they're simply laughing AT us... not WITH us...
Ken Starr: I DEMAND a full Senate investigation into the bankruptcies of K-Mart and Newsweek!!!
Did W call Rosie O: "Donnell-boy?"
Did Joe Lieberman also accept $200,000 in campaign contributions from Jacilyn Smith?
Should K-Mart have run more Red Light Specials?
Did Sam Walton pimp check out gals for Bill C in exchange for favorable SEC regulations? Did he supply 50 gallon Sam's Club bottles of MGD for W?
Why did Newsweek have a Fred Jones Pension Club party before revealing their 401(k)s were deep six-ed?
Why did K-Mart hire Louie Anderson to audit their books in exchange for a barrel of extra "butter" on his popcorn??
Will Jesse Jackson provide Martha Stewart with a "love child?"
Enquiring minds want to know!!
Never did get an answer to post 1575.
That's Post 1575 rock and roll fans...
:)
Aja--mmm, delicious. Is he coming to JazzFest too? To get the DanFan seal of approval?
lp--any such reference sure escapes me. I'm still banking on '03, but boy would I loooove to be wrong.
jjeff--yes, have read Children of God--very interesting, the exposition of prey/predator races in symbiosis--some really creepy cross-cultural practices that are hard to be relativistic about--and depravity knows no planetary bounds.
cara--when you get over feeling puny, c'mon over, I'll take you to Zambra again for some tapas and wine.
Dr. K--come on over here and feel me flex my lobes, but keep that tube to yourself. OK, so: question: What's a dollar three eighty?
Both Cake and Dave Brubeck are coming to town, no, not on the same bill. Has anyone seen Brubeck lately? Some musical friends here saw him last year and were kvetching that he barely played and they felt he was just trying to rake in some bucks while doing as little as possible. I plan to go anyway, as I've never seen him, but don't have high hopes.
Re: art debate: I'm no practitioner of aesthetics, and don't even qualify as an aesthete, but you guys are barely tickling the surface of one of the great philosophical currents of our time. Aesthetics asks: what is art? what is beauty? why? who decides? is there a second "sense of taste"--that is, not taste as in oral sensation but as in a faculty for appreciating and judging art? Are there objective criteria for judging art? Do I have any answers? No, just pointing out that there are whole graduate programs and enough journal articles to choke Moby Dick on this subject. It's fine to start with a dictionary definition, but that's just a start, and is itself culturally determined. And reductio ad absurdum (is a drunk with a lampshade equivalent to Larry Carlton?) doesn't further things. Not to be reductionist meself, I think of art as (inspiration+expression+technique) x the idiosyncratic way it makes you feel/cultural milieu. I don't know if there's a constant somewhere in that expression. And that's probably pretty simplistic in itself.
Hello one and all..............
Just stopped by to say hi to my e-buddies, hope everyone is well. Already tantalizing talk of a "new one" in the air.....
Woke up Sunday morning with the strange premonition that the single life I've relished for years will be ending sooner than I thought. No one particular reason, just a premonition. The sunlight was streaming in through my balcony doors, the seabreeze starting to warm up as I stayed in bed reading all morning, just because I could. I had chocolate cake for breakfast, in bed, just because life isn't always going to be this relaxed. Had a near-miss over to the house last night, and suddenly woke up at 5:00 am this morning because he was so heavily in my thoughts I couldn't sleep. Too early to tell if we'll hit this time or not, but what a doll.
Chere-hey grrlie, post some juju/voodoo vibes for us, k?
It's a Marvin Gaye, All The Way Around night tonight.
Aja
hey - i heard on 92.9 this morning here in boston, upon their airplay of "my old school" that the website said that the new album is out soon - is this dj snowing me or what? the official site has nothing on it - anyone know what the deal is?
nmn, mib, did you guys hear that too?
1518-Mr. Chow:Live concerts and what you want. I try to think of what I want to hear before I go. The one and only time I've seen SD, I wished to hear something( anything) note for note, and something( anything) with a very different flavour from the original. They played My Old School, note for note with a few added guitar riffs at the end, and of course Reeling In The Years, the Alive In America version. A combination of the two is nice for me.
1521-Steviedan:Ciamar a tha sibh? ( Gaelic for"how are you?") The Rankins were a local gem from Cape Breton, N.S. Beautiful harmonies. Sadly, they are no more since the death of the oldest brother two years ago. The youngest brother has a solo album out called Song Dog, I think.
1523-Paul T.Shotan:Point well made, although I see Bad Sneekz side, too. A great website! Love that rippling water effect.
I've been hearing two versons of Lola over the last few years, one that says cherry cola and the other that says coka cola. Which ones the original? I can't remember anymore.
Cake is on Letterman tonight. Don't know if it's a rerun or not.
Is Tones not around anymore?
CU
boo hoo not on the list...
so what!!
start you're own list of contributors
First of all, I thought that the Mars Rover sent
back COLOR PICTURES. Man, what a rip off!
Although the video was blown way up, and therefore
grainy, I could have sworn that I saw that face-looking
structure on Mars. It looked a little like Don and
it was trying to say something but I could'nt make
out what it was. Perhaps it was trying to relay the
release date of the next Steely Dan CD?
Spooky, but possible...
Yes, and also incredible is the fact that I would never post movies, grossly large photos, etc, AND that my isp isn't included in St. Al's list
Hey where's the reelly cool mars rover gif gone...
Good job i saved it.
(mental note)
Must post mars gif for all my friends to see.
I feel bad about calling the poster a fool..
as it took me 12weeks just to get a picture up.
I could just be a mistake.
Heaven knows we all make a few of them from time to time.
(I think it was tha Anticlast)
db
thanks to everybody who attended the weekends chat party...
I'm sort of feeling better now & i hope you know you are or can remember.
I'll give the whole experiance a 6
Pious Pilot?
hm ...St,Al, if some of that egg dripping from your face would wind up in a glass of wodka and tomatojuice, have someone impersonate the only shaken&stirred Bond ever, a Spike Jones record wouldn't come close to this phenomena ... must be the day, for here in this humble country someone hacked an internet newspaper spreading news about a national poet/writer/eccentric celebrity stating he was dead. it had only been up there for less than 3 minutes but silly enough the grapevine intoxicated so called trustworthy papers and magazines who bluntly took the news for truth and started printing it as well ...
just one of those days. Sign In Stranger right down to the very bottom of it.
aloha Chippery, old punky brewster you :-)
Blazer Rouge (since we're partially in old GB format), get that Bigfoot to come down from his mountain and show us some eh, i don't know ... Bigfoot Fagenish Lesterian Boogie?
Hey, how come we meet here again instead of there LOL
Banyan Tree Want Crazy Check The GB Bow,
G.
Hey-ho, check out the web site above - finally a place to belong in...
And of course, I had to check my own address, just in case. You see, as a child, I used to sleepwalk so... got me worried I might have started harrassing people on the internet unknowingly.... geez...
No need to feel bad about it, you're just using the means you have to try and stop a certain form of unwarranted behavior and more power to you, really. No need to delete everything you wrote there either, Pat. In fact, if you delete that post of yours down there, now I look like a madman lashing out for no reason whatsoever. I don't know which is worse. lol
At least we know the man in charge is overseeing things and that's comforting, right? I think so.
And please pretend you didn't see that info about a certain multinational company (who shall remain nameless), ok?
That's my blunder.
lp, shh... close your eyes...
It's all good.
Still it was from Telus, right? Strange. I don't think they do business outside of this country of mine but I could be wrong.
Oh yes....RIP Peggy Lee. I have a live version of "Fever" done by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno which really smokes.....
Aus
Not Blaise...the prankster was using a Mac...
Here's the "signature:" Mozilla/3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K)
that I saw at the bottom of the pic file...
Blaise: I'm really sorry. I was confused. I thought it was someone else, honestly. After I saw your post I realized that not only had I made it sound like you were the spammer, I also realized the person I thought it was isn't within the block in question. Look for an e-mail from me in a few minutes...
This illustrates the many flaws in this method of communication. The reality is you never really know who is posting anonymously and who isn't. For all any of you know a lot of old negativity could have been me. Although, I can honestly say I only posted anonymously once or twice on the old guestbook and never here. But, let's take the example of the person who posts as "Flamer." I am 99.9% sure I know who this person is and consider him an "internet friend." Not to say this person has posted anything I'd consider cruel or unreasonable, but you just never really know...
The fact is I don't really care if someone spams the guestbook. It took all of about 2 minutes to fix the problem and that's only because the person in question submitted the same post a dozen times.
To make matters worse, not only did I allege something, I wont follow up with the true content of this allegation. It isn't important and it's already proved to cause too many problems.
with egg on his face...
StAl
LOL!!!! Christ, Blaise what are you a Catholic like me? I thought i was bad - what a guilt complex you have! I was NOT referring to you - god, that is so damn funny you thought otherwise - made my lunch break
now stop that, B
And funny how we refrained from doing the same when a certain FLAME personally attacked me here. Food for thought indeed, brother. I guess when it suits your agenda... Yeah, have a nice life...
Actually, this is a mix of my old workplace network setup (with Wins server and such) and the current Adreesiing given out by my ISP, which is Telus Quebec or "globetrotter.net". Really surprising to see it come up regarding said incident, which apparently occured in my sleep. Anyway, if it comforts you to find a fall guy for this shit, then let it be me, why not? Had lost interest lately anyway so no skin off my ass...
Just chequing in....
June: Glad you enjoyed the Bahamas...you're always on my mind. Love, Ward.
Daaano: All's well mancub...thanks for asking.
Dean Wurmer: Too bad about the English Beat gig...what a downer. I also really liked General Public when they came out....
CaraMiaMarsha: If you swing by here definitely give a voice blast...nice to see you're still around lovey.
Malcolm: Nice to see you're active again musically and also touching base this morning....we'll light it up soon.
Aus
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Over time, basically two years now, I have strived constantly to maintain a quality of posting, regarding tastefulness and maintained a certain level of self-censorship as to not morally disturb my fellow "Dan fans". I am appalled by the allegation hereby brought forth by the webmaster and will gladly cease posting anything on this board from this day forward.
hey, i just had a long blank screen - someone posted movies?
alberta? hey, who could that be?
Here's the lowdown on the prankster who posted those movies.
Telus Advanced Communications (NETBLK-TELAC-BLK14)
TELAC-BLK14 64.114.0.0 - 64.114.255.255
New Generation Internet Services (NETBLK-NEWGEN-CA) NEWGEN-CA 64.114.152.0 - 64.114.152.255
The jokers IP address is 64.114.152.39
I've already sent a message to the Administrators of Telus and I have banned that entire block of IP addresses from posting again.
StAl: Name the fool please...
no way Jim - the date was 1988, you silly - and the police first released in 1978, i know, i went to their 1979 show in syracuse, same with joe jackson - please try again
sade and ebtg were prior to 1988, btw - ebtg did a release of jazz standards in around 1985 that was an import to us here but i have it, it's awesome
and, sad to say, you are likely correct on the steelers, better the pat's bow out now to avoid a catastrophe at the sperbowl
Actually, Gap, the Mars Rover is easier to care for than many domestic animals including: Sally Struthers, Dogs, Monkeys, Cats, Horses, Sea Urchins and well, I guess you get the picture.
AND...I guess you just don't get the advantages of choosing between Celleron, Athlon and Intel processors, do you? This is America, you Man from Mars!
Kisses Anyway,
RTB
This incredibly large and fruitless angst posting has got to stop. Attention the person who did this: Sure, you're an idiot. Yes, you should be on yellow jackets, but what can we do from here besides confirm that we have slogged through your mental challenges and still won't invite you to DanWorld? Really. Some shouldn't have access to "an easy to build" PC.
GB
I've been reading on what were the best acts in the past 20+ years since 1980. NOWS'S MY TURN!
1.R.E.M: Fresh and organic rock without any superproducer coming out to dilute it. Stipe's lyrics cut to the bone. Sarcastic, yet poignant at times.
2.THE PRETENDERS- Chrissie Hynde is one of my favorite songwriters male or female. Back In The Chain Gang, Middle Of The Road and 2,000 Miles
are some of the best rock songs ever written and performed. Work best with drummer Martin Chambers. The Learning To Crawl CD is their masterpiece with songs about maturity, motherhood, aging and death.
3.EVERTHING BUT THE GIRL- Everthing right up until, they went techno.
Missing was good, but the rest of the releases don't hold up to their
early works.
4.INCOGNITO- A British jazz/soul band. If you never heard of them, you're missing the best of British soul. Recommended CDs: Beneath The Surface, 100 degrees and Rising, and Positivity.
5.THE POLICE- Need I say more. Greatest rock trio around. Kickass.
6.DIANA KRALL- Smooth, warm and seductive and that can be said for her piano playing, her singing and her sexy good looks. She even has a bit of the Fagen sneer when she sings on TV.
7.BEASTIE BOYS- OK, so it's a rap act, but they never acted like gangsta's nor did they stick with the same monotonous crap that today's
rappers do. One of the few that survived with their careers still intact.
8.SADE- See number 6. Okay, she doesn't play piano, but she is still timeless and ranks with Lena Horne and Billie Holliday as one of my all time favorite female singers. Her recent CD outsold even Ricky Martin's
last one. Proving that you don't have to livin' La Vida Loca to still
sell records.
9.DAVE MATTHEWS BAND- Music without boundaries, complex lyrics, and no
apologies for not sounding commercial. Sounds like the 90's version of Steely Dan.
10.JOE JACKSON- Why isn't his record company doing enough to promote his records. He changes styles while keeping his goal to make interesting music. The most underrated artist in the music scene.
There, that's my list. Gotta get off the caffeine. See Ya!
From time to time I like to send annoying emails to friends
and acquaintances. I do it because what the hey, it's fun!
Although I seem to be annoying you people just fine I am
very frustrated by the fact that I cannot seem to officially
annoy the boys at the top.
When I head over to the Official Steely Dan site I find that
the email section of the site has'nt been updated since
September of 2000. What's up with that? How in the heck
is a slightly off-kilter (but very well meaning) guy like
myself supposed to know that his annoying emails are
having the desired effect if those emails are never posted?
Does anyone know what's going on over there?
I demand to be heard! Even if I don't have anything to say.
:)
Sorry -- I made a typo --
... Just like you said, you can hear the effects tracks (like the shimmering chimes wafting and drifting from side to side) and the horn tracks in the rear speakers.
Steveedan-again
Hello Doctor µ - I am NOT the proud owner of the audio equipment needed to play those fabulous DVD-A CDs, but a close friend of mine is.
I was over at his place a couple of weeks ago and he played 2 of those DVD-A CDs for me. One was Two Against Nature, and I really liked it a lot. Just like you said, you can hear the effects tracks (like the shimmering chimes wafting and drifting from sided) and the horn tracks in the rear speakers.
Compared to conventional stereo, it is a far superb listening experience.
However --- there is something that you must experience, µ.
The DVD-A CD of Pat Metheny's Imaginery Day is far superior to Two Against Nature. (I need not remind people here how much I love Steely Dan music, but ...) The imaging on the Imaginery Day DVD-A CD is breathtaking. We listened to a few Steely Dan tunes and then popped in the Metheny CD. The difference was startling. If you don't have it, RUN DON'T WALK TO THE STORE AND GET IT ...
You won't regret it. I can safely say that in your case, you will be µ-ved.
Oh, and St. Al, nice rig for a grand. A grand rig that is. My opti-mouse has left, right, scroll, ultra left, and ultra right, and everything is programmable. Ultra left is double-click, and ultra right is back (like when browsing and you want to go back to the previous page). Who needs a finger or two free when you have
a whole other hand ???
Steveedan
Jimbo, just one post where you don't mention Britney Spears? It's getting creepy.
Jimbo, just one post where you don't mention Britney Spears? It's getting creepy.
Dano- Being that I'm 40 miles from Pittsburgh, I couldn't agree with you more. The Steelers will pummel the Patriots into submission 21-10.
Let's hope no one else in the Ravens organization dresses up like a pimp like unconvicted murderer Ray Lewis did. Ick! Ugly fur coat. Soe innocent raccoons had to be stabbed to death for him to wear them. Of course, he must have killed them.
By the way, there were two different versions of Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4.
The 70's classic version and the 80's bombast version. Which do you prefer?
By the way, I picked up the new issue of Rolling Stone only because Jennifer Garner is on the cover. In it, the mag mentions briefly that
Don and Walt have "logged time in a New York studio to work on new songs for the follow up to 2000's Grammy-winning Two Against Nature."
There's also a brief profile on an up and coming jazz pianist/singer named Norah Jones. She's 22 years old, has a CD coming out soon on Blue Note and says that she's not inspired by today's music and thather influences are Bill Evans, Aretha, and Ray Charles. She says, "Old music is just so badass and original." HEAR THAT BRITNRY AND N'STINK?
Finally, a belated Happy 54th Birthday to Mr. Fagen. Please get the new one out before more crap dominates the charts.
See Ya!
Dr. K(z):
Yes, Robert Lamm's trying to write the big hit late at night - Terry Kath's classic vocals on that