Name: "FezChick"
Showering with "The Dan"
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 06:10:24
Comments:
Dan Fans:
I was listening to The Dan this morning while showering. (Yes, I realize that could be hazardous to my health!) Does anyone out there know the story behind the song "Green Earrings"?
It sounds like it might be a pretty interesting one."I don't mind . . ."
Name: Roy.Scam
Hygeine, Aisle 7
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 05:29:09
Comments:
Fez o'north: There's no better pick up line than, "Say, isn't that a Projecto 5, adjustable stream Deluxe with double reinforced bag and computerized vinegar injection?"
Noah: Yeah, they're way cool; and with luck, they'll be a nineties band again. We used to talk about them on this guestbook.
Mr.LaPage: What's the record for substance emitted in one posting? In flaming me, (It hurt but that was a good Jeopardy parody snippet.) you also implied that 32 Fords are vaccuous and without substance. Hey, would Bruce AND Brian Wilson have immortalized them in song if they weren't worthy? It was a great car, comparable to the 1973 Midnite Cruiser.
RS
Name: ashadow
crossed the blue Miami Sky
Location: London, UK
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 05:10:45
Comments:
"...when all my dime dancing is through I run to Yoo-Hoo..."
Name: Mr. Glapp
f@rfromyoufuckers
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 01:57:00
Comments:
Noah!
That's enough fun for one night, young man! You come home this instant and remember, "douche bag" is still known as, "mom's water bottle" when you're in this house!
Daddy
Name: Noah Blank
growinupf@st
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 01:45:36
Comments:
Thank you, Roy. I looked up "ostentatious" and quickly outgrew the meaning. Just like I outgrew my Father's Steeleye Span records. Now I'm into this 70's band called Steely Dan. Have you heard of them?
Down to 44
Noah
Name: Grouse Point
Luck@Henry
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 at 00:20:35
Comments:
L.H.: The Keystone Cops have made their mistake, and continue to do so. You know what I mean. It has been written, it has been done.
Clas: Hey!
Name: queenie
cock, stock @nd barrel
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 23:52:00
Comments:
l.c. guy: are you making fun of me?
it was a lousy comma, you fuckers...even ones as lofty and pristine as you pompous asses can make a mistake every now and then...
may i suggest a looser style of undergarment to free up your constricted groan zones?
new freedom is more than a maxi,lolita
Name: That "Lucky Charms" Guy
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 22:43:34
Comments:
Ah, ' lost me luggage. All me food and personal items-
Have you seen me yellow moons?
Have you seen me green clovers?
Have you seen me blue diamonds?
Have you seen me douche bag?
Name: Kinky
got any hot sauce?
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 16:19:34
Comments:
I ain't queer, dear, the only fire in my hole is after a night spent at Roberto's Taco-Rama. And that dark spot on my pants was merely a shadow cast by my boogie night bulge.
Lowly-lita - Think you could handle that? Don't tell me you would/could?!
Name: fezonorth
bigman.com
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 15:35:37
Comments:
actually i think Springsteen was singing about the life of a teen growing up in the 30's in fascist Italy, thus the line "raving at El Duce"
Scam: thanks for the further etymology of douchebag. i now feel qualified to cruise the feminine hygiene section of the local grocery and flirt knowledgably.
Also Scam, please keep up the use of large terms on the GB; otherwise I only add words-of-the-day like "fissure" and "schlong" to my vocabulary.
Name: majĐ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 13:37:04
Comments:
You haven't lived until you see Lucky Henry emerge from the vault in his satin lounge jacket, Donald-God issue sunglasses (dip right, back up, sing) and cigar. I bet he even downs a V and a brandy before kicking into the repertoire o' Dan. The tape? That one's a keeper.
Finah-Minah: Package received, loud and clear!! Vintage and Video, tonight, BAY-BY!!
majĐ
Name: whoa
jane, how do you stop this crazy thing?
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 13:31:56
Comments:
Who's driving the universe? Cause I'm getting a little woozy myself.
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 10:33:09
Comments:
Oh well queenie, just so you know, it may have been Manfred Mann who made the song famous, but it was Springsteen who originally wrote and recorded it.
Name: MrLaPage
t
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 10:05:10
Comments:
C: What are douche bags, '32 Fords, insults and ostentatious behavior?
A: That's right.
C: Alex, I'll stay with DanFan GB for $800.
A: That's our audio daily double.
C: I'll wager everything.
A: This body cavity emits less of a certain substance in a month than some visitors can dish out in a single post.
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 09:35:07
Comments:
Springsteen's line "revved up like a deuce" uses the word "deuce" in reference to a hot rod, a '32 Ford I think...
Name: queenie
rut ro
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 08:35:43
Comments:
royola: that was manfred mann who did "blinded by the light"...
i believe the word he used is deuce, one of it's meanings being the devil, bad luck or a mild oath used with or without the article.i just want to be loved...is that so wrong?
Name: Roy.Scam
grammatically humbled
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 08:22:03
Comments:
Moray Eel: You are correct. I looked it up. 'douchebag' as a one word expression is not yet an accepted English usage.
'douche bag' is defined as slang for an offensive person.
'douche' is defined as a jet or current directed into a cavity of the body. (a rather open-ended definition, if you'll forgive a perversory pun.)
Thus I must conclude that queenie is calling someone an offensive person who directs things into body cavities.Noah Clap: "Douchebag" is obviously one of those big words I can't use; but I will happily string some shorter words together if you will retract the insinuation that I'm ostentatious. I don't want you to use your 50 free hours looking things up in the dictionary.
BTW: Why does Bruce Springsteen use the word douche in his song "Blinded By the Light"? or is that one of those misheard lyrics?
RS
Name: lucky henry
str@nded in
Location: redhook,
Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 at 05:17:24
Comments:
m.: our latest additions to the archives have been dubbed: "Meet My Pet: In the Flesh." and Major Thanx for the Citizen box!! a Must-have keepsake.
did someone say 'tour'?"now lost again for good",
lh.
Name: Mr. 50 FREE hours!
El Gidar@aol.com
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 22:42:53
Comments:
Hey, what kind of computer does everyone have? I just love Steeleye Span! My dad has all their records and I listen to even the scratchy ones. Does anyone know Kinky's e-mail address? I'm thinking about coming out of the closet and need a mentor. You all are so cool! I can't wait till I learn some big words like Roy Scam. Anybody want to trade Beanie Babies?
Can't wait to spend some more FREE time with you!
Noah Dimitri Glapp
Name: queenie
dull@rd
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 22:10:26
Comments:
roy: well, at least you complemented me in the same paragraph where you criticized my english...the art of counterbalance has not escaped you.
now...if we were able to get kinky's head to shrink several sizes to match his pecker, we could finally say there was a semblance of equity here on the guestbook.
(what the fuck? i'm just mad cause kinky doesn't love me)
longing lolita
Name: moray eel
The House of Sin
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 21:41:46
Comments:
Roy.Scam: Douche bag is two words.
Let's see...
Olive Oil?
Vinegar and water?
There is probably a good salad joke in there somewhere.
m.e.
Name: lovey
you know
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 19:16:53
Comments:
df: icq me baby
Name: Double Felix
@ction
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 19:15:54
Comments:
"Fire in the Hole" is what Kinky experiences after a date with Surly.
Space-Age Lubricants for Everyone,DF
Name: RubyBaby
I take a little with sugar
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 18:02:23
Comments:
Fezchick: I had fun listening to my new Kamakiriad! It's a whole new thing to me! I want to experience it a few more times before I get specific, but I love it. (Good quality taping job, too!)Which reminds me: As I taped the Nightfly, that left a whole side of the tape empty. So I taped a few from Old Regime & Roaring of the Lamb. Finally, I heard a resemblence of Ben Folds Five to Steely Dan. I think they could do a smashing job of This Seat's Been Taken and some other old, old Steely Dan.
George: Has it happened yet? I'm pacing...
rb
Name: Beast w/o A Name
petern@sequent.com
Location: SkyBar, CA
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 16:27:44
Comments:
FYI - The Baked Potato in North Hollywood featured the John Beasley Trio last night. Tonight and tomorrow, Niacin, featuring '94 touring drummer Dennis Chambers (truly in a class by himself). I may try to go tomorrow night and will post a review if I go......
Stevie Dan: For your big screen adaptation:
What about LaMont Wilson as Jerome Aniton? Poor guy needs work.
Name: Aja
sierraluna@juno.com SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 16:11:26
Comments:
What are you guys talking about?
Still Clueless
Name: Geena SD's Junkie Girl
argggggggggghhh
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 15:51:11
Comments:
Clas:
i think i'm in love with you............
Name: Roy.Scam
Chang's Fireworks Inc.
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 05:28:19
Comments:
Subject: Proper use of commas. queenie--'gaping, giant fissure' to describe an asshole was a metaphoric pearl; but your omission of the comma from the sentence "have you seen me douchebag?" completely altered the literary texture. Without the comma, it sounds like Popeye in search of his douchebag. Sentence structure, people!
Edd: I also thought the phrase "Steely Dan harmonics" might be a misprint for Steely Dan harmonies, but the Ben Folds review I have definitely says 'harmonics'. I agree, to equate the vocal harmonies of the two groups would be innacurate; much of the BF5 harmonizing sounds more like early Neil Sedaka. (Compare "Kate" to "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do")
Clas--I called "No offense" at the beginning of my 'Fire In the Hole' sentence; ergo, you're not allowed to take any.
RS
Name: Ellen Degenerate
hangin wit da indyko girls
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 at 00:47:25
Comments:
Surly Walter Raliegh? oh-my-god! You? I mean you, of all people? Who'da thunk it?
Name: Lou Chang
digit@l@lchemy
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 23:37:21
Comments:
Looks like year of Tiger has you by tail. Take it from someone who has worked every firework's factory in Aja: Light fuse and get away!
Chow,Chang
Name: Saintly Alphonzo
!
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 22:22:14
Comments:
GW -- Perhaps he has a really big schlong?
And you don't...
StAl
Name: Surly Walter Raleigh
kinkyple@
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 22:15:35
Comments:
Kinky--You are so...delicious! Egocentric, cruel, crafty and a real butt-chasm. If you don't already have a "dark spot on your pants" I'de like to give you one, big boy! Anybody who uses the name "Kinky" with such pride has got to have some "back-door" fantasies, if you know what I mean...and believe me, I've got the swingin' rear entrance ready for you. Thank you, lover. I had just about abandoned this message board until you showed up. Please, give me an e-mail address so I can share my real feelings with you!
There IS a God,
SWR
Name: queenie
wh@tever
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 22:05:37
Comments:
doc: how the FUCK do you know what matches me? have you seen me douche bag?
how about my foot to MATCH the circumference of your asshole?
oh excuse me...my foot would be dwarfed by that gaping, giant fissure.
rip it up chump
Name: queenie
jumpin' chunx-o-chib@
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 21:56:10
Comments:
heavy bud: yes, that schwinn character can wreak havoc on even the toughest old birds. clas is quite the disco dandy, but i don't believe he was prepared for what the mad biker had in store for him...but look at his resurgence of spirit!
as for the sex: i would love nothing more, but with these chastity piercings, i am never able to roam too far from the
"tower of power"what can i say? i got a thing for horns.
quee-knee
Name: doc
on c@ll
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 21:46:36
Comments:
A loosed tongue is just what she needs. It will match the rest of her.
Name: Heavy Bud
hunk@hunk@
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 20:47:14
Comments:
Queenie
It appears Clas' run-in with Schwinn has loosed his tongue.
By the way, would you like to have sex with me?
That's Ok, I understand...HB
Name: queenie bitchin'
cl@s is @ll th@t
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 19:34:48
Comments:
kinky, is that you?
look darling, i don't understand what you have against clas...he is a great guy! one might say you have been less than a friendly traveler when visiting the gb...but don't we love you for all your biting, cruel commentaries? can't you and the wonderful clas exist in the same confines without all this animosity? both you chaps have a great mind, but must those intellects be mutually exclusive?
by the way muffin cup, clas is far from being homely...he is actually quite handsome.
be a man kinky.
lolita
Name: Aja
freethinker, artist
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 19:24:37
Comments:
ok, your in a movie theatre, the feature has just started, and the credits are coming up on a black screen, and then the we dolly (or steadicam) down the hallway, past the family photos and in the background we hear the unmistakeable sound of someone practicing the piano (scales or some simple tune), and into the living room where we see a childs hands on the piano, cut to a shot of DF's sister get exasperated with her lessons (maybe a parent or instrutor telling to keep playing, maybe a little arguement, whatever fits the facts) and then we see DF sit down at the piano and start tickling the ivories.
Of course there are a thousand other ways to start the story, but since I don't know it (Sweet's book is not a biography, really nothing more than a collection of studio stories, which is fine, it's just not a bio) I don't know the options.
As for why some of us here seem to like Clas, maybe it's autism. And you can be a functional member of society and be autistic, just different, the artists, the poets the dreamers, the mystics, the visionaries the pioneers, many of these sorts of people are autistic. Even if it isn't that, hell, Clas is a nice guy, seems kind thoughtful and empathetic to me. Give the guy a break, ok.
more to come
Name: Guess Who
can't figure this one out
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 17:36:18
Comments:
NO NO NO I think you can tell the story likeTHIS:Once, in Clogland there was a homely little boy who began drinking at a very young age. He had very few friends, the alcohol was his E.T. He was an asshole, but even a bigger dick. At the school his teacher would call out attendance, "Jorma!", "Bjorn!", "Agnetha!", "Stig!". Being in his usual drunken state, he would yell out "Here!" to every name being called.
Well, a few things have changed -- although the miserable bastard's still an asshole, still a dick, and is still crying out "Here I am!" under every name but his own, he HAS found some people in this little corner of the web that will talk to him. Hell, some even claim to "like" the guy. What's the deal here? Has this prick changed THAT much? I surely don't see it. So maybe we should ask ourselves, just who ARE these clasaholics? What binds them together? What's the common thread? Oleander, Lisa, Ruby Baby, Aja, Junkie Girl...what gives? Does anyone else see a pattern here? Any oldsters want to give me a hand with this one? Maybe I'm just missing something...
Ahhhh, shit, this will be continued.
Name: Chris Enslow
enslow@jltc.army.mil
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 15:50:37
Comments:
"I spent a lot of money, and I spent a lot of time..."...HEY! Nice site! And here's one more devoted fan to prove it! One of the only mainstream groups out there to actually use real jazz/fusion musicians! Figure that??!!
Name: cl
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 13:22:39
Comments:
The Steely chords are built in a simple way. Take C major and add a F in the bass. Simple and clear. They did not invented that. Joni mitchell did, listen to her wildgrown pianoplaying on " For The Roses" Every hero has his hero.
Name: Edd
@work
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 12:24:50
Comments:
re: Steely Dan harmonics...
Probably meant "Steely Dan harmonies", (and was incorrect even at that) in an attempt to describe use of chords extended past a 7th...
Name: once again
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 12:02:12
Comments:
ROY SCAM; "Clas--No offense but it sounded like you used that "Fire In the Hole" question as a launching pad for one of those Evil-American speeches."
For gods sake Roy, I said that I read it in Sweets Bio. And if you think that I am out here to start a war about YOUR war in Vietnam , you are wrong. War is awful, killing is awful, and I canīt have any opinion about how people behave when they are out in a war, a war they donīt understand. How can I know how I would react if I were under fire with a risk to be killed? I think you should read my post closer. OK? My post was not a Evil-American speech. And if it sounded like that, I am sorry.
C
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 11:48:20
Comments:
I must tell you this story too.
This great swedish trumpetplayer (the same guy in the church and the one with the barf trumpetplayer) had some gigs in Munich (Germany), back in the 70s, at the same time as the Olympic Games.
When he came back home his friends asked him how things had been down in Munich.
- Oh, it was great, a lot of people, the gigs went fine.
- And the Olympic Games, did you see any thing?
- Olympic Games? Nobody told me about any Olympic Games!
Name: Roy.Scam
@falloutshelter w/ tuesdayweld
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 11:42:48
Comments:
I read a review of the Ben Fold's Five album which described them as using "Steely Dan harmonics". Would that equate to using 6th and 9th chords and varying time signatures? I know it can't refer to using that touch-reverb technique on the twelfth fret (BF5 has no lead or rhythm guitar). Was the writer just bluffing? Can one of you experts give a more erudite explanation of that phrase?
Clas--No offense but it sounded like you used that "Fire In the Hole" question as a launching pad for one of those Evil-American speeches. Anyway, I think it's important that the song is about a youngster (like a pre-Maxine, pre-IGY adolescent) ; so it describes a lot of growing-up confusion resulting from recognizing the artifices of society before having the facilities to cope with them.
RS
Name: RubyBaby
Napoleon is president
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 11:37:09
Comments:
Clas: thanks for the fire-in-the-hole lesson. I don't have the SteelyDan Big Book. Life is war, sometimes.Steviedanish: That was a beautiful thing Donald did for Dorothy. I bought the Countdown album when it came out because of the cover. I liked the simplicity of it. (I didn't see the motley crew on the back til I got it home).
Hello, MontyHall. Was it you I used to know?
rb
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 11:29:48
Comments:
Can you believe that Mercy Mercy Mercy was a kind of freedomsong for blacks, written by this white zero Joe Zawinul?
Can you believe that Wayne Shorter and Zawinul doubled their fortunes when Jaco Pastorius joined Weather Report? And that they did not give a shit when he was down and out in Florida?
Name: neonbend
in daylight sky
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 11:01:05
Comments:
I went to www.imdb.com and submitted trivia for the movie "One Crazy Summer." saying that the character Hoops McCann was taken from Glamour Profession. Apparently, they didn't think this was interesting because it never got listed. I say everyone go to the sight and submit this piece of trivia until SD gets the credit they deserve.
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 10:55:10
Comments:
FOSTER; sure is, thatīs why Fagen picked Wadenius.
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 10:50:41
Comments:
STEVIE DAN; I think you can tell the story like this:
Once, in New jersey there was a jewish little boy who was awake at nights listening to jazz on the radio. The music was his E.T. He was a dreamer, but a strong man. At the college he passed a room and heard a guy trying to play weird jazzchops on a guitar. They became friends, they made songs, they looked like clerks on acid when they walked around trying to sell their music
Ahhhh, shit, this will be continued.
Name: Foster
@ a 2 martini lunch
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 10:46:13
Comments:
One thing about your joke, great musicians and Sweden is a contradiction in terms. Isn't it?
Name: clas
c@w
Location: story-ville,
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 10:31:26
Comments:
I have another hysterical funny story. This is about a famous bandleader, swedish. He was a happy lad, nothing seemed to worry him.
At a gig, he a was a leader of a big band, you know, Count Basie-style. His trumpetplayer who sat next to him on the bandstand wasnīt feeling too good during the session. He had a hangover, a real bad ugly hangover. He knew he had to puke and couldnīt wait till the set was over. So, he picks up his sordin and throws down a pizza.
Our bandleader looks at him and says - Hey, donīt do that, it looks bad.
When the gig is over our poor little barf-fellow is standing in a corner of the room and cries his eyes out, feeling miserable. Mr Bandleader comes up to him, saying - Man, whats a matter? Cheer up! Do you want a drink or something?
Name: steviedan
children@scheme and run wild
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 08:55:14
Comments:
Hey me wife 'ad a 'lil baby boy on 12/26.....he's chinese and irish......and seems to be aware and and observant when I play 'Katy Lied'......
any suggestions on how I will explain Steely Dan to him????
"Well son.....once upon a time there were these two overly cynical outcasts from New York.....for years they pounded the pavement in search of Gold.....they were Americans...and their leader was Jay.....one day they made a trip to Hollywood...not being able to Buy a Thrill...they were able to count down to ecstasy (which means real happy)....although their logic was twisted their girlfriend Rikki was able to retain their unlisted phone number.... (excerpted from Steely Dan : For the wonder years)
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 08:52:59
Comments:
Damm,
apropos babbling, I have to tell you this crazy story I heard the other day. We had two great jazzmusicians here in Sweden, I canīt say theire names here, but they were real great. One was on alcohol, the other one, saxplayer, was heavy on heroin. In the sixties they had a gig in a church, not unusual for jazzmusicians in Sweden, I donīt know if Parker ever played churches, but what the hell.
The guys are ready to go in and do their show but first they have to get in the right mood. The saxplayer need his fix, the other fellow need some booze. So the horseman is standing with the needle and is ready to shoot, mr alcoholic is drinking vodka from the bottle. They both are smoking cigs.
And imagine this scene; a man with a needle ready to shoot up in his left arm, a man with a bottle, both smoking. What happens? The door opens and the preacher comes in. It is quiet for a couple of seconds and then the preacher says, kind of not believing what he sees.- Guys, you canīt smoke here, this is a church!
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 06:37:58
Comments:
RUBY; Fire In The Hole was a term used by US-soldiers in Vietnam. When they came to some village and people were hiding in holes underground, covered with leaves and bushes, they were easy to find for the soldiers. When they threw down handgranates in the hole, the soldiers screamed; thereīs fire in the hole!
Thatīs what Brian Sweet writes in Reeling In The Years.
But of course Fagen/Becker didnīt think of that when they used the words in the song. I think they mean an inner emptyness, a longing for something else, you are empty, but still something is burning, and you have to make some changes but you think thereīs nowhere to go. You are down at the bottom where your lifeline shows. Reach the bottom, survive and you will never be the same again. And you will never care more for people who live their lives on the surface, people who are not honest about themselfs, who sits babbling about hairstyles and clothes and money and if he said that and she did that and I just have to have the right underpants on when I look at my body in the mirror.
People who thinks that Clintons sexlife is more important than a war in Iraq.
Audi my friend and say hi to P.
Clas
Name: steviedan
live@bootleg.com
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 19:52:15
Comments:
roy:he wold make a great Jerome Aniton....who incidently created the name Stevie Dan.......one wonders how stoned Aniton was at that last gig in 1974....just a guess:two shots of southern comfort, one shot of jack daniels....a fifth of bourban and a bowl of black hash.....plus six budweisers...and a hit of blotter......
now where was I...???
Name: goodkingrichard
no longer@the dry cleaners
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 18:32:19
Comments:
RS: It's only now that I realise it's OK to have a dark spot on my pants. All those years of shame derived from Donald's sneering line now behind me.
'Get it on Kid Charlemagne' oooh yeah!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 18:09:32
Comments:
MrLaPage:
i think i already mentioned that i also thought it was "the fine Coke rum", until i discovered it was "the fine columbian" and we're not talking Pablo Escobar either.
i distinctly heard "italian" on the CD box set version of Kid, but i also heard "champion" on Alive. I guess DF can do what he wants with his lyrics...
Name: Mr. President, That's not My Pain, That's My Mouth
Hey 19
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 11:00:19
Comments:
What A Country!
Name: MrLaPage
confession, again
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 10:13:40
Comments:
I gotta get my hearing checked. This isn't a new discovery, but at one time I thought that the line was "The fine Coke, rum and you."
Champion it is, clearly, on AIA.
Name: Norma Loquendi
x
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 09:09:11
Comments:
Another mis-heard lyric that almost makes better sense than the original:
"Every eighth friend had your number on the wall"
Name: Roy.Scam
at the dry cleaners having dark spot removed
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 05:51:20
Comments:
Stevie Dan: Might I suggest Damon Wayans as Aniton?
Slimmy: Cheer up. When you start insulting the nice people (you know, the ones afflicted with sensitivity), it's time to tuck in that lower lip and evaluate your feelings. Are you still bitter because Rick Nelson and Desi Jr. got such an easy ride into the music industry by virtue of being sitcom offspring?
Oleander: You may think that "gathering up the teats" is a humorous notion for you privileged people to smirk about, but believe me, when you have to do it all summer just to make tuition money, well, never mind. --- Did "I Fought the Law and the Law Won" really have the line: "Fagen rots in the hot sun"?
GoodKingRichard: Not only did I think that the line in "Sign In Stranger" was 'do you have a dark spot on your pants', but I actually looked to see if I did.
RS
Name: Slimmy, Son of Shame
y@k
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 22:08:02
Comments:
Oleander
My apologies for referring to you as a "bitch" twice in a single, short post. I had no idea an MRI would retune my mercury filled molars to Linda Evans' whippin' boy. Please forgive me and thanks for, well, just bein' you, gosh darn it!
Your Pal,Slimmy
Name: oleander
scroldfinger
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 20:07:33
Comments:
I'll save you the scroll time: "Oleander--Thanks! Does mean I can start picking up pirate Dan tunes if I hold my jaw just right, or do I need fillings first?"
Name: oleander
you need Kool Aid, baby I'm not foolin'
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 20:01:44
Comments:
Slimmy, Son of Me--1/20/98, 23:22:19:
>
Does my lamely jocular response make any more sense? If not, just forget it.
Roy--I found two sequels on the shelf with your book: "He's Got The Whole World In His Pants" and "When A Man Loves A Walnut." The Dan appears in both, but neither IMHO is as funny as the pine cones one. "Hey Nineteen"=>"Canine Teeth," and "Are you reelin'...."=>"Are you reelin' in the yeast? Stowin' away the tiles?/Are you gatherin' up the teats? Have you had enough of mine?"o thoroughly out
Name: goodkingrichard
rlongman@dca.gov.au
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 18:47:41
Comments:
Ok, hands up those who hear ‘Do you have a dark spot on your pants?’ in Sign in Stranger. Just had a quick trawl and came across this on on http://www.mcs.net/~bingo/lyrics/S.html... and realised to my horror...
...time to call in Dr Freud?
My theory (for what little it's worth and knowing full well it has no relation to reality)is:
Donald does in fact sing 'pants' and 'Italian'(even 'Itamplian'!?) - He's only just written the lyrics, that's a lot of words to remember which one was finally chosen to give meaning to the whole - none of the musicians know the words - Donald's not going to say, "oops, got the wrong word there" when he's giving the guy's "cut! once more, from the top" - so, he let's it go, knowing full well that no one else but Walter has the slightest clue what they are on about half the time anyway.What's the alternative? "Hey guy's, I know you finally got the damn thing right on the 37th take, but I just screwed the lyrics. D'ya mind if we have a brief discussion on what's better 'champion' or 'Italian'?".
'Just to see her do the Can Can, Jacques'
Bony Satre indeed!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: 40BlocksSouth
ofRiverSound
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 13:52:17
Comments:
JustaReminder,Kids: There is a song currently in production at an independent shop called, "Steely Dan Movie" - horns are the next to lay in....
Name: steviedanish
steely info service
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 12:33:01
Comments:
hey Ruby: Dorothy was Donald's longtime girlfriend in the early days in Malibu (1971-1977).....she did the artwork for 'Countdown To Ecstasy and the songbooks......Donald dedicated Kamakiriad to her as she passed away in 1993......
Name: RubyBaby
laughing@thePines
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 11:09:19
Comments:
ClasZappaBaby: I knew it was the Venice in Italy. The music makes that perfectly clear! It's the whole burning water thing. It's great!Fezchick: I love it!! Now you must tell me who Dorothy White is!
Does anyone know what the term "fire in the hole" means exactly? I heard it on some tv show lately. I'm too embarassed to say which one...
rb
Name: steviedan
goneto the movies.org
Location: trip we made to, Hollywood
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 09:26:19
Comments:
film idea #0045 ......STEELY DAN : THE MOVIE
cast: Ben Stiller:Donald Fagen
Leonardo De Capri: Walter Becker (young)
Michael Richards:Gary Katz
Martin Scorsese: Steve Barri (record exec)
Robert De Niro: Jay Lasker (record exec)
Howard Hesseman: Jeff Baxter
Jerry Sienfeld:Kenny Vance
Samuel l Jackson: Bernard Purdie
Michael J . Fox: Elliot Randall
Winona Ryder: Dotty of Hollywood
Jeff Goldblum: Donald Fagen's cousin
Eddie Murphy: Royce Jones
Dustin Hoffman: Roger Nichols.....................this will fly people....this film has legs...more coffee please......
Name: ConnieLee
@laughingpines
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 06:01:27
Comments:
Double Felix: one's frequency of checking in on the GB has little to nothing to do with one's "giving diddley squat" about the Dan.
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 05:24:27
Comments:
OLEANDER; nonalcoholic tailpipe? How do I do when I drink it? Lift the whole bike?
SKATING ON THE BEACH; donīt skate ON the beach. There are roads on the side.
Name: clas
c@work, but donīt like it
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 04:24:34
Comments:
AJA; thanks for email, if you read this, chat? Email me again!
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 at 03:59:39
Comments:
VENICE; I could tell you. But let me ask how you voted; New Book (censore-machine) or the Old Book (no censore-machine)? And what do you think about the dot-situation we have here?
Let me know about those things and Iīll tell you.
OLEANDER; thanks.
RUBY; remember, itīs Venice in Italy. Not Calif.
I think the live album from Las Vegas with Count Basie and Sinatra maybe is the best thing ever done. Was it -61? Edd?
Donīt bother, I am sitting on internet, Iīll look it up.
SCHWINN; my back is hurting. I am holding a low profile.
c
Name: L.A.
Venice@TheBeach
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 23:05:42
Comments:
Clas: Any truth to the rumour that the new album will be out in 1999? Signed: Skating at the Beach.
Name: Slimmy Bendix
w@keup@ndgotosleep
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 22:27:59
Comments:
Oleander--I can tolerate anything but being mis-identified by some half-hemisphered psuedo intellectual like you. Scroll back, bitch, smell the java and tell me again about the MRI that's looming in your future. I know I'm good, but not good enough to take your errors.
Slimmy, Son of William, Bitch...
Name: Double Felix
throwouttheh@rdw@re
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 22:15:43
Comments:
Ann
Oh, that says a lot about the people who post on this GB. The majority are checking in during their day job. They don't give a diddley squat about the Dan during their free time.
The Superbowl is no excuse. You posted over the Christmas holidays with much fervor. Just kiss my ass and listen to some more Michael McDonald, you whining strangers...
Minute x Minute,
DF
Name: oleander
chompin'
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 19:00:53
Comments:
Champion, champion, champion. Put on your headphones and you hear an unmistakable "mp" in the middle. "Squonk." But then I'm the one who swears it's "Lot's wages."
Kinky--You missed me! Actually, you're one of my favorite people at the party--the one who sits in the corner (not occupied by Schwinn & lisa), wolfs the hors d'oeuvres, sneers all night long and has a better time than anyone else.
Clas--You're back. Let me pour you a nonalcoholic Cuban Tailpipe.
Slimmy--Just don't ever get an MRI, because ever after you'll only pick up the Yanni Channel.
Evan--So why do you want to know?
Stevie--Synchro(ni)City again; today I heard "Jazzman," and fleetingly wondered if CK ever rubbed shoulders with the Dan. She always reminded me of Julie Christie, not Mr. Fagen.
Roy--My undying thanks for coming up with the perfect birthday present for Number One Son (20 on 2/17)!!! I was rolling just with your snippets. He'll be breathless.
Actually, there's another perfect present that you New Yorkers might be able to help me with: anybody know how to come by some Ricky Jay tickets? Any night except the benefit performance. Please!!
Name: Q
FLAROOM
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 10:55:38
Comments:
Luckily, the bootlegging enterprise was'nt raided-we just ran out of material to bootleg !!! Thanks for your concern, Hal.
Name: fezonorth
hoos.com
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 at 08:50:45
Comments:
Argggg. Wasted too much time yesterday viewing the replay of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony on VH-1. Very corporate and canned. If it wasn't for a ferocious and surprisingly fresh jam from the original Santana lineup, I would have pulled an Elvis and shot the t.v.
Here's hoping, however, that Walter and Donald do get inducted one day. Why? Imagine the scene . . . They play it completely straight through the presentation, dressed nice in tuxes, smiling, giving the proper thanks, and not sounding like Manson and Starkweather. All the suits in the crowd are pleased at the proper behavior.
Then the stage is cleared for the traditional post-induction song and they immediately regale the crowd with "Everyone's Gone to the Movies". By the time Mr. LaPage turns on his projection machine, the suits will be fleeing in droves from the Waldorf-Astoria.
One can only dream . . . .
Name: Queenie
l@nguishing
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 19:25:15
Comments:
come for me
Name: Ann Archie
bigc@ke
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 19:21:47
Comments:
Well You Little Dannys! Donald certainly liked the birthday gifts. But let's not forget Walter's is less than a month hence. It's not too early to start a lively discussion on the perfect presents for the other partner. Any suggestions? I'm thinking spore print but it may not make it through customs. A ghia pet would be nice--or perhaps some sturdy gardening tools...
Martha Stewart's Evil Twin,
Ann
Name: I know the truth
& I'm not telling
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 15:44:39
Comments:
Ed- Are you sure about that lineup for the new record? Don't believe everything you read.
Name: Kinky
h@ngin out with Lind@ Ev@ns
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 15:32:47
Comments:
Hey Clean W - John Tesh? Yanni? Kenny G? Come to think of it, that would be a better band than the one they put together for '96. But since this IS a dream lineup, I say just add Wayne Krantz and those 96 backup singers to your list, then you're really rockin'!Edd - Those '96 guys are on the new one too? Oh Goooody!
Name: Edd
you know where
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 12:18:00
Comments:
According to Elliot Scheiner, the new band is...{drumroll}...
Drums - Ricky "Remo" Lawson
Bass - Tom Barney
Keys - John Beazley
Guitar - Wayne Krantz...along with Donald and Walter on piano and guitar.
And there you have it.
Edd
Name: Allen S. Thorpe
athorpe@etv.net
Location: Orangeville, UT USA
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 12:17:09
Comments:
Out of the loop for about 8 or so years. Just found an old tape of Gaucho and have been listening to it like a junkie for the past two weeks.
Name: Roy.Scam
rage & bull
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 08:45:18
Comments:
Somebody's been dropping acid and watching "Mean Streets" again.
One vote for "champion". If you want to look for Italian references, check the lyrics of Robbie Robertson. He roomed with Martin Scorcese at one time and their influences slipped into each other's work.Made,
RS
Name: Clas
c@w
Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 at 07:18:08
Comments:
Lisa; itīs too late now for me to scan the shit. I have spent the whole day searching for West India Cruises or something. Iīm jus my sons slave behind the computer for the moment.
How can you have time to write on the GB if you aint got the time for the other shit?
Well, itīs for me to know and for you to find out. (thatīs a saying I learned years ago, cool ehh?)
Champion/italian? Isnīt that the same thing?
C, Italian
Name: fluff
w@iting
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 23:35:10
Comments:
i accept your invitation to rumble.
come to the room~>
queenie
Name: HB
neutronst@r
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 23:21:46
Comments:
Fluffy
Now you've got my blood boiling like Chuck Yeager without his pressure suit. The GB won't tolerate the words I have for you, Ms. Dramatica. Meet me on the Galileo Chat Line. I think I've found a way to deploy that pesky high-gain antennae.
Mercury in My Hat-band,
Jonathan Swift's Sancho Panza
Name: fluffNstuff
@turgid junction
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 22:55:08
Comments:
will you configure the hickey to resemble a dog collar?
make me your slave
Name: Heavy Bud
lovebloomsinfern@l
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 22:27:48
Comments:
Fluffy
I want to give you a hickey. Will you give me a turtleneck?
Name: lightNfluffy
s@tiv@
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 22:09:37
Comments:
hb: i'll swap you a nugget for a chunk, dude
are you working the karaoke circuit again?
do me
Name: Aja
Re: Sicilians
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 22:05:46
Comments:
It was a joke. A JOKE! I can only hope your reply is a similarly dry retort.
Aja
Name: Heavy Bud
med@m@n
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 21:45:43
Comments:
I don't give a fuck what the "posted" lyrics are. I've seen lots of "official" lyrics that were wrong. It's "Italian". "Champion" makes absolutely no sense in context to the song's theme. Use your brains, Danophiles. The mouth is quicker than the eye.
Hey, here's a good one. Fill in this blank from "Any Major Dude": Have you ever seen a ________'s tears, well look at mine.
We'll play "Scrabbledan" at my next party.
HB
Name: That's Corleone, Don Corleone
Corleone, Sicily
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 20:29:11
Comments:
Aja:
You talkin' to me? We don't specialize in flames, except for those late August fires in less than solvent establishments which are well insured. We do specialize in cement products and accessories. BTW "mafia" is used properly only when referring to our associates here in Sicily. "Cosa Nostra" is the correct term for our extended US family. Ya know what I mean?
Name: Aja
Re: misheard lyrics
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 20:13:50
Comments:
Mr. LaPage - you're not alone it was less than 6 months ago I discovered with the help of a lyrics page and some good headphones that it was indeed champion. I thought it was Italian too, and I thought that the lyric alluded to a mafia connection (and in case you are daft, I realise not all Italians are connected to the mafia, that's just the Sicilians, so keep your flames to yourself). Speaking of flames let's let the uprising talk go. Please?!
Here are some misheard lyric URLs:
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~infinit/misheard.html
http://www.flash.net/~trevas/Peace, love and laughter to y'all.
Aja
Name: Clean Willy
ClnWilly@aol.com
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 20:01:34
Comments:
Hey Kranky, er Hal,
Nothing to say? But oh, one who's intellect is rivaled only by that of garden tools, wasn't it you who had that cute idea of posting one's "dream lineup"? Or was that amanda, or maybe Josie? No matter, mind if I play along?
Here's my list of heavyweights:
Keyboards: John Tesh (alternate - Yanni)
Guitar: Russ Freeman
Drums: Those two guys from 38 Special
Bass: Scott Ambush
1st Tenor: Kenny G
2nd Tenor: Boney James
Horns (other): NajeeSay, from the looks of our two lists, one might conclude we share a favorite radio station. Mine's CD101.9... Yours?
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 19:26:53
Comments:
I'm back everyone!...what did i miss?
Just got in from scraping the ice off my car and leaving my doors unlocked so they don't freeze shut in the morning - oh the trials and tribulations of living in the frozen northeast!
I too always thought it was "italian". It really does makes sense and being italian myself, it made me proud. I was singing along to the song one day, unaware that my husband was listening to me from the next room and when i sang the line, he broke out into uncontrollable laughter telling me to get my Brooklynese ears cleaned out and listen carefully...the word was "champion".
Howevah! i've heard DF slurring his words to a few songs which leads me to believe as to how i understood the word to be "italian" and not "champion"..right now i can't remember which songs they are...but you can bet i won't go to sleep tonight trying to figure this one out...
i'll keep you awwl posted....
Name: Schwinn
onthero@d
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 16:34:29
Comments:
Clas--Yes, it could be a sign of genuine mental illness if you can't remember what you had clamped firmly between your teeth. However, I prefer to believe you were just a little confused after the second round of "Guess that G-Force". Isn't that a fun game?
Lisa--Please return the polaroids immediately. I believe Hardgroove's entrance into the private sector is merely a charade to get his hands on our party pics. Also, I'm sorry about your rash but that's the cost of asking Schwinn for "a little memento". If the chromium dye hasn't set yet try a blow dryer and some aloe vera.
Oh, and I ate the ointment.
Love to All,SEMB
Name: MrLaPage
Sayitaintso
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 13:46:02
Comments:
Champion? Champion? It doesn't even work right. It takes away from the whole song. I mean, "technicolor motorhome" I can live with. At least that seems fairly original and relevant. But I cannot believe D&W would bandy about the word "champion" when "Italian" is such a better fit, just sitting out there waiting to be used.
Name: Mr. Krumpacker
Johnson City
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 12:30:48
Comments:
It's very funny that you mention the "Italian" misinterpretation because if I remember right that's in fact one of the misheard lyrics that are in that book "While I Kiss This Guy."
It's definitely "champion", folks.
Name: lisa
@greement
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 10:27:17
Comments:
mr. la page: i am ready to sign the petition to right this lyrical wrong...it SHOULD be "italian"!!
couple-o-cents-worth
Name: John henry
records Galore
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 10:14:53
Comments:
Mister Lapage; sorry to tell you, you HAVE misheard the lyrics for all these years.
Name: MrLaPage
Down
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 10:02:25
Comments:
Speaking of misheard lyrics, the printed lyrics that I have run across for "Kid Charlemagne" read " . . . realize, that you were a champion in their eyes?" That can't be right. I always thought it was ". . . that you were Italian in their eyes?" Which is it?
"Italian" makes more sense with the Kid Charlemagne motif plus the whole "Did you feel like Jesus?," since Charlemagne was crowned king of the Roman Empire on Christmas day in 800 AD. Please tell me I have not misheard the line for all these years. And if I did, let's start an uprising to get the line changed.
And if the printed lyrics are wrong, let's start an uprising to deal with those people.MLP
Name: lisa
cough@yak
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 06:41:34
Comments:
mr. roy scam: i continue to mourn my absence from the danfest...
hopefully, i will be able to recover...i believe my sorry mental state is the reason this strep is hanging on...you know, some sort of psychosomatic pattern i can't break out of...maybe soon.clas: sorry about last night...i wanted to call back, but i ended up leaving...are you okay?
kinky (finally): right where you want me.
schwinn: i am alright, but that tattoo you gave me is starting to itch...did i leave the ointment in your big biker sack?
penny cillin
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 00:15:58
Comments:
SCHWINN; whatīs a tailpipe? Is it something you use when you suffer from Genuin Mental Illness (Roy Scam, didnīt know you were a doc too)? Or when you are smoking pot? The Colombian Tailpipe? Drinking Gold, The Cuervo Tailpipe?
The parkinglot was OK. I like my own bed better. But what the hell, you canīt always get what you want.
Lisa is OK I think. She looks more than OK.
I had a fantastic Steely Dan-momento last week, thursday morning at four. I played the Gaucho-cd real loud, and when Third World Man came as the last song, guess what happens? THE NEIGHBOURS CAME OUT SCREAMING!
c
Name: Kinky
this board's supposed to be a party, but to me it's just a crowd
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 at 00:00:54
Comments:
PPaul - What the hell happened to you, man? Have you become bbborn aggain? What has this Dead (as a) Board done to you? Jeez, you're beginning to sound like the fucking riddler.
m.e. - I have nothing to say...I mean Gold Kieth only posts once a week, Joe Murtha's subscription to the Village Voice must have run out, Bob Tedde's busy breast feeding, and I think Quentin's bootlegging business was finally raided (but don't worry, Q, you'll be out soon enough, there's nothing illegal about selling cover band material).
There are so many *new* losers here, I don't have time to chase them off one by one like in the old days.
But keep your head up son, I'm sure Oleander just made a mistake and will be greeting you, too, in the near future.
Name: Grouchie
you bet your life
Location: cyberville,
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 21:48:55
Comments:
Harpo - If you are the one that thinks I rejected you, just remember what I asked you to read
now *that* hurt more than you know.
Name: Schwinn
yeahright
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 21:37:57
Comments:
Clas--I was so worried about you! When I told you to go suck a tailpipe I never dreamed you'de take it literally. That was some fire-breathing trick! Sorry I left you lying in the parking lot but I thought you were dead. Glad to see I was wrong.
Schwinn
P.S. How is Lisa?
Name: JamaicanDude
lovedthemboots
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 16:05:56
Comments:
steviedan: You mean the Jan '73 appearance where Palmer is stompin' around in his fringe-edged boots, shakin' the maracas, and sounding pretty silly (sorry, Palmer, but we're all so used to hearing DF) singing Do It Again, while Baxter is wailing on the congas and Dias is burning on guitar? Followed by Reelin', where DF sings the verses but not the choruses on Reelin'? And the tape jumps near the end so that the two choruses are really the same chorus, twice (you have to look real close to see that one)? Only saw it once, but I ought to take another look. Can't get those boots out of my mind.
Name: steviedan
stevev@jps.net
Location: too much information, Trivia, CA
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 15:13:57
Comments:
Hey Dug: those back up singers would be Jenny Soule, Gloria Granola and Royce Jones, Jones incidently replaced one time lead vocalist David Palmer (and he would soon record an album with Carole King {who sometimes reminds me of a female version of Donald Fagen ?!?).....the real rare Steely clip to find would be their Jan. 1973 (25 years ago!!) appearance on American Bandstand where they performed 'Do ItAgain' and 'Reeling In the years'...anybody have that on tape.....it's probably as rare as a Honus Wagner baseball card........then of course there was that rare appearance on the Flip Wilson show and that time Becker appeared on Hollywood Squares......and........etcetera.....fade...to black
Name: rubybaby
?
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 11:05:05
Comments:
You mean the pine cones don't run in?
Name: ryborg the great
this one
Location: this one, this one this one
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 10:01:08
Comments:
cool page brotha
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 06:38:19
Comments:
Anyone else catch our very own Swami Pete's comments Re:Kurt Elling on the Op Ed page of the Feb. '98 JAZZIZ? And yeah Pete, Mr. Elling is yet another in a long series of "I'm a Jazz singer, and therefore important" types... Nice article on my man Metheny.
Name: c.l.a.s.
c.l.a.s.@work
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 at 00:53:20
Comments:
EVAN; Katz and Fagen
Paul; no, not Karl Marx.
Lisa X; Nice, very nice.
Ruby, email will come, but we talked saturday.
Fire and Rain,
Clas
Name: Mr. Happy
h@ppyl@nd
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 21:56:39
Comments:
Everything here in Happyland is just great! Donald and Walter release a new album every month and each one is considered the best one yet. Classic Rock stations play at least one Dan tune an hour with no repetition for days and days! Plus, the boys are always touring--even more than the Stones!
Yep, it sure is great living here in Happyland--where we can't even spell, "contemptible contingent"--much less understand what it means!
Well, gotta go make some more sunshine. Don't forget a smile is just a frown turned upside down!
Saltines & Sardines,Herman on the Mount
Name: Dug
dcl@home.com
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 20:59:09
Comments:
Okay kids, answer me this. I just bought this four tape(VHS) American Bandstand best of collection. On it, there is the infamous Dan playing My Old School. Can anyone tell me who the two female background and one male background singers are? The rest of the players are Walter, Donald, the Skunk, Denny and Jim Hodder. If anyone has the David Lettermen Dan show, I would be willing to trade videos. DCL
Name: Dug
dcl@home.com
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 20:58:48
Comments:
Okay kids, answer me this. I just bought this four tape(VHS) American Bandstand best of collection. On it, there is the infamous Dan playing My Old School. Can anyone tell me who the two female background and one male background singers are? The rest of the players are Walter, Donald, the Skunk, Denny and Jim Hodder. If anyone has the David Lettermen Dan show, I would be willing to trade videos. DCL
Name: Roy.Scam
there's a bathroom on the right
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 20:03:53
Comments:
There'a a coffee-table book that was published a few years ago called "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy". It's a collection of misheard rock lyrics, along with humorous narrative and illustrations. Examples: "The ants are my friends; they're blowin' in the wind." and "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you."
Near the end of the book, there's an outrageous cartoon depicting the phrase "Where we're goin', the pine cones run in and make tonight a wonderful thing." which is a misunderstanding of the Cuervo Gold line in "Hey 19". If you see the book on a bookstore shelf, check the next to last illustration.Fez North-- Regarding a subject we discussed at the aforementioned Ghost Town Danvention: It appears that you were right, which unfortunately means I was wrong. According to the Sweet book, the steely knives phrase in "Hotel California" was, in fact, a response to the Eagles reference in "Everything You Did".
lisa: still strepped?
Bony Sartre,
RS
Name: moray eel
Whoo-eee
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 16:20:59
Comments:
(dejected) I miss Kinky!
Hello Oleander.
m.e.
Name: Clean Willy
LWilli3287@AoL.com
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 11:50:04
Comments:
You folks need a chat room......thought this was about the Dan
Name: The Capital Letter "C"
"C" @ the home for convivial incontinent consonants
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 11:16:06
Comments:
Yep, the maj. is correct, the board does seem to convey a contumely, contemptible contingent. I, for one, miss the days of the tours and the confraternity they offered. From the looks of some of these entries one might gather this is a colostomy support board.
Name: rbaby
still here
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 11:11:42
Comments:
Oleander: I forgot to say, I am glad we're still talking. I love to hear about your Dan moments, etc.Same to you,YGK.
Name: RubyBaby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 11:04:56
Comments:
Major: I had to laugh when you asked us if the sex put us to sleep!I did have a thought or two when I read F's story. One thing was that when you've got kids, sex on the couch becomes a bit rare. Then I lamented that. Then suddenly, the plans to our dream house contained a couch or a chaise-lounge in every room. Thank you, F.
Fezchick: Knew you'd love it! You can wear it with pride any place, but it's very hard to do work in that t-shirt. Trust me.
rbaby
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
HeeHaw2@hotmail.com
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at 04:39:52
Comments:
It's been awhile I know, but I had to recover from the after birthday blues.
Hey Geena: What's new with you? Any news from up your way?
Monday was indeed my 36th birthday and it was quite interesting. I was unfortunately visited by a large and hairy hot pink gorilla at work dancing to "Wild Thing". Would have been better if it had been a Dan
tune!Got to go for now!
RubyBaby: I Emailed you. Thanks again for the Tshirt! I'd like to wear it to work today, but . . .
Name: Slimmy Bendix
myoldp@lov@ltine
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 23:22:19
Comments:
Oleander--Thanks! Does mean I can start picking up pirate Dan tunes if I hold my jaw just right, or do I need fillings first?
Name: oleander
@workavoidance101
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 19:58:25
Comments:
Roy, Fez O'North--My self-imposed grieving period for missing the DanFest East is over. Next time--a livelier place and more, non-strepped, non-strapped personnel. Kudos to you for keeping the flame (and the flav) alive.
Joe--Thanx for your thoughts, as usual. As for any comparison of the Dan & MD, from Davis I get only cold passion--not my style; from Messrs. F & B I get core-of-the-earth heat, however much they have tried to ice, air condition, fan, or otherwise cool it down.
Ruby--Worry not. I'm talking to you, for what it's worth.
Geena--no prob.
Shad--Making love to "Mars Attacks?" Tilt.
Slimmy--ah, grasshopper, you have discovered that the Dan chip has been installed in you, as in all of us, by nanotech through your mouse finger while you idly scrolled the GB....Now YOU ARE ONE OF US....Resistance is futile.
Name: Dan Adams
CMRustici@AOL
Location: Boston, Ma USA
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 18:51:52
Comments:
...As I was saying...
It seems to me that "Starz Vanderlocket" is simply another alias of Mr. F. What's the problem Don? Is there some unwritten shame in laying down three (3) vocal tracks for one song? No sir! I know that no matter how many times I hear that raspy tenor of yours, I always want more [(no homosexuality intended), although if your interested Don, I'm your man!)] Speaking of which, I've never actually been with a man before (excluding unconsciousness), but you would certainly be at the top of my "If This, Then That" list. Jeff, of course, would be at the bottom. Speaking of which (segway, what segway?), d'ja ever notice that on the front of "Min. by Min." he's made to cover his face, and on the back his head is cut of completely. Marketing! Go figure!
Kids can be so cruel.
Ta, Dano
Name: Dan Adams
CMRustic@AOL
Location: Boston, MA USA of course
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 18:38:29
Comments:
Dear Mr. Fabriani, ah, er, Mr. Fagen;
Name: Kurt
lalapeep@hotmail.com
Location: Novi, MI US
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 16:27:45
Comments:
I prefer songs like 'With A Gun'. Songs with more than three or four chords give me a headache. But 'With A Gun' is almost as good as a Tom Petty song or something!
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 14:41:49
Comments:
Can't you see, Walter, the masses are restless. If you don't have any disphoric ditties to share, can you at least throw down some loaves and fishes?
Minah: you're wasting your time.
maj.
Name: an old timer
keeping up with the times
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 13:16:41
Comments:
Dear Mr.Mw,
I saw Mr. Steely Dan back in 1973 and Jeff Skunk Baxter was playing Pedal Steel guitar.
At the time I thought it looked and sounded really cool!My qustion to you oh "worldly one" do you now deem the Pedal steel out dated,un-cool and not hip any more?
I'm asking you because you seem to
know what todays music fads are .
Just trying to stay cool
Name: DrMu
One last Mile(s)
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 12:41:27
Comments:
JoeM: Your insightful comment: "What I find most fascinating about "KOB" are the notes Miles, Trane,
Cannonball and Evans decided NOT to play" hits the nail right on the head. Indeed, nothing is wasted or excessive. Like the Dias solo in YGT II which sounds improvisational and as close to home and perfect as it gets. Hey the Dan could juggle 3 guitarists (Dias, Carlton, Randall) on one solo as well: Green Earrings!
Even though later on 'Trane did get way out there on his solo work, the lessons of restraint Miles taught him payed dividends. My Dad and I listened to a real soulful and smooth album with Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on vocals recently. Awesome stuff!
Name: DGC
Dcarter@cablessun.com
Location: Concord, CA HUH?? Not sure.
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 11:49:58
Comments:
OK, Walt, Don, hows life treatin ya? Good I'm sure. Ya readin this? Doubt it! A little too busy I can understand. But for crying out shit!! Here I am sitting in a freakin box at work with a phone at my ear a computer at my side, Billy Preston playing in my other ear and my finger in my nose.
I'm sick and tired of waiting for this album. I saw you last year in Frisco and you were training some new things, sounds good. Where the hell is it??? You guys said soon, well soon was about a year ago. Don't get me wrong it's got to be right, but you were playing it like a recording at the show, I'm a tad confused.
I'm waiting for some good music to come out and bite me, but I'm finding nothing, NOTHING!! Everybody is playin mindless shit thats depressing or if it's happy you have to be no more than twelve to play. Even then it's still not worth it. Where's the soul! The love for a good fill the joy of a funky groove. What happened? I go out and buy music: Tower Of Power, Mr. Preston, Aretha Franklin, Phoebe Snow, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, etc,,.
They don't come out with new stuff it's all old and if it is new it's dying. Why? Hell why don't we all sample some Sting hits we could go platinum right and left?
Wheres the orginality the passion that comes along with it??? The true love of music the real soul the stuff that gives ya chills??
Maybe it's me?? I'm sitting here writing a band thats named after a dildo. But I'm also being honest. You understand what it's all about, or you seem to atleast. I don't know, get a hold of me let me listen to what you got so far. I'm a young one; not a moron and not deprived of the finer things in life. I'd love to hear what you got so far. Send me an e-mail maybe we could work something out.
Name: DGC
Dcarter@cablessun.com
Location: Concord, CA HUH?? Not sure.
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 11:10:36
Comments:
OK, Walt, Don, hows life treatin ya? Good I'm sure. Ya readin this? Doubt it! A little too busy I can understand. But for crying out shit!! Here I am sitting in a freakin box at work with a phone at my ear a computer at my side, Billy Preston playing in my other ear and my finger in my nose.
I'm sick and tired of waiting for this album. I saw you last year in Frisco and you were training some new things, sounds good. Where the hell is it??? You guys said soon, well soon was about a year ago. Don't get me wrong it's got to be right, but you were playing it like a recording at the show, I'm a tad confused.
I'm waiting for some good music to come out and bite me, but I'm finding nothing, NOTHING!! Everybody is playin mindless shit thats depressing or if it's happy you have to be no more than twelve to play. Even then it's still not worth it. Where's the soul! The love for a good fill the joy of a funky groove. What happened? I go out and buy music: Tower Of Power, Mr. Preston, Aretha Franklin, Phoebe Snow, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, etc,,.
They don't come out with new stuff it's all old and if it is new it's dying. Why? Hell why don't we all sample some Sting hits we could go platinum right and left?
Wheres the orginality the passion that comes along with it??? The true love of music the real soul the stuff that gives ya chills??
Maybe it's me?? I'm sitting here writing a band thats named after a dildo. But I'm also being honest. You understand what it's all about, or you seem to atleast. I don't know, get a hold of me let me listen to what you got so far. I'm a young one; not a moron and not deprived of the finer things in life. I'd love to hear what you got so far. Send me an e-mail maybe we could work something out.
Name: mwhirled
shaking my head
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 09:02:28
Comments:
charliefreak:
Last post to you, basically because you can't seem to argue without being insulting. Its OK to have 2 different opinions, look around you - it happens every day.
Your analogy is not sound, you're comparing the *invention* of an instrument to the *APPLICATION* of an instrument. I submit that if everybody still PLAYED guitar like Les Paul did 44 years ago it would be a pretty bland world. Music is about an artist's voice, and Steely Dan explored the Phil Spector 'wall of sound', double drummers thing early on. I think that 2 drummers at this point would only serve to take them where they've already been. I, for one, am not sure how much Dan I could stand if every tune sounded like the early tour dates.
mW
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 08:59:51
Comments:
DrMu and Oleander:
To continue the "KOB" discussion for just a little bit longer...
Doc: Those very simple blues phrases you mentioned and the way Miles et al expand them as melodic explorations pretty much sums up that whole album for me as well. What I find most fascinating about "KOB" are the notes Miles, Trane, Cannonball and Evans decided NOT to play. They already KNOW what notes are implicit, so they instead substitute everything else.Funny you mentioned the great guitar and keyboard solos from the Allman Brothers Band. Dicky Betts, Duane and Gregg Allman listened long and hard to "KOB" by their own account (it was introduced to them via Jaimoe in the late '60's) and has been mentioned by them as a major influence in many interviews over the years. You can't tell me "Stormy Monday" wasn't influenced in a big way by the likes of "KOB".
And the Dan's "Aja" with its modal qualities is certainly informed by "KOB", "Blues and the Abstract Truth" and some of the other modal classics from the late '50's and early '60's IMHO.
Oleander: And brilliant sketches they were indeed! Miles has said that what really brought "KOB" out was Bill Evans approach to the piano. Specifically his Ravel, Khachaturian, Bartok and Rachmaninov influences and his approach to "modes". Just think of what a completely different record "KOB" would've been with say, Wynton Kelly or Red Garland playing throughout (Kelly does appear breifly on "Freddie the Freeloader").
Miles as a bandleader would have to neccesarily fill the role of manipulator to some degree, no? Someone has to keep it all together and make it sound like it's all so effortless. I have to say though that I find Miles to be one of the MOST passionate musicians I've ever heard. What of "Sanctuary" from "Bitches Brew" or "My Funny Valentine" from the Carnegie Hall set?
And I'm clueless as to how Miles is able to juggle that staggering array of keyboardists he utilizes on "In a Silent Way" as well. He had used multiple keyboardists before on "Filles de Kilimanjaro" (Hancock and Corea) although not on the same tune, as far as I know...
Then again, it's all really nothing by Don and Walt standards, now is it. How many keyboardists have THEY utilized in a single piece? The most compelling being Don's - left hand of one keybaordist, right hand of another on "Ruby Baby". Talk about manipulating passion!
Anyone catch a young-ish Phil Woods in the Monk movie "Straight, No Chaser" last night on BRAVO? Man, Monk was some piece of work huh?
Enough already...
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 06:25:08
Comments:
Ruby: Gotta love Dr. Katz! I'll check on the piano....
Paul: Hey, Pal, you know, if you want to preach to someone, send 'em mail directly, you know, target your specific market to those who give a shit. I won't burden the GB here much, but hey, Paul, I've been where you are, and jeez, man, if you want to know the Truth, then get the hell out and start thinking for yourself. Keep that crap off the GB, you holier-than-thou moron. I respect what you believe long enough to say, "I'm sorry you're that delusional - now WAKE UP and get over it". OR, at least, keep your 'beliefs' to yourself!
An enlightened Ex-christian,
ygk
Name: Roy.Scam
from my old fruit jar
VA
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 05:01:22
Comments:
R.I.P. Carl Perkins- I'm not sure how old I was when I first heard "Blue Suede Shoes" but I still remember thinking, "Damn, that guy's cool for an old fart." (probably mid-twenties). He also did "Matchbox" and "Honey Don't" which influenced and were later recorded by the Beatles. Some other good cuts were "Pink Pedal Pushers" and "Jaive After Five". In later years, I've seen him jammin' with the likes of Clapton, Harrison, Seltzer, and Knopfler [and keeping up!]. He looked and sounded pretty good a few months ago at Monserat, but I guess you never know. A great musician who seemed like a great guy.
But anyway, it's an exciting week: a new Spice Girls movie AND the R&R Hall of Fame Ceremony. I'm stoked shitless.
RS
Name: Charlie Freak
Freaking Out!
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 22:53:18
Comments:
Ok- Minor
44 years ago Les Paul invented The Electric Guitar. Does this mean that in 1998 it's not cool to play it anymore because it's too old?I think the problem with you and alot of people is that they only go by what they read or hear from other people. They don't have a mind of thier own.
If 2 drummers souded good together twenty years ago it doesn't mean it won't sound good today (hence my Les Paul analogy). I hate to beat a dead horse, but I think you're the dead one here, dead wrong,
Freak Out
Name: GOD
pr@yer
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 20:37:00
Comments:
STOP IT!nice job, St. al
Name: Jethro
withthehelpofmissh@th@way
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 20:31:24
Comments:
If it's a little savin' y'all need why don't you mosey on over to our neck of the woods and do your dunkin' in the cement pond. Heck, if it's good enough for Elly's critters it's good enough for all my Steely pals!
Future Beverly Hills Brain Surgeon,
MB Jr.
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Location: the snowy, icy northeast,
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 12:18:30
Comments:
Roy.Scam..
Thanks for the info on VH1 and SD..i'll keep my eyes open periodically to see if i can catch it again.
Peace Out...
Name: Geena (SD's junkie girl)
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 12:14:06
Comments:
Oleander:
my sincerest apologies regarding my comments and i truly hope no offense was taken. i come in here to read often and was just trying to be a mediator. I agree with you in that i also wish people would think straighter than they do, but as i get older, i've come to the realization that people have always been like this and always will be. It's what makes this world so interesting. We just need to be content with ourselves and enjoy our lives while we're here.
Like yourself, i also enjoy all sorts of people and even though i may not always believe in what they say, i respect their opinion anyway. Again, the bottom line here is love and respect for one another. Enough said..i'm off the subject.
Fez Chick:If it is indeed your birthday, then happy one to you! I haven't seen you around...whatcha been up to?
Name: Rubybaby
rollin' along with the top down
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 09:40:30
Comments:
Eat, drink & be merry, Fezchick! Happy Birthday!!I was playing some Old Regime/Roaring of the Lamb yesterday, (I'm taping some for a friend). My daughter thought Dr. Katz was on. Has anyone else noticed that the beginning bars of Stone Piano and the music to Dr. Katz are exactly the same? Is anyone speaking to me anymore?
future patient of above,
rb
Name: fezofthenorth
hoos.com
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 07:58:41
Comments:
I'm back in the chilly northwest after a rather "King of the Worldish" danfest in Williamsburg Saturday night. Apparently they roll up the sidewalks soon after 8 p.m. in the reconstructed colonial town as Scam and I felt like the sole survivors of Armageddon.
Please note, this tangental religious reference is not meant to spark another discusion of matters spiritual. Why not? See Oleander's last posting which echos my pov, but much more coherently than I could express. "Revelling in diversity" . . . it's a great idea
Klucas: I think I've heard the CD you're talking about. Though I though it had an early version of "Caves of Altamira" from Royal Scam on it as well. Its DF singing but not an authorized release. I think it was culled from some early demos then snuck over as an import.
Whoever asked: The "Black Cow" rap song is Deja Vu by Lord Tarq & Peter Gunz. It was the subject of some earlier postings last week, the contents of which fail me at the moment except for my own which expressed shock after seeing the video for the first time and asked the same question as yours.
Off to stoke the woodstove and dig another hole in the frozen pond.
Fez North
Name: klucas
klucas@acsu.buffalo.edu
Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 at 07:17:02
Comments:
Has anyone out there come across the CD "Becker/Fagen: The Origins of Steely Dan?" Picked it up a few years back, played it once, and forgot about it until a couple of days ago. Ten songs, only one of which - Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) - is on a SD record. There are, however, many references to themes that appear later. Sound quality is poor, but vocalist does not sound like Fagen. Just wondering if anyone can vouch for the validity of this effort, and if it is early Dan, when was it done and who is on it?
Name: Post Toastie
n@hh
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 23:31:13
Comments:
Brother Paul
Anytime you tell someone, "If you could only see yourself as (blank) has allowed me to see you....", you are immediately perceived as either evangelizing or tripping. It doesn't matter who or what "blank" is; by using that pesky word, "only", you are implying that "blank", (in this case, JESUS), has given you exclusive knowledge that you'de be willing to share if "only"....
Only what, Paul? Believe in you? Why should we? Because you are absolutely, positively convinced that you know something we don't?
Here's what I know. The GB was not an "empty room" when you entered it. The Guest Book has many participants and you directed your evangelism specifically to Clas so don't hide behind your "blank". A strong "blank" doesn't whisper, "Tell him I love him." A good "blank" will inspire its follower to say, "I love you"--and in the course of communion, the "blank" will find its own name--but not before men have come to understand their personal salvation lies in their relationships with one another--not in the invocation of a name.
In other words, thank you for your concern. I love you. Does your "blank" trust you enough to speak for yourself?
Compassion and Vision,
*__*
Name: baby wait
huff@squirrel
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 21:42:38
Comments:
Huffamoose is ok. But the whole animal would be more satisfying.
bw
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 20:38:29
Comments:
Just wondering....did the sex put you to sleep?
maj.
Name: oleander
I'm OK you're OK
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 19:35:43
Comments:
I had a feeling that would be more trouble than it was worth. Geena, you're too quick to assume that was a skirmish in a "religious war," and in fact your calling it that is escalation. I revel in diversity, especially the nutty variety here on the GB, and anybody can say what they want. But my point is that I wish people would think a little straighter when they do--and consider what their well-meant words signify to others. What one person sees as sharing the (THE) truth may be aggression to another. Is this not obvious? Neither is wrong nor right, and "keeping score" is irrelevant. Then you have to assume that people care, which I have the unfortunate predilection for doing. And the sad thing is that I enjoy all sorts of people; I would probably enjoy hanging out with Paul at the virtual cocktail party in that big room--if we kept to certain things. Roy, I'm no zealot--in fact, I also make a distinction between "religion" and "spirituality," and though I am part of an organized religion my practice is spiritual. You dig? And I'm off this tip. Next time I scroll.
Joe--What I really wanted to talk about was KOB. It's the ultimate snapshot of giants at the pinnacle of their game, and it boggles to think that they were making it all up as they went along. It sounds so smooth, so well-produced, so Dannish, but--first take! No charts!--just "sketches." Staggering. I also love "In A Silent Way"--which is no surprise considering my fondness for Mahavishnu-era John McLaughlin. What a difference a decade makes, eh? Do you--does anybody know how Mr. Davis juggled three keyboardists on a 20-minute tune? ("Hey, Joe, wanna fill in for me while I go for Chinese take-out?" "OK, Chick. Bring me some egg rolls.") About Miles Davis--I have never been able to connect to his "ness," the being from which the music flowed. He was a genius all right, but his power seemed so walled-off and calculating. (This is aside from his reputation for misogyny.) Coltrane, Parker, Tyner, so many more, I can feel come through the music, but not Miles Davis. Great as he was, he always has impressed me as a manipulator of rather than a conduit for passion. Oh man--I'm NOT trying to sound like a jazz critic. It's just something that's always nagged at me. What do you think?
Name: FezChick
Who R these scoundrels who scheme & run wild
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 19:22:51
Comments:
"Live and let live."
We need to move on to another topic besides religion!
I think it only natural that The Dan GB would attract a huge variety of people with various religious and spiritual backgrounds. That's what makes Dan Fans such interesting people. Wouldn't we be a boring group of people if we were all alike?Has anyone stumbled upon a new "RAP" song played quite frequently on MTV that uses "Black Cow" as their background music? I haven't caught the name of the song, but was surprised that Walt and Don gave their blessing on this.
Does anyone have the scoop on this?
Name: ANDREW BRUCE
THX0778@AOL.COM
Location: WAUWATOSA, WI USA
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 18:24:30
Comments:
IM A BIG STEELY DAN FAN AND I WAS WONDERING IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING ON VIDEO OR ANY BOOTLEGS BESIDES "ALIVE IN AMERICA"?MAIL ME BACK IF YOU CAN.
Name: Scott
scott_cubs23_sd@hotmail.com
Location: Point Lookout, MO USA
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 18:07:05
Comments:
It was still be September (1998)
and we'll be waiting for the new cd.
Name: Scott
scott_cubs23_sd
Location: Point Lookout, MO USA
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 18:05:19
Comments:
It was still be September (1998)
and we'll be waiting for the new cd.
Name: Waiting (Im)Patiently For The
New CD
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 12:59:39
Comments:
Has any heard of this new band Huffamoose? The critics are going nuts over them and almost every review compares them to Steely Dan. I've heard a couple of songs, "Wait" and "James", and while they're pretty good, they don't sound like Steely Dan. Okay, there's a little intelligence, cleverness, catchy hooks and some insider jazz-geek stuff going on in their music, but it's a sad state of affairs that the critics are always looking for "The Next Steely Dan" when the real one is out there somewhere supposedly working on a new album. I want the real thing. Donald & Walter, you're driving me nuts. Can you at least post a demo or something on your website? Send me a sign!
Name: Roy.Scam
back on earth
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 12:38:02
Comments:
Paul: Liked the empty room analogy. Very well put. The rest of the message was a bit of an enigma to me.
Geena: I'm not good at religion and have nothing to offer in that area. (although I enjoy watching it and sometimes wish I could get as much of a kick out of it as others seem to). However, I think I can offer some enlightening testimony in the area of this VH-1/Steely Dan thing. I was fortunate enough to tape part of an "Eight Track Flashback" segment that features a brief essay on the early efforts of SD, showing the movie poster for the Richard Pryor film "You've Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It.." for which B&F wrote the soundtrack. Then they show a tape of a 1973 stage performance of "Reelin'..". It's fun to watch: Baxter and Palmer (looking a lot like Roger Daltry) are hoofing around the stage flambuoyantly; while Becker and Dias look like they're trying to achieve total motionlessness. Fagen is off to the side doing his usual excellent lead vocals, and some WWF -looking guy is playing drums. The chorus is six part harmony except for the first round of "..are you reelin..." during which it appears that Fagen watches while the other five sing. The guitar solo is done by Dias and Baxter; Elliot Randall, who did the legendary studio solo, was not there. (Am I correct in saying that Randall never did play live with Steely Dan?). It's an old tape, truncated at the beginning and end, but it's worth watching for, and Fagen is terrific.
Fez: Safe trip back to the cold Northwest.
RS
Name: PPPaulCCC, last post and I'm outta here
Knooster@aol.com
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 11:27:21
Comments:
Hello dear ones,Such wrath! I can't say that I'm surprised. There is a huge difference though between trying to convert someone and just sharing the Truth.
This GB is like walking into a large room to speak to someone who isn't there, but may be there soon. When you get there, the echo of what someone else has said is there but the person isn't. My first post a couple of days was to Clas and was intended to be explanation to him rather than evangelizing him. Clas called my home in a very dismayed state. I told Clas that I liked him (and I do) and he could not understand how I could. I tried to explain over the phone but his English, although very good, was out of sync with my manner of speaking. I told him that I would post further explanation to him on the GB.
Clas is no different from the rest of us. We all need Love and respect. The ultimate Love is Jesus. Jesus is the cure for whatever ails us, all of us. This is because we are born into sin and can't ever escape sin without Jesus.
I have not testified of these things to convert but rather out of compassion. I don't want anyone to believe like I do. I want people to know that Jesus loves me and everyone else. Karl Marx is the opiate, Jesus is the cure.
Oleander, as for being sensitive because you are a Jew and the rest of the stuff that you're angry about I apologize for all those Christians you've met who failed to truly share the love of Christ with you. Jesus loves you, have you ever really given him a chance? If you give him a chance and you don't like Him, you could always change your mind and go back to where you are now.
If you're keeping score, don't it's not appropriate. My time is up. Love to you all.
Paul C.
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 07:42:37
Comments:
i'm not going to take anyone's side on the religious war that's going on in this GB...We all know these conflicts have been going on for years in the Middle East and Northern Ireland and no one is making any compromises yet. Much of the hatred in this world is caused by religious differences; and correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't most religious based on love and mutual respect?
as a former radio announcer turned diversity educator, i've learned from listening to others that one cannot push their beliefs on another as this is soon becomes fodder for major conflicts.
Respect one another for who we are and not for who or what we believe in.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Now...getting back to what i really came in here for...would someone please tell me about this VH1 and Steely Dan thing?
Name: but who's counting?
not me....
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 03:31:55
Comments:
THE SCORE
JEWS 1CHRISTIANS 0
NEXT UP...... PPPPaulCCC
Name: Hardgroove
sleepingwiththeenemy
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 at 01:38:30
Comments:
Shad@ct
You're obviously a brainwashed alien sleeping with an earthling. Don't Panic! Wash your hands, dry them, wait a minute and see if you repeat the process. You could harbor guilt over your alien ancestory! Now, check your watch. Are you missing time since you had that casual, albeit, alien sex with your so-called "girlfriend"? Whoa! Let's hope you're beginning to remember something--even if it's just how to RUN AWAY QUICKLY! There's right-wingers monitoring this site that would just love to watch your little Paula Jones GO DOWN ON YOU RIGHT HERE! I hope you're not married or the governor of Mizar VI. Have you visited any Chicken Farms in Arkansas lately? Do you work the SAXAPHONE?
Don't Play Just What You Feel,
Mech@ck & @bedn@go
Name: Milford Steeler
onw@rd@ndupw@rd
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 22:24:43
Comments:
oleander
amen
Name: oleander
over it
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 18:41:30
Comments:
Paul--All right. I've had it. I very rarely flame on this GB, but....May I expand on my comment to you? A wise person would realize that there is no single "cure" for everyone's problems; I'm a doctor and even I know that. And your last comment to me is inane, baseless, and insulting. Nobody really knows what anyone else really "died for." That's your belief. To repeat what I've said before: I am particularly sensitive to this sort of thing (read: pissed off) as a Jew. Christians are alla time trying to "convert" us, because they think the Messiah will come when we all renounce our Judaism. Last year, a couple of Baptists went to our rabbi's house on Saturday (Shabbat) with their Bibles for a chat--which was like spitting in his face. They were just trying to offer a "cure" for his "problems." You can say and believe whatever you want; just take your "cure" somewhere else. A funny thought about you on the GB: if you met Donald Fagen, would you tell him Jesus died for him? Never mind; I know the answer. And read carefully what Milford said below.
Name: Stalphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 11:47:20
Comments:
Hey now! Please take a moment to follow the link at the top of this page. I need your feedback on whether we should keep this new GB format or go back to the old. Also, Dave Sorrenti has put a Visual Basic front end on the Decoder program so you no longer need to have Access 97 to run it. Download it now!
http://www.seanet.com/~stalfnzo/software.html
shad@ct
the united states
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 05:54:26
Comments:
A Donald Fagen Moment?
A while back there was some hoopla surrounding the mysterious similarities between Pink Floyd's "dark side of the moon" recording and the 1939 movie classic "the wizard of oz"
perpetuated primarily by the people at MTV.
they contended that if you dub the afforementioned cd over the movie you'll discover spooky coincedences.well, a couple of weeks back my girlfriend and i happened to rent the movie "mars attacks" from our friendly neighborhood block busters video store.
we got home. i slipped "Kamakiriad" into the cd player(as i usually do when i get in) hit continuous play, just as my girlfriend did the same with the video.
she then dimmed the lights and accompanied me on the couch.we had sex.
when i awoke the scene in the film was of a martian disguised as a voluptuous blonde babe seducing a clueless earthling male....
and what do you think was playing off of Kamakiriad at this precise moment?
you guessed it ! "tomorrows girls"!
coincidence?
i think not!
i say conspiracy.peace out F
Name: johnboy
he@thens
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 02:27:02
Comments:
Coming soon to the guestbook....Ernest Angley
Name: Richard Macphail
richmag@compuserve.com
Location: London, England
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 02:08:20
Comments:
Hello It's great to visit this site.
Any chance of another UK SD visit soon?
Bye for now
Richard
Name: Milford Steeler
g@ngsteroflove
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 01:49:42
Comments:
Clas is out for the evening.
I saw him through binoculars. I may have been looking through the wrong ends, but I swear they were binoculars.
Anyway, I was looking through something I was holding near my face that someone told me would give me clearer vision.
When I turned around, the voice that told me that was gone! It was all so clear: "If you could see yourselves as these thing-a-ma-jigs allow me to see you, you'de be just like me."
Worship Your Losses--Just Don't Ring My Doorbell,
* __ *
Name: chicky
bl@h
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 01:33:49
Comments:
clas...
that is bullshit! you are the fucking goods! everyone loves you clas!
your pal sal
Name: The Joker
With joke of the day
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 01:12:44
Comments:
Hey Clas-Do you know who likes you?(Scroll down for answer)
Name: The Joker
With the answer
Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 at 01:08:48
Comments:
NOBODY!!!!!!!!
Name: PPPaulCCC, still de-lurked, but not for long so rest easy...
KNOOSTER@aol.com
USA now, Heaven, someday!!!
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 22:56:27
Comments:
Dear friend Clas, I hope you understood my post even if others didn't quite get it. Don't read Karl Marx, OK. Instead, some advice, which I certainly will follow, "Read some Truth, that is, grab a Bible and get free."If you all could see yourselves the way Jesus has let me see you, how different your lives would be.
Paul C.
PS-Oleander, Jesus died for you, too.
Name: rubybaby
out of the pan, into the fire
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 22:10:35
Comments:
Clas: It's here! Sketches & Strange Loops just arrived today! I'm listening to Fire In Venice now. I love it! I especially like that Bodhisattva thing you added at the end, you rascal! You really are a true artist. (That must be why you're such a moody bastard). I've been trying to get a hold of you, but I just get a recording (that I don't understand!) At least e-mail me & let me know you are OK.Technicolormotorhomeguy: I've been called an air-head before, but never somebody who thinks EVERYONE ELSE is an air-head. Funny, I never thought of you as an old gas bag. Should I? (I can't, cause you're not)
*@*: Where are all the instant friends I'm supposed to have? Just last fall, a "friend", who's also a Christian came to my house. They happen to see an empty wine bottle on the kitchen counter and they never spoke to me again. Christians & non-Christians alike are about equal when it comes to judgements.
They just look at different stuff.Did you feel like Jesus?
rb
Name: Slimmy, Son of William
extr@sensory
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 22:06:07
Comments:
I can't get away from you lunatics! I was out on the town makin' some grand entrances and feelin' like I had a transistor when what happens but I jump in my car, twist the key and "Home at Last" comes blazin' out of my speakers like SOMEBODY left the CD on pause. The thing was, though, that Aja was at home where I left it. This was the RADIO! I believe the world IS ready for a new offering from the Dan...
Slim
Name: DrMu
The Mechanized Hun
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 21:27:30
Comments:
Aye yi yi, look at this GB: drugs, depression, mental instability, anger, frustration acrimonious wisecracks, passionate women. Hey, wait a minute...could be a Dan song.
Roy: Enjoy. Remember this after a few drinks. There's some seriously OLD window glass in Williamsburg. That stuff's a fluid ya know.
Good King Richard: Took a couple of serious listens to So What (it helped me get over my obsession with All Blues). I can understand why you and Joe M revere this number. Kind of Blue is the most recent addition to the bin. As usual there's tremendous teamwork and Miles is one hell of a leader/manager. On this albume each song is built on very simple blues phrases and expanded as melodic explorations (kind of like the Dan). It seems more linear but perhaps in a way more complex. I wish I was a musician. Maybe some of the great guitar and keyboard solos from the Allman Bros. and Steely Dan owe something to this album. What strikes me though is the interplay between the members like their in a conversation. Awesome... Paul Chambers' bass calls to Bill Evans, Miles, Adderly, Coltrane and they respond..and they trade leads back and forth and changing keys effortlessly. Yes JoeM, Miles laid down the law, broke it and built a whole new world.
This has thinking about the "dream team" mentioned by Kranky and CharlieFreak. How about the group that played the LAST Dan studio song TWM: Sample, Carlton, Rainey, Gadd, Mounsey? I could see the technical wizardry of Holdsworth on a Beckeresque tune (Erskine might be appropriate for the drummer here also). I just like hearing Joe Sample and Larry Carlton work together again (y'know, the TEAM concept).
I don't know what to make of the Lawson/Kratz in the studio rumors? Perhaps a rock sound? My limited view comes from the '96 tour. WB and DF sounded calm and crisp and strong. The good news: they sounded like the best musicians there! The Bad news: they sounded like the best musicians there! Whadda I know...
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 19:55:10
Comments:
Have fun, all you Williamsburg Citizens. And if you want to be "in the know" about Chownings - remember to pronounce it like "Chew-nings" as in rhymes with "Sew" (like to sew a dress). I'll be sure to drink my morning java from my authentic Chownings mug tomorrow.
"...William and Mary won't do..."
maj.
Name: Dr. Hardgroove
rel@pse
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 16:17:00
Comments:
Mr. Clas
How I envy you. Twenty years tracking the big biker and he invites you out for a steak dinner with the lovely Lisa in tow. And you don't even own one Webelo badge! I was an Explorer scout for God's sake! Oh well, I guess it will take time to earn the Eskimo's trust. Please update me on all the juicy tidbits of your encounter. Does he really have six fingers on his left hand? Is his nose flared flat to his face like a manta ray on the ocean floor? How many times did you fear for your life? Did he insist on paying the tab with the next table's credit card? How much blood did you see before you passed out? How does Lisa contain him?
Sigh
Doc
Name: Aja
sierraluna@juno.com SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 15:41:33
Comments:
Bryan,
Email I sent to you bounced back, so check to see if it is correct. Rather than make you wait, I just post it here. Welcome! Treat yourself to the remastered Box Set. If you are a member of BMG music services they usually have it for around 30 including shipping and handling. If that's too much for you try Decade or Gold (the expanded version), which will give you a little bit of their older and newer stuff. Donald Fagen's Nightfly and Kamamkiriad as well as Walter Becker's 11 Tracks of Whack are also great solo works (with a little help from each other).Of course check out the official site at www.steelydan.com. It's hilarious and informative. Many of the jokes are layered on older jokes so I recommend going to the site guide and to an archived
home page and start navigating from there. There is also an excellent FAQ. Check out the site guide and links pages for sound clips of songs. If you have any other questions feel free to email me.LAST CALL FOR~~~~~****ORLANDO DANFEST****~~~~~~
So far all I have received are "not able to attend", if I don't get at least on person to RSVP with a "I'll be there" then I won't be there myself (THE MILL, Sat. 17, 8:30PM...). I have to try organizing something for Spring possibly, that is unless Kinky's yanking my chain. Earlier this week I had a nice chat on the phone with a DanFan in town on business, nice to hear from ya, call anytime.Aja
Name: fezofthenorth
hoos.com
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 14:48:47
Comments:
Roy:
I will be there tomorrow evening, hotel is booked and all that. See ya at 6:30. I'll be the one wearing The Simpson's tie.
Lisa; hope you're feeling better soon; we'll have to schedule a Danfest 2 in the future so you can join the fray in person. Maybe to coincide with a summer concert appearance . . .
Fez North
Name: Schwinn
knockinonhe@thensdoor
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 14:16:54
Comments:
Clas--there's nothing wrong with you a Manhatter cooked medium rare won't cure. Lisa and I will be by at the stroke of midnight. Please dress lightly. The bike runs hot. Also, wear your loudest shirt--I'm running straight pipes and need to carry a diversion. Don't worry. I've promised the Kid I won't kill you unless you talk about Jesus or not drinking heavily.
Rollin' Cubans,
SEMB
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Virginia
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 13:08:29
Comments:
et tu lisa? -- O.k., take care of that throat; you may need to sing when we hold you to that re-visit in the near future. We will accept artwork as penance (what medium?).
To everyone else in the Williamsburg vicinity tomorrow: Chowning's Tavern, 6:30 PM. It's on Duke of Gloucester St. in Colonial Wburg, right across from the armament magazine. Fez, are you still coming? Bruce Hornsby? Patrick Henry?
oleander: I agree that Terminator 2 was a great (albeit mainstream Hollywood) movie, especially the nuked playground scene. Linda Hamilton - A face from heaven, a body from Flo Jo and an attitude from Charles Bronson.
My son got the new Ben Folds Five album (Naked Baby Pictures) the first day it was out. I haven't fully digested it yet but it's not entirely serious: a lot of live performances, early demos (I think they call those rarities), and general goofing off, even some things they're ashamed of are included for historical purposes or just to make fun of themselves. It's the kind of collection I'd like to see Steely Dan release some time, but, of course, they're too self conscious.
One number that stuck in my head was an hilarious improvised sendup of rap music called "For Those of You who wear Fanny Packs". (Yo, my boys blew the Beasties right out of the house when it comes to mock rap, you know what I'm saying?).RS
Name: lisa
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Location: dirty, lowdown
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 12:10:27
Comments:
dearest roy scam, mr. fez of the frozen north, & periphery:
how cruel and shitty can life be??
i have just received a call from my doctor's office confirming my rather nasty case of strep...two fuckin' weeks back at school and i'm already sick...i am crushed that i will be unable to attend the shindig tomorrow...i'm not sure which is worse, the smothering disappointment or the invisible sword in my throat... perhaps they are equally distasteful.
(hoping to redeem myself)
i MUST make a trip to virginia in the next four weeks to pick up some of my artwork for a showing...can we possibly get together for a "danfess 2"? i promise nothing could keep me from it, and i will be appropriately humble with party favors in hand.
hanging my head,
annie b. otic
Name: Phelonious
FordFactory
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 12:03:19
Comments:
Mr L: I agree on your take of BF5. Joe Jackson is who came
to my mind as well. One other thing that bothers me. Somehow,
the backing vocals sound alot like Paul and Linda McCartney.
Am I just hearing shit? I like the BF5 CD but it doesn't scratch
any SD itch I have. AJA to Gaucho, nice progression. Gaucho to "?", we'll see. As far as the drummers go, personally I hope
the horns make to the new one.Good bye Michael Hedges.
Name: Mynah
Hopefully putting the Lawson thread to bed.
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 11:55:29
Comments:
Charliefreak:
I think you and I have a bit of unfinished business. It seems to me that you come here piloting the family MagnavoxĐ through cyberspace, flame-thrower blazing, ready to take on all who disagree with you - That's fine. But let me offer one bit of advice which you may or may not want to ponder. Get to know those you address here before you strike up a conversation/offer offensive remarks. When you responded to my remarks to Kinky I assumed that you were hip to our ongoing tongue-in-cheek battle about Lawson. If you had lurked here for a while you'd see that my whole Lawson-bagging thing has been going on for over a year (thus the Milkman's 'caddy' remark), as Minah plays the guy who was driven crazy by Lawson in '96 (thus my Prozac comment). A not so serious thread to be sure. While it is true that Lawson was a let down (for me) compared to the '93 and '94 tours, I tend to agree with Dr. Whatever in his/her assessment of Lawson -a steady, professional player who IMO, didn't offer much exciting to the gig. My point = don't assume everything you read here is real/serious - that's a really bad idea. Anyway, glad to debate the double drummers thing ad-nauseam as I still think the 'time of its time has come and gone'.
mW
Ps. and try not to piss off Milkman, he/she's in my golf foursome and can make life miserable for Ricky when he caddys…
Name: ottski toby
ottskitobinski@arnault.com
Location: hornell, ny usa
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 11:41:32
Comments:
whats thhis steely dan i have been hearing about?
i hear they are pretty good..
clue me in to some album names i can purchase...thanks a lot..
a dan fan to be...
BRYAN OTTO ARNAULT
Name: oleander
bad case of GB heartburn
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 10:34:27
Comments:
Hello from email hell! I've been trying to do the right thing by using a nonprofit community server, but volunteer tech support SUCKS! Back to the big boys!
Clas--Whatever you're doing--STOP IT! And leave my sword out of this! You're such a cool dude when you're sober and happy. That shit will kill you--take it from a "professor" and get back here! PS--I thought the "Terminator" movies were great, especially Linda Hamilton buffed and with a surf and/or die attitude.
Mr. La--Wish I could take the credit! I can't remember who either, but I got the first BFF after a post of Roy's when I went to Atlanta in Sept. Listened with glee all the way home.
Minor--thanks for the tale. Sounds idyllic. Sigh....
Paul--A wise man takes his own advice.
dr whatever--which horsepistol do you frequent?
Daisuke--Welcome and hang in there.
Roy et al.--Have a good time tomorrow.
Name: CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
fuck!
Location: muted Censored fuck,
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 06:05:23
Comments:
Becker, do you have some heroin to give me? Need to sleep!
Th only thing I have is Blue Valium, does not help any longer. You know the situiation?
Name: muted
muted
Location: muted,
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 06:00:38
Comments:
Daisuke Saka; When you look at me, why are you skewing?
Name: R.O.C.K
in amerigo
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 05:49:44
Comments:
Saluuutos comprades! I am rocking in fucking ST Monica!
Sī that something Pat? I like to do like you, fuck with a cybergirl!
Name: R.O.C.K. in south america
PAT "BREMNER"
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 05:10:50
Comments:
Dr Whatever; whatever you wrote, itīs ok. I think I remember that it was something good. Thank you very mucho SIR! Do you live in Watts?
Thorazine? You have to take it every day, if you miss one day, does not matter. Did you not you know that fuckhead? (Oleander knows, sheīs a professor)
Mr LA PAGE, the new year is treating me real bad, I drank yesterday. For being sober for eight months it feels real bad. Can you understand that? Mr Empire? Can you offer me a cig?
PAT; Do you remember when you called those fuckheads on this Site Morons, "do they never listen to the lyrics? " Remember?
KINKY; you have a dick?
FUCK JACKSON BROWNE
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
You might use it when you feel better . . .
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 04:38:22
Comments:
Good morning all Dan Fans!
Welcome to the Guestbook Daisuki!
Glad to know The Dan has made fans all over the world!Hi Geena! What about this place? I haven't been on in few days and everyone's gone crazy!
RubyBaby: Still waiting on your Email! Looking forward to owning a Steely Dan Tshirt!
Oleander: Going to Louisville in a few weeks. Looking forward to some good cuisine and entertainment!
Good day to all! Earnin' nice wages . . .
Name: c@w
@Village of the sun
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 04:01:17
Comments:
PAT; So you are messing with me? Are you on POT (CANNABIS) again? Raising turkeys? You are ei lakey, you know that?
Donīt you remember when we used to be friends? Are the LAKEkey-pressure too hard on you these days?And remember; when I drink, I drink. Not hard, just HARD. Liek Walter Becker. But I donīt do heroin.
C.l.a.s.
Name: Daisuke Sakai
b1397103@cc.aoyama.ac.jp
Location: Hoya, Tokyo Japan
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 01:47:52
Comments:
I am from Japan.
I am here first time.
I listened to SD's works at 19 years old, now 23 years old.
When Listening at first, SD made me expanding my world of music.
But it is very sad thing that no anouncement for SD's new works.
It is sure that DF and WB are making new album.
So what?!
Name: Bodacious Cowgirl
Oh God!
Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 at 00:54:40
Comments:
--mW, I believe it was amanda who introduced BF5 to the
guestbook.Do unto others as you would have them do unto you--If you can
help someone in any way, no matter how small, do it! I try to
abide by such philosophy; give my leftover meal to a homeless
person, if I have an extra $.50 handy, pay the toll for the
person behind me, mow my senior neighbor's lawn, etc.. An
act of kindness may mean no more to you than small change or
a couple minutes of your time, but for the person you're
bestowing it upon, it can mean worlds. My response when
someone thanks me for something I've done for them is "Pass
it on". This planet can be such a better place; it has to
start somewhere.Peace, love, and all things Dan,
BC
Name: TechnicolorMotorhome
StopandStare
Location: Lost Angels, Confusion uranus
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 23:26:41
Comments:
To All:
Long time no talk. I check in every once in a while, haven't had much to say. Good to see the 'book is still intact.
St AL - You truly are a Saint to keep this site going for old shits like myself. I hope you're having a great new year. You deserve it!
Clas - My nostalgic Rival. Stay true to the fire within. It's there for a reason. The reasons change.
Ruby Baby - I've caught a few of your posts. Seems that you've undergone a spiritual awakeining. Just remember that you can never wake up that which never sleeps. I write this to you, because I envision you as one who allows another to speak his peace, just for sake of letting a little air out of the balloon.
I've found myself listening to Your Gold Teeth part II alot lately. The 2 guitar solos are, to me, as good as it gets. Tonight, I plugged in Countdown to Ecstasy, and promptly said to my wife "Everything I am today, was started by this song". Then I shuffled the disk to #4, Your Gold Teeth, and listened for the first time in I don't want to think of how many years. It was 1974, and I was in a band in Central Pennsylvania called Lazy Daze, perfect for the early 70's. My drummer was Rick Hindle, who has gone on to become a great chef. He lent me the album, and if I really had more energy, I'll bet you that I could find that album in my storage! Remind me to send him $40, which is about what $11 would be worth if he'd put it in a savings account. (thank God it wasn't a share of Microsoft, Intel or Cisco!) Anyway, back to YGT . . . The Rhodes solo by Donald Fagen (Correct me if I'm wrong) killed me! Was that really done 25 years ago. One of my co-workers will turn 25 tomorrow. Now I know the perfect gift.Well, the cats are calling me to bed. By the way, we've been in the new house almost a year. I remember writing you last year at this time talking about changes and the importance of the song AJA at critical points of my life. I'm about to undertake another great journey, all made easier by the previous. Stay true!!!
TechnoMo
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 21:12:25
Comments:
I think Clas has been drinking too much again. This is what ended up in my mail box this evening:
1st message:
Submission from dialup190-2-19.swipnet.se (130.244.190.83)
Email Address =
Message =
submit = Submit2nd message:
Submission from dialup190-2-19.swipnet.se (130.244.190.83)
Email Address =
Message = skip the bull Pat, wherers your censore engine?
submit = Submit3rd message:
Submission from dialup190-2-19.swipnet.se (130.244.190.83)
Email Address =
Message = skip the bull Pat, wherers your censore engine?
submit = Submit4th message:
Submission from dialup190-2-19.swipnet.se (130.244.190.83)
Email Address =
Message = skip the bull Pat, wherers your censore engine?
submit = Submit5th message:
Where is your censore bag fag?6th message:
Submission from dialup190-2-19.swipnet.se (130.244.190.83)
Email Address =
Message =
submit = Submit7th message:
Where`s your censore ship big fag?At first I think the e-mail script probably had him confused. After he hit the fucking submit button a couple of times, the words started to flow as well. Notice how he became more aggressive with each successive message? Funny how alcohol make your balls grow...
HEY CLAS: It's CENSOR.
On to another matter. Sorry for the size of the GB. Long story, but I am without an HTML editor that will handle a large text file such as this without choking. This weekend, I promise.....
Name: *
*
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 21:00:50
Comments:
mW- I think it was amanda (or maybe Frozen Rain Maker) that introduced BFF to the GB.
How Ironic that you bring up a line from a BFF song about "faith" with the evangilizing thing going on today. My definition of faith, hanging on to a belief in the face of adversity, even when obstacles have been set up to purposely sway your beliefs. This goes for any belief, not just religious convictions.
Whether you know it or not religion is a crutch. Exceptance of a society’s religion may indeed be a solution to a lot of a person’s problems, but not because of faith or the love of God, but rather because if you conform, the more likely to have friends just like yourself, and social contacts that are willing to help in a crisis. For example if you are a member of a church and you fall on hard times your fellow church members may help you out (sometimes even if they don’t know you), but they would not necessarily help others outside of their group.
If you don’t believe that religion is a crutch, go try and practice it in a hostile environment, one where you are constantly trying to be converted to another religion and harassed by others for your views. Try and see how long your faith lasts if you’re the only one who believes in it.
When Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses", he was talking about just the sort of people that really believe that God is to be feared and that we have "sinned". That sort of thinking
keeps the masses in line and distracted from issues they have the power to change. Reminds me a lot of the politicians that bring up the same issues every election, namely Social
Services or politicians salaries and perks. This constitutes a very small portion of the budgets, but it keeps people preoccupied and out of larger issues.
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 18:47:57
Comments:
edbns: why the hostility?
it's obvious that your literacy is debatable as is your knowledge of Walter Becker's "junkie girl" from the "11 Tracks of Whack" cd or you wouldn't be asking such inane questions.
However, my nature is passive, therefore, i don't pick fights or disrespect others. If that's your game, then find someone who'll challenge you.
anyone up for a duel with this one??
Name: Edd
E-Mail: *
Location: Frozen Tundra,
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 16:52:15
Comments:
Oleander- Your return address may be farkled, or maybe your server was down.
Anyhow, TRY THE VINDALOO! Life will never be the same after.
Edd
Name: minah
w/a non-dan comment
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 16:20:17
Comments:
MrLaPage: Yeah, BF5's Alice Childress has a change that always reminds me of Joe Jackson, the line:
"Alice the world is full of ugly things that you can't change, Pretend its not that way
(then a *real* J.Jackson-like modulation)
That's my idea if faith..."It always sounds like if he sang 'Idear' of faith, Folds would sound just like JJ.
I, too, am unsure exactly who introduced Folds to the GB, but I'm grateful!
mW
Name: MrLaPage
@play
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 13:20:52
Comments:
clas: Why won't all the other kids play nice with you? How's the new year treating you?
oleander: Am I recalling correctly? Did you start this BFF hoopla? If so, I want to thank you. Got my BFF yesterday. I put it off and fought it to the bitter end. Sounds a lot like Joe Jackson. Sort of a swing-type band without the whole Squirrel Nut Zippers schtick. Oh yeah, I also picked up a cd with the title "32 Greatest Bluegrass Tunes." I think I'll take a banjo over a piano. Saw this cd of Beatles tunes done in bluegrass style. Peace and love to God's country.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
VA
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 11:27:56
Comments:
Well, I've never seen such a website: Profanity, hostility, bigotry, evangelism, nationalism, maiming, blasphemy, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and some genuine mental illness.
--Bring it all to Williamsburg this weekend. Everyone know how to get to Chowning's Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg? I'll be there 6:30 PM Saturday whether you strange and varied people show or not. I'll wear a tie with a picture of a sax player, and check in as Dan Steely.Charlie F. : "..the drummer was always the most important part of the band.." Are we talking about Grand Funk Railroad or 2 Live Crew ?
If steadiness is the primary criteria, then Sony is the best drummer for the job.
Palsy: With the slate wide open to select any philosophy of life that you want, why pick one where you live in fear of your own creator?
lisa: bring your eskimo. i'll try to arrange for the pigeons to run to him.
RS
Name: C
C
Location: C, C C
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 08:48:33
Comments:
Iīm not Jesus. But I am telling the thruth.
Name: ruby
same
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 08:17:19
Comments:
Clas: I just remembered something. They called Jesus a drunk, too. He probably knows just how you feel.
Name: RubyBaby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 08:08:21
Comments:
Clas: Good Morning! I am glad to hear from you, even when you aren't so happy. I love the REAL you. You are far from me in miles, but with me in my thoughts. Definitely in my heart. I'd be glad to meet you in person sometime. Hold on, so that we can!
A Friend of mine said, "In the world you will have trials and tribulation, but be of good cheer - I have overcome the world"
Let Him be your friend! He will understand you in ways no one else can. He can help you get through this.
Jesus cares about you!
Mela
Name: PPPaulCCC, I'm de-lurking for a moment...
Knooster@aol.com
USA Baby
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 07:31:34
Comments:
We take this short break from your regularly scheduled programming:
Dear Clas,
A few words of wisdom that I try to live by:
"Judge not lest you be judged"
"The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD"
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD"
The list goes on, E_mail me privately if you want more. The cure to everyones' problems (whether they believe it, understand it or admit it or not) is to surrender the control of your life to Jesus Christ! Relationship with One True Living God!
Jesus said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life".
Paul C.
PS- A fool can be an intelligent man but he simply lacks wisdom.
Name: dr. whatever
@ the horsepistol
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:37:42
Comments:
Looks like somebody forgot their Thorazine again this morning.
D&W probably like Lawson because he's steady. Any player can tell you that sometimes the best drummers to play with are not necessarily the best drummers to listen to. Maybe having a so-so "listening" drummer is a good price to pay for dropping everybody else into a confident and steady groove.
Minah: great report, thanks.
FezN: That rap by Lord Torq and Peter Gunz was a monster turntable/radio hit in NYC this past summer -- at the time it was just a basement tape and hadn't even been released on an album yet (they didn't even have a record deal). My guess is that they got signed and its now in "legal" release.
Evan: Fagen; Katz. Who cares?
Name: lolita
b@lls@nd@ll
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:33:33
Comments:
you boys are sooo charming!
Name: klockan 5
fuckhead
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:29:33
Comments:
YGK; I know youre middle name, youre fave song is tHOSE TRUCKS IN THe STREEETS.
fUCK
Name: c
c
Location: c, c c
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:22:34
Comments:
Ole, whereīs your sword fuckhead?
Name: c
c
Location: c,
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:20:26
Comments:
So you know what a penis is? Bull, come out on on the arena fag
And for you Pat, whereīs your censoremachine?
Name: kinky
on my way to the exit
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 06:01:42
Comments:
Claaaaas; sure I cant buy that dictionary here - why bother with your language at all. Iīll accept your offer of a free copy. And when it comes to my genitalias - just do it.
Name: edbns
sadbjlm
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 05:49:29
Comments:
J
unkie Girl; what do you need? A fuck or heroin?
Name: My name? Why?
c@w
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 04:25:03
Comments:
Oh, forgot to tell you,
Pete wants eight bucks for the fanzine. He donīt want to take money from his own pocket. I mean, heīs is a US- native.
Art for arts sake, money for gods sake.
Fuck Steely Dan
Name: c@w
c
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 03:40:25
Comments:
Schwinn the Eskimo Mountain Biker;
yeah, thereīs a place called Smokerings, good food, swedish beer (Koppabärs), mostly cannibalstuff, the special on the menu is the Manhatter, order it medium. Else it will be too hard to chew. Sit at a windowtable, else something strange will happen to your bike. Thereīs a lot of Kinkys out there.
KINKY you junkyard fag; du är så jävla slut i huvudet så jag orkar inte ens översätta det här till engelska. Vad är det för fel på dig? Om du ger jävulen i mig så ger jag fan i dig, OK? Annars kommer jag över och skär pitten av dig, om du har någon, din lilla sketna ursäkt för en bög. I saw you chatted last night. Fattar du vad jag pratar om? Ska jag skicka dig ett svenskt - engelskt lexikon? Jag antar att du inte har råd att köpa ett, eller rättare sagt, du får väl inte tag i något där du bor.
Name: Schwinn the Eskimo Mountain Biker
l@ughing@llthew@y
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 00:30:35
Comments:
Minah--I had two drummers once. It got cold and I had to kill them for kindling. Smelled so good I decided I was hungry and ate both of them. Used the sticks to pick my teeth.
But that was long ago. Back when I used to play "Ring Around the Magneto" with Tesla. Now that was a drummer! Edison was pretty good too but he kept falling asleep during his solo. Anyway, I didn't kill either of them. Technology got 'em.
Well, the tank's topped off and I'm off to Quebec for a little ice jamming. Anybody know some good places to eat down there?
Pocket Full 'O Riccolas,
STEMB
Name: charliefreak
playing geetar on my web tv
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 00:16:22
Comments:
Hold on, if Ricky Lawson is that bad aren't we all saying that Donald & Walter have really bad taste? After all didn't our boys choose him? Gee,I for one, Milkdud, respect their opinion tremendously.Mabe I shouldn't hold them in such high regard like I used to in the 70's.I surely don't believe for one 'dan' moment that after Aja they went down hill, but I guess what your saying in so many words is that they have lost ther magic touch. What really blows me away is that the drummer was always the most important part of the band for them. So why would they go out and pick such a shitty drummer?Actually, someone e-mailed me today answering my question about whos playing on the new steely album and they mentioned that really bad drummer Ricky Lawson. If this guy was right I guess Milkpud and Minor wont be the first on line at Tower Records.
Milkman, thanks for tearing me that new asshole, it makes it easier for me to fart in your face!
Sincerly,
C.F.
Name: c
c@w
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 00:12:29
Comments:
Minah; YMCA "where window-pissing is optional"?
It is? Still?
Name: clas
clas@work
Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 00:02:56
Comments:
RUBY; yes you do!
Dr MU; Jamiro is ok, but thatīs teenagers music.
OLEANDER; oh, him. No, I try to avoid him and his shit-movies. Do you like that stuff?
ZEKE; last I heard from them was jan 5th. You got me worried man.
Name: Ruby Baby
I never go anywhere
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 22:29:11
Comments:
To Minah(who's been properly whirled): I enjoyed your post-trip post. I'll try not to remember how crappy the boxed set is compared to what it could have been! But didn't most of us, deep down inside, suspect this was the case all along? Actually, I'm glad. It puts some suspence and mystery back into The Dan.Throw the cows into the car & start humming...
rb
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 20:10:48
Comments:
hello again!
ok..i know i haven't been around...and it's been getting quite frigid here in the Northeast and doing the couch potato wrapped up in grandma's afghan is the latest craze around here in these times...but will someone give me a clue about VH1 and Steely Dan?
I think some of you guys talk to one another on the phone and continue aforementioned conversations on this page....
junkie girl needs a Steely Dan fix....right about now!
Name: Joe M
Fixing a hole
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 20:05:35
Comments:
oooooh... Just re-read my last post. Kinda sounds like I'm slammin' the GB when in fact it's the Grammy's I mean to be taking issue with. Just clearing that up.
Minah: Wishing I coulda been with you guys...
Name: Q
@@@@@
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 19:35:05
Comments:
great post Minah
Name: Milkman
About to tear you a new @sshole
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 19:26:16
Comments:
Dearest Mr. Charliefreak:
I guess now that you feel omni-important, with that new WebTV thing you were conned into, you can come in here and show us a thing or two. Well, FUCKhead Freak-a-zoid, it's hard to tell which is larger -- your freak head or your TV monitor.
Lawson sucked and everyone knows it! Thunder, yeah, on two drums! Minor feels sorry for him, that's why he uses him for a caddy. Before long, Lawson be doing weddings! (Likely the next Michael Jackson one).
So why don't you just flip a switch or channel surf or whatever that WebTV thing does over to VH1 where you can watch more Tina Turner video and interviews. I hear the video of "Goldeneye" is swell. Good luck in your search for a day job, FREAKboy.
BTW, this is *NOT* Kinky posting as Milkman. He would never use an alias.
The finger to you pal.
Name: fezofthenorth
hoos.com
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 16:28:56
Comments:
this may have been noted in an earlier posting on the GB--if so I apologize for the redunancy--but hey I'm in a state of shock.
Mrs. Fezofthenorth was viewing MTV yesterday afternoon as I arrived home and I was surprised to hear the intro to "Black Cow" in the background, over and over and over again. This little snippet of SD is the primary back music for some rap tune called "Deja Vu" by Lord Torq and Peter Gunz. Just when I thought I couldn't be surprised anymore . . .
What's next? "Time Out of Mind" being the presidential campaign theme song for Newt in 2000.
Fez North
... hoping the icestorm clears in time for the Danfest in Williamsburg on the 17th
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 15:30:58
Comments:
Although I hold this institution in about as high esteem as I do the R&RHOF (which is just a notch below the John Birch Society) - I nonetheless submit for your edification, this short list of various Dan luminaries with which the "highly qualified" arbiters of good taste that IS the Grammy Awards Nominating Committee, have seen fit to include for 1997...
In the category of Contemporary Jazz Artist:
Celebration!
Phil Woods & The Festival Orchestra
[Concord Jazz Records]Sample This
Joe Sample
[Warner Bros. Records]Into The Sun
Randy Brecker
[Concord Vista]Alive In L.A.
Lee Ritenour
[GRP Records]
Ole: "KOB" lays down the law and then breaks it...
Name: Minah(Whirled)
khillman@lightspeed.net
Location: Cowtown, Ca
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 13:03:01
Comments:
Ahhh…back to my own easy chair…
Well, I hope your 'Page Down' key is working, 'cause if you wanna skip this puppy you're gonna have to lay into it like Gene Krupa…just thought I'd share, for whoever, the details of my Dan-ish evening in NYC last Friday:
A memorable trip to NYC, had dinner with Dudus MajorusĐ (who I encouraged to readopt his 'Đ', but that's another post) and his buddy Rob (btw, MajĐ, tell Rob that his real name is a fine GB handle, rather Steal-y as it were…um, sorry…). Good conversation about the life, d'GB and personality types, after which we hit a local bar for a some Brooklyn Lager. At 9:00 we walked a few blocks to the *new* (except for the view from the kitchen) residence of Pete and Shari for what I can only describe as an incredible evening of Dan. How many time does an ordinary California cow-guy, such as myself, get the opportunity to, say, view the original 'Gaucho' artwork, or listen to a totally different studio version of "I Got the News" circa the Katy Lied years with Jeff Porcaro on drums? …or dig a recording of Pat Metheny and Fagen doing 'Sign in Stranger' with Pat ripping a solo on his synth guitar? Not often…um, actually never, until last Friday…anyway, the more stuff Shari and Pete trotted out, the more I began to feel like maybe we all got shorted on the damn box set: An instrumental ala the Dr. Wu sax changes, but different - lush and beautiful with an obvious Porcaro groove…a version of "Daddy Don't Live…" that sounded great - different vocals and background parts w/ the same album drums…I'm not kidding when I say this stuff needs to preserved for the record !!! (and to restate Pete's point - The box set would probably have sold better with this stuff in the package) ** Come on D&W** , what the hell am I gonna do when my kids want to hear that version of "I got the News"? Hum it for 'em? Pack 'em up in the car and drive 46.5 hours to Pete and Shari's? (I don't think Pete and Shari's Wicked AleĐ supply will hold out for too many more of the MajĐ's and my visits, let alone my/his offspring…). Who's to say that someday being able to trace the development of these tunes won't be as important as listening to the early recordings of Ellington?... Ok, I'm in a lather (wiping the foam from my chops)...
Spent a lot of time combing through Pete's albums of pictures - which contained many of the regulars here: Hoops! StAl, Kinky (keep the earring Kinky, it looks good, man!) - and some incredible shots of the Boys with various musicians that I never knew had gigged with them (i.e., Will Lee, Dr. John). Then, part three of this multimedia extravaganza: 'Re: The Video' on the new big screen, but with a few twists: Bernard Purdie in a Tux playing Kid Charlemagne? Believe it - he does it…or how about Mr. Bumpus singing? Cornelius would have been 100 times better than the last batch ('96) of b/u vocalists. Hell, D&W, if you're on a budget then have Cornelius double on vocals - he's great!!…We capped the evening by heading past 52nd St. and 57th St. (debating which was the junction) to Le Bar Bat - a very cool place (Vampire's Castle theme for those who've not been, former home of a Methodist church and then defunct Media Sound recording studio). Thang! was laying down the grooves and the Bass Ale was flowing (and I mean flowing -in true MajĐ fashion I spilled beer all over my shirt after he and Rob left). Upon reaching the beer spilling stage, I realized it was time to head back to my room at the YMCA ("…where window-pissing is optional, and they don't take American ExpressĐ…"). Huge thanks to Pete, Shari, MajĐ, and Rob for a great one-of-a-kind evening…I may have to sell a few cows, but I'm certain I'll be making that worthwhile trip east again…BTW, Pete's got a few of the last Metal Leg issue left, so if you'd like a copy, email him: petefogel@asan.com, to make some arrangements (plan on sending him a few bucks to cover shipping).
bandwidth hogging terminated,
mW
Name: Evan
ebgold@yahoo.com
USA
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 13:01:17
Comments:
Just a question, probably answered before:
Who of the following, if any, are Jewish?
Fagen
Becker
Gary Katz (ne Gary Kannon)
Thanks, Evan
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 12:59:57
Comments:
Hey Stevie, true about Doherty, and even more ironic, one of the songs they wrote for him was the aforementioned "Sail the Waterway", right?
Hey MinahWhirled, good thing not all Dan fans agree with you on Lawson. I personally thought his nickname of "Awesome" was well deserved after seeing a couple of '96 shows. Hope he shows up on the new album.
Name: charliefreak
charliefreak@webtv.net
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 12:35:31
Comments:
MW-You're kidding, right? You talk about having 2 drummers like it was a fad or it's passe or something idiotic like that. Hey bud, it's not the Hula-hoop we're talking about here. Most bands have a percussionist banging away alongside the drummer and no one makes a big deal about that. Two drummers are just much more intense, especially two great drummers. I'm new to this guest book but figured I'd run into a lot of unknowledgeable and misinformed people like yourself. Your comments about Ricky Lawson speak for themselves. Don't quit your day job!C.F.
BTW, Minor's a good name for you
Name: oleander
wet all over
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 12:15:28
Comments:
Zeke, Stevie--10 inches of rain here two weeks ago.
maj--HOS=Hall of Shit?
Joe--Can I come over and spin some sides with you? KOB rules.
Bumper sticker of the week--"commit random acts of coolness"
Name: steviedan
stevev@jps.net
Location: kid charliemain, california (wet)
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 11:46:41
Comments:
......gray, wet California.....peets coffee...Charlie Parker CD cranked...scrolling down...the guestbook.....waiting for new Steely album....their first studio set in.......18 years!!!!
youdidbabyd: re : the 'Dallas' ep....that is a great and rare record....but did you notice that both 'Dallas' and 'Sail' are in sterling MONO...I think Becker took a blowtorch to the original mastertape!
re:Hall of Corporate Rock Fame: one degree of seperation: isn't it ironic that Papa inductee Denny Doherty's career ended at the hands of Steely Dan?!?..i.e. Doherty, in an attempt to secure a contract at Dunhill Records in 1971 enlisted staff agen and Becker to write him some pop hits....luckily our dynanmic duo daved their good songs for their own record!!!
re: Steely influenced music to tied us over: snag up the China Crisis cd 'Wishful Thinking'..it seems the boys from Liverpool did learn a lot from Mr. Becker..
Name: Minah
pasture
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 11:12:00
Comments:
I stand corrected...both much funnier...
mW
Name: maj.
frontier.....
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 10:53:27
Comments:
....or maybe "Haitian Divorce"....
maj.
PS. How would VH1 have done an "expose" on SD like there are airing for the other acts? What a state of affairs, you don't induct a group into the HOS because there aren't enough adequate video bits to produce the ancillary promos etc....
maj.
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 10:47:56
Comments:
Naw....."Dirty Work" is much more apropo...
maj.
Name: Minah
Fetching more cow glue...
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 10:04:26
Comments:
Mr. Freak:
You sat through Lawson 6 times? How does one come by a Prozak supply that large? And Re: 2 drummers, my point = 24 years ago this might have been a semi-original idea - even 'Stuff's' 80's version (Gadd/Parker) was only fun for a while...frankly I'd rather see Gadd and Phillips oil-wrestle...that'd be original...I'll tell you what, how about next Dan tour projecting a video of Gadd and Phillips oil-wrestling behind the band, then Chambers can fill the drum chair and we'll all be happy...of course this begs the obvious question: What tune would best suit this oil-wrestling match? My vote: Monkey in your Soul...
mW
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
That's what I am - please understand
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 at 04:34:06
Comments:
Good morning all!
Charliefreak: Welcome! Always good to know there are
plenty of Dan Fans out there!Geena: Hey! Sorry to hear you've been sick. Hope
you're back among the living.Oleander: Thanks for the info. I would love to visit the
place, but think I'll wait until The Dan's inducted.Aja: Got your Email! Thanks for the info.
Enjoy "Hump day" everyone!
Name: The Third Realm
StAugustine@USA@PLANET,.EARTH
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 22:40:32
Comments:
KINKY: YOU ARE CLOSER TO BEING A LOSER THAN YOU THINK. UNITE. .
. .
CALL FOR FIRE . . COORDINATES TO BE NAMED. . .
Name: Andy Gravity
j@cksons@nsquentin
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 19:32:34
Comments:
Dr. Mu: You are correct. Jackson's racist tirades on SNL made BFF sound even whiter. Think they were intimidated by his shaved head? It's hard to concentrate on the music when a tarantino-trained terrorist is waving his machette around...
Oleander: 731 days ago I was listening to Nektar's "Remember the Future". (Or was that 731 weeks ago?)
Parting is so...Easy,Andy
Name: charliefreak
charliefreak@webtv.net
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 18:00:45
Comments:
Hi First time caller here. Big steely fan saw 8 shows in'96! Ok to MW Steely had 2 drumers on the '74 tour so whats wrong with having 2 next time? Forget 38 Special. To Dr. Mu, yes Gadd & Miller did play with Sample & Clapton in Europe this past year. Miller is probably the best bass player in the world so why not match him up with Gadd and Sample? Steely should have the best players with them on tour and so far this group sounds pretty darn good to me!Does anyone know if the Dan are going to use big name players on the new record like in the old days? That would be pretty cool.
Name: goodkingrichard
rlongman@dca.gov.au
Australia
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 15:34:07
Comments:
Back on this Miles Davis thing, what chance of D&W ever doing a cover of 'So What'? Normally I hate covers unless they re-invent/interpret a class track, but I reckon SD could really do a great job, a 'homage', without destroying the flavour of original, and yet still really crank it up by the end. Another that comes to mind in this vein is Weather Report's 'Birdland'. Any other suggestions?
Richard&kangaroos sweating it out
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 14:47:03
Comments:
Hey everyone!
haven't been on for a few days...been kind of sick. What did i miss..?
The Ben Folds 5 gig on SNL was lousy..i don't think it was so much them, though. First of all, his mike wasn't up enough and they were probably pissed because they did only one set. I know they're better than that.
Fezchick: What's up with you? keep me updated on what's happening in this room!
I don't think Steely Dan will ever get into the R&RHOF because i think they induct artists who have had many (and i hate this word) "Pop" songs. Plus,i think it's a little political.
We, as Dan Fans are a cultish sort, bohemian, if you will, i think all of us have comitted to memory the lyrics to every one of their songs that was never played on "pop" radio or played on "pop" radio to death! Does anyone understand me on this?
Name: DrMu
duh
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 13:45:25
Comments:
JoeG: Oops, a sixth degree of separation. Springsville is probably on Miles Ahead, but I'm sure was thinking of So What. No doubt about Miles' blowing...I can't get the haunting phrases from All Blues out of my head.
Name: Minah
On the cow assembly line
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 13:28:34
Comments:
Kinky: Gadd & Phillips might make a good oil-wrestling match, but if I want double drummers I'll get 38 Special tix...just pick *one*, man...(and please, please, hurt me not w/Lawson...).
Oleyander,Roy,Dr.Mu:It seems to be a pattern, VH-1 did a lousy interview with 'em, and then *suprise* ...Brick/dolly back/fade to black...
JGm: re:Hersch, Will do.
mW
Name: Zeke
lookingoutfromtheinside
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 12:50:26
Comments:
Earth: Where yat? Long time! Did you see the Feat?
I made the Elton John show @ HOB. The dude still has it.Clas: How are your Slidell friends? Much flooding latley.
Hope everything is cool.Happy B-Day, Donald.
The rain here in New Orleans has been the worst in quite some
time. It really is depressing, but can bring a different feel to a
Dan tune. Third World Man and rain, nice.Z.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 11:44:29
Comments:
Finah: Thanks for the tip re: Fred Hersch... Please to send the particulars.
Oleander: The last McLaughlin offering I really dug was the trio guitar stuff with DeLucia and DiMeola. Cobham featured on some choice Garcia classics? Works for me.
The opening cut on Miles "KOB" is "So What" - can you hear me Dr.? And yeah - Cannonball, Trane, Miles and Evans all solo down to their socks on that one. I defy anyone to breath normally through Miles' prelude.
As pathetic as the whole R&RHOF gig was, you've still gotta love hearing Carlos Santana blast out a slick and tasteful "Black Magic Woman". Man do I admire his guitar voicings. I remember when this tune and "Do It Again" were on the steady rotation on WABC AM radio in NYC back in '72-'73. You don't hear tunes of this caliber on most of the supposed "hip" FM stations nowadays. What an utter wasteland of banality. Do I shows my age or what?
Name: oleander
sour grapes
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 08:59:07
Comments:
Mynah, Roy, Doc Mu--I couldn't believe I had to sit through one of the worst stretches of TV ever to watch BFF sound so bad for only one song. Very disappointing.
Clas--What, you guys don't speak Schwarzenegger up there? And you haven't seen the Terminator movies? Warm up your VCR & get to it.
Edd--thanks. Yes, I've read them all before through your links, but now they're just a tap away.
Andy--So what did you hear 731 days ago?
Amy--I don't think anyone else will answer you: no, they weren't; yes, those people are idiots. If you visit the Official Dan Page you'll find some fine repartee about the whole HOF debacle.
Name: DrMu
whateverandever
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 07:24:22
Comments:
Minah/Roy: Yes, time was alloted only for the understated "Drive" so that the viewers could be subjected to yet another blaxploitation skit with Samuel L. Jackson...Could they have used any more stereotypes? Hey, the mixdown engr. was supposed to pump up Ben Folds' thin voice, not the bass!?
that reminds me - Clas: what about the English group which worships 70's funk more than Quentin Tarantino: Jamiroquai? They can be a little repetitive, but they've got this Dan-like jazz chord slut thing going with those West Coast production values, n'est ce pas?
Kinky: Minus the backup singer, doesn't that group look suspiciously like the ensemble that Clapton supposedly jammed with this summer?!
5 degrees of separation for Dan connection: The opening cut on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is called Springsville. Ok, it doesn't sound anything like Fagen's Springtime, but the sax solos by Cannonball Adderly and Coltrane seem to have phrases which are very similar to one's blown by Bob Sheppard during his solo on a song Walter Becker produced for Michael Franks called "Vincent's Ear." ...Whew!!
Happy Belated Hawaii Five-Oh birthday to Donald Fagen!
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 06:29:20
Comments:
Kink/Hal: Thanks for the tips about the Y - it's good to know where you stay when you have a date, and she actually meets you in the city. Sorry, but I actually have an APARTMENT with a fabulous view - and, oh, it's a bargain - one of those New York Stories you hear about. Oh, that's right, YOU wouldn't hear about those, you're in *gasp* 'Cnnetikit'. Oh, well.
Nice musical line-up. I'd take Sample over Phillinganes anyday.
ta-ta,
YGK
Name: Edd
yadda-yadda-yadda
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 06:21:22
Comments:
re: Oleander
Were you looking for the deconstructions here in the Guestbook?
If so, you won't find them. Only TOOM was posted here, the others can be accessed via my homepage at www.ultranet.com/~eddcote
Name: c@w
x
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 06:05:24
Comments:
OLEANDER; tell me, miss von oben, who is Arnold?
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
VA
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 05:36:37
Comments:
Dan-fan Get Together: Williamsburg, Virginia, Chowning's Tavern (in Colonial Wburg) , January 17th, 6:30 PM. Libation, conversation, prizes, fun for the whole family. At least 3 of us are planning to be there. e me if you're interested. We'll have our own International Geophysical Evening.
Minah: Bummer what SNL did to BF5. Play the hit song, shut up, and leave. It sounded like a 'no time for a sound check' situation; the bass sounded like it was shorting out, and the piano sounded like one of those Brian Wilson swimming pool sessions. They even did a long skit about a piano player and din't use him. Shame. He's funnier than most of their cast.
Kinky of Connecticutt: I suggest Phillingames (from Nightfly) for keyboards on the Dream Tour.---To get to Williamsburg, just swim south till the water gets warmer, then take a right till you see college girls and Colonists. I already gave Clas directions. Come on down. The girls want to see if they can really strike matches on your face.
RS
Name: clas@work
mamas little boy
Location: don't like no syrup-bread,
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 at 05:21:22
Comments:
GEORGE; where have you been? Thanks for the sun, haven't seen it for weeks. Plus five celsius, cloudy. Is it better down where you are? I check the weatherforecast tonight.
The Audi?
Well, there was a case of dynamite. I forgot mr F's birthday.
KINKS; let Pete handle those things, or someone else of the Steely Dan lakeys.
YGK; is that true? Wow, so he has fooled us all the way. Shit. I was about to ask him to meet me next time I get to Manhattan. No use now, he can't find Fifth Ave.
Schwinn; hi! How is life?
åäö,
c
Name: Andy Gravity
m@yberrylsd
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 22:30:06
Comments:
The Tragically Hip's "Trouble at the Henhouse" is the best CD I've heard in 730 days.
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
HeeHaw2@hotmail.com
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 20:13:32
Comments:
Calling all Dan Fans:
Has Steeley Dan been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame? I've never heard their names mentioned throughout the
years since its opening. Did I just miss something or are those
people idiots?Aja: Sorry to hear about the "no-shows". Wish I lived closer. I
use to live in Jacksonville!Geena: What's up with you?
Gonna dig myself a hole, gonna where no socks and shoes.
With nothin' to do but feed all the kangroos.Goodnight!
Name: Schwinn the Untamed
c@nkersforkinky
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 19:57:10
Comments:
The lasciviously leotarded Lisa raised her head from the big biker seat and casually mentioned I was damn good for a hologram. (Have you ever tried to replicate the hushed thrush of leather on leather?)
Can't do it with Rayon, Kinky.
STEMBP.S. Hi clas.
Name: oleander
off line
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 19:21:57
Comments:
Kinklet--C'mere! Group hug!
Edd--Wow. I'm sorry to hear that. Guess I should have done it while I had the chance. You deserve better. Do you at least remember the dates you posted them?
Name: Kinky
I've got a name for the losers on this board
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 17:33:59
Comments:
YGK - Manhattan? Who are you kidding Malcolm? But come to think of it, I've heard the Y is offering rooms for $90 a week, but you have to share a bathroom with Clas.
Aja - don't feel bad, hon. Your Dan Vention was a bigger success than Josie's...at least you showed up to yours. For your next gathering, though, try giving Peter Noss a ring. You can use him just like Josie did.
Hey, anyone have a SD dream touring lineup? I say:
Drums - Steve Gadd & Simon Phillips
Bass - Marcus Miller
Guitar - Alan Holdsworth
Keys - Joe Sample
Horns - John Klemmer, Tom Scott, & Randy Brecker
bgvox - Valerie Simpson, Cornelius Bumpus, & Donald's wife's sister's cousin's girlfriendHey JG - I think some of these players are in NYC now...could I be on to something here?
Name: R.O.C.K.
In The USA
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 17:17:34
Comments:
Pissboy,
Sweeden sucks. Blow up any stadiums lately?
R.O.C.K.
Name: Minah
@the cow factory
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 14:42:07
Comments:
Ahhh...New York City in the Summer...what? it was winter? but it was 65 degrees...nicer weather than cowville, this time of year, right Rubybaby? ...well, where to start: an amazing SD-related time was had with Rob, the Maj., Shari, and Pete (the details of which I'll post in a while, as that evening will take some bandwidth). JGMurtha, you'll be glad to note I hit the Village Vanguard for Joe Lovano - (btw Joe - If you can make it, I highly recommend seeing Fred Hersch who's playing there in early Feb.)...anyway details in a while, and to you BF5 folks: One Song?!!
mW
Name: YGK
..
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 13:19:13
Comments:
FYI-G'Bookers: Kinky doesn't live in Manhattan, the Center of the Universe. He lives in Greenwich, CT - one of the wealthiest/snottiest 'burbs in the country - driving a beat-up Jag so he can 'feel' like he's the center of the universe.
BTW, Kink, I'll be a Manhattanite in two months or less...I guess I'll try to shake this Brooklyn stigma. Where were you in San Diego? Missed you!
ygk
Name: Aja
sierraluna@juno.com SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 11:28:10
Comments:
Well the ORLANDO DANFEST was a bust, I showed but no one else. Spent 45 minutes sipping a coke and reading at a table for 10. That kind of thing is to be expected on that short notice. Anyone interested in trying to make it this Saturday night the 17th? E me if your interested.
Aja
Name: youdidbaby
d@tcalm
THSOUTH
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 09:11:30
Comments:
To all---- I have the album with Dallas & Sail the Waterway on it. It's great, but it only has four songs on it! can any DanFan give me some info on this?
thanks
Name: George
Reinhard_Heller@hp.com
Location: here we go, yup. over_the_ocean
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 08:31:16
Comments:
Kinkman: You'll find the Exit pulling down the File menu of you browser window. Or, press the 'Alt' and 'F' keys simultaneously to access the menu and then 'X' to exit. Bye. Come back again.
rb: thanks for the good wishes. It's going to be another 3-4 weeks until.
StAl: would the person you're speaking for want me to design a poster or is authenticity something of high priority? Well, we might come home at last with some of the posters of the 1974 Steely Dan tour in Central Europe, hitting venues in Hinterpfuiteufel, Gateaux-neuf-du-pape, Hellsinki and last not least Deaf-upon-arrival.
Clas: how did your Audi explode? Check your warranty card. Sending some sunlight to you. We got a rather springish climate currently.
Think I got a certain weakness for duos: WB&DF, HH&JK a.k.a. Tab Two, and now I ran into RMG which stands for Rudess Morgenstein Project. Bought it as a gift for my in-law, but I'd have kept it for myself if it was the last on sale! Let me say it's a litte bit Dixie Dreg'ish if you urgently need a reference.
Name: R.O.C.K in Sweden!
where the hell am I?
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 06:38:42
Comments:
Kinky is a true leader. Heīs from Manhattan. The center of universe.
Name: Assistant Crack Whore
getting off@funway west
Location: Right Around, The Corner
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 05:27:53
Comments:
We all may be a bunch of losers, but we still need a leader.
Who could be more qualified than you, Kinky?
Name: Edd
alive and kicking
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 05:16:37
Comments:
re: How to read without scrollong...
Save them locally and print.
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
HeeHaw2@hotmail.com
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 at 04:11:43
Comments:
Good Monday! Off to work I go!
Oleander:
Both of my sisters live in Louisville. Great town! Lots to do.Geena:
Have a good week. What's on your agenda for the week?
Mine involves work, work, and more work.RubyBaby:
I Emailed you back.Well, I'm out the door! Would rather stay home and listen to "Alive
In America". I'm in that kind of mood this morning.Close your eyes and you'll be there. It's everything they say.
The end of a perfect day.Tah-Tah!
Name: Kinky
looking for an exit
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 22:49:56
Comments:
I see we have a whole new batch of losers here...
Name: Carlo
lester@compuserve.com
Location: Mexico, Permanent Decay
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 19:34:48
Comments:
To Donald Fagen:
I`ve just returned from a trip to San Miguel de Allende
so I couldn`t e-mail you on your birthday. Have a happy
one and a happy life! Keep composing and bringing us
so much to our lifes trough your work. Beyond frontiers.
Your Mexican fan and Radio Dj.
Lester.
P.D. I`d be playing some tunes in your honor tomorrow.
Name: Bodacious Cowgir
here@the dude ranch
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 17:00:41
Comments:
Anyone in the NJ area--Phoebe Snow w/ Jack Swersie @ the Trump
Plaza 1/16-1/18. Tix $25.Also, Bob Dylan w/ Harry Connick Jr. 1/31 @ Trump Taj Mahal
tix go on sale 1/12 @ 12pm.Happy B-day Donald!
Name: oleander
otra vez
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 16:16:04
Comments:
I mean, not far from Lexington.
Incidentally, Edd--how can we access your deconstructions without mind-numbing scrolling?
Name: oleander
oh, all right
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 16:13:35
Comments:
The answer is: "Florida Room." If you listen at about 3:30, in the horn break, there's a few-note hint, and then about 3:45 there it is. If you listen to Dolphy's version the similarity is clear. Cool!
Joe--busy busy busy dept.--the night after you brought up John McLaughlin, I was walking past a local club and found that Billy Cobham is coming to town with Merl Saunders' Garcia tribute band (?!).
Amy--up near Ashland? I have a lot of kin and history in Kentucky, mostly around Louisville.
Name: clas
c
Location: x, x x
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 08:13:27
Comments:
LISA; where are you? And Schwinn?
Am I a worrier, not a warrior? Let me know Lisa.
See ya, c
Name: clas
c
Location: c, c c
Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 05:32:49
Comments:
STEWART; nice story. But who is that man? I am a swede you know. Tell me.
Yes, it use to rain around this time in sweden, but sweden is a long devil, up in north they are freezing their asses of. Down in stockholm the winter and cold will come, like a amen in church.
Hi
c
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
New! - HeeHaw2@hotmail.com
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 21:32:43
Comments:
Fellow Danians,
Feeling a little blue tonight. Perhaps some sleep will
take care of that. I hate Sundays because that means
I have to go to work tomorrow. Sigh . . .So Florida "Dan Fest" attendees-
How'd it go? Details, please!Geena: I'm from Ashland, KY. It is located right on the
Ohio River and borders Ohio and West Virginia. I
thought that I remembered you saying that you were
from Boston? Surprisingly, there are many Steeley Dan
Fans in the Bluegrass State.To "The Dan Fan Who Attempted to Email Me":
I changed my Email address and was unable to retrieve
the one you sent. Please try again! The only thing I
could pick up was that it was from "Kangal776".As I bid farewell, I wish to say "Happy Birthday D". I
love your music and always will. I have just recently
introduced several Dan Songs to my 11 year old. And
guess what, she loves it. She's quite intelligent, and
also a bit "Bohemian" (just like mom!)I leave you with the following-
Are you crazy? Are you high?
Or just an ordinary guy?
Have they finally got to you?
Can you hear me Doctor?Goodnight all!
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 20:34:21
Comments:
Mr. Stewart:
What a wonderful story!
Now i'm wondering if Kid Charlemagne is mythical or is really Kesey....oh well...something i'll have to ponder more on tomorrow...it's late again for me...going to watch BF5 on SNL....
Mr. Fagen:
How are you enjoying your birthday!
goodnight everyone!
Name: oleander
oleander@buncombe.main.nc.us
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 20:08:39
Comments:
Mr. Stew--great tale, Man of Chutzpah. I wonder if people like Kesey & Thompson feel a tug between being driven to entertain and not wanting to suffer fools like you and me. Anyway, what's the difference between being a groupie and being a connoisseur, an aficionado? Is it gourmand versus gourmet? Is it level of intrusivenes or obnoxiousness? Does a groupie just want to feed on greatness like a hyena, while other admirers feed greatness with their respect, their simple attention?
Why am I going on like this? Because I wish Mr. Fagen a fond and wonderful half-century, and would love to thank him for his gifts and all they've brought me, and know it's enough to do so knowing that he'll never know.
Roy--Oh, don't pout; our meeting is inevitable, just not imminent. Now let's get off this highway....
Name: Mr. Stew
notanotherstory
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 16:44:07
Comments:
Oleander: Got your e and am having difficulty eing you back. Send another message with your e address.
Clas: Wash that dog. Temps are higher here now and skiing is great. Sorry you have rain and mud. Typical for this time of year in Sweden?
The Dan is sounding right today after a long rest. Gonna take Nightfly out in the discman and go sit on a glacier with a Bass Ale. Happy 50.
Mr. Stew
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 16:30:09
Comments:
O.K. It’s a story I enjoy telling and you’ve been so encouraging and all. I’ll abbreviate what I wrote in my journal the day after the event in question.
February 28, 1991
Went to see gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson speak at the Hilton in Eugene last night. He was late, of course, this being his custom. While we waited Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs spoke for a while. It was the first time I had seen Kesey, though I knew he lived in the area and I figured I’d see him eventually.
Finally Thompson comes out and does his gonzo schtick. He’s plastered, drinking Wild Turkey, hard to make out a lot of what he’s saying. People were coming up to the stage and tossing little packages up to him (this after he’d growled, “I’ve been here for a goddamn hour and nobody’s offered me any drugs yet.”)
I met up with a friend in the lobby afterward and we went out front to check out Kesey’s bus (not the original) “Furthur.” There is a crowd around it and several beefy dudes are keeping people from getting on the bus or near it. Kesey’s under the bus messing with some wires. I see Thompson, Babbs and maybe 10 other folks in the bus milling around. We stand and watch. There is a transient I’ve seen around town standing next to me raving about the situation. Says: “This is fucked up! They’ve all become exactly what they used to protest against! It’s all phony and holds no significance anymore. It’s even a fake bus!” He speaks my mind. I begin to feel resentful about the bus and about making money on the whole 60’s trip.
Feeling depressed as hell I say good night to my friend and begin walking home. After about 15 minutes here comes the bus heading toward me. It pulls into a parking lot and Kesey gets out, climbs up on the roof and begins messing with more wires. I notice some freak walking toward the bus. He pokes his head in the front door and then climbs in. I decide to do the same. Here I’m sitting on the floor of the bus next to the freak, Kesey lying on the floor in front of us jiggling wires. “Just be cool, man, we’re on the bus. Just be cool,” says the freak. Several people in the back of the bus are glaring at us. One chick in the back says, “Hey get off- You don’t belong here.” Kesey pokes an eye up at us and says, “Who are you? If you don’t know anyone here then you’d better leave. It wouldn’t be a good idea to find yourselves out in the country with strange company.” I don’t detect any real threat in his voice, just a weariness, plus he’s pretty high. He goes back to getting his music working and forgets about us. Ray Charles crackles over the speakers singing “Georgia” and we start rolling.
A feeling of disbelief settles into my mind. We’re cruising down 7th through Eugene, a delicious smell fill the air. Kesey, Babbs and Hunter are at the poker table in back getting a game going. Cups of juice are distributed by another hippy chick.
Thirty minutes out of town and we’re at Kesey’s house. I step off the bus into a downpour and am feeling the juice. I watch Kesey’s nephew back the bus into a huge garage, huge Hollywood arch lamps are shining on the bus and the colors are exquisite. Everyone is milling around inside the cavernous garage, strange objects litter the place. A huge head made out of papier mache is staring at me. I catch Kesey’s eye and we nod at each other. I can’t find the words to speak. He’s a large guy and he continuously talks to anyone nearby. Soon the poker game resumes. In an acid daze I sit in a bean bag chair on the bus and just listen and watch. Kerouac’s face is staring down at us from the ceiling. Marilyn Monroe is perched seductively in an upper corner of the ceiling. I hear perfect Thompsonesque lines rattled off: “Goddamn George Bush. He’s the only man alive capable of sucking the last breath out of a dying beast.”
Well we all eventually end up sitting around the kitchen table in the house. Kesey holds court for the next two hours- an incredible talker/storyteller. He weaves his talk around many subjects (writing, the Gulf War, how we’re living our lives, illusion) and he manages to tie it all together. Just amazing. He’s making silver dollars appear and disappear from his hands. Thompson hands me several shots of whiskey.
Kesey jumps up and retrieves a large STOP sign. He explains that during the Gulf War protests in front of Eugene’s federal building he drove by the pro-war group on one side of the street and held up this stop sign, went around the block and drove by the anti-war side holding up the stop sign. He explained that this is exactly how the government wants and expects us to behave: To divide up into two opposing camps so that they can know where we stand at all times. We need to take a middle road that can’t be pinned down. He said that that’s what the whole bus thing in the 60’s was about.
Someone says something about Bush and Thompson says with a smirk, “Hah! Bush! Every time before he goes on T.V. now they spray his face with a plastic coating so he won’t burst out laughing when fielding Gulf War questions.”
There was some other shit going on that night that was pretty shitty. I think this one guy was scamming stuff from the house. This other girl was videotaping herself handing a pipe to Kesey. Pissed him off. By the end of the evening I was embarrassed to be a groupie. Kesey was glad to see us go, I’m sure. What a night, though.
Name: yo yo mama
@cello pudding pop
Location: oh, yeah?
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 11:59:16
Comments:
there is no reason, only destiny...like rounding a corner and
head first into a brick wall...can you blame the traveler for
not knowing the terrain ahead? can you accuse the stone for
being a wall by its very nature?you are the sun, i am the moon
you are the words, i am the tune
play me.box-o-packages
Name: ~*~
*~*
Location: unfinished ,
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 11:27:18
Comments:
I once was offered Pandora's box,
I accepted it against my thoughts.
The gift returned on it's own
Something I have always known
what was right was ignored
and it found it's way to my door.
I opened the box against my thoughts
telling myself it was only for me,
I would not give it to others
not this forbidden
fruit and kept it hidden.
My soul began to tear
I wanted to share...more to come...
Name: yo yo ma
@cello there
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 07:25:19
Comments:
are you addressing me?
former package, unwrapped
Name: YoYo
zzy@zzy
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 06:48:21
Comments:
Package Princess: " I read the book . . I believe I just got the good bye look." >>>
.
.
Yappy Hirthday D.
Name: c@w
dowahdiddydiddydumdiddydum
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 06:30:43
Comments:
Mr Fagen; I am so sorry. I mean.. my IGNORANCE, your birthday, hell... what can I do? I take a bow, happy birthday, if I only knew... please donīt tell the Vogelfellow...
sorry,
oooooops, audi exploded
Name: clas @ it
R.Ö.V. in America
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 at 06:16:57
Comments:
Dr Mu, sure, youre probably right. But I donīt care. BeBop and other jazzmusic is so damn boring. Itīs a saxplayer who solos over some standardchords; E7-5 - A7 - Dmi7 - G11 - kind of, and then the pianoplayer solos, the bassist, then the drummer, back to chorus etc etc. And the worst; no cool lyrics.
But this I liked; Charles Mingus (a program on TV) singing with power while playing the doublebass, something like;
Mamas little boy donīt like no syrup bread
Mamas little boy donīt like no syrup bread
No, thatīs a white mans lie
Mamas boy like gold
And goldmines
And diamonds
SouthAfrican diamondmines
Thatīs what mamas little boy like
stockholm audi and out,c
Name: Aja
Babble on sister
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 22:03:44
Comments:
OOops! I forgot to mention the date for the ORLANDO DANFEST It's Saturday January 10, 1998. Hope you still can make it.
Little Amy/Fezchick - DanFest is a DanVention is a Dantastic little wing-ding. In this case a few to several DanFan's getting together in one place and well... uhmm, we'll just make it up as we go along...
Mssr. Donald Fagen - To my favorite contemporary composer on a milestone birthday, Hope it is a very happy one and many more to come. Thanks for the great music. Take all the time you need with the new stuff, we know the end result is always worth the wait. And if I may be so presumptous, xoxox!
Sincerely,
Aja
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Location: Boston Rag,
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 19:13:47
Comments:
Hi Everyone!
My day wouldn't be complete without adding my 2 cents worth to this site...so here I am...listening to "Alive in America". I have to say there's a great version of Green Earrings on this cd amongst the others which are just as great.
StAl:
I'm not up on Owsley, but Kid Charlemagne could be about him, but i did see an uncanny resemblance to Kesey. I don't believe it's about a mythical character, but now that i think of it, the name Steely Dan is taken from a William S. Burroughs novel and I'll get off this subject. I don't even know who Dime Bag Darrel is, and as for my personal supplier...he's knock..knock..knocking on some jail cell somewhere...
Mr. Stewart:
Please talk about your brush with greatness...i'm dying to hear about it..!!
Fezchick:
Where have you been???? We didn't get the ice storm here...that's further up north..where it should be...it just rained here all week long, every single day....miserable, dark, gloomy, depressing...and it's been very warm...BTW..where are you from?
Have you found out about those Show Biz Kids T-shirts yet?
Roy.Scam:
Thanks for the info on the BF5...i will force myself to watch SNL tomorrow night as i think i'm becoming an avid admirer of their music.
And........
Happy Birthday to my favorite musician....The Nightfly!! I knew there was something eclectically strange about you..you share your birthday with my husband who is just as strange...but this is a good thing!! I don't deal with normal people very well.
Name: Big Fan
kroused@hsd.utc.com
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 17:07:58
Comments:
Happy five oh DF. Sorry it is early, but I won't be on line tommorrow. We all love you. Loved your shows, now enough pleasantries and get back to work on that new album. BTW why don't you post what the best gift you got was or where the band threw the big shindig that I'm sure they did being the generous kind that they are
Name: Amy aka "Fezchick"
duck1220@wwd.net
KY
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 16:45:52
Comments:
Dear Dan Friends,
"When the demon is at your door,
in the morning it won't be there no
more. Any major dude will tell ya."True words to live by.
Thanks Don and Walt for some inspirational
advise in the midst of a crazy world.Anyway, would someone like to explain to me
what a "Dan Fest" is? Sorry! I'm new at this.
It sounds great!I still want a Steeley Dan T-shirt!
Heh, Geena! How are things up north! I've heard
there are ice storms up your way. Hope you're not
froze-up! It was 70 degrees here yesterday. But only
about 48 degrees today. That's KY weather for you!Have a great weekend to all you "Danies" out there!
Name: Aja
hoping to see ya'll
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 15:45:44
Comments:
In case anyone is interested in carpooling from the South Florida area you may contact Fidyl@webtv.net.
I have had 11 people (12 if you count "J" whom I'll likely see later that week) express an interest in coming, hoping that most of you can make it.
Aja
Name: Aja
sierraluna@juno.com SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 15:15:32
Comments:
********~~~~~~~~~ORLANDO DANFEST~~~~~~~~~********
Sorry for the oh-so-short notice, I was hoping to meet somewhere else besides a restuarant, but plans fell through. So we will be meeting at
THE MILL at 300 W. Fairbanks Ave. Winter Park, 644-1544 at 8:30PM Reservations are under the name "Daniels". There are two other "Mills" in town, so don't confuse them, call them for directions if you need. Reservations are for a non-smoking area and THE MILL serves beer (they make some on the premises) and vegatarian dishes are on the menu. I'm not if there is any live entertainment or what it will be if there is.Again, my apologies for the late notice, anyone is welcome although I would appreciate some notice, it's not necessary. Hope to see all that have already contacted me.
Aja
Name: fezofthenorth
gohoos.com
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 15:00:00
Comments:
Muzak news of the day:
Story in the Washington Post today tells the tale of the area Metro subway system contracting with Muzak Inc. to pipe in soothing tunes at one of the more hectic Metro stops. The obligatory corporate types spew forth the obligatory corporate mumbo jumbo about how the sounds will calm and relax the huddling masses at the station.
So what's on top on the playlist of a day's sampling of songs played . . . "Don't Take Me Alive"
Good thing it's only an instrumental version.
Fez of the North
*Getting real psyched for the 17th in Williamsburg
Name: DrMu
gratuitous addendum
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 09:50:05
Comments:
Oh yeah, Chris Rock was hilarious also when the rabbit called me to tune in
Name: DrMu
WesttoSunset
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 09:47:01
Comments:
Clas: But isn't Dan East Coast jazz filtered through a prism of West Coast rock and jaZZZ production values and observations? It seems like Coltrans and Parker's stuff lay a foundation for Dr. Wu for example.
One day to BFF performance on SNL. It should be the highlight now that Don Olemeyer (sp?) has relieved Norm McDonald of his Weekend Update duties. He and the late Chris Farley have been the only highlights of the increasingly banal SNL since Dana Carvey left, and maybe since the group with Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rich Hall which were inexplicably fired after only 1 year...sorry, SNL is an easy punching bag.
Name: youdidbaby
srboone@cybergate.com
Location: THSOUTH ,
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 08:58:36
Comments:
well the worlds much larger than it looks today and if _
_________ brings me back this way? Well?Book of Liars
Name: youdidbaby
srboone@cybergate.com
Location: THSOUTH,
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 08:48:39
Comments:
yeh- that Steely Dan, what a cool guy! did anyone here ever here the soul chicks peri' do caves of altimera?I've got the whole of my half life left to wait for your reply.
Van Morrison---Soldier Of Fortune----been wearin' my______ for so long kinda' makes my sholder sore. please help!
Name: youdidbaby
srboone@cybergate.com
Location: THSOUTH,
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 08:44:37
Comments:
yeh- that Steely Dan, what a cool guy! did anyone here ever here the soul chicks peri' do caves of altimera?I've got the whole of my half life left to wait for your reply.
Van Morrison---Soldier Of Fortune----been wearin' my______ for long kinda' makes my sholder sore. please help!
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 06:21:05
Comments:
Speaking of Southern Culture on the Skids...go se 'em. I did, last night. Fried Chicken, Mr. Peanut and hairdos from hell. It was all too much. Another band on my new(er) music list. G Love and Special Sauce.
Geena/Ole: A variant on your take on Kid Charlemange. I always thought he was a more mythical character based upon Owlsey, Kesey, Dime Bag Darrell and (add your personal suppliers name here).
Does anyone know this man? If so, introduce me...
Oh my goodness. Was that a lyric interpretation?
Mr. Stewart: Tell the story, man.
The real purpose for this post is to pass on a request. I have a friend who is desperately looking to add a Steely Dan related poster to her collection. Preferably a music store promo poster from the seventies, but any 'ol poster will do. Well, as long as they are in good shape. If you have something you want to unload, e-mail me at the above address.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: Franklinfuckinmint, VA
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 05:58:33
Comments:
Geena: The Ben Folds song to which you allude is "The Battle of Who Could Care Less". The line is "Watch the Rockford Files. Call to see if Paul can score some weed."--I saw a bit of SD similarity in this song, not musically, but lyrically. Lamenting the trendy, insensitive behavior of a close friend/lover, it's very reminiscent of "Black Cow".--We discussed BF5/SD parallels in this very Guestbook a couple of months ago; the main similarity is that they're both brilliant.
Oleander--We'll miss you; we'll talk about you; we'll tell you we had a great time, whether we did or not.
RS
Name: clas
clas@work
Location: mudcity,
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 05:46:42
Comments:
STEVIE DAN; The Sphere is that small opiumball you roll between your fingers when you are up to smoke opium. Chase the Dragon, you kind of chase the smoke, the SMOKE is THE DRAGON.
RUBY; Yes Iīll be there! Any world that I am welcome to...
Mr STEWART; Sweden is rainy and muddy, I have to shower the dog when he has been out, itīs like wash a car.
You see, no shit taken, the body and soul recovers, and bored sometimes, of course, who said that life must be funny all the time?Lisa! Hi!
Straight, no chaser,
Clas
Name: Working For MCA
sw@mpmusic
Date: Friday, January 9, 1998 at 00:52:23
Comments:
What shall it be? A fifth of Johnny Walker Red or a fifth of Beethoven?
I may never walk again,Ronnie Van Zalen
Name: RubyBaby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 20:52:31
Comments:
Mr. Stewart: I know somebody who saw Lynard Skynard lately. She says she had a great time and they were good. They've changed a bit, y'know. They must be okay - my sister is a tough room.Sister: If you see this, don't get too mad. You know I'm right!
Fezchick: How bad do you want a t-shirt?
Clas: I'm almost ready to listen to SteelyDan again. I think I'll undecorate the tree w/ Katy Lied. Wish you were here.
rb
Name: maj.
charliefreak3@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 20:49:12
Comments:
Now, Donald....Now that you got your mojo working overtime in the studio, it's time to take a break and air out those new gems in some smokey club in the Village. What better time than on the eve of your fiftieth birthday, Friday night. minorWorld tells me there's a good thing happening at the Village Vanguard. This is your chance to work out some of those problem spots in the arrangements, and get a fresh look from playing live while knowing that the tape recorder isn't running (never mind that hat Lucky's wearing). It'll be good for you and good progress for the new recording. See it as a problem solving opportunity. Come on, its your fucking 50th. If I don't see you, happy birthday to one of America's greatest composers!
maj.
Name: oleander
and no more coordinated either
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 19:35:16
Comments:
Damn fingers, mind of their own.
Re the Stone--I've had a fascination with it since I was a kid. This morning, when I was reading "Under The Rose" in "Slow Learner," I got to daydreaming about it and wishing I could go to England to see it--and tonight, presto, it's on the GB. Busy busy etc.
Stevie--Why not? But I thought it was Owsley, the father of LSD, not Kesey, its high priest. In fact, one day right there in Berkeley a friend showed me a house that was purportedly where Owsley held his chemical rites (KC running through my head all the while). And I think of DIA as a spaghetti western starring Bob Dylan in spite of myself.
Mr. Stew--Don't get your hopes up. I'm no Q. But anything I have is yourn, as we say. Hey! No way you can get out of telling us your Kesey story now, especially after you captivated us with Texas synchronicity! Cough it up! And don't be too chagrined about Lynyrd Skynyrd--not too long ago we had ZZ Top.
Roy--For an ol' geezer, you have a painfully sharp memory. But the mug shot will have to wait. My upper lip is too stiff to whine on the GB, but I won't be in W'burg next weekend, alliteration notwithstanding. Alas. hoist a few for me, sing "My Old School" in harmony, and consider me sitting here eating my heart out.
Name: oleander
sadder and no wiser
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 19:11:06
Comments:
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Location: at Rudy's,
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 19:05:20
Comments:
something strange just crossed my mind. Is it me or does the Ben Folds 5 bear a small resemblence to Steely Dan?
I was listening to one of their songs this past summer...one of the lines i remember mentioned something about someone going out to get pot...(it's late, i'm tired and on 2 hours sleep so forgive me if i've screwed up something in the translation) The music/lyrics reminded me a little of Steely Dan.
Can someone tell me what the name of this song is? radio announcers in this area have an extremely annoying habit of not relating the name of the song they've just played.
If i stand corrected, i shall hot foot it to my local music emporium and purchase their cd/s as i find them very intriguing (sp.?).
On another note, and if memory serves me correctly...in my study of the beat generation, i remember reading about Ken Kesey posessing a brightly painted bus circa 1960's where the Grateful Dead used to hang out often and i believe individuals who frequented this bus would also delve into various recreational hallucinogenics.
Therefore: Ken Kesey = Kid Charlemagne
Bus = Technicolor Motor Home
hallucinogenics = test tubes and the scales
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 18:25:39
Comments:
steviedan: re. lyric interpretation #0076: Kesey as Kid C. This same link occured to me just recently. Technicolor motor-home... day-glo freaks who used to paint their face. Who else? I'd tell you a Kesey/Hunter S. Thompson story here but people would think I'm full of it... a brush with greatness that happened outside of Eugene, Oregon during my stint as a student teacher at a middle school (teaching a unit about drugs, ironically enough). I'll e it to you, if interested.
Oleander: Waiting for the deal. I'm figuring you've got some very interesting items in your collection.
GoodKingRichard: Why, thank-ee. Was on the same par as seeing a "Born to Rock And Roll" bumper sticker one night, knowing the exact line I'd hear at that moment if I pushed the station pre-set button to the classic rock station, being jolted by the line: "Rock and roll hoochie coo." Yup. You've got to understand what small thrills do for one living in Anchorage.
Clas: Maybe you've got something. No canny busculus in over a month and I feel, well, better I suppose. Bored out of my skull at times, though.
Lynard Skynard in two weeks. We're stuck in the bad part of the 70's here, friends.
Give me three steps:
Mr. Stewart
Name: Not Captain
nriver2@ibm.net
Location: Barrytown, NY Estados Unidos
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 17:35:56
Comments:
steviedan: I know what is like to be 'surrounded' in 'books.'
All languages came from one. All will go back to one. Music assists that course, "specially 'Dan'." " The public does not and cannot realize the part that the camera served in bringing down the facts of the late war for future history; one cannot look back but with wonder and admiration on these few, industrious, painstaking men . . ." Andrew Joseph Russell.
I'd love to attend an Orlando Danfention, Aja. Lester2.
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 17:35:16
Comments:
Hi Amy, the last I heard, the rumors were that they would be touring this coming summer... Let's hope so........
Name: steviedan
stevev@jps.net
Location: Berkeley, CA Buried in Books
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 13:56:57
Comments:
Re: lyrics to 'Time Out of Mind'
Hey Clas: I believe that those particular lyrics allude to the great Russian painter Nicholas Roerich and the fabled "chintimanti", or sacred stone of ancient Tibet which Roerich purportedly returned to Lhasa during his Asian expedition in the 1920's.....Becker incidently bares an uncanny resemblence to the famed Roerich....and there is a nice little museum housing some of his paintings on the upper west side (just south of Harlem)...I've said too much already
lyric interpretation #0076-1: doesn't it seem that Ken Kesey would be the subject for Kid Charlemagne???
lyric interpretation #0072-1: doesn't 'Do It Again' sound like a William Burroughs-esque novel???? just (stevie) wondering....
Name: Amy aka "FezChick"
duck1220@wwd.net
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 12:33:34
Comments:
Geena,
Wow! Your "Dan" concert story sounds great! I'm jealous! My
husband is not a "Dan Fan" unfortunately, but I'm still trying.
Maybe with the new album coming out they'll work up a new tour!?
Every time I listen to "Alive In America", I yearn for a FIX!Has anyone heard any new concert rumors?
Still looking for a Steeley Dan T-Shirt. Can anyone oblige?
Will sign off for now, and try to write more tonight. Until then -
May the FEZ be with you!
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: Come on, Virginia Show me a sign
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 07:47:33
Comments:
Everybody must get Rosetta Stoned.--Boss birthday gift. Hours of reading enjoyment. If the Stone is not available in stores, perhaps we can chip in and get Kubrick's monolith and a trip to Jupiter.
Regarding the Williamsburg Dan-fan get together: Christiana Campbell's is out. Closed for the month. The only public landmark type place open is Chowning's Tavern (in Colonial Williamsburg). They don't take reservations but they shouldn't be crowded this time of year. How does this sound?: January 17th @ 6:30 PM, Chowning's Tavern, Williamsburg ? lisa bring your eskimo; Oleander, bring your picture of you with John Denver; Fez, you can be the Holy Man. Anyone else?
Aja: Sorry to offend you with my reality remark. Reality was meant to refer to the geographical, financial, and chronological limits of my middle class existence. No meanness intended.
RS
Name: c.l.a.s.@work
x
Location: x, x
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 02:07:00
Comments:
So, thatīs better.
OLEANDERr; do you think a great mind like mine had to look up taintulygy?
But, thanks for UP and DOWN-answering.
DR MU; yeah, really, it was nice to hear those old records the first two days. But when he (my son) claims that all my syncopied, laid back, west-coast fave-music has itīs roots from Parker, and it would not exist without Parker and the other bebopandoandena, I donīt agree.
We spent the holiday arguing about that and at last I asked him why he didnīt go back to the warrior-drums from Burundi, there are the real roots. Damm.
I looked at the innersleeve on Gaucho-vinyl, I noticed that the written lyrics on TIME OUT OF MIND says ...I am holding the mystical stone... Fagen sings ...mystical sphere...
Stockholm audi and out,
C.L.A.S.
Name: censored@work
x
Location: x, x
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 01:53:44
Comments:
Name: Ann Archie
b@kin@c@ke
Date: Thursday, January 8, 1998 at 00:02:51
Comments:
Golly, Donald's B-Day just two days away and I feel like an old lady with nothing but green jello for the Christ Child!
(That certainly won't sharpen those canines, will it, Maj?)
A visit with Napolean seems dull and obsolete for a man whose time is getting harder and harder to find.
Therefore, I suggest we all pool our resources and purchase the Rosetta Stone.
Napolean's men unearthed it in 1799 so it has that millenium thing working for it--plus it is one heavy piece of basalt as Kubrick can attest--perfect for those days when only a climb to the King's Chamber will do.But that's only my green jello talkin'--should we add nuts?
AA
Name: Sue Nami
elnino@three
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 22:36:03
Comments:
Just listened to the new Ben Folds Five CD and as my mind flitted between Night at the Opera and Something Anything I suddenly remembered that there is indeed a new dan album on the way. Please, I can't take much more of this!
Tsu
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 19:39:41
Comments:
Hey "FezChick":
Girl...we need to talk...i went to my first and only Steely Dan concert in 1995. I've loved them for a very long time, but they didn't tour for many years.
The tix just fell in my lap..my boss's brother broke up with his girlfriend and sold the tix to me! Then i had to find someone to go with..none of my friends are into them as much as i am, so i wrangled my husband into going...i knew he didn't want to go, but it's his fault i like them so much...he let me borrow Royal Scam when we were dating and that was started my addiction!
The concert was fabulous! They are true professional musicians. I sang every song and my voice was non-existent the next day (so was my husband's!). Everyone there were die-hard Dan fans...the energy was incredible! They opened with Pretzel Logic and encored with My Old School..and everything in between is a blur to me now...i'm getting goosebumps just re-living it! We've been hearing them on recordings for so long and were amazed how superb they are in concert!
I hope you get a chance to see them..you won't regret it...as a matter of fact, WE can't wait for them to come to Boston again!
If you find a Show Biz Kids t-shirt, let me know...
SD's junkie girl
Name: Amy, aka "FezChick"
duck1220@wwd.net
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 18:55:53
Comments:
Geena, aka SD's junkie girl,
Thanks for your input on albums.
You too, See-de!
Has anyone out there been to a "Dan" concert? I have always
wanted to go. Please share this much anticipated experience
with me!I would also LOVE to own a Steeley Dan T-shirt (just like
the "Show Biz Kids"). Where might one meager soul such as I
find such a unique item?
Name: Geena aka SD's junkie girl
katylied@hotmail.com
Location: Time Out of Mind,
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 17:10:16
Comments:
Hi Amy:
an album is a compilation of...well..for lack of a better word...things! like in photo album...regardless of whether one makes a compilation of music on cd, cassette, etc...it's an album..
my favorite songs? there are many..but just to name a few:
Babylon Sisters
Kid Charlemagne
Aja (my all time favorite, even named my cat Aja)
The Boston Rag
My Old School
Any World
Don't Take me Alive
The Royal Scam
Black Cow
Deacon Blues
Home at Last
Glamour Profession
Gaucho
Time out of Mind
Night By Night
Pretzel Logic
Rose Darling
Doctor WuWhew! there's more...but my brain is numb cycle right now!
Nice to hear from you..
Hi Oleander! What's up with the chat room? that could take place of a fan club...everytime i go there..i'm all alone *pouting*
Name: GoodKingRichard
rloangman@dca.gov.au
Location: Canberra,
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 15:15:26
Comments:
Thanks Mr Stewart, you've made my Thursday - a classic, evocative post with a true sense of SD place, time and dislocation, which should be part of a Guestbook HOF - Any chance of that St Al? There have been some classics over the months which would bear re-reading without having to trawl through some of the surrounding incidentals and detritus.
Richard&kangaroos
Name: RubyBaby
treading water, lightly
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 12:20:33
Comments:
Oleander: at the mention of Jitterbug Waltz I dug out my dusty record of Miles Davis and found it on side 2. Phil Woods does the alto sax on that one. Does that count as a minor Dan link?
Do not know where the quote would be. I'm not as Dan'oeuvre-ish as some.mWorld: Have a great time in that New York City! The cows will cry til the mW comes home.
rb
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 11:18:07
Comments:
mW: I feel the monkey in your soul. We need a skinny girl to serve up that retsina to us.
Heard this morning that Boz Scagg's last release is nominated for Best Blues Album of the Year. Go Boz! Go Zingg!
Have you seen the promos on VH1 for the special they're airing on this year's inductees to the HOS? Can you really imagine a segment on the boys mixed in with the other artists? Philadelphia got jilted on the location of the HOS. Maybe the door is open for a better, more serious "Composers and Recording Artists Hall".
"...some loser fires off a flare..."
maj.
Name: See-de?
x
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 10:34:15
Comments:
Hey Amy -- sorry girlfriend; an album is still an album no matter what medium it comes in. It's *record* (as in vinyl) that is the outdated term.
Name: DrMu
wineandkerosene
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 09:57:55
Comments:
Clas: I'd like to hang with your son. Miles Ahead and Kind of Blue have been in the CD changer thoughout the holidays...Dan, Marsalis, Coltrane, Weather Report, Brubeck, you name it have all been touched by the Genius.
RubyBaby: You're supposed to scream and shout it!
D.O. My wife is constantly showing me the obvious as well...I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking about covers - just similar song titles/lyric or phonic phrases which were begged, stolen, or borrowed, Hey, how about Grene Flower Street as a tense and slightly twisted version of the jazz standard Green Dolphin Street? I'll think about more later...
Name: Amy
duck1220@wwd.net
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 09:33:09
Comments:
Geena,
Thanks for responding!
What is your favorite "Dan" song?
I have several:
*Rikki Don't Lose That Number
*Dirtywork
*Your Gold Teeth
*Don't Take Me Alive
Of course, this is apt to change from month-to-month! Do you have
the "Steeley Dan" boxed set? I highly reccomend it!Their home page says that they are currently working on a new album.
(Why do they call it an album, when no one makes or sells music
in album form any more?) Anyway, I'd like to hear from you, and
any other "Dan Fans" out there.Signing off!
Name: oleander
the original slow learner
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 09:15:43
Comments:
Clas--I hear an Arnold-like "I'm baaaack!" Sitting UP happens after bedtime, or when your mother scolds you ("Sit up straight or your back will grow crooked!"). Now, you looked up "tautology," but you didn't slip it into a friendly response in a subtle and tactful way like the Roymeister.
Geena--welcome! However, "Steely Dan" + "fan club" = cognitive dissonance.
Mr. Stew--great Danmoment! The only thing that could complete such a picture would have been one of those snakehipped Austin ladies in the shotgun seat. BTW, my search for those Monk sides came up dry. I'll e you to see if we can strike a deal.
maj--'s OK. Next trip?
Joe--my man squared. I'm on the John Mc tip; I've been a big fan of his for ages. Saw Mahavishnu many times, and "Goodbye Pork-pie Hat" is one of my fave songs ever. He actually came here a few years back with Mr. Chambers--and I was in the damn ER (on call)!
Every once in a while I get swept off my feet by some synchronistic occurrence or other. Most recently, the introduction to Pynchon's "Slow Learner" did it. Printed in '84, caught up with in '98, it's a breathtakingly intimate and easygoing chat about writing, looking back on the work of one's youth (and on not necessarily attractive past selves), the fifties and sixties, the Beats, and more from this notoriously reclusive giant. So many connections for me--Donald Barthelme, entropy, Zappa, surrealism, the OED, "Runaround Sue"....And spoken with such modesty and humility you just want to faint. Maybe just an introduction, but I think a must-read, especially for Danfans who want to learn about (or remember) the radioactive soil from which "The Nightfly" grew. The stories themselves I actually remember reading in the distant past, but there are lots of things in "V." and "Gravity's Rainbow" you'll see in them, and they're really kind of wonderful.
Don't I have any takers for my end-of-year riddle--where in the greater Dan oeuvre is "Jitterbug Waltz" quoted? A new hors d'oeuvre recipe to the guesser.
Name: cla@w
x
Location: x, x
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 07:19:01
Comments:
AJA; sorry, I was too late. Or you were on in my dawn. Frankly, I am so stressed so I donīt understand anything here.
Iīve been wondering over one thing during the holidays. When you (in USA) ask people to come in in your house, you ask them to sit DOWN, donīt you? Then, you and your friends, sit UP all night. When do you draw the line? Six PM, seven PM? Please tell me. Down and up. Strange.
Whereīs Lisa?
truly yours,
clas
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at 06:54:57
Comments:
rubybaby: phantom egg-laying...corn kernels.. great stuff.
Name: rubybaby
with Klaus & the Rooster
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 20:39:04
Comments:
I love your Christmas vacation post, Mr. Stewart. The opening rift of Reelin' right when you need it - what are the odds? Your life really was like a beer commercial that day!Mine, on the other hand, was more like day-time drama. And I think I had that chicken virus brought over from China. It's a lot like pneumonia plus you sprout feathers every time you sneeze. Nagging coughs interspersed with clucks. A hankering for someone to throw popcorn kernals all over the rug. Then there's those bouts of phantom-egg-laying...I found myself saying, "Serenity Now!" over & over. I hated being cooped-up. Thank God it's over.
breathe in breathe out
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 19:16:27
Comments:
Amy:
So am I! I'm so glad i found this page of my favorite show biz kids....
I think we've both found our home at last!
Geena
Name: Amy
duck1220@wwd.net
Location: Russell, KY USA
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 18:48:32
Comments:
I am absolutely relieved that I have finally found something on the Internet that I can relate to! I love "Steeley Dan" !
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 13:58:10
Comments:
...I never knew that Sonny Bono was the lead singer for U2...
Name: Minah
@east of china
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 13:33:48
Comments:
maj.: "I'll pack my things and run so far from here..."
I'll bubble wrap the retsina, damn airlines...
mW
Name: Theodore Kazcinsky
td@compuserve.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 10:48:32
Comments:
Got a case of dynamite....
Name: Danfan Randy
dfr@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 10:39:32
Comments:
I think U2 should recruit DF as their new lead singer after the tragic death of Bono yesterday.
Name: clas
ccccc
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 09:05:59
Comments:
GAUCHO, email me maniana, maniana ja veres at this shitty travaja, I got something for you.
AJA; Got to go now, maybe tomorrow? Let me know, I am six hours ahead.
El Vikingo
Name: Double Felix
singininther@in
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at 00:30:23
Comments:
Matt
I accept your apology and will leave you to your 25 million fans.
D.F.
Name: Matt Belzoni
Lester@compuserve.com
Location: Mexico,, DF. At eternal devaluation
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 23:10:06
Comments:
Double Felix:
The problem with semiotic is that Eco`s name should be written 'Umberto' not 'Humberto', so I make this 'Fe de erratas'.
And also would like to invite everyone interested to hear my radio show at WFM. Jus log into www.wfm.com.mx click on "Audio Virtual" and you'll be able to hear it with Real Time Audio 5.0
If you have any favourite Steely Dan song let me know thru this page and you'll hear them (let's say Friday?) hosted in Spanish! My show starts at 6 p.m. Mexico DF time wich is two hours more than this page time.
Yes I'll play 'The Song Is You' by Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders.MB
Name: Matt Belzoni
Lester@compuserve.com
Location: Mexico Another World, DF In perpetual crisis
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 22:40:50
Comments:
Dear DF:
I thought my English it was more better now but I was
wrong. It is worst than your Latin and now I know the problem
it`s not that my hat`s too flat.
What I really need it`s an actual person to person interview
with Donald and Walter. I want the interview for that 12 hour
special. Yes, I can see you`re all laughing now but whait!...
The interview could be held werever they decide or I could
gladly invite them a nice trip downhere and even arrange a meeting with Bernabe Jurado the lawyer who put William Burroughs out of the jail including the mandatory visit to the place were
WB shot his wife at the Monterrey 122 building. Plus! Great places for dinner, nice wine, good company and some Humberto Eco`s impresions exchange.
We at the radiostation get the interview and they get all
of the above. What?...I`ve gone insane? Am I laughing in the frozen rain?
So please DF help me.A third (going fourth) world man.
Name: maj.
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 20:35:37
Comments:
Oleander: The snow kept me away. Went from NJ to NC non-stop. Citizen 3 and its amazing basslines made the difference.
Re: Damned -- what a sight to behold -- 200 dancing, swaying bodies grooving to Dan. Sounds like Lucky Henry's description of Pine Knob during Black Cow. Ain't, Hank??
Minah: Bring it on home, brother. I'm sending up a flare for ya!
"...fifty-second streets the junction..."
"...we're standin just where he stood, it was...."
(The literary version of the Donald double-pump).
maj.
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 20:18:55
Comments:
Happy new year everybody!
It's about 14 below zero right now and I just stay inside. Weird but, it really doesn't feel as bad as it sounds. It was -25 this morning as I was loading up the car with a huge cardboard calendar stand (a Fred Meyer discard) that we'll find some use for at school. I was bundled up, but my face was feeling the bite. In temps like that everything about the car is stiff: You sit and the seat cushion doesn't budge; the power steering was jerky; the sound from the speakers was tinny; the LED on the stereo was slow to move from digit to digit. The trunk hatch sounded like it could break off when I opened it.
I did go to Texas for x-mas and got my 65 degrees and sun fix. Heard no Steely until the ninth day...Was driving, by myself AT LAST, from my brother's place in Wimberley to my folks' place in Temple. Just a gloriously beautiful day through the hill country, a Tecate in my dad's Saturn's beverage holder. What more did I really need? It occured to me that some SD would about round things out so I turned the switch and immediately was awashed in the opening riff of Reelin'. The timing was pure dumb luck. The trip back to my home state...the cruise...a revisit to adolescent angst...memories from the day before of all of the exquisitely beautiful women I had gawked at and lusted after on our outing into Austin (Anchorage...uuuuuuuuugh a la Homer)...A great big bag of laundry to do at my folks'...and Reelin'. Too perfect.
Woolies:
Mr. Stewart
Name: lisa
the prodigal cl@s
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 07:19:58
Comments:
jeepers clas...i really missed you over the holidays!
the gb seemed pallid and somehow less thrilling without your input...for god's sake man, don't leave us like that again!
showbiz k
Name: clas@work
hey now
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 04:32:49
Comments:
Hey hey hey! Oleander, who put you straight on "tautology"?
Name: c@where the stumblers gonna go
x
Location: x, x x
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 04:21:36
Comments:
PAT, turn me up so they can hear what Iīm saying. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a song about this place, where I used to live, where they used to raise turkeys:
Goinī back home
To the Village of the Sun
Out in back in Palmdale
Where the turkey farmers run, I done
Made up my mind
And I know Iīm gonna go to Sun
Village good God I hope the
Wind donīt blowIt take the paint of your car
And wreck your windshield too
I donīt know how the people stand it
But I guess they do
īCause theyīre all still there
Even Jonny Franklin too
In the Village of the Sun
Village of the Sun, son
Sun Village to you
Little Mary, and Teddy, and Thelma tooWhere Palmdale Boulevard
Cuts on through
Past the Village Inn & Barbecue
(I heard it aint there, well I hope it aint true)
Where the stumblers gonna go
To watch the lights turn blue?
Where the stumblers gonna go to watch
The lights turn blueooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-wahhhhh...
Name: clas@work
x
Location: x, x
Date: Monday, January 5, 1998 at 04:09:56
Comments:
God, have I missed you! It was a big misstake not taking the modem down to the country. Donīt you think so? We celebrated Christmas and New Year in the rainy darkness, our son came down with a pile of Miles- and Parker CDs. For four days I had to listen to that music and at last I asked him if I could play some music from THIS CENTURY!
So I did and Bruce Hornsbyīs Hot House got hot.
I noticed that Fagen is older now. Birthday present? Joni Mitchell made a song once (Hejira) called Refuge Of the Roads. I think we should rewrite it and call it Refuge of the Rhodes. And sing it to him.
RUBY; I love you too. You were wrong about november. I gave you a hint in october, "Happy birthday Lennon and Jackson Browne". The 9th.
Allright, īsanybody here know where Palmdale is?
You DO? Good.
Have you ever heard of a place called Sun Village...? Some of you know where Palmdale is, back in Palmdale, allright? One time it used to be a big place for raising turkeys. I went to highschool in Lancaster which is, eh, which is not far from (fuck)... eh, oh, is it good for other things after it now? Good. He he...
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 19:48:07
Comments:
Pat, nice page... Now I'll have to do it justice and update that rather antiquated executable it's linked to. Maybe just in time for the new release.
John McLaughlin's new one "Heart of Things" features '94 Dan skins master Dennis Chambers... Man can this guy swing!
Name: Machine
MachineCode@PPP
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 19:11:06
Comments:
Goin' binary.
Name: Larry Ashton
larry@asapusa.com
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 18:27:28
Comments:
That decoder program is most impressive from a programming standpoint. Would the designer be willing to share with me the searching algorithms? I've been an Oracle DBA for 12 years and wouldn't have a clue how to approach something like that.
Name: Geena DiLorenzo
katylied@hotmail.com
Location: Boston, MA USA
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 18:21:04
Comments:
Will someone keep me updated on what's going on with my addiction..the one called Steely Dan? I've emailed to this post a while ago regarding getting some sort of a fan club going and never got a response. If the latter doesn't exist, just give me something to keep me going..i got the Steely Dan blues.
I need a kick.....
Geena (SD "junky girl")
Name: oleander
land o distraction
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 08:56:43
Comments:
Thanx, St. Al. Thanx, Joe.
Old business:
1) Roy, I never thanked you for setting me straight on "tautology" and "syllogism," which were entangled in my murky logic memory.
2) Aja--Ben Stiller. Great idea. Plus he's cute.
3) lisa--felicidades. The offer still stands.
New business:
1) Picked up "Forward Into The Past" yesterday when I took the Number Two Son to look for Adam Sandler and Miles Davis. Don't know if I have the heart to listen to it. As it happened, the day before I got in the mail my copy of Pynchon's "Slow Learner," his early short stories. His preface chronicles his struggle to mesh his sophomore and mature efforts (and selves), which seemed quite apropos to "Forward."
2) Aphorisms for the New Year:
"Never pass up an opportunity to shut up."
"The toes you want to step on today may be connected to the ass you need to kiss tomorrow."
3) Out of the mouths of babes: A friend of Number One Son, discussing another friend who has gone neohippy, offered: "The counterculture needs a new look."
The meeting is adjourned.
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Sunday, January 4, 1998 at 08:16:30
Comments:
Check out the new SD Software page I just finished. 3 files available for download.
http://www.seanet.com/~stalfnzo/software.html
StAl
Name: lisa
content@the hut
Date: Saturday, January 3, 1998 at 22:43:38
Comments:
mr. double felix:
you plebeian snort of man-powder!
the hut has been christened, mine and schwinn's love consummated
with only a thatch roof between us and the heavens...you didn't miss your chance with me...i can only be fetched from
complacency by the hand of a god...keep your paws off.
skipping back to dogpatch,
showbiz k
Name: Double Felix
sn@keeyes
Date: Saturday, January 3, 1998 at 21:47:12
Comments:
I was scrolling through the archives and it seems I missed my chance with Lisa. Has she joined schwinn in the hut or is she still looking....
Name: Aja
sierraluna@juno(youknow).com SIERRALUNA@prodigy.net
Date: Saturday, January 3, 1998 at 18:17:35
Comments:
fez South - Do you have any suggestions for a meeting place for Orlando DanFest? Please reply, I can't seem to locate your email address right now.
Aja
Name: oleander
what, me work?
Date: Saturday, January 3, 1998 at 11:25:20
Comments:
Dr. H--Got the same blasting on the 'puter right now. Ooh, the face of neurosis leaping over the banister....Too much "LA Confidential"--no, that's impossible.
Joe--Ever alert.
Roy--Yes sir!
Name: Dr. Hardgroove
penp@l
Date: Saturday, January 3, 1998 at 01:43:24
Comments:
Now that I've finished my report on the unfortunate Kennedy accident I can get back to where the real moguls are...
Happy Holidays, baby!
Don't expect another detailed Schwinn report. I've discovered it is possible to be, "off-duty" without reporting it as "sick-leave". It's called Christmas, Hannukah, Quantadridia and a host of other words begging to name emotion. At least that's what I think now and I can assure you I had never really thought for myself until 5:57am CST 12/25/97.
You must understand, as an agent with 27 years tenure in the service of the U.S. Government I am circumspect to say the least. My lines are tapped. My house is bugged. Even a slight change in barometric pressure triggers a servo that thrusts my Niagra adjustable bed into a severe angle which propels me into my secret agent pants faster than you can say "so this is why I'm a bachelor."
So imagine my alarm when one of the 153 coherent light beams criss-crossing the threshold of my front door was suddenly tripped early Christmas morning. The Niagra Bed mechanism dropped me into my trousers and as I shook the last sugar plum from my head the feel of cold steel in my right pocket assured me I was no longer a simple civilian on holiday.
I did a Starsky role down the stairs, grabbed one of the cookies I'de left for a tardy Santa and slowly parted the stainless steel levelor blades my sister had given me just a few Christmas's before. I remembered the card attached to that suspiciously long, narrow box. It read, "Here's looking at you, kid".
There was a package at my door. The wrapping was uneven and suspiciously homey. The design on the paper proved to be a woodcut pressed in a pigment safe enough to lick. The flavor was distinctly licorice. I cancelled the bomb-squad visit and proceeded to do the unimaginable: I shook the package. When my frenetic movements failed to detonate a Kayzinski special I retired to my own private Idaho and opened the gift. At first I thought it was a Ninja throwing blade but discovered it was something far more dangerous: The new Ben Fold Five CD!
Thanks to everyone on the GB who chipped in on this one. I know I've been a bastard with an itch to bitch but you've made me feel like a natural lawman. Tell Schwinn I made no mention at all about the size 27 footprints in the snow leading to my door-- and tell Lisa the Government wants a peek at that photonic neutralizer that gave you the element of surprise.
My First Christmas Under Radar,Dr. Hardgroove
Name: Talosian
Cage@Soot
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 23:53:30
Comments:
Been a miner, for days until forever. Can I sleep on the floor?
You've said: "You're Golden Kid."
Name: Donald Soughterland
b@itedtr@pped@nde@ten
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 21:37:26
Comments:
I thought these things were gone forever!? Ha . _ . !
Name: Sought So ; Ha !
Kinville
Location: KinsOfVille',
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 18:40:10
Comments:
" A long time ago . "
Name: 'Up on the Hill'
DrWu@PoughTown
Location: Small Town America, Non-Disclosed Gaucho
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 17:09:10
Comments:
Soon, the disguise will be behind closed eyes. "I was dreaming."
Name: Double Felix
mexic@nh@td@nce
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 17:07:53
Comments:
Senor Belzoni
Super swell! I'de love to translate 10 pages of spanish into english for Danfans of the caucasion persuasion. I happen to eat habaneros with someone who'll do it for a green card and a carton of Chesterfield Kings. Is this acceptable or should I open my bag o' trixies?
Adios,DF
Name: Total Fan'59
Yeah, We Know.
Location: Tivoli, NY Estados Toast
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 16:55:27
Comments:
Total Fan'59 states Don is the Don . The Halle Bopp sleeps ten +.
Pointing the car down 7th Ave, with the bus heading to Williamsburg. Concerning the new release: Cover Art ? Saw T.B. at Bim's son's wedding. 'John of the World.' Rondout has a gogue to play, with a 200 seat acoustic hall, One can try some of one's new stuff there, but, after dinner, of course.
Name: Matt Belzoni
Lester@compuserve.com
Location: Mexico, DF Another World
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 15:54:55
Comments:
Happy new year to everyone!
Here's the guy from the mexican radiostation (WFM 96.9)
trying to complete a 12 hour(Did I say 6 hour beafore?)
radiospecial to be aired nationwide!
Yep, it's going to be in spanish(well only the script)
But we need an interview to translate, and we want to make
that one ourselves(we've allready played the recorded ones)
So please help me
Double Felix can you do something?
Ican't help with the D.Letterman thing but maybe a nice
TV special here at the DF(current population 25 million)
Can you hear me Doctor?
Are you with me Doctor?The matador praying for the weekend.
Name: Aja
you know
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 15:28:07
Comments:
Well, see as how I have no place to meet for the Orlando DanFest and I have no time, energy or money to put into finding one, I'm afraid it will have to be cancelled unless someone else decides to take up the task. If your interested email and I'll send you all that I have at the moment.
RS- "strapped to reality", HAHAHAHAHAHAH! Don't even get me started on that one. HAAHAAH, whose reality are you talking about? Oh, that is probably the funniest thing I've heard here, ever!
skcirpffokcuf, Aja
Name: 'Not Far From Philmont'
homework@dan
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 12:14:46
Comments:
RS : your style is unique. much, much, homework to toodle oo.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: near wburg, VA
Date: Friday, January 2, 1998 at 09:27:45
Comments:
Happy New Year Danophiles, from the state that gave you Falwell, Larouche, Robertson, and Sir Ollie of the North.--Don't forget Williamsburg, January 17th, 6:30.
Aja: I'd like to make Orlando but I'm strapped to reality at least for a while. --In answer to your question: Financially and dietetically are the ways in which ssaymdekciksamX. But by the time the Steely Dan album comes out, I'll be organized, out of debt, and in control.
Dr.Mu: I can't think of any other Dan illusions in other songs, but didn't Phil Collins have a hit record that was absurdly derivative of "Rikki..." ?---Don't forget that Steely Dan took the name of their first album from a Dylan song ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"), so ,in a way, Dylan's use of the title Time Out of Mind is sort of like a payback.
Oleander: That Adam Sandler Honnikah song cracks me up too. I especially like the rhyming of 'gin and tonnikah' with 'marijuannikah'. Probably the funniest comedian song since Robert Klein's "I Can't Stop My Leg". Now go finish your homework so you can come to Williamsburg.
RS
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 19:31:42
Comments:
Oleander: "So, do you think the bass clarinet solo in 'Girlfriend' is a nod to Dolphy?"
Hmmmmm, hadn't made that connection before but, who knows? Becker is always a good one for pushing session guys for their best jazz great impersonations...
Speaking of which, the session man in question, Bob "Shep" Sheppard is with Chick Corea's new quintet through Jan. 4 at The Blue Note, NYC... Good reviews thus far.
Say, d'ya think? Naaaaaaaa.
Name: reveler reverie reveille
century@TminusUno
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 19:12:23
Comments:
reveler: somesings are worth danning for. . . . " % .*+-/?
Name: Hank Silvers
c/o Hugo Spaak
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 18:40:33
Comments:
Happy New Year to all. The best of everything to you.
Wish I could be in Orlando in a couple of weeks -- have fun, y'all.
Name: reveler
at century's end
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 16:50:40
Comments:
1999 will be the year of the dan, not 1998
Name: Michael C. Packard
mcpio@inu.net
Location: Nacogdoches, TX USA
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 15:16:36
Comments:
Howdy Dan Gang!!
Happy New Year, 1998. May this year be the Best, Happiest, Safest, Healthiest, and Most Prosperous for all-of-you.
Thankyou again, StAl, for creating and maintaining this site which I have visited for nearly two years now.
Hopefully, Walt and Don will be touring soon in conjunction with the release of their new CD---I can't wait.
This time, hopefully, Steely Dan will come back to Texas.
Best regards, DanFans
Michael--A True TexDan
; )
Name: Fan'59
BusGarage@AnyNewFrontier
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 11:46:32
Comments:
Willie's Halle Bopp is out back, '98. Yappy Hew Near!
Name: JamaicanDude
12345@compusa.gov
Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 at 07:49:10
Comments:
Hello, my friends. Happy New Year to all. This is the year of the new CD from SD. September, right?
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