User: Slang Me | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Tomorrow's for squirrels -- tonight's for seals ;-)
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Rajah: Duncan and I are not talking about these boards, we are talking about Steely Dan dot com. Walter has been known to send messages from the road, or have the website do stuff (pictures, etc). Nothing so far. It is as if they are not on tour yet. In case Walter (or other tour members) read this, we have indeed noticed. Nuff said.
St. Al: Just in case you thought I couldn't read your post from the other day, man you do know how to get yourself into trouble. So sorry to hear the whole sordid mess.
Hope you and the family manage to get to the Gorge OK.
User: Smooth Retsina | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: db - Now THAT'S funny, thank you, whoa.
King you can still purchase the Plush TV Jazz Rock Party DVD at Amazon or DeepDVD or any number of places online.
Angel baby I think Walt's been on here already, but, just WHO is he? Dats the quez-shaun.
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Duncan: I didn't think you were asking too much. I guess Walter doesn't want to come out and play this tour. :-(
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: King Richard: Check amazon.com Click the link above, or copy.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305846480/qid=1059690991/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-9182877-7810459?v=glance&s=video
User: king richard | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: from today's denver post:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~206~1543566,00.html
User: king richard | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: anybody know how to get a copy of the show from PBS a couple of years ago?
User: db | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: ''christ it's the first already''
sd band fall in
we'll open with
nada
voyer gold reeth
my old gruel
kid carling mamed
sign in strangler
green herrings (wb vocals)
everything (on your) bib
slack cow !!!
deacon bruises (awww)
fag break / oxegene...whatever
things i mix the most
gammor profession
shoebound
my watery loo
encore
pic sally eene
every mush goo
User: db | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: any signs of these shows being recorded ?
it would be a shame if the mumber of people who saw the tour was more than the number of emg sales so far.
as for the ''sharpest tools in the box'' The online tour updates & stuff leave alot to be desired, (see who 2002 tour pages for clue)
i expected more online fun from sd.com
am i asking too much?
dano ...............................hi
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Dano, Mancub! I heard that "Standing.........." is really worth it - missed it when it was here....might still be 'round
So when are ye bringin your fein arse cross de pond?
I'm seeing PNC (Jersey) Aug 17, Jones Beach Aug 22, and then Roseland Sept. 12-13......
"the cool part of the Summer"
ygk
User: W1P | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: THIS WEEK in Steely Damned/Rockola History!
THURSDAY, JULY 31:
THE STEELY DAMNED at Winstons
9:00pm-1:00am
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1:
ROCKOLA at The Catamaran
9:30pm-1:15am
E-Tickets at http://www.rockola.com/catamarantix.html
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2:
ROCKOLA and THE STEELY DAMNED at The Catamaran
9:30pm-1:15am
E-Tickets at http://www.rockola.com/TSDtickets.htm
~LABOR DAY WEEKEND~
Sunday August 31: The Steely Damned at The Catamaran
User: Boston Rag | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: King of the World - So, were you in prison or did you just wake up out of a coma? Why were you listening to EMG for the first time last night?
Mark in Boston
User: EMG/TVN Review and Favorite Dan Albuums | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: My take on EMG/TVN are that there's five songs between both cd's: Abbie, Cousin DuPree, Green Book, Gina, and Everything Must Go. You could make one good album side out of the two cd's. I would love to have heard a Cousin,EMG encore over the School/FM one we had at Tahoe. Favorite albuums:
Scam
Katy
Aja
Can't Buy a Thrill
Pretzel
Everything
Countdown
Gaucho
TVN
User: Dano | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Hey Doosers whats occuring , all this Steely talk and ive been muellered at work for long time big time?? So its great to read all the reports from over these shores......Yeah Right
t , Great review mancub couldave been there meself??
YGK , Aus ready for the big showdowns , and Beemer with his arm snookered , jeez i have missed the craic.
Pat , Did you have insurance or is the Amex taking a hit??
Sneakers , Where you at Bigman , are we up for the Germany Qualifier??
Dunc , Hope er indoors is doing well , regards for the family mate.
BB, Leicester , well i think ive dropped a bollock there , as i am on holidays the next week or so , any more dates we will all be at , clue me in??
Snakie , Yeah that Sea Biscuit has been gettin great reviews over here , so will book the tix and front road seat for me on that dooser.
Talking of movies , have you guys over there seen "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" All the old geezers will love that one , caught it last week real sound film??
The whole reports and the parties sound superb on the GB at the moment , are the boys definately no go to this side of the pond , shit when they do we will make you Yankees jealous??
Who has been the closest to the band at the minute , maybe take a poll on the nearest seats in the hoose??
Lady B , Aja , Sounds like the girls are gonna have a Dooser of a P A R T Y
Hope the boys keep getting you all exited.
Have a great weekend , Dan or no Dan
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: URL for PC Mag article
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1186135,00.asp
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Hey St Al: PC magazine caves! Apple Macs with OS 10.2 the most reliable!
They should make the [9]alpha THC pill into a spray - nasal veins drain into the brain - should feel better than the oral route
User: Randy | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message:
For the record, post #3796 ("Randy in Scottsdale") was not posted by me; I don't do "to the tune of..." lyric parodies.
"Though my problems are meaningless / that don't make them go away..."
- Neil Young, 'On The Beach'
Randy
NIGHTFLY**aol.com
User: DanAudioCrackWhore | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: larger than
User: DanAudioCrackWhore | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: YGK: Man, I wish! ohhhh, the acoustics - how does it compare to the Beacon?...looks like the Kidz and I are heading to tinny Dallas venue (Hey Drone, let's move this baby to Austin Performing Arts Center!) - spending last piasters on reasonably close to stage ticket...Tiny Tim will be SOOOO Disappointed if they don't play PIXELEEN! and Dad is Jonesing for EMG, GreenBook and Lunch with Gina...
C: remember juxtaposition, irony, flow...you can hear ALL the instruments at the same time...everything must go...
Speaking of which, any other Texans want to Recall Rick Perry?...maybe he should head to New Mexico with half the legislature...pork barrel spending in 2001, cuts in education, health...he's almost as bad as Gray-out Davis of Cali...who built no power plants despite a growing pop and created an energy crisis, sold out his campaign to polluters, pork barrel spending leading to a deficit large that ALL the other states in the nation combined! slashed education and health (hey that sounds familiar!)
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: CrackWhore: I was referring to BB, and why I skip it mostly.
Hey now, why don't you head up to the Big City, and check out the Roseland Shows?
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Lunch
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: JoS is not a throwaway, Cousin is, but JoS has pretty weak, been there already, lyrics for Dan. The horn chart and verse chrous sound like merged bits from Steely Dan I. Unoriginal. The bridge is the only great thing about the song...
Gothic, WoH, Negative Girl are the most original songs. Gaslighting is fantastic on Plush. Love the intros to WASAM, TvN...Janie is snappy with 2, count 'em 2 great sax solos
tick tock...time...get it?
YGK, see - a bridge does not a song make (i.e., JoS), but put a great bridge with great songs like WoH, TIMTM, Godwhacker, Pixeleen, Luch With Gina, and EMG...now ya HAVE something filling indeed!!!!
OK, here's how I rank the SD/solo albums...not that quantification is anything close to appropriate:
1. Katy Lied
2. Nightfly
3. Aja
4. Everything Must Go
5. Royal Scam
6. Gaucho
7. Two Against Nature
8. Kamakiriad
9. Countdown to Ecstacy
10. Can't Buy a Thrill
11. Pretzel Logic
12. 11 Tracks of Whack
User: Moll | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message: Randy, too funny darlin.......But don't quit your day job just yet ;-)
Beth, you big tart. You promised me I was the only one ...
User: blackcow | Month: 6 | Day: 31
Message:
On Walter's voice. Slang of Ages is talking not singing, except for the chorus. He's okay on 11 tracks. But I cannot imagine how he might have sung Aja. Nowhere near his range, not even with a key change.Some folks must have been along way from the stage.
User: decipher man | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Turns out will have to decrypt this music, possibly awaiting rosetta stone to make instinctive sense of it all. No real impressions that I can throw any weight of accuracy behind. "God knows the service could be better..." they should talk. Three years... sheesh.
EMG... finally it sounds jazzlike. Not that I'd know. Wait, after big jazz intro, simple beat again.
User: Deely Stan | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Just in to hand over some crypticisms:
" .................................."
t&gimg
User: that was godwhacker..... | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: randy newman attitude vis-a-vis Mr. God??
Slang... hear it's WB warbling. Damn, it IS!!!! I expected this to be like J of Speed for some reason. (DACW.... JofS not throwaway.... most depth of any song on TvN possibly barring AGothic... no other song gets across tragedy of addiction except possibly Needle and Damage Done, Kneel Jung.)
Hear G Book is remarkable. Will see in few seconds?? Is DF whispering just as much here as on TvN?
Will post this bit.... now.
User: the last mall, ma | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Going to have to grow on me. A few seconds after previous post.
Laying into malls is preaching to converted for me. Mainly just hear beat, simple. Deceptive, I'm assuming. 12 or so listenings on, it'll all click. Is it "King O'World" type apocalyptic... next song. That first 1 was short.
"Things I Miss The Most"... just went over und tweaked volume up. What's that 'bout the Andrea Doria? Trust? Hu r they foolin'?
3: Too precise, dominant beat once again.... shit, i cannot believe i'm right at this very moment listening to a SD alboom fer very first time.... how long to absorb THIS one? It's meaningless noise thus far... as ALL the great albums are at first....
# quatre: Eating cashews.... slinky redfoot? Hah?
I'll post this, just in case ol' 'pooter slows down.
User: king of the world, ma | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: The inevitably dissatisfying moment is coming any time now. I've got EMG holstered in the CD player, ready to go. It's been hovering there for hours. Ain't never heard it yet. Prediction of dissatisfaction owing to increasing neurological effects, interfering with absorption of any creative input of any kind, from anywhere. I can't put it off any longer, though. I have to realize that the first listening isn't the one that matters so much, necessarily. There really is no "first listening".... my impression or conception of an album is a composite of several different listenings, where i picked up different impressions each time, and added them to my image of what that album is.
I'm about to walk myself over to the CD player and press 'start'...
User: Beth_Ferals | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: To: Bywaysteve.........What have I done now? By all reason I have been misunderstood once again.....forgive me should I have caused you any offense.....I meant nothing vulgar or uncivilized. Damn my exposure. My parting shot is that I lack social discipline and I do not have the right moves.........offer me some favor eh? Yours in true. Beth
User: Sharon | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Hi, I have 2 tickets to the Steely Dan Concert at the PNC in NJ on Aug 17.
They are in section 305, and I am asking exactly what I paid for them.
My brother in law and his girlfriend broke up and cannot attend the concert, so I am trying to sell the tickets for him. PLease email me if you are interested......Thank you
User: GE | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: "Maybe this Roseland thing will parlay into another Le Bar Bat eve......"
YGK, I'm counting on it. I hope a lot of folks make it, should be a very Steely Dan-ish type vanue methinks. Perhaps a few extra tunes for the homeys.
User: almost gothic negative girl | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Girls sang Parker's. Keith went boom bam boom, crash bang braaapadabapt, but did not sing. Donald sang Aja. Ok?
Nevada is a chancey place for sparking. Better to light up before the show. Worked for me.
Cory the young bartender deserves a spanking for pouring 8 ounces of Smirnoff in my drink. Bad Cory ; )
At the end of the show, I ran into the guy who (along with his girlfriend) was standing near me during part of the soundcheck. I said, Hi, you're the guy from the soundcheck, he said, Yeah, hi, that was me. I said, You're wearing the same Hawaian shirt as my brother (who was standing right there) and he said, Yep, I sure am. I said You have four good-looking ladies with you tonite, and so does my brother. He said, Yep, we sure do. I said, Must be the shirt ; ) We all started cracking up. Had to be there, and I was.
Went out dancing after the show. Walked thru a totally packed and bogus HardRockCafe, whatta crock, kept walking. My brother took us to a very cool little club just down the street from Harveys and barely inside California. Fun jammin' alt-rock-jam-band called Cool Black Kettle had us all up and dancin' and having a great time. Widespread Panic played across the street from SD that night.
Going to a Jerry's Birthday Bash out in the countryside outside of Nevada City on Saturday night. Cosmic Wobble opens and the Deadbeats bring it full circle. Having a wonderful vacation. Tahoe is in the high 80's today, and the wildflowers in the higher elevations couldn't be more beautiful.
User: Solos | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Howard - I suggested that they play the solos note for note only on a few songs. I can understand the steely dan guitartist on tour wanting to have the freedom to do their own thing. But I'm not big on Herrington. His solos, though technically perfect, just seem to go no where. Personally, I think you get more passion and story from local blues guys. I don't think the Dan will reach their potential, really live up to the material, with a techno crat playing off the cuff. After all the guitar solos are the highlights of many of the songs. I wonder why Larry Carlton has never gone on tour with the Dan. I don't see why the current guitarist they use would be unhappy playing one or two solos off the record. Those solos are powerful pieces of music, that were worked on for days, that are in many cases the most dramatic part of the song.
I don't remember Keith Carlock singing anything. The girls did sing one song and it very well may have been Parkers. Enjoy the tour,
SRA
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Ok, my emotions have been toyed with on this whole Walter thing. Now, what about the rumor that Doanld set fire to his Rhodes after playing DTMA with his forehead? Nice.
User: april | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: i just went to kanocti @ clearlake what a beautiful venu i was never so happy to be able to sing along with steely dan in person insted of my cd's what a nite . you guys are what keeps me going on. I LOVE YOU ALL!!
User: Aja Opening | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Rajah - Walter did not sing Aja. Fagan sang it and like I say, it was a fantastic opening, especialy at the foot of the Sierra's. They were really flexing their song list muscle by opening with such a show piece song. It be like the stones opening with Midnight Rambler or Neil Young with Cinnamon Girl. They really started off with a bang.
User: StAl | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: This was mentioned on the Ticket Exchange a few weeks ago but I wanted to make sure everyone knew about the Clear Channel promotion currently running on EBay. Apparently Clear Channel is "auctioning" off a 4 month trial subscription to their "GetAcess" program and with it you get a pair of GA tickets to certain events. There are a number of these auctions running right now on EBay selling a variety of Steely Dan shows. For as little a $5 you can get 2 General Admission passes to a whole host of shows. I noticed they were auctioning for Jones Beach, Philly, Florida, etc. You should check it out if funds are tight. I scored a pair of Widespread Panic tickets a couple days ago using this method.
Just head over to EBay and do a search on Steely Dan.
StAl
User: king richard | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Man, i just got on to this board this week preppin' for the columbus show (my first ever) - i hope some of these posts are supposed to make absolutely no sense.
User: Ray of D Light | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Yah and I heard a Ripped Joan Blondell was Called Away in a Cab with her Torn skirt exposing that she didn't know Jack about the Westin where I was stayin tryin to train that dime dancer's big italic butt off and it only grew due to being as much muscle as lipid and as boring as ol' yella teeth's gigs, not to mention that Svenskinhead's Cincinnati jonesin.
User: Randy in Scottsdale | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: EVERYTHING HERE GOES
ItĘs high time for a walk on the real side
Why not make the bastards feed us
I move to resolve my obligation
In a pool with Jill and Freda
So letĘs kick off all the flip-flops
Tear off all the panties
Dirty up the patio
ęCause my parents are in Tucson
Everything here goes
Talk about a major stain and sputtering
Now her gravy boat is shattered
Show the world our keen Puff Daddy-O face
As ōQueen OĘ Soulö keeps getting fatter
It was sweet talk to the cops
Till our Hookah started blowing
Now itĘs ęLook out!ö down below
ęCause my parents are in Tucson
Everything here goes
Tell me can you find it Ms. Puglisee
In the black refrigerator
Frankly I could use some wine and cheese fries
You can bill me for it later
And if Molly in the kitchen
Wants to get in on the action
With her spatula in tow
Well my parents are in Tucson
Everything here goes
CanĘt you see the carbonation rising
Guess you wish you never shook it
Talk about your chance to taste the sponge cake
You got drunk and never took it
And if later on today
You clean the room that I got sick in
No oneĘs ever gonna know
ęCause my parents are in Tucson
Everything here goes
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: St. Al: Sorry to hear about your vacation disclocation, jeez, man. Tuff gig. I do trust you did accomplish some R&R, even with......
Maybe this Roseland thing will parlay into another Le Bar Bat eve......
wish you could make it!
ygk
User: StAl | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: $75 to see Steely Dan in a small venue like Roseland? Sounds like a bargain to me! Shit, the Eagles are charging $85 for lawn seats at White River Amphitheater which seats 18,000.
It's a brave new world.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Turns out I'm gonna need surgery. sigh.
Mu -- I had some. Called Marinol I believe. Didn't like it at all. Like a Zombie... Poor kitty...
Starting to firm up plans for this weekend. Looking forward to it though I suspect it'll be hotter than hell out there.
StAl
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Jimbo: didn't see any......$75 is the entry fee.......
User: Jimbo | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: On the Roseland Ballroom dates, are there any ticket prices lower than $75 ? This has got to be the work of Clear Channel.
If there are any prices lower than $75, let me know.
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Yo, Bill: I will be at Jones - 4th row, I believe, with Lady Bayside, Aja and others......don't forget, Lady B is orchestrating a Humungoid Danfest in the lot pre-Show: yes, it's the Bayside Bacchanal! Don't miss it!
ygk
User: Hank Silvers | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message:
The August 30 concert at the Borgata in Atlantic City is sold out. I'd planned to go to the Hershey show, but after a prior commitment fell through for the Labor Day weekend, I checked TM yesterday afternoon and got (probably) seats #2399 and #2400 in the 2400-seat Event Center. An hour later none were left.
I can also report there's a large EMG poster in the window at the local Barnes & Noble, so promo materials do exist. Rare, but they're out there.
User: wormus interruptus | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: bought the Times sunday for a leisurely day at the house on the gulf coast
Steely Dan ad page 2 on the Roseland tour sale date (the sneaks and wingtips photo)
Jon Herrington - I think he does a wonderful job trading axe duties
and he has that 'this boy elroy' fresh mentality
and no grandstanding - humility and grace
if you want to hear note by note renditions of old stuff
play the records
YGK & Auss - I know you'll be Jonesing
when is the setlist going to stop pandering to the casual fan?
I still think once Barney's up to speed they should interchange EMG tunes night by night to keep it fresh
I won an ebay auction on EMG vinyl - can't wait to hear the music in it's full glory
wormbrain
User: NYB | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Decided not to attend the Roseland Ballroom show as it turns out to be
one of those "Standing Room Only" venues which I swore I'd never do again
after the John Hiatt concert at Irving Plaza a few months back.
I mean it's probably a great venue to see Steely Dan at but the idea of
standing for hours just isn't my cup of tea anymore. I hope everyone who
attends has a great time though and I'm sure the smaller venue will be
a special treat for all SD fans who do attend.
But hey after seeing Steely Dan from center orchestra section and one row
back at Jones Beach, how am I going to top that anyway?
Hope everyone has an outrageous time no matter what venue you see them at!
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Rajah/Dr.: and yet a bridge does not a song make - a bridge by itself goes nowhere
Aja: What time is it? nearly time for your Eastern Trek!
ygk
User: where's waldo? where's Donald? | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: 11) backstage with the 4th baremidriff gal on tour - Victoria Cave
10) the sneakers were bad, and the wingtips unpolished
9) busy checking out the dolphins
8) still having his way with the ferris wheel from the tractor pull two nights earlier
7) somebody switched out his mini keyboard with a kiddie see and say
6) busy pinching Susan Days supple Partridge Family bottom
5) Lester the nightfly can't always be on time
4) no cuervo, no fine columbo, just some Titus A Coitus
3) to dime or not to dime
2) delayed due to the Car Locked
1) busy lining up those nightly $250 coke cans for Clas and Q
gimt
User: Howard | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: SRA - I can appreciate that people have a yearning to hear those classic guitar solos reproduced live, but consider it from the performer's point of view. He/she's gonna get awfully bored playing the same solo, night after night. The rest of the band are probably going to tire of hearing it as well, even if it *is* (or was) a classic. Also, however good a player does, they are always likely to suffer in comparisons with the original. "Yeah it was OK, but not as good as the studio version". I mean, which guitarist is going to be happy taking on the solo in Bodhisatva or Kid C in these circumstances?
In the same way that D+W don't aim to reproduce the exact arrangements on stage (they prefer to rework things), the soloists usually prefer to change things around a little (or a lot).
Personally, I loved what Jon Herington did on the last tour - he borrowed themes and distilled out the "essence" of some of those classic solos, then expanded and added to them. I really liked the result.
Howard
P.S Can we confirm, once and for all, that Keith Carlock definitely *didn't* sing Parkers Band?
User: Beerberian | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: Calling All UK based, Dan deprived Musos ą Seeking Solace & Karma? No need to feel like a Third World Man ą
Come join the faithful in Tribute to Don & Walt
The Dan collective ū The UKĘs finest homage (with rip snorting axe solos aplenty)
Night by Night they will have you Reeling in The Years , bringing back The Boston Rag, till you come Home @ Last with Josie defying all Pretzel Logic ą
Friday August 8th The Jailhouse Coventry
www.thedancollective.co.uk for details
User: Why Walter? Where Donald? | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: saving vocal cords for solo record
misplaced that "stupid kazoo sounding instrument"
hey, just having a little face time, is all
can't go on w/o Bumpus
donned surgical mask, training for those highly hazardous "Toronto gatherings"
busy whacking god and remaining vewy vewy kwiet
rebuilding American Embassy in Kenya out of original balsa wood
had to duck into Nino's again
rowdy lighting rig roadie spilled beer down shirt
passed out early from the heat
pas du tout, c'est l'ArrivTe du Tour!
timg
User: Ray Charles | Month: 6 | Day: 30
Message: I heard Tuesday Welded Aja's yellow teeth to Arthur Hill's kid Keith in Cincinnati.
User: LA Law | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Susan Dey on keyboards?
Yeah, that's hilarious.
/C
User: Clas @ Work | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: I have to get back to Stockholm Jazz Festival - I know, I know, it's not Steely Dan, but anyway;
The Roy Hargrove concert was played in such low volume that I had to go to the stage to hear the drums and the rhodes.
Still those young jazz-diggers, in black clothes, was wearing earplugs!
Holy Mother Magdalena, I wonder what they would have done if they had been at the Jimi Hendrix concert back in the 60's?
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E - the work I put in? It doesn't matter if I'd work on this project around the clock, thing is; YOU have to send in your stuff, to me, so please...
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Stevie Wonder - seven hills? I thought that was Rome.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Cindy, come clean baby, we all love you no matter what.
User: | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: "...Susan Dey..." - hilarious...
User: | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: 12) Uh... which one's Walter?
User: top ten reasons | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: top ten reasons Walt didn't sing Aja the other night
11) the tabs looked iffy but were good
10) you went to LA on a dare before the show
9) he did the divorce Haitian style why would he do the dime dance too?
8) I swear I also saw Susan Dey take over the ivories
7) let's see opening song sung by your vocally challenged guitarist, nobody's that gutsy
6) Wally lost a chess match bet to Bumpus
5) the Cuervo and Columbian set in 1/2 hour before the show
4) somebody hit all the low end faders to full on the mixing board
3) throw out the hardware, oh - it's the dude on the rhoades singing
2) slang me once, slang me twice, three times and my head's in vice
1) DONALD FAGEN
gimt
User: fife | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Just thought I'd pass it on, There is going to be a Dan gathering after the show in Toronto. Its shaping up to be amighty fine summer.
User: Stevie Wonder | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Clas: c'mon Daddy. Get in, let's go. I'll show you the sights and we'll feel our way around the seven hills of Cincinnati...
User: E | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Right, so now we can establish that Walt never sang Aja?
It's late at night, I had a few drinks, so I'm gonna give a few props.
Clas, with the work you're putting in, that Knives CD is going to be one hell of an album.
Rajah: I can clearly see that if all of us would never hook up again you'd still be carrying the torch for the Dan. That's the spirit!
Cindy:What have you been smoking. Can't be nearly as good as the stufff we got here in Amsterdam, with which I heard Walter croon 'That's Life'.
Almost Negative Gothic Girl: Thanks for giving us a chance to taste some of the atmosphere from a US Dan concert... Damn... Don't know if I'm really thankful now... Wish I was there...
Dr. Warren: seems like you've comne around... You can't shake the Dan, not even in their newest guise... so I'm glad to see you're not as singularly nostalgic as you seemed to be!
YGK - or whoever that is - shame on you! Props cuz you're on here, but skipping Blues Beach! Man! The future of understated funk in its glorious nudity given shape! Your one and only chance to hear Steely Dan give an ode to the blues! Hear Don ad-libbing! Hear Walt thumping on the one-two! You are MISSING OUT!
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: SRA - thanks for the post on Tahoe, now, help us all out here if you could and PLEASE tell us more detail about AJA. Was it Walter Becker singing the song? All the way through or just a verse? Did Donald come in vocally on "AJA, when all my dime dancing is through" or "double helix in the sky tonight" or "Chinese music under Banyan trees"? How did Walty sing it, not that he can sing any two songs differently, did he pull it off? The people waaay down front, ya know, Dan-geeks, how did they react to it? Don't leave me hangin bro. I'm dyin here.
User: Randy | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message:
P.S. To my last post:
I still say the quintessential classic song for the Becker vocal treatment is "Everything You Did," and there is certainly NOT enough new material from either of the last two Steely Dan releases ('Two Against Nature' material is noticeably absent, save for "Janie Runaway") in the recent set lists-
Randy
NIGHTFLY**@aol.com
User: SRA | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: On the Thahoe Show: Just an incredible Aja opening. Carlock was worth the price of admission on his own. He's the finest drummer they've ever had live for sure. His Aja is better than Gadd's. I'm going to the Concord and lay down 120$ just to see him work again. The middle of Aja falls out for me. The horns are week and Fagan played that stupid kazoo sounding instrument. Great starting to the show if you set aside godwhacker. Aja, Caves, and Time Out of Mind are gold. Fagans singing was great - better than ever but I don't like the guitartist they kept over from last tour. Where is Larry Carlton for God sakes? I don't understand why they don't play some of the studio solos live. They are just increbile. Can you image hearing Larry Carlton play the studio solo live on "Don't Take Me Alive"? The set list is getting better over the years - I know I've never heard Caves live before - but it still has holes and plays it too safe. I'd replace GodWhacker, Blues Beach, Slang of Ages, Peg, Hey19, Things I miss the Most, My Old School, and FM with Everything Must Go, Green Room, Gina, Cousin DuPree, Boston Rag, Kings, Your Gold Teeth II, and Chain Lightening. I can't understand why they didn't play at Everyting or Gina at Tahoe. Though the show was too short it was very powerful. Great tour.
User: Cindy | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: By the way, the security staff at Harveys sucks. We were minding our own business, paid top dollar for our tix, and everytime we tried to lite up, they made us put it out...get real Harveys. One more thing, When we saw SD in Sacramento in 2000 Walt got a very cool (uncool) response when he did one song from his "Eight Tracks of Whack"so it was so nice to see him sing such a beautiful song such as Aja and have it appreciated. I don't blame them for not wanting to come back to that amphitheatre in Marysville-the sound is terrible.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Cindi I want to believe you, I really do, but we need a little more corroboration on Walt crooning AJA. Just how high were you? We need help from the Tahoe people. This is getting worse than that, "Paul is dead" thing we all suffered through a century ago.
User: Randy | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message:
Ever the dissenter, some of us are quite pleased to hear Becker taking more of the vocal duties, i.e. "Aja," "Haitian Divorce," etc. as he is quite capable of handling whatever is in Fagen's range; still wish his vocal debut was on "Jack of Speed," but regardless he conveys much of the Steely Dan attitude with his delivery (as does Fagen, of course). One example would be that "Fall of '92" would simply not have been the same with Fagen's delivery, as was also the case with "Jack of Speed."
"Godwhacker," "Green Book," and "Lunch With Gina" have thus far joined the ranks of all-time classic Steely Dan tunes at my house. (For those who may wonder which tracks from 'Two Against Nature' [2000] fit the same bill at the same location, to wit: "Gaslighting Abbie," "Cousin Dupree," "Two Against Nature," "Jack of Speed," and "West of Hollywood.")
At the risk of inferring some semblance of nostalgia (which would be wholly unintended) - if only Denny Dias had made a return appearance in the studio...
I must also say in closing that in reference to Steely Dan's "Godwhacker"
- he had it coming.
Randy
NIGHTFLY**@aol.com
User: Cindy | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: I'm tellin' ya Walt sang AJA. I was high, but not hallucinating...my husband, friends and I could not believe it, but it was true and Walter got a very cool response. Love ya, Cindy
User: almost gothic negative girl | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Greetings from beautiful Lake Tahoe! I can see the lake from where I am typing this right now. Gotta love a public library like that. Also gotta type fast, as there are folks waiting and a time limit. Please excuse any typos etc.
First and foremost, I know it has been mentioned but bears repeating: Walter DID NOT sing Aja. Show was great, but I would have loved to hear a few different songs, as it was a repeat of the Paso Robles show. Another song or two off EMG would have been nice.
As I left the coast and headed towards the high sierra it was obvious that there were storms a' brewin and weather might be a factor for this gig. The closer I got, the darker and more foreboding the skies got. I came in from the southwest, and when I crested at 8000 feet on Hwy 88 and dropped down to Silver Lake, the first big drops started to fall. In 5 minutes, it was raining in earnest. In 10 minutes, thunder and lightning broke out in a big way. Within 15 minutes, it was limited visibility and hydraplaning. Fun ; ) Totally cool storm, reminding me that it was one of the things I miss the most about not living at Tahoe anymore. I was really diggin' it, but at the same time hoping it would shoot it's proverbial wad and be on it's way out of town well before showtime. Well, it did, and it was.
While checking in at my groovy little mountain resort/motel, the storm was extremely intense and directly overhead. Once settled in, I called Harvey's to see what was up. Band was just beginning the soundcheck. So I headed on over, and with a little poking around, ended up with the best spot to enjoy the soundcheck. Just perfect sound and sightlines. Got lucky again. The band played Home at Last, then were gettin' antsy waiting for the boys to show. They finally did, and Walter noodled a bit on the old blue and white, and then we got Time Out of Mind, Blues Beach, Godwhacker, and Haitian Divorce. By this time the weather was clearing up and turning to warm and gorgeous, and it stayed that way the entire wonderful night. Nothing like the smell of Tahoe after a summer thundershower. I am happily staying up here a few more nights and having a blast.
Oh man, my posting time is coming to an end here. Must go. Everyone have a fantastic time in Portland and the Gorge. Light, love, music, magic ~
linda
User: Aja | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Rajah-glad to hear it. I enjoy a blues voice in a blues song, however, SOA, nor much else in Steely Dan, qualifies. I'll give him a fair shot at Haitian Divorce; it's not one of my faves, which is why I don't care who sings it!
YGK-you and me both! Time Out of Mind, however, that's a song I've always wanted to groove to live.
Aja
User: sartz | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Hi out there. I heard the Lake Tahoe show and it was unbeleivable. Keith Carlock is the best drummer they've ever had live or in the studio. I agree with Rajah of Erase on WB's Haittian Divorce singing. He fits the song well. The Aja opener at the foot of the Sierra Nevada's was sublime.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Dr. K - Go to andymetzger.com and hit 'Sounds' - it's all there. Donald was great with Marian McP. - really just a gentleman with the old gal, very straightforward and earnest. He plays Limbo Jazz, Hesitation Blues, Things Ain't What They Used to Be in addition to versions of Josie, Chain Lightning, Black Friday and get this band-- Keith Carlock, Jay Leonhart (Carolyn & Michael's dad on bass) and WB. Marian plays on one of the tunes. I'd love to hear Donald do an album of classic old jazz standards.
User: Doctor Warren Kruger | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Dr. DACWMU- Did the boys really appear on MMc's Piano Jazz?
Is a tape available?
I hope they didn't make fools of themselves like Paul Shaffer did.
Rajah's right- that's a beautiful bridge.
Inquiringly Yours,
Dr. Warren K.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: How can you skip the "paranyphic glider" bridge? I don't understand, me close to despair. Oh what a world.
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: I'm skipping Blues Beach nearly every time.....nothing else tho
ygk
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: AJA- Turns out WB did NOT sing AJA, somebody musta been hallucinating. You know what, though, Walt has gotten to the point where he can sell a song. I'm telling you, his Haitian Divorce had bite and command in that tiny range of his. It's a blues voice. SOA is groovetime, give it a chance and stop skipping over it in the car.
User: Aja | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Walter Becker sang Aja????????? God, say it ain't so. I can barely stand-no, make that CAN'T STAND his singing on SOA, let alone a sublime song like Aja. The man doesn't have the range-please Donald, TAKE OVER!
Allez Lance! Next year I'm going to be shouting that on the Champs Elysees........
Aja
User: Steely Knives Compilation Helps Capture Saddam's Bodyguard | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Yesterday Schwinn, Clas and Steevedan, among other GBers, helped capture one of Saddam's lifelong bodyguards, Adnan Abdullah Abid al-Musslit.
According to AP, Lt. Col. Steve Russell led the contingent that captured "[t]he stocky bodyguard [who] struggled to break free as soldiers arrested him [forcing the soldiers] to wrestle him to the ground and drag him down the stairs"
Russell said "Were we surprised? He's a bodyguard. That's why we went in with our steely knives and oily guns. If everything else had failed and we just got that one guy, we would be happy."
Clas, maybe the next GB compilation should be called "Oily Guns"
User: W1P | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: I forgot -- The Human League
User: Moll | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: BB, stop sulking... the last man that pissed me off had sardines sewn into the hem of his drapes and all his utilities turned off by someone posing as him. ;-) I do miss flirting with you.
Clas, how do you keep from being bitter? lmao *mmmmmmmwwwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh*
Drew, meet me at Dance of the Demon? I'm thinking 50 top... let me know about the Rickenbacker by Saturday if possible.
Counting the days until the Chicago concert.
User: C @ Work | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Oh my man, Saint Al! Vacations are a dangerous thing. Though I know the world is not revolving around me, but I have to tell you; I crashed with my bike during mine (vacation).
I am pretty lucky not driving a car.
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Well, where did they go? Minah, Stevie Dan, I asked if you are willing to submit a couple of song to the 4th Guestbook CD?:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or click the URL above.
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I made it to the Stockholm Jazz Festival last nite, Roy Hargrove, pretty cool. Two drummers, keyboard man with Clavinet, Arp and a Rhodes and a Hammond. Saxes and Roy on trumpet.
Took some pics, I'll put them up later.
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Molly, my sweat buttercup, did I ever tell you about my uncle? He started up a project, it was something about self-adhesive-tape stuff, he named the company 2M. He never made it.
User: PretzelBoy | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Gorge show on Saturday. '94 drilled with sleet. '96 stumbled through the Gorge Store in search of Millanos ... Alyssa or otherwise. What will 2003 bring? Will be in the camp parking lot Friday early evening. Listen for C. Freak.
User: Invisible Man | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: And yet they did rent out the Coliseum while they were rehearsing in LA, Almighty. I must've misheard.
User: ALMIGHTY ASS | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: OH REALLY???? THE BAND IS IN PORTLAND TODAY.
User: Invisible Man | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: A man of my particular nature gets himself into all sorts of interesting situations. Yeah, sure, people can see right through me, but I can also see into their heads, and hear their minds. Regardless, I am privy to certain things that many might not experience.
So, I happened to hear extensively about the Tour Photo/Video Montage, which, I heard, "blows away the stuff from last tour". Dan Fans who see the tour are not only going to hear a fabulous band, but see some amazing images. Like last tour, Kudos to Kevin.
Band is Rehearsing in LA today.
I.M.
User: Emmanuel | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Lance OWNS France!
StAl man, get well man...
W1P - still sucking in the seventies? That list almost reads like a Who-Was-Wrong-When-Punk-Came-Around list :) Is it the Outdated Freak Hairdo Circus? Come on, turn on that radio and listen to some new stuff. The shows will probably be cheaper, too.
User: duncan | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: some googleism's whilst we wait for the next date,
keith carlock is currently working on
keith carlock is quite a treat to hear and see
keith carlock is
keith carlock is so deep in the pocket that he's in danger of being mistaken for spare change
keith carlock is destined to be one of the greats
&
pat's shoulder is trouble again
pat's shoulder is doing so he
pat's shoulder is such a worry
pat's shoulder is in sound shape coming into the grass court season
User: BBeers | Month: 6 | Day: 29
Message: Nothing sorry about my arse !!!!!! I'm just sulking & skulking cos the boys won't come on over .
User: StAl | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: No time to play catch-up. I see the tour is in full swing and things are looking good. Gorge in a few short days...
SO I just got off what was both the most relaxing vacation and most horrific vacation I've taken in years. It was 100 degrees almost everyday so we spent a whole lot of time swimming and boating. However, on Tuesday I had the unfortunate experience of dislocating my shoulder while tubing on the lake. Let me tell you how painful it is draggin' your ass (which, in my case is rather large) into a boat while your shoulder is out of its socket. To make matters worse we were 30 minutes away from the nearest hospital. After about 3 hours, an aid car ride, a whole LOT of drugs and some yanking on the arm by the doctor, my arm was back in and I was on my way to the campsite.
BUT WAIT. It ain't OVER. So here were are, it's now Friday. I'm thinking of cutting the vacation short by a day simply because I can't do much else other than sit around in a percodan stupor. No fishing, swimming, etc. Anyway, we're loading the boat onto the trailer when WHAMMO! The shoulder goes out again!!! This time we're way the fuck up in the woods. In fact, closest hospital was almost 2 hours by aid car since they ca only go about 20 miles an hour while I'm bouncing around with a dislocated shoulder in the back of the ambulance without the benefit of Morphine.
This time it required a freakin' helicopter! Jesus I can't wait to get that bill...
I hope the next (mini) vacation with the old man in a few weeks goes better. Damn...
So speaking of the incredible Lance Armstrong, Cynthia Calhoun just updated her website. Please go and visit. http://www.cynthiacalhoun.com
As you will see, Cynthia supports the Lance Armstrong Foundation and is asking people to help in any way they can with donations which support a very good cause.
Man it's hard to type with your arm in a sling.
StAl
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: How about a review of the Tahoe show?
User: C | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Molly?
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: GE: blasted you bak!
User: Disgruntled in PDX | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: The change of venue from Portland Memorial Collesium to the Keller Auditorium is great for sound but horrible for proximity to the stage! I not only want to hear my favorite band, but I want to SEE them as well. I've barely taken my eyes off the mesmemorizing DF for the last 3 shows through Portland/Gorge area.
This is ridiculous... I went from 5th row center to 26th row off center. I want to know who bought the front tickets, and why were they allowed to do so??? I'm curious what would have happened if I hadn't checked steelydan.com and seen the posting! Would ticketmiser have called? I doubt it. There are going to be some upset people at the Collesium on Friday night, I'm thankful that I'm not one of them, but I'm still really upset.
TicketMaster is reimbursing my credit card for the first tickets to Mem. Coll., and the Keller tickets were cheaper, but this isn't about money, this was about 5th Freaking Row! This was my wedding present, I just got married on July 19th!
Can we all get invited backstage or something to make up for this? (-;
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Bob Hope, RIP, 100.................
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Hey, GE: 'twill be good to meet.........not sure if we met before......Lady B might miss Friday, I think.........not sure about Aus......
we should figure out how to meet - my email is above
ygk
User: GE | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: I too have scored a couple of tickets to the 9/12 Roseland show and will look forward to any Danfests that day/night. Hope to meet YGK, Aus, Lady Bayside, Wild Bill and any others that may be attending the show. Hey LP, any chance of a weekend in the City? This will be my only chance to see the boys this time around and just happened to coincide with a planned trip to NYC. I'm signed up on the Danfest and looking forward to it. GE
User: YGK | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: I have just scored some tix for the 9/12-13 Shows at Roseland......looks like myself and Lady Bayside and crew will be in full effect 9/13......
I will be in the house Friday as well......
May have an extra for Friday.......
write if you dare.........
ygk
User: ~ | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: lance is riding round most every night
pedaling backwards he's still out of sight
he's gone, made them weaking in the knees
he's gone, left them in the pyrenees
yes he's moving on the pedals
and he's cranking out at breaneck speed
tour de france is a euro cyclers dream
but last five years have been pretty lean
who'd know, up from cancer determined fellow
and his jersey's always yellow
he's moving up the alps and extending the lead
at breakneck speed
He can't hear you honey - that's alright
he's 10 minutes ahead and out of sight
Don't stop - you'll be callin' out his name
But don't stop, you know he's in the lead
He's the one to harass
and first into Paris
Jack of Speed
gimt
User: DACW - uptown baby uptown baby | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Dr. Kruger: I am prescribing for you 3 doses of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan per day until your symptoms disappear...
Charles Brown blues, not the Delta...
User: We got the Red Chevy Blazer, it's nice inside... | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: "Steely Dan & GM Credit
Adds legendary music manager Irving Azoff, who has about 20 corporate deals for the summer, including Eagles and Infinity, Steely Dan and GM Credit and Christina Aguilera with Skechers, Target and Mattel: "Times are not only tough, they're getting harder. We are selling less catalog and fewer new records. With the economy as bad as it is, costs haven't gone down. We need to make up for some of these losses. These types of deals are natural."
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=38348
User: Armstronger | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: In the beginning
We could hang with the dude
But it's been five years and counting
And he'll never lose
Noone knows our names
We're afraid of losing face
Tell me why we bother
Lance Armstrong won the race
Bring every new crotch rocket
Clock every stage half-speed
Still it feels like pedalling backwards
To the start of this endless winning spree
Climbed up the Pyrenees
Crossed bridges at Lyon
Break out the bubbly on the Champs Elysees
Cause there's no escape
From the results of the chase
Better tell Virenque
Lance Armstrong won the race
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: WALT & DON,
PLEASE-PLEASE play more EMG tunes at portland this coming friday, the new venue the kellar "the Kellar will be stellar" A PERFECT place to bust it out
we will not mind if it would be your first night to play
Pixaleen-Lunch with Gina-EMG-Greenbook
see you in a few days
there is good surf near portland
email if info needed
big air mike
User: timg | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Steely Dan to close tour with two shows in Hawaii:
http://starbulletin.com/2003/07/27/news/story5.html
User: Howard | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message:
Great to read the tour feedback. Interesting setlists - Aja, Caves, Haitian Divorce - great choices. Parkers Band sounds interesting. Agree that a few more from recent albums would be good (Jack of Speed, Gaslighting Abbie, Gina, Green Book). No doubt the setlists will evolve as time goes by.
Also interested to read the comments on the crowds being rather chatty during the songs, and moving in and out of their seats. I've never been to a gig in the US, but previous gig reports and live snippets etc confirm this seems to be more "the norm". Must be off-putting for a band, and could be very frustrating for audience goers (depending on how bad the talking is).
No such danger if D+W toured in the UK! I think it was Denny Dias that's quoted somewhere as saying how much they liked playing in the UK (this was based on their 70s tours, but I wonder if it still applies?). He said UK audiences were respectfully quiet during the songs, but made plenty of noise at the end of each song. Maybe they'll keep this in mind as they ponder the possibility of adding a European leg to the tour...?
Howard
User: Blaise | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Hey, thanks.
Guess if I don't show up after this, I lose all my hard-earned international support, eh? So here I am, still younger than most of you.
I've not much time to be involved these days myself, but
I'm very much enjoying the tour reports so far, even the nasty ones. While there weren't any nasty ones yet per se, it's a matter of time...
And I almost read everything so please, share the experience and keep it coming.
Oh and... someone record a show, maybe? That'd be great.
Thanks
later
User: gimt | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: top ten reasons to break out the hats and hooters
12) our northern borders are safe, and musically engaging
11) there's a forum in montreal, and a nice read ala yellow there as well
10) in the morning when you go gunning, you'll catch him on the St Lawrence Seaway
9) not sure but Audi TT and the Blazer that's warm inside are probably under the same insurance policy, know he likes Cars
8) who finds more things steely on the more things danned web?
7) fever dream frenzy Giles style
6) quick with a retort, cavort or abort
5) who makes the chat room interesting, rescues a dreary sunday
4) Everything Must Giles
3) always quick on a dandy reputtal
2) Totally Immersed Mind Gestures
1) Corpsy V and Major Wormtom salute you!
Happy Birthday Blaising Giles!
gimt
User: C & W | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Blaze - happy birthday to you!
I'll send you one of my T-shirts.
(if you're lucky you'll get the one I bought on Jackson Browne's "Looking East" tour!)
User: Clas @ Tamla Motor Town | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: There's a series of TV-programs here in Sweden about how popular music has developed over the years, "Walk on Bye", I guess it's a British production.
Interesting stuff, for example, when the Beatles invaded the USA, the Brill Building composers got pretty nervous. Here came a pop-group who wrote their own songs! ūWe're out of business!
And Roger McGuinn, the Byrds, shows how he changed Bob Dylan's "Tambourine Man" from a 2/4 kind of hillbillie, to a more cool, laidback 4/4 folk-pop-song (and how young and innocent he looked, Crosby!)
The 60's was a fantastic decade, the Beatles, Stones, the Tamla Motown-acts, Lovin' Spoonfull, Beach Boys, Spencer Davies Group, the Kinks, Bacharach and Hal Davies...
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So, from one thing to another, please click the URL above or cut and paste this, it's dr Fill's daily words of wisdom, don't miss them:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and sign in.
User: Doctor Warren Kruger | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Rajah- Don't listen to that New Age, Voodoo Queen, hands layer onner- musically, he's a barnacle, lyrically- the jury's still out.
Compare 11TOW and Nitefly-forget about Kamakiriad, the man was in a clinical depression- I should know, I prescribed him so much deludin the east coast was dry for months.
"Slang" is ok though-kinda grows on you. IMHO it's their only chance to connect with the inner-city youth of today.When z was in a non-incarcerated state, he tried TVN and their reaction was, huh? Except for the gospel hep cats- they grooved with Lawson and Barney.Now they're down to just 2 brothers.
But I'm going to get z to try "Slang" with the kiddies, should be interesting, WB's right on their level. If you didn't understand any of this, consider yourself lucky.
DACW or Dr.Mu or whatever- it all gets pretty subjective- no use arguing about which is better, they both have their strong points.
But I still agree with Original Lester- there's nothing wrong with the blues- we wouldn't have anything without that form, but from SD we need more sophistication- that's what we go to them for.
Pretzel Logic (I remembered it) was alright for the 70s, but we want more.
I still don't know what you mean by "Ellingtonian" though.
Is Johnny Hodges wailing out a melody(they don't even use solo alto sax on the CD)?
Is Cat Anderson ripping out double High Cs?
Is Jimmy Blanton popping out bass solos?
Is Jimmy Hamilton or Tricky Sam Nanton blaring out swing licks?
I think you're the one who's been self-prescribing absinthe- I lost my prescription license over a month ago.
Accusingly Yours,
Dr. Warren K.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: My esteemed Oleander - Do you have it in your heart to grant me forgiveness...I admit...I always thought Walt was a barnacle on the USS Donald's hull. No, not quite that misguided really, but, close. Walter Becker is a genius with the turn of a phrase and there is no SD w/out him. Koo-koo-ka-choob, fer sure.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: My esteemed Oleander - Do you have it in your heart to grant me forgiveness...I admit...I always thought Walt was a barnacle on the USS Donald's hull. No, not quite that misguided really, but, close. Walter Becker is a genius with the turn of a phrase and there is no SD w/out him. Koo-koo-ka-choob, fer sure.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: My esteemed Oleander - Do you have it in your heart to grant me forgiveness...I admit...I always thought Walt was a barnacle on the USS Donald's hull. No, not quite that misguided really, but, close. Walter Becker is a genius with the turn of a phrase and there is no SD w/out him. Koo-koo-ka-choob, fer sure.
User: oleander | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Blaise--Bonne anniversaire!! (thx for the tip, Gina)
tonezzz--You were just... great....
Razor--Please make sure you're not trying to drive while listening to them outside your vehicle.
Raj--exCUSE ME, but Monsieur Becker was a major dude from day ONE in my book. They kind of make up one amalgamated meta-dude.
bluz--[sound of hothouse flower howling at the moon]
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Thanks Tones, nice detailed review, I like hearing the minutiae of it all.
Z - Don't cop out yet and, hey, I kinda like fryin up their old cousine.
DACW - I'm with you: EMG dwarfs 2vN.
OK strangers, listen here, an L.A. tribute band called Doctor Wu overcame overwhelming oddities last night at The Knitting Factory to accomplish two very important tasks: play the repetoire and have fun. I've seen every gig these folks have played over two years and now is the time I think to let you all know why I've been excoriated of late on these cyberwaves for having the cheek to criticize DF's opening night vocal performance at Costa Mesa: it's cause Dr. Wu's front man belts waaay better than DF, no contest. The guy is from Liverpool, you can hardly understand what the f**k he's saying half the time which is puurrrfect for SD tunes, he also has, and I'm toeing the line on heresy here, Sinatra-esque breath control. He's gotta be part Neopolitan because he's got a bell'canto goin' on, smooth baritone really, with the blessing of uniform but NOT boringly good tone. He sings Babylon Sisters like it's Moonlight in Vermont, what can I tell you. His name's Tony Egan, thank you scouser. This band is best when it rocks uncousiously which is whad day done did last night. Boyd Gaines is their first chair horn man and he's NEVER failed to astound and just makes you feel like it's good to be alive, heck he just makes you FEEL. Seriously, that's a saxiphone player. A refreshingly smooth SD interpreter, Gil Ayan, from freakin' Uruguay for goodnessakes, on guitar, I wanna hear this guy play Jobim; Maestro Harrison on the ivories who makes King of the World relaxing instead of terrifying; Steve & Paul, thanks for looking at each other- I think the chanting before curtain is working now, seriously, well done; Ms. Anna, can we please have a solo next time, gotta love a woman with a horn, people.
Doctor Wu. was in the office after midnight and four days after Costa Mesa, he cured what ailed me. C'mon up, Orange County, it's worth the drive.
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Tones: Glad you managed to make it there and back and I hope you don't suffer too much for it.
While I was soaking in the pool, pre-concert, it was full of people from all over, both Northern California and Southern, who were going to the Dan that evening. That was a thrill in itself. Talk about doing stuff with those of my kind.... Too bad we couldn't hear that soundcheck. Man, I would have loved to have had that experience. Who knew....
User: more details bubbling to the surface... | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: D (on melodica) & W trading 8's, 4's, 2's and 1's during the outro on Godwhacker...
User: t | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: ang - I wouldn't have made much of a bump partner. I managed to stay medicated enough to make it there and back (had a beautiful drive through the wine country - fell in love with CA all over again...), but I'm paying for it today... Even so, I'd jump back, jack, and do it again if I had the chance.
Really feel bad about that cricket though...
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Tones: What a review! You did so much better then I did, I felt it all over again. How did the B*A*C*K* hold out on the dancing stuff? Missed doing the bump with ya! ;-)
I am still Carlocked....yowser!
User: t | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Aus - no problem bud...
Just to jump in on the "blues" thread... I think it was when Walt and Don received their honorary doctorates, Walter said, "Remember: when in doubt, play the blues." He and Don were probably composing the songs that became EMG right about then. so I'm thinking the "doubt" could be about the state of the union, society, technology, or what to do after winning all those Grammys...
User: | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Happy b-day Blaiser...
User: Aussie | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Tones: Great review. Thanks bud.
Aus
User: t | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Btw steviedan, we're going to need a DNA sample...
User: t | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Catching up on the last few days of posts...
steviedan - there's more direct evidence that Walt might peruse this board occasionally: last night when introducing Carlock he said, "...he's so good we're thinking of chaging the line in "Kid Charlemange" from "is there gas in the car?" to "Is the carlocked?"
Coincidence or synchronicity?
Great minds thinking alike?
Or are you, steviedan, actually WB? Have you ever been seen together? Have you ever owned a '54 Strat?
curiouser and curiouser...
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: z: Is that absynthe in your cup or lead in your pewter?
Let's compare TvN and EMG. TvN sounds great on DVD-A. There's lost of instrumentation, 50s cool jazz, and interplay. The lyrics are as usual clever, but 11 ToW and Kama's are better. There are a lot of great tunes, but one one outstanding tune: West of Hollywood, and that was written in the 80s. Besides WoH, Negative Girl and Almost Gothic are classic recordings. What a Shame About Me, Janie Runaway, and Jack of Speed are good songs made great by the production, the sax solos by Potter in Janie Runaway and the bridge Fagen tacked onto Jack. The title track is an average song made great by Carlock and the Latin production. Gaslighting Abbie is a very good song knocked down a notch by the production and snare, but sounds better of Plush or DVD-A. Cousin is a throwaway.
In contrast to the more minimalist melodies on TvN, with the exception being West of Hollywood, the melodies on EMG yearn, stretch and dart in unexpected directions, especially in the bridges. Blues Beach and Last Mall are great live-sounding recordings of blues/pop mode...10 times better than Cousin Dupree...TALKIN' "BOUT THE BLUES!!!
Slang of Ages ranks with the best of 11 ToW (Girlfriend, Lucky Henry, Book of Liars) with fully fried Dan production
Things I Miss the Most, Godwhacker, Greenbook, Pixeleen, Lunch with Gina, and the title track are BETTER and more LYRICAL TUNES than any on TvN except WoH which is of equal imprinting value, and all written in the 21st Century! Plus EMG just blows the lyrics of TvN out of the water...
There's a bit less instrumentation that TvN, but that is more than made up by the live sound...both albums are great, but no way TvN is superior to EMG, which ranks favorably with the best of the Dan IMO...
User: z | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: I know that was my arch-enema- I mean enemy, RB, trying to make a farce of the DF "Godwhacker" melodica/synth solo quote contest, so I'll just ignore that last remark and try to give another clue.
I checked the jazz CD that DF wrote the liner notes for (it was the Phil Woods Little Big Band CD entitled "Evolution" on Concord Records) and he mentions the sequel to the original record (which Phil Woods played on), not the original record.
As usual, RB got it wrong, it is not the melody of a jazz tune he quotes, but rather one of the solos on that tune.
I think DF mentions that that jazz LP was one of his favorites in the Downbeat interview, but I read it on EBSCO Host so I can't check it now.
The knowledgeable Original Lester (Young or Bangs?) was right about the first half of EMG. We get 2 blues (with bridges) on the first half ("Last Mall" and "Godwhacker").
We've had enough of that on that "I have never met Napoleon" song and Boddhisattva, and that RC song from "Nitefly" and probably others.
This just confirms the fact that EMG is partly made up of leftovers from TVN (which they even admitted in one of the recent interviews).
HOwever, I like the Pynchonian ending to "Last Mall"- they do the typical blues turnaround cadence and then instead of the final chord, we just get silence, like in "Gravity's Rainbow when the MC tries to get everyone to sing along, but we just get "Now everybody-" and then silence...
Thanks for the concert reviews everyone- they're doing too much of their old stuff, so I think I'll boycott this one too.
User: tones again... | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Forgot to mention... Walter Becker was "in the zone", "on fiya", "unconscious" the whole night last night. I've never heard him play better, live or recorded...
User: batl apl | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: I'm still trying to place the "Godwhacker" D.F. melodica solo quote of a famous jazz song. All I could come up with isthe lyric quote, "...be very, very quiet...", which is from Elmer Fudd's "Kill the Wabbit". Do I win anything?
User: tones | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Konocti 7/26/03:
Same set list as Paso Robles:
1st set -
Jazz tune(Cubano Chant?) - just the band (swingin' way to start the show)
Aja - absolutely epic. DF's mike was breaking up a bit, but by the end of it the only question was, "Gadd who?"
Time Out Of Mind - a little choppy at first, but by the time the first chorus came around it was smokin' I was kinda in shock that they were playing it
Godwhacker - sounded great live. I was making my way up to the top of the bleachers during this because I was going to have to dance during this show, and actually the sound was better at the top of the bleachers. The place was pretty initmate, only holding 5800 I'm told, and the sound at the lower part of the bleachers was a bit over amped imho. At the top it was perfectly mixed with room to get down
Caves of Altamira - just pure Dan heaven from beginning to end...
Blues Beach - the real reason I moved to the top of the bleachers. I had to bust out the frug while digging the sunset and the jet skis on the lake behind the stage.
Do It Again - didn't expect to like this one as much as I did. Great rendition
Slang of Ages - this was awesome. This tune has a way of sneaking up on you, with the verses sung over what seems like a casual vamp, then the chorus comes and just sweeps you away. Then they vamped on the verse part during the band intros and gave evrybody a chance to blow
Peg - being the jaded asshole I am, I was not particularly into hearing this one again, until I noticed someone down in the seats shaking their groove thing with *serious* abandon... lol! At that point I got caught up in *their* enthusiam. It really was a smokin version...
Home At Last - just great. what can I say?
2nd set -
The Steely Dan Show - I was really happy they played this. Of course it's a throwaway, but it has a nice beat and you can hum it...
Janie Runaway/Hey 19 - smooth segue. Appropriately enough I passed a Dean & Deluca driving through the wine country on the way to the show. Walter got a big laugh/cheer when Don mention how the "fine Columbian" might be a little passe', and Walter responded, "Yeah, maybe we should change it to the "Humbolt green."
Haitian Divorce - Walter singing. Biggest surprise of the night for me! Just great. "No tears and no hearts breaking, no remorse..." I would have left happy if this was the only song they played.
Things I Miss The Most - Ok, how many times can I say "just great"?
ParkerĘs Band - sung by the "Ladies Choir" as Don called them. Too cool for school...
Josie - great version, drum solo had even those who don't like drum solos on their feet and applauding
Kid Charlemagne - "just...
DonĘt Take Me Alive - ...great"
encores -
My Old School - I won a bet with the guy behind me who thought they'd play "Reelin'..."
FM
Overall I thought it was a great show, and incredibly tight for the 3rd night of the tour. I did hear one flub by Barney on Godwhacker either going into the second bridge or coming out of it. As I mentioned before I'm a critical bastard, so other than that here are my few criticisms:
The tempos: laid back, with isn't bad, but they didn't vary much from song to song. And I'm going to get *really* nit-picky here - Tom Barney should stand up when he plays. As a bass player, I know for a fact that when you sit down, your energy sits down. This is true for bass moreso than any other instrument. Add that to the fact that he's reading charts instead of engaging with the players around him, it drags the energy of the whole rhythm section down. And he should know the arrangements on the older songs by now anyway.
The setlist: too hit oriented for my taste, though I have to admit they have to please many levels of Dan fans from the casual to the fanatic. So on that level everyone got to go home having heard something special. But compared to the setlists of the last couple of tours this one was a little conservative. And that leads into my bigest complaint:
Not enough EMG material! These songs are meant to be played live. and having Walt Weiskoff (sp?) on the tour and not playing "Everything Must Go"... well, what a waste. And only one song from 2vsN! What's up with that?
Aside from these gripes, I had a great time. After they get a few shows under their belt this tour will probably be the best ever.
Thanks for the space...
laters
tnz
User: Aja | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Thanks for the reviews, all. I'm more than a little disappointed by the set list, though. FM? Peg? Josie? Janie? My Old School? Really guys, we've heard all those PLENTY of times-how 'bout King of the World, The Fez, TvN, Almost Gothic, Pixeleen, Green Book, etc. ????????? So many great songs on the last two CD's, and they pick the hits to play in concert. We're Steely Dan Fans, we KNOW the best stuff is always tucked in the back, and NEVER played on the radio! Here's hoping for a little set revision as the tour progesses.
Lance does it again!!!!!!!
Aja
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: OL: If you haven't heard Marian McPartland's interview on Piano Jazz with W&D, check it out on Andy Metzger's site...The basis for most of the songs played there and many of EMG is indeed Blues, but Ellington 40s style, not BB King style...I like it. Everything Must Go...a new start for rock with the right R&B twist...this time for adults, instead of for the kidz...
User: Original Lester | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Hello, Kelseyville?!?!?! Setlist???
The house of cards falling down- I like that metaphor. One thing that I'm not necessarily thrilled with is the heavy leaning towards blues, bordering on dependence. Though nobody does it like Don and Walt, the blues even when altered, still have an element of predictability, something I'd dare not accuse D+W of, since they wrote the book on transcending predictability. So the EMG intro provides a beautiful contrast to the somewhat mechanical tone of the first half of the album.
So glad to see we're all in agreement on Slang. Way to go, Walt.
User: Razor Boy - Canada | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: DACW - I should have qualified my opinion on the intro to EMG in the last posting, that I realized what the band wants it to signify, before dissing it as almost overdone. It just seemed like something they haven't done before, or I hadn't noticed previously. It's true about him being like a lecherous old lad when he sings SOA. When one watches the DVD from EMG, the two of them never miss an opportunity to leer or slide in a double entendre.
The one thing I have not done yet, and have done so infrequently since the cd era began, is to listen outside of my car cd player to 2 v Nature or EMG. It's like it engulfs me, yet when I have the cd playing and I'm outside the vehicle (such as unloading gear etc.)the nuances seem to be more noticeable. Driving and listening to their music just seems to be the right tonic.
Razor
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: OL, Razor Boy: Yes, I think Slang of Ages has been overlooked a bit. It's an 11 ToW song on vitamins. The tune reminds me a bit of Fall of '92, except 10 times better... The live tracking is better for Walter's singing IMO as well. His vocal rendition of Book of Liars is superior and more natural (a)live on AiA than 11 ToW. Walter's phrasing as the lecherous musician attempting to pick up a suspected ingenue (who turns out to be more adept than he) is dead on...he melds well with the backup singers in the chorus and especially the bridge...
Oh no, the intro to EMG really shows off the talents of Weiskopf and Carlock! The listener can really hear the new economy house of cards come crashing down. Indeed, the intro of the title tracks to EMG and TvN are highlights - note that Keith Carlock played on both! ...and to great effect. In fact, partially because of those openers, it would have been a great idea to start BOTH albums with the title track...In fact, playing EMG backwards in track sequence really works, especially since you end up with the BIG KABLOOIE when the plug is pulled on the Last Mall. Also the second half of the album is really strong...most critics, I believe, listen to just the first few songs, then sample the rest a bit, get drunk, and slap something review-like together...
User: SD WebDrone | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: PORTLAND (AUG 1) VENUE CHANGE
TICKET EXCHANGE REQUIRED
See info at:
http://steelydan.com/emgportland.html
User: Hutch | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: Coming back from breakfast listening to the local "Classic Rock" station and they played Werewolves of London. This is actually a pretty unusual song for this station to play and I thought, "Oh no. I hope Warren is still with us." As some of you know he was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer last year. So I went to his website, and I gotta say this guy's sense of humor just ain't gonna quit in spite of anything.
Check who his "doctor" is!
http://www.warrenzevon.com/
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 27
Message: ok konochi harbor concert goers from last night give us the rundown please
portland just days away and so excited!!!
praying for "lunch with gina" and "pixaleen" and "EMG" at portland, and encore of "DR WU" (a song that is an important part of my younger days of surfing at jalama in the summer on south swells as a high school kid on the loose with his surfboard, car and great steely dan surfing friends in santa barara)
walt the surf could be good very close to portland, got your stick on tour with ya???
"a big giant thank you" to steely dan for doing this tour for us!!!!
hope the whole band is having fun touring
anyone know where they tend to stay while on tour near the venues?? like the sheraton-hilton etc or some other big name they stay at?? have some neat VERY rare beach fossil rocks of seashells, that are very special. we would like to give walt & donald one each as a thank you for "Blues Beach"
years ago at the gorge we got to greet them as they arrived in the limos, walt and don we were the ones with the banner reading "oregon surfers love steely dan" remember us??????
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Gina: Yes, the Mad Canadian makes it to another Birthday. Happy Birthday Blaise, Godwacker, Chase....whatever! Coffee and a kiss by phone for you, but no tee-shirt. ;-)
Surfing the web this evening, for some press and found this article. Interesting name for a group that, surprisingly, is not a Steely Dan Tribute Band.
"Music is not always made for the right reasons (think greed and crass exploitation), but that's not the case with Charlie Freak. Maybe these guys are just freaks of the music industry, because they play heavy rock with an impressive sense of purpose and passion.
The Boston group took its name from the character in a Steely Dan song about a drug addict who sells his last possession -- a gold ring -- to feed his habit. But the band Charlie Freak just liked the name and does not succumb to the angst it might imply."
User: almost gothic negative girl | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: W o w !!! Still majorly blissed out from Thursday's show in the Pass of the Valley Oaks. Just had such a good time I can't stop smiling. One of my partners in crime on the excursion just dropped by the house for a bit and his visit got a lot of those beautiful little Dan-trippin' moments all stirred up again. I love to feel like this. And another show tomorrow! Wonderful ; )
I'm packing for Tahoe, and leaving early in the morning. Weather is calling for possible afternoon/evening thundershowers, which is no surprise this time of year. My husband was on the South Shore a few days ago, and Tuesday and Wednesday they had pretty intense storm action. Lightning hit a transformer and power was out in parts of South Lake Tahoe for several hours. Weather Channel is predicting T-showers from 1-6 pm and also from 10 pm til whenever. If they are correct (what are the chances of that) it would put the 7 pm show in the clear. We need a couple of those Big City squeegee guys workin' the seats right before showtime. Squeegee your chair fo' a dollah, bro? Nice n' dry for yo' ladyfriend?
Anyway, feeling so alive after that Paso Robles show, of course I am checking dates again to see if there is any way I can fit in another show other than the upcoming Tahoe and Concord shows... Maybe Santa Barbara. Would have to miss a day of work during my way busiest month of the year. Hmmm.. certainly worth looking into. Kicking mice elf for not being at Konocti right now. Had my reasons, but wish I was there at this moment, just the same. Hope they are putting on a great show for everyone right now. Enjoy!
User: Razor Boy - Canada | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Orginal Lester - Your comments regarding WB handling the vocals on Slang of Ages is true, and having him sing is a great change of pace; the horns are gorgeous on that track. The only thing I found to be almost superflous was the opening 45 seconds on "Everything Must Go." I have almost tuned that out and would just have much prefered that the song starts off with the sax solo.
If they play "Time Out of Mind" in Hogtown (Toronto)in August, mine will blow. T.O.O.M. is perfection. Last tour, the choir sang "Dirty Work." I almost wilted. "Don't Take Me Alive" may kill me.
Emmanuel. These guys could pull off any of the songs you listed as being tough to play live. Thirty plus years of material, how long in between tours and albums, they are trying to cover as much as they can. Frankly, by the look of the set lists, there are some pleasant surprises. There are some tunes on "Aja" that I didn't hear on the last tour that are up this time.
Thanks for giving us a chance to whet our appetite.
Razor
User: let's do it' let's do it | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: played friday
Eric Alexander..Night Life In Tokyo.."island"
Horace Silver Quintet..Six Pieces Of Silver/lp Sr. blues.
Chris Connor.."Sr. Blues"
The Carla Bley Big Band..Looking For America..tijuna traffic
Junior Wells..Come On In This House.."give me one reason"
John Scofield..A GO GO.."'title"
The Crusaders..Rural Renewal.."creepin"
Jimmy Scott..Moonglow.."since I fell for you..(outstanding new one)
Houston Person.."blue velvet"
Joel Harrison..Free country.."I walk the line"w/norah jones on vocals..(new)
Stephane Grappelli/Mcoy tyner..one on one..'summertime"
Stanley Turrentine..lp Look Out.."little sheri"june 1960
David SanBorn..Time again.."sugar"(new)
Boz Scaggs.."Come On Home" I've got your love
Johny Copeland..Boom Boom.."I was born all over"
Jimmy Smith..lp Back At The Chicken Shack.."when I grow to old to dream"
Charles Davis..Blue Gardenia.."shadow of the sunset"(new)
Gill Scott-Heron..Pieces Of A Man.."when you are who you are"
Russle Gunn.."smokin gunn"
Stanley Turrentine..lp Salt..title
Gene Ammons..Soul Summit.."cool cool daddy"/vocals etta jones
Nat Adderly.."Little Big Horn".. title
Kenny Garrett.."a hole in one"
Ben Eager..Resolution.."please pass the hot sauce"(new)
Kenny Burrell..lp Midnight Blue..title..January 1963
La Mont Johnson.."Blinded By The Passion..title"
John Brim.."ice cream man"
John Lee hooker..Don't Look Back.."dimples"
Little Walter.."my babe"
I was an innocent child till you taught me your style. Willie Dixon
"Whatever I am You Made Me"
bluz
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: portland info is a must hurry you will lose your current seats and must gain new ones, maybe better than you had, may be slight worse.
BUT the venue will be soooooooo incredible dan fans, it will be the first indoor venue of the new EMG tour, about the size of a very large movie theater with fantastic acoustics, it is were they have classical music and plays and opera and so forth. Have not been there but have been in the schnizter hall in portland, which is about the same.
however we lost our 5th row coluseium center section for 10th row center- side section, -------BUMMER---------
I feel VERY sorry for the danners who had the 1st row seats that will lose them,,,,,,,,,, unless but maybe it was the scalpers!!!!!
User: Gina | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Highly entertaining to read the reviews of their tour here :-)
Too bad they won't "do" Europe this time around ...
But nevertheless, it's good to read everyone's having a ball at these rare venues, for that's what they are after all, right?
Enjoy!
Oh and Oleander, guess who's birthday it is tomorrow the 27th?
Our Canadian friend :-)
Blaise, many happy EMG returns & twists LOL
SMOOCH!!!!!!!
Banyan Tree Bow,
G.
User: The Drone | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: PORTLAND (AUG 1) VENUE CHANGE
Info page:
http://steelydan.com/emgportland.html
User: SDWebDrone | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: PORTLAND VENUE CHANGE - AUG 1
Venue for Steely Dan's Aug 1 show in Portland has been CHANGED from the Portland Coliseum to Keller Auditorium (formerly the Civic Auditorium at the PCPA). This is indeed OFFICIAL.
Ticketmaster informs us that an EXCHANGE will be necessary. We are hunting down full info and will post it later today. In the meantime, however, it may not be a bad idea for ticketholders to call their local Tickmaster Customer Service - look it up at
http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/customer_serve.html - and initiate the exchange process.
We would appreciate your help in passing on this word to any ticketholders you may know. Thanks
We also apologize for any inconvenience or temporary confusion this change may cause. But we expect that the new venue will be so superior for the serious DanFan that it will compensate for any heartburn
User: one of these years I'll edit outside work | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Tonka
reconditioned my Boston Acoustics
dense rhythm
percussion-wise.
probably because the drums are NOT live
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: if you have portland tickets you better get your ass on the phone to 503-224-4400 right now as you have to exchange your tickets and you DO NOT get what you currently have, we had 5th row bumped back to 10th
push # 9 then listen for # to go to venue change, you will be happy if you have 50th row NOW,,,,BUT if you had 1st row you are gonna be so F%#^#%^ pissed you may explode and if you paid ascalper you are F%$%^&$^&&* out of luck,
mike
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: After many delays, finally got my paws on Kamakiriad DVD-A...Tuned into the videos first - both wierd, cartoonish, and hilarious. Fagen reminds me of a post-modern Max Headroom lurking over the landscape...Snowbound reminds me of a Tonnka/Bobblehead Minority Report Visual panorama. Totally bizarro...
On to the album...I don't have a 5.1 system set-up, but recently reconditioned by Boston Acoustics speakers...this made a big difference naturally with the channel separation and bass - Barney's bass from TvN on Abbie and WoH really stand out...Anyway, the layered, dense rhytm section productioni on Kama, is opened up and reveals a lot of discrete little things going on percussion wise. Although the stereo mix is 92kHz instead of 192 kHz sampling rate for some unknown reason (probably the 5.1 mix was the focus), there is still that increased "natural sound" that really boosted TvN. The DVD-A for EMG is nice, but it has a more natural sound on CD to begin with...
The more natural sound really pays off on TransIsland Skyway, Springtime, and Tomorrow's Girls...In the fab bridge of Tomorrow's Girls, you can realy hear the chimes moving in the breeze and the triangle. Another song that gets a big boost, that didn't need much is Florida Romm - jeez, sound like a real Duke Ellington big band swinging!!! On The Dunes and Teahouse are amazing, but i expected that. Kama, like EMG has still has a much stronger last half...this is just what the doctor ordered...
Countermoon has a new rhythm section mix, while the rest of the songs are only slightly modulated...it's probably because the drums are live, a loop, or Pro-Tools massage - they're still suspiciously drum machine-like, at least the snare...still plastic, but weird (and weird is good) sound...
Walter's guitar is great, especially on Snowbound and tomorrow's Girls
Wadenius has some nice accents, but his rhythm guitar is still not my cup of tea...no wonder no guitar arrangments are credited to Donald - I woudn't claim them although I appreciate what they were going for! Too bad McCracken or Carlton were not available...
Overall, HIGHLY recommended!
Can't wait to hear Carlock live!
If you're feeling Down, remember that "Mini-Me" just got engaged to a 6 ft 2 in aerobics instructor...
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: It was WebDrone who posted the venue change. Or are we being toyed with?
User: Ray | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Well, upon more digging, the link from sd homepage takes you to a new venue etc on ticketmaster for keller... I stand corrected
User: Ray | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: From all I can gather. NO CHANGE OF PORTLAND VENUE. Don't know how that started.... yesterday's A&E in Friday paper still has Memorial Coliseum in ad and description, Ticketmaster website still has Memorial Coliseum, Keller Auditorium has nothing and yields no SD when searched by name or date. Not nice to scare me this early on a Saturday am. So where did this info come from, anyway?
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: hi webdrone,
I have tickets for portland very good seats. see venue has changed, just went through ticketmaster phone and they are not open till 9 am, do you know their procedure for exchanging tickets? will we get comperable tickets? we live 5 hours from the venue. I see good seats now on internet presale, I am worried, any great advise? I see no advise on sd website.
thank you, mike
User: Hutch | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: Interesting to read the reviews of these first shows. Certainly if I have a choice I would prefer to see them after they've gotten a few performances under their belt. It just takes time for a band to gel live. They may not have been able to get as much rehearsal time in before the tour as they would have liked. They'll have about twenty shows behind them by the time I see them in Manassas.
When I saw them in '96 at Va. Beach it was the 2nd show on the tour and the first in a shed. The first set was way too heavy on the bass guitar and at one point DF had to get up and direct the band because they had gotten a little lost in the arrangement. After the break they came back and sounded great. The PA mix problems were taken care of and they played with a lot more energy. Maybe D&W gave the band a big pep talk during the break or maybe they indulged in a little illegal fun to get 'em in the mood.
I see no reason they couldn't pull off Green Book and Lunch With Gina live. If Don doesn't play the synth parts then Ted Baker surely could.
Would really be nice to hear more from EMG and 2vN.
After a long time thinking about it I've come to the conclusion that Walter Becker definitely reads these pages on occasion and I'd be willing to bet that he's been checking out our comments since the tour started.
So who knows what the near future may hold.
Hutch
User: Original Lester | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: I was part of the fucking great crowd in Paso Robles, but first I need to briefly weigh in on EMG.
My immediate feeling on the album still holds, which is that the second half (from Slang of Ages on) is far stronger than the first half. The decision to give Walt his first lead vox on a SD studio release was perfectly timed. Whereas Donald was the right call for Jack of Speed, Walt's Eric Burdon vibe on Slang is way out of Donald's realm. And yet, it feels like Steely Dan althewhile. Big bravo on SOA, from a guy who doesn't usually care for songs sung by WB. Green Book is solid, and it grows on me more with each listen. The title track is the best song on the album, hands down. Though I hold that it is unfair to compare the last two albums to the 70's Dan, the intro to the title track is one of the finest achievements for Don and Walt in their career. All in all, I liked 2VN better, but I'm mostly pleased, and I have all the time in the world to give EMG a chance to win me over more.
So that takes us to the tour. I loved the start with Aja, although I thought Herington's solos left a lot to be desired. He just didn't seem to know what he wanted to do. I love Herington's fit with the band, but this was the one occasion on the past two tours I wasn't sold on his play. Otherwise, the song easily eclipsed the Alive In America performance, and anyone who has followed their previous tours immediately takes note of Keith Carlock on drums. It is apparent that Carlock gives these songs some serious testicles. Without a doubt the best drummer they've had since they reunited.
Time Out of Mind was a pleasant surprise, as was Caves. Godwhacker, not one of my favorite EMG songs, was pretty sharp, and Becker's lead play was about as good as I've ever seen him. Slang of Ages was, as on EMG, great. Peg and Home at Last solid as ever.
Parker's Band by the ladies was very cool. I wish they had tried something new from 2VN, rather than fall back on Janie again, but the segue into Hey 19 was cool. The final four were also solid as ever. My kid, who was at his first SD show, wanted to see Black Cow, and I'm not sure why they omitted it from their final five this time around. But the energy on Kid and Don't Take Me Alive was noticeably higher this time around.
One other disappointment- no Katy songs. Surprising since they played 2 in their shows on the last 2 tours, but not surprising with the "safe" factor that was referred to earlier.
So, by and large, they did enough things to keep most of the fans happy, as with recent past tours. For those of us die-hards who'd like to hear a few more obscure cuts, we can take comfort in the spirit of the performance, and the solid band that they've largely maintained from the kickass Tour 2K.
User: Emmanuel | Month: 6 | Day: 26
Message: The more you listen to that album, the more those last four tracks stand out. But I can see how all of them would be hard to perform.
'Green Book' has a distinctive noodling keys/guitar battle that perhaps wouldn't really come out when played live.
'Pixeleen' probably has vocals that are just too weird and too hard, plus some time signature issues.
'Lunch With Gina', very subdued but fast horn playing, probably easily overstated when played live.
'Everything Must Go', of course, the jazz intro and the upper register singing.
Then again, this is the stuff that you wonder about, right. How would it sound? The set list I saw is a bit on the safe side, I think. With the exception of 'Aja' and 'Janie Runaway', it's really sort of the M.O.R. Steely Dan. As if to drive it home, they close off with 'FM'...
I was starting to think, I'm not missing that much - and then suddenly 'Blues Beach' appeared on the set list.
Blues Beach! That ultimate one-two funk beat! Blues Beach! The song with the theme that's not really a theme! Blues Beach! The soundtrack to my 2003 summer! Blues Beach! The song in which Don finally, after all those years, finds it in his heart to ad-lib the dead-trodden line "talkin' bout the blues..."
I need a ticket now.
User: ThisJustIn | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47426-2003Jul25?language=printer
User: SD WebDrone | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: PORTLAND VENUE CHANGE - AUG 1
Venue for Steely Dan's Aug 1 show in Portland has been CHANGED from the Portland Coliseum to Keller Auditorium (formerly the Civic Auditorium at the PCPA).
A webpage on the Keller Auditorium - directions, info, etc - is at
http://www.pcpa.com/events/keller.php
We would appreciate your help in passing on this word to any ticketholders you may know. Thanks
User: almost gothic negative girl | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: King baby ~ love your name, it is one of my top 5 favorite recorded songs in the world. Ever. Don't know why; just always loved that song. Gotta say I was just a little too busy last night to be actively trying to identify a grasshopper's ass per se; was referring more to the cosmic "save his ass" and the royal "we" Damn she skipped dimensions ! ~ ! oh well later dude : )
I really should have taken a nap when I got home this afternoon, but alas, it was not to be. I'm punch drunk from yesterday. A good way to be.
That's right...Slang me!!
User: king of the world | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: AlGothNegGrl--- I defy you to locate an ass on a cricket, but I'll bet you spent a good part of that night looking. Had a good time, sounds like. Enjoyed your (and someone else's) account(s) of poolside soundcheck and DFs introduction of various band members and amusement park rides. Snorted out loud at "And let's give it up for THAT thing!!!"
jjeff----- Thanks for some science-fiction commentary. Only managed Neuromancer so far, myself. (So THAT'S what a Meat Puppet is....)
RoyScam---- Rock and Roll Purists love Reeling In the Years, especially the solo. I love just about everything they ever did, but that one. Someone called the renovated, retooled RiTYs "sappy"... only if Aja is. The original is corny and pop-like to me. On Alive, I can finally listen to it.
Where's Molly?
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Now I'm on Book of Liars on the Alive album. If Walt can keep it together and continue producing at the current rate, he will astound all of us soon. He could be a MAJOR DUDE.
User: Aussie | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Thanks for the concert colour: JDubz, Angel (manure wafts-classic!!!), Soout, Dietrologie, Almost Gothic Negative Girl.
Aus
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: I'm listening to Slang of Ages and recalling Walt's immortal rendition on opening night. You guys it's really a marvelous song. Rich in emotion and irony. Low on dynamic. He sidled up to that mike Wednesday night like it was his lifeline to the mother-ship, he really put it out there. He reminded me of - c'mon with me for a sec on this -- Louis Armstrong. Heresy, I know, but here's a guy who has NO business addressing a microphone by traditional bell'canto standards, but here's a guy with tremendous chops, ok maybe if only in his head, but isn't that the most important part in which they reside? He's snarling into a mike while cleeking and scrathing that powder-blue piece of s**t axe...inspirational, truly. The prodigal returns.
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Rajah:
Alternative Steely Dan Set List:
Dr. Wu
Pixeleen
Black Cow
Your Gold Teeth II
Godwhacker
Razor Boy
The Fez
Green Book
West of Hollywood
Intermission
Aja
Lunch With Gina
Gaucho
Things I Miss the Most
Here at the Western World
Any World
Caves of Altamira
Slang of Ages
Everything Must Go
Encores:
Night by Night
FM
User: what do you call a hairy guy with breasts? | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: sofuckedup!
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Still at work and still slightly the worse for wear, sorry for all the mistakes on my earlier post. I hope to do better this time. :-)
The Set List. Very heavy on Aja, Royal Scam cuts and hits, for a good reason. The crowd at these fairs don't have any idea there is a new album out. The guys gave them a taste and then went back to hits. They mentioned on the introduction to Parker's Band that probably most of the audience wouldn't remember the song. Which was probably right on.
My little one mentioned the fact that the ferris wheel was spinning in time to the music. I thought it funny that Donald thanked the Ferris Wheel at the end of the concert. Did he notice it, too? :-)
Yes, definitely the smell of manure was in the air. Forget the smell of pot, at this gig.
Babe choir were in Pink Steely Dan tee shirts (think those wonderwaif tee shirts from the 2000 tour), with black leather jackets over them. It was cold and windy at start time. You could see Donald's hands were cold. Then the wind died down and things got much warmer, for the 2nd set. The first 4 songs were definitely not quite right on and maybe that was the people still coming to their seats, adding to the madness. Godwacker in particular, didn't feel quite right, but when they hit their groove, they mowed them down. The audience were on their feet for the entire encore. I hope for a better rendition of Godwacker, when I see them at Universal in October.
My hotel was on the special fair bus route, so we took the bus to the fair. It took about 5 minutes at the most. Great for having freedom to have a drink and not have to worry about driving in a strange town. I recommend that to anyone who is seeing a performance at the Mid State Fair.
Enjoy Kelseyville tomorrow.
User: SDWebDrone | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: PORTLAND VENUE CHANGE - AUG 1
Venue for Steely Dan's Aug 1 show in Portland has been CHANGED from the Portland Coliseum to Keller Auditorium (formerly the Civic Auditorium at the PCPA).
A webpage on the Keller Auditorium - directions, info, etc - is at
http://www.pcpa.com/events/keller.php
We would appreciate your help in passing on this word to any ticketholders you may know. Thanks
User: almost gothic negative girl | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Had an absolutely indescribably fun fun fun time for the last 24 hours on this leg of my Steely Dan journey. Can't even begin to type it all up here right now, but Paso Robles was a REALLY good time for me. Picked the right motel, homey but with all the amenities, walk to venue in about 5 minutes, which was nice, but the best part was hearing the soundcheck start up around 3:45, while relaxing in the motel spa and pool, and later back at my room while awaiting the arrival of my guests. Soundcheck started out with Home at Last, then Blues Beach, Janie R, Kid C, G-Dub, and Haitian Divorce. Walter's and Donald's voices wafting through the gardens while enjoying a leisurely swim a few hours before showtime was the stuff of dreams. Who knew?
Yes, half of the crowd was chatty as hell, running back and forth, and being a genuine distraction for the entire first set. Happily for us, at least from where we were sitting/dancing, the second set was a whole new ballgame. We were even with Donald and about half way back in the venue. Able to stand behind our seats and dance. The crowd really got into it in the second set. Singing, dancing, bopping, diggin' it; was it Fagen or Becker who at that point said with a surprised lilt to their voice, "Hey, you are a fucking GREAT crowd!" By that point, they were. At least they finally got there; it was touch and go earlier, and I'm glad they got it together : )
Show was a bit rusty in spots and lacked that high-pro-glow steely polish, which is to be expected at this point in the tour. Donald seemed to bobble lyrics/lose focus a few times and there were some other occasions, which felt forced and gridlocked for a moment. But the magic GREATLY outweighed any perceived clammage, and the ensemble playing when it clicked as it so often did last night, was a thing of beauty. I love these guys and it is an honor to see their live performances. They are such perfectionists that now I find myself expecting more from them, too. I have seen them better, and expect that this Sunday's Tahoe show will be improved. With that said, for my $$$ they put on a better live show than almost anybody else performing today, so if I find a few faults it doesn't mean I dont' think the show was topnotch, because, of course it was! Like I said, I had the time of my life. Met some fantastic people, sang along too much, laughed my ass off, rode that big bad ferris wheel (yikes!), even had a nice little pipeload at the top, heard the soundcheck from my hot tub for crying-out-loud, stayed up late in our room giggling and drinking and carryin' on, and on and on. Even got a cricket stuck in the el of our bathroom sink drain at about 1:00 am. Oh my god. Tried so hard to save his ass. Don't even ask...
I loved the setlist, but could do without FM, so many other songs could take the place. I was so jazzed to hear Things I Miss the Most, Godwhacker, Home at Last, Parker's, Don't Take Me Alive, and Caves.
User: At the Show | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Walter did not sing Aja in Tahoe. The first set wasn't that good.
The second set was great! The sound man forgot to put the house
sound on when they started Janie Runaway. Donald sang half of the
song without even knowing. The house sound came on half way through
the song. It's only going to get better.
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: StAl: OUCH! Get some medical marijuana to that man pronto!
This one's for you:
Pussy Whipped
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User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Bob for goddssake, give us some detailed analysis. Check the notes, did Walter sing AJA or is someone herein hallucinating?
Bruce & Cindy - Please eleborate, I'm dyin here. You started this and let's not forget kindness to strangers.
User: W1P | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: They're trying to kill me -- yesterday in the LA Times there were ads for the following concerts (that I can remember right now) Springsteen, Alan Parsons Project, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Paul Rodgers of Bad Co, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, KISS, Heart, David Lee Roth and on and on and on
User: t | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: The more I think about it, the more I love the idea of Don and Walt randomly switching lead vocal duties. As much as I love "the voice", I think Walter brings a fresh interpertation to the lyrics, and it's nice to hear from the other half of the Steely beast..
I realize this may sound like heresy...
So does this mean WB sang 3 tunes in Reno? What s'up?
User: Molly | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: St.Al, ouch! Sorry to read about your shoulder. Hope you feel better soon. *kisses*
Clas, Hey Honeyman!!!! I'm still lurking about. I have been remodeling my house,rock climbing every chance I get and doing lots of glasswork.
King of the World, hey babe!! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
Wild Bill, I hope you're behaving. But somehow I doubt that you are. ;-) I'm seeing Hiatt in Atlanta. Yay!!!
Jaz, I've missed you something fierce. Hope all is well with you and Mrs Jaz. I almost passed out from the shock of reading a post by both you and Wild Bill on the same day! Fire up the ambulance, it's time for a road trip bud. *hugs*
Duncan, I lost your snail mail addy when old PC crashed. Thanks for the offer, but don't bother yourself. The tape is fine.
BB, I've been so neglected by you I have decided to get rid of your sorry ass and take up with Fingers.
Fingers, leave the light on for me Sugar.
I'm enjoying EMG but to be honest, I feel a bit sad. Their lastest just doesn't have the same impact that Aja did for me. Perhaps it's because I'm no longer a kid. I miss that part of 19. Everything was shiny and new. lol Ah well, it's still all good. M
User: Aussie | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Saint Alphonso: I feel your pain bud. We always keep a fresh supply of percocets, Darvocets and hydrocodone around the house, so if your shoulder still hurts when you come to NYC, you'll be well cared for.
GE & YGK: I will be at the Roseland shows as well. Looking forward to meeting you GE.
Walter sings Aja??? Wow-wee.
Aus
User: NYB | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Pat,
Okay this is VERY IMPORTANT...
DO NOT under any circumstances begin dancing like a wild man at the
SD Gorge show! You might dislocate your shoulder again, which would
probably cause D&W to stop the show while the EMS crew loads you into
the helicopter. Not only would you have to pay for the chopper ride to
the hospital but there would be the matter of compensating all of the
Steely Dan band members and road crew for the concert delay.
I understand they charge by the hour. Right now it's something like
$825,000 an hour for a weekday show. I'm afraid to ask what the weekend
show rate is.
I know your shoulder hurts but look at it this way, at least you got
some free percodan out of the experience and you got to take a ride in
a helicopter. How many people would like to take a vacation that included
those two things?
Bill
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: My God, WB singing AJA...do tell. How'd he do? Was it their first song? Hummmana hummanna hummana!
User: Bruce & Cindy Gordon | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: July 27th SD at Harvey's Amphitheatre...WOW we had a F*****G blast, the audience was right there with them rocking out, WALTER sang Aja!! It was moving. A+ concert. See you in Concord October 4th Donald & Walter. Love & Hugs, Bruce and Cindy
User: nurse worm t | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: sorry to hear of your accidents
and on vacation no less
here's to a swift recovering on the shoulder
wt
User: WJAZ/suffering the suburban sprawl... | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: ST.AL...
I believe it was Jerry Seinfeld who said "imagine if we went on vacation and ACTUALLY had a good time..."
Helicopter bill shouldn't be over $8500.00...
User: Aja | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: I'm having Tour de France withdrawals this morning, but those lyrics are going to help me make it through the day-LOL!
YGK-was mailing out my check when I though what the hell-I'll just pick up the CD from you in person! Save one for me when I get there, okay? Here's hoping that Core show comes through as well.
St. Al-hope the shoulder stays in one place from now on.
Aja
User: king richard | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: will be attending my first dan concert in columbus - would be interested in any danfests before or after show.
User: tones | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: Oh maaaaaaaaaan... St. Al! I was wincing reading through your post. Hope you're recovering from the shock of it all. I know it must be hell trying to get comfortable enough to even sleep. Hang in there dude...
So how was the view from the helicopter?
User: countermoon | Month: 6 | Day: 28
Message: TO PDX DISGRUNTED:
if you bought from ticketmaster website:
same thing happened to me, had 5th row dead center got pushed to 10 row side, BUT just got off phone at 541-224-4400, push # 9 quickly then listen for option on previous purchased tickets, wait for 5 or so minutes than ask the person who answers to switch you to customer service, explain you situation calmly ( the hard part) and ask for the center section C tickets popping up on ticketmaster site now, and a refund on the others. it worked for me got back into 6th row center, is a Headache and takes about 1/2 hour on phone but worth it, hurry hope you get this asap
mike
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: DACW - I got it, Don & Walt were abducted by aliens and replaced with clones. No, then DF's voice would be better. Seriously though, TIMTM actually worked well, someday it'll be a singalong number at the shows, that's if there is a someday.
User: DACW | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Rajah: I agree...This is as bizarro as the so-called promotion by AOL Time Warner Without Ted Turner Whatever...Greenbook, Pixeleen, Lunch with Gina, and EMG are a string of recordings that rivals their absolute best. The upper register of Pix would be a challenge certainly...
...hey, I thought Pixeleen would be the next single? I love TIMTM, but it's not single material, especially on AAA (what's up with that?)...Pixeleen or Lunch With Gina on AC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clinton was on CNN and Larry King:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43431-2003Jul24.html
E: Kobe is accused of RAPE...but who are we to judge about another spoiled athlete's uhhh "sex life"? If his wife's OK with it after he bought her a 4 million dollar stone apology, we should just "move on"...after all, every woman wants a 6 ft 7 guy tearing her panties and vagina against her will...
Lieberman and I are in the center
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: I'm still sittin here scratching my head over no Gina, Pixie or EMG. I mean, aren't they touring in support of this album or wha? And why keep hammering Do It Again, FM (for goodnessake), Hey 19 (just blow me up), and Kid? Am I not getting something here?
User: lp | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: leaving cyberspace in 5 minutes, not to return until August 4th - on vacation, actually crossing the bridge...
wormy - check in mail
over and out
User: angel | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Back from El Paso de Robles (the pass of the oak).
All the way on the left side, so view was sometimes blocked and the guards up front & side of us were dealing with those same lovely people, JW just mentioned. Donald and Walter were much more at ease then what I have heard they were in Orange County. They gave the Back up singers fried Twinkies as gifts, which was just too funny. I mini trend, from what Donald said.
A few quicks thoughts....
Parker's Band was just fabulous. Great rendition by the Back-up Singers.
Carlock just blows me away on drums. No worries, he fills just fine. ;-)
Slang Me!!!!!
Haitian Divorce without the talk box?
Godwacker extended in the center bridge area.
Things I miss the Most....wow! (Bought the tee shirt).
No time for more. Glad to see so many were at the show. We manage to find ourselves, quite well.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Hey Jaydubz - I think these first few at the fair gigs are being used as a warm up. See they do four shows then are off four straight days and I think the time will be used to evaluate what works, what doesn't. Sounds like the crowd from hell.
But wow you say young people? Young as in under forty? I'm seriously shocked. What other acts are booked for this cow palace?
User: Jaydubz | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: Just in from Paso Robles...
The band was in fine form last night, particularly Carlock. The high-point for me was the arrangement of "Parker's Band." That said, at the risk of sounding like an "elitist city-slicker" (if there's such a thing in LA), the venue and the audience thoroughly SUCKED. We were dead-center floor, row SS. I've seen every tour since '93 in LA venues, and although there were incidents of people talking, etc. through the shows, the general tone of EVERY one of those shows was one of deference & genuine interest as to what was going on onstage. I'm not sure if it was a case of the PA just not being loud enough (which might have been the case, since the venue was inside the fair and they may have adjusted accordingly), or my ears are going from playing/recording for too many years, but the CONSTANT DIN of the audience jabbering literally drowned out the subtlety of the arrangements - particularly DF's melodica, the non-solo portions of the horn section and the bare midriff-section. It was FIVE times worse than any other Dan show I've attended. The din increased during the new stuff and the lesser-known back-catalog songs, and was cancelled out by off-key "group caterwauling" during the hits. I suppose I could attribute some of my crankiness to the full beer that was spilled on my head and down the back of my pullover two songs into the first set by some redneck who felt no need to apologize, and subsequently referred to DF as "Steely Dan" for the rest of the show. The "Hey, let's go the the fair, and while we're at it, we'll get a fried twinkee & go hear that guy Steely Dan..." mindset prevailed (at least in the section that we were in) over the dedicated fans. The silver lining in my little diatribe? ...an UNUSUAL amount of young(er) people who seemed to know and genuinely APPRECIATE both the old and new stuff!
Thanks for the great show, gentlemen!
User: sooutrageous | Month: 6 | Day: 25
Message: i took in the show on wednesday night in costa mesa. i brought my 14 year old son daimen along for his very first live steely dan experience. he was extremley pumped for the show having been primed by several bar-b-ques, cotton candy, a caramel apple and a funnel cake on the midway before entering the amphitheatre.
donald was the same pathologically-awkward donald we all know and love. after aja, he stood at the mike with his melodica in his hand and said........"what a night!"........it's just really..............great???""" his voice trailed off. he actually phrased it as a question.
the horn section was "down home memphis" fabulous! cornelious is still sooo soulful.
i do agree with the earlier posters who stated that donald did not have full command of his voice throughout the show. it may have been an upper-respiratory thing or perhaps age has just taken his nyc twang down a notch or two. no matter; who else can sing these wonderful lyrics the way mr. fagen can?
the rhythm section was dead-on and the drum solo was truly breathtaking.
i realize that no one wants to read any more bullshit about the guitar thing, but my god.....i really really miss larry carlton. i know, i know, i know that the guitar afficionados here on the gb will tell me how larry's solo stuff was all light jazz treacle and mindless fluff, things change, people evolve, but the tracks he laid down for donald and walter as an accompaniment to their wonderful compositions were immeasurable. to me there is something almost sacred about the masterful solos on kid charlemagne, don't take me alive, and haiitian divorce. can there never be a sense of ownership? larry carlton owns the aforementioned songs as surely as mssers fagen and becker. who can deny that? jon herrington is a gifted guitar player but larry carlton's interpretation of steely dan's music is magical.
i've heard countless bands do pink floyd covers throughout my life and though many had talented guitarist, none raised my hackles as david gilmore did when i watched him perform HIS mournful solo on comfortably numb. there is a definite sense of ownership.
alright already.....enough pontificating from me. the concert was great, the horns sounded funky, the