Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canadaa
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:53:45
Comments:
Just under an hour into Canada Day up here in the jewel of the once mighty British Empire - Getting ready in about 8 hours, to greet 1000 runners in a July 1st footrace a bunch of my friends and I help to organize. My son, (on my orders) taped "Home at Last" and "I Got the News," for the music that will greet the sweaty horde as they cross the finish line. As I listed to the various selections on the hour tape, driving along picking up things for the race, the timeless beauty of the the aforementioned pieces never ceases to make me jump in my seat. Over twenty years old and the whole "Aja" album puts me in another dimension. That's the appeal of Fagen and Becker. Great musicians, arrangers and producers, and just plain gorgeous sound. Not many have the gift to do it so good, for so long..... Bodishatva.
Name: Geena
Clas Slave
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:48:01
Comments:
Ruby: yes, love does find a way...*sigh*
and congratulations on teaching your child to drive, my mom taught me to drive except we had "il programma italiana" blasting on the radio and no milkshakes, but the dog was in the back seat because he decided to follow us for a mile and a half before we stopped and put him in the car!Clas: glad you found the waterpipe, now stop talking to Pompe and come to bed! before i pull my hair down!
Name: DrMu
anewaddress
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:29:39
Comments:
Edd: ...would love to hear KB in it's full glory, as with 2nd arrangement & Can't Write Home...I was no Rhodes' scholar, but wasn't that an 88 string upright being pounded? I'm afraid that the most we'll hear from those mysterious outtakes are hissy nth gen. FeO4 tapes and a stray cyber midi sequence...related activity at the "big show" suggests the guys are done, or have given up, or are resting bones even more ancient that Roy's, or have fired everyone (again) and are starting over even "soliciting" Roger Nichols to rejoin the fold if he doesn't mention 2ndA.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 20:20:38
Comments:
Hey Joe--(where you goin' with that book in your hand)You Renaissance man! If you want to cheat (as I did), there's a very good reader's guide to Crying of Lot 49 by J. Kerry Grant, annotated so that you can read it side by side with the book and yum up the nuances. ("A Companion to 'The Crying of Lot 49'", U. of Georgia Press, '94) There's also one for "Gravity's Rainbow" by Weisenburger. E me and tell me how I can send you a tape of "Eastern Rebellion." I think you'd like it.
Fellow Festivians--I'll probably be coming in by wheel on Fri. and leaving Sun. early pm, so five days & four nites is out for me. I hope that the locals will scope out the venues and accommodations and clue the rest of us distant ones in soon. An evening of good live music would be great. Everyone bring your Danabilia--tapes, cd's, videos, whatever, and we can arrange listening/ viewing capacity. Musicians--also bring your own stuff for us to sample. I'll bring the incense, love beads, santeria candles, prescription pad to write for Viagra, and a few prizes as before. Anybody with nondumb Steely-oriented party ideas please e me. Oh, I dunno, maybe dumb would be fun.
Name: St.Stephen
golden.gate.park
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 19:01:35
Comments:
i don't know Mitch, at least until Jerry chased the dragon one too many times, the Dead certainly topped SD on output from 1980 on. They may be skeletonizing now but they put out some good shit while we were all sitting around waiting for new product from Walter and Donald.
still waiting
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:30:33
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:30:20
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:14:56
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mWorld
in de caw
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:34:41
Comments:
RubyBaby...you wait till now to tell me this?
mW
Name: Cl
as
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:16:31
Comments:
"Today, we learn how to drive with 2 dogs in the car, milkshakes in hand and TP&theHeartbreakers running down our dreams..."
Oh my god. And I was worried about the music.
Name: Clas
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:12:54
Comments:
Ruby - oh boy, have no music on while doing this, ok?
Geena - hu hu hu hi ho ho, I've found it. The milkman is informed on the extra. He's a little afraid of Pompe, but I told him (the dog) -Why bite when a simple growl will do? (so, your hair is up now?)
Fezo - I think I got it, it's a Woodstock-thing isn't it? A F and a couple of stars.
Name: RubyBaby
Yes, there's gas in the caaaar
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 10:39:59
Comments:
Geena: Glad you finally got through to your Swede in Need. Love always finds a way.Clas: It's worse that you know - I'm teaching my 2nd kid how to drive! Today, we learn how to drive with 2 dogs in the car, milkshakes in hand and TP&theHeartbreakers running down our dreams...
mWorld: do as little driving today as possible
a note on the side: Was it Walter that said they wanted to procure some younger fans, or was it Donald? Either way, they need to do something radical. I think they could make King Of the World into an outrageous rap. At least parts of it. I can hear it anyway... A video's a MUST DO.
going head first,
rb
Name: Geena
Clas Fanatic
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 10:27:59
Comments:
Clas Darling:
I took the waterpipe in the house with me last night after we got through rolling around on the lawn. The same lawn which you stomped on today! Remember now? You wanted to roll around on the milktruck so we had to go in? And by the way, before you go to bed, please leave a note for the milkman to leave an extra bottle tomorrow. I think you'll be needing more in the morning. I'm going to put my hair up now, goodnight sweetie!
Name: fezo
so@pinmouth
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 08:32:48
Comments:
Clas:
f*** if i know. that was yesterday morning and my short term memory isn't what it used to be.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 08:03:37
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
When I checked out from this excellent GuestBook this morning I promised my self not to check in again before tomorrow. But today I've been stomping around all day on the lawn wondering over a little thing my dear friend mr Fezo wrote this morning (actually I don't think he wrote it this morning (probably last night (HIS time))). So this question I have goes to Fezo; what the fuck is "f***in"?
And while I'm here I can, instead of stomping around all night (on the lawn that is) inform mr Deadhead, which in my opinion seems very Dead in Head, that a true Jackson Browne-fan NEVER would or will smoke pot while listening to his great music. And lyrics I might add. A Jackson Browne-fan wants to get it, to absorbe the brightness of this young man's music. And lyrics, which I've already might have add but do so again in securitycase.
Geena; where's my waterpipe? It was on the lawn last time I saw it. The pipe, not the milktruck... no what the fu... goodnight again then, ok?
Name: Bruce Willis
arm&geddon
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 02:27:59
Comments:
Fuck the Danfest! Fuck the Walk of Fame! Fuck the premiere of "The Fifth Element Pt. II: Diehard in Outer Space"! What moore does Demi want? The WHOLE state of Idaho? She was my G.I. G-Spot and I was her buzz-cutted Action Figure with life-like tone deafness! The pain, the pain! I just know some Brad Pitt look-alike is suckling her saline right now! And here's what really gets my goat: Her attorney gets to fuck me but I don't even get a blow-job! Man, I wish I was 13 years old again and had a dad with an NRA membership. I'd kill the bitch and tell the judge Moses told me to do it...
Quick, Before I Die Hard Again,
Bruno
Name: Dead Head
@suemefuckhead
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 01:32:11
Comments:
Hey Clas- What did the Jackson Brown fans say at the concert when there pot ran out?THIS SHOW SUCKS!
Name: Clas
the Fran Milktruck-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 00:23:06
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
Fezo; the Deads sound was going down because they were running out of acid.
Pete Fogel; can I bring my dog? He loves the great Dan. Even if it's a cover.
Geena - my little birdie, is it hot in Boston today?
Ruby; you're not driving around today?
Lisa; how are YOU?
Yes, that's great, Roger Nichols on the new one. I wish Katz is doing the producing too.
Name: Florida Kid
do me justice
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 21:46:53
Comments:
That sounds so cool!
I wish we could get any sd cover bands here
Name: Pete
petefogel@asan.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 17:52:17
Comments:
Hey! Long time, no groove!
I was just going to let you all know about The Steely Damned show at Le Bar Bat, but it looks like Bob Tedde already beat me to it. For those of you who haven't seen these guys, they are worth the trip. I've personally seen a half a dozen or so SD cover bands around the country, and these guys are by far the best. They're 13 or 14 pieces, play for about 4 hours, and play nothing but SD/DF tunes. Some of the horn players couldn't make the trip so I hooked Bob up with some exciting local players including Tom Timko (alto/bari)who toured with Tower of Power and played on many of Toto's albums and Chris Anderson (trumpet) who played on "NYR&SR Live at The Beacon". It's going to be an exciting night for Steely Dan fans. I've never booked a SD cover band before for the obvious reason that nobody can do those songs justice, but these guys are really worth checking out! A number of musicians that have played with Donald and Walter in the past have mentioned that they'd like to come to check out the band and possibly jam on a few tunes, so hopefully we'll have some special guests.
If you're interested, email me and we'll cut you a deal at the door
Thursday July 23rd
Le Bar Bat
311 W. 57th St. (between 8th & 9th Ave)
New York City10:00pm - 4:00am
(Congratulations Major Dude!)
Name: Geena
The Milkman screamed
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 16:27:31
Comments:
and pointed up to the sky
Clas:
I'm leaving on a flight from Kizmar tonight
I'm your virus in pumps and pearls
and when the static clears, I will be left in your arms
Your tomorrow's girlI'll be your laughing angel
but don't make me whine
because in a few short hours
It will be "shredding" time
BK's Son: I know how you feel, I'd like to get a Danfess in Boston sometime!Lisa: I regret that I will be unable to get the time off for the upcoming Danfess, but hopefully, I'll be there for the next one.
Name: just
reading
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 15:47:45
Comments:
I know everyone's busy with party planning, but --- am I the only one who noticed that among the SD Site updates, we get the first official confirmation that Roger N will engineer The New One?
Name: BookKeepersSon
forgot
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 15:29:42
Comments:
Well if Danfest is defintely in VA. then I regretefully cannot attend. I just cant leave the Tampa Bay Area in the summer time because of my business, any last minute request for having Danfest around here?
Or I know that there r a lot of Danomaniacs in the Bay Area, maybe we could have a little fest right here, not to take anything away from the big Shindig in VA.
I know its really hot here right now but maybe around december we could have a official Danfest right here or around spring break time, this place is really cooking around that time!
Any response to have a little fest in the Bay Area(Attn: Rigs and Dragon) then let me know on the book!
Lisa r u still coming here in the summer?
BKS
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
on.the.dunes
Location: Va (DAN) Beach,
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 13:59:46
Comments:
Oddly enough, St. Al, I was sort of thinking the Duck-In would be the sort of place appropriate for the gathering of scurvy brethren and babylon sisters. (It definitely has a slightly weathered look.) But never having actually been in it, I wasn't too sure I should recommend it. But if you've been there and deem it worthy, I throw my vote behind the D-I.
But we might want to have a Plan B, just in case it rains. There's a spot called Hot Tuna that is (I believe) within walking distance of the Duck-In. I would nominate that as our back-up site.
--LP
Name: fezo
t@kingkickb@cks
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 13:07:14
Comments:
o.k., i confess, the Richmond International Airport slips me cash periodically to recommend their facility on the web.
please don't tell Ken Starr
Name: Virginia
yes,virginia there are good airports here
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 12:40:40
Comments:
Hey Danfans,
Newport News has a very nice airport that does accomodate jets but Norfolk's airport is more of a hub for this area. Delta,TWA, Northwest,Airtran,USAIR,United all fly out from Norfolk. Richmond is too far away if you are planning on staying in VA. Beach. Traffic gets ugly around here during the summer. So it is best not to try to go through a tunnel if you don't have to on a Friday night. Speaking of Friday nights, Hampton has a wine and jazz night from 5:30-9 P.M. every Friday night. Hampton is on the other side of Norfolk. Still very cool, on the water, close to Busch Gardens, Water Country, and Williamsburg. The Radisson has nice accommodations on the water and live entertainment on the weekends.
Name: rudy
eschuttler@imageassociates.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:51:42
Comments:
LISA: be also aware of Rudy's presence in Va. Beach in August.
the brother-in-law who was supposed to move there is scrapping them plans, staying in humid Raleigh: so any info on group hotel accomodations would be most helpful....
[Tough to e-mail you when you don't post a valid e-mail...] rudy
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:29:05
Comments:
fezo: Was not privy to Jerry's swan song dates. However, like you, I've also heard that the last days of the Dead were sonically abysmal. Sad, in a way...
Alive In America "Aja" tenor El Supremo - Chris Potter - has a new release slated for August 4, 1998 entitled "Vertigo" on the Concord Jazz label. If this one turns out anything at all like his last outing "Unspoken", it should be a real treat. Don't know the personnel on this one as yet but "Unspoken" highlights the considerable talents of John Scofield (g), Jack DeJohnette (d) and Dave Holland (b). Potter penned all the tunes and quite simply plays inside and out of his instrument throughout. Especially on "Wistful", "Et Tu Brute?" and the title track.
Name: lisa
your friendly tr@vel girl
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:06:27
Comments:
okay, guys...i'm on it like blue bonnet.
i found some info on virginia beach.net...out of curiosity, how many people are planning to attend? so far i 'm aware of the following: saint al, roy.scam, oleander, midnite cruiser, geena?, luckless pedestrian, mitch(who/where are you?), myself and samantha...fezO can't make it this go round (so we need a private dancer)...any others? how many people are looking for a hotel room? i'm sure we'll need reservations, and we could possibly get a group rate, depending on number of bodies present.
virginia beach and the surrounding area is a cool place FULL of shit to do...some examples: A.R.E. (edgar cacye institute), zoos/botanical gardens/aquariums, dolphin watching tours, maritime museums, art galleries, tons of historic sites, live music...there are numerous other things...i am willing to do some planning, but i'd like to get an idea of what everyone's interested in.
why don't the persons planning to come drop me an email with their hotel requirements, suggestions/preferences for activities, etc? samantha and i found this package deal if anyone is interested:
For $699, four can enjoy a five-day/four-night vacation that includes accommodations; breakfast daily; and a photo ID pass good for unlimited admission to the Virginia Marine Science Museum; Nauticus, the National Maritime Center; Virginia Air & Space Center; Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Water Country USA.
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Location: Piddly's my hometown, VA
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 08:29:09
Comments:
Fezo: What you talkin' 'bout, bro? Norfolk's airport is more than sufficient. Flying out on a MD-80 myself...
Anyone have any ideas for the location for this gathering? It's been a while, but I remember a place called the "Duck-in" that played live music, was large enough to accomodate a dozen or so people and had mucho outdoor seating. Or, shall we try this at the beach itself? I'm sure there are plenty of places down there for our little shindig. Lisa? Fezo? Help us out here...
StAl
Name: fezo
be@ches@reus
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 06:13:54
Comments:
Mitch: there is no Virginia Beach airport per se, there are ones in Norfolk (20 miles west) and Williamsburg/Newport News (50 miles west) but they are pretty piddly; planes larger than 20 seaters are a rarity. For safety and comfort, try Richmond International which is about 80 miles west. Big enough for jets and worth the extra drive
Clas: your song is too f***in funny
JoeM: been wondering, did you see any of the Dead shows on Jerry's last go around? I got a bootleg supposedly from their last show at Soldier's Field with a couple of songs on it and they sound like hell. Had their sound really go down that much?
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Location: Borensberg,
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 04:39:20
Comments:
RubyBaby - promise me, don't do that again. I want you alive and well.
Geena -
let's roll our hats on a nightclub in Rome
let's call our cheap hotel, our temporary home
and when we finally fall asleep
me on your milktruck
you'll whisper to me:
some guys got all the luck...
Name: Edd
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 03:16:39
Comments:
??
I seriously doubt anyone heard a Muzak version of "The Second Arrangement".
Jarrett claimed plagiarism by citing similarities between his recording of "Long As You Know Your Living Yours" and "Gaucho"...
Name: bob tedde (Not the "My Rival" bob)
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CA
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 01:03:05
Comments:
RE:Muzak Alert & The 2nd Arrangement at Wal Mart...
What you actually heard was a Keith Jarret tune which inspired "The 2nd Arrangement".
lovebob
Name: mitch
Danfest; Planning Committee
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 22:03:46
Comments:
To the Festival planners, July is upon us, Is there anything finalized about August yet? I am sure alot of the participants will be flying to Virginia, whats the closest major airport? Mitch....
Name: Richard Goetz
regpen@hotmail.com
Location: evansville, IN
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 22:03:41
Comments:
I just wanted to say how much I love the music of Steely and all the solo stuff also. I am a drummer of twenty-one years, and really dig all of the great musicians you have played with. Thanks for adding to my enjoyment of music.
Danger
Name: Joe M
warning@no_Dan_content
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 20:47:56
Comments:
Ole: The short list includes... Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" (a Minor recommendation), Junger's "The Perfect Storm", Holden's "Tchaikovsky: A Biography" and for good measure, another stab at Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49".
Not familiar with Cedar Walton's "Eastern Rebellion"... Please to elaborate.
Name: Linn Kincaid
JazzLvr103@aol.com
Location: Wichita , KS USA
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 20:17:53
Comments:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5121/
Name: Geena
Clas girl
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 14:23:29
Comments:
Clas: Yes, Erykah Badu is wonderful and
Yes, you may fall asleep in my arms again!
Name: RubyBaby
I remember...that lookinyoureye
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 11:30:56
Comments:
I'll enjoy My Rival more than ever from now on. Thanks Mr. Stewart! And thanks, of course, to Bob & Eunice.
Un-named: Forget the money! I'm hearing a provocative whisper voicing some Sweet Possibilities.
I'm also being swept back in time to the summer of 96. To that awesome night at the Bowl. Frome the gentle breeze, to the lovely sky, to the fun guys behind us and the generous folks to our left, to the incredible sound waves washing over us all...
Clas: I was listening to your music in our other car (with the good sound system). It was so great - I began swaying back & forth, then I jumped out of the car, ran next to the car, then I hopped onto a passing truck, then I jumped back onto the car, climbed in through the sun roof and kept on going it was that good! Keep doing it, baby...
rb
Name: Marti n Steel
steelm@classic.msn.com
Location: Worthing, Sussex England
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 11:30:54
Comments:
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 08:46:49
Comments:
Doc Kelly.....good to see you're still here after my very long absence....many thanks for your past kindness.
Rudy....have you checked out Ziggy's at www.ziggyrock.com ? Lots of good music not too far away from you. I know Raleigh has plenty of it's own but Ziggy's seems to really draw in some nice names to be so small. Good atmosphere.
Name: Clas
Steely Fran-fan
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 02:22:49
Comments:
Geena - I just checked, I got two new messages from. You'll hear from me (do you think you can make me fall asleep in your arms again?).
Mr Stewart - hey, that's great! "The milktruck...", absolutely great.
Hey, believe it or not, I've been listening to some new music that are real great. Two songs made by me, and a CD; Erykah Badu - "Baduizm Live". Great music. Fantastic good bassplayer.
Name: BookKeepersSon
Where the hell is my computer
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 01:50:39
Comments:
I have been computerless along with lisa, by the way thanx for all the birthday cheer I received!
I was in Comp USA yesterday and heard I.G.Y. of all songs in the world, I thought that was wierd, I was the only one in the store bopping my head around getting into the song on their P.A. system!
I caught myself singing out loud in there, some kid saw me and was shaking his head, the little bastard made me feel old!
especially since i just turned 27! oh my back!well got to take my geritol, bye u danomaniacs
Name: Doc Kelly
Here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 21:18:23
Comments:
Countzir0: I hear you on the brain cell comment. Trust me. It was 1994. I checked the tour list on the back of my 1994 shirt and also on the back of my 1996 shirt. Also, the Dan toured in 1993 too... just not in Dallas. (3 dots for Clas)
Actually, your comment about seeing our boys for the first time struck a chord with me. It made me remember for a brief moment the physical excitement (shivers down the back) realizing that I had an opportunity to see them live. I heard on the local Kansas City Fox radio station (70's rock) that there was a tour in the offing for the summer of '93. I was frantic. I called the local Ticket Bastard outlet. They didn't know anything about it. The gal that answered said "Oh I like his music..." I finally called the radio station. The DJ said I hear they're gonna be in Chicago." My next thought was ROAD TRIP!!! That first show kept me pinching myself just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. I bought a t-shirt to get the list of the tour sites and managed to make it to the St. Louis show, too. Then came 1994. Another road trip to Chicago. Then a small airplane ride to Dallas' Love Field and a rental over to the Starplex... and back to Kansas by 1:00 a.m. That was another skin-pincher. Chicago, Kansas City and Denver in 1997. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the 1999 tour dates!!!!
Stranger: Listen to the Royal Scam. The whole work is full of improv... especially guitar improv... for example: 1) the end of Kid C.; 2) middle of The Fez; and, 3) middle of Green Earrings... also, I can't leave out one of my personal faves: the end of King of the World.
Lester: How's the tape project progressing?
BTW, our BBQ team took 5th out of 160 teams at the Kansas BBQ State Championship in the pork roast category today. You just wouldn't believe what a sight 40 acres of smokers with 15,000 people wandering around is...
Nuff fer now! Doc
Name: Muzak
Alert
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 19:39:01
Comments:
Just heard "The Second Arrangement" while shopping at the local WalMart. However it was the instrumental version and there were no lyrics.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 17:47:02
Comments:
Mr. Stew--absolutely hilarious!
Going for bagels this am: "Black Friday." In keeping, I guess, with the Shabbat theme.
Name: Father Time
reeling.in.tbe.ye@rs
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 16:02:27
Comments:
I don't think video camera's existed at the time "My Rival" was written
Or am I missing a sataric song interpretaion along the lines of "Book of Liars" being about Santa Claus
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 15:46:51
Comments:
Bob and I were out at a great cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, battery powered boom box playing "My Rival" as we scrubbed the last of the bear shit off dog Eunice (she'd rolled in it, joyfully), and Bob had this interpretation to offer:
The Narrator: A new daddy
The Rival: His baby boy
The Milk Truck: His partner's breasts
The detective on the case, scar across face, hearing aide, filming the whole charade: His partner's father with trusty video camera.Think about it. His boy is going to answer for his crime (taking his father away from his partner during the months and months of breast feeding) when he himself is a dad someday.
Bob had this epiphany after his daughter was born when his wife was not necessarily interested in sex, focused on baby, focused on how much she enjoyed breast feeding her girl (so much so that she didn't really want to wean her until Bob, the whining stranger, the fool in love with time to kill, finding himself in the garage striking a match to bowl each evening finally began to insist that it be "stopping time"--Bob's interpretation of the lyrics although songbook lyrics read "Stomping time").
I about fell in the river.
Mr. Stewart
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:59:53
Comments:
Kulee, Kali, hwhaddeveryha!! I want to hear it.
BTW, a Jerome Anitone impersonation is right on the money for setting the tone of the Damned show at LLB.
"... ol', little ol' pretty one. Hhawhh!!..."
maj©
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:54:32
Comments:
Good 1, Mitch. I'd like to hear Kali Baba, and whatever Kinky wants to hear from the Catalyst collection.
Minute by Minute is a good baby song.
maj©
Name: Rigs
ccfeds
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:27:16
Comments:
Lisa, just wanted to say hello "hello". How are you doing? Was listening to some tunes and thought of ya. eyb sgiR
Name: Geena
Clas-Fan
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 11:52:46
Comments:
Stranger: I don't see any harm in using Mastercard on mizar5, the boys know you, don't they? Of course you may have to surrender to a series of DNA testing before you get an approval. I hear they're having a huge sale on cloned specimans of DF and WB.
And my apologies for fogging up your monitor. I'll get you a year's supply of Brite-O anti-fogger which comes in the new cryogenically sealed plastic tube. Great for waxing floors and megahertz too!
Ruby: Hey Girl! How are you!!!! I've tried your suggestions twice now and they still bounce back. Do you think I should try the mbox300 again? Where's Clas when you need him?
I've got the Eagles cranked up, can you hear it?
Lisa: Where are you? Talk to me! Tell me something good!
Clas: Where are you? Talk to me! Tell me something good!
Name: TheStranger
never going back to annandale
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 10:03:59
Comments:
countzir0,
with you. you know, it's funny how the more things get repeated, they more they're believed. the greatest guitarist we've seen was jerry garcia, no question. hendrix was great, clapton is great, but jerry's the man. wish the Dan had used him someplace if only they could all get along. maybe rodney king could have refereed.keith phares,
honestly trying to get to the bottom of this -- can you give me an example of Dan improvisation on a studio recording?geena,
it's getting harder and harder to stay ahead of the curve. do the boys on mizar5 take mastercard? also, i advise you and clas to get a room. you're fogging up my monitor and possibly endangering my 233 megarertz, whatever the hell that is.
Name: Mitch
mcharl6651@aol.com
Location: wjaz-Mt. Belzoni,
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 09:54:11
Comments:
DANDOM: Just say D+W Let the loyal masses pick one or two cuts from previous officially unreleased material, to finish the "NEW ONE" Which tunes should be on it.????
Name: RubyBaby
LLB@t or bust
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 08:56:55
Comments:
Unnamed: Send me a sample of your DNA so I can lock onto your coordinates. You want 1st class, right? Window or Aisle?Who would you like sitting next to you? (Do you think there could be money in this?)
Geena: Go back to a mail you sent him that works and copy that address, even though it looks the same as all the ones that bounce back. Just try it.And, criminny - turn up The Eagles!
rb
Name: Edd
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 04:17:12
Comments:
Sorry, Bob, I stumbled upon that page one day and know nothing of the author. Caveat emptor and all that...
I've got a REAL rough copy of "Kulee Baba". If I remember correctly it's just Donald on vox & Rhodes. I'm not sure it would be possible to even project what a fully realized version of it might sound like given the limited info available from the recording.
Name: lovebob
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 02:32:05
Comments:
Sheesh, just call me bad grammer man.
lovebob
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CA
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 02:29:51
Comments:
Smashed: I'm wondering if you got the 2A lyrics from the page Edd Cote posted and BTW Edd, thanks. That's some kind of awesome!) They seem to match up to yours. I'd love to know their source. I have to agree with Not Quite, however, that the lyrics in question (with the exception of "Smashed in a yellow Jag" which I'll check out tomorrow") are not accurate to the recording I have. I really appreciate the effort though, Thanks.
Edd: do you know anything about the people behind the afore mentioned page. I wonder what/who their sources of info are? Also what's Khuli Baba like? I've got a rough demo of Can't Write Home About You, and was shocked to find out it was from the Gaucho sessions. Sounded to me more akin to the Sun Mountain stuff. Anyway, thanks for pointing me in that direction.
Jama Dude: If you do make the long haul to LLB be sure n' bring your skins (you still play?) SIR is charging me a bundle for a set of congas.
Un-Named Dan Fan:We're not real keen on folks taping the shows. As far as I've always been concerned, the only usefulness of a Dan cover band lies in the moment, the act of performing and being seen/heard live. We do tape almost every performance but strictly for the purposes of damage control. They're kind of the football equivalent to watching the Monday morning films. That having been said, I do understand people's curiosity as to what we might sound like. E-mail me, and perhaps I could send you some snippets of the show (assuming you were serious)
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis,
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 21:21:15
Comments:
Some of the best improvisation I've ever heard is on Steely Dan recordings. I mean, yeah, each solo is probably like "Take 27" with like, the 9th guitar player they've tried - but it's still improvisation.SD worked a lot like Miles Davis - they let you work your own sound - but under their stylistic direction.
Name: Geena
again..
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 18:01:47
Comments:
Clas: what's wrong with your email? I keep sending you mail and it keeps coming back to me...help me!
Name: Geena
Clas groupie and major squeeze
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 17:53:08
Comments:
Clas: I know it's true love, a love so strong that the polar ice caps are melting, Mt. St. Helens is erupting again and the ozone layer is resurrecting itself. I'll be coming back to you soon hon, and our souls will once again become absorbed in supreme nirvana. Yes, Clas you fell asleep in my arms, remember?
did i say fine columbian? Sorry, babe, I meant the fine KOH-LAHM-BEE-AHN, it's a beverage I concoct from the herbs in my garden - goes great with Cuervo! You know I would never cheat on you!
Stranger: no, you're referring to the Cheek-o-meter double O series, model #00-u-byt-me. It's an excellent piece of machinery designed with an ultra-violet sensor for achieving that perfect tan. I'll send you my old copies of Consumer Report.
Name: countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 16:49:13
Comments:
Stranger--just saw your post, and good observation... As a fellow Danfan/dedhead I agree completely. Take "Kid Charlemagne" with it's driving drum beats, and Carlton riffs, polished to studio perfection, and then listen to "Candyman" the live ver. off The Dead Set, in which Garcia goes into a crescendo of trance-weaving licks leaving you in tears of sadness. One song is about a guy who makes and sells acid, the other one was written while U the I of acid......but both are masterpieces, and life would be less pleasing had they not been created.
Name: Not
Quite
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 15:53:27
Comments:
Smashed: I count at least 2 errors in your lyrics. (Sorry, I'm not gonna post the corrections; I don't want to contribute to the performance of unreleased tunes)
Name: smashed in a
yellow jag
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 15:25:35
Comments:
The Second Arrangement
Pour out the wine girl
I've got just two friends in this whole wide world
Here's to reckless lovers
We all need somebody
Smashed in yellow Jag
I've got my life and laundry in a Gladstone bag
You should know the program
Just one red rose and a tender goodbye (one last goodbye)Chorus
And I run to the second arrangement
It's only the natural thing
Who steps out with no regrets
A sparkling conscience you address
When I run to the second arrangement
The home of a mutual friend
Now's the time to redefine the first arrangement againIt's a sticky situation
A serious affair
I must explain it to you somehow
Right now I'll just move back one squareHere comes that noise again
Another scrambled message from my last best friend
Something I can dance to
A song with tears in it
Old friends abandon me
It's just the routine politics of jealousy
Someday we'll remember
That one red rose and one last goodbye (one last goodbye)Chorus repeat
Name: countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 14:31:34
Comments:
Doc--You might be right on that one...when I got home last nite, I was pondering that same question and so I asked my twin bro who attended with me. He keeps saying '96, but I thought it was '94. Here's the problem: The few brain cells I have left are fighting each other. I do remember sneaking a liter of Cuervo into Starplex with a pair of "barnoculars," and that Fagen seemed to be balding and wearing a ponytail from the horrible seats that I had. Got some pretty good pics of it nonetheless via zoom lens, and I thought it was an excellent show, if for no other reason than the fact that Steely Dan was touring for the first time since the year of my birth!! Earliest memories: hearing "Do It Again" in my crib. My experience at the Dead show didn't work out too good, "dont eat the brown acid..."GKingRich--Glad to see there are other people who appreciate truly good art work, and wine also. I was surprised when the wine which sold for less than $15 was half-assed good. Correction: Laza Primavera is what I meant to say, Laza Alfredo would taste pretty horrible with marinara sauce...that is, unless you had some fine Columbian, then it'd probably taste Ok with straight wine poured over the top.
Name: (un-named) danfan
@staggering-mind.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 11:56:22
Comments:
Rubybaby:
No thanks necessary, your presence around here is thanks enough...unless, of course, you can magically beam us all to LBB on July 23rd around 10:30pm...
Lovesbob: You allowing tapers with permission?
Name: Still got the shakes
@some DAN detox center
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 11:49:11
Comments:
UNCUT DAN MAY BE HAZERDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe sneek out later. HellO all.
Name: TheStranger
DanFan AND Ded Hed
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 10:37:49
Comments:
geena,
here i thought the suds-o-matic 3000 was for photocpying rear ends. i'll have to start reading consumer reports.on the grateful dead-Dan connection: the main link is superior artistry, but both groups took rock to a new level. they use different roads and sometimes meet in the middle. when garcia is really pmping on guitar, improvising way out there and bringing it home, it's a new art form. as far as i can tell, Dan doesn't improvise at all. they dot every i to perfection to create their own zone. but they sometimes arrive at the same place.
Name: RubyBaby
sh@ring the things we love
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 10:24:12
Comments:
DrKeithWu: your vocal engagement sounds rather awesome! Wish I could go to THAT.GKRichard: I'd like to hear Everything You Did when I'm on hold. Give 'em something interesting to think about. Goucho wouldn't be half-bad either.
A big THANK YOU to the special Dan fan that gave me the tape of the 96 tour and various Steely Dan material. I've been having a glorious time with it. Ricky Lawson's drum solo for Josie is magnificent!
Okay, dan fan (who shall remain un-named)- how can I thank you? It's your call, baby.
rb
Name: peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:48:30
Comments:
Edd: what's your e-mail address?
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:28:11
Comments:
Bob - Seen this page...?
http://hem.passagen.se/tomasbro/sd_gaucho_outtakes.htm
Name: jamaicandude
123
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:07:33
Comments:
BobTedde - you guys are doing The 2nd Arrangement????? Damn, I have to get up there. Isn't it "cash in the yellow jag". Jack of Speed would be a good one, too. You need a copy?
Name: clas
the Fran-fan
Location: today; Stockholm,
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:06:25
Comments:
Geena - yes, this is love, real love, real true love. When do I get to see/feel you hon? More emails please! (DID I fall in sleep!)
But who is this fine Columbian you keep talking about? Are you cheating on me hon?
Diane - hi Diane! You have a beautiful name Diane! I guess your parents were very happy when they named you, you sweety little pearl. Welcome to this GBook. My name is Clas. I am 24 years old and some girls say that I am gods gift to woman. Are you in some way related to Diane Wiest?
Ole; no big deal, but if I did, could I sneak in some of my own, fine lyrics?
TODAY;
STERNUM AGONY;
none, I feel great. Changed from Prozac to Seroxat. Wonderful medicine that is.
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 06:14:50
Comments:
Dear Diane/Ms City Girl:
Welcome to tyhe guestbook!
What radio station is that with the fine Dan taste?
Name: E.B. White
@shesto@shes
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 05:48:54
Comments:
Keith:
What's that? You thought I was dead? Just a second. Let me check . . . Damn, you're right. Why the hell am I wasting my resurrection in the GB. Think I'll go find some lap dancers.
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CCCA
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 03:14:59
Comments:
HEY it's me again. Still hawking the one and only East coast performance of The Steely Damned.
The Date :THURSDAY, JULY 23RD 1998
The Place: LE BAR BAT at 311West 57th st. in Manhattan
The Start Time: Hell I don't know, I think Rockola started at 10:45pm or so. No one in NYC leaves their apt. until 10:30pm.
The End Time: When we run out of Dan/Fagan tunes. (at least 4 hours)
The info line: The Rockola Hotline (24hr service) (619) 558-1966
also you can email me or Pete Fogel for more info.On a related note: Does anyone know ALL the lyrics to The Second Arrangement? I'm not sure about a word or two. Specifically " The RUBE? steps out ... and ..."..and a PANDA? goodbye."
I know the second time thru he say "one long last goodbye"
Also is it "Cash in the YELLOW JACK?"
lovebob
PS Jerome Anitone please report to Le Bar Bat no later than 9:30pm night of show.
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CCCA
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 03:12:47
Comments:
HEY it's me again. Still hawking the one and only East coast performance of The Steely Damned.
The Date :THURSDAY, JULY 23RD 1998
The Place: LE BAR BAT at 311West 57th st. in Manhattan
The Start Time: Hell I don't know, I think Rockola started at 10:45pm or so. No one in NYC leaves their apt. until 10:30pm.
The End Time: When we run out of Dan/Fagan tunes. (at least 4 hours)
The info line: The Rockola Hotline (24hr service) (619) 558-1966
also you can email me or Pete Fogel for more info.On a related note: Does anyone know ALL the lyrics to The Second Arrangement? I'm not sure about a word or two. Specifically " The steps out ... and ..."..and a goodbye."
I know the second time thru he say "one long last goodbye"
Also is it "Cash in the "
lovebob
PS Jerome Anitone please report to Le Bar Bat no later than 9:30pm night of show.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St.Louis, MO
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 00:25:52
Comments:
Name: Diane
cityfamily@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 23:53:15
Comments:
Just surfed on over to this site from the v. witty Official Steely Dan website...and I want to tell you that this is a cool, cool site for a v. cool band! I fell in love with Steely Dan when I 1st heard "New Frontier" by Donald Fagen in '87 (I was eight at the time), and then began to grow crazy over "Hey Nineteen" (one of the smoothest songs I've ever heard). I'm now 19 myself, and while I may have moved on to Duran Duran and the like, I'm still in love with the Dan's music...especially the music from "Gaucho" and "Aja" (which gets played all the time on my fave radio station!) Thanks for letting me rant... Diane/Ms. City Girl
Name: GoodKingRichard
On th@ Hill, you know I will
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 23:08:29
Comments:
Maj D: Sounds like life is returning to what will now pass as 'normal'- hope Mum and JD are going well. Lily and mum doing just fine - thanks for all the greetings. [Ole: even now, I fear the worst re. right-handedness... she's already pretty articulate "with her red right hand". Maybe if I play more SD to her she'll become more sinistrous.] Maj: I understand your predicament: other little hands got at my stylus and I haven't been able to get to the vinyl versions for a while. However, I have most stuff stacked in the cerebral juke box and it's always refreshing and enlightening to return to the originals after a necessary break. I was going to make an analogy with sex but maybe at this point - going home after too much bad muzak in the Supermarket - is sufficient simile.
I wonder what SD would be good to be put 'on hold' to - any suggestions better than 'all of it'?
Re Ralph Steadman (sorry poster, I can't scroll back to find your name): Yes, a real talent (loved 'I Leonardo'). But, no surprise re. the wine, he's been closely associated with Oddbins, easily the best British high street wine retailer, for many years and compiled their catalogues, promos, etc... If you have any friends over on those shores you should ask them to drop in and pick up any free literature. His wonderful handywork is everywhere. Even at this distance, I have a few items secured away. Now there's a man who could do justice to the next SD cover (sorry Rudy, no slight intended).
When Black Friday comes I'll fly down to Muswellbrook,
Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book.
Gonna do just what I please, gonna wear no socks and shoes,
With nothing to do but feed all the Kangaroos.When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill,
You know I will...5 years, to the (fri)day, since I flew down by Muswellbrook and since I've been on that hill... but I never realised until now that D&W meant 'black' in this context quite so positively. Life can be so full of pleasant surprises and coincidences. Have a good w/e all.
Richard&kangaroos
Name: oleander
false spoor
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 21:35:08
Comments:
Far be it from me ever to lead other GBers wrong: the url on the back of the Sweet book(let) for Omnibus does NOT have the "Guide" yet. You'll have to go to amazon.com for the moment--$7.16 US! I ordered mine from G. Schirmer at 914 469 2271.
Clas--I don't edit the entries for spelling, punctuation, perfection, or grace. If, however, you'd like to edit your OWN entries and have me replace them with shiny happy new versions, I'll do so.
Joe--What else is on your summer reading list? You usually have some good ones. Also--do you know "Eastern Rebellion" by Cedar Walton's quartet?
Name: Doc K
the evil double poster
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:06:38
Comments:
Sorry... I hit "reload" after "submit" then "back" then "back" again and the next thing I see is the double whammy...
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:03:39
Comments:
Countzir0: Wasn't that Dallas concert in 1994? My recollection of the Dallas show was that the crowd wasn't as enthusiastic as it could have been... The whole state of Texas suffered in 1996 as a result! The Chicago '94 crowd was great!
Danfesters: Ya know, a central USA venue wouldn't be so bad... that way both coast's Danfans could attend...
BTW, how long has it been since anybody has seen some AUTHENTIC (emphasis added) "fine Columbian"? We're not talking coffee here... If you're under the age of 30 then I suspect that you don't even know what it is...
Toodles - Doc K
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:02:56
Comments:
Countzir0: Wasn't that Dallas concert in 1994? My recollection of the Dallas show was that the crowd wasn't as enthusiastic as it could have been... The whole state of Texas suffered in 1996 as a result! The Chicago '94 crowd was great!
Danfesters: Ya know, a central USA venue wouldn't be so bad... that way both coast's Danfans could attend...
BTW, how long has it been since anybody has seen some AUTHENTIC (emphasis added) "fine Columbian"? We're not talking coffee here... If you're under the age of 30 then I suspect that you don't even know what it is...
Toodles - Doc K
Name: Geena
Clas' babe
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 18:24:10
Comments:
Mock Turtle: foreign people are wierd huh? unless you're a native American, we're all foreigners in this country!
Stranger: Try rinsing your thermonucelar nailclippers in the Suds-o-matic 3000. Makes them sparkly and clean and they'll work like new! It's the newest rage on mizar 5!
Lisa: Let's discuss biosphere, it's time to move!
Stevie Dan & the Mrs. Happy belated Anniversary!
Clas: is this really love?
Someone pass me the Cuervo and the fine columbian please!
Name: Dr. Steve V. Dan
in cobra pose
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:15:12
Comments:
Oleander: re:
Fagen's 5th chakra...I was just wondering whether you had any thoughts on which of Fagen's chakra's were problems for him...but I think this chakra thing is way over the GB's head....but if anyone is interested we just got a new tape in ; 'Kundalini: Energy of Awakening' here at the Yoga Journal...call 1-800 I-DO-YOGA and speak to Steve V.Dan your Steely Dan yogi.......
Name: E. B. White
forest.l@wn
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:05:40
Comments:
I sense a recent graduate of a creative writing course in our midst. Must have missed the lecture on the necessity of subtlety in satire though . . .
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:01:37
Comments:
Oleander: ...funny, I haven't seen any warm fuzzies in my e-mail box... I guess I've been too busy archiving.
Name: Countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 11:12:25
Comments:
I was walking through the grocery store the other day picking up ingredients for Laza Alfredo when I heard "Your Gold Teeth"--the real version at that(not muzak!!!!) I looked around at all the other shoppers and noticed that I was the only one mouthing the words... Those fools, they don't know what they're missing out on! As I was picking up some wine for the marinara, I found a Ralph Steadman bottle of Cabernet--I've always been a fan of his, but never expected to see him on bottles of wine. Relating back to The Grateful Dead, I did, however, attend the Grateful Dead Tour of Vegas in '92, and got a Steadman T-shirt that has the same exact picture as on the cover of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" except they've replaced Hunter S. Thompson and his attorney with a couple of skeletons, and on the back of the shirt it says "What a long, strange trip it's been." That was one unbeleivable show, eclipsed only by SD's Dallas performance in '96...
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 09:49:52
Comments:
Whew!! Talk about being in withdraw..... I was *without* most of my Dan collection for the past ten days. When I left the office in a hurry last week, I didn't grab my CD case holding most of Citizen and solo stuffs. How long could you hold out?
"Johnnie's playroom is a bunker filled with sand......" Eerie.
maj©
Name: Clas
the Geena Fan
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:40:58
Comments:
Oleander: I am worried about you! Why are you down this late? Or up this early? Don't you have a job to take care of? But really, why can't you translate my english into PROPER English on your HPAGE?
God dammit, today I am tired. Going to Stockholm tomorrow to see my shrink, have to ask him about this Lary king-thing. Love you baby, godnight.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:37:16
Comments:
fezo,
Speaking of the live "Kama" material from '93 as having a very "Deadlike jam" feel to it... Interestingly, Jerry et al. had "Kama" blasting between sets during the Dead's final touring days... Another Dead/Dan love connection.
Ole: Thanks for the Dan book review, it's on the summer reading list.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:15:12
Comments:
Happies: GKR--mazel tov on Lily's birth! Way to squeak in under the Gemini door! Please let me know if she turns out left-handed. Shelly--HB. Stevie--HA. Many more to all. And maj--keep us posted.
DrWu--son, you are mistaken. There should be some warm fuzzies in your emailbox even as we type.
Clas--darlin', I think your stuff is great. That's why it's there. People should remember that you're doing all this in your SECOND language.
Stranger--you really know how to hurt a girl! If you can't think of anything, then fuggeddaboutit!
DrStevie--Let's see: #1--anus--survival; #2--genitals--sexuality; #3--solar plexus--self-centeredness/ power/ anger; #4--heart--balance/ clarity/ beatitude; #5--throat--supreme reasoning/ cosmic consciousness; #6--third eye--undifferentiated cosmic awareness; #7--top of the head--immortality/ the seat of the soul. Is this what you mean: "Spoken words come from the fifth chakra, giving voice to the emotions within the heart. The voice of a fifth-chakra person penetrates to the heart of the listener. This pure sound affects the listener by changing the dimension of his mind and being." (Johari) That's what happens to me. Or do you mean the writer's block? I truly am a rookie at this. Can you clarify?
Unsolicited Premature Book Review: Thanx to a tip from Pete Fogel, I got Brian Sweet's new one, "The Complete Guide To The Music Of Steely Dan," pub. 4/98, Omnibus Press. (http://www.musicsales.co.uk, or amazon.com) Cheap--$8.95. Part of a series on the music of many rock bands, it's a very portable little book, organized album-by-album and track-by-track. It includes pictures & descriptions of all compilations, un- and extra-Dan, and live releases. Those who have read "Reelin' In The Years" will not find much new text, though the editing is improved and more concise. However, there are some glaring editing errors: Mr. Becker's "base" of operations is given as Miami, and "True Companion" is listed in the intro as "The Companion." There are also several misspelled names. There is an index, but only of tune and album titles. Why not of some other important things, such as personnel, tour dates, and place names? There is also no concise list of who did what on which tune, an unfortunate omission in a book which calls itself "complete." He also kvetches about 11TOW a bit much for my taste. However, there are lots of great, very nicely reproduced photos, many of them recent, and it's very readable--kind of a Cliff's Notes of Dandom, easily done in an evening. So I'd give it 3 dog bones and an Indispensable for its publishing quality, improved organization, and its wealth of detail available nowhere else.
Name: Clas
the Dan-Fran
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 05:18:37
Comments:
Kinky; sorry I lost my temper last night, it won't happen again.
Name: Elroy
One must put up barriers, to keep oneself intact
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 05:04:05
Comments:
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
Now Rush Limbaugh must die.This moody bastard remembers.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 00:45:07
Comments:
I don't agree with you Mock Turtle, some US-natives I know are great people.
OLEANDER;
let me explain my blunderpost for you: It was written with half "tongue in cheek" half serious. What I mean is; to see my bad spelled, jokish, foolish thoughts on some songs on your exciting and amazing HomePage makes this mans face turn red. That's what I mean, and nothing else.
Name: Mock Turtle
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 21:26:49
Comments:
Foreign people are weird.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 16:43:16
Comments:
Your Old Friend; you clueless yankee, you just don't get it do you? You're working on a law-firm? That make sence. Go fuck yourself you big fuck. But before you do, tell me, what's your real handle? You're a coward you stupid fuckhead.
Name: Your Old Friend
At The Law Office
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 15:51:26
Comments:
Yeah Claass, I'll bet there are quite a few things you've posted on this public GB that you hope no one kept a record of. But they have.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:34:15
Comments:
Oleander; I was not too happy to see things I've posted here on this GBook on your HomePage. Could you do so some erasing, deleting. I mean, really.
Thanks.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:30:38
Comments:
RubyBaby: Hey, you're not being nosy. It's a program of American composers. I apparently got a little too artsy fartsy last summer so they asked me to sing some more accessible material. So I'll be including a set of Gershwin and a set of Cole Porter along with some musical theater numbers as encores.I'm still doing a couple of classical song sets, however. These will include songs by Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland and possibly Charles Griffes (if I can find the right key - his songs are usually written for higher voices - they're really 'Victorian'sounding).
Thanks for asking
Name: shelly
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:00:37
Comments:
Stevie Dan, et al: is that a prediction? or am i having luck right now, and just don't know it? i guess everything's relative, huh?!
Name: fezo
bl@ckmuddyriver
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 13:11:47
Comments:
Roy: On the Dead/Dan connection . . . your comments brought back a great memory of what I guess was the SD or NYRS tour in 1993. They closed the regular set (as best as I can recall) with two songs from Kamakariad. It was a very Deadlike jam, seemingly spontanious in parts with a gradual but still surprising segue into a different but familiar song (Teahouse On The Tracks?)
Or maybe it's all just a Pepe Lopez inspired flashback
Name: shelly
did i forget? is this the onset of old age?
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:02:02
Comments:
Stranger, thanks for your wishes, too! I quickly scanned this and couldn't see that i acknowledged your Pooh-ish wish (was this from Pooh? oy - many too many long guyland ice teas later).
Name: Stevie Dan and the Mrs.
tooting our own horn
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:01:36
Comments:
Hey Shelly: Happy birthday......according to Linda Goodman people born on the 24th got this birthdate as a reward for past life sufferings and that they are lucky in love and money (!!)........
and Today is me and Mrs. Stevie Dan's 2nd Anniversary!!!.....we were married one week after meeting....so I guess I do believe in love at first site......speaking of sites I have added a bibliography and discography to my 'Steely Dan File' site at http://www.jps.net/stevev/sdfcontents.html and will soon be "sponsored" by Amazon.com (which sells Brian Sweets bio and lists a new title by him to be published soon).....
Roy: Steely Dan/Grateful Dead influences....I think there was atime way back when, when the'Dan could be classed right alongside the 'Dead and the Eagles in folk rock genre...heck I thought 'Reeling In The Years' was Crosby, Stills and Nash for a long time.....and Fagen did call in Poco member Tim Schmitt to help in on vocals a lot.....I think Fagen had a lot of 5th chakra issues back then.......maybe Oleander could shed some light on Fagen's chakra alignment....
Name: Steely Dan Fan
sdf76332@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:01:33
Comments:
www.danville.com
Name: shelly
awww, it warms the cockles of my heart
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:54:40
Comments:
Midnite Cruiser and Geena, many thanks to you for your thoughts!
Beavis and Butthead: Go to town. . .
Name: fezo
iw@ntmymtv
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:29:17
Comments:
Hey Butthead, she said "come" too, Heh, Heh, Heh.
Name: Geena
A true Clas Fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:28:40
Comments:
Shelly:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Roy.Scam
entendre X 2
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:09:17
Comments:
Hey Beevis, she said "instrument". Heh heh.......heh.......heh.
Name: RubyBaby
singing voulez voulez voulez vouUUUuuu
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:01:41
Comments:
Dr.Wu (keith): I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm intersted in hearing about your voice recital. What will you be singing? And to whom? Lately, I've come to appreciate the one instrument we seem to neglect.rb
I heard that, RoyScam! I'm talking about the VOICE.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 10:36:25
Comments:
Shelly....happy birthday....hope you have many more!
hmmm, I'm really in the mood for some blues today my friends....perhaps something really gut-wrenching....suggestions?
Name: shelly
are you sure? i think it's 7
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 10:01:17
Comments:
RoyScam: re age: one of those digits is right - is it the 2? or is it the 4? hmmm. now, my dear friend, i am a true beatles fan, and i say 7! course, i'll have to listen to it when i get home just to be sure, but i have been pathetically humming it to myself all morning with the hope that a passing coworker will recognize it, pop in and offer me lunch - i swear, i'm not making this up, someone literally just did that as i was typing "pop"! so i'm off for thai food. will continue the 7 v. 6 v. 8 tomorrow, after i've had a listen (and you, too!). apologies if i'm wrong. (i'm counting only those strums before "You", by the way).
thanks for the wishes!
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:58:33
Comments:
Oleander: Are you mad at me?
Name: Roy.Scam
chakra's.in.love
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:07:43
Comments:
Shelly: Happy birthday. What are you 24 now, you shameless geezer? BTW- Technically there should be either 6 or 8 da's before "..you say it's your birthday", depending on whether or not you count the notes after the vocal starts, not 7. (But, at least, I don't count dots.)-- Sort of reminds me of the CU football player whose oral English exam had the question "How many D's are in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. He answered 112 (dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee).
Ole-- Second Chakra, eh? I may need a theological step ladder. I've been known to get nose bleeds at any spiritual level higher than fart jokes.
Anyone notice that the Becker/Fagen song "Roll Back the Meaning" (from YGTWILYTI) has a distinctively Grateful Dead/CSNY sound to it?-- I understand this very Guestbook is part of a spin-off evolved from a Grateful Dead newsgroup. I never would have suspected much commonality between SD and the GD.
RS
Name: TheStranger
forgot
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:04:05
Comments:
shelly,
...and happy unbirthday tomorrow, too.
Name: TheStranger
hey nineteen
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:01:20
Comments:
oleander,
great. but how will we stay occupied while we listen? that's a lot of CDs.geena,
thanks for the tip. i think that's why i haven't been able to get this thermonuclear nail clipper to work right.
Name: shelly
dadadadadadada you say it's my birthday...
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 08:19:20
Comments:
yes, in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, i sing the beatles song to myself today!
Stevie Dan: cead mile failte; slainte!
Name: Clas
the Steely Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 08:16:22
Comments:
OLE; you wrote "maybe, why not...." Should be; "of course hon..."
Stevie Dan; have not heard that one. Never listen to Brittish music.
Name: oleander
furlongs per fortnight!
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 06:21:27
Comments:
Yes--check out the site guide on the ODP!
Stranger--thanx for the tip. Uh, you wanna see my cd collection?
Peg--not me!
Brenda--welcome back.
Ol'Fart--why don't we sleep on the beach and make it?
Clas--Maybe.... Why not?
Keith--will e you. In the meantime, to paraphrase E.M. Forster, only archive!
Roy--You can play second chakra in my band anytime.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 23:10:12
Comments:
LISA:
AAH! !@#$%^&*!!!!!
I'm giving a voice recital in South Carolina on August 22. God is laughing at me. SHIT! Oh well. Hey if you're not too hung over you should drive down or something. OH LORD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME??!!??!!Anyway thanks for the info. I appreciate it, Lisa. "There's no place like a tiny hotel room" There's no place... AW MAN!!
Name: lisa
inform@nt
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 22:31:38
Comments:
keith: i will disclose danfess details to you, but only for a price...cover your body in glitter and repeat this 3 times: there's no place like a tiny hotel room, packed with sweaty danfans, getting boozed up on cuervo and toked up on weed.
i guarantee it'll take you there, my friend.
do you wanna come to the next one? it's slated to go down the weekend of august 21st in virginia beach, va...the much sought after saint al(second only to our heroes d & w) will be in attendance along with assorted other guestbookers...
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 21:36:04
Comments:
Clas: Just got a note from St.Al about the censoremachine. Sorry you got juked, man!CAN SOMEONE, ANYONE?, TELL ME ABOUT THIS DANFEST??? PLEASE?? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ITS KILLING ME!! (I understand if its something, ...you know, "personal" or "private")
Name: Geena
Today I am Rosie
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 18:56:31
Comments:
Clas:
I'll be whatever makes you happy and whatever floats your boat baby!Shelly: I see you have a new friend on the GB, congrats!
Stevie Dan: humor her!
Stranger: posting here could be habit forming and hazardous to your health. Wear protective clothing and headgear (See past Lisa-post on SD helmets with "Can't Buy A Thril" emblazoned on the front)and do not operate heavy machinery or motor vehicles while under the influence of the GB.
Name: lisa
hey!
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 15:16:48
Comments:
could it be possible?? the official steely dan site has been updated...
Name: Stevie Dan
@dear dirty dublin
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 14:43:35
Comments:
just wonderin': Clas have you ever heard the song 'Sweden' by that great and legendary punk entourage known as 'the Stranglers???cool song...and they even did a version of it in Swedish
Dear Shelly: welcome to the 'Dan Guestbook...we need more Irish wit on this site.....
Name: clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 14:01:02
Comments:
Geena - do you wanne be the left Rosie or the right Rosie?
Name: Geena
I wanna be rosie!
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 12:05:12
Comments:
Clas: email #1 on the way to you sunshine!
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis , MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 11:21:03
Comments:
Oleander: What's this DANfest all about?Clas: Thanks for the tips, man. I'll direct the censoremachine message to St.Al right away.
Name: TheStranger
again
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 10:11:38
Comments:
make that HUGHES
Name: TheStranger
can't be too careful
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 10:08:29
Comments:
it appears lisa and geena suffer intermittent uterine agony. then there's clas & his bum sternum. i fear there's some kind of deadly virus at work on this board and am henceforth typing these messages with 2 sets of plasticine rubber gloves. perhaps howard huges wasn't so crazy after all to shut himself up in a germ-free room visited only by trusted, sterilized mormon servants prepared to instantly gun down possibly disease-carrying interlopers.
hope you're all feeling better.
Name: shelly
my musical heart's in dublin
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 09:38:35
Comments:
Clas, i live in the U.S., east coast. Received HHF from a friend in ireland for my birthday. please hold the many, many good wishes until tomorrow the 24th, the actual anniversary of my birth. i'm into irish music/rock, and my beloved beatles. oh, and of course, i am fond of SD, but as i said before, not a diehard; i'm here for the fine wine and good conversation.
Name: Cla
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 09:32:18
Comments:
Shelly - Hothouse Flowers CD! Wowowowow! Where do you live honey? Let's pardy hardy!
Keith Phares - StAl is the owner of this site. He's got Walter Becketts email-address so be nice to him. The question about the censoremachine you better ask him directly, I don't want to piss this guy off. The Danfest questions goes to Roy Scam, Oleander, Lisa, Fezo and other eastcoasters. I'm from Sweden so I'm audi on that one. On that one too one might add.
Geena - is there something wrong with your emailsystem on your job? Ain got no mail from you today and I hunger for mail from you.
LISA! I can't get to you! What's wrong. Email me?
Name: shelly
i'm way outta my league here
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 07:25:40
Comments:
Geena: (sob) thanks for writing to me, even if just to confirm your superiority. at least someone cares.
all: i know i know i know this has nothing to do w/ SD, so ignore me if you must, but i just got my new Hothouse Flowers CD! Whoopee! i'm a little excited.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 01:36:45
Comments:
Clas: Alright, man. That's pretty f****ed up.
Who's St. Al and what is this censoremachine?
what's this DANfest all about, anyway?
Name: Return to Brenda
tupperwareparty
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 01:25:17
Comments:
I swear, if I hear one more air-tight seal go, "whoosh", I'm gonna let all my left-overs get smelly! Do you realize I had to sell 10,000 plastic, injection-molded half-spheres with matching "flat-tops" in order to win the Dell / Pentium / Y2K resistant PC I'm using to interract with you people? I'd rather peddle Grit! (You get to read the Sunday comics sooner...)
Anyway, has anyone seen the new "Titanium Daniel" t-shirts at the PX? The kevlar sternum plate is out of this world!
Love to Lily,RTB
Name: Clas
Today I wanne go to Boston.
Location: Is it a Rag or a drag?,
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 00:14:06
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
Keith Phares; Rush Limbaugh INVENTED Steely Dan. He also invented StAl's censoremachine. So look out buddy.
Geena/Stranger; I used to watch the Baywatch-shootings when I was on vacation in L.A., but it was not for the bimbos, it was for the fucking incredible, idiotic shit they were filming. And how they cleaned the beaches from the bums... amazing. Good for the sternum, a good laugh that is.
Geena; I don't care about bimbos hon, I love brains and a good laugh. That's what turns me on. So, you have me turned on. I'm your radio. Who is "Rosie" you asked; that's my right hand. Or left. Depending on what night it is (invented by Jackson Browne).
Lisa; "have lena kick you in the stomach REAL, REAL hard 3 times..." No, but she have more than one good reason to do so. But, really, is that the way you feel? My baby, that's no good! I talk to you later.
Oleander; did you see the excellent movie "Once Upon A Time In America"? If you did, did you remember the scene when Robert De Niro is sick and tired of his whole situation and disapears to the chinese opium-den for a couple of days? Is not this the kind of place "Here At The Western World" is about?
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 23:49:27
Comments:
Johnboy:
I remember reading about the RS quote. ..can't say I disagree. It would certainly be a nice consolation if I ended up in a nursing home 60 years from now. Of course by that time, 'Pearl Jam' could be muzak. As thrillingly ironic as it would be, I wouldn't abide my last days listening to "Jeremy" or some shit like that. Sorry if I offend some Pearl Jam fans.Clas:
Somewhere along the line heard Rush Limbaugh was a Dan fan. Is it all just a charade?
What's this DANfest stuff all about?
Name: SASSY
SASSY-KELLY @ WEBTV.NET
Location: NORMAN, OKLA USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 21:04:17
Comments:
I AM A GIRL
Name: Schwinn
sameasiteverwas
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 20:37:19
Comments:
Sven: No! Great Danny would kick Godzilla's scaly, green butt back to the Ming Dynasty! And quit bothering nice Mr. Clas...
Name: Sven
theregoestokyo
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 20:26:53
Comments:
Schwinn: Could Godzilla beat Great Danny?
Name: Geena
Clas Fan
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 18:51:05
Comments:
Clas:
Geena! I trust you. Clas, I love you! who's Rosie?If you want to go to Venice beach and watch them film Baywatch, just pull out my picture and view "Babewatch", okay hon? Listen to Stranger, Listen to Stranger, Listen to Stranger, etc., etc.
GKRichard: Congrats to you and the lovely Mrs. GKRichard!
Shelly: Thanks, but Clas knows a good woman when he sees one and he knows that I am the only salve that can soothe his troubled mind.
Lisa: sorry to hear of your uterine agony, do we suffer of the same functional disorder transmitted through the nervous system? I will write soon my friend, it's just that Clas has decided to open up his cache of brain oscillators and has been directing streams of e-mail towards me all weekend long demanding that i profess my love for him to the GB populace.Still trying to get to the Danfess, shall we wear our festive uterine leather ponchos, with studs that match our eyes?
Stranger: Your prescription for keeping Clas away from Venice Beach is good medicine for his sternum, and I sincerely thank you for your advice. You are correct that the little bimbos do listen to disgusting Top 40 music (do we know what that is anymore?), and that it would indeed be more pleasing for him to make love with a woman (namely Geena)who has a music collection of over 1,000 assorted CDs, cassettes and vinyls which include bootlegs, the SD boxed sets in both CD and cassette as well as imports. The check is in the mail!
Name: mitch
mcharl 6651
Location: wjaz-mt.belzoni,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 18:24:09
Comments:
IF Danfest III IS going to have an HQ ,IT should be named ASAPso the DANDOM can start booking rooms,flights,WOLVERINES etc. Proximity to the beach for sure and distance from students is critical. peace: BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 17:17:39
Comments:
Peg....been go through a very non-Hatian Divorce the last year or so after 16 years together in one form or fashion....I think I'm the one you remember....did you once say the pic on my page reminded you of Skunk Baxter? It's been a while, hard to remember who said what....great to hear from you again.
Lisa....I'll just be listening here for more details of Dan Fest as they become available....I plan on being there but I'm a bit far (4 hours) from Va. Beach to be in on any planning....just looking forward to meeting some more Dan fans....there are still quite a few of us alive and well here in DAN-ville but it's always nice to meet new folks with such good taste in music!
not that it sounds even remotely like SD but if you'd like to try something new that really has my ear these days give a listen to Athenaeum....local boys from Greensboro, NC that are hitting the big time in a big way....very nice stuff.
Name: fezo
LondonC@lling
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 16:47:37
Comments:
Looks like I won't be able to attend Danfest 3 cause I'll be out of the country with the expatriate Mrs. Fezo, but here are my two cents as to a possible gathering site for the festivities.
The main beach drag is Atlantic Avenue, from about the 1500 to the 2500 block is the "strip" where most of the wayward youth gather and the cops patrol with disturbing frequency and intensity. I'd advise to stay away from any hotels in those blocks for obvious reasons. My nominee for ideal gathering site is The Newcastle in the 1200 block. It's not a chain and most of the rooms have hot tubs. And it is right on the water. If not that, try to get a place in the 3000 block and up. Last week I stayed at a fairly nice and cheap Hojo's in the 37th and there's a Holiday Inn just up the road from that.
Wish I was there
fezo
Name: TheStranger
knows what counts
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 16:29:01
Comments:
clas,
the piles and piles of baywatch cuties who skate up and down venice beach in the skimpiest of bikinis would not be good for your sternum. as your apothecary, i advise against them. besides which, they listen to truly disgusting top 40 awfulness on their walkmans. much sweeter to make love to a woman who has a decent CD collection. stick with geena. no doubt has the boxed collection and maybe even a few good bootlegs. now there's a babe.myra,
don't get talked into a nose ring.lisa,
so good read your voice.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
Anthony's Bar and Grill
Location: Va (Dan!) Beach,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 14:55:04
Comments:
St. Al: What kind of requirements are we talking here for the DanFest? A bar? A club? A hotel?
Do we want outdoors as a possibility in the event of nice weather?--LP
Name: old fart
partydownpartyhearty
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 14:03:28
Comments:
I think all the Danfest participants should stay in the same place so everyone can stumble from room to room rather than risk driving while under the influence of cuervo gold and fine columbian. Frankly, all I need is a bed to crash on. You know how old fogeys get after a few.
O.F.
Name: shelly
one for the road
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:36:57
Comments:
RoyScam: frank zappa and michael nesmith? do tell! i know not of this, even having gone through a zappa phase about 8 years ago, which consisted mainly of memorizing the intro to "The Muffin Man." thanks in advance.
all: goodnight, good morning, good afternoon wherever you are.
Name: shelly
no, the walrus is paul
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:33:00
Comments:
josie: a clarification is in order, girl. do not cause me problems so quickly in here.
others: i am woman, hear me roar. this chick josie, do ignore. i am not, nor have i ever been, in real life or online, known as the aforementioned "paul."
beatles: what can i say? love 'em.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
you're.not.my.Jackie
Location: Va (Dan) Beach!!,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:24:16
Comments:
Major: My 3-YO is named John, called Jack. But he predates the whole "Jack of Speed" preview, so I can't claim the Dan as inspiration for this one. We just noticed at the time that there are damn few peopled called Jack any more.
Lisa: Being the father of 2 small ones, a Va Beach resident for only 2 years, and perpetually short on cash and free time, I haven't had real opportunity to scout the various places to hang around here. Consequently, I've been chary of putting in my two shekels' worth on where to meet. I am spouseless and childless this week, so maybe I can cruise a bit and scout for sites.
But I would definitely advise making hotel reservations if you want to be near the water. But if you aren't particular about that (or how much you spend), there are always places to be had (with varying levels of quality).Fezo: Any luck on your search? Any places definitely to avoid?
--lp
Name: Myra Eyeful
timeoutofmind
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:20:28
Comments:
Stranger: I'm still here. My heart is broken that you so easily hook up with any sweet mamma that comes along.I'm not what I used to be and love's not a game for three.
(Just kidding) I'm ready to Rummmmmble!Myra
Name: Josie
Princeton
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 12:52:12
Comments:
Shelly is Paul!
Name: lisa
@gony by any other name...
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:44:37
Comments:
clas: have lena kick you in the stomach REAL, REAL hard 3 times...then multiply by 4.
shelly: i'm pleased you're not percy shelly...he's looking kind of thin these days.
Name: uterine agony?
what's that?
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:31:48
Comments:
tell me Lisa!
Clas
Name: Roy.Scam
if.you're.going.to.eat.lunch.naked.at.least.hold.the.mayo
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:30:57
Comments:
Major and GKR: Many congratulations on J.D. and Lily; aren't you glad we Dan fans are more prolific than the Dan? I re-confirmed yesterday that parenthood is my favorite expensive, dangerous narcotic.
Oleander--Coincidentally, I played first chakra for the Washington Metaphysical Orchestra for three years. I changed vocations when I realized how much tougher the competition is when you get up beyond the anus and genital level.
Zeke: Puff the Magic Dragon IS about childhood and dragons. Please don't let Dick Nixon's delirious drug-song hit list fuck up a beautiful song.
Shelly- I'm glad your blues are now defunct.--Incidentally, Michael Nesmith was a highly talented guy (I'm not just saying that to appear un-hip ). He wrote several good songs including 'shelly's blues', the similar and equally nifty "Papa Gene's Blues", "Joanne" "Driving the ElDorado to the Moon", and "Admiral Mike" which had the mysterious Dan-like literary allusion: "..the naked lunch is on your knife."
---His 'interview' with Frank Zappa was the all time Monkee highlight.Clas: I noticed the Randy Newman reference in your last post, but I didn't understand it. Please enlighten. -- And, no, I have no new presentable tapes to offer; there are however three albums in my head waiting to be made audible. How about you?
RS
Name: shelly
chortling my way to the end of the day
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:29:07
Comments:
Lisa: i'm michael's shelly. but this probably doesn't help you, huh? (and if it does, michael has lots of 'splainin' to do.)
Clas: my computer's at work. the home computer sits alone, unused, in the dark recesses of my basement, an antiquated shadow of its former self. gawd help me if i get another home computer. i just don't know when to say nyet to cyberspace. but i should still be congratulated for showing up to work on time, i guess, so accept your words with beaming pride (and the sorrow of one without a sunday night social life).
Name: Clas
The Fran-fan
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:28:20
Comments:
The Stranger; bored in Los Angeles? Never! IF I'd get bored there, I just head it down to Venice Beach and watch them shoot Baywatch. That's a thrill and you don't have to buy it.
Hi Lisa! Yes, I got the Monkey With The Fez. That's a keeper, I just love it!
Uhhh, I'm alone again, seems like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie.
Name: lisa
o h@ppy day!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 10:38:10
Comments:
ole: you were right...i'm not gonna croak anytime soon, so i'll be at dan-o-mite3...can we subtitle it "festive uterus bash"?
ivan: just sent your email, you handsome devil...how bout a trip to the east coast, say sometime in august?
clas: ever heard of uterine agony?
i see that you received a coveted monkey-in-your-soul doing-it-with-a-fez-on...and i thought that was for danfessors only!
midnite cruiser: stay in touch with me via email on the party details(showbizkid@yahoo.com)...i will have to consult with the mighty oleander for ideas...she is the goddess of planning and organization.
luckless pedestrian: got any thoughts on activities, locations, etc? how available are hotel rooms going to be in august?
fezO: have you concocted a diabolical plan for our next weekend o' fun? i still maintain that we should go roller skating, and don't worry...roy.scam and i will hold you up.
really...you can trust us.
major dude and gkrichard: congratulations gents, and just in time for father's day...i'll add 2 more geminis to the (future)danfan list.
shelly: nice to make your acquaintance...you aren't patrick's shelly, are you? or is it percy shelly? inquiring minds wanna know.
Name: Wow! Check out the guy founded Muzak!
He was a real visionary!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 09:08:57
Comments:
http://www.muzak.com/muzak.html
Name: Steely Dan Muzak outage
explained by Wall Stree Journal
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:59:32
Comments:
Elevators Quieted, Gossip Ceased
The Day the Muzak Died . . .By FREDERIC M. BIDDLE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALFrom doctors to drug dealers to sweethearts out of touch, millions bemoaned the Galaxy IV satellite outage that briefly muted pagers nationwide last month. But for aficionados of Muzak, the sounds of silence are only now lifting.
The Seattle-based music service also used Galaxy IV for satellite
transmission. While the nation's pagers resumed beeping and vibrating a day or two after the May 19 space mishap, more than 100,000 rooftop reception dishes had to be individually repositioned to the coordinates of a backup satellite before Muzak could play as usual.Some lucky customers continued to get their Muzak via mail-order CDs. But the majority of subscribers -- including thousands of large buildings and small businesses -- were out of their prepackaged tunes. "This was our Tylenol scare," says Bill Boyd, chairman of Muzak LP.
Many who previously cursed "elevator music" suddenly found they missed the soothing strains. "We couldn't live without it," admits Missy King, a stylist at Scandals beauty salon in Indianapolis. Without the aural camouflage of Tracy Chapman and Jimmy Buffett and the like, gossip and dish dried up.
"When the music is on, everybody tends to talk loud," says Ms. King. "When the Muzak stopped, [customers] didn't talk. And when they didn't talk, we didn't talk." Bringing a tinny-sounding radio into the salon hardly loosened tongues.
In several Lafayette, Ind.-area Burger King restaurants, the impact was more subtle. "It was something you didn't notice until it was gone," marvels Bill Fenstermaker, director of operations. He subscribes to a golden-oldies Muzak channel at one of his outlets, and the morning coffee crowd of mostly senior citizens was among the first to notice the silence. "Now I just have to sit here and hear myself think," one upset customer
told him.The ingenious found substitutes. At Omaha's Metro Mitsubishi, general manager Bob Terp says salespeople cranked up the stereos in showroom models. "But it just wore the batteries down," he says.
For Muzak, silence wasn't golden. But executives say the newfound
appreciation of some has proved a morale boost for a company that now offers rap music as part of its struggle against the stereotype of blandness."We've settled with what people said about us for a long time, because we made money," says Kenny Kahn, Muzak's marketing vice president. "But now we just don't want to hear it."
Name: TheStranger
Sunny, Slight breeze, occasional fluffy cloud
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:48:29
Comments:
Oleander,
Latin Jazz: I hesitate to recommend, what with CD prices getting big as car payments. But there's this pianist named Gonzalo Rubalcala who's got an album, "The Blessing," that gives you something to chew on. & Poncho Sanchez's "Soul Sauce" seems to work.Clas,
What you say about subversive elevator music makes sense. That's why I line my skull with aluminum foil to keep out ulta-sonic, druid messages. You'd get bored in like L.A. Weather's too perfect.Lisa,
If your modem's still broke, reach me telepathically. I'm on the love frequency. Did you frighten away Myra?
Name: Clas
I wanne go to Los Angeles
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:13:06
Comments:
Hi Sven, - you have to ask that question to Schwinn.
Shelly! Are you up (down?) already? On a Monday morning! I think that shows a great character. "Civilkurage" as we say in Sweden.
I think Steely Dan suits perfectly well in elevators and in supermarkets. They are brainwashing their subversive, commie foreigner messages upon you. Someday you gonna end up like good socialists. I can hardly wait!
Beware, beware, beware of the naked rare!
Name: shelly
happy monday morning folks!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 07:56:10
Comments:
GFRichard: So happy Lily came in time for Father's Day! Many Congrats!
Maj: And a special Father's Day wish for you, too! Glad to hear things are going well.
Josie: Princeton? Ya, Nawtheast Broadcastin' certainly gets some interesting names on your resume.
Clas: a hearty hello from a wonderful woman.
Geena: not as wonderful to him as you are, tho'. (a little salve for a potential heartache.)
Lisa: nice to "meet" you!
Name: Peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 06:52:37
Comments:
GoodFatherRichard: Wow! Congratulations to you, too. I love that name "Lily". Beautiful.
I wonder who's next?
Name: johnboy
hotr@s
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 02:15:06
Comments:
Keith: Someone (in RS?) once described SD as "musak for hippies". Can't remember how long ago so can't say whether it was a prophetic statement or simply an apt observation. I _have_ noticed that more and more the original versions are being played rather than the rerecorded elevator music big band versions. Also suspect not that many (ex)hippies here at the GB. Guess it's really not all that prophetic or apt, but it makes your point...
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 01:47:51
Comments:
Does it bother you that one usually only hear's Steely Dan now in supermarkets and craft shops? I mean, like, I flip out (in a good way) every time I hear their shit out of context (even in a craft shop), but is their some sort of meta-message being sent here?
Name: Sven
hismastersvoice
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 23:24:15
Comments:
Clas: Could Godzilla beat Great Danny?
Name: Clas
The Fran-fan
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 22:55:24
Comments:
Dear Sirs;
Good Richard; hoola bandooooola! Congrats!
Oleander; thanx! Yes, we're going towards darkness, but what the hell, isn't that what we've been doing since birth?
Geena! I trust you.
Name: GoodFatherRichard
between cloud 9 and where the hell am I?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 20:26:01
Comments:
Oleander, thanks for your thoughts... your greetings are timely.
...As was the arrival of Lilian Victoria (Lily) on Saturday evening. Mother and baby doing just fine and home at last tomorrow.Major(copyright thingy), hope all's moving along well. My thoughts are with you and yours more than ever.
Every day is father's day...what a wonderful World!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: oleander
the queen of solstice
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 18:39:09
Comments:
Happy Father's Day to all you guys who are raising or have raised the future Danfans, musicians, critical thinkers, jokesters, nitpickers, friends, lovers, fighters, fathers, artists, engineers, scientists, teachers, nomads, true companions, and travelers in curved spacetime who will walk in your footsteps.
Especially to the Major, freshly fathering, and to Good King Rich, who's anticipating.
And to everyone, especially Clas & Mr. Stewart in the northern reaches, a very happy Solstice. It feels as though the light just got here, and now it's already on its way.
Name: Geena
Oh! Mandy is going to Yale!
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 18:07:18
Comments:
Clas:
Trust me, I could stand to be with you for an eternity.Hi Pompe! don't be sad, Lena will be back soon.
Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canada
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 17:23:58
Comments:
Steve V - I got FM to play at a movie night for a youth group I was trying to stimulate in mid 1980 - I was about 26 at the time, and I only showed it because Steely Dan sang the title song. Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan and Alex Karras played DJ's - If I'm not mistaken, the song plays at the beginning as well as through the credits, though it's been so long, I may be wrong about that fact. Not matter, is was slag, as movies go.
I heard Dion and the Belmonts "Ruby Baby" the other night, and love their version as much as Donald Fagen's although the piano solo in his effort is tough to beat, because it's followed by the organ and guitar pieces.
Ruby Baby, (our Ruby) do you like both versions?
Name: Clas
I was wrong, she's going to Yale.
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 11:34:22
Comments:
Geena hon, I would be with you if I could trust that you could stand to be with me for more than two hours. I don't trust woman. Look at my wife. What do I get in the middle of the night when I'm struggling with my AGONY? A book smashed in my head because SHE is tired and wanne sleep! I guess if I fell dead on the floor she would just step over my body and leave the house.
So, the rain is gone? What are you gonna do now hon? What about a little email to me hon?
Name: Geena
Who is Mandy?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 07:59:18
Comments:
Clas: Happy Father's Day and Happy Midsummer! It hasn't rained here in two days and I've scrapped the ark project for now. I can take care of that sternum problem for you without books or pain my love, just come to me.
Happy Father's Day to all the GB Daddies!!! Especially Major Dude who is celebrating a very special day!
Name: fezo
b@ckhome@gain
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 06:29:28
Comments:
Excellent SD music moment . . . was on day three of my trip to Va Beach scouting possible sites for Danfest # 3 and having serious dt's. No CD's, no GB, no wife. I'm roaming the aisles of Eckerd's looking for an iron when a somewhat familiar tune brightens my step and mood, "Walk Between Raindrops". And the real version no less, not just Muzak. Alas, the pharmacist wouldn't take requests . . .
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 01:39:35
Comments:
...a fool in love with time to kill.
Name: Clas
What? Is Mandy going to Jail?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 00:22:46
Comments:
the Stranger; yeah, I remember Jane. Strange woman. I'm glad to hear that her head is safe. In the coola'?
Geena; an ark? Well then, come over hon! Ehhh... don't bring them cats, please!
Hi Shelly!
TODAY;STERNUM AGONY;
Woke up in the middle of the night, my heart was beating so fast, and kind of running on empty, I screamed -Help, there's air in the system, I'm dying! My wife smashed a book in my head and then I don't remember anymore. Now I feel fine.
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 23:03:24
Comments:
I'm not a lunatic, but I play one on the internet.
Get this: the neonatal nursery allows you to place a small tape player and tapes near the infant. Something soothing for now....maybe a loop tape of Home At Last-Book of Liars-Babylon Sisters. Trying to keep the beat close to mom's heartrate.
World Party makes great lullabys too. Love is Best and This World from Egyptology.
laters. time to shut down.
Pehhhhg: thanks a million.
maj©
Name: Geena
Kamikaze II
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 15:11:10
Comments:
Clas:
Yes hon, I'm here for you baby, I've just been a little busy building an ark. I got your email and will respond to you this weekend. I still love you and I know the day will come when we'll be together. Ti amo con tutto mio cuore!
Dude:
Sending belated congratulations or your way. Like Clas, I envy you as well. As we say in italian, Tanti auguri!!Lisa:
got your email, thanks sweetie! I'll get back to you this weekend as well.
Name: Hank Silvers
c/o Hugo Spaak
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 08:16:02
Comments:
Duuuude©: Congratulations from all of us up here in the steamy valley.
The Dan/Muzak® posts reminded me that a week or so ago, in a supermarket I rarely enter, I heard a Muzak® version of the (Becker-produced) China Crisis song "You Did Cut Me." Unexpected. . .
Name: Zeke
NOLA
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 07:12:07
Comments:
Steve V: When the movie FM came out, I was working in a movie theater. FM was the song played as the credits rolled up.
Do you remember Linda Rondstandt in that movie? What song did she sing?Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise came on the radio the other day, and the guitar solo reminded me of Reelin'.
Who was the guitar player in that song?
Life For The Taking is a good EM LP.Z.
Name: Clas
Comicaze
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 00:23:08
Comments:
Steve Dan - I got this fortyfiver, LP-size, with four songs, Do it Again, Dallas, Haitian Divorce and Sail the Waterway. Fagen and Becker are on the cover. fagen wears this Norweigan shirt "Lusekofte", the same he wears on the Katy Lied-cover, he's doing the peacesign. Becker is longhaired and a little fat, wearing the most ugly jeans I've ever seen. Is this the same that you have?
Lisa - hi, how are you doing? (Shelly is a new member, a wonderful woman)
Zeke - you're right, the guitarbased Royal Scam is a killer. I haven't heard from Slidell, is it still that hot?
GEENA - you've been away so long, where ARE you hon?
Name: KIM
KIM-CB @ WEBTV.NET
Location: NORMAN, OKLA USA
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 22:03:57
Comments:
I AM A GIRL
Name: lisa
oh ye@h
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:13:44
Comments:
sam (the kid): happy birthday, beefcake!! why don't you and rigs come up to the danfess3 in virginia? hell, dig up aja and bring her along too.
Name: lisa
trying to c@tch up
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:09:23
Comments:
hello er'body...been without the internet since tuesday and golly i sure missed you all! my modem went to shit with no explanation and i had to get another one...i'll be catching up on all my emails tomorrow, so please bear with me.
who is shelly?
hi clas.
Name: Peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:04:51
Comments:
Midnite Cruiser: Yeah, it's me, if I'm the me you're thinking of. Where have you been?
Spoke with Major Dude today - for those of you who think he was a bit crazy before, you should listen to him now. Son and Mom are doing fine, recovering from the excitement and all. Dude, on the other hand,...
Name: Steve V Dan
in the archives
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 16:14:50
Comments:
It was 20 years ago today....:
'FM'(No Static At All)- featuring Eagles' Tim Schmitt on backing vocals....entered the U.S. Top 40.....Steely Dan's 3rd Top 40 hit of the year....1978.....the film from which it was taken was a real slice of sh$%t...but was interesting in that during several scenes Steely Dan albums were to be seen in the backgound and on the turntables......anyone else remember this flick?...I know...I'm showing my age.........
first 45 ever bought...British import of 'Do It Again'/'Dallas'...boy did I have good taste or what???
Name: TheStranger
LeftCoast
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 15:09:04
Comments:
feeling left out by this e. coast Dan gathering. save me some leftovers.
Name: K Mart
Shopper
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 14:09:59
Comments:
I agree that Steely Dan is the soundtrack of the 90's. From grocery stores to drug stores to discount store to restaurants to airport terminals to dentist offices. And it's always the offbeat songs, not the hits. I hear Countermoon at least once a week while in an establishment of commerce. More than I hear them on the radio. That whole give us some funked up muzak thing has finally come true for Steely Dan and Donlald Fagen.
Name: Zeke
same
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 13:24:46
Comments:
Brainfart: In the previous post, the killer intro. I was talking about
was the beginning of Don't Take Me Alive. Sorry, it won't happen again.
Name: Zeke
spike@eatel.net
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 12:47:29
Comments:
Dan Moment: On-hold with Bell South, Sign In Stranger in the key of Moozak. I thought it was funny, how the vocal parts were
arranged by using a "Flute" of all damn instruments. I bet the guy who developed moozak and rap have something in common.Citizen disk #3 on the box. The Caves, what a killer riff on the intro. Ya know, I'm not complaining and I'm really excited about the new one, but if one element is missing from Gaucho, IGY, Kama,Kama,Kama, Kamiriad, (I don't have 11 Whacks yet,) it must be that crisp, clean, sharp as a razor, guitar riff that makes you want to bend the strings on the steering wheel of your car. I hope we will hear some of that type of guitar on the new one. Gaucho, Third World Man is an exception.
Ann Wilson of Heart, 47 years old today. Whew!
Name: Clas
clas@country
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 23:32:49
Comments:
OLEANDER; I got the infamous Monkey-In Your-Soul-With-The-Fez on, very steelydanish! THANK you so much. It has it's place on my piano. I hope I never have to use it. Thanks sweetheart!
Geena; hi sweetheart. My email is working down here yes. Pompe says hi.
RubyBaBY; did you try again? Pompe says hi. he wonders when he's gonna meet all those cool chicks I'm talking about on our long walks.
Major; sorry I'm late on this, but CONGRATS. I envy you.
StAl; do YOU have a monkey with a fez on?
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 19:24:38
Comments:
Edd--oo-oo-ooh whee-ooh!
Maj--Another Jack song--SIS--the can-can Jacques. "New Frontier"--obviously. "True Companion"--you, for pulling the Major Mom through what must have been a frightening experience.
Aw shit, mynah, hand me the kleenex.
Name: Josie
fireeyes@usa.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 17:29:25
Comments:
Oleander: Josie from Yale? I don't think I know her, will Princeton do?
Shelly: Thank you, but I still think you're Paulie from Lawng Eyeland!
Name: From Wm. Gibson Interview
Excerpt
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 15:33:38
Comments:
Actually, in terms of musical recognition, one of the things that was most gratifying for me was when [Steely Dan's] Donald Fagen brought out Kamakiriad [Fagen's second solo album.] He did one interview where he said, one of the reasons I did this was I was reading these books by this guy named William Gibson and there are all these Steely Dan references and he said, I always kind of wanted to be a science fiction writer so I thought I'd do this album. I love that. And the other thing I love about Steely Dan and I think this does make them probably the most deeply...I just lost the word...subversive. That's a scary word to lose.
Steely Dan is the most deeply subversive of all pop groups because sometimes now in 1996 I'll be shopping in the supermarket and they'll be playing Steely Dan in the background. Everybody will be buying their cereal and this guy's singing a song about doing drugs and feeling depressed because you're 35 years old sleeping with an 18-year-old girl. If anybody knew what they were saying, they would never play it in a supermarket. It's perfect elevator music and then you listen to the words and it continues to be cutting stuff. I loved it...whoever did the what passes for the liner notes in that Steely Dan box that came out a couple of years ago. It said, somehow these guys produced the perfect soundtrack to the '90s. [laughs]
Name: Mitch *
mcharl6651@aol.com *
Location: wjaz Mt. Belzoni, Pa.
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 15:32:37
Comments:
OLEANDER: hello, new to this steely site. Any info about the DANFEST, Lots of talk about it. Has it been done before? IS there a site picked, hotel ? etc. Hope you guys pull it off. MITCH
Name: RubyBaby
thirstnomore
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:44:09
Comments:
Oleander: Funny you should think of the H2O. It's my belief that any Real Love found in me comes from the Water - the Living Water flowing out from the Rock, upon which I stand.The rest of the silly stuff is just me, and not catchy.
Clas: I feel your presence, which is much needed. I'm still trying.
rb
Name: mWorld
khillman@lightspeed.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:25:42
Comments:
Maj©:
Congrats to you and Mrs. Dude©!! - I guess you got the real Jack Of Speed there, my brother, 10 weeks early! Thoughts, Prayers, Positive Vibes tuned to your frequency, man. Looks like you'll be figuring out the meaning of Wet Side Story over the next couple of weeks...
Hand shakes all around...
...ah, fuck it, Big Hugs!...I gotta go find some kleenex©...
mW
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:23:26
Comments:
Thanks, Citizens, for the kind wishes and good vibes. Little Dude and Mother are improving.
With all the baby stuff, I've been asssembling the "All Dan, All Baby" soundtrack. The nursery tells me that they'll play tapes etc... So far on my list: Things Jack - Do It Again, Jack of Speed. Things John - Kings, Surf???. Things Baby - Ruby. Things Daddy: Little Kawai, Trans-Island Skyway. Things "Other" - Home At Last, and Green Earrings (because we needed to "steal" a few more days in the womb before delivery).
Your suggestions are.....
The Dan sure are versatile, aint? Fits every occasion.
"...come on daddy, get in, let's go...."
maj©
Name: Steve e danish
@Steely Dan File
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:02:18
Comments:
Hey Count: re:Chevy Chase.....
....he played drums for Fagen and Becker in a jazz ensemble at their alam mater...Bard College...circa 1968....years later he recorded a halfway decent album for Arista Records with jazz great/alumni Tom Scott....
other Bard grads include actress Blythe Danner (mother of Gwyneth Paltrow)
Name: Countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Location: Dallas,
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 13:48:13
Comments:
Oleander: Thanks for the Gibson site, it's one I haven't seen yet, and makes a good new bookmark. Lot's of interesting links there too. I've talked to numerous Dan fans in my life, and you're the first one I've met who saw the connection between Gib and Dan. Wonder if those two have ever pal-ed around together? Off the subject of Gib, have you ever heard the rumor about SNL comedian Chevy Chase, and