User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Well, not actually laughing AT you, just a little in your direction.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: ¦ - no, that's why I am sitting at the yellow all day long, laughing at pathetic, paranoid US-Americans.
StAl - Jon Fishman's band? Oh yes, them.
How could I forget.
User: Bill | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Very sad news about Warren Zevon.
Warren was always
on my short list of unique songwriters. You just
can't count on a hell of
alot in this life. Mr.Zevon seems to be
handling his prognosis with a certain
degree of acceptance and yes,
even humor. That's Warren for you...
Well I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to
know
She was with the Russians too
I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and
money
Dad, get me out of this
I'm the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the
hard place
And I'm down on my luck
Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and
money
The shit has hit the fan
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Tones: Yes. The Kcrim gets bettre and bettre with each listen. The title track deserves air play...catchy (which serves the plebein masses, yet complex which sates the insane...like moi)......really superb stuff.
Aus
User: tones - too fucking rude to respond... and proud of it. | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Angel (sorry I slept through your earlier post... it's a sure sign I'm dozing when you see the screen saver in my eyes kick in), SteeV, others - thanks for answering my query... Four songs huh? I'm going to have to play the PBS version to see if any of them made the broadcast. I seem to remember seeing Do It Again, but I may be confusing it with the Storytellers show...
¯ - Universal swallowed about a third of the major labels about two years ago, and one of those was MCA, which has the Dan' back catalog. So any Universal SD SACD releases would be from "...Thrill" to Gaucho, and I'm guessing Aja because that was the best selling of that period, and the perfect way to sucker... er... entice people into trying a new format. TvsN is/was on Giant, which was a subsidiary of Time/Warner until Warner folded that label last year, but it's a Warner release as everything has been from the Two since Nightfly, so I don't think it'll be on SACD. But this makes an interesting dilemma for us fans: it looks like the "classic" releases are going to be remastered to SACD while the SD mach II releases (Nitefly to the "new one") are probably to be remastered to DVD-A. Looks like we're the luckless pedestrians (Hi there! This is The Day... love that tune!) caught in the middle of the format wars. Oh the humanity!!!
Aus - Glad you like the Kcrim. It's just getting better and better with every listen. Happy B-lated btw...
you too ~... wherever...
Ideas for Steely Halloween costumes:
Charlie Freak
Buzz
a Bodhisattva
Doctor Wu
a major dude... any major dude
Kid Charlemagne
Peg
Josie
Rikki
Janie
Abbie
a third world man
a gaucho
a black cow
a coked out basketball player
a negative girl
a babylon sister
a zombie
a razor boy
a rose, darling
Mr Lapage
King Richard
King John
a kangaroo
a monkey
a skunk
ok... to quote St Al's buddy J.C. Mellonball: stick a fork in my butt and
turn me over... I'm done.
t
User: Patty Duke | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Call me Anna
User: Arlean Christman | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I know how to polka. Is there something wrong with that?
It's my heritage.
Uncle Steve taught me how. He was 93 when he left the world last spring. Had a shot of JD and a cigar every day until he went.
And he like dougnuts also.
Nothing wrong with polkaing about!
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: ...and all polka players!
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Aja I would have thought that you motive to go would be to see the real stories behind the KISS and Judas Priest tribute bands! ;-) YGK -- I did not mean to question your motives which I am sure are quite complex -- especially if you're hooking up with Aus :o)
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Why the hell not? That's why I'm going! ;o)
Aja
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: W1P: that's not why I would go, dude!
ygk
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I got it - the Minnesota Vikings!!
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: YGK: I'm not trying to discourage your attendance at Tribute, but the girls in the film aint that great looking :(
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Aus-man: blast me when u r planning on seeing Tribute - dancing girls? I'm there!
ygk
User: Svedissshhhh Sheffff | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I am not funny, vot is vat?
User: ¦ - I'll be here 'til Thursday. Enjoy the lox | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Clas: I *double* dare you to produce a famous Swedish comedian (comedienne) who's funny on purpose or not or any one for that matter...
I thought so...nothing's funny in a monolithic, monophenotypic place that's dark half the year...
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: other happy tunes?
anything by Swing Out Sister (Am I not Your Girl comes to mind, lyrics added
to the classic tune Soulful Strut)
Rehumanize Yourself by the
Police
Soulmate by Michael Franks
B-52's (duh)
Stockton Gala Days by
10k Maniacs, one of the few that are uplifting
most Brazil 66 like
tunes
Shiny Happy People by REM in a tongue-in-cheek kinda way
This is the
Day by The The
Cranberries' tunes, some of them, that is
other favorite bands after steely dan?
fleetwood mac
the police
10k
maniacs/natalie merchant
my list dates me horribly, doesn't it
get your spike jones cd's out folks,
it's halloween!
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: ....and may I add that the opening shot with the Journey Tribute band playing while the girls are doing their thing, still makes me break out in uncontrollable laughter, a month later. What a movie. Go see it. ;-)
User: on second thought... | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: roller coaster might be the tune that carries with it a certain negative story, which may or may not be an urban legend. supposedly during the recording of the track, a man burst into the studio and murdered a person. you can hear her screaming at some point during the song. which is also kindof spooky since jam master jay was shot and killed last night while in a recording studio.
"jam master j
he cuts much higher
sucka MCs
call me sire..."
that's a real bummer :(
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: The Tribute Movie website has not been updated since 9/19 but this is what is says -- PIONEER THEATER (NEW YORK) End of October, Dates TBA
Aussie, Pete Fogel went to a showing of the film and told me he found it highly entertaining. The opening scene is shot in a strip club that had been hosting tribute bands on weekends up til about a year ago -- a strip club that at one time featured Which One's Pink? playing Comfortably Numb while women danced on poles behind the band.
User: happy songs: | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: my sharona - the knack
carlotta valdez - harvey
danger
longview - greenday
sister havana - urge overkill
walk between
the raindrops - donny fagen
roller coaster (say what?) - ohio players
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: yupper, St. Al: Pork Tornado is a hoot!
Located at:
www.porktornado.com - don't know how they came up with THAT!
Fav tunes include: Kiss my Black Ass, Felini.....
ygk
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I dunno. I think I'm pretty funny.
Last night was spent rockin' out at the fabulous Showbox to funkified tunings of PORK TORNADO. You people probably get fed up with all my gushing about these damned adolescent jambands, but that's to freaking bad. What a great time. Pork Tornado is Jon Fishman's band (drummer for Phish), who happens to be one of my favorite modern drummers. It was fantastic standing less than 20 feet from him, watching him pound the skins. The guy is amazing. Sound like a cross between Phish, Zappa and The Meters. Great stuff. Closed the show with a little Zombie Woof. Tore the house down! Catch these guys if you can.
So because of that I only saw the last few minutes of the Zevon appearance on Letterman. Turned it off because I didn't want to start balling... Tough to watch.
New Phish CD in the can. Recorded in 4 days... Yes Walt and Don, it can be done! Of course, I'm sure it wont be winning any Grammy's. But WTF. Tour supposed to start in February and span both coasts. YIPPIE!
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Clas: haven't slammed you for a while - thot I lost my touch.....hope you are well and having a fabulous time!
ygk
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Sure does, Mr. Clas-man......we can do pretty much anything we please.......
ygk
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: "The country of Sweden even let him reproduce..." Seems to be a delicate subject for mr Hunter.
Doesn't USA allow you to reproduce, Malc? Or are there no voluntaries available?
Ha!
---
Hutch - yes, I'll look for the show, it'll be Wednesday next week. David Letterman is a funny US-American.
A rare thing.
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Which One's Pink?: I notised that in the current week's issue of Time Out New York (a very well read weekly publication)the documentary "Tribute" is making a comeback to the screen here in the City. I believe that it was part of a mini-film festival starting sometime later this week. Gonna try to catch it when it comes.....
Everyone: Best witches!
Aus
post script: WormTom e-blasted yours truly.....all is well......
User: W1P The Postal Code | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: On Monday Keith Richards sat in with Waddy Wachtel's band at The Joint -- a very small LA club. We're trying to figure out -- does that make him more or less likely to sit in on our show on Sunday?
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: No Steely Don and Walt pumpkins on the ODP, I see....sigh. Webdrone, you let me down. (I know, it's NBC's fault).
Happy Birthday kidlet!!!! We have successfully managed to create a "Knight Who Says Ni" costume, for the birthday boy. What a helmet it is, full of branches and cotton shrubs.
Halloween spirited songs by the Dan. How about, "Don't Take Me Alive"
Don't eat too much candy.
User: ¦ - Biscayne Bay, where the Haitian gentlemen scuba all day | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hutch: I was listening to The Who Sell Out last week again, and BBC had even weirder fake jazz on their programming in the 60s. The songs on Sell Out are splice between real and fake commercials...
¯: I have a 7 year old son who occasionally thinkgs he's King
Charlemagne...oh, here is something that's reposted as much as a a Dan album is
remastered
"" Mon, October 28, 2002,á10:54:53
Posted by: ,
RE-post from the Piss Pages:
RE-post from the Blue-Bore:
"Date: Fri, September 27, 2002,á01:25:30
Posted by: DrM¦, Tejas
Hoops,
I have a JVC XV-SA75 player that plays DVD-A, DVD-V, CDs, CD-ROM. CD-R, and CD-RW. Cool graphics, still pics, videos, interactive stuff, liner notes etc are commonly added to DVD-A just as DVD-V features. TVN DVD-A has a few still pics that aren't in the liner notes + some that are. The JVC XV-SA75 does indeed retail for under $300. Well worth it. TvN on DVD-A has the warmth of vinyl, but the noise reduction of CDs and clarity on steroids!
CD specs include:
16 bit sampling (2[16power]) = 65,536
44.1 kHz
sampling rate
92 dB dynamic range
600 mB
DVD-A:
24 bit sampling 92[24power]) = 16,777,216
192 kHz rate (2
channel stereo)
144 dB dynamic range
4-8 GB
SACD (Sony and Philips only)
encoding different - pulse density
modulation - like fuzzy bits
100 kHz sampling (2 channel)
120 dB dynamic
range
test + still graphics only
not made to replace CDs - audiophile
only
Both Roger Nichols and Eliott Scheiner I believe have stated that DVD-A will replace CDs within 5 years...
I almost forgot. There is a "universal" chips out now that will play ALL IEEE formats for DVD and CD. They should be available in affordable consumer players in a few short years. " "
King: I do what I can do entertain the troops. Man, what a wacky 48
hours. First the Wellston Memorial - I thought that came from the word "memory,"
not wild political rally/Clinton yuck it up party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45007-2002Oct31.html
There are also reprots that the Dem machine passed on a very qualified black candidate and maybe the most erudite football player in the NFL - the great Alan Page
Meantime, Haitians in their Sunday best (I'm not kiddling) suddenly appeared in Biscayne Bay...it's funny and sad and actually scary...the DOJ, INS, and Ashcroft are asleep at the wheel!!!!! as far as securing US borders. It's clear a terrrorist could sail into any harbor (ex. pretend to be dockworkers in the union taking in a boat of perishables or circuit boards in LA) with a dirty bomb or worse...hey, anybody catch 24??! Great show - only program I watched regularly last year and will again this year"
...and it takes a village to make a terrorist - who is John Muhammed's
village???
"Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002 10:40 a.m. EST
Feds Investigating Sniper-Shoe Bomber Link
Federal investigators are wrestling with everything from the rights of a minor to a third suspect to finding credible witnesses in the Va./Md. sniper case, but they are also investigating ties to terrorism.
Muhammad and Malvo are said to have met on the island of Antigua, and the Washington Post reports that a panel of four members, appointed by the Feds, began an investigation of possible links between John Muhammad and Richard C. Reid, the "Shoe Bomber" who tried to blow up a plane on its way from Paris to Antigua last year."
User: jon | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Here's a little exercise: Assuming SD is your favorite musical artist/group, who or what is your second favorite? The commonalities/divergences might make for interesting reading.
Or not...
User: YourGrinningKing | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Dirtball: yes, KOTW makes me happy - it's the music itself, ackchully.
Mollster: don't mind Clas. Ever. His ramblings/racist conjectures/toiletbowl monologues are the most prolific and creative thing he has ever done in his life. The country of Sweden even let him reproduce. The nerve! Just remember, when you see a Clas post, follow the rules of GB, i.e. #49, "When you see senseless bullshit that doesn't interest you in the least, scroll!"
Aja: I saw God last night. He was wearing a Prince Edward suit, Hermes tie, and rather unsightly unmatched blue shirt; drinking joyously and watching as his gorgeous little angels scampered about the room. What a guy - He even bought me a round. He was on his way to see his self-described, "good doctor" and give him his "Act Like God" license. That explains why these little preps at Columbia/Cornell Medical walk around like they own the place or something, even tho they just got off a bus from Ohio.
ygk
User: lcpaul | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Mol - how ya doin' honey. Hope your flak jacket's in good working order.
Just for the record, one of the many SD songs that get me rockin' is "Hey 19".
PS: Thanks for the Halloween card.
Love
Paul
PPS: jjeff - that'd be correct
User: Hutch | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Clas - Yes it was last night. Oct.30th. Try to catch it if you can.
Mu - It's that synth line that really seals the Cheer commercial sound.
I've always been a big Letterman fan. Some of his schtick is getting a little old but I still like the show. Having said that IMO Conan O'Brien has the funniest show on TV.
User: Howard | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message:
Molly - just because people didn't reply to your
song question doesn't mean they're rude, or that they haven't got favourite
songs of one sort or another. Some posts/questions just get lost in the noise,
that's all - it's happened to most of us.
I generally read and post here during my lunch break. With the limited time I have, I scroll a lot, and skip over comments or discussions that I'm not especially interested in. It's no big deal. Discussion groups and guestbooks are all like that. You can post a question that you feel sure is relevant and an interesting springboard for discussion and get no feedback whatsoever. Meanwhile, someone else makes some comment about what they ate for lunch and a two-week discussion ensues. That's just the way things go.
For what it's worth, Green Earrings and Gaslighting Abby (amongst others) usually get my toes going.
Howard
P.S Thanks for the witch-on-a-stick
User: test | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: test
User: ¯ | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: So Mu and all, I've posted a question yesterday and
NOONE CARED. What is this? You bunch of elitists! You snobs! You... linguistic
racists. ahem So I'll repeat again but just once. Pay attention now.
What
would be the album worthy of the "Super Audio" treatment? Since they don't
specify any title yet.
Now, they like to fuck with Gaucho a whole lot. But I
think it'll be 2VN.
I know, it's lame. Am just testing something
here....
b
User: Beerberian WIP | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Aja/jjeff ; You do realise the slightest encouragement will bring more ..... This one's a work in progress inspired/lifted whatever from a piece of artwork by Graham Foster "The Bridge" check it out @ www.grahamfoster.com Browse the gallery some great images I love his desert island colour schemes - maybe inspired by his place of work ?? That blue he uses is how I imagine a Bermudan sea to be (anybody confirm that? - not been myself)....... Anyways try this without the image and visualise the painting first ... if you would
On the bridge stands my confidence but itÆs not really me
Could never
quite take the faithful step, let the spirit free
In the shadow remains the
comfort anonymous and safe
But you submerged in midstream float by my
watching placeà.
Who is that with courage to stride beside your tow?
Could be alternate
reality, perhaps IÆll never know
The choice next made dichotomy, which one
will you take?
I wait, my runes cast .To commit maybe mistake
Moll; Ultimate SD FT inducer Rikki whereas Foot Stomper is the perennial
DSO encore finale Reeeeeelin in the yrs
ps There was a god Hermaphrodites right - now he/she could well f*** themselves or did I dream it all? lol
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I also saw the Warren Zevon show on Late Night. Very emotional. He was on last week's People Magazine. He seems to been handling it with humor and acceptance. Anyone who's never heard of him will hopefully get his new Cd. He's also working on a new CD already. Apparently, a farewell if that's the case.
Sad News. One of my favorite old school rap artists was shot and
killed.
Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, one of the most groundbreaking rap groups
of my era. He was 37. R.I.P.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hutch - they're showing Letterman with a weeks delay here, was it yesterday? Oct 30?
Molly - don't mind YGK darling, Malcolms world is revolving around Aussie because Aussie's got the cash.
Cyn - okay, I got it. West of London. Bristol, south of Bristol. I'll find my way. And who's this "Pat" Jjeff's talking about? A new cat? Dog??
Never mind.
User: Dirtball Despot, as far as I know | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hutch... I knew someone here had to go into the Warren Zevon appearance. Good Old Dave. I've never in my life seen that before-- someone who's going to die soon, coming on TV to say goodbye and perform, while he's still "functioning" (horrible word). That song with the strings was "Genius", I believe. I've been meaning to expose self to his last musical quarter century or more.... bad timing.
YGK--- "King of the World" makes you happy??! Post-atomic horror? Well, it must be an acquired taste. Wherever you are, it's a tough room. It follows you around. Wait... if that's cheerful to you, you're the easiest room on Earth.
Molly--- try to remember all the supportive stuff from people here, earlier. Sounds like you're starting to feel the Scorched CyberEarth is coming from all sides, when it's not. Handy solace opportunity to be had for the asking, there. I knows what it feels like, when a barrage from the world appears to be universal. That's a horrible feeling.
"February 31"??!! Ay caramba!! (see below.)
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Hutch - man, I'm really sorry I missed that..on a lighter note I noticed that Jackson Browne is starting to sing more like Warren Zevon on his new one...now if he would only sing Warren's songs...
It's the Cheer-y doubling up of the piano and electric piano before the synth comes over the top and guitar (I think), then the horns..bouncy in a similar way as New Frontier...
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: tappin: Janie Runaway, TOOM, YGTII, New Frontier, Girlfriend, Teahouse on the Tracks, Rose Darling, Dr. Wu, Rikki, Razor Boy, My Old School, Bad Sneakers (Plush), Home at Last (St. Louis, '93), Glamour Profession
User: Hutch | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Wow.
David Letterman's sole guest tonight was Warren Zevon. Folks, this was an
emotional show. For those who hadn't heard Warren was diagnosed recently with
inoperable lung cancer. He's been one of Dave's favorite guests for many years
and so this was a farewell appearance. Very sad.
He looked pretty weak and
slow walking across the stage when Dave introduced him. But they talked frankly
and upfront about it... Warren cracking jokes about how he had a phobia all his
life about going to doctors and it was his dentist who told him see one when he
complained of being short-winded all the time.
He did three songs. One, from
his new album, featured a string quartet. A very surrealistic tune. I didn't
catch the title.
His new album is titled "My Ride's Here".
On a lighter note... That little interlude on TOOM from 2:00 to 2:44
always brings a smile to my face. Reminds me of background music for a Cheer
commercial. Fake jazz.
Stevee - Everything's cool man!
Hutch
User: Bill | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Yes, the world does revolve around me, but it's only
falling in line
with the order of the universe in general.
:)
User: Cyn | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message:
hahahaha..ta, guys..for the laughs. You all never
fail me in that dept.
jj..sweetie, darling...kiss..kiss euro-style
clas..I mean't west of London...but then again..I could fly west around the world..then it WOULD be west..nahhh..I'll go east, then west.Are you confused yet?..I am..I'll just have another drink..HA!
dunc..me?..move in with clas ?..one of us would be dead within 24 hrs..and it wouldn't be me..hahaah. Best we have a covert Bassett passing under the cover of darkness.
"psst..pass me the un petite Bassett and a croissant..or the Swede gets it"
YGK..no worries, brother..we still love you..(giggle) Whoaaa..nellyyy!
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Favorite put-down song: Positively 4th Street-Bob
Dylan
Favorite flip-da-bird song: Precious-Pretenders.
Favorite fuck all
y'all song:...
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: angel: Just where is that Subterrainian Tomesick Bruise?
Still in N'awlins?
a happy B-day to him...
User: angel (went worm fishing) | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Aja and any who care....
A foward from the Wonderworm:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks for the
BD wishes
you can say hi for me on the gb
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Blaise: Good to see you again. You DO know chicken's name, don't you? Whitey :-)
BB: Waxing poetic. Keep it up. Sorry to hear about DSO. Don't give up
hope.
Was it the lack of money or time or squabbles?
Duncan:270,59, and 76 are my choices. You've not mentioned any prizes.
Molly: I was impressed by your Casual Gods ref., but then you ruined it all by stamping your feet. How old ARE you? Here's the thing. You throw an idea out. If it gets picked up, great. If it doesn't, nobody dies. I thought I had a great idea of making a map of common road-kills of the world a while back just for a hoot. Nobody bit. I'm not bothered in the least. You're part of the whole not the whole. FYI My Old School 'cause I swear the whole section heard me singing killer harmony tenor in '93.
lcpaul: Feeling better, eh? I suppose you're on booze restriction now.
Stevedan: Yeah, I was thinkin' bout ya.
Cyn: Sweetie, dahling. Give Pats my love.
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Duncan: Not like you need anyone to tell you this or anything, but those pictures you had done are INCREDIBLE! What a photographer! What does that money come out to in American Dollars?
User: Duncan....again | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: ref: cyn/clas
I'm assuming here that sweden is part
of the EU, if not ...who cares !!!!
Cyn: move in with clas for a couple of
weeks, then ''import'' the dogs from sweden.
hey presto Uk dogs
like we haven't got enough LOL
User: Jackson Brown | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: To Molly- The "Queen of Rude"
GET A FREAKING LIFE SHIT HEAD!
User: Sybil | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Why, I thought the world revolved around me?
But, you really like me, you really like me!!!!!
User: Duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: L7....shitlist
happy now ?
User: Aja............SSDD, what else? | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: I see the usual food fights abound on the GB, as well as those posts that make me lol. I love the smell of the GB in the morning.....
Two things you can't take personally on the GB: a. anon flaming (WHY would you take seriously what somebody wrote about you, when that somebody wouldn't know you if you bit them on the ass?) b. when no one answers your question. It happens to everybody.
Today is wonderworm's b-day, where ever he is!
YGK-You're right, the world revolves around Aussie and powdered bread! ;o)
Beerberian-actually, I enjoyed the poetry, but am glad you and the little woman have patched it up (more love on the GB that way).
"Don't Take Me Alive"-that's usually my attitude when I arrive at work each day.......
Aja
User: King of the World | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Randy--- funny. On another board i found i was enjoying being labelled as a "buzzkill".
Molly----- Happiest songs ever recorded: I Should Have Known Better, Beatles/Peg/Jackie Wilson Said, Van Morrison.
Stimulation of the brain with subtle or indirect humor adds greatly to the transcendant rush from SD. Lately "My Rival" has grown on me for this reason. Time Out of Mind qualifies. Only A Fool... Brooklyn, in calmer way. Re humor element again-- I Got The News, Everything You Did... all those penultimate jealousy and/or sleazy sex songs. "Everyone's Gone to the Movies". "Bodhissatva!"
As much as we may know that no one's obligated to respond to a question thrown out onto the board, one can be forgiven for occasionally over-reacting and getting pissed when it happens. We're human. I know what that feels like.
Mu--- thanks for all the cool info sites.
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Molly, Dearest, me thinks you are taking this whole
place WAY to seriously.......
I mean all of us have put out topics which were
ignored, but just because you're ignored doesn't make a personal statement about
you, unless you want to take it that way.
I think Aja had it right. You do
make yourself an easy target......
Sheesh - you turn on a dime......whatever.
But whatever opinion you have of me through this forum really doesn't matter
all that much to me, because you don't know me.......
So take a chill pill
and relax, go fuck YOURself while your at it (that way, we can have our mutual
sex together) and if you put out a topic that gets ignored, let it be.
That's
all for me........ciao!
ygk
User: Molly......................yawn | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: YGK- umm so it's ok if Dano or someone else asks a
"mundane" question? What pray tell should we all discuss? I've already been
criticized for my flirtations. I suppose now you and the other members of the
SIS Gestapo are dictating the content and subject matter of what is acceptable
to post? For the record I've asked about 4 inquiries such as the one you're
giving me hell about.... NONE were ever answered. I won't bore you with the
opinion I've formed of you, however it starts with a P instead of an A. I really
wish you'd stop projecting your past troubled relationships with women onto me.
Let me be real emphatic about this Malc, GO FUCK YOURSELF!
To the anonymous
poster.......GET A SET!
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Steeve - yes, it's the legs.
And the RD 700 is very inspiring. And it's range is so wide, I have to have rollerskaters to reach the highest and/or the lowest notes. My arms aren't long enough!
The cool thing with it are the inbuilt drumgrooves. Great keyboard, I just love it.
The Doo Doo Ap!-choires are just too funny. Great strings, organs and brass.
I like the Wurlitzer best. And of course, the acoustic Rock Piano's. But the main thing is the keys, the piano feel.
Damn, I am a Star, there in my livingroom.
User: Steveedan | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Paige (2617) That's Denny Diaz. If you have the Countdown To Ecstasy album (I don't remember if the photo is included on the CD) you will find a photo of the band and Denny is included. It will prove to you that the person you are asking about is indeed Denny.
Clas - you are right, it's a Wurlitzer. Even though the shape of the housing above and behind the keybed is similar to a Fender Rhodes, the straight (perpendicular to the floor) legs is the "dead-giveaway". This is definitely a Wurly.
How's the new keyboard ? Still fun ?
I'm still playing catch-up with you all ...
Steveedan
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Cyn - moving west? Taunton? Either you go north to Taunton, Mass, or east, Taunton, Great Britain, am I wrong again?
And hey, how much for that Disposer?
Molly - the title song from Jackson Brownes The Naked Ride Home makes me tap de toe:
Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said
Knowing she
never could pass on a dare
And knowing it sounded more desperate than
reckless or bold
I just put it out there cold, too far gone to care
My eyes on the road, she slid herself down in the seat
And a vision of
paradise swung into view
Across those five lanes not one driver glanced over
to see
The beauty known only to me, and a big rig or two
On that freeway the light was receding
Her beauty, a sight so
misleading
I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone
On the naked
ride home
User: Steveedan | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Hi Tones (Re: your post # 2604) ...
I cannot divulge how I came accross this ... but I have seen another video for the Plush DVD. It was a rehearsal of the show that was shot a few days later (which became the DVD). It has 4 songs that were not on the DVD - Home At Last, West Of Hollywood, Do It Again, and Deacon Blues. No I do not own a copy of it. This one is NOT BEING TRADED. I'm just happy to have had the opportunity to see it.
Steveedan
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: OK, so I'll look like an ass, and I really don't care, so call me an ass if you dare, but I'll just point this out:
Mollster: us Frickin-rude folks, I believe, may not be responding due to the
fact that they've been to Dan-fests where inevitably, the question pops up,
"what's your favorite this or that?" which, to this listener, strikes me as
mundane. And you must know that we really don't wait on baited breath to see
what you post - *wink* wink, smooches and hugs galore.
The world, believe it
or not, doesn't revolve around you.
It revolves around Aussie.
Having said that,
(and the Greek chorus goes, "asssssssss hoooooooooooooole")
the Album Aja is one of my faves, and continually transports be beyond any problem I may be having - the Title track is the ultimate, but also Peg and a few others. Babylon Sisters always does it for me, as does King of the World.
ygk
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: And this has been going around the FS today....
This is a true Real Abby column reading:
Dear Abby:
I have been engaged for almost a year. I am to be married next
month. My
fiancTe's mother is not only very attractive but really great and
understanding. She is putting the entire wedding together and invited me to
her place to go over the invitation list because it had grown a bit beyond
what we had expected it to be.
When I got to her place we reviewed the list and trimmed it down to just
under a hundred ... then she floored me. She said that in a month I would be
a married man and that before that happened, she wanted to have sex with me.
Then she just stood up and walked to her bedroom and on her way said that I
knew where the front door was if I wanted to leave. I stood there for about
five minutes and finally decided that I knew exactly how to deal with this
situation. I headed straight out the front
door...There, leaning against
my car was her husband, my father-in-law to
be. He was smiling. He explained
that they just wanted to be sure I was a
good kid and would be true to their
little girl. I shook his hand and he
congratulated me on passing their
little test.
Abby, should I tell my fiancTe what her parents did, and that I thought
their "little test" was asinine and insulting to my character? Or should I
keep the whole thing to myself including the fact that the reason I was
walking out to my car was to get a condom?
ygk
User: Depth Con 1 | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: . Molly killed Paul Wellstone. He had read too much of her babble, and just couldn't handle life as it was. I heard this from the "Source".And looky here, she feels dissed because no one answered her back in a timely manner, Who's next? Democrate or Republican?
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: hey cyn, thanks! - you won't believe how cleansing it is to give your house an enema in preparation for a move - yes, a remote island it surely is - here is the maine quote for the day: "his family tree looks like a telephone pole" (heard that in a staff meeting this morning, had to hold back laughing too much, classic!)
molly - i did answer you: bodhi, time out of mind - but even the most skeeviest of songs makes me laugh, the lines are hilarious, like, my rival, cousin dupree, everything you did, kid charlemagne, etc
repeating my question now: thoughts on android warehouse? anyone?
thanks for the tip on charlie parkers band, i heard it! very cool
need that citrus stuff for my car, it still reeks!
User: Randy | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message:
The songs that fill me with twisted appreciation for
the dark, ominous irony of the lyrics, the foreboding quality of the
arrangements, and the generally dour sense of discomfort and concern they are
designed to elicit are "Don't Take Me Alive," "Everything You Did," "The Royal
Scam," "Junkie Girl," and "Surf and/or Die"...
Does that count as a contribution for "Songs That Make Me Happy or Make My Toes Tap"?
Randy
NIGHTFLY62@aol.com
User: Flame | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: hey, dammit, what I want to know is:
Who Killed Paul
Wellstone?
()
User: Molly...... ? | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Hi everybody.....Well I asked a very simple question to
my fellow Banyan Trees members. I know it wasn't particularly profound....
perhaps it wasn't as enlightened or entertaining as much that is posted here.
However, it did pertain to music.
WHAT SONGS GET YOUR TOES TAPPING OR MAKE
YOU FEEL HAPPY WHEN YOU HEAR THEM? (Steely's songs specifically)
Since no
one but Aja even bothered with a response.. I can only conclude that there are
no songs make you guys happy. The only other thing to consider is that everyone
(with the exception of Aja )is too F***ing rude to even respond.
My evil
conspiracy continues. BILL I WILL HAVE YOU!!!!!!!!!
User: ......... | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Did you take your mother's name so you could sleep
easily?
She took you back too late and now you never even call
Did you
take that money drawer while she was praying?
They said you disappeared just
like water down a drain
Why'd you call me me?
Must be bad
Disappointed man, where've you
been?
Hide yourself so well in this city disappointed man?
Did you sell your fathers ring so you could stay one more night?
It shone
like his glass eye in the worn velvet case
Did you fill this hired room with
guilty words?
Your white piano hands flutter like poison birds
Why'd you call me?
Must be back
Disappointed man, where've you
been?
Hide yourself so well in this city disappointed man?
-Freedy Johnston
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Mr Digital;
Watching the birds
As they sail on the wind
One day to fly
Ian Bairnson, Scott English
User: 1100010100101 | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Just a charcoal sketch on canvas
Made them laugh but
now they see
That the artist had a vision
That the wind could set us
free
It's a bridge until tommorrow
Taking us beyond the sun
As the
artist paints his picture
The story's just begun
Analyzing, criticizing
Fear of the unknown
Theorizing,
visualizing
The road to take us home
If it takes forever, someone's gonna
fly
We may never get to heaven
But still we're gonna try
User: Stoopid Advert (take one) | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: This is Martha.
This is the joint that Martha
bought.
This is the dealer who sold the joint that Martha bought.
This is
the little girl that was killed by the dealer who sold the joint that Martha
bought.
This is your government and its stoopid drug policies, without which
none of this is possible.
User: Cyn | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message:
Clas, Dahhhling...For starters I'm not moving to
London...I'm moving to the West ...about 40 miles south from Bristol..Loverly
town of Taunton.And there is a verrry special someone...he happens to live there
too. Coincidence?..I think not! But thanks for the offer of a Flat...haahah! Oh
yeahhh...Indie and Pompe' walking down the Champs'..acting French..WAIT!..Indie
is french (un petite Basset)..that explains the attitude.
Thanks for all the good wishes...GB Folk (and you know who yous are).If lp can move lock, stock and barrel to some remote Island..I can certainly make this move...she inspires me.
FOR SALE: EVERYTHING! (including the trampoline and a lovely colbalt blue kitchen sink)
User: ¯ | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: SACD, now eh? Which SD album will get the Super Audio
treatment?
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1476
JOHN ALLAN MUHAMMAD
The chickend, he crost the fucking road to stopp traffic, den he checkt my car out and lett me go. He my bitch, man.
User: Beerberian QSK | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: global potentate of doom: I can assure you Ms tzuke is alive and well AND making the music of her career @ the mo' You are correct in the EJ ref In December 1999, Elton John decided to return the copyrights to Judie for her first three albums (originally released on Eltons Rocket label), and re-mastered versions of "Welcome To the Cruise", "Sportscar", and "I Am The Phoenix" were re-released on Big Moon in February 2000. The very nice Mr John did this for free ....
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: STEEVE DAN
5000 years ago, God promised us Chickens to cross any fucking road we want to cross.
User: Existentially Speaking | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: another take on the age old question....:
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
GEORGE W. BUSH
I don't think I should have to answer that question.
AL GORE
I invented the chicken. I invented the road.
Therefore, the
chicken crossing the road represented
the application of these two different
functions of
government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring
greater
services to the American people.
RALPH NADER
The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road
had
been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed.
The chicken did not reach the
unspoiled habitat on the
other side of the road because it was crushed by
the
wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.
PAT BUCHANAN
To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but
I'll
bet it was getting a government grant to cross
the road, and I'll bet someone
out there is already
forming a support group to help chickens
with
crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How
much more of
this can real Americans take? Chickens
crossing the road paid for by their
tax dollars, and
when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your
money,
money the government took from you to build roads for
chickens to
cross.
MARTHA STEWART
No one called to warn me which way that chicken
was
going. I had a standing order at the farmer's market
to sell my eggs
when the price dropped to a certain
level. No little bird gave me any insider
information.
JERRY FALWELL
Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't
you
people see the plain truth in front of your face?
The chicken was going to
the "other side." That's what
they call it - the other side. Yes, my friends,
that
chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will
become gay
too. I say we boycott all chickens until we
sort out this abomination that
the liberal media
whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
"the
other side."
DR. SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a
toad?
Yes! The chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed, I've not been
told!
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die. In the rain. Alone.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I envision a world where all chickens will be free
to
cross roads without having their motives called into
question.
GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the
road.
Someone told us that the chicken crossed the
road, and that was good enough
for us.
BARBARA WALTERS
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments we will
be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the
heart-warming
story of how it suffered a serious case
of molting and went on to accomplish
its life-long
dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens crossing roads in peace.
ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road
It was a
historical inevitability.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we
were
quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on
it.
VOLTAIRE
I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will
defend
to the death its right to do it.
RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?
CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
FOX MULDER
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many
more
chickens have to cross before you believe it?
SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the
chicken
crossed the road reveals your underlying
sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES
I have just released eChicken 2003, which will not
only
cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your
important documents, and balance
your checkbook and
Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the
road
move beneath
the chicken?
BILL CLINTON
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do
you
mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please?
THE BIBLE
And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto
the
chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the
chicken crossed the road, and
there was much
rejoicing.
COLONEL SANDERS
I missed one?
User: Beerberian flashback 1979 | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Dunc; You can scroll this one ..... LOL
Aja; It was written after a row with Morag (something & nothing really) I just extrapolated the mood A LOT .........lol For "she left me" actually read, went to see her mom for a night - BUT I do sulk for England when we fall out ..... which is not that often, considering she has put up with me for nearly 20 yrs - she deserves a medal .Anyways All forgiven and sorted mwahh ! Now all I've got to confess is that I pasted our life all over the net ROFLMFAO ...........It was the first (and maybe last time) I took a real situ amd wrote about it .....albeit much exaggerated from reality ...and the last line about brew ???? can I have that back please It is so shite !!! LOL
Its not something I've done since teens !!!! just playin' about really I weaved in a load of Judie Tzuke refs for a twist - it amused bluz (big fan .... me too !! ) We are the Tzuke-subversive secret agents amongst you .... you WILL listen to this Lyrical Lady with tress of gold and voice of purest imperfection ...eh ? www.tzuke.com please give it a go - and dload the "one minute" mp3 at the very least ... hey what the hell buy "Queen Secret Keeper" - If ya don't like it - I'll give you your $$$ back ....
angel; I'm afraid that it would be safe to say that the DSO as it existed is
well an' truly split ... We still await (for various and painful reasons) a
reform of some elements - It may be as minimal as a 4 piece last
heard.
Biggest shame is that The 12 assembled @ that juncture would/could
have stood toe to toe against ALL as purveyors of the finest SD fayre - The trip
we made to Coventry is etched upon my mind !!!
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Russert
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Weekly Dead Vote Update:
http://www.detnews.com/2002/politics/0210/29/a01-625516.htm
From the virtual desk of Mutt Dredge:
DATELINE 9:36 EST Nuevo York
An aide for Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Bjorn Ajenmei FrTun has announced that the former Spanish dictator, well-known for the longest death bed watch ever and the first running SNL joke, will run next week as a Senatorial candidate next Tuesday in the state of New Mexico. This as the latest high profile member of the Pushin' Up Daises Party, a new branch of the Green Party.
The mainstream media was shocked, but agreed: anything to keep the Republicans from making a power grab at the Senate. A puzzled Peter Jennings was quoted as saying, "I didn't even know that New Mexico was part of the US!"
Tom Daschle was sited loading a wagon train of buses filled with Native Americans and slot machines to head to New Mexico from South Dakota as the tail end of a week of EXTREME VOTING. "If we can punch a thousand ballots a piece, screw the hanging chads!" Daschle was overheard this evening. "I'm not sure where New Mexico is exactly, but if follow Route 666 or head in the opposite direction as the cattle drives or simply keep the sound of drinkin', whorin', and wild gunfire from the state of Texas on our left, and that's just the executions, then we should be OK."
Meantime, John Ashcroft was baffled as to whether to let in hundreds of
potential voters from Haiti into the country today in Miami. "In an effort to
secure the country, we will arrest all Widows, especially in Missouri, and
provide all illegal aliens with White Vans driven by former Attourney Generals
in blue dresses" When cornered by NBC reporter Tim Russell, Ashcroft broke down
and admitted that INS actually stands for "Is Noone Safe?"
User: global potentate of doom................................... | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Happiness on this board? I've stamped out the very concept of happiness retroactively, so that it now has never existed. I'm very appreciative that my computer code things have proven the non-existence of Molly's Evil Conspiracy to fill the Internet with vaguely flattering remarks about her. Actually, her verbiage alone i think shows that the motion must be there, but what would i know, and who the hell do i think i am, commenting on this at all. Have i just inadvertantly made things worse? Of course!
All i know of Judie Tzuke is that she was a protege of elton john's about 22 years ago, and wrote a fair song wit' him on an otherwise bad album from back then ("Give Me The Love").
The song "Gaslighting Abbie" continues to have more and more significance in my life.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Well, this should fix things...NOT!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$U3QMBWCFMGMNVQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/10/29/umid.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/10/29/ixport.html
I got nothing here - just enjoy the English colloquialism "sacked"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/29/uangus.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/10/29/ixport.html
etymology? brothers and sistahs over the pond?
Mol: see above..gotaat go help with some homework...as always, remove NOSPAM...
User: Moll checking in....... | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Well it's worse than I suspected.... There are NO happy
people in Banyan Trees Land... *sighs* Alas...it's as you suspected my Viking.
Actually it explains much!
Dr Mu- may I have your e-mail address? Mine is
posted above in e-mail thingy. Please contact me.
LcPaul- Hi! I hope you're
feeling better Sweetness. Nice to see your posts.
BB- the old ground fog
troubling you my friend? I'll keep you in my thoughts. I love David Gray's new
CD BTW. What do you think about it?
Also went to Judy's site...very
nice!
Boom Boom- sometimes a person has to want to save themselves. In all
liklihood you were thinking of jumping before you met the lady. Try
rappelling.......all the fun... but minimal risk. As Jerry Harrison writes: On
the wire that is living.. You can forget the rest. They say we can't survive..
but a life like this keeps me alive.
I never was afraid of dying.. only not
really living.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Aja: I refer you to 2586
User: Dave | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Chain Lightning?
Mr Rick Derringer
User: boom ... boom | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: I was walking along a narrow ledge very high up on a clifftop,when I saw a lovely lady walking towards me.There was no room for us both to pass.What a dilemma! I didn't know whether to block her passage or toss myself off.
User: Duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Results in from last month's family portrait
session.
Im very pleased, considering i'm on most of them.
UK residents..
check out ventureportraits.com
the rest of you... guess which one's i bought !!!!
I could only afford 3 & they cost us ú1100.00 !!!!!!!!!!!
Kids ehh !!!!!
db
http://www.lindunk.co.uk/gallery/gallery.cgi?Category=3
Part of my job at home is to maintain the computer.
Imagine my face last
week when Linda had me load works 95... Just so she could print a jobs to do
list !!!
It gets better ''professer'' franklin... just to frame a picture.
It's no wonder i keep deleting all her pictures..
Linda + a4 picture/scanned = 56mb+
Me thinks we need to spend less time in the bedroom !!!!
Beers: great poem
Dano: i Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo need a drink
!!!
User: Aja......attention: Steely Dan q! | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Was listening to "Katy Lied" in the car at lunch-that is definitely a fall album. "Chain Lightning" especially. Newbie q: who is the guitarist? I just love that groove.
Aja
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Mu: Oops, I did it again. Sorry teacher.... :-(
Take
2:
Clas, that was Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro.... LOL
Aja: Advance notice, ha! We didn't know until 11A that morning, if it was a go or not. Life with an almost 12 year old, they just can't make up their minds. I hear it will get worse, as the years pass. So we only saw the campground at Santee Lakes. We were back home by 12P on Sunday. Maybe the next time the Damned play, we can hook up.
Beerberian: Are you saying the Danny Steel Orchestra is no more?
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Cyn - London has nothing to offer for anyone. Move to Stockholm. I could put you up in an apartment in the finer parts of town.
Just you'n me honey.
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: CYN-I went to London, England ten years ago to celebrate my college graduation. England should have plenty to offer you. Good Luck.
Special congrats to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, parents
of a baby boy. WOO HOO!
User: Aja......and how could I forget? | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Cynny! You're moving to England? You go, girl! Am sorry I missed visiting the ponies, but you sound very happy. Those are some fine sons you're raising, and I'm sure you're mighty proud. Stay in touch! ;o)
Aja
User: Aja..........indulging in chocolate therapy | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: I love a multi-topicked (sp?) GB......
I can't figure out if Beerberian has had a nasty break-up, or his favorite pub closed down.......
I'm torn between being creative on a Mac or efficient on a PC.....
angel-where were you when you had that long night? Next time you're down drop me a line and let's meet up!
Aja
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: LP - apropos Bodi, has anyone heard Toto's version of that one, on their latest album?
I can see on pics that the guys in Toto got new Plastic Teeth... or are they made in China?
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: I seriously can't understand this discussion Mac vs PC.
I've been working with PC since 1991. Vector-graphic-based programmes like Arts & Letters and Corel Draw. Pagemaker for brochures and more font-friendly things. For Mac there were Illustrator, Quark Express and other similar programmes.
The only problem I had being a PC-user in early 90's was the problems with Photosetters, they were Mac-based and it was hell when I needed film RIPped out (raster image process). It worked one time out of ten. I had to make strange .prn files and stuff. Uhh. "Print to file", brrrrr... "sorry, there's something wrong with your file..."
Nowdays there's no problem, I get Mac files from Mac users, I use Photoshop on PC, Illustrator (if I want to, Corel Draw is better, it's a Canadian programme) etc etc.
And I know people sitting with Mac working with ProTools or Video editing, going crazy over the unstability.
I can admit that PC was a little hell in the beginning, unstable, connecting a printer to the computer made you leave for the ceiling, strange messages as "Windows couldn't find the file sos.dll in win.ini, restart the computer now or later?"
"Windows couldn't find fuck.exe which is needed for this programme, check your configurations in win.ini, but don't touch anything"
"Couldn't configurate the mouse proberly, wanna restart the computer or just kill yourself? Push F4 for the latter."
But that's not the case today.
---
Ange/Mu - I haven't heard Parkers Band for a long time, did so last nite,
and I've never noticed the two drummers. Cool.
Cyn - you son of a... gun! You went to Britain without me? Is there someone else I should know about? Be straight forward, I am a man, I can take it. And of course, I'll bring in Indie from Paris, we'll take the train under the channel. Nemas problemas.
But first they have to walk Champs Elysses together. What a sight!
Sorry to hear about Hanni. Uhhh, that must be awful.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: angel: [whispering] It's Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro on dueling drums in Parker's Band...
ICPaul & YGK - enjoyed those, and most were new to me...the oboe and bassoon baseball joke cracked me up...
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Some interesting and frightening thots in this article. Chaos theory in practice. Strange Attractors:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider_021029.html
ygk
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: well, i finally trained my yahoo launch station to play more steely dan - lately, they are playing many tracks from "android warehouse" - any comments on this?
cyn - welcome back dearie!
uplifting steely dan songs - if peaceful suffices as uplifting, then aja would be a good pick, as well as Bodhi, Time Out of Mind
cold and clear with white caps on the bay and more stores closed up for the year
free advice for today - do NOT take your trash to the transfer station inside your station wagon with the heat on
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Hoops...
Yet another great post. It's great to hear from someone that has spent so much time researching the issue.
Not to continue the endless argument....
I'm the first to admit my ignorance regarding the debate. I have just enough information to get myself in trouble.
I'm also the first to admit that my arguments in favor of the Mac and the Apple Company in general are not based on anything truly technical. However, I am not alone. It seems to me that while Macs represent around 6% of the market (you would probably have a more accurate figure), many of their owners are quite passionate about their choice. It also appears to me that those choices are often based on "passion" then "reason." Of course there are many Mac users that are not passionate about their computers...they are what they are...tools.
There was an unofficial survey done a number of years ago...Not sure for what purpose....not even sure it is to be believed. The survey basically asked people what political party they supported and then asked them what kind of computer they used. Now, I don't remember the exact results, but I think Democrats generally used Macs while Republicans tended to use PC's.
Of course, many feel that liberal Democrats tend to be more "passionate" about certain issues and maybe liberal sensibility plays some role in their choices.
I suppose that all I am saying is that I don't think it is easy for everyone to understand the "passion" that exists in some Mac users. Does this mean that there is not passionate PC users...of course not? It does tell me...rightly or wrongly, that some "passionate" Mac users apply a different barometer in their view of this "tool."
While I have raised both of children on Macs...I hardly think that they will be as passionate about their computers as I am. They live in a different period where the memories of corporate wrangling and its history doesn't exist.
Finally...one of my "passionate" complaints (that will also be ignored) is the fact that in our society...the better system...the more "elegant" system lost out to what became a corporate giant with little regard for the kind of quality, innovation and dedication we has seen from Apple. For me...the end user is the one that suffers.
It reminds me of a statement made many years ago against capitalism. In 1933, an inventor created a tire that (for all intense and purposes) was wear proof and certainly puncture proof. Because of the period of time in the rubber industry, Firestone, Goodyear (I assume) and Cooper tire and rubber companies could not allow for this "new" tire to be introduced into the market. It could have (and probably would have) hurt the established tire companies and was probably a threat to the economy. Naturally, the communists played on this fact stating....how many of your Americans have you killed on your highways because of tire failure, etc. in order to preserve these corporations.
Now before I am accused of being communist, I merely find the story interesting and understand why events took place the way they did.
Maybe the analogy is weak when talking about the Macintosh...Indeed, no one has been killed using a PC (at least I don't think so). But the point still stands. A better product (in my humble opinion) has lost out to a company that was obsessed with the bottom line. (Yes...so was Steve Jobs...but in a different way...and therein lies the difference).
Not unlike Beta that lost out to VHS, many feel that Beta was a better format producing a better quality product.
All this being said...I do not expect people to fully understand why I feel the way I do about Apple and it's products. Something will be lost in the translation and the rest lost to apathy due to that dead horse being beaten once again.
I have used both systems and I simply feel that the Mac system (hardware and software) is a more elegant and intuitive product, which directs its designs with the end user in mind. Yep...they want money too. They are no different than any other company. But I honestly do not feel that they would sacrifice "quality" for the bottom line.
-Paige
User: Beerberian doin his 9 - 5 | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Dano; DSO RIP beyond all hope .. No view of a Phoenix as yet ... watching for signs as ever
You are the phoenix, I am the fire
You are the plane and I am your
flyer
Judie Tzuke/Mike Paxman
Paul Muggleton/Bob Noble
User: Cyn | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Dano...was there for opening day at Newmarket...just
watch it on the telly tho..I was at opening day in Taunton...Lost 60 quid to a
horse named Vincent Van Gogh...ours was coming up first...and he just passed
him. Funny thing is..we'd had a discussion here at my home on how to pronounce
Van Gogh back in Aug. when Alan first came over...hahahahaha. Next time I'll go
with my gut feeling...we woulda won about 1000 pounds if we'd picked
him.
Dunc..I did some research on the pet thing..maybe they haven't updated
the site. As it stood only the US and Cananda were excluded from the "pet
scheme"....but they were going to change that.I'll check on it when I get back
there.
Hopes to see yous guys there soon...I use Alans cell while I'm there..will e-mail yous the number..(yous?) yikesss!
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Q: Why did the guitarist put drum sticks in his
dashboard window?
A: so he could park in handicapped parking
Q: What do you call a guitarist with no girlfriend?
A: homeless
Q: How do you get a guitarist to turn down?
A: put a chart in front of him
Thanx to Aus, Babes, Feff, Morty and Petrosian
ygk
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Last night at Izzy's Bar in the East Village, New York City, our own Malcolm Hunter (YGK) and his latest incarnation called CORE played for a small, yet very appreciative crowd in the venue's cozy basement.
The trio (Bill Burt, Bass Guitar; Peter Ray, Percussion; Malcolm Hunter, Keyboards) has much to offer from their new effort, scheduled to be released soon....groovy, and imbued with infectious jazz threads, the band blends along nicely fronted with Malcolm's raspy New York accented voice....and Mr. Burt's voice too was silky smooth with a dash of attitude.
The room, with about 30 people were afflicted with head bopping syndrome and by the gig's end, the intimate gathering was screaming for more.....of course, CORE indulged the crowd and wrapped up nicely to round out a terrific evening of music.
Could do more colour but it'll wait until the group's next gig....
Aus
User: lcpaul | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Don't know if these have been posted before, but if they haven't, enjoy!
Q: What do a sax solo and premature ejaculation have in
>
common?
> A: You know it's coming and there's nothing you can do
about
> it.
>
> Q: What will you never say about a banjo
player?
> A: That's the banjo player's Porsche.
>
> Q: What do
a trombone and a lawsuit have in common?
> A: Everyone is relieved when
the case is closed.
>
> Q: What's the first thing a girl singer does
in the morning?
> A: Puts on her clothes and goes home.
>
> Q:
What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon?
> A: You can hit a
baseball further with a bassoon.
>
> Tuba Player: "Did you hear my
last recital?"
> Friend: "I hope so."
>
> Relative minor: A
guitarist's girlfriend.
>
User: lcpaulagain | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Oh yeah, and the new Jagger/Richards composition "Keys To Your Love" off "Forty Licks" joins my list of favourite love songs, maybe even tops it.
Wanted to share that as well.
Cheers.
Paul
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Aja: Actually, I spent the longest night of the year (time wise) tent camping in San Diego. Next time we are definitely finding an electric outlet for our aero beds. No more sleeping on the ground for me. Checked out Rockola's gig at the Fall Frenzy (Bob does a mean Jim Morrison and not a bad Grace Slick, either.) Spoke to Miz Ducky for a few minutes, too. It was good to see her and she does look pretty damn happy in her new southern nesting place.
Parker's band has Jim Hodder and Jeff Porcaro on Drums. (Mu pointed that out
to me). :-)
They used that drum configuration when touring in '74. My
favorite cut from that tour is "The Boston Rag". You can really hear that it is
2 drums right at the top.
Steveedan: You beat me to The Angel's comment. Woohoo!!!!!
Touch screen voted yesterday. What a cool thing! If you live in California, just take your ballot and go. No preregistration required. The have them set up in lots of shopping centers and such. Check out page 2 in the voters sample ballot for a location near you. Beats a hanging chad any day.
User: lcpaul | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Jeez - listened to "Book of Liars" off "Alive in America" last night - it really cooks and is fast becoming my favourite.
Just wanted to share that with you all.
Love
Paul
User: Dano | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Cyn , with your knowledge of the Gee Gee`s you must be
looking around Newmarket!!
Let me know when you are over on my e-maail and we
will see if i can get you a few winners.
Duncan , Beer , DSO?? Are they up and running again??
Dano.
User: Randy | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message:
Larry Carlton was a late addition to the sessions
for 1975's 'Katy Lied,' which is why he is only featured playing rhythm guitar
on "Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More"; Fagen is quoted as saying
they would have utilized him more had he arrived sooner, which is why when that
opportunity came later on (for the 'Royal Scam' sessions), he was used so
extensively.
I doubt Steely Dan would allow the failure to credit Michael McDonald for keyboard contributions to pass on repeatedly (original album credits, numerous CD releases, box set) if he HAD actually played keyboards on the 'Katy Lied' sessions.
Though there are photographs of Steely Dan in the studio for the 'Katy Lied' sessions (as in Barney Hoskyn's book "Waiting For The Sun") with Michael McDonald sitting at a keyboard, that doesn't mean any of his work made the final cut (thus the lack of a credit). He may have been asked to "sit in" in order to try something out, or (being a keyboard player) he may have simply played a bit between takes of his harmony vocal contributions. If one has expensive auxillary session players at their disposal (Michael Omartian), it is likely they are used as much as possible in order to make full use of their talents.
"Everywhere around me / I see jealously and mayhem" - Steely Dan, 'Night by Night'
Randy
NIGHTFLY62@aol.com
User: Duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Cyn: great news for you & yours.
You can get a
pet passport now & avoid the quarantine sentence
User: Cyn | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: hahaha....you guys are too damn funny, for your own
good! I'm back from a lovely 11 days in England. It was a great trip and sorry I
didn't catch up with Dunc and Dano this time.Did meet up with Face and The "Vet"
after a day at opening Races (Point to Point type), we started out at a
pub...and laughed our way all thru a chinese 6 or 8 course dinner.I lost count
of how many courses...and that poor waiter....hahahah..had to send him away 3
times before he even took our drink order. They stayed the night at Alans and we
got up to Face cooking a delicious breakfast. Which kept us stuffed all
day.pssst..Face!...Hey Ewe!
Now, I'm leaving again on the 6th until the
18th... to go house hunting.Yep, you got it..I'm moving to
England..YIPEEE!Probably right after Christmas....we can't wait to move.
Clas...I need you to help smuggle Indie in...hahaha,he'll be all microchipped
and all..just want to avoid the 6mos quarentine...and you can take animals in
from the Continent without having to do that.We'll meet you and Lena in Paris
for the handover..hahhaa! I'll be the one in the black beret...Alan will have on
black sunglasses...and we'll be in a black Audi.This is Black Ops...I have this
image of clas walking Indie and Pomp down a road...what a pair..Bassett and
Great dane all wearing black berets and sunglases...HA!
On a sadder note..I
had to have my old Lab Hanni put down last Sat..he was my best friend and had
soaked up so many of my tears this past year..and stayed up with me on nights I
couldn't sleep. He died peacefully in my arms surrounded by his boys and
friends. He is truly missed.My eldest really grew up that day.He and a friend
dug Hanni's grave under the pear tree...and after he sat with him for while, he
carried him out there.I am very proud of him..it was a torturest task.
lp..I saw John Mayer at a small venue, and it was BEFORE he got "big"...he was very likable..and sounded great. But as you said ..I felt like I was at a teenybopper concert.
Jim# and Mrs#...I have long email for you all..look for it
today!
snakie...Where are youuuuuuuu?..I sent email from Alans..did ya
get it?
BTW,.. my best day in England was dragging Alan to Glastonbury Abbey and
making him do "tourist" stuff..the pained expression on his
face..priceless.Dragged him kickin' and screamin'...hahahaha!
User: Steveedan and his pet squirrel | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Still reading, still catching up a little ...
jjeff - I know you were thinking of me when you wrote about the flying squirrel. Thank you. I will never forget that vacuum cleaner incident. That is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen posted here. It's like something that you could file under "Modern Blunders of Home Economics" or something like it. Boy, that must have been one pissed-off squirrel ... and now you've got one on ice in a birdhouse. Get some wool for the poor critter. You are certainly one of the good guys, and King of the Squirrel Kingdom ... Sir Robin, Sir Robin ...
Stevee(HaHaHa)Dan
User: Steveedan | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Jonny wrote: - Post # 2481:
"I can't get over how
much like Fagen the front man in Steeve's cover band sounds. It's amazing. Why
don't you guys come out East and play some gigs?"
- posted on October 22,
2002 09:34
Thank you very much Jonny !!! That's our big lead man Warren.
He, like Donald F., was born in New Jersey, so he has his pedigree so to speak
(or sing). Please write to us at our website using one of our e-mail spots. I
would like to discuss this idea with you further. In the meantime, on behalf of
the band, I would like to thank you again for this kind message.
I am so far behind in reading the guestbook ... our gig went great last Thursday night ... our numbers are increasing ... both in those attending the gigs and our set list. We went with a 10-piece band this time. We were competing with the 6th World Series game (the only one I didn't watch) where Anaheim pulled a rabbit (or was that Mickey) out of a hat, crept past San Francisco, and then, went on to game # 7 to win !!! A Hollywood script writer couldn't have scripted it any better ... unless he wanted the team from Northern California to win.
Well, it's back to reading all the letters that await me from here to the present.
I hope all is well ... Rock on, be excellent to one another, etc, etc.
Stevee(up all night ... again !)Dan
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Has anyone noticed there's two drummers on "Parkers Band"? Pretty much separated to the left/right channel.
User: ¦ - Hello computer | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Windows then developed AS a program to emulate the Mac OS on PCs.
User: ¦ - Hello computer | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hoops: Nice outline of a historical and comparative view of 2 of many computer worlds. Most people at the Medical School and in Education and in Architecture here use Macs and more in engineering and Biology use PCs. Indeed, Gates made most of his most famous software such as Word and Excel originally for the Mac. Lotus was king of the spreadsheet for years... Gates was given the keys to the Mac Kingdom in exchange for developing programs for the Mac in the 80s. Windows then developed a program to emulate the Mac OS on PCs. The Mac OS at the time was on ROM. Since that was technically hardware, it was patentable and under greater protection - so Gates made a software mimic version of the hardware, but not that close, over a DOS shell - that he purchase originally from some schmuck for a song. I like Mac OS 9 and before and now 10.2 (10.0 and 10.1 feel like betas to me) because they allow the right brain to maneuver the nuts and bolts of the machine, freeing the left brain for languange and analytical thought, and I need all the help I can...
...without profiling too much:
Macs generally are more friendly to artists, musicians, digital video, home office and entertainment, education, and very high tech science applications...
while PCs are more amenable to moderate size and larger businesses with networks, engineers who write a lot of code, government (that should tell us something), and those who like to download music illegally...
But again these are generalities and do not apply to any particular individual...
User: Zan | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Dear Hoops:
If it means anything to you, I did read your post. I have a Mac. I am challenged by it simply because it is a machine and I think it's a guy. My Mother has a PC and I find it even more difficult. The Mac seems to flow and her PC is more jerky, (note my scientific language). I try to help her figure out some simple things on it and I find it ornery, if a computer can be ornery. Mac's are round, Microsoft is square.
User: ...what ive got to say... | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: i heard that new frontier was on some wierd video disc on the early 80's. was don obsessed with digital?
a healthy obsession.
User: Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: What about the songs........
Bodhisattva,Home At Last
and Aja? Of course those are only ones that come to mind immediately. There are
many others in which the music will have me tapping my toes and bopping
along.
User: hoops | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Well. I've posted here several times on this topic. And it's just another opinion that goes ignored as usual. So simply my two cents, maybe Paige will read it.
My research specialization, what I write about and what I present at conferences, is pretty much a super-set of this Mac-PC debate. That is, how does the computer one use influence what people do with them and what computer is most suitable for them, given the particulars of what they intend to with the computer.
Before I go further, Paige, your points 2 and 6 are incorrect. Depending on context, there is a significant difference between Windows, MS DOS and actually between Mac OS prior-to-X and Mac OS X. (Hey add in Linux and SGI, etc to the debate. I use all of them to varying degrees.)
Yes and No: Xerox came up with the mouse and pictures as ways of interacting with computers BUT if you have ever seen the XEROX PARC interface which inspired Jobs, you instantly would recognize that it doesn't look like even Mac Finder 1.0. Apple did some major R & D to make it useable. I studied why the Xerox engineers did what they did for starters.
And of course, Apple licensed the first few iterations of their OS for Microsoft to use in exchange for Microsoft developing a compiler for Mac OS as well as what became Win Word and Excel. (Did you know that Word, Excel and PowerPoint are all based on Mac programs that PC users shunned for several years? PowerPoint is based on a program from the same inventor of Apple's Filemaker. They sold Filemaker to Apple and PowerPoint to Microsoft. Look closely and you will see a lot of similarities between the two. Had Microsoft purchased Filemaker at the same time, we'd all be using it instead of Access. I use Access more than Filemaker in case you are wondering, but not because I prefer it. Digital video on PC still sucks and DVD authoring on a Mac is lightyears better than a PC. Overall, I find web surfing on a PC to be often faster. PCs are much cheaper to buy; they also cost much, much more to support than a Mac, assuming your support person knows something about both. If the support person knows nothing about Macs, it doesn't make a difference. I could go on and on.
But what it really comes down to is this:
People learn one way or another,
and because becoming proficient with a computer takes much time (yes, even with
a Mac), people don't want to relearn anything or often consider the idea
something might be better after all that.
I won't go through all the pros and cons and then introduce the factor of how different people have different perception, thinking processes, etc., each computer has it's cultural roots, etc., but point is, most people won't consider the possibility or radically changing the way they currently use a computer. Furthermore, Not everyone should use a PC or a Mac or an SGI or...in other words, a number of people get along OK using a computer even though it probably isn't the best fit or the most productive for them.
But really , tieing this all into Steely Dan, fact is this: if you have ever read Roger Nichols' "EQ" columns, or looked closely at some of the photos posted over the past six or seven years at steelydan.com, or the "Aja" DVD, you would know our heros use both and apparently find Macs to be useful in making the music we love. They all so use PCs, too. Should we go and all switch to Macs because they use them? Of course not. But considering that, a lot of the criticisms here are way ridiculous. And over the years, I've found that many of you know little about the type of computer you bash. I remember one vocal critic here making fun of one kind of computer and then not even knowing how to turn it on.
Ten years ago when I was working with the National Science Foundation, I had the awesome experience of serving some of the greatest physicists and chemists in the world. Some used Macs and some used PCs or neither or both. Who's to say whether the person who develops a cure for cancer or AIDS is using a Mac or a PC; I just know I want to be open-minded enough to not mock what helps them do it.
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Just so there's no confusion...
1) I understand that this is a PC world
2) The difference between the two
platforms is nominal (now)
3) You can do just about anything with both
platforms
4) I know that these are only tools (creativity is separate)
5)
Bill Gates ripped off Steve Jobs
6) Steve Jobs ripped off Xerox
7) Without
Macs...PC's would have no reason to improve
and...
8) I am under no
illusions...I think.
Now back to your regular programming.
-Paige
User: BeerberIan | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: To the dwindling; God only knows what I'd be without her.. Fell out night 'fore last and she went away... BUT could I say sorry? Hell no .. It's a male gender thing right ? WRONG It's shite !!! would this work ?
Cold Shoulder 3am
The storm swept through on Sunday, left trail of a loss
We argued about
nothinÆ, all felt was frost
Trees stripped of verdant coats, leaves torn
æfore their time
Wish I could replace the canvas, restored to itÆs prime
I have the minute, would I still give it, not sure at this moÆ
I hold
onto the mood, stay off too long à both know
Cold and uninviting, bare
wooden tableau vivant of a hill
I cut and held silence, quiet voice of small
still à
The angle of shoulder so cold and withdrawn
You canÆt see from this side,
feeling forlorn
Silence screams volumes thoughts whirl around
Sleep on
it, no way to find common ground
Harvest the anger to feed next dispute
Petty I know twist my facts to
refute
Why canÆt I see that the hurt does no good
Immune? I donÆt think
so, to sobbing flood
Wish I could speak with eloquence to prove
Wish I could write under guise
of angel to move
Sung to the lyre, wax intended, not quite met
Moon
madness required to dance fret a fret
EJ, who knew TJ quoth regret, task of such toil
Always, when attempted,
inner reticence does foil
But the worth of effort committed, would bear
fruit for ever
Plant a forest, we have to, survive stormy weather
Regal confidante you know, we all do too à.
revealed on the sleeve, my
heart in full view
Never know where the soul is, selfish to end
Given
the onslaught I choose not to bend
Nothing to write home about, so I am told
Without her IÆm useless empty
and cold à..
For M my rock on which I found her
But if she knew this it
might just astound her
Believe this is True, that love you I do
The bar to my heart is fresh
out of brew
Poet Lazyeate
also avail in WSBS on www.tzuke.com
Oh yeah and GLYNN DAVIES rocks Kid C and All - BRING back the DSO Rag !!!!!!!!!!! Clean this mess up all or I'll end up in court Decree not Nicee not req please .....
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: He's *really* great on "You Can't Hold On Too Long" too...
Oh wait...
User: Aja.........another loooooong day | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hank Easton gives "The Second Arrangement" a funky edge, as opposed to the bland disco arrangement the original had (at least from what I could hear from Andy Metzger's site). If Becker and Fagen recorded it with Hank on lead, they might actually decide they like that song.....
Aja
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hank Easton does it 50 times better than that Jon Herrington slop (grande basura) on Plush. Hell Hank gives Larry Carlton a run for his money. Although I will say that Ripper Owens is no Rob Halford. ;-)
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Sorry Paige but it ain't the computer that makes one creative. This website is 100% pure PC -- including the graphics. Anymore it's what you like to use, not what you need or think you should use.
User: Mr. Cover Band | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: W1P- Yeah...Hank Easton does it much
better...NOT!
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: I think the guitar solo on Kid C from Plush sucks
User: Duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Paige: I've only been here a year & half &
that's already been posted.
tell me what is the matrix?
It's Don & Walt pulling Stal's strings !!!
It's us.
Tthe scene where the helecopter fly's into the building made me feel bilious last week, must say though i could'nt turn away.
my missing cat returned at the weekend, after getting his ass well &
truly kicked !!!! again.
I put it down to the fact he has no tail & can't
truly express his emotions & feelings anymore.
Meanwhile i get on with my life knowing the letter from his lawyer's ''is in the post''
the 5th.....the 5th !!!!!!
User: Apple Advert (take three) | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: I'm a writer from Detroit and I used to work on a PC and
buoy oh buoy, was I ever bummed out. I couldn't write a darn thing. My mind was
like, totally blank. So, one of these days, they decided to switch me to a Mac
at work and all of sudden, as soon as I turned it on, just like that, the
creative juices started flowing. Verbs conjugated themselves with the boot
loader. I had three hundred words proofread by the time I logged on. They say
you're more creative on a Mac. Well thanks to Steve Jobs, I gotta say, that is
true. I didn't even have to think anymore. Heck, I didn't have to type. It was
like, magic, man. So all the tin can labels I was ordered to produce were done
and ready to roll off the plant in no time flat, except for the green peas. Now
those, those are tough on any machine. I almost made my quota. I might even keep
my job. Who knows? Soon, with a little luck, it'll be "Bye bye minimum wage" and
maybe, maybe one day I can afford a Mac of my own. Now THAT would be like,
veeeery, veeeeery cool.
Hi I'm Stubs Smith and I'm a WRITER, DAMMIT!
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Tones: I guess you were sleeping through one of my
yelling sessions regarding the Plush. Yes, there were indeed 4 songs that did
not make it from the taping to the special. I can understand the pledge version
missing them, but the VHS/DVD? Very sad. So, to recap. The 4 songs missing were
"Do it Again", "Deacon Blues", "Home at Last" and "West of Hollywood". At least
30 minutes more of content, lost for good, so it seems.
My favorite cut from
the show (just for the record) "Pretzel Logic". Blew me away, when I saw it.
What an ending!
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Paige-I agree with most of what you wrote, especially that Becker and Fagen have multi-layered inferences in their lyrics. However, I see TOOM as a drug song first, with religious references underlying. Especially the following lyrics:
I am holding the mystical sphere
It's direct from Lhasa
Where people
are rolling in the snow
Far from the world we know
It seems that the narrator is holding a vial of heroin, about to shoot up ("tonight when I chase the dragon")and Lhasa grows some of the finest. The name Lhasa also means "holy city", so we're probably both right!
Aja
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Dear Apple Advert...
Nice to have you on the team. The reason why PC's have so many problems is because about 500 vendors are putting their crap into them. What are the chances that you're NOT going to have a problem.
And what about Dell, The Cow Computer Comapny, and other PC "dealers?" They aren't computer companies...they are assemply plants...pure and simple.
If you want to count beans...buy a PC
If you want to be creative...buy a
Mac
-Paige
Mac Addict since 1984...
User: Father Time | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Still no Donald or Walter I see.
Guess I'll just reach into my grab bag of subjects here...
Let's see, how
about "Teenage Grandmothers with unruly children"?
Montel Williams eat your
heart out.
I'm checking my watch as we speak but I still don't think they'll
show
up...I'll give em' another 2 years I guess.
*tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock*
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aja...
Sorry to disagree with on "Time Out of Mind." Indeed...there are many drug references in the song (Chasing the Dragon...etc.). However, the song also..in my humble opinion, is about a religious revival meeting and the almost "out of mind" rapture that the participants feel in this state...being whipped up by the narrator.
Put a dollar in the kitty...
Tonight, when I chase the dragon (could be
the devil)
The water will change to cherry wine...
Better get "ready" for
love...
It's your chance to "believe"
Keep your eyes on the
"sky"
People are "rolling" in the snow - (holy rollers)
"Perfection" and
"Grace"
Now granted...almost all of these can be seen as drug related...But who was it that said..."Religion" is the "opiate" of the people (masses)?
I think that Don and Walt pulled a fast one on us by intending "two" meanings...once again...proving their seemingly limitless creative ability.
Just my two cents.
-Paige
User: ring 'em up | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: tones, there were other tunes missing from the Plush DVD besides those metined already, they also did Deacon Blues and Do It Again
User: Aja...........chocolate and music therapy works best | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: FW-yes, still planning on it, but only for a few days, and I plan to spend all of that time indoors playing with my little nieces and nephew. Then I'm getting the hell out ASAP before I develop a serious vodka habit.
Steely Dan songs that make me happy? None of them-but that's not why I like Steely Dan. "Time Out of Mind" is one of my favorites to dance to, and it's about shooting up. That's what I love about them: there's always something a little ironic/morbidly curious/prurient under the surface.
Aja
User: Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hey everyone!!!!!!!!!! Happy Fall......we got about
every color of leaves imaginable here. I went out on the lake just to take in
the beauty.. (saw an otter)
I'M GONNA ASK AGAIN: What songs.. especially
Steely songs make you happy? It's a basic question.. but is related to music.
Clas- It was me babe...Hell I got nothing better to do. *wink* Wonder if ol
Dr.Know is familiar with Borderline Personality Disorder? ( Tex's diagnosis)That
and Marine Corps training makes for a very bad combination..
Ed Beatty- was
very nice to see you again.
JAZ- Sorry about losing my temper. I try real
hard not to let that happen. ! I missed you bud. Talk soon?
User: Apple Advert (take two) | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: "I used to have a Windows PC, top of the line
Pentup-tium 66.6 ghz with a sunroof and hot tub... the works, and since my job
involves a great deal of computing, as you can imagine, I had a lot of problems.
I mean, I was going nuts. Like, I was coasting, or hiking the net, or whatever
they call it and I clicked on a link my whole hard drive was erased. All my
personal files, programs... everything. Gone. Evaporated. And when I called
Microsoft telling them about it, nobody took my problem seriously, saying that
the problem had been known about for months and all I had to do was download a
simple 30 gigabit "patch" they had posted yesterday. Of course, this did me no
good because my harddrive was balder than Capt. Picard leaving a barber shop. It
was like, Hello-o.
Later I found out that all I had to do was change the name
of a folder to avoid that terrible loss.
But by then I had got a Mac. I mean,
like, everything is so straightforward. You just click on a link and voila!
Another page comes up! And I didn't have to add a sound card, graphics card,
download drivers, or any of that crap.
You just plug it into the wall, turn
it on and get on with life. Done.
Simple as that.
Hi, I'm Bill Gates and
I'm a crook."
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: This week is huge in SoCal for music. The Stones are in town for shows on 10/31, 11/2 and 11/4. Mike Keneally plays the Baked Potato in Universal City on 11/2. And on 11/3 Which One's Pink? joins with Sticky Fingers (obviously the Stones tribute band) at the Whisky A Go Go to play a special tribute show in honor of the Stones visit to Southern California -- a show that is supposed to feature "special guests" Oh and Marvette, our Great Gig in the Sky singer from the Lion King is with us on Sunday in what could be her final appearance with us because her company is taking the Lion King to Chicago (hoops). Hope to see one or more of you at some or all of these events.
User: father william | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aja - afre you still planing a winter visit to the Baltic. If so, assuming that you haven't already slashed your wrists, you'll really be praying for longer days.
User: Aja......Monday AGAIN? | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Don't know where the wonderworm is, but his b-day is this Wednesday........
On that note, Aus-man, hope you had a great one! Wish I could have been in NYC to hoist one in your honor.
Jimbo wrote "This is supposed to be about anything related to Steely Dan." That's the rule for the Blue Book, not this one. Posts here don't have to be related to anything, which is why this book is more interesting, and also annoying, than the ones you usually find. I wouldn't have it any other way.
P.S. Good point! Had to laugh at that one.
ole-How's the SAD? I'm feeling it bigtime, went into hibernation mode this weekend......."Any World" sounds great this time of year. Only 8 more weeks until the days start getting longer.
Aja
User: Blaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisie | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Look Webster is getting close to finding a handle that fits him. Banal will do. Insipid you'll have to work for, frankly. The rest is out of your league. Forget about it.
Duncan, Mu: Cold Turkey. I had to go there. I was just about to hijack StAl's and ban the host for harboring terrorists. I had to be stopped.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: B - it's George Wadenius! The Swede. It's the early 70's, look at that haircut.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Howard - I'll have to give Black Friday a listen tonight.
x-post: ...sometimes I would "hear" piano on Daddy and sometimes not. Calton does sometimes play chords that Fagen originally would use on piano as the song developed or on the demo. He has such a ring to his 335 that it does really take the place of the piano In Daddy, an example of Fagenesque chords that sound like Carlton 4 chords (3 descending then 1 ascending) before the crunchy mini guitar solo. A classic example are the stummed chords in Deacon Blues, heard esecially at the intro of the tune...classic. Note how these chord progression resemble a little the ones in Babylon Sisters (here by the keys, guitar + horns) and the keyboard in The Nighfly title track...
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Tones: Got the Krimso "Happy with what you have to be happy with" pre-album teaser from Babes last Friday and WOW! Blown away. The title track deserves radio play right now....very hard with that everlasting eclectic Fripp/Belew love licks.... stunned and amazed. And excited about when they come by to incinerate. Beemer and Wormy: Sprint to buy this if you haven't already.....100% satisfaction or money back guarantee from moi.
LuckLess Pedestrian: June love: Never Got your giftie love...no worries....see you soon. xox Ward
Oleander: Thanks for kind words....how's the familia? Regards to permasqueeze.
Spent this past weekend in the wonderful town of Woodstock, New York. Of course, no other vehicle would do on our way up but in a Volkswagen Beetle (the new ones)....man oh man can those babies cook on the highway....great town, great people, great food, arts, hiking, etc.....
Tonight aftre dinner, off to cheque out our own Malcolm Huntre at his pre-CD party release gig....can't wait.
Super week everybody,
Aus
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: ¯: welcome back...I was master of my domain for 15 days once...
User: Duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hey ¯
So what's cold turkey like then..
I managed
about 9 days in Aug.
murder!!!
db
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: mc - don't worry, john mayer sounds great in concert, but, his manner left me feeling queazy - he acted like a spoiled brat soaking up the show - didn't even introduce his band - i was disappointed in his lack of style - but again, the music rocked - the fans will make you feel old if you are my age, all teeny boppers just itching to get to him, lol, i thought i was at a donny osmond concert!
hopefully it depends on where you see him, i saw him at a larger venue in boston last summer, but he may sober up in smaller arenas/clubs
let me know what you think
aus - did you get my present?
things are getting boarded up here, so i'm off to the local coffee shop
before she closes for the season
User: Mr.Webster | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Blaise;
Insipid, Banal, Flat, Namby-Pamby, Sapless, Vapid, Watery,
Unpalatable,
Ill-favored, Tasteless, Arid, Bromidic, Dry, Tedious,
Uninteresting,
Weariful, Mundane, Prosaic, Driveling, Inane, Innocuous,
Jejune, Swashy,
Feeble, Pointless, Nauseous, Thin, Afflictive, Distastful,
Galling,
Grievous, Painful, Acrid, Acerbic, Vexatious, Provoking, Inclement.
Just to name a few.
User: Howard | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Black Friday pianos:
(discussion has kind of switched from Blue book to here ...)
Based on the touring personnel and the new session "favourites" of the time (Porcaro and McDonald), I'd guess that one of the keyboards on Black Friday was Mike McDonald. Probably the right channel, with the cleaner Rhodes sound, though I admit I don't know his keyboard style that well. Clas - this could fit your memory of him sitting oppposite Paich for this one. Great Katy session photo by the way.
It's odd that McDonald has no keyboard credits on Katy - seems unlikely,
given his touring with them etc. The early Katy demos I've heard sound like they
were generally done with Donald on the piano, Walter on bass, Denny Dias
(sometimes) on guitar, Porcaro on drums and McDonald on Rhodes. This was the
core of the touring unit, so again it seems to fit. Clas' photo also fits with
this, although the drummer is just out of the shot.
The more fully-formed
Katy demos, where the song already resembles the final track, usually sound like
they've got Omartian on the piano. These were probably done as completely
separate takes, which would mean the earlier sketchier demos were just
rehearsals, rather than first attempts at the real thing.
Anyhow, I feel sure McDonald has some keyboard parts that made it to the final versions. Black Friday and maybe other tracks as well?
Howard
User: ¯ | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Ole!!! Wasn't lurkdom per se, no. More like cold turkey here. Very nice to "see" you again.
User: ¯ | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Yes, my girl, lisa, Dave Grohl is the giveaway here. You
can come out of the closet now, I understand the attraction. It seems everything
that broad touches turns to gold. Seriously, the dude can do no wrong, can't he?
In fact, here's one of the few men I wouldn't mind having as my bitch, in a
strictly platonic relationship, of course, needless to say.
Right hand locked
in a power chord fingering, going up and down the fretboard like that, up, down,
up and down. Vocal chords stretched out to the max, growling out all the angst
and anger of the nouveau riche. All this using a widely-varied palette in terms
of intensities, soft, loud, soft, then loud again... hmmm
I would cry genius
if this hadn't been done before, time and again.
But over a billion served,
you see?
User: ¯ | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Is that you Clas, by any chance, holding the bottom in your bell bottoms?
Jim of sharpness, yes, long time no see. And where the heck were YOU?
Mu, I said we appreciate it, alright? I have nothing to add. It looks
exhaustive from where I stand. I am frankly amazed at you guys's power of
discernment. I have a somewhat looser relationship to the music and it doesn't
matter who it is as long as it sounds damn good.
I'll be back when I do have
something to add. See? That's reasonable.
Hi lisa!
I know you're out there.
¯
User: Apple Advert (take one) | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: "I used to have a Windows PC and since my job involves a
great deal of computing, as you can imagine, I had a lot of problems. I mean, I
was going nuts. Like, it took me the longest time to figure out how to plug the
PC into a wall outlet and when I called the manufacturer telling them about it,
nobody took my problem seriously. It was like, Hello-o.
But since I got a
Mac. I mean, like, everything is so straightforward. You just take one end of
the plug, shove it into the surge protector thingie, plug it into the wall. Then
you take the other end of the cable
- oops... I mean, the other end or
whatever - and put it into the back of the computer and that's it, you're done.
Simple as that.
Hi I'm clueless and I'm a cop."
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Who's this Steely Dan related musician?
StAl - you know, so shut up.
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/whosthis
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: "King Of the World, Ma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 27, 2002 21:31
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98;
DigExt)"
Same as mine. Still not me.
Aja - Could your Private Eye clearify the situation here?
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Testing... testing...
User: 7200 dpi | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Clas: If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times...Don't put your tongue in the receptacle!!
User: King Of the World, Ma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: In regard to all the technical discussion everyone's engaging in... maybe you gentlemen can clear something up for me...
When plug fall out of wall, music go stop. Why music go stop?! Me like music. It go stop. No hear anything. Beat head with toaster to make sure brain not stop and tried to clean out ears with carrot but that not it. No music and no beer make king of world go crazy. Must hear song mister steely dan wrote about me don't take u alive or i get all jumpy.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: RE-post from the Blue-Bore:
"Date: Fri, September 27, 2002,á01:25:30
Posted by: DrM¦, Tejas
Hoops,
I have a JVC XV-SA75 player that plays DVD-A, DVD-V, CDs, CD-ROM. CD-R, and CD-RW. Cool graphics, still pics, videos, interactive stuff, liner notes etc are commonly added to DVD-A just as DVD-V features. TVN DVD-A has a few still pics that aren't in the liner notes + some that are. The JVC XV-SA75 does indeed retail for under $300. Well worth it. TvN on DVD-A has the warmth of vinyl, but the noise reduction of CDs and clarity on steroids!
CD specs include:
16 bit sampling (2[16power]) = 65,536
44.1 kHz
sampling rate
92 dB dynamic range
600 mB
DVD-A:
24 bit sampling 92[24power]) = 16,777,216
192 kHz rate (2
channel stereo)
144 dB dynamic range
4-8 GB
SACD (Sony and Philips only)
encoding different - pulse density
modulation - like fuzzy bits
100 kHz sampling (2 channel)
120 dB dynamic
range
test + still graphics only
not made to replace CDs - audiophile
only
Both Roger Nichols and Eliott Scheiner I believe have stated that DVD-A will replace CDs within 5 years...
I almost forgot. There is a "universal" chips out now that will play ALL IEEE formats for DVD and CD. They should be available in affordable consumer players in a few short years. "
Ole: Manuel sez: "Que?"
User: oleander | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Aus--HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you old goat!
Blaise--Dammit, I was doing so well imitating your lurkdom, and now you have to come out of it and make me say hello.
Mu--subsidize what?
User: DVD-A talk | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: The supposed "blue bore" had a decent intro discussion of DVD-A about two weeks weeks ago with specific attention paid to the JVC model that ¦ speaks of. It can be had for $129, down from $300+ figure it once had. Since I receiving mine, there are a couple of caveats you should be aware of.
http://www.dandom.com/guestbook, scroll down to October 10-12.
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: t: I've had not had problems reading DVD-V, DVD-A, CD, CD-R, CD-RW...It plays CDs just fine. In fact the sound quality is a bit better than on my Sony changer...
Mine's a JVC XV-SA75 which can be had on sale, I understand, now for under $200, about $80 less than last year...
Alas, only a single DVD, CD front-load transport...Start with the longer CDs/DVDs like Decade and progress to the shorter masterpieces such as Katy Lied and Pretzel Logic. Feel the burn!!!!
Repeat mode, 5.1 mode vs 2 channel stereo, repeat/next which can be held to move through tracks quickly or pressed/repressed of course...I don't see a shuffle though. Play as directed by the artists or shuffle the deck by hand...I'd recommend 2 weeks of Fartlek handgrip regimens 4 times/week before proceeding...Remember, hand wringing or hair pulling should clear out lactic acid from the hand and forearm muscles faster than complete rest...
User: Floridavid | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Definitely a Wurlitzer...one of the newer (at the time)black plastic case models.
User: Jim# | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: ¯: Where indeed is Wormy? I worry about these things in the wee hours of the morning. Good to see you hereabouts, in any case.
User: t | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: ¦ - Hmmmm... the JVC was one of the models I've been perusing... programming I can get used to, but does it have a "shuffle" function? That's one button I can't live without... And I think I remember reading there was some issue with that because of all the formats it reads.
Btw, do you have a changer or a single disc player? I'm too out of shape to get up after every disc... can't even believe I used to get up every 20 minutes to flip over an album...
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: H: looks again like nerve gas:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$CLPTTKKAQPP4NQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/10/27/umosc.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/10/27/ixport.html
User: ¦ - come on over to 24 bit land | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: tones: The JVC model I have sounds nice - a bit of a pain to program, but it reads all DVD or CD formats that are out there with the exception of SACD
C: That sure looks like a Rhodes or the thing he played on Echoes of Love
- touring with the Dooblies - cool pic. Dias is way right, and I assume Walter
with the back to the camera. McDonald was not credited for keyboard on the Katy
album liner notes, but I bet he played in the sessions, even if they ended in
the can, and of course played keys on the last 70s tour...
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: C....
Great picture of the
sessions....
Okay...
Who is the guy on the far right...? (The one with the
beard) I've seen him before....Just tell you how little I know.
-Paige
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: No, it looks like a Wurlitzer to me.
Well, it's Sunday night, it's time to take a ride home. Pompe is taking the naked ride.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Here's a picture from the Katy Lied sessions, From Barney Hoskyn's book "Waiting for the Sun". Looks like it's McDonald sitting at the Rhodes, or is it a Rhodes?
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/session
User: Well, I've been wrong before... | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Howard - reading Sweets "Reeling in the Years", it says: "as well as Omartians piano it features David Paich playing a Hohner electric piano...".
Mid Cruiser - too bad they put a new roof on that beautiful old barn.
User: tones | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Brother ¯ - You are a ¯last of fresh air from the Great White North! How you ¯ anyway?
West of Hollywood would have been nice... but Home At Last? Two of 'em? Ow... *that* hurts! That would have topped off the setlist real nice I think... Maybe those tunes will pop up as a "limited edition" bonus dvd with the New One, as seems to be the marketing trend these days.
Btw... that live Almost Gothic would make a great Christmas gift for the tones who has everything, don't ya think?
And so you know, that triple post thing isn't a Mac symptom, I think it's just that ¦ was so (understandably) excited about Katy Lied that his mouse finger started twitching like a little rabbit's foot...
¦ - I'm with you for the most part about the camera angles, though every now and then they came up with a good one, like the shot looking down the neck of Walter's guitar while he solos (on FM, I think). But yeah, it's way too busy, in that psuedo-artsy post-MTV short attention span kinda way. Because you know, if we were to just watch the outstanding musicianship without all the bullshit visual editing we'd all just fall asleep, right?
Also btw... I'm glad the Nightfly is coming out on DVD-A, but it would be nice if they remastered the good ol' 16 bit for the rest of us. I'm on my way to DVD-A as soon as I see a changer that's built reasonably well, but till then, I'll blow all my piasters on things like Gabriel tickets.
---------------
Last bit... I just can't let that "smarter computer" thing slide on down, even though I should... Did you know that there have been 60+ security fixes for windoze NT posted by Microsoft since it's launch last year? There's your "smarter computer"...
Thank you.
---------------
Spank the Rally Monkey!
t
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Howard - re Black Friday-pianos: I remembering reading Mike Mc Donald saying that he and Paich (that Toto-fellow) was sitting opposite each other*, he with a Fender and Paich with a Wurlitzer. I can't swear on it, but it's back in my head.
* Is that English?
User: Rusty | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Bill: Get serious for a minute, if Don and Walt come in here to post that means less time being spent on the new one. I'm sure they have their own active social ives as well, perhaps they don't want to talk to us guys and girls. How would you feel if they shot you down?...I'm sure they have thier reasons for not posting in the GB and who knows perhaps they post on the fly?
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: ¯: Telegraph = Drudge? No, I used the Royal Scam as a template...I guess I got a little excited listening to Katy 4 times in a row (it is my personal favorite) and was not careful about editing out extrtaneous Scam stuff... But the real question is, can you verify or have any suggestions?
User: ¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: tones: while the gangbang camera angles are sickening, the sound is top-notch, better than the VH1 concert. It all sounds great, but Bad Sneaker and Gaslighting Abbie are particular highlingts for me. The horn section outtro on Abbie just cooks over the rythm section. I've noticed that in DVD-A, TvN has more of a Plush sound than on the CD, especially if you CRANK IT UP
User: Mistress of Mayhem aka Moll ( comma key still not working) | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Hello everyone! Greetings from Hooterville...Nothing
much to report. We had lots of festivities to celebrate Halloween......Hayrides
.. parties and of course hotdogs and marshmellows roasted on big bonfire. You
haven't lived until you roast hotdogs while listening to Flaw blaring and have
about 20 kids in various costumes running around like mad. A good time was
reportedly had by all. More festivities to occur as week goes on.
I like the
Bluebook. It is very different from the Yellow...but variety is good. It is more
like Hutch's message board at his music store...Very informative and a bit
serious. Sign in Stranger is more like the board in a Coffee House. The
clientele is much more varied at St.Al's than at Hoop's. I visulize it a place
where one might walk into to see a rather reserved.. kind of serious person like
Dr.Mu engaged in a conversation with some wild man like my Viking. You'll find a
bit of everything. That is the charm of the Yellow. Both the Blue and the Yellow
have it's own place. Neither is better or worse.. just serves different
purposes.
Jimbo- I looked into your web site that was listed and was very
impressed. Well done Sugar. What songs get your toes tapping and makes you smile
despite yourself?
My Viking- I'm going caving...I won't be home until very
late. Think of me as I crawl around in the mud on my belly today! (told ya i'm a
cheap date) *winks and kisses* Jojo and I loved the card.
My Dragon aka Deck-
Hey!!! Found new site I think you'll love. It has many of the poems we've talked
about. I'll write you when I get in I'm glad to know you're still about.
*kisses*
User: Midnite Cruiser | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: one of the sites I saw in my Fall Photo Drive yesterday:
http://users.sitestar.net/~jtalbott/AutumnBarn.jpg
or click the "homepage" link at the top of this post.
time for a walk with camera in hand....
User: yes, B! | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: new foo lyric? have you become hip in your old age??
User: ¯ - Done? Done? On to The Next One! | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: funkament t-ster - I wasn't there but word is they
played West of Hollywood and Home At Last (twice). Neither of which ended up on
the Plush. Darn shame, if you ask me.
Who's gonna beat Mu to the Drudge
Report? And it's a go!
Still, we appreciate the energy you put into this,
good doctor. But, you know... less is more, sometimes. The triple post thingie,
is that another Apple glitch? Say it ain't so.
Nice to see familiar faces
still at it, I must say.
Catch of the year on the swap meet: Almost Gothic
live In Alburquerque.
No contest. I was so excited, I shit myself.
Hmmm.... The topic is still on the direction of this here web endeavour.
Amazing. Well, the annoying newbies of yesterday are today's grumpy old farts
and bla bla, you see? Change of the Guard and all that. Taste of your own
perhaps, Bill?
The vets who still care will still try and tell you what's
what. I myself am staying away from that topic. It's an absolutely pointless
exercice waste of time, experience shows.
A big "hug" to everyone I haven't
"seen" in a while, ok?
P.S. Where's worm Thomas in all this shit?
¯
User: plush tones | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Hey everyone -
Sinking deep into the Plush... sounds really good right now... really well recorded of course... digging the way Don doubles his vocal line on electric piano while he's singing Janie Runaway, ala Jimi, or George Benson, or Sugarfoot of the Ohio Players (remember?)... pretty slick... And as much as I'm enjoying this right now, I remember the tour being even better. Hard to believe it's been almost 3 years already...
"...the need for the binky..."
Hey, so the point of this post was to ask any and all who attended the taping of this event:
are there any songs or takes that they did that didn't make the released version? I'd love to at least know what's missing.
What's on the vid is:
Green Earrings
Cousin Dupree
Bad Sneakers
Janie
Runaway
Josie
FM
Gaslighting Abbie
Black Friday
Babylon
Sisters
Kid Charlemagne
Jack of Speed
Peg
What a Shame About
Me
Pretzel Logic
And any interesting stage patter missing? Just curious...
While the music plays I work by candlelight...
t
User: Stones tickets anyone? | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden, January 17th
2003.
Only $350 bucks...
Get em' while they're hot?
User: ¦ - slinging in the rain | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Jimbo: as one who contributed to the Monheit discussion and contributed the most Dan-relevent post of the day...respectfully, I'm afraid the point that is that (a) there are no rules here and (b) in the ouside world the rules are changed, it's not the same, it's whole new players in a whole new ballgame...
MizDucky: Don't fret. El Nino is one the way! The Southern jet has been
playing firehose with the great state of Tejas for weeks, and now sucking what
was left of Kenna up the Trans-Coastal Skyway...I'd expect the Seattle-like
misting to begin in SoCal within a month...
...so Aja looks like you still
may have to wash the SUV in early Nov. before driving your buddies to the polls.
Hope there's an indepedent candidate for Gov! The Republican is a convicted
crook and Gray Skies Davis took money from corporations to look the other way
while they dumped toxic waste in San Fran Bay...
...it's almost as ugly here. Gov. Candidate A is a wealthy Latino businessman accused of Enron-like book cooking and Candidate B is vaguely seen in a grainy ad video clip dissing an officer who has pulled him over for speeding...may write in Davy Crocket or Sam Houston or the inventor of the Bowie knife, not Jim the pitcher or David the artist...
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: I mentioned this last week and only two of the regulars in this GB has mentioned their response to it.
In case you missed i