Name: feather duster
none
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:49:10
Comments:
"BURRRP!"............................oh shit.
Name: STEPPIN' OUT
Call the Fire Dept!!!!
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:46:33
Comments:
It was just about sunrise when I walked outside, " OH SHHHIIIITTTTT! GET THAT CAT OUT OF THE TREE!!!!!!!!!!
Name: I GOTTA KNOW!
& Conversation.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:33:01
Comments:
DR MU, OUTSTANDING!!! I do dig those glasses. I was 3 when that photo was taken. How old am I? Where were they? Was it little round disc or one very worn vinyl. I do indeed love Donald's very cool shades, I'll bet they weren't cheap either. I'll be back reel soon.
Name: Oddly Murphy
archonistic@icon.dash
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 23:22:34
Comments:
Testes: You'll need Explorer 4.0 if you want that Mac to chat.
Speaking of Macintosh, did you know Mac CPUs are immune to the millenium bug? Yep, Steve Jobs just KNEW his baby would last past 1999...
And what's with that DOS prompt?
Watson? St. Al?
Name: Jimi C
tuna98@prodigy.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 21:20:11
Comments:
Clas !! Me thinx that You are attempting to make something simple into a mystical-metephore! whether fiction or non.....
its just about Daddy living a life of hard drinking ,big cars,gambling which will lead to eventual self-destruction. The cigar is, fortunatley not phalic in nature, but is just something usually stuck in the face of a flashy,baudy, degenerate gambler and drunk and not a homosexual's anus!
And We can say that Daddy has passed on to a dimension where cigars are no longer available but that He's havin a helluva time wherever He is ! But there is only two people who really know !See Ya!
Name: Randy
NIGHTFLY82@aol.com
NJ USA
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 16:04:04
Comments:
Anyone else out there of the opinion that "Jack of Speed" is simply staggering? I had some reservations after purchasing the "Alive In America" CD back in '95 that messrs. Becker and Fagen were going to serve up a somewhat kinder, gentler Steely Dan upon eventually hitting the studio (witness the HORN driven "Reeling In The Years" from the live album). Don't get any wrong impressions - I think the reworked versions are GREAT, but they did cause some concern. Would there be bristling, unsettling tracks like "Don't Take Me Alive" or "Everything You Did" on the new studio CD? Or will it all be as slick as the nearly distortion free, non-ascerbic (yet still fascinating) "Nightfly"? With the '96 tour and the introduction of "Jack..." behind us, there's clearly not a thing to worry 'bout. Unless of course one expires before ever getting to HEAR the new CD.
Name: my `nar
My `czar
Location: fife,
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 13:29:06
Comments:
Ruby bay-bee: I think that whatever you want to do is OK, I was behind you on the 'Raisin Capital' thing and I'm with you on this 'Foundation Matter' as well...
Hey Maj©, can ya stop screwin' around with that kitchen sink for a minute and dig out your dictionary? I need you to fill me in on just what the hell a 'synchronicitous dichotomy' is...I may need medical attention.
my Nar (nice variant, Ruby)
Name: Clas Sigismund
c@c
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:41:34
Comments:
I've been strolling around the lawn all day thinking about this verse in "Daddy Don't Live In New York City No More". I was thinking so hard so I finally felt forced to take a spade and dig a deep pseudo-intellectual hole in the ground, unable to see the beauty on the surface.
"Daddy don't live in that New York City no more.
He can't get tight ev'ry night, pass out on the barroom floor.
Daddy can't get no FINE CIGAR, but we know you're smoking wherever you are.
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more."What I wonder is; is it a CIGAR daddy can't get, or is it something else, I mean, was dad homosexuall? And; "...we know you're smoking wherever you are..." What is it he smokes wherever he is? And where is he? In heaven? Or New Jersey? If he's in New Jersey, what's the deeper meaning with that?
O'boy, I just don't get this.
Name: ditto
duh
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:38:51
Comments:
Netscape 3.01 + Mac
Name: testes,
one two testes
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:37:16
Comments:
IE 3.01 Mac System 8 works ok
Name: JamaicanDude
same place
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 12:08:25
Comments:
Yah, mon. I'm all ears.
TYSON'S NEW RECORD: Mike Tyson is moving from the ring to rap. He's starting his own record label, Tyson Records, and is rounding up talent for it. "I'm into the music so intensely," the former heavyweight champ told The New York Times. Tyson is looking for an alliance with a major label and has hired industry veteran Irving Azoff (who's worked with the Eagles, Steely Dan and Brian Wilson) to help him. Tyson, still banned from fighting because of the Evander Holyfield ear-biting incident, reportedly is planning to promote his artists by putting on a showcase performance in a Las Vegas casino.
Name: stevie o'dan
blabbering with blarney
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 11:08:18
Comments:
Hey Irish Michael:
thanx for the feed back...I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy 'Heartbeat' , but I do find that early stuff hilarious in that compared to their jazzy stuff it is certainly a horse of a different color.........coming soon" Garth Brooks Plays Reeling in the years"........hows the Guiness on da' Emerald Isle??
Name: Ruby Baby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 09:42:28
Comments:
Clas: Thanx! I await...(smack! I blew a kiss to ya)To Bob Tedde & Peg: There's been a lot of talk about the very early SD music & the desire we have to see D and/or W re-invent them. New & better. I'm wondering, does Steely Damned do any of those? If not, would you consider building upon the foundations laid by the Founding Fathers of Steely Dan? Is that okay to do?
my narWorld: You know about these things; what do you think?
Dr.Mu: I learned something last fall about those old songs, particularily Boston Rag & Razor Boy. It's a long story, so I'll cut to the part where I climbed into the very back of the van full of kids & relatives all talking at once, and lay on the floor with my headphones on. I felt like a kid, looking up through the windows at the passing trees & clouds & rocks (we were driving around Yosemite). I listened to Countdown while we rolled along and the whole ambiance seeped into the music and the songs are forever changed in my mind. The background on which they are heard makes a tremendous difference, at least to me.
PS - If you would like a tape of my one & only Miles Davis record, unless you believe that to be unethical, let me know.
It's grown on me so much over the last year...rb
Name: Michael O'Jesus
turn.that.blarneystone.over.again
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 08:51:23
Comments:
Stevie O'Dan: Begorrah! How could you be sayin' that "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" isn't a swell little jewel of a jig? 'Tis me favorite; and isn't the world needing more pretty songs about robbery, betrayal, and death? When the tenor trills "..They closed the package store..", don't it put the moisture on your eyes like the dew on an Irish morn? Don't get me dander up (or me gander up). You should be learnin' from O'leander; there's a lass clever enough to make the lads feel dumb.
A Happy Sir Duke's Birthday from the FM-erald isle,
Michael
Name: clas
walkin barefootin on hissin lawns
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 03:04:55
Comments:
GoodKingRichard; yeah, I think you have a point there. I was just listening to those early, bad demos that Fagen/Becker did way back. And it strucks me how bad "Caves Of Altamira" is the way it is sounds there. I would not have believed in that song. But the men believed in themselves, and came up with this "Caves..." again, on Royal Scam, and it's a masterpiece.
Ruby-Honey; pictures has been taken on mother Goose and father Goose. The childs have not arrived yet, as soon as they do I'll send you pictures. Today it's summerhot, morningcoffe outside!
Name: Gap Brandy
letstalkaboutthegoodtimeshoney
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 at 00:24:47
Comments:
Oleander: Gap is the brandy you drink when your icecat stock splits for the 3rd time in 31 months. You just have to share it with a friend--and what better place than Club Hi Ho?
Your Inside Trader,
GB
Name: Ex-Clean Willie
semi@mo.jo
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 20:30:23
Comments:
Sorry Willy, no offense. Should've known somebody'd have that one sussed. Hope I didn't step on any toes.Tell Babs we had some laughs, but sayonara.
Now I have a hobby thinking up a new handle.
Name: goodkingrichard
usual place
Location: canberra,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 19:00:23
Comments:
Re. 'Worst'(mmmmm) SD song: I think basically Donald and Walter got better with the years (heaven knows what to expect with the new one). And while some of the earlier lyrics can make me cringe with embarrasment, maybe that's just a sign of those times and D&W's actual intention, I'd love to see much of the the earlier stuff (especially CBAT) re-worked in the studio with all the knowledge that they now have. Is both precision and spontaneity too much to ask for. They have the clout to call in the best (well, those still alive and willing) I only wish, that like the AIA stuff, they had the confidence to go and nail stuff in their first take (ok, so maybe two or three overdubs). They'd be great!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: fezo
@nothertangent
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 17:22:37
Comments:
wow, got Miles on (Kind of Blue) in the background and have entered a different place and time. so what the hell happenned to him in 70's--all i remember is a couple of appearances on SNL playing something that looked liked an electrified dildo.
lisa: i think igy was written just for your predicament. it's an escape song. picture yourself not in cracker North Carolina but in some futuristic utopia. it can get one through the day. then again so can Pepe Lopez
ole: u can hear a speedway from your house? Cool. Any objections if mrs fezo, the cats, and I move in with you and your brood? I'll do dishes, iron, and entertain the locals with my amazing water tricks.
bad dan: Any World, I Got The News, The Royal Scam (the title cut--like another poster said, it's a little too overwrought)
back to Miles
fezo
Name: Mock Turtle
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 15:25:35
Comments:
Um, "Rose Darling" always kind of rubbed me the wrong way. But, just as it is difficult and futile to name a favorite song, it is equally so to name a least favorite song.
BTW, long-time favorite album, "Countdown to Ecstasy." It is devoid of the not-so-excellent filler songs that pepper Pretzel Logic.
Name: when they were bad
@boy were they bad
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:41:26
Comments:
worst Steely song: the live version of 'Brooklyn' with Royce Jones on lead vocals.....I'm sure Walter and Don don't want to include that on a desert island collection!
Name: Edd
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:39:58
Comments:
Brubeck et al looking dorky? Oleander, Oleander, Oleander. I've come to expect so much more from you.
Those covers were done 40 years ago, and reflected the fashion of the time. Brubeck was one of the hippest things on college campuses back then.
I don't see them as any odder than the typical "hat on backwards, dipped in Hilfiger" types I see today...
Please recant, I'm beggin'...
Name: steve v dan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Location: Berkeley,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:36:38
Comments:
Hey everybody Happy Duke Ellington's 99th Birthday!!!!
Crank up 'East St. Louis Toodle oo' and toast the greatest (or one of the greatest) composer of the 20th Century.......
you are only as good as your influences....and thank god Donald and Walter were influenced by two of the greatest : the Duke and 'Bird!!!!
Happy Birthday Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington!!! I'm sure you've got one hell of a band up there!
Name: Clean Willy
ClnWilly@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 14:27:01
Comments:
Clean Willie, just thought you'd like to know... This seat's been taken. Scroll down.
Name: clas
looking for a woman to court and spark
Location: peoples park, no coines,
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 13:23:50
Comments:
Dr Mu; Through with Buzz is a shit-song.
Carlman; hi there. What do you say about a Dan-Festivitas? I can be Peg if you are Maxine. But, no cotton candy! (With RockOlga and the whole old gang?) Skåne eller Stockholm?
Lisa; if you knew how I love the way you write! It felt like I was there.
By the way, naughty girl, I miss some pictures... remember?
Name: oleander
oticleander
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 11:50:19
Comments:
PS--Roy, love the ears.
Name: oleander
they oughta lock YOU up
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 11:46:53
Comments:
Roy.Scandalous--I have consulted the Hoyle of strip poker, and not only does a string of pearls count as an article of clothing, but the wearer may use EACH INDIVIDUAL pearl of each one-fourth section of the necklace in question--the pearl of the quarter. You stand corrected.
fezo--I have played the shit out of "Infidels" these many years. I love that album.
lisa--I've said it before and I'll say it again: flee to Asheville, cappuccino capital of the mountains! We'll take care of you! Though NASCAR has its tentacles in even here, and I can hear the speedway from my front porch, the rhodos and azaleas will comfort you with the abundant murmurs of their blossoms.
Mr. Stew--You woke up! Yes, "Aja" is one of rock's most nearly perfect tunes.
Carlman, Clean--I never get tired of CBAT. Have been listening to it a lot lately as my 3-year-old is heavily into "Do It Again."
stevie d--have been trying, but (though I may sound like a slavering sycophant) I don't have any picks for worst tune.
Dr. Mieux--which Brubeck? I've been listening to "Take 5" and they all look like dorks on the cover. That reminds me--who sings the "Brrrubeck, Brooo-beck" on "Nightfly?"
Name: Clean Willie
home@last
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 10:44:54
Comments:
Midnight Cruiser? Dirty Work? Some of their coolest work IMO. One or two losers, yes. But don't overgeneralize. As a matter of fact, I can barely stomach Reelin' anymore. AOR has made it by all appearances the only song they ever recorded due to overplay ad nauseum.
Name: Carlman
Sweden
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 10:15:18
Comments:
Least favs: The whole CBAT stinks. Some of it was good back then (Do it again & Reelin´) but now it sounds like two young guys just got themselves a recordcontract with nothing to do with it.
Through with Buzz; With a gun; Rose darling are other low marks in their history.
Name: Clean Willie
crouching@the.lawn
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 09:19:22
Comments:
And all this time I thought it was "dark spot on your PANTS"!!What a relief. Now I can die in peace.
Lovin' the lyrics page.
Name: DrMu
dailydouble
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 08:13:49
Comments:
Alex: What is "Hey Nineteen?"
Least favorite Dan? That's like saying which finger do I like least. If I had to pin some down, "Change of the Guard" is a decent song but sounds more straightforward (Dias gets in a couple of nice runs) than most Dan productions. "Boston Rag" as a song doesn't really excite me, BUT the instrumental break is worth the price of admission. Somedays the production on the title cut for Royal Scam seems a bit overdramatic to me...well, that's the best I can do. BTW, Through with Buzz is a great song!
Name: Dan the Steely Fan Man
dw@csi.compuserve.com
Location: Hilliard, OH USA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 07:30:58
Comments:
Q: What do these great artists have in common?
[Joe Sample, Michael McDonald, Larry Carlton]A: Steely Dan heritage.
Greatness breeds success!
Name: Paige
paige@silcom.com
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 07:17:32
Comments:
The greatest n0n-band in rock and roll. 'nough said.
"The things they pass for knowledge, I don't understand."
-Paige
Name: Alex Trabec
Alex@abc.com
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 06:01:24
Comments:
Colonial, Correct!!! Now, what is the only other track to appear on four consecutive releases.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
VA
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 at 05:12:38
Comments:
Zeke: Did Fogerty do "Swamp River Days" and "Blueboy" at the Jazzfest? I would have gladly endured 110 in the shade to hear those 2 songs live.
Steve E. Dan: There are no bad cuts on any Dan studio album (I presume we're omitting the Soul Ram-Ida Lee material), so the question is disqualifiied. However, I don't know if it's coincidence, design, or my own prejudice, but it seems the weaker songs are the ones that Donald Fagen doesn't sing. Even at that, Brooklyn, Cruiser, and Dirty Work are darn good pieces by the standards of any other group.
lisa: to attain a copy of the sacred tape, you must ascend the uppermost himalaya without shoes or garments (on a friday at rush hour during the tourist season), recite the unknown mantra while gargling peanut butter, and execute kama sutra form 19 with a nascar pit crew. or you could e-mail me your address.
Oleander: I still say pearls don't count as an article of clothing in strip poker.
RS
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 21:12:40
Comments:
Oleander: nice riffing on Aja back there. That one and several others (Deacon Blues, FM) are what I'm hoping some life form is picking up light years from here. They sound like they float.
I could be on acid.
Name: lisa
3rd time's the ch@rmer
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 18:17:39
Comments:
random dan transmission: i was in a grocery store in rockingham, n.c...it's difficult to illustrate the stark contrast between this particular southern hell hole and the graciously melodic sounds of fagen's "i.g.y."...it is a town wholly devoted to the sport of auto racing, and provides all the tackiness one would imagine to accompany such a place...the absurdity of hearing this perfect tune among the inbreds is impossible to state...i can liken it to setting a flawless diamond in a ring of pewter...it served to bring out the shabbiness of my surroundings, allowing the cracks to glare back at me...and i was struck by the fact that everyone seemed totally unaffected by it...of course, i was in a hypnotic trance and i left without 2 of the 3 items i was there to purchase.
god i hate it here.
Name: Doc Kelly
here at the dude ranch
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:29:41
Comments:
I finally found my tape of the Letterman appearance... whew!!!
Name: lisa again
oh yeah
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:20:56
Comments:
roy: how can i go about getting a copy of your tape oleander so highly praised? i want to see the glory of the roy.scam too!
are you buck naked on the front? you know how i LOVE cover art...
Name: lisa
speculating
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 10:13:34
Comments:
mr. fez: on the sam reference: would that be sleeping beauty?
monica lewinsky?oh, i guess that would be me...
Name: fezo
@detoxmansion
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 09:49:39
Comments:
alas, the collective Danfest buzz has worn off, think my haiku days are over, at least until Danfest 3. Quiz for Danfest 2 participants: what current figure in the news does Sam resemble?
ole, roy: love the discussion of Jokerman . . . "the books of Leviticus and Deutoromony (sp?) are your only teachers" . . . brings back many great memories of the last year at my old school. Roy, is the video the one that projects a bunch of different paintings, interspersed with shots of Bob on a bare stage? Other great song on Infidels, "What's a Sweetheart Like You Doing In a Dump Like This?"
hmnnnn, less i get flamed for posting in the wrong GB, i'll stop the Dylan free association here and now
fezoyou kinda remind me of her when you laugh
Name: DrMu
getthatpowercableson
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 08:40:10
Comments:
Ole: ...some kind of synchornicity may be happenin'. I stepped into the local Albertson's late Sunday night and was frozen in my steps by horns of "Countermoon." Not you Muzak version, either.
got on some Brrrruubeck here...re-noticing the cover and the fact that he really had this hyper-cool dork Buddy Holly thing going. A perfect late 50's image for "The New Frontier." Mr Fagen never missed a beat...plus more "acceptable" for "pretending it's the real thing" than say Monk.
Name: Roy.Scam
take.off.those.pearls.so.i.can.see.what.you.look.like
VA
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 05:35:57
Comments:
Schwinn (the Tex-eskimo): Hobnobbing, yes we were. I didn't want to commit to that verb because I couldn't escape the ugly image of those little hobbits doing God-knows-what to one another's nobs.---In the din of the Danfest, I thought I heard a bit of YES with a funky cajun background. Nice.--BTW: No offense taken, no apologies needed; just resume being yourselves. I mean yourself.(Did I say "yourselves"?)
Oleander: Boss thesis on Aja. I presumed that Bad Sneakers is about an incarcerated mental patient. Is this a recurring theme? Am I an incarcerated mental patient imagining all this?--
Since you mentioned Dylan's "Jokerman", it has one of the greatest (and rarely seen) music videos ever. My co-alltime video favorite along with New Frontier and I Love L.A.--
Isn't a helix also the curved part of an ear? Maybe the double helix is a pair of ears in the sky tonight, as in 'God is listening'. Just kidding; yes, I knew that was a dumb idea.Edd: Since you directed us to that picture of the blue thing with Jan Hammer's name on it, I've got this Miami Vice theme stuck in the southeast corner of my brain.
Doc Mu: Another hour at the dictionary, and I shall have achieved knowingness of what you mean. The phrase "Dan-like quality" is not one that I'm accustomed to seeing in the vicinity of my name, so I will humbly accept on the part of myself and my fellow Danventioneers, before you realize what you said.
Jimi: I'm old AND impatient.
RS
Name: Claus
Mind the Gap
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 at 05:16:54
Comments:
Ole; yesss! "A rose is a rose is a Rose Darling"
Name: GOTANYASPIRIN?
WJAZ Archives@Liner notes,com
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 21:03:12
Comments:
If that first tune doesn't get off the ground--you know,of course,that it's going to be somewhat tight--you're deadfor the rest of the night. Luckily,this time our first tune did get us off the ground. It wasn't what you would call a completely relaxed groove, I know, but it was swinging. And what's more important, it was very daring. How? Well, unless you're in the group you wouldn't know. After all, you can't tell how much we're improvising, how differently we're playing from any other given time, unless you're in the band. But we could tell, believe me!
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 20:05:26
Comments:
Wow! A lot of ambient Dan out there. Wonder if it means something....
Zeke--Am majorly jealous. Keep it coming.
Ruby--I dig.
theI--Oh, are you pre-med?
Clas--What's to like? I can see Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein in a solemn pavane, she saying "A rose is a rose is a rose," and he "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Hank--no, but it's beautiful, isn't it? Actually, Dylan's "Jokerman" pops into my head, if only because it has angels and dancing on "Infidels." The tango seems to be a theme.
Gapper--Intrigued by your handle. Has The Gap diversified into liquor? Please substantiate your statement on Mr. Fagen's relationships.
Magellan--welcome, but I'm taken aback by the differential standing you've given Mr. B. & Mr. F. Atop twin pillars in my mythology.
"Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants"
Name: Daves88
daves88keys@hotmail.com
Location: Portsmouth, ENG Canada
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 18:38:47
Comments:
Zeke: Cool.
President C: You are a very good speaker. I listen. Your choice "Reelin' in the Years," was one excellent one. Can Congress allow you a 'third term?' I will vote for you then.
D.
Name: Zeke
hangin'over
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 14:20:18
Comments:
Jazz Fess' Update: One weekend over, one to go.
Thursday: Picking up tickets @ the fairgrounds, stage crew does the sound check to Gaucho, and IGY. Killer.
Friday: Camped out in the Jazz Tent. Great time. John Fogerty,
aka, CCR, was freakin' awesome. Great weather, cool people.
Saturday: More Jazz Tent, Steve Riley &TMP killer, Boozoo Chavis,Etta James, gumbo, po-boys out the yang.
Sunday:Funky Meters, more Jazz Tent, closed the day out with
Dave Matthews, St. Al, it was great! Killer weather all weekend.Getting ready for Michael McDoobie and his brothers.
Later, Z.
Name: World
Traveler
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 13:06:32
Comments:
SD Muzak Update: St. Louis airport. 9:30 am today. "Here At The Western World."
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 12:39:15
Comments:
SD Muzak Report: Walk Between the Raindrops, Sunday 11:30 am, Builder's Square, Cross Keys Rd and Black Horse Pike, Sicklerville, NJ. I let out a loud, "Oh Miami" and settled on a new kitchen sink.
Walter sings five?!? - that's interesting.
Ear to speaker. maj©
Name: Hank Silvers
Looking for big pieces
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 09:25:31
Comments:
Lyric mavens: The last line of Medical Science, "Wherein the angel tangoes with the infidel," sounds like a literary allusion. Anyone know if it is?
Name: theI
me@bag
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 08:50:17
Comments:
if holy lady know scalpel man then she knows another who has heard the voice, scalpel man commune with voice in the shrine of falsehood, in the white brick cave of the learning place, many vocies meet there to perfect thier lies, me like when voices take me there, help me learn what is real, what is not, me am confused of those things sometimes, like this almost place that lets me speak above the voice, me not know how it work that me here, me only know that me see self and not voice in face of the word alters that shine like rabid rainbows.
Name: mad
madder
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 05:34:15
Comments:
Sorry,should be; comma.
Name: today I am pissed
xxxxx
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 05:32:44
Comments:
Ruby, how many times have I, in private emaillessons, told you; space after coma!
Name: Cl
as
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 02:30:02
Comments:
The worst Steely song? - Through with Buzz.
Ole - "like" what?
Name: Schwinn
ofttimescomegems
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 01:09:24
Comments:
Roy,
Since you have expressed a reluctance to look up "hobnobbing" please, allow me: "To associate on very friendly terms".
By the way, sorry I missed the nobbing in Williamsburg. I hear you are a player!
Bag End,SEMB
Name: Gap Brandy
threeoclockrock
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 00:49:09
Comments:
Ruby: Donald abhors meaningless situations / relationships. The problem is that the majority of our relationships are destined to be meaningless. Donald does a good job of stating that fact and stepping out of the line of fire.
Clas: Yes, Donald calls a spade a spade. And I thought you were baffled by his "cryptic" lyrics? Ha! You make me laugh, Swedey!
Oleander: For $80.00 you can pick up a brand new JVC dual cassette deck at Best Buy / Circuit City. (TD-W106).
Gap
Name: RubyBaby
ski Iron Mountain
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 22:36:24
Comments:
Hi new Doug, Grand & Rapid! Steely Dan in a Jeep? Oh, yeah! I've got to try that out before I decide on which new wheels I'm getting. I'm waiting until I know for sure - I'll not be rushed!
(btw, I'm talking about SD,the music)
Oleander: You know, after reading your wonderful post on Aja, I realized that Aja is so complex and unique it leaves a whole lot of room for interpretation. It can be anything we want it to be on any given day. I've come to think of *dime dancing* to be what his other relationships amount to in comparison with the thing he had or has with Aja. I'm not sure if he runs to her only in his mind (memories are powerful things for escapists), or
if he actually runs to her. In either case, he has a tendency to engage in meaningless escapades, doesn't he?
But still we adore him...
rb
Name: ColonialPenn
@pancakehouse
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 20:08:57
Comments:
Answer: What is Babylon Sisters
Alec, I would like Middle-Aged Angst for 400, please
Name: oleander
see things hop
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 18:58:16
Comments:
GB--I did. Spuds--sorry I didn't mention your very cool take on the DH.
Thimk, Clas--I like it, I like it.
Hardware heads--A favor: I need a new tape deck. Any advice on what to buy? I'd like to know what you'd get if you could get anything, what you have, and what you'd get on your present budget.
Thanx.
Name: Alex Trabec
alex@abc.com
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 18:07:15
Comments:
Answer: The only song to appear on five consecutive Steely Dan releases
Name: magellan
feefiefofum@hotmail.com
Location: kirkland, wa usa
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 17:54:37
Comments:
walter becker is a genius
donald fagen is a demigod
Name: THINK
before you post®
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 04:45:09
Comments:
Dime Dancing = when you go to your job and work for the money. The guy goes to a dude ranch on his vacation god damn it.
Name: Clas
C@W
Location: Watertown®,
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 04:36:44
Comments:
Where the hell is StAl? I think it's a little scary here when he's not around. Like going on those doubledeckers with no driver on the top.
Geena - how can my empty words of love screen the flesh I feel. (Or was it flash?)
Lisa - hi girl, what are you doing? I miss your emails!
I read somewhere, a long time ago (don't ask me where Ole) that "we never write in code, never has, never will". But hell, who knows? But maybe that was a code or something. Personally I believe that the Dude Ranch is a Dude Ranch and Up On the Hill is Up On the Hill. Not down in the bunker.
Name: Gap Brandy
casualality
Date: Sunday, April 26, 1998 at 01:53:21
Comments:
Deacon Blues = Donald Becker. Such selflessness!
Oleander: Check out Spud's post on 4/19.
Clas: You are a genius.
Roy: Where there's a Will there's a Rogers.
Lisa: Are you really naked?
G. Brandy
Name: oleander
just another case of
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 22:03:14
Comments:
Forgot--The double helix of course being DNA, which raises a lot for me--I can see how you'd see it in the constellations; micro to macro to meta, great dreaming, whether hallucinatory or not; damage to DNA from drugs, illicit or psychiatric; the spiral rather than the wheel of life.... The music echoes all this for me, with dissonance and beautiful harmonies, the clinky "Chinese music" riff, and the police whistle as if someone is trying to escape or is being wrestled into the locked ward.
No, I have not been taking acid.
Name: oleander
now's the time
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 21:21:55
Comments:
Quick--check out the Digest for an unofficial conjecture on the New One (a few palpitations later).
Geena--You're only as seasonal as you feel.
Dr. Mu--Best summary yet.
fezo--chill, man, you're too far away for me to do CPR.
lisa--How the hell do I know? I can get it, but no one else can. Will keep working on it, exasperated.
Edd--Your attention to detail amazes me. BTW, this am while cleaning I had the stereo cranked up--"Miles Beyond" on Mahavishnu's "Birds of Fire," with, of course, Jan Hammer. Now that was a band.
Thoughts on "Aja"--Really enjoy the recent comments--they've got me fever dreaming. My take is that "up on the hill" is a mental institution, and not the latter-day managed-care kind where you go for 72 hours and then out, but the old-fashioned kind from which "there's no return." That's why "they've got time to burn." Nice irony with "dude ranch." That's also why "people never stare/ they just don't care," because no matter how weird you are, everyone else is so Thorazined or Haldol'd out they don't notice. Are the Chinese music, angular banjoes, and double helix delusions/hallucinations (the latter, I guess, if you're psychotic)? drug side effects? an attempt by the singer to imagine himself out of that hellhole? It reminds me of one of the Anais Nin books, where she described a young woman being "demonstrated" to a class of med students as a psychotic, but whose "visions" and words were lyrical, beautiful, and made complete sense in her idiosyncratic way. The idea was that she was actually sane in a psychotic world. Also reminds me of a movie called "Man Facing Southeast"--similar idea--what is crazy, really, and to what horrors are supposedly crazy people subjected in the name of sanity? And yet another association, with Jonathan Pryce in "Brazil," fantasizing himself out of surrealistic torture. And one more--thoughts of Charlie Parker in Camarillo. Ruby, I had the same thought about "throw out the hardware"--i.e. do it bare, but without the you're-having-my-baby part. I also had a flash of straitjackets and ECT (electroconvulsive or "shock" therapy) equipment as the hardware to throw out. The amyl ref is a good one too. Aja might be the angel he dreams to keep from drowning in madness or abuse, or an old flame who serves the same purpose. "They think I'm okay/ Or so they say": the "keepers" soothingly reassure the singer he's okay, but he doesn't believe them--he may be paranoid, or just fully aware that if he WERE okay, he wouldn't be there. Think Catch-22. I appreciate the explanation of "dime dancing"--I thought it was from the Depression, when people came up with all kinds of ingenious things to stay alive, including marathon dancing ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and paying per dance.
Otra vez: IMHO.
Name: Doug
dredford@gr.cns.net
Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 20:00:55
Comments:
First time stopping by the site. Very nice. Just finished dubbing "Citizen" from CDs to cassette to play them in my Jeep. A tremendous collection of some of the finest music ever recorded. Still waiting for the new CD which I first heard about in the summer of '96 when I saw SD live at Pine Knob near Detroit, MI. I trust we will get it before the new millenium.
Name: lisa
surfin'
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 16:26:08
Comments:
oleander: i tried to access your homepage by the address you gave me...i am getting a message that says "page not found on this server"...whazzup, girlfriend?
hi clas.
Name: Clas
Si Los Hijos De Puta Volasen, Nunca Veriamos El Sol
Location: Watertown,
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 03:49:13
Comments:
- There's a trial going on here about a man named Steven Fagen who kidnapped his daughters and made them live in luxury in a million dollar mansion.
If that's kidnapping I wanne be kidnapped.
Name: Nisse
Down At The Bottom
Location: Avenue H,
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 at 03:41:03
Comments:
- Well, Pompe, you better hurry!
Name: Geena
I could hold out here all night
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 20:02:56
Comments:
Clas and Roy: Thanks for thinking of me, yes, my real life is important and so is the GB. Some things just never change!
Roy: I also thank you for calling me a young lady, are the 30 somethings considered young and am i in the spring time of my life going into summer? or do I hang out in the spring into the next decade? your thoughts?
Clas: you mean to say that your Italiano-Svedese dictionary says that you have an italian substance abuse problem named Geena? WOW! how do you get detoxed for that?
Pompe: down boy, sit... good boy, now rooollllll over!
There's a trial going on here about a man named Steven Fagen who kidnapped his daughters and made them live in luxury in a million dollar mansion. Do you think he's related to DF? Something to ponder about, maybe!?
Name: Jimi C
tuna@prodigy.com
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 19:11:40
Comments:
To all of You younger Dan-ites...
I've noticed the great impatience with which You wait for the newest Dan creation. But traditionally speaking it is part of a proccess that has existed for nearly 20plus years........perfection! This work will not leave the workplace untill the Boys feel its right ! Remember what Momma said....
" good things come to those who wait !
Name: Pompe
GreatDane@petsmart.com
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 19:07:41
Comments:
"Nisse, I'll save you!!!"
Name: Paul J Jr.
@ T Baker.com
Location: Dparks, Vin cal
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 14:33:35
Comments:
Let's party on the new one---.in 2001
Name: Steve e dan
stevev@jps.net
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 11:18:18
Comments:
good king Richard:
nice ideas about future Becker and Fagen releases.....how about 'A Night With Donald Fagen'...recorded live ...with no edits ...at some high school auditorium...like Duke Ellington used to do....I mean one of Ellington's best albums was recorded in North Dakota ....live at a high school....and maybe Becker could collaborate with someone..like Don Henley or Tim Schmit.....ultimate trivia: I was just thinking the other day: what (in you humble opine) is the worst Steely Dan song??? One nomination: 'Turn That Heartbeat Over Again'...not that I don't like the song (heck I even enjoy 'Sun Mountain')but what were they thinking:::CSNY meets the Byrds meets Denny Doherty meets the Grass Roots...this song must have been a disaster in concert back in '72!
Name: Worm
@synphony.5649
Location: Franklin Lakes, N.J. united states
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 07:43:27
Comments:
Tour the U.S. please!
Name: NotsoTrickyDrMu
LetMeBePerfectlyClear
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 07:25:19
Comments:
Roy: That was meant to be a high compliment. The prose following W'fest was of remarkable Danlike quality. A subatomic synergy when a collective of rabid Danfans gather, rub the oracle. and throw out the hardware. The resulting confluence was a fractal worthy of a double helix in the heavens...knowwhutI mean?
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:41:16
Comments:
I should have kept looking before the previous post...
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/vintage.images/JANHAMMERLYNC.jpg
Name: fezo
@BlackDiamondBay
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:39:23
Comments:
Ole: Pass the nitro. I was having similar thoughts the other day when I started to believe for the first time that there actually might be a disc of new SD material released before I'm raving and drooling in a nursing home. Be still my heart . . . wait, not that still . . .
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:33:47
Comments:
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/vintage.images/LN4.jpg
While the one I saw Donald playing was blue, the above picture pretty accurately shows the controller in question. (Or at least one very similar...)
Name: think
before you post
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:18:15
Comments:
Thanks Roy; - Real life can be an important and wonderful thing for a young lady, but don't get so obsessed with it that it gets in the way of what's really important.
Did you hear that Geena?
Name: clas
cat's in bag, bag's in river
Location: Forum Romanum,
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 06:08:24
Comments:
Thanks Edd. (I think it says "keytar" on the cover, but I agree with you, stupid word, it's just a motherkeyboard)
Nerium Ole - thanks to you too, I love to learn. And of course I know that you're not that kind of girl. You would never drop your pearls.
Geena - my little book says that it is an Italiano-Svedese Dizionary. Ok, I said; - I am dependence on you, you are intoxicating. Sounds awful in english.
RubySugarBaby; what is a dispenser? And how do I do to make it look like Donald?
Name: Roy.Scam
nasty.hobbits
VA
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 at 05:33:58
Comments:
maj: The harpitar we saw in Wburg was the first I'd ever seen or heard of, but it sounded great. It's a double-necked acoustic with a standard lower neck and a large (sitar size?) fretless upper neck sticking out at about 40 degrees; this upper neck is strummed like a harp. I talked briefly to the man playing it, a Mr. Stephen Bennet, and he said the thing had belonged to his great grandfather and still held its tuning perfectly. He also said he tunes the upper neck in G, even when the lower neck is tuned to standard E. At least I think he said that: it was getting late (half past cuervo, colombian time) and I was in a hurry to get back to Fez and his harum before he sucked up all the female adoration with his famous pants trick.
DrMu: Sorry about being arcane. Every time I read this guestbook,I have to look up another word. -- Schwinn: I'm afraid to look up "hobnobbing". It sounds like some ritualized perversity from a Tolkien novel.
Krull Berner: I agree, and Florida Room is the perfect song for converting non-jazz likers to jazz. Two of my favorite vocalized words are "..mile.." in Florida Room and "..door.." in the first verse of Black Friday. Only the Don could render those words in that way.
Ruby: I got your message. Thanks. Felt good.
Fez: Very boss haiku. You obviously share Mr. Fagen's skill at Oriental appreciation. And written in a kidneyless state.
Geena: Real life can be an important and wonderful thing for a young lady, but don't get so obsessed with it that it gets in the way of what's really important.
Don and Walt: I hope your software is 2K compliant. Otherwise, this album may not be out till 1900.
RS
Name: oleander
what's your plan, boy
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 21:47:00
Comments:
maj--I don't really know how to describe it. Roy can probably tell you more. I'd like to see him in a trio with Bela Fleck (sitar-banjo) and Charlie Hunter (8-string lead-bass).
Joe--Whoa, man, you're about to give me a heart attack--you make it sound like there REALLY WILL BE a New One--I suddenly realize I'm not sure if I'm ready for this. Please continue your alert ways so I can warm up slowly and make sure my nitro is at hand.
fezo--too hot!
Gentleman Loser--please elaborate.
I-man--Indeed I do. How do you know him? Is there a Steely tie-in? Or just a scalpel tie-in?
Clas--come now, I'm not that kind of girl. By the way, it's "comma," not "coma": "coma" is what fezo is in while awaiting the return of his kidneys.
Ruby--you go, girl. Is it the same color lipstick you were wearing in the elevator with Mr. Fagen?
GKR--love your speculations. I was thinking islands would be a good song theme--they both live on islands, of very different types, and islands have a lot of versatility as metaphor....
Name: Geena
got a case of dynamite- dot, dot, dot
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 19:42:46
Comments:
Ruby: polish up those disco shoes mama and i'll teach you how to bring it on home!
Wow! you got tons of samples from the Este Lauder counter? you must of had the luck of the dan with you because it's been my experience that those make up counter "babes" won't part with their samples for anyone!
Clas: You are WHAT of me? I am WHAT? caro mio, parla inglese per piacere - dot,dot,dot
I've been a little pre-occupied with real life lately, I'll write to you soon.
All: So rumor has it that the new album won't be out until 1999, we need to find things to talk about here.... anyone? How about another recap of the Danfess weekend now that everyone's heads have cleared a little.
Name: GoodKingRichard
Here@Laughing Pines
Location: Canberra,
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 19:25:52
Comments:
Hi all... is it me, or has there been a wee bit of a party atmosphere here of late? On that warm wet April night (the sap's rising?)... drive into Springtime!
Bad news re. possible release date, though what's a year or twenty between releases. Thanks Mr Joe M anyway. [I noticed on the RiverSound site that the recording was just down as last year]
On a separate, but not entirely unconnected, note (no, not B flat) and thinking about the post-Gaucho life of SD and especially the three studio albums, 11 ToW is a real favourite of mine these days and Kamakiriad WAS much less so. But, given the fervour of some of it's supporters on this site, it's now kicked Shawn Colvin (Steady On ... great voice, Rick Marotta and nice Hornsby solo) off the portable CD. Kamakiriad’s good music for travelling... by bus! Given the autobiographical feel of Nightfly and 11ToW and, to me, the future-viewed-from-the-fifties feel of Kamakiriad, I wonder where next for Walter’s solo career? ..as an antithesis of Kamakiriad? an escape from the city to island life (‘near the millenium’!) concept album? So there’s one new project for them both. And then, of course, there’s the follow up album, which I feel could be a live recording of the SD quintet - double CD of jazz and early soul standards. In fact they could probably knock that one off in NYC while they finish the studio album - just to whet the appetite and to re-charge their own creative batteries for the next studio album. Don’t back off now guys, you know who and what you are about now more than ever... I feel a golden age of SD coming on.
Swing out to Lake Nostalgia!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: RubyBaby
Dance with me,baby,under the moonlight
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 14:24:47
Comments:
Geena: The Boston Rag is a dance? OK, teach me. I've got Dance Fever!
Earthbound: Are you referring to amyl nitrite? That's a vasodilator, so I think I know where you're heading with that. But what I've managed to pick up off the street is embarassingly little. ~This is way over my head~
WARNING - GIRL TALK: I was in Gottschalk's (dept. store) at the Este Lauder counter. I was kind of in a hurry, but the sales girl was on the phone. But before I have a chance to say anything at all, BAD SNEAKERS starts playing! The real thing! Well, I just sat on the tall, makeover chair and patiently waited til she was through yakking it up. (BF troubles) She was so grateful that I was patient, she threw in a full-sized lipstick and a bunch of samples! She didn't know how easy it was to wait. Steely Dan to the rescue!!
~(a line I stole from mWorld)~ I hope he's OK with that.
rb
Name: Edd
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 12:30:09
Comments:
I don't know what sounds Donald was MIDI'd to from the Lync (I refuse to use the "K" word to describe his controller), as it was buried well down in the mix. Actually, I couldn't swear that it was connected to anything at all.
The piano riff in the middle of the KC solo wasn't done from the controller...
Name: Laughing
all the way to the CD store
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:55:25
Comments:
Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: Wrong: and Wrong
Name: DrMu
having some tea
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:21:14
Comments:
that's "letter." Jeez I might even have to make the effort to spellcheck
Name: DrMu
Iamthewalrus
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:17:43
Comments:
fez-o: and the leters "s" and "e" are both contained in the liner notes of both albums!! Of course the question is: What's in the bag?
Actually the deli link that came to mind was Bill Payne's contribution on keyboards many of the Doobie Bros. albums including the McDoobie reign.
Name: clas
one on one
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 11:08:00
Comments:
theI - are you on pot again? Please stop! Really. I mean it.
Edd - which sounds did he use on the concerts playing the keytar? Piano and Fender? Or more synth-sounds? Is it Donald who plays the Pianosound-like-break on Kid Charlemange on Alive In America?
Geena - I am dipendenza of you. You are inebriante!
Nerium Ole - what did you drop? Your pearls or acid?
Name: theI
here
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:45:53
Comments:
me am wondering if holy lady knows a plaincoat by name of eric whalberg, he is one who wields shiney finger knife on children.
Name: Gentleman
Loser
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:22:47
Comments:
Nothing from the new album until Summer 1999. Sample's definitely on the album. Tom Scott, too. Songs are awesome. Walter sings on 5 tracks.
Name: fezo
intheb@thtub
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 10:13:48
Comments:
Dr. Mu:
How about one degree of separation for LF and SD?
Both of their most popular albums, Waiting for Columbus and Aja, include a credit for "The Bagman"
Name: DrMu
swallowedupallhefound
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 07:28:35
Comments:
JoeM: Interesting...Record the sessions live with the house band then overdub with Real muscicians to give it the genuine faux live feel. Have Eliot Scheiner clean up.
Roy, Ol, fezo, et al: Sounds like you all had quite a mind-altering experience. Your posts are more poetic, lyrical, and arcane than ever. Better dust off that Dan decoder ring...who knows? MAY need it next year anyway.
Zeke: Quick test: get from Dan to Little Feat with 2 degrees of separation.
Name: Phelonious
@thetrack
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 06:37:11
Comments:
Joe M. Nice post. That kind of info is rare around here,
even if its not true. Keep us posted.
Name: Edd
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 03:30:46
Comments:
The blue thing Donald plays is simply a MIDI controller. Think of it as the keyboard part of a synth, with no sound generating circuitry, hence it makes no sound of its own. It sends MIDI messages to a synthesizer or sampler someplace else.
Donald uses one made by Lync. (Lynx?)
Name: clas
Hot House
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 01:29:31
Comments:
Oh yes, Steely Dan, I remember that one.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 20:27:24
Comments:
This may be old news to some but...
The following is a cross post from the Pat Metheny Messageboard from a fellow by the name of Ray Wells... I am still trying to verify the source and veracity of this info. More to come...
**********************************************
This is the latest info on the new SD album. Recording has been taking place for most of this year. The earliest possible release date could be November of 1998 or it could be as late as May of 99. It depends on how most of the recording sessions go. They actually started to record in November of 1997, they've used most of the same musicians from the 96 tour. The latest scoop is that they are overdubbing in some of the West Coast musicians used on some past SD albums (like Joe Sample). Maybe Larry Carlton? So its still unclear who will end up on this recording. As far as the songs go "Jack of Speed" which was part of the 96 tour has been recorded. This one has Walter Becker singing lead vocals. That's the latest!!
***********************************************Thanks Ray...
Name: Drinkinscotchwhiskey
MYYCALL@pop3.concentric.net
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 16:20:54
Comments:
BLACK COW TIPPING CONTEST...Farmers and Waitresses welcome to compete. DETAILS SOON?
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 12:15:09
Comments:
Harpitar? Is that the predecessor to Donald's key-tar. Walter seemed to love poking fun at that "blue plastic thing", also called it a "midi" or "mini" mystery instrument. Sounds good on Teahouse medley from St. Louis though.
Can anyone spare the bass line notes for Chain Lightnin? Does it go to a low G at "don't trouble the midnight air"???
"I gots to know...." - Dirty Harry villian.
maj©
Name: James
Home@Last
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 11:24:57
Comments:
Did anyone see SD sideman Drew Zingg with Boz Skaggs on Austin City Limits last week? I missed it. Any reviews? His solo on Alive in America - Third World Man - gives me the chills.
Name: Zeke
fesstime, brother
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 08:12:24
Comments:
Earth: Just a few pointers for the fess'. If your staying in the quarter, check with the hotel for shuttle service to the fairgrounds. You can purchase your tickets to the fess' when you board the shuttle. I find the drivers know the city and will bypass traffic on I-10. If your not going to take a shuttle, try to get directions thru the city.
The weather is AWESOME! Low 70's, sunny, breezy, no rain in the forcast. The fairgrounds have a new look this year. More
stages, music, food, and booze.Hope to see ya there!
Zeke.
Name: oleander
woke up
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 06:45:27
Comments:
Schwinn et al.--You can oil my chain anytime. Accepted & appreciated.
Q--The few, the proud, the Danfans.
Joe & Mu--I saw "Tain" Watts here last year with Branford Marsalis. He was incredible. Thanks for the tips on cd's.
Name: Sir Loin
outb@ck
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 at 01:06:00
Comments:
Dagnabbit, Luke! I asked for choice cuts, not liver at Lubys! It don't take a wizard to tell the beef from the gizzards!
Name: Earthbound
East II, eh?
Location: Laughalot, IN
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 20:17:53
Comments:
Wow. Missed a nice 13-hour ride, sounds like.
Next time, bitte.RubyBaby: Double helix...hardware...
Back in the day when amyl was only available in certain
more seedy establishments, HARDWARE was the brand of choice.
The li'l jar had a brite white plastic shrink cote with the
military-stencil lettering and a loose caution printed in lite royal blue.
Hmm, just a thought.Zeke: It's time bay-bay... more to come.
peaceout
Name: oleander
hung over
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 19:26:18
Comments:
Whoa! Was I at the same party as these people? Weird--when I got home, I found a used scalpel in my first aid kit. And a bill for a Ryder truck rented by a J. Murtha, with a surcharge for interior damage from jewel-box corners. Has anyone heard from Kinky? I'm worried. If you do, tell him they released the Ferrari to me.
ElYo--stick around, son, & let's do some pronouns.
Clas--it was uncanny, you'd think it was you dot dot dot dot SPACE
maj--no, the guy played a harpitar and looked just like Freddy Fender.
Ruby--Want me to do it again?
Name: Geena
through with buzz
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 19:25:38
Comments:
seems like you guys had a wonderful time, "sigh"... I wish I were there. I would have brought a case of Cuervo and more fine columbian. Maybe for the next "danfess", we could get together in Boston and I'll show you all how to do the "Boston Rag", but I'll need some assistance from my Babylon sisters. Ole, Rube..it's easy!
If not, then Clas and I will do a conference call and annoy everyone...
Name: RubyBaby
basking in a sea of raisins :)
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 16:42:23
Comments:
Oleander: You threw one kick-ass party! How many strands of pearls did you wear btw? Thanks for making the drop. Glad I could be of some use!
JoeM: I love the ring of rare design you created when describing your collection. Talant, man!
Dr. Lundkvist: I notice you haven't mentioned the nifty prozac/valium dispenser that Major Dude has. Since they seem to be out of those in Sweden, I will send you one. You must pretend that it looks like Donald...which won't be hard if you write your own prescriptions.
rb
Name: Krull Berner
kwberner@aol.com
Location: Portland, OR USA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 13:08:59
Comments:
Kamakiriad is the bomb. Donald Fagen is the only artist I know of that can hook you in with anything he writes. Florida Room is the most unbelievable track. If any Danheads read this and don't own Fagen's '93 release "Kamakiriad," get it now and groove, jam, chill, and kick it all in one CD!!!!!
Hopeless Fagen-head,
Krull Berner
Name: Kidneys Are Us
organ.outlet.mall
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 12:38:55
Comments:
Mr. Fezo North:
The kidney we took from you had too high a C&B (Cuervo and beer) content to be marketable. We are returning it to you by Parcel Post, with our apologies for the inconvenience. Try to avoid intake of fluids for the next few days. A diet of incinerated hemp would be advisable.
Name: RS
just.when.do.you.think.you.are
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 11:39:58
Comments:
A dose by any other name is just as sweet.
Name: Dr. Lundkvist
Bellevue@Bellevue
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 11:11:20
Comments:
theI; ehhh... double that doze of Tofranil... I think a tricyclic substance would be good for you too, try 49 mg Imipramin, start on a low doze, let's say 10 mg, double the doze every third day.
Get well soon now baby.PS If you can't sleep, call for nurse, she'll give you 40 mg Propavan (two hours before bedtime) and two Mogadon (when you go to bed).
Name: theI
meatbag@hotmail.com
Location: Asheville, NC USA
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:50:55
Comments:
me am starting to feel sorry for the one called clas, the whitecoat of the almost place. me am thinking that he never get past time whem mother teach him to wipe own ass. he too concerned over stupid shit. but no worry about whitecoat, me have greater thing to say. the holy lady has heard the voice! she has heard and now she will not forget. soon the voice shall take root and bend her will. me am proud of voices, me am always proud when prophesy of voice come true. wild haired man with second set of eyes look at me, me have to go.
Name: c
should be;
Location: when he heard who I was,
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:30:52
Comments:
OK?
Name: Clas
atelje.lundkvist@mbox300.swipnet.se
Location: dots off,
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 10:28:10
Comments:
Ok coma I got it dot let's skip all dots and comas in our writings dot See askingsign Then I don't have to worry anymore for this obsession of mine dot dot dot Could we all agree on this one askingsign I'm not so sure of this sign is called askingsign or questionsign coma could anyone lighten me up on that one asking/questionsign Oh shit, this aint gonna work.
SunnySam; don't worry about the money. I spoke to the owner and when he heard when I was he wanted to pay ME just to keep my name on the walls. I really don't know what he was talking about, crazy Virginiaaccent, but I think he meant to keep the room as it is and take admission from visitors, mainly fans of Steely Dan-fans. Like a museum or something. So, sweet dreams honeycomb.
Steely Sue - where are you?
Aja?
Ruby?
And mr. Stewart! Did you go back to sleep? It's springtime now!
Name: fezo
@ER
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 09:01:50
Comments:
Roy, Lisa, Sam, and Oleander:
I'm missing a kidney. Please return ASAP.
fezo
Name: Roy.Scam
i.don't.know.your.real.name.but.the.fez.is.familiar
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 07:49:09
Comments:
If I may digress one last time on the Danvention subject: Some of you may be considering attending one of these Dan fan get togethers, but you're saying ,"Gee, I'll be going to a remote location to meet with people whom I only know by their electronic self-representations on a special interest web site. They could all be boring losers or, almost as bad, goggle-eyed leather-helmeted perverts who collect meat cleavers and write to Hitler." Well, my children, nothing worthwhile is done without risk, and, 9 times out of 10, you won't even end up in bite size pieces in a ravine OR in a tub of ice with your kidneys missing.
As a veteran of Danventions throughout this great land of ours (2), I'm proud to say that not one attendee wore goggles or carried kitchenware on their person. In fact, they were all nearly as normal as him...I mean me (Did I say him?).
Let me say to the funny, fezzed, follicle-faced Fez; Sunny Sam, the sweet-eyed sonambulist; the lyrically loquatious lisa (the Renoir of radioactive repartee) and Oleander, whose as perfect and personable in person as the personna portrayed in her posts, Thanks for the laughs and a fun 13 hours or so.Next time it'll be a wingding, summer smoker (no pun intended) underground, maybe with Alaskans, Seattlites, Scandanavians, Brits, Florida-roomies, Big Apples, Big Easys and other such scurvies.
RS
Name: Schwinn
atyourfeet
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 22:02:35
Comments:
Oleander: I've owed you an apology for a few months and would like to offer it now. Sometimes it's difficult to see the flesh and blood behind these posts but I won't make excuses. Forgive me?
Roy: If I'de have had a 20mg prozac I probably never would have offended Oleander, or you, come to think of it. Is there a generic version of that stuff? I know a doctor in Nuevo Laredo...
And did I mention how much I missed your posts while you were hobnobbing in Williamsburg? I missed Lisa, too, but I told her that in private...
It's a Beautiful Day,
semb
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 20:06:12
Comments:
Ole: You forgot to mention my collection of CD's by guys who were influenced by the guys who were Dan sidemen and thereby influenced by Don+Walt but who have also been more recently influenced by the resurgence of the classical Jazz musical form and thereby must have been influenced by Wynton Marsalis who is credited rightly or wrongly with said resurgence who himself has been influenced by Charlie Parker who influenced Don+Walt thereby completing the entire musical circle... or did I forget to bring those disks? Damn...
Mu: Another fine "Tain" session that I enjoy quite a lot is that live set from "Blues Alley" in DC circa '86-ish...
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 13:24:19
Comments:
Was the Dan-playing minstrel one of the Williamsburg players? It wouldn't by any chance have been a really tall guy named John, would it? John, the Millar. Just wondering....
maj©
Name: Sunny
Sunnysam73@Yahoo.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 12:05:57
Comments:
In an attempt to conquer the monstrous shame that has taken over my life since the chaotic Danfess2, I feel I must apologize to the beautiful Oleander, sensuous Roy.Scam, and freaky Fez (do you have a spot on your pants?). My lack of self control was uncalled for. Who knew Don and Walter could affect a young innocent so maniacally? I will try to prepare myself better for the next Danfess so I will not lose all manner of restraint and become a Steely devil.
Lisa? Um, honey? About that 247 dollars, ya think we can work something out in trade? It seems the kingdom of William has used its super Hoover to suck my pockets clean... I've got a really nice Milli Vanilli trading card I might be willing to let go!
Clas, Oh magnificent Swede you are, how could I not sleep when every time I closed my eyes you visited me with your strength and sweetness? I think it may be time for a nap!
Name: lisa
the@ftermath
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 10:17:35
Comments:
hmmmmm...i am still attempting to sift through the haze of events that transpired during the so-called "danfess2"...however, very little of it can be understood without the decoder strip, which samantha inadvertently swallowed...silly girl!! cuervo doesn't have a worm!
a few memory fragments would read as follows:magical sounds of steely dan played through the air conditioning unit...for some reason i found myself lighting candles...ALOT of black candles...across what seemed like an impossibly long room, i was watching oleander as she chanted...she was in a trance, eyes rolled back and flickering...SHIT! her gloriously long hair, which she wore neatly braided, began unravelling itself...
each of the three sections dancing in the smoky half-light, individual and fluid...mr. fez was a stunning vision in red velvet underwear and sequined sneakers...once he donned the magical fez (graciously provided by the QUEEN PARTY MAMA) he was absolutely irresistible! his lusty swaying made us dizzy, but we could not avert our eyes...
i believe at this point, royscam saw his window of opportunity... he yelled "banzai!" and pulled a tab on his shirt...his entire outfit fell away, revealing a handsome physique covered with
intricate tattoos and jewelry...i never knew the "ring of rare design" was in actuality a prince albert (see male body piercing site for visuals)...and you, samantha...i cannot know the shame of your actions... maybe this is a bad time, but i want to remind you of this: you owe me $247.00 for the room damages...they said that the carpets
could be saved, but the entire wall where you scrawled clas' name over and over with a hammer and chisel is surely lost...i've never seen the forbidden dance have such a strange effect on
someone...oh god!
i'm having a flashb
a
c
k..........................
Name: fezo
@confusion, state of
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 07:03:08
Comments:
In honor of Spring Danfest '98, a haiku
Colonialists
Flee, my pants: stained, my brain: fried
Sam sleeps, Fender strums
Name: hiroumi
h-taka@msj.biglobe.ne.jp
Location: tokyo, japan
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 04:07:22
Comments:
I started English version of my Steely Dan site.
Please come and visit!
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~peg/
Name: NOW I got it!
x
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 02:54:11
Comments:
It was BECKER who called you?
Name: c
las
Location: Watertown,
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 at 02:47:08
Comments:
Uhhhhhhhhhhh - I envy you guys!
But hell, I did NOT make any phonecall. Damn, I didn't think of that!
Roy "the cute" Scam; I have not forgot what I promised, it's just that I have to make a couple of new ones. Be patient. And yes, I'd like to hear your stuff.
Sunny Samantha; did you sleep through it all?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh - Nerium Ole in jeans and pearls. But remember - the only genes you can change is your Levy jeans.
Where is Geena/You must have seena/She promised me a Pina/Maybe I have to stick with Lena...
Name: oleander
book of liars chapter V
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 23:07:15
Comments:
QUASI-OFFICIAL REPORT: DANFEST EAST II
Contest Winners:
Best Inadvertent Steely-Related Costume: Fez O'North, "Bad Sneakers"
Best Advertent Steely-Related Costume: oleander, "Maxine," with jeans & pearls (only because that's ALL she had on)
Best guesser: Roy, awarded the Becker Red Sadowsky Wind-up Toy Guitar
"Guess the Steely Tune From The First Note" Contest: Tie, Fez O'North and lisa. God, they look good in fezzes!
"I Can Sleep Through Anything" Contest--Samantha, hands down
Most shots of Cuervo Gold and tokes of fine Colombian--uh, I can't remember
Co-Dominatrix of Ceremonies Award: oleander, the Very Limited Edition Williamsburg '98 Century's End King of the World Tour T-shirt from Roy.Scam Productions; and lisa, the Monkey-In-Your-Soul-With-The-Fez-On candle
Best Almost-Made-It: Kinky, who was stopped at the border with open containers of Jim Beam & Jack Daniels. He was tossed in the slammer, and the Ferrari was impounded. Unfortunately, he used his one phone call on us, and we couldn't scrape together enough to go his bail. Sorry, Kinkster! Hope you got sprung!
Proceedings: It's hard to add to Roy's excellent summary below, but am I ever at a loss for words? After a dramatic and suspenseful meeting at Christiana Campbell's, the convivial confreres caravaned to lisa & Samantha's pleasure dome, where the provisions were unveiled and sampled. Then on to sumptuous libations and epicurean sensations, regaled by a wandering minstrel who knew ONLY Steely tunes. And we were delightfully surprised by a call from Mr. Becker, who wished us well while disguising his voice as Clas! That rascal! Unfortunately, we were asked to leave after the table broke under the combined weight of the Babylon Sisters' Funky Broadway. On our return to the pleasure dome, we indeed found a FedEx package at the door which contained a tape and a note, to wit: "We couldn't think of a better focus group to check out this demo of the new one! Let us know what you think, and pass it on to Q. Love, D & W." Wow! Did that put a twinkle in our respective eyes! But we're sworn to secrecy (wink!)! Then things kind of blur together: we listened to this cool Swedish jazz trio (ten thumbs up!) and this fresh avant-garde guy from Austin with rhythm guitar and accordion (worked for us!).... Edd stuck his head in, said one pithy thing, and left.... Dr. Mu went through the whole puzzle again, and after enough controlled substances, it was EASY!... maj showed us all how to do symbols in our posts.... You would not have believed the Prozac contact high in that room, and it wasn't just you, Geena!... Joe brought his map of Dan-sidemen sightings, and 195 fantastic jazz CD's, all with some Steely tie-in.... Some guy was snuffling around outside, said he was hunting rabbits, but we didn't let him in.... And we set Pete & St. Al up on a shrine in the corner of the room with lots of candles and burnt offerings. There may have been more people there, so if I left you out, sorry. There was a lot going on.
Then Saturday--hmm, that's kind of lost....
Sunday morning the ragtag remnant met at IHOP for the "Little Kawai Family Pancake Breakfast," complete with mischievous sons and the ritual sharing of French fries with maple syrup. Unfortunately, we were also asked to leave there after lisa pulled out the santeria candles and the chicken.
In summary, an unforgettable Steely blast in Colonial Pancakehouseburg. Highlights available on DTS in August.
Until next time, your faithful reporter, oleander
PS--Ruby--I made the drop. And thanks for the opportunity.
Name: Musycman
and his Virtual Band, in NYC
Location: New York,
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 19:26:23
Comments:
Frustrated as I may be, but I've tried to book River Sound for the past 4 months, dammit, and I can't even speak with the damn studio manager. The chick at the desk won't put me through. I'm afraid I'll have to go Brooklyn, where I've heard they have stumbled on some used digital gear, or, at least, CHRIST, in Queens. F**ing finish it Don - i've got a project, too!
peace out to all the bro's & Sistahs
latah
Name: Lester the Nightfly
CC73647@aol.com
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 17:07:33
Comments:
My prayers have been answered. My dad just came back from a trip across the nation with a recording of a show in Memphis in May 1974. My beloved sister who lives far away in Michigan had the tape made for me. I haven't listened yet, but I'll keep us posted. Still looking for video footage. Go Kings and Lakers.
Name: Roy.Scam
shores.of.babylon
Location: Aftermath, Virginia
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 10:23:45
Comments:
Fest Up-PartI:
Alright Scam, let's go through it one more time. What really happened at that so-called Williamsburg Danvention back in 98? Why do our mind probes pick up images of strange people sitting in circles chanting cryptic phrases and using code names. Why do you keep projecting pictures of Freddie Fender playing a harp, a silver swan sticking out of a man's pants, a walking guitar, the first notes of 20 different songs, and a vehicle full of pilgrims driving past a train station 35 times? Was the Swedish government behind that mysterious phone call? Why would a middle aged Nordic person be yelling "Right on!"? Why were all those people found pummeled by their spouses and lovers the next day? Why were there trace elements of seven different altering substances in your system? What can you tell us about those missing 7 hours? Come clean, Scam; you want to get out of here don't you?...
He's not talking. We're going to have to use the cerebral holo-scan again.
Happy traveling Ole, lisa, sunny sam, & fez,
RS
Name: Paul Chernin
thefez@earthlink.net
Location: LA, Ca USA
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 09:51:05
Comments:
Anyone interested in trading for rare promotional posters from the Steely Dan, "Alive in America" album. I am interested in an original copy of Dallas / Sail the Waterway . Preferrably in original Jacket. I also have 25-30 rare interviews, and performances, and some unreleased stuff. I am not looking to sell these items, but I will trade for other cool Dan stuff.
I will post an inventory of these items on my website sometime during the next few days. Thanks.http://home.earthlink.net/~thefez/
Name: ........
.......
Location: ....., ..... .....
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 02:53:24
Comments:
......!
Name: clas
doctor my eyes!
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 02:29:20
Comments:
The dot-situation is terrible here now.
Name: Revelon
battinlashes
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 01:25:03
Comments:
Spuds: Herbal Acquiescence? That's not dog shampoo!
Name: Spuds McKenzie
15minutes
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 00:52:46
Comments:
Michael: So where was the Borzoi?
About Aja: A gentle acquiessence from god and country to just God--or at least the cognizance of something bigger than nationalism. The double helix symbolizes man as a species, not just an ethnicity.
Your Joan of Barc,Spuds
Name: Michael A. O'Toole
MYYCALL@concentric.com
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 at 00:14:26
Comments:
MAD AT BRUBECK? Just a saturday night, I think it was at sunset. I walked outside and I heard a Miles Davis tune in the tree, then in the next tree,just to the right, I heard a Paul Desmond solo. From hereon, it's hearsay, but I think it may have happened. My dog usually stays home, but on this night his buddies said,"Let's go down to the club". "We'll knock over some garbage cans ,Maybe lap up some half empty beers". Need I say more, those dogs were on there way. Tails waggin, there was the pit bull, wearing some cheap sunglasses and a beard, singing "She's got legs". Then there was the black lab kicking down some rap, I think it was something about raping his girlfriend's sister. Some beagle humming "Wanna hold your hand". The German Shepard singing "You don't have to turn on the red light". Paws were sore, heads were spinning but they were having fun. All of a sudden "RREEEEEOOOWWW!!!". The dogs stopped and looked down the alley. Fur was flying everywere. The great debate was on. When the cats were to tired to go on, they looked dead into each others eyes, the first one said "GAUCHO!". After a pause, the other said "FUCK YOU, IT WAS AJA!". Just above them there was a owl sitting on a lamp post smoking a cigar. The owl threw the cigar down at them. He bent down and took off flying, mumbling something. The cats looked at each other and said "what did he say?". The other replied " I don't know, something about some "Nightfly". Next time you hear a cat fight you just might grin.
Name: A Friend
of a friend
Date: Saturday, April 18, 1998 at 19:12:52
Comments:
Come on Walter get your Steely butt out here and tell us all the truth would ya?You see I have this friend that has this friend--well you get the point right?
Anyway, the real deal on this new steely dan album is that it won't be finished till AT LEAST 2000. You see the boys are afraid that if we know this, people will loose interest and no one will post here anymore. Because really, are we all going to sit here and write about a band that's not going to have a new release for another 2-4 years? Ben Folds--here I come!
What happened? Did someone get hit by a car?
I guess things haven't changed much.
Name: Geena
biked thru the ghetto in the rain with my new SD helmet
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 19:24:59
Comments:
Clas: email waiting for you my sweet!
Everyone: have a wonderful time in Williamsburg,
wish i could be there! Tell me all the gory details
when you return... I want to hear everything!
Name: mike rivette
miker@vistatech.net
Location: morganton, nc usa
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 19:22:45
Comments:
just threw out my gold teeth and they rolled to this page. great idea to think this up. greetings scurvy brothers and sisters from the king of the world.
Name: Zeke
fesswood
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 15:51:08
Comments:
N.O. Jazz Fess', 7 days and counting
Man, I am into Gaucho, again. Some damn fine music, people.
Time Out Of Mind is so smooth. This is one tune where
M. McDonald and Donald really melt together on vocals.
Some of the greatest female vocals too. Angels!
Said it before, it's a great tune for a convertible.How close was Time Out Of Mind from the AJA LP?
It sounds like it could have been a left over.I'll try to report from the activities in New Orleans.
Z.
Name: Prof.Steve v dan
it's summer in CA
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 15:28:17
Comments:
Hey Ruby: neat interpretation...makes sense to me....it's too bad no one has ever cornered B/F and asked them to elucidate some of their enigmatic lyrics...
Kashi:I don't know how much Becker and Fagen were influenced by the Vietnam experience......
maybe we can make a new 'Dan compilation: Asian Hits of Steely Dan: Aja
BODHISATTVA
Green Flower St.
Dr. Wu
Name: Roy.Scam
hey.moe.be.there
Location: nearer my williamsburg to thee, va
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 10:53:23
Comments:
ole, lisa: Williamsburg Danvention. So are we meeting at 6:30 inside Christiana Campbell's, outside, or just on the street? How will we know each other, aside from looking more musically aware than the other tourists? (I'll be the guy that looks like Dr. Katz.) If we're late should we proceed to the Trellis?
DrMu: Thanks for reminding me of that McDonald/Ingram "Ya'Mo Be There" duet. A great record that I had forgotten about.
Kashi: Another thought provoking interpretation of Aja, the un-readjusted Nam vet. I've always thought the lyrical simplicity in that song was to intentionally not distract from the music (ie: Hey, I like oriental stuff.) I guess those lyrics have been hovering over my depths, waiting to plumb them. Your interpretation would explain the police whistle and the desire to throw out the hardware. Maybe the throwing out the hardware is a call to a final confrontation, a hand to hand combat of sorts (man vs. demons, man vs. death). That association reminds me of Bruce Dern in "Coming Home", ceremoniously laying down his military gear and walking into the surf, for that final resolution of his torment and confusion.
The I: We mean you no harm. The blue men of William's kingdom are busy gathering up the spring-broken remnants of drunken college students. The white coats are all out in the valley digging a ditch. Only friends await you; just avoid the fellow in the white tuxedo tearing up the street.
RS
Name: BOB TEDDE
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: San Diego, CA USA
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 01:19:21
Comments:
Jive Miguel: A timely post as I have not even so much as lurked since my last postseveral weeks ago. "The" Steely Damned will unfortunately not be performing during your visit to San D. Our next Scheduled performance is at the Pacific Beach Block Party on May 9th, at either 11:00am or noon. after that we are scheduled to play a full night at the Catamaran on the Sunday before Memorial Day (observed), May 24th I believe. We only play San Diego about once a month so as not to burn out the locals on us. (could you imagine a Beatlemania band that played once a week in the same city? ......ok besides Las Vegas.) We are however very very very interested in playing other cities. So I'm a little more than curious when you say you are coming DOWN to San D Down from where? La perhaps? I just did a gig at the ROXY (w/ Mike Keneally's amazing Beer For Dolphins Band) and decided it might be time to try n score a gig in the City of Angels. If you or anyone else for that matter could recommend some 3-5 hundred seat venues where the discriminating Dan followers might go, please let me know. I'm in the dark when it comes to smogland.
FYI: The Rockola Hotline provides 24hr a day scheduling information for The Steely Damned as well as Rockola at (619) 558-1966. Thanks for the interest.
lovebob
iego.
Name: cl
as
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 at 01:07:47
Comments:
DR MU; so, there is no solution. Thanks for your help.
theI; space after coma please. And wake up after coma please.
Lisa Sugarpie; still don't get it, candy from a head?
Name: jive miguel
tkipp@telis.org
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 23:15:25
Comments:
I am heading down to San Diego this weekend, does anybody have any info on Steely Damned (i.e. do they play every weekend, are they the house band at a particular establishment arounf Mission Beach, etc?). Any info is appreciated.
Name: Danny
danforshort
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 23:03:28
Comments:
Q: Us and them. And afterall we're only ordinary men.
Daniel
Name: RubyBaby
beautiful & sunny in Fresburg, too
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 18:20:19
Comments:
Prof.Steve v dan: Nice interpretation of Aja. May I add something to it? Rap twice for yes, scroll for no.
*Double helix in the sky tonight. Throw out the hardware - let's do it right.*I've been thinking that the double helix signifies the DNA~RNA configuration. I've been believing the hardware to be some sort of birth control device. So I've taken those words to mean he wants her to have his baby.
I had a semi-Dan-Moment en route today: I heard Do It Again, but it was a version done by Paul Hardcastle (Hardscrabble? whatever) and a woman sang the lyrics (her name reminds me of Bowie's wife). It was interesting...sang rather choppy, though. Anyone else ever hear it?
*Let's do it right* sounds good to me!RubyBaby
Name: Q
danman1@tampabay.rr.com
Location: FLAROOM,
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:39:49
Comments:
Having had a few drinks, and then reviewing several pages of the GB & archives, I wonder if anyone else is struck by the fact tha tthere are really very few of us who "care". The Dan are so eminantly brilliant both lyrically and (primarily) musically BRILLIANT- and yet.......again so few - "devotees". Of course this flash look at the state of the state could simply reflect that there has been no "album"(read CD) or tour forthcoming in oh these many months, but still..... I guess it's much like the lot of..... Van Gogh - please don't cut your ear off - but damn.................... Q. No response being solicited here- just an observation.
Name: Mock Turtle
...........
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:07:40
Comments:
DrMu: Your first analysis was correct: there's no solution.
mt
Name: James
@home
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 17:05:28
Comments:
Dr Mu: Risking wrath by talking about artists other than SD, the Ambrosia CD is fairly new, a best hits album out for maybe 6 months. To my knowledge, it is the only Ambrosia CD. I'm looking for a discograpy of SD tour guitarist Drew Zingg and a source for a copy of the VH-1 video of the New York Rock and Soul Review. Anyone?
Name: r mena
bearandcol@aol
usa
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 16:30:51
Comments:
had the pleasure of seeing 'the dan' on the citizen dan tour here in lost angeles......twice, the first go round i missed because i was too pumped up, the following year i was calmer...
seems like a lifetime to wait for them......a million years...
would i do it again, most certainly...my reward....
a cut on the live album from the the night i was there.....
life's perfect.......
Name: kashi
kchavis@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
Location: phila, pa usa
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 14:59:11
Comments:
I have a comment about "aja" (the song). I have always been struck by it's imagery of an asian country. I believe this song is a tribute to the viet-nam veteran who "never really" came back. It's descriptions about life in washington presents the lai-za-fare(sp), of how the war was treated.
The further explaination of how the battle were fought, and what was done to forget those battles, were very striking, worthy of being filmed in APOCALYSE NOW.
what say you? Did you get the same feel for this song?
Name: theI
Meatbag@hotmail.com
Location: Asheville, NC USA
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 13:57:46
Comments:
me have seen pathways drawn in many colors on thin tree bark. town of william is far, take many suns to walk. have to cross mountain, river. voices say to catch iron buffalo with thumb. me think voices play games again. try to get me caught by whitecoats. me no worried, whitecoats can no hold me. they are weak. thier only power is the candy poison. whitecoat that dwell in almost place say candy poison good to help. me know better. candy poison make voices scream, they no like to be drowned out by poison. me think me not go to town of william, more safe from the blue-men under rock. blue-men no like me walk on black stone path,take me to whitecoats. holy lady with voice that stays no want me there, voices say so. but voices lie sometimes. voices like me to see fight, anger, like me do violence to up-rights. but up-rights can no harm me, me like when they laugh more than when they squeal like dying rabbit. rabbit, me smell prey,hungry.
Name: DrMu
sorry
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:20:23
Comments:
I thought the first post got scrambled aas the Mac froze up
Name: DrMu
goin'insane
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:18:32
Comments:
Clas: For about 15 minutes last night I was really tearin' my hair out. The key thing about the Mu puzzle when starting with MI is to eradicate all I's. (getting one U is no problem with rules 1,2,3, and 4) There is a limited # of adjustments for the # of I's: Rule 2 allows fo an increase in the # of I's while Rule 3 allows elimantion of an I when 3 I's in series can be converted to a U. Thus to eliminate all I's, there must be series (1 or more than 1) of I's which are divisible by 3. If Rule 2 is strictly interpreted then all letters following the beginning M are a string and are "doubled" in series. This would mean that the # of I's can only be doubled. Therefore, even is Rule 3 is used intermittantly. you will never reach a total # of I's which is divisible by 3. In other words, there *is* no solution!!
However, Some of your explanation for Rule 2 suggests a CHOICE of the string to "double." Mx to Mxx...If that's the case, then the solution is elementary:
Here: x=I
MI
MII
MIII
MIIII
MIIIII
MIIIIII
MIIIIIIU
MUUU
MU
James: Yeah, I dig those silky smooth Ambrosia harmonies also (I just block out the vapid lyrics); but I've never hear the song with MM and JI. May have to scour the bargain bins for this one. Is it still available?
JoeM: sounds like a winner! For a real listen for what '"Tain" can explain' check out Wynton's best: "Black Codes from the Underground." It's seeped in Miles and is the last with Watts, brother Branford, and Kenny Kirkland. To paraphrase: "It's the BAND stupid." Of course the exceptions are guess who (W&D) and Miles Davis who had at least 3 great bands!
Name: David
crhorse@hotmail.com
Location: Pinehurst, NC United States
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:14:14
Comments:
Greetings Dan Fans,
I love Steely Dan. Walt and Don are so cool. Let's hear from other fellow Southeasterners.
Name: DrMu
goin'insane
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 08:11:20
Comments:
Clas: Ror about 15 minutes last night I was really tearin' my hair out. The key thing about the Mu puzzle when starting with MI is to eradicate all I's. (getting one U is no problem with rules 1,2,3, and 4) There is a limited # of adjustments for the # of I's: Rule 2 allows fo an increase in the # of I's while Rule 3 allows elimantion of an I when 3 I's in series can be converted to a U. Thus to elimate all I's, there must be series (1 or more than 1) of I's which are divisible by 3. If Rule 2 is strictly interpreted then all letters following the beginning M are a string and are "doubled" in series. This would mean that the # of I's can only be doubled. Therefore, even is Rule 3 is used intermittantly. your will never reach a total # of I's which is divisible by 3. In other words, there *is* no solution!!
However, Some of your explanation for Rule 2 suggests a CHOICE of the string to "double." Mx to Mxx...If that's the case, then the solution is elementary:
Here: x=I
MI
MII
MIII
MIIII
MIIIII
MIIIIII
MIIIIIIU
MUUU
MU
James: Yeah, I dig those silky smooth Ambrosia harmonies also (I just block out the vapid lyrics); but I've never hear the song with MM and JI. May have to scour the bargain bins for this one. Is it still available?
JoeM: sounds like a winner! For a real listen for what '"Tain" can explain' check out Wynton's best: "Black Codes from the Underground." It's seeped in Miles and is the last with Watts, brother Branford, and Kenny Kirkland. To paraphrase: "It's the BAND stupid." Of course the exceptions are guess who (W&D) and Miles Davis who had at least 3 great bands!
Name: Ray
ray_wells@yahoo.com
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 07:53:02
Comments:
Anyone know the latest information on "The New One"?
The Steely Dan "alum" Michael Breckers album "Beyond The Hudson" features a guitarist by the name of Pat Metheny. There is an interesting thread on the Pat Metheny Group web page (www.patmethenygroup.com) concerning the fact that many of the PMG fans are also fans of Steely Dan. If you haven't been there check it out! If you haven't gotten into PMG yet do yourself a favor and give them a listen.
Name: lisa
girlish ch@rm
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 06:37:05
Comments:
clas: pez is candy dispensed from a plastic head...a very disturbing american icon, no? do you have a swedish equivalent?
danfess babies: oleander, the planmeister general, phoned me last night to say that christina campbell's tavern is booked...
she found another nice place called the trellis...located at merchants square, off duke of gloucester street (757)229-8610)... reservations are for 8:15 tomorrow evening...BUT we are still planning to meet at cc's tavern at 6:30 to round up the calvary...maybe go and start early on the cuervo?steely sue?
Name: cla
s
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 at 06:09:34
Comments:
What's a pez?
Name: Hardgroove
theunbearabletemptationtotalkinmyshoe
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 23:20:22
Comments:
We are studying an ENTP who has quite unexpectedly begun to exhibit ENFJ behavior. Try to imagine Patton on pot. He's holding a book upside down and asking Jimmy to read aloud. (Yes, Patton is in uniform. There are no apples on his desk.) Jimmy notices the upside down book just as he is about the read and immediately develops a stammer that blossoms into a stutter. My question: should Patton quit smoking pot or should Jimmy start taking prozac?
Quick, before Jim Carrey makes his butt talk again!
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 21:34:17
Comments:
Yup, another Dan alumni offering - Wish it were The Dan themselves but...
Michael Brecker has added yet another brilliant tenor session to his already long and illustrious recording career featuring Wynton/Branford Marsalis protege' Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums and the ubiquitous Brecker sideman Joey Calderazzo on piano (boy did this guy smoke on Brecker's last one "Tales From The Hudson"). The new one is entitled "Two Blocks From The Edge". Also featured is James Genus on bass.
Name: Gary Marchese
marchesega@aol.com
Location: Hendersonville, Tn usa
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 20:15:44
Comments:
Name: fezo
home@last
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 17:22:11
Comments:
damn the employer, screw adult responsibilities, i'm heading east for the danfest on Friday. looking forward much to the weekend, hanging with the mayor and all of his friends and eventually blacking out on the stairs.
i'll be the one with the beard (Roy: a new addition) and the permanent stoner's smile.
Name: Mock Turtle
...............
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:37:36
Comments:
RE: 'Aja':
Actually, I think 'dime dancing' refers to the time-honored tradition of paying for your date. People would bring a pocket full of dimes and, at regular intervals, give their dance partner a dime. Particularly common practice by male Asian immigrants (there was a lack of Asian female immigrants), and in particular, Filipinos, in the early part of the century.
mt
Name: Prof.Steve v dan
amid the stacks at Berekeley
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:06:58
Comments:
a beautiful sunny day in Bezerkeley.......
lyric interpretation #2345...lyrics to 'Aja'....
possibly desribing a prisoner of war in Korea..."Up on the hill": an army hospital....."dime dancing": his only respite dancing to an old jukebox at the village cafe....
"double helix in the sky tonight":some sort of star alignment...I once had a dj friend who insisted that 'Aja' was the name of Charlie Chan's #1 daughter...he was a cool dj too ...one day , with tricky turntable finesse he "mixed" a 9 minute version of the 'Fez'live on the air...and it was an AM station to boot!............
Name: me
whats that?
ca usa
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 15:01:10
Comments:
solamente un tonto le dicea a el!!!!!1
Name: James
@rest
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 14:17:36
Comments:
Dr Mu: If you liked Michael McDonald and James Ingram on Ya Mo Be There, try MM and JI with David Pack (Ambrosia lead singer) in 3 part harmony on "I Can't Let You Go" originally from a Pack solo album in the late 70's. It is now available on CD included in a Best of Ambrosia album. Awesome vocal arrangement! Patti Austin also recorded a re-make of the song and used them as back up singers on her record. She refered to them as "the Trinity".
Name: *
@
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:26:20
Comments:
?
Name: Doc Kelly
Still hear at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:15:01
Comments:
MUIGETIUMMUIAIUMMUILIFEIUM
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 at 11:06:23
Comments:
Ruby, Geena: I like the Pocket Donald Pez dispenser. Let me add this: make it a Pocket Donald Purple Prozac Pez Dispenser. Optional medication - valiums - for when you're about to go "on-stage".
Regarding personality type - slow week this week and I pulled the Sweet biio off the shelf. Figuring, "where do I start?", I just opened the thing and opened it to the chapter on the making of and post-release of the Nightfly. Excellent section for Donald makes comparisons to the song-writing and recording process for Nightfly as compared to with Walter for Dan stuff. Good stuff, from a personality type perspective. Check it out.
Gotta til the garden. Soon it will be time for "good fresh things".
maj©
Name: FezChick
"Break out the hats and hooters"
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 19:38:07
Comments:
Long time- no Dan! I'm back!!!!
Hey, Geena and RubyBaby!
What's up?Lots of good reading on the GB. I too am a huge
Michael McDonald fan. Would love to see him back
with Don and Walt on the new one.Speaking of which . . .
When is the "long awaited" coming out? I'm growing
impatient!
Name: RubyBaby
kangaa1776@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 14:25:06
Comments:
DrMu: Hey, thanks for the MMcD lyrics! (Ya Mo, Be There). I never knew what that was, but I used to sing along and fake that I knew it. Now I see that I was saying it right, unknowingly. Does that count as knowing it or faking it?
rb
Name: Clas
The MU-puzzle
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 11:42:37
Comments:
DR MU; can you help me with this one?
The MU-puzzle
Formal Systems
One of the most central in this book is that of a formal system. The type of formal system I use was invented by the American logician Emil Post in the 1920's , and is often called a "post production system". This chapter introduces you to a formal system and moreover, it is my hope that you will want to explore this formal system at least a little; so to provoke your curiosity, I have posed a little puzzle.
"Can you produce MU?" is the puzzle. To begin with, you will be supplied with a string (which means a string of letters). Not to keep you in suspense, that string will be MI. Then you will be told some rules, with which you can change one string into another. if some of those rules is applicable at some point, and you want to use it, you may, but - there is nothing that will dictate which rule you should use, in case there are several applicable rules. That is left up to you - and of course, that is where playing the game of any formal system can become something of an art. the major point, which almost doesn't need stating, is that you must not do which is outside the rules. We might call this restriction "Requirement of Formality".
The first thing to say about our formal system - the MIU-system - is that it utilizes only three letters of the alphabet: M, I, U. That means that the only strings of the MIU-system are strings which are composed of those three letters. Below are some strings of the MIU-system:
MU
UIM
MUUMUU
UIIUMIUUIMUIIUMIUUIMUIIU
But although all of these are legitimate strings, they are not strings which are "in your possesion". In fact, the only string in your possesion so far is MI. Only by using the rules, about to be introduced, can you enlarge your private collection. Here is the first rule:
Rule 1. If you posses a string whose last letter is I, you can add on a U at the end. By the way, if up to this point you had not guessed it, a fact about the meaning of "string" is that letters are in a fixed order. For ex, MI and IM are two different strings. A string of symbols is not just a "bag" of symbols, in whuch the order doesn't make any difference.
Here is the second rule:
Suppose you have Mx. then you may add Mxx to your collection. What I mean by this is shown below, in a few examples.
From MIU, you may get MIUIU.
From MUM, you may get MUMUM
From MU, you may get MUU.
So the letter "x" in the rules simply stands for any string; but once you have decided which string it stands for, you have to stick with your choice (until you use the rule again, at which point you make a new choice). Notice the third example above. It shows how, once you posses MU, you can add another string to your collection; but you have to get MU first! I want to add one last comment about the letter "x": it is not part of the formal system in the same way as the three letters "M", "I", and "U" are. It is useful for us, though, to have some way to talk in general about strings of the system, symbolcally - and that is the function of the "x": to stand for an arbitrary string. If you ever add astring containing an "x" to your "collection", you have done something wrong, because strings of the MIU-system never contain "x"'s! Here is the third rule:
Rule 3: If III occurs in one of the strings in your collection, you may make a new string with U in place of III.
Examples:
From UMIIIMU, you could get make UMUMU.
From MIIII, you could make MIU, also MUI.
From IIMII, you can't get anywhere using this rule. The three I's have to be consecutive.
From MIII, make MU.Rules are one-way, this is wrong: From MU, make MIII.
Rule 4: If UU occurs inside one of your strings, you can drop it.
From UUU, get U.
From MUUUIII, get MUIII.There you have it. Have fun.
From Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: AN ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID
Name: Scott Shelton
scottgov@aol.com
Location: Clarksville, TN USA
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 11:30:46
Comments:
Been lovin' Dan music for 25 years and am distraught that I've never seen the group in concert. I'm listening to SD "gold" at work now. Thanks to everybody for making the Dan happen in all its many forms. Peace...
Name: djed
djed3@hotmail.com
Location: Inglewood, CA
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 10:14:27
Comments:
RoyScam, please set my time machine to do what yours did! Dr. Mu, I concurr on Doobie Bros; for me "It Keeps you Runnin" and "Minute by Minute" get my groove on every time I hear them. This would be an "oldies" concert worth going into debt to see: Doobies & Dan, 4 hours long, 60 songs.
Name: DrMu
not your Doctor Robert
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 07:58:52
Comments:
I may be out of line since I don't have personal experience here, but 10-40 mg generally is used for the big D, and 40-80 for obsessive-compulsive behavior...but then that could have been easily deduced from these proceedings.
Micahel McDonald is still the best Caucasian singer around. I wonder if Michael DOLTon's inexplicable popularity is partly due to the fact that MM is scarce on the radio these days (Did you hear MD massacre "Go the Distance" at the Oscars - he can't phrase worth a s***. In a better world, James Ingram would have sold as many records as Michael DOLTon has today, and MD would be singing back-up for the Isley Brothers. As a matter of fact does anyone remember the duet with James Ingram and MM - "Ya Mo' Be There?" I'd love to have a copy: SPECTACULAR, SOARING vocals!!
This MD thing has me on the soapbox: Aren't some of the biggest RACISTS in America the pseudo-liberal weasels of the music recording and filmaking business? Where the hell was "Eve's Bayou" on Oscar night? Surely, there is more art in 5 min of this film than in the entire Full Monty...and Paula "armpit shot" Cole as best vocalist & newcomer? Where the hell was Erykah Badu? OK, I'm going to towel off here and go back to my technical writing.
Name: Roy.Scam
hows.my.little.girl
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 07:36:00
Comments:
Schwinn: "pumped with prozac" , Boss phrase. Is that the sequel to Reefer Madness? I think you just invented pharmaceutical bigotry.-- But I like your costume idea: dress up half green/half yellow and come to the Danfest as a 20mg Prozac. Then you can keep an eye on your little girl; otherwise, you might as well be in Detroit (with lots of money in the bank).
Animal dumb but Razor sharp,
RS
Name: Schwinn
risingsap
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 01:10:12
Comments:
Lisa--the mere thought of you sucking a straw in front of a passel of strangers makes my blood boil like the loose head gasket on Kinky's '78 Italian Stallion. However, knowing that many of the attendees at this weekend's Dan Fest will be pumped with prozak gives me some modicum of relief. Nothing but an even temper could keep the razor-boys away--and even I cannot kill a dumb animal.
Dressed in Yellow and Green Just Like a Child,SEMB
Name: Ahhhhh!
Now I got it!
Location: You mean that, you are
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 00:13:26
Comments:
bicycling! That's ok, but wear Rubys helmut.
Name: clas
Stockholm Mood Disorders Center
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 at 00:08:33
Comments:
Q; thanks again.
Geena - "I take them for anxiety and panic attacks..." 10 mg? Does that help? My doc prescribed 80 mg for the same reason. But damn I felt funny. I had to go back to 75 mg Anafranil.
Any hotel will do. I'll throw roses for my little girl at the Spanish Steps.
Roy; see above, Prozac, Anafranil, Nefadar and other antidepressives are excellent for agorafobia and panicattacks. Much better than bensodiazepines.
I didn't like the Doobies before Mike Big Mac Donald. I think "What a fool believes" is the best song ever written. If you don't include Steely-songs.
Steely Sue; no, this is not a meatmarket. This flirting is just for fun. This is a meetmarket.
Name: Aja Tim
chops@pacifier.com
WA
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 23:41:58
Comments:
I should have looked into this sooner, but my wife is always on the chat...
Name: *
emily l@tella
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 20:07:38
Comments:
Never mind.
Name: *
l@dy chatterly
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 19:57:40
Comments:
Hey, what's with the chatroom?
Name: Mock Turtle
Steppin' up on the platform
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 19:27:08
Comments:
g. Steely Dan - Best album, 1999.
Name: Geena
nothing but booze and Elvis
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 17:44:37
Comments:
Clas: Huffy as in two wheels, no engine.
How about meeting at the Hotel Esquilino across the street from the spanish steps... and i'll buy you a coke with a cappuccino chaser. I got your email... will try to send something soon..Roy: WOW! yours are green and yellow? mine are just green... a a beautiful mint color (10mg). I know it's usually prescribed for depression... but i imagine it does work for those who are clinically depressed... I take them for anxiety and panic attacks, don't know if the two are related... and they seem to be working quite well... so far
Steely Sue: Ok... this is your first message from a female... Hello and welcome to the GB!
Name: Q
@@@@@@@@@
Location: FLAROOM,
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 15:27:11
Comments:
C, you can purchase a decoder directly from DTS to play the discs in your home. They have a small catalog at this point
(@ 40 titles) but they are very well done. The remix is simply part of the audio separation process to keep the output true to the original(obviouly we're glad Elliot was on the case).
Name: DrMu
lovetotourthesouthland
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 13:58:01
Comments:
Roy, Sounds like a machine I'd even pay retail for. I believe you're right about the song "What a Fool Believes." Credit for the Grammy goes to the songwriter's there: Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald. I concur that although"The Captain & Me" is great stuff for chuga chuga rock, the Doobies were flailing before MM joined on "Takin it to the Streets" (Cheat the Hangman's haunting melody and Skunk's guitar on Rock Me are the only highlights on the run-down Stampede).
I remember hearing "Takin' it to The Streets" and "It Keeps You Runnin' and being blown away as a pubescent young 'un. I'd never heard anything like it. As Motown, Gamble & Huff, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Aretha, and Atlantic Rec. Soul were fading away to the friggin' Disco craze, the McDoobies were able to transform theselves into blue-eyed pop soul. Even one of Hall & Oates decent songs - later on - "One on One" definitely has the MM flavor. MM for a while found the leadership he could not have as a Dan backup. While what I've heard of his solo work does not light the same fire, McDoobie songs like "Here to Love You," "There's a Light," the McDoob "You Belong to Me," "It Keeps You Runnin', How do those Fools Survive?" etc. are about as good as pure pop gets IMHO. I don't think I'm going to trade'em in for "Cycles!"
Name: Roy.Scam
april15th.time.out.of.money
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 13:06:40
Comments:
DrMu: Since you obviously have total recall, or a reference book, didn't Michael McDonald also get song of the year for "What a Fool Believes"?--Which brings up the question: Did Michael M ruin the Doobie Brothers, or save them. I know some guitar purists who think MM was sent by the devil to pollute that old Black Water. My personal opinion is that they made a lot of their best music after he took over; he added a few years of success to a group that may have otherwise gotten repetitive or even stagnant.
BTW: Next week's Danvention was great. Don & Walt showed up and gave us advanced copies of the album, then pulled Hornsby and Knopfler out of the audience to assist them in performing their entire body of work. And all the Guestbook people turned out to be as beautiful and generous as they are clever. But my time machine is due for a tune-up.
RS
Name: DrMu
time out of mind
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 11:01:12
Comments:
Roy: Got my dates mixed it seems on the fest/vention? Well, just get on board that time machine and relay an early report anyway! You're 1st medicated gues was correct. All have garnered in grammys:
a. Michael McDonald - with the Doobies for album Minute-By-Minute
b. Larry Carlton - 2 in the '80s for solo releases...his stuff lately has been, well, weak...antidote: a B12 booster and some time in the sudio with taskmasters Walter and Donald
c. Rikki Lee Jones - best new artist, 1979? Pirates his a better album that her inital release anyway.
d. Michael Omartian - as producer for Christopher Cross (producer and artist share album of the year)
e. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - with the Doobies for album Minute-By-Minute
f. Roger Nichols - Engineering on Gaucho
Name: lisa
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 10:25:40
Comments:
yo, sue: you want to come to the "fess" this weekend? email me for the details. *pointer*-- bring lots of one dollar bills in case the men decide to put on a show for us.
Name: Roy.Scam
medicated guess
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 09:40:14
Comments:
DrMu: I'm guessing None of the Above. Second guess is Ricki Lee.
Name: steely sue
hello
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 09:09:10
Comments:
Where exactly is this thing in Williamsburg? Maybe I could go...
You weren't kidding about escaping Falwelltown. That man owns everything here--- its ridiculous.
By the way, how come no females ever respond to me? Is this some sort of meat market?
Name: DrMu
gonnapartylikeit's1999
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 09:05:01
Comments:
Roy,Ole et al.: Hope the DanVentionin W'burg was bodacious. Report?
Hey St.Al: While we're waiting, waiting, waiting in the Green Room for the New One, how 'bout rustling up some grub as is commonplace...some Szechuan dumplings, sausage and beer, french fries with maple syrup, and anything else you can conjure from your recipe book.
DAN POP QUIZ
Which of the following Dan-related folks did NOT win or share a Grammy?
a. Michael McDonald
b. Larry Carlton
c. Rikki Lee Jones
d. Michael Omartian
e. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
f. Roger Nichols
g. none of the above
h. all of the above
Name: Buckwheat
elmer's wascally wascals
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 09:04:09
Comments:
I hee yo leebin' dat's O'tay.
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Location: NN, VA
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 09:00:37
Comments:
fez: Christiana Campbell's is somewhere in the same general vicinity as our first, post-apocalyptic East Coast Danorama.
sue: It's never a bad idea to escape periodically from a region that's under the influence of Larouche and Falwell. This Friday would be a good time.
Geena: I've been popping those green and yellow submarines (you know, the P word) since your depression was knee high to Woody Allen. --- Clas: 80 mg at a time is a bit much. It's not instantaneous chemical shock treatment. -- The effect on the mood of people who aren't clinically depressed is effectively zero. Not a good rec drug.
RS
Name: c
atelje.lundkvist@mbox300.swipnet.se
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 at 01:56:45
Comments:
Geena Lolobrigida "...Harley, but a biker as in Huffy..." what ARE you talking about? I'm a Swede remember? Thanks for the Pina Colada-offer but a simple Coca Cola is better I think. What about Victor Emanuel Hotel, Rome at this time next week? You got my emailaddress above, I don't know where to send it.
Steely Sue - The Three Dots-rule is a very important rule. And you are doing just fine so don't worry.
Q; thanks for the clarification, but what is the meaning with that remix? Do I have to sit in a movietheater to enjoy it?
Name: Michelle
I.C.Q. 8483680
Location: Roswell, GA U.S.A
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 20:27:31
Comments:
The coolest band no other can touch.
All fans I.C.Q me and let's chat on the matter.
Name: Q
@@@@@@@@@
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 16:16:40
Comments:
essentially DTS(Digital TheateSystems) is the company that does all the techno surround sound for the movies. They create a discrete 360-degree "5.1" multichannel audio output- ie 21st century "quadrophonic" sound. I believe Speiberg has his hand in the company.
Name: Q
qgb@aol.com
Location: FLAROOM,
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 16:09:35
Comments:
The DTS surround sound remix of Gaucho is AWESOME. Elliot Scheiner did remix with Bob Ludwig executing 20 bit mastering. Unfortunately you need the DTS decoder to witness but it is a breathtaking experience ala Gaucho. The DTS Allman Bro's -Live At Filmore East is excellant too.
Name: Geena
now i'm sprouting a beak
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 15:49:59
Comments:
Clas: my love tiger, I'm not a biker as in Harley, but a biker as in Huffy (huge difference)... i need to do that in order to get around and keep my lovely girlish figure, now... if you get drunk with Lisa, would you also get drunk with me? Let me make you that pina colada...
Name: steely sue
well...
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 14:13:08
Comments:
it is about four hours away, which I guess isnt too bad. How many of the people who sign this guestbook are from Williamsburg?
Name: fezo
@budicepacksapunch
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 14:04:16
Comments:
Steely Sue:
Williamsburg isn't that far from Lynchburg. Just head up 29. get on 60 at Amherst and head east. Look for the rowdy bunch that's just been tossed out of one of Colonial Williamsbrug's finest taverns. I'll be the one in handcuffs.
Suggested menu for one of the Danfest's events: sausage and beer.
Hanging with the mayor and all his friends
fezo
Name: steely sue
OK
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 13:19:14
Comments:
What is all of this about three dots?
Name: Clas
Salomon kept his head in all its glory
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 13:15:38
Comments:
Steely Sue - good girl, three dots. But remember, space after dots... see?
Name: steely sue
sorry I missed you
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 13:01:59
Comments:
Unfortunately, I am in Lynchburg, which is pretty far from Williamsburg. I am interested in meeting other Steely Dan fans in my area. As Scott so beautifully put it, we are a rare breed. So, if any of you fine folks are, for whatever reason, planning to come around this way, let me know.
Name: Clas
Jesus was a beggar but rich in grace
Location: Synth-City,
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 12:16:34
Comments:
Lisa! There you are! Where have you been? Have you been tortured by your family?
Steely Dan is OK, but how much can you listen? Mucho mucho mucho? Where is Sunny?
Name: fezo
staring@bottomofbudicebottle
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 12:08:23
Comments:
ole, roy, lisa: so where's the Friday Danfest meeting site? I know the name, just don't know where it is . . . do we have any reason to think it will be more lively than Chownings?
am still planning to head east friday but my evil employer, as always, reserves the right to alter my plans
happy easter all
fezo
Name: lisa
l@wdy
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 11:56:22
Comments:
i hate holidays...i hate my family.
good thing i love steely dan.
clas: let's go get drunk together.
Name: clas
atelje.lundkvist@mbox300.swipnet.se
Location: Comicaze City,
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 10:03:24
Comments:
Oh damn, I got two woman downstairs cackling like happy hens. I can't understand how they can be happy when my sternum hurts. They say I am squemish. Me? Squemish? They don't know what blues is. Is it only me that thinks of me?
So, Geena, you're a biker. I don't know if I like that. That's deathbusiness you know. I wish you could stay inside behind your computer and be like me; - a DesktopTiger. It's boring but safe.
Why lie? I need a drink. A BensodiazePina Colada.
Name: Geena
and now, i have long ears!
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 08:12:14
Comments:
Major: sorry for that post to you at the end of my previous post...i do a lot of cutting and pasting...i guess i forgot to cut that part out...
Name: Geena
oh my! i seem to have grown a bunny tail
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 08:03:25
Comments:
Ruby: thank you, I think I'm back to myself 100% now and thank you for the advice on the Steely Dan helmet. I think I'll buy one and wear it when I ride my bike again. I became concussed while riding my bike through the woods and because I was too busy yakking it up with my friend riding behind me, I didn't notice the huge rock in my path. Of course, I wiped out, causing me to develop wings and fly off my bike. However, unlike a winged creature, i became a kamikaze pilot and crashed into the nearest boulder which just happened to be standing there on that beautiful day, watching two women biking through the woods. I later found out that the boulder was wanted by the police on lewd behavior charges and was immediately apprehended. Maybe we could go biking together one day and don our SD helmets, i'm sure we'd look superb!
As for pocket donalds, where do I get one and are there enough grape flavored pez in it to satisfy my soul?
Clas: yes my kind warrior, I will email you if you send me your email address. kiss, kiss
Major: Do you think they'll ever make a Pocket Donald Pez? I've got a hankering
for grape, the most rare & delicious of all pez flavors.
Name: sammy hagar slacks
inseamstomars
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 02:40:44
Comments:
I'm an ENFJ and that's what Eddy really hated about me. Like the time our club in Cabo turned out to be 12 times larger than the specific instructions I had passed to the builder on a bar napkin. I swear, some people don't know their " from a '
So if you don't like our contributions quit inviting us to the bored-room. Besides, with all your earth-shaking advances you can probably breed us out of existence in no-time flat.
No such luck? Work around it.
Be well. Be wise. Be very, very skeptical of anyone's intuition other than your own.
sammy
Name: Art Smart
goodegg
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 at 01:19:10
Comments:
Roy
I can't recall.
Name: RubyBaby
never gonna do it without my pez, oh no
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 16:19:41
Comments:
Geena: I've been meaning to send you my best get-well wishes. I am glad you've been sprung and are on the mend!Are you aware of the Steely Dan helmet? It's in the shape of a ball cap, but it's tough like a hard hat. It's got *Can't Buy A Thrill* on the front, just like on the original album cover. I'm sure you'd look marvelous, darling. (Sold wherever Pocket Donalds are found)
Major: Do you think they'll ever make a Pocket Donald Pez? I've got a hankering for grape, the most rare & delicious of all pez flavors.
rb
Name: doc clas
Bellevue @ Bellevue
Location: New York City, SWEDEN
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 13:05:35
Comments:
theI; for the long run: 80 mg Prozac, 40 mg in the mornings, 40 mg at nights. 120 mg Litiumbromid at nights, let's say 9.00 PM. 4 mg Xanor depot in the mornings. To immediate break your insomnia: a handfull of Mogadon and a handfull of Seconal. Get well now baby.
Aja; "Steely Dan remixing the album Gaucho for DTS surround sound." What is DTS surround sound?
Mock Mock Turtle; Post a post. Click with your right mousebutton on it. On the menu you get doubleclick on "installing a scrollmachine". And there you got it.
Geena; no, I am not. Email me.
Ole; seriously, what do you think of Prozac and other antidepressiv pills used by "ordinary" people? have you read peter D. Kramers Listening To Prozac?
Name: Hank Silvers
mooreje@fast.net
Location: living here near Allentown, PA
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 10:56:35
Comments:
Aja: Thanks for the River Sound tip. I like what I've heard from Todd Snider. He seems to have good taste in music; he's also said that in a perfect world, Steve Earle would run Nashville.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Has anyone heard of a DF-scored animated film called "Traveling Light"? According to this morning's newspaper, this film will be shown at the International Animated Film Festival at Kutztown (PA) University, going on this Wednesday the 15th through Saturday the 18th. The film is descibed this way: ". . .in which hundreds of pieces of paper are positioned frame by frame to simulate light passing through a window."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Name: Roy.Scam
any.newport.news.that.i'm.welcome.2
VA
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 09:50:22
Comments:
the I --- woman be in land of Virginia in town named after William. Believers gather at Our Lady of Christiana Campbell's Temple on human day called Fri-day, 17th day of their April. When all hands on earthling clock point down, New Order begin. Ask for Holy Ander. VISA and Mastercard accepted.
Ole-- Look me up and call me in NN. (# in Peninsula book). I was unable to hook your page but still trying.
Art: When You say Time Out of Mind, do you mean Steely's or Dylan's? As far as musical Adams goes, Duritz is good, but Adam Cohen (formerly of Mommyheads, now working on solo project) is DAMN good. (MHO only).
RS
Name: Art Smart
howquaint
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 01:40:17
Comments:
Wow! Just heard the joint project between Jakob Dylan and the Counting Crows, "Re-calling the Horse's Saddle-Light". Got to admit, the lightbulb in the place of the saddlehorn was clever--and those little energy lines radiating from a "bulb-bout-to-go-bad" pretty much tells you why it needs to be recalled. Heck, nobody wants a horse fire--especially with that brand-new, high-payin' Pony Express gig!
Gotta Listen Again,Art Smart
Anybody else think it sounds like a cross between Time out of Mind and Mirrored Ball?
Name: Aja
just@quicknote
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 00:35:03
Comments:
Good news for "Gaucho" fans. I was perusing Riversound site again to see if anything had changed and it has check it out at: http://www.mini-serve.com/riversound/html/
I noticed on the client list it said that among some of the projects they had in last year was "Steely Dan remixing the album Gaucho for DTS surround sound."
Hej clas!
xox
Aja
Name: Scott
Swampdog32@aol.com
Ca
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 at 00:10:48
Comments:
I love this site! Us Steely fans are a rare breed. Are minds can wonder into such odd places of the heart.
Name: oleander
shore leave
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 23:31:48
Comments:
Outta here! See you scurvy sibs at the Danfest! Roy--whatever you come as is copacetic. I may have something more fun for you to sparkle and shine, though for me playing doctor is a busman's holiday.
Elmer--Ooh, I get the chills when you do that.
Steely Sue--So are we going to see you in Williamsburg Fri.? Break away from that boring job & come on. (Pleeeese come on)
Ruby--Consider it done, darlin'. With attribution.
Name: theI
meatbag@hotmail.com
Location: Asheville, NC USA
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 19:31:46
Comments:
me free! free of the whitecoats and the cruel windowless room they lock me in. they no want me to walk among the up-rights. but me know why. they jealous. jealous of the voices. they lonely and bitter with no one to listen to. me know. the voices tell me so. me know they not lie. they not lie for many days now. when me was on way home, voices say "a lady has heard us, she has called, we must find her so that she may inherit the voice, the will, we must reproduce, expand, you shall her her voice, remember her," so me am hunting woman now. when me find her me will know.
Name: Geena
Bring Back the Boston Rag
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 19:30:33
Comments:
Wow...what did i start with this prozac thing?
Roy Scam...Thanks for your get well wishes...i am feeling a lot better now...with the exception of this bump on my head...
Clas: are you a musician?...will you send me your music? I will gladly meet you in Rome any day...just let me know..i'll be there
Name: RubyBaby
bungeeSkate, a little lower now
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 16:35:07
Comments:
Clas: I thought the piano painting was a postcard! You're great at that, too!! I forgot to say in my letter that lately I've been having a rough time and your music makes me feel better. Even when I'm crying. No need for prozac here.
Oleander: You already know I can't make it to your Outrageous Party and I'm bumming big time. Please don't forget to do that little thing* I asked you! And think spicy thoughts while you're doing it, okay?
mWorld: I heard there's a MusicFest in Maui on Memorial Day Weekend. I want to go!! SmoothJazz96.7 is having a contest and guess what the prize is - a trip for 2 to this Festival! Do you think one can expect to see WaltDog at this thing?About Sunday - Honey, I will be there. Yes, I'll be there.
rb
Name: steely sue
just complaining
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 15:23:16
Comments:
So I'm sitting here at work without anything to do. I've gotten to the point where nothing on the internet interests me, I just finished my book (The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan), and Outlook is not working so I don't have any work to do. Luckily for me, I have a radio to listen to. Pretzel Logic is my current choice. I love that album. Anyway-- as if anyone cares, I am a Virginia resident, 20 years old, an employee at GE, a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker, and right now I am a very bored girl...
Name: steely sue
nothing to do
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 15:08:05
Comments:
It never seems that anyone is here when I am. How sad...
Name: Mock Turtle
sounds like fun
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 13:04:20
Comments:
What is a scroll machine, and how can I go about obtaining one?
mt
Name: steely sue
back again...
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 12:53:03
Comments:
clas-- thankyou for the compliment.
OK- so I got a lyric wrong -- I suppose the fine Columbian has put a hole in that section of my brain.
Name: clas
already got a life thank you
Location: at the Tudor House,
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 12:39:14
Comments:
Roy "Cute" Scam; No, R.O.C.K. wasn't me, but I guess it was some regular who got shitscared when StAl changed the GBook and said that from now on he can see the IP-addresses of those who post here.
I will email you.
And for those who don't like what I and others write here on the GBook, have we in any way stopped you from write your very important posts? Go on, write! There's plenty of room, and use the scroll-machine. I'm gonna post on this GBook until StAl shut me out. Why? Because it makes me laugh. And the girls are so pretty; Nerium Ole, RubyBaby, Geena (oh you Italian little sugarpie!) Aja, Lisa, SunnySam, Mandy, Kinky, Steely Sue, Diane....
Name: Roy.Scam
fill.your.hands.you.sunvbich
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 12:11:16
Comments:
Say, Pilgrim, them's pretty big words coming from a guy named Chart.
Name: Chart
Watcher
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 10:53:51
Comments:
Steely Dan's "Black Cow" makes the top Ten in 1998 and sells 500,000 units! Okay, it's that rap version "Uptown Baby", but since Donald and Walter screwed those thugs out of all their profits from the song, they'll be sitting pretty. I know know why D&W decided to take another year to record their new album! Got the cash in the bank from Black Cow. It's a lot easier to let the gangsters hit the top 10 when you can't do it yourself, just ask Sting!! What a bunch of chickens!
Name: Elmer Fudd
efudd@warnerbros.com
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 09:15:22
Comments:
As we watched da weguluz, wush, da big hotel...
Name: .
...
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 09:06:39
Comments:
..... ....... ........... ............. .................
................... .......................
Name: OH YEAH?
SL@PPY WHITE
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 09:02:02
Comments:
FAN: WHO GIVES A FLYING F*** WHAT YOU THINK? THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM, AND IN KEEPING WITH THAT OBVIOUSLY TOO-LOFTY-FOR-YOU THEME, WE ARE PERMITTED TO SAY WHATEVER WE LIKE. WHY NOT GO AND SPREAD TOFU ON YOUR GROIN AND JOIN THE YOUTH IN ASIA FANCLUB?
WE ALL KNOW THIS IS ABOUT STEELY DAN, NUMB NUTS. BUT IT'S THE DAN'S MUSIC THAT HAS INSPIRED EACH OF US TO BE THE GREAT MINDS YOU READ BEFORE YOU. OR DID SOMEONE HAVE TO READ THIS 'TO' YOU?SPANKING THE MONKEY,
YOO NO HOO
Name: Wanda B. Heard
scamnet.com
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 08:59:05
Comments:
FAN: You speak fluid hyphenation, but your capitalization needs work. When did they put the comma between United and states? Why wasn't I informed? To what chase are we cutting? Steeple?, Barrie?, Paper? Would you please tell us about your life so that those of us without them may at least exist vicariously?
A big ten four,
Wanda
Name: FAN
Rylscam@aol.com
Location: The United, states of AMERICA
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 08:34:39
Comments:
iS IT ME OR IS THIS FANZINE-VIA-PUTER-SIGN-IN-STRANGER-POST DEAL
LOOKING VERY MUCH AND SMACKING OF GRADE-SCHOOL-LUNCHROOM-BANDY?
I THINK WE SHOULD TRY AND CUT TO THE CHASE.
MY SUGGESTION TO ALL OF YOU WANNABE-HEARDS AND UNORIGINAL-EXIHIBITIONISTS IS AS FOLLOWS :
GET LIVES.FAN over and out
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
VA
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 05:30:24
Comments:
...and a provocative lump on her dangerous, Italian, fluoxetened head.--- Take care and Get well soon, fallen beauty.
Clas: Blackula ?! Do you people customarily name your cities after American movies? Sounds like a cool place for blood brothers.--e me your e-mail address, if you would. I'd like to arrange to get a copy of your CD. (The cute part, you'll have to take my word for.)--Are you admitting that R.O.C.K. was an alter ego?
Oleander (Nerium to thee): I'm sticking with "skate a little lower" as the line in Hey 19, although I personnaly skate slower rather than lower.--- Friday- I will be there sparkling your tongue depressors, shining your syringes. I don't have any Steely Dan costumes, so I'll probably come as the Nowhere Man.
RS
Name: doc clas again
c @ c
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 01:46:31
Comments:
Diane - Katy Lied is a must! Every song is a hit, my fave is Bad Sneakers.
And; happy Easter everyone (yes, even you Pat)! In Sweden we paint eggs, and all the whiches fly to Blåkulla. But my mother in law always come back. Strange.
Name: doc Clas L.
at the country
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 01:32:27
Comments:
Steely Sue; I wrote that third post. For a moment I thought I was back in the good old days. You have a beautiful name Steely Sue.
GEENA! - I knew I was right! Couldn't we have a private little Steely Meeting in Rome? But please Geena... space after dots! Oh, and Prozac, I tried that once, but I fucked up the whole GBook so Pot Beeper had to install a special designed censoremachine. Just for me. Well, it made me feel very important for a while. But there was a very sad side-effect; R.O.C.K. In America vanished.
Oleander; Nerium Ole is latin for Oleander. I thought you liked to know.
Name: perry scope
mintynotmediciny
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 at 01:25:04
Comments:
Jesus Christ! Has someone discovered a new "Rosetta" stone? I know it can't be Geena's Prozac--that's just acid for the Kenneth Starr troupe. No, this is something headier than the sandalwood incense I found in my old stash-box in the attic. Crispier than the Joker double-wides in my old bugler roller. Man, somebody give that little guy some blotter and tell him to grow up--and put on some fuckin' Dan!
PS(Not really. Those are just my initials. Whoaaahh! Damn!)
Name: Diane
DJessicaM@webtv.net
Location: Houston, TX USA
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 20:49:17
Comments:
I've been a Dan Fan since 1974. Only got to see them in concert once (five years back). I love the words, the music, and the attitude.
And by the way, Sue, it's "Be born again, my friend."
Name: Diane
DJessicaM@webtv.net
Location: Houston, TX USA
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 20:49:03
Comments:
I've been a Dan Fan since 1974. Only got to see them in concert once (five years back). I love the words, the music, and the attitude.
And by the way, Sue, it's "Be born again, my friend."
Name: oleander
schmoo companion
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 20:43:28
Comments:
maj--no, just a neckrub. And you have to take off the decoder ring.
mw--Chill! I just want to hear the guy's personality theories!
Roy--I think it's "skate a little slower now." So just come as you are, darlin', and see if we can guess if it's you.
Zeke--Et toi! I'm an Iguanas fan, too. Have seen them here in the montagnes a few times.
Re "True Companion:"
1) Now WHO ELSE could write a line like "Home is just a sad abstraction"?
2) The percussion in the left speaker sounds a lot like my turn signal, which is disconcerting in traffic.
3) What a beautiful song, and what a strange ending--like the denouement was packed into the body of the song instead of tailing off after the words.
Re Danfest: FRIDAY NIGHT IT IS! 6:30, CHRISTIANA CAMPBELL'S TAVERN, WALLER ST., WILLIAMSBURG, 4/17/98! Come as a Steely theme or character. Bring Steely-related music, Danabilia (especially videos), and that Steely 'tude.
Name: Big Fan
uplate@night.com
Location: Anywhere, CT USA
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 20:38:37
Comments:
Ida,
Look back in the archives in January and February of 1997 for heated discussions about bootleg tapes, esp the one shot at Manassas, Va. It is excellent though. Try contacting Kevin Suite 102 5 East 41st Street NY, NY 10017. At that time he had 7 or so tapes of concerts. The one from the 1996 Va show which was later made into a dual CD is listed as Michigan - go figure. It is right off the videos they show on the big screens during the concert - truly excellent to watch. I'll probably start WWIII all over again with this post, but I just watched the video and it does bring back such wonderful memories.
Name: Geena
San Francisco Show & Tell
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 17:04:46
Comments:
Clas:
Tend to me darling...tend to my aching head like you did your rabbits...i've missed you so. I had a little accident, fell and whacked my head and had a major concussion, but I'm okay now...I think. (always 3 dots!)
Yes my love, i do have dark hair, dangerous eyes, italian smile, high heeled shoes and a fireball latin temper which i keep under control with the help of Prozac (amazing little drug). Would you like to smell my Opium rabbit boy?
Hmmm...since I've been gone, I've notice a little attitude thing happening in the GB..Prozac anyone?
Name: steely sue
hmmmmm
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:42:17
Comments:
Is that some sort of vague reference to a Smiths song. Well-- here's one for you----- I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday 'cause you're evil and you lie and if you should die - I may feel slightly sad but I won't cry
Name: Buzz Thruwith
Paint a vulgar portrait
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:39:40
Comments:
double cassette with a photograph, a special bag, and a tacky badge
Name: steely sue
shadowboxing
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:36:37
Comments:
I wish I could afford the box set--- I bought the Pink Floyd box set over the Steely Dan one and now I sorely regret it. Actually, I guess the only album I don't have is Katy Lied so perhaps I should just buy that one. Is there anything special in the box set ( the Pink Floyd one comes with postcards, a special book, a kick-ass early singles cd ) ?
Name: Buzz Thruwith
bored
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:16:52
Comments:
I heard it was you---talkin bout a world where all is free it just couldnt be and only a fool would say that only a fooooooooooooooool
Name: steely sue
?
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:10:57
Comments:
clas--- who the hell is Kranky and why would I want to fuck them?
Name: steely sue
hey!
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 16:08:37
Comments:
You know, I didn't write that third message. I swear it. Lester--- how could you say that Donald Fagen is ugly? His unique appearance adds to his appeal just as much as anything else. I wouldn't have him any other way.
Doc--- ... (no hard feelings)
Name: Lester the Nightfly
CC73647@aol.com
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 14:40:11
Comments:
I saw the VH1 deal last week. Boy, Fagen's an ugly man. He still kicks ass. Anyway, the live footage made me want to cry, because I am dying to see them live again, or to at least get some video footage of them in concert. I have nothing of the sort. For the love of God, help me, somebody!!!!!
Name: Jamo
Jamo1000@aol.com/jxfrazi@uswest.com
Location: Denver, Co US
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 14:32:50
Comments:
hi kids- jamo here to say hey now & let other dan freaks in denver know about me. i am also building an acid-jazz funk soul band & need other instrument players (as opposed to owners) to collaborate on this sweaty, funky, slightly, bent combo.
email me about dan weirdness & boot related items...i have access to a cdr...
jamo love all...all love jamo,
jamo
Name: Freddie Duran
humbleadobe@freddieduran.com
Location: Tempe, AZ Estados Unidos
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:50:35
Comments:
I'm a singer/songwriter with a band named FREDDIE DURAN PLAN here in Phoenix,AZ. We have a local CD out of all original material,but I am proud to say that we are the only band in town that does STEELY DAN covers at our club shows. We do our own versions as opposed to copping the tunes exacly. Hey!! there has to be room for creativity after all. Glad I found you.
Check out our website at www.freddieduran.com
Name: kamakiri
sivon@umich.edu
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:49:44
Comments:
can someone please join me in the chat room 4:50 est
Name: kamakiri
sivon@umich.edu
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:49:10
Comments:
can someone please join me in the chat room 4:50 est
Name: kamakiri
sivon@umich.edu
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:46:26
Comments:
we aint leaving no tracks to follow it's driving me mad but was else can i do this all too mobile home is calling after you
Name: minah
khillman@lightspeed.net
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:41:49
Comments:
naw maj©, buzz on my brother, resume schwing! just reminding you to pass on the photo op's this visit to the custerdome...
-mwhirled
Name: Freddie Duran
humbleadobe@freddieduran.com
Location: Tempe, AZ Estados Unidos
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 13:41:20
Comments:
I'm a singer/songwriter with a band named FREDDIE DURAN PLAN here in Phoenix,AZ. We have a local CD out of all original material,but I am proud to say that we are the only band in town that does STEELY DAN covers at our club shows. We do our own versions as opposed to copping the tunes exacly. Hey!! there has to be room for creativity after all. Glad I found you.
Name: doc Lundkvist
...
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 12:50:41
Comments:
Yesssss!
Name: steely sue
...................................
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 12:47:03
Comments:
........................................................................................................................................
Name: clas
...@...
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 12:19:47
Comments:
Steely Sue; "...sorry to set your obsessive compulsive disorder into relapse..."
Sue, I'm sorry too, but I have to put you straight here, this is not an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it's an ANAL Dot-Obsession. You better believe it because Princess Mandy told me so. Her father is Dean Parks (a very famous guitarplayer for those who don't know)and she's going to Yale. So go fuck with someone else Kranky.
Name: steely sue
............................
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:51:12
Comments:
..................................................................... sorry to set your obsessive compulsive disorder into relapse.......
Name: stevev
@oaktown record shop
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:49:52
Comments:
SF Bay Area dan fans: Saturn Records on College Ave. has some very cool and rare 'Dan vinyl:
The 'Dallas' ep ($15)
Rotoscope Down ($35)
FM (UK import) ($20)
You Gotta Walk It (Spark) ($50)
and all of the Quadrophonic ABC/Dunhill for $20 ea/very cool....but you do need a turntable....
Name: steviedan
those days are gone forever
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:34:13
Comments:
24 years ago.....yesterday....4/8/74....Atlanta....Hank Aaron hits #715....and Steely Dan plays the Electric Ball Room.......and four short months later Steely Dan breaks up (i.e. skunk and Jimmy exit) and Tricky Dick resigns (I am not a crook).......
...maybe if Steely Dan goes on tour again...Bill(I did not have sexual relations) Clinton will resign.....it's a slow rainy day in Berkeley......putzin around....
Name: doc Lundkvist
at the rude ranch
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:29:50
Comments:
Steely Sue, please, three (3) dots, not eight, not two, not five... and space after dots. Do you live around here?
Name: doc Lundkvist
at the nude ranch
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:23:41
Comments:
Roy Scam Honeypie - the coolest line in Evereything You Did is "...I know your filthy mind..". It always make me laugh, it's kind of a projection of the poor guys OWN filthy mind. A freudian slip. (well, I am a kind of amateurpsychologiste so to speak)
Geena; do you want me to tend you? See, I use to tend em rabbits, and I like to tend you too. Jodge say I can if you let me. And you are an Italian in my eyes. Dark hair, dangerous eyes, highheeled shoes, latin temper, the smell of your perfume... Opium? Oh my oh my!
Aja; how's my little girl?
Kranky; how's my little friend?
Name: Steely Sue
sign in stranger
va
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 11:10:41
Comments:
You zombie ---- be born again my son .................
Name: mr Cameron
Pissing out a tequila anaconda
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 06:30:55
Comments:
Roy - only if you use what you borrow.
Name: Roy.Scam
mr.cameron.can.i.borrow.linda.while.you're.peeing.in.a.bottle?
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 05:02:14
Comments:
The Hampton Jazzfest (Hampton, Virginia) will take place June 26-28. It ain't Nawlins' and it's usually more R&B than jazz, but Aretha will be there. You DO remember the Queen of Soul, don't you?
Ruby: On the subject of roller skaters: I suspect the skating lady in "Everything You Did" was a contemporary of our beloved narrators, and thus, probably skated 'a little lower' than the Aretha-unaware teenager of "Hey 19". I wonder if the skating references were inspired by roller-disco, a proud moment in our cultural heritage that culminated about the time of Royal Scam and plunged into oblivion about the time of Gaucho.
RS
Name: Schwinnggggg
buzzwthru
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 01:55:13
Comments:
This Kiersey tripe appeals to me. Imagine, me, an ENTJ...
Is that more like Dogbert or Catbert? Whatever. Fall in line you furry little bastards! From now on you're "BEANIE BABIES"!
Gosh, Ain't the Rarified Air a Lot Like "Ozone Action Day"?
Your Conscientous Pal,SEMBing
Name: The Cops Called Me Asshole
wazunit
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 00:36:50
Comments:
A Critic: Beautiful summation of the world's most expensive movie. Thanks to favorable critiques like yours my dad the judge has been able to post my bail. Five months ago I pleaded with you to go see Titanic multiple times and you did! Thanks! Now I can pee in a bottle like a free man--even if someone is watching! Titanic made me a man and a productive member of society. You can't ask much more of Mr. Cameron!
Straighter than Narrow,Francois Gumm
Name: cl
Is this easy chair my own?
Date: Thursday, April 9, 1998 at 00:05:46
Comments:
Geena - I missed you. Is it true, are you ill?
RubyBaby - could you send me a short email just so I get your emailaddress?
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 21:57:01
Comments:
mW: are you trying to be a buzz killer? un-schwing :<
maj©
Name: Geena
allrighty then!
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 19:38:28
Comments:
i can see it now....hmmm...somethingverystrangeishappening.
Name: Geena
Hey!
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 19:37:17
Comments:
what happened to my post?
Name: Geena
Back with a Vengeance
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 16:44:00
Comments:
Hello everyone!...what did i miss while i was gone?
btw...thanks for all those cards and letters...you guys are great!
Hello Clas...didya miss me? you know i still love you...SMOOCH!!!
Ole: took your advise and left the hospital on my own...they were trying to give me all kinds of drugs...no, no, no!
Name: mine/our
World
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 16:15:33
Comments:
um, maj©...Funky one alert?
mW
Name: idalee
asdf@jfk.com
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 13:02:56
Comments:
Thankyou for your help, Mr.Fan. Do you know anything about video tapes of live performances or Fagen videos or anything? I am desperate to find whatever I can on my very favorite group.
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 12:39:21
Comments:
oleander: Neckrub.....schhhhhwing!!!!!!!
maj©
Name: Big Dan Fan
hard tobelieve@itseasteralready.net
Location: Anywhere, USA
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 11:56:13
Comments:
Ida
try www.tunnelrecords.com They are slow, don't like VISA, or small orders, but they do usally deliver in about a year. It will be worth the wait. St.Al has others listed in Under the Banyon Trees homepage.
Name: clas
...you were a roller skater...
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 11:10:41
Comments:
Doc Kelly; that was eight dots.........
Thanks Lisa, that was very nice of you to say so, and yes, that was a painting I did years ago, looking at the keyboard on a gig thru a glass of beer. Nude pictures? Send them to the office.
Roy Scam; when shall I learn to not critizise? If you are cute I can send a copy to you. If you promise to not hold my critisism of BBF against me.
Name: a critic
LaLa
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 11:05:33
Comments:
For those who haven't see IT, save your $15/pair:
Titanic - the 5 minute version
(Scene 1)
KATE WINSLET:
Why, this is a fancy boat, isn't it?
KATE'S WEASELLY FIANCE:
Yes it certainly is. Here is the art you asked for. It is by an artist named "Picasso." I am certain he will amount to
nothing.
KATE:
Ha ha ha. That is very funny to our '90s audience, because of course Picasso later amounted to quite a bit, after this boat sank.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO:
Hello, I'm Leonardo DiCaprio. Perhaps you have seen the
many Internet sites dedicated to the worship of me. You are very
pretty.
KATE:
Thank you. So are you.
LEONARDO:
I know. Prettier than you, in fact. I am going to put on
my"brooding" face now, to ensure that women will keep coming back again and again to see this movie. Later, my white shirt will be soaking wet.
KATE:
While you're doing that, I will concentrate on standing
here and looking pretty, to keep the men in the audience interested until the boat sinks and people start dying.
WEASELLY FIANCE:
Excuse me. I do not like you, Leonardo, even though you
saved my fiancee's life. I am going to sneer at you and treat you like dirt because you're poor, and then I'll probably be physically abusive to my fiancee, and then, just to make sure the audience really hates me, and to make sure my character is entirely one-dimensional, perhaps I'll throw an elderly person into the water.
AUDIENCE:
Boo! We hate you! Even though all real people have at least a few admirable qualities, we have not been shown any of yours, and plus,you're trying to come between Leonardo and Kate, and so therefore we hate you! Boo! (Even though technically it is Leonardo who is coming between you and Kate. But Leonardo is handsomer than you,
eventhough he is only 13, so we are on his side. Boo!)
* * *
(Scene 2)
LEONARDO:
I'm glad we snuck away like this so that you could cheat on yourfiance.
KATE:
So am I. Even though I am engaged to him and have made a
commitment to marry him, that is no reason why you and I
cannot climb into the backseat of a car and steam up the windows together.
The fact that I am the heroine of the movie will no doubt help the cattle-like audience forgive me of this, though they would probably be VERY angry indeed if my fiance were to do the same thing to me.
AUDIENCE:
Darn straight we would! Moo! We mean, Boo!
LEONARDO:
I agree. First I would like to draw you, though, so of
course you will have to take off all your clothes.
KATE:
But can a movie with five minutes of continuous nudity be
at all successful in, say, Provo, Utah, where the audiences might
not stand for that sort of thing?
LEONARDO:
I would be willing to bet that for the first three weeks
the film is in release, every single showing at Wynnsong Theater
in Provo will sell out.
KATE:
All right, then. (sound of clothes hitting the floor)
* * *
(Scene 3)
FIRST MATE:
Captain, we're about to hit an iceberg.
CAPTAIN:
Great, I could use some ice for my drink. (sound of
drinking)
ICEBERG:
(hits boat)
FIRST MATE:
That can't be good.
CAPTAIN:
Bottoms up!
AUDIENCE:
(silence)
FIRST MATE:
That was irony, you idiots.
AUDIENCE:
Baa! Moo! Where's Leonardo?
* * *
(Scene 4)
LEONARDO:
I have been informed that this boat is sinking.
KATE:
That is terrible.
LEONARDO:
Would you like to engage in some more immoral-but-
justified behavior?
KATE:
Certainly.
WEASELLY FIANCE:
Excuse me, I-
AUDIENCE:
Boo! Boo!
WEASELLY FIANCE:
(aside) I'm getting the raw end of the deal here. (to
Leonardo)
Listen, Leonardo, to cement my morally-dubious-yet-somehow-less-annoying-than-you personality, I
am going to handcuff you to this pipe, here in a room that will
soon be filling with water, due to the fact that we are sinking, which I believe has been mentioned previously.
LEONARDO:
Why don't you just shoot me?
WEASELLY FIANCE:
Because then you wouldn't be able to escape and save Kate
from me. Of course, you're going to die anyway-
AUDIENCE:
Don't spoil it for us! Boo!
LEONARDO:
He's right, though. I am doomed.
AUDIENCE:
Aww, look how cute he is when he's doomed.
WEASELLY FIANCE:
I hate you people.
* * *
(Scene 5)
150-YEAR-OLD KATE:
And that's when Leonardo rescued me from my evil fiance and
helped me float on a board in the water. Of course, if it hadn't
been for having to rescue HIM, I could have gotten on an actual lifeboat, and not frozen my legs nearly off. Anyway, he's pretty much dead now, and I'm well over a thousand years old, and who's making my supper? I need a bath. Turn down that Enya music, it's making my ears hurt. You kidstoday, with your loud music. Why, when I was - -- hey! Don't you
walk away from me, Mr. Snooty-Patootie! I'd turn you over my knee, if I had one. I'll beat you in the head with this huge diamond! Come back here!
(Dolly back, Fade to black; roll credits; play annoying Celine Dion song.)
Name: RubyBaby
i'm gonna show ya later
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:15:16
Comments:
RoyScam: Great points about Everything You Did! The thing I've always loved about Everything You Did is the attitude. It's in the lyrics, the vocals, the instrumentation, the music - heck, the recording equiptment was probably filled with it. The walls of the studio must have been saturated with it.
Q. Do you think she's the same Roller Skater he's talking to in Hey Nineteen?
I think I could come up with an Everything You Did game. Now I just have to convince my very significant, very engineer-ish, very handsome other to play along. (Anyone here ever try it?)
You know, in the heat of the moment (I'm talking confrontation here), we never think to *turn up the Eagles* until it's too late. Dang! Our neighbors owe us.
RazorBoy: Am I still in the race? Sure - but I'm still wearing these Tina Turner shoes. (see Mar.20) I think I'll trade 'em in for Reeboks. NOT!!!!!
rb
Name: Doc
again
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:11:56
Comments:
I just discovered that hitting "reload" (on the Netscape Navigator 3) while at the confirmation page causes a double post....
My most humble apologies.
Name: Idalee
Noneof@your.dambiznis
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:11:51
Comments:
How do I go about getting Steely Dan bootlegs? I've looked everywhere-
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:08:38
Comments:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot...
....
here's four dots for Clas
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:08:28
Comments:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot...
....
here's four dots for Clas
Name: Doc Kelly
Here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 10:06:29
Comments:
Help: I surely can't confirm it... however, it would make sense ! Modern marketing dictates a tour to make a CD a success ($)... I believe it's too late to finish the CD, reserve the venues, and prepare for a tour in 1998 when considering their last 3 tours involved the "amphitheater circuit"... They probably wouldn't want to place their CD on the market too far ahead of the tour... So, it (I'll repeat myself) makes sense that 1999 is the release date...
Name: Help
Please Don't Let It Be True
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 09:06:20
Comments:
Someone in the record business said the new Steely Dan album will not be out until Summer 1999. Can anyone confirm this?
Name: Big Dan Fan
death@onesownhand.com
Location: Storrs , CT USA
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 07:06:46
Comments:
Talk about nostalgia leading to depression leading to suicide, I I heard Wendy O Williams of the Plasmatics died of self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head on the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's similar demise. This occured in the hometown of the UCONN Huskies. Come on, the men will make the Final Four next year, the women will be national champs the year after - nothing to get upset about now.
Name: Roy.Scam
in.our.happy.home
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 06:04:35
Comments:
I listened to "Everything You Did" on the way to work; I'd forgotten how many surprising little details I liked about that song:
1) The sparsity of the snare drum in the beginning, about 9 hits at unpredictable times in the first 30 seconds. Actually the percussion sort of teases you throughout.
2) The way Fagen sings the word "chair": anger, humor and desparation conveyed in one syllable (well, it's actually three syllables, the way he renders it.)
3) The return of the pedal steel sound in the middle of a mostly funk-sounding album.
4) The absence of a last line in the second bridge, just when you're expecting a repeat of the 'Turn up the Eagles' line.
5) The change from "now you're gonna tell me.." to "now you're gonna do me.."
6) The abrupt, upturned ending.Clas: So how does one score a copy of the Clas CD (without being pretty)? I know you must be good if you categorize Ben Folds as paddle-handed.
Ole--Friday the 17th is good for me. Can't make it till 11 PM on Saturday.--I AM a costume.
RS
Name: lisa
sweets for the swede
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 05:03:09
Comments:
clas, baby...i finally got your cd and i love it! you are very talented, so don't underestimate yourself...the compositions are good and so is the engineering...you were far too humble when you described it for me...now i am waiting for the new clas album too!
maybe i will send you a nude picture of samantha as a reciprocal offering...you'd like that, huh? dirty old man...
btw, was that your painting on the cover?
very nice.
Name: clas
???
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 00:34:23
Comments:
Okay guys, was it AJA or True Companion? I wanne know for sure else I can't sleep.
Name: oleander
blue companion
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 22:19:05
Comments:
maj--tall & cool. The neck rub is compliments of the house.
Name: Dug
dcl@home.com
Location: Omaha, NE U.S.
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 21:39:01
Comments:
So high or low did VH-1 or the musicians rate The Dan, somewhere around 50? Not bad, huh. Chain lightning is that overwheling wave of group excitement when the speaker has you in the palm of your hand. Hitler was a master at it, unfortunately.
Name: susan
dreams@freudian.com
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 16:46:15
Comments:
If given a choice between Walt and Donald I would have to go with Walter-- Did anyone hear his live rendition of Book of Liars on Alive in America? It never fails to melt my heart.
Name: JoeM
@same
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 12:53:37
Comments:
Edd: It was "True Companion" not "Century's End"... Hopefully you were not asleep because the sans vocal version of "True Companion" that flowed directly into "Aja" was simply astounding IMHO. Two tunes very well suited to be played one after another.
Name: Edd
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 12:27:28
Comments:
"Century's End" an opener at Great Woods in '94??
I remember "Aja" as the opener, specifically because the sound was muddy in the beginning and all cleaned up by the end.
Was I asleep?
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 09:08:19
Comments:
Big Dan Fan:
Saw the Dan at Greatwoods in '94. They opened with "True Companion" and "Aja". Talk about your warm summer nights and the sweet sounds of D&W. What an incredible event that was and Greatwoods is one of my favorite venues. Chambers pulled off a great compliment to Gadd's original solo. What a night.
Donald's comments about nostalgia during the '96 sets were more along the lines of - "...Abbey Hoffman used to say that nostalgia is merely a mild form of depression. Nevertheless..." - then they'd fire off a rollicking rendition of the ultra-nostalgic "Hey Nineteen".
Those were indeed the days. Where's the CD and summer tour '98!?
There was a recent discussion about Wayne Shorter and "Aja". Since then I've had big ears for Wayne's material once again. I've been playing the hell outta "Speak No Evil" of late... Anyone else think this is very definition of jazz composition and execution? What a set! Especially the title track and "Infant Eyes". Hancock, Carter, Elvin Jones and Hubbard all shine throughout.
Name: Big Dan Fan
somewhere@work.com
Location: Anywhere, USA
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 08:11:37
Comments:
Sorry, I are an engineer. Spelling was never a specialty. Too dependant on spell checker now. Guess I’ll have to type everything in Word first and then cut and paste. St. Al please see if you can add a spell checker, and for that matter grammar editor to the guestbook. I’m sure it will improve the quality of the posts especially for those overseas guests and those of us that really never mastered the English language.
BTW, when my employer spent tens of thousands of dollars to have everyone in the company (over 11,000 then, only about 6000 now, not related though) M-B tested as part of "Continuos Improvement" and Team Building. That president is long gone and we have new slogans of the month. I was an ENTJ twice and an INTJ once. All three times just one or two questions would have pushed me over to the other one. Consultant said it meant I could draw from strengths of both. Intuitive and something else - who knows and who cares! In a recent move at work I threw out a whole dumpsters worth of M-B info - haven’t looked at it this decade - figured it wasn’t necessary to keep anymore. Sort of like those SD LP’s I have in a closet somewhere. Oh how CD’s have changed our lives. If I ever move to a new residence I wonder if they will suffer the same fate?
I was just showing somebody our picture at Greatwoods on the SD webpage - those were the days - warm summer nights, the sweet sounds of D&W playing - will their page ever get updated? will they ever tour again? Will they ever issue a new album? Donald made some comments about nostalgia during the 1996 sets - something about suicide or something - quite ironic since almost all of the songs were nostalgic. I guess you can't live in the past.
Name: clas
cardigans?
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at 03:39:12
Comments:
Big Dan Fan; two princesses in one class is one too many.
Name: Dude
d2c3k4b5@ptialaska.net
Location: anchorage, ak
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 20:37:33
Comments:
Keep on rockin till we're old and gray. Harmony is where it's at.
Dude
Name: maj©
@Rudy's
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 20:34:53
Comments:
Oleander: Make it a Dewars on the rocks. Double. And a really cold Fosters draft as a chaser. Can I have a cigar too? This is going to be a long night.
maj©
Name: oleander
c/o careless rapture
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 19:13:16
Comments:
GKR--Absolutely. But I can really dream.
maj--Step up to the bar, son, and name your poison.
Clas--you cynic.
Jean Henri--merci.
Name: goodkingrichard
rlongman@work
Location: Canberra,
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 16:46:45
Comments:
mock: re. more data - lurking about on a quiet morning (I feel some public holidays coming up). I did the test - so, I'm INFJ. And, judging from the scores, pretty confused... just how I feel when I try to dig too far into the lyrics.
Ole: keep digging, though I guess your answers re. D&W's thoughts will probably tell you more about yourself than about them.
Still waiting for the new stuff
Richard... with nothing to do...
Name: kashi chavis
kchavis@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
Location: philadelphia, pa usa
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 16:05:33
Comments:
WOW!!! i FINALLY FOUND IT THE STEELY DAN LINE.
Well, i have a question.....what is Chain lighting talking about?
Is it a drug kingpin?
A meeting of wise guys?
Or a meeting of a gang?
Name: old man
time
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 15:26:34
Comments:
Yes- That is Rosie Vela, boy, even she looks like she is getting old, I always thought of her as the Dick Clark of females but both of them are going down fast. Well to be honest If I had to choose between the two I would rather screw Rosie!
Name:
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 13:05:21
Comments:
Please learn how to spell, dude.
Name: Big Dan Fan
dhkrouse@snet.net
Location: up North, CT USA
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 11:21:15
Comments:
Did anyone else catch VH1's top 100 artists show over the weekend. I believe the Boys came in 57. Slightly ahead of Paul McCarntey and Wings. About 40 possitions behind Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles. Beatles were #1, Stones #2. This supposidly voted on by the artists. Not a bad show. Most of the bands ahead of them are already in the R&RHOF. Other top tens were Lead Zeplin and Jimmie Hendrix.
Clas: Did you you know one of the crown princesses of Sweden is going to Yale? Can you imagine her and Josie in the same class together? How big are The Cardigans in their home country - now that you have two popular bands over here.
Name: Wonderin'
at Laughing Pines
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 10:56:47
Comments:
Is that Rosie Vela in the new Cadillac Seville commercial?
Name: RAzor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canada
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 10:33:19
Comments:
Angel - It's hard to really get a handle on anything Fagen/Becker do as SD, or from their solo work. We got "Gaucho" in 1979, there was news of the break up of the duo shortly after, and in 1982, DF released "The Nightfly," writing "True Companion" for the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal," and there was nothing for five years or so. I'm driving with the wife and kids on a weekend holiday to Syracuse, New York in 1988 or '89 (not sure really), and nearly swerve off the road when I hear "Century's End" on the radio. I figure there's a new album released, only to find out it's another soundtrack effort. And it's four or five years before "Kamikiriad" is released. in 1993. It's been either feast or famine, as Becker releases 11TOW a short time (relatively) later. All there material has been, to me, so fresh and worth the wait. Being a fan has been an endurance of sorts, but it doesn't seem to matter who is releasing it, the material stays true to the sound, imagery and slant that defines their work. But it's hard to imagine what "Nightfly" would have sounded like if it were a collaborative effort. It was near perfection as it is. Scary thought.
Ruby Baby - Are you still in the race?
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 07:57:34
Comments:
Oleandre: Tim Meher was (he's no longer with us) a friend of Don's at the time of Cenruty's End. Fagen later said he really liked the way the words came out on that song and was grateful for Meher's contribution, whatever it was. He really needs a co-writer, doesn't he??
Two words why the new SD album won't be quite as good as their best work in the 70s:
Jeff PorcaroBut, it'll still be dam good, I'm sure...
Name: clas
c@w
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 23:35:40
Comments:
Nerium Ole; yes, my third leg.
About those two (Fagen/Becker) could stick together so long thru terrible times; contracts and money.
Geena! - Are you in a hospital? Did that Hartwigfellow broke your heart? Le me tend jo Jeena!
I wanne tend Jeena!
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 22:39:26
Comments:
funny how we seem to ask a lot of questions around here...
ole: can you pour me a fresh one before i agree to start on that project? i need to think on it some more.
decoder ring alert!! it has been found. seems that my kitty liked the ring, handmade by cowboy frank from a walnut shell, and ran off with it. but i found it this morning. so, for anyone who can make an impassioned plea as to why i should send it to you and what miracles of dan decoding you hope to achieve, it's yours to behold while you work by candlight. if there's interest by more than one, the most passion wins.
mWorld: sorry, the ring doesn't do *jack* off the tee, but it sure can read a putt.
maj©
Name: oleander
slow learner part n + 1
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 22:16:16
Comments:
Geena--you OK, girlfriend? Get out of that place before they do something really weird to you.
Clas--are you worried he'll shoot off the leg of his rival?
Name: oleander
slow learner part n
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 22:07:23
Comments:
Mockman--There was some discussion somewhere in the last year about these types. maj is the dude here, & has some theories about the distribution of N's in particular, if I remember right.
maj--what I meant was that my predilection is for the poetry, and while part of my obsessive digging in the lyrics is to figure out what they mean (to me, mostly), part is also to try to put myself in their heads while they were making such astounding images set in such nonpareil music. After 11TOW, I felt that I finally had a sense of Mr. Becker--he had been such a mystery man before. And I like "him" a lot (the him in the music, of course). But I still quail at trying to tease out the contribution of each. I just want to know what THEY were thinking. As I've said before, I'm just as fascinated with the relationship between them--how it could be so perfectly complementary that one, they made the music and, as Mock notes, steadfastly shared the lyric credits; and two, stayed bonded through all sorts of terrible times, to emerge from the ashes again and again. But I'm very interested in your take and its theoretical underpinnings. Will you say more on what you've found & what you use to do it?
OK, re Danfest East II: news flash is that not all can make Saturday dinner & festivities to follow. How's Friday night? We could make it a little later than 6:30 for the jet set or other long milers. Quick--let lisa or me or the whole world know.
I know this is getting long, but while in Louisville this weekend I finally picked up "Gold" and heard "Century's End" & "True Companion" for the first time. Funny how it helps you feel better. And I have a new contender for fave dance tune to tie with "The Fez." Can anyone tell me who Tim Meher is?
Name: mock turtle
more data please
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 15:03:54
Comments:
List of GBers' MB types so far:
ENTP (maj©, fezo, lisa)
INTJ (mock turtle, DrMu)
INFP (oleander)What does this all mean? Absolutely nothing. Except that so far, we have all intuitors.
Name: H
:)
Date: Sunday, April 5, 1998 at 03:10:37
Comments:
Lisa, I will be there. Look forward to meeting you!h
Name: Geena
Beth Israel Hospital - Room 316, East wing
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 18:24:10
Comments:
looking out from this fog.....
Clas...is that you? Ole? Ruby? Fez...where is everyone? Auntie Em?
Name: lisa
doctor feelgood
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 13:43:59
Comments:
mr. fezo: i am very glad you will be able to make the party...so far, the main event is slated to go down on saturday night, with others occuring throughout the weekend.
and guess what? i am an eNTp also...read about that temperament type at: http://keirsey.com/personality/ntep.html
be seeing you soon...
lisa
Name: Prano
Red Khmer
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 12:14:38
Comments:
No, it's Van Halen.
Name: fezo
@thestagedoor
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 10:39:39
Comments:
Wow, the very zesty guitar solo in the middle of "Snowbound" has rescued me from the obligatory Saturday morning fog. Is that Becker?
I'm ENTP on the M-B scale. I've no idea what that signifies. Just remember the letters.
Danfest this month sounds great. Am still in the middle of the job/residence limbo but hope to have it resolved by then so I can make it down at least one night. Is the main event on Saturday or Friday night?
Back to Kamakariad immersion
fezo
Name: Mandy
Daddy knows Walter
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 08:05:05
Comments:
Pekka - keep your syntax right fuckhead! When I write in another language I always try to get my syntax right.
Name: Pekkas Babushka
Finska Karelia
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 08:00:42
Comments:
Tyst me dej Pekka-pojkinen! Du e ett embarrassamentimenti för ditt land och för den svenskloskiga kongelighetieteninen!
Name: PEKKA POJHOLA
ESTONIA
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 07:55:28
Comments:
United States of WHAT?
Name: FAN
RYLSCAM@AOL.COM
Location: The united states of, AMERICA
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 06:22:19
Comments:
Dick: "what do you like most about it?"
Contestant: "It's got a good beat and is easy to dance to."FAN over and out.....peace , love and lube.
Name: Ya know
I'm a big fan
Date: Saturday, April 4, 1998 at 02:20:08
Comments:
Did anyone see the Midnite Special clip on The VHI best band countdown?Man, that writer who reviewed them back then was right on when he said " I am not sure about the music, but I can tell you , they are the uglie
st band I've ever seen!"
Name: Progresso
Pea
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 21:21:45
Comments:
And this from a canadian?
Name: Snick
island@ns.sympatico.ca
Location: eureka, NS Canada
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 20:49:18
Comments:
What is going on in the chat room? It's like listening to soup.
Name: WordlyWise
SteelyD000@aol.com
Location: B'ham, Sure Is God's
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 15:51:39
Comments:
I Decline to Walk the Line
Name: clas
from the margins...
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 13:41:40
Comments:
Mock; yes, but I see it as a metaphor. It could be about a Mexican in L.A. or a Turk in Sweden or a Puerto Rican in New York or why not a Swede on StAl's GuestBook?
Studly and wise,
C.
Name: Mock Turtle
Yet Again
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 12:28:55
Comments:
It always struck me as very cool that Becker and Fagen always completely shared the credit for all of their songs.
Name: Mock Turtle
Again
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 12:24:58
Comments:
Isn't it?
Name: Mock Turtle
comment
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 12:24:11
Comments:
Clas: But "Hat too Flat" is S/F.
mt
Name: c
heaven in pocket
Location: an angel in my bed,
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 10:13:24
Comments:
I remember I read (Swedish interview, Swedish paper) at the time Fagen promoted The Nightfly that he said something like - When it came to the lyrics I always kind of turned around to ask Walt, but he wasn't there. The lyrics was Walt's strong side.
So I guess that Science Fi-lyrics is Fagen, the rest is Becker.
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 09:33:58
Comments:
oleander: so you think that Caves is Walter-penned or maybe even a "joint" effort? It seems Donald to me.
To your point about going at it through words.... do you mean to evaluate the lyrics of their songs? Definitely, so long as we can identify who wrote what? 'member when I was asking "which did Donald write, which did Walter write?" That's why, but noone picked up the ball to run with it, including me.
So start with ones that you feel definitely are Walter OR Donald penned. Look for style clues in their solo works. For example, Walter's songs on Whack are VERY wordy ( I like that). Does that make "Green Earrings" a candidate for being Donald-penned? I dunno. It's all supposition and anecdotal anyway, but all we gots. "Western World" strikes me as lyrics by Walter. Not that the copyright information is any help. © All songs by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.
As for the Danvention in Williamsburg - thanks but can't this time. Plus, I don't use the MBTI, there are better assessments on the market now for my purposes.
maj©
Name: RubyBaby
kanga1776@aol.com
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 09:04:58
Comments:
steve v dan: For what it's worth, I dig your web site. I haven't had the time to see all of it, yet - but I've got it bookmarked.
I doubt I'll take the time to read Sweet's book - but I'll read your page.Maj: Thank you! However, I believe the best officers have a lot of heart, but with it, the ability to control when/where it rears its *ugly head*! There is my downfall...
rb
Name: Zeke
spike@eatel.net
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 09:03:21
Comments:
EarthBound: Howahya!, ya bastit! Good to hear from ya.
So your comming to the Fess. Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Let me give ya a rundown on the Fesstivities.Music: Fri, Apr 24, Dr Jawn,John Fogerty,Clarence "GateMouth" Brown,Carence"Frogman" Henry,Jimmy McGriff, Zydeco Cha Cha's, The Iguanas (my fav), + many more, Night shows, Bonnie Raitt,Jimmie Vaughn, and Keb Mo
Sat, Apr,25, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Boozoo Chavis, Marcia Ball, Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys (a must see!), Keb Mo, George Porter, + many more Night shows, Dr Jawn, John Fogerty
Sun, Apr, 26, Funky Meters, Dave Matthews Band, Erykah Badu, Pete Fountain,Cowboy Mouth,Lutha Kent (another fav)
+ many more,Fri,May1, All local N.O. Jazz, R&B (very good stuff!)
Night shows, Ziggy Marley, Buddy Guy, CoolboneSat,May2, Jimmy Boofay,Terence Blanchard, Walter"Wolfman" Washington, Zydeco Twisters,Coolbone, Nightshows, Doobie Bros. with M.McDonald,Tom Johnston,Patrick Simmons,John McFee, Michael Hossack, Keith Knudson, Midnight Jam, Ellis Marsalis, Marlon Jordan, Jessie Davis,Earl Turbinton , Dwight Fitch + many more
Sun,May3, Neville Bros, Doobies,Spyro Gyra,Ani DiFranco,
"The Rads" (must see) Ellis Marsalis + many more!Food, Crawfish Monica,(awesome), quail, Aundoullie Gumbo,
Cu'shon De'lait Poboy(superb!)Also, Dr John is on the collector poster this year.
Good Fess'in, brother.
www.nojazzfest.com
Name: Return to Brenda
anywherebutmings
Date: Friday, April 3, 1998 at 01:00:53
Comments:
maj: In the future there will be only one surviving fact of any relevance concerning the personality types of our Presidents: Bill Clinton is the only one born in the year of the Dog.
Confucious say, "The Dog comes to power in the 11th hour."
By the way, the majority of U.S. Presidents have been born in Donald's year, "the Year of the Rat". Shows you why everything is dying behind the wheel. (Or is that the Silver Bowl?)
Buck's Babe
Name: clas
bring the prescription-pad
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 23:32:05
Comments:
Nerium Ole; I can be your bodyguard... but tell me, is Kranky bringing his gun?
Name: moray eel
loose teeth
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 23:22:54
Comments:
Shindig writes. "Can anyone out there get into Rosie Vela?"
Well, I tried once, but she slapped me.
He continues, "I have her LP Zazu but it surely is one of the least played recordings in my collection."
Perhaps Mr. Fogel would be willing to send you some meatloaf recipes in exchange for it. Did he ever answer your "Stump The Fogel" question? Stump or Stomp?
m.e.
Name: moray eel
loose teeth
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 23:16:53
Comments:
Shindig writes, >
Well, I tried once, but she slapped me.
He continues, >
Perhaps Mr. Fogel would be willing send you some meatloaf recipes
in exchange for it. Did he ever answer your "Stump The Fogel" question? Stump or Stomp?m.e.
Name: oleander
book of sighers
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 22:16:46
Comments:
maj--I share the fire in your belly to know why and how they do what they do. My bent is to go at it through the words. Good thing, with my lack of musicianship and publicly dull ear. To paraphrase the Mock, any thread like this one is an interesting one to me. So are you going to make it to the Danfest to hold forth on MBTI? Now about "Caves"--how do you know that's Mr. Fagen? It just says to me that we have at least one "I." And why not two? 11TOW sounds darn "I" to me.
stevie--Clift.
Clas--Only if you don't come.
Name: Nate Olmos
royalscam@hotmail.com
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 20:35:33
Comments:
I have been an unabashed "Steely Fan" since I was about five years old. I used to play "Aja" on my stereo. In particular, I dug the tracks "Black Cow", "Deacon Blues", and "Peg". I own all the Steely Dan studio albums along with "Citizen" (my dad bought that for himself). What continues to prick my ears about the Dan is their clever lyrical twists and turns along with their slick, sophisticated (but by no means soulless) musicianship. Fagen's voice is simultaneously sarcastic, bitter and (surprisingly) compassionate, given the topics he and Becker discuss in the lyrics to their songs.
Name: Mock Turtle
everyone's a critic
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 19:46:17
Comments:
I myself wholeheartedly support any new Steely sites.
Name: Brian
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 16:07:09
Comments:
It's hard NOT to compare Stevie's web site with Sweet's book, as it appears to be nothing more than paraphrasing and some scans from 5 year old magazine covers. "A" for effort, but nothing new.
A couple hints, learn HTML, graphics, and spelling.
Name: steviedan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 12:49:51
Comments:
Thanks for all the feedback on 'The Steely Dan File'....even you Lou .....but please no comparisons to Sweet's book...both works stand on there own....and one important thing to remember while he (presumably) was paid to compile his account I on the other hand recieve nothing (other than Guest Book adoration)...
shindig: I think that Woody Herman lp WAS issued on CD in the UK but it would probably run you $30 bucks if you can find it...re: old video: a couple of years ago some guy in Goldmine was selling a video with 1970's concert footage, so you might try there...or maybe Roger Nichols....
Oleander: that Victor Mature comparison stems from Donald's Can't Buy A Thrill pose...Rolling Stone also called him "rock n roll's Montgomery Cliff"....so I guess he was destined for Hollywood!
ciao babe- steve v o'dan (plus Charli and Rina)
Name: Earthbound
Come in Johnny Boy, over...
Location: Laughalot, IN
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 11:31:41
Comments:
Here's one left stranded!
Zeke: Fess up, you Big Easy java omniscient. Another
dead calendar -- I swear I'm heading South for some Fess
action this time around. My bud demands I sample some
etoufee with an Abita or four. Recently bought a box of
Blackened Voodoo, mmm good!, so, would you suggest the Abita
or the Voodoo with the gnash?
Saw "Trauma In The ER" on TLC the other night. Wow, N'awlins
keeps 'em bizzy!Rudy: are you being commisioned for some of the cover art?
Hope so.Find your fortune, on this lucky star...
Name: Shindig
shindig@writeme.com
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 10:35:28
Comments:
Does anyone know where you can find a source for video of the Dan in the seventies?
Shindig
Name: Shindig
shindig@writeme.com
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 10:33:11
Comments:
Stevie:
Nice work. Offers a good overview with information that is not commonly known. The pictures are a nice touch. I would suggest that you submit it to the Dan's link page for other fans to see.
I picked up a copy of the Woody Herman band LP brand new from a used record store here in Toronto. The guy who owned the store said that he got it as a cut-out from the US, so you might want to look for it.This one was a defect- the A and B sides were reversed. But for mint vinyl of something that probably isn't going to come out on CD I would recomend taking a look, assuming of course that you didn't buy it the first time around.
Thomas Jefferson Kaye is featured on a British compilation of his first two albums. The Fagen/Becker tunes "Jones" and "American Lovers" are on the second album. The first album is staffed by so many Dan regulars that it would be a Dan record, except the songs are by TJK.
Can anyone out there get into Rosie Vela? I have her LP Zazu but it surely is one of the least played recordings in my collection.
Shindig.
Name: santa claus
And now it's winter AGAIN!
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 10:28:28
Comments:
Lou Chang; I didn't see Stevie Dan's goodlooking wife in Sweet's book. And on the other hand, let's be generous, I think Stevie Dan did a great job.
Name: DrMu
Oh, bother
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 09:31:47
Comments:
See, I'm far too lazy to spellcheck.
bother=brother..although the typo seems more appropriate.
Name: DrMu
youcanseeitinhereyes
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 09:28:50
Comments:
Took the test quite a while ago: an INTJ "extra lite" (a stickler for details when necessary, but as I've grown older - only when I wanna + I'm more of a concept guy now anyway) searching for more $$ and confidence.
DanAlert: About 10:10 pm eastern time (7:10 on the left coast) tonight be prepared for a very brief (about the time it takes to play "Through With Buzz") synopsis of the career of SD on the dreaded VH1 top 100 countdown, as outlined by the well Known musician Kevin "Hey, if my bother and I get real wasted, we can have a band too...so let's get shakin'" Bacon. Six degrees of separation indeed.
Name: Lou Chang
Her brother
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 09:05:03
Comments:
Hey Stevie: Nice try, but I already read Brian Sweet's book and the Steely Dan FAQ which you just took parts of each and put in your own words (mabe you can fool everyone else here but not me!) Please tell me something I don't know!I know what happens
I read Sweet's book
I believe YOU just got the goodbye look
Name: maj©
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 08:41:29
Comments:
Oleander: How to figure out that stuff? Simple explanation but hard to do -- for famous "dead" or "uncooperative" people, you assemble all the possible anecdotal evidence about the person's preferences for different behaviors, an informal survey if you will. Or you can ask people who know them well, like Ma Elinor Fagen, to fill this out based on what you observe about your son. Fat chance, right?
For willing folks, you ask them to take the survey, score it and interpret the results.
There's a book called "Presidential Type" that gives type profiles for all the US Presidents so that stuff is out there.
My point is this.... in the case of Walter and Donald, they have composed some of the finest music I know of. I'm curious about how that happened, the process of it. Little has been spoken on the matter by them. Few, if more than one, pictures of them in the studio seem to be available(except for the one in the Citizen booklet -- a favorite of mine b/c it shows them in the element of creation. I love that one. Patch cords all over the place).
Furthermore, If Walter and Donald (and other's who had an impact) were not who they are, what we love as Steely Dan would NOT have happened in this manner. Reason alone to continue the mind probe. Tell me that the introvert traits of Donald don't come through in Caves of Altimara? The first line says it all.
"I recall when I was small, when I spent my days alone, the busy world was not for me, so I went and found my own."
Laters.
maj©
Name: you is what you are
you are what you is
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 07:58:58
Comments:
Paula who?
Name: Free Willie Clinton
up.on.the.hillary.they.think.i'm.o.k.
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 04:57:15
Comments:
Paula, honey, I tried to tell you, "Never inhale!"
Name: Paula Jones
handtocrotch
Date: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 01:03:40
Comments:
Supreme Court, baby! But first, a spread in Hustler and a WWF appearance with Tanya Harding. Goddammit, I gave the President a blow-job and nobody believes me! It was so stupid of me to swallow...
Spittin' in a Petrie Dish from now on,
Paula "Pay for View" Jones
Name: c
x
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 21:24:25
Comments:
Steve Dan; nice, very cool. gonna read everything today. Sleep tight!
Nerium Ole; Williamsburg - isn't that a very dangerous place?
Name: oleander
that cold and lonely day
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 20:21:56
Comments:
MockT, maj--INFP; didn't we do this a while ago? I find that stuff interesting in a skeptical way too. maj, I'll toss my leopard-skin-pillbox-hat into the pot with you that Messrs. B&F were exacto'd in. Actually, I thought it was you who posted that stuff. Has anyone ever retaken the test and come out with a different type? And how do you figure out the type of a fictional or historic character?
M.E.--mo-TAY!
Djed--Glad you mentioned the Monk tribute. When cleaning out the music cabinet I found the lp, which I used to dig & haven't heard in years, and longed to listen to it--now I REALLY can't wait for those slo-mo techies to finish buffing my turntable!!
stevie--a labor of love! Way to go. Thanks for putting it in print I don't have to have my reading glasses on to see. But hey--"Victor Mature look-alike"? I don't think so....
RS--so when you're in Carolina in your mind are you going to stop by? Or was that just a March artifact?
And now a word from our sponsor:
Bobbing for apples can wait: DANFEST EAST II IS ON!!
Weekend of April 17-19 Williamsburg, Virginia
The Main Event: Dinner at Christiana Campbell's Tavern, Waller Street, 6:30 pm. And then...whatever! Games--camaraderie--silliness--provisions & lots of beer....Best Steely theme or character costume wins a prize! As does best guesser of same! Bring your Danabilia: videos, rarities, Steely-related music to feed the collective mania. E oleander1@earthlink.net or showbizkid@yahoo.com for more info or for airport transpo. And check out http://www.insiders.com/williamsburg/index.htm for accommodations. You've got PLENTY OF TIME to get those 1-week-in-advance tickets!
Name: Patty Grass
Paticia_grass@umit.maine.edu
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 18:21:49
Comments:
Name: mWorld
On The Road To Mandalay
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 15:22:44
Comments:
Stevie O'Dan and the Wee O'Dan:
Congrat's, a fine site to see. FYI, that URL on your bio page sent me to 404-file-not-found-land...
mW
Name: Roy.Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 13:47:59
Comments:
Steve E. Dan:
Nice work. "Very fancy."RS
Name: steve v dan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 10:50:47
Comments:
hey kids: after much typing and fucking around with adobe photoshop I've posted a rather cool and informative web site called 'The Steely Dan File' and hopefully if my web server is functioning it can be viewed at http://www.jps.net/stevev/sdfcontents.html or alternatively at
http://www.jps.net/stevev/sdfcover.htmlall typos are curtesy of my 3 month old baby boy who insisted on sitting on my lap (some babies grow in a peculiar way)while I typed up the pages...
le me know what u think.....
also finally heard that rap (Black Cow) record....it's alright...but somewhat irritating......yadah yadah yadah
Name: c edit
config.sys
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1998 at 10:06:48
Comments:
"Nurddle durddle eeeh, Clas." Ahhhhhh... now I got it!
-Say ahh.
-Ahh what a wonderful night this is.
Where is R.O.C.K. In AMERICA? No fun anymore when we know your ID?
Hell, I am listening to a damn good recording, Frank Sinatra at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. Count Basies Orch. Damm that man could sing. Holy Moses that man could SING! he was faunny too. -At a party at dean Martin they don't serv any drinks after dinner. But dinner is served usually 3.30 in the morning. The guests will be rolled in wheelchairs to the food.
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