Name: thirdworldman
slaughtered
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 18:18:56
Comments:
Happy New yweair!!
(You can tell I'm Pished!!)
First chance to say hello after
the bells at 2.20 am.
Hope the statesiders have a great one and dont drink as nuch as me and Sharon.
I'm feeling exquisetly limpid at the moment.
Catch you all soon
Al
Name: whoever
posted that
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 15:21:15
Comments:
bitch = beach. Freudian slip anyone?
Name: Remember? A sweet thing from Holland
bass duel featuring Jimmy Haslip
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 15:16:13
Comments:
You know way back when
Back in the 20th Century
You remember the 20th Century?
(Horns mocking Don by intruding)
We used to have some fun (5)
Oh... You'd take your girl down to the bitch
Bring some blankets
Maybe some... sinsemilia
Maybe a bottle of that tequila
You know the kind that was rumored to have a worm at the bottom
Not the clear kind,
You know the one with kind of a yellowish label
With some sort of gothic lettering...
(The Cuervo Gold)...
Name: Q
Down in Tampa........
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 15:07:40
Comments:
Hey, St. Al - I didn't get "that other thing"
along with my shits!
And I even gave you a cheap "Holiday gift idea" plug for the shirts.
sheesh !!
Q...........
Name: oleander
who are these children who ski and run wild?
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 12:52:39
Comments:
Spending a lot of time squiring the offspring around. They have discovered snowboarding, which gives me a great excuse to sit in a loud, smoky ski lodge and read and drink mediocre coffee for hours.
At the moment I'm at a remote location, as my modem is on the fritz, of course right before a long weekend. Therefore, excessive bandwidth will ensue. Will catch up on email next week....
"Is there gas in the car?" "Where did you get those shoes?" "So you live around here?" "Where did the bastard run? Is he still around?"
||||--Great list, but how could you leave out "inner boner"? That will be, I fear, one of my favorite non-sequitur-chuckles-in-the-middle-of-a-meeting for the indefinite future.
Blaise--see above. Now you tell me you don't like me by inclusion in the blanket dance-music dis. I am hurt. BTW: be careful what you quote from the Net: that Rosa Luxembourg (ahem, I used to be a fan of hers & in the '70's read a fair amount of her stuff) was posted on stormfront.com, a white supremacist filth spew. The clue: Anything called "Jew Watch" is a dead giveaway for the presence of neonazis.
SoulMonkey--I have kin there. Maybe we could have a cap at Hawley-Cooke next visit?
Hegel--lol.
allan, Bry2--welcome.
Q--almost exactly my list, except i'd replace "My Rival" w/ TWM.
Rindy--You bad, bad person--getting my hopes inflamed again for a Y2K+1 tour! Great DanRelatedEncounter of the first kind. PS--another JJ fan here.
Jim#--dug your post. I can see St. Al in a virtual kiosk with the hat, the t-shirt, the watch, the gag glasses, the shoes.... "Getya Dan ratcheer!"
St. Al--You ANGEL you!!! The shirt is GREAT, and that other thing, well, my thanks are INEXPRESSIBLE!
Hoops!--You ANOTHER ANGEL you!!! Loved it. Squared.
Gina--Yellow may not be my color, but now I'm wearing it proudly, with my fave dancing shoes--Converse All-Stars. BTW--what tune was Betty Carter sampled in? I've written before that she's one of my all-time greatest heroes--I'd love to know. (It was like listening to De La Soul's new cd and suddenly hearing Rahsaan's "The Inflated Tear" sampled--wow)
tones--great post. We may have been simulwatching "Making of Aja." What a pleasure. I saw Los Lobos here in a very small club a couple of years back--stage-hugged and was blown away.
YGK--great to talk w/ you, man. I am WAY in for DanFest NYC R&RHOF. Whichever weekend--it sounds like the 22nd & ff. is the ticket. Let me know.
Aus--maybe you can do a simulsneak during the Induction on the Net, if we're not partying that night in NYC.
wormtom--talk to me about JazzDanFest 4/27 weekend. I'm already slated to come there, Permasqueeze in tow.
RS--I've seen a lot of bronchitis, and yours cuter than any of 'em.
z--heavens no, and did you forget that pinch of lecithin? It'll keep the Deludin down. TecMo--see JWMalibu's post below. The Technicolor Motorhome Series, of which the upcoming is the second, is a compilation cd of DanFan original offerings most generously produced and distributed by the bodacious JDub. You MUST send a little something. PS, I always felt that way about "Do It Again"--it sends me into a trancelike state--so what you said about it & KOB is perfect.
Happy New Everything to everyone. Be safe, but kick it out, get muellered, rave on, and sheathe your chainsaws.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 12:24:30
Comments:
Have a SAFE and Happy New Year folks!
Name: Aja
popping in on a Sunday a.m.
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 11:43:19
Comments:
Housesitting for a friend with both a computer at home and a DVD-and her husband is a Steely Dan fan! Watched the 2vN DVD and heard Walter Becker comment that "The Steely Damned are pretty good"-now how would he know that? Bob! Remember the man I saw exiting the after party with a Steely Dan access pass????
Back to the roots, indeed, Gina. I bought Kenny Burrell's "Midnight Blue" yesterday, who was introduced to me by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and I am loving every cool minute of it. It sets the mood for a relaxing Sunday like nothing else.
I may be out for Nawlin's
"Fest-it seems that I didn't pay enough taxes! Guess where my money is
going this April :-(
Have a wonderful and safe New Year everyone, and see you on 01/01/01!
Aja
Name: RuPaul
Don't go breaking my heart...
Location: on this, new... centillium?
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 09:24:23
Comments:
So what you're implying is that males are now obsolete, I see...
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/12/31/stifgnfar01003.html
Name: Blaise
It will be a new year anyway, right?
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 08:34:27
Comments:
On second thought, make that a new MILLENIUM...
Name:
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 06:59:19
Comments:
See Hegel was right:
Thesis - A peace sign offering.
(60's-70's)
Antithesis - The finger offering. (80's-90's)
Today, Synthesis - "Peace, you fucking freaks!"
LOL
Name: "dano"
ready fir the bigyin
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 06:54:18
Comments:
Just a big hello to all the friends i"ve met on the GB this year hope you all have a great Hogmany and a guid New Year.TWM and my family will all be muellered tonight , its a great time for us Scots and our Hogmany is absolutely wonderful . I personally love this evening when everyone has a great craic and when the Bells go for the New Year we all have a dance and a singsong well into the early hours.I love everyone to be happy and smiling and hope you all have a great New Year to all the dansters on the GB. Speak to you all next Year regards "dano"
TWM, Hope the Family have a good Hogmany and all the best for the New Year,keep the Scots flag flying high "daaaaaaaano"
Name: SoulMonkey
SoulMonkey168@aol.com
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 06:48:48
Comments:
Happy New Year you fuckin' freaks
PeaceLoveandallthingsDAN
SoulMonkey
Name: blaise
typing, holding a giant 15 month-old
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 06:34:13
Comments:
I meant new CENTURY, of course. But. you're still
welcomed to the new millenium, in my book...
so twm, it's 2pm pacific... can anyone beat that?
Happy New Year to Mr. Chows from Down Under, Shino and the japanese Wonderwaif.
Name: thirdworldman
www.geocities.com/sisteralphonso/home.html
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 06:11:41
Comments:
Just popped in to wish y'all a happy new year. Hope it brings everyone what they wish for.
This is a quickie as Ross, age 1 and a half, is on my knee, and she who must be obeyed has some chores lined up in advance of the bells tonight. Ours will be at 2pm pacific, so I will try and call in after our midnight.
Have a good one, and remember Auld Lang Syne
Al
Name: Blaise
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 05:23:08
Comments:
Smoking dope and chewing mushrooms in a CD store?
Holland, you said?
Stevie - do you have a special techno- drum and bass section like that in YOUR
store?
I didn't think so.
Name: Blaise
designing Larry Flynt's official wheelchair of the new millenium
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 04:26:22
Comments:
Gina, you're barely three years older than me and I feel
twenty. BTW, my 6 year-old is already using the f word like a true cyber age
grumpy smurf... sigh
Welcome to the New Millenium and this time, it's for real. Yours hits at 3pm
pacific. Tell us how it feels, please.
Looked out my window and couldn't see anything so I figured a blizzard hit last
night.
Then I looked in this other window and found out I was right:
http://www.montrealcam.com/en-placecartier.html
Free Internet!
And Internet 2!
Reminder for the new millenium: originally designed for national defense purposes, this information-communication technology here is still, until further notice to the contrary, PUBLIC property so Mr. Gates and such, hands off this poppy seed cake. Hush, we're communing here. Besides, it might damage your complexion.
2000 - What a year it's been. The
kind of year it takes a decade to get over... No matter what anyone out there
says, it was definitely the year of the Dan. Never a dull moment. Think about
it...
A brand spanking new studio album, a kickass televised special on PUBLIC
broadcasting, a televised special on that kiddie porn channel we call VH1, a
succesful Japuseuro tour, a compilation to end all compilations not to mention
numerous signs of recognition collected along the way like ASCAP, that cute
little school award and a secured corner in the HOF museum... 2000 was worth the
wait.
Now such a PUBLIC presence from the boys spawned Blaise and others here, DVDs, songbooks and yes, boots. A boot from the West Coast, one from the East Coast One from Japan, two from Europe (so far). Beat the boots and don't blink.
Welcome to the new millenium.
Happy new year, cyberfriends in dandom.
Name: Gina
Welcome yes
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 01:38:48
Comments:
as in seconds to what Hutch proclaimed DO BE A STRANGER MORE OFTEN!!!!
Spent quite some time yesterday in
a contemporary CD-store. Lots of vinyl for semi-pro and professional DJ's and
ofcourse numerous to me unknown labels in the techno-electro-drum &
bass-ambient etc. etc department. Felt OLD when I looked at the youngsters
browsing and listening to their music, smoking some dope or chewing mushrooms
(!) to broaden that trance experience ...
But after a while, especially when I found music I could relate to, I didn't
feel that old anymore. In fact, WE know a great deal more of what this world has
to offer in the past, on all kinds of levels. So in a way it's spooky to look at
those youngsters and know they're only into the stuff what surrounds them
nowadays. They're often mucho surprised when introduced to "older"
music and go WOW over hearing something ... but then get sucked into the spiral
of their own thing and seemingly mindless continue living whatever void or
nonvoid they believe in. I am talking 'bout the consumers here ...
It's a very rough sketch, I realize, but that's how it felt yesterday, empathic
moi ... sucked into the level of awareness around me and eager to get out
again!!!!
Found some nice compilations that
mix jazz, funk, breakbeat fusion and even a sample of Betty Carter's "Open
the Door".
At this very moment I'm enjoying the rhythms of Professor Tsungs'Art of Moving
Shadow, the Science Funktion, compiled by the Guardians of Dalliance. Must say
the names are often superb & creative!
Like the genius & spirit of Zappa breaths in an anonymous way ...
So the last day of 2000 I am taking part in this contemporary thing, haha ... it's the oblivious anonymous that worries me sometimes, too many good things will be forgotten, like the source, the roots, where it all comes from ... those who feed the consuming crowds do know where they get it from, but simply feel they can use it just like that, focussed on the "new" sound they created, totally hyped on the repetitive beat or the jazzed up horn section they manipulated in their computers ...
But I still prefer this, haha, do
we have a four letter word here that should be forbidden??? S*A*R*C ???
I hated their videoclip(s), btw.
Here in EuroZone we celebrate the new year some time before the american continent does .. don't know about the rest of the world, Asia, Down Under ..hm, a Down Under DanFest, sounds fun as well!!!!! Down Under's another mental world, no wonder Steely Dan is loved over there!!
Too many exclamation marks, spent
too much time among these youngsters who wear them over their faces a lot, oops,
should not speak like that, still, call me old-fashioned or old, haha ... I'm in
for a multi-dimensional approach of life, but you're just floating without the
roots ... I need roots, to feed a sense of direction, where I'm from and where
I'm going.
Once that's been established, well, curl up the roots and hop on a flying carpet
... I don't mind then.
Is that a generation thing? Wanting to have knowledge?
Or is it just something all Danadepts have in common?
They newer generations seem to
live in moving pictures, images in their heads, less words, less activity and
like an underwater world of existence ...don't know anything about it, but could
it be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, haha ...
Goodmorning Starshine indeed!
Banyan Tree Exit 2000 Bow,
Gina
Name: "empty void"
...
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 01:12:00
Comments:
...is "repetitively redundant"...
Name: Champagne Jammies
2001 = 3
Date: Sunday, December 31, 19100 at 00:43:16
Comments:
Ten things the guestbook resolves to quit saying in 2001.
10. Donald Fagen is in my head.
09. But Walter’s mom lets HIM play in the garage...
08. Ouww! Mu threw Dubya’s cabinet at me!
07. Clas is a genius.
06. Clas is an idiot.
05. Hey everybody! We just had another baby and he’s cute as hell so buy a
T-shirt.
04. The frequency of my posts is in no way indicative of my sexual preference.
03. I made Larry Flynt’s wheel chair.
02. Stanley Kubrick gave me a squeeze toy.
01. Cornelius Bumpass would have made cut-outs at the Strand but he prefers to
shop at Barnes & Noble.
Name: Experiment confirmed
it is
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 23:04:49
Comments:
possible to post an empty void of space
Name:
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 23:03:26
Comments:
Name: Hutch
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 16:44:13
Comments:
Bry-Bry, Nigel & Allan - Great to have you here! Stick around!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Name: Bry-Bry
bluby@mindspring.com
Location: Chicago, IL United States
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 15:20:41
Comments:
Made two great purchases after the holiday: The 2vNature DVD and The DTS Surround Sound version of Gaucho.
There is nothing like having the sounds of Steely come at you from 5 different speakers at once!!
Name: Yep, I knew it! Someone DID say
"cars"!
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 15:01:21
Comments:
GREEN? Yuk!
hiding in your place
for a long time
with broken wings
and a real hard line
i get hopped up
red red car
i got a real red car
i'm goin' real far
with my red car
take it out on the streets
take it to the stars
cuz i feel so fine
with my red car
i'm a real live wire
got a real desire
to go real far
with my red red car
Name: Floridavid
@home
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 13:57:55
Comments:
Wow, A lot to scroll thru here after being Holidazed.
Rindy-How cool your encounter and how encouraging for a 01 tour.
Everyone-Have a Happy and Safe New Years...Later, David
Name: steviedan
and i'll second that cheers allan
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 13:17:17
Comments:
blaise, believe it or NOT. i am forty-two years old and i like green day BETTER than that band with the name meaning "automobiles"... wai...wai... hu...huh...
i didn't say it...
FREEZE TAG !
JINX !!
Name: Nigel
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 10:32:00
Comments:
allen- Great job mate!
Cheers!
Nigel
Name: allan salmon
allansalmon@aol.com
Location: wormlwy, surrey england
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 10:22:03
Comments:
i recently saw the latest tour at wembley, and it left me
feeling like an unqualified nurse just pulled the needle out of my arse while
singing, "im a lumberjack and i dont care" quite numb !!!!!!!!!!
the band was swingin and i was singin. i love the new addtions to the band
asweell, john harrington was an excellent choice, hes got the brains of a jazzer
with the bollocks of a rocker , and ricky lawson .......... mmmmmmmmmm.... nice
!!!
how about a try with robben ford
at the plank, he is the boy !!
i think im burning the steely dan youth flame at the moment in my area. youll be
happy to know ive persueded and converted all my muso friends to put down their
beloved iron madien and other such 80's monstosities, and tune in to the dan.
and im happy to say theyve never looked back. allan salmon, cheers w & d.
Name: Gina
S*N*O*W
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 07:06:41
Comments:
even in NYC, was in the library and decided I'm gonna subscribe next week, way too much music and never enough coinage, haha, so I'm gonna take all the gems home for a while and enjoy, for a while ... NYC, Steps Ahead, reminded me of true magical mystical times in my twenties ... it's like a cycle ... the music of the Dan a great part of that cycle ...
Wish I could be there in NYC. Hope "Nawlins" will still be on, not sure with a new job in the picture ... keeping fingers crossed!
HI STEVIEDAN ... you've been a
busy bee around an almost ambushing tree, darn says I, haha, GOOD 4 U, having
another kind of New Year's Eve, gigless & giggles instead, perhaps?
Still, when you're back around here I can feel we missed your vibrant StevieD
ways LOL
thanks!
Now Blaise, dancing & stepping
toes in the Serendipity Room was for real, amigo! Considering the dust and all
and my allergies, haha, you sure did a fine job building that place.
It should be used more often.
Maybe a RoomWarming Party?
In 2001?
Am listening to NOA and her CD produced by Pat Metheny & Steve Rodby. This singer from Israel is quite special!!!!
Oops. Have a
visitor at the door.
Gone for now,
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina
Name: Aussie
@home
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 06:26:17
Comments:
WOW: We're getting pummeled with snow. A winter wonderland with close to one half a foot on the ground thus far. Kids going bananas in central Park already, and as I ventured outside early this A.M. I witnessed several people up on their cross country skis and a few with snow shoes. Driving on the roads is tantamount to asking for a world of problems. Soo nice. And so nice to walk around the city in virtual silence with the absense of lorries and autos making their ruckus. The pedestrians and the puppy dogs rule the streets today!
and speaking of snow...Chere: Please let me know when the cigars plus arrives.
YGK Malcolm: Bro...you know damn well I'm involved in every phase of NYC DanFest this coming March. So you and Petey can count on my support as a booster, etc. Babes and I do plan to be at the R&R HOF festivities so maybe, as Ole suggested I can provide some instant colour from the inside.. Events at Pete's LBB, sure sign us up as well. And so exciting that Tycoon Dog gets involved. So many things to be pumped about in the new year and it hasn't arrived yet.
Babes celebrates her birthday tomorrow..always challenging for me to come up with something novel on that day....intimate gathering at dear friends Spring Street loft with plenty of champagne, caviar, jazz, and sit down dinner. Exciting.
Enjoying the vibrations of imminient DanFest gatherings and talk of the Dan coming in '01.
Getting out our skis in Union Square...
Aus
Name: Just a quickie
before the Nyquil kicks in...
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 06:15:05
Comments:
"Timeless"... aaahhhh...
Xmas song? Dunno, but I wonder if Don still has that nifty reindeer sweater from the peace-sign photo.
Green Day: not punk (and smart
enough to know it), but not bad at what they do; the "michigan
cockney" (LOL) turns it into a cartoon for me though...
Maybe he should try inflecting a lil' "Johnny Bravo" for variety.
Glad you're back StevieD, and the "evil tree" has been conquered...
Now if we can get the DS(tm) back in da howse, and the vacationing and sabbatical taking, '01 won't stand a chance...
Eyes are getting heavy... hard to... think...
must... submit...
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....................
Name: Q
Down in Tampa........
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 05:53:46
Comments:
top five wish list for "Y2K+1" tour (God, we love to torture ourselves....)
1. Haitian Divorce
2. 2VN
3. Only A Fool Would Say......2VN
4. My Rival
5. Gold Teeth I
Safe & Happy New Year to all,
Q
Name: Blaise
heads says green day, tails says the cars
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 03:43:43
Comments:
Longview, Brain Stew/Jaded, Geek Stink Breath and that
chorus from Redundant... I know it's only fake fake punk but I like it
sometimes. Little Joe is a talented songwriter because of/despite the bullshit
accent and his unique use of the tired cliches to achieve something catchy
because o/despite f the simple barre chords progressions and the teen
angst-ridden lyrics. The challenge is being able to still squeeze something
relevant out of it. I don't own any of their records, mind you but they do make
funny videos.
Now guys, you're not gonna disagree with stevie dan, are you? His record
collection rivals your whole neighborhood's in sheer size and diversity. Always
keep that in mind fellas. It keeps one humble.
Name:
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 02:23:27
Comments:
oh no, did you say "cars"?
Name: steviedan's
holiday highlights
Date: Saturday, December 30, 19100 at 02:02:45
Comments:
1) tom waits austin city limits rerun and making the kids watch it. at first they thought he was just crazy, but slowly, they got it. they've already thanked me.
2) kids/wife sick.
3) cars broke.
4) tree about to fall on house and YES i must remember the tune. "i'm a lumberjack and i'm okay... " armed with borrowed chainsaw and rope. considered dangerous.
5) overall, an excellent christmas. the karaoke player was worth every cent. got kids ? want to get them all in the same room ?
blaise, certainly nothing you said has kept me away. thanx to you and gina for the alarmed inflection and for keeping things alive along with everyone else. drive-bys by steely pete and the innocent one. good times. i haven't even sat at this computer for days, so it's been a good read.
rindy ! well HELL-o ! bump into bumpass ? '01 ? really ? joe jackson fans here ? take a right onto archive boulevard.
have unintentionally replicated one of z's posts by way of tonight's listening. an ecm treasure, "timeless" by john abercrombie with jan hammer & jack dejohnette and a bill evans, "loose blues" with zoot sims, jim hall, ron carter, and philly joe jones.
the connells ? they're from here. i bump into a couple of 'em periodically. psssst... over here... confidentially... i've always thought they were HORRID. anti-dan. and speaking of anti-dan...
ah, a few punk/ska bands that i can tolerate for a few minutes or so PERIODICALLY. my store sells a fair amount of the stuff so i know more than i wish at times about these angry middle class rebels-without-a-pause... oh yes... bad brains at the top of the list, kind of a big drop after that but... the specials, less than jake, rancid, bosstones, madness, dropkick murpheys, skeletones, reel big fish, or even a little emo like julianna theory... but just a little. kind of whiny but ocassionally musically competent for what they are attempting. i can even deal with a little green day in small doses. i just love the "flint, michigan cockney accent".
ygk, enjoyed the drumming report. i hear living colour are getting back together. that would be vivid.
aja, listen to mc. derek trucks is a young slide-master. he has taken the duane lineage and carried it to the next level.
roy, a christmas tune ? great idea ! they already have sleighbells of course.
wormy, i hope christmas in new orleans was good for you.
st. al, one of my closest friends growing up was an african american american indian bass playing virtuoso who loved virtually all the bands you listed (well, phish wasn't around), particularly yes (the band). chris squire was a huge influence.
dance music ?
ALL music is dance music. life is a dance.
the easiest dance party all year ? new years eve of course. this year, for the first time in OVER twenty years i will not be doing a gig. decided to take a year off and it feels great for a change and besides, this year all that y2k crap is REALLY gonna happen because computers being smarter that humans easily recognize the REAL millenium. nostradamus-style y'all.
Name:
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 15:39:09
Comments:
listening to Glamour Profession from Tweeter, a few thoughts:
- Boy, Don was in fine vocal form
that day. Loud and clear.
- Beast, for the life of me, I can't pick up the key change, I must be more than
tone deaf, more like tone dead, maybe.
- I would dance to THAT song anytime.
- Second time this month I admit to a petty internet crime. I must have a death
wish or something.
- Where the hell is Stevie Dan and did I lead him away with one of my snide
remarks? I always feel guilty everytime someone disappears from here. Same with
wormy. I must have a disorder.
- I'm starting to think those truncated files from the Birmingham NEC show are
the real deal. Like a great sounding overview of what's to come. First time I
hear The Steely Dan Show or at least a part of it. I must be wishful thinking.
- NYC or Nawlins or both or none, that is the question.
- About that Luxembourg rambling. What the hell was I thinking? I must have been
real tired.
- Ethical dilemna: I know I should erase all those songs from my hard drive
but... can I wait a few days?
- Tones is african-american, there is no way we were separated at birth... or is
there?
- Did I dream the serendipity room thingie?
- At Coors, during Monkey in your soul, this annoying woman's voice comes in
over everthing and screams "I was alive during the seventies and I don't
remember thst one. You like it?" Then Walter sings, appropriately,
"don't you think it was wrong..."
Funny.
................
Name: Rindy2k
rindy2k@hotmail.com
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 15:22:13
Comments:
My humble abode is in NJ, but I trek into NYC for work - investor relations consulting, strategic planning, etc.
Count me in for NYC Danfest! Unfortunately, I missed the Fest at Camden last summer - they were repaving the parking lot where it was supposed to be, as I recall.
Joe Jackson is well worth catching on his European swing - also worth checking out his Night & Day II album - an ode to NYC. He's coming back to US in March if you missed him on this side of the pond.
I would like to hear some Fagen solo material tunes on the next tour. Also hankering for Home at Last, I Got the News, Caves of Altamira.
Happy real millennium to all danfans!
Name: St. Wonder
STLY SDN it is (scenic mountain to seashore)
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 13:37:52
Comments:
Since talk of another tour has me frothing like a rabid monkey woman, here are my top wishes for a Y2K+1 extravaganza:
1. Your Gold Teeth
2. Time Out of Mind
3. King of the World
4. Only a Fool Would Say That
5. Haitian Divorce
Name: Turn the centuries,
turn...
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 11:53:50
Comments:
Now that the fever has broke I'm back at work trying to remember how to do my job...
Blaise - thanks for the leftist
info... very sad, but it jogged a vague recollection.
I'm feeling like a slightly more informed wog...
Clas buddy - how long does it take for *your* news outlet to get to local topics?
The rest of youse drivin' like fools towards Hackensack with a meal in a bag... take your time. The man's not only wide, but working holiday weekends puts him in a foul mood. The joker will be waiting when you get there...
You can feel the last hours of this ol' millennium swirling down the drain of eternity...
MONSTER peace
toner
Name: Jim#
jrfoxcon@aol.com
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 11:32:58
Comments:
Indulge me...
Great moments of 2000:
1. February 24th: Okay, the date's an educated guess - first self confirmed radio play of anything TvN - What a Shame
2. June 21st: Already having 4 semi-okay seats in hand for the July 23rd concert, our hero scores 2 more in 7th row center. Resplendant choir fogs sunglasses at the Va. Beach Ampitheatre. What a night indeed. Improved wardrobe by one polo Dan shirt.
3. September ?: How the hell? Where has this sign in thing with yellow background been lurking all this time.
4. December 22nd: Improved wardrobe by two GB t-shirts.
5. May 10th: Backtrack - 20th anniversary
Anticipation of 2001:
1. The rumblings and musings of another tour are becoming too prominent to dismiss as wishful thinking.
2. January: YGK comes close to home with the band, WVa and country roads and all that.
3. April 27th: Warm up the porch swing Wormy, we're comin' in to New Orleans.
4. Anytime: How about one more concert DVD, fellas? Quick, low time investment, profitable, what say?
5. St. Al quits day job, opens online SD emporium with coffee mugs and monogrammed windbreakers.
A good and safe weekend to all.
Name: damn busy....
..
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 10:29:39
Comments:
the correct name of the LI Band is.......
"Stealin' Dan".....
Name: ygk
..
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 10:26:21
Comments:
dano: if the Long Island Danfanband is Nearly Dan, then that would be it.....there's about 4 or 5 groups who do it.....whichever is the local one....but a good time will had indeed!
ygk
Name: "dano"
I forgot
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 10:24:09
Comments:
lp,was it the connell brothert who did Boylan Heights they had a great song on it titled Scottys Lament.
YGK , just caught your last post is that the Nearly Dan who toured in the UK this year mate?? Would love to be there in March mate but will be dictated by the amount of shrapnell it costs to get over there regards "dano"
Name: ygk
..
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 10:04:43
Comments:
OLEANDER!!!!!!: please give me a shout, e or whatever.....Pete needs to speak with yous.....
ygk
Name: YGK
mhunter@bear.com
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 10:00:07
Comments:
......WOW! Tawk about timing!.......
Listen all good people......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got off the phone with the Keeper of the Shrine......and he wanted me to put some feelers out regarding a huge, well attended Danfest March 22, 23 in New York City......
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Airing is Wednesday, March 21st......
Chuck Rainey has agreed, in principle, to perform at Le Bar Bat Thursday, March
22 - Elliot Randall is working in his band.......
Mr. Fogel is exploring the possibilities that "Tycoon Dog" could open
for Chuck Rainey, Thursday night....which we would DEFINITELY do......
and then, if that wasn't enough.....Pete would book "Nearly Dan" - the local Long Island Dan band - on Friday night at the West 57th Street club.....
So my post today folks is to determine how many of you would show up for such a series of events.....?
Pete's hesitation is the timing, nearly mid-week.....
However, if you come in on
Thursday, you'd have Friday in the city.....and the weekend to play.....
there are a few things to do in New York........
So I've posted my E-mail for your use.
Please, if you are seriously able and willing to attend this once in a lifetime event, and meet other Danfriendly good people, and have a hell of a time......
Please write me....and state your earnestness.....I will be forwarding the info on to the Keeper of the Shrine......
But it will be a wonderful Dan Friendly time in March......
Please, oh pretty please, respond in volume......
ygk
I'm working with Pete to coordinate everything.....
Name: YGK
..
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 09:37:23
Comments:
.....re: Danfest for R&R HOF induction.....
there MUST be some kind of Dan party......don't know what Pete Fogel is doing.....he may be doing to the gig.....or not.....but, at the very LEAST, there should be some kind of coordination......
AUSSIE!
Shall we grab this football and head towards the end zone?
Other NYers? Stand up and be counted for.....our resources are right here, and all good.......
let's start this tennis match.....
ygk
Name: "dano"
Twistin the night away
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 09:25:49
Comments:
Hey blaise , really stirred up the top 10 dance songs now
sweet thang, you have to put your top 10 dance tracks on the GB or i"m
coming over there to sweep you off you feet??
Sorry about last post still muellered on the sauce?
TVM, remember Ghost Town still a brilliant track mate, went to see the Sex Pistols in Uxbridge University ,did 30 minutes told everyone to fuck off and smashed up there instruments and walked off the stage well aff the heid!!
lp, top 10 tracks to follow, but talking of sex as you were,I thought I was a great lover until I discovered my wife had asthma!
YGK-Rindy I was a big JJ fan many moons ago and he is playing the UK again in January is he still playing well and getting good reviews again in the US, clue me in man-cubs??
t, seen it again over xmas still
crease up at the cowardly lion
put em up put em up I"ll fight ya with one paw behind my back ,I"ll
fight ya one both my eyes closed uh huh, dooser
Aja, Mark Knopfler has been reduced to appearing on TV over here but I still like him even though h"es getting a bit played out over here now? He"ll bounce back me thinks.
Well must leg it now as I am going to a mates 50th lash, hope they play "Baby Jane" and i"ll be thinking blaise get your plates of meat (feet) on this dance floor now suga.
Later doosers "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano"
Name: YGK
..
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 08:07:39
Comments:
||||||||: fabuloso list......
Rindy: Awesome encounter, dude.....where do you hang?
Aus: what's on the New Years tip? you outta town?
Am scheduled to be driving around here tomorrow.....but the weather forcast looks intimidating......be safe everyone....
ygk
Name: Rindy
Rindy2k
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 06:52:55
Comments:
Hi again.
I understand there may be a huge Danfest in the works to coincide w/R&R induction in March.
Anything definite yet, or is this still in the works.
BTW, did anyone catch recent Joe Jackson tour?
Did pretty funky version of Reelin' and put on a helluva show at Beacon last week in NYC.
Any other JJ fans on here?
Ciao again,
Rindy
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 05:43:53
Comments:
Last trading day of the year. Here we go...
Rindy: Cool encounter. I think we see the Dan anew in '01 for sure.
Rumblestrip: Nice compilation.
Chere: Hola brujita. Te envio los puros hoy mismo. Mantengate fuerte y siempre sigue pa lante. Seguimos con oraciones para tu buen estar. Suave muchachita.
Everyone: Have a safe and prosperous new year!
Aus
Name: I have never seen the movie
but I plan to find the time
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 04:03:41
Comments:
Btw, Cannes Festival Golden Palm Award winner movie STILL available:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6303029302/qid=978090603/sr=2-2/103-6676121-1215045
Now does SD really stand for Social-Democratic with a dildonian front? hmmm....
Name: Gina
Excusez-moi
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 04:02:05
Comments:
I meant Rindy, ofcourse ... was thinking of mink at the same time, and how braincells get mixed up, like stirred not shaken but then the other way around. Still in a Brain Tap Shuffle and in desperate need of a Tangerine fix ...
G
Rickie Lee Jones is in Amsterdam end of january.
Will be there.
Finally.
Name: Gina
just singing
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 03:58:30
Comments:
a Strangler song, haha ... No More Heroes Anymore ...
and look how it inspired Canada!
woke up this morning and found myself bugged. Hi there Rink, bumping into mr Bumpus, ok! Do be a Stranger more often, the stranger the strangler, but don't wear a Wr......
I'm not into commercial activities, so ...
Out of here.
Up for another fix of anti bug vitamins.
And hello Clas, you're the King of Sweden to me!
Banyan Tree Stop the Witch Hunt
Bow,
Gina
Name: Blaise
putting his money where his foot is
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 03:35:44
Comments:
Time to get all the info you can while AOL/Time Warner does not have a say in Internet content just YET.
http://jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-luxemberg.html#anchor12803
Now I realize I was off by a
decade but besides that...
Gotta have breakfast now.
later
Name: Blaise
guys, don't get me started
Location: Gina started this, blame her then
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 03:10:57
Comments:
Americans don't pay as much taxes, it's true. The
downside is that they enjoy no universal free healthcare and very little social
services. If you're filthy rich, you're happy with the situation but if you
happen to fall on hard times, America is not nearly as kind to you. Around the
world, it's true that the swedish model is acknowledge as the most generous in
that regard. Big Money is successfully putting a lot of pressure on nations
worldwide to opt for less government intervention and to blindly trust the
markets to rule social affairs. When things run smoothly for the markets like it
does now, it doesn't seem so stupid an idea but when they'll hit a downward
spiral (and historically they always did)... then the Rainbow Room should
logically morph into a soup kitchen for the homeless.
Now I feel like a serious Michael Moore impersonator minus the celebrity
"my conscience is clear 'cause I'm representing the left even though I'm
perfectly aware that this option does not have a chance in hell of ever
prevailing and, as a result, I will continue to enjoy the best of both worlds in
peace" attitude. The american leftists are merely posers, IMHO.
Some of our TV news up here in French Canada is still very much euro-flavored
and you would be shocked how many stories are not carried by the american
networks. Same goes for the press at large unless you stick to the NY Times or
Wash. Post, you know, the "serious press".
All of this to illustrate that censorship is alive and well in the US and will
likely continue to thrive in light of the recent mega-mergers in the cultural
industies.
Which, oddly enough, brings me to Steely Dan who openly distance themselves from
such mega-corporate totalitarian ambitions. Gotta love that. They can smell
bullshit just like I can. They know full well this is a Royal Scam of napoleonic
proportions.
How's that Clas? Would I make a good agitator?
Rindy - Maybe Bumpus took "see you next year" seriously like we did. I hope he's right.
Name: Clas
soon leaving
Date: Friday, December 29, 19100 at 00:44:53
Comments:
aa - yeah, the Swedish model is the most equal.
Blaise - most middleclass gringos don't know shit about anything. What do they show you on the news? First there is news about your hometown. Then they broaden the views and keep talking about what has happend in your homestate. Then, at last, they tell you what has happend in the rest of the world. USA that is.
Gina - you're my little GirlGina / that much hotter than that smooth Retsina...
Happy New year,
c
Name: aa
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 23:48:13
Comments:
yeah but some ideologies are more equal than others
Name: Yeah, I know who
Trotsky was...
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 20:08:17
Comments:
...but who the hell was the great Elmyra?
Come on, Blaise, be fair. Most
American's go "Who dat?" when you show them a picture of the
president. I'm sure most of them would think Trotsky is something you get when
you drink bad water...
I admit I'd never heard of Rosa Luxembourg though.
I feel like a wog.
'01 TOUR, BAY-BEEE!!! We are *SO*
there! I'm already juiced, though it could just be the fever...
Does CB not knowing about the hall induction mean Paul Schafer and co. backing
our heroes? Then again, how much notice would CB need anyway?
pondering...
t
Name: Rindy
Rindy2k@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 19:06:48
Comments:
Spotted Cornelius Bumpus today in midtown NYC at a Barnes & Noble. He was off to see Billy Elliott & I was killing time before O Brother, Where Art Thou? (good flick, by the way). He is a genuine nice guy & very appreciative that I recognized him & praised his kick-ass work with SD. Asked me if I played music, but alas I had to admit that I don't.
He confirmed that he will be touring with them in '01, but wasn't sure about any new studio offerings in the works. I mentioned the R&R Hall honors & he told me that he hadn't heard about it.
Happy, healthy & prosperous '01 to all,
Rindy
Name: Blaise
on the closing of the american mind
Location: playing the devil's advocate, for fun
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 17:42:46
Comments:
Trotsky? You see, most Americans don't know about Trotsky. They know about Stalin, Lenin, you know, the big bad commies. They don't know about Rosa Luxembourg either. She was a well-known female socialist movement leader in the '20s in Germany. Both Trotsky and Luxembourg were brutally assassinated because they represented real threats to the swines of that day. Now Europeans might have a clue about them but most Americans just go "who dat?" and "who the hell is she talking about?" Your History books never mentionned these guys 'cause they actually could be seen as positive representatives of socialist ideals and we know for America to truly work, there can be no such thing. Just thought I'd point that out. The stability of a socio-political system relies heavily on what it does not show or mention. It works both ways, folks, whether you live in a communist or a capitalist regime. Don't be fooled, an ideology is an ideology.
Now fire away yankees! Oh wait... can I have one last cigarette first?
Name: Gina
Whatever happened to
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 16:51:19
Comments:
Leo Trotsky ...
No more heroes, right???
Back from some bardancing at ease, haha. Had some great funk smitten in my ears, like Parliament, T-Connection, Lonnie Liston Smith, the good old stuff, haha. Heavy on the basslines and strutting guitar moves as well!
Looks like I'm the sole gal on
that compilation ... hm ...
Mizz Ducky, where's the a capella aria you promised?
Thought I defeated the flu bug, but I feel it scavenge my system, so I will head for this counter attack and OD on vitamin C ... or maybe I should dime dance the bug away ...
Had a brief talk in a café about taking care of your soul being a primary need in this world. I felt a whole lot better when they urged me to keep on going for it, no matter if the blues come to haunt from time to time!
Still a line I might turn into
lyrics came to mind today:
"I'd rather enjoy somebody's company than being left alone in love"
Off for a goodnight's sleep, 01.49
CET/AM
Banyan Tree Bug Hunt Bow,
Gina
Name: Magazine!
Now *there's* a band...
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 16:28:51
Comments:
... that I haven't thought of in ages. You guys are really giving my broiled brain pleasant flashbacks.
I'm also a *huge* Stranglers fan, even the current line-up. I didn't mention them before because though they were lumped in with the punk movement, they really weren't punk, and not entirely dancible. But to quote Blaise, good for uncountable "inner boners."
I go fall down now...
t
Name: twm
Snowbound
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 16:08:33
Comments:
Apologies, chips, but at least I named you after a man of taste. I could have said aa, or bb or one of those objectionable characters. (dont go there or they are bound to reappear!)
Yip, I really hate all that Green Day wanabee crap that passes as punk. I know that the majority of punk was crap, but there were some gem groups such as Magazine, Gang of Four etc that arose from it. Punk eventually DID die, and was replaced by 'Oi' music. May its soul rest in peace.
On ska, I was also a big ska fan in the early eighties. Fave bands were the Specials, The Beat (before they tried to crack the states), and the superb Madness. Then I grew up, discovered Elvis Costello, and got a taste in music.
When I first heard daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano use 'muellered' I thought he was talking about being smeared in Yoghurt. Then again....
Anyways, need to grab some shuteye as the midnight hour has arrived
Peace
Al
Name: Blaise
did you see the day? did you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 15:54:53
Comments:
Come to think of it, people here can be quite creative and often without realizing it. Thanks for pointing that out. Hilarious list, Rumblestrip.
Clas - You're absolutely right. I'm not a flea on anyone's ass. See, now you're courageous 'cause you're about to go hide in the country for a few days...
Name: ||||||||
- pay no attention to that man behind the curtain -
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 14:38:39
Comments:
Top Ten Recent GB Phrases:
10. dildonian (etc.)
9. inept leukotomies
8. he shows me a fake book. that's the jazz section.
7. Trapeze tailpiece
6. a snowwhite Maastricht
5. Bareback Armadillo
4. Freedie's seekerdurprise
3. wave after wave of multirhythms washed the room
2. I"ll get you muellered
1. flee in the lions ass
muellered = covered with pasta?
Fave things to dance on: the floor
Number of Concerts attended - Ramones: 0 Dan: 1
Soul Monkey, what a night
ygk, what a night
Chere, I forgot to add, thanks for telling me about Kwanzaa! It sounds like a wonderfully rich celebration.
Name: Oh yeah,
I remember Guadalcanal Diary...
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 14:04:34
Comments:
I remember liking them too, but I don't remember what
they sounded like.
Heard of the Connells, but never heard them...
*cough*
*moan*
Name: oh shoot
one more thing
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:54:27
Comments:
tones: yes on X - saw them many moons ago as a youngin' also add the english beat to the master of timeless ska-dancing
okay, i gotta go
Name: luckless pedestrian
i feel for you
Location: another classic dance your ASS off tune, yeah baby!!!!!
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:52:17
Comments:
well, i'm off to central new york to get some good spoiling by my mom and dad during this feast of the family we are now in - hopefully i will still have one
will refrain from trying the action below from our friends in germany, whatever happened to just great sex? oh well, carry on citizens
another hiatus from this place, so see you next week
happy new year to all - watch your scotch intake over there you scottish blokes!
a special thanks to green earring
Name: WHO HATH SUMMONED
THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TONES?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:50:59
Comments:
*cough* *hack* *wheeze* That took about all the energy I could muster... but before I pass out again...
twm - There's real punk left here in the states, but it's not called Green Day (fake fake punk), just like No Doubt and Goldfinger aren't real ska (fake fake ska). Real punk won't get any airplay other than college radio, so you really have to look to find it. Or have a *REAL* big satellite dish 'cause most college radio is low wattage.
But yeah, the Ramonies (alas, only once, lp), the Clash, PiL, Joy Division... don't forget the greatest underrated band in America (except for the ones *I've* been in, heh heh), perhaps ever...
X
They *never* fail to bounce the room. Notice that's not past tense. Billy Zoom is back in the band, and they're doing a lot of mini-tours, unfortunately not a lot out of So. Cal. But if you ever get the chance, do yourself the favor. ENERGY DE-LUXE!
Outside of punk, I gotta mention Los Lobos. Those guys will have you boppin' to authentic mariachi one moment, then polkas, then rock gut Tex-Mex blues, then experimental latin, uh, stuff, that will blow your mind while you lose control of your hips. Amazing grooves. Really far out...
Man, I gotta go lay down...
THE GREAT(ly fatigued) AND (in
need of) POWERFUL (antibiotics)
TONES HAS SPOKEN!
*sniff*
*groan*
Name: and we say
the americans are nuts
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:36:33
Comments:
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - The widow of a German
man who accidentally strangled himself in a bizarre sexual act
has no right to claim insurance, Germany's Federal Supreme
Court ruled on Thursday.
The widow had demanded $15,220 from an insurance policy
her husband arranged before he strangled himself while
hanging from a door handle during an autoerotic experience,
the court said.
The court rejected an appeal by the widow who had sued an
insurance company for refusing the payout. The court upheld
the company's argument that it was not liable for self-inflicted
injuries.
"The husband of the plaintiff tied his wife's scarf around his
neck and pushed it onto a door handle," the court said in a
statement.
"As he took this action to limit his supply of oxygen in order to
heighten his orgasm, he intended to diminish his bodily
functions."
Name: lp
hey ho let's go
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:08:23
Comments:
ah yes, who can forget banging our heads against the wall to rock n roll high school, and what lovely night that was
okay, who will admit to the number of ramones concerts they have been to? (worse than the orgasm question isn't it?) - for me, 7, sorry - hope you still like me, i had great fake id's in high school
sorry chips, but your band got replaced by the mighty mighty bosstones, these things happen.....
Name: Clas
Blaise,
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 13:07:44
Comments:
...let me tell you something, you're not even a flea. And me, got spanked? Don't think so pal. Texas may have big ranches but their braines are tiny. Look into W Bush's eyes and you'll understand what I mean.
Hi Gina. Good to see that you're on the compallallitation CD-list.
I've been playing along to Jacksons "Love needs a heart" and the "The Road" several days, it's so relaxing. "Simple music" and "simple chords" but it's so cool.
C,
back to the countryhouse tomorrow, computerfree zone, guaranteed.
Name: Aja
@lunch
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:56:32
Comments:
Thanks Midnite!
How could I forget the Ramones "Dangerous" (or something like that) as a great dance song?
Back to dime dancing in Lurkville.
Aja
Name: chips
3x today
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:33:21
Comments:
tones? me? nah.
Name: twm
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:20:53
Comments:
Tones, I am an appreciator of the Ramones, but as a bit
of a 'punk' myself, feel you could widen your tastes. How about The Clash,
perhaps, or a wee bit of Public Image Limited (early stuff)
Can I also comment that I dislike the current breed of so-called punk bands,
mainly eminating from the states. Punk Shmunk.
Peace
Al
Name: Blaise
releasing the rabid monkeys
Location: south of Stockholm, you said?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:15:29
Comments:
The French have abandonned monkeys. The English, disgruntled employees. So far, the damage is comparable.
Gina - Pleasure was all mine. Let's do it again sometimes, shall we?
Not being the biggest flea on Donald's ass, I'll let the bigger ones take care of the matter. I'll just stay here, licking away and watching Clas get another spanking.
Name: thirdworldman
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:13:42
Comments:
Aja - I'm not sure about the Knopfler thing, however, if
he was looking down on the nightlife in E/Burgh, I'm surprised he didn't catch
the first train out. Only joking - lovely city. It may be a one street wonder,
but it sells plenty of tartan and shortbread.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano, hope the kiss you stole didn't
involve the tickling of tonsils. Enjoy 'the Bells'.
Remember world, I will be taping the upcoming show on local TV showing the live
Glasgow gig earlier this year. I've got the jiffy bag ready for international
distribution.
Is there gas in the car?
Al
Name: chips
head butt anyone?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:08:38
Comments:
you will not be shocked to hear my favorite dance music is the ramones
Name: Gina
Quick
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 12:01:07
Comments:
on my way to yet another dance, merci beaucoup for stepping on my toes, Blaise!!
Brownies= Jackson Browne HI CLAS!!!
off audi & out,
Gina
Name: Clas
south of Sweden @ Lena's parents (HELP!)
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:51:23
Comments:
Chere - I'm so sorry. Hold on, hold out.
Gina - what is brownies?
Howard/Lisa G - hey, I've been playing along to a lot of records during the holidays. And you're probably right, that E-10 chord in Black Cow don't have to have that natural G. Which makes the chord a NOT -10 chord.
And there's a chord in The Goodbye Look that bothers me. There's an instrumental part after the second refrain, there's only chords:
Am7 D/G Fmaj7 C13 Fmaj7 F+m7 (?) C2
That F+m7 must be wrong. I hear Fminor/major7. What do you guys say?
Z - great. You must be from the eastcoast.
But tell me, are you a musicalteacher? And re Jarret; I have a Swedish friend who toured with him here in Sweden (way back, 70's I think). He said that Jarret was unbelivable snobbish, hard to socialize with.
And our Cara Mia - I hope she didn't lose Lautrec. I mean, to lose Lautrec is a BAD thing. And expensive.
dr Mu - who arranged the saxes on My Old School? Jimmy Haskell?
Wow. That can't be right, can it?
Let's wait what Fagens messenger boy is saying, maybe the flee in the lions ass can put things straight.
And bye the way, how did the guys notate Rick Derringers slide? Maybe the messenger boy can answer that question too.
Have a good new year!
C
Name: Midnite Cruiser
it's me again Margaret
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:48:57
Comments:
Aja....forgot to tell you, PBS taped a new Austin City Limits show featuring EJ back in November. It's set to air starting February 3rd. Check your local listings for show times.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:46:44
Comments:
Aja....Eric Johnson is indeed touring, supporting his new live album. It's the Derek Trucks Band touring with him. Derek is nephew of Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers. I saw Derek play live when he was about 10 years old and he plays some of the meanest slide guitar this side of Duane Allman. Very impressive at any age! I've seen Eric Johnson play four times over the years and would love to see him again. He's got tons of technique but puts a lot of feeling into his music as well. If I remember right, you're in San Diego? They show him playing Tuesday, January 23rd at 4th & B. Does that ring a bell? If I've got the wrong city, just check out www.ericjohnson.com and follow the links to the touring information. Hope you get to see the show!
MC
Name: lp
still thinking of dance tunes
Location: to take my mind off, other things
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:31:08
Comments:
i also forgot womack & womack's can't remember the title, but it's a cd i picked up in london in 91-ish - it goes like this: footsteps on the dancefloor, remind me baby of you, teardrops in my eyes, next time i'll be true, whispers in the powder room, she cries on every tune, every tune....a great tune for boppin around
no car wrecks, no doggies, no tourists (thankfully i do not practice in a revolutionary town)
love the line-up of talent for the compilation, just ordered a t-shirt too
does anyone remember a band called the connell's, they were from carolina somewhere i think, as i was racing mentally through my cd rack to pull up the dance tunes i was remembering that band - guadalcanal diary is another obscure one from the late 80's, anyone?
Name:
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:17:49
Comments:
"Ouch!" - says a man in the crowd
Name: Anon
anon for now
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 11:05:25
Comments:
francophobes, here's one for you:
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/1211/paris.html
Name: Gina
oh no
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:47:32
Comments:
this time it's me way in over my head or something like that, haha, so it's burn baby burn ...
but seriously, how about that dance, i know just the place, the serendipity room, haha. see ya!
G
Name: canada
you talking to me?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:42:48
Comments:
What would be the exact Dutch equivalent of my name
anyway?
All I can say is that I offer my most heartfelt condoleances seeing that we
share a similar tragic fate. Except for the fact that this person actually lives
in an habitable climate and I don't.
Name: Gina
Three's no crowd
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:31:53
Comments:
since lp is all across Boston now guiding accidental
tourists
and trying to make her handle legit ... hey you canada ... how about this, what
to make of a name which is the exact dutch equivalent of yours and someone born
only 9 days after you in the same year LOL
funny the way events occur, right?
lp ... how many cars did you trash this time and how many traffic lights are out of service for dogs now?
sorry folks, if these after X-mas
postings are a bit ...
i went out of it pleasing my family and am suffering this identity crisis, haha
... can't shake the folly.
off to crashdance on Come Back Baby, WOW, someone has to make a 2001 version of that one!!
G
Name: Blaise
blaise@c4.com?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:28:52
Comments:
gilco@homemail.com?
gc@arobas.net? (that one is new and I still can't access it because I need to
install Outlook Express, anyway it's a long story...)
All valid addresses nevertheless. What else?
I can't dance? Granted, I'm no Baryshnikov (spell?) but I can wiggle my toes,
girl, when the music is good, believe you me. haha
May I have this dance? I won't step on your toes, I promise.
Name: JWMalibu
www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:21:45
Comments:
Updated (music received from) Artist Roster for Technicolor Motorhome/2000 ~ The GB Compilation Album:
Clas
FlaDavid
F#Maj9
Gina
Jk
JWMalibu
Mr. Chow
Roy.scam
Tycoon Dog
YGK
Artists: I'll be posting the "credits" information for your proofing pleasure in the next week...
Back cover art: Rumblestrip
Drop-dead Deadline: 1/31/2001
Information: www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio/tm2000.htm
Name: Gina
YGK, here it is
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:16:54
Comments:
where you can get a hold of the canadian blazery:
gilley66@hotmail.com
pain, Blaise, pain???
non merci, i've just digested fries, no bread for me right now thank you!
and admit you hate dance music because YOU CAN'T DANCE, can't just shake a leg
or boot a foot and wiggle some toes, haha.
hm. where's doc Kruger, he might get you to open up on this one ...
Brain Tap Shuffle!!!!!
G
Name: Gina
totally grooved
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:08:36
Comments:
as in an Ida Lee Blank Cheque Dance, haha.
Aja, you started something doing your dime dancing, waiting for Ole, Cara Mia,
NMN, Lucy B, Ruby B ... what's the fav things to dance on, shoes .. naked feet
.. high-heeled, silk stockings????
wait up there LP, make that a Danned Stroll ...
I wonder if Clas is into his Brownies now ...
"when i lost my way home
i was helpless like a small child
no eyes of my own that could take me
through the nighttime
no moonlight to guide me
no shadow to hide me
then in the dark i found
sun mountain"
"here in my world
i remember all the things i left behind
and if i need them they will be there
a part of my mind"
Banyan Sun Tree Mountain Bow,
Gina
Name: Blaise
drop my e? after this? haha
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 10:05:26
Comments:
I'll have SD management musel me. In fact, this is all in
an effort to *discourage* people from doing what I have done. People, it sounds
horrible! Wait for the official release, please, by all means...
And another thing... Of course I love Earth Wind and Fire, Prince and yes, YGK
and other danceable music. It's not Aqua or Madonna, is it? I can tell the
difference, you know...
OK. SOME (BUT NOT ALL) DANCE MUSIC I CANNOT STAND TO HEAR. Anything else I need
to retract?
Dano - What??
Gina - You know it grieves me so
to see you in such pain. I wish there was something I could do to make you smile
again...
Then again, me staying away might help....
Tones - Exactly. They'd be lazing on a Sunday afternoon, painting at the Louvres on Friday wearing spiked leather jackets and spandex pants, burping away their testosterone. Freddie, when I last saw him in the flesh, was doing the locomotion on stage wearing a cute yellow feathered jacket.... I could have been fooled as well. haha
LP - Give me that phone, I'm pissed off...
Worm Tom, get out of the closet and join in. I can't keep up with all these people. Help!
My email is on record somewhere down there along with my real name, the names of my kids, their age, my marital status and other precious info you might be interested in.
Name: Aja
Did you feel like Jesus?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 09:54:01
Comments:
tones, finally enjoying a bit of lucidity myself. I hadn't realized how nonstop eating, drinking, and being very merry could leave such a psychological hangover.
I can dance to anything and have proved it, but Kid Charlemagne (especially with Hank Easton soloing) Fantasy, Frank Sinatra's Luck Be A Lady, and Love In Action are my dance faves of the day. Favorite slow grooves: John Klemmer's Touch and Marvin Gaye's All the Way Around.
Does anyone know if Eric Johnson is touring? A San Diego club is advertising "Eric Johnson and the Derek (somebody) Band" coming-is this the same guy?
Gina-oh, you are one great read, girl. I like to read men's comments on women, too, and I'm in total agreement with you on that one.
Dano, TWM-is Mark Knopfler's What It Is being played in Scotland? He wrote it on a stop in Edinburgh. When he got out of his cab and saw all the night life below the castle, he had a vision that he was looking at hundreds of years of history playing itself out in what he saw before him.
It's Thursday already!
Aja
Name: lp
going for a walk to get away from my phone now
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 09:30:21
Comments:
argh
Name: Gina
all in one
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 09:23:55
Comments:
felt lonesome upstairs and listening to them virginal tracks, so why not stuff them into this device ...
he LP, september YES, I bought a remastered "Gratitude" on sale and a compilation of their greatest hits, keeps me hanging on and I'm truly in a better mood now LOL
off for some fries and smoked
trout.
wish it was 2001 already.
so life is normal.
sort of.
G
Name: lp
we dress like housewives
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 09:08:24
Comments:
yes, tones insert talking heads for the gloved one, i knew there was another one i missed - i could use a good party about now
i'm spending way too much time arguing on the phone with my husband today - major bummer - see aja? not even close to perfect here.....i might need to post another primal scream, but alas, i will refrain -
Name: "Will you still have a song to sing
when the Razor Boy comes
Location: and takes, your fancy things away?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 09:01:39
Comments:
Will you still be singing it on that cold and windy day?"
Aja - thanks for the confirmation of lucidity. I'm kinda getting used to this fever (3rd day), and beginning to feel a bit like "Tommy" - "Sickness will surely take the mind where minds don't usually go..." Then again, now I know why suicide isn't legal. Only 3 days, but it feels like I'll never be well again. I think I got the "flu blues"...
Aj, ygk, Jim# - I totally agree with you about dancing, though I don't think my little joke about it played so well in this format. I too have witnessed many a time 20,000 or so Deadheads shaking a tale feather. In fact, we used to call that move Jim# describes "jelly dancing", and yep, it works quite well to "Jack of Speed," which, btw, really feels like the Dan's answer to the Dead's "West L.A. Fadeaway." Anyone concur?
Blaise - Yeah, I always thought it was funny how some people I knew (not friends) could be so homophobic one minute, then turn up the Priest or "Bohemian Rhapsody" the next. *Serious* denial. Btw, Killer Queen still rocks!
lp - we should have our very own Roxy, XTC, B's, Echo dance party. Can we substitute Heads for MJ though?
Danoooooooo - in da HOWSE! What's the haps, dude? Thanks for the offer, but I might need these bollocks someday...
----------------
Oh yeah, anon posters are responsible for the majority of the crap/shit here. Seen?
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I'll check in later. I'm running out of home entertainment choices, though the making of Aja (the album, not the person ;-) vid was good for a few real good chuckles the other night. Made me feel a bit better...
no energy to spellcheck...
steely peace
tones
"Am I myself or just another freak?"
Name: oops
i forgot
Location: thank you, gina
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:45:13
Comments:
dance away by roxy music
Name: lp
gettin' down at me desk
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:43:05
Comments:
love you dano baby....you tell em
top ten tunes to boogie me bullocks off to:
september by earth wind and fire
ain't no stoppin us now, played in a dance pub in scotland only
rock lobster by the b-52's (really anything by them)
the movie soundtrack to the last days of disco
anything by echo and the bunnymen
rehumanize yourself by the police
michael jackson's off the wall cd (he lost me after that)
one step beyond by madness
senses working overtime by xtc
twisting by the pool by dire straits
Name: Gina
found a new
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:36:43
Comments:
place to sit and drink hot chocolate, read the latest glossies without the idea zillions of unidentified germs are crawling all over and in the pages LOL
was in a bad mood today, to be honest. slept too long. writing usually does the trick, some music as well, but today it all kind of backfired. having the thrills of magical memories run by and realizing it can't be heaven every day, oh well ...
ygk, I know where I'd rather be on
New Year's Eve. I'm in a New York State of Mind ... guess you were right, this
poor girl's heart's pounding "mesmerized, mesmerized", haha.
But I better keep my cool. "Major League" is not to be taken lightly.
I didn't take this sabbatical time to kick my heart's desire, but to follow it.
And if fate or karma or kismet should decide otherwise in this matter of the
heart ... I'll have some nice moments in time to look back on. And my dreams
revisited.
So I can rely on my own strength. And do that music thing.
Will keep you posted.
hi LP, so you're into China
birth-control these days, haha.
thanks btw for all the mails you've been sending around the holidaze ...
that includes you too, TW Man from across the smaller pond.
and Jim, about you dancing a SD
flamingo, haha. Don't you agree it was a smart choice to make them T-shirts
yellow?
It's a color that stands for something.
Sun, energy and all that.
Dance away, "Jimbo"!
Now StevieDan, where art thou?
if this attempt of using some old langual habits are correct ...
I'm out of here, getting myself
into the chords of Sun Mountain and some decades back ...
Banyan Tree Doo Wop,
Gina
Name: "dano"
gym membership coming up
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:20:29
Comments:
Hey Guys , what do you mean white men cant dance, you see me at Hogmany and I tell you I will dance the bollocks off anyone??
Blaise , St Al reading your posts was interesting but tell me this Blaise how can you say you dont like people who like Dance Music, surely you havent met all the people who like Dance Music. never judge a person on there musical taste judge them when you meet them??
StAL - Blaise only winding you up ready for the big party on Sunday night you two get over here and I"ll get you muellered and show you both how to boogie??
What a katmandu xmas didnt get any dan stuff but got a kiss on the QT from the girl in Marketing.
Talking of dancin I defy anyone not to dance to Mcfadden & Whitehead "aint no stoppin us now" when there on the lash in Hogmany??
Well hope you all had a great xmas and speak to you all before Auld Lang Syne comes on the radio.
Regards "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano"
Name: ygk
mhunter@bear.com
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:15:43
Comments:
Blaise: drop me your e.....
Name: Blaise
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 08:02:06
Comments:
YGK - OK I'll admit that it was a too bold a statement. Some dance music that incorporates Third World rythms manages to reach me. I'll give you that much. After all, it's just an expression of my own personal taste and I'm aware a lot of people would disagree with me and that is just fine and healthy. Now, back to my greyish downloading duties, you know, checking out the quality of illegal musical products. All of this as a service to the community, of course. ;o)
Name: chips
Won't you turn that be-bop down?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:41:56
Comments:
Tristan, are you there today?
Name: whoever
posted
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:36:03
Comments:
Huh? - Well maybe they should sometimes. Overall, the songs sound adequate but there are a lot of glitches like in Rotterdam, there's a guy who keeps talking through all the songs, probably on a cell phone (Libertel?). In Boston, the guy has trouble with his equipment causing all kinds of feedback and distortion during The Royal Scam. Funny.
Name: YGK
..
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:32:29
Comments:
Aja: that was me, girl.....I always hate the 'white guys can't dance' sentiment.....it's like making any other racial stereotype....
Blaise: perhaps you could revisit the 'dance music' issue.....I'm of the opinion that almost everything musically resonant is danceable, as long as you can feel the beats interwoven within the sound....disco sucks? hmmm, when I was out there breaking into dance clubs in the late 70's, whoopin it up with a selected assortment of beautiful women, it didn't suck to me - no, it's not something I would sit and ponder, but it did serve a purpose......but peace, man, you were steppin on my feet.....
Hutch: would love to hear your axe man.....lay somethin down soon....
Jim: there must be a reason for a
Northeast/Mid Atlantic Dan Fest next year.....What of Kanawha Palooza?
http://www.kanawhapalooza.com/
also shouts out to Chere - hang in there, baby, LisaG and Gina.....
ygk
Name: Blaise
knows who skully really is but is not telling
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:30:09
Comments:
Where did the bastard run?
Is he still around?
Name: Uh?
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:27:33
Comments:
Whoever posted that- What makes you think that "the band" comes to this forum and reads this crap/shit?
Name: lp
procrastinating my end of the the year clean-out of my desk and files
Location: hi there, skully hope you are well
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 07:09:39
Comments:
who are these children who scheme and run wild?
who speak with their wings and the way that they smile?
what are the secrets they trace in the sky?
and why do you tremble each time they ride by?
Name: skully
holidazing
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 06:48:16
Comments:
back from the Holidays
hope everyone else had a wonderful and reflective time
ever notice how many questions are posed in Dan songs?
it's really quite clever and
abstract
and an interesting songwriting trait
so what's your favorite SD question?
skully
Name: lp
i want my mp3
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 06:44:54
Comments:
true true there
though i think it would only irritate wb and df in that the sound is likely not up to their standards and not due to any loss in revenue
Name: whoever
posted that
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 06:39:46
Comments:
is just sending a message to the band warning them that their stuff is now out there ripe for the clicking. Either that or he/she has a very good memory.
Name: luckless pedestrian
otis redding baby
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 06:05:03
Comments:
whoever just posted the Tweeter Center lines, thank you very much - just got into my office here and i was immediately taken back to summer fun (party in the parking lot, dancing on my chair....) and i could hear every word you posted - wow, what a great start to a cold winter's day!
aja - which ebtg?
gina - crying innocent today - no alter-ego's lately, they are back in their closet with the rest of the skeletons and baggage......
make tonight a wonderful thing
Name: Remember? A sweet thing from Boston
from the kang of soul...
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 05:15:16
Comments:
"Alright... Let's talk, ok?
You know way back when...
back in the 20th Century?
Remember the 20th Century? Wasn't that long ago, really.
We used to have some fun.
You'd take your steady down to the beach
Down to the beach.
Bring some blankets,
Maybe some Ritz crackers, dips and chips,
Peanut butter, whatever...
Maybe a bottle of tequila,
You know the kind that was rumored to have
a worm at the bottom of the bottle...
You know not the clear kind, the yellow kind
Yellow orange I guess you'd call it....
What was the name of that tequila?
What was the name of that tequila?
(The Cuervo Gold)
Ahhh, the Cuervo Gold, that's it. Thanks a lot girls
(The fine columbian)
'cause I was a having a kinda mnemonic lapse there...
Glad you straightened us out, thank you very much
(Make tonight a wonderful thing)..."
Name: Jim
#
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 03:08:25
Comments:
I got this one & others: I've spent many a non-plussed hour watching as more nimble friends dance, and when finally goaded into participating, am inevitably hooted back to the bench with chants of "white men can't dance, white men can't dance!"
So I re-invented what I call the SD flamingo. Pretty easy. All ya do is determine which leg is the more able (this all assumes that you're quaffing a few beverages at the time), rest most of your weight on that leg, and just jive and rotate the upper body. Works like a charm, especially to Jack of Speed.
In watching the Deads' concert DVD, Downhill from Here, with my most vocal dance critic, I was vindicated. Soon as they panned a shot of the Heads going at it during Not Fade Away, I turned to her and said "See? Every chrisitan soul in that place dances just like me!"
And all while wearing that way cool yellow shirt. Thanks St. Al.
Name: Gina
X-mess
Date: Thursday, December 28, 19100 at 01:09:40
Comments:
or an after solstice hangover. hi LisaG, yep, feeling better (now Blaise is having fun at my expense, haha. Nono Blaisey, you're mistaken, that wasn't me telling off the "boyfriend" I don't have, at this age one can hardly speak in such terms anyway and you know the kind of company I like to keep is beyond all of that ...now, what is that noise then? must have been one of LP's alter persona's escaping from the Fender when Donald hit the first keys ...) and my turn to wait in anticipation!! Wish there was some of you as well .. real real curious to hear you sing. Carmen Lundy can be found at her site www.carmenlundy.com btw ...
Aja, dime dancing & Tracey Thorne, can just imagine ... brings a smile already!
Must say at the end of this year,
the kind of music becoming my ears are Patti Page in a Verve re-issued release
and Ella, Billy, Sarah, Dinah, Lena, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, .. I like the company
of these fine Ladies.
Hm. Rush only rings a bell, a very very faint one ...
And Zappa is more of a men's thing, in a way BUT
I also enjoy reading Schopenhauer and his ambivalence regarding women. I'm not
offended in "womanhood" when a man talks down or makes fun of the
opposite gender, I think it's funny, really!
And when it's not, haha, all the more reason to show that women can hold their
own, hm, haven't we been here before?
And it's sure interesting to learn that men and women do have these different
minds that work in different ways and if it's hormonal or not, to establish
differences and respect them, in gender, race, religion, vision, whatever ...
There's more than one way home they say ...
Okay. Had no intent to be this "heavy" on an ordinary morning 1000 CET
Nothing Dannish to add when I exit
these premises,
Banyan Tree Flee,
Gina
Name: rayfan
raycarrie@earthlink.net
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 21:47:33
Comments:
Blaise and St. Al, if you'll forgive an interloper to
join this
discussion I think there is one thread that connects all of these
various generes of music. Connecting Prog. Rock to Blues to Fusion to
"White Folks" rock is the notion of "The melodic drummer".
From Peart to Philly Joe Jones to Bruford to Phil Collins (yes, Peter Gabriel
era Genesis) to Emerson,Lake, and Palmer, and Gadd and Garibaldi all thesse
percussionists were
very Melodic. The ability to use the drum kit as something more than just a
metronome must appeal to people across racial and stylistic lines.
It is
certainly unfortunate, that the demands of radio station economics seem to
preclude the inclusion of all forms of similar style (At least as I see them.)
as relates to race, economics,
or any other division one can imagine. Just A Thought,
Rayfan
Name: Blaise
yeah.... I got one and you need four...
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 19:04:06
Comments:
That one doesn't sound like a soundboard feed so it won't
replace the CD we're all waiting for. Doesn't sound bad if you're willing to put
up with hearing Gina telling off her boyfriend on the left channel throughout
the whole thing. lol
Some from the Tweeter Center as well but I haven't had time to check those out.
Name: Blaise
well look at that...
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 18:07:37
Comments:
Now available on that evil shareware (you know): Live at the Ahoy - Rotterdam 2000 in mp3 format. Just thought some of youse jonesed'd like to know. Don't inhale.
Name: z
x
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 17:53:24
Comments:
Lisa G.- I'm currently in Queens. I'm glad they have
music in elementary schools in NJ- in the city they don't hit them until middle
school which is, as Nadia Boulanger once said, "much too late".
I have a kind of combination concert band/jazz ensemble so we could probably try
some Zappa, but these kids have a problem with anything "old school",
and yet they love A Train and St. Thomas, so it's mainly a matter of relating it
to their experiences, which in Zappa's case is pretty difficult.
Bob Dorough is a top dude, it's good to hear he's getting recognition from
somewhere. On a related note, I just found out that the two Leonharts are
children of the well-known bass player/sometimes vocalist Jay Leonhart, who does
gigs that are similar to Dorough. No wonder Carolyn is singing all those great
standards.
Today I found a copy of Keith Jarrett's "Belonging" at a used record
store in LI, and I told the owner of the store to play "Long As You Know
You're Living Yours" and asked him if it reminded him of any SD tune. He
matter-of-factly said "it's Gaucho" and took it off. Then I told him
they didn't give Jarrett credit for writng it, and he just looked at me in
disbelief. He is a used record store owner of few words.
On more positive SD news, Downbeat Magazine readers chose 2 against nature as
the "Beyond" album of the year in their annual reader's poll.
Also, a much better jazz magazine,"Jazz Improv", gave 2 against nature
a glowing review in their Dec. Bill Evans issue.
Let me depart with an imaginary conversation overheard sometime in 1980:
WB- Has Keith called Gary yet?
DF- Nah, you know those jazz guys, he probably doesn't even listen to the radio.
WB- Man, I'm kinda worried, I think he's one of those macho PR guys, he might
get violent or something.
DF- Nah, Keith is Swedish or something. Look, the guy puts out a new album
practically every other month, he's written so many tunes he probably can't keep
track of them.
WB- I hope you're right, I wouldn't last an hour in Riker's Island!
DF- It's on ECM! Who the hell ever listens to anything on ECM?
WB- Yeah, that's a good point, I feel a lot better. Maybe we should call Gary,
he could reassure us a little more.
DF- Yeah, let's call Gary.
Name: Aja
so much for stereotypes
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 16:01:22
Comments:
Forgot this one: I had a white guy friend who could dance ANYBODY'S ass off, whatever color. I had to laugh when he and I were out dancing once and I turned and saw 4 African-American guys watching him, absolutely mesmerized by his moves.
Back to dime dancing to Tracey Thorne.
Aja
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 16:00:25
Comments:
Roy....was grinnin' like an idiot (not a stretch for me) while reading your post but the reference to The Princess Bride made me laugh out loud! Hope you're feelin' better by now.
Hutch....love to hear that guitar sometime. I love those ES's but I'm still a fool for P-90's.
fezo....hope you're feeling better as well. I like the reference to The Virginia Gentlemen of the Guestbook too.
looks like the madness is over for now. time to settle back in to some sense of normality. (is that even a word?)
oh shit, I forgot about the New Year's Eve celebrations! *DOH*
Name: Aja
here come those Santa Ana winds again
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 15:56:00
Comments:
It's a gorgeous, 70 degree day-love those winter Santa Anas.
Actually, I thought you made perfect sense, tones. People tend to like what they were exposed to and what "speaks" to them, and I don't think skin color has anything to do with it. I love Earth Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye, Rush, like Yes, love jazz, love old school R&B, and like just plain old white guy rock (I even have a few Judas Priest and Triumph albums in my collection).
An interesting note: the club that I believe Carolyn Leonhart had her CD release party in is a renovated 1920's Harlem jazz club. The owner (who is African-American) bought it about 10 years ago when it was a dance club with the idea of making it a black jazz club again. He is having great success with his club, but the audience is almost all white. It seems that while there are plenty of black jazz musicians, the following is predominantly white. The owner has mixed feelings about this; while he is happy that the club is successful, he is sorry that more young African-Americans are not into jazz.
Hope everyone had a nice holiday (whichever one you celebrate) or at least enjoyed a long weekend. I cleaned up on CD's-my cravings for new music should be satisfied for at least a week!
Aja
Name: Blaise
laughing at it right now
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 15:54:35
Comments:
Freedie's seekerdurprise! Oh well...
Name: Blaise
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 15:52:38
Comments:
Tones - Halford looked the part alright with leather and
bleached blond hair but the headbangers I knew back then were in complete denial
and I'm sure they were crushed when they got the news. Freedie was never subtle
about his own thing which was not strictly homosexual but more of the
"anything goes" flavor. The news of his death came with little s
seekedurprise.
As far as you liking these "white bread" acts, it's clear you followed
a unique path like any truly "sovereign" individual does, moving away
from expectations and peer pressure. Generally speaking though, I think you
agree with StAl's assumption concerning the audience for "prog rock".
That genre did not groove very much. It produced an intellectual, analytical
high (or, as I like to say, an "inner boner") on the listener. I think
the truly unique aspect of Steely Dan's music is that it both challenges the
listener while remaining "funky" or accessible. I think that I too
will laugh at this in the morning but hey, we're just shooting the shit here,
right?
Name: I got this one,
St. Al...
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 15:07:36
Comments:
I feel particularly qualified to answer your question, seeing how I'm decidedly non-white, and WAY into FZ, KC, Yes, and the Dead, though not so much Phish (maybe sometime, but I don't get it yet), or Rush (though exposed though close "white" [*real hard* for me to think in these terms] friends, I've yet to understand the facination. Perhaps ironically, I first heard of them through my best friend in high school, who's also black.) Now granted, my music tastes are not typical for any person, much less a black person. I was listening to Steely Dan and Chicago at the same time I was into Earth, Wind, & Fire and Rufus, and I noticed even then that there weren't a lot of my black friends who were listening to the Dan or Cheap Trick, and vice-versa (though one of the amazing things about an E W &F concert in the *'70's* was the integration of the audience). My personal path led from the dan to fusion (jazz/rock i.e. early Mahavishnu, not jazz/pop i.e Spiro Gyra), into Jimi, Crimson, the Dead, Bowie, etc. Not a lot of my "colored" friends cared to follow...
Please bear with me through this fevered haze...
Now, "negro" music has been divided into 3 camps for as long as I can remember - soul/r&b and jazz and blues. Nowadays, it's 4, when you include rap/hip-hop. While blues unfortunately is considered "old folk" music" by the younger black audience, your average "African-American" (did I hit them all?) doesn't discover jazz until college (unless they're fusion geeks like me and my friend), jazz being the logical progression from soul/r&b, and a smooth way to impress ladies with a sense of "style".
As you can see this progression completely bypasses any form of rock & roll; in fact, until rap, there was no outlet for young black urban agression, hence its enormous popularity in spite of of its serious artistic deficiencies (imho). I "understand" rap, however, rap doesn't speak to me ("write a freakin' *bridge*, fer crissakes!").
The reverse of all this is when Crimson, etc, were at their height, you would *never* hear them on "black" radio, regardless of the fact Bruford is one of the funkiest drummers alive. Or Jimi either, for that matter.
So to sum up this fevered ramble... I think it a matter of exposure (or lack of) to different kinds of music, and peer pressure (gotta buy those Nikes and think Eminem is "da bomb" or you're not "down").
I'm liable to read this later and realise I made no sense at all.
Oh yeah, and I've seen white guys dance... they just dance kinda funny...
Blaise - who *didn't* know Halford was gay? Have they heard about Freddie Mercury?
tones
Name: aa
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 14:18:55
Comments:
discernment beats compassion any day - even if it's inaccurate
Name: Blaise
brought back to his senses and rightly so
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 13:45:34
Comments:
Well StAl, you be right. Peart only showed up by the second album. Let's say he wrote most of the lyrics. But you're wrong on one thing: I'm not white, I'm either pinkish or beige depending on the season. haha Seriously, I read women on this page who express their love for Rush or Zappa. Now I know for a fact that Gina is a gal unless she toyed with me. Chere, Lisa they like Rush. But I agree that the demographics are mostly white male suburban upper or lower middle-class or whatever. Of the bands you mention, I also liked Yes, King Crimson and Zappa (sometimes). Never heard enough of Phish to say I was a fan. I can't dance, it's true. Sheik yer bootie not in my case. It might have something to do with the fact that I CAN'T STAND DANCE MUSIC OR ANYONE WHO DIGS IT. Still, when I was into Yes, I was a bit ashamed to admit it 'cause my friends at the time thought it was kinda gayish. It might have had something to do with Jon Anderson's voice. haha Little did they know, it was Rob Halford from Judas Priest who, it turns out, was gay.
Name: StAlphonzo
Correction department ONE MORE TIME
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 13:19:48
Comments:
Blaise, my Canadian friend.... WRONGO! All Rush "LYRICS" are NOT Peart lyrics. Take a looky here:
http://honors.semo.edu/echoman/discography.html
SO I guess it isn't fair to say that Peart wrote none of the songs off the first album considering he wasn't even a member until Fly By Night. HOWEVER, there are a number of Rush songs written throughout the years that haven't been penned by the "master of the drum kit."
I just hate being told I'm wrong, especially considering the fact I rarely am....
I do have a question for the rest of you. WHy is it bands like Rush, Yes, Zappa, Phish, King Crimson, and all the other "progressive rock/jam bands appeal almost exclusively to white suburban males like myself and Blaise?
Is it because that music is so hard to dance to and we all know white guys can't dance?
Chere: Our thoughts are with you. Awful news for sure.
StAl
Name:
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 13:18:35
Comments:
Yes, it's proof positive that Christmas lights sales didn't meet expectations in South America. Thanks.
Name: |||||
cool image
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 13:08:06
Comments:
This is amazing, check out the link below...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
Name: Blaise
wooden shooden cooden not
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 13:06:06
Comments:
aa - You still drunk, ain't ya?
Name:
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 12:58:19
Comments:
huh?
Name: aa
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 12:47:53
Comments:
yeah you wouldnt not want to be on her wish list
Name: SoulMonkey
SoulMonkey168@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 11:53:33
Comments:
Chere, I haven't spoken with you in a while, and I just want to convey my deepest sympathy to you. I also lost a friend in a similar situation. Hang in there girl.
On a lighter note, I went to a party on Christmas night. I went with a friend of mine who was about my age(by the way I'm 30). I discovered it was a keg party with all these young people in their early 20's. I thought it was going to suck, but when we got there, I heard the first few chord of Sail The Waterway. Needless to say, I knew this was going to get good. The three guys that live there were Dan freaks and therefore we had plenty to talk about. We sat around and played Dan songs on acoutics the entire night till the sun came up. I am so glad I wasn't in the last generation that would be into the Dan. There is hope after all.
We have since decided to put a all Dan cover-band together. I believe we are going to call it Bareback Armadillo. If anyone happens to wander to Louisville KY in the next 6 months, look around to see if were playing somewhere
PeaceLoveandallthingsDan
SoulMonkey
Name: lp
back
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 11:25:39
Comments:
we have very little crime in this town, but when we do, it's a doozy
you should hear the wacky crimes in the town i serve! same thing, little crime, but when there is, it makes national news (international if twm knew, wow).....
the guy was creepy looking yes, but in this country, you get sued big time if you don't hire a qualified person becasue he/she looks odd
Name: Blaise
re: Mass. murderer
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 11:16:22
Comments:
This guy was a software enginner? I know working in IT doesn't require a clean-cut-suit-and-tie deal but this is ridiculous. Now the one who hired this man should feel responsible. The guy looks like a Sasquatch for chrissakes. Odd to say the least.
This place has slowed down big
time while I was gone but you're all suffering from a hangover so...
I'll join the pressure group and press Lisa to record. C'mon, c'mon chicken,
sing something. haha just kidding.
later
Name: Lisa G
checking in from my family's homestead
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 10:31:52
Comments:
Roy.Scam.-feel better. Hope your cute bronchitis (LOL) doesn't get ugly.
z, x-Man, I can be a spaced out
chick singer, too. We definitely should hang, bro. By the by there's plenty of
Zappa for big band that's not too difficult for kids, and I assure you it can be
experienced by those that are not of the white suburban persuasion. What section
of "town" are you in, anyway? My husband's from the Bronx, went to PA
(before it was La Guardia) in Manhattan and my uncle-in-law teaches music in the
Brooklyn schools. Glad to hear you're making a difference.
I tried to get my school to pay for the Jazz Educators conference in NYC next
month, but no dice. Guess I can't justify the importance of cutting edge jazz
being that I teach elementary general and instrumental. Well last year the kids
had an Ellington unit, so I can, but they don't understand.
Besides, they'd only give me $75.00 for conferences and I'd have to spot the
rest. Plus they probably wouldn't give me the days off because we're having a
huge Heritage Festival at my school on the 12th. Hope you can go. The line up is
so outrageous.
Ditto on the "Do It Again" and "All Blues" hypnosis
reference, by the way.
F#maj9- no G? Don't you mean no G#?
ygk-awesome experience. Thanks for sharing.
Dearest yyz-one CAN enjoy the music of any group, such as "Rush" without reading the credits. No, I did NOT know who the lyricist was. What do you want? I could barely read back then. I couldn't even care.
A very belated "Good morning!" to Dionysius Exiguus- I enjoy your stuff.
Chere-lots of thoughts and prayers go to you on this tragic occasion. To balance
the emotion, I hope the kids enjoyed a bright holiday.
Send me your e-mail, Chere. I think we BOTH need a t-shirt:
xraywoman@home.com
Gina-hope you, too are feeling better. I'm working on a collection of favs for your listening pleasure.
Had a ho-hum holiday.
But tonight I get to hang out at the local jazz club (the only one here, back at home) and hear Bob Dorough with some of my former gig-mates. It truly is a home-coming. Haven't seen Bob in years! For those of you who don't know him, he is the musical and lyrical mastermind behind "Schoolhouse Rock," the ABC commercial series in the 70's that brilliantly mixed music with learning. He didn't get a lot of credit when the pop version featuring the flavors of the year re-released SR a couple of years ago. I studied with him briefly a few years back when he was penning SR II. He is a treasure of the Northeast and still lives in the Poconos.
Speaking of the mountains, it's gorgeous here, snow on the ground a chill in the air, and plenty of sunshine. Too bad we go back to the verdant landscape of stripmalls that is NJ in two days. Gotta get my inspiration before I leave.
J Dubs, thanks for the TM2000 reminder. I think you're trying to tell me something. I will get to work finding a recording studio pronto.
Hope all your holidays are and continue to be filled with peace and love.
LG
Name: thirdworldman
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 10:19:44
Comments:
Glad tidings to all
Woke up on Christmas day to a white vista = lovely. The weather is really
closing in. Minus 16 last night - baltic. Not back at work for a week. Enjoyed
the day with the wee yins and rest of the family, and got a new watch, Beatles
'1', Coldplay 'Parachutes', and SD 2vN (origanal copy stolen when car broken
into).
Hope you all had a good one.
What about that whako in Mass!!?. He is a dead ringer for Rasputin!
I'm sizzlin like an isotope
Al
Name: luckless pedestrian
like christmastime
Location: a virtuoso, look out when the lady has the blues
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 07:57:59
Comments:
reference michael frank's "when she is mine" above for a mention of christmas - also play 25 December from everything but the girl - played my yule struttin cd as well as the manhatten transfer christmas album, great music....got the making of aja and the re-master of aja from santa, yeah!
beef wellington was excellent, but wow - lotta work! poached pears in red wine sauce, side of vanilla ice cream with cranberry sauce atop for dessert, excellent....great christmas feasting!
chere, i am so sorry about your loss
yesterday's postal event in my hometown gave me the willies, gees - better go pay my bills so i don't go mad like that, the helicopter shots show the church i attend across the street, and interviews with my pastor - very scary.....
well, i'm back, looks like the place did not change a bit while i was gone - but i'm here only for a moment, for i am off to save the world from over-priced housing
no anti-perspirant company, btw, far worse, i'm a local government official, yipes! a test pit is hole dug to obtain soil samples for testing for nasty things that are likely there....
Name: Blaise
one more for the road
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 07:04:32
Comments:
And I have to say Christmas this year was the best in
years. The bitch wasn`t around and I could finally enjoy something without the
endless harassment I got used to over the years. The kids loved it. I loved it.
A light dusting of snow made it perfect. Bliss. Couldn`t have been better.
later
Name: Blaise
Damn, I read even faster than StAL
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 06:57:35
Comments:
Sorry about your friend there Chere. I can relate. I had a friend once, believe or not, a very close friend... but I wrote that already. It`s tough. There`s no denying it. Try to focus on the living like he said (I think it was Floridavid who wrote that. I`m at a loss for words. Take care.
Name: and with the new year
comes bullshit hunting season
Location: so you better take cover, I`m coming
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 06:49:08
Comments:
And god, I can`t wait. I`m salivating... Yoo-hoo!!
Name: Blaise
Donny`s gone, I`m not
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 06:42:24
Comments:
stevie dan - I was just saying... don`t get all worked up there buddy.
StAl - You read fast, don`t you? All Rush LYRICS are Neil Peart`s, not the music of course.
Chere - Shout out to you as well. I`m always glad to be on the wish list.
Happy New Year to all except you `cause you obviously don`t give a shit and as a result, I don`t like you. haha
See you soon.
Name: Robin
Hit The Record Button
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 19100 at 04:03:10
Comments:
TV Event Note: Ken Burns (the man who did the "Baseball" miniseries) has done a 19-hour documentary on Jazz. It begins its PBS run on Monday, January 8. The article is in the new TV Guide. Should be a great one.
Name: fezo
araspofmyformerself
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 15:55:06
Comments:
hey Roy, I feel (and share) your pain. what I prefer to call the Virginia Men of The Guestbook Virus struck me down as well, just in time for the start of a two week vacation. feeling much better now, of course, cause tomorrow I'm slated to head back to work.
Santa was good to me this year, leaving a Bose CD/Radio at the foot of the Christmas stool. First disc in was the Remastered Gaucho.
Nice.
Name: Larry the lanlord
they charge you $10 is you ask where the bathroom is....
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 11:30:41
Comments:
Joe Baum sold the Rainbow Room to the Cipriani family over two years ago. The entire place was redone (for the worse) and the cuisine was switched over to Italian. The Promenade bar was redone (now the bartenders have the great view instead of the customers), and when you order a J.W.Walker black they give you Thompsons and charge you more than even a Black's worth. The place got such bad reviews (as Cipriani's) that they're trying to switch the name back to the Rainbow Room to get the tourists and former clientele back. This place has become a parody of its former self. Have fun!
Name: z
x
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 11:02:09
Comments:
Since the war betwixt the evil Dr. Mu and the
good-natured Swede Clas has quieted down, I feel compelled to restart the
dispute by quoting a book my brother-in-law received for Christmas yesterday.
The title of the book is "Kind of Blue" and that's all it's about. If
you want to know anything about what was probably one of the greatest jazz
recordings ever released, this book will do the trick.
Before I get to the SD related (or should I say DF, because WB isn't mentioned
at all) part, the info that amazed me the most was that Bill Evans did not play
any of the tunes on that LP before the recording date! That incredible
introduction to "All Blues", with the marimba-like trill on the sus9
chord was improvised by Bill Evans that very second! "More of the
same" with everything else on the LP.
There is a lot of speculation Miles didn't write all of the stuff on the LP, and
there's more than enough evidence that Bill was responsible for half or more of
the tunes.
They're both gone now, but each one claimed the opposite of what the other
claimed.
As far as DF's piano playing, DF is quoted as saying that songs with simple
riffs, like "All Blues", were all he was capable of doing back then
because he had no formal training.
However, this only covers the 1960s, and who knows what he did afterwards. He
did say that he was incapable of blowing on fast tempo bop tunes at that time.
He makes a few more interesting comments about the LP, calling it sexual
wallpaper for that time period and talking about the trance-like mood it
conjures up. I think "Do It Again" was DF's rock and/or roll
equivalent of that same trance-like modal mood.
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 08:58:09
Comments:
Aus: Ressie's tomorrow, as they are dealing with this new years thang......can't make the Rainbow - too many domestic chores to take care of, but thx for the offer......next time.......a dreamy man I am today.....go figure....
ygk
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 08:51:55
Comments:
Larry the Landlord the rent is due: WRONG! If you call
212 632-5000, a Rainbow Room employee will politely answer the phone and any
other queries you may have. They are up and running and have been up and running
without breaks in the action. You can go there yourself tonight for
drinks/dinner but be sure to wear a jacket or you'll be left out in the cold. By
the way, here's the address if you need it: GE Bldg, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th
Floor (between 49th and 50th Streets). Have a super holiday!
Aus
Name: Larry the lanlord
rents due
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 08:43:35
Comments:
Aussie-- Be careful if you're going to the Rainbow Room tonite! It's been closed for the last two years.
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 08:15:52
Comments:
YGK: Nice post on Healing Hands Drummers. Let me know about ressies later with CaraMia. Don't know if babes is a positive yet. Drinks at Rainbow Room tonight after the bell with mother-in-law and babes. If you'd like to join, blast me at work, you're always welcome.
been listening to Charlie Brown Christmas CD. Soooothing, calming, velvety piano. So nice.
Aus
Name: S.P.
same as before
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 08:11:25
Comments:
Alta --- I always enjoy listening to Book of Liars in AIA, since I don't have Becker's solo album. The image of a Santa Claus drunk "on Christmas wine" gives us a heavy doze of reality. Most people would say, "How dare you portraying our sacred icon in that light?" You are right --- Christmas is not the happiest time for everyone. Maybe the Santa Claus in the song wasn't very happy?
Name: Alta
thomasal@erols.com
Location: WDC,
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 07:55:48
Comments:
Steely Pete--Good to see you back. Come to think of it, Book of Liars has a verse about Christmas, although it's not the sort of image one associates with the average sort of Christmas song. It's a rather touching scene though, and one that captures well the fact that the holiday is not entirely joyous for everyone. (The emotionally accurate depictions of negative events is one of the great charms of Becker's solo work, in my opinion; whenever I'm in a bad mood, his music keeps me company.)
Name: Steely Pete
Backatwork@Eastern Shore of MD
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 07:27:12
Comments:
Chere --- very sorry about your friend's death. It must be devastating to you. My thoughts and prayers are with you. You know I admire how you managed to do wonderful things for other people while you are grieving your loss! You are one wonderful person! I haven't been reading the GB as often as I would like because of my work at three different places. I am glad at least I caught your post this morning.
Merry Christmas, one and all! It's not too late to say it because there are twelve days of Christmas!
Belatedly --- the idea of D & W doing a Christmas song is strange. If they want to do a Hanukkah song --- that's something else.
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 07:18:29
Comments:
The Healing Hands Drummers......(as documented 12/21)
based on my experience at Tonic, NYC, Wednesday, December 20, with Vernon Reid,
Will Calhoun, and the 14 fine musicians assembled and their families....:
I arrived at Tonic to be greeted
by Vernon Reid - fist bumping fist, and he says "Hey, thanx for
coming", and we waltzed in to the main room, a cement rectangle except for
the wooden beamed ceiling. I wondered how Medeski, Martin and Wood made a
successful recording - "Tonic" - there with all the cement, but gave
props to the beams for acoustic trapping.
The room was full with musicans, drummers, brothas, sistas, and a few small
children, in what was an encouraged smoke free space - room for 100, seating for
50.
Gradually, congas were brought out for the audience to jam on.
At last Vernon came out and spoke
of the cause - guerilla influenced amputees in sierra leone. He mentioned seeing
a photograph of a sierra leone man kneeling on the ground - holding his 2-year
old, having the truth ring home as both man and child were handless. Anyone can
imagine the horror, and yet as a musician - drummer, guitarist, whatever, as
Vernon said, to have "the drum taken away from you" is a heightened
and maddening horror unlike we've ever seen before, especially in this cruel
quantity at this time in history.
Many moans were heard from the crowd, especially from me, and there was felt a
profond sadness amongst those present.
One of the leaders of the circle ritualized us with african chants for those
amputees and their families.
Then, the drumming began. Each of th 14 percusionists had their solo-the modern
east indian finger drummer, the conga brothers, timbales, various african
drummers, all lendiing their soul for crowd of learned listeners.
Then it was like someone turned on
a switch - the intimacy of the solo minisets grew into the family collective -
the 2 principle african drum leaders set the pace matching wits with the bass
drummer, who laid out simple, powerful underbeats...and everybody played. I
played on the bar, percussion was handed out to the room, shouts and screams of
joy were interspersed.
The leaders then upped the tempo about 30 bpm, and more jamming, singing. I
couldn't help to think that our dear Chere was in the house, and there was no
proof that she wasn't.
I had chills and my lovely date was in a dancing frenzy.
The leader upped the tempo again....the swell of wave after wave of multirhythms
washed the room........
And then, at the cue, it stopped.
At once.
The silence for 10 seconds seemed like an eternity.....and then applause and shouts for the knowing it all......a deep primal cleansing.....for everyone....
Will Calhoun featured his electronic drumming on a solo box which was stunning and aurally expansive. Another 2 songs followed, with different drop beat patterns, and the waves of multirhythms ebbed and flowed into a shouting and applauding frenzy.
What was apparent at the end of the evening was the mourning of wrongs had produced a profound collective conviction against further activity, and the drumming may have cleansed the hardened heart and healed some wounds......
an unforgettable, resonant
eve.......
peace and good will,
ygk
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 06:37:41
Comments:
.....greetings, everyone.....hope they had a great solstice.....did anyone get to see the meteor shower?....
Chere: peace....I e-ed you.....
Aus: hope things are good in your world......
ygk
Name: Altam
WDC
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 05:34:11
Comments:
I meant "presents." And I hope things are going well for all of you.
Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: WDC,
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 05:33:15
Comments:
F#maj--Good to see you back here.
Chere--That is really rough; life can be pretty horrible. I'm sorry about your loss.
lp--Yes, I'd definitely be interested in the planning article.
Well, I made it through another secular Christmas season. I had plenty of time alone to ruminate on my rotten family and how much we can't stand one another, but my friend Dave came over yesterday afternoon and we had a lovely time together so things turned out pretty well. As he was dropping me off at work this morning, he commented on how this was one Christmas that didn't suck, for either of us. And now I still have eleven days of the liturgical Christmas season ahead of me, which I may even enjoy now that all the crap is over. I'll get my cards out before Epiphany.
I did buy presents for my friends and I'm about to buy some for my family (we always exchange presents late, sometimes by a few months), but I'm actually opposed to exchanging present for a variety of reasons, including its promotion of greed and bad character. One of these years I'm going to figure out a way to opt out of it without looking cheap, since that's most definitely not my motivation; I'd be doing it for moral reasons.
Name: Gina
and so be it
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 19100 at 01:42:07
Comments:
some euro-sympathy for the Roy Scam, haha ...
we're a bit under the weather here in Holland as well, now we actually have this
white X-mas, hm, it doesn't even ring any (x-mas) bell???
hi Ruby B and Robin ...think it's swell the GB-ers even have time to check these Trees in between the holiday fuzz, like making dinner ..entertaining guests, opening presents or listening to some fine music?
okay, off for some breakfast, it's 10.30 am in a snowwhite Maastricht ...
maybe later, love the
"shoptalk" and Zappa ... been listening to the "don't do that on
stage anymore" and it's wild, to say the least ..hmmm ...
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina
Name: ruby baby
water2wine@aol.com
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 22:42:02
Comments:
Midnite C: That's so beautiful! It brings me Peace and I feel the wholeness of His simple message. I heard Him say of your web card, "That's a keeper!"
It's been so long since I've been able to log on. I see that a wide range of experiences are still happening to us all. But the nature of this site allows for the sharing of so much. Thank you, st.Al.
RoyScam: hard as I try, I can't manufacture pity for you. You're too full of good humor even when you're sick. We can count on you! Rare, these days...
I forget who suggested that Don & Walt try recording a Christmas time tune. I suppose Charlie Freak is their best effort and a fine one. (Doesn't DF celebrate Hanukkah ?) It seems to me that the SD message over all & in a nut shell is that every day is meant to be lived like it's *Christmas* but people can't & don't... I'm actually glad that they don't do a Christmas song just to cash in on the season like so many others.
Merry Christmas every day
rb
Name: Roy.Scam
the.day.after.Christmas.and.they're.back
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 22:13:57
Comments:
Too late. It's already December 26th where I sit.
God love you one and all.
Name:
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 22:08:24
Comments:
Roy Scam...... Go f%#k yourself!
Name: the Innocent One
brassmonkey2@hotmail.com
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 21:58:00
Comments:
Happy Holidays to all!!!!
Hope all of you have wonderful holidays filled with Love and Dan!
Michelle/I.O.
Name: Roy.Scam
there's.no.no.stissin'.like.soul.solsticen'.with.you
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 21:47:04
Comments:
Happy Holidays folks. I'm impressed. It's almost midnight and no one's been an asshole on the guestbook all Christmas day. This is the kind of good-will-towards-men event of which Jimmy Stewart movies are made.
I've been trying to celebrate the holidays with my friends and family and be snivelingly sick and self pitying at the same time. So far I've done a pretty good job. Had to go to the Doc in a Box Saturday, where I discovered that half the population of Virginia was suffering from some mass pre-Christmas epezudic. I think the Doctor liked me; she said I had a cute bronchitis. I'm only telling you this in an attempt to garner some holiday pity from a broader geographical area, perhaps even some international empathy.--But despite the physical misery and exhaustion, it was a hell of a good Christmas and I hope the lot of you out there are, in general, as lucky as I.
chere~Best wishes and sympathetic feelings to you. It takes a lot of extra strength to be a caring person, which, clearly, you are.
F#~ great posts; nice to see you back. I've heard your guitar work, and there are unquestionably more than two fingers involved. In fact, I was about to ask if you had six fingers on your left hand. (But don't answer that; you may incriminate yourself as the man who killed my father.)
Since I haven't actually mentioned Steely Dan yet, let me offer this: If I were Don and Walt, I would write a Christmas season song, or at least a winter type song with pandering universal appeal; if it became poular, I'd have a hit recording 3 weeks a year forever (see Lennon, Eagles, Elvis, McCartney, Stevie W., Beach Boys, Feliciano,etc.) But that's just me; I have many wants and not much pride.
and Happy New Year,
RS
Name: Miz Ducky
flying through again
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 20:07:26
Comments:
All and sundry: wishing you the best Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice season, Chanukah, holiday break, whatevah.
Just spent the extended holiday weekend having a variety of fun times with a warm and wonderful new lady-friend. In addition to many other levels of compatability, she actually enjoyed sitting around and grooving to Dan records with me! Will wonders never cease?!?
Chere: my condolences too on the death of your friend. May her memory be for a blessing.
/Mam'zelle Canard
attempting to mellow down for the coming work-week (such as it is)
Name: Aussie
@home
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 19:36:54
Comments:
Chere: devastating. Our prayers and thoughts are with you chile. She'll let you know everything's ok eventually...I know it. Hang in there. Cigars will be mailed this week.
All: Spent a wonderful Christmas weekend with family. Lots of food, gifts and champagne. Missed out on all the celestial events.
YGK: Dude, sorry I haven't gotten to post your wonderful reviews of the healing drums gig you caught last week. I anticipate a slow day tomara although there's a big Treasury buyback/auction which should stir things up a bit. If I can get a break I'll post them for you no worries.
Aus
ps. Chere I will voice blast you this week.
Name: z
x
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 16:01:32
Comments:
F#Major9th- You're pretty smart for a high school kid-
what instrument do you play (probably guitar or piano from your name)?
That guy who heads the jazz workshop sounds like a real jerk- what school is
this? (or what borough, if you don't want to get too specific).If he's getting
paid to run the jazz workshop, tell him to get off his ass or you'll tell the
principal about him. That'll get him moving.
I try to do things they can relate to, so we've worked on jazz things with an
emphasis on funk, because most of the rhythm section kids are drummers or bass
players in their churches, and love fusion stuff. We've done Birdland,
Cantaloupe Island etc.. and the kids really play the shit out of that stuff.
Some of them play with more soul than pros I work with on gigs.
One of the trumpet players wanted to do A Train, so we played that last week.
One of my previous students played in a production of Lohengrin at Carnegie Hall
(also trumpet) and is majoring in Music at Queens College.
We've got a Multicultural Festival concert coming up in a few months and we're
going to do Sonny Rollins' "St. Thomas", Randy Weston's "Blue
Moses" and we're gonna try to do "Manteca" or "Night in
Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie, but we don't have any screech players so Manteca
will be pretty difficult to pull off.
Zappa would be fun to do, but I don't know if the kids could relate too well to
his stuff, we only have one white kid in the band. Zappa appeals mostly to white
kids in the suburbs, and if I were teaching there I'd definitely do a lot of
Zappa. I like exposing kids to new music, but I don't think this particular band
could pull Zappa off (or would even try).
I've tried to expose them to SD as much as possible, and some of them totally
flipped over "Green Earrings" from the "Plush Jazz-Rock party
video, so we may do a small group thing on that.
God, when I heard that, I almost died! "Black Cow" is another one they
might like, but SD for a large ensemble tends to sound kind of muzak-ish so that
might be good for a small group too.
Even that Woody Herman album didn't really capture the essence of SD, it's just
not large ensemble music, too many small group nuances.
Name: Hutch
shop talk again.com
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 13:30:20
Comments:
F# - Trapeze tailpiece. And it has Humbuckers instead of
P-90s. It's a special edition '98 model. Deep wine red with gold hardware. I got
it from a private collector here in town. He has around 100 (I shit you not)
guitars in his collection. Every one of them are exceptional instruments. He's
got a Paul Reed Smith Dragon that goes for around $12,000. That's the one with
the intricate color inlay of a dragon that runs from one end of the fretboard to
the other. His driver's license reads: GTR CRZY.
It's funny how the sound and feel of a new instrument can inspire you to play at
your best. And it's really amazing that one can play an instrument for many
years and still learn new things just simply by picking it up and playing it.
Five songs I'd like to hear on the next tour:
Time Out of Mind
Almost Gothic
Pretzel Logic
The Caves of Altamira
Florida Room
Name: Robin
It's Like Christmas Day...
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 12:38:57
Comments:
Oleander--it took longer for UPS (gee, I'm having a hard time typing--could it be the homemade vintage???) to deliver my tshirt than I thought it would. But--it is OH SO WORTH IT!!!!!
Thank you so much, St. Al!!!! I look forward to having it on for this summer's Danfests!
Christmas made happier by the unexpected visits of much-loved friends. May everyone feel the the wonder and love I am feeling now over this holiday season. Major positive karma going out to you all.
z--feel better, please! I was sick last weekend--didn't like it. Special healing thoughts going out to you!
Back to cooking that holiday dinner.....
Name: F#maj9
F#la la la la...
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 10:31:30
Comments:
Chere: a solemn prayer for peace beyond the sorrow.
Hutch: what kind of tailpiece?
and now, a Christmas tale-
z: the chairman of the music dept
at my NYC public HS made an allowance for a "jazz workshop" class. day
one: he points to guys in the front row "you're on drums, you're on bass,
you play sax... etc." they played Take 5 for 45 minutes until the bell
rang- though no one knew the bridge. the chairman sat at his desk during this
time doing some sort of paper work [maybe rejecting requests for instrument
repairs due to budgetary limitations? my pal Gary was using bandaids to replace
decayed pads on his tenor... used bandaids. eep. ]
Some combination of "appointed" students invariably descended on the
instruments at the front of the room and ascended through the two-chord jam
until someone got an idea for something else to play. this was the jazz
workshop.
the chairman never showed the class the bridge despite the fact that it became
the "warm-up" exercise for the entire semester. he was getting paid to
run the department [which consisted of "handing out instruments", as
far as i could tell] Maybe he couldn't read music?
a new music store opened near my girlfriend's house. I stopped in to see if they
had any sheet music... The chairman of the music department was standing there
in the back [waiting for a tardy student?! ya.]
i find out he is their new sax teacher. we are both embarassed to be setting
eyes on the other in this setting. i ask the store owner if they have a jazz
section...
he shows me a fake book. that's the jazz section.
during christmas vacation [ah, relevnce] me and Gar check out Time Out from the
Public Liberry and go to work...
so, dear z, i suggest somewhere
between Mr Opus and My Old School is a wonderfully real potential which I find
vicariously thrilling. post what you are working on from time to time. did you
know that you can purchase Zappa scores from barking Pumpkin?
joy to the world
F#
Name: z
x
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 07:36:32
Comments:
Oleander- TecMO2001?, does that have anything to do with puking up Deludin?
Name: Jim
#
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 07:28:43
Comments:
So well written Gina. A thought indeed, for Chere. What a treasure to this board she is.
Name: Jim
#
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 07:28:34
Comments:
So well written Gina. A thought indeed, for Chere. What a treasure to this board she is.
Name: Gina
dotdotdot
Date: Monday, December 25, 19100 at 02:12:45
Comments:
as in a moment for you Chere ...
you know how it works and my sympathy goes out to you, remember that sometimes
wisdom and knowledge and an understanding of events are chained to this pain and
sadness and temporary darkness ... but the light can be seen and felt if you go
beyond that level and reach out for it, the spiritual side of things ...
your friend will now watch over you, forever close.
i'm sure you'll feel peace the moment ...
Chere, your passion and vibrant way on this board has brought many smiles and good vibeys, so know we will all return that favor gladly if we can, just by thinking of you, okay?
to all others who pop in to say hi
and wish merry X-mas :
this has been an amazing year, especially when I found this board. and Ole,
don't be blue, you'll wear yellow before you know what hit ya!!!
so thanks to everyone and thanks to Steely Dan for their music and a stunning
live concert in Rotterdam!
Happy Banyan Tree Holidaze,
Gina
Name:
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 23:13:43
Comments:
oh shut up. and happy holidays.
Name: oleander
adildic but proud
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 22:36:51
Comments:
chere--horrible. Sad & warm condolences to you & to her family.
z--And all I want is time. Speaking of which, have you finished your submission to TecMo 2001 yet?
St. Al--[trembling lip] B-but where is MY t-shirt? Did my check bounce?
Aja--Solstice past; I already feel better. Can't wait til the eclipse tomorrow.
Name: rumblestrip
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 20:41:01
Comments:
Hey Chere. I am very sorry to hear of the death of your close friend. I haven't known you very long, but I can tell that you are a really strong woman and you will get through this time. My thoughts are with you.
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Name: Hutch
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 19:18:59
Comments:
Chere - My sincerest condolences to you and to your friend's family. It's a tragic thing but I know somehow you'll make something good out of it!
Spending a quiet evening enjoying a little chiba, some fine California Cabernet and my new Gibson ES-135. My Christmas present to myself. This is one sweet sounding geetar! Well suited indeed for Steely chords. Can't keep my hands off of it.
Here's hoping everyone has a great holiday!
And here's a toast to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker... Their music is simply the best. Thanks for the new album and the tour. It was an amazing year!
H.
Name: z
x
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 17:58:33
Comments:
Chere- Idon't know what I can say to make some sense out
of what happened, but hang in there kid.
Santie Dan- That was another of my strange little fictions. I was trying to make
my character as off the wall as possible, which might explain most of my first
posts here.
Holland's Opus was just more Hollywood corn. The guy I replaced was a teacher at
the school for 33 years, and they didn't even give him a present or party when
he split!
The gig itself is made more bearable by doing a lot of jazz, with all my own
arrangements, written out solos, etc.. If I were to play the library they have,
I would've stopped a long time ago!
It's also fun to play different instruments you've never tried before and try
and get some chops together. They ordered a Roland Digital Piano that's a great
axe, and 2 XP80s that I spent the entire summer finally recording my string
quartet, WW quintet and a bunch of original jazz tunes I've written, using the
sequencer.
I developed my own "virtual" group consisting of a spaced out chick
singer who sings doos and dahs all the time, an upright bass player, a wierdo
jazz vibist and drummer and a spacey string section that cuts in and out all the
time, plus a jazz flautist. The result is a real "noir" sounding thing
that has Gary McFarland, Bernard Herrmann, and David Raksin influences.
Well, Merry Christmas all, but it's not too merry for me.
I've got a 101.5 fever, and I've been puking all day.
Even Dr. K's Deludin won't stay down!
Name: Robin
@Winter Wonderland
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 13:52:54
Comments:
Chere: My thoughts and prayers go out to you on the loss of your friend. Why things happen as they do is such a mystery sometimes. Your friend is in a better place now--may you find strength from others to get you through this sad time.
All good thoughts and blessings to everyone, whichever holiday you may celebrate. May we enjoy a break from sad things and look forward to a good new year.
Peace,
Robin
Name: fezo
JohnAshcroftiswatchingyou
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 12:21:07
Comments:
favorite songs of the season:
Bruce's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". Through the wonders of Napter, I've discovered this year multiple versions of the song, each with a different goofy intro involving Santa suddenly appearing over the New Jersey shoreline. Enough to even get my cynical self into the holiday spirit
"2000 Miles", Pretenders
"Christmas Tonight". The Band
"Merry Christmas Baby" by "?". Just heard it today, sounded
like the Charlie Brown version, except real pared down on the production side,
just vocal, piano, and horns featured, nice underproduced sound to it.
[insert seasonal greeting of your choice here]
fezo
Name: D.J Mitch
@WJAZ
Location: Mt. Belzoni,
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 08:43:40
Comments:
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah,Kwansa,Ramadan to all.
Name: "dano"
just a quick one
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 06:43:51
Comments:
Just to say , hope all my friends have a great xmas i"ve really enjoyed all the posts and feel I know most of you without actually meeting you all.Have a nice xmas and a happy time.
regards "dano"
Name: Cokera
cokera@cokera.com
Location: dallas , tx TEXAS
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 04:46:10
Comments:
Rock on!http://www.cokera.com
Name: Cokera
cokera@cokera.com
Location: dallas , tx TEXAS
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 04:45:30
Comments:
Rock on!http://www.cokera
Name: santa tones,
stuck in a chimney...
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 01:52:39
Comments:
...practicing for my big night...
I got nothin' to say except...
chere, you're on my mind.
much love, my friend.
tony
Name: steviedan
my god, chere
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 01:04:37
Comments:
i just reloaded and saw your post and now mine seems so inappropriate in light of the subject. i am so sorry about the tragic death of your friend. my thoughts are with you ree.
Name: santiedan
ho ho...
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 00:58:49
Comments:
... ho's gotta eat too.
blaise ? did i anger or touch a nerve there bud ? all apologies. or was it the getting-you-back-into-rush thing ? seriously mr b, i can understand why this would be a hard time of year for you as a single pop. callous expression of marital bliss on my part. if it makes you feel any better, our two cars (the vehicles, not the band) both broke down on the exact same day. just days after the anniversary. we just had to laugh. you too, all of you. let's just have a big ol' gut buster and say "to heck with it, it's CHRISTMAS dagnabbit"...
and gosh darnit z ! long live jimmy knepper ! hallelujah ! 'bone back from the dead. night of the living trombone. in the words of the title of a great knepper album. i guess "i dream too much". it sounds like the day gig is fulfilling. many of my colleagues that went on to be high school band and orchestra directors seemed to end up hating music as a matter of course. i figured that it was mostly approach and that the mr holland scenario was attainable. sounds like you're onto it. congratulations. only one small question. didn't you say a while back that you LOST that gig ? maybe i was dreaming too much again.
ole, does that include vinyl and video products as well ?
get up under this mistletoe you CRAZY PEOPLE. kissy kissy kissy to you one and all. i have so enjoyed your collective company here, and saint al willin' and the creek don't rise, i'll continue our electron festival in the new year and see you on the "2001: a dan odyssey" tour that don promised. hey, if i get bored with my presents i may be back tomorrow night. but in case not...
yours
steviedan aka steve barbour in raleigh nc.
peaceout.
Name: chere
sugabearchere@hotmail.com
Date: Sunday, December 24, 19100 at 00:23:01
Comments:
Hello all and many blessings to all my friends here on the GB. I am sorry to be scarce here lately but on Wed night I learned one of my closest friends was murdered. Someone came into her home and shot her in the head. It has been a very sad week.
LP- darlin' I got my little package back- I am SOOO sorry- I forgot to put Your actual street address on it- Just the name and city state, Flaking out, I am so warped. I will resend it after Monday and hope it will help in the hopefully end portion of the nasty bug you have been fighting. If not use it next time round. It lasts forever!
Steviedan- I truly know how you have been feeling. Blessings I have missed you. TRue Dat
Aussie- Thanks so much for the shout out. I really needed that. Hope to see the cigars in the mail soon. Hello to the Babes from me.
To the unsung hero here who I KNOW would like to remain namelss: I was able to gather aprox 80 bucks adding your contribution to mine and make Christmas happen for these kids. Thank you for you contribution and kindness. I DID recieve also a bit of money for Christmas for me and then I spent it all on those I love. Who cares right? Somehow someway money will come from somewhere to help me buy some grocery items I just KNOW it! Miracles are right around the corner for me.
Hutch- I have this compilation that my beau's brother made for me of ALL live and many of them vintage, burned for me on Cd's. There is this fantastic version of Do It Again that has this incredible drum percussive very very Santana sounding flava to it. The audience is very small, you can tell it is in some hot and smokey New England place and the applause is only a few folks. I know it is real old because at the end Walter introduces a song from their NEW alum Pretzel Logic. Very fucking cool. Perhaps someone here attended that gig? If so, DO TELL!
Midnite Cruiser- check out Pat Metheney's Imaginary Day- a newer album- it is really really awesome save one song where he experiments with a strange techno vibe. I don't care for it too much, but the rest kicks ass. Check out Travels too. There's this song called "It's for You" This song can make ANYONE feel better also a great driving tune.
YGK- As you have read above I have
not been much for e mailing. I am pretty down these days. Sad and fragile but
always hopeful and confident that MY blessin' is on the way chile'. Who needs
christmas presents when we have so many other things to be thanksful for right?
Someone out there will think of me. You'll see. I'll keep doing that high ritual
thang including you in my high ritual day Monday, as I have been since you
announced your move with the great hope that things will get even better yet for
you. Solstice was sweet huh? Did some high JUJU fer dat also. e mail me with
some of your sweet words. I need a good pick me up. Love you much- REE
Aja Baby-I sure hope you are feeling better sweetie. Anything you need? Lemme
know okay? Ms. E , No, Queen Erykah Badu's new CD is slamming. Very Chaka,
Gaye,War, African, Billie Holiday stuff. Everyone in the world should own that
strong power stuff. VERY VERY Jazzy- Ol skool jazz. Feel it when you can and
let's compare notes chile'.
~~~~~~~: I dont know how to make
your handle on the keyboard so this is it. You asked for an explaination of
Kwanzaa. Here it is. I am celebrating it myself this year because I am moving
through SO many changes right now in my life. Now about the Kwanzaa...
Kwanzaa is the yearly traditional celebration of the "first fruits"
and the begining of harvest season. The holiday of Kwanzaa is a modern creation
intended to recall those traditions in celebrations of family, community, and
culture. People now celebrate Kwanzaa in Africa, and throughout the world not
only the U.S.. This holiday was founded in 1966, during the midst of the Black
Freedom Movement in 1966, a heritage reflected in the philosophy of the Nguzo
Saba ( the seven principles of life). The seven principles are:1) Umoja-Unity 2)
Kujichaquila-self determination 3) Ujima-collective work and responsibilty
4)Ujamaa-cooperative economics 5) Nia-purpose 6)Kuumba-creativity
7) Immi-Faith. These principles are named in Swahili, which is chosen as the
most widely spoken of African languages, predominantly in Eastern Africa. The
seven days of Kwanzaa start on December 26th. On each day one of seven calndles
are lit, symbloizing the seven principles in turn. Ancestor reverence is another
very impotant aspect as well, traditional african food is prepared and served to
the living and to those that have been. Homemade items are the only acceptable
gifts to be given or recieved. Here's the best part.. The last day of Kwanzaa is
the most special. It is a day of reflection during which three questions to
onesself are considered. They are: Who Am I?
Am I really who I say I am? and Am I all I ought to be? First three days a red
candle is lit, the next are three green and the last a black. The food is always
eaten by the light of these candles. I have studied so very much in my religious
journey to be this who I am the JUJU Chile', so I happen to know a bit about the
African customs. The ones that I follow are Western Africa- formerly Yorubaland
now called Nigeria. But I do Know Africa. That's the best explaination I can
think of. Hope I answered your query.
St Al- Darlin' do you remember way back when you were so pleasantly surprised that I was a huge RUSH fan? We chatted it up a bit in the chatroom- you know, the one I cannot access anymore? St Al is so right it was definantly a joint effort in the songwriting although Brother Neil did alot of it. He is very very spiritual on an almost Wiccan sort of vibe. I love and own everything they have done. They ROCK!!!!!!!! Especially the super old stuff. Word to all RUSH fans, I read in Modern Drummer recently that Brother Neil has remarried after his tragic loss of his wife and daughter in 1997. They are all set to go back into the studio and start the beginings of a new album. No specifics, but I know to all the faithful out there that you are thrilled to know if you did not already. Perhaps we will be graced with a new Rush experience in the coming year or so. St Al please save me a T shirt, I will get money for one eventually.
Shout outs to Hank Silvers, Cara Mia,Amaris, Clas, Blaise,Gina, Mu,Steely Pete, the Duckster,Q, Ole, Topsoilant one,Lisa G, Howard, Hutch, Soul Monkey, Royal Scam, Floridavid,Not my Nancy, Craig (wherever you are, Soout (ditto),and anyone I forgot, I am so warped from funeral stuff and trying to ge the christmas stuff done, I haven't much brain power left right now. I am off to the bed. Sweet Slumber folks.
Many blessings and manifestations of goodness from the resident JUJU Chile'-Much Love and peace, shout at me privately (you know who you are) or on this board, I will sho nuff be checking.- chere
Name: z
x
Date: Saturday, December 23, 19100 at 15:32:00
Comments:
As usual, I only have access to a computer on weekends,
making me a weekend worrier, both online and on gigs, so, hopefully, everyone's
away visiting loved ones or some such other nauseating activity, and all I have
is- yes, you guessed it- Doctor Warren Kruger.
Dr. Kruger usually schedules five or so therapy sessions a day during the
holiday period, and I wind up being his shrink to some extent, listening to his
numerous failures as a mental health practitioner thru the years, giving him
advice on how to avoid those thousands of minds he's left in a veritable
no-man's land by botched psychopharmacological prescribing, inept leukotomies
and the like. I must give him credit for not allowing things like that to stop
him in his never ending search for fortune and fame. Truly a great American that
our newly elected alcoholic, ex-convict President would be proud of!
Oleander- Although I'm not sure if you want to be an observer or participant,
time is all I have! My qualifications for SD geekdom include possession of the
almost unlistenable soundtrack to "You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It,
Or You'll etc...
Lisa G.- I wouldn't cancel any plans you have, to jam with me. I'm not exactly a
motivated little jammer nowadays, although when I can kill an entire day by
jamming with my students when I should be teaching,(and getting paid for it, of
course), like I did Friday, i jump at the chance.
Yes, we're in the same Glamour Profession. I head the music Dept. at an NYC
inner city high school, and the fact that I've lasted 5 years in my first ever
day gig, continues to amaze me and everyone I know! Our Christmas Concert blew
the place away, with funk versions of Christmas and Chanukah songs, and my own
derangements of Ellington and Randy Weston.
Stevie Dan- I think Knepper is still alive. The sax player on the gig last
weekend said he heard him recently so, if anything happened, it must have been
very recent. Milt Hinton, on the other hand, is not so lucky...
Name: William Kidd
hillyer3hotmail.com
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Date: Saturday, December 23, 19100 at 13:27:43
Comments:
I'm been a slide guitar for countless years and I have
been
accustom to open E tuning almost exclusively. So, does anyone
know those catchy chords Walter Becker uses on "Cringemaker"
(of his solo CD) ?Let me know at hillyer3@hotmail.com
Many thanks, William
Name: Test
Test
Date: Saturday, December 23, 19100 at 10:56:57
Comments:
Just wondering
Name:
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 19:27:50
Comments:
Little does Sean Daly realize that his father actually named him to sound like an anagram of Steely Dan
Name: Alta
Whoops!
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 15:02:41
Comments:
I meant 30 best moments in pop music for 2000.
Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: WDC,
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 14:52:49
Comments:
Sean Daly, the Washington City Paper critic who dissed SD fans earlier this year, apparently has some affection for 2vN after all. In his article about the 30 top moments (he covers musical moments as well as CDs), this is number 23: Two Against Nature, Steely Dan. Twenty years since Fagen and Becker's last studio recording and no static at all. Dad, this is what you're getting for Christmas.
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 13:54:19
Comments:
Correction department -- Neil Peart did NOT write ALL of Rush's music. Definitly not. Both Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee contributed significantly to the song writing duties, especially during the salad days (pre Signals).
What the hell is a Dildonian?
Glad everyone is liking the shirts. Gots plenty more so place your order!
Merry Holidays to everyone on the guestbook. 2000 was quite a year. Here's hoping for another tour next Summer.
Pat
Name: DrMu
grammygotrunoverbyareindeer
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 12:24:59
Comments:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
* 43RD GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINEES
PRESS CONFERENCE
Announcement of the nominees for the 43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place
January 3 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA at 8:15 a.m. For
press information, please visit
http://www.grammy.com/press/awards.html
Name: DrMu
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 12:07:04
Comments:
Ghost: Was looking for 2 independent sources. This completes the triangulation.
"The History of Steely Dan
FAQ Put together by "Metal Leg" editor Pete Fogel with invaluable assistance from Tony Favia, Scott Silver and Bill Pascador
The Pre-Dan Era
Donald Fagen is born in Passaic, Jersey on January 10, 1948. Walter Becker is born in New York City on February 20, 1950. They both grew up as disaffected suburban youths, going to school in the daytime and listening to the music of their idols Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane at night. They both feel an affinity with the "Jazz Life."
Donald Fagen meets Walter Becker at Bard College in Annandale-On Hudson, New York in 1967. Fagen, a piano player, hears someone playing blues guitar in a student lounge and decides he must introduce himself. He discovers Becker playing a red Epiphone guitar and finds that they share the same interests in music and ironic senses of humor. A partnership is born.
They form several college bands including "The Leather Canary" (which fellow Bard student Chevy Chase sat in with a couple of times) and "The Don Fagen Trio." Fagen and Becker also start to write songs together.
Fagen graduates Bard in 1969 with an English degree. Becker also leaves Annandale. The two of them move to Brooklyn, New York and decide to peddle their songs at the famous Brill Building in Manhattan. They don't meet with much success, but they make an important early connection with Kenny Vance of Jay and the Americans. Vance helps them record some demos of their early material and gets them some odd jobs including doing the soundtrack for the low-budget Richard Pryor film "You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It." Vance also gets Becker and Fagen gigs as back-up musicians on Jay and the Americans' 1970-71 tour. Jay Black disaffectionately labels Donald and Walter as "Starkweather and Manson."
Fagen and Becker also meet another aspiring producer, Gary Katz, in New York. Shortly afterwards, Katz gets a job as staff producer at ABC Records in Los Angeles and also secures two staff songwriter positions for Fagen and Becker. With the hopes of making it big as songwriters, Donald and Walter move to L.A. in November 1971."
In toto (no pun intended) the Brill Buliding tenure (~1969) preceded meeting Gary Katz by at least a year + (~1971)...
Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: WDC,
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 11:47:22
Comments:
Shlomo-What about Judas Maccabeus?
Name: Shlomo Goldstien
Oy
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 10:22:43
Comments:
Midnight- I thought "Hannukuh Harry" was "the reason for the
season"?
Name: The Ghost of Hypnos past
and a happy new year
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 10:13:22
Comments:
Dr.Mu ~ The FAQ on the ODP is a much more detailed timeline then the link you
listed.
Wishing for another "new one" and a tour for 2001! Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night.
Name: minah (whirled)
If you post it, they will spam
Location: (Increasingly) South of Ruby, Ca
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 10:05:06
Comments:
Stal (and Jami!):Thanks for the UPS service! Don me now my guestbook t-shirt. Fa-la-la-la-la...That package was the finest gift I've received this season!!! (bow, scrape, kneel).
The Cows and I wish Happy Holidays to all of you, my guestbook friends.
mW
Name: father william
dc@vibrotek.com
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 09:03:53
Comments:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/reviews/12/21/review.kind.of.blue/index.html
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 08:35:25
Comments:
Season's Greetings from Jim & Shirl:
http://www.geocities.com/terrasque35/Christmas.html
Have a safe and happy holiday folks! See you all on the flip side.
MC & Opti
Name: D.J. Mitch
@ WJAZ
Location: Mt. Belzoni,
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 08:29:13
Comments:
Happy Holidays to all ,and yes that includes you BALLAH !I think that the double CD for 25 bucks a total of 33 songs covers most, but not all the collection would make a great gift for a fan of Steely Dan.......
Name: SoulMonkey
SoulMonkey168@aol.com
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 08:17:34
Comments:
Although I hardly ever agree with most of you left-wing wackos, I'm still a SD die hard. I don't post much at all anymore because it doesn't interest me as much anymore. Don't get me wrong, Steely Dan is and will be my fave band ever. From Mr Sam to Ghosts of Hypnos Past. Maybe I'll check back in here someday and try to get to know some of you better. Anyway, have a nice Christmas or whatever holiday you choose to celebrate and a Happy New Year
PeaceLoveandallthingsDAN
Tom
Name:
at a loss for words
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 07:51:52
Comments:
Donny is just about to enter a deep dark tunnel
Maybe he`ll catch you on the other side
Maybe he won`t,
Who`s to know?
He`ll try.
Come what may,
He had a blast with everyone here, yes, including you
You`ll stay on his mind as the good friend you were
All this time
He sincerely wishes an
Happy New Year
to all
Hold the fort guys
see ya!
Name: DrMu
takingabreakfromthedaygig
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 07:36:20
Comments:
Happy Holidays to ALL!!!!
Remember, Jan 1, 2001 is the REAL beginning of the new millenium!
Clas: no, I'll never win the Bunsen or Nobel Prize, but I'll piss on the building if I ever get to Stockholm!
Re: the Brill Builfing. Well documented.
Source: http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/contemporary/steelydan.html
Steely Dan Timeline:
1967-1968: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, erstwhile students at Bard College, discover common interests in jazz, blues, popular music and contemporary literature, particularly so-called Black Humor. They begin collaborating on songs which they perform in various pickup bands.
1969: **DF & WB attempt to peddle their songs door to door in the famous Brill Building, home to many if not most of the schlock music publishers of the day. They are eventually signed to a publishing deal by a small company owned by 60's group Jay and the Americans, who are enjoying a brief revival of their popularity due to their hit remake of the Drifters' "This Magic Moment". **
1970: DF & WB join the Jay and the Americans' touring band
1971: On the recommendation of staff producer Gary Katz, the partners are signed as staff songwriters by Jay Lasker, president of ABC/Dunhill Records in Los Angeles. They move to Los Angeles where they are given a small office-with-piano in which to grind out the hits. A desk drawer in the office still contains the brown bag lunches of the previous song-writing team to use the office. The team interprets this touching detail as a symbol of the impermanence of success in the pop music scene. They proceed to write a series of classic but unrecordable cheesy pop songs, while secretly planning to assemble their own band and record their own album.
http://ascap.com/press/steelydan-041300.html
TOP ASCAP SONGWRITING HONOR TO
STEELY DAN
WALTER BECKER AND DONALD FAGEN TO RECEIVE ASCAP FOUNDERS AWARD
AT MAY 22 POP AWARDS GALA IN L.A.
The veteran songwriting, performing and producing duo of Walter Becker and
Donald Fagen, better known for the past three decades as the multi-platinum
Steely Dan, will be presented with the ASCAP Founders Award at the annual gala
ASCAP Pop Awards Dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 22, 2000, it was
announced today by ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman. In receiving
ASCAP's top award for lifetime achievement in songwriting, Becker and Fagen will
join an elite group of prior recipients which includes: Stephen Sondheim, Joni
Mitchell, Billy Joel, Hal David and Burt Bacharach, Smokey Robinson, Stevie
Wonder, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, and Jule Styne.
The annual ASCAP Pop Awards honor the writers and publishers of the most performed ASCAP songs each year. The event attracts a celebrity-studded audience of leading songwriters, recording artists and other music industry leaders each year.
The Becker and Fagen team had its beginnings in the 1960s when the two met at Bard College in upstate New York. **Following an attempt to make it as Brill Building songwriters**, Becker and Fagen became staff songwriters at ABC Records in Los Angeles in late 1971. Their cerebral songs didn't fit the artists on the ABC roster, but their own first album as Steely Dan, Can't Buy a Thrill, containing the hit singles, "Reelin' in the Years" and "Do It Again" made the rock and pop worlds take notice and initiated a string of best-selling albums and singles. Their song hits also include: "Peg," "FM," "Hey, 19," and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number." Steely Dan's new studio album, Two Against Nature, recently debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard chart, putting Becker and Fagen on the top of the charts again.
Commenting on the award to Becker and Fagen, Marilyn Bergman said, "Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have created a memorable body of work that has stretched the boundaries of rock & roll. Their songs are unique, clever, contagious, sophisticated, humorous and represent the best in American popular music."
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the world's largest performing-right organization, with over 95,000 active composer, lyricist, and music publisher members. ASCAP is committed to protecting the rights of its members by licensing and collecting royalties for the public performance of their copyrighted works, and then distributing these fees to the Society's members based on performances. ASCAP's repertory spans the entire spectrum of music - from pop to symphonic, rock to gospel, Latin to country to jazz, rhythm and blues, theater, film and television music. ASCAP's Board of Directors is made up solely of writers and publishers, elected by the membership.
Also:
The Weekend at the College:
Source: http://ascap.com/press/steelydan-041300.html
BerkleeÕ66
All consistent with writing and reading the language of music. They may not have written all of the charts, but they wrote some. Source: Gary Katz himself
Name: BF
krouse@javanet.com
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 07:34:45
Comments:
Pittsburgh gives Showbiz Kids 2.5 stars:
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20001222rec6.asp
Name: Floridavid
dmoore113@aol.com
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 06:49:39
Comments:
To all my GB friends: I Sincerely wish you All a
Wonderful Holiday Season.Especially Our Benefactors Don and Walt and StAl and
Hoops and families.I really Love this Place and what it Offers we Steely Dan
Fans.
It's been such a great year for my Wife Dale and I. I even got my GB T-Shirt!
Topping it all of will be the arrival of my Brother Tom and his Wife from
California today. They will stay with us here through the next week. So I'll be
scarce for a bit...but will return in the New Year.
I'm looking forward to January when Miz Ducky will pay a visit here in Florida.
She will be the 4th GB person I have met in Person.My Friends Edd, Altamira and
Q being the other 3.
So , To all of You have a Safe and Happy Time of it.
Peace and Banyon Tree Salutations, David Moore
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 06:20:05
Comments:
This has been an incredible year for me and Babes. We are
both so lucky to be where we are and have the friends and family that we both
do. From both of us to ALL of YOU:
Have yourselves a Merry little Christmas and a healthy and prosperous new
millenium.
Sincerely,
Susan and Aussie
Name: in a chord dance
no mudclub, no CBGBs
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 04:59:08
Comments:
in light of the serious chordial discussions present on this board, I found the following website to be from a slightly gone mad parallel universe
http://hem.passagen.se/ak5/ramones/
it won't take a simpleton a month off to figure these ones out
it's Ramones songs
I think they use a C#minor in one tune
Sheena is a punk rocker.... Sheena is...
Name: Gina
totally flu-ish
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 03:54:57
Comments:
but awake enough to know it's no good trying to find that Ramones site now, Chips, they needed their hair, sprayed it silver and with glittery thingies and hang them in X-mas trees ...so, you're stuck with the Banyan folk, haha!
back to my lemon-ginger-honey tea
and some extra blankets.
brrrrrrr.
Banyan Tree Sneeze,
Gina
Name: Happy Hanukwanzamas!
Danfriends... and otherwise...
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 02:14:51
Comments:
It's been a gas sharing stuff with you all this year.
Hope for many (many) more.
steely peace
tones
Name: TASTE OF FREAKIN' HONEY, BAY-BEE!!!
YOU CAN"T *NOT* BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE!!!
Date: Friday, December 22, 19100 at 00:12:40
Comments:
KNEEL TO THE AWESOME POWER OF THE WALKING OCTAVE DISCO BASSLINE! WHO NEEDS ANOTHER HIT SINGLE WHEN YOU CAN "GET DOWN AND B.O.O.?" AND WE'RE NOT TALKIN' PEACHES AND FRICKIN' HERB, HERE! NO, WE'RE TALKIN' THE FEMALE BROTHERS JOHNSON! PLAY B.O.O BACKWARDS AND YOU GOT "SHAKE IT UP". OCASEK KNEW THE TRUTH. HE BOWS, AND SO SHOULD YOU, TO THE SUPERIORITY OF THE FUNK SOUL SISTERS!
Name: YEAH BABY RIGHT
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
It's just a broken lullaby...
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 23:19:35
Comments:
If they don't nominate the real Slim Shady for album,
song, and record of the year -- not just relegate him to
the rap column -- then the Grammys will be as laughable as when the 1978 best
new artist statue went to A
Taste of Honey instead of Elvis Costello or the Cars. (You remember "Boogie
Oogie Oogie," don't you? And,
um, those many other Taste of Honey classics?)
Name: Rayfan
raycarrie@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 20:12:45
Comments:
First......Thanks Stevie Dan for your welcone and your warning.
A few observations I've made since
my first visit:
1. My typing skills have eroded completely.
2. There are pricks in this arena, at least one
hails from Harvard.
3. The public educational system has failed
to teach many people the difference between a
direct democracy and a representative republic.
On the whole however, I believe
there is much to
learn and enjoy here. The discussions about the
musicians and poets I love so much is enlightening,
and the rest of the wit and humor is certainly enter- taining. Merry Christmas
All,
and thanks again Stevie Dan
Name: JWMalibu
Dancin' down the slopes w/2VN in the 'phones...
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 19:40:29
Comments:
St Al ~ Thank you kindly, oh ever-gracious webmeister & all-round good guy, the t-shirt is great! Happy holidays to you and your family...
Howard ~ I was in Sam Ash today feeding my Christmas bonus equipment jonez, and picked up the 2VN Songbook...haven't had much time to sit down and really look at it, but the chords to "Almost Gothic" sound really close, if not correct. Certainly a far cry from the "close enough for rock n' roll" interpretations by Columbia Pictures Publications, etc. I bought myself one of the new TC Electronics M-One 24 bit stereo effects processor ~ sounds delicious, and a new Selmer alto sax, which also sounds great!
Ruby ~ Thanks for the seasons greetings! Our song is continuing to gel...
Lisa G ~ Here's the url for the GB Compilation info:
www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio/TM2000.htm
Happy Holidays to All!
Name: BF
krouse@javanet.com
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 18:32:53
Comments:
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 18:11:47
Comments:
steviedan....I'm sorry man! I didn't see your post and I try to read whatever you do post. I saw the references to folks offering their condolences but I didn't see the post. I've noticed at times, there are missing chunks of posts, up to a week, and later they reappear. Maybe St.Al is archiving when I check in or maybe I just overlooked your post. I was really sorry to hear about your friend. I also lost a good friend, neighbor and co-worker a few weeks ago. Thanks for posting about the Pat Metheny song. It really would have saved a few gray hairs! I'll be sure to check out the other one you recommended.
well, the 12 days off didn't pan out but I am off through Christmas at least before I go back to work. But I've worked 12 hours today on 5 hours sleep last night and am getting a bit punchy. Time for a serious snooze.
ole....I'll get back to you on the total Dan count while I'm off.
Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate the Feast of Dedication.
Happy Winter Solstice to those who find it to be something other than the longest night of the year.
I'd love to catch the meteor shower in the morning but I need the sleep too much. Shirl and I went out in August of '99 to watch the Perseids and saw more than 120 that night. Gotta love a good light show!
more to come after lots of sleep.....'night y'all.
Name: wayne-man
razzle-berry dressing
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 15:47:26
Comments:
no silly stories nor half-baked profundities to offer, just wanted to wish all a happy holiday......I've enjoyed reading the posts over the last week or so, although I don't have the musical acumen or fine ear to keep pace....(when someone hears the F-Troop theme in Rose Darling, please let me know).......it's only knock and know-all but I like it....wayneman
Name: hellooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 14:35:38
Comments:
hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(echo)
Name: chips
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 13:43:20
Comments:
wow, tristan fabriani, right here, right now - that's very cool, i may not go over to the ramones after all
Name: TheStranger
Coverups
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 12:25:25
Comments:
Clas,
The French cover up the smell of their tobacco, frog breath and unwashed body
parts with lots of good cologne.
Oleander,
Prince George's evil "nobles," who are in the same business as Sirhan
Sirhan on a more sophisticated level, cover up their evil coup by talking about
anything at all except who had more votes.
Name: Tristan
Yes, I remember you, too.
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 12:06:12
Comments:
Chips- It was the playground at pre-school. You wouldn't play with anyone and, occasionally, you threw pebbles at kids. Pitty.
My sympathies (btw, it's shoo-in...... not shoe-in)
Shoe now.
Tristan
Name: thirdworldman
www.geocities.com/sisteralphonso/home.html
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 11:34:43
Comments:
You forgot 1-2. 1-2. 1-2. These guys cant count to 3, obviously.
I was thinking about the holiday season today, and what it means to everyone. Listening to Snowbound brought it on I think. I was going to make a post on Hogmanay (New Years Eve), but seeing as how so many of us are leaving for the holidays I will do it now.
I am looking forward to Christmas this year, because I have two wee boys who are hyper about it, and seeing their faces light up when they see Santa is brilliant. I used to dislike Xmas because of the rampant commercialism, but this has changed things.
About the New Year. New Year is a
very special time, particularly for us Scots. Dano will back me up. The
atmosphere on Hogmanay is very special, and the focus is very much on drink and
merriment, but also on reflection and looking forward. I will be staying at home
due to my young chaps, but normally have some friends and family over. When the
lone piper starts playing at around 11.50pm, you can feel the teras welling up
in your eyes and the lump in your throat becomes like a rock. Normally we watch
the traditional Hogmanay celebrations on TV. I am always emotional at this time.
Often a mournful ballad sung with the accompaniment of a fiddle is performed
just before 'the Bells'. 10 minutes of hand shaking, tears and kisses are
followed by 8 hours of drinking.
I often go next door to 'first foot' my neighbour Eddie who is house bound.
Basically to wish him happy New Year and have a wee dram.
If I had posted this on New Years Eve I would have been half-canned and a lot more depressing. It is a happy time, but always tinged with sadness for those who are no longer with us, a la Auld Lang Syne's words.
Since I have started lurking here about 6 weeks or so ago, I have really felt included in this extended family. Although I'm not going anywhere over the holidays, I might as well take the opportunity to thank all of my new friends for welcoming me kindly, and to wish you all a merry Christmas, and a happy, prosperous and healthy 2001. Maybe Steely Dan will break the habit of a lifetime and release another album!!
Peace
Al
PS On the subject of dildoisms
etc. Residents of Dundee are known as Dundonians, so why can't we be Dildonians?
Also, I cant go to Madonna's wedding tomorrow as I have a heavy cold, but I'm
sure they'll have a wingding.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm still not in Michael Moore's league.
Cheers again
Name: testing
testing
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 11:13:49
Comments:
is this board still working
Steely Dan GB
testing
Name: chips
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 09:01:13
Comments:
Hey Tristan: I know who you are.......don't you have anything else to do than hang around here? I heard you come here every now and then but I didn't believe it - happy hannukah!
Name: F#iggy pudding
squeezing from the bottom of the tube
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 08:51:55
Comments:
snowbound in the heartland, "say what? four more inches? i didn't even notice". just another day at the saltmine.
Howard: i was too excited about showing you my chord [for a change] to notice the G. but, try that tapping thingie anyway. i hope santa brings you a bigsby.
NMN: tell the boss it was a false positive from the Sudafed... assid might clear your system more quickly?
D-Slut: here is a summary for every jewish holiday we gots- "they tried to kill us. we won. let's eat." my mom always shmeared a shtickle of schmaltz in the latkes. we could taste it for eight days. shah! speaking of toothpaste...
Blaise: i thought the line was "chasing out their dentists' fees"
Skully: could you hear Jacques Cousteaux too? seems our snorkels clogged at the same time. I can picture Hunter S. with a few of his peacocks, "unaccustomed as i am to public speaking i would just like to say... fuck you". i can also picture the 2000 Orchestra [tanned and rested] in front of an undulating auditorium on its feet to My Old School avec Phishy noodle dancing [accentuated by the Pogo, in the appropriate places]. que bella.
RoyScam: perspicacious semantics! Jimmy Buffet has his parrotheads, gee, that leaves us with little choice... dildolicious fun for the next danfest? see below for example of endodildism
Oleander: though i'm sure i have far more Zappa stuff, i can begin my esotericatally with Kristy MacColl's Electric Landlady [ha! who said the pun is the lowest form of humor?] purchased only because Elliot Randildall straps on a strat for a track or two. come to think of it, this may constitute extrapodildoid behavior.
Hutch: cha-cha, ho! we owe a debt of danitude to Jay and the Americans, indeed. i believe this. re:Brooklyn- i play piano like a two-fingered typist; the quasi-arpeggiated melody line is a rare example of one of Fagen's simpler hooks follwing the chord changes so closely [and the reason i can actually play it].
worm: tanks, tom; tanks a lot! deedles. don't forget Brain Wilson's woodpecker symphony. which instrument does the laugh? Agree most copiously with Guaraldi. another endodildonalysis [making tinkle].
Hutch, encore une fois: "we french only wash one thing, but we wash it very very well".
RoyScam2: i like the satan-as-charmer interp so much! According to B.Sweet, if this hasn't been mentioned dozens of times already, the charmer was a neighbor- quite literally "under", as in downstairs below underneath in another apartment!
don't forget to floss
warmly,
F#maj9/no G
Name: Hank Silvers
hanksilvers@dog.com
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 06:43:48
Comments:
MC, ole, Mu, Hutch, Roy, Lisa: Thanks to for the anniversary wishes; sending dozens of the same to Dr. Mu at TAMU.
In addition --
ole: I believe I'll have to recuse myself for obvious reasons...however, your challenge prompted me to pull out China Crisis' Flaunt The Imperfection and Diary of a Hollow Horse once more, so like the Nutley lady would say, that's a good thing.
Roy: Thanks also for that Pandildistic commentary.
Midnite + Opti: That is a real nice photo. It contains two of the 3 C's of Happiness -- Cats and Computers -- and maybe I just didn't see the Chocolate. Can't wait until you get that new unit and really start going to town with the cat pictures.
Floridavid: Glad we got that straightened out! Guess I should have learned a lesson from D + W about using the latest technological advances.
As a non-musician, to me the chord discussions here are like the bridge column in the newspaper ("...with South-Southeast invulnerable, North-by-Northwest ruffed to dummy's singleton..."). Interesting, if unintelligible to the layman.
Aussie and YGK: For you gentlemen in the belly of the money beast, here's wishing you both a prosperous 2001.
And that goes for the rest of you in GB-land, too...in 2 hours, I'm out of here and on vacation for a week and a half. Still some work to do before then. So, I gotta run...
Name: Aus
@work
Location: NY, NY USA
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 06:35:10
Comments:
Also...just in time for the winter solstice... a surprise meteor shower for North America on Friday December 22, 2000. A brief shower of Ursid meteors coming from a dense trail of dust created in 1405. Meteor shower will become visible at 2:29 A.M. EST and is best viewed in the United States and in Canada. Predictions from the good people at SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)is also published on their web site. Ursid meteors are caused by dust particles from comet 8P/Tuttle. Called Ursid because they appear to come from the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Bear). Thanks NY Times.
Aus
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 05:51:55
Comments:
Santa's Little Helper: LOL! Thanks for heads up reminder. Your written words will serve as a reminder when I lift my highball glass tonight at our company Christmas party.
Time Zone Goo-Roo: Good stuff indeed. And a thousand thanks for sharing those neato factoids. FYI: You can access cool pictures of past eclipses (including how the coming one will most likely appear)from the New York Times Science archives on the web.
YGK: Happy Solstice bro. Isn't today the day where you can stand an egg on its end? Thirsty for colour from last night's show.
Aus
Name: Gina
yello
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 05:50:14
Comments:
's the color, ST.AL, T-SHIRTS ARRIVED!!!!
grazie!
interesting, the solstice eh ....
" when there wasn't even any Hollywood"
G
Name:
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 05:31:26
Comments:
top ten things don and walt do on the winter solstice
10) rise when the sun goes down,
cover every...
9) throw out the hardware
8) send best wishes to Madame Erzulie
7) prime day for Pengo power transfusion
6) begin months long residence at RiverSound
5) Clean this mess up or else we'll all end up in jail
4) work on HOF acceptance speech, sorta
3) finally return Fogel's phone messages
2) post as CARS FANATIC on GB to stir things up
1) stand in Walt's back yard and watch the last rays of sunlight refract through
that mysterious monolithic structure
Name: Blaise
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 05:12:06
Comments:
Wormy, good choice. There are a few songs with horns
parts in their catalog. One that comes to mind right away is Same old Song and
Dance. But you know they'll surprise us as usual with weird picks we wouldn't
think of and that's fine. I could just hear Tyler belting out that one. It's
right uo his alley.
Everyone, it seems, has left for the holidaze. Hold the fort, wormy. haha
Name: topsoil slinger
RRHOF possibilities
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 04:56:35
Comments:
Blaise - awards night
Daddy Don't Live with Aerosmith, yes, I'm with you
I can hear Tyler's phrasing - especially the "no more" vamping with a
little shriek at the end
so what Aerosmith song does the
Dan back?
"Seasons of Wither" with a jazzier arrangement and horns?
I think Skully's right - they'll have gag boy Kenny G induct Don and Walt
Don - "speaking of fake fake jazz, thanks alot kenny"
truth is stranger than fiction
wormbrain
I'd hide behind a wall of rock and sand
Name: Howard
@lunch
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 04:48:22
Comments:
lp: "seven seconds"
I think the same number was used just because of the pleasing phonetic quality of the phrase. Try saying "five seconds", "six seconds", 8, 9, 4, ... most of these small numbers simply don't sound half as good as "seven seconds". You've got a nice rhythmic, alliterative thing going on there ...
I think the reason that many words and phrases were chosen by D + F is down to the pure sound of the words. Meaning is not always the main priority. I read somewhere that on the recent album they felt the lyrics were better because they weren't having to compromise meaning for the sake of "good sounding words". The implication was that on earlier material, they *had* compromised meaning to achieve a pleasing sound.
Hutch: what do you make of the 2AN songbook? I gather it's the usual piano/vocal arrangement, with guitar chord boxes. Are the guitar shapes OK? good? terrible?
Clas: you know, it's always safer to take songbooks chords with a good pinch of salt! They give you a starting point, but depending on the book, they may be some way from the "truth".
I'm off work from today (at last!). Will be away till the New Year, so here's wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and a funky, spicy New Year!
Howard
Name: Dionysius Exiguus
was the original
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 04:48:07
Comments:
Greggorian Peccary.
Good morning LisaG.
Name: "The Time Zone Goo-roo is reportedly in
last minute contract negotiations with the sun...
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 04:26:42
Comments:
Sol is said to be seeking a contract extension through
the next half billion years. Sources close to both parties say terms would call
for the immensely popular star to immediately begin spending more time in the
northern hemisphere through the middle of next year.
Talks are said to be going smoothly, with both sides expected to reach an an
agreement later today."
Today the Sun reaches its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky at 13:37 UT. This celestial event is known as a solstice, marking the beginning of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the North. But this year, the solstice will be followed, on December 25th, by another geocentric celestial event -- the last eclipse of the millennium!* The Christmas day eclipse will only be a partial one as the silhouetted disk of the Moon obscures the Sun's edge. Visible from much of Canada, The United States and Mexico, the appearance of the partially eclipsed Sun might remind you of the last holiday cookie you took a bite from. Still, the exact timing and degree of the eclipse will depend very much on your location. Around 55% of the Sun's diameter could be seen from Washington D. C. during the December 25 eclipse maximum which, for that location, occurs at 12:41 PM ET. As always, if you view the eclipse be extremely careful to protect your eyes.
*
mil*len*ni*um \ \ n, pl -nia or -niums: a period of 1000 years
The end of the second millennium and the beginning of the third will be reached on January 1, 2001. This date is based on the now globally recognized Gregorian calendar, the initial epoch of which was established by the sixth-century scholar Dionysius Exiguus, who was compiling a table of dates of Easter. Rather than starting with the year zero, years in this calendar begin with the date January 1, 1 Anno Domini (AD). Consequently, the Third Millennium does not begin until January 1, 2001 AD.
courtesy of the Astronomy Picture of the Day site -
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
and your local
tzg
Name: Clas
I thought you guys said...
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 04:06:20
Comments:
...diludin (kerosene). Damn, I feel bad, I mixed that with some Xanax's this morning. Barf.
Where can I get some deludin? My local pusher?
Howard - yeah, I don't hear any diference wether it's a maj6/7 or a regular maj7. My ears are not that sensitive. Besides, I belive everything that is written. If the songbook says Ebmaj9 I play Ebmaj9.
I sat and played along to Nightfly yesterday, I think it's sounds pretty good if one is just a little "close" to the notated chords.
But I went up to the ceiling when the Songbook notated IGY a halfnote lower. THAT didn't sound good. Even I could hear that.
NotMyNancy - are you leaving? Be careful out there!
I'm leavig too, but I will be back, hopefully, it depends how my wife drives, I say happy Christmas and whatever to EVERYBODY!
C
PS/ and check out my gallery, I think "Home At Last" will show up any day, if my webdrone is doing what he is supposed to do. "Home At Last" is a painting from where we have our countryhouse. It's one of the places where I feel peace in my heart and where Pompe is roaming free.
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/galleri/
Name: Santa's little helper
a reminder
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 03:18:32
Comments:
Remember folks, Christmas is for kids. For the rest of us, it translates into multiple occasions to get drunk and act like idiotic assholes. A conduct that is not only socially accepted but actually encouraged. So party on, good folks and try your best to enjoy.
Name: Blaise
joining in on the countdown to holidaze ecstasy
Location: well, sort of
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 03:00:06
Comments:
Lisa - Ah, more insidious canadian content. Call Michael
Moore, I smell a sequel here. Neil Peart not only wrote all of Rush's lyrics,
he's still way up there on the drummer scale with Erskine, Bruford and co. I
dismissed visions of an SD tour with him on drums because he seeks the spotlight
naturally with all kinds of fills and weird changes while SD goes for a solid
no-frills approach like Lawson's.
Too bad.
Name: Gina
Garlic & Dan
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 02:17:26
Comments:
should try it sometime in a public place (café) , along with some olives and tzatziki & ciabatta. hello all, or those who haven't already gone into the holidaze state of mind ... hello StevieD, haha, so no chance your wife will be tainted by the Banyan Fever as well?
looks like my sabbatical months
are coming to an end. a job interview to look forward to, a dive into journalism
for some weekly ... have worked for them in the past, so chances are ...
haha, they better have this global connection so i can hop over to these Trees,
haha!
this is daytime, very very very
sunny, i haven't really shaken my nightbird moves, so back to sleep it is ... am
living another life right now, should say it's very inspiring and cosy, among
old friends and rarities, even in the real world life becomes vibrant!!!
have to inhale all that ...
okay, off again. probably mucho
later,
Gina
Name: Blaise
normally declined
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 02:11:55
Comments:
Stevie -- You forgot the my-kids-want-20-years-but-there-is-just-no-way-and-it-hurts-so-i'll-pass-and-not-say-anything angle thing I never wrote. KD Lang. another canadian, thanks for pulling me back in for duty since I was named my country's ambassador not long ago. Funny thing about KD lang, she started dancing and singing on stage in typical western Canada folklore fashion. So imagine her jumping in full cowgirl attire calling for a rodeo. Since then, she came of age, of course, and got all hip. I think you're not being fair with Ocasek, Easton and the bunch there. It was just pop but it was more engaging than most regular top40 fodder. SD was Top40 just as often, it seems. Taking into account pop songwriting savoir-faire,They might have more in common with Steely Dan than cuban death metal or whatever comes up on this page over time.
Name: steviedan
terrorists in the house
Date: Thursday, December 21, 19100 at 00:48:32
Comments:
there goes another car(s) bomb. why HERE ? what do those three-chord champions have to do with sd ? someone has provided you the url. they'll love ya there. oh, i guess that's the point though isn't it ?
mc, now you see what happens when you put that ol' scroll on ol' stevie. now, i called that tune within hours of your initial query. it just had to be "last train home". i related it to my friend's passing. yeah, i know it was gettin' deep there but i called it early enough to salvage your sanity. don't blame me.
one of my favorite metheny slow burners is "to the end of the world" from the album "we live here".
thanks to everyone on the laurels, the "tux & cello" thing from gina, dano's "try the kitchen" thing, the "synchronicity thing with hank" thing, even the "lp thinks i'm 20" thing, and the ever sly worm with the "stevie takes a night off" thing. i showed some to phyllis and she usually never dares to venture here. she's never comin' back. MAJOR LOL !
lp, i am older than dirt.
ygk, happy solstice today. see, i remembered.
hutch, i'm glad someone else got a chance to see kd lang. what an enigmatic performer.
a good week, skully and f# lurkless.
and welcome you gracious rayfan. be not mistaken, though. while dildoism is represented here so is phallic reality. believe me, we get our share of TOTAL dicks around here.
and with that, merry christmas to all and to all a good night.
Name: Rayfan
raycarrie@earthlink.net
Location: Jacksom, mi
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 21:50:25
Comments:
As a newcomer to the whole comp. communication world it
is very
gratifting to find an entire world of Dildoians at my fingertips.
Wit, charm, and intellect are now just a click away. I think I,m
going to like this.
Name: yyz
by-tor snowdog ave
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 20:19:42
Comments:
closet rush fan and didn't know Peart was the songwriter?
Name: up on the best girl's friend, that is my
world's okay
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 19:41:30
Comments:
But what makes you think that anybody who might care about whether you could give a figurene a fuck that you wouldn't care about anybody caring whether you could, would ever even think about fucking you?
Name: Lisa G
closet Rush fan, too, though not a die-hard
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 18:47:33
Comments:
Neil Peart was a lyricist? I really have to get some Rush.
Exitting with T. S.
Name: Blaise
blues clues
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 18:09:07
Comments:
OK LP, I'm not the one (who's talking in your sleep...).
Let me give you a hint on how it goes since you seem thoroughly confused. You
see that post after the one from Aja there. That's me. That's when I came on
today. The one after that, it's not and, like you, I'm not exactly sure who it
is. So I'm drawn back in by this same shady unidentified closet Peart
enthusiast. I'm trying to carry a thread at that point but it fails miserably.
You know the feeling, right? Then there's the one by Neil Peart himself and now
here I am again, dig it?
Now I'm leaving again for the night. Maybe I'll join in at the break of dawn,
maybe I won't. Way it goes. Goodnight.
Name: Indulging myself
with all due respect
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 16:54:47
Comments:
Entre Nous
We are secrets to each other
Each one's life a novel
No-one else has read.
Even joined in bonds of love,
We're linked to one another
By such slender threads.
We are planets to each other,
Drifting in our orbits
To a brief eclipse.
Each of us a world apart,
Alone and yet together,
Like two passing ships.
Just between us,
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes fear to show.
Just between us,
I think it's time for us to realize,
The spaces in between
Leave room for you and I to grow.
We are strangers to each other,
Full of sliding panels,
An illusion show.
Acting well-rehearsed routines
Or playing from the heart?
It's hard for one to know.
We are islands to each other,
Building hopeful bridges
On a troubled sea.
Some are burned or swept away,
Some we would not choose,
But we're not always free.
--Neil Peart
Name: Blaise
tiny creatures, world wide pool
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 15:49:59
Comments:
I like this line from Natural Science:
"All the tiny creatures
chasing out their destinies,
Living in their pool, they soon forget about the sea."
Or even that one from Circumstances
"All the same, we take our
chances laughed at by Time
Tricked by circumstances
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
The more that things change, the more they stay the same
Notice the french nod is typically
canadian.
Neil Peart showed great taste in writing lyrics sometimes.
Name: The Cars were decent, sure
but had none of the depth of Rush
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 15:36:41
Comments:
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage
Just like this guestbook.
Name: Blaise
back seat rumble, front seat wife
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 15:26:14
Comments:
Ben Orr groupie -- You're making too much of this Cars thing. Though you made me take a listen again after all these years and I still like to hear that Nightspots-Since I held you "suite" and a few others like Touch and go, All mixed up, Double life, etc... still sound good. It's great pop songwriting but not the consistency and depth of Steely Dan. For a limited combo, they had great stuff. First round RRHOF material, no doubt,in my opinion. I heard the cover Roy is talking about and they only kept the chorus melody intact, slowed it down in slacker folk mode.
In this time of great cultural
need, I would like to thank Stevie and StAl as well for making me dust off those
Rush records. I can't believe I'm saying that. La Villa Strangiato, Different
strings that was quite good and most of it manages to stand the test of time. I
find I still like their instrumental jams the best. It's nice to rediscover
stuff you've dismissed along the way. With drums and bass in the foreground and
the guitar often taking up the role of second fiddle in the mix. It was unusual.
I don't think there ever was a trio that could build such an impressive wall of
sound.
Oh Canada indeed.
Wormy -- They should listen to me and arrange to play Daddy (you know, DDLITNYCNM)with Aerosmith, Tyler on vocals and all that. That would just sound perfect, I think.
Name: Aja
grinding away on the day shift
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 14:49:38
Comments:
Roy.Scam, that was priceless!
Promise me you won't ever leave this board (have I said that before???)
Pandildically yours,
Aja
Name: just trying to get in touch
with your world
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 14:33:02
Comments:
Oh yeah? Well what makes you think I had sex with any
figurines about whether you cared if I agreed with your opinion?--
I haven't heard the alternative version of Dangerous Type so I can't tell you
whether to think it's cool or not.
Name: She is lovely, yes,
she's sly...
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 14:32:15
Comments:
Oleander- I guess you could consider me to be the less obsessive fan. I only have about twenty total!
Name: yeah i know that redhousepainters thing
letters to cleo's dang type is cooler
Location: you're all mixed up, now i stay the night,
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:29:12
Comments:
and what makes you think i or anyone else here gives a figurine fuck whether you agree with me or not
Name: re.scam
manly.yes.but.i.like.it.too
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:24:15
Comments:
lp~ "test pits"? Do you work for an antiperspirant manufacturer?
Name: Hey roy, i've done that and more
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:23:18
Comments:
seen aright these two/three share a sensibility if not precisely ability, autodildelectably
Name: Not My Nancy
yabba dabba do
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:18:50
Comments:
There are distinct shifts around here. I am probably a low-ranking (asslike?) member of the day shift. lp is clearly the foreperson. twm and dano are also on the day shift, although they think it's the night shift. (That Cars guy is on the stick shift...good grief, what is it with me and the puns these days? Stop! Stop! Bad Nance!)
I did get a chance to pull some OT last night. In the office, late night grinding, Gaucho and a weird REM compliation (Finest Worksong with horns) on the headphones. That was fun. Becker's Backyard could only come out at night.
But I must punch the clock...I'm going into holiday hibernation (a different brand of inactivity from the lurking you have grown to love). So a few parting thoughts for 2000:
-What a great, great year of the
Dan. My appreciation has both grown and been satisfied in ways I would never
have imagined.
-What a good crowd this is. Interesting, amusing, insightful, thoughtful...like
a bunch of old college roommates.
-I am looking forward to meeting more of you next year. I've been on the GB
since '96 and never been moved to reach out, but I am now. It's time to take the
risk that one of you is Michael Caine wearing stockings and a wig and carrying a
stilletto, and that I'm going to end up a headline in the Boston Herald.
Unfinished business:
Lisa G - Yes, Ella's Mac the Knife screw-up is different from the others--it's jumping off point for a marvelous, poised musician and entertainer to show us her best. (But it still starts as a screw-up...please don't tell me it's planned or I take it all back.)
Edd...what's your URL again?
To St. Al, Oleander, Clas, YGK,
wormtom, Gina, Aus, DandomSlut(tm), DavidintheFloridaRoom, lp, Hutch, |||||||,
Howard, z/Dr.WK, MidniteCruiser, Aja, cara mia, tones, Roy.Scam,
F#maj9, tones, Dr.Mu, StevieDan, KD, dano, twm, Chere, MizDucky, LisaG, Edd,
PeteFogel, Hoops!, and all I've left out...
Merry Kwanzmukkhaah! See you in 2001!
Name: Roy.Scam
you.touched...now.go
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:17:41
Comments:
So it's come to this: People using time and guestbook space discussing adjectives to describe their assness (assity? assivity?) As erudite members of this exclusive group, I would think we could put our mental efforts to better use. To wit, as Steely Dan fans, we should be coining words like 'dildosity', 'dildocious', 'adildic' and 'dildoramic'. At least one of those should fit Oleander's index of Steely CD ownership (e.g., "I have a dildosity index of 9.") -- And don't forget 'pandildism', the belief that everything is a Steely Dan.
Cars Guy~ I agree that "Touch and Go" is a great number. I first heard it as a live performance on Saturday Night Live or Fridays (I can't remember which). Ocasik sang it like he was living it; later on in his career, he took on that cool, detached, dispassionate attitude, but that night, he was soulful and for real.-- Now your assignment is to go to a Cars webpage and spend two pages touting "My Old School".--BTW: A group called The Red House painters has a version of "All Mixed Up" that turns it into sort of a folky ballad; sounds like a completely different song from the Cars' version. Good sound, but almost unrecognizeable.
RS
Name:
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:11:00
Comments:
:(
Name: lp
to keep waitin for you
Location: special apologies to, chips
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 13:04:17
Comments:
zat you blaise rattlin me cage? or one of my scotsmen? hmph
well, off to better things - and that is, my daughter's christmas concert
and i will miss the latest chapter in my historical preservation saga to attend this better event too, can you believe it? my priorities are re-affirmed, yessirreee!
*sigh* - since it's my first daughter's singing this evening, i will plunk last train home in the subaru's cd player
merry christmas and happy hanukkah to you all, see you next week or thereafter
(off checking test pits all day tomorrow to keep that nasty equipment out of the wetland, woo hoo - and off from then on, so enjoy your break from the luckless pedestrian)
Name: I meant to say: even funnier than ajiatic,
yes!
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 12:48:42
Comments:
Name: Hey, lp, that was hilarious. You might really
be the funniest person on here! But I'm not kidding! And there's nothing I can
do (It's ALL I Can Do..oops) to convince you I'm not being facetious is there?
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 12:46:38
Comments:
That'll teach you not to rattle THAT cage again, eh?
Name: YGK
..
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 12:33:26
Comments:
Tonight, a drummers collective to Benefit the Amputees of
Sierra Leone: Healing Hands Percussion Circle with Vernon Reid
at 8:00pm
at Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington in Manhattan's Lower East Side
ygk
Name: lp
and then it's dark again
Location: was that the line for the homepage going black?, hmmmmmmm
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 12:27:18
Comments:
my apologies to the other posters for this cars break i started accidently....
did you notice donald uses seven second delay in nightfly and for seven seconds it's christmas in snowbound
coincidence?
Name: A HARD RAIN'S A NEVER GONNA FALL
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 12:08:52
Comments:
museum directors with high shaking heads,
they kick white shadows until they play dead.
they wanna crack your crossword smile,
oooh yes you can take me out for a while yeah.
Name: lp
it's a beautiful day
Location: don't let it get away, a beautiful day
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:54:56
Comments:
maybe, but some wacko will have a premonition in a dream and build an ark and take 2 cd's of each with them
Name: travis bickel
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:43:15
Comments:
One day a rain will come and wash all the shit out of the record stores
Name: chips
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:42:03
Comments:
not this line again.....ozzy, you there?
Name: YEAH, I'M TALKIN TO YOU
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:41:26
Comments:
just take your time,
it's not too late,
i'll be your mirror,
so you won't hesitate.
Name: travis bickel
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:29:17
Comments:
Who are the Cars?
Name: I SAY HELLO, HELLO, HELLO A-GAIN
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:21:41
Comments:
you might think i'm crazy,
just dis-a-bus-ing you,
you might think i'm crazy,
i'm surely crazier than you.
Name: thirdworldman
Location: ,
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 11:19:04
Comments:
Remember. lp, all things are relative.
Name: lp
hit the street with visors down
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:53:15
Comments:
okay, which wacko is this?
i can't believe i've become one of the sane ones in here
Name: OH AND EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF SEWER ARE YOU?
WHICHEVER, YOU TOUCHED MY STAR!!!!!!!!!!
Location: TURN UP THE CARS, THE WORLD IS LISTENING,
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:21:15
Comments:
Touch and Go: The greatest song of all time by the
Cars or anyone (in my opinion)! Its good to see so
many big fans of this song on the list. Its hard to
believe that its been over 4 years since we last
discussed this song on the list (it was my first
selection the first time around).
This has been my favorite song, almost since I first
heard it in Sep, 80. It was the song that established
the Cars as my favorite. I was into the first 2
albums quite a bit, but as soon as I heard this song,
it took their sound to a new level in my mind.
I love the lyrics in this song, Ocasek's neurotic,
desperate vocals, the 3 part structure of the song,
the awesome soaring guitar solo, the great airy, tense
keyboards, and the great keyboard/guitar/bass
interplay in the final parts of the song.
I love how the song starts out almost in an off-key
reggae manner, gets kicking into an upbeat country
new-wave flavor (with the twangy guitar) and finally
gets into the rocking chorus with the strong guitar
riffs, and finally the incredible guitar solo and
ending bits.
The lyrics are among Ocasek's best:
"All I need is what you've got
All I'll tell is what you're not"
"In your head-lock on the floor
Who could ever ask for more"
"Flying like a cement kite"
"I guess that dress does fit you tight"
"You know that look does make me shake
It almost looks too good to fake"
are all incredibly good lines. It is probably
Ocasek's best vocal performance, too.
The guitar solo is Elliot's absolute best, (although
the one in "Tonight She Comes" is very close). In
both of these songs the keyboards, bass and drum
backdrop/interplay really add to the guitar solo, too.
The keyboards create an incredible, edgy backdrop and
sound even better on the 84 live recording.
The video was a little bit of a letdown for me, after
waiting 15+ years to see it. I never did see it on
MTV (it was never played again, after those first few
months). The only thing that could possibly improve
this song for me would be a more intense
opening/intro, but its as close to the perfect song as
there is.
Name:
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:20:43
Comments:
get your lust for kicks here
http://www.usats.com/dale/thecars/interactive.html
not here
Name: lp
woo hoo
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:14:01
Comments:
mr screamer: the connosewer of which you refer was me, posting a one-liner
it was a joke
Name: THAT'S RIGHT BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! NOTHING
WRONG THERE! WHAT TASTE!! BE A MAVERICK, REMEMBER JOHN LINDSAY, TELL THE TRUTH ,
LET IT FEED, DON'T JUST LET IT OUT, DON'T JUST LET IT IN, OR LET IT BE!!!!!!
COME FORWARD YOU CONNOISSEUR YOU!!!!!
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:10:08
Comments:
Name: ahem
this song will not get out of my head for an unknown reason
Location: so, i'm sharing it with you - have a nice evening
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 14:18:45
Comments:
just what i needed, yeah just what i needed
i needed someone to bleed.....?
guitar solo inserted here...........
Name:
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:09:55
Comments:
that's skully, sorry about that
Name: luckless pedestrian
some loser fires off a flare somewhere
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 10:09:28
Comments:
kully - don henley? not sure about that one - welcome out of lurkdom anyway!
to answer the level of geekdom achieved in the steely dan world: i have LP's of can't buy a thrill, aja and pretzl logic purchased upon their release (i started young, yes); cassettes long since worn out but still in my basement of cbat, aja, gaucho, pretzel logic, rs, gold, c2e, and becker-fagen the early years, all purchased for walkman usage in college; i have a cassette from green earring of a concert in 1974 (?); i have cd's of the same, minus the tape from GE, plus kamikiriad, aia, 2vn and an import of a 1974 concert in san diego; i have a video (no dvd yet) of the pbs special; and i have asked santa for a re-master cd of aja, the nightfly cd since someone stole mine, and the video of the making of aja...geeky enough? off-shoots of sd include the rikkie lee jones flying cowboys production by walter becker (would have loved to been in the studio to hear those arguments), the arizona sky release by china crisis (though there is no reference of sd influence in the liner notes), michael franks' blue pacific, partially produced by walter becker - but i must say i purchased these because i like these artists anyway and found it nicely coincidental of their link to sd
Name: skully
outta lurkdom
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 07:54:11
Comments:
Don and Walt enter the hall of fame, congrats, congrats
wonder if they will still supply swedish ginger cookies?
As for someone to announce their induction the following seem possible:
Dave Brubeck, Michael McDonald, Don Henley, Randy Newman
Hunter S THompson - now that's an interesting spin
and if Jan Weiner really goofs up just imagine one Kenny G (the most popular Jazz artist to the numbbrained masses) introducing them ( a total gag reflex here)
so what 3 songs will they play?
Name: YGK
mhunter@bear.com
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 06:52:49
Comments:
Aus: Don't worry, mate, the Fed cat will drop 'em in a
few months or so......one Bushie starts to get a bit nervous......it's all UP
and all good.....when is the next Fed analysis?
your faithful layman
Ole: must get back to you on the Steely Quotient, but a great idea. do we need to name them as well, or do you want numbers?
with the economy what it is, and
with a few hundred hacks here in my world, we start to get nervous and look
around.....
in that light, and in the light of this 'season'.....I submit the following:
"There once was a loyal
employee
Who reported each day to his duty
And did all his work
Tho his boss was a jerk
And returned to his home in the country
But times have definitely changed
Management rearranges
And tho there may be problems
We know how to solve them
With consultants pricey exchange
You may wonder why I am telling
you this
But I view the world with a filtered twist
And I need to assess
What can be a mess
And a poem I can hardly resist
So in line with the holiday spirit
Take time to sit back and cheer it
Because we have our health
And our American wealth
Find your love and take time to be near it"
--------------------------------
Happy Holidays,
Your Wireless Poet,
ygk
Name: Hutch
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 06:24:39
Comments:
Roy - I have no idea what Brooklyn is about but I really like the song. To me it's just a really pretty melody. Kind of bittersweet. Love that pedal steel!
F#maj9 - Great to see your moniker around here again!
Details Slut (tm) - huh?
Midnite - Great photo of the
kitties. And your post created a really nice image of peace and tranquility.
Very nice.
Only a true fan would live in DANville in an A-frame!
Ole & Midnite - Bill's doing fine. His Bell's Palsy was not serious and he got over it quickly.
Hank, Stevie and Dr.M - Happy Anniversary! May you enjoy many more!
Cara Mia - Enjoy Paris. I was fortunate enough to be there this past September. It really is a beautiful city. Especially at night. But the French... well, we won't go into that.
We got a copy of the Two Against Nature songbook in the store the other day.
There's an interview with D&W in the beginning of the book. I remember a
discussion a while back about Walter's guitar playing. Had to laugh when I read
this:
Donald - I think Walters guitar playing has gotten much better in recent years so we decided to have him play almost all the solos on the album.
Walter - I only have one chop.
Donald - But that one chop is in very good condition.
Hutch
Name: Aussie
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 06:04:27
Comments:
Ole: Buddy Holly style specs. Genius but too obvious. With chanses at close to 100% that Babes will be in tow, perhaps we can rig her wonderbra or maybe install a vid-camera in a freshly coiffed beehive hairdoo ala the babe from the B52's. Nevertheless, a visit to the local Spy Shoppe might turn up more novel appliances that fly well below the radar.
YGK: Sorry I didn't return voice blast with same or data blast, hectic days and it looks like more of the same today. Ouch! Thank you very little Mr. Greenspan.
CaraMiaMarsha: Thanks for e-Xmas card. Quite nice.
LP: Thanks for e-blasts.
Wormy: You wouldn't be envious of medium B out in Wayzata, Minnesota. They're getting pummeled in the worst way. (Medium B= Younger brother who falls in the middle of sibling line)
Bell hasn't rung and I'm ready to hang up the spikes. Ugh.
Aus
Name: wormtom
glitch pitch
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 05:47:21
Comments:
Howard - the Glitch in Josie
yes - and it is rather subtle but seems to nicely add to the tension to the song. Sounds like it's clearly spliced together takes - the chords still resonating when the layover begins.
wt
Name: Howard
@lunch, as usual
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 05:20:02
Comments:
OK, before I get into chord analysis mode, a word on a possible Aja CD "glitch".
I mentioned this a while back, but didn't see any feedback. On my original Aja CD there is a small glitch at 3:28 on Josie. This is during the repeat of the intro theme, and the glitch comes just before the 4 "big chords".
I always thought this was a CD pressing error, but more recently noticed my heavy weight vinyl copy has the same glitch.
Just got the Aja remaster, and it
is *still* there. The glitch is subtle - sounds like a little hiccup, as if two
spliced sections didn't quite match, and you hear a little jump. I'm not saying
the glitch is due to bad splicing, but it's that kind of sound.
Any one else hear this? thoughts?
Right, back to chords.
F#nogg: haven't got a guitar handy to try your x03221 shape, but noticed that it doesn't have the b7 (G) in it. So far, there seems to be a consensus that the "I'm the one" chord must have A, G, C# and E# - the jury is still out on the Bb!
x03021 adds the G and might work ... but I'm not sure whether doubling up on the #5 (E#) might give the chord a rather heavy/thick sound? I tend to go for fairly "minimal" voicings for most Dan stuff.
The link and comment at the ODP freaked me out when I first saw it! Nice to get a mention there though.
Oleander: no worries! I did laugh when I saw that comment though. "in awe of your musical erudition"? I dunno ... "Showing a moderate interest in your somewhat tedious chord analysis" would be just fine with me! It's great to have like-minded folk on the GB to chat with about all this stuff.
Lisa G - adding the Bb to the chord (making it A7#5b9 no less!) does give an interesting sound, but it sounds just a little richer than that Black Cow chord ... I just can't hear that Bb, though it may be buried in there somewhere ...
BTW the cure for the E7#9 chord
problem is to listen to any (all) of Hendrix's albums for at least an hour a
day! He uses that chord a lot (guitarists quite often refer to it as the Hendrix
chord).
The clash between the G# and the G at the top is quite a sharp dissonance, which
could make it tricky to conjure up in your head, but once you hear the chord
often enough you get to know that sound very well. You do already own all of
Hendrix's albums don't you?!? (don't disappoint me now...!)
Clas: you're right, that E7#9 to Ebmaj7 is a nice change. E G# D (dom 7th) to Eb G D (maj 7th half step below) is a classic. Like you say, the D is the constant, and the change from a maj 3rd built on E to the same maj 3rd built on Eb gives a nice harmonic shift, showing the D in two contrasting contexts.
Though I'm sure the Ebmaj7 is actually an Ebmaj6/7 (Eb G C D). The clash between C and D adds an extra Steely Dan dissonant twist to what could have been a more standard (though nice) jazz change.
Howard
Name: wormbait
morning all
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 05:15:18
Comments:
hey Wedding Singer - Enjoyed your Becker's Backyard
sly one - yes tinkling fits Guaraldi and Phillinganes' work on Nightfly has that same warm feel
envious of all you Snowbounders
Woody Woodpecker and Green Acres - definitely canons upon which to build one's musical expression
I see StevieD took the night off - good for him on his anniversary
wt
why do I feel like painting again?
Name: Ms Turnbull
math quiz
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 02:52:32
Comments:
How many Hoops would it take for any artist to reach platinum status?
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 02:11:42
Comments:
lisa G - "I'm having trouble with the E7#9 you speak of, although I'm just armed with memory at the moment. I keep hearing only the G natural in my head, not the G# below it."
Hey girl, strange, though I can't say my ears are perfect, but I have no trouble with that chord. Maybe because it's quite natural; a major/minor-chord* followed by the Ebmaj7, which keeps the natural G and the D in the Ebmaj7-chord (isn't that a significant Fagen-chord-progression?)
She Is lovely - thanx for the info, I'm not much for jazz, but maybe I'll try him one day. In the meantime I'll be listening to Paul Carrack.
Third World Man - why? Because I have inside information.
Oleander - oh god, I think I have one or two Steely Dan CD's left. Everytime my son visits us one or two CD's are missing after he's gone. But I have all vinyls. And for Steely related (vinyl): Rosie Vela, China Crisis, Rickie Lee, Fra Lippi Lippi (Norwegians, Becker-produced, pretty cool arr's, but lame performance).
*(I used to call those chords -10 when I was young, we listened to Hendrix and his Hey Joe, at the time me and the old crowd thought it was SO cool, so daring to play major/minor at the same time)
C
Name: Meg Ryan
Clas!
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 01:40:52
Comments:
sssssshhhhhhh... - d o n ' t m e n t i o n t h e W A R!
Name: Gina
crashed
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 19100 at 01:16:39
Comments:
my laptop did, kapooff, all gone, boohoo!!!!!
Cara Mia, won't be coming to
Paris, boy, tough crowd here ...
wherever you'll be partying ...make it a good one!
so Dano, no tunneling this time around ...
back to re-installing things.
maybe later,
Gina
Name: oleander
assoid? assimniferous?
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 23:02:14
Comments:
So many birthdays and anniversaries! Happies to Mlle Canard, Hank and Missus Silvers, Stevie and Missus D, the Mus, and anybody I missed. And to Roy, just for the principle of the thing.
TWM, dano--PLEASE put me down for a tape! and let me know the best way to pay you back.
Hutch--'sup with Bill? Please give my bests to him.
Blaise--I would hope they'd come up with something a little sexier than a stack of metal boxes with dials.
Aus--fabulous. Maybe we can rig you up a James Bond type deal, on your belt buckle or mounted in some Buddy Holly style glasses. But of all the Fests I've been to, not once has someone brought a laptop! We'll have to end that tradition.
Dr. K--those poor people; what are they doing with a collective unconscious when they can't even handle an individual one? BTW, my work schedule is very very flexible.
MC, Edd--MC, thanx for the kind words (you too YGK). I've seen a few juncos and chipping sparrows, and saw another pileated up country.
Stranger--It's enough to turn one into a survivalist. It was a fucking coup, but looked legit because it was conducted by those who are in control anyway.
Howard--I just want to make it really clear that I find what you do absolutely amazing, and my comment to you was NOT ironic or a dis, in case you thought it was.
Steely Won--Love "MYSTICAL O." Mine would be OLE&R.
Wayneman--My take on Deludin: deconstructing: a combo of Dilaudid (opiate) and Preludin (speed)--perfect mix for deludin', enough downer to dull the awareness and reasoning ability, and the speed for that indispensable paranoid, jumpy edge. Doc Kruger clearly has figured out exactly how to use it to best advantage. Good story about Paris.
Joyce/ Brenda--Welcome back to the planet, you crazy kid. It's dreck in any religion, to be sure.
F#--MWAH! I love it when you come up for air.
Dirty little secrets time: After trying to cram one too many cd's onto the shelf, I'd like to do a Steely Obsession Quotient research project: How many Steely cd's do people have? Come clean. Now it might be difficult to decide what to count, but I'd say 1) include every edition of every cd; 2) each cd counts as one--ie "Citizen" counts as 4; 3) count all Steely-RELATED cd's--eg, if you bought "Flying Cowboys" only because it is a Becker production, or you have Rosie Vela and have never even cracked the plastic, or you have cd's you bought only because they have one cover--count them; 4) include boots and custom-burned collections; 5) count DVD's, but not videos; 6) include cd's you wouldn't ever have known about without Dandom, eg YGK's and Floridavid's; 5) OK, include vinyl; 6) don't include other memorabilia, or Q would win going away. You may post your answers anonymously. StevieD is ineligible by virtue of his profession, and so is Pete. Before you freak out, remember that Hoops! has confessed to buying at least 14 2vN's.
more than enough for now....
Name: She is lovely, yes,
she's sly
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 22:55:45
Comments:
Clas- Vince Guaraldi is one of the great jazz musicians of the world. He plays the themes for "Charlie Brown" specials. I highly recommend any of his CD's. They're fabulous pieces of jazz.
Wow! I do here "You Really Got Me" in that solo. How eerie!
I think Fagen didn't play it because Phillinganes adds flavor and spice to the songs. Each pianist has his/her own style.
Wormhead- thanks for your agreement. I definitely agree that Maxine has the same sound. "Tinkling" is the perfect adjective to describe Guaraldi's sound. Phillinganes adds a nice touch to that album.
-sly one
Name: NMN
The Narshal Nathers LP
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 20:28:57
Comments:
Asslike.
Beautiful.
That's me.
I prefer the latinate "Assular," however. I used to like "Assish" until my employer implemented random drug tests.
Name: The Wedding Singer
'tis the season
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 18:47:20
Comments:
Becker's Backyard Mystery
A Winter Solstice Carol
Coons and tycoon dogs, chickadees
and woodpeckers, I swear I saw
A snorting little Porky Peg
Pedal to the metal, smoking haitian on a wah-wah
In Becker's backyard
I saw two deers and a zebra, a Lisa and a Gina
And Santa's own cassandra
Scurvy Brenda and her lingo
She crashed your solstice bingo
Chicken pickin' your tooth fillings like an angular banjo
A chinese bookie's fortune cookie holds a ticket for Gonzo
But All you want for xmas is to really be dano
See you want that little Glasgow Armadillo video
Now playing
In Becker's Backyard
no No NO
We ain't no bleedin' cowards
We'll fly to Paris backwards
Swedes in tow
Let's push that aging Volvo through the Tennessee snow, Oh Oh Oh
Oh Oh Oh
Slide on down to Becker's Backyard (3)
Let's go.
Pass that boot, blame it on the
lust for kicks
Crock of shit, piss off, the Coke was Classic
Almost Gothic
I dig that silly, spicy, semi-kosher pretzel logic
Audi ovary and out was dramatic, it was sick,
Like fake fake french stench, drivel jingle-slick
Winter reels out like a boring Bergmann flick
Now playing
In Becker's Backyard
Name: wayneman
rue theday
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 15:59:26
Comments:
Cara Mia - I must wish you good trip and offer this brief
story.....
In Sept. I visited a friend who had just moved to Paris. Late one night we were
returning from a soul food/jazz joint called Haynes, we were looking for a place
to have a last beer......we came upon an Irish pub not two blocks from his apt.
in the Marais. "The Quiet Man" it was called. It was small, smelled of
spilled stout long soaked into a dangerously uneven wood floor, and was really
quite authentically Irish from the patrons to the staff.
It wasn't crowded, but noisy and thick with smoke (and the dart board was
located strangely close to the entrance)......anyway, as we entered, I noticed
the unmistakable sound of SD gently rising above the din....."double helix
in the sky tonight, throw out the hardware, let's do it right"......so
naturally I told the bartender that his taste in music was impeccable and I
insisted that he pour himself a drink on me. He did, and he proceeded to play SD
the rest of the night, and blind me and my friend with double Bushmills on the
house.
This is not a ringing endorsement of the bar or suggestion for a place to while
away a few hours (although there was a downstairs room that was interesting - a
sing-along of old traditional Irish tunes was taking place - grown men were
weeping)......it was just a strange end to a night in perhaps the most beautiful
city in the world (haven't seen them all)......Paris is a jewel, have a
ball.......wayneman
Name: ZZTOPS MADE MY MILLIONS NOW IM GONE
ZZTOPS@HARVARD.EDU
Location: GETTO, ZZZZZZ GETTO ISLANDS
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 15:58:36
Comments:
THIS SITE SUCKS ITS A WASTE OF TIME AND IT JUST SUCKS AND IS SO ASSLIKE AND IT SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE WEB I HATE IT AND ITS A WASTE OF SPACE GET A LIFE AND STOP TRYING TO LURE PEOPLE INTO YOUR SITE IT IS SO ASSLIKE TO DO SO!!! A HOMELESS PERSON COULD GET A GUEST BOOK AND GET 1,000,000,000 SIGNERS TELLING THEM THERE GUEST BOOK SUCKS SO WHAT DOES THIS MAKE YOU?? DO YOU THINK YOUR COOL TO HAVE A GUEST BOOK?? ARE YOU BETTER?? I JUST HATE THIS AND ITS VERY VERY VERY ASSLIKE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO BE ON THE WEB FOR THE PUBLIC!!!!!!!!
Name: me, again
Pat in my tapedeck...
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 14:40:01
Comments:
...and, you know, he complained the whole way.
Name: LG
Fast trip home
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 14:38:35
Comments:
Ohhh...I forgot. All this talk of snow and music that reminds us of a time in our lives...
Another PM tune, the ballad "Always and Forever" (and the only straight ahead cut on the "Secret Story"album), always reminds me of driving home to loved ones with snow falling on the ground.
I was traveling to my parents house for Christmas with Pat in my tapedeck and that song came on. Now, I get this warm, fuzzy feeling every time I hear it. Weird that he dedicated it to his own parents.
Pat and snow--is there a correlation?
Name: ahem
this song will not get out of my head for an unknown reason
Location: so, i'm sharing it with you - have a nice evening
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 14:18:45
Comments:
just what i needed, yeah just what i needed
i needed someone to bleed.....?
guitar solo inserted here...........
Name: twm
again
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 13:31:21
Comments:
Yeah, it turns out that it is a recording of the Glasgow
Armadillo concert this year. Excellent. I was in Birmingham working at that time
and saw them down there, so I will be able to see how they went down on my home
turf this time. I can make a tape if anyone is interested, particularly the
Anglo Scot, Daaaaaaano.
Otherwise it will be mailed around the world one at a time!
Al
Name: lp
we sail our icecats on the frozen river
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 13:20:17
Comments:
mc - great pic - it was snowing that night after she was born too - a real blizzard! it was almost 8 years ago and i know it's cliche, but i can remember that snow with ease
the saga of my historic commission troubles continues, for those of you following that story - the selectmen are now involving themselves, that is a higher authority, hmmmmm.....it's getting very messy here in new england, and it's not from the weather!
thanks for everyone wishing me good health!
Name: thirdworldman
Location: Glasgow.,
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 13:15:38
Comments:
Good day, chaps and chapesses.
Just getting ready for my trip to join the glitterati up north for Madonna's
wedding. Just a shame the weather gives such a beautiful place the appearance of
pea and ham soup - but I'm sure she can deal with it.
Daaaaaaano, they were playing Aberdeen. You could score twice against them. My
granny already has.
StevieD - thanks mate, I've got
the digest waiting in my in box, so the VCR will be getting programmed shortly.
We only got the VH1 Storytellers about 2 months ago, so this is probably one of
the Art Crimes gigs!
Congrats on the Anniversary. At our last aniv, I paid for my wife to have a
hairdo, as she is sensitive about her red hair. Her mother is a red head too -
no hair - just a red head!
The Clas/Mu debate is making me laugh. How do you always work out that Stockholm
wins, Clas?
I'm sorry daaaaaaaaaaaano or I weren't about yesterday when someone was looking
for us, but we were probably both in the land of nod. Not
together...obviously....
Need to go and pick up my genuine non-patronising to the Scots, celebrity tartan
outfit to wear at Maradona's wedding now, See you all in next month's glossies.
I look like Brad Pitt with good looks and height.
Peace
Al
Name: Details Slut (tm)
Here at the Cult-Commune-Trailer Park, we greet you with garlic latkes and
dreidels with four sides of hay
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 13:12:46
Comments:
Did some scrolling. a gnarly whoa on the insults, and an I Love yah toots to Cara Mia. That why I make ya's Ship Captain! This lofty position, must be filled by gorgeous Blonde with brains to match.
Kile I say to paraphrase Cyrano, his nose ain't big, just his insecurities. "Some of us shadows, some of us lights."
Real easy way to get invited on ship to be a Steely light. Real easy way to get invited on ship, be yourself a Steely Shit for Brains, get dumped in Bermuda Triangle and injected with Cholera just in case you swim to deserted Cay.
You piss off whole web by saying you bored of Guestbook, then do nothing to remedy situation, by making brilliant post, you get shot out of Cannon normally reserved for 1812 Overture.
Geez. I ain't even got my thigh high soft as butter black machete heeled boots on, though I am sorely tempted. Knock it off. Some of us got's more important things on mind then obeying rules or even election results. we actual people, actual joys and sorrows, not fodder for your otherwise abandoned by nature mouth ass.
on home front, things just great and hallelujah. My therapist composed letter to my Jewish mother that clothes I wear indeed appropriate to my age. I even get invited to join lezzie supper club a la Dorothy Parker's Alquongin. I find out that the smoking patches i wearing outdated by two years! I get new ones Saturday, and hopefully I get completely quit in two weeks like last time! And i make a new friend on top of that!!
Two mormon boys come by today, i fill em up with fresh Trader Joe's apple juice--yummy--and send them off with all the X-mas candy we recieve by people don't notice five foot Star of David around my neck---and it ain't rubies and diamonded neither, just plain cheap marcasite, heart ring to match, these keep me in commandments, tho I have hard time not covetting neighbor's wife. Ain't for that i would be holy this year, but a bit of sinning i can live with, since God in a Maserati on that alternate universe highway, he don't care much what i do, but he ain't around to pay my bail either.
Through with Buzz and Daddy don't Live gettin me through that nicotine fix today. It's about 80o and we got Santa Anas!
This really annoy me--why folk think I get eight presents cause I'm jewish?? i's lucky to get one present, and it usually new sketchbook. I way luck out this year and get CD BOx by PLummer's I been covetting it over a yaer now. People must realize that poor folk got different custom than rich people. For example, a good present for me is one year I get shoes and a pair of fishnets. Kids at school AGHAST when they ask me what i get and i say that it, folks.
Tomorrow i have job at 6 dollar an hour wrapping presents for a real lovely, sweet person I know. I ain't saying they spoiled, but she relate to me each of four grandkids get exactly $800 in gifts, includind Sega super Mega Hot Shit EACH. She agree to pay me minimum of $50, and she ask what i spend it on and i tell her truth: i'm going to buy a new set of dishes with the money.
$50 work-----> $800 gifts x 4 grandkids + presents for adult children, cousins, immediate husband, family, co-workers = $15,000? So she say.
Now am i crazy, or am i just
crazy.
I'm about ready to take that nice night train through the misty nighttime the
hell away from Southern California!!! This place fakiest place in world. Where's
the flavor, the heart? I go grate a Latke I think, that real treat!
happy holiday to all kinds in case I don't talk to you otherwise.
Peace on earth and goodwill towards the single and Looking.
May the Dan give us gift of next tour, that only real thing i write Saint Nick about this year
Love y'all, krazy cats and hugs to all Sheiks and Shebas!!!
luv,
Fulfillment Slut (tm)
ps. aint the days between Xmas and New Years like the last bit of toothpaste yah's squeezing out of the tube???
: ) Like the salad days, i call these days the toothpaste days.
Name: Lisa G
Peas on Earth
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 13:08:59
Comments:
Wow, MC, such symmetry in your house! Why, the computer towers look like bookends. Nice photo!
Happy Anniversary-to steviedan, Hank, and Mu. And hugs to your Mrs.'s.
Happy Holidays, cara mia, even though you won't get this until after.
To all that don't celebrate anything-may you find peace in the New Year. As my girl, Rachelle says, "How can we have peace in the Middle East when there's none at home?" It's so sad that the commercial world has ruined a time of year when people can join together with their common strengths and with love and hope. The feelings we get from the holidays should last the whole year through and beyond.
Hutch-no offense taken. I deserve that. I would have killed me by now, too. My a cappella group used to complain that I over-analyzed everything. I wonder what they meant by that?
Gosh- I'm at work and I'm not used to this keyboard. I can't believe I'm actually using school property for personal enjoyment, but I am gaining new insights into the world of music. And frankly I can justify the use of this site for my job. Thank goodness it's after hours, or maybe the school board would have me fired or force me to take merit pay. (Damn teacher.)
Joyce-I'm guilty of misspelling Sagittarius, too. And being one, I should know better. However, I'm quite a clumsy one. I severed a nerve in my left ring finger a few years back with a nice sharp knife (purely accidental) and my finger's been numb ever since.
Clas-I'm having trouble with the
E7#9 you speak of, although I'm just armed with memory at the moment. I keep
hearing only the G natural in my head, not the G# below it.
Howard-I had the same trouble with the Bb and the vocals. I also hear the A in
the vocal part, not the Bb. But every time I listen to the tune I hear the Bb
somewhere. I'll have to give it another listen.
Well that’s all for now, folks.
LG
Name: wormhead
~ ~ ~
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 12:46:41
Comments:
AliCat874 wrote
"Listenin' to my Nightfly
album and I realized that Greg Phillinganes piano solo in "Ruby Baby"
has a touch of Vince
Guaraldi in it. Agree? Beg to differ?"
I'll agree - the little tinkling piano frills have that Guaraldi touch. Maxine is also blessed with similiar nice touches from Greg and great vamping on the Rhoades by Donald
Good to see F# back again
Tuck Andress watch out
wt
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 12:24:37
Comments:
lp....very nice story. I enjoy the technical discussions of the music too but the stories of how the music relates to the memories of life means the most to me. My wife and I have been listening to Last Train Home for over about two hours straight while we're playing on the computers and looking out at the first good snow fall of the year. We have our computers set up on a large maple table with a view that looks out over the woods. Something about this song is just so soothing and goes perfect with the gentle snow fall outside the windows. Our two Maine Coons, Stanley and Deacon Blues seemed to be enjoying it too until I whistled at them to get them to look at the camera so I could snap this picture.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6974/SnowCoons.html
The quality of the picture really sucks but if you can hear Last Train Home in your head and see the snow, you might be able to catch a little of the vibe we have going here today. It's really nice. My computer, on the left, is tuned into the Guestbook here with a post from Clas blasting Dr. Mu yet again on the songwriting issue. I just read your post about Mae after I took this pic and was uploading it. Thanks for sharing the story. We really enjoyed it. Guess I'll slide on out of here while I'm wrapped up in this mellow mood. See all you good folks in a couple of days.
MC
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 12:08:22
Comments:
here's for Roy:
- objections yer honor!
- sustain!
- the witness is speculating, he is also talking about statements the defendant made when he was a "little under the table"!
-the jury must disregard from Roy the Scammer's ruthless accusations.
15 minutes break. Have a pretzel. And please, don't piss off Empire State, all hell's breaking loose when HE gets mad.
Anonymous - what is "mouth asshole". Do you have a such? If you have, then your food must taste like shit already in the mouth.
She is lovely - who is Vince Guaraldi? Do you here the old Kinks song "You Really Got Me" in that solo? It's pretty cool.
I wonder why Fagen didn't play that solo himself. Hmmm... strange.
C
Name: Aja
*music-related discussion*
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:54:35
Comments:
I was driving home last night with Jazz88 on the radio and my mind on Christmas when they played a really beautiful piece. The DJ said it was by Sheila E. (??????) That couldn't be right, I thought, so I called the station and yes, it is the same woman who did "The Glamorous Life". She's got a jazz album out, mostly instrumentals with a lot of latin overtones, and the DJ thought it was a nice CD. The song I heard has the same smooth, dreamy quality that John Klemmer's "Touch" has. Amazon had a half price deal on it, so I grabbed it.
cara mia-sure wish I could join you in Paris! Just start talking with that Southern accent and you'll be beating the men off with a stick.
Aja
Name: chips
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:48:03
Comments:
does ozzy osbourne have a site, you think?
Name:
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:41:59
Comments:
Clas....Keep putting your foot in you mouth asshole!
Name: lp
beat the freeze and get saved tonight
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:40:27
Comments:
all this talk about "Last Train Home" makes me think about the birth of my first girl - i had sent my hubby home to get some rest after staying with me for 27 straight hours and this song was hummin into his head on the drive home from the hospital, and he said he played it non-stop as he went to sleep when home - so we associate that song with the birth of our little Mae.....
*sigh*
some of you play with the chords, and i love it, but for us lay people, the tunes often connect with some event, which is also very cool indeed
Name: Roy.Scam
great....now.the.building's.pissed
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:29:13
Comments:
Hank & steviedan~ congratulations.
Steely Wonder~ I like STLY SDN best. Also possible with 8 spaces is BATL APL , JK O SPD , NITEFLY, RDLT# , K D LIED, DR WU , IGY FM19, NOSTATIC.
Favorite Faulknerian Feathered Female~ 44?! What's that in duck years?
Clas~ Becker not an outstanding composer? Don't I distinctly remember you saying that 11 Tracks of Whack was a masterpiece? (and me agreeing?) -- I reserve the right of you and I to both disagree with you.
Cara mia~ Funny you should mention Joni Mitchell's "River". I listened to four versions of that song last night: my 18 year old son's, Joni's, Robert Downey Jr.'s, and Travis's (Scottish group).
tones~ Good observation: That the early vocal harmonies depended in part on what vocalists were available. That "Turn That Heartbeat.." harmony may have been dependent on Palmer's voice. Maybe that's why they don't seem to want to do a live version of that song. -- Maybe Palmer's absence was also part of the reason they dumbed-down "Reelin'" when they performed it in the 90's.
Hutch~ "Brooklyn" was a song that had to grow on me. At first I thought it was too derivative of the Beatle's "And Your Bird Can Sing" with the similar guitar intro, similar melody line and the references to the pretensions of wealth. Plus the fact that I much prefer Fagen to Palmer as a lead vocalist. But, as you said, the bass playing in that recording is too infectuous not to hook you. The song really gains gravity at the end when the bass part becomes more noticeable.
My first several listens to "Brooklyn", I was convinced the theme was, "Money won't bring happiness, so don't sell out to the Devil (the Charmer) to get it." -- Probably wrong again, analysis breath.
RS
Name: She is lovely, yes, she's sly
AliCat874@aol.com
Sunny CA in December!
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:25:19
Comments:
Listenin' to my Nightfly album and I realized that Greg Phillinganes piano solo in "Ruby Baby" has a touch of Vince Guaraldi in it. Agree? Beg to differ?
Name: Clas
If I could turn back time
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 11:08:39
Comments:
dr Mu - napalm!
Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't think of that. You lost the WAR! The Vietnam War!
Gosh, where did you serve, sergeant?
Song My?
C
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 10:25:17
Comments:
Holy Moses... let's take this through the Mu-filter once again.
"Clas: Donald and Walter can't read or write music!"
Donald and Walt can write and read a little yes. Probably not during the 70s, why should they in that case record demosongs? And why is it so important for you that Becker/Fagen can write (notate) music?
Zappa wrote music, he came to the rehearsals with full score, and he followed it down to the smallest dot. And I couldn't write this "good" English during the 70's, but people change, they learn, don't they?
"DrMu: That's a crock of shit!"
"Pete 'The Shrink' Fogel: Why, here's some direct evidence!"
"Clas: OK, Fagen can BARELY write music, but only 1980!"
Never said that. Pete 'The Groupie' Fogels "evidence" was from 1991.
"DrMu: That's a crock of shit!"
"Clas: But Larry Carlton and Chuck Rainey CLAIM it's true! Any band or work that contains them sounds like Steely Dan!"
I never said that either, and this is the most confusing of all your statements Mu, what do you MEAN with this?
"DrMu: Then how come Carlton, Raney, etc. solo are only fit for the Golf Channel? What about Dan and Fagen work without Carlton etc.?"
This is also a confusing statement, I don't know hell what you're talking about, what's your point?.
"Clas: The first 4 albums Dan were a fluke. I hate TvN anyway!!"
I never said that.
"DrMu: So you're also saying that Walter and Donald drew crayon pictures during their tenure in the Brill Building when they were supposed to be songwriting?!"
?
"Clas: Never heard of the Brill Building. Did I piss off that one?"
If you can dance about architecture you can probably piss off a building.
And I have heard of the Brill Building, New York. And I have also heard that Fagen/Becker didn't get any staff-writing job until Katz brought them to Los Angeles.
_________
So, Doc, is this the way you discuss? Distort facts, put words in my mouth, ignore important true facts I am saying?
How am I suppose to believe what you're saying next time you're writing an article about the govenor of Alabama or how water turns to ice 45 centimeters from the surface of earth when the sun is in zenit in Uganda the eleventh April 2004? Do you think I will believe what your saying when you talk about interesting things I don't know anything about?
Nopp. You're a lier, you fake knowledge.
Sorry Mu, you couldn't win this one.
I know people who's played/recorded with Becker/Fagen. And one of them did spend a looong time in the studio with Fagen, during the Kamakariad-sessions.
But, at last, please dr Nobel Prize, would you care to explain what you mean with this:
"Clas: But Larry Carlton and Chuck Rainey CLAIM it's true! Any band or work that contains them sounds like Steely Dan!"
Just this; what do you MEAN? What's your point? Where did I say that?
C
Name: F#nogg
saltmine@dirtywork.edu
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 10:24:43
Comments:
solstice greetings, ye merry danizens. 2000 has been a most auspicious year for the Dan- the RRHOF providing a humorous, perfectly timed culmination. it was fun to scroll back- with a certain thrust that's so endearing... bestest wishes to all.
Howard: try the "I'm the
one" chord like so-----> x03221
yes- it is the same notes. it are the same notes. it's what you play. but, the
cool thing about this position- you can either use the open A string as your
root [nicely doubled in the middle on your G string] or, you can sneak across
with your first finger and do this-----> x13221 and see? Bb, bro! there's
your Bb in addition to the addition. you can have your chord and Bflat it too,
just give it the finger? sweet. i like to give the bigsby on my 6120 a gentle
caress at that precise moment. feel the tingle.
why don't more jazzbos appreciate the Gretsch as an extension of the idiom?
beats me, but there it is. stop rolling your eyes.
notwithstanding my usual
propensity to sacrifice accuracy for the sake of irreverance, here is an equal
measure of both; wilder still: you can sound the x13221 with a legato strum.
then, if you are [sniff] bigsbyless, reach over as the chord swells- with your
pick hand's index finger, and tap down on the E string, fret 5, which is the
note A, of course, to produce a strangely pleasing dissonance of bass cluster
during the "breath" before the C/D.
No one, however, in the coffee shop will notice.
Move over, Tuck Andress [while i stoop to pick up my pick. i keep dropping it].
for all: note that H gets the ultimate compliment on the ODP [was there the last time i checked]. how does it go? "we hear it's the best"? something like that.
[Dr.Mu- speaking of Woody
Woodpecker...]
coolness: here's something to do during the holidays. click on this and
transcribe it for solo guitar [with bigsby]
http://www.geocities.com/unitedtabs/tabs/beach_boys-god_only_knows.html
i mean wow.
seriously, it's as good for the soul as going to church.
...i get carried away.
love,
F#maj9
ps: Doc, would Clas' urine swirl clockwise or counterclockwise? arggh. isn't that where we left off? deja vu all over again. cheers!
Name: Midnite Cruiser
piece.of.mind.dot.com
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 10:18:01
Comments:
FINALLY found the Pat Metheny song that had been driving me crazy. Last Train Home. What a beautiful song. His guitar has almost a sitar sound to it as you hear each note bloom as it's played. What a pretty melody. The real insanity is that I've had the Still Life (Talking) CD for several years and it was boxed away since we moved a year and a half ago. Gives me a little piece of mind to know what the name of the song is and to be able to hear it without having to resort to the Weather Channel for my Pat Metheny fix again.
Name: DrMu
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 10:11:21
Comments:
Hank: Congratulations! Hey, *that's* four more than for me and the Mrs. (on the 17th - I'm not kidding!) who hit 12...
That's right! re: Arnold. "Snowbound" is about the Green Acres episode
where Arnold's tail curled up and turned blue as he predicted snow in Chicago
during the summer - nasty weather for July!
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:59:30
Comments:
steviedan....congrats on the 20th anniversary! that is truly something to be proud of in this day and time.
Hank....congrats also to you & Pat! and to the three good cats! high praise indeed to be featured through one of the biggies!
LucyB....it did indeed help! e-mail coming back at you.
lp....I don't have the music from the Tweeter Dome concert but I see that it's out there. Just wondering about the quality. Seems it was recorded from the audience and not from the sound board. I'd have to hear it before I shelled out the bucks.
it's snowing here in DANville today. Actually, we're West of DANville. But the two deer in the backyard by the creek seem to be having fun playing in it.
going ISO that Pat Metheny song I keep hearing on the Weather Channel. it's driving me crazy!!!
Name: oops LucyB don't get me started
~ ~ ~ ~
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:52:59
Comments:
top ten reasons why the Monkey in Your Soul was secretly a pig
12) Walter always looked up to
Eddy Albert
11) "darling I love you just give me Park Avenue" is too good to waste
10) yes but we left out those last two repetitive notes for legal purposes ala
My Sweet Lord
9) "I'll pack my things and run so far from here;
Goodbye, dear" sounds like a trip to the farm to me
8) I got one and you want four, where are you going to find four monkeys?
7) using Nick@Night show to reach the next gen - subversive
6) just jingles left over from our pre Jay and America days, honest
5) and we stole the Mu chord from Andy Griffith
4) Eva Gabor has that Tuesday Weld kind of charm, and a sister Zsa Zsa for
Donald darlink
3) Fred Zifel might explain occurances in Walt's backyard
2) just hamming it up with fake fake jazz
1) everything appears kosher
Name: Hank Silvers
hanksilvers@dog.com
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:46:15
Comments:
steviedan: Congratulations on your 20th year -- here's to many more. Must have been a good day, because it's also 16 years today for Pat + me.
Name: DrMu
I love the smell of Clas' brain on Napalm in the morning
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:40:37
Comments:
Lisa G: That's revealing!! About Woody Woodpecker that is... I can really hear a nice variation with the intro of What a Shame About Me!
Haooy Birthday to Miz Ducky, GE, Roy (you can stay way ahead if you count twice/annum)!!
Happy anniversary to Stevie D! From Gaucho to Two Against Nature. Now THAT's long!! Congrats!
Let's review the topic du jour so that YGK and otthers can contribute (err... pile on)
Clas: Donald and Walter can't read or write music!
DrMu: That's a crock of shit!
Pete Fogel: Why, here's some direct evidence!
Clas: OK, Fagen can BARELY write music, but only 1980!
DrMu: That's a crock of shit!
Clas: But Larry Carlton and Chuck Rainey CLAIM it's true! Any band or work that contains them sounds like Steely Dan!
DrMu: Then how come Carlton, Raney, etc. solo are only fit for the Golf Channel? What about Dan and Fagen work without Carlton etc.?
Clas: The first 4 albums Dan were a fluke. I hate TvN anyway!!
DrMu: So you're also saying that Walter and Donald drew crayon pictures during their tenure in the Brill Building when they were supposed to be songwriting?!
Clas: Never heard of the Brill Building. Did I piss off that one?
DrMu: So in essence you're claiming that Donald and Walter are the George W. Bush of music? Lead a few really bad jazz and rock bands, Daddy G bails 'em out, Uncle Katz sets them up with great talent for Secretary of State, National Security Council, etc. Walter and Donald call in from the ranch in Hawaii occasionally - have Colin Powell and Dick Cheney write all the bills, do the leg work, and the guys collect all the cash and end up on Mt. Rushmore!! Talk about a Royal Scam! Let's get Oliver Stone to make their biography!!
Name: ygk
..
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:24:47
Comments:
LucyB: jeez, hope your situation can change in a few days....but if it doesn't, we'll be back at the Appalachian Brewing Company Feb. 10 - check out the tour sched. at the bands site.....
ygk
Name: LucyB
@stepping out into the blue white night
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 08:15:19
Comments:
YGK- Bumming here big time because it looks like I won't be catching your show Thurs night. (Actually double-bumming in this house, my husband was hoping to catch The Clarks, too.) Babysitter shortage. Hoping to catch you the next time you and "the dogs" swing through Southern PA.
Midnite Cruiser- Hope the info I sent you helps. Let me know what you think.
On the same line as hearing woody woodpecker in Peg... Whenever I listen to Monkey In Your Soul, I hear the incidental music (pig-snorting sounds) from Green Acres.
Name: Clas
should work
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:43:49
Comments:
YGK - that's cool. I have forgot to email you, have patience. You lucky Manhattma Ghandi.
I was looking at the adds in the paper this morning, I was looking for some sweet affectation, you know, just another hard time band. But the musicscene in Stockholm is dead. If you're not 65 and like to listen to old jazzchimps playing the same solos they've done the last 40 years, or if you're not 15 so you can go to the stadium and look at the Offbeat Boys or whatever.
CaraMia - that's a good idea, don't hold your breath. That wouldn't be much of a vacation would it? See you next time honey. And YES, with my wife.
C
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:29:07
Comments:
Cara: (I know I still owe you a CD). But the 5th sounds like a plan - may want to bring someone meself.....E-me with your plans
Clas: I think you're a bit off on the assessment of Fagen's musicianship, and I'm being way facetious.....I agree to disagree about your opinion......and that's OK....
ygk
Name: Wormy
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:24:51
Comments:
top ten reasons Don and Walt keep going back to the Woody Woodpecker theme
12) it has powerful origins in a
Gregorian Chant
11) Unlike the porky pig theme - the stop start syncopation is more natural
10) why do you think they call it second arrangement?
9) skunk left saying "this recording session's for the birds"
8) ADHD children on ritylin can grasp it immediately
7) what better way to Gaslight Abbey?
6) Ted Baker got the Bunzen award for disguising it so well
5) what do you think that Chinese Music in Banyan trees is - ratt a tatt tatt
4) the firebird suite for a new generation
3) Charlie Parker? looks like you have the wrong Bird
2) writers cramp banging head against a tree.. wait that's it
1) on the surface "we have nothing in common, we can't dance at all",
underneath it's pure woody
daddle le da det daddle le da der, da a a a a a a aa a a a a
Name: cara mia
snowbound@sleepin' in today
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:17:32
Comments:
Wake me up....when the wolves come out to play
Such a pretty white blanket here in East Tennessee.
Aus--I was a hanger-on before you met YGK...in fact, world-wide "networking" ought'a give me some extra points in the begging department.... :-)
YGK--Jan 5th for Mingus. What say?
StevieD-- Happy nuptials year after year
Wormy and Aja--thanks for the pep talks. I think I can pull it off.
Gina--- let me know your plans. I am on the fence and might cancel if you flying Dutchmen/women don't show
Clas--I won't hold my breath waiting for you and the Mrs. in Frogland
I have met and can verify the handsome mug of one mr. Stanger. I have pics to prove his point.
Amaris (tm)--Hi, sweetie! I am still trying to figure out my uniform for the ship-o-fools. When I get back from Musee du Erotique (opened in '97) in Paris, I will have a better notion of my couture baubles/bangles/beads.
If I don't post until after the
New Year, everyone have great holidays!
My fav xmas tunes:
Joni's "River", "Chinese Cafe", "Happiness is the Best
Face Lift"
and of course:
"Snowbound" by Becker/Fagen
I leave you with this from Joni's latest pennings:
"But in France the say
Every day
Love puts on a new face
Love has many faces
Many, many faces..."
Glad to have met a lot of your
faces this year,
xoxo,
cara mia Marsha
Name: "dano"
so many candles
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:06:24
Comments:
So many birthdays this month oh" well more lash ups for the doosers.
Stevie well done mate,we just had our Anniversary and her indoors said,I want to go somewhere I"ve never been before , I said try the kitchen!!
Cara Mia (Hubba Hubba) "Paree", be careful of those frog geezers they have long moustaches and they drink that Stella,that stuff knocks you out? have a dooser of a trip.
lp, I played a country & western record backwards and got my wife back, my job back , my house back -------
Gina is the Paris lash definately on , Its only a Eurotunnel job from the UK so keep me posted top girl.
Stevie , January the 2nd keep me posted on that one mate.
Lisa, wet you say over here in blighty the cows are up on there tiptoes,and i"ve just seen a guy called Noah go past in a big Ark.wanted me to join him but the thought of two wifeys does the heed in??
St Al , if I order a tee/shirt over here how long does it take to come over the pond?
TVM, I cannot believe Vega scored he is J.Arthur Rank and as about as good as a chocolate fireguard.
Must go now , taking Twelve tin lids bowling for my man cubs 9th birthday , a rake of noise for the old ear bashing.
Speak to you all later doosers " daaaaaaaaaaaano"
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 07:04:38
Comments:
Is it true that W Bush can't point out the world on a terrestrial globe?
gina - heimlich sound öh? That was a line from John Irvings latest "Widow for a year". Read it, there's lot of stuff going on in Amsterdam.
YGK - yeah, I think we began to discuss wether Becker/Fagen had it all figured out at the time they arrived to the studio. With full scores, "pass the charts out to the sessionplayers and push rec." (if so, why did it take years to make an album?)
I say that composing and recording the composings are a process, I say that Becker/Fagen did NOT had it all figured out at the time they arrived to the studio. Or maybe they thought they had, but they changed and tried out as they went along.
I also say that Fagen is a lousy musician but a great composer. Becker is a great musician but not a great composer.
I also doubt that Fagen could notate his charts himself. If he could, why is Carlton saying on "The Making Of Aja" -Those guys came up to me with those demo-recordings, with those great songs and great, beautiful chords...(pictures of Carltons charts he wrote down from those demosongs)
(why the hell did they bother to record demos if they could notate the stuff instead?)
Larry Carlton also claimed that he was a kind of musical director during the Aja-sessions.
Chuck Rainey claims that Carlton, Porcaro and others wrote the roadmaps for the musicians.
And I say that Fagen is not able to write charts.
And that's that.
(Now I guess mr Fagens Protector and Sideman, who was 9 years at the time, soon will show up with some blury charts)
But I can't have a discussion with mister Nobel Prize and his special kind of logic (yes, he went to some Logic-Class in his youth)when he deliberately is ignoring my points. So I will pretend that the spoiled omnipotent Academic is right, after all.
Let him confirm his conception of the world. I can't do anything about that.
So:
Dr Mu! You are right, I was wrong!
Texas - Stockholm; 1264 - 0
C
Name: Howard
@lunch
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:59:05
Comments:
Lisa G and Clas: had a listen last night to Black Cow. You were right about the #5 - on "I'm the one" I *do* now hear the E#, which I missed you before, but I had trouble with the b9 (Bb).
Trouble is, the backing vocals come in so strong at that point, it masks the guitar and keyboard. Anyway, it's definitely not an A7#9 as I originally wrote. My best guess now is A7#5 (A G C# E#). I can't hear the Bb though ...
Do you hear the Bb in the keyboards? guitar? Help me out here!
The harmony vocals seem to sing (E# A C#) on "I'm the" then (E G C) on "one" - I can't hear the Bb in their parts.
On the guitar I'm now playing:
5x566x = A G C# E# (A7#5)
x5555x = D G C E (C/D)
On the piano demo of Black Cow, I can't hear the Bb on that chord - still sounds
like A7#5, but this doesn't mean the final version necessarily stuck to the same
chord ...
Howard
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:57:03
Comments:
.....for what it's worth, don't forget to celebrate the solstice on the 21st, as the downward decent of our illuminator does a 180 and starts to head north - new beginnings, fresh ideas....and a move, dare I say it, towards Spring......do whatever you like earth related and meaningful....
Happy Solstice Everyone!
ygk
Name: ||||||||||
Merry... oh forget it
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:52:37
Comments:
wormy - the newly converted may make up a significant portion of the population, especially this year with the TaN, MM&I, & the tour... I'm sure there are a few young oddballs out there who would appreciate SBK as a good starter package (just as the 'Greatest Hits' collection was to me during the1980s...) Still, SBK doesn't help those of us who have heard the definitive versions for years, and are craving more.
I don't know if the top five thing was real, but DF is said to have contributed 'Ambience'. Sounds real to me!
Brenda – wherever, whomever you are, nice wake up call there. I agree, it's a horrible situation. Um, I guess your point is, think before you buy, every dollar is a vote, check the 'made in' tags, etc, or better yet, let’s scrap this whole Christmas thing because it's causing more pain than good? I'm not going to justify how I celebrate Christmas or why. It would sound too negative. But I take this opportunity to think about the impact of my actions, and recommend that anyone so inclined should do the same...
A side question – my dictionary says 'kwanza' is a unit of currency. Does anyone care to shed some light on the meaning of the Kwanza celebration? Are the two words related?
lp - 'use tact poise and reason' ... Perhaps it is against our innate nature, but we try, man, how we try! :) (to paraphrase _The Producers_)
steviedan – loved your wedding story... sometimes less pomp and more circumstance is the best! Happy, happy 20th to you both.
Name: Hutch
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:39:04
Comments:
LP - Sorry. For some reason I thought it was Mu that made
the cha-cha observation. And a good observation it was!
Speaking of Latin beats... is it my imagination or does the tempo speed up half
way through the little percussion intro to Do it Again?
StevieDan - I did see part of that K.D.Lang request show. Very nice. God, that woman has a great voice. So much control and precision.
H.
Name: Aussie T
@work
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:26:22
Comments:
YGK: Surely my fair feathered bud. The Mingus Orchestra
also plays on Fridays at: City Hall (restaurant)in the Granite Room at City
Hall. Loco: Tribeca: 131 Duane Street 9Between Church and West Broadway) 8:30
pm- 1st set/ 10:30 pm- 2nd set. Full bar service and food munu available.
Reservations: 212 227-7777 or 212 736-4749. Cover charge $20.00 (students
$10.00).
re: R&R HOF...hangers on a drag on my survival of the fittest ranking. Call
me for details.
Wormstah: Good observation re: Mr. Fripp's private club collectors' club. Was a pioneering member but allowed my initial deposit to dwindle to zero after receiving about 8 compact discs (a few of which were double discs). Considering re-upping.
Chere baby: Wat up chile?
Aus
Name: luckless pedestrian
our thermasuits sealed up tight
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:25:26
Comments:
brenda - wow, great take on the Christmas thingy
stevie dan - 20? another wow - i would have tabbed you much older than that, you are wiser beyond your years, have a great birthday
MC - count me in on the Tweeter tape, akrieg@ci.reading.ma.us i was there, what a night that was, i will nver forget it - they were so on!
hey, i liked my cha-cha comment
have a picture perfect day!
Name: YGK
..
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 06:07:11
Comments:
Aus, man: does that Chinese secret include hangers on?
I'm local you know.....
and what of that phat Mingus Big Band performing on Friday nights in another
loco?
For the life of me, I don't understand why these guys aren't getting more press,
and I don't understand the New York centric Dan folks who don't make the
gig....maybe that Friday night thing would incent some more visitors! Can you
drop the 411?
LisaG - you must!
I love the wit thats been flying around here today, and/or last night. Stranger, I like you're style.....
Clas: I don't know if I should jump in on you and Mu, but Toto, and those other groups mentioned shared some of the same players as those Dan sessions....it's just a commonality.....and I guess I really don't know what you guys were trying to talk about, so I'll drop back out.
"the sky is bluer uptown
in washington heights
where cirrus and cumulonimbus mix
with a rich blue
mirroring the diversity
of the cultures over which
it hovers....."
I love this town.....
ygk
Name: BF
krouse@javanet.com
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 05:57:33
Comments:
Dynamic duo sunning themselves in Maui - well maybe Walter - TAN DVD makes Philly paper list of cool buys - I agree!!!
http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2000/12/15/features/fpop15.htm
Q - Happy Holidays
Name: Gina
cello and tux
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 05:56:17
Comments:
did it for her, right? Sigh, may you and the mrs. enjoy
the next two decades and the next and next and next ...
Happy Anniversary, StevieD ...maybe the package I sent a week ago will arrive
around about this happy event, haha, you'll sure like my "liner notes"
there LOL
ok Clas ... very cryptic this
noise and no noise, haha ...
would like to return the favor and produce something suede, but i can't ... darn
...
Hello Brenda, nice angle and the kind we like around here, do be a Stranger more often ... booming Mizar 5 instead of baby-booming, who's to know for sure ...
went to see a live gig yesterday and in between the sets there was this moment of silence and then suddenly .. Deacon Blues .. couldn't be better!!!!
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina
Name: caught worm
@early bird's nest
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 05:16:38
Comments:
Sir Steven Dan - Happy 20th there Stevie!
I'll echo your sentiments of minimal packaging of the Dan.
As liberal as the Citizen Dan box was with giving one the complete released catalog with little fanfare, a followup SBK which seems to push a best of to two discs doesn't have any lure for anyone outside of the newly converted. Neither of these packages really brought outtakes or rarities to the table. Although Don and Walt may have not had mush say in the SBK release
Certainly 270 reels of Gaucho tapes must contain something enlightening.
Somebody like Stevie Ray Vaughn was a master of improv and certainly suited for outtakes. And the Dan being such perfectionists, probably the closests we come to hearing sketches of their music is Making of Aja outtakes. I know one dreams of a Rykodisc like treatment that Costello gave his back catalog with releases having multiple alternative takes (early sketches) and viable songs which didn't make the original pressing.
It seems Here At the Western World, live Bodi and FM are deemed enough for one to salivate over. And with Walt and Don being the perfectionists they are, the results are stunning, although one longs to look at a half finished canvas that was subsequently shelved for the final glowing brush strokes
One could take a lesson from Robert Fripp and Discipline Global Mobile, where Robert has a collectors club and releases studio outtakes and live concerts of King Crimson shows in limited quantities to die hard fans who want to look behind the creative process
In the meantime I'll hold to those wonderful rereleases and continue to revel in their timeless definitive brushstrokes
wormy
Name: Jim
#
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 03:40:13
Comments:
StevieDan: Congrats and welcome to the 20 club! There's a lot of hard work devoted to something that goes by so fast, isn't there?
Hutch, Howard, and others: For the non-pro's amongst us, let me echo Worms thought - we might not have the slightest clue as to what the chord progressions are all about, but we probably would like to. Please continue. I left my musical education back in high school, this is now my community college night class.
*packs an apple for LisaG and gets on the yellow bus..*
Name: Return to Brenda
Not quite sticky enough for a post-it-note
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 01:28:36
Comments:
Attention those of you who think this board is boring: Nothing is more tedious than overseeing 513 Chinese women assembling "executive gifts" that end up on the shelves of Ross, Bed Bath & Beyond, Foleys, etc. You know the products. They're all miniature versions of popular games/activities designed to fit on a busy corporate executive's desk. There's mini putting green. Mini pool table. Mini dart board. Mini air hockey. Pieces of shit that wind up in land fills shortly after the Christmas trees. It's hard to convince 500 sweat-shop workers that the impossible deadlines and intolerable working conditions are all because of a Jew named Jesus--a character the Jews themsleves don't acknowledge as anyone special yet have no problem financing the garbage that fills Westerner's Christmas stockings on "his special birthday". Maybe I just need some time with my Rabbi. Nothing can be as skewed as I see it...
Gotta go. Ming has enlisted the dollfull yet dangerous James Baker to track me down and bring me to justice. I've also heard that Colin Powell has hired some thugs to tie me to the back of a pickup truck and drag me around until I beg to come back to my senses. I'm not afraid of those cowards, but if I ever see a "Billy Big-Mouth Bass" again I might just reactivate my anti-grav apron and matza my way back to Mizar-5.
Yours in Holy Loving Goodness,
Brenda
Name: Clas
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 01:10:23
Comments:
Sorry Howard - should be: A-bass, G Bb Db F
Name: Clas
it's cold in Stockholm
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 01:04:20
Comments:
dr Mu - I aint throwing anything in your face, don't be so touchy. I JUST DON'T understand what you are saying:
What has the Steely Dan-sound to do with Toto, Larry Carlton or Paul Simon?
And I can't hear any Steely Dan in Ricki Lee Jones or whatever (maybe China Crisis and Fra Lipi Lippi, the arrangements).
Wasn't our discussion about wether Becker/Fagen sat in the chamber, at the piano, with a piece of paper composing, coming to the studio with a full partitur/score for the bass, rythmguitars, horns, drums, vocals and everything?
My point is, they made a song, maybe had some arrangement-ideas, but tried things out thousand times in the STUDIO. And Omartian, Mounsey, Carlton (for example) wrote the scores for the session- musicians, with directions from Becker/Fagen of course (and I say it again, Becker/Fagen was the composers, of COURSE! Except for the music they stole from Jarret and others).
And more; Steely Dan didn't have record-sessions with 17 musicians at the same time. They started out with laying down basic tracks, bass, drums, some guitars. As most bands does.
And if they got all figured out when they came to the studios, why the did it take years to finish an album? Were the session players they hired so lousy? No. They tried out things, even composed while recording.
Didn't Becker say in "The making of Aja" that he took Chuck Rainey aside and tried out different bass-grooves for "Peg"? And Rainey sneaked in some slapping in the refrain? And didn't Larry Carlton write the charts? I saw them with my very eyes on that video. And Carlton said that he was a kind of musical director on the Aja-sessions.
I aint dissing your heroes Mu, I am just telling you the facts, Logic Course or no Logic Course.
(I don't understand what it is with you gringos and celebrities, you're so paranoid about them. Maybe it's because you aint have a Royal Family)
Howard - I was checking out those "Black cow"-chords yesterday, they seem pretty okay for me:
A7b9 "You were..." (A-bass, G Bb Dd F) and then Dm11 "high, you were a..." E7#9 "...cryin disgrace" Ebmaj7 "...they saw your face".
It's a pretty cool, typical Steely Dan chord progression: E7#9 - Ebmaj7, with the tones D and G as the least common denominators.
Lots of that stuff on "Peg" and through the whole of "Nightfly".
In that old songbook (Royal Scam/Aja) they have Denny Dias to explain the secrets of the Mu-chords. After Denny Dias is done they say:
"Thank you, 'Brother' Dias. I suppose it's only fair to warn you people that lately we have been visiting many of the excellent nightclubs and discoteques all around the country without prior notification and, if you're up on the bandstand playing an unasteasthetic voicing of the Mu-major chord in, say 'Rikki' or 'Reelin in the years', we're going to notice the minute we walk in and so will anybody else with half an ear (nice try Denny). So tighten up."
Gina - het geluid van iemand die geen geluid probeert to maken.
C
PS/ the Stranger - is it true that the eels and frogs are alive when you it them?
Name: steviedan
it was twenty years ago today
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 00:46:49
Comments:
that phyllis taught the boy to stay. the day the candles ignited the christmas greens on the mantle at my parents house, my dad stumbling to extinguish them, as two mere KIDS exchanged vows many thought were premature. but i knew it was right that day, and i know it today. twenty years in the blink of my eye.
an alert to our scottish buds who may not be hip to hoop's great digest. apparently there will be a sd concert special on your tellies on jan 2.
today i was observing, what with the new hendrix and srv boxsets selling so well, how i hate that SBKs has come in as just another catalog piece instead of a release EVENT. unreleased live and studio out-takes are big business these days and santa would have been a little better to d&w if only they could DIG a little. i'll bet there are a ton of usable alt-takes. probably some un-used genius. highly debated approaches that bear further debate. the sd work ethic cries out for this treatment. no take is sacred. just ask charlie parker. and look, just today the talk has turned to bootlegs and who could blame us. you're spoon feedin' us here.
this reminds me of blaise's wah-wah angle which also reminds me of a couple of friends who torment musical instrument store employees inquiring about jews-harps. they just insist that they come in different keys and that they need a Bb and you get the picture. they just try to keep a straight face and act all jews-harp elitist citing european vs asian makes and such bs. often at the big retailers, they get referred to the classical instrument salesperson and that is just PERFECT.
listen to hutch. raymond scott was a GENIUS.
party on wayne(man) !
Name: Joyce Jism
ovary office
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 19100 at 00:25:50
Comments:
Mu & Ducky: One cannot totally embrace their sun sign unless they first learn to spell it correctly: Sagittarius. Not Saggitarius. That's the way a horse would spell it if he or she could grasp a #2 pencil. Lost in the curlys. But you're human, damn it! Embrace those thick calves and just try to find knee socks that will fit. At least you can shop Wal-Mart without a bit in your mouths...
Actually, Sagittarians are my very favorite signs. Why? Because you can create all kinds of havok with a Sagittarian partner and NEVER get in trouble. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the Great Benevolent, and is the luckiest sign in the zodiac, hands down. The typical Sagittarius doesn't even THINK about LUCK! They make their own while carving a gun stock out of the hardest wood on earth with the sharpest implements on the planet. These folks retain their digits even with an uncharacteristic slip of the blade.
So happy birthday Sagittarians one and all. Keeping your foot out of your mouth and your eye on the road is all you need to kiss Vishnu's shiny backside.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 20:35:01
Comments:
Ok, okay....I know we don't normally discuss boots on here but I've gotta ask anyway....has anyone heard of a two disc set called "Ain't No Drag" that was recorded live at the Tweeter Center on 7/15/2000 with 21 songs on it? It doesn't look like Walter & Donald are interested in releasing a live CD from the Steely Dan 2K tour so I had considered checking this thing out if the quality is good. Anyone know? If you're afraid of public retribution you can e-mail me at:
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
I wouldn't want to take any money out of the pockets of our boys, but I also like to have all the music from them I can get. Call it a Catch 22 or just call me greedy, I don't really care. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
"try again tomorrow"
MC
Name: Hutch
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 20:31:47
Comments:
Lisa G. - Well now, I guess I just never really looked at
it like that... Gosh, if you were in my band we probably would have killed you
by now! Just kidding!
Don'tcha see... part of the beauty of it is the fact that it's NOT the exact
same notes but a cleverly disguised representation concocted by the twisted
minds of our boys. By utilizing these subtle methods seemingly innocent memories
of youth are transformed into archetypes that Fagen and Becker mold like so much
clay into bouncy little melodies that defy all the logic of the Music Industry
and somehow sell records.
The bottom line, to use the words of our recently Annointed One... It's all
subliminable!!
And another thing. Dr.Mu, you are
exactly right. Cha-cha no less!
Many of their songs have a Latin beat of some sort. And yet they don't sound
anything like a Latin band!
Those guys are tricky.
All in fun, Lisa!
Hutch
Name: Somebody buy
Jann Weiner...
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 20:10:00
Comments:
...an 8-track of "Ahh-jah"...
Name: Lisa G
Woody? I don't know, I'll ask him.
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 19:52:40
Comments:
More music mumbo-jumbo for the likes of Hutch.
AKA-"Don't theory take all the fun out of it?"
Oh, I hate to be a bubble-burster here, but...
This has been driving me nuts!
The freakin' "Woody Wood
Pecker" theme is nothing more than, in solfege (ahem):
sol-do-mi-sol-mi (repeat, then sing "That's the Woody Wood Pecker
song.")
However, the part of the intro. to "Peg" that many are comparing it to
goes-a something like this:
mi-sol-la-do-la
I believe some of what you are hearing as the similar factor between the two is
the last minor third in both examples, as well as the identical rhythm. Perhaps
it's the rhythm alone.
But it is not the same lick because the first 3 intervals are not the same.
Inspired maybe.
Now "Babylon Sisters"
has the exact same melody as Peg's little lick (save the minor third at the end
as marked by "do-do" instead of "do-la," although in a
relative minor key relationship) at the chorus:
mi-sol-la-do-do (follow with "Shake it!")
You can also put these intervals in the context of the minor key as scale
members:
sol-la-do-me-me (follow with "Shake it!")
Perhaps more inspiration?
Pat Metheny puts the melody from "Oh Susanna!" in many of his solos, although I'm not sure he either knows it or wants to acknowledge it.
Thank you for your time.
The Chick Singer
Howard-IMO the chord in question HAS to have the E# (F natural) and the Bb. I always heard the tritone as what makes it want to resolve to the "Know" chord--thus giving it great power.
Name: Q
Down in Tampa........
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 18:29:16
Comments:
The real Mr. Fagen drinks only "Classic" Coca Cola until further notice.
Name: Bonnie
over the ocean
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 16:51:40
Comments:
Where are the Scots today? I need my daily lash!
Name: Aussie
@home
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 16:42:06
Comments:
The Charmer: Ancient Chinese Secret....hehehehe.
Aus
Name: wayneman
hey, wait a minute....
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 16:07:20
Comments:
I'll have to admit to never having been there....and I'm
sure it's real slick and interactive and all......but isn't induction into the
Rock and Roll HOF only just slightly cooler than having your signed guitar hung
at the Hard Rock Cafe?
Aren't the 4 Seasons in there?
Until they let Pete Rose in, I'm boycotting.......wayneman
Name: The Charmer
HOF hopeful......... NOT!
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 15:50:10
Comments:
I was looking into how to go about getting tickets for the HOF induction. Apparently, these tickets are only available to industry insiders, and there's only 1,000 or so seats. Last year the price for a ticket was $2,500. They even make the inductees wife/family pay.
Aussie how did you get a ticket? Did you have to pay?
Name: TheStranger
Beauty's A Curse
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 15:44:25
Comments:
Blaise,
It's true I am exactly the sort of swine your mother warned you against. I
applaud your instincts. Yes, Aja and I sat together at a Dan concert. But she
praises me only because she still suffers from the Stockholm Syndrome. She
looked so good, I don't remember if she said anything. The other bookend was the
sexy Amaris, whose guestbook handle I never got. I too suffer from the curse of
exterior beauty. It's always been difficult to find women who could look beyond
my exquisite packaging and find the intelligent being that dwells inside. My
wife excels at this difficult task.
Clas,
Yes, the French are perverted wretches. That's another reason why I love to go
to France.
Name:
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 14:07:52
Comments:
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznnnnnnnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzznnzzz
Name: lp
turn this town into a city of lights
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 13:55:35
Comments:
that address i gave below is correct, but you have to go to the Trekkie thingy and then scroll down to the list of contributors, it's funny, is this one of his friends? too funny if it is!
Name: chips
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 13:42:08
Comments:
i'll trade that player with my collection of joey ramone's budweiser cans through the years collection
Name: Mr Fagen
equipment up for auction
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 13:04:41
Comments:
seeing how my son Donald wasn't able to get an adequate tax write off for his vintage digital multitrack tape machines (once thought donatible to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), and the fact that they have been taking up too much space in my living room since they have been in storage since 1997 in my suburban Cleveland residence, I just wanted to inform people that I will be putting them up for auction on e-bay shortly
I could probably sell a few empty diet coke cans Don guzzled down last week if anyone is interested in parting with a measly $100 or so
Name: YGK
NYC
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 12:41:27
Comments:
Kudos and Birthday wishes to Mu and Ducky! (and anyone else I missed)
Hutch, man, hope you're feelin better. This board somehow mirrors life, with it's sometime pettiness, asshole behaviour, musical discussions, life discussions, but always, IMHO, it comes down to the mindsets of those who love the Dan…..
Oleander, mr. Whatevah, sets up and makes WONDERFUL Danfests, and attends with her wonderful set of wit and humor - I wish I could've inherited her skills for the NYC Danfest this past March……
ygk
Name: lp
heat up these white nights
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 12:38:45
Comments:
hey, Donald Fagen is listed as a contributor to this site - anyone know anything, is this for real?
http://www.topfive.com/
Name: Is there gas in the car?
Yes there's gas in the car
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 11:52:20
Comments:
Regarding Steely Wonder's quest for vanity plates:
http://dandom.music.uiuc.edu/danvanplate/danvan.html
Name: Aja
goofing off on a gorgeous Monday
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 11:47:42
Comments:
Oh no Blaise, definitely talk to the Stranger. He's hilarious and makes a great impromptu concert date.
Chere, Lisa, ruby baby-thanks for the well wishes! I'm doing great, with the exception of the daily headache I get from dealing with the insurance company.
ruby baby-hope you bounce back quickly, too!
Chere-glad you like the picture. I looked at it one day and thought of you so strongly that I knew I had to send it.
cara mia-solo in Paris? That could be great! Did you ever see the commercial where a woman dumps the boyfriend that always complains about spending money, runs off to Paris and has a sizzling affair? Have a fabulous time!
Hutch-I'm glad you're still here even though we're not talking about music! There's no reason why there can't be multiple discussions going on at the same time, for both the musicians and nonmusicians here.
Aja
Name: DrMu
searchingforbobbyfischer
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 11:06:16
Comments:
Clas: The breeze is cold. Cover up your hanging chads. The same session guys from the Dan recordings were used on:
1. Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years and Hearts and Bones
2. Toto
3.. Larry Carlton's late 70s, 80s recordings including Alone/But Never Alone, Friends, and Sleepwalk.
Yet, *none* of these recordings sound anything like Steely Dan, although Sleepwalk can be heard in Publix ads and Smiles and Smiles to Go on any CBS golf programming.
The closest recording and only recordings to the sound of Steely Dan are: Donald Fagen's 2 solo efforts, the Gary Katz produced Eye-to-Eye (which feature Fagen on keys) and Laura Nyro efforts, the Becker produced China Crisis, and Rickie Lee Jones Pirates (which feature Fagen on keys/synth) and Flying Cowboys (produced by Becker). Finally there's Two Against Nature, which virtually every music critic claims starts where Gaucho left off. But the ONLY 2 common members are Becker and Fagen, It's really ODD, isn't it Clas, how these "hacks" could reproduce their sound outside its original context?! How could that be?? No Katz. No mentor. No translator. Hmmmmmm.
Oh sure, just throw the "you're not a musician" thing in my face again. I could mention that I've taken a Logic class and you haven't, regardless...
Queen takes bishop. You boxed in your King.
Checkmate!
Hutch: How about the Zack Sanders and Fagen overdubs on True Companion!? I know
it's not the same thing, but what a sound!
Name: Blaise
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 11:01:55
Comments:
Gina - Sure, thanks. Here, things have been surreal, more surreal than you'd imagine. Wild times are not over on the homefront. I take shelter where I can and sometimes I huddle under these trees looking for bear hugs. Glad we still have this line at least.
Clas - Stranger? My mom warned me not to talk to him and his kind, You shouldn't listen either. Maybe he's one of those evil strangers that put needles and razor blades in your candy come Halloween or show you dirty movies in their den. Beware of strangers, Clas, all of them, just like the French!
LP - It could but it didn't or it still doesn't, the internet, I mean... It's worth debating anyway.
Name: lp
wake me up
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 09:49:01
Comments:
welcome to wayneman, yes my manners are not in cue today either.
altimira - i have a great article on the sides to suburban sprawl - makin sense of it, that is - from Planning Mag this month - i think it was you who told me you do the planning thingy at times, right? let me know
politically incorrect on friday had a great question: now that bush is in, where will all the right wing huey's direct their hate now? they've been piling it up for 8 years now. great show, btw -
off to save the watersheds
Name: Gina
where are my
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 09:15:28
Comments:
manners ...
W-man, welcome under these Trees, do be a Stranger!!!!
Happy B-days to all the "sags" Green Earrings, Miz Ducky, Dr Mu, ||| and may their goals and illuminated minds swoon these Banyan Trees so they bounce back and dance like a moon's giggle!!!
off again!
G
Name: Gina
snooze
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 09:11:15
Comments:
as in sleeping this day dreaming dreams I can't recall, this evening out again for some piano jazz, hard to kick this new live gig habit so I won't LOL
thanks Blaise, no pinch, a hug's fine, you know the tears I cry at times still come from the very same source, am very sobby this time of the year, haha. may I send you a Banyan Shirt btw, you know, for when you're in New Orleans like the rest of us?
Cara Mia, am trying to get others to come to Paris as well, so maybe we'll meet!!!
okay, off again, mixing a Banyan
Tree Vitamin Shot,
Gina
Name: W-man
w@yapkonkoma.com
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 09:06:20
Comments:
Thanks to the handful of kind souls who welcomed me and may have appreciated my snapshot in time (I have since come to appreciate and understand the concept of light as deterrant).
Dr. K - I don't know Mike Feder,
but I hope he's worth ripping off.......and I'm still trying to find out exactly
what Deludin is (I'm assuming it's a prescription drug but it can't be very
popular because I haven't seen any adverts on tv or in the subways). I also have
not been treated at any of the fine institutions you mention, but as a youth, my
friends and I did frequent the handball courts at Pilgrim State. They were set
far enough away from the general population so that contact with the patients
was rare.......although there were occasions when our fun would come to an
abrubt end due to the fondness of some patients to urinate or defecate on the
court mid-volley.......but I certainly appreciate your treatment offer and when
this jar of Thorazine is empty, I'll give you a nod......that might be just the
thing
good day......wayneman
Name: Clas
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 08:28:09
Comments:
Howard - frankly, I must check that chord too, I just picked it from the Royal Scam/Aja-songbook hundred years ago.
Blaise - wah-wah what? Where did you read that crap?
Cara Mia - stay away from the Fransoses. You saw what kind of guy my dear Meg Ryan met on the plane. If someone bothers you, scream.
Frenchmen are filthy, they smoke Gauloise, smell garlic and eat frogs. Ask the Stranger, he has a perverted obsession for France.
C
Name: Hutch
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 08:08:13
Comments:
Roy - Those vocal harmonies are great on Turn That Heartbeat Over Again. They sure did some nice male back-up vocals on a lot of the tracks on CBAT. Your comment made me pull the album out and listen to a few songs I hadn't heard in a while. One of my favorites is Brooklyn. That really is a beautifully constructed song. Such a nice circular chord progression. And back-up vocals by Clydie King, Shirley Mathews and Venetta Fields which add a soulful touch. I think those girls were doing a lot of studio work back then. Skunk's pedal steel is so sublime on that cut. I listened to Brooklyn three times last night focusing on Becker's totally in the pocket bass playing. Talk about playing with the kick drum! Walter is truly a great bass player. I'd love to see him play some bass on a couple of songs on the next tour.
Happy Birthday Miz D! You're a sweetheart!
Howard - Thanks for the back up on that. I was starting to think I was totally outnumbered. Speaking of cartoon music, a friend of mine loaned me an album a few months ago. I believe the artist's name is Raymond Scott. He wrote some rather unique music back in the Forties, a lot of which was used in Warner Bros. cartoons. One song called Powerhouse comes to mind that you hear quite a bit in those cartoons. It's really interestingly different music. He was a bit of a maverick in the musical community at the time.
Midnite - Thanks for the positive thoughts. Bill's fine now.
Hutch
Name: luckless pedestrian
let's sleep in today
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 08:02:38
Comments:
gosh - these cut and paster posters are tough getting through after being away from here since Friday.
happy happy birthday to Green Earring, Mu, and Miz Ducky - use tact poise and reason - the motto of a Saggiterean (sp?)
wood woody pecker series reminds me if SD's usage of a cha-cha beat in some of their tunes (e.g. Deacon Blues and Only a Fool Would Say That) - anyone else noticed that?
and if you play turn that heartbeat over again backward on your turntable, it plays the theme to The Avengers....
blaise - good mag cover, the internet has saved democracy down here, dontcha think?
had the office christmas party at my house last night - homemade egg nog really creeps up on you - wow, i am hurting today (joy of cooking recipe used as the base - rum and brandy as the chosen liquor and a really really good vanilla is the secret - i order mine from this place on outer Cape) - music offered was a mix of tunes on a tape that ranged from Everything But the Girl's 24 December to The Christmas Revels, and The Pogues to The Ventures......
i said i did pranks in wal-mart-like stores in high school/college, not lifted stuff - come on, don't say delinquent with my name - i may run for office someday! he hee wouldn't that be scary - this place is my closet, ha!
have a good day all
Name: Floridavid
.
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 07:37:05
Comments:
Miz Ducky-Happy Birthday.Enjoy your First Holiday in the New Nest.
StevieDan- Christmas Parties for the Rhythmically Challenged?I love it when their inner soul tells them to clap along on 1 and 3...like it's a freakin' Polka!
Things I observed on this weeks
Gigs; A guy had a T-shirt that Read "Heaven: where the Police are
British,the Cooks are Italian,Mechanics Are German,Lovers are French and it's
all organized by the Swiss.
Hell: where the Chefs are British, the Mechanics are French,Lovers are Swiss,
Police are German and it's all organized by the Italians."
At the end of a Christmas Party
while I was packing up I overheard a Wife tell her Husband "You're Such a
Ham"
He said "Yeah, I get up in the middle of the night for a snack and when the
refrigerator light comes on...I do a 10 minute set"
Name: Howard
@work
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 07:36:33
Comments:
Eubie Showgirl is right! Woody Woodpecker *does* make a brief appearance during Denny Dias' solo on Gold Teeth II!
I'd always kind of smiled too myself at this point in the solo, as the "woodpecker lick" stands out (to me anyway..) quite clearly because there is a little pause before and after it.
I hadn't noticed the same idea in Peg, but it's there too. Hutch, maybe we should broaden the idea of D+W's musical jokes coming from TV commercials - how about cartoons as well?!
Howard
Name: ||||||||||
@work and likely to stay there for a very long time
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 06:32:59
Comments:
Happy Birthday to Greene Earrings, Dr. Mu, and Miz Ducky!! Live long and prosper!
Chere, I hope your migraines stop soon! Take good care of yourself, now... I don't have any juju but I'm sending good thoughts and vibes your way!
JWMalibu, could you please post the website for TM/2000 again?
Name: Blaise
peasants hop soil and trees
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 06:24:38
Comments:
Just an impression from a percentage of the polls. The
official tally is still the object of debate. Recount anyone?
Now Howard's pissed off too. 'Tis the season to lurk some and appease the weary
souls, me thinks.
later
Name: Eubie The Showgirl
Al B. Sinatra
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 06:18:59
Comments:
I think you can also hear the Woody Woodpecker theme briefly performed by Dennis Dias(?) during his solo on "Your Gold Teeth II".
Name: Wormy
pezz ant top soilant trees
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 05:56:11
Comments:
hi gang
burf day wishes to the Mu and Duck sters
Cara Mia solo in Paris - I feel for you there Marsha - I'm sure the French men won't disappoint though
Hutch - I enjoy your chord progression discussions, even if not knowledgeable enough to add to the discussion
Aussie - Hunter S. THompson to
introduce the Dan would be wonderful, although lost on the next generation -
Picture Don and Walt with Gonzo in the great white shark....
Aja - like the GB/River analogy - especially if you tie it to that Joni tune ... I wish I had a river... I could skate away on...
gee Blaise - didn't know you kept
tabs
I overran my posting quota three months ago
either that or I've been actually working or on the Ben Orr site by mistake
toodles from the topsoil
...and leave him lying in the rain
Name: Howard
@lunch
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 05:06:39
Comments:
Lisa G and Clas: sounds like I need to go back to that Black Cow "I'm the one" chord - I may have missed a note or two there. You seem to both hear the #5 (E#) and b9 (Bb), and you're probably right!
Hutch: I'm with you on your thoughts and efforts to get more musical discussion on this board. The debate over content is a tricky one - there have been many, many similar discussions on the Joni Mitchell email list. People want to talk about all aspects of life, and I'm all for that. It's just that when the amount of stuff relevant to Joni (Steely) and/or their music gets swamped with political/agressive/idiotic posts, it can be depressing. In the end an "only joni" list was created. Subject lines not about Joni had to be tagged, and these were filtered out for the "only joni" option, but left in for the original list. Not perfect, but it helped a lot.
The last thing I want is to prevent people talking about whatever they want - it's just the balance of Steely versus "other" content that I sometimes feel unhappy about.
On the other hand, I'm well aware
that I probably bore most people to tears with endless discussions about
Ebmaj6/7 chords!!!
Luckily for me there are folk like yourself, Clas, Lisa G and others who are
happy to join in the discussion ... That's just one of the reasons I get a lot
of pleasure from reading and posting here.
Howard
Name: Blaise
not a "real" musician, I just play one on the GB
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 04:45:15
Comments:
Clas -You're late on the news. You see, we've already established, through a reliable source, that, in the end, they're just wahwah pedal aficionados. It doesn't even mean they can produce a good wahwah riff themselves. They just like it, that's all. They know when they hear a slick wahwah lick. How's that? Of course, it's a fact that the true great composers are usually only acknowledged post-mortem. It probably will be your case, right? Don't despair, man. Keep the faith.
Name: Blaise
winded and woodied
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 03:53:57
Comments:
Woody - Come to think of it, there might be a nod to Woody Woodpecker in the Peg intro. Mr.Rogers in WOH's? Sometimes, these things remain in your tooth fillings after being picked up. They pop out after a while like that, randomly. Or else, they're spit out intentionally. It invites one to have another listen with that in mind.
Paris - I'd probably need an interpreter myself...
Flu - Too bad that green tea is helpless against the flu. How about a cyberhug? just a pinch, there.
Weather - Dorval airport, qc, ca. Warning of steady heavy winds. Gusts at 70 mph throughout the day. And I have to go out, like now...
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 03:43:37
Comments:
Cara Mia - "...we could mix it with Pernod...absinthe...or something equally vile".
We could?
I'll be there.
C
Name: Clas
@ work
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 03:38:43
Comments:
"Conservatism with empathy"
What does that mean? Is there conservatism WITHOUT empathy?
z - hey man, you're becoming to be my fave letter here. And you, what is Deludin? I've heard about a lot of drugs (I presume it's a drug), but Deludin I have never heard of. And now when our dear and miracolous Doc Krueger is saying it's cool to mix Deludin and Xanax, well, that intrigues me.
To say the least.
Stranger - hey man, couldn't you come up with anything worse?
Score;
LA - Stockholm; 1 - 2
Roy Scam, Aus and others, thanks, I am really glad and flattered to hear you like those paintings. You know, some of them have been around for many years. And most of them are scattered around old friends.
Soul Sister - what is "plan the them"?
Miz Ducky - happy happy HAPPY birhtday!
Cara Mia - my wife?
Ohhh yess, that one! Of course I'll bring my wife...
dr Mu - so man, now it's time to bring our previous discussion through a Dr Mu Filter:
Though you're not a musician nor a composer, never sat foot in a studio, the score is, up to this date:
Texas - Stockholm; 0 - 2
(And we have to disregard from Donald Fagens shrink, sideman and protector, Pete Fogel, and his lousy submission of evidence; 3 or 4 bars of notated music from 1991* (the actuall discussion was about the timeperiod 1970 - 1982).
As said, being Don's protector and shrink, he is not a truth-witness, theirfore disqualified)
BUT, though it is mr Mu's birthday I think the jury can, without showing its lugubrious face, grant 1 point as compensation for pain and suffering.
Score;
Texas - Stockholm; 1 - 3
* Did the Protector have mr Fagens allowance to show this piece of paper on the net? Is mr Protector able to show any "evidence" from the Katy Lied sessions, or the Royal Scam sessions? Not?
Total score:
USA - Sweden; 2 - 6
Audio and out,
C, kerosene Dupree
Name: Edd
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 03:24:34
Comments:
re: Midnight Cruiser
This has been a pretty slow season so far. So much so that even the local paper carried an article on the "shortage" of birds at feeders. They attribute it to the unusually wet summer causing lots of natural food to be available.
Chickadees are maybe 30% of last year. Titmouse abound, white breasted nuthatches are at about 50%. Cardinals about even.
On the upside, I've got 3-4 downy woodpeckers who've become regulars, and at least one winter wren who's a newcomer.
...and starlings. Argh.
There's a couple new pics up on my site.
Name: Gina
flu?
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 00:50:42
Comments:
somewhat tinged, thanks LisaG ...don't mind being critical, it's the way you hear and like/dislike things, but glad the tape did please ya!!!
sigh, read all other comments and am simply in a high leveled lurking kind of mode ..must be the end of a wild year, haha!
cara mia, paris sounds very very enchanting, still haven't any plans yet, all kinds of invitations..yes.. i'll leave it to luck and the last minute probably!!!
off now. back to kick something
flu-ish.
Banyan Tree Sneeze,
Gina
Name: steviedan
testing testing
Date: Monday, December 18, 19100 at 00:45:09
Comments:
vanvos, i know. i'm just testing it as well. and please st. al, never change a thing.
gee z, reports of knepper's death could be premature. i thought i read it somewhere. if not, then jimmy blow on. anyway, i'm in north carolina and down here if somebody wants the chicken dance or the macarena, we have the cds. we are however, absolute ninja masters of the bastardized mahavishnuized modalized electric slide or hava nagilah.
hutch, thanx for the constructive advice. i'm always fighting my grandfather's notion about doctors... stay away from 'em.
also thanks dave, the parties i've played this week keep me focused on the living. the living drunk crazy uninhibited idiots on their quest for the illusive "rhythm". the search continues.
wormy hasn't been away that long. it just SEEMS like it. what were those top tens ? chopped liver ?
birthdays ? mu ? (you huey you !) ge ? miz d ? luddy v ? amazing coincedence. i have just embarked on the complete piano sonatas (listening to that is).
chere ? never stop !
did anyone see the kd lang live by request show ? an amazing and interesting artist.
" at least 5% for nader in 2004 ! keep the faith. "
what ? the faith that you can help install another conservative leader ? i said before the election that votes for nader were useless. they did turn out to be useful to someone.
Name: TheStranger
Wait'll next time
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 23:41:45
Comments:
Prince George has never visited Europe as an adult. With all his resources and money and spare time (he didn't do much work for about 15 years) that's inexcusable. No intellectual curiosity.
Gore is now up by over 350,000
votes nationwide. Yet the repubs. say he's a sore loser because he wanted to
count the votes in fla. Prince george was appointed by five people. This whole
thing has politicized me. I can't believe how blatantly these people stole the
presidency, then attack anyone who complains about it. Now the prince wants us
all sit around and sing goombaya my lord?
Fuck him.
Name: LG
To z,x
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 21:00:04
Comments:
By profession, do you mean:
a. Glamour
b. Oldest
c. Music Teaching
I'm slow, but I'll get it eventually.
Flame is the game...
Name: Lisa G
more birthday wishes
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 20:55:18
Comments:
Happy birthday, Miz D!!!!! Another Saggitarian. I think we're taking over the place.
z,x-I'm going to be away visiting for most of the week you speak of. But I could come home early. What's good for you? Chaperones? Hmmm....any that wanna join in the jam?
Aus-yes, indeedy. 60 degrees. Before, I typed that 10 more degrees would give us snow. I was off by a little over 20 degrees. (I was guessing 'cuz I hadn't been outside, yet.) Was nice while it lasted, but now it's back in the 30's.
Gina-again, thank you, thank you, thank you! Your hip choices accompanied my house decorating today.
My loves--
Carmen Lundy-where has she been? She's the stuff! I want more of her ASAP.
Kenny Garrett-yeah I used to know about him, but I forgot.
Floor vanZ (I think) or is it van2?-mmm, nice--thank you from my Brazilian heart
C. Norby-I think Wayne Shorter would be down with that rendition-simply amazing
music. (Brings back memories--I used to be in a fusion group where we did stuff
like that, a la Dianne Reeves doing Afro Blue.)
David Linx-"Goodbye Prayer"-whoa, stopped me in my tracks
Sara K-what a groove!-clearly my favorite selection and performance on the
tape--I swear that song was written for you.
The Keezer and Krall was just beautiful
I was somewhat disappointed with
Patricia Barber-excellent writing. But I really hated to hear her sing where she
shouldn't. Sorry to be so critical, but I feel that a singer should capitalize
on the meaty part of the voice. And she tries to be meaty down below, but she
fails. She obviously sings down there on purpose, which I think is much worse
than if she sang down there by accident.
Thanks, by the way, for the Tania Maria and, of course, the vintage
Fagen/Becker. "Come Back Baby" rocks!
My turn now. Perhaps a Christmas compilation for you?
Later all, and Happy Monday tomorrow. Hope Chere fixed you up, LP.
KD-how's you been feeling?
LG
Name: cara mia
X. Y, Z
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 20:11:26
Comments:
whoever...whatever....
Name: DrMu
bynumbers
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 20:10:24
Comments:
GE: Was she a pert brunette with a tight butt and a print dress? Hope yours was a joyous one...
Name: cara mia
nurse ratchet@ West of DollyWood
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 20:00:04
Comments:
Come to think of it, I would take that XY fella out on a
week long furlough if Doc K would give us enough Deludin to cover the crew...
we could mix it with Pernod...absinthe...or something equally vile.
cara mia
desperate and dark
Name: cara mia
caramiarubia@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 19:50:31
Comments:
Egads, I just cut bait with the Springsteen-dazed fella and told him he could NOT walk me down the Champs Elysee next week. I am stag...how can this be?!!!!
I think I need to sponsor a
Danfest-en-Seine...
Calling Danoooooooo (hubba hubba time)
Calling Gina (it's only a few hours from Maastricht...take the TGV)
Calling Clas (bring yer lovely wife!)
Calling Blaise (we'll rig up a tax-deductible thingy to get you in to tutor me
in French)
Sacre Bleu!
cara mia
honey, I will be there,
yes, I'll be there
Name: JWMalibu
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 19:43:33
Comments:
Midnite ~ the deadline for TM2000 is 1/31/2001, so you have plenty of time...Happy Holidays!
Name: tones,
the pause that refreshes...
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 19:17:01
Comments:
Hutch - Woody Woodpecker, heh heh. Thanks for ruining "Peg" for me for the rest of my life. Actually, I wish I had thought of that...
RoyScam - I totally agree 'bout
Clas' "Turn that Heartbeat...". It really caught me too.
'bout those harmonies - I think David Palmer's exit from the band might have
something to do with there being less vocal harmony later on, though there is
more of such on parts of Katy Lied and Aja, specifically the aforementioned
"Woody Wood-Peg-er". It might have something to do with the presence
of Mike McDonald and the way his and Don's voices blend. I'm just guessing...
Aus - imagine Hunter showing up 3 hours late for the RnR Hall induction then hitting the stage with a loaded rifle. Then the boys fire-up "With a Gun" and "Don't Take Me Alive." That would be priceless...
peace out
t
Name: Miz Ducky
Damn
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 18:48:03
Comments:
I'm home on a Sunday evening for a change, and I can't get into the GB chat room to save myself. ARRG!!! Well, I'll try again a little later ...
/the Mam'zelle
Name: Doctor Warren Kruger
Schizopolis.com
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 18:20:52
Comments:
Oleander- That was exactly what I had in mind.
The Gaslighting therapy was something I pretty much developed on my own, decades
before those 2 plagerizers against nature coined the phrase and well before
Ingrid Bergman sampled it out on her own. The gaslit experience has always
succeeded in alleviating the disorders of many of my patients, and the ones that
it doesn't work for are usually turned into a quivering mass of jelly,
unfortunate, but unavoidable.
The voyeuristic therapeutic experience (indeed, largely the extent of my own
involvement in the dirty world of sex) is a relatively recent discovery of mine.
In this therapy, the voyeur projects the witnessed experience into the
collective unconscious of the patient, neccessarily resulting in a kind of
breakthrough, cathartic experience, ultimately leading to a strengthening of the
cathexis of all the parties involved. Either that, or a traumatic event which
leads to everyone involved turning into-you guessed it, a quivering mass of
jelly.
Anyway, I'll try to arrange for my patient,z, and you to meet at the HFTCI and
I'll personally give you a whirlwind tour of the facilities!
No, Don't Thank Me,
Dr. Warren K.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
it's me again Margaret
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:58:37
Comments:
Steely Wonder....I guess you live in a state with up to 7 letters and a space? Virginia, where I live, is the same way. North Carolina gets 8 characters, including a few that we can't get. Off the top of my head, some of the common ones used around here come to mind.
TVN
TAN
TNO
2VN
CBAT
CTE
PL
P LOGIC
RS
R SCAM
ROY SCAM
ROYL SCM
AJA
GAUCHO
also,
STEELY D
STLY DAN
STELY DN
(do you have a favorite song)
NKD LNCH
BARD '69
CITZN SD
ART CRIM
11 TOW
NITEFLY
KAMAKIR
SHOWBIZ
SHOBIZ K
KID C
KID CHAR
the list goes on....holler if you want some more.
MC
Name: Miz Ducky
Sagittarians unite!
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:51:55
Comments:
Heya, folks--
Yet another birthday babe here! Mine is actually not until Monday (44 years since that fateful morning--6:33 am, Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan). But I celebrated last night with a couple of friends I converted to Dandom--we holed up in front of their excellent video system and watched various of my growing little stock of Dan vids. They hadn't seen either the Classic Albums: Aja tape nor the home video version of the PBS show. They liked lots.
P.S. to JWMalibu--sir, a thousand pardons, but it looks like I'm far beyond getting my shit sufficiently together to submit anything for this year's GB compilation. Maybe if I start organizing myself now I'll have an offering in time for next year.
/Mam'zelle Daphne Canard
Well into her prime ... or something of the sort
Name: Midnite Cruiser
http://listen.to/Jim
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:39:32
Comments:
Soul Sister....I don't know where you've been but Ole knows how to throw a helluva Dan Fest! She's a take charge kinda gal who gets things done and makes it all a pleasure! My hat is always off to this lovely lady.
Roy....I never get tired of reading you man. You crack me up! George Jones in fine nose!!
Hutch....glad to hear you're getting over the flu....hang in there my friend, the insanity of the season is almost over! Been meaning to ask you if Bill fully recovered from his malady??
Clas....really enjoyed your additional art work. I'd only seen what was in JW's Gallery. Very impressive work, each and every piece!
Lisa....Official Dan Page ; )
JDubs....what's the status of TM2000? I thought I was going to have to pass this year but I may have 12 days off coming up and would like to try and do something if it's not too late. If it is, I understand. I'll just get a start on next years compilation.
Edd....how goes the winter birding? We haven't been seeing nearly as many the past month. Still seeing cardinals, chickadees and titmouse(s) but have yet to see a junco. Besides the squirrels, we now have a racoon that wants to clean up anything that hasn't been eaten by dark, every night now. Haven't even seen the flying squirrels since the 'coon started showing up at dusk. We did have a bumper crop of acorns this year. Don't know if that's what's slowed down our bird watching or not though. Just wondered what you had been seeing farther north.
Just bought an August, 1958 copy of Playboy magazine off of eBay for $6.50. Since I've been a long time subscriber I thought it would be cool to have an issue from the month I was born but I had no idea I'd be able to buy it so cheap! Made over $1250.00 auctioning off some redundant 35mm camera equipment in the last couple of weeks so now I'm primed to buy that new Nikon Coolpix 990 in January! A killer digital camera approaching 35mm quality on prints.
starting to babble here folks.....catch up with y'all in a day or two!
Name: oleander
hackles on the rise
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:28:24
Comments:
z--As long as I get to watch.
soul shmucksta--Name one.
Name: Steely Wonder
running late for a very important PL8
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:24:02
Comments:
As a end o the year deadline nears, I, a first-time poster who just today received Live at the Beacon, would be delighted to get any feedback on something that's been weighing on me far more than it should be: choosing *the* perfect Dan-inspired license plate. The current front-runner?
STLY SDN
Others, in no particular order:
MYSTCL O (close second)
P&GRACE (too evangelical?)
PEG BK2U (too vengeful?)
FV4N MVE (too abbreviated?)
YR LOCST (your locust?)
EVN CTHY (too obscure?)
OLD HAM (ditto?)
Any and all comments appreciated. Thanks!
... driving in my car, through the ruins of Santa Fe ...
Name: DrMu
867-5309
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 17:13:07
Comments:
Hutch: Why thank you! I'm hoping to prosper, too. When's the Steely Dan IPO?
Roy: What a coincidence... I have a birthday coming up soon I think.
Lisa G: C'est serenade terrifique!!
Chere: Muchos Gracias. Now I know the *real* cause of JFK's backache.
DATELINE: Austin. TX
December 17, 2001
George W. Bush has stated that he will complete his move from the Governor's mansion to Washington, DC next week. This would represent only the 3rd time that Dubya has visited the Capital, except for Monday monthly breakfasts with Alan Greespan.
"After I set up the cabinet in a month, and things got rolling, I got fewer and fewer cell calls on my ranch, so what was the rush? Laura and I had a real relaxin' year walkin' the dog and listening to George Strait and Steeleye Span. Yep, settin' up the Wheel of Diversity with only a "nominal" quota of middle-aged white guys allowed us to get more nominations through the senate faster than a punch card through an electronic reader!
My boss Dick Cheney tells me that the economy is cookin' again. There's a lot less stress for him once the docs implanted a TPA drip pump. Kinda like Drano for the arteries, ya know. It's too bad that little island, watchamacallit, won't be able to send us those cute teams to the Little League World Series anymore, but Gen. Powell says that this has simplified trade with China....and the tax cuts we gave folks are enough to buy the new Steeleye Span CD and family tix for 8 shows along with airfare!! After a little while in Washington, DC - Laura and I are becoming roadies. That Donald Becker can play some honky tonk and Walter Fagen sure can make that wah-wah guitar sing!
Name: z
x
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 14:39:03
Comments:
Lisa G.- You busted me! That joke was told to me last
night on the gig by the drummer, who got it from a very talented keyboard player
last week. I didn't know it was originally another "chick singer"
joke, but it probably is.
As for jamming, that would probably be a lot of fun. I can tell you're a very
talented musician and since we're both in the same profession (yup, another
one), we'll have off the week after next, (while everyone else here has to work)
and if I manage to actually do something this vacation (other than my New Years
Eve gig,and oversleeping and overeating), I'll Email you.
I'm quite aware that you are married and probably have some sick thing going on
with your husband where you plan to gaslight and/or defile me, so I only think
it's proper that we have a chaperone for the day to protect me from you 2 evil
New Jerseyans.
Since I only trust 2 or 3 people here (Stevie Dan, Oleander and Clas), I guess
one of them would have to do. I don't know where they live, but they would have
to pay their own plane fare or whatever, to act as chaperones, and if they have
to take off from work- it's their tough luck.
Name: The Weather Channel
60s eh? wize up folks
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 14:15:01
Comments:
CURRENTLY
as reported at J. Wayne Arpt., CA.
Last updated Sunday, December 17, at
12:58 PM Pacific Standard Time ( 3:58
PM EST)
Partly Cloudy
Temp:
74°F
Wind:
From the South
at 6 mph
Dewpoint:
41°F
Rel. Humidity:
30%
Visibility:
unlimited
Barometer:
30.03 inches
and rising
Sunrise:
6:49 am
Sunset:
4:45 pm
Name:
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 13:23:10
Comments:
*sigh*
Name: Its me
again
Pretending that I'm a comedian
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 13:20:21
Comments:
Forgot this one - have to share with all;
Guy is playing golf himself one
day when he spots a stunning brunette waiting to play at the next tee. She too
is playing a one-ball. As she is being held up, she invites him to join her for
the remainder of the round. He is only too pleased to oblige, with her being of
'Baywatch' standard.
At the end of the round, she has beaten him soundly, but offers him the chance
to get his own back next week.
He agrees, and they meet again the following week at the 1st tee.
Again, she soundly beats him. He offers her a lift home, and when dropping her
off, they have a passionate kiss.
For the next 10 weeks, their weekly golf match takes place, and every time, the
girl hammers the guy. Every week they get more amorous, to the point that she is
'giving him a BJ' on a weekly basis.
On the way home this time, they pull into a back road, and their passion is
about to erupt into full blown lovemaking.
Before they undress, the girl says; 'There's something I need to tell you before
we go any further'
'What is it?' the guy asks
'I'm really a man' says the girl, 'I've had the op'
The guy explodes with rage; FU@@%^$ CU@_, HOW COULD YOU YA F76Kin BAST%$d,
kicking in the windscreen, flailing about until after 5 mins he calms down.
Still seething, he says 'You bitch, youv'e been playing off the ladies tees all
this time and haven't said a word'.....
Thankyou, youv'e been a lovely audience
Name: thirdworldman
Location: Glasgow,
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 12:59:00
Comments:
Just about recovered from my libations on Friday. Have enjoyed the weekend postings, and the webcam idea sounds great.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaano, my man, no 'tongues' on Friday. A couple of approaches were made, but I managed to keep the heid.
I was at a kids party today with the boys, and they had a great time. Santa was magic, I can't believe how he gets round all of those houses on Xmas eve!
minus 5 outside, Winter is closing in. Hearing that its in the 60's in Florida is making me envious. That is July weather here!
See you all soon
Al
Name: Aussie
@home
Location: NYC, NY USA
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 12:16:02
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LisaG: Oopsie. Wrong Lisa...sorry.
Ole: Webcamming it to the GB masses huh? Hmmm...this could work yes. I WILL be inside partying with the good folks from Rolling Stone Magazine and a few others. And if dear old Hunter S. Thompson gets chosen to introduce Donald and Walt..whew! Watch out. My fondest memory of him was at the old Ritz club, then on East 11th Street during election night when George H. Bush senior got elected president (Tuesday, November 8, 1988). Dr. Thompson showed up HOURS late to a very packed and restless mob waiting to hear him speak/rant/rave. When he finally did, he appeared onstage with a large rifle compleat with eyescope and drunker than everyone else in the whole joint put together. It was total bedlam. And Hunter insisted that those in the audience with queries speak from a microphone which was being passed around the floor and shine a flashlight on your face which he would throw from the stage. After the debacle, I caught up with Hunter upstairs and had him sign my copy of his latest book at the time which was entitled "Generation of Swine Gonzo Papers Vol. 2 Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s". He was so incoherent it was fairly hilarious. In his hand was a bottle of a special Chivas Regal bottled in a lovely blue limoges which he offered me to sip from which naturally yours truly fully indulged. Good stuff folks.
Very lazy Sunday. Pouring rain and unseasonably warm in the 60's!
Aus
Name: Roy.Scam
still.older.than.you.and.don't.forget.it
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 12:12:48
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One of my favorite musical details of the Steely Dan body of recorded work is the vocal harmony in "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again". Reminiscent of the Zombies harmonies in "Time of the Season" but richer. [Actually, 'prettier' was the word I was seeking, but didn't want to sound limp wristed.] -- For a group that's so masterfully preoccupied with instrumentation, they sure surprise me with their singing sometimes, especially in the early albums; and TTHOA always releases a sweet little surprise capsule when I hear it. So, my question is, why did they never seem to use that particular type of close harmony again after it worked so well on that one song? Or, more generally, why do they (to my ear) seem to have become less and less interested in vocal harmony from one album to the next? Bring back that Boston Rag voice blending.
Congratulations to Don and Walt on the Hall of Fame honor. It's always nice to be praised, though I must admit this: The ability to gain the approval of people like Jan the Weiner has never been an important criterion in my selection of musical idols. -- I hope this Rolling Stone Magazine link doesn't mean that Steely Dan albums are going to start with 17 minutes of trendy, obnoxious advertising from now on.
Dr. Mu~ Happy birthday. Start watching for age-induced short term memory loss.
Dr. Mu~ Happy birthday. Start watching for age-induced short term memory loss.
Clas~ Those pictures impressed me so, I copied them on paper. Sorry, I was so taken that I didn't stop to ask the expressed written consent of the commisioner of Clasness. "Turn That Heartbeat.." is a song I couldn't even begin to explain , but, to my visual response centers, you nailed it perfectly.
My first concert~ George Jones. A friend of my Dad's (a guy with mutton chops, corfam shoes, and a bowling shirt) took me when I was a kid. Pretty good show. George was in good nose that night.
Favorite Christmas song~ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Favorite Christmas song that actually mentions religion~ Oh Holy Night
Have a Merry one,
RS
Name: Hutch
oh yes ...
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 11:51:51
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Thanks Ole!
Name: Hutch
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 11:50:12
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Guess every GB needs a grumpy old Grinch over in the
corner of the saloon jamming with the piano player and running off his mouth.
Sorry about the bit of venting. Nothing personal to anyone was meant. Lots of
frustrating shit happening on lots of levels with me right now. Just got over a
bad case of the flu. Wouldn't you know that the one time in the last five years
I didn't get a flu shot (they were in short supply) I get the damn flu! Well,
things could be worse... could be raining!
Alta - I'm not a fan of this thing
either. I'm always glad when it's over. New Years Eve/Day is my favorite holiday
probably because it has no religious or political connotations like just about
all the rest of our American holidays.
Unfortunately this can be a decidedly depressing month and a half long period of
time each year for a lot of people.
And there are a lot of very valid reasons for that.
Dr.Mu - All the best to you. Your's is always a voice of reason and careful thought here. Live long. Happy Birthday!
Hey... what about that Woody Woodpecker theme song thing going on at the beginning of Peg? What's up with that?
h. (humble signature)
Name: Lisa G
a wee joke
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 09:56:53
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Eerie. As much as I do not like the guy, I'd hate to see the "curse of Nostrodammit" come true.
Subject: A WHITE HOUSE STAY
Gov, George W. Bush thought it would be a good idea if he could get the feel of the White House, so he called upon Clinton to get him an invitation to stay there a few nights.
Since Clinton thought it would not be a good idea to turn him down, he invited him to the White House for a visit.
On the first night he was awakened by George Washington's ghost.... "George...what is the best thing I could do to help the country?" Bush asked.
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," advised Washington.
With all the excitement of the White House, Bush couldn't sleep well and the next night the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moved through the dark bedroom.
"Tom, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?" Bush asked.
"Cut taxes and reduce the size of the government," advised Jefferson.
Bush still couldn't sleep well and the next night he saw another figure moving in the shadows. It was Abraham Lincoln's ghost.
"Abe, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?" Bush asked.
Abe replied, "Go to the theater!"
Name: Lisa G
Cali dreamin'
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 07:25:28
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ole-thank you! thank you! thank you! I've been trying to figure that one out since I came here. I figured the "D" stood for "Dan" but the rest...oh well.
chere-glad you're feeling better. I've never had a migraine, and I'm not looking to start having them. Can you throw some JUJU my way for protection? Welcome back.
Gina-today's the day I will get to the tape. I've been a little under the weather myself, and with the holidays coming up and having time (and energy, it seems) only on the weekends, I've been otherwise occupied.
Dr. K-your "story"
reminds me of my favorite chick singer joke,
(I think I posted this one already):
The bandleader says to the chick singer "Okay -- we're going to start the next set with "Unforgettable", but when we get to the bridge we're going to change to 7/8 time until the second bar of the third verse -- then, starting on the first beat of that bar we're going to alternate measures 3/4 and 13/8, and modulate up a half step until the end of the verse. Then we're going to do the whole last verse in 5/4, modulating down a half step every other measure until we end up in the key of C#.
The chick singer thinks gives him an astonished look and says "There's no WAY I'm gonna be able to do all that!" The bandleader replies enthusiastically "Why not? You did it last night!"
Speaking of...you or "z, x" wanna get together and jam sometime? I'll
bring the Deludin. I'm serious. Let me know: xraywoman@home.com
Nasty winds and rain here in NJ. Some storm. Now if it were 10 degrees colder, I
believe we'd have blizzard-like conditions. Thanks God for small favors.
"All the leaves are brown...and the sky is gray..."
LG
Name:
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 07:09:48
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http://www.steelydan.com/halloffame1.html
Name: Blaise
slowpoke groupie
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 04:59:44
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Happy Birthday to everyone on this board, it seems. All
this time, all of you were just StAl toying with me poor head, weren't ya?
ole, I remember they were planning to send their vintage digital recording
equipment for an eventual exhibit.
Name:
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 03:37:24
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I meant:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/politics/revisedballot.jpg
Name: Blaise
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 03:33:06
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Lisa -- ODP? You don't want to know....
LP -- The more things change...
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/clinton/clintime.jpg
DrMu -- Here's one from the gop victory party:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/politics/victory.jpg
Not only that, you get an exclusive glimpse at the prototype ballot for 2004 in Florida:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/politics/victory.jpg
Priceless collection of fakes on that side, btw.
later
Name: chere
sugabearchere@hotmail.com
Date: Sunday, December 17, 19100 at 02:01:30
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Mu; I am sending you a sultry Happy Birthday traditional
song in Marilyn Monroe/Chakalicious fashion. I am sending it double- one for the
good Doc too. Happy Happy Birthday.... (breathless) Dr, and MU ooooooooh.....
Happy Birthday.......
TOOOOOOO YOUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
and instead of ("And many more!") I will sing "I' love you so
much. Blow you a kiss and there it is. Are you there? :O) If I had a phone
number I would call you and REALLY sing it out to you.
Aussie- Tu viejo es muy fuerte y durro, y very much con tu! I hope you did that little something ritual I esplained to you that night to honor him. He walks with you. You are so lucky. Yo te strano very much papi. Yo me gusto indeed! The spirits are patient and so am I so send those gifts/blessings when you "find the time". And sav one for the viejo. I am so glad to know you and the babes. I mean that soooooo much. I hope that our talking and magical encounter brings you closer to those roots that very much made themselves known to me, the ones de tu sangre. Tu Abuella y tu madre can tell you more. And then there's always ME! I'm like an expert now. teh asiento is all that is left in my initiation journey and I wanna do that in Africa. I am also not to keeen on shaving my head and losing my long auburn locks. ;O0. Scary. anyway papi, Coje lo suave,Y mucho pas para ti.
YGK- YOu feelin' da power chile'. I told you I got strong JUJU papi. The night you mentioned the move I got busy in the world of prayer and the shift took off!!!!!! Right on for you! YOU YOU YOU. I would love to hear from you again on the side tip in the hotmail perhaps. I will try to call you this week tho. Friends to da end boo. Stay loose, Chere
Aja- Oh My gosh! Did I totally miss a post explaining you are injurred? What happened? Are you okay? Do you need anything? I will make special prayers for health and speedy recovery. Did you catch my last post to YOU about the picture of the INdian chick and the animals? It has been a great fresh sweet thing in my life. I see it the moment I wake up in the AM and it's got a terrific frame now.
LP- Got that in the mail today- hope arrives asap. It will help you so much. Thanks for the funny e mails.
Wayneman- Welcome to the GB. It is a special forum indeed. YOu'll see.
Ole- So good to read you. I love your nice long posts. Hope everything is well in your world. YOU are so the angel in my book and of this group.
DS- Hey girl. Hope your'e doing okay. I miss your e mails chile'.
Where IS WORMY? You are missed oh topsoilant one. Grace me indulge me. PLease?...
Steviedan- still got a lil sumthing burniing nice and clear (ve