Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canadaa
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:53:45
Comments:
Just under an hour into Canada Day up here in the jewel of the once mighty British Empire - Getting ready in about 8 hours, to greet 1000 runners in a July 1st footrace a bunch of my friends and I help to organize. My son, (on my orders) taped "Home at Last" and "I Got the News," for the music that will greet the sweaty horde as they cross the finish line. As I listed to the various selections on the hour tape, driving along picking up things for the race, the timeless beauty of the the aforementioned pieces never ceases to make me jump in my seat. Over twenty years old and the whole "Aja" album puts me in another dimension. That's the appeal of Fagen and Becker. Great musicians, arrangers and producers, and just plain gorgeous sound. Not many have the gift to do it so good, for so long..... Bodishatva.
Name: Geena
Clas Slave
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:48:01
Comments:
Ruby: yes, love does find a way...*sigh*
and congratulations on teaching your child to drive, my mom taught me to drive except we had "il programma italiana" blasting on the radio and no milkshakes, but the dog was in the back seat because he decided to follow us for a mile and a half before we stopped and put him in the car!Clas: glad you found the waterpipe, now stop talking to Pompe and come to bed! before i pull my hair down!
Name: DrMu
anewaddress
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 21:29:39
Comments:
Edd: ...would love to hear KB in it's full glory, as with 2nd arrangement & Can't Write Home...I was no Rhodes' scholar, but wasn't that an 88 string upright being pounded? I'm afraid that the most we'll hear from those mysterious outtakes are hissy nth gen. FeO4 tapes and a stray cyber midi sequence...related activity at the "big show" suggests the guys are done, or have given up, or are resting bones even more ancient that Roy's, or have fired everyone (again) and are starting over even "soliciting" Roger Nichols to rejoin the fold if he doesn't mention 2ndA.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 20:20:38
Comments:
Hey Joe--(where you goin' with that book in your hand)You Renaissance man! If you want to cheat (as I did), there's a very good reader's guide to Crying of Lot 49 by J. Kerry Grant, annotated so that you can read it side by side with the book and yum up the nuances. ("A Companion to 'The Crying of Lot 49'", U. of Georgia Press, '94) There's also one for "Gravity's Rainbow" by Weisenburger. E me and tell me how I can send you a tape of "Eastern Rebellion." I think you'd like it.
Fellow Festivians--I'll probably be coming in by wheel on Fri. and leaving Sun. early pm, so five days & four nites is out for me. I hope that the locals will scope out the venues and accommodations and clue the rest of us distant ones in soon. An evening of good live music would be great. Everyone bring your Danabilia--tapes, cd's, videos, whatever, and we can arrange listening/ viewing capacity. Musicians--also bring your own stuff for us to sample. I'll bring the incense, love beads, santeria candles, prescription pad to write for Viagra, and a few prizes as before. Anybody with nondumb Steely-oriented party ideas please e me. Oh, I dunno, maybe dumb would be fun.
Name: St.Stephen
golden.gate.park
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 19:01:35
Comments:
i don't know Mitch, at least until Jerry chased the dragon one too many times, the Dead certainly topped SD on output from 1980 on. They may be skeletonizing now but they put out some good shit while we were all sitting around waiting for new product from Walter and Donald.
still waiting
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:30:33
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:30:20
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mitch
woodstockb@d@cid
Location: mt. belzoni,
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:14:56
Comments:
obviously, you guys (deadheads) are still eating acid like m+ms.This comparison of the greatful Dead to to SD is flat out stone fuckin-crazy. Take July and 3 weeks in August to relax ,watching videos of band members who are skeletons, and then head to Dan Beach, Virginia, for the REAL DEAL!
Name: mWorld
in de caw
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:34:41
Comments:
RubyBaby...you wait till now to tell me this?
mW
Name: Cl
as
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:16:31
Comments:
"Today, we learn how to drive with 2 dogs in the car, milkshakes in hand and TP&theHeartbreakers running down our dreams..."
Oh my god. And I was worried about the music.
Name: Clas
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 11:12:54
Comments:
Ruby - oh boy, have no music on while doing this, ok?
Geena - hu hu hu hi ho ho, I've found it. The milkman is informed on the extra. He's a little afraid of Pompe, but I told him (the dog) -Why bite when a simple growl will do? (so, your hair is up now?)
Fezo - I think I got it, it's a Woodstock-thing isn't it? A F and a couple of stars.
Name: RubyBaby
Yes, there's gas in the caaaar
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 10:39:59
Comments:
Geena: Glad you finally got through to your Swede in Need. Love always finds a way.Clas: It's worse that you know - I'm teaching my 2nd kid how to drive! Today, we learn how to drive with 2 dogs in the car, milkshakes in hand and TP&theHeartbreakers running down our dreams...
mWorld: do as little driving today as possible
a note on the side: Was it Walter that said they wanted to procure some younger fans, or was it Donald? Either way, they need to do something radical. I think they could make King Of the World into an outrageous rap. At least parts of it. I can hear it anyway... A video's a MUST DO.
going head first,
rb
Name: Geena
Clas Fanatic
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 10:27:59
Comments:
Clas Darling:
I took the waterpipe in the house with me last night after we got through rolling around on the lawn. The same lawn which you stomped on today! Remember now? You wanted to roll around on the milktruck so we had to go in? And by the way, before you go to bed, please leave a note for the milkman to leave an extra bottle tomorrow. I think you'll be needing more in the morning. I'm going to put my hair up now, goodnight sweetie!
Name: fezo
so@pinmouth
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 08:32:48
Comments:
Clas:
f*** if i know. that was yesterday morning and my short term memory isn't what it used to be.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 08:03:37
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
When I checked out from this excellent GuestBook this morning I promised my self not to check in again before tomorrow. But today I've been stomping around all day on the lawn wondering over a little thing my dear friend mr Fezo wrote this morning (actually I don't think he wrote it this morning (probably last night (HIS time))). So this question I have goes to Fezo; what the fuck is "f***in"?
And while I'm here I can, instead of stomping around all night (on the lawn that is) inform mr Deadhead, which in my opinion seems very Dead in Head, that a true Jackson Browne-fan NEVER would or will smoke pot while listening to his great music. And lyrics I might add. A Jackson Browne-fan wants to get it, to absorbe the brightness of this young man's music. And lyrics, which I've already might have add but do so again in securitycase.
Geena; where's my waterpipe? It was on the lawn last time I saw it. The pipe, not the milktruck... no what the fu... goodnight again then, ok?
Name: Bruce Willis
arm&geddon
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 02:27:59
Comments:
Fuck the Danfest! Fuck the Walk of Fame! Fuck the premiere of "The Fifth Element Pt. II: Diehard in Outer Space"! What moore does Demi want? The WHOLE state of Idaho? She was my G.I. G-Spot and I was her buzz-cutted Action Figure with life-like tone deafness! The pain, the pain! I just know some Brad Pitt look-alike is suckling her saline right now! And here's what really gets my goat: Her attorney gets to fuck me but I don't even get a blow-job! Man, I wish I was 13 years old again and had a dad with an NRA membership. I'd kill the bitch and tell the judge Moses told me to do it...
Quick, Before I Die Hard Again,
Bruno
Name: Dead Head
@suemefuckhead
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 01:32:11
Comments:
Hey Clas- What did the Jackson Brown fans say at the concert when there pot ran out?THIS SHOW SUCKS!
Name: Clas
the Fran Milktruck-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 00:23:06
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
Fezo; the Deads sound was going down because they were running out of acid.
Pete Fogel; can I bring my dog? He loves the great Dan. Even if it's a cover.
Geena - my little birdie, is it hot in Boston today?
Ruby; you're not driving around today?
Lisa; how are YOU?
Yes, that's great, Roger Nichols on the new one. I wish Katz is doing the producing too.
Name: Florida Kid
do me justice
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 21:46:53
Comments:
That sounds so cool!
I wish we could get any sd cover bands here
Name: Pete
petefogel@asan.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 17:52:17
Comments:
Hey! Long time, no groove!
I was just going to let you all know about The Steely Damned show at Le Bar Bat, but it looks like Bob Tedde already beat me to it. For those of you who haven't seen these guys, they are worth the trip. I've personally seen a half a dozen or so SD cover bands around the country, and these guys are by far the best. They're 13 or 14 pieces, play for about 4 hours, and play nothing but SD/DF tunes. Some of the horn players couldn't make the trip so I hooked Bob up with some exciting local players including Tom Timko (alto/bari)who toured with Tower of Power and played on many of Toto's albums and Chris Anderson (trumpet) who played on "NYR&SR Live at The Beacon". It's going to be an exciting night for Steely Dan fans. I've never booked a SD cover band before for the obvious reason that nobody can do those songs justice, but these guys are really worth checking out! A number of musicians that have played with Donald and Walter in the past have mentioned that they'd like to come to check out the band and possibly jam on a few tunes, so hopefully we'll have some special guests.
If you're interested, email me and we'll cut you a deal at the door
Thursday July 23rd
Le Bar Bat
311 W. 57th St. (between 8th & 9th Ave)
New York City10:00pm - 4:00am
(Congratulations Major Dude!)
Name: Geena
The Milkman screamed
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 16:27:31
Comments:
and pointed up to the sky
Clas:
I'm leaving on a flight from Kizmar tonight
I'm your virus in pumps and pearls
and when the static clears, I will be left in your arms
Your tomorrow's girlI'll be your laughing angel
but don't make me whine
because in a few short hours
It will be "shredding" time
BK's Son: I know how you feel, I'd like to get a Danfess in Boston sometime!Lisa: I regret that I will be unable to get the time off for the upcoming Danfess, but hopefully, I'll be there for the next one.
Name: just
reading
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 15:47:45
Comments:
I know everyone's busy with party planning, but --- am I the only one who noticed that among the SD Site updates, we get the first official confirmation that Roger N will engineer The New One?
Name: BookKeepersSon
forgot
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 15:29:42
Comments:
Well if Danfest is defintely in VA. then I regretefully cannot attend. I just cant leave the Tampa Bay Area in the summer time because of my business, any last minute request for having Danfest around here?
Or I know that there r a lot of Danomaniacs in the Bay Area, maybe we could have a little fest right here, not to take anything away from the big Shindig in VA.
I know its really hot here right now but maybe around december we could have a official Danfest right here or around spring break time, this place is really cooking around that time!
Any response to have a little fest in the Bay Area(Attn: Rigs and Dragon) then let me know on the book!
Lisa r u still coming here in the summer?
BKS
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
on.the.dunes
Location: Va (DAN) Beach,
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 13:59:46
Comments:
Oddly enough, St. Al, I was sort of thinking the Duck-In would be the sort of place appropriate for the gathering of scurvy brethren and babylon sisters. (It definitely has a slightly weathered look.) But never having actually been in it, I wasn't too sure I should recommend it. But if you've been there and deem it worthy, I throw my vote behind the D-I.
But we might want to have a Plan B, just in case it rains. There's a spot called Hot Tuna that is (I believe) within walking distance of the Duck-In. I would nominate that as our back-up site.
--LP
Name: fezo
t@kingkickb@cks
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 13:07:14
Comments:
o.k., i confess, the Richmond International Airport slips me cash periodically to recommend their facility on the web.
please don't tell Ken Starr
Name: Virginia
yes,virginia there are good airports here
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 12:40:40
Comments:
Hey Danfans,
Newport News has a very nice airport that does accomodate jets but Norfolk's airport is more of a hub for this area. Delta,TWA, Northwest,Airtran,USAIR,United all fly out from Norfolk. Richmond is too far away if you are planning on staying in VA. Beach. Traffic gets ugly around here during the summer. So it is best not to try to go through a tunnel if you don't have to on a Friday night. Speaking of Friday nights, Hampton has a wine and jazz night from 5:30-9 P.M. every Friday night. Hampton is on the other side of Norfolk. Still very cool, on the water, close to Busch Gardens, Water Country, and Williamsburg. The Radisson has nice accommodations on the water and live entertainment on the weekends.
Name: rudy
eschuttler@imageassociates.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:51:42
Comments:
LISA: be also aware of Rudy's presence in Va. Beach in August.
the brother-in-law who was supposed to move there is scrapping them plans, staying in humid Raleigh: so any info on group hotel accomodations would be most helpful....
[Tough to e-mail you when you don't post a valid e-mail...] rudy
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:29:05
Comments:
fezo: Was not privy to Jerry's swan song dates. However, like you, I've also heard that the last days of the Dead were sonically abysmal. Sad, in a way...
Alive In America "Aja" tenor El Supremo - Chris Potter - has a new release slated for August 4, 1998 entitled "Vertigo" on the Concord Jazz label. If this one turns out anything at all like his last outing "Unspoken", it should be a real treat. Don't know the personnel on this one as yet but "Unspoken" highlights the considerable talents of John Scofield (g), Jack DeJohnette (d) and Dave Holland (b). Potter penned all the tunes and quite simply plays inside and out of his instrument throughout. Especially on "Wistful", "Et Tu Brute?" and the title track.
Name: lisa
your friendly tr@vel girl
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 10:06:27
Comments:
okay, guys...i'm on it like blue bonnet.
i found some info on virginia beach.net...out of curiosity, how many people are planning to attend? so far i 'm aware of the following: saint al, roy.scam, oleander, midnite cruiser, geena?, luckless pedestrian, mitch(who/where are you?), myself and samantha...fezO can't make it this go round (so we need a private dancer)...any others? how many people are looking for a hotel room? i'm sure we'll need reservations, and we could possibly get a group rate, depending on number of bodies present.
virginia beach and the surrounding area is a cool place FULL of shit to do...some examples: A.R.E. (edgar cacye institute), zoos/botanical gardens/aquariums, dolphin watching tours, maritime museums, art galleries, tons of historic sites, live music...there are numerous other things...i am willing to do some planning, but i'd like to get an idea of what everyone's interested in.
why don't the persons planning to come drop me an email with their hotel requirements, suggestions/preferences for activities, etc? samantha and i found this package deal if anyone is interested:
For $699, four can enjoy a five-day/four-night vacation that includes accommodations; breakfast daily; and a photo ID pass good for unlimited admission to the Virginia Marine Science Museum; Nauticus, the National Maritime Center; Virginia Air & Space Center; Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Water Country USA.
showbizkid@yahoo.com
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Location: Piddly's my hometown, VA
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 08:29:09
Comments:
Fezo: What you talkin' 'bout, bro? Norfolk's airport is more than sufficient. Flying out on a MD-80 myself...
Anyone have any ideas for the location for this gathering? It's been a while, but I remember a place called the "Duck-in" that played live music, was large enough to accomodate a dozen or so people and had mucho outdoor seating. Or, shall we try this at the beach itself? I'm sure there are plenty of places down there for our little shindig. Lisa? Fezo? Help us out here...
StAl
Name: fezo
be@ches@reus
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 06:13:54
Comments:
Mitch: there is no Virginia Beach airport per se, there are ones in Norfolk (20 miles west) and Williamsburg/Newport News (50 miles west) but they are pretty piddly; planes larger than 20 seaters are a rarity. For safety and comfort, try Richmond International which is about 80 miles west. Big enough for jets and worth the extra drive
Clas: your song is too f***in funny
JoeM: been wondering, did you see any of the Dead shows on Jerry's last go around? I got a bootleg supposedly from their last show at Soldier's Field with a couple of songs on it and they sound like hell. Had their sound really go down that much?
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Location: Borensberg,
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 04:39:20
Comments:
RubyBaby - promise me, don't do that again. I want you alive and well.
Geena -
let's roll our hats on a nightclub in Rome
let's call our cheap hotel, our temporary home
and when we finally fall asleep
me on your milktruck
you'll whisper to me:
some guys got all the luck...
Name: Edd
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 03:16:39
Comments:
??
I seriously doubt anyone heard a Muzak version of "The Second Arrangement".
Jarrett claimed plagiarism by citing similarities between his recording of "Long As You Know Your Living Yours" and "Gaucho"...
Name: bob tedde (Not the "My Rival" bob)
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CA
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 at 01:03:05
Comments:
RE:Muzak Alert & The 2nd Arrangement at Wal Mart...
What you actually heard was a Keith Jarret tune which inspired "The 2nd Arrangement".
lovebob
Name: mitch
Danfest; Planning Committee
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 22:03:46
Comments:
To the Festival planners, July is upon us, Is there anything finalized about August yet? I am sure alot of the participants will be flying to Virginia, whats the closest major airport? Mitch....
Name: Richard Goetz
regpen@hotmail.com
Location: evansville, IN
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 22:03:41
Comments:
I just wanted to say how much I love the music of Steely and all the solo stuff also. I am a drummer of twenty-one years, and really dig all of the great musicians you have played with. Thanks for adding to my enjoyment of music.
Danger
Name: Joe M
warning@no_Dan_content
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 20:47:56
Comments:
Ole: The short list includes... Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" (a Minor recommendation), Junger's "The Perfect Storm", Holden's "Tchaikovsky: A Biography" and for good measure, another stab at Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49".
Not familiar with Cedar Walton's "Eastern Rebellion"... Please to elaborate.
Name: Linn Kincaid
JazzLvr103@aol.com
Location: Wichita , KS USA
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 20:17:53
Comments:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5121/
Name: Geena
Clas girl
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 14:23:29
Comments:
Clas: Yes, Erykah Badu is wonderful and
Yes, you may fall asleep in my arms again!
Name: RubyBaby
I remember...that lookinyoureye
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 11:30:56
Comments:
I'll enjoy My Rival more than ever from now on. Thanks Mr. Stewart! And thanks, of course, to Bob & Eunice.
Un-named: Forget the money! I'm hearing a provocative whisper voicing some Sweet Possibilities.
I'm also being swept back in time to the summer of 96. To that awesome night at the Bowl. Frome the gentle breeze, to the lovely sky, to the fun guys behind us and the generous folks to our left, to the incredible sound waves washing over us all...
Clas: I was listening to your music in our other car (with the good sound system). It was so great - I began swaying back & forth, then I jumped out of the car, ran next to the car, then I hopped onto a passing truck, then I jumped back onto the car, climbed in through the sun roof and kept on going it was that good! Keep doing it, baby...
rb
Name: Marti n Steel
steelm@classic.msn.com
Location: Worthing, Sussex England
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 11:30:54
Comments:
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 08:46:49
Comments:
Doc Kelly.....good to see you're still here after my very long absence....many thanks for your past kindness.
Rudy....have you checked out Ziggy's at www.ziggyrock.com ? Lots of good music not too far away from you. I know Raleigh has plenty of it's own but Ziggy's seems to really draw in some nice names to be so small. Good atmosphere.
Name: Clas
Steely Fran-fan
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 02:22:49
Comments:
Geena - I just checked, I got two new messages from. You'll hear from me (do you think you can make me fall asleep in your arms again?).
Mr Stewart - hey, that's great! "The milktruck...", absolutely great.
Hey, believe it or not, I've been listening to some new music that are real great. Two songs made by me, and a CD; Erykah Badu - "Baduizm Live". Great music. Fantastic good bassplayer.
Name: BookKeepersSon
Where the hell is my computer
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 at 01:50:39
Comments:
I have been computerless along with lisa, by the way thanx for all the birthday cheer I received!
I was in Comp USA yesterday and heard I.G.Y. of all songs in the world, I thought that was wierd, I was the only one in the store bopping my head around getting into the song on their P.A. system!
I caught myself singing out loud in there, some kid saw me and was shaking his head, the little bastard made me feel old!
especially since i just turned 27! oh my back!well got to take my geritol, bye u danomaniacs
Name: Doc Kelly
Here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 21:18:23
Comments:
Countzir0: I hear you on the brain cell comment. Trust me. It was 1994. I checked the tour list on the back of my 1994 shirt and also on the back of my 1996 shirt. Also, the Dan toured in 1993 too... just not in Dallas. (3 dots for Clas)
Actually, your comment about seeing our boys for the first time struck a chord with me. It made me remember for a brief moment the physical excitement (shivers down the back) realizing that I had an opportunity to see them live. I heard on the local Kansas City Fox radio station (70's rock) that there was a tour in the offing for the summer of '93. I was frantic. I called the local Ticket Bastard outlet. They didn't know anything about it. The gal that answered said "Oh I like his music..." I finally called the radio station. The DJ said I hear they're gonna be in Chicago." My next thought was ROAD TRIP!!! That first show kept me pinching myself just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. I bought a t-shirt to get the list of the tour sites and managed to make it to the St. Louis show, too. Then came 1994. Another road trip to Chicago. Then a small airplane ride to Dallas' Love Field and a rental over to the Starplex... and back to Kansas by 1:00 a.m. That was another skin-pincher. Chicago, Kansas City and Denver in 1997. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the 1999 tour dates!!!!
Stranger: Listen to the Royal Scam. The whole work is full of improv... especially guitar improv... for example: 1) the end of Kid C.; 2) middle of The Fez; and, 3) middle of Green Earrings... also, I can't leave out one of my personal faves: the end of King of the World.
Lester: How's the tape project progressing?
BTW, our BBQ team took 5th out of 160 teams at the Kansas BBQ State Championship in the pork roast category today. You just wouldn't believe what a sight 40 acres of smokers with 15,000 people wandering around is...
Nuff fer now! Doc
Name: Muzak
Alert
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 19:39:01
Comments:
Just heard "The Second Arrangement" while shopping at the local WalMart. However it was the instrumental version and there were no lyrics.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 17:47:02
Comments:
Mr. Stew--absolutely hilarious!
Going for bagels this am: "Black Friday." In keeping, I guess, with the Shabbat theme.
Name: Father Time
reeling.in.tbe.ye@rs
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 16:02:27
Comments:
I don't think video camera's existed at the time "My Rival" was written
Or am I missing a sataric song interpretaion along the lines of "Book of Liars" being about Santa Claus
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 15:46:51
Comments:
Bob and I were out at a great cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, battery powered boom box playing "My Rival" as we scrubbed the last of the bear shit off dog Eunice (she'd rolled in it, joyfully), and Bob had this interpretation to offer:
The Narrator: A new daddy
The Rival: His baby boy
The Milk Truck: His partner's breasts
The detective on the case, scar across face, hearing aide, filming the whole charade: His partner's father with trusty video camera.Think about it. His boy is going to answer for his crime (taking his father away from his partner during the months and months of breast feeding) when he himself is a dad someday.
Bob had this epiphany after his daughter was born when his wife was not necessarily interested in sex, focused on baby, focused on how much she enjoyed breast feeding her girl (so much so that she didn't really want to wean her until Bob, the whining stranger, the fool in love with time to kill, finding himself in the garage striking a match to bowl each evening finally began to insist that it be "stopping time"--Bob's interpretation of the lyrics although songbook lyrics read "Stomping time").
I about fell in the river.
Mr. Stewart
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:59:53
Comments:
Kulee, Kali, hwhaddeveryha!! I want to hear it.
BTW, a Jerome Anitone impersonation is right on the money for setting the tone of the Damned show at LLB.
"... ol', little ol' pretty one. Hhawhh!!..."
majŠ
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:54:32
Comments:
Good 1, Mitch. I'd like to hear Kali Baba, and whatever Kinky wants to hear from the Catalyst collection.
Minute by Minute is a good baby song.
majŠ
Name: Rigs
ccfeds
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 14:27:16
Comments:
Lisa, just wanted to say hello "hello". How are you doing? Was listening to some tunes and thought of ya. eyb sgiR
Name: Geena
Clas-Fan
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 11:52:46
Comments:
Stranger: I don't see any harm in using Mastercard on mizar5, the boys know you, don't they? Of course you may have to surrender to a series of DNA testing before you get an approval. I hear they're having a huge sale on cloned specimans of DF and WB.
And my apologies for fogging up your monitor. I'll get you a year's supply of Brite-O anti-fogger which comes in the new cryogenically sealed plastic tube. Great for waxing floors and megahertz too!
Ruby: Hey Girl! How are you!!!! I've tried your suggestions twice now and they still bounce back. Do you think I should try the mbox300 again? Where's Clas when you need him?
I've got the Eagles cranked up, can you hear it?
Lisa: Where are you? Talk to me! Tell me something good!
Clas: Where are you? Talk to me! Tell me something good!
Name: TheStranger
never going back to annandale
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 10:03:59
Comments:
countzir0,
with you. you know, it's funny how the more things get repeated, they more they're believed. the greatest guitarist we've seen was jerry garcia, no question. hendrix was great, clapton is great, but jerry's the man. wish the Dan had used him someplace if only they could all get along. maybe rodney king could have refereed.keith phares,
honestly trying to get to the bottom of this -- can you give me an example of Dan improvisation on a studio recording?geena,
it's getting harder and harder to stay ahead of the curve. do the boys on mizar5 take mastercard? also, i advise you and clas to get a room. you're fogging up my monitor and possibly endangering my 233 megarertz, whatever the hell that is.
Name: Mitch
mcharl6651@aol.com
Location: wjaz-Mt. Belzoni,
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 09:54:11
Comments:
DANDOM: Just say D+W Let the loyal masses pick one or two cuts from previous officially unreleased material, to finish the "NEW ONE" Which tunes should be on it.????
Name: RubyBaby
LLB@t or bust
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 08:56:55
Comments:
Unnamed: Send me a sample of your DNA so I can lock onto your coordinates. You want 1st class, right? Window or Aisle?Who would you like sitting next to you? (Do you think there could be money in this?)
Geena: Go back to a mail you sent him that works and copy that address, even though it looks the same as all the ones that bounce back. Just try it.And, criminny - turn up The Eagles!
rb
Name: Edd
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 04:17:12
Comments:
Sorry, Bob, I stumbled upon that page one day and know nothing of the author. Caveat emptor and all that...
I've got a REAL rough copy of "Kulee Baba". If I remember correctly it's just Donald on vox & Rhodes. I'm not sure it would be possible to even project what a fully realized version of it might sound like given the limited info available from the recording.
Name: lovebob
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 02:32:05
Comments:
Sheesh, just call me bad grammer man.
lovebob
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CA
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 at 02:29:51
Comments:
Smashed: I'm wondering if you got the 2A lyrics from the page Edd Cote posted and BTW Edd, thanks. That's some kind of awesome!) They seem to match up to yours. I'd love to know their source. I have to agree with Not Quite, however, that the lyrics in question (with the exception of "Smashed in a yellow Jag" which I'll check out tomorrow") are not accurate to the recording I have. I really appreciate the effort though, Thanks.
Edd: do you know anything about the people behind the afore mentioned page. I wonder what/who their sources of info are? Also what's Khuli Baba like? I've got a rough demo of Can't Write Home About You, and was shocked to find out it was from the Gaucho sessions. Sounded to me more akin to the Sun Mountain stuff. Anyway, thanks for pointing me in that direction.
Jama Dude: If you do make the long haul to LLB be sure n' bring your skins (you still play?) SIR is charging me a bundle for a set of congas.
Un-Named Dan Fan:We're not real keen on folks taping the shows. As far as I've always been concerned, the only usefulness of a Dan cover band lies in the moment, the act of performing and being seen/heard live. We do tape almost every performance but strictly for the purposes of damage control. They're kind of the football equivalent to watching the Monday morning films. That having been said, I do understand people's curiosity as to what we might sound like. E-mail me, and perhaps I could send you some snippets of the show (assuming you were serious)
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis,
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 21:21:15
Comments:
Some of the best improvisation I've ever heard is on Steely Dan recordings. I mean, yeah, each solo is probably like "Take 27" with like, the 9th guitar player they've tried - but it's still improvisation.SD worked a lot like Miles Davis - they let you work your own sound - but under their stylistic direction.
Name: Geena
again..
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 18:01:47
Comments:
Clas: what's wrong with your email? I keep sending you mail and it keeps coming back to me...help me!
Name: Geena
Clas groupie and major squeeze
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 17:53:08
Comments:
Clas: I know it's true love, a love so strong that the polar ice caps are melting, Mt. St. Helens is erupting again and the ozone layer is resurrecting itself. I'll be coming back to you soon hon, and our souls will once again become absorbed in supreme nirvana. Yes, Clas you fell asleep in my arms, remember?
did i say fine columbian? Sorry, babe, I meant the fine KOH-LAHM-BEE-AHN, it's a beverage I concoct from the herbs in my garden - goes great with Cuervo! You know I would never cheat on you!
Stranger: no, you're referring to the Cheek-o-meter double O series, model #00-u-byt-me. It's an excellent piece of machinery designed with an ultra-violet sensor for achieving that perfect tan. I'll send you my old copies of Consumer Report.
Name: countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 16:49:13
Comments:
Stranger--just saw your post, and good observation... As a fellow Danfan/dedhead I agree completely. Take "Kid Charlemagne" with it's driving drum beats, and Carlton riffs, polished to studio perfection, and then listen to "Candyman" the live ver. off The Dead Set, in which Garcia goes into a crescendo of trance-weaving licks leaving you in tears of sadness. One song is about a guy who makes and sells acid, the other one was written while U the I of acid......but both are masterpieces, and life would be less pleasing had they not been created.
Name: Not
Quite
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 15:53:27
Comments:
Smashed: I count at least 2 errors in your lyrics. (Sorry, I'm not gonna post the corrections; I don't want to contribute to the performance of unreleased tunes)
Name: smashed in a
yellow jag
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 15:25:35
Comments:
The Second Arrangement
Pour out the wine girl
I've got just two friends in this whole wide world
Here's to reckless lovers
We all need somebody
Smashed in yellow Jag
I've got my life and laundry in a Gladstone bag
You should know the program
Just one red rose and a tender goodbye (one last goodbye)Chorus
And I run to the second arrangement
It's only the natural thing
Who steps out with no regrets
A sparkling conscience you address
When I run to the second arrangement
The home of a mutual friend
Now's the time to redefine the first arrangement againIt's a sticky situation
A serious affair
I must explain it to you somehow
Right now I'll just move back one squareHere comes that noise again
Another scrambled message from my last best friend
Something I can dance to
A song with tears in it
Old friends abandon me
It's just the routine politics of jealousy
Someday we'll remember
That one red rose and one last goodbye (one last goodbye)Chorus repeat
Name: countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 14:31:34
Comments:
Doc--You might be right on that one...when I got home last nite, I was pondering that same question and so I asked my twin bro who attended with me. He keeps saying '96, but I thought it was '94. Here's the problem: The few brain cells I have left are fighting each other. I do remember sneaking a liter of Cuervo into Starplex with a pair of "barnoculars," and that Fagen seemed to be balding and wearing a ponytail from the horrible seats that I had. Got some pretty good pics of it nonetheless via zoom lens, and I thought it was an excellent show, if for no other reason than the fact that Steely Dan was touring for the first time since the year of my birth!! Earliest memories: hearing "Do It Again" in my crib. My experience at the Dead show didn't work out too good, "dont eat the brown acid..."GKingRich--Glad to see there are other people who appreciate truly good art work, and wine also. I was surprised when the wine which sold for less than $15 was half-assed good. Correction: Laza Primavera is what I meant to say, Laza Alfredo would taste pretty horrible with marinara sauce...that is, unless you had some fine Columbian, then it'd probably taste Ok with straight wine poured over the top.
Name: (un-named) danfan
@staggering-mind.com
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 11:56:22
Comments:
Rubybaby:
No thanks necessary, your presence around here is thanks enough...unless, of course, you can magically beam us all to LBB on July 23rd around 10:30pm...
Lovesbob: You allowing tapers with permission?
Name: Still got the shakes
@some DAN detox center
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 11:49:11
Comments:
UNCUT DAN MAY BE HAZERDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe sneek out later. HellO all.
Name: TheStranger
DanFan AND Ded Hed
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 10:37:49
Comments:
geena,
here i thought the suds-o-matic 3000 was for photocpying rear ends. i'll have to start reading consumer reports.on the grateful dead-Dan connection: the main link is superior artistry, but both groups took rock to a new level. they use different roads and sometimes meet in the middle. when garcia is really pmping on guitar, improvising way out there and bringing it home, it's a new art form. as far as i can tell, Dan doesn't improvise at all. they dot every i to perfection to create their own zone. but they sometimes arrive at the same place.
Name: RubyBaby
sh@ring the things we love
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 10:24:12
Comments:
DrKeithWu: your vocal engagement sounds rather awesome! Wish I could go to THAT.GKRichard: I'd like to hear Everything You Did when I'm on hold. Give 'em something interesting to think about. Goucho wouldn't be half-bad either.
A big THANK YOU to the special Dan fan that gave me the tape of the 96 tour and various Steely Dan material. I've been having a glorious time with it. Ricky Lawson's drum solo for Josie is magnificent!
Okay, dan fan (who shall remain un-named)- how can I thank you? It's your call, baby.
rb
Name: peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:48:30
Comments:
Edd: what's your e-mail address?
Name: Edd
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:28:11
Comments:
Bob - Seen this page...?
http://hem.passagen.se/tomasbro/sd_gaucho_outtakes.htm
Name: jamaicandude
123
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:07:33
Comments:
BobTedde - you guys are doing The 2nd Arrangement????? Damn, I have to get up there. Isn't it "cash in the yellow jag". Jack of Speed would be a good one, too. You need a copy?
Name: clas
the Fran-fan
Location: today; Stockholm,
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 07:06:25
Comments:
Geena - yes, this is love, real love, real true love. When do I get to see/feel you hon? More emails please! (DID I fall in sleep!)
But who is this fine Columbian you keep talking about? Are you cheating on me hon?
Diane - hi Diane! You have a beautiful name Diane! I guess your parents were very happy when they named you, you sweety little pearl. Welcome to this GBook. My name is Clas. I am 24 years old and some girls say that I am gods gift to woman. Are you in some way related to Diane Wiest?
Ole; no big deal, but if I did, could I sneak in some of my own, fine lyrics?
TODAY;
STERNUM AGONY;
none, I feel great. Changed from Prozac to Seroxat. Wonderful medicine that is.
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 06:14:50
Comments:
Dear Diane/Ms City Girl:
Welcome to tyhe guestbook!
What radio station is that with the fine Dan taste?
Name: E.B. White
@shesto@shes
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 05:48:54
Comments:
Keith:
What's that? You thought I was dead? Just a second. Let me check . . . Damn, you're right. Why the hell am I wasting my resurrection in the GB. Think I'll go find some lap dancers.
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CCCA
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 03:14:59
Comments:
HEY it's me again. Still hawking the one and only East coast performance of The Steely Damned.
The Date :THURSDAY, JULY 23RD 1998
The Place: LE BAR BAT at 311West 57th st. in Manhattan
The Start Time: Hell I don't know, I think Rockola started at 10:45pm or so. No one in NYC leaves their apt. until 10:30pm.
The End Time: When we run out of Dan/Fagan tunes. (at least 4 hours)
The info line: The Rockola Hotline (24hr service) (619) 558-1966
also you can email me or Pete Fogel for more info.On a related note: Does anyone know ALL the lyrics to The Second Arrangement? I'm not sure about a word or two. Specifically " The RUBE? steps out ... and ..."..and a PANDA? goodbye."
I know the second time thru he say "one long last goodbye"
Also is it "Cash in the YELLOW JACK?"
lovebob
PS Jerome Anitone please report to Le Bar Bat no later than 9:30pm night of show.
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Location: sd, CCCA
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 03:12:47
Comments:
HEY it's me again. Still hawking the one and only East coast performance of The Steely Damned.
The Date :THURSDAY, JULY 23RD 1998
The Place: LE BAR BAT at 311West 57th st. in Manhattan
The Start Time: Hell I don't know, I think Rockola started at 10:45pm or so. No one in NYC leaves their apt. until 10:30pm.
The End Time: When we run out of Dan/Fagan tunes. (at least 4 hours)
The info line: The Rockola Hotline (24hr service) (619) 558-1966
also you can email me or Pete Fogel for more info.On a related note: Does anyone know ALL the lyrics to The Second Arrangement? I'm not sure about a word or two. Specifically " The steps out ... and ..."..and a goodbye."
I know the second time thru he say "one long last goodbye"
Also is it "Cash in the "
lovebob
PS Jerome Anitone please report to Le Bar Bat no later than 9:30pm night of show.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St.Louis, MO
Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 at 00:25:52
Comments:
Name: Diane
cityfamily@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 23:53:15
Comments:
Just surfed on over to this site from the v. witty Official Steely Dan website...and I want to tell you that this is a cool, cool site for a v. cool band! I fell in love with Steely Dan when I 1st heard "New Frontier" by Donald Fagen in '87 (I was eight at the time), and then began to grow crazy over "Hey Nineteen" (one of the smoothest songs I've ever heard). I'm now 19 myself, and while I may have moved on to Duran Duran and the like, I'm still in love with the Dan's music...especially the music from "Gaucho" and "Aja" (which gets played all the time on my fave radio station!) Thanks for letting me rant... Diane/Ms. City Girl
Name: GoodKingRichard
On th@ Hill, you know I will
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 23:08:29
Comments:
Maj D: Sounds like life is returning to what will now pass as 'normal'- hope Mum and JD are going well. Lily and mum doing just fine - thanks for all the greetings. [Ole: even now, I fear the worst re. right-handedness... she's already pretty articulate "with her red right hand". Maybe if I play more SD to her she'll become more sinistrous.] Maj: I understand your predicament: other little hands got at my stylus and I haven't been able to get to the vinyl versions for a while. However, I have most stuff stacked in the cerebral juke box and it's always refreshing and enlightening to return to the originals after a necessary break. I was going to make an analogy with sex but maybe at this point - going home after too much bad muzak in the Supermarket - is sufficient simile.
I wonder what SD would be good to be put 'on hold' to - any suggestions better than 'all of it'?
Re Ralph Steadman (sorry poster, I can't scroll back to find your name): Yes, a real talent (loved 'I Leonardo'). But, no surprise re. the wine, he's been closely associated with Oddbins, easily the best British high street wine retailer, for many years and compiled their catalogues, promos, etc... If you have any friends over on those shores you should ask them to drop in and pick up any free literature. His wonderful handywork is everywhere. Even at this distance, I have a few items secured away. Now there's a man who could do justice to the next SD cover (sorry Rudy, no slight intended).
When Black Friday comes I'll fly down to Muswellbrook,
Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book.
Gonna do just what I please, gonna wear no socks and shoes,
With nothing to do but feed all the Kangaroos.When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill,
You know I will...5 years, to the (fri)day, since I flew down by Muswellbrook and since I've been on that hill... but I never realised until now that D&W meant 'black' in this context quite so positively. Life can be so full of pleasant surprises and coincidences. Have a good w/e all.
Richard&kangaroos
Name: oleander
false spoor
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 21:35:08
Comments:
Far be it from me ever to lead other GBers wrong: the url on the back of the Sweet book(let) for Omnibus does NOT have the "Guide" yet. You'll have to go to amazon.com for the moment--$7.16 US! I ordered mine from G. Schirmer at 914 469 2271.
Clas--I don't edit the entries for spelling, punctuation, perfection, or grace. If, however, you'd like to edit your OWN entries and have me replace them with shiny happy new versions, I'll do so.
Joe--What else is on your summer reading list? You usually have some good ones. Also--do you know "Eastern Rebellion" by Cedar Walton's quartet?
Name: Doc K
the evil double poster
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:06:38
Comments:
Sorry... I hit "reload" after "submit" then "back" then "back" again and the next thing I see is the double whammy...
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:03:39
Comments:
Countzir0: Wasn't that Dallas concert in 1994? My recollection of the Dallas show was that the crowd wasn't as enthusiastic as it could have been... The whole state of Texas suffered in 1996 as a result! The Chicago '94 crowd was great!
Danfesters: Ya know, a central USA venue wouldn't be so bad... that way both coast's Danfans could attend...
BTW, how long has it been since anybody has seen some AUTHENTIC (emphasis added) "fine Columbian"? We're not talking coffee here... If you're under the age of 30 then I suspect that you don't even know what it is...
Toodles - Doc K
Name: Doc Kelly
Still here at the Dude Ranch
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 19:02:56
Comments:
Countzir0: Wasn't that Dallas concert in 1994? My recollection of the Dallas show was that the crowd wasn't as enthusiastic as it could have been... The whole state of Texas suffered in 1996 as a result! The Chicago '94 crowd was great!
Danfesters: Ya know, a central USA venue wouldn't be so bad... that way both coast's Danfans could attend...
BTW, how long has it been since anybody has seen some AUTHENTIC (emphasis added) "fine Columbian"? We're not talking coffee here... If you're under the age of 30 then I suspect that you don't even know what it is...
Toodles - Doc K
Name: Geena
Clas' babe
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 18:24:10
Comments:
Mock Turtle: foreign people are wierd huh? unless you're a native American, we're all foreigners in this country!
Stranger: Try rinsing your thermonucelar nailclippers in the Suds-o-matic 3000. Makes them sparkly and clean and they'll work like new! It's the newest rage on mizar 5!
Lisa: Let's discuss biosphere, it's time to move!
Stevie Dan & the Mrs. Happy belated Anniversary!
Clas: is this really love?
Someone pass me the Cuervo and the fine columbian please!
Name: Dr. Steve V. Dan
in cobra pose
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:15:12
Comments:
Oleander: re:
Fagen's 5th chakra...I was just wondering whether you had any thoughts on which of Fagen's chakra's were problems for him...but I think this chakra thing is way over the GB's head....but if anyone is interested we just got a new tape in ; 'Kundalini: Energy of Awakening' here at the Yoga Journal...call 1-800 I-DO-YOGA and speak to Steve V.Dan your Steely Dan yogi.......
Name: E. B. White
forest.l@wn
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:05:40
Comments:
I sense a recent graduate of a creative writing course in our midst. Must have missed the lecture on the necessity of subtlety in satire though . . .
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 12:01:37
Comments:
Oleander: ...funny, I haven't seen any warm fuzzies in my e-mail box... I guess I've been too busy archiving.
Name: Countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 11:12:25
Comments:
I was walking through the grocery store the other day picking up ingredients for Laza Alfredo when I heard "Your Gold Teeth"--the real version at that(not muzak!!!!) I looked around at all the other shoppers and noticed that I was the only one mouthing the words... Those fools, they don't know what they're missing out on! As I was picking up some wine for the marinara, I found a Ralph Steadman bottle of Cabernet--I've always been a fan of his, but never expected to see him on bottles of wine. Relating back to The Grateful Dead, I did, however, attend the Grateful Dead Tour of Vegas in '92, and got a Steadman T-shirt that has the same exact picture as on the cover of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" except they've replaced Hunter S. Thompson and his attorney with a couple of skeletons, and on the back of the shirt it says "What a long, strange trip it's been." That was one unbeleivable show, eclipsed only by SD's Dallas performance in '96...
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 09:49:52
Comments:
Whew!! Talk about being in withdraw..... I was *without* most of my Dan collection for the past ten days. When I left the office in a hurry last week, I didn't grab my CD case holding most of Citizen and solo stuffs. How long could you hold out?
"Johnnie's playroom is a bunker filled with sand......" Eerie.
majŠ
Name: Clas
the Geena Fan
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:40:58
Comments:
Oleander: I am worried about you! Why are you down this late? Or up this early? Don't you have a job to take care of? But really, why can't you translate my english into PROPER English on your HPAGE?
God dammit, today I am tired. Going to Stockholm tomorrow to see my shrink, have to ask him about this Lary king-thing. Love you baby, godnight.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:37:16
Comments:
fezo,
Speaking of the live "Kama" material from '93 as having a very "Deadlike jam" feel to it... Interestingly, Jerry et al. had "Kama" blasting between sets during the Dead's final touring days... Another Dead/Dan love connection.
Ole: Thanks for the Dan book review, it's on the summer reading list.
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 07:15:12
Comments:
Happies: GKR--mazel tov on Lily's birth! Way to squeak in under the Gemini door! Please let me know if she turns out left-handed. Shelly--HB. Stevie--HA. Many more to all. And maj--keep us posted.
DrWu--son, you are mistaken. There should be some warm fuzzies in your emailbox even as we type.
Clas--darlin', I think your stuff is great. That's why it's there. People should remember that you're doing all this in your SECOND language.
Stranger--you really know how to hurt a girl! If you can't think of anything, then fuggeddaboutit!
DrStevie--Let's see: #1--anus--survival; #2--genitals--sexuality; #3--solar plexus--self-centeredness/ power/ anger; #4--heart--balance/ clarity/ beatitude; #5--throat--supreme reasoning/ cosmic consciousness; #6--third eye--undifferentiated cosmic awareness; #7--top of the head--immortality/ the seat of the soul. Is this what you mean: "Spoken words come from the fifth chakra, giving voice to the emotions within the heart. The voice of a fifth-chakra person penetrates to the heart of the listener. This pure sound affects the listener by changing the dimension of his mind and being." (Johari) That's what happens to me. Or do you mean the writer's block? I truly am a rookie at this. Can you clarify?
Unsolicited Premature Book Review: Thanx to a tip from Pete Fogel, I got Brian Sweet's new one, "The Complete Guide To The Music Of Steely Dan," pub. 4/98, Omnibus Press. (http://www.musicsales.co.uk, or amazon.com) Cheap--$8.95. Part of a series on the music of many rock bands, it's a very portable little book, organized album-by-album and track-by-track. It includes pictures & descriptions of all compilations, un- and extra-Dan, and live releases. Those who have read "Reelin' In The Years" will not find much new text, though the editing is improved and more concise. However, there are some glaring editing errors: Mr. Becker's "base" of operations is given as Miami, and "True Companion" is listed in the intro as "The Companion." There are also several misspelled names. There is an index, but only of tune and album titles. Why not of some other important things, such as personnel, tour dates, and place names? There is also no concise list of who did what on which tune, an unfortunate omission in a book which calls itself "complete." He also kvetches about 11TOW a bit much for my taste. However, there are lots of great, very nicely reproduced photos, many of them recent, and it's very readable--kind of a Cliff's Notes of Dandom, easily done in an evening. So I'd give it 3 dog bones and an Indispensable for its publishing quality, improved organization, and its wealth of detail available nowhere else.
Name: Clas
the Dan-Fran
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 05:18:37
Comments:
Kinky; sorry I lost my temper last night, it won't happen again.
Name: Elroy
One must put up barriers, to keep oneself intact
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 05:04:05
Comments:
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
Now Rush Limbaugh must die.This moody bastard remembers.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 at 00:45:07
Comments:
I don't agree with you Mock Turtle, some US-natives I know are great people.
OLEANDER;
let me explain my blunderpost for you: It was written with half "tongue in cheek" half serious. What I mean is; to see my bad spelled, jokish, foolish thoughts on some songs on your exciting and amazing HomePage makes this mans face turn red. That's what I mean, and nothing else.
Name: Mock Turtle
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 21:26:49
Comments:
Foreign people are weird.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 16:43:16
Comments:
Your Old Friend; you clueless yankee, you just don't get it do you? You're working on a law-firm? That make sence. Go fuck yourself you big fuck. But before you do, tell me, what's your real handle? You're a coward you stupid fuckhead.
Name: Your Old Friend
At The Law Office
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 15:51:26
Comments:
Yeah Claass, I'll bet there are quite a few things you've posted on this public GB that you hope no one kept a record of. But they have.
Name: Clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:34:15
Comments:
Oleander; I was not too happy to see things I've posted here on this GBook on your HomePage. Could you do so some erasing, deleting. I mean, really.
Thanks.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:30:38
Comments:
RubyBaby: Hey, you're not being nosy. It's a program of American composers. I apparently got a little too artsy fartsy last summer so they asked me to sing some more accessible material. So I'll be including a set of Gershwin and a set of Cole Porter along with some musical theater numbers as encores.I'm still doing a couple of classical song sets, however. These will include songs by Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland and possibly Charles Griffes (if I can find the right key - his songs are usually written for higher voices - they're really 'Victorian'sounding).
Thanks for asking
Name: shelly
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 14:00:37
Comments:
Stevie Dan, et al: is that a prediction? or am i having luck right now, and just don't know it? i guess everything's relative, huh?!
Name: fezo
bl@ckmuddyriver
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 13:11:47
Comments:
Roy: On the Dead/Dan connection . . . your comments brought back a great memory of what I guess was the SD or NYRS tour in 1993. They closed the regular set (as best as I can recall) with two songs from Kamakariad. It was a very Deadlike jam, seemingly spontanious in parts with a gradual but still surprising segue into a different but familiar song (Teahouse On The Tracks?)
Or maybe it's all just a Pepe Lopez inspired flashback
Name: shelly
did i forget? is this the onset of old age?
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:02:02
Comments:
Stranger, thanks for your wishes, too! I quickly scanned this and couldn't see that i acknowledged your Pooh-ish wish (was this from Pooh? oy - many too many long guyland ice teas later).
Name: Stevie Dan and the Mrs.
tooting our own horn
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:01:36
Comments:
Hey Shelly: Happy birthday......according to Linda Goodman people born on the 24th got this birthdate as a reward for past life sufferings and that they are lucky in love and money (!!)........
and Today is me and Mrs. Stevie Dan's 2nd Anniversary!!!.....we were married one week after meeting....so I guess I do believe in love at first site......speaking of sites I have added a bibliography and discography to my 'Steely Dan File' site at http://www.jps.net/stevev/sdfcontents.html and will soon be "sponsored" by Amazon.com (which sells Brian Sweets bio and lists a new title by him to be published soon).....
Roy: Steely Dan/Grateful Dead influences....I think there was atime way back when, when the'Dan could be classed right alongside the 'Dead and the Eagles in folk rock genre...heck I thought 'Reeling In The Years' was Crosby, Stills and Nash for a long time.....and Fagen did call in Poco member Tim Schmitt to help in on vocals a lot.....I think Fagen had a lot of 5th chakra issues back then.......maybe Oleander could shed some light on Fagen's chakra alignment....
Name: Steely Dan Fan
sdf76332@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 12:01:33
Comments:
www.danville.com
Name: shelly
awww, it warms the cockles of my heart
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:54:40
Comments:
Midnite Cruiser and Geena, many thanks to you for your thoughts!
Beavis and Butthead: Go to town. . .
Name: fezo
iw@ntmymtv
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:29:17
Comments:
Hey Butthead, she said "come" too, Heh, Heh, Heh.
Name: Geena
A true Clas Fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:28:40
Comments:
Shelly:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Roy.Scam
entendre X 2
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:09:17
Comments:
Hey Beevis, she said "instrument". Heh heh.......heh.......heh.
Name: RubyBaby
singing voulez voulez voulez vouUUUuuu
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:01:41
Comments:
Dr.Wu (keith): I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm intersted in hearing about your voice recital. What will you be singing? And to whom? Lately, I've come to appreciate the one instrument we seem to neglect.rb
I heard that, RoyScam! I'm talking about the VOICE.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 10:36:25
Comments:
Shelly....happy birthday....hope you have many more!
hmmm, I'm really in the mood for some blues today my friends....perhaps something really gut-wrenching....suggestions?
Name: shelly
are you sure? i think it's 7
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 10:01:17
Comments:
RoyScam: re age: one of those digits is right - is it the 2? or is it the 4? hmmm. now, my dear friend, i am a true beatles fan, and i say 7! course, i'll have to listen to it when i get home just to be sure, but i have been pathetically humming it to myself all morning with the hope that a passing coworker will recognize it, pop in and offer me lunch - i swear, i'm not making this up, someone literally just did that as i was typing "pop"! so i'm off for thai food. will continue the 7 v. 6 v. 8 tomorrow, after i've had a listen (and you, too!). apologies if i'm wrong. (i'm counting only those strums before "You", by the way).
thanks for the wishes!
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:58:33
Comments:
Oleander: Are you mad at me?
Name: Roy.Scam
chakra's.in.love
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:07:43
Comments:
Shelly: Happy birthday. What are you 24 now, you shameless geezer? BTW- Technically there should be either 6 or 8 da's before "..you say it's your birthday", depending on whether or not you count the notes after the vocal starts, not 7. (But, at least, I don't count dots.)-- Sort of reminds me of the CU football player whose oral English exam had the question "How many D's are in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. He answered 112 (dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee).
Ole-- Second Chakra, eh? I may need a theological step ladder. I've been known to get nose bleeds at any spiritual level higher than fart jokes.
Anyone notice that the Becker/Fagen song "Roll Back the Meaning" (from YGTWILYTI) has a distinctively Grateful Dead/CSNY sound to it?-- I understand this very Guestbook is part of a spin-off evolved from a Grateful Dead newsgroup. I never would have suspected much commonality between SD and the GD.
RS
Name: TheStranger
forgot
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:04:05
Comments:
shelly,
...and happy unbirthday tomorrow, too.
Name: TheStranger
hey nineteen
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 09:01:20
Comments:
oleander,
great. but how will we stay occupied while we listen? that's a lot of CDs.geena,
thanks for the tip. i think that's why i haven't been able to get this thermonuclear nail clipper to work right.
Name: shelly
dadadadadadada you say it's my birthday...
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 08:19:20
Comments:
yes, in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, i sing the beatles song to myself today!
Stevie Dan: cead mile failte; slainte!
Name: Clas
the Steely Fran-fan
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 08:16:22
Comments:
OLE; you wrote "maybe, why not...." Should be; "of course hon..."
Stevie Dan; have not heard that one. Never listen to Brittish music.
Name: oleander
furlongs per fortnight!
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 06:21:27
Comments:
Yes--check out the site guide on the ODP!
Stranger--thanx for the tip. Uh, you wanna see my cd collection?
Peg--not me!
Brenda--welcome back.
Ol'Fart--why don't we sleep on the beach and make it?
Clas--Maybe.... Why not?
Keith--will e you. In the meantime, to paraphrase E.M. Forster, only archive!
Roy--You can play second chakra in my band anytime.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 23:10:12
Comments:
LISA:
AAH! !@#$%^&*!!!!!
I'm giving a voice recital in South Carolina on August 22. God is laughing at me. SHIT! Oh well. Hey if you're not too hung over you should drive down or something. OH LORD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME??!!??!!Anyway thanks for the info. I appreciate it, Lisa. "There's no place like a tiny hotel room" There's no place... AW MAN!!
Name: lisa
inform@nt
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 22:31:38
Comments:
keith: i will disclose danfess details to you, but only for a price...cover your body in glitter and repeat this 3 times: there's no place like a tiny hotel room, packed with sweaty danfans, getting boozed up on cuervo and toked up on weed.
i guarantee it'll take you there, my friend.
do you wanna come to the next one? it's slated to go down the weekend of august 21st in virginia beach, va...the much sought after saint al(second only to our heroes d & w) will be in attendance along with assorted other guestbookers...
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 21:36:04
Comments:
Clas: Just got a note from St.Al about the censoremachine. Sorry you got juked, man!CAN SOMEONE, ANYONE?, TELL ME ABOUT THIS DANFEST??? PLEASE?? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ITS KILLING ME!! (I understand if its something, ...you know, "personal" or "private")
Name: Geena
Today I am Rosie
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 18:56:31
Comments:
Clas:
I'll be whatever makes you happy and whatever floats your boat baby!Shelly: I see you have a new friend on the GB, congrats!
Stevie Dan: humor her!
Stranger: posting here could be habit forming and hazardous to your health. Wear protective clothing and headgear (See past Lisa-post on SD helmets with "Can't Buy A Thril" emblazoned on the front)and do not operate heavy machinery or motor vehicles while under the influence of the GB.
Name: lisa
hey!
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 15:16:48
Comments:
could it be possible?? the official steely dan site has been updated...
Name: Stevie Dan
@dear dirty dublin
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 14:43:35
Comments:
just wonderin': Clas have you ever heard the song 'Sweden' by that great and legendary punk entourage known as 'the Stranglers???cool song...and they even did a version of it in Swedish
Dear Shelly: welcome to the 'Dan Guestbook...we need more Irish wit on this site.....
Name: clas
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 14:01:02
Comments:
Geena - do you wanne be the left Rosie or the right Rosie?
Name: Geena
I wanna be rosie!
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 12:05:12
Comments:
Clas: email #1 on the way to you sunshine!
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis , MO
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 11:21:03
Comments:
Oleander: What's this DANfest all about?Clas: Thanks for the tips, man. I'll direct the censoremachine message to St.Al right away.
Name: TheStranger
again
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 10:11:38
Comments:
make that HUGHES
Name: TheStranger
can't be too careful
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 10:08:29
Comments:
it appears lisa and geena suffer intermittent uterine agony. then there's clas & his bum sternum. i fear there's some kind of deadly virus at work on this board and am henceforth typing these messages with 2 sets of plasticine rubber gloves. perhaps howard huges wasn't so crazy after all to shut himself up in a germ-free room visited only by trusted, sterilized mormon servants prepared to instantly gun down possibly disease-carrying interlopers.
hope you're all feeling better.
Name: shelly
my musical heart's in dublin
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 09:38:35
Comments:
Clas, i live in the U.S., east coast. Received HHF from a friend in ireland for my birthday. please hold the many, many good wishes until tomorrow the 24th, the actual anniversary of my birth. i'm into irish music/rock, and my beloved beatles. oh, and of course, i am fond of SD, but as i said before, not a diehard; i'm here for the fine wine and good conversation.
Name: Cla
the Fran-fan
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 09:32:18
Comments:
Shelly - Hothouse Flowers CD! Wowowowow! Where do you live honey? Let's pardy hardy!
Keith Phares - StAl is the owner of this site. He's got Walter Becketts email-address so be nice to him. The question about the censoremachine you better ask him directly, I don't want to piss this guy off. The Danfest questions goes to Roy Scam, Oleander, Lisa, Fezo and other eastcoasters. I'm from Sweden so I'm audi on that one. On that one too one might add.
Geena - is there something wrong with your emailsystem on your job? Ain got no mail from you today and I hunger for mail from you.
LISA! I can't get to you! What's wrong. Email me?
Name: shelly
i'm way outta my league here
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 07:25:40
Comments:
Geena: (sob) thanks for writing to me, even if just to confirm your superiority. at least someone cares.
all: i know i know i know this has nothing to do w/ SD, so ignore me if you must, but i just got my new Hothouse Flowers CD! Whoopee! i'm a little excited.
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 01:36:45
Comments:
Clas: Alright, man. That's pretty f****ed up.
Who's St. Al and what is this censoremachine?
what's this DANfest all about, anyway?
Name: Return to Brenda
tupperwareparty
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 01:25:17
Comments:
I swear, if I hear one more air-tight seal go, "whoosh", I'm gonna let all my left-overs get smelly! Do you realize I had to sell 10,000 plastic, injection-molded half-spheres with matching "flat-tops" in order to win the Dell / Pentium / Y2K resistant PC I'm using to interract with you people? I'd rather peddle Grit! (You get to read the Sunday comics sooner...)
Anyway, has anyone seen the new "Titanium Daniel" t-shirts at the PX? The kevlar sternum plate is out of this world!
Love to Lily,RTB
Name: Clas
Today I wanne go to Boston.
Location: Is it a Rag or a drag?,
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 00:14:06
Comments:
Dear Sirs!
Keith Phares; Rush Limbaugh INVENTED Steely Dan. He also invented StAl's censoremachine. So look out buddy.
Geena/Stranger; I used to watch the Baywatch-shootings when I was on vacation in L.A., but it was not for the bimbos, it was for the fucking incredible, idiotic shit they were filming. And how they cleaned the beaches from the bums... amazing. Good for the sternum, a good laugh that is.
Geena; I don't care about bimbos hon, I love brains and a good laugh. That's what turns me on. So, you have me turned on. I'm your radio. Who is "Rosie" you asked; that's my right hand. Or left. Depending on what night it is (invented by Jackson Browne).
Lisa; "have lena kick you in the stomach REAL, REAL hard 3 times..." No, but she have more than one good reason to do so. But, really, is that the way you feel? My baby, that's no good! I talk to you later.
Oleander; did you see the excellent movie "Once Upon A Time In America"? If you did, did you remember the scene when Robert De Niro is sick and tired of his whole situation and disapears to the chinese opium-den for a couple of days? Is not this the kind of place "Here At The Western World" is about?
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 23:49:27
Comments:
Johnboy:
I remember reading about the RS quote. ..can't say I disagree. It would certainly be a nice consolation if I ended up in a nursing home 60 years from now. Of course by that time, 'Pearl Jam' could be muzak. As thrillingly ironic as it would be, I wouldn't abide my last days listening to "Jeremy" or some shit like that. Sorry if I offend some Pearl Jam fans.Clas:
Somewhere along the line heard Rush Limbaugh was a Dan fan. Is it all just a charade?
What's this DANfest stuff all about?
Name: SASSY
SASSY-KELLY @ WEBTV.NET
Location: NORMAN, OKLA USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 21:04:17
Comments:
I AM A GIRL
Name: Schwinn
sameasiteverwas
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 20:37:19
Comments:
Sven: No! Great Danny would kick Godzilla's scaly, green butt back to the Ming Dynasty! And quit bothering nice Mr. Clas...
Name: Sven
theregoestokyo
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 20:26:53
Comments:
Schwinn: Could Godzilla beat Great Danny?
Name: Geena
Clas Fan
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 18:51:05
Comments:
Clas:
Geena! I trust you. Clas, I love you! who's Rosie?If you want to go to Venice beach and watch them film Baywatch, just pull out my picture and view "Babewatch", okay hon? Listen to Stranger, Listen to Stranger, Listen to Stranger, etc., etc.
GKRichard: Congrats to you and the lovely Mrs. GKRichard!
Shelly: Thanks, but Clas knows a good woman when he sees one and he knows that I am the only salve that can soothe his troubled mind.
Lisa: sorry to hear of your uterine agony, do we suffer of the same functional disorder transmitted through the nervous system? I will write soon my friend, it's just that Clas has decided to open up his cache of brain oscillators and has been directing streams of e-mail towards me all weekend long demanding that i profess my love for him to the GB populace.Still trying to get to the Danfess, shall we wear our festive uterine leather ponchos, with studs that match our eyes?
Stranger: Your prescription for keeping Clas away from Venice Beach is good medicine for his sternum, and I sincerely thank you for your advice. You are correct that the little bimbos do listen to disgusting Top 40 music (do we know what that is anymore?), and that it would indeed be more pleasing for him to make love with a woman (namely Geena)who has a music collection of over 1,000 assorted CDs, cassettes and vinyls which include bootlegs, the SD boxed sets in both CD and cassette as well as imports. The check is in the mail!
Name: mitch
mcharl 6651
Location: wjaz-mt.belzoni,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 18:24:09
Comments:
IF Danfest III IS going to have an HQ ,IT should be named ASAPso the DANDOM can start booking rooms,flights,WOLVERINES etc. Proximity to the beach for sure and distance from students is critical. peace: BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 17:17:39
Comments:
Peg....been go through a very non-Hatian Divorce the last year or so after 16 years together in one form or fashion....I think I'm the one you remember....did you once say the pic on my page reminded you of Skunk Baxter? It's been a while, hard to remember who said what....great to hear from you again.
Lisa....I'll just be listening here for more details of Dan Fest as they become available....I plan on being there but I'm a bit far (4 hours) from Va. Beach to be in on any planning....just looking forward to meeting some more Dan fans....there are still quite a few of us alive and well here in DAN-ville but it's always nice to meet new folks with such good taste in music!
not that it sounds even remotely like SD but if you'd like to try something new that really has my ear these days give a listen to Athenaeum....local boys from Greensboro, NC that are hitting the big time in a big way....very nice stuff.
Name: fezo
LondonC@lling
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 16:47:37
Comments:
Looks like I won't be able to attend Danfest 3 cause I'll be out of the country with the expatriate Mrs. Fezo, but here are my two cents as to a possible gathering site for the festivities.
The main beach drag is Atlantic Avenue, from about the 1500 to the 2500 block is the "strip" where most of the wayward youth gather and the cops patrol with disturbing frequency and intensity. I'd advise to stay away from any hotels in those blocks for obvious reasons. My nominee for ideal gathering site is The Newcastle in the 1200 block. It's not a chain and most of the rooms have hot tubs. And it is right on the water. If not that, try to get a place in the 3000 block and up. Last week I stayed at a fairly nice and cheap Hojo's in the 37th and there's a Holiday Inn just up the road from that.
Wish I was there
fezo
Name: TheStranger
knows what counts
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 16:29:01
Comments:
clas,
the piles and piles of baywatch cuties who skate up and down venice beach in the skimpiest of bikinis would not be good for your sternum. as your apothecary, i advise against them. besides which, they listen to truly disgusting top 40 awfulness on their walkmans. much sweeter to make love to a woman who has a decent CD collection. stick with geena. no doubt has the boxed collection and maybe even a few good bootlegs. now there's a babe.myra,
don't get talked into a nose ring.lisa,
so good read your voice.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
Anthony's Bar and Grill
Location: Va (Dan!) Beach,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 14:55:04
Comments:
St. Al: What kind of requirements are we talking here for the DanFest? A bar? A club? A hotel?
Do we want outdoors as a possibility in the event of nice weather?--LP
Name: old fart
partydownpartyhearty
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 14:03:28
Comments:
I think all the Danfest participants should stay in the same place so everyone can stumble from room to room rather than risk driving while under the influence of cuervo gold and fine columbian. Frankly, all I need is a bed to crash on. You know how old fogeys get after a few.
O.F.
Name: shelly
one for the road
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:36:57
Comments:
RoyScam: frank zappa and michael nesmith? do tell! i know not of this, even having gone through a zappa phase about 8 years ago, which consisted mainly of memorizing the intro to "The Muffin Man." thanks in advance.
all: goodnight, good morning, good afternoon wherever you are.
Name: shelly
no, the walrus is paul
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:33:00
Comments:
josie: a clarification is in order, girl. do not cause me problems so quickly in here.
others: i am woman, hear me roar. this chick josie, do ignore. i am not, nor have i ever been, in real life or online, known as the aforementioned "paul."
beatles: what can i say? love 'em.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
you're.not.my.Jackie
Location: Va (Dan) Beach!!,
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:24:16
Comments:
Major: My 3-YO is named John, called Jack. But he predates the whole "Jack of Speed" preview, so I can't claim the Dan as inspiration for this one. We just noticed at the time that there are damn few peopled called Jack any more.
Lisa: Being the father of 2 small ones, a Va Beach resident for only 2 years, and perpetually short on cash and free time, I haven't had real opportunity to scout the various places to hang around here. Consequently, I've been chary of putting in my two shekels' worth on where to meet. I am spouseless and childless this week, so maybe I can cruise a bit and scout for sites.
But I would definitely advise making hotel reservations if you want to be near the water. But if you aren't particular about that (or how much you spend), there are always places to be had (with varying levels of quality).Fezo: Any luck on your search? Any places definitely to avoid?
--lp
Name: Myra Eyeful
timeoutofmind
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 13:20:28
Comments:
Stranger: I'm still here. My heart is broken that you so easily hook up with any sweet mamma that comes along.I'm not what I used to be and love's not a game for three.
(Just kidding) I'm ready to Rummmmmble!Myra
Name: Josie
Princeton
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 12:52:12
Comments:
Shelly is Paul!
Name: lisa
@gony by any other name...
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:44:37
Comments:
clas: have lena kick you in the stomach REAL, REAL hard 3 times...then multiply by 4.
shelly: i'm pleased you're not percy shelly...he's looking kind of thin these days.
Name: uterine agony?
what's that?
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:31:48
Comments:
tell me Lisa!
Clas
Name: Roy.Scam
if.you're.going.to.eat.lunch.naked.at.least.hold.the.mayo
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:30:57
Comments:
Major and GKR: Many congratulations on J.D. and Lily; aren't you glad we Dan fans are more prolific than the Dan? I re-confirmed yesterday that parenthood is my favorite expensive, dangerous narcotic.
Oleander--Coincidentally, I played first chakra for the Washington Metaphysical Orchestra for three years. I changed vocations when I realized how much tougher the competition is when you get up beyond the anus and genital level.
Zeke: Puff the Magic Dragon IS about childhood and dragons. Please don't let Dick Nixon's delirious drug-song hit list fuck up a beautiful song.
Shelly- I'm glad your blues are now defunct.--Incidentally, Michael Nesmith was a highly talented guy (I'm not just saying that to appear un-hip ). He wrote several good songs including 'shelly's blues', the similar and equally nifty "Papa Gene's Blues", "Joanne" "Driving the ElDorado to the Moon", and "Admiral Mike" which had the mysterious Dan-like literary allusion: "..the naked lunch is on your knife."
---His 'interview' with Frank Zappa was the all time Monkee highlight.Clas: I noticed the Randy Newman reference in your last post, but I didn't understand it. Please enlighten. -- And, no, I have no new presentable tapes to offer; there are however three albums in my head waiting to be made audible. How about you?
RS
Name: shelly
chortling my way to the end of the day
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:29:07
Comments:
Lisa: i'm michael's shelly. but this probably doesn't help you, huh? (and if it does, michael has lots of 'splainin' to do.)
Clas: my computer's at work. the home computer sits alone, unused, in the dark recesses of my basement, an antiquated shadow of its former self. gawd help me if i get another home computer. i just don't know when to say nyet to cyberspace. but i should still be congratulated for showing up to work on time, i guess, so accept your words with beaming pride (and the sorrow of one without a sunday night social life).
Name: Clas
The Fran-fan
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 11:28:20
Comments:
The Stranger; bored in Los Angeles? Never! IF I'd get bored there, I just head it down to Venice Beach and watch them shoot Baywatch. That's a thrill and you don't have to buy it.
Hi Lisa! Yes, I got the Monkey With The Fez. That's a keeper, I just love it!
Uhhh, I'm alone again, seems like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie.
Name: lisa
o h@ppy day!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 10:38:10
Comments:
ole: you were right...i'm not gonna croak anytime soon, so i'll be at dan-o-mite3...can we subtitle it "festive uterus bash"?
ivan: just sent your email, you handsome devil...how bout a trip to the east coast, say sometime in august?
clas: ever heard of uterine agony?
i see that you received a coveted monkey-in-your-soul doing-it-with-a-fez-on...and i thought that was for danfessors only!
midnite cruiser: stay in touch with me via email on the party details(showbizkid@yahoo.com)...i will have to consult with the mighty oleander for ideas...she is the goddess of planning and organization.
luckless pedestrian: got any thoughts on activities, locations, etc? how available are hotel rooms going to be in august?
fezO: have you concocted a diabolical plan for our next weekend o' fun? i still maintain that we should go roller skating, and don't worry...roy.scam and i will hold you up.
really...you can trust us.
major dude and gkrichard: congratulations gents, and just in time for father's day...i'll add 2 more geminis to the (future)danfan list.
shelly: nice to make your acquaintance...you aren't patrick's shelly, are you? or is it percy shelly? inquiring minds wanna know.
Name: Wow! Check out the guy founded Muzak!
He was a real visionary!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 09:08:57
Comments:
http://www.muzak.com/muzak.html
Name: Steely Dan Muzak outage
explained by Wall Stree Journal
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:59:32
Comments:
Elevators Quieted, Gossip Ceased
The Day the Muzak Died . . .By FREDERIC M. BIDDLE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALFrom doctors to drug dealers to sweethearts out of touch, millions bemoaned the Galaxy IV satellite outage that briefly muted pagers nationwide last month. But for aficionados of Muzak, the sounds of silence are only now lifting.
The Seattle-based music service also used Galaxy IV for satellite
transmission. While the nation's pagers resumed beeping and vibrating a day or two after the May 19 space mishap, more than 100,000 rooftop reception dishes had to be individually repositioned to the coordinates of a backup satellite before Muzak could play as usual.Some lucky customers continued to get their Muzak via mail-order CDs. But the majority of subscribers -- including thousands of large buildings and small businesses -- were out of their prepackaged tunes. "This was our Tylenol scare," says Bill Boyd, chairman of Muzak LP.
Many who previously cursed "elevator music" suddenly found they missed the soothing strains. "We couldn't live without it," admits Missy King, a stylist at Scandals beauty salon in Indianapolis. Without the aural camouflage of Tracy Chapman and Jimmy Buffett and the like, gossip and dish dried up.
"When the music is on, everybody tends to talk loud," says Ms. King. "When the Muzak stopped, [customers] didn't talk. And when they didn't talk, we didn't talk." Bringing a tinny-sounding radio into the salon hardly loosened tongues.
In several Lafayette, Ind.-area Burger King restaurants, the impact was more subtle. "It was something you didn't notice until it was gone," marvels Bill Fenstermaker, director of operations. He subscribes to a golden-oldies Muzak channel at one of his outlets, and the morning coffee crowd of mostly senior citizens was among the first to notice the silence. "Now I just have to sit here and hear myself think," one upset customer
told him.The ingenious found substitutes. At Omaha's Metro Mitsubishi, general manager Bob Terp says salespeople cranked up the stereos in showroom models. "But it just wore the batteries down," he says.
For Muzak, silence wasn't golden. But executives say the newfound
appreciation of some has proved a morale boost for a company that now offers rap music as part of its struggle against the stereotype of blandness."We've settled with what people said about us for a long time, because we made money," says Kenny Kahn, Muzak's marketing vice president. "But now we just don't want to hear it."
Name: TheStranger
Sunny, Slight breeze, occasional fluffy cloud
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:48:29
Comments:
Oleander,
Latin Jazz: I hesitate to recommend, what with CD prices getting big as car payments. But there's this pianist named Gonzalo Rubalcala who's got an album, "The Blessing," that gives you something to chew on. & Poncho Sanchez's "Soul Sauce" seems to work.Clas,
What you say about subversive elevator music makes sense. That's why I line my skull with aluminum foil to keep out ulta-sonic, druid messages. You'd get bored in like L.A. Weather's too perfect.Lisa,
If your modem's still broke, reach me telepathically. I'm on the love frequency. Did you frighten away Myra?
Name: Clas
I wanne go to Los Angeles
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 08:13:06
Comments:
Hi Sven, - you have to ask that question to Schwinn.
Shelly! Are you up (down?) already? On a Monday morning! I think that shows a great character. "Civilkurage" as we say in Sweden.
I think Steely Dan suits perfectly well in elevators and in supermarkets. They are brainwashing their subversive, commie foreigner messages upon you. Someday you gonna end up like good socialists. I can hardly wait!
Beware, beware, beware of the naked rare!
Name: shelly
happy monday morning folks!
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 07:56:10
Comments:
GFRichard: So happy Lily came in time for Father's Day! Many Congrats!
Maj: And a special Father's Day wish for you, too! Glad to hear things are going well.
Josie: Princeton? Ya, Nawtheast Broadcastin' certainly gets some interesting names on your resume.
Clas: a hearty hello from a wonderful woman.
Geena: not as wonderful to him as you are, tho'. (a little salve for a potential heartache.)
Lisa: nice to "meet" you!
Name: Peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 06:52:37
Comments:
GoodFatherRichard: Wow! Congratulations to you, too. I love that name "Lily". Beautiful.
I wonder who's next?
Name: johnboy
hotr@s
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 02:15:06
Comments:
Keith: Someone (in RS?) once described SD as "musak for hippies". Can't remember how long ago so can't say whether it was a prophetic statement or simply an apt observation. I _have_ noticed that more and more the original versions are being played rather than the rerecorded elevator music big band versions. Also suspect not that many (ex)hippies here at the GB. Guess it's really not all that prophetic or apt, but it makes your point...
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 at 01:47:51
Comments:
Does it bother you that one usually only hear's Steely Dan now in supermarkets and craft shops? I mean, like, I flip out (in a good way) every time I hear their shit out of context (even in a craft shop), but is their some sort of meta-message being sent here?
Name: Sven
hismastersvoice
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 23:24:15
Comments:
Clas: Could Godzilla beat Great Danny?
Name: Clas
The Fran-fan
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 22:55:24
Comments:
Dear Sirs;
Good Richard; hoola bandooooola! Congrats!
Oleander; thanx! Yes, we're going towards darkness, but what the hell, isn't that what we've been doing since birth?
Geena! I trust you.
Name: GoodFatherRichard
between cloud 9 and where the hell am I?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 20:26:01
Comments:
Oleander, thanks for your thoughts... your greetings are timely.
...As was the arrival of Lilian Victoria (Lily) on Saturday evening. Mother and baby doing just fine and home at last tomorrow.Major(copyright thingy), hope all's moving along well. My thoughts are with you and yours more than ever.
Every day is father's day...what a wonderful World!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: oleander
the queen of solstice
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 18:39:09
Comments:
Happy Father's Day to all you guys who are raising or have raised the future Danfans, musicians, critical thinkers, jokesters, nitpickers, friends, lovers, fighters, fathers, artists, engineers, scientists, teachers, nomads, true companions, and travelers in curved spacetime who will walk in your footsteps.
Especially to the Major, freshly fathering, and to Good King Rich, who's anticipating.
And to everyone, especially Clas & Mr. Stewart in the northern reaches, a very happy Solstice. It feels as though the light just got here, and now it's already on its way.
Name: Geena
Oh! Mandy is going to Yale!
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 18:07:18
Comments:
Clas:
Trust me, I could stand to be with you for an eternity.Hi Pompe! don't be sad, Lena will be back soon.
Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canada
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 17:23:58
Comments:
Steve V - I got FM to play at a movie night for a youth group I was trying to stimulate in mid 1980 - I was about 26 at the time, and I only showed it because Steely Dan sang the title song. Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan and Alex Karras played DJ's - If I'm not mistaken, the song plays at the beginning as well as through the credits, though it's been so long, I may be wrong about that fact. Not matter, is was slag, as movies go.
I heard Dion and the Belmonts "Ruby Baby" the other night, and love their version as much as Donald Fagen's although the piano solo in his effort is tough to beat, because it's followed by the organ and guitar pieces.
Ruby Baby, (our Ruby) do you like both versions?
Name: Clas
I was wrong, she's going to Yale.
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 11:34:22
Comments:
Geena hon, I would be with you if I could trust that you could stand to be with me for more than two hours. I don't trust woman. Look at my wife. What do I get in the middle of the night when I'm struggling with my AGONY? A book smashed in my head because SHE is tired and wanne sleep! I guess if I fell dead on the floor she would just step over my body and leave the house.
So, the rain is gone? What are you gonna do now hon? What about a little email to me hon?
Name: Geena
Who is Mandy?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 07:59:18
Comments:
Clas: Happy Father's Day and Happy Midsummer! It hasn't rained here in two days and I've scrapped the ark project for now. I can take care of that sternum problem for you without books or pain my love, just come to me.
Happy Father's Day to all the GB Daddies!!! Especially Major Dude who is celebrating a very special day!
Name: fezo
b@ckhome@gain
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 06:29:28
Comments:
Excellent SD music moment . . . was on day three of my trip to Va Beach scouting possible sites for Danfest # 3 and having serious dt's. No CD's, no GB, no wife. I'm roaming the aisles of Eckerd's looking for an iron when a somewhat familiar tune brightens my step and mood, "Walk Between Raindrops". And the real version no less, not just Muzak. Alas, the pharmacist wouldn't take requests . . .
Name: Keith Phares
DoctorWu@webtv.net
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 01:39:35
Comments:
...a fool in love with time to kill.
Name: Clas
What? Is Mandy going to Jail?
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 at 00:22:46
Comments:
the Stranger; yeah, I remember Jane. Strange woman. I'm glad to hear that her head is safe. In the coola'?
Geena; an ark? Well then, come over hon! Ehhh... don't bring them cats, please!
Hi Shelly!
TODAY;STERNUM AGONY;
Woke up in the middle of the night, my heart was beating so fast, and kind of running on empty, I screamed -Help, there's air in the system, I'm dying! My wife smashed a book in my head and then I don't remember anymore. Now I feel fine.
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 23:03:24
Comments:
I'm not a lunatic, but I play one on the internet.
Get this: the neonatal nursery allows you to place a small tape player and tapes near the infant. Something soothing for now....maybe a loop tape of Home At Last-Book of Liars-Babylon Sisters. Trying to keep the beat close to mom's heartrate.
World Party makes great lullabys too. Love is Best and This World from Egyptology.
laters. time to shut down.
Pehhhhg: thanks a million.
majŠ
Name: Geena
Kamikaze II
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 15:11:10
Comments:
Clas:
Yes hon, I'm here for you baby, I've just been a little busy building an ark. I got your email and will respond to you this weekend. I still love you and I know the day will come when we'll be together. Ti amo con tutto mio cuore!
Dude:
Sending belated congratulations or your way. Like Clas, I envy you as well. As we say in italian, Tanti auguri!!Lisa:
got your email, thanks sweetie! I'll get back to you this weekend as well.
Name: Hank Silvers
c/o Hugo Spaak
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 08:16:02
Comments:
DuuuudeŠ: Congratulations from all of us up here in the steamy valley.
The Dan/MuzakŽ posts reminded me that a week or so ago, in a supermarket I rarely enter, I heard a MuzakŽ version of the (Becker-produced) China Crisis song "You Did Cut Me." Unexpected. . .
Name: Zeke
NOLA
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 07:12:07
Comments:
Steve V: When the movie FM came out, I was working in a movie theater. FM was the song played as the credits rolled up.
Do you remember Linda Rondstandt in that movie? What song did she sing?Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise came on the radio the other day, and the guitar solo reminded me of Reelin'.
Who was the guitar player in that song?
Life For The Taking is a good EM LP.Z.
Name: Clas
Comicaze
Date: Saturday, June 20, 1998 at 00:23:08
Comments:
Steve Dan - I got this fortyfiver, LP-size, with four songs, Do it Again, Dallas, Haitian Divorce and Sail the Waterway. Fagen and Becker are on the cover. fagen wears this Norweigan shirt "Lusekofte", the same he wears on the Katy Lied-cover, he's doing the peacesign. Becker is longhaired and a little fat, wearing the most ugly jeans I've ever seen. Is this the same that you have?
Lisa - hi, how are you doing? (Shelly is a new member, a wonderful woman)
Zeke - you're right, the guitarbased Royal Scam is a killer. I haven't heard from Slidell, is it still that hot?
GEENA - you've been away so long, where ARE you hon?
Name: KIM
KIM-CB @ WEBTV.NET
Location: NORMAN, OKLA USA
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 22:03:57
Comments:
I AM A GIRL
Name: lisa
oh ye@h
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:13:44
Comments:
sam (the kid): happy birthday, beefcake!! why don't you and rigs come up to the danfess3 in virginia? hell, dig up aja and bring her along too.
Name: lisa
trying to c@tch up
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:09:23
Comments:
hello er'body...been without the internet since tuesday and golly i sure missed you all! my modem went to shit with no explanation and i had to get another one...i'll be catching up on all my emails tomorrow, so please bear with me.
who is shelly?
hi clas.
Name: Peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 20:04:51
Comments:
Midnite Cruiser: Yeah, it's me, if I'm the me you're thinking of. Where have you been?
Spoke with Major Dude today - for those of you who think he was a bit crazy before, you should listen to him now. Son and Mom are doing fine, recovering from the excitement and all. Dude, on the other hand,...
Name: Steve V Dan
in the archives
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 16:14:50
Comments:
It was 20 years ago today....:
'FM'(No Static At All)- featuring Eagles' Tim Schmitt on backing vocals....entered the U.S. Top 40.....Steely Dan's 3rd Top 40 hit of the year....1978.....the film from which it was taken was a real slice of sh$%t...but was interesting in that during several scenes Steely Dan albums were to be seen in the backgound and on the turntables......anyone else remember this flick?...I know...I'm showing my age.........
first 45 ever bought...British import of 'Do It Again'/'Dallas'...boy did I have good taste or what???
Name: TheStranger
LeftCoast
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 15:09:04
Comments:
feeling left out by this e. coast Dan gathering. save me some leftovers.
Name: K Mart
Shopper
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 14:09:59
Comments:
I agree that Steely Dan is the soundtrack of the 90's. From grocery stores to drug stores to discount store to restaurants to airport terminals to dentist offices. And it's always the offbeat songs, not the hits. I hear Countermoon at least once a week while in an establishment of commerce. More than I hear them on the radio. That whole give us some funked up muzak thing has finally come true for Steely Dan and Donlald Fagen.
Name: Zeke
same
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 13:24:46
Comments:
Brainfart: In the previous post, the killer intro. I was talking about
was the beginning of Don't Take Me Alive. Sorry, it won't happen again.
Name: Zeke
spike@eatel.net
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 at 12:47:29
Comments:
Dan Moment: On-hold with Bell South, Sign In Stranger in the key of Moozak. I thought it was funny, how the vocal parts were
arranged by using a "Flute" of all damn instruments. I bet the guy who developed moozak and rap have something in common.Citizen disk #3 on the box. The Caves, what a killer riff on the intro. Ya know, I'm not complaining and I'm really excited about the new one, but if one element is missing from Gaucho, IGY, Kama,Kama,Kama, Kamiriad, (I don't have 11 Whacks yet,) it must be that crisp, clean, sharp as a razor, guitar riff that makes you want to bend the strings on the steering wheel of your car. I hope we will hear some of that type of guitar on the new one. Gaucho, Third World Man is an exception.
Ann Wilson of Heart, 47 years old today. Whew!
Name: Clas
clas@country
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 23:32:49
Comments:
OLEANDER; I got the infamous Monkey-In Your-Soul-With-The-Fez on, very steelydanish! THANK you so much. It has it's place on my piano. I hope I never have to use it. Thanks sweetheart!
Geena; hi sweetheart. My email is working down here yes. Pompe says hi.
RubyBaBY; did you try again? Pompe says hi. he wonders when he's gonna meet all those cool chicks I'm talking about on our long walks.
Major; sorry I'm late on this, but CONGRATS. I envy you.
StAl; do YOU have a monkey with a fez on?
Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 19:24:38
Comments:
Edd--oo-oo-ooh whee-ooh!
Maj--Another Jack song--SIS--the can-can Jacques. "New Frontier"--obviously. "True Companion"--you, for pulling the Major Mom through what must have been a frightening experience.
Aw shit, mynah, hand me the kleenex.
Name: Josie
fireeyes@usa.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 17:29:25
Comments:
Oleander: Josie from Yale? I don't think I know her, will Princeton do?
Shelly: Thank you, but I still think you're Paulie from Lawng Eyeland!
Name: From Wm. Gibson Interview
Excerpt
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 15:33:38
Comments:
Actually, in terms of musical recognition, one of the things that was most gratifying for me was when [Steely Dan's] Donald Fagen brought out Kamakiriad [Fagen's second solo album.] He did one interview where he said, one of the reasons I did this was I was reading these books by this guy named William Gibson and there are all these Steely Dan references and he said, I always kind of wanted to be a science fiction writer so I thought I'd do this album. I love that. And the other thing I love about Steely Dan and I think this does make them probably the most deeply...I just lost the word...subversive. That's a scary word to lose.
Steely Dan is the most deeply subversive of all pop groups because sometimes now in 1996 I'll be shopping in the supermarket and they'll be playing Steely Dan in the background. Everybody will be buying their cereal and this guy's singing a song about doing drugs and feeling depressed because you're 35 years old sleeping with an 18-year-old girl. If anybody knew what they were saying, they would never play it in a supermarket. It's perfect elevator music and then you listen to the words and it continues to be cutting stuff. I loved it...whoever did the what passes for the liner notes in that Steely Dan box that came out a couple of years ago. It said, somehow these guys produced the perfect soundtrack to the '90s. [laughs]
Name: Mitch *
mcharl6651@aol.com *
Location: wjaz Mt. Belzoni, Pa.
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 15:32:37
Comments:
OLEANDER: hello, new to this steely site. Any info about the DANFEST, Lots of talk about it. Has it been done before? IS there a site picked, hotel ? etc. Hope you guys pull it off. MITCH
Name: RubyBaby
thirstnomore
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:44:09
Comments:
Oleander: Funny you should think of the H2O. It's my belief that any Real Love found in me comes from the Water - the Living Water flowing out from the Rock, upon which I stand.The rest of the silly stuff is just me, and not catchy.
Clas: I feel your presence, which is much needed. I'm still trying.
rb
Name: mWorld
khillman@lightspeed.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:25:42
Comments:
MajŠ:
Congrats to you and Mrs. DudeŠ!! - I guess you got the real Jack Of Speed there, my brother, 10 weeks early! Thoughts, Prayers, Positive Vibes tuned to your frequency, man. Looks like you'll be figuring out the meaning of Wet Side Story over the next couple of weeks...
Hand shakes all around...
...ah, fuck it, Big Hugs!...I gotta go find some kleenexŠ...
mW
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:23:26
Comments:
Thanks, Citizens, for the kind wishes and good vibes. Little Dude and Mother are improving.
With all the baby stuff, I've been asssembling the "All Dan, All Baby" soundtrack. The nursery tells me that they'll play tapes etc... So far on my list: Things Jack - Do It Again, Jack of Speed. Things John - Kings, Surf???. Things Baby - Ruby. Things Daddy: Little Kawai, Trans-Island Skyway. Things "Other" - Home At Last, and Green Earrings (because we needed to "steal" a few more days in the womb before delivery).
Your suggestions are.....
The Dan sure are versatile, aint? Fits every occasion.
"...come on daddy, get in, let's go...."
majŠ
Name: Steve e danish
@Steely Dan File
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 14:02:18
Comments:
Hey Count: re:Chevy Chase.....
....he played drums for Fagen and Becker in a jazz ensemble at their alam mater...Bard College...circa 1968....years later he recorded a halfway decent album for Arista Records with jazz great/alumni Tom Scott....
other Bard grads include actress Blythe Danner (mother of Gwyneth Paltrow)
Name: Countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Location: Dallas,
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 13:48:13
Comments:
Oleander: Thanks for the Gibson site, it's one I haven't seen yet, and makes a good new bookmark. Lot's of interesting links there too. I've talked to numerous Dan fans in my life, and you're the first one I've met who saw the connection between Gib and Dan. Wonder if those two have ever pal-ed around together? Off the subject of Gib, have you ever heard the rumor about SNL comedian Chevy Chase, and his short stint as drummer for SD? He had described SD as a "very bad jazz band." Just wondering if this rumor was true.
Name: Countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Location: Dallas,
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 11:39:43
Comments:
"Felonious smile old friend" as in felons, felony... yeah, that's always seemed like a play of words on Thelonious Monk to me, and I've wondered if I was right about it. But alot of their songs seem to be like that. Listening to SD is similar to going to a museum and commenting on a piece of surrealistic art, everyone has his/her own opinion on what's really been put down on canvas. And it's about the only group I've encountered that can put poetry to music properly and evoke the needed emotions to match the words of the songs. I guess that's my critique for the day...
Name: Steve v. dan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Location: Can't Buy A Thrill, CA
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 11:09:55
Comments:
Major Dude: major conrats...I have a 6 month old...and love every minute of it......babys rule!
Oleander: your take on chakra is pretty well on the mark...and I would say that Becker has certainly balanced a few , from where he once was circa 1980.....
more lyric guesses....:
'Surf and/or die': about one of Becker's Hawaii friends who like to push the envelope, maybe his old pal Randy California...
'Hard Up Case'- bitter break-up etc...possibly about Karen Stanley, the ABC Records staffer who o.d.-ed in 1980
'This Moody Bastard'- A GREAT song....Becker's melancholic ode to Bard College days......
'Sail The Waterway'-Becker's tribute to his merchant marine pop
that's all for now....back to the yoga.......sun salutations with new age music.....
Name: BOB TEDDE
MrSquonk@cts.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 10:26:28
Comments:
DUDE! you're the Dude DUDE! Break out the hats 'n hooters! Big time congrats to you and the Mrs.. Hope it's as good a ride for you as the past year has been for me!
lovebob
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN-ville, VA
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 08:38:08
Comments:
Major Dude....congrats to you and the little lady on a job well done!
St. Al....sounds good to me. I'll be on a three day weekend for the Dan Fest....looking forward to it!
Peg....is that really you after all this time? Good to see another familiar face!
Lisa....please keep me posted as any more details become available on the get together in August.....thanks.
MC
Name: RubyBaby
h@ppy
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 08:10:35
Comments:
To John David K: Welcome, little Dude! If you ever find yourself thinking, "Wow, I've got the greatest guy as my dad!" you'll be right on.rb
Name: shelly
and last but not least
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 07:52:16
Comments:
josie, thanks for the invite; you're right, a cool place!
Name: shelly
i'm getting there, bear with me
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 07:49:55
Comments:
ole: thanks for the tip.
maj@: many congratulations and good thoughts to you and your family!
clas (big brother) and geena and rubybaby (sisters sisters we are all): glad to see everything remains copesthetic (i'm sure i misspelled that)!
have a great weekend everyone!
Name: Peg
totzke@usa.net
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 06:47:54
Comments:
Maj. -- congratulations to you and Mrs. Dude!
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 06:23:30
Comments:
Maj: Congratulations, dude! I hope all is OK.
Midnite: Virginia Beach -- Saturday 8/22. I'm not sure where yet? I suppose we'll have to leave that up to the locals (Lisa) to figure out.
StAl
Name: Geena
chained to my desk
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 06:07:58
Comments:
Ole: It's not the water, it's Clas, he has such charisma, his karma is electrifying, if he were the Reverend Moon, I would be his moonie. Oy Vey girlfriend, have you ever seen him!!!!
Clas: we need to regroup and talk this over, can you receive email at your country home? Can you email from your country home? e me your number!!
Name: Edd
Here at the rest home, above the sea...
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 03:18:56
Comments:
"Let Me In" was done by (Yvonne &) The Sensations.
Name: fullmanchew
.\
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 00:41:15
Comments:
hey clas, take a break buddy.
Name: fullmanchew
.\
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 00:39:41
Comments:
hey clas, take a break buddy.
Name: clas
atelje.lundkvist@swipnet.se
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 00:20:41
Comments:
GEENA - come to me, let me kiss your tears off your face... mmm, salt, nice. You know it's YOU I love! I love Shelly like I love my sister. Well, I don't love my sister but you know what I mean. YOU are the woman in my life! And listen, I saw this Fran-woman, Nanny (?) on TV yesterday. Can you sound like her? I think she is pretty sexy. Call me and make my day you pretty woman.
OLE; it's not the water, it's ME. And another thing, this computer I have down here at the countryhouse is prehistorical, slow like a turtle, I can't get acces to your excellentius webpage, I need your emailaddress, please email me!I wanne thank you for something!
SHELLY; hi sister!
ROY; any new songs on tape?
RUBYBABY; thanks for the Cars-info. Are you sure you are using the new address? Try again!
Name: GoodKingRichard
Le Sinistre
Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 00:14:41
Comments:
Major Congratulations Maj(copyright thingy)! Hope Mum and GKJohn are hale, hearty and home soon. Guess GKJ may have to spend the first few weeks lying in the 'sun' with the dark glasses on - majorly dude-ish!
Looks like GoodKingRichard Jnr No.2 may not make it to Gemini-land... still a few days LEFT.
Back on the subject of Gemini-ness and Dan Fan-ness, a friend, colleague and rare fellow Dan Fan down the floor from here is celebrating his 39th today AND he's left-handed... I knew of neither until the baloons and wine came out. This is sinister!
Richard&kangaroos
Name: Sven
zombiewoof
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 22:48:15
Comments:
Clas--Your dreams have come true! Bruce Hornsby is rehearsing in San Francisco with the Grateful Dead. Touring soon as, "The Other Ones". No word yet about Jackson Browne's participation. Anybody else have some info on this?
Name: oleander
isn't he lovely
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 21:58:30
Comments:
maj--your post caught me in the zone--major mazel tov! Hope all are well & home soon! Will save one of those bottles of bubbly for you and the family....
Name: oleander
the page:http//home.earthlink.net/~oleander1/Index.htm
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 21:53:19
Comments:
Ruby & Geena--WHAT is in the water from Boston to Fresno to make you ladies have such love conniptions? Don't let it leak into Carolina too.
Roy & Edd--Impressive! Like the Vitalis girl, I'd love to run my fingers through your D.A. Now help me out--who did "Let Me In" (whee-oo whee-oo, ooh-whee-ooh)? There used to be a great doo-wop show on KPOO in San Francisco, hosted by The Autumn King of Rock'n'Roll.
Josie--are you the Josie of old? from Yale?
Shelly--No bouncer here.
Sam--If you give it, they will come. Or you could come to Va. Mitch--stay tuned.
CountO--Welcome--yes--LOVE Gibson, and his SD refs are major grin-inducers. Found a good Gibson page: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/gibson.htm
StevieD--Brilliant! I went back to DITB and that's a GREAT take! The murky depths--sexuality but also survival--first chakra for sure!
Now I'm no yogi, & correct me, Prof. Steve, but in Tantra and Kundalini Yoga the chakras are seven psychic energy centers arrayed metaphorically along the cerebrospinal axis--at the levels of anus, genitals, belly, heart, throat, between the eyebrows, and top of the head. Each has special characteristics: the first is survival, the second sexuality, etc. The idea as I roughly get it is that as you meditate on and balance each chakra in turn, bottom up, you advance toward awareness. The "goal" is to move up through each of the lower chakras until the pure white light emanates from the topmost, and you're enlightened.
Now, the string of pearls. (This probably came from my Danfest costume--Maxine) Being comprehensively in love is having all your chakras light up at once. So instead of having a unidirectional migration from base to sublime, it makes more sense in my cosmology to think of balanced chakras as linked like a necklace, resonating back and forth in harmony, completed in a cosmic circle when you do the clasp. Just as we need id/ego/superego, all three, to survive, we need the dark underbelly and the pure light to entwine--the angel to dance with the infidel.
Unless I've totally missed the point of an entire spiritual practice that is thousands of years old. Which is quite likely.
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 21:35:19
Comments:
Birth Notice:
Mr. and Mrs. Major Dude are relieved to announce the birth of John David -- "J.D.", "Jack" -- at 1:10pm on Wednesday, June 17. Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated in that "Little Jack" caught us by surprise (10 weeks early). Mother and son are doing ok. Sorry that I couldn't email many of you personally but things are very hectic.
"...raise up your pitcher to Good King John....."
majŠ
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: DAN ville, VA
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 20:58:06
Comments:
btw, as a fellow musician who I was telling this site about tonight pointed out, we do live in DAN-ville on the DAN River with a small concert venue called Crossing At The DAN......sounds like a good place to have a DAN Fest....now all we need is some good live music for the gathering.....how 'bout it boys?
MC
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: Danville, VA
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 20:54:08
Comments:
Oleander....nice site, I bookmarked it and have been checking out some of the lyrics interpretations....most notably Midnite Cruiser since it's the name I've been using for a couple of years now....nice theory but I don't know....I'm gonna sleep on it.
First album actually purchased by me with my own hard earned cash was The Doobie Brothers "The Captain And Me" from a Woolworth's Department Store but since I had an older brother and have an older sister who very much loved music I'd been pilfering in their stashes for quite a few years before. I guess the James Gang and early Grand Funk were the first things to really grab me by the boo-boo but I did get to turn my sister and brother on to the Dan later on so I figure we're equal in the long run.
Whenever and wherever in Virginia for the Dan Fest....I have a few days off in August and would love to get together and just talk, eat and perhaps find a little live music....I'm about 4 hours from Va Beach.
Name: Josie
fireeyes@usa.net
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 19:11:11
Comments:
Shelly,The only person who knows about wam choco chip cookies, cans o schlitz and bikini tops is Paulie. Are you really Paulie? That beautiful man I met on the shores of Lawng Island in Noo Yawk?
Name: Geena
drowning my sorrows in many Cuban Breezes
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 17:59:24
Comments:
Roy S, yes I entered the world a runt, but have blossomed into a strong, yet graceful lioness.
I have only one album of the Monkees, I lost interest in them very quickly when i began listening to progressive rock radio which eventually turned me on to SD, therefore, not sure about "Some of Shelly's Blues". There is one song from Michael Nesmith that I really like and can't seem to find anywhere. Have you ever heard of a song called "Lucy & Ramona"? I haven't heard it in years and from I can remember it's somewhat of a sultry tune and Mr. Nesmith's voice is quite sexy in it.
Clas, I cannot even think of Borensberg right now as there are tears of sorrow streaming down my face. My heart is broken, shattered into a bazillion pieces and there is no glue in this world or mizar 5 that could put it back together again. The remains of my hopes and dreams are now a twisted, frazzled mess. I can't go on.
Shelly, who are you? who is "my friend/your friend", and who is the actor amongst us?
Lisa, I need you girlfriend, talk to me
Name: countzir0
countzir0@yahoo.com
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 17:31:27
Comments:
Hey everyone, I found this page yesterday while searching for info on the Caves of Altimira(great song by the way). I've been an SD fan now for about 7 years, and have no intention of giving up this hobby any time in the near future. Just wanted to let you guys know how interesting and wonderful this page was to me when I found it. Also, if any of you enjoy reading, check out the "cyberpunk" king of sci-fi, William Gibson. His first book, Neuromancer, won the Hugo, Nebula, and Phillip K. Dick awards for sci-fi. Gibson also coined the words "cyberspace" and "virtual-reality", and predicted the internet several years before it came about. Other titles of note by Gibson are Count Zero (does that sound familiar?), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Idoru. The interesting thing about Gibson(and the way this ties into SD) is that he's an avid Dan Fan and makes strange references to SD throughout his works. Also, he's one of the best I've read. Once, again, you guys here are great for starting this page, and keep on shakin' it Babylon brothers and sisters, I've got to get back to my shell full of kirschwasser.
Name: RubyBaby
time to w@sh my rock&roll hair
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 16:35:11
Comments:
RazorBoy: If the Winds of Fortune carried us away to the Cuban beaches, then I suppose it would whisper to me of the perfect nectar. Yes, I would know. And we could learn to Samba together, under the palm trees, in the sand. And later, you could tell me all about the Sullivans and Stan Getz (of whom I've heard) and all about the things you love best.
Clas: The Cars are fun music to me. They never mess with any of my negative emotions. And no matter what, my heart beats a joyful rhythm with them. I could dance a thousand miles to their music. Ric Ocasek and I are on the same wave-length. And it doesn't diminish over the years. No, not at all.
btw - clas, I can't e-mail you. It keeps bouncing back. but I'll keep trying. I have so much to tell you.
rb
Name: Poetry Man
@lost lyrics.org
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 16:31:26
Comments:
Reeled In Years
---------------
Back in'72
we knew not what to do
signed a lame deal
not knowing what to concealBy '74 we couldn't take it no more
kicked out the jam
tried to make another scorethe malibu sun
brought us visions of Asia
but the gaucho's demise
mixed pain and pleasurenow in the custerdome
I don and reflect
amid scattered nostalgia
I try to connect
Name: mitch
mcharl6651
Location: new castle, pa
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 14:11:20
Comments:
St. Al. I have contacted a few places in response to the REWARD from the SD Homepage Dodo Marmarosa, I have the clipping from a newspaper,written this April, and Fogel responded. I would Appreciate a response,and of course any info about the reward.
I hope there is a DANFEST in Virginia or ------------------------whereever.thanks Mitch.
Name: Shelly
aawwwwwww
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 12:21:10
Comments:
RoyScam, did you ask about that song in honor of my now-defunct woe-is-me?? such a sweet, sweet clan in here.
Name: Old Fart
pushingthevelope
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 11:52:44
Comments:
Stranger and Roy Scam: You were both right about"Some of Shelly blues". It was written by Michael Nesmith for Nitty gritty dirt band to perform.
O.F.
Name: Shelly
i feel so welcome now
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 11:31:17
Comments:
Clas: Thank you, thank you, but i'm afraid to respond in kind, because after looking through these messages, it seems you have a mate who might viciously claw my eyes out. 1,4,3, to quote high school dreams.
Geena: i hope this won't stand in the way of your welcoming me to the gp. my friend/your friend will vouch that i'm not a boystealer (well, maybe after time, but not just yet).
Kinky: heard lots about you, honey.
Fezo: steely dan, the lives, the loves, the heartbreaks: pls educate me.
Oleander: forgive, but pls post web address again? i've read so much about it, and curiosity abounds.
Name: Clas
pick the guitar and let's do some pickin'
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 11:17:19
Comments:
Shelly - I (with a capital I) love you. I also think you have a beautiful name. I guess your parents were very happy when they named you.
Schwinn - did Great Danny get along with other dogs?
Name: TheStranger
Got some of the facts
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 09:10:20
Comments:
roy scam,
nitty gritty dirt band did some of shelly's blues.
Name: chalres manson
the big house
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 09:08:20
Comments:
you can say that again
Name: Roy.Scam
yip.yip.yip.yip.yip.yip.yip.yip.mum.um.umumumumum.get.a.job
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 09:07:40
Comments:
Geena-- 5 pounds at birth? Girl, you'd better eat something. In my family, we Throw Back the Little Ones (anything under 8 lbs.)--From the Monkees to Steely Dan. Good transition. Was it the Monkees that sang "Some of Shelly's Blues"?
John Henry--"..Moon Out Tonight" is a beauty. Every 7 year old on the street thought he could sing that one without sounding like a wounded cocker spaniel. It had a vocal part that seemed to be about 4 octaves above the lead melody, bordering on a shriek, not unlike the harmony part in "My Old School". Then when the bass man closed it out with "...moon out toooni-ite" there wasn't a dry ducktail in the house.
Anyone remember the greaser classic "Jungle Hop" by Don and Dewey (pseudonym for Don and Walt??). It had the immortal line: "Langa langa lone-ga lone-ga chang chang, said a jungle hop with a beedelee bop." Perhaps a precursor to the jungle music of Babylon Sister fame.
Luckless: Aja as first album purchase. Good start. May the rest of your life's decisions be made just as astutely.
Schwinn: Sorry about Old Shep, I mean Great Danny.
Ole-- On the subject of the Extravagdanza: Why not plan on Friday AND Saturday? and maybe Sunday morning pancakes. Then the folks can convene in various combinations based on availability, degree of interest, and stamina.
RS
Name: TheStranger
Colonial Algeria
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 09:04:40
Comments:
Clas,
your sources are good but not impeccable. the gullible guys on mizar 5 actually have the headless torso of jane mansfield, which they purcheased at a marilyn monroe price. marilyn is alive and chained in phil spector's basement. she's been there ever since ronny of the ronettes made it out. the whole thing is tragic.why do people ask permission to post stuff here? charles manson could post stuff here & who would stop him?
Name: shelly
no one loves me
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 08:21:56
Comments:
josie, prove it. . . let's see. . . ok:
it's a loverly day for a can o' schlitz and a nice wahm choc chip cookie. "and then he will take your bathing top in my teeth. . . um. . . and then the water will splash over you. . . .oohooh. . ."
how's that?
Name: Willy
pendule@vnet.net
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 05:20:29
Comments:
Just dropped by ....
Like Walter and Donald....
Roger Nichols is a bit
of a weenie, but hey.. he's
supposed to be. ( the engineer).Dan fans .... come by and
see our music video site..
http://www.cdart.com
The Indie Music Video Showcase.Reeling in the RealVideos....
Willy
Name: Schwinn
inthedoghouse
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 at 00:02:29
Comments:
Clas--another interesting anecdote: Great Danny stepped on my '45 of the Monkees' "Steppin' Stone" and thereafter the needle would not progress past the first chorus, "I'm not your steppin' stone." Everything was Great Danny's steppin' stone. Not even a big, strong Vet with a long, fat needle could cure him!
Name: Clas
at the countryhouse, out of town,
Location: but where ever you go, there you are
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 23:07:23
Comments:
Geena - no games, read your last LovePoem (scroll down), I just said that you should exchange Stockholm to Borensberg. Borensberg is the nearest town from where I am.
Schwinn - Donovan was one of my first too. "They call me mellow yellow..."
The Stranger - maybe P. Spector had a finger in the mess too? And no, Marilyn's body is not there. They buried 34 Neb's instead, to her honor. The guys on Mizar 5 took care of her mortal remains.
Fez - I strongly recommend Barney Hoskyn's "Waiting For The Sun". Read it! The Los Angeles music scene from 50s to the 90s. Scary.
Hi ZEke - no, but maybe I email them today and ask if they can fry eggs on the street again.
Lisa; yeah, that's a great album, One Good Reason, his version of "Everytime that you walk in the room" is so good. Great voice. He cowrote a song with M. mac Donald a few years ago, what the hell was the name? Anyone?
There was a Brittish band back in the 60s, The Honeycombs, did you hear about them in the US? Female drummer. Hits like "That's the Way", "I got the right to love you". My absolutely first fucking idols. I saw them once, they were an opening act to... barf (excuse me), Cliff Richard. The singer made a parody on P.J. Proby. My big brother was with me. He did not applaude during the whole show. When I asked him why he said; -Everybody else does. Why should I bother?
Name: Only you know
& I know
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 21:19:20
Comments:
Hey Mock- How many people on this guestbook really know who Marcelle Clements is? Let's see, I will say ZERO. Mabe you should let DF know about that book. The last thing I read by Miss Clements was an article on why women smoke pot. Come to think of it I wonder why they ever broke up, it sounded like a match made in heaven!
Name: Rigs
Kanas City even if I have to walk.com
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 19:09:15
Comments:
Paul Carack played Hammond organ on most of the tracks on BB King's deuces album. Not only a great singer, but also a great tickler of the ivories, and\or plastic. hee heee.
Was at a Tiki bar called Dona Bay Marine. It's about 15 minutes south of Sarasota, Florida. I asked the Bartender if he would play a cd on there music system. He said yes, so I got to listen to Katy Lied, while looking over the ocean. Real Special. The owner was so impressed with the album, he is going to purchase it for the bar, I wouldnt sell him mine. If anyone is in the the area, go there, good drinks, great view and tunes.
Lisa - Ive been thinking about you, hope to talk soon
Schwinn- How ya been hope we talk soon.
Name: Josie
fireeyes@usa.net
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 18:23:49
Comments:
Shelly: Sheldo is that you? Is it really you? Prove it to me.
Name: Geena
On the dunes, keeping my feet dry
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 18:20:44
Comments:
Roy: I would love to have participated in that that little musical trivia test, but alas, it is pre-Geena, sorry babe. However, having worked in da music biz, I remember being told by one of the "older" and wiser gentlemen of the recording industry that Sam Cooke was the victim of a love triangle and shot to death by one of his lovers, which might explain why he was found naked in a motel room. But then again, this might just be a rumor or a cover up story. My hey-day was the 70's, but then again, you knew that!
Clas:
"Connect yourself to Borensberg instead, I'm out of town" Clas, please explain yourself here, are you're playing games with my psyche again?And, oh-by-the-way, chakra are any of several points of physical or spiritual energy in the human body according to yoga philosophy. And you thought i was just a silly girl!
Ole: I think i'm interested in your string of pearls/chakra theory, please enlighten me on aforementioned subject.
Lisa: Got your e today! Can't wait to write back to you! We really need to have a woman to woman talk...WOW!!!!
Name: Sam Rose
@k@ BookKeepersSon/Kid
Location: tampa, fl one of the free ones
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 16:01:35
Comments:
Happy Birthday to me! I think I'm still the youngest on the book?
I was born a poor white boy in 1971 around the same time as sd first album!
No one is mentioning about DanFest being held in Florida!
Trust me it would be the best place plus there r a lot of people in this book that live in Florida!
So what does every body think about that?
Name: Zeke
itshotpeople
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 14:06:08
Comments:
Claaux: Have you talked to Slidell latley? Man, is it hot!
Ist 45 I purchased was, Puff The Magic Dragon. I was bummed to find later that the song is not about a dragon at all.Did anyone see the special on Pattie Labelle. Man, I didn't know she had such a musical history. The 70's were great. I miss it.
Planning a business trip to Phoenix, any suggestions on where to go, what to do, bars, music scene, fellow Dan-ites???
One more thing, I was in a bar in Jackson Ms. getting completly
hammered, somehow this conversation came up. From what I remember, a woman I spoke to worked in a record store there, she told me there was a "famous" guitar player from Jackson Ms. working with the Dan on the new one. She gave me his name, I lost it. Any truth to this blurr?Zeke, out.
Name: shelly
lest you be fooled
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 14:01:43
Comments:
and she's an accepted member of your society, i might add, going under the stage name josie. i've heard nice things about lisa, geena, olean...(have to check the spelling of the rest of your name, sorry!), clas, and others, whose names i'd know if i saw them, but i can't access the screen while typing this. sigh. i have to admit, though, that i like steely dan but am not a diehard. though i did see new york rock and soul revue a few years back! does that qualify me?
Name: shelly
where's my buddy, where's my pal?
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 13:46:02
Comments:
i have a friend here who recommended i visit. can i join in the jocularity?
Name: shelly
looking for guidance in this group
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 13:41:33
Comments:
josie, is it really you?
Name: Mock Turtle
News Flash
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 13:00:28
Comments:
Marcelle Clements releases book, "The Improvised Woman," which is, according to Newsweek, "in praise of the single woman." Hmmm.
Name: Steve V Dan
Down in the bottom
Location: (i.e. 1st chakra),
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 12:40:52
Comments:
Hey Oleander great site!...You've moved Steely Danology to new hights.....
re: Midnite Cruiser interpretation...: for some reason people think this song is about Thelonius Monk...but I never knew why...to me it sounds like a song about someone (a political agitator of some sort, maybe one of Becker's friends in college) who hadn't realized times had changed....it is interesting that Becker did lead vocals on this one in the '96 tour...can we therefore assume that all non-Fagen vocal tracks were essentially "Becker" songs??? food for thought...
Schwinn: You have excellent taste in 45's back then...did you know that Jimmy Page did guitar on that one??
my first purchase: Led Zeppelin debut...at Sears in Norristown, PA....same place I bought Katy Lied later on...
It is finally HOT in San Fran!!! crank up some Dan
i.e chakra talk: I believe Becker's track 'Down In the Bottom' is about a man trying to "balance" his first chakra...but then again I do work at Yoga Journal!!
Name: dstlydanfan
jolenek@gte.net
Location: Rowland Heights, Ca. USA
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 12:39:13
Comments:
Just reelin in the years
stowin away the time
gathering up the tears.
Thank you Donald Fagen and Walter Becker
for the best fusion...
Name: fezo
dock.of.the.b@y
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 12:03:07
Comments:
Maybe there was some type of conspiracy against soul singers of the 60's. Had never heard that Sam Cooke's death was a set up but have heard almost convincing stories that Otis Redding's plane crash was not an accident.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
The Caves
Location: Altamira,
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 12:02:51
Comments:
I don't even *pretend* to compete for the mantle of venerability.
But my first non-jazz, non-classical record purchase was "Aja".
(Sometimes, you just get lucky at an early age.)
--LP
Name: Josie
coming home
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 12:02:17
Comments:
shelly: scroll down, read, aftinoon to ya too!
Name: shelly
xxx
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 11:31:25
Comments:
aftinun, all.
Name: Mel2
again
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 11:25:01
Comments:
that's, "I'll make IT more than"
Name: Mel2
Former Melle Mel Lip Syncher
Location: New York, Whereelse
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 11:24:07
Comments:
YOU SAID:
I'll make you feel it full of physical dream *
I'm here to rock ya sock ya baby make you really want to scream...BUT IT'S ACTUALLY:
"I'll make more than a physical dream
I'm wanna rock ya Chacka baby 'cause you make me want to scream"
Name: rudy
heh
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 11:14:20
Comments:
chaka khan let me rock ya let me rock ya chaka khan
let me rock ya that's all i wanna do
chaka khan let me rock ya let me rock ya chaka khan
let me rock ya cause I feel for you
let me take you in my arms let me fill you with my charm chaka
cause you know that I'm the one to keep you warm chaka
I'll make you feel it full of physical dream *
I'm here to rock ya sock ya baby make you really want to scream...*(too much time has gone past to remember the exact lyrics...)
Name: TheStranger
Oh yeah ....
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 09:27:42
Comments:
...and the pentagon. don't forget the pentagon.
Name: TheStranger
Eyes in back of my head
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 09:23:05
Comments:
clas,
It was the CIA, FBI, Nixon, LBJ, the Mafia & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that killed Sam Cooke, especially the mormon choir, cause they needed his place on the top 40 charts. I got it straight from Oliver Stone. Those bastards will stop at nothing. Only Hollywood tells the truth. It will all come out on geraldo rivera.(you don't really think Marilyn Monroe is buried in Marilyn's grave, do you?)
Name: Edd
@geritol.com
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 09:00:12
Comments:
Am I old? Hmmmmm...
Let's just say the term "half a century" is close enough...
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 08:03:15
Comments:
Roy. Svcam: Let's not forget "There's a Moon out Tonight" by the Capris. Gorgeous song.
Name: RS
5.hairs.and.i.can.hardly.stand.or.hear
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 07:56:51
Comments:
Bimbo! And completed in just 33 minutes.
Edd, Are you old, or just a remarkable young historian?
RS
Name: Edd
grayhair.com
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 07:39:09
Comments:
1D - 2G - 3A - 4C - 5F - 6B - 7E
Name: Roy.Scam
i'll.ask.you.once.again.WHO'S.OLD
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 07:06:54
Comments:
Try this, you pretenders to the throne of venerability:
1) Clyde McPhatter 2) The Del Vikings 3) The Rays 4) The Sillhouettes 5) The Orioles 6) Eddie Haywood 7) The Monotones
A) Daddy Cool/Sillhouettes B) Soft Summer Breeze C) Get A Job D) Lover's Question/Rock and Cry E) Book of Love F) Crying In the Chapel G) Come Go With MeRS
Name: Old Fart
groovinginthe50's
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 06:45:00
Comments:
Oleander: Is chakra similar to "chaka kahn, chaka kahn" ?
O.F.
Name: lisa
e@rly
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 05:01:53
Comments:
clas: you have good taste in music...i remember paul carrack's voice as lead singer for the band ace (single: "how long") even before squeeze...i seem to recall one song he did from a solo album, i think it was "don't shed a tear for me"...isn't that on "one good reason"?
Name: Clas
wanne ask Ruby
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at 01:16:16
Comments:
Is Cars good music? I think I've heard them somewhere, easypop but still good?
One easylistening singer, but damn good, is Paul Carrack, his "One Good Reason" is oustanding.
Name: I just give up
damn language
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 23:55:32
Comments:
-- too flat ---
What is this with your language?
Name: Schwinn
thekingandi
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 23:53:42
Comments:
Oleander: What comes after et cetera? So on and so forth. Oh, and DF's Mercury is also conjunct his Sun. 3 1/2 degrees ahead. Any closer and he would be a nervous wreck. Smoking cigarettes is an art form to those with Sun and mercury combust. (See John Gardner's "October Light"). Also, these natives are gaunt, skinny and surprisingly stout. They have unprecedented access to the "brown" muscle in their lower backs. Anaerobic, baby. It even scares me until I get to know them. Then I still stay an arm length and a half away.
Oh, and the Don's Jupiter in Sagitarrius proves all his wild imaginings are rooted in truth. This boy can hang, sister--maybe even read the writing on the wall when he isn't busy writing it. Oh, and he's terribly blunt.
And now something I call, "BEYOND ET CETERA"!
"There was no harm in Golightly -- not an ounce. He recognized a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle. He played a very fair game of billiards, and was a sound man at the whist-table. Everyone liked him."
"The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly"
Rudyard Kipling
Oh, and the first single I ever bought was "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. Followed closely with "I Am A Rock" by S&G.
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,Schwinn "King of" Siam
Name: Clas
c@countryside
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 23:46:43
Comments:
Ole; whatever "chakra" is, I wanne hear about it.
Geena; "From my other unmentionable ache to the moon, over Stockholm and back to my agonizing heart, I am your
nightflower and my intoxicating scent is filling your soul." That explains the whole thing. Connect yourself to Borensberg instead, I'm out of town.TODAY;
My Sternum she is more better now but my scrotum is way to flat. Damn dog. (sorry Roy, sorry Schwinn)
Name: oleander
too many humid summer nights
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 20:55:37
Comments:
Schwinn--well, what comes after "et cetera"?
Luckless, MC--Stay tuned. From experience I can tell you that the only thing cut in stone is the weekend of 8/21. The rest will be fluid until it isn't. All: when do you want to party? Friday or Saturday nite? Or day? And what is with this Va Beach connection? Almost as bad as the confluence of Geminis & Libras.
BKS--Please keep trying: http://home.earthlink.net/oleander1/Index.htm
Mock--thanx, bro.
Geena, Clas--Sounds like you all are having chakra problems. I've been researching these lately, and if you want to discuss my string-of-pearls theory, let me know.
Roy & Old Fart--you may be doddering, but I'm in your neighborhood. Though the first lp I bought was "Disraeli Gears,"
my 'fifties were chock full of what yours were.Kinky--hey, what's your sign?
Name: Geena
watching the river rise again
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 18:54:10
Comments:
Roy: 1957? Were those prehistoric times, the age of the flapper or the bobbysoxers? In 1957, I wasn't even a twinkle in my parents eyes, they hadn't even arrived at Ellis Island yet and couldn't even speak english, however, it wasn't long after that Mrs. Geena's mama delivered a 5 pound, screaming, dark haired Geena-child, and her life hasn't been the same since! I'm gonna keep you guessing Roy!
My very first album was December's Children by the Rolling Stones followed by "Meet The Monkees".
Clas, my summernight is also beautiful, but very very wet at the moment. It is also painful because it's like a tropical rainforest here and my head hurts from the humidity and thoughts of you.From my other unmentionable ache to the moon, over Stockholm and back to my agonizing heart, I am your nightflower and my intoxicating scent is filling your soul.
Wow! I wrote that?
Pardon my momentary lapse of brain function for mentioning Fran Drescher. She is an American actress with an annoying voice that could make your ears curl. I have been told that I somewhat resemble her, looks that is, not voice.
Name: You missed one
Joe
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 18:25:30
Comments:
And don't forget Joe, Larry Carlton at Avery Fisher Hall on June 27th.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 16:45:14
Comments:
Gaucho amigo's Hiram Bullock and Will Lee, Manny's Car Wash, NYC - Wed. June 17, 1998.
Name: Clas
c@country
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 12:08:42
Comments:
Dear Sirs;
there's a interesting theory about Sam Cooke (B. Hoskyn's Waiting For The Sun), he was probably a victim for a setup and got killed by people in the musicbiz.
Jamaican Dude; no, I never really figured about those chords (Black Friday), I just wondered why they were wrong in the Steely Complete. Tell me, do play live? Do you need a new member? Tambourine? Marracas? I'd love to play live again! Call me anytime, ok?
Yes, whoever you were who agreed with me on Running on Empty, "Love Needs A Heart", that's a great song.
Name: fezo
w@lking.the.line
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 11:41:08
Comments:
Old:
I believe that was the man I shot in Reno and watched die
Name: Old
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 11:33:57
Comments:
Fezo: Yeah, and who did "Fez, Shut the Hell Up, You Whippersnapper" ?
Name: fezo
vi@gr@.helps.some.shrink@age
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 10:46:13
Comments:
I'm so young that I thought Black Oak Arkansas did Jim Dandy
Name: Jamaican One/Dude
123
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 10:45:04
Comments:
Rigs: huh?
Clas: Yeah, still playing, you know, "I Shot The Sheriff" and songs of that sort. How about you? Still trying to figure out those chords?"...here's to reckless lovers..." (three dots)
Name: Roy.Scam
apparently.younger.than.some.dirt
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 10:24:51
Comments:
Fart: I think you may have me on the earliest record purchase, but I'm not sure. "Jim Dandy" was Laverne Baker, and "Daddy-O" (sure good lookin', always cookin') was somebody like the Chordettes. Maybe John Henry can help us out. -- Take heart; Perhaps memory shrinkage is not the worst of the age-related shrinkages.
RS
Name: Old Fart
olderthandirt
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 10:04:27
Comments:
Roy Scam: My first 45 was "Jim Dandy to the rescue" and "Daddy-O" but I don't remember who performed them. I'm so old my brain has started to shrink. I thought when you get old you are only suppose to forget short term memory.
O.F.
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
on the dunes
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 08:43:32
Comments:
--And who the hell is Fran Drescher --
Clas,
Consider yourself lucky you have to ask that question.LP
Name: fezo
te@rdownthew@ll
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 08:23:32
Comments:
Roy: another Band video sighting . . . Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame did a live version of The Wall in Berlin about eight years back with a cast of thousands (probably the only time Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, and James Gallaway have shared a stage) . . . Levon, Garth, and Danko are featured throughout, most notably doing background vocals on rather bizarre versions of "Mother" and "Comfortably Numb" with Sinead O'Connor and Van Morrison, respectively, on lead vocals.
Whoever posted about Running on Empty (Clas?) is right, excellent waking up album where the musicians aren't scared. One cut, "Love Needs A Heart", a classic in my humble opinion, was co-written by Lowell George, surprisingly enough, very un-Fat Man in the Bathtubish.
Name: Roy.Scam
well,.they.both.involve.getting.screwed
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 07:04:11
Comments:
Geena: "You Send Me", written by Sam Cooke and his brother "L.C." was released in 1957. Was that pre-Geena? You're under no legal or moral obligation to answer that, but if you don't, our little minds will go to work.-- My own musical child-'hood' memories are tied in with car radios; if I could hear "Shop Around" with doppler effect, static, and bad muffler noises, I would wax nostalgic. The other day, I found one of those round plastic things that adapts a 45 rpm record to a regular turntable and I went into a doo-wap reverie.--First record I ever bought was Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music"; I'd like to hear any of you young whelps pre-date that one.
Fezo: VH-1 will be showing "Last Waltz" within the next week, along with discussions by Scorcese and Robbie R.--Good time to re-tape; and a good excuse to watch it again.---and speaking of Nixon's birthday, do the nicknames Tricky Dicky and Steely Dan seem to have similar derivations?
RS
Name: John Henry
records galore
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 at 07:01:03
Comments:
Ruby Baby, D&W were backup musicians for Jay & the Americans for a couple of years around 1969 or 1970, but they weren't really members of the group.
Name: Clas
c@country
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 23:03:30
Comments:
It's okay Jeff, Bob Tedde is always doing this.
Ruby, Geena; I'm talking about artistic agony here, a great minds struggle with the big questions in life, I'm talking "on the edge", "deathwish", I'm talking about a summernight that is so beautiful that it hurts, I wrote one of the most chilling lovepoems yesterday to Geena (ok, it should be "red" not "read"), I'm talking art here, I'm talking about the story of my life.
But, ok, I'll try the Naked Gun. And who the hell is Fran Drescher
Name: Jeff
sapple@itw.com
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 21:35:10
Comments:
Hello! Happened to stumble upon this site...& being a life long Dan fan...I had to check it out! (Kudos to the "Home At Last" programmer...nice).
Didn't really have anything to say...but, since I'm here, I'll attempt a blatant, shameless plug!...I'm a member of the band Simon Apple. Our debut CD, "From The Toybox", has been favorably compared to Steely Dan, as well as Sting, Dave Matthews, Genesis, etc.. We've even received a nice comment from guitarist Wayne Krantz (who has played with Donald & the Dan) - "I was not only impressed with the material, I was also moved".
We are still an unsigned band (from the Philly area). But the past several weeks, we've had many inquiries from record labels - so hopefully, the "unsigned" band will be a thing of the past with any luck! This was spurred by our recent charting "success". In April, our first single, "It's Over", reached # 21 on the national Adult Contemporary Gavin radio chart, averaging close to 1400 spins a week. (We just missed # 20 by only 24 spins - Mariah Carey).
This "shameless" plug is getting a little embarrassing...this is a Steely Dan site! So I'll stop! But I thought some fellow Dan fans might also enjoy Simon Apple. You can check it out at the Simon Apple website if you wish!
Anyone in the Philly tri-state area come check us out...we even do some Dan songs (Pretzel Logic, Peg, Josie). Take care!
Name: Geena
looking at the muddy earth
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 18:55:17
Comments:
Ruby:The Sam Cooke version of "You Send Me" is the only one i've ever heard. As Roy says, other artists have also covered it. I'll have to dig through some of my Steve Miller albums to see if I have it. The reason I like Cooke's version is because the music is of a bygone era. It reminds me of when I was just a little bambina living in tenement housing. I would watch and listen to the "teenagers in da hood" sitting on the front stoop playing these 45's on their little portable turntables which were usually plugged in through one of the first floor apartments. Just a little trip through memory lane.
Clas: Take Ruby's advice, try the limbic system and if that doesn't work, then try the exercise. Take Pompe out for a nice long walk everyday and while you're out, rent a comedy movie. If all of these fail, call me, i'll make you hysterical with italian humor. My sister and I will imitate our parents, especially when my father is calling my mother who is 2 flights up and deaf as a mackeral. I'll also do a perfect impression of Fran Drescher for you.
Anyone: Is anyone on this GB named Sal Vittagliano or something like that? You are an obsessivly huge Steely Dan fan and I can't imagine you not writing in here. We used to work at the same radio station back in 1993. Remember when you tried to sell me Steely Dan tix for $200 a piece thinking I would fall for your scam on my vulnerability and desperation alone? Well, FYI..I got the tickets from the record label for zip and sat in the second row/center from the stage. A big fat Bronx cheer to you!!!!
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: Danville, VA USA
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 18:51:11
Comments:
Still needing some info on the Danfest in Virginia please....enjoy your Sunday night folks.
Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canada
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 17:26:19
Comments:
Ruby Baby, if you and I were relaxing on a beach in Cuba, listening to Senor et Senora Gilberto, and Stan Getz, and I asked you politely to pour me a "Cuban Breeze," would you know what nectars to use? And would you teach me to samba?
To chill me out, Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore's "Clive and Derek" never fail. Raunchy British comedy at it's best.
Contrary to what you think about Steely Dan, listening to them is the best tonic of them all for a case of the blues, or a heavy heart. Their words and music transcend me to another place. One listen of "Aja" and it feels like I'm on a busy street in Tokyo, Hong Kong or Bejing, in the midst of another culture. One person's cure, is another's poison, or something like that.
Name: rubybaby
c@ndy-O
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 17:01:14
Comments:
Clas: Did I mention the limbic system to you? That's the part of the brain that deals with emotion & sexual arousal. Music affects everybody differently in this area. For some, music doesn't even hit this area of their brain, and for others, it's intensely connected.I think you are of the latter group. Am I right? Anyway, watch what you subject yourself to while you've got sternum trouble, okay? You already know that, don't you? Steely Dan is hard on you sometimes, I think. It's ok, me too.
I've been leaning hard on the Cars lately, like you with Jackson Browne.
rb, md
Name: RubyBaby
smile when your he@rt is aching...
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 14:47:44
Comments:
Geena: I like the Steve Miller version of You Send Me.
Clas: Dr.Ruby has a prescription for sternum pains - you must get hold of some comedy (beg, borrow or steal) some movies. Get some old Gallagher tapes. Rent Space Balls, old Steve Martin stuff,or John Candy movies. Ever see Naked Gun? or LiarLiar? or Austin Powers? (guys like that one) Whatever floats your boat, y'know.It's a known fact that laughter, exercise and sex all cause your brain to produce more endorphines for a feeling of "well being."
I figure if you hit 2 out of 3, you'll be OK. I know how you hate exercise...Or just do all three at once. Countdown to ecstacy.
Anyone: Was Donald Fagen a member of Jay & the Americans when they put out Do I Love You (my oh my)? How about when they did Stand By Me? What did he do while he was with those guys?
rb
Name: Geena
watching the river recede
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 14:01:16
Comments:
Clas: you're beginning to worry me about this pain you're having. I think they're love aches. I get them too except mine are situated in an area not to be mentioned in this GB. If this continues, would you please see a doctor? Really, I'm worried about you. I want you to be healthy and live a long life, so someday when we meet, the bluebirds of happiness will be hovering over our heads and singing "Aja". Damn, there's that pain again. "Ti amo molto e tanto baci"
Roy: Thank you once again. You've always been so helpful to me in the past and don't think I've forgotten it. Now, what year did that song come out? I'm wondering if it was pre-Geena.
Name: Roy,Scam
rmoats6211@aol.com
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 11:11:57
Comments:
Geena: Sam Cooke is correct. Also covered by Nicollette Larsen and a few others. Sam also did the original versions of "Another Saturday Night", "Wonderful World", and "Cupid".
Cruiser: Welcome back, but losing your bookmark doesn't sound like a comprehensive explanation for a multi-year absence. You can give the whole story at the Danfest.---Speaking of which, can we get one of you film school students or dropouts to make a documentary of this; maybe one of those 'desparately trying to fill empty lives' kind of things like "Gates of Heaven".
lisa: tell me somethin'.
RS
Name: Clas
@ silence
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 11:03:12
Comments:
Geena, my lovebird. This summernight is so beautiful but still so painfull. From my sternum to the moon, over to Boston and back to my heart, I am your lovestreet, flooding read in the sinking sun.
Name: Geena
watching the river flow
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 10:20:12
Comments:
Lisa: i got your email, you cute thing! I'll get back to you this afternoon, we've been without electricity since yesterday afternoon and it finally came back on. It's been raining heavily since Friday night and lots of streets are flooded, including mine. I've always wanted beach front property!
Clas: if i could explain to you that i was also UP all night, and not because of my flooding problem, would you believe me? Except your night and my night are at different times. I'm delirious right now, I need to sleep. I love your poem, while i was reading it, these words popped into my head:
"Darling yoooooooo send me
my darling yooooo thrill me
honest you do, honest you do,
honest you do, whoaaaaaaaa"This is from an old song (before my time, i think) I don't know who sings it, do you know? wait.... i think it's Sam Cooke, I know I screwed up the words. gotta sleep. Goodnight everyone!
Name: Clas
Love Needs A Sternum, I hope that sternum is mine...
Location: It' just another town along the road...,
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 at 01:53:12
Comments:
Dear Sirs:
What's the best music to play an early, sunny summermorning? Answer; Jackson Browne's "Runnin' on Empty". It's very relaxing to listen to a livealbum were the musicians not are afraid.
Geena; I was UP all night again and I wrote DOWN a small lovepoem for you. I was UP but I sat DOWN while doing this;
"Someday we'll be together
despite the no-cash, despite the weather
yes hon, we'll walk in the sun..."
Well, it aint much, but it's a start.
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: Danville, VA USA
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 20:57:53
Comments:
Hey now! What's this talk of a DanFest in Virginia? And St. Al is coming all the way across country and Rudy's coming up from Raleigh?? I'm only a few hours drive from ANYWHERE in Virginia guys, I'd appreciate it if you could clue me in on any particulars that are set in stone at the moment. That's my real e-mail address up there so if you'll let me know. I'll also try to start checking back in here everday like I used to.
If anyone would like to see my page go to http://listen.to/Jim and check it out. As Kinky may remind you it's not really a Steely Dan page but just a collection of stuff from me. Once again, it's great to be back and to see a few familiar faces.
MC
Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com
Location: Danville, VA USA
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 20:18:28
Comments:
Hello to those of you who may remember me from before the last SD tour. I see a few of the old familiar faces from over a year ago. I had lost my bookmarks and after the tour had been out of touch but I ran across a backlog of old posts on Alta Vista while searching for my homepage listing there and read some of the old posts. It's great to see so much is still going on here. I look forward to catching up on what's been going on and maybe getting some news from everyone as to what W&D have been up to. It's nice to be back!
Midnite Cruiser
Name: tsudrats
fffffffffffdssaaaaaasddff
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 19:07:58
Comments:
Donald Fagan quotes taken from interview given by Bruce Pollack, courtesy of Guitar for the Practicing Musician. Sorry for not putting that down after the quotes.
Name: Mock Turtle
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 17:32:12
Comments:
Excellent site, Oleander.
Name: BookKeepersSon
nightfly@green flower st.
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 16:40:49
Comments:
Whats with the fake donald quotes what do ya think we are stupid!
anyway evertime i go into the chat room its empty whats up with that?
Ole: I still cant seem to get in your home page can u help?
Name: DrMu
he@rtofTexas
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 15:57:42
Comments:
YGK: From the sampling so far, BGO seems to be an eclectic mix of 50's cool jazz, some 40's better big band stuff such as Lionel Hampton, a little hard core blues, a smattering of almost fusion stuff as well. No Dan, huh? Land O' Purists! That explains the lead "story" on W&D under News and Reviews within the JazzCentral Web site. It relays the story Bernard Purdie included in his new book regarding their anal retentive methods in the studio. Jeff Porcaro had mentioned to Bernard that W&D (probably Donald mostly) had FOURTY-SIX edits of the drum track on the title track from Gaucho! Jeez, and I thought the all time record was held by Gary Lewis, son of Jerry and lead singer of GL & The Playboys. Evidently, Gary was pretty tone-deaf (like father, like son) and was notorious for not being able to get through even one line of a song with hitting a sour one. Supposedly, on "This Diamond Ring," the lead vocal track is actually dozens of snippets spliced together of Gary singing a few words in succession.. Perhaps that's why I like the sound of Third World Man best on Gaucho. There are perhaps better songs such as Glamour Profession and Babylon Sisters. Since TWM was recorded last, and they were probably just trying to finish the friggin' album at that point (following the erasure of "2nd Arrangement"), Gadd's track was not sampled and looped as much.
Mu-Man so are you getting the cable feed for BGO?
It's the best (and perhaps only) real jazz station in the New York City
area.
If you're not, are you in the Tristate?
BGO has always been solid, but with an old guard of programmers sticking
with mostly traditional jazz. No, they won't even play some cuts off
AJA, and the only station to play the Dan in NYC is some old style AOR
stations.
Anyway, BGO is good earfood.
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Name: tsudrats
smiling fool.com
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 14:32:53
Comments:
Donald Fagan: "At this point I can't remember who wrote this verse or that chorus, but the way it often worked out was like this: I would come up with a basic musical structure, perhaps a hook line and ocassionally a story idea. Walter would listen to what I had and come up with some kind of narrative structure. We'd work on music and lyrics together, inventing characters, adding musical and verbal jokes, polishing the arrangements, and smoking Turkish cigarettes. Of course, the musicians would kick in with arranging ideas, bass lines, etc. once we got into the studio...
Name: tsudrats
yggiZ.com
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 14:16:29
Comments:
A final query for Donald
Did you ever cry when you wrote that song?
Donald: No, but when I hear one of our less sucessfully realized songs on the radio, it's easy to trace the tracks of my tears.
Name: lisa
i w@nna know
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 09:11:27
Comments:
luckless p: why didn't you attend danfess2, being you're so close to williamsburg? hey...i'm from va. beach also (used to live on 21st street) but i haven't been there in years...is peabody's still there? the wave?
Name: Luckless Pedestrian
(Formerly Expanding Man)
Location: Va Beach!!!,
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 at 08:01:17
Comments:
Unworthy as I am, I wanna go to the DanFest (regardless of its official number) since it's gonna be right here in my back yard.
St.Al, you name the date, time, & place and I'll be there with visors down!
--LP
Name: ok ok
it's me again
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 23:35:14
Comments:
RUBYBABY; and there's no swan-kids yet. Strange. I'll swim out in the muddy water for a closer look, I'm risking my life, and I am doing it for you honey!
Schwinn; really, is it true this G Danny thing. They can't be 16 years can they? Say that you are kidding!
Name: Clas
at Country
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 23:24:45
Comments:
RUBY BABY! -I'm not ignoring you! I'm just trying to find the balance and the right focus to send you a decent email. When I woke up this morning I found my self among the cows again, and that's a start. See you, my dearest sweety of sweets.
Hi Jamaican. How's life. Are you still playing?
Geena; I'll be there. But be careful, it was such a long time ago.
John Henry; "Lisa, the secret is: ... find your own life's priorities and balance according to that. You're balance might not be the
same as anyone else's but at ;least you'll be happy." That was well put.
Name: Rigs
********************************
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 22:17:09
Comments:
Dear, Jamaican One
You think your so clever and free. Your right, and you think your free. Youve escaped from the hill. Your isolated cuz we (folks on the guestbook) havent changed the world. Your trying to cause pain, but your not to blame. The hero was never hung. Remember, the man will leave, always(God). Remember today, and dont feel bad cuz your a sorry soul, lost in your youth. Always, gotta have your way. Were the whole world drivin you mad. Dont feel sorry about what youve done. Love, love is real, and feeling loved is something you dont feel. (unless its a belt against your a**!) Love is Knowing we can be and free Brother.So you have a need.So when your under the English Sky think of God and reality. (The above taken from the album John Lennon\Plastic ono Band) So, Jamaican One I hope you get hit with a hurricane and die real soon, Well, Well, Well!!! Love and kisses Rigs(<:)
Name: Schwinn
galapagos
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 21:59:56
Comments:
Lisa,
Frankly, I don't care what Kinky's sign is. I have several Scorpio friends who would never admit they were Scorps and that's ok by me. It's just part of the "Man 'O Mystery" agenda.
Vonnegut's Sagan,SEMB
Name: Jamaicandude
7`134.COMPUSERVE.COM
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 20:46:29
Comments:
It's been so long, but I can see it's Ok to chech in once = 6 mos because every thing is the same. You know, there are some that complane of the lack of variety ("everythng is the same - why even read or post"), but there r others who find comfort in nowing that repetitiveness and predictability are part of the *SDAn fan* experience.
Whats the deal with this Ny show of the Stealy Damn. Come to Jamaica.I which it woudl keep raining then i wuld'nt go out and get drnk. We finally had a dry nite and look at me.
Name: Geena
leaving on a jet plane
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 18:58:07
Comments:
Clas:
I've got that spine "thang" down. I can do it in my sleep now. Dr. Geena would like to relieve you of that sternum pain as I have been educated and licensed in the practice of this procedure, so how about if we meet in my office, oh, let's say Tuesday afternoon around 2:00? Take the plane from your Svenska airport to Logan, go through the customs thingy, take a cab to my North End office, 36 Prince Street, 2nd floor. Do not let the aroma of the italian restaurant next door entice you into changing your mind! Enter, no patients will be waiting and my secretary will have been sent along her merry way. Sit down on my nice comfy sofa, take off your shoes, relax, feel free to glance through my fabulous array of magazines on my expensive glass coffee table, and I will be with you shortly. When the therapy is over, your pain will be gone and I will return your Svendom!lisa:
Thank you for the compliment. I do not think I am that, just common. Say hi to my astro twin Sunny Sam for me, is she as analytical as I am? Does she like to keep things neat and orderly in her life? and I thought only Barry Gibb and myself were born on that day!
Name: RubyBaby
:)
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 18:04:19
Comments:
Clas: My beloved package came today - I am touched beyond words. Of course I'll read it!! I've already started on the intro. I count it as one of my treasures. If the house is on fire, I will grab it before I escape. Cool pix! Watch out, eye candy will be coming your way this summer...Are you gonna call me naughty again or not? A girl can't wait forever, y'know. Did you miss that post or are you ignoring it?
rb
Name: Stevie Dan
stephen@yogajournal.com
Location: fine tuning, in khz
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 15:16:20
Comments:
there is decent jazz only station out here in the San Fran area...KCSM Jazz 91 and they are on the internet via Real Audio....
years ago there was a great jazz station in New York called WRVR ...they used to play Steely Dan right alongside Miles, Freddie Hubbard etc....they had a late night dj named Les Davis who may have inspired the title track to the 'Nightfly'....life imitates art...then there was a station in Stampford, CT that took the call letters WJAZ...straight from the Fagen song....
I once worked at an AM station where the entire staff (WBAB-AM) consisted of Steely Dan freaks...one time...with tricky turntable switching we made a 9 minute version of 'The Fez'!.....I think that might constitute an unauthorized re-broadcast.....(blah, blah, blah,...over an out from a Virgo/Gemini rising 'Dan fan)fine
Name: YGK
mrdbh@yahoo.com
Location: New York, NY
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 13:17:30
Comments:
Mu-Man so are you getting the cable feed for BGO?
It's the best (and perhaps only) real jazz station in the New York City area.
If you're not, are you in the Tristate?
BGO has always been solid, but with an old guard of programmers sticking with mostly traditional jazz. No, they won't even play some cuts off AJA, and the only station to play the Dan in NYC is some old style AOR stations.Anyway, BGO is good earfood.
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 13:15:07
Comments:
Lisa, the secret is: ... find your own life's priorities and balance according to that. You're balance might not be the same as anyone else's but at ;least you'll be happy.
Name: DrMu
sync-locked
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 12:09:53
Comments:
Man, I'm totally Geeked up now. After years of crawling along with a Mac IISI in my office, we've installed a Power Mac 6500...am cruising at hyperspeed in between steps isolating mitochondria back in the lair...finally accessing some wothwhile sites (music and otherwise) that were anavailable previously. While banging out this brief message, WBGO Jazz88 is on in the backgound...sweet sounds out of Newark...Who knew? ...at least in Tejas. Hey, they played a cut from the Michael Brecker CD this morning. Here's the site using RealAudio or a similar program:
www3.jazzcentralstation.com/newjcs/main/radio.asp
Name: fezo
de@conblues
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 12:07:15
Comments:
Lisa: I'm still working on the horn line from Peg but I'm already bringing the neighbors to their feet with my orifices' rendition of the sax solo at the end of Dr. Wu.
the cop sexually harassed Sam? might have a civil rights due process action. gender discrimination by the state. might be able to scare the cops into dropping the speeding rap.
Name: lisa
home for w@yward capricorns
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 11:41:36
Comments:
fezO: that would be a speeding ticket i received rushing to make danfess2...i think the cop sexually harassed samantha...can you get me out of it? hey...you're welcome to move in, but only if you are able to mimic the horn line of peg in a cacophony of farts and snores.
john henry: balance?? isn't that the eternal struggle of all libras? if you have found the secret, i know you'd be willing to share for the betterment of all wo(man)kind.
rrruuudddyyy: i'm an artist living in pinehurst...with my driving skills, i can be in raleigh in about 30 minutes...how bout a job? i have a nice bong, too.
Name: rudy
forgetaboutit
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 10:57:44
Comments:
the artist's body surfaces again on the guestbook.....
almost had to push aside a couple of weddings for it, but I plan to be in attendance at the Gathering on 8/22. Looking forward to meeting the ole regulars...hope you show up, Kink. We'll rassle, so don't wear a skirt. Bring yer bong, we'll have a ball.
...I'd plug a new set of images for your viewing pleasure, but I'm hiking up the Macromedia Director learning curve at the moment. Making Shockwave movies can be a bitch.
your left-handed Gemini Künstler on the cusp (mom says 5/22 at 12AM, give or take 7.5 mins.), ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 06:57:54
Comments:
Lisa: yes, artsy, peace-loving... and very Balanced! And you know how hard it is to keep your life truly balanced right??!
Name: fezo
detectivesonthec@se
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 05:47:44
Comments:
Hey Lisa, I might be able to help your speeding dilemna. I actually have on my desk right now (seriously) final proof for Title 18.2, the Virginia criminal laws. All I have to do is amend the traffic provisions with a retroactive effective date to allow for speeding in York County. When did you get the ticket?
Down side is I would probably lose my job and soon be homeless. Could you stand two crazed Capricorns living in your back room?
Name: lisa
@-ha!
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 04:52:03
Comments:
schwinn: it seems dear kinky was fibbing about being a scorpio...got another guess as to what his sign may be?
Name: Schwinn
wintercarnival
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 02:02:25
Comments:
Lisa--are you ambidextrous? You posted so closely to Ms. Jilson that a reasonable man might assume the two of you are one in the same. Fortunately, I am not a reasonable man and know you well enough to know that you would never associate with Nancy Reagan--especially at a tea party where Ronald Sr. would undoubtedly slosh his beverage all over the nice doilies.
Why is the GB full of Libras and Gems? It's not. Libras are cardinal and want center stage so they can "enlighten" the masses. They are quite proud of themselves and are more likely to reveal their sign than, say, a Scorpio like Kinky.
Geminis are just gabby and are always communicating whether you like it or not.
Finally, Ms. Jilson's post spurred me to erect Donald's chart and I must say it is quite intriguing. If Oleander has room on her site to include the chart, with interpretation, I will do so. If not, hey, no problem. I'll just apply for the top driver position on a double-decker bus.
Rocky and Bullworth,SEMB
Name: Clas
c@w
Location: Pompes Bodega,
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 at 00:58:16
Comments:
Carlman! Hej! Yes, let's have a wingding, but where? I wanne bring "The Hep Stars" wirh Sven Hedlund and Christer Pettersson. And "Grisen Skriker" (The Pig Is Screaming).
Geena; be cool hon, this is only temporary, we'll finally make it together. Meanwhile; practice the Spine-Thing.
RUBY; have you got anything from me yet? I am waiting for a humble "Thank You master of the Masterish Men". I email you.
Lisa; strange with this Jolly Bob-thing uh?
Ole Ander; yes, Palle Danielsson is a Swede. He's sister is Monica Dominique, organ/piano, she had a band during the 70s named "Solar Plexus", George Wadenius was the guitarplayer in that band. They were great.
And yes Ole, that last line in "Portnoys...", could you give that to me. I've forgot it.
Ba ba bampam ba DAAAAA; TODAY;
STERNUM AGONY;
I have to talk to my shrink today. But since he told me that his greatest idol is Larry King I am hesitating a little. Can I really trust this guy?
Name: TheStranger
sorry i never saw Sinatra
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 22:31:13
Comments:
Dan Fan,
Oleander website is http://home.earthlink.net/~oleander1/Index.htmthat was a public service message.
thanks to whoever it was who finally explained what Sun Mountain was. it always seemed like a hybrid bootleg-real album & it's amazing the Dan just threw it all away because it's worth saving.
if anybody runs into Fagen on the street again, ask him if they've WRITTEN THE MATERIAL for the next album, which would maybe tell us something. just pretend you're sam donaldson on the Lewinsky trail.
Name: oleander
double hockey pucks in the sky tonight
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 22:23:28
Comments:
lisa--I was beginning to worry about you, girl! Now lest you think the Kinkster is developing a soft spot in his corporeal or spiritual anatomy, check out the entries in the tunes he's blown away by. But he's still the cutest curmudgeon around, and has been very nice about the whole car thing.
Clas--did Carlman answer your question? Or is it Christensen? I thought Danielsson was an Icelandic name.
St. Al--I'm there!!
Danfan--http://home.earthlink.net/~oleander1/Index.htm
GKR--Happy b to you, & Mr. La. Yes, I'm a lefty too. (Major? Haven't we mined this vein before?) Good luck on your own personal New One. My youngest is also a Gemini.
Stevie D--you're right, logorrhea goes with Gemini. It's the adult attention deficit disorder sign.
How about those Red Wings??
Name: lisa
jesus w@s a capricorn
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 22:07:58
Comments:
roy.scam: you got any connections at the york county courthouse? i'd like to be excused from that ticket, but my influence comes to a screeching halt at the north carolina/virginia border...damn the dukes of hazard!! that insidious show is certainly the source of my speeding penchant.
clas: great to hear your voice...said pic was delivered to geena, forever cementing her love for you.
geena: clas was right, you're a beautiful woman...it's difficult to believe the folks on this guestbook can be so intelligent AND so good looking! and btw, my best friend sunny sam's birthday is september 1st also.
fezO: as you know, our hero df is a capricorn, but so's the evil man living in the spare bedroom...you must take after donald.
the people in virginian country music go to aa meetings?? the goobers here just drink and spin out in the parking lot of the civic headquarters(trailer) where the meetings are held.
john henry: glad to see you are a fellow libra...are you arty and peace-loving?
saint al: i'll be there for the shindig, but technically it will be danfess3...there was a little known of danfess1 back in january (nobody likes to talk about it)...do you REALLY think kinky will find us worthy enough to attend?
schwinn: please explain the surplus of geminis and libras on the guestbook...is it some sort of cosmic tug? and thanks for the ice sculpture of headley!
Name: Joyce Jilson, former porn star and Nancy Reagan's astrologer
venusconjuncturanus
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 22:06:18
Comments:
Hey Stardusters!
Libras and Geminis, eh? No wonder this site is so full of hot air! (Just kidding...) And what an auspicious week of birthdays! In summary:
6/7: Oleander
6/10: Schwinn and Sven
6/11: Mr. LaPage
6/14: Good King Richard***BONUS ASTRO INFO: Donald Fagen's natal moon is only 7 degrees from his Sun also in Capricorn. This is an aspect well known for conferring creative genius. The subconscious (moon) is easily tapped by the conscious (sun). Funny, just a few degrees closer and Donald would be flirting with insanity. As it is, he is merely a lucky, tortured artist.
Well, back to the Tarot / Tea Party with the former First Lady. Today we're sticking pins in a Hillary doll!
Joyce "Moist" Jilson
Name: goodkingrichard
@onewithmyotherselves... maybe
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 19:37:15
Comments:
Hi all,
It's funny this horror-scope thing, for years you read and converse with disembodied voices, discovering vague insights into their loves and loathes and THEN Wham!(you're being arrested in a men's toilet? No,...) You find out they're Gemini's. One more tick in the Gemini column please. Belated Happy Birthdays Ole, MrLP, et al. Clas? Mine's on Sunday and, with my Missus confined and fit to burst, I'm hoping Jnr No2 arrives to help celebrate being a Gemini and not knowing who you're going to wake up being. Meanwhile Jnr No1 (2.5 years) has taken up 'I like Steely Dan' as his mantra... particularly at bedtime when he know he can get round me by asking for some music to dance to. Wild. He's some other star sign, but that's Ok I suppose. While we're at it, I don't suppose any of you are also left-handed? Then all that's needed is alignemnt with the Kiersey temperament results...(mmm? this is begining to get into blond, blue-eyed Aryan territory...)
Oleander: Love the site - great design AND content - but I need a bit more time to get through it all. Finally someone had the bravery to take on the entire catalogue... let it grow.
Richard&kangaroos
Name: Geena
burnin'@passionsfire
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 19:27:20
Comments:
Lisa:
I know my husband is a law enforcement official (at least he tells me he's going to the precinct every day), but I don't think he'd go as far as to tap Clas' phone, hmmmm, however, he did ask me why I kept screaming "El Viking Supremo" in my sleep the other night. And in answer to your question about the GBer's astrological signs, I am a virgin..... er...a virgo, (sorry for the dots, Clas) born September 1, exactly 39 days before Clas.Clas:
Ummmm, Lisa sent me something today and I think I'm going to make computer wallpaper out of it. I'm glad I can type these words instead of talking because i can't stop drooling and can't stop my heart from pounding so fast!"I think I love you
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I love you
Isn't that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
That I've never felt this way"The Partridge Family
Name: carlman
later@work
Sweden
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 15:06:17
Comments:
uh, I forgot to ask if anyone out there can tell me the meaning of 8trax as a label on music. I know what 8-track cassettes once (?) was, but I heard Dan on one of those web-radios when I pushed that 8trax buttom .. just after Neil Diamond (!?)
Name: carlman
late@work
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 14:51:56
Comments:
hej Clas - Palle Danielsson spelar bas pĺ Belongings.Jaha, sĺ är det väl dags för försök 2 att riva Pompes bodega. Vad sägs om midsommarafton - knytkalas. Jag tar med dillen. Förutom TommyRander kommer väl di gamle kommunisterna frĺn Mascots att underhĺlla?
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 14:08:18
Comments:
At the risk of sounding like a broken CD on this issue... Get Brecker's new one "Two Blocks From The Edge". A better collection of tunes and musicians are not likely to get together in a single session again this year (I predict). This may keep the Dan withdrawls at bay, at least temporarily. I can't get this thing out of my CD player. "The Impaler" absolutely smokes.
Another Dan alumni tie-in - from the liner notes...
"The late Don Grolnick, the brilliant composer, pianist and producer, was my close friend and colleague. He used to say that he liked living close to the edge... as long as it was two or three blocks away. This album is dedicated to Don, whose presence I miss every day." MB
Name: Hard up case
@where is the f#$#$ing new album
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 12:46:53
Comments:
this site is getting too friendly....
...isn't anyone pissed off that Donald and Walter are shafting us again.....PUT THE FRIGGIN RECORD OUT....as is...we don't need any friggin' overdubs........
Name: rubyBAby
c@tchmeifyoucan
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 12:25:35
Comments:
Clas: Daddy-O! First you tell me you see what I did and then you call me naughty. It's strangely exhillarating!Say it again.
I'm donning my roller blades. Start the projection machine...
rb
Name: Clas
Jolly Jolly Bob From Aberdeen
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 11:00:32
Comments:
Mr La Page; I could not do such thing, the bride would fall in love with me. It's just the way I am, I can't walk the streets in this country.
Lisa; I'm looking all over this god damn place for your number, I've lost it. Email me if you read this in about an hour or ... or two.
Name: MrLaPage
blowinoutcandles
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 10:21:30
Comments:
Put another check mark in the Gemini column. Today is my birthday. Still read, but haven't posted in some time. I find life on the periphery to be almost as enjoyable as actual participation. The truth is I recently bought a house that will consume all of my free time and all of my money for the next decade. Can anyone explain how to rough-in the plumbing from my first floor to the floor above so I can put in a bathroom where I currently have an extraneous kitchen?
Clas: Was invited to a wedding set for in August in Sweden. Don't think I'll make it. Could you attend in my place? I would be eternally indebted to you for such a favor.
oleander: Went to Charlottesville over the weekend. Not Asheville, but the view is similar. Thought of you.
If the DanFest stops in D.C., let me know. I'm sure the Dubliner or Irish Times would be happy open itself to such an event.
"Up on the Hill, they think I'm okay . . . or so they say"
MrLP
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 08:31:48
Comments:
Hey now!
Let's talk Danfest 2... Just received the tickets in the mail last night. The StAl Express will be whisking its way toward the East coast on August 15th. We'll be in DC for a short 2 days and then we'll make our way to VA Beach. I think it would be just dandy to have a get together somewere in that vicinity. I propose the day should be either Friday the 21st or Saturday the 22nd. I've already got a confirmation on one person who'll be coming up from Raleigh. Everybody's favorite artist (especially Kinky's) -- Rudy.
So what do you say? Let's make it a party!
Speaking of Kinky! I think it would be grand if you would grace us with his presence. I'll even buy you a pink drink of some sort. I realize VA isn't particularly close to CT, but I traveled over 3000 miles. Whats a couple hundred for you...?
As for the reason I was MIA on Friday. Like I said in the e-mail. Why the hell would they want to talk to me anyway? Besides, by the time Donald was finished, John was a mess...
StAl
Name: John henry
records galore
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 06:37:15
Comments:
Hey Lisa I'm a Libra too!!
Name: fezo
@nothertequill@sunrise
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 04:36:48
Comments:
Lisa: I'm a Capricorn, what does that mean? I'm doing better though I think I should have followed my advice to you and listened to IGY and other upbeat (is that an oxymoron?) SD. Instead, I've started listening to country music. I thought my life was rough. Apparently everybody out there in country land has lost at least one spouse in a flood, been involved in love trysts ever more bizarre than Danfest 2, and spend most evenings at AA meetings.
Name: Clas
c@w
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 at 00:45:33
Comments:
Schwinn; "It was my heart pounding between the cracks in the pavement--jack hammering the asphalt into a smooth texture not unlike the frozen surface of Antarctica's."
Oh, I know all about that. Kind of Sternum Agony uh? Did you panic? Are you well again?
Lisa; I don't understand what you're doing when you call me, we still have the same number, ol' Walt called this night and asked about some strange chords he didn't know about.
I call you this afternoon, my time.
Ole; who IS this swedish musician on "Belongings"? We don't want to ignore Sweden, do we hon?
Name: Schwinn
devilandthedeepbluesea
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 23:44:15
Comments:
Lisa--I thought the big bike was about to throw a rod so I pulled over at Anthony's Bar and Grill to have a look-see. It wasn't the bike at all. It was my heart pounding between the cracks in the pavement--jack hammering the asphalt into a smooth texture not unlike the frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Vostok. I've never been a skater but the bike became a luge--an ice cat. The road, a frozen river leading me to your door...
If the Hut's Rockin' Don't Bother Knockin',
SEMB
Name: lisa
h@nging with mr. krupa
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 21:17:53
Comments:
oleander: forgive my absence and lack of a birthday greeting...i hope you had a swell one (i'm sure it wasn't difficult with that hotter than july, donald fagan look-a-like hubby of yours).
would it be redundant of me to say your page is the shit? look at it this way, you ACTUALLY got compliments from kinky...enough said.
stranger: headstand explanation will be included in a forth-coming email...make sure you are not vitamin e deficient.
roy: i am exploring the idea of bald love thanks to your song...
you are a catalyst in the pursuit of forbidden pleasures...that's what the ladies tell me anyway...are you a ho?clas: i attempted to phone you again the other day to discuss our project...i just got a beep and the line disconnected...are you under some sort of surveillance? it's geena's husband...i know it.
fezo: i tried your i.g.y. suggestion and it worked...are you feeling better?
and finally...
schwinn: i'm sorry i let it slip to oprah that today was your birthday...she was so thoughtful to send you flowers with her hectic schedule! i believe i owe you a box-o-wonders, and my gift will dwarf that puny talkshow bouquet of ms. winfrey's.
(so far, i know that oleander, schwinn and rigs are geminis...
clas, roy and myself are libras...i'd be curious to know the zodiac signs of other posters??)
Name: Dan Fan
uh
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 20:54:31
Comments:
How does one get to your web site oleander?
Name: oleander
downtown
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 20:17:22
Comments:
Roy--having lived through my family, I tend to stay out of other people's.
Geena--uh, why don't you little lovebirds just make it a twosome this time. How about a raincheck on the pasta?
Mr. Kinky "Aw Shucks, Ma'am, T'warn't Nothin'" SoNSo--Just testing your stamina. I'm so flattered by your compliments on my favorite decons. What is the Bathrobe Bandwagon?
Name: Geena
Lou Chang@burningwithrage.com
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 19:09:53
Comments:
Clas:
San Tropez love, where all the beautiful people go. Hurry, i've got the beer in the cooler and the pasta on the stove.
Ole: I couldn't leave your home page last night. It's simply amazing! 2 questions: A. how do you find the time to interpret these songs? Your insight is unbelieveable, and B. how come I didn't see my name anywhere? dimi perche? Just the same, it's great, i've bookmarked the page and i plan to finish reading it by the end of this week. Would you like to join Clas and I at my family's villa in San Tropez? I'll put some extra pasta on!
Name: Kinky
Sleeping in Seattle
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 16:20:42
Comments:
Oleander - OK, my running into DF on the street was no big deal, really. You've heard all the details, I shook his hand, asked him a question, and we parted ways. He looked like a 5'8" Jeff Goldblum, and from the way he was walking, I believe he was on his way to the chiropractor's office.
Oh, and excellent site! Nice to see you're jumping on the Bathrobe Bandwagon. I must say, I was especially blown away by your interpretations of 'Night by Night' and 'Bad Sneakers'.
And one other thing, in your daily personal greeting to each and every one of us, do you think that MAYBE, just once, you could put me at the top of your list? Don't you think I have a little more senority around these parts? My greeting was so far down, I almost missed it.
StPal - Hey, I tuned in to that Seattle station at precisely 12 pm last Friday just to hear YOUR interview, and all they were talking about was how the D.J. got a call from Donald and Walter. Who gives a rat's ass! Where the fuck were you?
Name: Mary Jane
@hidethattesttube
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 16:15:38
Comments:
Yeah and also "Dont take me Alive" is all about don!
Yeah he killed his father in Oregon, and was at a shell station when the fez caught up to him it turned into a ten hour stand off
In the end as the cops rushed him and he took his own life.Thats why there hasnt been a new album in 18 years!
If there r any more lyrical interpertations needed by anyone else please feel free to ask!
bye for now
Name: Clas
@ a nightride home
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 11:35:01
Comments:
Ruby - naughty girl, don't you think I saw your little (?) birthdaypresent for mrs Ole?
Geena - I email you, got to know if you mean Juan Le Pinz, Frejus or San Tropez.
Schwinn - sure, that's a deal, I email you tomorrow.
Oh, and StAl, my new email address is somewhere here down below.
Name: Dr.Steve V Dan
Guest Book 101
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 11:29:32
Comments:
I love this lyric interpretation stuff....and I am sure Donald and Walter are amused when the check out these postings...
'Hard Up Case'- possibly about Walter and his late beau Karen Stanley circa 1979???
'Teahouse on the tracks' - Fagen's ode to all gigs at those small NYC nightclubs
re: parental lyrics....'is 'Sail The Waterway'( for those of you who have heard it) about Becker's dad??
re: info on 'Sun Mountain'...much of that was recorded on Long Island circa 1970/1 with Keith Thomas and Dias...some of the other ones were acetates of Donald and Walter circa '72....I think an old issue of 'Metal Leg' stated that some of 'Sun Mountain' was recorded in Nashville....regardless all of the recordings were hawked around by an engineer of dubious credentials and the release of them pissed off the 'Dan tremendously....most of the songs are actually fun to listen to though...'More To come' sounds like it could have been a minor hit in the summer of 1970 and 'You Go Where I go' sounds like a Barbara Streisand song......
Happy belated birthday Oleander(a Gemini huh) (I have a Gemini moon AND Gemini rising,...can't you tell from my blabbermouth postings??)
Name: fezo
@llthoselies
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 09:42:15
Comments:
I always thought the drunk Santa in Book of Liars was Walter himself, cause after dispensing the gifts to the children Santa hands out a star in the book of liars to the lady of the house. Wait, maybe I'm looking too hard for a secret meaning. I got it now. Walter is really singing about Santa Claus coming home and confronting Mrs Claus who has been naughty, not nice. And "golden boy" is, of course, a reference to Rudolph.
Hey, this song interpretation stuff isn't really that hard.
Name: TheStranger
c'mon snakehips
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 09:05:25
Comments:
Dear Sigmund Freud (or is it june lockhart?),
OK, your cryptic, bipolar doubletalk got my attention. My B-team (A team won’t fit my budget) thought they had your signal isolated to somewhere inside a home for criminally insane poodles in Uzbekistan -- but then lost the transmission. In any case, for relief from your condition I suggest you visit my offshore apothecary. all major credit cards are accepted.Clas,
on that movie -- the Dan fan who wakes up in brooklyn needs to be a crazed vampire carrying 12 nuclear warheads in a sack. otherwise we won’t stand a chance against another ‘diehard’ sequel. besides, there probably ARE gb contributers who are crazed vampires carrying 12 nuclear warheads in a sack.
Name: Roy.Scam
isis.would.kick.xena's.ass
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 08:53:23
Comments:
With Father's Day almost upon us, I was noticing the difference in the way Donald and Walter portray fathers, at least in song: Donald has Dad conscienciously building fallout shelters, and getting up at dawn to mow the lawn. Walt has Dad passed out drunk in the yard in a Santa suit.--Ole, have you unearthed any Steely paternal angst in your fever dreaming?
Fezo: Yes, Joanna Cameron played Isis, the super heroine-goddess who inconspicuously disguised herself as an absurdly beautiful school teacher. Quite a coincidence: she helped me get through my second puberty.
RS
Name: Schwinn
breakfastofitalians
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 02:53:50
Comments:
Clas, I see you are beginning to recall our bike ride in Toronto last January. Remember? Lisa raised the sissy bar and you still fell off! You kept singing, "I've got a shirt so unbelievably right, she's gonna have somebody's baby tonight..." Man, I laughed so hard I got a ticket!
Happy Birthday, Francis Gumm,SEMB
Name: Clas
Frejus@the riviera
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 02:34:27
Comments:
Yeah, the movie;
imagine this rich kid in New Jersey posting some real heavy shit on a saturday night. He's pissed and after posting he's taking his read little sportscar over George Washington Bridge, goes to a bar and bumps into a stranger, they start to talk, they like each other, they drink, they become buddies, they drink and laugh and drink and laugh.
Sunday morning this New Jersey kid is checking the GBook... at the same time his saturdaynight buddy wakes up in Brooklyn... you got it? Can you imagine what opportunities we have here?
Ole; so, can you name this Swedish musician on Keith's Belongings? (damn Ole, you got me hooked on Here At The Western World)
Doctor says; -sorry son, but you're an epileptic.
Patient; -oh, that's ok, it's just a spasm. Like a Sunday in TJ.
Name: Sigmund Freud
dreamingofdachsunds
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 at 00:57:17
Comments:
Stranger,
I agree that Clas is the king of the GB poster children followed closely by Roy Scam and Oleander. However, with your swift wit, ready fingers and penchant for plutonium phables, I predict you'll be leading your own seminars before year's end. Is it true you'll be giving away free Laser Pointers with every paid registration? How do they get along with Irish Setters?
Your Momma Wears Doggy Boots,Siggy
Name: Reefer Southerland
buoyscoutsofmesopotamia
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 23:39:49
Comments:
Oleander--Daddy Don forced us kids to watch his movies while he made shadow puppets on the screen. His way of teaching us fantasy from reality though I now know he stole the whole idea from Plato.
The Day of the Locust should be available at your more adventurous video rental stores. It was released in 1975 and I suggest playing Show Biz Kids during the climax. Chilling.
Happy Birthday, Sven! (And a full moon to boot!)
Reef
Name: oleander
older & more in the way
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 19:30:52
Comments:
Jeez! I never got so many birthday wishes in my entire life. Where were you when I was 21? Now there was a birthday I could welcome unequivocally. Well, thanx. Now let's give it up for SVEN & his many alter egos! Tomorrow, I mean.
St. Al--"Magic" is right!!! A zillion thanks for letting us in on the surprise!
Clas--Your "Short Cuts" idea had me rolling! Dibs on Tim Robbins.
Stranger--the words on Dr. Wu are from Sweet & our own lovely Ruby. But you knew that, didn't you, salaud! If you find the movie, let me know. Or if you have more to say about Dr. Wu!
maj--I would crawl across cut glass for the ring, and you. And carry the champagne in my teeth.
Myra--what you said proves to me that you are very far from stupid or dull. And you are indeed fortunate not only that you have family members who can communicate that way, but that you are able to understand and love that communication--and see through the indirectness. You sound like a lucky woman who's worked hard to be one.
Paul--for an extra-special treat, go to the realaudio clips St.Al listed below!
Moray--you lurker. Maybe you're nodded to because you're just so cool. Maybe the recurrence of DoL & B reflect my fondness for them. No, I can't agree with your take on EYD, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. And thanx.
Rigs--thanx to you too.
Reefer--"Day of the Locust" a movie?? Tell me more.
fezo--too good.
Roy--as ever, thanx & keep stirring up my mind.
Now Kinky--do I have to crawl across MORE cut glass to get you to tell all about this close encounter? Or WHAT?
So all--send stuff! It may take a while--archiving is long, life short--but I'll do my best. And thanx.
Name: Geena
Preparing to meet the challenge of the new frontier
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 17:53:55
Comments:
Clas:
The train is late, I'll be there in a few hours. Don't worry, I've got your Svendom with me as well as some racy pics of me standing in front of the Swedish flag a la Monica Lewinsky!
Name: TheStranger
Dazzled
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 17:21:16
Comments:
Oleander,
I gave you a tough test -- looked up Dr. Wu from Katie Lied on your web page. Tough, puzzling, poetic lyrics that tell a story someone feels deeply about. There is real poetry in your interpretation. Great stuff. Thanks. Happy B + 1.
Name: Stevie Danielle Steele
@GB movie idea
Location: This is your life,
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 11:50:14
Comments:
Hey Clas: like your idea for a film about us Steely obsessed internet freaks....I have always viewed my life as some sort of video....complete with Steely Dan soundtrack......case in point...my life with my beautiful wife.....true story:
6/7/96- I place dry personal ad in local weekly
6/13/96- she responds, leaves message to call
6/17/96- we meet for lunch
6/24/96- We are Married!!!!12/27/97- lil baby is born!
12/98 - film of my life is made starring Hugh Grant and Joan Chen (soundtrack by Steely Dan, China Crisis, David Sylvian and Ruiyichi Sakamoto)......
now let's here some of YOUR personal stories.....(come on we are all like family here....{yeah right...the Addams Family})
Name: fezo
@g@instthewind
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 10:32:47
Comments:
Roy: I don't remember that line from The Last Waltz. I guess I'll have to watch it again. Damn
Joanna Cameron? Was she the t.v. Isis? I remember her. She helped pull me through puberty. I wonder what she's up to these days.
Ole's site is da bomb (as my wife's students like to say). Kudos. Some random thoughts generated while scanning through it one day . . .
I thought the line from "Movies" was "take off your sneakers" thus making it easier for the chinos to come off later.
Peg is about a porno actress? Good God!!! Nothing like having a myth of youth suddenly shattered. That was always the one SD tune I could just listen to and not hunt for any obscure meaning. I thought it was a simple love song.
Back to the coal mine . . .
fezo
Name: TheStranger
time out of mind
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 09:36:34
Comments:
Magic Lassie, Vince Foster et al,
Tried to hire Indiana Jones to figure out what the fuck you're saying, but he said he can't do this case justice without sigmund freud to translate the rough spots. see, you don't want to be too simplistic, but gibberish won't work either. check with clas. he's stil in there as number one post-maker -- telling, concise, deep-felt. i hear he's conducting Tue. & Thur. seminars.
Name: Roy.Scam
take.your.base......please
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 09:02:58
Comments:
Stevie Mel Allen Dan: Thanks for the historical baseball info. I wonder if Skunk said "Beisbol been beddy good..." as melodically as he said "Solament un tanto..." at the end of Only A Fool Would Say That.-- I did read somewhere that the Eagles compared themselves to the Oakland A's back in the 70's: succesful in the stadium but always fighting among themselves.
Hank Silvers: "Lack of Speed" ! Bidaboom bop. Was that Donald Durante or Shecky Becker.
Fezo: You married Isis? Joanna Cameron or the ancient mythical one?--- My favorite line from "The Last Waltz": "We played some clubs that were so tough you had to puke twice and show your razor just to get in."
Oleander: Boss page. Your concept that Razor Boy=the Grim Reaper really stretched that song out for me and made me like my all-time favorite album even more.--Your logical but depressing interpretation of "Here At the Western World" makes it sound like a sad sequel to the more innocent "Any World That I'm Welcome To", where he finally finds the only world that makes him feel welcome.---Happy Prince's Birthday, I mean Happy Princess Birthday.
RS
Name: YGK
mrdbh@yahoo.com
Location: New York, NY New York
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 08:01:36
Comments:
Happy B-Day! OLE-O!
Cheers to you and yours
and many more....
Name: Geena
Reelin in the years
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 07:07:17
Comments:
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLEANDER!
Name: Clas
clas@trainstation
Location: Cannes,
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 02:35:53
Comments:
Geena - ehhh, where are you? It's getting late.
Ole Dole Doff; happy birthday, sorry I'm late.
TODAY:
STERNUM AGONY:
The cat woke me up at five, the AGONY flooded upon me. Had to take 1 mgs of Xanor. Feels nice, I'm out of the rain.
Pulse; very slow, sometimes syncopating.
Bloodpressure; pretty good I think, but you'll never know, do you?
Name: Magic Lassie
quickerthanthesnout
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 02:19:49
Comments:
Stranger,
You are now my new model for the Pakistani warhead. Thanks for vounteering! Tell me, are you more comfortable as Fat Man or Little Boy?
Be sure and check out the new Buzz Aldrin site. You will be convinced of your own entropy faster than you can say, "Sun Mountain".
Yes! Post all your published pieces right here, right now! Clas has a swedish-english dictionary and you obviously don't have much to do. Not since '85, anyway...
Brb, Lol, Btw,Vince Foster
Name: Reefer Southerland
johncicada
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 01:22:13
Comments:
Moray Eel:
Day of the Locust? Burgess Meredith at his best! Karen Black at her Siamesiest! Donald Sutherland stomping the young Flatliner!
That's my claim to fame,
Charlie Sheen's Facilitator
Name: Chris
sgir~dazed\ezah\deyarf.mock
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 22:29:05
Comments:
Dear lisa sorry i didnt call or make it online, ive been feeling kinda down(thus no capitals). Tried to catch you tonight but was a little, tardy. ill try to talk ot uoy noos.
oleander- I was enthralled by your website. my sunday afternoon, was the toppermost of the poppermost (John Lennon), cuz of it. you shouldn't feel, one inch small, or unworthy, because you tried to climb such a high peak! Feel proud that you, peaked everyone's interest, and reminded us, why we like the Dan in the first place. Thank you for being brave, bold, and fond of yearning the birth of creative genius!(DF & WB)
Name: Mike Stipe
MIR
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 22:23:07
Comments:
Man, is this the shiny happy birthday page or what? My first time. It won't be my last.
I really envy the fan base here. You'll like our new drummer.
I don't sleep I dream,Michael
P.S. Sven: You're not who I think you are, are you? Prove it. What's my rising sign?
Name: moray eel
I "CAN" stand her
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 22:20:58
Comments:
Oleander: Okay, first of all - Happy Birthday! Just think - in dog years you'd be dead by now.
And B - Nice site. Strange - many references to "Day of the Locust" and "Brazil". Well done. I shall return.
Point number 5 - Thank you for the "tip of the hat" on your "human silhouette" page - and you never use any of my posts. There is nothing that I enjoy more than receiving credit when I don't deserve it.
And D - "Everything You Did" isn't that disturbing... is it? A guy comes home to find his wife (significant other) with another man and requests the details of the encounter. After hearing the
particulars he becomes sexually aroused and desires her intimacy to help relieve the um... pressure?The fact is many men would react violently if they caught their girlfriend/wife in bed with another guy; this guy just wants to get some loving too.
It's ironic that he is turned on by his lady's infidelity, but I don't think that it's malicious.
By the way, you make this place worth visiting!
m.e.
Name: Paul Southwick
Pwickerman@aol.com
Location: Scotch plains, NJ USA
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 20:38:23
Comments:
Been a SD fan for many moons... I need a new disc & tour..Who's got the live goods.E-mail me dates & a sampling of contents.. Will trade or buy
Name: rubybaby
raise up a pitcher
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 16:33:34
Comments:
Oleander: Happy Birthday! I'll play My Old School in your honor.
What can be better than a Steely Dan on your birthday?
rb
Name: way to go
great@interview
USA
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 15:10:23
Comments:
I second that emotion - you da man St Al - just got home and listened to the RealAudio clips - fantastic - who says D&W aren't just like other people. Well that DJ just about peed his pants he was sooooooo happy - and who could blame him. Good news about the album - next year(?) and then a tour following - start saving for those front row tickets now!
Name: Jodie Live Wire
Smile for the camera
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 12:44:07
Comments:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLEANDER! HERE'S WISHING YOU MANY, MANY MORE!!!
Name: DrMu
clutchingthesilverkey
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 12:27:33
Comments:
St.Al: What can I say? You DA MAN!
Ole: Happy birthday!
Name: Myra Eyefull
feelprettystupidandull
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 12:07:36
Comments:
Oleander: Happy B-day! I read over some of your web page and I am impressed with the time and effort you have made analyzing the lyrics for all of the SD songs. I frequently listen to lyrics and read into what the song writer was going through at the time that inspired him/her to write the song. It makes it more personal and heartwrenching when I can share an experience that the songwriter was having. On a personal level, when someone in my family composes a song, it helps me to listen to their heart even if they are not sharing their thoughts with me.
Keep up the good work- I have tried to figure out some of the SD lyrics and I rarely have a clue.Myra
Name: StAl
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 10:52:49
Comments:
Oh yeah...Clas, your e-mail keeps bouncing. Send me a message with a good address.
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 10:20:20
Comments:
Oleander: Where do I send the ring? Or will you claim it in person on July 23rd (with 2 bottles of champagne)?
lovebob: Are you working on your slide guitar for Show Biz Kids?
I hope so.I love you Kinky!!
majŠ
Name: Exited
cantwaittoget @home
USA
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 10:04:53
Comments:
Thanks St Al,
Can't listen at work, but you know that new beta version of RP 5.0 will be working overtime when I get home!
Your Humble Servant
Name: TheStranger
Good Time Flats
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 09:56:59
Comments:
Oleander,
Visited your thoughtful page but it's too early to make comment because this vicious global economy makes me work once in a while & it's going to take some time to get through it. In 85, wandering through europe for nearly four months, i developed a mission -- finding a Dan tape I had been told is not available in u.s. gave me something to do. at the end of the trip i found Sun Mountain. Now I will search for the French film L'Etranger, possibly starring Mastroanni. A fine mission. I shall begin setting aside provisions. Which leads me to ---Actual Steely Dan Question,
Can someone tell me about Sun Mountain -- where, when recorded? Never released in U.S.? Why or why not?
Name: RubyBaby
I recall when I was small
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 08:59:22
Comments:
Oleander: Either I need to wear my glasses more than I thought, or the child-like me is really active these days - everything's a doggie.
If it's the latter, don't cure me.
rb
Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 07:50:51
Comments:
OK, here are the RealAudio recordings of the interviews from Friday:
Walter's:
http://www.kmtt.com/realaudio/Becker.ramDonald's:
http://www.kmtt.com/realaudio/Fagen.ramStAl
Name: Clas
What's eating Gilbert, Grapefruit?
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 02:13:34
Comments:
Hey! I got this wonderful idea! What about making a movie a la "Shortcuts" about the regulars and others on this GBook, about their life and shit, how they sometimes meet, speak in the phone their ordinairy boring/not boring days?
I got a great title already;
"Who The Hell Is Myrna Minkoff?"
Name: Clas
c@work
Date: Monday, June 8, 1998 at 00:39:22
Comments:
Ole; It was me that was the Amazed-post yesterday. Sometimes I think people are mindreaders. Great work. Best songi; that one on At Centurys End.
Today I HAVE to work but I think I will get back to you on Here At The Western World.
Geena; glad you understand. The Riviera? That's a deal!
Name: oleander
another year older and...
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 20:11:50
Comments:
Steely Moments--1) You're gonna think I live at McDonald's. This time it was "The Goodbye Look." 2) Found a used copy of Keith Jarrett's "Belonging" yesterday & bought it out of curiosity. Mr. Oleander, who knew nothing about the whole affair, put it on this morning, and after a while yelled to me, "Hey! Come listen to this! It sounds just like 'Gaucho!'"
Hank--Too good.
Ruby--alas, it's not a dog, but a lynx, feeble attempt at a pun.
Amazed--I don't KNOW anything, except that the whistle is probably not as clean as it seems. It's all made up. But thanx to you & everyone else for your kind words of support. And send stuff!
Clas--Will e you more.
Geena--I'm schooled!
L'Etranger--it was a remarkable movie of the book I saw probably a quarter-century ago. I think Mastroianni was Meursault, but I may be making that up. It was absolutely scene-for-scene faithful to the text and still good as a movie. I WISH I knew how to find it.
Name: Geena
Pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 18:22:54
Comments:
Oleander: Great Page! I've bookmarked, so i can visit often.
Clas:
I can read between the lines, this is about your Svendom, isn't it? We can go to my family's villa on the French Riveria, everything will be there for us, who needs money? we can live on love and pasta. "90 minutes from New York to Paris, we'll be eternally free yes, eternally young and bring your leatherhosen...." Yikes!!!!
Name: Hank Silvers
c/o Rod Gaspar
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 17:42:30
Comments:
Roy.Scam: Re: Becker & Fagen as ballplayers -- that would explain the song "Lack of Speed."
Brandon Lacy: We *are* united. Welcome. You have excellent taste. (But if there aren't enough like you to buy the next CD when it comes out, it'll likely be the *last* SD CD.)
Oleander: Bravo! Bravissimo! A fine job. . .I plan to find the time to return often.
Name: RubyBaby
me@ihop
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 17:13:33
Comments:
Oleander: Nice work!! I look forward to going to your page a lot. Of course, the subject matter & content are the best, but I also love the color schemes and the dog. Very pleasing to the eye...
I've been practicing my singing. I'm working on the easier (or less hard) steely dan songs first. I'm starting with Little Kawai. I'm interested to know which SD songs everybody loves to sing. Anybody like to sing harmony?
I would love to hear D & W write a rap tune. It would be outstanding.
rb
Name: Amazed,
goodbye
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 05:11:58
Comments:
Oleander;
You are a genius. I don't know what to say. Been to your Home Page, read your thoughts on "Here At The Western World".
Great. "...hide from the mad man..." "...you're longing to be...", the other side of the coin... lots of dots here but I am deadly serious, you are a clever woman. But how do you know? You are clean as a whistle and I guess you have been that your whole life, still this insight.
got to go - back
Name: Clas
Godmouurning America!
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 04:36:48
Comments:
Not a single post for 24 hours. Strange.
Geena; I've been up all night... no, I've been sitting DOWN but I have been UP all night (funny language) and been doing some thinking:
Fuck your DiscoPast! Let's escape anyway! Do you have any cash? My cashflow is not what it use to be, but it's only temporary baby.
Shall I wear my leatherhossen?
Name: Clas
c@wouk
Date: Sunday, June 7, 1998 at 01:00:35
Comments:
Oleander; "Zoot Suit Riots"? (Late 40's, Mexicans, Los Angeles, James Ellroy novels). What song are you are talking about? I must listen to that one.
Countermoon; "...how the woman get restless and the men grow cold..."
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend; "...men grow cold as girls grow old..."
Geena; Barry Gibb? Stephanie Mills? Disco Days? Maybe we should slow down and think this thing over uh?
StAl; if Jackson Browne refuse, could you try Bruce Hornsby?
Wait a minute... Roy! You live pretty close to Hornsby, don't you pal? Hola buddy! Could you... let's talk over email!
Name: Astral Plain
golly, Sven
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 23:10:38
Comments:
I guess June 10th for the blessed event. But I'm probably cheating, right?
Name: Sven Gali
whatsnewpussycat
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 21:00:18
Comments:
Oleander: Beautiful job on your web page! Very nice indeed. Hey, Tom Jones was born on June 7th, too. Happy Birthday!
Fezo: January 9th is just one day short of Donny's B-day! You think that has something to do with the song, "Kings"?
Quiz Time: I share my birthday with Judy Garland. For a free Sternum upgrade, name that day!
Hooked on cake and ice-cream,SG
Name: Brandon Lacy aka PSYCHO
LACY28@ATT.NET
Location: Houston, Tx USA
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 19:33:20
Comments:
THE DAN RULES. BBECKER AND FAGEN ARE HEROES TO ME. I AM ONE OF THE ONLY 15 YEAR OLDS THAT LIKES THE DAN. I HAVE 6 ALBUMS AND MY MOM RAISED ME ON YOU GUYS. DAN FANS UNITE THE DAN RULES
Name: Feeling Better
couldntlisten@anyway
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 17:54:48
Comments:
There were two other possibilities why I didn't here from St Al. One was he didn't get my email, the other was he sent it late my time. Unfortunatly when I went to bed at about 11:30 PM EDT there was no email yet. It arrrived ar 1:06 AM EDT. Of course I never checked it in the morning before work. Wouldn't have mattered anyway - like Geena's post, soundboards are verboten at work. Would have been fun though. Thanks St Al! Keep up the good work - ditto on transcript or I see that station has an archive of broadcasts - is there any chance this one will get added? Since you seem to some pull there, maybe you can arrange it?
I am feeling so much better today knowing I wasn't left out on purpose - whew
Name: Geena
Quiet evening on the Reservation
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 17:23:22
Comments:
Stranger:
Wow! a tune up huh? you might want to check your engine, your oil might be low and no, babe, i didn't leave them as an excuse to come back, i just have to sow my wild oats sometime, but...... maybe i'll come back for them later *grin*, my heart belongs to my beloved Clas right now.
Oleander: Thanks hon, studio in italian is "studio"
Clas: I'm listening to Stephanie Mills at the moment, I haven't heard this music since my disco days. It brings me back to when I could bend my spine and do the freak! "no, I never knew love like this before, now i'm lonely nevermore, since you came into my life"
Name: TheStranger
quiet island in the bay
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 16:36:35
Comments:
Geena,
keep the pantyhose? you mean you diidn't leave them as an excuse to come back? I'm gonna have to go in for a tune-up.Clas,
disregard all that.Oleander,
Oh. PLAGUE with basil and marinaro. Yeah, Plague's good. Was it Lisa who said there's a "Stranger" movie? Tell me more. I can't believe no one approached me to play lead. who'd they get? godzilla? i work cheaper & don't make so much noise.
Name: fezo
D@rling Nikki
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 16:18:03
Comments:
My birthday is the same as Richard Nixon's. Think he'll call me?
Name: oleander
when doves cry
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 09:00:08
Comments:
My birthday is the same as Prince's.
Joe--As if! I didn't know whom those songs were for; you & Edd have more jazz lore in your little fingers than I do in my whole aging body. Thanx. "Crash" is worth it.
Geena--studio, like "atelier" in French. Is it similar in Italian?
Stranger--a pox on my French; "The Plague." A good Camus.
Kinklie--Hey! Quit with the dribs & drabs! There's a story there, and I WANT TO HEAR IT!
Jodie--GREAT horn section. Check out the horns on Cherry Poppin' Daddies' "Zoot Suit Riot." Very tight, and wicked.
I have a web page now: http://home.earthlink.net/~oleander1/Index.htm
Would appreciate visitors.
Name: Geena
coffee and cheerios
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 07:26:19
Comments:
Clas:
YES, YES!!! I will run away with you!!!
your birthday is in October???? mine is in September, same day as Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees
Ole: what does atelje mean?
Name: Clas
c@work
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 04:49:32
Comments:
No Roy, I won't give it to you. No more nagging.
GEENA! Fuck the dots and the spaces! I love you so in the hell much!!! Do you wanne run away with me?
Name: you were
ok?
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 02:31:40
Comments:
xxx
Name: Clas
atelje.lundkvist@swipnet.se
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 02:30:00
Comments:
Sven! You was not supposed to reveal my birthday-day!
PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP STOP PRESS THEN
Ok, information to all my gals, friends (yes, even you Walt) on this GuestBook, I have a new email-address: atelje.lundkvist@swipnet.se
If anyone wonders what "atelje" means, I think my friend Oleander can explain it.
Name: Sven Gali
archeoastronomy
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 01:42:18
Comments:
Clas
October 9th? That explains your Bruce Hornsby fixation as well as your desire to have Yoko Ono walk on your back.
Name: Clas
c@work
Location: looking west,
Date: Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 00:58:01
Comments:
Roy; you have a birthday coming up in Oct? Me too, and guess what, it's the same as JACKSON BROWNE's and John Lennon's. Can you beat that? Besides, I knew StAl before you did. And there is no way I'm gonna give StAl's email-address to you, no way. Don't even think of it.
StAl; could you email Jackson Browne and ask him "you know what"?
Name: Little Timmy
kennelnation
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 23:59:53
Comments:
One day Timmy and Tommy were coming home from school when Timmy noticed a dog under a tree licking his nuts. Timmy turned to Tommy and exclaimed, "Gosh, I wish I could do that!" Tommy hesitated for a moment, then replied, "You better let me hold him so he won't bite you...."
Hey, who's that stranger in the backyard with mom?
Timmy
Name: Joe M
@egg_on_face
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 20:04:25
Comments:
Ole: Let me correct myself before you do... "Syeeda's Song Flute" is Coltrane's daughter's tune. "Naima" was in deference to his then wife. Oh well, I was kinda in the right ballpark. No more posting from work without a net... On the other hand, why the hell not?
Name: Geena
katylied@hotmail.com
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 18:05:45
Comments:
StAl
Thank you so much for getting back to me, unfortunately, i missed the interview due to the 3 hour time difference and my computer at work having no sound card. I hope we can read a transcript soon.Clas:
Pantyhose: a woman's one-piece undergarment combining panties with hosiery. (taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, second college edition, copyright, 1980 by Simon & Schuster)
Name: Steve V. Dan
Drive through to springtime
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 15:20:59
Comments:
Hey St. Al : Thanks for the tidbit from our fabled heros...
.......what radio station were they on?....they are to tour in the "summer" ...should we expect a late winter/early spring release for the new album???
Hey LA thanks for another great player to us Met fans....
Name: Kinky
with raw elbows
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 15:04:04
Comments:
Maj Douch Bag - Yeah, great idea, let's ask lovebob...
lovebob - was it pink umbrellas? I thought it was just pink drinks.
Oh, and by the way, I did shake Donald's hand yesterday, on Third Ave in the 70's, to be exact, and it wasn't a dream, major. I'd invite you over to kiss my hand, but I already washed it.
Keep dreamin', Psycho
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 13:00:32
Comments:
Don't flatter yourself Kink-E-1. Next time *I* run into Donald, I'll clear that up with a firm handshake that he'll remember. Just ask lovebob. .....Pink umbrellas, my ass.
majŠ
Name: Joe M.
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 12:55:46
Comments:
StAl,
Thanks man. It is indeed authentic and exhilarant to get some real deal Dan news... and right from the bards themselves no less!
Ole: Don't own "Crash" but it sounds as though I should... I hadn't made the connection betwixt Coltrane's "Naima" and Shorter's "Infant Eyes" but, yeah, now I get it. Another musical association... both tunes were written as tributes to their respective daughters.
Name: Apple Pan Dowdy
kidsongs
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 12:07:36
Comments:
WHAT?!?!
D & W on the radio?!? Can we get a full transcript please?
Name: TheStranger
undersea by rail
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 11:23:36
Comments:
june lockhart,
clearly you belong on the pedestal with the other dazzling babes who grace this asylum. I regret my words brought back sad memories of the slights you endured cleaning up after your co-star’s messes. also, forgive me, but at times I doubt you are in fact the real lockhart, especially when you decry the eye-to-eye missionary approach that was her trademark from the hollywood hills to mailbu. Be proud of your virginity. I can help. love warped minds. send vital stats quick & if you're monica lewinsky don't mention anything to whatshername with the tape recorder.oleander,
dammit, i’m not too proud to admit I don’t know ‘la peste.’ is that anything like angel hair with basil and marinaro?Don & Walt,
Next year an album and a tour? we have to believe you. what else can we do? I am poised.
Name: rubybaby
high@anxiety
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 11:12:33
Comments:
I got to hear Donald. His voice sounds young & strong!
I missed Walter's call. AAAAAAAAAAAaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
John Fisher has an intriguing voice. Is he crazy? Is he high? Or was he just a birthday guy - TALKING TO DONALD FAGEN?
ST.Al - thanks for letting us know about it! smack!! How about putting your sexy voice onto the tape?
rb
Name: Jodie Live Wire
The best thing you never had
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 10:47:14
Comments:
Oleander,
Great to hear that you love Tower of Power. I do too! How about that horn section?
Name: oleander
down to the nightclub (bumpty-bumpty-bump)
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 10:12:27
Comments:
St. Al--Tapes! Tapes! Even if it's only seconds, to hear would be divine!
To all Digesters--hie you to the Digest for a Special Bulletin from Hoops!, who also has something to say about the Surfacing.
Ruby--uh, girlfriend, we have to talk....
lovebob--I love Tower of Power! Goes right along with the rest of the graduates of the Steely Dan School of Band Naming.
Name: Roy.Scam
and.i.happen.to.have.a.phone.at.work
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 09:48:03
Comments:
St. Al-- I have a birthday coming up in October.
Your oldest and dearest friend,
Roy
Name: StAlphonzo
pageboy@seanet.com
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 09:25:23
Comments:
Sorry about that whoever you are? I thought I e-mailed everybody the information. In case you missed out, here's what Donald had to say just a few short minutes ago....
"Working on the new one". "SHould be out next year." "A summer tour will follow..." Donald also expressed his desire to possibly work more with The Rock and Soul Review. Hmmm... the millenium just might be worth waiting around for.
So there you have it. Straight from the horses mouth! Walter, of course, was a little more elusive about the information he possesed. God I love these guys...
I want to THANK both of them for taking time out of their busy lives to make this all happen!!!
I hope to get ahold of tapes of the broadcast soon. I will post them once I do. For those wondering what happened to my possible appearence, by the time I called the radio station John was an absolute mess. Wouldn't you be?
Peace,
StAl
Name: Disappointed
feelingleftout
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 08:51:53
Comments:
Well since Thurday night came and went and since I never got a response from St. Al, I can only assume two things:
1. I was the person he didn't want to know where D&W were going to be - and in that case I really need a hug now!
2. It was a joke - and in that case I pitty St Al at work with all those emails - talk about dan spam.
Name: RubyBaby
no more pencils no more books
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 08:38:46
Comments:
no more teachers' dirty looks
Oleander: You're right about that Womens's Lib thing. It had nothing to do with that. If anything, it was the opposite.
Real women have never really needed womens lib.
RazorBoy: I love your hooey-ish Nightfly thoughts. It's like a book you just can't put down and you're bound to read again. I can't take it out of the player. I keep pushing repeat. No one around here understands when I get that way...God, I missed you!
rb
Name: C
pissed
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 01:13:10
Comments:
So what the hell is PANTYHOSE?
Do I have to look it up? Ok... wait.... no, can't find the word. It has something to do with those German leatherhosen? This is getting weird, what have you been up to Geena? Did you use my Svendom too?
Name: June Lockhart
ditcheddavelennox
Date: Friday, June 5, 1998 at 00:30:22
Comments:
Stranger: Your furtive comments about the missionary position reminded me of my younger days when a "Compata-Pillow" was standard issue at WB. Blame it on Judy Garland's emphatamine abuse and the Tin Man's 3-in-1 crotch spout. When I got my big break, studio strictures were so tight I had to co-star with a DOG! And I thought Mickey Rooney was bad! At least Mickey would stop humping Judy's leg when the director yelled, "cut!". I learned the hard way from a frustrated Richard Basehart. Yes, I was once his little, "Torpedo Tube"...
I guess youth really is for the young, and I can see by your latest posts that I am just a shriveled swine-ear in your trough of "Mighty Meat Master" morsels. So go! Seek your mythical Mariah Carey without my bowed-back to stand upon! I'm old enough to read between the lines on your face.
Norwegian Wood, Anyone?June
Name: oleander
don't let me in
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 21:28:55
Comments:
Stranger--thanx for the tip. While you're looking for Geena's pantyhose, we can read aloud from "La Peste."
Goose--women's lib? Sounds like YOU haven't put anything out since the Carter administration.
Joe--Ditto on DMB. I also like "Too Much" on "Crash," and I think "Crash" is one of the best love songs around.
GKR--Yes, radio here is becoming pap; it's hard to find anything unique and irreverent anymore. Even our local public station has mostly canned NPR programs (which are good, but no local flavor). Recently, a pirate station started up here--the lengths you have to go to, to be cold & daring.
Minah--all right, spill. What did you do?
Roy--But can he sing with that chaw in his cheek?
Name: Razor Boy
joebj@compmore.net
Location: Kanata, Ont Canada
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 20:35:02
Comments:
Driving through central Ontario earlier this week, sampled the full "Nightfly" banquet for the first time in a while. It is truly a reflection of DF's musical roots, with the different tracks featuring great guitar, horn and keyboard work. What I think makes it so special, is that Fagen was at his creative pinnacle and each track is so distinctive. Or all this is just a load of hooey on my part, except that I cannot get enough of "Nightfly."
By the way, did he ever record, or perform "Lazy Nina." I'd love to hear his rendition.
Name: Geena
l'era del primo mondo
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 19:16:56
Comments:
Kinky,
do you speak with forked tongue again?
Name: Geena
l'era del terzo mondo
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 19:15:30
Comments:
Stranger,
keep the pantyhose as a souvenir, they've got major runs and a lot of mileage in them anyway. oops!
Name: Kinky
Stompin on the Ave by Ray's Pizza
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 17:56:12
Comments:
Bob - Which Rock & Soul guys are you using? Cornelius?
BTW, I ran into Donald Fagen today on Third Ave., after he was convinced that I wasn't Maj Dude, I asked him if he and Walter were REALLY making a new album... (drumroll)...
THEY ARE!
and I was beginning to think it was all a bad joke...
Name: fezo
im@rriedisis
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 14:34:22
Comments:
Roy: You are right, sir, Emmy Lou does Evangeline on The Last Waltz. Thanks for the reminder, gave me an excuse to watch the video for the 9,099th time. I had forgotten she was in it.
Rehashing (pun intended) a probably forgotten conversation from Danfest 2. If you haven't before, check out Emmy Lou's work on Dylan's "Desire". One of the few Bob albums where you can hear vocals from someone other than Himself.
Robbie Robertson has another album out? Is it any good?
Name: TheStranger
WJAZ
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 12:53:54
Comments:
Dr. Mu,
Thanks for the encouragement. Little Timmy lives on in all our hearts. So basically, the last time we got an album of new Dan, Monica Lewinsky was entering elementary school. Seems longer than that.Clas,
Geena speaks truth. I never touched her and would do nothing to come between you 2 lovebirds.Geena,
You want those pantyhose back?You Know Who I Mean,
I yearn for you tragically.
Name: Mgr. Steve v Dan
@Gil Hodges Shrine
Location: Cooperstown, Steely Dan Mets
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 11:57:05
Comments:
Roy: Fagen bats and throws righthanded...was used sparingly as a rightfielder for the '73 Mets when he wasn't on tour with Steely Dan.....
Becker was a light hitting infielder with suprising power to the opposite field...
Baxter was crazy centerfielder who always said "beisbol bin bery berry good to me"they were all traded to the Dodgers for record executives to be named later....Gary Katz was the pitching coach that year and Roger Nichols the bull pen catcher....David Palmer couldn't get anyone out and was sold to the Phillies...
one great highlight from '74 was when Don Henley was riding Becker all day about his weak hitting and Becker ripped a triple with two out in the bottom of the 9th....
(I think I've milked this for all it's worth....good coffee today...Peets viennese blend....I think I'll go write a screen play.......yadah yadah yadah.......'Steely Dan, The Mets and Seinfeld: In Words and Pictures'
Name: Geena
listening to Eric Clapton
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 11:51:58
Comments:
Clas:
i never ran away with Stranger, but he did want to touch me!
You Svendom is in my pocket where it belongs, do you want it back? You'll have to chase me over those thousands of bridges in Sweden if you want it back. I can run very fast!!!!!
btw: i love you too *blushing*
Name: Spartacus
x
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 11:42:36
Comments:
i am little timmy.
Name: DrMu
damnit'shot
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 10:42:35
Comments:
Where's the smoke and haze when you need it? That's what I get for complaining...it's f***cking 100 every day with oppressive humidity. Thnak goodness I mortgaged by No 1 child's college savings for a sprinkler system.
The Stranger: It's worse than you think. I believe Gaucho was released around election time 1980, while Carter was still in office. BTW (By the way) your POST about Little Timmy was a classic.
Name: Roy.Scam
becker.to.fagen.to.laughing.chance
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 10:20:27
Comments:
Crosby & Fezo: I guess I'm going to have to start browsing the TV Guide; I hate to miss anything with Levon Helm or Garth Hudson, the bearded maestro of keyboards and electrons. Levon also narrated a tv special documentary about Highway 61 (the road, not the album). Fezo-Isn't "Evangeline" the song that Emmy Lou sang in The Last Waltz? -- I heard Robbie's new album is Native American meets techno pop.
My son was playing Ken Griffey Basesball recently on a SEGA, or some such thing; the game enables you to name the players on your team. Anyway, I noticed that he'd named his players after rock and roll heroes (Lennon, Hendrix, Becker, Fagen, etc.). So, my question, in the interest of video game verisimilitude, is: Does Mr. Fagen bat and throw right handed?-- I feel fairly safe assuming Becker's righthandedness, but keyboard players are a bit more difficult to infer. -- I think I can write a pretty good scouting report on what type of ball players Becker and Fagen are: good hands, good mechanics, very little speed, and lots of walks and called third strikes from being so selective.
Blacklight Me: Please start by excising the superfluous subplots, meandering messages, and gratuitous political pandering from Federal Form 1040.
RS
Name: TheStranger
Eye to Eye
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 09:47:34
Comments:
...album of new material, that is.
Name: TheStranger
Americans gone except for 2
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 09:43:58
Comments:
June Lockhart,
These are trying times. Camus is dead, the Dan hasn't put out an album since the Reagan administration, and OJ walks the land. So I would not casually dismiss missionary work from my repertoire. Also, although you are certainly correct that good hygiene is mandatory, I find a simple shower preferable to a garden hose. You still with Warner Bros?
Name: Clas
c@w
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 03:15:25
Comments:
Forgot;
TODAY;
Sternum Agony; none. Bloodpressure and pulse; normal.
Name: Clas
c@w
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 03:12:47
Comments:
Okay Bob, maybe those thing are important in a way but now I'm pulling some strings for my little Dark Star Geena on an issue that goes far beyond small town gigs.
Geena; email is sent. Be cool. I love you. I've been emailing my very best friend, buddy, pal, mr StAl. Information will soon be understandable.
Name: bob tedde
mrsquonk@cts.com
Location: sd,
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 02:56:33
Comments:
Make that Mike "Keneally".
lovebob
ps
Rockola plays Le Bar Bat Friday and Saturday the 24rth and 25th.
Name: bob tedde
MrSquonk@cts.com
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 02:53:10
Comments:
Heyall.
Just me again trying to stir up interest in the upcoming (as in July 23rd) appearance of The Steely Damned at Le Bar Bat (311 west 57th st. in Manhattan.) Many exciting things are goin'down as we prepare for this, our first excursion to the big apple. The horn section, for example will feature members past and/or present of Tower of Power, Miami Sound Machine, 10,000 Maniacs and most significantly, The New York Rock and Soul Show. Much of the primary Keyboard work will be administered by Zappa alumnist Mike Also of interest to the hard core amongst you may be our intentions of presenting 2 never officially released Dan tunes.. If you have any questions, or need more info, email me at MrSquonk@cts.com. or call the ROCKOLA 24hr hotline @ 619 558-1966 Even if you don't have any questions, drop me a line if you plan to attend, so I know how many snacks to bring.lovebob
Name: Blacklight Me
livingcolored
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 02:20:36
Comments:
anybody seen those edited-down 46 minute versions of the movies you knew had potential but were just too damn long? Superfluous sub-plots, meandering messages and gratuitous political pandering artfuly excised with compassion and vision?
Please, share your list with the group. I'll get started right away.
Name: Clas
c@w
Date: Thursday, June 4, 1998 at 02:03:18
Comments:
Geena; so, first you run away with mr Stranger and now you wanne come back. And you also want to know what mr StAl is talking about.
Let me ask you something first? What did you do with my svendom? Did you send it back or did you put it in a frame?
Ok ok, I'll email you, but no more fooling around ok?
Name: RubyBaby
southbound
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 20:53:34
Comments:
Fezo: whenever I hear Wasted Words (which isn't often), I always think of Walter Becker. He should be singing that song. It's just so...him.
mWorld: where are you? Did you do it? You are so fucking brave!
rb
Name: Geena
The Goodbye Look
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 19:04:07
Comments:
Clas:
i miss you baby, i want to come back to Svenska!
please email StAl, find out what he's talking about and then email me.
Name: June Lockhart
stuckonyou
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 18:08:10
Comments:
Stranger: I was thinking more like Collies, just to stay with the theme. The question is who's gonna arm the garden hose in case Timmy surprises us? You know how mom's worry!
Your Chew Toy,
June
Name: fezo
t@king@lo@doff
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 14:54:07
Comments:
Roy: You're right, Levon rules. He's popping up on TNN with more and more frequency. Saw him doing Evangaline with Emily Lou recently. He's still got it.
also on the white southerners who can sing front . . . listened to bootleg of Allman Brother's show from Richmond (1995) on the drive home this afternoon. Greg's still got it too. I was ready to keep driving until I found the next Allman's concert of the summer.
Name: Crosby
theanswermyfriendispissinginthewind.com
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 10:08:41
Comments:
Roy. Scam: Speaking of Levon, there was a special on Public TV last night on The Band. Sort of a history of the Big Pink thing. Those guys are far out, I was into it. The horns these guys put together are very unique. That keyboard player is out there, man. Also, Robbie Robertson has a new CD out, very good.Did anyone see, HEY MAN, LOOKOUT IT'S THE FUZZ!,
whoa, there I go again, sorry, yea, did anyone see the James Taylor special the other night?
Kind of wierd, no Carlos Vega on drums or Don on piano.
Clas: Wait a minute, man. I've got the tape. I was there. Everything was fine until I had a cup of coffee with Roger, you know, that guy from the Who.
Name: Mark Kevin Davies
Mdavies@worldbank.org
Location: Rockville, MD U.S.A.
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 09:52:58
Comments:
Excellent page with many interesting items for the real Steely
enthusiast! I shall pass the word.
Name: TheStranger
ThinkingLarge
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 09:48:55
Comments:
June Lockhart,
Frampton requires no existential analysis. He is what he is. I am on call only for the tougher questions, such as the other one you asked -- namely, do I like it doggy style. First, I need more information. Are we talking, say, about a terrier or more of a junkyard type?Anticipating your heartfelt response.
Name: StAlphonzo
pageboy@seanet.com
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 09:38:12
Comments:
Hey now!
Some interesting news. A surfacing of our most favored sons? Please e-mail me for the details. You must do so before Thursday evening or else you just might miss out....
The reason for the secrecy has to do with us not wanting to let the cat out of the bag to a particular individual.
Though I have many of your address already, I don't want any of you to miss out. Please e-mail me again, even if you think I have it.
StAl
pageboy@seanet.com
Name: BigFan
donttry@home.net
Location: anywhere, usa
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 06:48:13
Comments:
Recieved a package from Singapore yesterday - Kiss the Stone is definetly back up and running - only took about a week for an order to show. Got a friend of mine a copy of Doing it Live for his birthday - since he covets mine all of the time. CD is still the old one with KTS web address as www.kts.it not the new one www.kissthestone.com.
For more technical info on audio cd's try: http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdaudio/95x6.htm
This is the web page of an electrical engineering prof at the University of Washington. He makes me think that maybe there was something to coloring the edges of your cd's with green magic markers nto increase the dynamic response. Maybe St Al can get him to host a little chat session to answer all of our questions on cd's. Like I never new that scratches on the top of the cd are much worse than scratches on the bottom or playing side - weird. I also found there ae companies that will repair your damaged cd's - however if they are actually cracked or have deep scrathes on the top they can't fix them. Something to think about the next time you are playing frisbee with them trying to get one ready to play in the car.Got the new X-files movie cd yesterday - why couldn't they have gotten d+w to do a cut - would have boosted sales for sure.
My guess is that Mulder would be a SD fan, but Scully would not - any thoughts?
Name: Babylon Sistah
JT LIVE cont'd
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 05:20:41
Comments:
h! I've got one of those. He loves it too!
Name: Babylon Sistah
JT LIVE
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 05:11:00
Comments:
Damn, what happened? I was typing along and it disappeared! What should I do? Well, in case it goes through, I'll keep going. My question was going to be, does anyone know if there's a chat line for James Taylor enthusiasts?
Name: Roy.Scam
boris.and.natasha.stole.it
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 05:05:35
Comments:
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a new Steely Dan CD out of my hat!"
"Bullwinkle, are you still trying that old trick?"
"This time for sure."
Crosby--While you're surfing through TNN, also watch for 1)Steely sideman Mark Knopfler doing a duet with Chet Atkins, 2) David Gates of Bread in a cowboy hat, and 3) the great Levon Helm (Mrs. Fagen's former love) backing up Carlene Carter.--I don't usually watch this stuff, mind you, but I've been following up on a theory of mine that Shania Twain and Sheena Easton are the same person.RS
Name: Dinosaur
@work
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 01:29:02
Comments:
Hey Ruby, that was GOOD!
Name: Cl
c@w
Location: where the men grow old,
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 1998 at 00:19:14
Comments:
Ruby; I got your email. Got your Pez too. I keep it with your letter. And; 70 Fahren is about 20 Celsius, we got 20 today I think. 33 C is about 90 Fahren. (people think we're talking weather and shit here, he he he)
Crosby; if you remember you were in Woodstock you were never really there uh?
Name: a fan
@nytown, U.S.A.
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 22:54:42
Comments:
got no time for rhyme, just had to say, STEELY DAN is O.K.
Walter Becker puttin' me to the tester.
Donald Fagen taken no prisoners.
I may be a zero, but they are my heros!
If I was in an elevator, when the Dan was on,
I'd be snappin those fingers, all day long.
good night & have fun listeners,
DAN FAN
P.S.GOD DAN IT ALL DAY LONG
Name: Bob Eubanks
especiallyforyou
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 22:15:07
Comments:
BKS: Subtract 20 points for rhyming "sight" with "site". That gives you a score of -15. Sorry. But you can still enjoy the home version of our game!
Name: BookKeepersSon
I forg@t
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 20:41:42
Comments:
I miss James so much, tell him i said hi!
now a poem: ummm
In the bright gazing light stood a site
Of pearcing minds testing my mite
guilty eyes cast in my sight
Tell your tale we'll mast no fight
It was not me
who posted on this siteDAN-O-MITE
OUT-A-SIGHT
ITS-A-RIGHT
I WILL FORGIVE
maybe
Name: June Lockhart
oogachakaoogachakaoogaoogaoogachaka
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 19:52:49
Comments:
Stranger: I've been waiting for an existential dude like you to introduce me to Frampton. What's that funny tube he sticks in his mouth when he plays the guitar? A spit-valve? Sure is a gross name for such a cool sound. Is that what's used on the lead guitar in Haitian Divorce? Oh look at me, already mentioning divorce and you haven't even felt me up yet! Hope you like doing it doggy-style!
Timmy's TV Momma,June "Bad Lass" Lockhart
Name: Goodkingrichard
should've stayed@the palace
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 16:28:07
Comments:
Sorry to break into the moist lyricism laced with something a little stronger pervading the GB of late, but I wondered what you American cousins make of this? I guess it's too much to expect that the SD-boys would have contributed to this, but note the BFF contribution those who remember back to the heady days when this was the SD/BFF Gusetbook:
The Great Radio Rebellion - Washington Post (D1,D7 - Marc Fisher)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-06/02/099l-060298-idx.html
'After Congress decided in 1996 to loosen restrictions on the number of radio stations anyone could own, the big radio companies promised that everything would be fine. But that has not been the case and the listener is the one who has been forced to pay through the loss of diversified radio stations around the country. Listener rebellions have occasionally persuaded owners to return to their original formats. But now thousands of listeners have come together to make their voice heard in a group called Americans for Radio Diversity. The group, created by Jeremy Walker, a graphic designer based in Minneapolis, has just released the first of three planned CDs. The recordings, called "Teleconned: We Want the Airwaves," protests the deregulation that "turned the playground of radio stations over to the bullies." The CD features 16 songs by groups like Ben Folds Five, Ani DiFranco and Nicole Blackman. Profits from the discs "will go
to support independent stations around the country, and give them a support system to continue broadcasting spirited, irreverent, unusual radio," says Blackman.'[...er sorry 'Guestbook'. On second thoughts maybe I was right first time]
Caught the 'Reeling in the Years' footage again at the w/e and some pithy comments on SD and the age from the Skunk in the History of Rock&Roll series (wonder if he looks like little boy lost under all that fuzz). May even transcribe his remarks when I get a moment. I remember first seeing that footage on the Whistle Test some... er ... 20+ years ago.
Have a good one
Richard&kangaroos
Name: Crosby
theanswermyfriendispissinginthewind.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 16:25:21
Comments:
There's somethin' happening here, what it is aint exactly clear,
there's a man with a gun over there (his name is Clas), telling me I've gotta beware, (something about dots...) I think its time we stop, hey what's that sound, could it be the Dan working on a new one? I think so.Clas: Speaking of Bruce Hornsby, I was surfing TV channels the other night, the hillbilly channel, that's TNN for everyone who can't catch this gem, had Bruce, Bela Fleck, and Ricky Skaggs jamming together. Hey man, it wasn't bad!
The Public Broadcasting Network in the US,
WHOA! FAR OUT, MAN, sorry about that, I'm still having flashbacks from Woodstock, anyway PBN has a great special on Bruce.
Name: Susan
relaying the message
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 16:08:55
Comments:
James wanted me tell you all that he will miss you. Especially Lisa. He got fired last week so he is packing his shit up and going back to Kansas. He said he'll write when he can. But I'm still here so you can smile through your tears.
Name: Joe M
JGMurtha@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 16:08:45
Comments:
Jon,
Haven't heard much in terms of a "new" set list for the summer leg of the tour. However, seeing as how Mr. Metheny is supposedly in the studio as we speak recording a full-blown collaboration with Mr. Hall, who knows? (The Hall release scheduled for this month contains only one Metheny/Hall duet, and with strings I understand). He may be primed to add a little more in the way of "straight ahead" (read standards) material ala Jobim's "How Insensitive" to the summer set list under Hall's influence.
Speaking of Jobim and to add to the latin jazz discussion, anything by, featuring, or in tribute to the late great AC Jobim would be high on my list of latin jazz recommendations. Especially the AC Jobim Verve jazz sides tribute set entitled "Wave" which includes Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny (acompanying Mr. Jobim on "How Insensitive"), Stan Getz, Astrud and Jao Gilberto and a whole host of others.
Expanding Man: There was a rather heated discussion some time ago on this very GB Re:DMB. Personally, I thought "Under The Table And Dreaming" was overall an incredible piece of music and I'm really excited about "Pantala Naga Pampa", "Stay (Wasting Time)" and "Crush" off of the new one. Like The Dan, DMB employs complex harmonies, exotic time changes, arcane yet intelligent lyrics and phenomenal musicianship in their repertoire. - Insert standard IMHO disclaimer here - BTW, Bela Fleck does a cameo or two as does Dan alumni Brenda White King on DMB's latest.
Name: TWA
drink server
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 14:57:18
Comments:
Heard on the airplane; and for you Don? Make it a good
scotch whiskey and a martini...with good fresh olives.And for you, Walt? Make it a kiwi, coconut, mango blended
thing. You want an umbrella with that? NO, make it a
PARACHUTE...
Name: Goose Bumpin'
@Ruby's hangout
Location: Memphis,Cool,
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 14:19:14
Comments:
A toast to women's "lib"!
That Florida Room is sooo air-conditioned, and when the
brass kicks in, the heat is on!!!
oleander- here's to womens lib, how are you honey,I love
those dahlias, Big lip smack to you!
lisa-gotta love that lisa, and DON'T ANYONE MENTION "LEGS"
around her, GOT IT clas...i say GOT IT CLAS!!!
Dr.Mu-you remind me of someone,i.e.,one of your general height,
weight and build, maybe a hurricane. If you're not,it's
a big compliment. Here, I've got 1 for you, on the 45rpm,
Reelin, that's side A, what's on side B? Hint,finishes
with a...sorry,but side B is still in MINT condition!
clas-there are not enough words to say how I feel about you,
at any given time, but why don't you go HEADBUTT A FUCKIN'
CABANA BOY! and about Salieri's...are we talkin mountains?
Name: RubyBaby
Icanseeformilesandmilesandmilesandmiles
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 13:40:21
Comments:
The Outrageous and Restless Stag of Sweden: Spring has such an effect on you! I know you try to cool your jets by listening to Kamakiriad, but it doesn't work, does it? You're still hotter than asphalt in July.
Stewart B: Checked out the site! I saw nothing mentioned about those modern-day prophets, but what a great idea! What about Walter? Does he not even get a paper airplane with his handle on it?
By looking at the seating map, I realize I flew on an MD11 on our way home from *somewhere* last Nov. I was assigned to seat 7A. When I got there, my daughter who had boarded ahead of me, said, "Mom, he won't let me in." And then I noticed a creepy individual was camped out in both 7A and 7B. I cleared my throat but he refused to look at me. I knew he was going to be difficult, so I said in my sweetest voice, "MY seat." And my smile was grand! I also knew I would win. And he looked at me, and he started to speak, but nothing came forth. And he breathed out heavily as he gathered his backpack and jacket and shoes. And he went to the back to sit between the two most annoying people on the flight I'm sure. Later, I went back to say hi to the rest of my family in row 24. He scowled at me as I walked past, but I smiled a grand one at him again. I almost exclaimed," God, I love my seat!" But I had mercy...
rb
Name: Decoder Ringo
@only time will tell...
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 12:56:33
Comments:
Please respect the seven day delay...SHIT HAPPENS!
Name: Bodi
Miad13@aol.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 12:45:47
Comments:
What a surprise to find out that Don't Give a Fuck is from Arkansas. Usually people from those necks of the woods are so sophisticated. Is Steely allowed to be played in those parts? I propose that this boy (hick) is lying.
Oh yea, before I forget, Steely Dan is the most amazing group ever.
Name: TheStranger
Green Flower Street
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 10:57:28
Comments:
olelander,
I think I may swear off recommending anybody but the Dan. Everybody else, including Dylan, the Stones and other dieties, routinely put out albums with tracks and tracks of crud surrounding the 1 to 3 REAL tracks.maybe the difference between sartre and camus is that sartre recognizes the horror of the future while camus’ mersault, in a death cell, fucked by fate, understands at last that he has been living in a numb, dreamlike state, recognizes the gift we so routinely squander and in that brief moment he is overwhelmed with joy instead of sartre’s misery. You want to read a great existentialist? read Papillon, a man who never quit, never lost his sense of humor or his humanity & ultimately triumphed.
anybody else offended when they hear the Dan in a musac sequence? how can they be mistaken for elevator music?
Name: jon @ his yellow stripe
jon.stone@fmr.com
Location: Beantown, MA U.S.
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 10:18:40
Comments:
Joe M.
Looking foreward to that Guitar Summit to which you referred. I'll try to make one or both Bay State appearances of Mr. Meth.
A New Milford acquaintance of mine plans to be in attendance in Stamford, and assures me he'll have deck in hand (that's right, I said 'deck').
Do you think set list might change come summer?
Name: Expanding Man
dinin' behind the wheel
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 08:11:28
Comments:
I know it would be too much to hope that D&W had commented on
these folks, but would anyone on the GB care to guess what their
opinion would be about:
Dave Matthews Band or
Fiona Apple?Both these feature the kind of complex, multi-textured works that I love in SD. So I would guess that the Holy Duo would give two thumbs up.
Name: Clash
c@work
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 at 01:18:03
Comments:
RubyBabySugarHoney -- what can be wrong? Try again, I'll male you too. I mean mail.
mr Stewart -- good. I was a little worried for you. We eskimoes must stick together.
Schwinn -- hey, that was funny -- Barelytown.
Nerium Ole -- you liked that book? You surprise me.
Lisa?
Name: Sven
10-321
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 21:45:09
Comments:
Roy: Bird's words qualify for at least the quote of the week, don't you think? Of course, others may not care...
Speaking of the last Seinfeld Episode, I didn't watch it. Not even the repeat.
Oleander: Have you read Flann O'Brien's, "The Third Policeman"? Now THAT is a theme worth repeating on any final episode...
Stranger: The man is St. Al Believe me, not even little Timmy and a kennnel full 'o Lassies could keep this ion grid beating. Would you like to volunteer for the next Pancake Breakfast?
Throw a kiss and say goodbye,Sven
Name: Mr. Stewart
rmech@alaska.net
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 21:29:29
Comments:
...hmmm, er, no Clas. Just been very busy and then lazy. Thanks for asking. How's everyone else I used to consult with?
Mr. Stewart
1 more day
Name: oleander
dust off Jean-Paul
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 20:24:25
Comments:
maj--"Decade" starts with "FM." In that vein, when I walked into McDonald's with the offspring the other day, on came "TOOM." A pleasant sense of cognitive dissonance wafted over me....
Stranger--Well, I last read it 25 years ago, but the idea was that we make each other's hell, and I'll never forget that closing scene. So it was incredible to see exactly the same scene on Seinfeld--a featureless cell with the horror of the future dawning on its occupants. Camus is chillin'. Did you see the movie of your name? BTW, it's "by the way," more out of laziness than anything else. I love Latin music, but my experience is limited. Some of my faves are Ruben Blades (pre-synth), Celia Cruz (the Queen of Latin Soul), Fania All-Stars, Willie Colon, and Bioritmo. I've got Poncho Sanchez' "Conguero." Other suggestions?... For the Grey Eminence of the GB, go "home." I'm from Northern Virginia, like my homeboy Roy.
Clas--I got it, finally. Yes, a good book.
My vote this week for Tune I Wish Were In The Legal SD Catalogue: "Don't Let Me In."
Name: Internet Cops
CyberStation
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 16:58:00
Comments:
We have determined that the message from Don't Give a Fuck was placed on this page by a white male named Bill who hails from Arkansas. If you have any information on his identity, please contact us immediately.
Name: Steve V. Dan
LA History in words and music
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 15:27:09
Comments:
36 years ago today Marilyn Monroe turned 36....and was guest of honor at an LA Angels game....had picture taken with Bo Belinky....two days before she sang Happy Birthday for JFK....ah those were the days....
26 years ago LA supergroup to be Steely Dan cut 'do It Again' with jazz great Vic Feldman...now he was a percussionist...and great on vibes too...
Name: Steve V. Dan
@favorite foreign movie
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 15:18:54
Comments:
Has this site gone to the dogs?????
coming next 'bitch slapping' posts from Militia mad men....oye ve'
and we were once so civilized here.....
Hey Good king richard...how is summer down under???
Name: Dont Give A Fuck
@bout anybody else
Location: Las Wages, nv
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 15:01:48
Comments:
I'm with this chick last night and I start putting on some dan,
She says "Whats this crap!" I said its only some of the most romantic music ever writen and it helps get women in the mood, if u know what i mean, and she said "I guess u dont get laid much huh?"So I slapped Her and demanded oral pleasure!
She could hardly refuse, seeing as there were a verage of weapons pointed in here direction. She reluctantly agreed and asked very nicely for me not to cum in here mouth I said sure, just dont bite me or I'll have to splatter your brains all over my new wallpaper. So after 10 minutes or so I tickled her tonsels with hot tartar sauce!
She found that she could not get out of the way of this speeding locomotive of hot love juice. I had heard noices of displeasure coming from her, like she was drowning in a pool of oysters!
BLAAAA BLAAAA I CANT BREATH BLAAAA BLAAAA
I said do u like Steely Dan now bitch?
BLAAA BLAAA YES BLAAA BLAAA YES I DO PLEASE LET ME GO BLAAA!
I think she learned a good lesson, When someone asks if you like Steely Dan, you should just say yes and go down on the guy!
Name: Stewart Ballard
Ballard@klm.com
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 14:53:21
Comments:
We are getting a delivery of four more MD11's from Boeing this summer. They will be named Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Donald Fagen.
http://www.klm.nl/About/English/Profile/McDonnell_Douglas.htm
Name: TheStranger
In Wonderland
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 14:40:35
Comments:
Who is the mysterious samartian who puts this elctro-show together? Is it a real person or a supernatural force? Also, do we finally get to understand all the Dan lyrics when we die? Can anyone who's been there come back and tell us? Little Timmy, are you there?
Name: Hee
Hoo
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 14:05:47
Comments:
African-American cow, thank you very much.
Name: majŠ
frontier@uscom.com
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 10:56:14
Comments:
So I'm at this educational conference, waiting in the hallway patiently with the throngs for the double doors to wing open for lunch in the main ballroom. "Looked at my watch, 15 minutes, felt like half a day." The doors did eventually kick open and I was greeted with a solid block of Steely Dan starting with My Old School - which I thought was an appropriately caustic touch given the reason for the conference.
Does Decade start with My Old School? I don't have that one and I thought maybe the sound guys played a disc instead of a mix.
Oleander: Nice touch indeed.
majŠ
Name: TheStranger
x
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 10:14:00
Comments:
Forgot to ask -- excuse my net ignorance. What the fuck's btw?
Name: TheStranger
Gaucho Freeway
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 09:53:22
Comments:
RoyScam,
Thanks for sharing some of your secrets. I’ve hired a dynamite p.r. firm which guarantees to boost my ratings. they did great work for that Kato Kaelin guy.Oleander,
I admit it. Haven’t read No Exit that I can remember. Sartre’s ok, but to me mostly a pale, academic version of Camus, who’s got the real stuff. On latin jazz, I’m just learning. I started with the stan getz-jao gilberto collaborations and stan getz-charlie byrd. but astrid gilberto is so laid back she ultimately sounds dead. Now I’m on to Poncho sanchez and gonzalo rubalcala. I like other jazz also, but latin pays lots of attention to rhythm, which makes it a natural bridge from rock. May be politically incorrect, but I find blues too simplistic. Got any suggestions? On black cows, I grew up in chicago. You?Clas,
It’s a little late to tell me not to touch geena. But don’t worry, I’ve been vaccinated for just about everything.
Name: Stevie Dan
sd@aol.com
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 09:47:29
Comments:
You wear that white tuxedo how you gonna beat the freeze and get saved tonight when I chase the dragon
Name: Roy.Scam
i.can.tell.by.what.you.wear.and.the.way.you.lose.your.hair
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 09:07:02
Comments:
Expanding Man: Interesting spin on "Barrytown". So, in addition to their other god-like qualities, these guys are prophets? I was raised as a Virginia-side beltway boy; those Maryland -side people got to be from another world. Check out Chris Rock's dissertation about Mayor Barry being re-elected.--
When I heard "Barrytown", I assumed there was a reference to Barry Goldwater (R.I.P.); perhaps some built in irony about bigotry and prejudging working both ways (i.e., what if the accepted ones were the outcasts?). I've listened carefully to the bridge of this song, both the demo and the Pretzel Logic version, and he definitely says "..the WORD was hurled..", which gives somewhat of a fundamentalist turn to the narrator's point of view. Had he said "..the WORLD was hurled..", then we've got the Big Bang, scientific side. Closed mindedness could go either way, I guess. Anyway, it's one of their prettiest tunes, IMHO.Clas: Lenny Bruce has a new album?
Salvador Gali: Anyone ever tell you that you talk a lot like lisa, the showbiz kid?
Sven: Best quote of the day: When they asked Larry Bird, after losing to Chicago, if he thought the Bulls would be vulnerable to Utah, --- "I don't care."
RS
Name: A&R
be who you are just the same
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 07:16:56
Comments:
i don't want to shoot no one
Name: Hootie
crackedfrontalsternum
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 02:11:43
Comments:
I'm gettin a little weepy. Clas has confronted his confoundedness and all I can think of is KFC and a wet-nap.
Oh, and one more hit.
Leader of the Blowfish,Hootie
Name: Bill Nye the Seance Guy
bloodswedeandtears
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 02:01:54
Comments:
Clas: Special message from the Afterworld!
..Pay special attention to the next post you see with two (2) dots indicated like this: ..
It includes an important announcement from your old pal, Bjorn.
Vinegar & Baking Soda,Bill
Name: Hey again!
Svendom?
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 01:44:35
Comments:
You've found my svendom Geena? Do you know what "svendom" is? That's the thing a man lose when he makes love for the first time in his life.
You can send it to me or keep it.
It's a keeper.
Name: hey,
I forgot why I was posting
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 01:18:10
Comments:
TODAY;
Sternum Agony: Had it when I woke up. Read the GBook and now it's gone. Pulse/Bloodpressure: the same as yesterday.
Name: Clas
fat chance in tight pants
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 01:09:39
Comments:
Geena; you are very funny, I mean, I am sitting hear laughing. In the morning. And I have not taken my Prozac yet.
You know, be VERY carefull with Mr Stranger. But don't touch each other bodies! Promise?
Ruby; c'mon, let's meet. I'd really love that. If I start walking now - oh it's a long way.
Oleander: "swooning odalisqueof", of course you're not. But I think you're a nice woman anyway. And so I've been told.
Lisa; are you keeping your north eye on Lena?
Name: TYPE NAME HERE
REQUIRED FIELD
Date: Monday, June 1, 1998 at 00:32:16
Comments:
JOKE: WHAT'S NAMED AFTER A FAKE PENIS AND ONLY COMES EVERY 18 YEARS?
HAHAHA! NOW I KNOW WHY VIAGRA IS SPONSORING THE NEXT TOUR!
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