User: nostatic | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message:
1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned:
nostatic
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
google search a couple of years ago I think.
3. last cd purchase?
cd? with ITMS? The last ITMS purchase was Can't Buy a Thrill, as my original CD had gone missing, and my album in the garage is worn out.
4. first steely dan release purchase:
Katy Lied on vinyl
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased:
Don't have one...have original releases.
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Carlock live was stunning. Erskine on Third World Man live was "perfect." Marotta on Peg, Purdie on Home at Last, Gadd on Aja, Pocoro on most of Katy Lied...how can you pick one?
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song:
See above. The solo on Bad Sneakers has always stunned me. Skunks licks as My Old School fades are nuts...the descending thing makes me bark like a seal.
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
The one who doesn't post enough.
9. favorite time signature
6/8 with a twist
10. what is your hacking ability:
mild to moderate
11. favorite allman song
IMOER and Dreams. Does Layla count?
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like:
See other thread on 70's one hit wonders.
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
Not so many. On another board I think I've got about 15 or 20 in a day.
14. what is a storm surge
The gay weatherman on channel 4
15. post a poem here to share
try and find the point, so much time has passed
another chance to see the world, that spins so fast
he's digging, I'm sitting
he's jumping, I'm frozen
next time, next time
two silhouettes, framed by the tide
bring back a time, just one more ride
me, 2003
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour:
I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locust's. It wasn't my fault!! I swear to God!!
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Encino.
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
I have to recuse myself.
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Charlie Parker. What's that? They have to be alive?!?
20. donald?
Stevie Wonder
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
Does he own Duncan Donuts?
22. what's in your MP3?
my iPod has my stuff, my various band's stuff, and lots of other stuff that's actually good.
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
Why, have you heard something?
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Charlie Freak, Do It Again, Dr. Wu, Jack of Speed, Kings, King of the World, Your Gold Teeth II
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
Did someone die?
User: retrofunk62 | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hey SD fans! Did you guys know that Tom Jones just came out with a new album? I didn't even know until my friend who works at Universal told me. She sent me a link to one of the songs (http://mcms-delivery.virtuebroadcasting.com/deliverMedia.asp?id=54DEFF71-9A90-4522-9CAB-7454C9AA8207) and I just loved it! Anyway, if you want more info, check out tomjones.com. Enjoy~
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. name as you post it here and in the green room
*mollydolly, molly_from_ca, adorableghost
2.how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
*i had mystical visions and cosmic vibrations and was in need of some sugar in my bowl
3.last cd purchase?
*11 tracks of whack over my head
4.first sd release purchase
*aja
5.first sd remaster you purchased?
*cant buy a thrill
6.best sd drummer and for which song?
*carlock/josie/duh
7.best guitar solo/ lead and for which song?
*anything WB did
8.which poster here do you wish posted more?
*Val Valentino
9.favorite time signature
*in one ear and out the other
10.what is your hacking ability?
*you're expecting serious answers?well i'll give you a few...
11.favorite allman song
*blue skies
12.song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
*anything WB sings (sure you got the right gal?)
13.what is your record for most postings in one day here
*i'll go with st. al on that one
14.what is a storm surge
*like a brain freeze
15.post a poem here to share
*"came down from my
ivory tower
and found no world"
16.main reason sd did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
*the stalker loves to travel.....
17.where are the weapons of mass destructon?
*salty walty's pants
18.your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the sd tour?
*sarah m., benefactress of l.a. admission
19.if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to produce/play with, who would it be?
*van morrison-dont sing with him
20.donald?
*norah jones-sing with her
21.how many kids does duncan have now?
*i was absent that day
22.whats in your MP3?
*i'm not that cool
23.have you thought of a career in advertising?
*yes but men in business suits drag me down
24.song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
*fire in the hole
25.how many shows did angel get to this year?
*4
bonus: no but i would like to see the crazy lady's house...both of them
User: juergen muenstermann | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hi there,
As I am moving my household I have to get away with basically all of my record collection. If somebody is interested in
THE STEELY DAN STORY, ABC records sampler from Germany, features 10 songs from the first four albums, 1975, with a lenghty essay in German
would you please contact me ?
Juergen
( who will never forget all the fun of the last Dnsseldorf gig )
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I'm honored that my suggestion was considered let alone taken. I'm getting along with Clas, "it's the end of the world as we know it . . . ."
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
Aja. Green room? I'm still reading the green book.......
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
I was bored at work (always the start of trouble) and was randomly surfing the 'Net. The rest is history. I keep showing up for the parties!
3. last cd purchase?
CORE NYC
4. first steely dan release purchase
AJA
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
Haven't
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Whoever's on King of the World
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Johnny Marr/"What Difference Does it Make?"
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Everyone from the Lovefest of Summer 2000
11. favorite allman song
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Oh geez, don't make me admit it......okay, "Livin' On A Prayer".
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
Hard to say, my previous job left me with a AWFUL LOT of time on my hands..........
14. what is a storm surge
Something that snorkelers and divers hate.
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
I'm sure Clas has something to do with it
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Same place they always were-in George Bush's imagination
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Donald Fagen and Lady Bayside, Jones Beach
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
Depends-advertising what?
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
King of the World
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
More than anyone else, except Pete Fogel.
Aja
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: wow - what a creative crew we have here - even got some lurkers out - keep them coming, especially those on the list requesting to post more
my personal answer to the poster i wish posted more is none other than green earrings, but he knows that...but i should probably take my own test, but i'll take it as a make up exam when you all are done with it...
speaking of halloween, my story for today - back in 1989 or 90, we went to a halloween party (as Calvin and Suzie, of course) and there was this guy dressed in a dark navy blue sweatpants outfit with tiny gold and silver star stickers all over it - when i asked him what he was supposed to be he said:
"why i'm the thousand points of light"
the stupidity remains to today, now doesn't it...
kaboomy
calling aus, worm, ole, angel, snakehips, mc, neg girl, where are you car 54?
User: hypothetical friend | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
i go by hypothetical friend in my current incarnation. the green room gives me vertigo
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
i tripped and fell into a hole, the guestbook caught me by the ankles. i come back because i can't forget mother's milk
3. last cd purchase?
the white stripes elephant. good for when you are feeling trashy. nuisances of zeppelin, joy division, old rolling stones with a skosh of talking heads. no ice
4. first steely dan release purchase
CBAT
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
citizen dan - so i could have most SD songs in my car for emergencies. like, what if i had to make out at the last minute? throw on tunes from katie lied and pucker up!
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
well, i dunno. i vote for peter erskine on the '93(?) tour. WOW
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
kid c
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
roy scam and because today is halloween: kinky
9. favorite time signature
love and kisses,
father time
10. what is your hacking ability
pretty good except for the california folks, who are behind a firewall
11. favorite allman song
sweet melissa
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
picture by kid rock & sheryl crow
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
um, about 83
14. what is a storm surge
from the vantage point of the eye, it simply appears to be lashes
15. post a poem here to share
you remind me of what i am
a promise unspoken
still in keeping
wait for the muse
to whisper discreetly
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
on a previous european jaunt, walt got the clapp. donald didn't want to waste all that time again trying to convince him it was different from getting applause
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
...pen mightier than sword... i'd say they are in the ink
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
me, because i didn't get to see them YET i didn't allow myself to slip into a shame spiral
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
pete townshend
20. donald?
paul simon
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
a baker's dozen?
22. what's in your MP3?
is this the RIAA again? i thought i told you guys all 8000 mp3s came from my own cd collection!
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
yes. and let me tell you why you should hire me...
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
i would have needed to hear pixeleen IF i were there, that is
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
don't angels get to see all steely dan shows?
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
no, dionne warwick was stoned when she gave me the directions
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
StAl
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
Um...
3. last cd purchase?
Tower Of Power "What is Hip" Anthology
4. first steely dan release purchase
Vinyl: Greatest Hits (Canada Import)
CD: Aja (Very first CD ever purchased in 1985)
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
Zilch
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Recorded: Gadd, of course
Live: Carlock, of course
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Pat Travers: Boom Boom Out Go The Lights
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Midnight Cruiser
9. favorite time signature
Just coming off peak from a hit of really good blotter
10. what is your hacking ability
I only hack into computers that reside in Marin County
11. favorite allman song
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Blues Beach...oh wait, it's the other way around...
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
I'm bored enough to take this silly test but not that bored.
14. what is a storm surge
That crap in Marjorie's head
15. post a poem here to share
Poetry is for fairies
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
George W. Bush
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
What weapons? George Bush's esophagus...gag, choke, spew....
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Mrs. Alphonzo for putting up with my follies
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Stark Naked and the Car Thieves (a real band from SF circa 1968)
20. donald?
Therefore I am
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
Does anyone really know?
22. what's in your MP3?
In my MP3? You mean in my MP3 player? About 40 GB's of music...
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
No
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Your Gold Teeth II
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
More than me
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
Yes
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: I'll get back to you with that poem.
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. Here I post as Fiona, but my Green Room name is a secret.
2. Looking for any random Dan thoughts I may wish to comment on.
3 Freddie Hubbard-Straight Life
4. Can't Buy A Thrill
5. Aja
6. Carlock playing his "Josie" solo at Roseland
7. Donald
8. ???
9. what is hacking?
10.Elizabeth Reed, or Gregg Allman's solo version of Midnight Rider
11."Beach Baby"
12.1
13.A storm surge? PMS!!!
14.
15.Eh, catch'em next year.
16.In the Caves of Altimira.
17.Cynthia Calhoun
18.Brian Auger
19.Me
20.I don't know Duncan.
21.Can someone first explain what an MP3 is?
22.No, I can't glad hand anyone, and I refuse to learn how.
23.Your Gold Teeth I
24.3
San Jose? Christ, I lived there a whole week before I got homesick!
User: Zeke | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. Name as you post it here and the green room, If you haven't been banned
Zeke, never seen the green room.
2. How did you find this place and why do you still show up?
I found it around the 93 tour, I think?
3. Last CD purchase.
Eric Clapton, From The Cradle to the Grave, lost my other one.
4. First Steely Dan release purchase.
Pretzel Logic
5. First Steely Dan remaster you purchased.
still waiting on that one
6. Best Steely Dan drummer.
I'm with Clas on this one, Gadd - AJA
7. Best guitar solo/lead and for which song.
Peg, Steely Dan Alive, I think it was the Wad.?
8. Which poster here do you wish posted more.
Don and Walt
9. Favorite time signature.
Leo Kottke does a 12/12, I dig it.
10. What is your hacking ability.
here in the South your sinus can get pretty nasty, I can hang with the best.
11. Favorite Allman song.
Little Martha
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like.
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Godda-Da-Vida
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here.
3
14. what is a storm surge.
can you say, Hurricane Andrew?
15. post a poem here to share
uhh, no.
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour.
Walt's son starts soccer practice 2 weeks after the Maui show.
17. Where are the weapons of mass destruction.
hidden under a mountain in nothern colorado.
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the Steely Dan tour.
The young lady who flashed her boobies to everyone who sat behind her at the West Palm show.
19. If you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
The Subdudes.
20. Donald?
Sade'
21. How many kids does Duncan have?
13
22. What's in your MP3?
ooohh, show and tell!
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
I'd rather pull a hemroid out of my ass with a fingernail clip.
24. song you wish you heard on this years tour but did not.
We're an American Band.
25. How many shows did angel get to this year?
who was her side kick?
26. Do you know the way to San Jose?
No, but if your going to San Fransico, make sure to wear flowers in your hair.
User: HypaGeeeyimpa | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Rodeo Gal, u can rode my rideo any ol' day
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
I wouldn't go there.
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
Yahoo. Why I still show up? Beats me.
3. last cd purchase?
"Noise for Neighbours", Jeff Young
4. first steely dan release purchase
The one with Ricki on it.
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
Don't know.
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Steve Gadd, Aja.
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Carlton, Kid Charlemagne
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Roy Scam
9. favorite time signature
4/4
10. what is your hacking ability
None.
11. favorite allman song
Jessica(?)
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
"Love you more than I can say"
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
Don't know, and I don't wanna know.
14. what is a storm surge
A rainy operation?
15. post a poem here to share
Uhhh, I don't do poems.
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
They didn't sell enough tickets to cover the expenses.
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
In USA and Israel.
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Congeniality? Jon Herrington...
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Gina's next song.
20. donald?
Gina's next song.
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
11?
22. what's in your MP3?
What is in my what?
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
No, that have never entered my mind.
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
All of them.
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
Two, I guess it's two, I should KNOW, but, ok, it's two shows.
User: cara mia over does it | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: from my little history telling portion of the quiz:
"misogynistic"?
Maybe I meant misogynist.
I do that with the word "exhibitionistic" too.
Maybe I trip on too many syllables.
sorry to ruminate and going to Webster's now,
cara mia
User: Um Rotcod | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: cara mia: After the intro, Your Gold Teeth II is 3/4...
Howard: I'll have to give that another listen at home - it's possible for the "solo" they switched channels. The tone sounds nearly the same...I was thinking about the bending, but it's so light... Denny played in the left channel and Skunk in the right during verse, chorus, and bridge. It's possible Skunk switched to the left channel for the solo and Denny joined in on the right at 2:08...
...but sometimes Denny makes a sound the sounds like bending. For example, at the beginning of Parker's Band, Denny has a "crunchY' intro with some warping...but i think that's sliding the fingers through a fret where the pluck or end of the reverb occurs around the ridge (sorry, forgot the real name) that divides the frets...
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: And Dr. Fill has been busy as well. But his latest "Daily Words of Wisdom" kind of makes me wonder, is the guy running a zoo or something?
Check it out:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or click the link above.
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Okay musicians and others, the Under the Banyan Tree's CD-page has been updated. The name of the game is from now on; Yellow Peril. I decided to go for it after StAl told me it was the name an actuall Steely Dan song. I have never heard the song, and that's probably a good thing, but yellow is yellow and Yellow Peril seems to be a pretty cool name? What do you say?
Thanx W1P for coming up with the name.
Check it out, I think this photo could be pretty cool on the inside sleeve.
AND, at the site you'll find my snailmail address, and if you scroll down you'll even find my email, so go ahead, compose, record and send in your stuff to me!
Here:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/sketchesandstrangeloops
Or click at the link above.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: ed - get back to your seat, you didn't answer all the questions
no dark sarcasm in the classroom...
User: cara mia | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Thanks, lp, this looks fun.
1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned:
cara mia (like in 2VN, but my favorite moniker because it's my 13 year old bichons' names)
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
In 1997 I learned over at the Joni playground that one Walter Becker was questionably dissing my Joan (see his notes to his publicist back in '97 with his joke-clamoring to get into the RRHofF), so I checked this place out... saw a LOT of misogynistic bullshit from certain posters while scrolling through, decided to stay and post parodies of Joni's tunes with references to The Dan in mostly benign teasing. At that time used the handle of "Nuthin'HereButtHisStory" or some such cumbersome thing, mainly lurked until word of the new one came out in 1999, met other yellow page fans for the 2000 tour and continue to lurk and meet Dan Fans when travel opportunities arise. I've loved the Dan since 1972 while smokin' with the boys upstairs in my college dorms.
3. last cd purchase?
Luther's latest which kind of disappointed. I hope he recuperates and performs again. His live shows are great.
4. first steely dan release purchase:
CBAT
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased:
Don't think I have broken down for repeat purchases. Still listen to my Citizen compilation when I get nostalgic. I know I am missing a lot. So sue me.
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
mr drum machine on West of Hollywood ;-)
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song:
whoever did Reelin'
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Oleander, Wormy, time guru, Blaze (and his other incarnations), Z and Dr. Warren K, Hat2Flat (Geoff), and that Walter Becker too...
9. favorite time signature
always was a sucker for 3/4. ARE there any Dan tunes in waltz time?
Donald's version of Maxine maybe?
10. what is your hacking ability:
Don't have the heart nor ethics to do such dastardly deeds in the cyber world. Sometimes have had a cough that could be described as such...
11. favorite allman song
FREEBIRD! of course
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like:
has never happened... usually I despise the song-du-jour of the aurally-impaired masses.
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
Probably 6 or so, until I was told to "take it into chat!" by some directive individual who only valued HIS postings and exchanges... lol...
14. what is a storm surge
What lightning did this past summer when it fried all my electronics
15. post a poem here to share
"I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away..." (Hejira by Joni Mitchell 1976)
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour:
Pissed maybe at not being appreciated enough by prolific poster Clas? lol
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
In Celine Dion's vocal chords!
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Always the incomparable Hoops and Ms Moonflower---kisses to you both!
Chris from Great Britain comes in a close second.
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Would never dictate something like that.
20. donald?
Well maybe some kind of collaboration with L Titus
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
Sorry, I don't keep up with nor have much in common with the pro-natalist types and baby announcements in this forum, nice as I'm sure he/she is.
22. what's in your MP3?
still in the dark ages of turntables and CD's
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
never wanted to push products folks really don't need, and my career as an underpaid nurse proves it.
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Pixeleen but hearing Caves and EMG made up for it tenfold
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
I'm guessing 5. Happy to meet her in NYC at Roseland!
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
{{{{{Woe-woe-woe-woe-woe-woe-woe-woe-woe...wa-woe}}}}}
L-U-V,
cara mia
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N !!!!!!
E V E R Y O N E
* mmmmmmmmwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!* M.
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Howard - have to listen to that solo again. Are going down to the country house over the weekend, there's where the CD is.
User: Howard | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message:
Two guitar players on the AMD solo? Hadn't realised that, but as the second half of the solo is a two-part guitar thing this is possible. Could also be the same player multi-tracked?
One thing though - the *first* part of the solo is the only bit that *does* use a bend. Since Denny was a strictly no-bends, no-vibrato kind of guy, surely it must be Skunk that plays the first half of the solo, with denny (perhaps) joining him in the second half?
Howard
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: miss miss i've finished1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
Duncan / Roofus-da-doofus
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
I really can't remember how i found this place, I just did, I show up because this is where my friends hang out.
3. last cd purchase?
EMG
4. first steely dan release purchase
the nightfly
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
Cant Buy A Thrill
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Keith Carlock - EMG
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Skunk / boston rag Walt / chain lightning (PJ)
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Midnight Cruiser / Cyn / eLLe / Hank G (my fav)
9. favorite time signature
4-9
10. what is your hacking ability
fair to poor
11. favorite allman song
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Charlene- I've never been to me
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
not sure about day postings but my own personal record is 7 in a row.
14. what is a storm surge
is'nt he a swedish photogher
15. post a poem here to share
mary had a little lamb
then one day it started gruntin
she took it to the vets
who kicked it's little ............
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
French people / france / french things ''cheese eating surrender monkeys''
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
david blane has them.
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
NYBill
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
George Michael
20. donald?
duck
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
3 (linda's a babe)
22. what's in your MP3?
don't have a player, but i do have a separate hard drive full of everything i own.
its 6.2gb 3211 flies as wee speak
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
no, i have a thing about lies & deciet
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
EMG / any would have been nice
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
all of them ?
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 31
Message: Hi LP - this quiz was long overdue, but greatly appreciated. Mine's long ... and so is this post ...
1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
SteveeDan
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
I first found the chat room and during my first time there, I saw people asking me if I ever go to the guestbook. Not knowing what that was at the time, I asked, and then I have been checking this place out for almost 3 years now. I still show up because I have met some great people here and have been made aware of things that I would never have known about otherwise. I have gained so much from my time here that those few idiots who try to make other peopleÆs life miserable here (I guess theyÆre trying to share the wealth à) donÆt have any impact on me. ItÆs sort of like a red light at an intersection on your way to where you want to go. ItÆs a minor inconvenience à and trivial at best.
3. last cd purchase?
YGKÆs Core CDs à yep. Both of them. (Yes Malcolm, itÆs really true.)
4. first steely dan release purchase
1974 û Pretzel Logic on vinyl à when that album was a new release.
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
A Decade Of Steely Dan û on CD of course
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Steve Gadd û Aja à this one seems kind of obvious. The ôin 2 takesö story behind this is legendary.
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Denny Dias û Your Gold Teeth II (à holy fuck! à says it all.)
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
The SD Webdrone à for interesting facts and features
9. favorite time signature
4/4 (four on the floor)
10. what is your hacking ability
virtually non-existent à I have my hacker friends do it if I need it.
11. favorite allman song
Whipping Post
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Song Sung Blue û Neil Diamond
Earrache My Eye û Cheech and Chong (I love novelty songs)
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
At least 3, maybe as many as 5 à SHAMELESS PLUGGING and Etc.
14. what is a storm surge
The last thing the captain sees before his vessel is scuttled.
15. post a poem here to share
The first thing that came into my mind was Monty PythonÆs rendition of Mary Had A Little Lamb:
à and it goes like this à
Mary had a little lamb
And it was always gruntinÆ
She tied it to a five bar gate
And Kick itÆs little Cunt in
û Dedicated to Rodeo Girl
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific
as part of the 2003 tour
Possibly due to scheduling conflicts, but, mainly à insanity
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Here at the western world
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Jon Herington û a truly nice guy, and a real class act.
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Joni Mitchell û both have boundless imaginations and incredible intellect
20. donald?
Pat Metheny û between the two of them, a new genre of modern jazz might be spawned
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
3 û counting himself !!! Just like me.
22. what's in your MP3?
My MP3 collection? Or the MP3Æs on our website: www.pretzellogicband.com - Steely Dan covers à
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
I had one, but I eventually came to my senses.
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Your Gold Teeth II, and True Companion
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
3 û Paso Robles, Roseland, and Los Angeles
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
IÆve got lots of friends in San Jose, IÆm going back to find some piece of mind in San Jose
(in otherwords, yes, just south of Snodfart (Stanford scrambled))
Thanks for my parking validation professor ...
SteveeDan
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Thanks for the thoughts and well wishes, everyone. Things are getting back to normal here in the city, but the fire is still raging out in the backcountry. Fortunately, rain is a possibility in the forecast.
I feel like I've been through hell and back. The fireline was 45 miles long, with 100 foot flames, and wind gusts whipped the fire into flame tornadoes (I think they showed that on CNN). I don't even think Dante imagined what that looks like.
Angel, Herm, and ed, hope you all are safe and that the air is clearing up where you are!
Aja
User: ed_beatty | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: ed_beatty
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
IÆve been around since the beginning,who knows why?
3. last cd purchase?
Impulse purchase of EMG
4. first steely dan release purchase
CANÆT BUY A THRILL
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
ALL THAT STUFF IN THE 80ÆS
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Aja Rick Marotta
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Too many-too many
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
9. favorite time signature
time to go home
10. what is your hacking ability
give me some hacking space
11. favorite allman song
who?
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
I do not have that problem
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
3 maybe 4àprobably just before a tour or release
14. what is a storm surge
What people do
15. post a poem here to share
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
Been there done that
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Skunk Baxter has them
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Hoops
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
I donÆt believe I would be so presumptous
20. donald?
Hey 19 ûsee 19
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
22. what's in your MP3?
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Pixeleen
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
Not enough
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
User: luckless pedestrian | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: so far, everyone has passed
even you, timg... ;p
keep em comin'
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
W1P
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
Looking for info about Steely Dan tribute bands
3. last cd purchase?
The Thorns & The Ultimate Air Guitar Album produced by Brian May
4. first steely dan release purchase
The Do It Again Single
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
Did Citizen contain re-masters?
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Gaddzooks
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
Kid Charlemenge by far
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
Lovebob & Oleander
9. favorite time signature
7/4 Money
10. what is your hacking ability
These fires have increased it exponentially
11. favorite allman song
Elizabeth Reed
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Wheel in the Sky, Journey
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
Somewhere north of 10 -- usually when I was promoting some Pink Floyd
14. what is a storm surge
A weatherman on Telemundo?
15. post a poem here to share
"I'm a moose, you're a moose, we are mooses all, and when we get together, we give the moose call MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE"
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
Why bother?
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Orlando & Northern Florida -- Britney, Backstreet, O-Town, Creed
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Not Herrington, who sucks.
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
I've said it here many time MIKE KENEALLY -- can you imagine it? Finally somebody with sufficient chops to satisfy Walt/Don but who would drag them back into rock n roll.
20. donald?
what were you doing on the vocal on Aja @ Universal?
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
Check with Banquo
22. what's in your MP3?
No tengo. My CD player has the rough mix demo of Tortfeasor's Any Major Dude, An Allstar Lineup Performing the Songs of Pink Floyd (have I mentioned that Robben Ford's Any Colour You Like is stunning), Citizen Steely Dan Disc # 2, Derek & The Dominoes Layla and Other Love Songs, The Ultimate Air Guitar Album, Disc 2, Supertramp Crime of the Century
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
Yeah, but when I've seen the piss poor job I've done promoting A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd I can see that I best stay in law
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
Night by Night
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
Steely Dan shows?
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
Yeah, take the 101 north (don't be confused by the fact that it goes east/west through the San Fernando Valley -- take it east to go north)
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
BINKY
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
WANDERED IN AND SD POOP
3. last cd purchase?
KAMAKIRIAD DVD - A
4. first steely dan release purchase
45 OF DO IT AGAIN
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
CITIZEN SD
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
HAL BLAINE/ANY WORLD
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
JAY GRAYDON/PEG
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
FRANK SINATRA
9. favorite time signature
SIX O'FIVE
10. what is your hacking ability
CAN'T HACK SHIT ANYMORE, MAHHNN, TOO FRIED
11. favorite allman song
ANYTHING ON HITTIN THE NOTE
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
OUT TO LUNCH AND DON'T WORRY KYOKO
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
AS MANY AS IT TOOK TO BE RIGHT
14. what is a storm surge
IN MY PANTS SOMETIMES
15. post a poem here to share
NAH...TOO SHY
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
RISK OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
STEVEEDAN'S ASS-CRACK CAM
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
MS. CONGENIALITY CALLIE; MR. CONGEE HERINGTON
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
DAVID LEE ROTH
20. donald?
STING (CAN YOU HEAR THE EVIL CRIES?)
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
ON EARTH, LHASA OR MIZAR 5?
22. what's in your MP3?
4Q
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
EAT MY SHORTS
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
MY SHARONA AND...PIXELEEN
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
WITH OR W/O TRUSTY ANGEL GIRLS?
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
DRIVE WEST ON SUNSET,
SHIFT LEFT AND
MOVIN' ON METAL,
GET OFF AT FUNWAY WEST-
DRIVE PAST THE BURNLINE.
User: Rodney King | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Can't we all just get along?
I mean you all' love bongs and wheat germ.
User: gimt | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
too numerous in an annelidian way
what's the green room?
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
I was desperate to hear about TaN in late 1999
3. last cd purchase?
mostly vinyl of late
blind boys of alabama's latest and a preorder Sarah McLachlan
4. first steely dan release purchase
CBAT - 72
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
the box set count? Katy Lied
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Gadd hands down - Aja runner up Perdie HOme At Last
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
BAd Sneakers - Walt
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
timg
9. favorite time signature
einsteinian
10. what is your hacking ability
guitars, bass, keyboard
11. favorite allman song
melissa
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
Roam - B52's
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
do mp's count?
14. what is a storm surge
the quick lineup for beers when walter sings
15. post a poem here to share
and if a moment could be defined, is it still mine?
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
those english girls in the cab ride weren't scary enough?
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
in a double wide down in Fairhope Alabama
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Auss had some great color
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
don
20. donald?
walt
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
ask him between beers
22. what's in your MP3?
what's on your turntable?
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
no but I advertise my career
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
THings I miss the most
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
a few more than thou
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: 1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
Banned Roll-on
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
Took a wrong turn at Albuquerque while listening to Zappa's Yellow Snow
3. last cd purchase?
sorry, only vinyl and DVD-A for me
4. first steely dan release purchase
bought the REEL (to reel) Sun Mountain tapes from Kenny Vance for a mere precious stone from a Cracker Jack box
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
The New and Improved Steely Dan Crunch Berries Cereal
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
Besides Keith Carlock for Cubana Chant...Jeff Porcaro - Your Gold Teeth II
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
(tie) Denny Dias - YGTII and Carlton for KidC
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
not me
9. favorite time signature
69/4
10. what is your hacking ability
Catching a Luden's with my tongue
11. favorite allman song
YMCA...oh, Allman, like Bros, not All Man...Whipping Post or Jessica
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
the needle skipping song by Kraftwerk
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
right now I have 3 post-its on my iMac
14. what is a storm surge
What happens at a maternity clinic 9 months after a nasty stay inside weather
15. post a poem here to share
heat tossed
time crossed
love lost
sleepy
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
couldn't reason with the hurricane season
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Walter's backyard
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
Cynthia Calhoun...she's got that wrist point down
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
Bj°rk to find what the deal was with that swan
20. donald?
Ray Charles
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
enough to populate half of Aberdeen
22. what's in your MP3?
show me yours and I'll show you mine
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
No, are you selling?
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
the one and only one: PIXELEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
all except the Dallas show
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
run away from the smoke!
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: TESTING 1-2-3, is this thing on? ppft, pppft...
Okay kids, it's that time of year again - get your #2 pencils out, no calculators or encyclopedias allowed, shoes and socks not required, dogs must be on a leash, check all coats, bags, & IP's at the door, no food or drink allowed, bathrooms are down the hall on the right (see me for a pass), and no looking on your neighbors screen
do your best, fill in all answers - you are graded on the completely subjective quality of your answers - there is no appeal, we don't need no education...
1. name as you post it here and the green room, if you haven't been banned
2. how did you find this place and why do you still show up?
3. last cd purchase?
4. first steely dan release purchase
5. first steely dan remaster you purchased
6. best steely dan drummer and for which song
7. best guitar solo/lead and for which song
8. which poster here do you wish posted more
9. favorite time signature
10. what is your hacking ability
11. favorite allman song
12. song that everyone you know thinks it sounds like nails on a chalkboard that you secretly like
13. what is your record for most postings in one day here (use of archives is allowed)
14. what is a storm surge
15. post a poem here to share
16. main reason steely dan did not travel over the pond or all the way over the pacific as part of the 2003 tour
17. where are the weapons of mass destruction?
18. your vote for the winner of the congeniality award during the steely dan tour?
19. if you could tell walter becker which band/musician he had to either/both produce/play with, who would it be?
20. donald?
21. how many kids does duncan have now?
22. what's in your MP3?
23. have you thought of a career in advertising?
24. song you wish you heard on the tour this year but did not
25. how many shows did angel get to this year?
bonus: do you know the way to san jose?
times up, kids - clean off your screen before leaving the building, we aren't responsible for items left behind, take your conversation outside so the other loser kids can continue working, and don't forget to have the receptionist stamp your parking ticket to get out of the garage
have a nice day, sorry it's long but it's been a while since we have done this and the tour is over so we have nothing to do
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Hi everyone
Mucho thanks for all the great messages & well wishes that have come our way in the last couple of weeks.
ItÆs been busy here to say the least & yes Jjeff, Daniel did not like his bro to start with but loves him now.
We had a few problems with bad behaviour, the usual stuff crying ,stamping of feet spitting out of dummies.
But thatÆs enough of me.
We took a car ride at the weekend & this gave me the chance to EMG-ASIZE Oliver, he fell asleep as did Dan, a comment on the car temp & not the music.
Been listening to Piano Jazz again this week, what a great show that was.
I broke the dvd cover for EMG last night, there not very good are they.
And now a new feature
æÆCollective noun of the weekÆÆ
ant fuckers, a collection of font fanciers.
Read on the net about a stalker based card collection game called æÆrode-gi-ohÆÆ must be a mistake though.
LP, how about a test for all the post tour/pre christmas newbies lurking.
Or a poll, lets discuss the cheapest & fastes way for the boys to raise cash before xmas.
(...hint....live dvd....roseland II)
Xxxxxx to all on the board
db
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: LOL - yes, that's a good one!
santana and just about everyone on his last cd too
User: hypothetical friend | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: lp- what about run dmc and aerosmith for a weird hookup?
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Bassicinstinct- Yes, I have it, that was the one I was referring to....before Elvis started to become more crooner style, like in his punky funky days, i never would have suspected they be together,(re the newest thread), and sound so excellent.....like if you heard someone say, yeah Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach did an album together, you would be like, wha?.....thats the best way I could explain it this early in the morning, try me later after my organic costa rican red eye
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: BassicInstinct, I agree with you. Elvis and Burt are excellent on their CD.
Anyone besides me listening to Lyle Lovett's new CD ?
Hope everyone in Cali is alright. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Off to fix Halloween goodies ! M
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Rodeo Girl,
Your idiosyncrasies are beyond my comprehension. If you insist on giving your cockeyed dissertations here and on the blue, at least learn proper use of the English language. Obviously, you have no self respect if you allow yourself to be viewed as such a halfwit. But then, why WOULD you have self respect?
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: angel: yes indeed, that's Denny at first, but Denny does play the same notes as Skunk starting at the 2:08 mark - different style, but same notes - like Joe Henderson and Kenny Dorham on Our Thing or Una Mas or Denny and Skunk with the intro to Bodhisattva (main vamp which is repeated a number of times)
Clas: you bet - definitely Omartian
YGK: maybe Jerome Aniton was Nostradamus?
Stay safe out there - rain on the way we hope, but not *too* much
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Mu: I checked my SD Website for what notes I have on AMD and found this piece of information.
According to Martijn de Konig's site, The guitar solo at 2:03, the first part was played by Denny and the second part by Skunk, because Denny Dias did not want to play with vibrato.
User: Claus Trophobia | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Coming up next;
Has our Dr. Fill gone religious? Check out his web-page and find out:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or click the link above.
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Yeah Stevee, that's what I said; A9 = A G B C# E
Mu - I had it in the back of my head, Dean Parks on acoustic. And yes, Omartian on the Fender Rhodes, not Fagen.
Are you saying there are two sologuitars on the solo, the solo over the verse chords?
I've got my copy down at the C-house. Have to take a listen when I get down there.
I love those songs, they got a special place in my heart, Ricki, Any Major Dude, Night by Night, Barrytown. It's cool playing along with them.
One cool thing is the slide guitar (?) coming in in the last verse of Barrytown, kind of keeping one note over the chord's A - Bm - D - E/D
But I turn off the CD when it reaches East St Louis Toodleooooo...
User: bassicinstinct | Month: 9 | Day: 30
Message: Mollydolly:
Try the "Painted from Memory"album. Elvis and Burt at something approaching their very best IMHO.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Nice work on AMG. What a great guitar song. They should do it live in tandem with Western World. Excuse the horns.
User: ¦ know | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: damn - both Dias and Skunk play on the solo (which I guess makes that a duo) after the bridge in their requisite channel...how did I miss that? dias really starts it and Skunk joins in after 2 bars (2:03) and a pause for a bar (2:08) now in unison...
So:
Any Major Dude:
Drums: Jim Gordon
Bass: Chuck Rainey
Acoustic Guitars: Dean Parks, Ben Benay
Electric guitars: Denny Dias (left channel + duo); Skunk Baxter (right channel + duo)
Fender Rhodes: Michael Omartian
Percussion: Victor Feldman (tambourine):
Backing Vocals: Donald Fagen
User: oops | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: ...leaving Benay in the *left* channel.
User: Doctor M¦ | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Skunk's accents don't come in until the chorus (chord strums) and then second verse...not in verse 1. Confirmed there are 2 acoustic guitars (easiest to hear in the intro and first verse). The one in the right channel is a little more rhythmic so it MIGHT be Parks leaving Benay in the right channel. He has a light touch in the Stevie Wonder albums from the 70s...but that's a wild guess...
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: angel: I'm listening by headphones now. slight alteration...
Any Major Dude:
Drums: Jim Gordon
Bass: Chuck Rainey
Acoustic Guitars: Dean Parks, Ben Benay
Electric guitars: Denny Dias (left channel); Skunk Baxter (right channel + solo)
Fender Rhodes: Michael Omartian
Percussion: Victor Feldman (tambourine):
Backing Vocals: Donald Fagen
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Rajah- In the current issue of Downbeat, Elvis is profiled and talks about him and Diana saying that she has been writing songs and that he's not to worried over whatever influences two two have one another in terms of performance or songwriting. It's the November 2003 issue and I think it's still out. Get it while you can.
User: Rodeo Girl in search of some duck tape 4 Stevee's Wonder Mouth | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Anyone got any duck tape they could spare for Stevee's running toilet mouth?
Give it a break dude.
You are wearing out your key bored. Get a life! Talk to your rt hand please not me ~ I do not give a rats arse what U say ~ U boar me to death! Same 4 Fiona on her mighty broom stick it where the sun don't shine witchy (the broom handle).
Rodeo Girl
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: angel, Clas: This is what I hear/guess:
Any Major Dude:
Drums: Jim Gordon
Bass: Chuck Rainey
Acoustic Guitars: Dean Parks, Ben Benay
Electric guitars: Denny Dias (left channel); Skunk Baxter (solo)
Fender Rhodes: Michael Omartian
Percussion: Victor Feldman (tambourine):
Backing Vocals: Donald Fagen
Any Major Dude has such a pure sound and a very natural slight echo...very nice
SteveE: I tried it - now my hand is cramped like a claw...
Hope the predictions are right and rain is on its way to SoCal this weekend
User: Dear HyperGimp, | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: THANKS!
Rodeo Girl
Good to know not everyone is a moron here.
User: md | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: and while i'm on it, that is a live show not to be missed, especially when he turns off all mics and speakers,etc. and uses just his voice to reach even the back of the venue...magnificent
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Raj-possibly as a result of her union with Elvis, she is known now to be dabbling in songwriting....wait for it
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Molly - I'm a huge Diana Krall fan, such an icy hot singer of the ballads, tremendous piano style. She doesn't write songs, however, so look for a collaboration with new spouse Elvis.
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Elvis C. and Burt B.....well maybe now I would think of combining them come to think of it, Elvis is becoming quite the crooner....
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: C'mon, it's Frank and Dinah Shore. Seriously, Clapton and Duane.
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: at least half of the acts on The Band's The Last Waltz.
User: HyperGimp | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Elton John and Eminem. LMAO
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: new thread alert:
what combination of a musician from one bad, playing with another band that you wouldn't think about combining but when you heard it, it worked great?
to explain by example:
david bowie and pat metheny on the soundtrack to "falcon and the snowmen"
bb king and U2 on "when love comes to town"
User: HyperGimp | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: I think Rodeo Girl's a babe
User: SteveeDan (I never seen you looking so bad my funky one ...) | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Did anybody hear anything ?
I didn't think so.
User: To my HAPPY HACKER | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message:
Welcome to the end of your nightmares, beauty and truth fans! The world is young, your soul is free, and a naked celebrity is dying to talk to you about your most intimate secrets right now.
Rodeo Girl
PS could you please put your clothes on dude
User: Stolen Haiku 4 U you wetards of the green spam can | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message:
whip cream her to death,
pelt her bad with marshmellows...
she'll laugh, be your friend
á
User: For Fiona Snapple & Stevee Pevee and the other sleeping Winkles of the Green Rm Time to WAKE UP FOOLS SMELL THE JAVA | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: TWICE AS ALIVE
Chanteuse Billie Holiday believed a good singer should never sing a song the same way twice. If you use all the same phrasing and melody, you're failing your art. All the tantric sex teachers say an artful lover never makes love the same way twice. The only Zen master I know -- whose name I can't tell you because she changes it every week, and I haven't heard the latest one -- likes to quote the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus: "You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you."
Wake up fools if I was really on iggy by U you would shut the f up and stop bringing up my name. You sound like Pete and boring Repete!
Rodeo Girl
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Rodeo Slut,please keep out of the blue book. Your sick, mindless drivel could be pitied if it weren't for the fact that you are inherently evil. No wonder your life is sooooo empty. F*** off. YOU are a stalker!!
User: SteveeDan (Not just any Major Dude ...) | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Clas - on Any Major Dude, we play it very close to the original recording. Remember those Mu Major chords. They're everywhere. So An A9 to me, in this context, is clustered A2 (which could also be called an A Mu Major)chord. Somethimes it's an A7 Mu Major voiced like this:
Left Hand/Right Hand: A/G-B-C#-E ... this is a very tight, and simply constructed chord that is actually a fairly complex chord. But it has that signature Fagen-Mu chording sound that is all over their music from that era ... mainly, the first 3 studio albums. I hope this helps.
Also, the 1996 version of "Dude" was updated and the arrangement was a bit more complex than the original studio version.
... and on a different note ...
To the Iggy Girl ... or, more correctly, about her ...
let's see how many more people can be set to "ignore" by this weak-minded fool. Eventually, everyone will be set to "ignore".
You know what would be a lot easier? Leave and don't come back.
SteveeDan
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: "the boardwalk, the lovers, the house on fiiiyah"
Sounds a bit prophetic, eh?
ygk
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Yeah Ange, it's said on the Steely-web-page that Skunk plays the solo on AMD.
http://www.steelydan.com/contest1.html
Who plays the acoustic guitar(s)?
God knows they could used him in Manassas -96.
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Howard: Regarding the guitar on AMD. This question I will throw to Mu, who once explained it to me. I believe one of the guitarists is Ben Benay. I forget who the other is, though it probably is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. I have the nifty remaster liner notes (thanks Tones) ;-) and I believe the band itself isn't mentioned at all. It only gives thanks to the list of hired guns.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Howard - go to Andy's site and listen. Manassas -96, I can hear the Fender Rhodes playing more than 5th's during the guitar hooks.
(amazingly crappy performance, but, what the hell...)
User: Howard | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: Clas - the chords that go under that guitar hook on AMD are just plain "5 chords" aren't they, i.e they just play perfect fiftths built on A and G?
Playing G9 instead of G7 just before the guitar hook starts sounds fine to me - I'd have to listen to the song again to check, but it may be that the guitar plays G7 and the keyboards use G9.
Angel - I had always figured that the electric guitar work on this track was probably shared between Jeff Skunk Baxter (solo) and Denny Dias (guitar hook). BUT - the credits page at sd.com doesn't mention either of these guys for the album. Can this be right? Anyone?
Howard
User: Someone @ the Steely Dan website is a HACKER AND STALKER!!! This is not a new problem read this! | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: ááRe: Hacking
Subject: Re: NO, it is NOT acceptable.
Posted by: Towanda
Posted on: Thursday, August 14th 2003 at 12:16 pm
Thread info: 2 Replies, 43 Items in Thread
I had it happen to me a few years ago. I received email threats and other correspondence from someone in management with the rock group Journey (Journey happens to be my all-time favorite band and Steve Perry is my all-time favorite singer). This person not only slandered Steve Perry all over the place, telling me personal, intimate secrets about him and the other band members that NOBODY has a right to know, but he also stalked me on other web sites, sent emails and threats to me, (which I printed out and have a stack of over 120 pages to prove it), and then, as he promised he would, he sent me malicious code, and crashed my hard drive. I had my hard drive traced by some computer geek friends of mine, and they told me my hard drive crash did, indeed, come from malicious code sent to me through the Journey web site. Subsequently, after I pestered them all for several months about it, the guy was fired. He's currently been banished to working in Europe because he's been blackballed from working in the music industry here.
But, he's still out there and still causes other friends of mine, and fellow Journey fans, a lot of grief and harrassment. He may never go away, but stalkers CAN be stopped.
My advice: print out any and all correspondence that you receive, even if it's instant messages. Copy them and paste them into an email and send it to yourself, then print it, and keep track of all the harrassment with dates, URL addresses, etc.
Then, go to the police, like I did, and put it on file. If the damage done to you is $40K or more, the FBI also can be contacted, and they will investigate it. Once the information is on file with the police, a warrant can be sent out for an arrest, and/or it can be used in a court of law against that person later on. I learned all this when it happened to me.
Then, send all the correspondence to several other trusted friends around the country, like I did, and the next time you hear from that stalker, let him/her know that any further harrassment will result not ONLY in his arrest and prosecution, but all the emails he sent will be published by various friends in various states, on many other web sites.
That's how I dealt with it. You have the power to stop jerks like that. To this day, my stalker jerkfaced ex-Journey employee still harrasses other people, but when I threatened to PUBLISH all his correspondence on another Journey web site that I volunteer on, he stopped bugging me.
I still love Journey and the music of Steve Perry, and this one human being will never take that away from me. Don't give anybody that power over you. no matter what.
As a matter of fact, I met with Journey's road manager in June and told him of this incident. He was suddenly my bestest friend after I explained I had evidence against the management of the band, and would use it if necessary. :)
And in a related note, last weekend, I met and interviewed Gregg Rolie (founder of Santana and Journey) and Kevin Chalfant (lead singer of The Storm), who are both related to Journey.......I met Mike Carabello also, who is in Gregg's band, and is also a founder of Santana. It was VERY cool, because THEY are both Rock-N-Roll Hall of Famers, but THEY treated me with kindness and respect. It's a shame that Journey's management couldn't do the same.
The losers who stalk and harrass people on the internet are sad human beings who need to feel what little power and self esteem they can from the abuse they cause others. Decent people, whether famous or not, don't feel the need to do such things. You have the power to make them stop. Use it.
Love, Becky
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly." --Richard Bach
User: NYB, HOOPS HAS NOT LIGHTENED UP ONE BIT!!!!!!! | Month: 9 | Day: 29
Message: He is on a never ending power trip and bans someone new every other day. Sorry I can't take SD seriously or any of the groupie fools in the Green Room of glee club knitters and out house sitters who babble about nada constantly.
Fiona U on iggy little fool along with Raj of Erased Brain and Stevee Pevee.
Not the Brightest Bagels at the Brunch any of you.
Rodeo Girl
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Howard - though I have been playing "along" with this "Any Major Dude" a long time, I went in on your homepage, reading your analysis of the song.
Your take on the song is pretty much right on, except for a couple of chords, you say:
D G7 A5
(Any major dude will tell you)
I go:
D - G9 - (the guitar hook:) A9 - G9 - A9 - G9 - A9 - G9 - A9
Left hand/right hand G9 = G F A B D / A9 = A G B C# E
What do you say?
Stevee?
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: W1P:I still listen to Fair Forgery. It's not been back-shelved.
Duncan: So tell us what Dan's reaction to the new edition is, please.
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Mu - damn, it should be "Bobbing for Apple...".
W1P - keyboard you say, Fender Rhodes?
---
Dr. Fill has been busy during the night, read his Daily Words of Wisdom:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or click on the homepage box above.
User: Doctor Mu - Santa Ana was always bad news | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Stay safe out there you SoCal folks. The jet stream is a changin' Texas is shunting the cooler weather your way...
...Yes, this is exactly why Gray Skies Davis was voted out of office..and .I thought FEMA WAS the Fed branch that dealt with disasters....mebbe Bush should piss on it...
User: cara mia mea culpa | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Ed: the dog ate my homework...
(and said with a convincing whine) but I really am having problems retrieving pics from my laptop, as it heats up within minutes of booting and shuts down before I can get them on floppies to feed my desktop. Will do my best to get those NYC Steely Dan moments to you and others.
xoxo,
M
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: "Sun hurls another solar flare at Earth" - that's Drudge's headline right now, so, hey it's Biblical. California tumbling into the sea indeed, I'm sick of this pesky blood orange sky. I believe the Godwhackers may have missed and come a cropper, they never mentioned fire. The TT is filthee, we might live till Saturday.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Yeah, I saw the Newhall Ranch story in the L.A. Daily News today. Had one of those "What the...?" moments.
Okay, I guess they are now gathering up some fire fighters from around the state and Arizona to come in and help. They just hadn't mentioned it anywhere on the news before I went off on my little tangent.
My mantra now is: No wind. Cool temperatures. High humidity.
I can't wait until this is all over so I can, without guilt, go back to my old mantra of: More beer. Less work. Watch TV.
Stay cool.
Herm
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Herm: Yes, hubby just told me the wind shifted. Ack!
Cara Mia: That was exactly my thought, as I read the paper this morning. What a bizarre story to have in the midst of all this. But I couldn't resist posting the Britney comment.
Another ironic article today was the fact that a judge just approved the huge Newhall Ranch development, which is part of the area currently burning, or being threatened. I am so glad it got delayed for several years by lawsuits, otherwise, that would be more to worry about, right now.
User: ed roseland beatty | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Cara Mia
Did you forget me?
ed
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aja, lp, and evyone else stuck with me in these fires ~ I wish you and your homes well.
Up by me, we were first threatened by the Val Verde fire. That slunk southwest to become the Piru fire, (or maybe that was a seperate entity, I'm not sure). I do know, though, that those went even further southwest to become the Fillmore, and Simi Valley fires.
Now we are being threatened again. With wind shifts, the fire has backtracked and crept to Porter Ranch and Stevenson's Ranch. The air up by me is filled with smoke ~ you're gagging as soon as you leave the house.
This is just horrible. I feel scared for myself and for my family and friends, all at the same time while I feel sorry for all of those other people who have lost people and property. And I also feel sorry for the firemen. These men and women have been working around the clock and in some cases, with no rest, or even food. They are so spread out because of the enormity of these fires, that that can't concentrate their efforts on one particular hotspot.
We need help. I've heard that Nevada is sending 22 firemen. But we need help from elsewhere in the state. Sacramento. San Francisco. Fresno. San Jose. Oakland. How about sending one truck company from each large metropolis? Even if they only sent one truck and six people from each of those cities I just mentioned, there'd be at least 30 extra people to help, even if that help is only to work while the other firemen slept. How about Arizona? And more help from the armed forces? This is an emergency situation.
It's also time for Bush to really step up. He is not good in emergency situations. We've all seen that before. FEMA is good, but let's stop these fires before everyone in the Southland needs it.
And let's all hope for rain.
Stay cool,
Herm
User: cara mia | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aja, angel, and others out in Southern California: the widespread devastation with no end in sight is certainly horrific. Reading angel's juxtaposed description of Hollywood news, the Stars Walk of Fame, Britney, etc., seems analogous to Nero's fiddling while Rome burned...
thinking of you all and hope it ends soon,
cara mia
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: The current credits for Tortfeasor's AMD are (1) W1P on lead vocals (and perhaps a backing track that has been recorded but I REALLY don't like); (2) John Would on rhythm guitar (leads have not yet been added); (3) Ira on bass and harmony vocal; (4) Michael Kinkade on drums and other percussion.
John Would will be adding lead guitar and perhaps some keys. Also, we've been in touch with someone very special who has tentatively agreed to play a lead guitar track BUT who will not be available until 12/1 to do so. But since the deadline is 12/15, it looks like that's where it's gonna go.
For those of you who have or who have heard A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd, John Would produced the majority of the tracks and played guitar on High Hopes, Pigs on the Wing, Wish You Were Here, Money (lead vocal too), Breathe, Young Lust, Time, Have a Cigar and San Tropez. He also played accordion, keyboards, banjo and whistle on the foregoing and several other tracks. If you saw the recent VH1 special on Warren Zevon, you will see Mr. Would in the two brief concert clips -- in one of them John is helping to carry Warren off the stage.
In the past 24 months, in addition to A Fair Forgery, John Would has produced (and provided backing musical tracks to) the following albums: Brood or Change by 50 Cent Haircut; I Love You to Death by Yortoise; Left of Me by Sally Semrad; Long Way by Courtney Fairchild; a completed and soon to be released/named album by Danny Allen; a Stanely Recordings compilation entitled "Stanley Room Only"; a completed and soon to be named/released album by Graham Parker (including a track with Lucinda Williams on background vocals); a partially completed and soon to be named/released album by Tom Freund; and at least two tracks on the upcoming and soon to be released album by the Mike Keneally Band.
What did I do to deserve this?
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hey, you California girls!!! Thinkin' 'bout ya. BTW what is it with the annual burn-off? Does the scrub bush grow that fast and die? Too bad you couldn't get all that rain B.C.'s getting. Whistler was at one point an island.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: wow aja - stay safe!
User: Aja.................going home, the smoke is getting worse | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20031028/ap_on_re_us/california_wildfires_127
User: Aja..................back at work, temporarily | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Thanks, Aus, and condolensces on the Yankees. Maybe a few zombies drank straight out of the cocoa shell is what you need to put it all behind you, 'til next year...........
Anyway, I came in to work today to try and get life back to normal, but it's even worse up here. The fireline was about 3-4 miles away, and the air is thick with smoke and ash. You learn to live with this type of condition out in the back country here, but to see it in a business park is startling. This was the first time a fire has come into the city, and it was unimaginable. I was driving home on Sunday morning and suddenly found myself facing a wall of flame many miles long on one side of the highway, billowing black smoke stretching miles into the sky. It was so dark I needed my headlights on. I started to feel panicky, worried that the fire would jump the 10 lane highway. 30 minutes later, it did exactly that.
So far, 300,000+ acres burned, probably over 1,000 houses lost. And Governor Ineffective didn't request assistance in a timely manner. A significant portion of San Diego's firefighters had been sent up to San Bernardino to fight the fires there, and the few that were left couldn't do much but watch the fire engulf entire neighborhoods. Meanwhile, tankers and other available assistance stood idle. Would somebody capable of governing California please come forward?
Signing off from Armageddon,
Aja
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: W1P: Who did the guitar work on AMD?
I am OK here.
Winds have died down a bit, so we hope the firefighters get a handle on some of the fires. Any one of these are killers, but having them all, is making things even worse. Getting information is even more of a problem. Whatever fire is closer to you, seems (perception wise) to not be getting enough air time on the TV and Radio. The fact is, there are too many things going on here right now. Add to that the transit strike and grocery strikes and it is utter chaos. I had my ride call me this morning at 6AM to tell me her car was stolen overnight. Probably because of the transit strike. It leaves me without a ride again. Sigh....
Big article in todays LA Times on how the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are deterorating. They mention in passing that Britney gets one this year. I ask, for what, lack of clothes? Can't be for her music. :-)
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: W1P - I also listened (at Andy's) to a live version of "Any Major Dude", Manassas -96.
Man, that wasn't too good. I guess you beat that one.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: They told a story on the news this morning of a firefighter who lives in Arrowhead and was sent to battle the fires in San Bernardino. In the meantime, his family was evacutated. His in-laws were evacuated from Rancho Cucamonga. While he stayed on the front line, his family and in-laws went to stay with his parents in Chatsworth. They were evacuated last night and now all of them are with friends in Woodland Hills.
Any Major Dude covered by Tortfeasor. A tortfeasor is one who commits a civil wrong -- that is, a wrong actionable in civil court not necessarily a criminal act (though a criminal act can also be a tort). My vocal "performance" on this track qualifies as a tort (not a cake). I'm not making excuses but two things, aside from lack of talent, contributed to this tort -- one, the smoke from the fires really affected me and two I decided to sing the song in my "upper register" because the lower register was boring and dreary. Song doctor John Would is doing everything he can to make the song listenable. There are a number of studio tricks he has that may do the job. Be prepared to be victimized by Tortfeasor upon the release of Yellow Peril
User: Minah of China | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: I went to Andy's page and listened to "Yellow Peril".
Guys, we have nothing to be ashamed of. Send in your songs for the Yellow Peril CD, you'll find my snailmail at:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/sketchesandstrangeloops
Or click the homepage box above.
/C
PS/ Mu - Bobbies for Apple can wait.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aus - we shall overcome, one obstacle at a time, and God knows they're everywhere.
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Errata: CLINICAL
Aus
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Aja and other Dan fans similarly domiciled: I have been watching the news. Praying that you all are safe from those dastardly Santa Ana winds. Please cheque in and let us know everything's ok.
Aus
ps. Congrats to the World Champion Florida Marlins. Slowly emerging from clinincal depression after game 6 loss.
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Wild Bill, I hope you'd say "hi" to me if you were in Green Room and I was there... Even though you left me at the alter, I still love ya ;-) Sad thing about Christina; poor little thing, with her nonexistent figure couldn't be a good stripper if she tried! lmao
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: You are both correct.
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Would this be a good time to say ... "Don't feed the Rodeo Girl..." ?
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Rajah, in her case it's more of a HO-down!
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Hoedown.
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: RODEO GIRL (or guy):
There are no old ladies in the "glee club" or so you call it. You seem like the only senile one. Get help.
User: Enough Already..(nobody cares) | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: "I have been busy during the night, trying to come up with words that will encourage you"
Clas- How about "I'm now going to put a gun in my mouth and will proceed to blow my head off"
That would sure as hell "encourage" me!
User: NYB | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: M.Star,
It's true that I was banned from the Greenroom a while back but I don't
think that Hoops knew who I was when he did it because I was logged in
under another name. I was pretty pissed about it at the time but I guess
Hoops takes his Steely Dan seriously (as many do). I take Steely Dan
seriously too but I also realize that the artists themselves are a couple
of funloving jokesters and that's what I really like about them.
I've been back a couple of times since and was able to have a pretty good
time so I guess Jim's lightened up a bit.
LP,
More people would take Christina Aguilera seriously if she would finally
make up her mind whether she wants to be a musical artist or a stripper.
Her "Words Can't Bring Me Down" single was actually pretty good. The kid
is a bit twisted but if she ever settles down and decides to consider
music as a serious artform in itself rather than a vehicle for visual
shock she might actually become something respectable(musically speaking).
This of course can be said of many of the newer post-video artists.
They simply have to decide whether they are interested in music or show
biz.
User: Fingers | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: LIVE MUSIC AT THE COORS BASS MUSEUM
Horninglow Street
Burton Upon Trent
Staffordshire, England
Following the resounding success of their concert in May,
THE DAN COLLECTIVE return to the museum on
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7th
for more of the same!
DonÆt miss this great chance to enjoy their stunning, all live, 2 hour revue of the great music of Steely Dan.
"close your eyes and you'll be there, it's everything they say..."
Tickets cost ú5.00 and are available from the museum reception, the band direct, or on the door.
tel: 01283 513501 (10am - 5pm)
out of office hours tel: 0845 600 0598
Doors and bar open at 7.30pm.
For further information visit
www.thedancollective.co.uk
www.bass-museum.com
or email
(NOSPAM)ian.monckton@coorsbrewers.com.
User: Dr. Fill | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: Coming up next:
I have been busy during the night, trying to come up with words that will encourage you. Please visit my homepage at:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or just click the URL above.
Stay tuned.
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 28
Message: W1P - "Any Major Dude"? Wow, that's one of my all time favourites. Send it as fast as you can!
And I think we got a name for the CD: "Yellow Peril". Thanks W1P, I din't know it was a Steely Dan song!
It's perfect.
User: SteveeDan ... attempting to bury the hatchet in Rodeo Girl's head | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: So Rodeo Hurl ... what you're really saying here is that ...
You can't tolerate the fact that we can't tolerate you.
Go find your home. It is NOT here.
User: "Aunt Polly" | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Meant to say NY Bill - silly me. He thought the Green Spam Can a riot for kicking him out for having a point of view. He was too funny and smart for the golf green ladies of the Mid West T-Party, glee club and knitting circle.
M.Star*
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Torture is the main attraction.
User: This is Q and A on how to deal with Hoopsa's Glee Club Mid Western Boys (NY Bob was right about all you old lady fools in the glee club too). | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message:
Q. What should you do if you see your ex-husband rolling around
in pain on the ground?
A. Shoot him again.
Q. How can you tell when a man is well-hung?
A. When you can just barely slip your finger in between his neck
and the noose.
Q. Why do little boys whine?
A. Because they're practicing to be men.
Q. How many men does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One - he just holds it up there and waits for the world to revolve
around him.
OR Three - one to screw in the bulb, and two to listen to him
brag about the screwing part.
Q. What do you call a handcuffed man?
A. Trustworthy.
Q. What does it mean when a man is in your bed gasping for breath
and calling your name?
A. You didn't hold the pillow down long enough.
Q. Why does it take 100,000,000 sperm to fertilize one egg?
A. Because not one will stop and ask directions.
Q. Why do female black widow spiders kill their males after
mating?
A. To stop the snoring before it starts.
Q: Why do men whistle when they're sitting on the toilet?
A: Because it helps them remember which end they need to wipe.
Q: What is the difference between men and women?
A: A woman wants one man to satisfy her every need.
A man wants every woman to satisfy his one need.
Q: How does a man keep his youth?
A: By giving her money, furs and diamonds.
Bluz love you are not included in any of the above cause you R my only love! This is how to handle men like Stevee Weinner, Rajneesh of Erase, Dif, seedickrunand trip/Mr. Samspam, hoops, ed &betty (split personality) and their gang of well bonded pals (the green room glee club fart hub from the Mid West).
Rodeo Girl
User: fife | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Just so that there's no misunderstanding, because i think free speech is a wonderous thing, My name has 2 n's not one.
fife
User: SteveeDan ... to bury the hatchet ... wherever it must be buried ... | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: To "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)" - Post #5660
I finally figured out what "iggy" means ... ignore ! ... Sounds great. Problem is ... you cannot iggy me or anyone else here ... you've got quite a problem on your hands ... also ... you have more references for masturbation than I have ever seen. You probably have to clean off your computer screen (and all other surfaces in your living quarters) every quarter hour. Wank-her !
And regarding "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)" Post #5661 - ... this incoherant rant is worth reprinting ...
"was born just before Shirley Maclaine's third face lift so put that in your bong and smoke it. I must be fascinating 4 U to care so much. I knew I was special but not this special! With boys like you girls just have to have toys. If it was not for toys boys Steely Dan might be called a Can of Spam oh silly me that is the name of the sacred green room.
Hoopsa Poopsa you R fruitsa all you Canned Spams ..."
Who here remembers in the DVD "The Making of Aja" when Walter Becker is demo-ing various guitar solo attempts made for the song Peg? There are a few solos that Walter plays back on the console which didn't cut it. Walter turns to the camera and says ... "I think that one speaks for itself." This quote is appropriate for the bizarre behavior for ...
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
(a.k.a.: Trout, Rodeo Girl, and nom ad nauseum ...)
User: The Terminator | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Any bets on Ahhnold raising taxes in Cali-fornya? This will be his excuse to get money from W and declare victory. I bet a dime the big $$ wont flow until he takes the oath of office however. Hasta Lavista Baby...
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Whoa, I can see no one is watching the news. I just came in from the smoke to see what's going on here. YOU GUYS should see what's going on here. San Diego has been declared a Federal Disaster area. Anywhere you go, it's like standing downwind from a barbecue. 200,000+ acres burned, 450+ houses destroyed. All schools are shut down, people are being told to stay inside due to the hazardous air quality. The devastation is unimaginable-and the fireline stretches from one end of San Diego to the other. It's now burning several miles from where I live, in the heart of San Diego.
Back to your regularly scheduled babble.......
Aja
User: Moll the Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Band I thought would be big but never really caught on, The Blessing. The lead singer had a great voice, they were pretty decent musicians and had well written songs.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: wow - now I can't even spin that well!
User: The sweet smell of success | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Bush: Success in Iraq Provoking Attacks
Bush Says U.S. Progress in Iraq Is Making Insurgents 'Desperate' and Fueling Deadly Attacks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Oct. 27 ? President Bush on Monday blamed rising violence in Iraq on U.S. progress being made there, saying coalition successes are making insurgents more desperate.
Bush spoke only hours after bombings in postwar Baghdad killed dozens of people and after conferring at the White House with the top U.S. general and civilian official in Iraq.
"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity that's available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become," Bush told reporters.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031027_1096.html
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Does he even realize how ludicrous this sounds? Are are we going to start judging our success in Iraq by how many people die each week?
Pure propaganda.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: I meant I apologize because of the content of that vocal track. Any major dude . . . . Not to mention I sang "down" instead of "bad"
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: mac user: that's right, you got it - i knew she had it in her ***
she should have stuck with mulan!
too funny
the band i thought would be bigger than they are: luna
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Rodeo Girl, Morningstar, Trout, whoever the f*** you are, why don't you get yourself some lithium or electo shock therapy? You are one f****** bore. Forums like this are not created for your sick brand of mindless banter. You are obviously obsessed and have no life. If you hate everyone so much, why do you spend your entire life on the internet posting gibberish? You are one f***** up groupie. It's you who gives true fans a bad name. And stop bad mouthing the blue book and the green room. They are good people!!
User: New for lp: | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: ...the Christina Aguilera Sings Standards Vol. 1 album. As she ages not so gracefully, Christina reaches out to a whole new audience. The songs:
The Greatest Love of All
I Believe I Can Fly
I Will Always Love You (pt. 1)
...and that's it, because due to her endless vocal runs there is only enough time on the cd for three songs. In fact, "I Will Always Love You" will be continued on Vol. 2., to be released sometime around Christmas '03.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Hey All,
For the record ~ I like Walter's voice. I actually like it a real lot. I bought 11TOW back in '95, I think, and never previously hearing his voice, I was stunned. Stunned at how weird it sounded. My preconcieved expectation was that he was supposed to sound more like Donald than he did ~ which isn't anything like Donald at all. Generally when you listen to bands with multiple singers, they don't sound all that drastically different from one another. Lennon/McCarthy. Jerry and Bobby are different, but not so much that it's jarring. Hell, there are times I listen to a Utopia album, and I have trouble figuring out who's singing lead. So, back then, I really didn't like it, and I only listened to the cd maybe two or three times, then put it away for a while.
Then one day, I put it in the cd carousel, a song came on, and I found that I enjoyed it. Yeah, he's not Donald, but who is? And there are many people who find Donald's voice unlistenable, too. The Rolling Stone record guide from 1991 makes a none-too-subtle jab at his distinctive sound.
Walter's voice fits his music. And his music is much different from the overall "Steely Dan" sound. Donald's isn't. Every song on both of Don's solo cd's could very easily be part of a Dan record. Not so much any of Walter's, though, and that's not a bad thing. This might sound out of left field, but there's always been something about Walt's solo album that sounds like Wall Of Voodoo, especially Surf And/Or Die.
Anyway, that's my two cents for the day. I've got 11TOW in the player right now, and I'm ready to start my day.
Happiness.
Herm
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Indeed.
User: Pinguin in Bondage | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: MU - haven't listen much to Zappa, the only album I got hooked on was "Roxy & Elsewhere".
And it takes more than a Frank Zappa to cure the arctic blues, I tell you...
/C
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: But that's pretty much in the eye of the beholder, isn't it Rajah?
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Clas: the best way to cure the arctic circle blues is to listen to some serious Frank Zappa!!...his work has weird time sigs out the wazoo...great way to teach the kidz counting!!
Check out Intersections from Crosscurrent - 15/4 and 9/4 time signatures...
http://www.laughjangle.com/rituals.htm
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: I agree, there are some great vocal instruments out there who just don't move anyone. Come to think of it, there are some in here too.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: i saw whitney on the boston common in 1986 and she really can't sing, her voice was so quiet - so i figure she is super-miked!
i wish cristina aguilera (sp) would get some professional training - now here is a girl who might have a real strong voice but got packaged poorly
User: NYB | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Call me crazy (many have before...) but I kinda like Walt's singing.
Okay he's a bit flat, but he did a great job on "Hard Up Case" and
I thought he did a good job with "Haitian Divorce" on tour.
I think we're so used to identifing Donald Fagen's voice with Steely Dan
that we just can't see anyone else delivering the vocals for an SD song.
Walt's "Surf And/Or Die" on 11 Tracks Of Whack was a great song and I
don't really think it would have come off the same way with Donald on
vocals.
Think about this for a minute...
How many supposedly "great" vocalists are there that you just can't stand
to listen to? Here's a couple for you.
* Whitney Houston *
There are guitarists who can overplay a solo and Whitney can certainly
OVERSING a song can't she?
* Celine Dion *
Just saying her name makes me cringe...
* Faith Hill *
Need I say more?
The trick to vocalizing a song doesn't necessarily come from ones ability
to hold a note with perfect pitch. It has to do with the delivery.
Have you ever listened to anyone cover a Bob Dylan song and it just
doesn't affect you the same way as when Bob sings it? Check out
Sheryl Crow's version of "Mississipi" and then listen to Bob's version
of it on his "Love and Theft" cd. Who did a better job with this song?
And so I think Walt's voice is fine for the type of music he writes.
User: C & W | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: There's no such thing as a 15/4 time signature. It would be 7/8 altering with 4/8 - 4/8 in that case.
Are you with me doctor?
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Not sure how I missed this but it's great to see another artist taking a stand against the evil empire known as Ticketmaster...
http://www.stringcheeseincident.com/news.ticketmaster.htm#
Mu: Lieberman has no chance. He's down there with that other fellow from North Carolina in the polls. Too bad because even though I don't care for his religious/moral/legislative tendencies, he'd make a fine president.
Nope, it's gonna be Dean and he's gonna lose. People aren't willing to hear the FACT Georgy boy blew it big time. He accurately called it from the start, but the sheep were too dumb to listen.
Sorry Wormy but this is an "open" forum.
StAl
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: John Hihat? Who is that?
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: that was for rodeo babble, not you webboy
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: shaddup, will ya?
User: ? | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: I thought Paige was a girls name?
User: Would the groupie with the WEBTV | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: please change channels.
Thank you in advance for the red aunts in your pants. "Oh Aunt Polly".
RG
User: Moll the Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Walk On
Someone called out to you
And it sounded just like crying
On a street where nobody
Even knows your name
Your mind was getting high on the sweet air
As your spirit was flying
Steam rising from the sidewalks
Of New Orleans after an evening rain
Steam rising from the sidewalks
After an evening rain
And it only made the heat
Feel like it was walking even closer
As you headed up St. Charles
To catch a streetcar named Desire
Young couple struggling in the doorway
Like he was trying to force her
In the distance you swore
You could hear them open fire
Tires squealing in the distance
As you heard them open fire
CHORUS:
Walk on, walk on
Don't look back
Don't ask questions
Don't you try to understand
Walk on, walk on
Straight back down to your hotel room
Where she lies waiting for her man
You're so afraid you might be losing love
That is makes you worry
And you wonder if she's ever seen this
Kind of fear in you
And you think of that young couple
In the doorway
And it makes you hurry
You wonder what kind of fear
They might be living through
Yeah you wonder if
They saw that fear in you
Was listening to John Hiatt, and for some reason this song seemed fitting. xxxxxxxxxx Moll
User: Dear Not even worthy of being called a boy toy | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: I was born just before Shirley Maclaine's third face lift so put that in your bong and smoke it. I must be fascinating 4 U to care so much. I knew I was special but not this special! With boys like you girls just have to have toys. If it was not for toys boys Steely Dan might be called a Can of Spam oh silly me that is the name of the sacred green room.
Hoopsa Poopsa you R fruitsa all you Canned Spams
Rodeo Girl
User: SteveeSpamDan | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Dude U R still on iggy so save it 4 someone who gives a rats arse! What no one does then talk to your right hand. Then try the left one. Perhaps your big toe....
Love,
RG
User: Toys R Us | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Rodeo Girl: How old are u? u sound like a MoRoN. o by the way....FU
User: SteveeDan (one typo, not my computer's fault ...) | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Celebrate your unique specialness ... etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah,
Blehch !!!
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: I find it interesting (more annoying than entertaining, even at that poster's expense) that "she" seems to get along with nobody here, yet, she persists to express her disdain for all who come across her path time and time again.
If an old-time, well-respected medical practitioner were called to intercede, for the sake of humanity ... and for humane purposes, he might prescribe some new batteries for her "midnight special" (her nickname for her dildon'tchknow) would help ... but, ... if batteries can't be found ...
how about a nice heavy MALLET ? The prescription might read something like this:
Pick up mallet, strike head with mallet ... repeat as necessary (often).
She only has one real name ... and it is:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC).
It's as if the color of these pages have let her to believe that we are cowards (which we aren't) or give a hoot (or Hoops) ... (which we don't).
On a more positive note, the only advice I have to offer is ...
Celebrate you unique specialness ...
Just do it somewhere else ... far, far away.
Just a couple of pearls fo' ya.
User: Pearl Purrfect and Proud of It! | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: Ed or is it Betty? Go post on the Blue you Hoops arse kisser from the Mid West give my best to dif who is not so different then you. You R a whole little click of squares!
Raj this just in no one wants to dance with you. I am not the only person that feels this way dude so digest that and spit it in your turban hat that is on backasswards.
Love and kisses,
Rodeo Girl Not Your Average Pearl!
User: LOVE POEM FOR BLUZ | Month: 9 | Day: 27
Message: bottles
Smooth glass from other voices and rooms cars and bars
days past and over
Waiting for the new to dawn on the horizon
staring glaringly out to sea
Thinking of birds and bees
Tangerine and lavendar essence
Olive Bach Flowers
Plenty of hours and life times left ahead
In a carved opium bed
Camels and maidens seen on top of the dunes
The light shimmers
Waves crash
Nightingales sing in the redwoods
The deer sleep under the oak tree
Witches kiss the sky on their brooms
We in twine like fine vines
Love,
Rodeo Girl ~ Your Pearl
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: W1P - that's OK, I am waiting.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Vocal tracks laid down on Saturday. I aplogize in advance but I'm still submitting it.
User: Dr. Fill | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: And don't forget to send in your songs and installations for the 4th Yellow CD:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Wow Angel, Golden Gate, I'd like to see that one some day. Abd the remastered stuff... tell me more about it.
Mu - remember, Becker and Fagen had a 12 year (?) long break from each other, that is probably the reason they are working together today.
Mollies - at the time, being 26 was great. I'm not saying I want to go back.
And I am not saying it was better then, I am just saying that it aint just as good today... uh?
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Tones is Tops!!!!! :-)
Back home after a 2 day visit to the City by the Bay. Tones was a true GB gentleman and we got to hang for a few, at his place of business. A high point, for sure. Picked up some remastered albums (love how King of the World sounds). Then spent our afternoon communing with the Golden Gate Bridge and the Exploratorium. Rode the Bart this morning and left town for a 5 hour trip home. What I came home to is a view out my front door of one of the fires and it is on the ridge out to the west of us. Not a danger to me, but talk about a ring of fire! Herm, I feel for you.
Jimbo: Due to unusual circumstances, I think I own almost all John Tesh's catalog and I know exactly what song you are talking about. There are actually several that I like. My humble opinion is that he has gotten a bum rap musically.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Don't blame the fire on me ~ I didn't vote for Arnold.
By the way, we can now see the fires on top of some hills a few miles away from our house. Before now, all we could see was the smoke.
Scary.
Later,
Herm
User: Squirts please with squirt gun full of cherry wine. | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Please don't sneeze in my direction U perv!
What a whiner of a weinie U R by far the most wetarded in the group!
Rodeo Girl hurling on please
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: ~: That's the debut with the American hits...pretty good, but not their best - a little too straightforward in the production for my taste, except for Hole in the River and Can't Carry On...World Where You Live and Tombstone were strong songs as well as the ubiquitous Don't Dream It's Over. I probably haven't listened to the entire album in 6 or 7 years...
The other 3 are far more interesting and mature albums - I think by Together Alone CH had given up on Columbia promoting the album and touring/late night appearances were sparse...
...my favorite songs/recordings from those are:
from Temple of Low Men:
Into Temptation
When You Come
Never Be the Same
Love This Life
Better Be Home Soon
Woodface:
Fall at Your Feet
Whispers and Moans
Four Seasons in One Day (huge hit overseas - tight, emotional harmonies with Tim and Neil Finn)
There Goes God (tangentially related to the Godwhacker theme - a bit funnier though)
As Sure as I Am
Together Alone:
In My Command
Nails in My Feet (possibly Neil's best song)
Pineapple Head (long lost Rubber Soul song?)
Walking on the Spot
Distant Sun
Catherine Wheels
Private Universe
Fingers of Love
finishes with a rousing title track with amori rhtyms and singing - "Biko"-like
Miraculously, Together Alone is back in print after probably a decade being unavailable...
EMG>>>TvN
User: please | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: rodeo girl
please take your complaints somewhere where others actually care, please
User: Rodeo Girl ABOUT TO HURL!!!!!!!!!!! | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Please forgive the glaringly rushed spelling mistakes in my last post- computer error - not me.
Marjorie
User: @ SETS OF STANDARDS IN THE GREEN ROOM WHAT A BUNCH OF PRUNES! | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Ed Betty tells me to watch my mouth but then it is fine for Mr. Sam to insult me and conitinually get away with it.
Hoopsa Poopsa is clueless about life and how ti run a chat room.
Why should a fan chat room for a bad named after a frinkin' dildo be policed by good cops gone bad from the frinkin' mid west?
Hoops had no reason to ban bluz either except hoops is on a contiual power trip cause he has no authentic power in his life.
What losers!!!!!!!!
Marjorie Morningstar
User: Marjorie Morningstar* | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message:
Alright worst LP ever?
I will take the 5th on this one but he knows what I think already.......
M*
User: wormy | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: afternoon of old lp shops and silver screen
the after church spontaneous combustion rules again
bought 25 albums for $75 greenbacks
among them (Dr Mu) the Crowded HOuse disc
appears to be first lp
starts off with world where you live
caught the new Runaway Jury movie
brilliant and all over my adopted home
Hoffman, Cusack and Hackman shine
but I fell for Rachel
the first movie to do the big easy justice - pun intended
2004 presidential election
why must it be discussed here at perpetual nausileum
get a grip please
I couldn't snore more loudly on
tranquilizer darts and sleep apnea
need more overshadowed lps
yes emg by tan
hopefully Stevie D will do his part on the late night shift
did I remind you I hate the winter time changes?
I say spring backward and fall forward
that would put a jump in my step
wt
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Rajah: the dilemna is lately the extreme wings of both parties recently have determined the outcome of many of the early primaries/caucuses. For example, the South Carolina Republican primary is practically John Birch society and the Iowa Democratic primary is left of Barbra Streisand...
...Ironically, both Bill Clinton and Bush41 were both centrists of their respective parties and were able to ride between the middle and extremes easily. Remember, Bill Clinton promised middle-class tax cuts and it was Bush 41 who coined the Jack Kemp model used by Reagan "voodoo economics."
Even more Iroically, Al Gore dumbfoundedly did not run center, he ran to the way left, despite his centrist voting record (voted for the Gulf War I; Tipper and Al espoused the WARNING labels on music CDs...and oh yes he invented the internet...cost him the election because he attempted to be a radical populist, although Gore was in reality a technocrat similar to Bush41...
Joe Lieberman would win and should win easily, but somewhere along the way, he had a personality lobotomy. I'm afraid many of the same rationalizations used to elect high school Class Presidents apply to election of US Presidents...
User: tzg | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Doctor - Oops! Wrong planet...
Still, what happened to all that daylight we "saved" this summer?
jjeff - yes, any excuse will do... but just so I won't bore anyone too much, I'll forgo my usual rantings about The Dead, X, Camper Van Beethoven, Laura Nyro, Bowie, Arto Lindsay, Yoko, Cracker, Beth Orton, and Los Lobos and rant instead about
Rain Parade - early - late '80 's west coast (of the U.S.) psychedelia - the real deal; amazing songwriting and playing, one of the best bands "OF ALL TIME!!!" Unfortunately they only put out 2 1/2 studio albums and a live one, but they every song is a jem...
The Stranglers - their incredible stylistic diversity and outstanding musianship is usually overlooked; not only could they play blunt punk rock, they were extremely experimental (to their commercial detriment), and occasionally reached "steely" levels of sophistication
Buffalo Springfield - "for what it's worth", they were one of the top 10 bands of the 60's... Their songwriting was *better* than the Byrds (and that's not to put down the Byrds as much as to demontrate the consistent excellence of BF); yeah, everybody knows about Young, Stills, and Furay, but Bruce Palmer is also one of the great unsung bass players in rock history. I think they were better than even they knew or they would have put out more albums (2 and the ever popular solo tracks/contractual obligation compilation) before splitting up
Orbital - not just great electronic music, but great music, which is what really matter's right? Pretty well known in Europe but still a "huh?" over here...
There are some newer things like The Boards of Canada, Calexico, and Zero 7 but I suppose it's too early to tell if they are underrated...
I dunno... this may just be a lame thread anyway...
User: Drive West on Sunset | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Here come those Santa Ana winds again. Every area on fire right now voted heavily against Gray Davis.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: For the past few days, I can vividly see the enormous clouds of smoke from the Val Verde fires out my bedroom window.
I do not remember the realtor mentioning this particular view.
Later,
Herm
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Can't spell either. Check please.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Really only two kinds of politicians: electable and non-electable. That leaves us with the lukewarm and you know what happens to them. The center cannot hold. Dems and Reps basically indistiguishible. Golf game got postponed cause of ash...pass me a cobalt cigarette and let's dance.
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Rajah: Two words: Google IPO
...add that to the 7% GNP annual growth expected the third quarter, hot dogs, apple pie and Maria the SnakeBabe...we're back in bidniz....
StAl: The only way for Lieberman or another sane Dem candidate to win is to use the slogan:
REBUILD AMERICA!!
The idea is that if capital and sweat investment can be used to re-build a once-prosperous Middle-Eastern nation, cannot the same principle be used and implemented for a once prosperous North American Nation??!!
Job Programs, Infrastructure, Fuel Cells (JIF),,, Choosy voters choose JIF!!
...The anti-war stuff Dean and time-travelling Clark nutjobs promote will only bring our party McGovern-like debacle, allowing Republicans to continue to spend like a drunk sailor, even more than Democrats, on pork barrel projects...before they pass out on the stairs...
...refocus the continuing war on terrorism back on the offensive, instead of back on our heels...going after Al Qaeda and Saddam with even more fervor...
This just in: Jeb Bush has ordered the euthanasia of Arafat, as he is reported to have stomach cancer...
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Arnold as Governor, strikes at supermarket and MTA, everything's burning around L.A., and now this.
User: ed_beatty | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Hi,
"public service announcement
will the person mindlessly ranting against Hoops on this forum
realize that the only character assasination going on here is your own"
amen
Ed
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Wormy - You should try Together Alone...if it's still available...I consider it one of the finest pop recordings ever - a step above the first 3
As you are way farther east in the Central time zone, the sun rises and sets earlier - I preferred to exercise outside in the evening - only do that in the winter now...
Crowded House: Temple of Low Men, Woodface, and especially Together Alone overshadowed in sales by the eponymous debut
Ben Folds: Reinhold Meisner overshadowed by Whatever and Ever Amen
Pink Floyd: Animals and Wish You Were Here overshadowed by Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall (gag!!!)
Yes, Katy Lied and Aja!
!!!Also EMG overshadowed by TvN!!!
Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates overshadowed by the eponymous Grammy-winning debut...
User: wormy | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: dr wu - I hate the time zone switch back in the winter
waking up light and driving home in the dark
kills my seratonin levels, I hated 6pm sunsets in Arizona in Sept, kept it in Utah time
crowded house - never really got into them
here's a new thread
bands who had such a critically and commercially successful album that another masterpiece was ignored by comparison
steely dan - Katy Lied overshadowed by Aja
Joe Jackson - Body and Soul overshadowed by Night and Day
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom overshadowed by the first 3
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour overshadowed by Sgt Peppers
Talking Heads - fear of Music by Remain in Light
Eno - Before and After Science by Another Green World
Fleetwood Mac - Mystery to Me by Rumours
Floyd - Wish You Were Here by Dark Side
I could go on and on
public service announcement
will the person mindlessly ranting against Hoops on this forum
realize that the only character assasination going on here is your own
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: jjeff: Can't say I care much for Blue Rodeo's recorded work. In fact, I tend to lump them into the same alt country category as the Jayhawks and Whiskeytown. It's OK, but they all aspire to be Wilco... It's my wife who's a big fan. I will say I really enjoy them live. Remind me in many ways of the Dead. When I saw them a few weeks ago they were missing Greg so the energy was different. Still was a great show.
Yes, you have to wonder if you are influenced by this strange Canadian rule. Some great music comes out of Canada for sure, and there's no doubt that without the rule you'd just become an extension of U.S. media-Clear Channel crap, but I'll bet you have to listen to an awful lot of shit too.
Canada produces some great music. Some of my favorite Canadian artists include Tragically Hip, Bruce Cockburn, Cowboy Junkies, Barenaked Ladies, and, of course, Rush...
Hey, I'm white and lived in suburbia in the late 70's early 80's. So shoot me..
TZG: Robben Ford
StAl
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: time zone: huh? Daylight savings time ENDED last night for everyone in the us except for some counties in Indiana, all of Arizona and Hawaii. Now we're back on Eastern/Central/Mountain/Pacific/Hawaii/Alaskan STANDARD time
Personally, living in Texas, I hate DST. 100¦ and blazing sun at 8 pm in the summer are not picnic weather nor fun. I don't dig waking up in the dark either the last few weeks.
jjeff: I would say that Graham Parker was a very underappreciated artist - the critics dug him in Squeezing Out Sparks, etc.
Underappreciated in sales (this is relative):
Most jazz artists in the last 35 years
In the US Neil Finn/Crowded House/Split Enz have not sold as well in the US as the UK or downunder...IMHO Mr. Finn is the finest songwriter besides Becker & Fagen since the Beatles...If you think "Now We're Getting Somewhere" was representative of his best stuff, you are in for a pleasant surprise: the only 2 Crowded House hits in America were off the first and weakest CH album. Temple of Low Men, Woodface, and especially Together Alone are chock full of killer tuens and performances growing more eclectic with each album...Neil Finn's solo efforts, the more experimental Try Whistling This (the Live at 57th DVD supporting this album is highly recommended) and the more organic One All (or One Nil overseas) are excellent as well...
Ben Folds (with or without the 5): cadre of hard core fans. Eclectic 1995 BB5 album, Reinhold Meisner, and Rockin' the Suburbs are my favorite...Brick is a very good song, but is not representative of Ben's range in songwriting and I would rate it probably in the bottom quarter of his tunes (dark Pat Conroy-inspired lyrics though)...
Good Power pop: Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds/Rockpiile, The Records and lately Fountains of Wayne (thanks to those here who turned me on to Utopia Parkway)
James Ingram: Pur vocal perfection 20 years ago...Sure he won a Grammy with Quincy Jones and The Dude album (1981), but his albums never sold, MTVrefused to play black artists except for Michael Jackson until RUN-DMC ...they never played Urban or pop music made by African-Americans...while they showed crap by white hacks like "The Safety Dance" 800 times/day. (that's why the Hypocrisy of the Rock the Vote campaigns really irked me) It's worth buying James Ingram's "greatest hits" album or finding his debut album...In a better world, he would have sold 30+ million records instead of Michael DOLTon...
James Ingram had some minor hits as duets with Patti Austin and Linda Ronstadt as well as the soaring "Yah Mo Be There." He lwas dumped by the record co., teamed with Thom Bell for a comeback with a minor hit "I Don't Have the Heart" then slid into Smooth Jazz oblivion...
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 26
Message: Well now, there's an excuse to list all the bands one follows/followed that no one has barely heard of, eh?
Graham Parker-great songwriter in his heyday. Good backup band too, the Rumour.
Lighthouse- a dozen+ guys who embellished original pop songs to perfection. Their live album is still a regular play.Howard Shore came from them.
Rough Trade- Just because they had such fun breaking the gay taboo in Canada. It was such a kick to see Carol Pope come out on stage and grab herself or turn to the drummer and flash her tits. She was a great songwriter as well as unparallelled singer. She won best female singer in Canada 4 years in a row in the 80s. Madonna was tame compared.
Japan-Critacal acclaim only, they fall in the same catagory as Joy Division, Cure, Bauhaus, all the pre-goth/goth bands.
I'll leave it at that.
User: tzg | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Seems like a good -now- to pose a thread I've been tossing around for a while:
what would you list as the most underrated bands/musicians "OF ALL TIME!!!" (just to give it some weight...). You know... bands or musicians you can't believe aren't/weren't bigger than they are/were.
I'll be back with my list later... (hey, it's a time zone guru's prerogative to procrastinate...)
User: jjeff ( will I be the next one voted off???) | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Man, you gotta few minutes to tune into Banyan Trees network and it's like Survival- audio mode.
St.Al: I noticed you mentioned Blue Rodeo a few months ago. It surprises me when a local group make a noise internationally because of Canadian content rules which make radio stations play a certain percentage of said content. So we get a fair bit of BR on the dial, and because of repetition you're not sure it because you hear them so often that you like them or because they're good that you like them, know what I mean?
They did kick ass at the SARS-fest. Can't say I like the latest single.
User: time zone guru | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: ...it's time for the dreadfully named folly known as "daylight savings time" folks (if we're saving so much time why is it already dark when I get off of work? And how the hell did it get to be late October already? Seriously, time evaporates faster than the California budget. I think we need a chronological audit.)
Anyway, those of you who participate, 2am Sunday morning happens twice tomorrow...
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Sensa miserecordia, ti auguri giallissimo!
User: Trout Farm | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Rodeo report:
She was friendly but eating dinner and then much later still eating dinner. She is getting a fat ass for sure!
MM
bluz how the heck am I suppose to call you? Get a new cell battery hun.
User: oscar | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: This fellow is square, on all accounts except music.
which the son of a bitch knows,,
bluz keeps it foward.
Oscar
User: Marjorie Morningstar* god that sounds like a porn name | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: 9:00 pacific @ SD yahoo chat
In the true spirit of SD use a dildo name I have dibs on midnight special
User: Marjorie @ YAHOO SD CHAT | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: 9:00 tonight anyone sick of hoops the nun getting none in the habit meet at Sd yahoo chat and sorry hoops U R not invited since you banned bluz.
Fife and both Molly's see you there! Bluz and I will be there so do not be late for our very important cyber date!
St. Al please open Banyantrees! We are begging U!
Love,
Rodeo Girl a real pearl
User: To: The Happy Hacker | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Your frinkin' NUTS and U R an im~pasta~er too grrrrrrrr!
Marjorie Morningstar*
Do U think U R Herman Wouk U clown?
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Rajah, I don't know what Gregg Allman plays. I never listened to any of their stuff after Dwayne died. But I stand by my opinion that Elvin Bishop can play his ass off.
Clas, I dunno... I am content being the age I am now.
User: No I only fell off Cinnamin Twist once in Muir Beach | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: and received a nasty blk eye but thanks so much for your sincere concern.
Get a life I'm not your wife! Engaged to Bluz U frinkin' moron!
XOXO
Rodeo Girl
Too the Aloha im~pasta~er one yoga class and you would be dead from pretzel logic over load in your pants from your A-leakage you fool.
User: Moll the Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Paige, I have tried to keep our disagreement between us. I think you are lower than pond scum. You know very well why I think so. It's funny, crazy and self absorbed weren't adjectives you used in the poem you wrote to me? Duncan, Bluz, BB and several others can bear witness to how you chased after me knowing that I was involved with another man. How would you describe yourself? Delusional comes to mind for me...I don't feel the need to have you blocked from anywhere. I know how to use the ignore command in chat.
User: HOOPS IS SEX STARVED & TAKES IT OUT ON EVERYONE WHO INNOCENTLY GOES INTO THE GREEN RM | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Hoopsa Poopsa what is your problem dude??????????? Go get some even if you must pay for it! We the viewers are sick of your Television channel and do not want to watch it or U anymore U snore!
Walter and Don if they were smart would not let U link to their website!
Please Saint Al I'm begging U bring back Banyantrees!!!!!!! PLEASE MAN!!!!!
xoxo
Rodeo Girl about to hurl on hoops the poops
User: tones | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Two words:
angel rocks!
ok, that was actually four words and some puctuation (now actually 23 words and some numerals as of this sentence)
Oh what the hell, here's some more words:
Happy Birthday Aus!
35 words.
User: My Love Will Not Let You Down | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Springsteen offers to save NY club
Sat 25 October, 2003 02:54 BST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rocker Bruce Springsteen has pledged big money to save the Greenwich Village club The Bottom Line from possible eviction by landlord New York University, the club's lawyer says.
"The Boss" and Viacom President Mel Karmazin have offered "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to bail out the club, lawyer Mark Alonso said on Friday. He was not sure if the money would be a loan or an investment.
The Bottom Line, a Greenwich Village fixture since 1974, has played host to some of the biggest names in music over the last three decades, including Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Bonnie Raitt.
-more at:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=393676§ion=news
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Everybody's smiling,
Sunshine day
Everybody's laughing,
Sunshine day
Everybody seems so happy today,
It's a sunshine day!
Enjoy the weekend,
Herm
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: MuMu - I'm ready to be beamed up at any time just say the word and get me outta here.
User: observing marjorie | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Did you fall off that horse one too many times or what?
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: no Paige, not I, but I imagine that your vent came before your sincere apology last night upon rentry....just let these folks know i'm a good girl please....
Clas-it's not all what it's cracked up to be...i'd rather be 40 sometimes..
Bluz-soundcard is kaputs, please postpone quiz on miss tzuke, thank you
-mollydolly
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: While I'm still gung-ho for exploratioin and believe that NASA should dump the shuttle and start over while R&D continues on the International Space Station, this article by Dennis Miller is so funny - well it's worth a look:
"Space Travel Is So Yesterday
Friday, October 24, 2003
By Dennis Miller
Hey, get this...I want to talk about space travel.
I was drawn to the topic by this weekÆs story of China sending up their first astronaut. I was shocked that it took the Chinese this long. How could a nation that prides itself on being on the cutting edge of quelling independent thought have taken this long to launch a man into space?
It made me think about our Space Program and how awe-struck we all were at the beginning and why we should now discontinue it for a while. Sure, it really mattered at one time when we had to put the Soviet Union in its place. But the USSR has since disintegrated like (Boris) Yeltsin's (search)áliver and the hard truth is that the Space Program is now just a bunch of guys from the A.V. team wearing a Kon-Tiki raft of Bic pens in their shirt pockets and renaming Martian rocksáSnagglepuss (search).
Instead of coaxing a Battle-Bot off-road on theáRed Planet (search)áwhy donÆt we take NASAÆs budget and rededicate it to a public works project and build a comprehensive system of bullet trains right here on terra firma?áBecause, quite frankly, the current odds of getting to Saturn are a whole lot better than those of going from L.A. to Fresno on Amtrak.
We could advance the frontiers of technology by diverting NASA funds into an all-robotic Army because we have a vast, untapped fighting force in this country that should be unleashed: the Nintendo Brigade. IÆve got a 13-year-old who -- if you give him a Barcalounger, a large bag of Doritos and a toggle switch -- will fly an unmanned drone right up HusseinÆs right nostril and heÆll never even realize it until the bomb goes off.
Hey, letÆs keep NASA around to fight off asteroids on a collision course with Earth and thatÆs it. Give any and all funding to the guys who invented the video game Galaga and make sure they ray gun any death boulders heading our way into smithereens.
Besides, space travel is one of those fields where the greatest progress wonÆt necessarily be incremental. LetÆs dry dock the shuttle and just wait a few decades and IÆm sure somewhere down the line a new braniac kid, the next Einstein, will just scribble something on a legal pad one day and say, ôHere Granddad, hereÆs how to get to Mars using only a shop-vac, a Slinky and a Mennen Speed Stick.ö'
User: Hacker Hank | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Rodeo Girl- We are in your computer. We know who you are. We have all of your emails. Have to go now...Yoga class is calling!
Aloha
User: Good Night Hoops A1 Sauce! | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Glad you finally nodded off so bluz and I could finally chat uncensored ~ what a delight! Freedom of speech rules U mule and do not ever forget it!
Remind me is the Green Room in Afghanistan or wtf?
Rodeo Girl one Sweet frinkin' Pearl
User: old thread, but I gotta say... | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: ...if I have to hear that hook from Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" a few hundred times more I'm going to kill something.
User: Dr. Fill | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Daily words of wisdom;
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/drFill
Or click the URL above.
User: Raj Do Whatever U need to doo doo 4 U dude! | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Stop preaching and get off your soap opera box PLEASE!!!!!!!
Freedom of speech is an important issue so I am handing U a tissue!
Don't panic the yellow board is organic.
Rodeo Girl
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Let's all just take a deep, cleansing breath, shall we?
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Sailing and Arthur's Theme are great songs. In fact, Cross' first album was loaded with hits and fancy productions. Cross wanted, after have heard the Steely Dan, Omartian as a producer, and that was right on.
Paige - yeah, consider yourself lucky. By the way, are you a player by any chance? Making music?
Molly - 26 was a great age to be in.
User: Hoops Protester | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: Hoopsa Poopsa We can't take you anymore you blue book bore & Green Room snore!
Rodeo Girl
User: Hoopsa Poopsa WE CAN | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: check this out:
http://forums.craigslist.org/?forumID=575
the haiku on butts reminds me of hoopsa some how......
Marjorie
User: Saint Al Please open up BANYAN TREES again I am BEGGING U PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Month: 9 | Day: 25
Message: We can't take hoops the power tripper anymore! Now he is harassing paige as well. Why should a band named after a dildo have fans that have a chat room and act like good cops gone bad? This is insanity and ego vanity to the MAX!!!!!! Banyan Trees was way more enjoyable then hoops' condensced can of cream of mushroom where the moron tries to keep a lid on everyone's freedom of speach. I agree with paige Walter can't sing. I would gladly tell Walter that to his face too. In 1993 I was hanging out with Walter's guitar maker back stage all night at Shoreline and he said the same thing. I must admit Walter's voice is improving and it is much better than Phil Leashes but that would not be hard. Whoever told Phil he can sing? Anyway I think we all need to beg for Al to bring Banyan Trees back so we can laugh and have fun like we use to. Isn't that what it is all about? Laughter equals love and the world needs more of that. Laughter heals all too! Speaking of love why don't Don and Walt ever write romantic sweet lyrics like Van does? God I love Van and especially his new CD a must have! Make sure to boycott the green room and hoops the giant poop!
xoxo
Rodeo Girl ~ Marjorie Morningstar* ~ Venus Pearl not just the average girl
PS. Bluz I love U cause U make me laugh too honey even if your towels R BROWN U will never make me frown. Flying wet kisses 4 U!
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Sociable Hermit- If Debbie Boone could make a man hang himself by writing a piece of shit for him. Then Sarah McLachlan's "Building A Mystery" would be a better antidote. I would rather have Sarah write and sing songs about me than to have Pat Boone's daughter shove that treacle down my throat. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Here's a list of my Guilty Pleasures:
Starbuck- Moonlight Feels Right
Manhattan Transfer- Boy From New York City and Spice of Life
Karla Bonoff-Personally
Melissa Manchester- You Should Hear How She Talks About You
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose- It's Too Late To Turn Back Now
Vanity 6- Nasty Girl
Jefferson Starship-Miracles ( and anything else before Mickey Thomas joined the band and fucked it all up)
Christopher Cross- Sailing and Arthur's Theme
Convoy- C.W. McCall or in actuality Bill Fries (voice) and Chip (Mannheim
Steamroller) Davis (singing vocals)
Oh, and a major surprise:
John Tesh- Roundball Rock. Yeah, John Tesh. It's the only decent thing he's put out since leaving Entertainment Tonight, a show which would never feature Steely Dan, because they like things pretty and sweet, not edgy and real. Roundball Rock, if you don't know, was the theme song for the NBA games that were on NBC. Anyone who digs basketball should know this.
That's my guilty pleasures.
GO, MARLINS!
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: BB King won the Swedish Polar Prize this year. In an interview on TV the interviewer told BB King about some of the previous winners;
-Paul mcCartney
-The guy from the Beatles? Wow.
-Bruce Springsteen.
-The Boss! Great!
-Keith Jarret
-Oh, that's a real musician!
-Joni Mitchell
-Who?
-Joni Mitchell.
-Uh? I'm not sure I know who that is.
User: once in a blue moon | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: once in blue moon
something good comes along
once in a blue moon
everything's not going wrong
when you get weary
beating on the same old gong
once in a blue moon
someone like you comes along
van morrison
bluz
p.s.
check out the gold fish bowl...also
User: Dear Bluz, | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Rodeo girl with a o and diamond is a bit backasswards but love bug I love U too even if you R a bit of a pecan and obviously can't spell or as some would say glaringly poor spelling!
I can't wait to swim with you in some tropical aqua my sweet pea and lay in your arms in a hammock built 4 2 beneath the palm trees and stars. Baby U can drive my car any day and in every way! Can't wait to C U.
She's got a ticket to ride. Tell Tommy he has a new step mom and better have his arse in the house by 11:00.
Luv,
Rodeo Girl - Your Midnight Pearl Girl
User: I agree.... | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: trader joe's and i...goat gouda and u..
I'll buy u a daimond ring and a mockin bird too.
for my Buddah's jewel"
to: redeo girl-marjorie morningstar
love
bluz
User: tight as a Fist | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Aja..StevieDan Aint no shame in "ides of March" Vehicle...
'are u ready" pacific gas & electric?
bluz
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: "Vehicle" - The Ides Of March ... yes Aja ... THIS SONG ROCKS !!!
I have been trying to find this song for years, but I never knew the name of it ... thanks! and Thanks again.
I thought it was called (like it's opening verse:)
"I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan ... won't you step into my car."
But when I would do searches with these words, I could never find the song. I guess you could say I was using the wrong ...
Vehicle baby.
SteveeDan
User: i want to hear Coltrane on the moon | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message:
played today
Ron Blake..Lest We Forget.."sara's dance..(new)
David "Fathead" Newman..Chillin.."caravan"
Lou Rawls w/ Less mc Cann LTD./..Stormy Monday.."I'd rather drink muddy water"
Roomful Of blues..Under One Roof.."Q's blues"
Nick Brignola..Things Aint Whay They Use To Be.."title"(new)
Jimmy Cobb's Mob..Cobb"s Groove.."title"(new)
Van Morrison W/Georgie Fame..How Long Has This Been Going On.."moondance"
Lee Morgan..Candy.."who do you love, i hope" February 1958'
David Bixler..Show Me justice..'title"(new)
Miles..Bitches Brew.."Miles runs the voodoo down"
Howlin Wolf..'highway 49"
Albert King..Chicago 1978'.."Il play the blues for you"
The Crusaders..Rural Renewal.."title"
Scott Martin..Cafe Cubano.."mabuti"(new)
Richie Cole/Hank Crawford..Bossa International.."title"
Gato Barbieri..The Shadow Of The Cat"
Kenny Garrett..'a hole in one"
Larry Coryell Power Trio.."star eyes
George Mitchell..Playzone.."croation sensation"
Richard Groove Holmes.."soul meeting"
Eddie Harris Lp..'Plug me In"..live right now" March 1968
Herbie Hancock..Man Child.."hang up your hang ups"
Lamont Johnson.."burned by the passion"
Ain't it nice to be nice when you can be nice?
Jim Jackson
"Heard the Voice"
of a pork chop sing"
bluz
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I cannot stand "Island Girl" from Elton John's Rock Of The Westies ... I would assume that more than a few people here would say that they cannot stand the entire album.
Rajah - thanks as always for the killer write-up ... and for being Mr. Snappy with the asscam ... for you see, ... the ass CAN !
Clas ... I got something for you two nights ago ... I have already copied your snailmail address. You can expect something ... by January ... ha ha.
SteveeDan (in Hiatus ...)
User: la du dah | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: paige
Consider yourself blessed that you can't make the chat room.
nuff said
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Still cannot access the chatroom.
Shame on ALL of you. I was one of the first members of the guestbook and I was one of the first members in the chatroom. Do I ask for special treatment????? Hell no...But access should be a right
If you continue this childish blocking (which no one has ever done to me before), my worst fears will be realized. You are ELITIST! You prove your own fears! You simply cannot carry on a conversation with anyone that disagrees with you...
Some call it "denial."
Is SD so perfect that any criticism of them is "off limits?" Shame on you.
Are you behind this Molly...You crazy, self-absorbed woman????? Please tell me you are not... You have impressed me as sensitive and insightful....Please don't be the one who BANS ME FOREVER FROM THIS SITE! But if you choose....and more importantly, if Hoops chooses...That will be enough for me....
Continue to censor those who you disagree with...it is the American way...simply ask Bush.
-Paige
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Just had an interesting chat in the "green room." I would have never believed that members of the SD fanship would be so elitist as to block me from using the chat room. This is nothing less than apalling! So, if I am to understand this correctly....I express an opinion that differs from the group and then I am banned. You son's of bitches...did you do that hoops...or was it you Molly.
I dare express the fact that Walter cannot sing! Sorry...but get this...he CAN"T! Nor could Dylan...but it didn';t stop him from being a Rock n' Roll icon.
So you can't stand anyone that has a different opinion than yours...How elitist...how pompous! Shame on you! This is the very criticism I have of SD...is that they are pompous and elitist...But the "true" fans can't stand that opinion.
Contrary to popular belief...The Constitution was not written for the majority. (Guess what!) The Constitution was written for the lone voice of decent.
I expect this treatment from Molly...But I did not expect this treatment from Hoops...who I have considered a friend.
You all need to check yourselves...it's only music.
-Paige
PS - Diod I not mention no less than three times that IT WAS MY OPINION...and I even admited that I am often wrong!
-P
User: rikki | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: send it off in a letter to yourself
User: luckless pedestrian | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: steviedan - pardon my lack of manners - thanks, sweetpea - i knew it was "somebody"!
for the new thread, i have no song in particular but too much of a good thing is bad - for instance, i was always a big fan of U2, but one listen to a cd, and i'm done for a month, at least
same with REM - i was a big fan, now am an occasional listener
i appreciate the one listen, but again, then i'm okay for a while
going to the pat's game sunday - beat cleveland!
blue man group in boston saturday night
it's all good
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Way to go Wormy! Though I don't agree, it's good to see someone admit the fact they don't like a song (or two) from our most favored sons...
In fact, I almost fell out of my chair when Mu suggested Blues Belch would fit on a Sly record...
Good god that's an insult to Sly.
However, I must say I can think of no band other than Steely Dan who's entire body of music is almost flawless with rare exceptions. For instance -- Blue Beach.
I also like Bungle, Livin' Lovin' and Southern Man.
User: hoops protester ~ picketing exercising my freedom of speach! | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Hoops thinks he is the FBI or CIA or Interpol or something. He asked me to identify myself in his chat room. Hoops High School is out and U are no longer on the safety patrol moron!
The dude has real delusions of grandeur. He makes WB the filbet appear to be normal even.
Marjorie
User: fezo | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Gaslighting Abbey?
There are infidels in our midst. Roy, is that you?
Now the next track on TAN, I might agree with the "it blows" analysis but for the "I waiting for a . . . sunrise" line
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Hey wormy, forget Another Brick in the Wall Part II:
Think, another brick part I
Dad has flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy what'd you leave behind for me?
Or the happiest days of their lives
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who
Would hurt the children in anyway they could
By pouring their derision on everything we did
Exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
when they got home at night
their fat and psychopathic wives would trash them
to within inches of their lives . . . .
Or another brick in the wall part III
I don't need arms around me
I don't need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the Wall
Don't think I need anything at all
No
Don't think I need anything at all
YOU, YES YOU, STAND STILL LADDIE
User: Mr Wormsters Neighborhood | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: why yes Red Fox
I did emphatically say "Glamour Profession"
do I stutter or something?
Can you say skip button boys and girls
I knew you could
oh - real dogs - Who's You Better You Bet and Zep Hot Dog
they get my revolution #9 award anyday, except I also don't like the albums they are on either
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: One "mans" bad is another mans inspiration ... lists are just a moments of snap judgement ... Now that it's all over the birds can nest again
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Show Biz Kids - love the lyric sheet...would be Charlie Freak except for Omartian's amazing arpeggio at the end...Change of the Guard is amazingly ordinary poppy, though polished...
This may get some shireks - but Song for the Dumped by Ben Folds: sounds great....like ONCE!!!!!!!
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Of course replacing the phrase "Gaslighting Abbie" with "Asslighting Gabbie" does help to liven the song up a bit.
User: steviedan early edition | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: somewhere in the mix, after stravinsky, right before dolphy, me likes an assorted volume (amongst 25 or so) of "super hits of the seventies: have a nice day". that or "soul hits of the seventies: didn't it blow your mind". you MUST have all volumes of EACH series that rhino so lovingly assembled a few years ago. sure, there are a few ommisions and a few that you just hate, but these tracks are by and large such an essential part of any comprehensive music collection. just like the bartok string quartets, stax volt singles, bill evans riverside(s)...
badsneakers, the darkness ? i've heard them. are we in the u.s. ready for them ? we were ready for them in 1971. in the interim we have heard it done and heard it done better. they're keeping a museum...
st al, the "queer eye" dudes could not BEGIN to deal with mr (fag)en...
aus, HAPPY BD !!!
lp, i hope you didn't miss my homework at post 5506...
the sting album was 9.99 at best buy last week. i said "wha the... two tunes would be worth that"...
fiona, musically there is no way anyone could confuse bloodrock and bloodstone...
User: Redd Foxx (staggering back, holding his heart) - hold on 'lizbeth... I'm comin'... | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Did... he... say... Glamour Profession?
User: wormy | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: was away playing lester the nightfly in Baton Rouge wed to now
Auss - Happy Birthday there! - however post humous
herm - despicible songs by artists I like (off the top of head)
Todd - Bang the Drum
The Who - Who Are You
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue or Angie
Beatles - anything they give Ringo to sing
Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid
Neil Young - Southern Man
Steely Dan - Glamour Profession
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Pink Floyd - that anoying Brick in the Wall ditty
Tull - Bungle in the Jungle
User: Thread Cutter | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Uh lets see, Gaslighting Abbie?
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: here, I have a thread for you...
(I'm such a trend setter. Or thread setter. You pick)
"Top Unlistenable Songs by Your Favorite Performers".
One or more songs by your favorites that, everytime you play that cd, you have to skip over it. A song so bad, you've come to not even listen to the cd anymore in fear of possibly hearing the opening notes. The song that pulls you out of the shower and, risking electrocution, drives your wet finger straight to the boombox.
I won't give mine just yet.
Is too fair! I started it, now it's your turn!
Later,
Herm
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Public Service Announcement: If any one out there is in the greater New York City area, tomorrow evening, Malcolm's dynamic group, CORE NYC is playing at a small, intimate french eatery called Chez Suzzette's in Hell's Kitchen Manhattan. I think the gig starts around 8:00 PM or so. These guys are superb live, so if the chanse is there, check them out. Also, the food at Chez is very good and reasonably priced.
Thanks y'all for the b-day wishes. Malcolm always manages to out me round this time of year.
Great weekend everybody.
Aus
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I think maybe he meant Duane Allman, and not Gregg.
Then again, what the hell do I know? I've got "Fooled Around And Fell In Love" stuck in my head now. And I can tell you this ~ if that was Johnny Ramone on guitar, that would have been a different song.
(Heh?)
Later,
Herm
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: OK, if Gregg Allman did it or would have done it, Fooled Around would have been a different song. Anyway, I like the song as it is but a more stately blues approach sung by a baritone would have made it less brash and stridently mysogynistic, IMHO. Now don't hit me in the head, not in the head.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Words of Love - Beatles cover Buddy Holl
Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana unplugged over Bowie
New York New York - Frank covers Liza -yeech-
It's Now or Never - The King covers 'O Sole Mio'
User: Bodacious Cowboy | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I don't get it. "Elvin Bishop played his ass off. Better than Gregg Allman on his worst day". Allman is a keyboard guy ( for the vast majority of concerts and recordings). The analogy is out of whack.
User: Spike's Moll aka Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Rajah, I happened to catch Elvin Bishop in concert. He played his ass off. IMO Ol Elvin is better than Greg Allman on his worst day.
Clas, Sugar I wouldn't go back to 26 if I could! Of course it'd be nice to have a stomach and butt I could bounce a quarter off of again like I had at that age .... lol Life a tradeoff eh?
Wild Bill, Hey babe I've missed you! I hope you are doing well.
WJAZ, are you off following the Herman's Hermits reunion tour?
I supose my Dad's love of music turned me against Pop music. I grew up listening to Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Mozart & Hank Williams. Lyle's new stuff is excellent.
User: Bodacious Cowboy | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Actually, rather than being derivative of Sly, "Blues Beach" is straight from "Springtime" off Kamikiriad. Conceptually, tempo, tune et altera.
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I can't believe Barry Manilow's "Mandy" didn't make anyone's list. That's a barfer if there ever was one. I'm sure Mandy does exactly that every time it comes on the radio.
Also on the barfer list: anything by Cher, but especially "I Got You, Babe".
Five hours to go............
Aja
User: Jaydubz | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Favorite song to hate: "Lady in Red"/Chris DeBurgh...like fingernails on a fuckin' chalkboard!
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: This far I have received songs from:
Ken
Gaucho
Fla Dave
Nostatic (great stuff, you play good! I didn't know!)
Nigey Lennon
Schwinn, Jaydubz, Stevee, W1P and Gina are just about to put stamps on their envelopes... ?
StAl - I have never heard the Dead. Can those guys play? I am serious, I have this idea that their concerts just are endless improvisations over an E minor.
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I'm down with Sly - Blues Beach could have easily come from one of his albums...
The outtro to Can't Hide Love - can't find a better natural groove
remakes: How about Los Lobos doing La Bamba? - now THAT'S an outro also!!!
RUBY BABY!!!!!!!!
User: Dano | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Aussie, Forget to say have a beer on the big day mancub. Malc you shout them in Big Fella...
Dano.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: "You Light Up My Life"?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Honestly can't stand it. So, there's one.
I was watching something, can't remember what right now, but it mentioned that Debby Boone was supposed to be singing that song to God. And whoever it was talking made it seem like it was obvious to anyone who's ever heard the song. Maybe because I'm not a religious person, the idea that it was a song to God never entered my mind. Too subtle. I took it on surface level and thought it was about some guy in her life ~ who, after hearing the song that he inspired, probably hung himself because he couldn't get the damn melody out of his head.
Later,
Herm
P.S. Sting's new cd isn't all that bad. Granted, it isn't "all that", either, but I really don't it's the scourge that some people portray it as. "Sacred Songs" will not attack the US in a covert terrorist mission. It will not eat your children, and it will not take your job and leave you homeless.
It's music folks. You either listen to it, or you don't, but, my gosh, it's not like it came up with a lame excuse to invade a foreign country just so it could take over it's oil fields.
Or, did it...?
User: Dano | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Dunc , Went last week , the mancub insisted lol?? Superb film though but still Toy Story 2 does it for me. Off with `er who should be obeyed to see the new Coen Bros jobbie , Intolarable Cruelty. Just think Big Lebowski , Fargo , Oh Brother .....Does life get any better than this. Yes if i can get a wee cuddle and a smooch in the back row!!
Dr Mu , Great list mate , apart from Steely Dan the world revolves around Mc Fadden and Whitehead , The Temps , William Robinson , Marvin...etc etc
Have a great weekend everyone , wife is waiting...
Dano.
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: He's baaaack... It's been so nice not to listen to your two sentence posts o' shit. I'm wondering though - do you get worn out sitting in that barcalounger surfing the net, or is it you really have nothing important to say?
Clas: Yellow Peril. And part of the music died for me when Garcia died. Yes, it was a big deal to many in US and abroad.
For years Gillian (my daughter) thought she had an Uncle Jerry. Just as Stella is starting to think the same thing...
Bad song number 3: You Light Up My Life
Come on, even Hermy can't like this one.
StAl
PS. WebTV Shlub: Don't even waste your time with some half-witted retort about The Grateful Dead. You bore me.
User: AGAIN???? | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Clas- Don't you think you've played out this whole guestbook cd thing? I think some of us are sick of hearing you going on and on about it. Nobody really cares. Gosh....enough already. Get a life!
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: uhhhh-huh 26-
molly sans mayhem, aka molly_from_ca
User: nostatic | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Dr. Mu - you missed the Undisputed Truth, Barry White and Sly and the Family Stone. I'm with you on all the rest. If "Getaway" by EWF doesn't get your heart pumping, and "September" doesn't get you dancing, then you're dead. And even "Reasons" gives me a lump in the throat although it was played to death when I was in jr. high.
I'm also down with DF's love of "fake jazz", especially TV themes. The theme from the Bob Newhart Show (the original one that was on right after the Mary Tyler Moore Show) is a particular fav, as was the Rockford Files.
As for covers surpassing the original? Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" comes to mind.
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Zeke! - My man! How's life down in the 3rd World? Still hot?
Molly - uhhh, 26?
Where's that little son of a bitch, SteveeDan?
Steveeee! Do you know what day it is today? Friday, and you promised to send your stuff 3 days ago!
Is it possible to come up with some more names for the 4th Yellow GBook CD?
Anyone?
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: nostatic-"they say that you like the songs you heard between the ages of 10-22 for your enitre life."
very interesting to think about this one-I can see how it is true-my eclectic tastes started around 9 with Talking Heads and The English Beat and they will always be nostalgic favorites...as for my 70's attraction and the warm gooey feeling I get in my tummy when I hear cheez whiz like "Brandy" or "Dancin in the Moonlight"-not so sure since they were all before my time...maybe it was the the soft replay on the radio-SD was always three too, waiting for me to take a closer listen..-I tend to think of it as part of the soundtrack to my life(that would be another good thread-what is your soundtrack?Include the major tracks that would have full play along with those heard only in the background or just a piece of it plays)....either that or I really am some 86 year old broad in a 26 year old bod, like I've said before
User: Zeke | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Zeke's favorite song to hate:
Top of The World, Carpernters.
My first 45rpm single,
Dr. John, Right Place Wrong Time.
Now that's a killer tune.
oldie that never dies...
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, Treat Her Like A Lady.
User: fiona! | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: One of my guilty pleasure songs from I think 1970, which I used to absolutely torture my parents with, is "Timothy" by the Buoys! You all have to remember that one! Morbid subject matter, but a song you can definitely dance to! Does anyone remember a horrid song called "D.O.A" by Bloodrock (not to be confused with Bloodstone)? That was one of those "in the car" songs my father used to switch off immediately! He said I shouldn't be listening to those "creeps?"
User: Laughter, the best medicine | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: ..so this dyslexic bank-robber charges into the bank and hands the terrified teller a note. She looks down, trembling, and reads "air in the hands motherstickers, this is a fuck-up".
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I'm sorry, I hate wimpy white music from the 70s. The 60s were far better for pop, bubblegum or not...
As for the 70s - give me Steely Dan and the Gamble & Huff, Thom Bell stable of artists + a sprinkle of late Atlantic and Motown + from the lab of Dr. Funkenstein..grant this is early to mid 70s before Disco and the Bee Gees took over...
Stevie Wonder
O'Jays
Earth, Wind and Fire
The Sylistics
The Spinners
Temptations
Parliament/Funkadelic
Billy Paul (Me & Mrs. Jones - a crowning achievement in production)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (featuring Teddy Pendergrass)
Lou Rawls
Gene McFadden
Intruders
Curtis Mayfield
now THAT's a lineup!!
I hear a lot of Stax, the above artists, and some funk in EMG and TvN...
User: Steven in CT | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: I agree with Sociable Hermit. I love bad music!! Some of it anyway. I'll admit to liking the wimpiest of tunes if they have a hook. To me there's more art to crafting a tight 3:30 fluff pop tune than some 'wall of sound' faux-angry power-drone with uninteligible lyrics and so many studio effects you can't tell whether the musicians are virtuosos or computer samples.
"Me and the Elephant"
"Lonely Boy"
"Bad Blood"
"Kung Fu Fighting"
Bring em on!!!
I remember Donald's comments about liking jazz, but also 'fake jazz' that accompanied movies, tv or cartoons. There is art even in such commercial dross. Hey, if it's so easy to whip off a lightweight hit single, why doesn't everyone do it?
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 24
Message: Ref Finding Nemo
I'm wondering how much Pixar would charge for a 4min pop video for pixeleen.
Dano you seen it yet?
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: My *first love* was Honeycomb's "That's the Way". They had a female drummer, and I just loved her.
YGK - actually, I was thinking "Yellow Fever" too. That's pretty cool. And hey, please send me some songs now, don't be silly.
LP - "Chirping"? What's "chirp"? Have to consult my dictionary... *chirp* *chirp* ;-)
StAl - yeah, I guess it did, helped him in his career. That Guercia did a great solo on Hornsby's "Cruise Control" by the way.
Then he passed away. I was in LA when he died, people gathered in parks and so... I had no idea he was so big.
Didn't he design ties the last years? I remember seeing his stuff in stores down in Santa Monica.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: The Ides of March "evolved" into Survivor.
Hey, I'm all for 70s bubblegum, chick a boom, doncha just love it? Heartbeat is a lovebeat and when we meet, etc. Babe, what would you say? How do you do, aha, I thought we might na na na na, just me and you. I lived in the center of Boss Radio -- 93 KHJ -- in the hometown of the Beach Boys, yes Hawthorne, California -- be true to your school. BUT, Alone Again Naturally? The song supports a complete defense of justifiable homicide. Not to be confused with the awesome "Alone Again, Or" originally done by Arthur Lee & Love and later covered in an incredible version by Michael Schenker and UFO. Which leads to our next thread -- what cover songs are clearly better than the originals?
Here's one "Because the Night" by Patty Smith
User: nostatic | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Some misunderstood my post...that wasn't a "worst list". Some of them are guilty pleasures on my part, a few are fairly horrid (the Wayne Newton tune is wretched), but in general I LOVE 70's AM radio hits. Brandy is one of my all time favorite tunes (listen for the bari sax descending note that slides you into the 2nd chorus), and Don't Pull Your Love Out is one of the most tightly produced songs ever.
Then again, those were my formative years. They say that you like the songs you heard between the ages 10-22 for your entire life. My list started earlier, like around age 7, as I was listening to AM radio during the "Boss Radio" days of the late 60's, then the early FM stations in the 70's. But I will always have fond memories of driving in the car with dad and hearing things like Tears of a Clown, ABC, Love Grows, Spirit in the Sky, etc...
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Aus- Happy Birthday
MY MISTAKE- I thought Robert Downey Jr. was going to sing yesterday "Reelin' In The Years" with Wayne Brady. Instead it's today, I hope. It'll be on the Wayne Brady Show. Check your local listings.
Last week Chris Rock performed in Pittsburgh and although I wasn't there, I read from the review in the local newspaper that he got booed a few times when he made jokes about Bush and the search for the stillnot found WMDs. Makes you wonder if people are afraid of comedians who risk it all to tell the truth. Maybe they prefer Carrot Top or Kevin James. Risk is part of life.
Back to the worst songs: I liked I'm Not In Love and Vehicle. Vehicle was a very cool song. The music was great. The lyrics, I admit a tad cheesy, but still a damn good song.
Here's my other list of the worst songs:
Courtesy of the Red White and Blue- Toby Keith
Have You Forgotten-Daryl Worley
Baby Boy- Beyonce and Sean Paul Sean Paul never shuts the f**k up.
You Light Up My Life- Debby Boone
Anything by Kid Rock. Take a break, Kid.
I Love Rock and Roll-Britney Spears version. She even though Pat Benatar did the song. A total dis to Joan Jett who can out rock and kick her Madonna tongue-sucking ass.
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go- Wham
Anything by Janet Jackson since Rhythm Nation
Morning Train- Sheena Easton
Strut- Sheena Easton
Respect Yourself- Bruce Willis version. Obviously, The Staple Singers' version still gets my respect.
Enough ranting, see ya!
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message:
oops...
Should read, "wine coolers", not "wine collers".
Wine collers is something you get when you drink too many wine coolers and you miss your mouth.
Later,
Herm
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message:
My facts:
"Billy Don't Be A Hero", was originally recorded by the english pop group Paper Lace, (the same band that did "The Night Chicago Died"). The song charted #1 in the U.K. early in 1974. The song was subsequently, (and rather quickly), covered by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, and charted in the U.S. in June of 1974.
Now, my commentary:
Sorry, but I love these songs! Well, at least 90% of them. Yeah, they are, for the most part, one-hit wonders, performed by flash in the pans, or faceless studio groups, but, so what? They've got tremendous hooks great playing and incredible singing.When I hear these songs, a smile instantly comes on my face, and I sing every lyric as loud as I can. Now, granted, I'm not going to make "Love Grows" or "Motorcycle Mama" my personal theme songs, but I'd much rather listen to either of those songs, or any other 1HW, before I'd listen to any of the post-Beatle crap written by those songwriting icons Lennon and McCarthy. Listening to these songs is like eating a handful of sugar, yeah, it might not be all that good for you, but man, does it taste good. And, to continue this incredibly insightful metaphor of mine, there are far too many people who insist on eating only very specific food that they determine to be healthy for themselves. While that may be good, it's boring! It's not living life to miss out on a too-large slice of cheesecake on a Saturday morning, or chocolate covered pretzels and wine colllers at 3AM.
Too many people have an instant bias toward 1HW's, to the point where it's become cliche. It's like stand-ups making jokes about the "foreign guy behind the counter at the 7-11". Yeah, he has an accent and is difficult to understand, so it's real easy to pick on him when he's not around and you're in a crowd. But, I'm willing to bet, that when it's just you and him, you communicate because you have more of a relationship than you're willing to publiclly admit to. You recognize each other with a smile and you have your moment, then you leave.
It's kind of the same with the music. You make fun of them when you're in pulic, but when it's just the two of you ~ you and "Beach Baby" ~ I'm willing to bet that you smile, you have your moment, then you leave. But you're leaving happy.
I strongly recommend the book, "Bubble Gum Is The Naked Truth! The Dark History Of Bubble Gum Music". It's both fun and informative.
Later,
Herm
(wondering, Have You Had A Little Happiness, Lately?)
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Vehicle???????? Are you kidding? That song rocks!
Aja
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Five favorite songs from nostatic's all-time bad list:
I'm Not in Love - 10cc (Lennon mentioned in an interview he liked this one)
Fooled Around and Fell- Elvin Bishop (this needed Gregg Allman, OK)
Love Grows... - Edison Lighthouse (great melody)
Vehicle - Ides of march (for years I thought it was Tower of Power)
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf (think sampling this into Greenbook)
User: mollydolly | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: dancing in the moonlight-king harvest
i crank up my car stereo when this one comes on-it will be played at my wedding, for sure
mollydolly
User: fezo | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: These Are The Five Songs I Hate The Most:
We Built This City, Jefferson Starship
Freefallin', Tom Petty
Passion, Rod Stewart
Party All The Time, Eddie Murphy/Rick James
Have You Forgotten, Daryl Worley
User: nostatic | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Billy Don't Be a Hero was done by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods.
Seems to be a lot of 70's one-hit-wonder bashing. Shame on you. That was a one-derful time in US radio...when "top 40" actually meant that you played whatever was popular regardless of genre. Where would we be without:
I"m Not in Love - 10cc
More, More, More - Andrea True Connection
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy brothers
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
Convoy - CW McCall
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Los Airmen
Precious and Few - Climax
One Tine Soldier - Coven
Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin bishop
Kiss You All Over - Exile
You Are The Woman - Firefall
Beach Baby - First Class
Signs - Five Man Electric Band
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
December, 1963 - The Four Seasons
Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
Vehicle - The Ides of March
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Sky High - Jigsaw
The Bertha Butt Boogie - Jimmy Castor Bunch
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
Brandy (a personal fav) - Looking Glass
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
Brand new Key - Melanie
Feelings - Morris Albert
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Put Your hand in the Hand - Ocean
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Magic - Pilot
Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
Venus - Shocking Blue
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Connection
Brother Louie - Stories
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Daddy Don't You Walk to Fast - Wayne Newton
hmmm...ending on wayne newton does sort of leave a bad taste...
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Aus-Happy B-Day! A thousand BBB whacks on your special day ;o) I spent a good part of my zombied-haze (that I can remember) telling Utah how great New Orleans was, so she's already primed.
YGK-Think powdered bread and hurricanes, then tap your heels 3 times......
Aja
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Jimbo: Alas, I have never sprung for HBO and miss Dennis Miller & Chris Rock, both of whom are hilarious...once a month or two I remember to find Dave Chappelle's show which has some of the sickest, funniest skits I've ever seen...
Aus, t - happy birthdays!
OK, the Feds are raiding Wal-mart instead of guarding the borders...nice going...
User: True Confessions | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Molly correction when I was 8 I did accidentally sock the kid down the street in the baby tooth which he then had to have pulled.
MM
User: Ward | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: June: Can't wait. The new first year associates we took out to lunch today at the "21 Club" got very tipsy after seeing a few partners ordering whiskeys instead of iced teas and thus chose to do the same. Consequently, the mood around the firm is notiseably upbeat as I post this. Thanks for the b-day wishes lovie.
Yours always,
W
xox
Angel: Thanks babes! Send my best to Tones.
LuckLess Pedestrian: Chirpings from the Yellow. Absolutely classic. LOL.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: clas: how about "chirpings from the yellow"
aus/ward - happy birthday my dearest of dearies! see you at the 4 seasons, i got your favorite suite...
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Happy Birthday Aussie!!!! (I knew your Birthday was near June's) :-)
Tones and I will drink a toast to you on Saturday, or raise a CD, as the case may be (since he will be working).
I will be driving to San Francisco Tomorrow! Woohoo!
User: Fiona! | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Don rocks. He doesn't need a makeover, but I'd love to see him be the one doing the makeover. Guys could learn a lot from him!! I'd love to see what's in his closet.....
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Fiona: Being the slave to fashion that Donald is, my guess is he bought those shoes in 1977 at his local Piggly Wiggly. He's probably had them re-soled a few times I'm sure.
Speaking of slave to fashion. Anyone watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Could you imagine Donald as the straight guy?
StAl
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Another name, how bout Methods of Vast Consumption? Masses of Wet Destruction? Weapons of Jazz Confunksion?
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: And another thing: ALL of your "worst songs EVER made" posts have had me rolling with laughter. Good stuff indeed. Thanks!
Malc: Sabado.
Aus
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Anyone know where Fagen gets his purple adidas? They're way cool.
User: dollbaby | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Aw-Marjorie, dont trip babe-we all know you are built like a twig-never hurt a fly-we could all knock you over if we wanted....
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: I am absolutely, thoroughly, nervously, stupendously and completely whacked in all possible categories........
New Orleans? Jeez, nice thot. I'm having a difficult time thinking about anything past Saturday.
Aus: Left word. Word.
BTW, Folks, in case you didn't mark your calendars, forgot to update your PDA, etc., the Chairman of the DOMC - the one, the Onlye, Seniore Managing Directore, who has graced us with rants, musings, Dan-friendly articles, and stories of powdered bread and boar-bristle brushes,
Aussie, has a birfday this week - what is it Aus, Saturday?
Anyway, that's all the news from here.........
GB CD? How about:
"Can you hear Dis?"
"Clas, smell my finger"
"Eat This! Food from the Yellow Domain"
"Yellow Fever"
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" (could send a copy to the White House, or little Iraq with them.......)
ygk
User: Heard there is a RUMOR going round here that I am stalking Salty Walty ~ NOT! | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: I am really stalking Owsley Stanley or is it Augustus Stanley Owsley (only Walter knows 4 sure on this one ~ his real name). Owsley gave me my iMac which I am using to stalk him around the internet on cause I am a huge dead head. I hope to go to Oz some day and stalk his dog Shadow. I want to kiss Shadow on the top of the head and pet him to death and then take him for a long walk down to the river along the road out to make rock art. Did I mention I am also stalking Bear's neighbor Simon and am trying to force him to marry me for a green card. Before I forget you all know I am stalking Bluz don't you? He will be my witness to that. So many people to stalk yet so little time. As soon as Bluz gets home from school today I plan on stalking him by ringing the little bugger up to see how his cold is doing.
xoxo
Marjorie Morningstar*
User: toenz on the run... | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Gag me with a tune:
6. Billy Squier - "Stroke" - as I've said before, he keeps saying "Stroke me stroke me..." but the he seems to be doing a fine job of stroking himself for 3 and a half minutes - the wanker!
5. Bryan Adams - (speaking of wankers...) anything, but especially "I Want to be Your Underwear" for the title alone
4. The Thing of Pop - anything after Thriller (except for possibly "Remember the Time" but I'll never admit it...)
3. Dion - "Purple Haze" - you have to hear it to believe it. At least Shatner (being an actor) had an excuse...
2. Jim Nabors - "You Are The Sunshine of my Life" - run for your lives!!
1. John Ashcroft - whatever the hell that song he wrote was - the one he was forcing people in the Attorney General's office to sing together to start the day; sure grounds for impeachment.
ugh! After this list I think I need a another shower...
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Aja: I'm here. Jassfest in New Orleans is a good possibility. Utah's never been there. Let's see if we can re-live those dreamy powdered bread days and wormy's spectacular craw-dad fest at his posh flat. I'd do almost anything to see that look on his face again.
Wormy: So, can you make the KCrimson gig in New York City this fall??
YKG: Call home bro.
St. Al: Funny Steely moment.
Go Yanks!
Aus
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Thanks for all the help with the Doctor Songs and welcome Java.
Hubby still thinks it is Dr. Wu, but at least I had some other options to sing to him. Oh, his entry for worst song is "Battle of New Orleans".
W1P: I go with you on Alone Again. Yuck!!!!
Thanks to whoever mentioned Freebird, now I have that running around my head....sigh
Rajah: As I was told last year (by Stevee), Pretzel Logic does the ending of Do It Again as it was done on tour in '74 and also 2000 and 2003. Nice rendition.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: I said it before, I'll say it again -- the leading and only candidate for worst song in history is Gilbert O' Sullivan "Alone Again, Naturally" The song literally inspires me to want to kill the singer. No wonder that chick left you, dude, you are the most Whine-y, and Snively loser the world has ever known. Please expire immediately and leave us ALONE, naturally.
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Apparently everyone is too busy listing songs they hate to think about great music in New Orleans. Malcolm, Aussie, you out there? Think you guys might be in for Jazzfest again? St. Al?
Aja
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Raj: Who the hell is making you feel bad about your love for the Allman's? They mustn't be true "friends."
The Allman Brothers are on my top ten all-time list.
Clas: Technically yes, Hornsby guested for a tour and other assorted shows. He was never an "official" member. He didn't want to be. However, he was one of the "Other Ones", which, again was never really official as it contained a rotating cast of musicians over the years.
However, what I said earlier is true. Playing with the Grateful Dead gave Hornsby a certain street credibility that most definitely helped his career. When I saw him play a local Zoo concert last year the place was lousy with Deadheads -- me included....
Viva la Hues Corporation!
I had a great Steely Dan moment yesterday. One of my employees and I were sitting in my car listening to Katy Lied. We were stuck waiting for a train to pass. Anyway, Everyone's gone to the movies comes on and about midway through the song he bursts out laughing... He said to me -- "is this song *really* about what I think it's about?"
YEP
I burst out laughing too.
StAl
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: You can't count the obvious spoken-word actor guys like Nimoy and Shatner, too unfair to the serious magicians who can suck so bad at any one moment in time.
User: bad sneakers | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: 5 worst songs ever ??? Jesus !!
What about Will Young murdering "come on baby light my fire" ??
or William Shatner doing "lucy in the sky with diamonds"
Leanord Nimmoy killing "Hey mr tambourine man" - awesome cr@p !!
Yes - "Circus of heaven" :-((( Dross
That Pat metheney CD of white noise ?? Ouch
the bay city effing rollers !!!!
Too many to mention really
On a lighter note - are you Yanks ready for "The Darkness" yet ???? Or have you given up given up giving a f@ck ???
ROCK AND ROLL IS ALIVE in East Anglia !!
User: fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Claus,
How about Funky Retsina?
All those song mentions remind me of lost horrors of radio! How about Janice Ian's "At Seventeen?" and the forgettable "Summer, the First Time" by Bobby Goldsboro! They're both a hoot if you listen to 'em again!
Don't tip the boat ovah!
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: W1P - "yellow peril"
That's a good one.
Stevie - "yellow peril: banyan roots & branches" - Even better.
Give me more!
---
Was Bruce Hornsby a MEMBER of the Dead, really? Wasn't he just guesting on a summertour?
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: On the positive addition to bands wellbeing front ... a more obscure to most of you suggestion David P. Goodes - Judie Tzuke (bluz knows)
Most cringemaking crapola votes however go to ...
'Shaddupayourface' - Joe Dolce
'Grandma' - St Winifreds School Choir
'Paper Roses' - Marie Osmond
'Leader of the Pack' - The Shangrilas
Now I need to go off for some therapy OH shit That Firestarter crap one too ....arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: Dr. Mu- Good point, especially since I've never cared much for Bernie Mac's humor to begin with. He couldn't hold a candle to Chris Rock.
More about Mr. Rock later.
Later on, more of my least favorite tunes. Get ready, Dennis Miller's got nothing on my rants.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 23
Message: StAl - You want to sing it out and just let your Freebird freak flag fly, dudical; be at one, we do not judge. We may snicker but not judge...you're kidding, right, Alphonso? Jeez, I'll never let the illuminati make me feel ashamed of the Allmans again. You've helped a brother.
I saw Pretzel Logic's 90 minute set tonight at 705 Pier in Hermosa Beach. Nice big room. Heavy Dan: Aja and Gaucho, slow grooves by the really great rhythm section who could: consisting of the impeccable Jake Feldman, son of the famous one, on big bottom bass, the slithery Paul Goldberg on drums, and our very own groove-monkey, SteveeDan. They rendered a King of the World which featured Steven's percussive chops on electric piano, no synth. He plays in the Elton style, does it beautifully, always bright and beaty. He also showed us the classic four fluid, controlled but funfilled runs on the high ivories before the stop time concluding the instrumental midsection of Bodhisattva. Nice left hand, too, wonder how he became so dextrous? Crude. Warren Weinberg on vocals is never wrong, he's smooth and sandy, rendering the very difficult narratives of Aja and Gaucho faithfully with Evan and Felice cushioning and cradling those very strange SD vocal landings. Great arrangement of Do It Again. Wanted to see Mark and Dave's guitars further downstage, these guys are so complimentary to each other's approaches.
User: stevie(back) ribs | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: lp, here's that 411 (or is that 420?) on michael mcdonald's "take it to heart". the guitarist on that tune is probably the only sideman on the whole album i've never heard of. bernie chiaravalle. perhaps what you were hearing there also were the ripping keyboard lines by guess who...
non other than JOHN TESH ! for real ! also on keys...
DON WAS ! were they in the studio at the same time ? who knows, but if so, was that awkward or WHAT ?
interestingly, jeff porcaro is all over the album (however, george pirelli drums on "take it...". also appearing on this fine record are michael landau (who was my initial guess) and STAN GETZ !
st al, between everyone that chimed in on the subject, i think the true top ten to twelve were covered. except denny dias, maybe... hey, i happen to be listening to seattle homegirl laura love. heard her ? reminds me of the roches and that's a good thing...
nyb, tour shirts appear to be all over e-bay. at least a couple of styles anyway. cheap, too. and they also got "can't buy a thrill" ceramic tiles and you just can't beat 'em...
beers, that van sounds great. now you didn't mean "spLiffing keyboards" did you ?...
clas, how about "yellow peril: banyan roots & branches" ? just a little subtitle to someone's excellent "yellow peril" idea...
User: steviedan-ger | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: CAUTION: songs listed below so excrutiatingly mewled that one may prefer sound of one's own bones cracking. tunes this bad may listed in no more than pairs. do not try to play them at home:
public aural nuisance #1: "last song" - edward bear
micro-tonal weapon #2: "i've never been to me" - charlene
actually, i'm not usually too crazy about making an exercise of dissing already apparent crap. too many amazing thing to ever get to. however, the public must be duly warned. i did see a couple of tunes here and there listed unfairly, i believe. particularly "rock the boat" and "freebird". coupla others, maybe...
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Jimbo - let me retract - it was the REVERSE MOJO put on the Cubs by White Sox fan Bernie Mac slaughtering "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch of NLCS Game 6, shortly before the fan with the Walkman LOST HIS MIND in the 8th!!!!!
User: Rajah...'re: if I can make it there I'll make it anywhere' - arrrghhh! | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: being someone whose art school job was bartender at a beer & shot joint in Philly, I can attest that I break out in hives everytime I hear that f-ing NY - NY song. It was the one song we could never remove from the jukebox. The 8 a.m. drunks LOVED that song and would feed infinite quarters to the jukebox to play it over and over whilst they cried into their beer. So it reminds me not only of Chinese water torture but of ultimate pathetic human despair over what people "coulda been"
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Dr. Mu- What about "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" by Ozzy when he performed it a couple months ago in Chicago. Apparently Ozzy spent the day with a Mr. Jackie Daniels.
He makes Rosanne's singing sound like Striesand.
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Before I give out my list of the five worst songs:
VIEWER ALERT: On The Wayne Brady Show, later today, Wayne and guest Robert Downey Jr.
might perform "Reelin' In The Years" which is on the soundtrack of Downey's new movie "The Singing Detective."
Rev up the VCR and well compare later today.
Here's my List:
1.Anything done by anyone who has been on American Idol.
2.Rock The Boat - Hues Corporation
3.Wipeout-The Fat Boys with the Beach Boys. I liked the Fat Boys, but when they recorded with the Beach Boys, it all went downhill.
4. I Feel For You-Chaka Khan. The song is good, but it's the fucking rap
that drives me crazy.
5.God Bless The USA-Lee Greenwood. I'm sorry, but with a sorry piece of shit, that has no value in today's America, I would rather listen to Ray Charles' America The Beautiful.
Oh, St Al- Sorry to shock you, but Sir Paul and Stevie were good together for a duet, just not Ebony and Ivory.
BTW: Yanni is a fan of the Florida Marlins. If any of you are Yankee Fans,
you must be into Steely Dan, Elvis Costello, any restaurant that doesn't have the name Emeril's and, of course, Drea DeMatteo.
User: RE: OK, one more, Hallelujah | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: DITTO!!! but the worst thing about the most utterly insipid song EVER (ebony + ivory) is that the protagonists are or were exceptionally talented songwriters. Makes one appreciate certain guys who have kept themselves on track.
Oh, yeah, but runner up for nadir of songdom? "(Doggone) Girl is Mine", coincidentally involving 1/2 of "Ebo. + Ivo." duo?
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Dr Wu, WoH, also Two Against Nature ("call your doctor, call your shrink"), & Medical Science (11ToW; Jap.)
emetic recordings:
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl *something*
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Anything by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Anything by Wang Chung
Anything on Michael Jackson's Last One
Anything on Sting's New One
Anything on Madonna's Recent One
and hell yes, anything by Depeche Mode
Worst Vocal Performances:
OK, nothing beats the National Anthem by Rosanne Barr...but with that in mind:
Debbie Boone - You Light Up My Life
(as unprofessional as it gets)
Anything by Gary Lewis (Jerry's son) and the Playboys
(more punch-ins [vocals] than Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime during the last 30 sec of a round)
Stevie Nicks - Stand Back
(sounds like a f**ing goat)
Anything on Star Search or American Idol
(no reason to state the obvious)
The Dickies - Nights in White Satin
(absurd punk rock cover)
Neil Diamond - Anything since 1975
(frog got your tongue?)
Anything by Limp Bizkit
(parents, remember to keep your garage full of junk and cars so this can never happen again!!)
User: Ok, one more... | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Most insipid song ever...
Ebony and Ivory by the most insipid duo ever...
User: And another thing... | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Yellow Peril
Awesome
StAl
User: StAlphonzo | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Raj: What the hell is wrong with Freebird?
I know, now MY butt is showing
StAl
User: Java | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: New to the board and this bit's not even about SD...
Surely the worst song EVER is Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Angel: West of Hollywood?? (Dr Warren Kruger...)
User: luckless pedestrian | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: omg - the phil hendrie show on the radio just played the last mall
this is what ahppens when nice people get rid of their television
User: Zeke | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: W1P, Stealers Wheel - Gerry Rafferty
Tones- check out Al Dimeola,John McLaughlin, and Paco Delucia, Friday Night In San Francisco. Very nice. Spectacular live recording.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Clas how about "Yellow Peril"
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: I smell a Jazzfest '04 excursion brewing......so far, 3+ possible attendees. Now's the time to book reservations-anyone else think they might be in?
Aja
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: 1 - He Ain't Heavy - Hollies
2 - Blue Jay Way - The Beatles(well, George, really)
3 - Freebird - Skynrd
4 - it begins with, "The world is a vampire" - Smashing Pumpkins
and, so sorry Frank,
5 - New York, New York - Sinatra (He even hated it, Bill Miller, his piano player of 38 years, told me so directly. Frank in later years used to say to the crowd as a preamble to singing it, "OK, here comes the National Anthem, but you don't have to stand up.")
User: Bodacious Cowboy | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: The Night Chicago Died
Willie Won't Go
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: My most hated songs :
1) Billy Don't be a Hero .... I have no idea who sang this song but it is REALLY bad
2) Afternoon Delight ..... Starland Vocal Band ( one of WJAZ's Favorites btw) ;-)
3) Baby I love your way..... Peter Frampton and was made even more putrid by another Duet whose name escapes me
4) Indiana Wants Me....
5) Anything done by Cher
of course y'all know how I feel about Rap and the stuff they call Country these days!
BB, I'm listening to Johnny Lang's " Long Time Coming", Lyle Lovett's " My Baby Don't Tolerate" and Gillian Welch's " Soul Journey"
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Muskrat Love: America
Anything from Johnny Rivers
Anything from The Righteous Brothers
Anything from Celine Dion
Anything from Depeche Mode
StAl
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Fiona: The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Nuff said on that subject.... :-)
LP: You beat me to Sting. I like some of his stuff, but there was just something about the Police....
Adding to LP's question. My husband (who was last seen today wearing his "Things I Miss the Most" SD tee-shirt) said that he had the Steely Dan song about a Doctor running through his head. Any other choices besides the obvious "Dr. Wu"?
Tones: Did you get my email the other day? I am San Francisco bound this weekend. Got some money in my pocket and some bridges to cross....:-)
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: You can get the "Steely Dan" model sunglasses on Kenneth Cole's website. They look more like Lennon, though. What is this about ceramic tiles? I'd like to know more about that!
Everyone likes making lists of some sort or another, so here's a new topic:
Top 5 Most Hated Songs of All Time:
here are mine:
1.Turn,Turn,Turn-Byrds
2.Tears in Heaven-Clapton
3.Puff the Magic Dragon-PP&M
4.Leavin' on a Jet Plane-PP&M, again
5.Here, There, and Everywhere-Beatles
6.one more, since it was my idea-The Bomber-James Gang
I find all of the above dismal and depressing.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: the jury is out if Peter Gabriel's solo work was better than before
Lindsey Buckingham had a one hit wonder on his own "I Think I'm in Trouble" which was my theme song in college, but that's about all I know of his solo work - the latest Fleetwood Mac release, btw, started as as a solo work of his and grew by default into a fleetwood mac release
robbie robertson's solo work is awesome - is it better - again, that's a tough call
natalie merchant vz 10k maniacs
michael mcdonald (anyone know on my question below, btw?)
stevie nicks? hhhmmmm, nope
christine mcvie - nope, and her voice is sorely missed in their new one
sorry - my brain is fleetwood mac today i guess - lol
neil young is great no matter who he plays with
eric clapton - same thing
sting was better with the police but i know i am whining when i say that
which reminds me of a lightbulb joke:
how many republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb
2
1 to screw the lightbulb and 1 to complain about how much better the old one was
swish goes the drum...
User: hi-res tones | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: ~ - yep, have the Nightfly and luv it. Actually, I had that, EMG, and a few others about 5 months before I got the player, and so far the biggest jaw dropper as far as sound goes is TvsN. Mighty big "WOW" on that one.
And yep, I saw the Roxy show. In fact, until about 2 weeks ago it was the best show I ever saw at the Concord Pavillion. Thanks for mentioning that and Stop Making Sense. I'm placing my order for them when I go in friday.
On the way out last night I thought of another combo...
Al DiMeola - Return to Forever
(I'd like to petition the judges to allow fusion bands because they were ostracised by the jazz purists, so maybe that means they weren't technically jazz? Oh well... it's worth a try...)
Here's another one just in case:
Phillipe Wynne - The Spinners (not their first lead singer, but "the voice" everyone knows...)
Beers - good catch with Christine Perfect!
hey lp... is it too late to wish you a Happy Birthday, or do I have to wait till next year? Happy (post) Birthday anyway!
ciao bella!
t
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: May I ask you guys, or, can anyone come up with a name for the 4th Guestbook CD?
I was thinking "Parkers Band" or "Heimlich Sounds"... I don't know. Give me something that thrills my imagination...
Roy Scam gave me "Buried Bottles", but that don't seem to be such a good name, at least not for now.
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: That Lucky Charms test was hilarious! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Back to work pandemonium,
Aja
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: What about poor Bob Welch -- he NEVER gets any credit whatsoever. It seems like a dream . . .
How about a variation on a theme -- former members of prominent bands who left (or the band disbanded) only to have a high quality solo career that surpassed their earlier work. E.g., 11 Tracks of Whack ;-)
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: StAl: LOL....I can't go two weeks, myself... I think the biggest early influences besides Victor Feldman (first used on CTE?) would be the studio rhythm section: Jim Gordon/Jeff Porcaro on PL the Porcaro on KL. I think of them as almost one since Jim Gordon was such a big influence on young Jeff...and then the addition of Chuck Rainey...and its not so much the difference between walter and Chuck, but it's how Chuck and Porcaro work together...from the KL outtakes, it's worth many listens to EGTTM, DrWu, and Your Gold Teeth II...Rainey was able to work well with the string of drummers on Royal Scam and Aja
User: Oh yes... | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Steeve - what day is it today?
/C
User: C & W | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: StAl - is that so?
User: Beers | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Are we not missing the contrib of Ms Nicks & Ms McVie to the Mac ? such sexist pigs we are ;)
User: NYB | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Yo collective people things,
Any chance that Walter will add to his "Collective Writhings" over at
the official Dan site? Also, it would be fun to have a few new emails
over there. I personally would like to know where Donald buys his
sunglasses from wouldn't you? And lastly, does anybody know where you can
still pick up the EMG Tour 03' sweatshirts?
You may answer these questions in any order you like.
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Lindsey Buckingham -- now there's an underrated guitarist.
Mu: You BASTARD. I was listening to Katy Lied this morning for the first time in probably 2 years. While humming along and singing to Katy Lied I sang..."Are you with me Doctor MU.."
You've ruined the song for me. It's your fault.
Stevie: I was gonna suggest Porcaro. In fact it was my first choice, however, though Porcaro's contribution cannot be ignored, I felt Tom Scott had considerable influence on the music with his expert horn arrangements. Then, of course, there's the LA Express...
Duncan: Your butt is showing...
StAl
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: hey, who is the guitar player on michael mcdonald's single relased in 1990 called "take it to heart" -
it sounds vaguely familiar and was wondering if anyone knew - not a quiz
great thread, wormy!
i liked fleetwood mac during peter green and buckingham years - they are just different sounds...imho
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: Jaco's a great example!
Whoring has perilous risks down at the bottom...
David Clayton Thomas and Michael McDonald - yes, what changes in sound....Skunk gets a little credit as well...one of the tings I remember as a mid teen is my jaw dropping on the ground when I heard Takin' it ti the Streets, and It Keeps you Runnin'...not too many established bands could or would play something as completely different...
There's Nascent Toto and Boz Scaggs
Producers who have upped the ante for artists
Thomas Dolby - Prefab Sprout (Two Wheels Good, From Langley Park to Memphis, Jordan The Comeback)
Thom Bell - Stylistics
Walter Becker - China Crisis
3 songs on Blue Pacific (All I Need, Vincent's Ear, Crayon Sun)...Michael Franks' best stuf IMHO since tiger in the Rain
There's always Lindsey Buckingham (artist/producer)...but the level of improvement is greatly argueable...
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: New Van the Man anyone ? 'tis a Jazzy Bluesy thang with horns to die for and some rather spiffing hammond organ all over it AND some fine geetar from an Oirish la' called Foggy Lyttle
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: dio/sabbath
User: stevie clarifies | Month: 9 | Day: 22
Message: you know to return for that third post of the evening, it has to be a fiery burning issue, right ?
well...
van wormen, just had to make sure that you didn't interpret the mention of sammy hagar to be an endorsement, but merely to signal the ushering in of a stylistic change from the CLEARLY SUPERIOR david lee era. let there be no mistake.
i do hear that sammy provides the final resting place for some of your latino cousins...
User: where credit's due... | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: also great examples from st al and the prodigal mu. not that you ever went away, but it's good to see you clean up your act...
User: out on stevie's tiles | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: a coupla days ago i mentioned those "can't buy a thrill" ceramic tiles and i'm sure you thought i was trippin'. but, they are only all too real and tonight my bass student presented me with one ! on top of that, he also purchased a telecaster for me to play while teaching at his home ! i luv my job !!!!!
wormweaver, i KNEW that was your thread from the examples given. in re your gabriel/manu katche, i think manu's influence was even more widespread than many would expect. what a master ! to the expanding zappa list i would add steve vai, chad wackerman, tommy mars, fowler bros. & george duke, but i think you said george.
herm gets an a+ on his thesis. except for what appeared to be a minor slight to hornsby, who i consider a brilliant stylist. i almost forgot keith and vince and i'm surprised herm that you didn't mention that vince also has worked with one of our favorites: TODD !
in regards to influential sd sidemen, i was surprised to not hear the name jeff porcaro and am honored to offer it...
rajah honors feldman, which is astute. btw raj, frusciante counts TWICE for red hot chili peppers, which is probably unprecedented otherwise.
tones, zeke, beers, angel. all great ones.
and fezo, for me gilmour was a major improvement over slid barrio...
this thing could go on for days...
now i've got to go pry loose a bathroom tile before the wiff gets up !
User: wormbraininvain | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: tones - get the Nightfly DVD-a - quite nice
also the Heads Stop Making Sense is a bute
didn't you catch that Roxy show - it was stunning on the tube
St Al - Gilmour - no matter how much they praise him is always 'underrated'.
Herm - thanks for the dead ivory analysis
other great musicians who bettered bands
(didn't do jazz - too many (including a Jaco WR)
Mick Ronson's bricklayer guitar for Bowie
not sure but I think Martyn Barre joined Tull after an album or two
Phil Collins (just keep him away from the mike) with Genesis sheepskins
DOug Pettibone - guitarist with Lucinda Williams scorching
Ry Cooder or David Lindley - all over the place
yanks 2 1
here are we
one magical moment
such is the stuff
from which dreams are woven of
User: A Must Have 4 Dead Heads | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message:
Do you really like the Other Ones? Hard to believe.
Phil can not sing and is taking voice lessons even though the dude lied about that to the SF Chron.
He has been taking voice lessons for a while.
Real true dead heads should all purchase a copy of The Grateful Dead Family Album by Jerilyn (Micky's Ex). It is a must have with good photos! Jerilyn is more than happy to sign copies too.
User: t | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Doctor Mu - yeah, that's right. Purdie's the walrus.
wormy! thanks... I had totally forgot that Roxy dvd was out. I just got a dvd-a player (first ever dvd player) about a month ago and I'm moving in high-res stereo...
Life's the same, except for my shoes...
User: bear 411 ~ website | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message:
http://www.thebear.org/
PS. I have never been and never will be a dead head!
I went to Oz to visit Bear's wife for the record incase any of you endless gossipers R writing a book.
User: 411 for dead heads | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: For those of you who insist on talking about the dead rather then talk about them on a SD board why not email the expert @ bear@thebear.org. Bear lives on a beautiful spot along a river in Queensland Oz yet spends most of his day answering email from dead heads so write him instead. If you ever make it to Queensland he has a lot of space and extra tents and welcomes travelers from the USA. He lives down a long hairy dirt road so rent a car before going there. I was stuck down there for 11 days and should have rented a decent car cause at the time they just had cruddy cars. He does at least have a beautiful spot nice neighbors, hot water and flush toilets and if you are a dead head you will be in heaven cause he will talk to you about them until the sheep come home if you let him. Be prepared to eat a lot of steak only.
User: roxy wormus | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: I had a pleasureable evening catching the yanks game and flipping in and out previewing Roxy Music Live at The Apollo (it's the 6th after the rain delay) (concert sound on whole way through). I own a lot of concert dvd's (even a subpar Roxy - the High Road from 82) and this one is surprising first rate and near the top of the heap. I recall the vibe over this tour which never came close nor was a visit in the cards, oh well the DVD is like being in the audience, quite the compliment. Can't wait to tape the soundtrack.
Like Steely Dan - Roxy always had consumate musicians, a lot of variety, guitarists and other musicians willing to complement the song, and many dedicated followers (most of them across the pond). Roxy was always a cult band here, but what a cult... they also splashed on the scene with much fanfare in 1972.
Wow - the lighting, incredible camera pans, warm tones, receptive "knowing" audience (some decked to the nines), luscious sound (the 2 channel rocks - sorry not a surround sound fan). The Dan should sit up and take notice and hire Chris Keating the video director!
The setlist is engaging, a very nice balance - strating with mostly early stuff, then mostly Avalon esque, to mostly early ending. Brilliant and flows very well. The guys are sharply dressed in suits (except Thompson on drums). The gals - the percussionist is too stunning and looks like a Roxy cover model but plays a variety of rythum accents nicely, the keyboardist - more down to earth and obtainable, and she has chops, the vocalist - a real afrodisiac - dead on delivery and in sync with Brian. Ferry and Mackay look well for their age, Paul (barely noticeable in his butch cut) has a loveable jolly temperment and is truly enjoying himself, Manzanera is his usual brilliant and humble self, and damn - that's Chris Spedding on second guitar!
Remake - Remodel - up tempo with fun trading of fours and who is the blonde gal doing a cheap Eno sendoff??? (yes Brian declined the 'nostalgia' act). McKay is all over it. Streetlife elevates things a notch. Ladytron features a blistering Manzanera solo complete with frenzy well beyond a broken string. Out of The Blue - damn that gal just switched to violin and blew me away - Eddie Jobson eat your heart out. Cute, squeeky clean and having fun - I think I'm in love! Song for Europe features huge piano chords and a mood. My Only Love - Chris Speeding delivers a heartfelt solo. Every Dream Home is engaging then Manzanera cuts in accompanied by dreamboat miss Wilkins on violin. Oh Yeah is slow and suggestive.
A little uptempo on Both Ends Burning - complete with go go dancers, sorry the tension of the original that made it so spectacular is missed here. Ferry's harp and Mackay's sax blend nicely into a Spedding/Manzanera duel. Tara captures the mood eloquently and you can hear a pin drop in the auditorium. The piano/sax/violin refrain is brilliant. Zev Katz funky bass motors Mother of Pearl. Avalon features Yanick Etienne - the vocalist on the 82 original - nice touch Brian. Dance Away and Lennon's Jealous Guy round out the "Lounge Lizard era" Roxy portion of the set. Editions of You kicks things in high gear - the hair comes down - ouch, and Thompson's drumming is explosive. More Enoesque synth parts fully faithful to an original that Brian can no longer milk from that old moog. Virginia Plain has Ferry finally getting a little over the top primadonna - but quickly rescued by Manzanera.
Encores - damn the brits even clap in unison clapclapclap Roxy clapclapclap roxy...
Love is the Drug features drivigng bass and peacock plume dancers. Do The Strand is energetic with a touch of caberet. For Your Pleasure is a nice send off, slower, emotive, with each member taking a center stage walkoff, nice touch
wow, felt like I had attended the show. Hopefully the getns will hit a recording studio soon to consumate some new music... very impressed
Don and Walt - take note and do a one off show for posterity of this caliper. Plush wasn't really a packed concert hall and the 03 tour was too vibrant to miss documenting
great - yanks got out of the 6th with no runs
wormy
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Perhaps the best version (aside from Mike Keneally) of Syd's Astronomy Domine is Gilmour's live on Ummagumma. Did you know that Astronomy Domine is the only song to have been released by all three versions of Pink Floyd? (Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Syd), Ummagumma (Roger) and Pulse (Dave))
User: TEST YOUR LOVE CHARMS | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message:
Don't cheat! Before you read on, choose your favorite marshmallow
bit from Lucky Charms from the list below:
Pink hearts Yellow moons Orange stars Green clovers Blue diamonds
Purple horseshoes Those icky oat bits
Okay. Have you got one in mind? Now you can read on. And don't
change it!
An amazing new study shows that your favorite Lucky Charms
marshmallow bit shape determines what you're like in bed!
Yes, it's true--just take this simple test to determine your true
bedroom personality:
GREEN CLOVERS: If your favorite Lucky Charms marshmallow shape
is the green clover, you're a happy-go-lucky type in bed. You
don't take anything too seriously in the bedroom or elsewhere and
always manage to have a good time, even if you have someone else
with you. You don't have any patience with depressed people and
tend to sit on them until they cheer up.
BLUE DIAMONDS: If your favorite marshmallow shape is the blue
diamond, your thoughts in bed are mostly about what you'll get
later. "If he really enjoys this, will he buy me that mink coat?"
is probably what's going through your mind. People who like blue
diamonds have a notebook of preprinted fill-in-the-blank palimony
suit forms and are the people most likely to file their nails
while making love.
ORANGE STARS: If your favorite shape is the orange star, you
expect to be the center of attention in bed. You expect your
partner to spend most of his time pleasing you and when you do
something for him, you expect enthusiastic moaning if not
applause. People who like orange stars often have mirrors over
their beds, not because they are turned on by watching what is
being done, but because they want to be able to watch themselves
having a good time. They often moan out their own names while
making love.
PINK HEARTS: If you like pink hearts, you're the romantic
type. You like your partner to whisper romantic phrases into your
ear and, if he's too distracted to form coherent phrases, you'll
settle for romantic syllables. People who like pink hearts read
most of the romance novels published and are turned on by people
wearing armor.
PURPLE HORSESHOES: If purple horseshoes are your thing, your
tastes are modern, uninhibited, and somewhat warped. You like
variety in the bedroom, especially when you can include
handcuffs, chains, swingsets, and chocolate pudding. Be careful
when going out on a picnic with anyone who likes purple
horseshoes--she's/ he's likely to pin you down with croquet hoops
when you're not looking and who knows what could happen next?
YELLOW MOONS: If you're the yellow moon type, you're more
interested in satisfying your partner's needs than your own. You
prefer to lie back and wait for your partner to jump on you and
express her/his needs verbally or nonverbally. People who like
yellow moons usually own several pairs of handcuffs and other
instruments of kinky sex just in case someone should ever want to
tie them up and ravish them. Keep your eyes open for anyone who
eats all the yellow moons out of her cereal as soon as she opens
the box.
Those little oat bits that aren't marshmallows at all: If you
prefer the little oat bits, you probably don't like sex anyway
and don't need to read this article.
People who prefer the oat bits usually become accountants,
librarians who work at the reference desk, or government
employees; these people like to chow down on a big bowl brimming
with oat bits before a tough day of protesting suggestive lyrics
in rock music. People who like oat bits have more time to spend
writing letters to the editor than any other type.
xoxo
Rodeo Girl - a true Pearl not a Earl or a Duke or a Paige or a Maize of
Corn Muffins For my stud bluz
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: WT: Gilmour underrated? I assume you're talking his overall contribution in the shadow of Waters and not his guitar playing because last time I looked he was/is considered one of the best.
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: t: You mean Bernard Purdie, not Ringo
Here's an obscure one: Tim Friese-Greene and Talk Talk
Neil Finn and Split Enz
in the gag dept: Steve Perry and Journey ...and even worse - the keyboardist from the Babys replaicng Greg Rolle
Donnie Hathaway and Roberta Flack
Oleta Adams and Tears for Fears
Joe Henderson and Kenny Dorham
User: tonesy | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Macca? How's about
Ringo
Ringo
Ringo!
Can you imagine "Ticket to Ride" or "Tomorrow Never Knows" with Pete Best?
Me either.
got more:
Al Mckay - Earth Wind & Fire (his rhythm guitar defined their sound even more than their horn section)
Jerry Harrison -Talking Heads (they played some early gigs as a three piece before he joined)
Dave Alvin/Tony Gilkyson - X (they went in a more rustic direction during this period)
Paul Roberts and John Ellis - The Stranglers (they weren't the same after Hugh Cornwell left, but I think they kept evolving as songwriters and put out some great stuff, not that anyone noticed...)
nice thread... I know there's tons more we're missing...
oh yeah...
Sid Vicious - Sex Pistols (they sold out as soon as he picked up the bass...)
(oh maaaaaaan... just scrolled up and saw the "1 album out" rule... that pretty much kicks Ringo to the curb, unless you count those Decca sessions that came out later.
Judges?)
and how 'bout
Jaco - (also) Weather Report (or did I miss that one?)
Oh yeah, and
Dogget/Reyes - X Files, just 'cause...
'k... dinner's on...
pot pies
t
User: wt | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: gilmour was on my list but omitted in the typing end
not better than syd, but the band jelled and wrote more straight ahead tunes with David. And those chords, acoustics and string bending - brilliant and too underrated (even for multi platinum)
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Blasphemy! Gilmour, an improvement over Syd Barrett? Now, if you had said Guy Pratt . . . .
User: fezo | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: too easy:
David Gilmour
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Now, Stevee - what kind of set can I expect tomorrow night from Pretzel Logic at Hermosa Beach at 8 PM, what was the name of that club, ah... Charlie's Charango Ballroom isn't it? What will the feel be and can I expect a spirited rendition of "Here at the Western World" with you and Warren Weinstein on Vibra-Slap and Wooden Ratchet? Chicky-boom indeed.
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Hey Zeke: I was just listening to "Twin Sons" on Sunday night.....
User: Zeke | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: can Zeke come out to play?
OK here goes,
Steve Gains - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Brian Johnson - AC/DC
Tim Weisberg - Dan Fogelberg
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Mu: (glad to have u back, btw). ;-)
Yes, Go Now was indeed low fidelity, but it still counts (as you noted).
I think I have the album on cassette tape, haven't listened to it in decades....
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: The Tubes formally the Beans.
Anyone remember their tap dancer Pearly Gates who started the band Pearl Harbor and the Explosions then she moved to England and married some guy in the Clash? She use to be my roomate years ago in Fairfax - Patty Gilbert. She was a stripper in San Fran until she joined the Tubes.
Rodeo Girl
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Lightning
User: Doctor Mu | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: angel: Go Now is a pretty low fidelity recording, with the hit title song penned by Denny Laine who sojourned towards Penny Lane joining Macca's Wings... Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge, and Ray Thomas were in the band, but both Justin Hayward and I think John Lodge were not...I've heard Justin was added last...I can't think of two many sophomore albums like Days of Future Past with Nights in White Satin and the elegant Tuesday Afternoon that are soooo different and as much improved over the initial album...
Reminds me that I've always preferred Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates over the Grammy-winning eponymous debut. Her New One sounds great - Evening of My Best Day - will purchase this week. Sounds like Pirates, maybe tighter. I noticed that he recurring riff in A Second Chance sounds suspiciously like vamp for Chain Lighting - alert Dr. Fagen and Keith Jarrett!!!...let's sue the harlot!!!
I smell Grammy...
User: Bodacious Cowboy | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Mark Volman and Howie Kaylan-Mothers of Invention
really added a fine veneer of filth and sophomoric humor to the band
Dave Walker-Savoy Brown
Great soulful voice added to Kim Simmonds stinging blues guitar
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Ah yes, a band I can really sink my teeth into...
Clas - The single biggest reason Hornsby has had a successful post Range career is due to his association with The Grateful Dead and the Other Ones. Don't get me wrong, I was a fan of Hornsby before his stint as guest keyboardist, but his collaboration with the Dead bought him a huge new audience.
Keith was probably my favorite keyboardist for the Dead. However, I don't/didn't miss Donna Jean...
A) Zappa = Lowell George
B) Herm nailed it
C) Tom Scott
StAl
User: C @ Work | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Hornsby?
What are you talking about son?
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message:
b) influences of each grateful dead keyboardist (grateful tap)
Okay, here's the way I look at that question.
Pigpen was wild and blusey. Even though the Dead's early years were filled with a lot of experimentaion and somewhat unlistenable songs, Pig was the blues base in the band. When he sang leads, he took center stage, (and all the attention), blew that harp, played the role of the satyr, and screamed the blues. When he departed, the band changed drastically. It was only then it truly became Jerry's band. Had Pig stayed somewhat healthy, there would be an entirely different Grateful Dead as we knew it.
Keith Godchaux was probably their best keyboardist musically. At times he was very jazzy, almost classical. He seemed to blend in nicely with the band, not overpower like some of the others. And, he wasn't a lead singer ~ another big difference in the band's dynamic. Pig and Brent were both singers. Keith seemed to me to be much fonder of the piano than the players immediately before and after him. And with Keith, came Donna, who's background vocals on many songs were beautifully haunting.
Brent Mydland, like Pig, he loved the organ, but Brent also leaned heavily on the synths. This was another major shift in the band's sound in the 80's. Brent also was a writer ~ something the others really weren't. Only, Brent had a prediliction to arena ballads and rockers. Had Jerry not died and the band continued on, Brent's songs would have more than likely died along with him.
Hornsby was the first outside "superstar" member. I can't say whether we really added anything to the band other than helping it carry on during a rather rough time. His vocals did add some depth to the backgrounds.
Vince Welnick, ex-keyboardist of the Tubes, seemed like a strange choice at the time as a replacement. I saw his initial tour in Cleveland where "Yo, Vinnie" stickers were given out by the bathrooms. After a while, I realized how good Vince was with the band, having seen them maybe eight more times between Cleveland and the last tour before Jerry's passing. He might have been better than Keith, who I believe was the best overall keyboardist in the band.
That's my take on it. Glad to discuss anything further, seeing as how it's one of my favorite subjects.
Later,
Herm
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Trey Gunn: King Crimson
Aus
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Justin Hayward - The Moody Blues.... I believe the album made before he arrived was called "Go Now".
User: C & W | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: W1P - good.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg -- not that David Sancious was all that bad ;-)
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Jason Newsted - Metallica
C, the second session is scheduled for Sat -- it will be completed long before the deadline but John Would will probably spend some time with it making it real purty
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Grace Slick - Jefferson Airplane
Warren Haynes & Derek Trucks - Allmans
John Frusciante - Chili Peppers
Victor Feldman was a very influential SD sideman. The inventiveness he brought, the various instruments and tasty little bits added so much. He's still missed. Tangential to the subject matter, Carlock has rejuvinated them and added excitement and muscle this time around.
User: wt | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: should have been more specific
musician joining already formed group which had put out at least one album that elevated that group's work in a positive way.
Macca wouldn't apply
Gram would
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: Howsabout;
P McCartney joining the Quarry Men
Gram Parsons - Byrrds
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend - The Detours
User: wormy | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: ah, Stevie took the bait
but should have been thinking deep positive thoughts
yes I was referring to only positive contributions from band members
(and I cringe at the names Alan White and Kenny Jones)
does Sammy Hagar really deserve mention if Van Hagar doesn't?
I forgot a few
I'll add Tony Levin to the Krimson dynamic
that bass player before Jaco with Joni - Gruen - brilliant as well
and Manu kache to Peter Gabriel
here's a round on your deep probing questions
1) zappa musicians - Captian Beefhart, Adrian Belew, Jean Luc Ponty, Terry Bozio
2) lack of knowledge of the ivory section of GD
3) steely dan sidemen - this one will stroke his ego - Bernard Perdie,
Chuck Rainey, Larry Carlton, Greg Phillinganes(one offs with Gadd or Woods don't count despite how spectacular they were)
User: stevielogue | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: here are thesis ideas for those feeling qualified:
a) most influential zappa band members
b) influences of each grateful dead keyboardist (grateful tap)
c) most influential steely dan sidemen/members
which reminds me !
michael mcdonald - doobie brothers
now THAT was a no brainer !
sammy hagar - van halen
kurt winter - the guess who
maceo parker - james brown
eric clapton - john mayall
o-KAYYYY
User: steviedan bites | Month: 9 | Day: 21
Message: ... wait
... i mean i'll reSPOND to the thread...
okay, there is a dichotomy to this "musician-joins-and-influences-band" in that often the influence is NOT GOOD...
first some positive ones:
steve morse - deep purple
david clayton-thomas - blood sweat and tears
adrian belew - (also) king crimson
stevie ray vaughan - david bowie
tom scott - (another for) joni mitchell (pre-jaco, jazz phaze one)
BUT, here's a horror trilogy ALL involving drummers (how spinal-tapian):
kenny jones - the who (the wha' ?)
alan white - yes (NOOOOOO)
alan schwartzberg - (managed to suck all the swing and funk from both) mountain AND jimi hendrix.
i may need another installment on this...
User: It's a steam-power 10, the frame is out of Glasgow, the tech is Balinese... | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: Pressurized Water Provides Clean Power
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-10-20-9
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: slow day?
go here, i laughed just now at my desk so hard i was in tears!
http://www.washme.com/index.html
http://www.nowedonthaveawebsite.com/noweb/other.html
also available in white, loved that line
good night folks, thanks for comin, tip your waitress!
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: slow day here
bat signal out to timg
top ten musician who joined an existing band and most redefined it
(I'll stay away from Jazz for this one, too difficult)
11) Denny Laine - Wings
10) Ted Nugent - Damn Yankees ;-)
9) Neil Peart - Rush
8) Jaco Pastorius - Joni Mitchell
7) Bill Bruford - King Crimson
6) Adrian Belew - Talking Heads
5) Lindsey Buckingham - Fleetwood Mac
4) Steve Hackett - Genesis
3) Mick Taylor - The Rolling Stones
2) Neil Young - CSYN
1) Steve Howe - Yes
I'm sure I missed a few
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: top ten reasons Don and Walt are Yankees fans
11) up in the Bronx they welcome you with sausage and beer
10) fish fry - throw back the little ones and pan fry the big ones
9) the Florida Room is for anything but ba sa ball
8) the closest DOn and Walt ever get to wearing a pinstribe suit
7) sweet things from boston isn't refering to the pitching rotation
6) they got a name for the winners in the world - Bronx Bombers
5) Hey 19 that's Mickey Mantle, she don't remember the commerce comet
4) what other team was so Yogi Berrable
3) Every patron saint hung on the wall, shared the room
with twenty hitters
2) already disposed of the Boston rag
1) you can catch that 90 minute rail ride from Paris here
User: c | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: Check out the coolest site on the web:
http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/flash/home.html
Saint Al, why doesn't we have this site built in Flash?
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: That's good Stevee.
It's Monday nite over here, I'll be sitting here counting.
User: SteveeDan (It's almost in the can) | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: Clas - I hope to have something to send you (specifically 2 live tracks) in 2 days ... that's Wednesday. I haven't forgotten. Thanks for the reminders.
SteveeDan
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: And BOOKMARK it, for christ sake!
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: So, I have received material from Ken, Fla Dave, Gaucho and Nigey Lennon.
Where's Roy?
Brett?
W1p??
etc etc... ?
You'll find my snailmail at:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/sketchesandstrangeloops
Or click the URL above.
User: must two against everything go naturally? | Month: 9 | Day: 20
Message: top ten reasons
must two against everything go naturally?
11) the first deserved three grams the second may get two
10) that lucious invention for three got pixileened in the next go round
9) opposite of an ariel view is the first room to conquer in the Greenbook
8) the godesss on the fire escape made off with the audi tt
7) everyone's going to Pennsylvania, now everyone's going to die
6) Madame Erzulie's gris-gris got nothing on godwackers on the chase
5) negative girl goes out and get's a tan on Blues Beach,
sunblock 5000 isn't enough
4) Don't you love Port Blanc, When Hooterie is over gives way to the need for a new resume and some documentation from Dave in acquisitions
3) working on Gospel time leads to running out of time in the morning, that gospel morning
2) you can skate backwards or you can skip dimensions, it's all slang on me
1) dupree finds his match in a stalkfest - all that's left is a pool of Tanqueray and applesauce - forensic specialists stumped
gimt
User: lp, again | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: hey, my daughter lost her sheet music for flute - where can i get sheet music downloaded online?
thanks!
User: luckless pedestrian | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: hey jjeff - yes, a big whale watch boat grounded on the bar and before they could get to it, it crashed and grounded over at Bar Island - really sad and frustrating for all
calmer seas now, though, at least on the water!
thanks to steviedan as well
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: St. Al - Regarding those Spring Break 2002 photos ... I just went to look at them after not checking them out in a long time. I saw your posted apology for not getting a "frontal" photo of me ... Hey Man, how would you know that I would have to actually turn and look at one of the musicians ... for a band I just sat in with for that set ... to make sure that I was playing in the right place with them? Drunk notwithstanding, it's OK though ... after all, ... there's still that group photo with me holding up the legs of that unidentified guy ...
How funny would it be that this guy, who we're holding up like a log, is nobody special who just happened to walk into the photo at the last second and end up being its centerpiece?
Actually, it would seem strangly appropriate ... sort of like that mysterious hand that lurks up on the mixing board in the photo on the back of the Countdown To Ecstasy album/CD ... (yes, I know now that it's Roger Nichols ... but it was a mystery for a long time, now wasn't it?)
Have a great week everyone.
SteveeDan
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: Ya see Rajah ... ain't our ¦ sumpthin to behold ?!? ... I too thought that the 3 minute length of the pop song had to do with the limited attention span (less is more), but, the good Doctor's treatise does make practical sense. Of course however, what IS practical about music ?... and entertainment in general ... I mean, ... in mideval times wasn't the generally requested mode of entertainment fire eating, sword swallowing, and magic ... or perhaps the lowbrow hihinx of the court jester?
... we seen the last of Good King Richard ...
SteveeDan
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: You - Awesome.
User: Arnold Horshack | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: oooh oooh... Mis-stir Kot-tare...!
I believe the American pop song is formatted to make the most of the short American attention span.
Isn't that right, Mis-stir Kot-tare?
User: National Probe | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: (1) DrMu - there was a DrWu who was a regular when I arrived years ago to discover that there were actually others with the same Steely Dan obsession and could hear things that I did... and my wife and friends couldn't...this was not only a revelation, but calming to know others share the same delusion or aptitude or useless stupid human trick, whatevah...
(2) ¦ - in order to save time and feeling just a symbol of the man I once knew, I took Prince's lead and just became an [optioin m] on a Mac
(3) in honor of the new album, tour, major league hooks, and a line from Mark in Boston I believe, DanAudioCrackWhore emerged with the single intent of hearing Pixeleen live or on the radio...as that dream and I slowly become a shadow, it's back to:
(4) DoctorMu - I'm older (but not wiser) so I can't remember abbreviations and acronyms...
Occasionally, a few cartoon Celebrity posts might paroxysmally spew out, but it beats kicking the cat...
A. European folks songs last only about 1:50 or the length of a round of beer in Bavaria...having said that some tradional songs are sometimes expanded to whole movements in Romantic era symphonies...
No, the answer Morrrtonnnn has a much more pragmatic state of the day limitation as the source.
Before there was DVD-audio, CDs, 33 1/3 LPs, the 45 rpm single, there was the 78! The 78 rpm disc was a whopper, but could only hold 3 minutes of music!!! Thus the singles of the 30s, 40s, and 50s were 3 minutes or a little less in length!
For those who know a little science history, the *original* singles and recordings were on wax tube-shaped cylinders and the stylus I think may have been bamboo...the original phonograph, like with the dog y'know, was invented the Thomas Alva Edison and group, who had 1098 discrete inventions included the kinetoscope (motion pictures), and the...uhhh, like, power amp. huhuh dude...so SD recordings that sound just like a record on a phonograph, video/flim, and concerts owe Mr. Edison a great debt. What you all may not know is that the prototype of the phonograph was the answering machine!!! ...something to go with Alexander Graham Bell's invention...However, people at that time were NOT impressed by the machines utility - they didn't sell - and thus Edison adapted the original answering machine into the phonograph...maybe they knew something about life we didn't...
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: Dr. Mu - Our esteemed SteveeDan has nice things to say about you. So who were you before? Inquiring minds and all.
User: C - w | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: A - to copy the Classic European popsongs.
User: DoctorMu | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: OK, now that Prince has changed his name back to Prince and the Dan tour is over and no Pixeleen in sight or sound even on the airways, I'm changing my bogus personna back.. I hope this causes as much confusion as possible...does this mean I have anything new to say? uhhhhhhhh nope...in fact today... I Got Nothing...
except a POP QUIZ:
Q. Why does the classic American Pop Song clock in at just about 3 minutes?
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: And he kicked their president too.
User: C @ W | Month: 9 | Day: 19
Message: Hi!
Don't forget to send your song(s) to me, for the 4th Under the Banyan Trees CD.
You'll find my snailmail at:
http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/sketchesandstrangeloops
Or click the URL above.
---
Good to hear you Paige. Nobody wants to work here in Sweden.
StAl - did you see on the news that Gaucho lost it? Big time. La Paz is in ruins.
User: Paige | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: This may a bit self-sereving. However, I wanted to thank all of those on this board that supported me through my long ordeal of unemployment. After a year and two months, I have finally found employment at Brooks Institute of Photography as a student advisor. I will be working in Career Services.
Anyway...thanks to all of you (both known and unknown) for your support over the past year. In many ways, I could not have made it without your help.
-Paige
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: Beerberian: Did you check the PG official website? There's a preview of the DVD.
Happy B'day LP. Any bad windstorms lately? We've had a couple including Juan. They opened Point Pleasant Park in Halifax today only, just so people could see the devastation,over 70% of the trees are down.
User: RODEO GIRL (Property of Bluz and Proud of IT!) | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: Bluz Bear Honey,
I know you want to drag me off to Bora Bora to perform a 12 day mating ritual in an over water bungalow and the answer is yes as long as there is one sexy full moon wheel of goat gouda cheese with of course Trader Joe's Savory Thin Rice Crackers to go with it as you know I can't eat wheat ones - gluten allergies. Not into long run on sentences like that last one but you bring out the romantic in me dude what can I say! Getting hot just thinking about the Tahitian sun and a must see stop in Fiji as well my love pill. I don't mind taking you as medicine to keep the real blues away for a winter traveling in the sun will be kick ass fun!
Love,
Rodeo Girl
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: Moll- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'll have to spread this joke to my friends. Thanks.
Rajah- You might have to go to a bookstore that might have Rolling Stone Magazine books of record reviews. They would probably tell you what stars CTE had. I think it was three and a half stars. I'm not sure.
User: Moll the Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: Hi everyone! I hope this makes you smile.
Drunk Superhero
Two guys were sitting at a bar on the 40th floor of a skyscraper and were totally plastered.
The first guy said, ''Hey, I'll bet you a million bucks that I can jump out of this window, fly around the building, and land right here next to you!''
Being so totally wasted, plus hearing a completely impossible bet, the 2nd guy replied, ''YOU'RE ON!''
So the first guy jumped out of the window, flew around the building, and came right back to the same spot. ''WOW,'' screamed the 2nd guy, ''That was incredible. Do it again!''
So the first guy jumped out of the window, flew around the building, and landed right next to his friend. ''That is remarkable. Do it one more time!"
''Ok,'' said the first guy, ''But if I do it again, when I come back you have to do it."
The second man agreed, and with that, once again, the first jumped out, flew around, and came back. ''Your turn,'' he said.
So the 2nd guy stepped up to the window. ''This is easy. He did it, so can I!"
The much pumped second man, took a deep breath, and heaved his body out the window. He fell straight to the ground and died instantly upon impact. Calmly the first man walked back to the bar and ordered another beer.
The bartender remarked, ''You sure are mean when you're drunk, Superman!'''
User: the curse of the BABE | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: ...And i dont mean a Brat in the northwest"
BB..Judie's lyrics of "choices" are correct..leave the doors
open wide illushion"
Duncan..congratulations!!
Rodeo Girl..u make me laugh, keep shufflin the deck' ill kiss that buurrrooo any time..snneeezees jeeezes...
played today
Jimmy Cobb's Mobb..Cobb's Groove..'minor changes"(new)
Joe Augustine..Moondance.."title"
Stanley Turrentine..lp rough N' Tumble".."feelin good"
James Harman Band..Two sides Two Every Story.."the clown"
Boz Scaggs..Come On Home.."your good thing is about to end"
Jimmy Mc Griff..Feelin It.."hard times"
Kenny Garrett..Happy People.."song for difang"
Nina Simone.."don't let me be misunderstood"
Larry Coryell..The Power Trio..'autumn leaves"..(new)
Barney Kessel..Let's Cook.."just in time"(happy birthday barney..1923)
Rickie Lee Jones..Pop Pop.."love junkyard"
John Lee Hooker..DON'T LOOK Back.."ain't no big thing"
Slowburn..'ill never forget you"
Yuseff Lateef..lp Jazz Mood.."morning"..April 1957
John Alexander..You Need Dis.."new blues"(new)
David Bixler..show me justice.."title"(new)
Antonio Carlos Jobim/Stan Getz/Gilberto.."the girl from ipanema"
Kenny Burrell..lp Midnight Blue.."title"January 1963
Sea Level.."rain in spain"
Gato Barieri..The Shadow Of The Cat.."title"(new)
Andy Summers.. World Gone Strange.."rythm spirits"
My baby got a mojo
she won't let me see
One morning about four o' clock
she eased that thing on me.
Blind Boy Fuller
"Mojo Hiding Woman"
bluz
User: this old steviedan | Month: 9 | Day: 18
Message: looking to remodel your bathroom ? just check out items listed on e-bay for steely dan (there are like 380 or something) and you will find custom "art deco" steely dan "can't buy a thrill" tiles for around 8 bucks apiece ! just imagine the effect of several of these strategically placed babies ! i'm talkin' to the little lady in the a.m. ! home improvement time...
happy birthday lp ! treat yourself to a tile or two ! great for hot pans in the kitchen, as well i suppose !
also on e-bay: a bass amp head once owned by jaco pastorius (probably never used live though, i suspect. starting bid: fifty grand...
i just won my first e-bay auction ! "bass talk 1" cd. a very rare bass compilation. my winning bid ? $11.30 ! i was immediately e-mailed the next day by a dude in toronto offering me $25 plus, apparently distraught, whose bid was interrupted (he claimed) by a mini-twenty-minute-blackout...
sorry, eh...
"steviedan-album-of-the-week"(TM): "extraction" by greg howe/victor wooten/dennis chambers. never heard of greg howe ? well, he's not STEVE howe of yes. he is a shredder-style guitarist, but no matter. it's "some guitarist" with VICTOR & DENNIS ! he could be a frickin' organ grinder monkey ! it's VICTOR & DENNIS !
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Well, that's better now, the vermin have been squashed. Gee, they were scary, weren't they? Yeah, sure they were. Radiohead on Letterman, I guess I still don't get it, is ineptitude live part of greatness?
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: You guys, might be safe now that, oh, wait, wait a minute, there's something crawling under the breakfast nuque(English sp.), whoa a cpckroach y'all. We step on heeem.
Saluti cornuto. (This is NOT something nice.)
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Puto, dove stai?
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Sono Vito Andolini, e questa e per te. Pezzo di merda. Ritorna a quella putana di tua madre.
User: dvd-audio reviews | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Nightfly: http://www.dvdangle.com/reviews/review.php?Id=3207
Kamakiriad: http://www.dvdangle.com/reviews/review.php?Id=3207
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: So there's this new review of Countdown to Ecstasy on the Rolling Stone website. Seems this guy thinks it's the greatest album of the 70s. Well, I don't know about these revisionist history reviews. I'd really like to know what they gave it thirty years ago. But it does seem as though folks are begining to come around to the notion that SD was -and is- one of the all time very best. How 'bout dat?
User: Dano | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: LP , Hope you had a Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooser.
Gotta go , Steely on the CD and off to Find Nemo.
Dano.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: why rajah, it's never safe, but that's why we keep comin in here!
love to aus - see you after the club!
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Is it safe yet?
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: **indentured servitude**
User: DACW | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Happy Birthday LP!!!
Jimbo: I bet there's a house bought and paid for waiting for him courtesy of the citty of Miami...poor guy had even been able to go to work - and the press are outside his home (reminding me of that scene with John Denver from Oh, God)
based on game 7 when the Cubs were outplayed in every aspect of the game: pitching, fielding, hitting, coaching - unfortunately, there's no doubt the Marlins belong...frankly, I'd rather be watching early season NBA ball...
WARNING minirant:
re: Ralph's - I picked up some cheap eats visiting Sandy Eggo - those were big scowls for $17.50 an hour...with licences our friends from south of the border will work (and do work) for half that all over Cali...heck I calculated with the 55 hrs/week I put in (including home office) I'm earning not that much more than that!!!
Point is that over the years dealing with Unions and our lack of border policy and trade has force jobs South and Overseas (and we can't understand why there aren't manufacturing jobs to fall back on in this economic slump) and immigrants north...while al Qaeda and drug-runners (including for oxycontin) are slipping in as well two if by land (Canada, Mexico) and one if by Sea...
...and those that arrive illegally with intention of work have to deal with the cost of housing which is so outrageous (Why don't we investigate $550,000 1400 sq ft houses instead of $1.25 gas - am I missing something here?!!!!!!!!!)...thus we allow illegals in, pay them peanuts, put them in de facto **endured servitude** while sleeping without the shade on de light and think we're being COMPASSIONATE??!!!
Therefore, those reading from Left of the Rio Grande - come to Texas!!! If you don't get shot by rancher sneaking over the border, out cost of living here is much lower - we're friendly, and Bush has made a deal with Vicente Fox not to send you back...hey and bring us the scalp of an Al Qaeda or Colombian and we'll provide housing rent-free in San Antonio for a year!
User: wormscorp | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: happy 30th LP!
sorry on the SOx, Go Yanks, I was so tired (that biweekly crash us "never sleepers" hit the wall on came last night) I actually fell asleep top of the 11th with the Red Soxs at the plate
Only drink with a Scorpio who likes you. I'm sure Auss and I can start serving up the hi balls, bloody mary on my end
Dan special concert taped for DVD in London or Paris early next year
come on down all you scotts
three warm up gigs at Roseland (I'm game)
wormtom with a sting
User: Floridavid | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Happy Birthday LP!!....nuff said
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Lp- Happy Birthday and at the same time my condolences to the Red Sox, who I wanted to go to the Series. Guess that means 7th inning stretches
at Yankee Stadium will mean Tenors singing patriotic songs instead of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame." which should always be played if I was Commissioner of Baseball. (No Ozzy, though) Carolyn Leonhart or Cynthia Calhoun could do the job of singing that tune during the home games.
I also wanted the Cubs there too. Guess Steve Bartman needs witness protection.
User: Ward | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Errata: CURSE. Not CURES.
xoxox
W
User: Ward | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Dear June:
First of all, Happy birthday my little lovie. I have something from Tiffany for you here on my desk at work as well as something extremely naughty for tonight from La Perla. You'll get those after I finish some celebratory martinis at the Yale Club tonight at 6:30 PM.
I'm so sorry for you and all of New Englandde this morning. Your Red Sox put up a valiant fight indeed. But alas, the curse came back to bite you in your collective arses. Yes my lovie. The cures is alive and well. And though I bleed Yankee blue, remember always that I love you.
Ward
ps. The Scorpio drinking profile (mine) was dead on.
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: LP: Condolences to you and your old team. That takes a lot from this New Yorker, who was rooting for the Mets in '86.
That drinking thing is scary and hits the mark, more often then not. At least from my perspective.
User: Kmart | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message:
Friday Haiku
why is love so strange
moron love is so tangled
swans have it easy
User: Beers | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: err that should be Blues Traveler ...
User: bassicinstinct | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message:
Anyone else checked out the new Rickie Lee Jones disc "The Evening of My Best Day" yet?
Absolutely bloomin` marvelous methinks.
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Just "discovered" Blue Traveler ... Does that guy play a mean gob iron or what ??????
New Van the Man out next week
Peter Gabriel DVD out next month
All is right with the musical world - shame the rest of the globe is F***** Up tho LOL ...
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: but on the astrology below - yes, i do love champagne, but also gin, though that was not what you smelled, it was rothschild white bordeaux actually...and not into the umbrella drinks
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: thanks all for my birthday wishes - although it was the worst birthday on record since the mis-managed sox THREW away the series, so i must say FUCK-N-A MAN!!!!!
The Sox will do it all again with the Yankees in ABOUT 20 YEARS when management recovers!
I felt so bad listening to Boston talk sports radio this morning (we have a world radio, it's a must for rural life) and this 80 year old woman called and so incredibly pissed off saying she had been watching the Sox since 1939 and has likely missed her chance at seeing a World Series - now THAT's SAD!
I think this is WORSE than 86, absolutely, because we had the better line up and they didn't pull Pedro in the 7th inning (and when did the 7th inning stretch become a halftime show? if i want a moment of silence, i'll go to church, play ball, dammit!), and it's not "monday morning quarterbacking" because the announcers were saying that when the inning began!
Hoping the Marlins can at least humble the Yankees - they at least show some energy and drive and better management...
sheesh!
but, on a musical note, i did get soem great joan osbourne cd's 2000 and 2002 releases, they are great and, i got a sleek pair of high brown boots!
User: YGK | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Happy Birthday, LP!!!!!!
How 'bout them Yankees!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
ygk
User: I Smell Gin and Her Evil Twin | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message:
Alcohoroscopes
by Jen Rummy
ARIES
Drinking style
Impulsive Aries people like to party and sometimes don't know when to call
it a night. Their competitive streak makes them prone to closing-time shot
contests. They're sloppy, fun drunks, and they get mighty flirty after a
couple tipples. Getting Aries people drunk is a good way to get what you
want out of them, should other methods fail. Aries can become bellicose
when blotto, but they will assume that whatever happened should be forgiven
(if not forgotten) by sunrise. They can be counted on to do the same for
you -- so long as you haven't gone and done anything really horrible to
them last night, you sneaky Gemini.
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Aries, born under the hot-stuff planet Mars, is the ruler of spicy food and
red things -- and for balance, astrologers recommend they eat tomatoes,
onions, olives and greens. That's right, Aries, you were born under the
sign of the bloody Mary. Aries also rules grapefruit, and they've been
known to kick back a salty dog and a sea breeze or two. For extreme hotcha,
try a concoction with cinnamon liqueur in it.
Drinking buddies
Marlon Brando, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Al Gore,
Thomas Jefferson, Elton John, Eric McCormack, Rosie O'Donnell, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon
TAURUS
Drinking style
Taurus prefers to drink at a leisurely pace, aiming for a mellow glow
rather than a full-on zonk. Since a truly intoxicated Taurus is a
one-person stampede, the kind of bull-in-a-china-shop inebriate who spills
red wine on white carpets and tells fart jokes to employers, the preference
for wining and dining (or Bud and buddies) to body shots and barfing is
quite fortunate for the rest of us. This is not to say that the Bull is by
any means a teetotaler -- god, no. A squiffy Taurus will get, er,
gregarious (full of loudmouth soup, some would say) and is extremely
amusing to drag to a karaoke bar when intoxicated.
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Early-to-bed Taureans need a picker-upper -- try a Red Bull and vodka. They
also have a leviathan sweet tooth and are fond of drinks with names that
sound like dessert (50-50 bar, mudslide). Sweetly caffeinated drinks, like
Irish coffee or white Russians, are ideal. More macho Taureans will go for
something unpretentious, like a Jack and Coke or whiskey sour.
Drinking buddies
Cate Blanchett, Tony Blair, Pierce Brosnan, Cher, Penelope Cruz, William
Randolph Hearst, Jerry Seinfeld, Barbara Striesand, Uma Thurman, Renee
Zellweger
GEMINI
Drinking style
Geminis can drink without changing their behavior much -- they're so
naturally chatty and short-attention-spanned that it's just hard to tell
sometimes. They can amaze you by conversing with finesse and allusion, then
doing something to belie an extremely advanced state of intoxication, like
puking in your shoe. Geminis possess the magic ability to flirt
successfully (and uninfuriatingly, which is very tricky) with several
people at once. They like to order different cocktails every round --
repetition is boring -- and may create a theme (like yellow drinks: beer,
sauvignon blanc and limoncello) for their own amusement.
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Easily bored Geminis need some stimulation in their drinks -- those with
two parts, like a black and tan (or just a double), are particularly
appealing. Otherwise, they'll drink all over the map, ordering frou-frou
drinks to add to their collection of cocktail monkeys or going for whiskey
rocks because they're feeling rather noir. Gemini rules the herb anise --
make some home-infused anise vodka as a gift.
Drinking buddies
George Bush Sr., Johnny Depp, Rupert Everett, Boy George, Allen Ginsberg,
Angelina Jolie, John Kennedy, Ian McKellen, Kylie Minogue, Morrissey
CANCER
Drinking style
Cancer is a comfort drinker -- and an extra wine with dinner or an
after-work beer or six can be extra comforting, can't it, Cancer darling?
Like fellow water signs Scorpio and Pisces, Crabs must guard against
lushery. Cancers are brilliant at ferreting out secret parties and
insinuating themselves on VIP lists -- and, in true Hollywood style,
Cancers are never really drunk; instead, they get "tired and emotional"
(read: weepy when lubricated). But there's nothing better than swapping
stories (and spit) over a few bottles of inky red wine with your favorite
Cancer. Even your second-favorite Cancer will do.
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Ruled by the moon, Cancers are intrigued by the idea of moonshine -- any
brown booze, from a bourbon press to a whiskey and soda to grandpappy's
special brew in a mason jar, will do. They also like comfortingly warm and
sweet drinks, like hot toddies and hot buttered rums. The sign also rules
the flavor vanilla, and you'd be adored if you served up a vanilla vodka
and soda.
Drinking buddies
Pamela Anderson, George W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford,
Sean Hayes, Lil' Kim, George Michael, Princess Diana, Prince William
LEO
Drinking style
Leo likes to drink and dance -- they're often fabulous dancers, and usually
pretty good drinkers as well, losing their commanding dignity and turning
kittenish. Of course, they're quite aware they're darling -- Leos will be
Leos, after all. They generally know their limit, probably because they
loathe losing self-control. When they get over-refreshed, expect flirting
to ensue -- and perhaps not with the one what brung them. But Leo's not the
type to break rules even when drunk, so just try to ignore it (try harder,
Cancer) and expect a sheepish (and hung over) Lion to make it up to you the
next day.
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Leos like flashy drinks, be they complicated tropical concoctions festooned
with umbrellas, like a Bahama mama or the more common strawberry daiquiri
or mai tai. Indeed, they often have a taste for the fruity -- try a
screwdriver, or add an extra cherry to the next Manhattan. Their sense of
drama lends itself to a kir royale, of course.
Drinking buddies
Ben Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer
Lopez, Madonna, Debra Messing, Kevin Spacey, Martha Stewart, Andy Warhol
VIRGO
Drinking style
Cerebral Virgos are compelled to impose order onto their bender. Their
famously fussy quest for purity could lead to drinking less than other
signs, sure -- but it could also lead to drinking booze neat, to sucking
down organic wine or just to brand loyalty. They rarely get fully
shellacked -- but, oh, when they do! Virgo's controlled by the intellect,
but there's an unbridled beast lurking within, and they let it loose when
walloped. It's dead sexy (and surprisingly unsloppy). As one Virgo friend
used to declare, "I'm going to drink myself into a low level of
intelligence tonight." A toast to the subgenius IQ!
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Many Virgos prefer clear, simple, untreacly drinks like vodka tonic or a
real margarita, though you'll find 'em drinking anything -- from
unflinchingly downing Cuervo straight to smirkingly ordering a dirty
virgin. They also tend to like bitter, low-alk guzzles like Campari and
soda. They rarely change their drink once they've found it, however.
Drinking buddies
Cameron Diaz, Hugh Grant, Christopher Isherwood, Michael Jackson, Freddie
Mercury, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dorothy Parker, Ryan Philippe, Keanu Reeves,
Lily Tomlin
LIBRA
Drinking style
"I'm jusht a social drinker," slurs Libra, "it's jusht that I'm so damn
social?" Libra loves nothing more than to party, mingle and relate to
everyone. Whether dipped in favor of Good Libra (with Insta-Friend device
set to "on") or heavier on the Evil Libra side (they are little instigators
when bored), the Scales can really work a room. Charming as they are,
Libras are notoriously lacking in self-control, however, which can get them
into all sorts of trouble -- including wearing their wobbly boots waaaay
too early in the evening, flirting with their best friend's beau or even
blacking out the night's events entirely. Oops!
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Aesthetic Libras like pretty, pouffy drinks like a pink lady or a brandy
Alexander. That's the influence of Venus, their ruling planet, which also
gives them a horror of crudely named potions like Sex on the Beach. They're
fine with "normal" guzzles like apple martinis, but every Libra secretly
just wants Champagne, and lots of it.
Drinking buddies
Jimmy Carter, Simon Cowell, Ani DiFranco, Janeane Garofalo, Hugh Jackman,
Martina Navratilova, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sting, Oscar Wilde, Catherine
Zeta-Jones
SCORPIO
Drinking style
Don't ever tell Scorpios they've had enough, for they'll smirk at you and
quietly but intentionally keep tippling till they're hog-whimpering drunk,
out of 100-proof spite. Scorpios like to drink, and screw you if you have a
problem with that. Most of them see the sauce as something to savor in
itself, and not as a personality-altering tool -- though if depressed,
self-loathing Scorps seek total obliteration. But generally, they're
fascinating drinking pals, brilliant conversationalists and dizzying
flirts. They also remember everything -- especially what you did when you
were blitzed. Only drink with a Scorpio who likes you.
Trademark cocktails
Just as a Scorpio can look you in the eye and smile while secretly plotting
your demise, so does the brandy-laced stinger's sweet taste hide a potent
amount of alcohol. If you want to get literal, serve them a scorpion --
they may not love tropical drinks, but it shows you're paying attention.
Scorpio rules watermelon, so break out the blender and fix a pitcher of
watermelon margaritas to seduce 'em -- though red wine will do the trick
just as well.
Drinking buddies
Truman Capote, Hillary Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Bill
Gates, k.d. lang, Megan Mullally, Demi Moore, Sylvia Plath, RuPaul
SAGITTARIUS
In vino veritas -- and, for Sagittarius, in booze blurtiness: When
buttered, they'll spill all your secrets and many of their own.
Tactlessness aside, Sagittarius is just plain fun to drink with. This is a
sign of serious partying (what else would you expect from the sign of
Sinatra, Keith Richards, the Bush twins and Anna Nicole Smith?). They're
the people who chat up everyone in the room, then persuade the entire crowd
to travel somewhere else -- like a nightclub, or a playground, or Cancun.
Good-natured hijinks are sure to ensue (including a high possibility of
loopy groping; spontaneous Sag is a brilliant booty call).
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A travel-loving sign, Sagittarius might be intrigued by drinks like Moscow
mules, Singapore slings -- perhaps even a Long Island iced tea (not a bad
option, given how much Sag can put away and still stay vertical). Party
monsters that they are, they're attracted to shots, like the ever-popular
lemon drop. Sag rules pears, and could use a nice pear cider right about
now, come to think of it.
Drinking buddies
The Bush twins, Margaret Cho, Noel Coward, Betty Ford, Lucy Liu, Brad Pitt,
Keith Richards, Frank Sinatra, Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears
CAPRICORN
Drinking style
Capricorn is usually described as practical, steadfast, money-hungry and
status-thirsty -- no wonder they get left off the astrological
cocktail-party list. But this is the sign of David Bowie and Annie Lennox,
not to mention Elvis. Capricorn is the true rock star: independent,
powerful and seriously charismatic, not too eager to please. And if they
make money being themselves, who are you to quibble? But just like most
rock stars, they're either totally on or totally off, and they generally
need a little social lubricant to loosen up and enjoy the after party,
especially if they can hook up with a cute groupie.
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Old-fashioned Cap would probably like an old-fashioned just fine -- or a
dry martini, or a gin and tonic, or a gimlet -- or any other no-nonsense
quaff. They prefer drinks that taste like alcohol and generally hate drinks
with more than three ingredients. However, they like the flavor of
cranberry and will order a cosmo if they can handle the wait for it to get
mixed.
Drinking buddies
Orlando Bloom, David Bowie, James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Luther
King Jr., Jude Law, Annie Lennox, Marilyn Manson, Richard Nixon, Elvis
Presley
AQUARIUS
Drinking style
Aquarius and drinking don't go together that well (except for water, that
is). They have an innate tendency toward know-it-allism, and if they get an
idea while sizzled, they're more stubborn than a stain or a stone. If
they're throwing a party or organizing an outing, however, they're too
preoccupied with their duties to get combative -- and they make perfectly
charming drunks in that case. Fortunately, they're usually capital
drink-nursers. They also make the best designated drivers (if you can get
them before they start raising their wrist): Aquarius is fascinated by
drunk people and capable of holding interesting conversations with soused
strangers while sober.
Trademark cocktails
Aquarius is likely to order stuff most people have never heard of: a
capirinha, Satan's whiskers, a negroni, an Arthur Tompkins. They like to
stump the bartender. This sign rules the color electric blue and would be
pleased by any tipple featuring blue curacao. They also rule the olive
tree, so pour the juice into that dirty martini.
Drinking buddies
Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Dre, Matt Groening, Ashton Kutcher,
Ronald Reagan, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, Oprah Winfrey, Elijah
Wood
PISCES
Drinking style
If you're a Pisces, you've probably already heard that you share a sign --
and an addictive personality -- with Liz Taylor, Liza Minelli and Kurt
Cobain. Not only do Pisces like to lose themselves in the dreamy, out-there
feeling that only hooch can give, but they build up a mighty tolerance
fast. Who needs an expensive date like that? On the other hand, they're
fabulously enchanting partners, whether in conversation or in crime. With
the right Pisces, you can start out sharing a pitcher of margaritas and
wind up in bed together for days. The phrase "addictive personality" can be
read two ways, you know.
Trademark Cocktails
Pisces rules fresh mint, and they do love a mojito or three -- though a
julep will do just as well. They also like punches, like sangria or the
oh-so-aptly named fish house punch. (Pretty much anything will satisfy a
Pisces in a pinch, though -- "drinking like a fish" is an idiom pulled out
of the zodiac, not the deep blue sea.) Pisces is a chocoholic and loves
creme de cacao (and spiked cocoa).
Drinking buddies
Drew Barrymore, Chastity Bono, Chelsea Clinton, Kurt Cobain, Edward Gorey,
Queen Latifah, Liza Minelli, Anais Nin, Sharon Stone, Liz Taylor
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 17
Message: Hi Face The Face --
Both of those links were very amusing.
... Mac killed my inner child ... hysterical !!!
... Can I take your picture? ... heh heh ...
SteveeDan
User: ah mister pink, allow steviedan | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: w1p, please allow me five words on keneally/zingg:
1. the
2. roof
3. is
4. on
5. fire
i think from what i see, that downy j is doin' alright these days...
and clay aiken is the anti-durst...
wormsir, there was a bit of a slump there as often precedes one choking on one's vomit, but i felt that if he could survive/recover, hendrix was headed into a jazzier, more coltrane-like phase. the possible revelations of this will unfortunately never be realized...
clas, i hope you appreciate the fact that i may be reviled or even flamed for it, but welcome back...
User: Pitching Changes | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Send your thank you cards to Mr. Grady Little as in the size of his brain shrunk in the 8th innning
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Those of you in New York,
Better send some thank you cards to the Cincinnati Reds for trading Aaron Boone to your Yanks.
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: The Curse of the Bambino continues.......
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Ruby - for goodnessakes, this really happened, it was goth-lengerie(sp?) night, or, or was that mushroom bikini night?
User: Ruby Tuesday | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message:
Raj your magenta turban is on backasswards again man.
Get a stylist.
User: If you've been here long enough or done your reading you know who | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: I have consciencely(sp?) only misrepresented myself about one thing I know of here. The only reason I have not tried to rectify it sooner was that I was trying not to post anything here at all lately. That one thing I said was that Elaine could be my doppleganger. This is not exactly true.
Oh yeah, I'd like to see that document of mine returned -- unused.
I do want to make things right.
Peace
User: Face The Face | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/~ahelblin/misc/mac.html
I apologize if any have seen the above clip, it is worth viewing a second time however. I sincerely hope it does not begin another MAC/PC discussion like the ones before that had us all in our hammocks, blankies clutched tightly and thumbs in dire suction. As we all know, whatever our poison - MAC or PC, crashes wait for no man (or back up).
And for all of you not sufficiently amused by South Park miscreants, there is a rabid squirrel afeet:
www.illwillpress.com
A toast to Duncan and Linda on their second lifetime achievement award!! Bookends! But the pics in the email still won't show...
Oh yes, almost forgot the music related thread to keep: Anthony Kiedis looks older in person. Course, I thought he was much younger than he actually is, so go figure. Chris Rock looks the same either way. Yoko Ono is short and shops at the same toy stores as I do. Mandy Patinkin is better the second time around and plays the neighborhood dives - how convenient.
enjoy! life is too short not to
oh yes, another thought: say what you mean, mean what you say - just don't say it mean. we can all do without the gnashing of teeth around here. at our age tooth loss is endemic.
User: C - w | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: LP - so fine so YOUNG!
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Happy Birthday LP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
User: brookeburkesluvr | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: How often do you find new music online? Are you one of those people who actually takes the time to drive to the record store, browse through all of the CDs and sample them out at the listening stations? Or do you browse for new music on the web? I definitely donÆt have the patience for option ôAö, but online might be okay. If you find music online, which music service do you use? These are some of the ones IÆve looked at:
BEST BUY's Digital Music Service ~ www.bestbuy.com/rhapsody
Press Play ~ http://www.pressplay.com/
i-Tunes ~ http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Buymusic.com ~ http://www.buymusic.com/
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Rajah like underwear night at Paladino's. Waitresses wear the teddy, matching panties and big-ass black boots. Topped off with fluorescent necklace. Elegant. Ahhh, Paris...
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: i got this emailed to me in response to the sox poem below:
If you go to the game and sit close to the field,
To the Boston outfielder your outstretched hand must yield
Lest the Yanks will advance and you'll become the Sox wrath
You'll have but one friend left -- a poor Cubs fan in the aftermath
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Sir Pink --
I must admit that watching Which One's Pink? and Led ZepAgain at Paladino's is a good experience, playing there with an 11 piece jazz-rock band is not that great. That place does not sound good for a band with multiple vocalists, and horns ... along with the standard drums-bass-keys-guitars.
Doctor Wu played there on Friday October 3rd, the night following the final LA Steely Dan concert at the Amphitheater. Our lead vocalist Warren, who is an extremely talented and knowledgable sound man, engineer, and producer was working the sound board at Paladino's that night.
The sound was not very good. Not for a band with horns and vocals as I mentioned above.
I must say though that the interior of the club looks a lot better than it used to, but, ... Steve is still there ... so what are ya gonna do?
I saw that blerb about MK and Drew Zingg ... and I was excited about it, but I can't go ... dagnabit !
HEY DUNCAN !!! CONGRATULATIONS YOU OLD DOG !!!
Did you catch the Kukla, Fran and Ollie reference?
Also, as Dan (rhymes with Stan ... as in Stan Laurel and Olliver Hardy) gets Ollie into trouble ... which is the job of an older brother ... Ollie can say:
"Well, that's another fine mess you've gotten me into ...".
I hope Linda is feeling better. Put up some baby photos for us to get a look-see.
SteveeDan
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: What's your problem? Are you a stroke victim or something?
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Paladino's rules, man. Hey there's a new Pink Floyd tribute playing there on Sat. I'm gonna have to miss it 'cause I'm in Phoenix. It's gonna be interesting to see who's "behind the Wall"
I can't believe ZERO reaction to Mike Keneally playing with Drew Zingg (much better than that Herrington dude)
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: I see disaster. I see catastrophe. Worse, I see lawyers!
User: lp, again OT | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: 'Twas the night to beat Yankees
>and all through the nation
>not a single sole was thinking
>of 85 years of damnation
>Cuz this is the year
>to end our bad luck
>and even if it weren't
>the yankees STILL SUCK!
>On damon on nixon manny and nomah
>On v-tek on walker ortiz and millah
>carry this team and end this damned curse
>don't blow the game or you'll leave town in a hearse
>to the true fans of Boston
>get a beer and a cup
>and say it together
>COWBOY UP!!!
User: angel (I can't resist) | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Lindunk, Dan and Ollie....
Oh, Congratulations!
User: | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: I knew a girl named Peg
Who had a wooden leg
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Howard, check this out
The Mike Batt penned & produced single by Katie Melua is released soon
Closest thing to crazy.
all should look it up, i'm claiming 2003's norah jones...headlines
cd's called call off the search.
did'nt mike batt sue or get sued for the silence ''track'' recently ?
named boy Ollie.
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: woo-hoo BABY - GO RED SOX - I am turnign inside out over this one, it's like the snowbowl before the super bowl for the Patriot's all over again!!!!!!
i love you aussie - but, well, you know...
and i am a not so secret fan of robert downey, jr - i could watch him read the phone book and be happy
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Fiona you have no idea.
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Go Yanks!! Looks like things will be getting ugly in the Northeast tonight. Rajah, so sorry about your Roast Beef situation. I know how I feel when I run out of granola and soy milk. Gotta take the dogs out.
xoxo all
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Steveedan: Did you check out the listing for the 22nd on 705's Website?
It says Pretzel Lodgic. What's the deal with that?
Speaking of that listing, did you see the name of the band that is following you? Shades of James Bond in Goldfinger....
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Hey Pink !!!
I know that, man! I was only talking about the 705 Pier nightclub ... and taking a potshot at that club in Reseda that starts with the letter P. ...
Say Hi to Mrs. and Baby Pink for me.
SteveeDan (The leader of the pack ... vroom vroom !)
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Steevee, you obviously are not well versed on the history of Hermosa Beach which was an infamous biker beach town well in the 1990s. Look around you when you're down there -- they're still there
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Steve how dare you cast aspersions on the place in Reseda, I mean, other than my elbow getting stuck to the table there and apart from that curious rash that appeared after the small accident I had in the men's room, it was a lovely place to enjoy the tunes. I met the nicest people at the bar, real charmers. And you just had to love that Rush power trio, very very schmoove.
So you're saying I can wear my butt tight Steely Dan bicycle stretch pants, my Steely Dan Aja Tee-shirt with the Slang Me buttons I got from Mizducky, along with my Sketchers with the Steely Dan stickers on them? And not have to worry? Kuuhll.
User: C & W | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Sorry for not paying attention, Howard, Stevee & W1P?. Good. Great. Keep up the good work. I can wait.
("paying" attention? Is that English?)
Cult of Cristiano Ronaldo - uhum... yeah, right.
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: That's right sports fans ... The Steely Dan tour is over ... and there was much sadness in the land ... but ...
you can still see and hear the great music of Steely Dan being performed live for you pleasure in 6 days ... on ... oh wait ...
it's time for ...
S H A M E L E S S .. P L U G G I N G !!
PRETZEL LOGiC - A STEELY DAN REVUE PLAYS LIVE AT
705 PIER (that's both the name of the club and its address)
in Hermosa Beach, California on
WEDNESDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 22ND, 2003 AT 8:00 SHARP.
705 Pier is an upscale nightclub with a gourmet restaurant. This is not one of those "biker bar" rock palaces like you might find in, say, Reseda.
Slide on down for your Dan and dining pleasure.
Thank you for your support.
SteveeDan (bl, km, and hcl for PL - ASDR)
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: The 22nd?
Sorry, can't make it.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Things aren't going well right now. The Cubs succumb to ignominious defeat, LA grocery stores are off-limits and I'm running out of roast beef and Yoohoo, the bus strike has clogged the freeways, Arnold won't be able to just waive his hand and repeal the car registration tax hike, did I mention the Dan tour is no more, things look bleek. There's really only one thing to look forward to here as we crawl toward oblivion:
PRETZEL LOGIC IN HERMOSA BEACH ON THE 22ND!
I was gonna cue the Police whistle but I got sand in it or something, man nothing's working.
User: C | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Rajah - that was good to hear.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Basically, yeah.
User: CL @ w | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: StAl - Red Socks? I've heard about Blue Swede Shoes but never about Red Socks.
Red Sucks?
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: It's true, the end is near.
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 16
Message: Goddamit! Freaking Cubbies. So sad for them, their fans and their City. Five outs away two nights ago from the Fall Classic.
Yankees Redsox with Pedro and Clemens tonight, I will be there. World War Three.
Go Yanks!
Aus
Post script: I never stopped lovin' ya Beems.
User: cup of sugar | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message:
Molly from Ca I hear wedding bells!
User: Smokey_Lobby | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Sorry Cubs, but it's like this Rajah Of Erase guy was telling me.
It's like it doesn't matter anyway because one day the whole world and
everything will be evaporated by cell phone signals and space junk from
that chinese rocket that went up yesterday. So even if you won you
wouldn't be able to celebrate for long cuz we're all gonna be erased and
obliterated by space dust and asteroid chunks and pizza boxes from outer
space and stuff okay?
Hope you feel better.
User: W1P | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Hey Yellow Folk -- Steely Dan-related and Mike Keneally and Love Bob news for you:
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Victor's on the Bay
2702 N Mission Bay Dr.
San Diego, CA 92109
Mike Keneally with Drew Zinng (ex-Steely Dan guitarist), Andy Vereen (vocalist on MK's "hat." album, played bass and sang in MK's early 80's band Graphic and went on to become lead singer of Burning Bridges)
and Nathan Hubbard (from the Trummerflora Collective, and the drummer on Wooden Smoke) (858) 490-3389
Ten bucks
Music will probably start around 9:30 p.m. or so. Expect a lot of '60s covers and bring your requests. It'll be loose and fun.
HALLOWEEN!!
Mike Keneally guesting with Bob Tedde, Rockola and the Magical Symphony Orchestra as they perform THE ENTIRE BEATLES' WHITE ALBUM
Friday, October 31st
8:30pm
Spreckels Theatre
121 Broadway, San Diego, CA
(619) 235-0494
Tickets: $40.00, $35.00, $25.00
Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster.
You can also purchase a ticket or two directly from Rockola: TicketDuck@Rockola.com
Darn I wished I lived in San Diego
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Sad...
I was actually getting excited at the thought of watching the Cubs play in the world series. Now Fox Sports worst nightmare is about to happen. A series between the Yankees and the Marlins...zzzzzz
GO RED SOCKS!
Sorry Aus, I still love ya.
StAl
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Rajah -
Oh well, ... good night Cubbies ...
How do you suppose last night's fan feels now? Afraid for his life !
Too bad. ... Great come-back from behind to the Marlins.
Yanks in 5.
SteveeDan
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Herm - hang in there pal, the Cubs had a great season and a lot of hope for the future with Wood and Prior. Heartbreak is part of the ride it would seem. Put Gaucho on. Or put Frank on: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.
User: haiku priestess | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message:
cans of fans like worms
they crawl in a tangled mass
eating eachother
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: believe me, I've got a grip. it's on my beverage glass.
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Herm - I grew up in Cleveland so get a grip. And don't go harassing that poor SOB whose life is over if the Cubbies don't win. He don't want no name when they lose.
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: well, there you go.
First inning, 3-0 Marlins already, and the Cubs have yet to bat.
Perhaps it is over.
User: DACW - 8 miles high in the Custerdome | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: StAl: dude, you're cold...just like this Bud I'm holding up for Harry! 3 minutes until gametime!
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: STOP THAT!
STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!
THERE WILL BE NO MARLINS IN THE WORLD SERIES, UNLESS THEY BUY TICKETS FOR THE GAME!
DO YOU HERE ME!
NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE SAY IT'S OVER!
WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?
NO, AND IT'S NOT OVER NOW!
caps off, and resting for a moment...
Herm
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: And then we woke up...
Saw that George Bush was still in office
The Yankees go on to defeat the Marlins in the World Series.
Cisco files chapter 11 reorg after a major money laundering scheme is uncovered, thus causing StAl to loose a fair chunk o' change.
And I'm still only paying a buck 25 for a gallon of gas...sigh...
StAl
User: DACW | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: "unions need to keep up with the economy"
the economy has its groove back baby?
Dow 10,000 redux?
Cubs Win?
Fuel Cells?
Steely Dan makes next, next one in TWO years?
StAl: You'll be happy to know that there will be testing here within the next month using a non-toxic compound derived from HEMP to stop the pathology in a muscular dystrophy model...the subjects will of course be provided with tiny tie-dyed t-shirts along with mini-CDs of Countdown to Ecstacy and Dark Side of the Moon...
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Steve - remind me to hire you as my PR man when they catch me in a motel room with crack and hookers while burning copies of the AJA master.
Always liked Downey, his story is nothing new but still very sad.
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: In his defense, Robert Downey Jr is an extremely talented pianist. We all know he is a great actor. His addiction problem is his cross to bear. Unlike Rush Limbaugh (ugh!), he doesn't lie about it and attack others while trying to hide his own similar problems. It's not like he's the only entertainer/actor/musician who has had ... substance problems.
SteveeDan
User: Fiona | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Since when is Robert Downey Jr. such a great philosopher? I wish he'd keep his bloody mouth shut. OK, he likes Steely but so do the rest of us, and we are (hopefully) somewhat respectable folks, unlike our Mr. Downey here. He needs a thrashing.
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Hermie-I was being somewhat tongue in cheek as well. I support the workers, but yeah, it sure sucks dropping 50% more on groceries than usual, or picking the shelves for leftover cat food. And though I both work union and am employed by a union (I'm counsel for six locals), when I negotiate contracts I keep in mind that unions need to keep up with the economy or they risk becoming obsolete-and with health insurance completely out of hand, that most likely means an employee contribution of some sort. However, it needs to be appropriate for the work force.
Anyway, strikes are hard on everyone. The strikers are tired and unpaid, consumers that want to support them are put out, and management is in a disarray without their labor force. My unionista co-workers will not agree with me on this, but I think there are better ways to deal with things than to strike. It's much better to create a cooperative working relationship with management than an antagonistic one, which only drives the two sides further apart on issues where they might have reached an agreement. That being said, UFCW thanks you for your support, and for not shopping at Wal-Mart!
St. Al-I bought Autobytel at $3.76, and it's now at $12 something......
Aja
User: wormthomas | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: stevie and tones -
harsh criticism of Hendrix? I merely said he was not in my top three so you'd make sure I wasn't being exclusionary. Frankly I felt Cook, Coltrane and Redding were more on the top of their game. Jimi's top of his game was a year or two before his death.
I liken what Hendrix did to the guitar to what Coltrane did for jazz
the steelydan website has an opening photo of an empty stadium
glad they miss touring as much as we do
here's hoping they do a one off concert with full size audience for dvd
wt
User: Kevin Hancock | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Hello one and all,
I recently purchased a newly administered version of the 'Katy Lied' disc brand new and was surprised in the manner of Charlie Bucket after arriving home and discovering the incorrect track sequence mentioned in the 'Aja' liner notes. "Chain Lightning" and "Gold Teeth 2" are reversed. Has anyone else discovered this error within the past year or so? Perhaps the reason I stumbled upon it is the retail store source. I live in Kearney, NE and the cd may have been sitting around since 1999.
User: Moon Cracker | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message:
The naked white moon sits behind the clouds like a partial wheel of goat gouda.
When will you be over with the crsckers?
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: Oh the choices you've made
I try hard but I can't understand it
And the windows are covered in rain
And the doorway is just as I found it
Oh the choices you've made
Yesterday I had thoughts of conclusion
And tomorrow I may feel just the same
While you're padding your world with illusion
J.Tzuke
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: It's all about choices...
I bought roughly $1500 worth of Cisco stock about 2 years ago and I've received about a 30% return since then.
Patience. It'll bounce back. So unless you're actually Roy Scam and nearing retirement I wouldn't worry too much...
HI Roy! I know you heard that.
StAl
User: Penny YoungHen | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message:
This gal walks into the drug store and tells the pharmacist she wants
to buy some arsenic. He says "What do you want to do with arsenic." She said "I want to kill my husband because he cheats on me with another woman." The pharmacist replies: "I can't sell you arsenic so you can kill your husband lady, even if he is cheating on you." So she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a picture of her husband with the pharmacist's wife. The pharmacist then says "Oh I didn't realize you had a prescription."
If you had bought $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left. If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10-cent deposit, you would have $214.00. Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. This is my new retirement program. I call it my 401-Keg program.
Congrats, Duncan!
User: Downey Jr Surrealism | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: "It's how we take on life," says Downey, explaining Potter's vision of the songs reflecting how pop culture invades a person's psyche. "The voices for me would have been Michael Jackson, Steely Dan and Sting."
Tipper sticker forthcoming on entire Dan catalog: "Exposure to this music may lead to various forms of abhorrent self-destructive behavior."
User: Film at 11 | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: RoDeO GiRl iS JeNnA JaMeSoN?
User: Gipsy Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message:
Something for the board especially Stevee Wonder Mr. Thunder
A very big dose of:
Love Potion No. 9
The Searchers
I took my troubles down to Madam Ruth.
You know, that Gypsy with the gold capped tooth.
She's got a store front down at Thirty Fourth and Vine,
sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine.
I told her that I was a flop with chicks.
I've been that way since Nineteen Fifty Six.
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign.
She said, "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine."
She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink.
She said, "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink."
It smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink.
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.
I didn't know if it was day or night,
I started kissin' ev'ry thing in sight.
But when I kissed a cop down at Thirty Fourth and Vine,
he broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine.
She bent down, turned around and gave me a wink.
She said, "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink."
It smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink.
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.
I didn't know if it was day or night,
I started kissin' ev'ry thing in sight.
I had so much fun that I'm goin' back again.
I wonder what happened with Love Potion Number Nine.
Love Potion Number Nine.
xoxoxox
Rodeo Girl
User: short n stevie | Month: 9 | Day: 15
Message: congratulations duncan and linda !!!
major tom(worm), although i think your hendrix assessment is harsh i must say, EVERY week is sweeps week when the g & t show is on the air...
and speaking of harsh, mu was that an upgrade or downgrade to zero stars ? you have stung sting thoroughly ! calamine lotion could not beGIN to soothe that...
here in raleigh everyone is "aiken for clay", as the hometown boy released his album this week. how do i feel about our idol son ? well, here's the way i always put it: i have well over 10k cd's and not even ONE of them is by [insert artist here]. is that polite ? no really, the guy has an instrument and i haven't even heard the disc but generally, i think he's gonna look just swell in that "cats" make-up...
but then again, i'm sittin' here listening to brazilian music and slim harpo so what do i know ?
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: talk about the famous road not taken ... How about The long and winding road that leads to OUR door...
The Bass Museum Friday Nov 7th The Dan Collective
www.thedancollective.co.uk Tickets avail now at a mere ú5 sterling...
They played an awesome set to approx 120 back in May this year, So Please feel free to bring along friends / neighbours / lovers / colleagues and lets make this a night to remember in the history of UK Dandom .... Ticket reservations are coming in fast ....Do not die wondering IF ààààà
Special reserved lawn seating to anyone who gets on over the pond ...
User: tones - sooooo behind on my lurking... | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: ...and my scrolling finger is getting tired...
Hey (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC) - guess what finger that would be .!..
angel, lp, and y'all - thanks... just callin' em as I saw 'em...
btw... wormy, that was mighty vivid colour yourself dude. Thanks. And thanks to everyone who helped me/us do the virtual tour. It was a gas almost being there with you.
dunc - congratulations on your mini-you...
jjeff - I'm scrollin'... looks like it's #5247, not quite me but someone who looks like me... unfortuantely no pets or co-workers to scapegoat
Listened to TvsN again somemore the other day... it's sounding more and more like "classic" Steely Dan. If I didn't know it was 20 years between albums...
-submerging-
t
¬2003 typoss-r-uss
User: jjeff | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Duncan and Linda, congratulations! It's been awhile since I posted and before I left there wasn't any baby talk for so long I was scared to inquire. I'm so happy for you both and little Dan. Now he's got someone to cook up devilry with.
Tones: I scanned for a review but alas cannot find it. Give me a number, please. I did read numerous month's ago, but another is always nice. I remember Angel's...yes that's how long ago.
Has Midnite surfaced yet?
User: daryl, daryl & daryl | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: They don't pay us squat over at the general store niether!
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Aja ~
Before I go on, let me say that my prior comment was made tongue in cheek. That said, I'm not disputing that everyone has the right to make a fair living wage. And if these grocery store workers feel the need to strike, well, then, that's a decision they made based on what they feel they need to do for their family. But, byt the same token, I must make decisions for my family as well, and if I need to feed them, and there is nothing on the shelf at any local non-union store, then what are my choices? Honor the picket line? Or buy the foodstuffs my family requires?
Sadly, this is the hard nosed stance that the grocery owners are taking. They know that people will try their best to stand up for the people they know and see every week at their neighborhood Ralph's and Von's. But they also know that when the babies need milk or other foods, and the consumer is tired of getting ripped off at the 7-11, they will eventually bite the bullet and cross the lines.
If they know better, the consumer will not shop at Wal-Mart for their dry goods, either. Talking to a cahier at Von's last week, she said that most of the problem with the owners is due in large part to losing business, (money), to superstores such as Wal-Mart. When people shop there instead of the grocery store, the grocery store loses money and has to find a way to make up for it. Not giving in to the demands of their employees seems to be one way of handling it
So what do you do? It certainly is a dillema.
Later,
Herm
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Herm-also put on your sandwich board your yearly income, and whether or not you own a home. Most retail clerks don't make the $17.90/hour that management is quoting (that's a senior clerk's rate), they make much less, and they average 25 hours/week. Most can't afford to make the contributions management is asking.
Aja
Labor Relations Representative (preparing to file yet another unfair labor practice charge)
p.s. on the other hand, this strike is a pain in the ass! I drove all over town looking for cat food last night.......
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: St. Al: A Steely Dan reference in a review of Digital Radio.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/7004850.htm
Herm: Strikes are us. A 90 minute drive in this morning, to go 35 miles. A transit strike and three different markets out.
I too went to Trader Joe's on Sunday night and the place was indeed empty of anything resembling food. It's a real chore living in LA this week.
LP: Sounds good. Send provisions!!!
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: a Vermont apple pie, perhaps?
we could do a CARE pckage!
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Socialble Hermit: I've got a half eaten bag of pita chips and some Trader Joes hummus I can send you...
My favorite places for online music are:
Musicmatch.com: Great because their "Artist Match" service allows you to build a station around your 25 favorite bands, which then plays nothing but those bands and others that compliment them. I'm in Jamband heaven... It's free too, although I pay the $5 a month for the 128KB digital stream which I then pipe into my home AV system.
XMRadio: Not realy online but close. The best $10 a month I spend on music. Well worth the investment. On the 1700 mile drive to Cali and back last week I never lost the signal and had commercial free digital radio to listen to the whole way. And 101 stations to choose from!
StAl
User: Sociable hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Hey All,
Would anyone be willing to ship groceries to those of us in Southern California until the grocery store employees strike is over?
I'm okay on beer and ice, I can get that at Rite-Aid. But, I went to Trader Joe's for a couple green peppers yeaterday, and the store looked like it was looted after a blackout.
I almost feel like crossing the picket lines at Von's wearing a sandwich board that breaks down exactly how much my family pays in medical insurance each month.
Anyway...
Later,
Herm
User: Aja | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Greetings from Cah-lee-fornia, everyone, where we love to be governed by automatons. Just got back from a week in the Eastern Sierras (after 2 weeks of 14 hour work days). The aspens are turning gold, the air is bell clear, and the sky at 12,000 feet is violet. "True Companion" makes great background music for this scenario.....
Anyway, just wanted to say hi to the Jones Beach contingent! Summer seems like a lifetime away, but man, was it fun! I found my coco-shell and pleazhure pass this morning as I was cleaning......meeeeeeeeemories!
Back to the grind now. *sigh*
Aja
User: brookeburkesluvr | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: What do you think will be the next way to listen to Steely Dan's music? Vinyl records, radio, then analog tape, then CDs, now MP3s ~ what next? IÆm just wondering in the future when someone refers to their ôcollectionö if it will be anything that you will actually be able to see on a shelf. Maybe weÆll have ôentertainment chipsö embedded in our skulls at birth. As it is, I get almost all of my music online these days, so my collection is a bunch of files somewhere on my hard-drive. ItÆs so much easier and cheaper that way. Anyone else do most of your music shopping online? If so, what service do you use? HereÆs the ones IÆve either used or am thinking about using;
BEST BUY's Digital Music Service ~ www.bestbuy.com/rhapsody
Press Play ~ http://www.pressplay.com/
i-Tunes ~ http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Buymusic.com ~ http://www.buymusic.com/
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Bluz next time U need the jaws of life don't be ringing me up!
User: High Priestess of Haiku | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message:
Tuesday's Haiku 4 U
sista mongoose loose
hide for the board is not safe
anal nuns in plaid
User: lp | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: thanks tones, great review - home at last, really?
duncan, congrats!!!!!
aussie & ygk - i was in syracuse over the weekend, throwing my parents their 50th wedding anniversary party in the old neighborhood of tipperary hill at wherever else but coleman's - can i tell you how much it sucks to be the only red six fan in a bar of yankees' fans - no fights broke out but it was really close when a wedding party came in - last night's win was sweet but alas, i won't jinx our boys so i will say no more
go patriot's! onward to miami - that will be a close game, too close to call
watched the SU game whilst there, wow - we still suck!
nice top tens below - don't defect to the blue - we've been through worse than this, heavens!
User: Spike's Moll | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Duncan, Congratulations to you and Linda on the arrival of your sweet little Angel! *many hugs*
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message:
Bluz after I rescued you from the grizzy with the jaws of life the least you could doo doo is post a public thanks to me or a song or something dude. Of course if you don't eat your dinner you probably won't get any dessert tonight. God my sinus pain is back - oh well.
With your bad karma your leakage is about to get worse unless I get a love poem posted here!
Call an abulance dude but don't be calling me for help.
Rodeo Girl - losing patience and peeved -- is this a one sided conversation dude?
User: Cherry | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message:
Dear doot de doo doo,
PLEASE HURRY AND GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!
congrats on your life changing decision! Did your inner parent or shrink help you make it?
Love,
Cherry Juice
User: Tarot Wreck ......here is your animally hot tamale card 4 today folks | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Doggie's medicine for today 2003-10-14 08:03:24Dolphin...manna. Manna is life force. Manna is present in every atom, and is Great Spirit's essence. Dolphin teaches us how to use life-manna through our breath. It revitalizes each cell and organ, and breaks the limits and dimensions of physical reality so that we may enter into Dreamtime. Dolphin reminds you that you are a link to some solution for the Children of Earth. This can be a time when you are to link with Great Spirit and bring answers to your own questions or those of others. In addition, this can mean a time of communications with the rythyms of nature. You are put on notice to be mindful of your body rythyms and the patterns of energy being fed to you from the Creator. Imitate Dolphin and ride the waves of laughter, spreading joy in the world. Breathe and experience the manna so freely given. Break existing barriers and connect to Dreamtime or the Great Star Nation. Know that we are all whole in the eyes of the Everliving One. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
do do doo doo da doo doo
User: molly | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: me, molly? or the other mistress?
bit whack-a-doodle here, silly but fun
i know i dont know you but congrats on le bebe nouveau!
-molly,sans mayhem
User: sh | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message:
Duncan - Congrats to you and Linda! You didn't name him Donald or Walter, did ya? ;-) Hope everyone is healthy and happy.
sh
User: Beers Raise a Toast | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: Ten things to help bring up the latest Darlington DarlingSon àin the faith.
10. Daddy don't need no lock and key
9. Move to The land of milk and honey.
8. If you live in this world You're feelin' the change of the diapers.
7. Get Lonnie to sweep the playroom.
6. You throw out your milk teeth Do you see how they roll.
5. Don't you scream or make a shout It's nothing you can do about
4. Found a baby clinic on the hill.
3. Gonna wear no socks and shoes
2. In the mornin you go gunnin' For the man who stole your gripe water
1. GET a Steely Dan T-shirt
User: doot de do, doot doot doot do, doot de doo | Month: 9 | Day: 14
Message: top ten reasons to go blue
11) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
10) long absenses of our N.C. contingent stevie dan
9) overdone why walt and don are so sexy threads
8) less filler, more s. d. content
7) leasons in sainthood spawn self gratifying premas
6) we are not always blaising new trails
5) an assortment of gourmet cheeses to go with that whine
4) yes one can exhaust the inner working of even genius
3) got to run through hoops every now and then
2) GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
and her sybilings
1) on no, it's starting to look like it has yellow fever too
ygi
User: She Laughs Satellites with Bluz | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message:
We were born forever
We are twinned in a fugitive mind
Friends should stay together and
Light the world with the fugitive kind
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Ahh, walking satellites
We were born forever
Tunneled into the fugitive night
Friends must stay together
Code the world with the fugitive light
I just saw you walking
Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight
casting runes on the rooftops and alleys
You'll never read it more than you will tonight
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Ahh, walking satellites
Lyrics by: Bob Dylan
Ps. Rickie call me I lost your number - thanks, RG
á
User: Luv from: Rodeo Girl To: BLUZ Becker | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message:
To Bluz with Luv and Burro Sneezes from your Rodeo Girl who is too tired now to plank dinner. Dude you gots to let me get more sleep!
Lyrics by: Bob Dylan CD Produced by Phil Spectrum (stalker/hacker)
Out on the range
The quiet, endless still
Where the wild S.S.I
Whispers from these hills
It's a petrified forest
Trailer parks and fords
And there ain't no goin' back
Rodeo girl
Saddle up
There's no more credit in this bank
Try your luck
Up in the East
Down in the West
Hold on tight
To the pony that you love the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Rodeo girl, rodeo girl
Count all the boxcars
The blue and white stars
That fall for ya rodeo girl
You're lost in the desert
And it's too hot to think
You gotta know about the milk truck
If you want a drink
And when the cowboy's sing
Bobby sands and the bear
You can wet your lips
In the cool pools of despair
Up in the East
Down in the West
Hold on tight
Now you gotta be better than the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Rodeo girl
xoxo
Your Rodeo Girl and Venus Pearl
PS. Hope you stop leaking soon luv! That Bear had a lot of nerve to touch U there!
PSS. Stevee chill dudey doo doo! Valium is a good thing! It would be an asset to your medicine chest - really!
User: SteveeDan (I Got The News ...) | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Thanks to the tagging information that St. Al has on all of our posts, you can all be sure who is (and who isn't) posting as whom.
Persona nongrata of the moment is ...
(compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
How many aliases can you find on this poster? (or is that imposter?)
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message:
Thanks for all your phone calls and concern. We had to use the jaws of life and a tranq bullet to get Bluz back from the grizzy but all is well finally. Bluz did mention his A leakage is a bit worse for wear and tear but at least he is alive and almost well. He is resting peacefully on his mom's couch safe and sound listening to Slang of Ages. What is that song about anyway? He keeps playing that and Pixieleen over and over again
Tomorrow he returns to Bellvue but he is looking forward to producing some more rad toe paintings. If you are interested in purchasing any directly of course and at an incredible 23% off the retail price contact me in the chat room.
By the way Moll you are wrong I am definitely a female in a female body and NOT Paige!
Love,
Rodeo Girl
User: Rajah of Erase | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Things We'll Miss the Most:
10- Donald unrepentingly ripping off Sinatra & Bennett
9 - Walter singing Haitian D without a hint of self-consciousness
8 - Carolyn's black halter bikini top on 10/2/03 (along with her voice obviously)
7 - Weiskopf's immortal EMG flourish
6 - Barney's paternal demeanor
5 - Carlock's youth & vigor
4 - SteveeDan's bravado in attempting to get snaps in impossible conditions.
3 - Callie's smile
2 - You. It was you.
User: hmmmm | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Cubbie Butterfield
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Cheers guys.
sleep perchance to dream, i've the kingsize to myself for 3 days.
ohh where's my penknife i've some whittleing too do first....MAN STUFF !!
User: SteveeDan (have a cigar?) | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Congratulations DUNCAN and LINDA !!!
This is truly wonderful news. Please send my regards to Linda and I wish her a speedy recovery ... post partum ... now there are two boys underfoot ... physical conditioning is now a MUST ... for both of you !!!
Wonderful news ... well, let's see now ... since boy # 1 is named Dan, should boy # 2 be named Steely? It's not really a name, I know. Maybe Steve(ie), but, Linda probably wouldn't let you ... not that I could blame her.
Seriously though, I am glad for you guys. May you have decades of happiness from your two boys. Take care.
SteveeDan (father of 1)
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Congratulations Duncan!
Go Cubbies and Red Socks!
User: duncan | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: it's a boy, a big fu**er at that !!!
all well
User: SKJLDF | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Nice to read about their benevolent side...
http://www.harmony-central.com/Features/MusiciansOnCall/
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message:
ALL joking aside I am starting to worry about Bluz what with that medical condition of his and all. Have not heard a peep out of him lately. He could be either lying on the floor somewhere in a deep coma in a pile of chocolate moosie or a bear has gone into his house and mistaken him for a she bear and has dragged him out in the woods by his the seat of his Depends for a 12 day mating ritual. I don't know but I do know this bears are effected by the full moon just like us.
If anyone knows of Bluz's where abouts his mom just phoned and would like to know and Bellvue is missing their favorite patient. They were selling his toe paintings for a 1,000 bucks each. You can get way more money these days for a toe painting compared to say a castle made out of tooth picks.
Burro sneezes to all (these are very wet yet very powerful sacred donkey blessings).
We interrupt this radio programn to say:
PS this just in from the Pope "If you receive a sacred burro blessing just spongue baths only for the next 30 days! Let it soak into your being."
Love and Kisses,
Rodeo Girl ------ What meds?
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Hey All,
My god, I have been a miserable, moody bastard since Saturday afternoon, (some family things that I won't bore you with). Then, having to watch the Cubs lose like that on Sunday, man, I feel sorry for those people who have had to deal with me. My wife and kids especially. But, I'm trying to pull out of this tailspin.
Happy Monday, all.
Later,
Herm
User: Aussie | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: St. Al: You're kidding right?
Yanks and Cubbies!
Aus
User: StAl | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Remember folks... The internet brings out the freaks and social deviants. Engaging them only empowers them.
Here's one for the Yankee fans out there:
http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15687&item=2862267955
Or click above...
StAl
User: Beerberian | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Ten ôMust Visitö activities when on The æDan UK Tour Spring 2004
10. Old Ma OÆGradys Merengue and Ballroom Dancing Emporium, Clacton
9. The Old Pocklingtonian snug Ostlethwaite on tÆ Marsh, Yorks - Say No More !
8. Mrs Miggens Pie Shoppe - Chef recommends Mandarin, Plum, Wine and Kerosene.
7. Millwall supporters club - speciality rice and spleens.
6. The Teahouse off the tracks û Dartmoor, turn left @ The Slaughtered Lamb.
5. Jimmy Saville Row howsabout a Spandex jacket now then, now then ?
4. æarrods û A special guided tour by Kevin Keegan.
3. Dancing DanoÆs Peanut Farm û see him juggle those nuts .
2. Behind The Bike Shed, Dingly Dell Primary school (private memories ahhh matron).
1. Cousin Shotans novelty toy shop à special discounts for Babe choir members.
User: RudeWaitress..coming to ya from the Cafe S-car-go | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: Its "captain"...and by the way...Did you just land? Or were ya shot down?
ps..all is well...snakie..will get back to ya real soon, I promise!
User: public service announcement | Month: 9 | Day: 13
Message: we inturrupt this regularly scheduled post
to ask those who will post irrelevant filler
to please consider using the chat room
the captian has turned on the meaningful posts only sign
forecast - smooth sailing ahead
User: Stanley | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: jump
and for a moment
you will fly
and then hold me
and hold me
and hold me
but I will not make love to you
until you show me
you can cry...
Stanley
2003
User: GEM AM I who the heck are you moo? | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message:
Stevee Spam you on iggy dude! You used up all your free chat time with me Gushy. Was just trying to help you transform dude for the upcoming year of 2004.
No worries mate continue to be you! You are spamreffic with an extra dollup of cheeze whiz to suit your good gourmet taste.
GemAmI
PS I am 100% Jewish so don'y try to out jewish me dude
User: uh... | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Steely Dan?
User: another voice from the ether | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: uh, if Condolezza Rice should marry David Crispy what would her married
name be?
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: GEM - I forgot to mention something that amused me. You wrote: "Get some valium so people don't think you are a crazed with rabbies."
For those of us who are Jewish, we are all crazed with Rabbis ... you know, the kind who lead the congregation in temple ... so L'Shana Tova to you.
Or should I say, Happy New Year ... "Trout".
Try to do something productive with the rest of your time ... or not.
SteveeDan
User: Gem | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Geez Stevie you hurt my feelings!
Crying into tennis shoe
Gem high on sneeze germs
User: SteveeDan | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: To "Just Another Weenie Buster" whom we know as "GEM" from the dandon chat room ...
I guess you really didn't like it when I told you to go fuck yourself when you made it known that you were jerking everybody's chain in chat last night.
I have a feeling similar to the sickening viceral feeling one gets when someone sneezes on them ... but fortunately, that was a couple of showers ago.
The only thing that I have to get over ... is you "GEM" (something you clearly are not) ...
OK ... Done ...
SteveeDan (fellow Dan fanatic ... not groupie)
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message:
Bluz did I not meet you in Atascadero? You were the one finger painting with your toes while in a straight jacket in the crafts room and I was the one building castles with tooth picks.
Don't you remember me?
Rodeo Girl the Pearl
User: rodeo girl in a state of mass confusion | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message:
So sorry I have rock star dyslexia. I use to live next to Bob Dylan In Ulapalakua or was it George Harrison? I can't recall. And in Hana was it Neil Young or David Crispy?
I also get names backasswards like is it Owsley Stanley or Stanley Owsley? And who wrote a song about him Joni Mitchelle or Ricki Lee? "Your dayglo friends are dead."
Perhaps my mom put something in my koolaid growing up go figure?
Love and kisses,
Rodeo Girl < who wrote that song Laura Nyro???? Let me know if you know. Thanks
User: Sociable Hermit | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Rodeo girl: I hope you're kidding. Those lyrics were by the almighty Todd Rundgren.
Don't let it happen again.
Later,
Herm
User: Rodeo Girl | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message:
I know I am not the most exciting babe to talk to Bluz but to fall asleep on me can I ever forgive U?
Rodeo Girl
User: Just Another Weenie Buster | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Steeve Dan,
Please dude get over it these men are talented but just regular geeked out folks.
Don't be so gushy with your fan trip drip drivel it is so groupie poopy I can't take it anymore dude.
The frinkin' dead you love too? Walter is really fond of them especially Owsley too. Bear is his best friend. He goes to Oz often to stay with him and the lovely wife Sheilah. A delightful couple. They would really love you. We all love adoring drivelly sappy sweet adoring boring groupies. Live for them groupies. Please stay at least a Birkenstocks legth away from us all or we may have to get a patchouli restraining order against you for when we smell you around. Your aromatherapy is a tad over powering. Get back fan attack!
You are one pathetic weenie. Get some valium so people don't think you are a crazed with rabbies.
xoxo
Yours truly,
Your favorite Back Stage Bitch wearing Halloween Fangs
Come closer we all love you! Keep buying CD's tickets and T -Shirts though. Everyone has a place in the WHOLE and don't let anyone tell you different.
User: Song For Bluz How is your medical problem honey wishing you get it stopped up soon! | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message:
Hello, it's me
I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe i think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe i shouldn't think of you as mine
Seeing you
Or seeing anything as much as i do you
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes i can't help seeing all the way through
It's important to me that you know you are free
'cause i never want to make you change for me
Think of me
You know that i'd be with you if i could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if i ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think i should
Lyrics by: Bob Dylan
Love,
Rodeo Girl with wet sneezes to bless you to the kneezes
User: DACW | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Well, the houston paper gave Stinger a B, same as Dan!?? - there's no accounting for taste...
Stevie: I gave the album one more shot...and frankly it felt like I shot myself in the foot...another review - sligthly less terse:
Sacred Love
Sting
ZERO STARS
It's a real shame. A man who with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers breathed life, intelligence, and soul into New Wave, who explored his jazzy routes with the explorative Dream of the Blue Turtles. reached a pinnacle with the magnificently lyrical Nothing Like the Sun, challenged us with the deep, dark, modal melancholy of Soul Cages, or entertained with the brilliant fusion that permeated most of Ten Summoner's Tales. The inconsistent recordings that are Mercury Falling and Brand New Day are now revealed as not just a bump in the road, but a snowballing path towards ARTISTIC SENILITY... that is Sacred Love...
...Sting simply takes the experiments in techno on Brand New Day and now is the most lively part of the production which is virtually unrecognizable from Madonna or Britney...Yes, there's a hint of classical and jazz, but nothing original, clever, or more importantly interesting...it's bad enough that Sting is relegated to hum-drum, slightly downer post-modern pop. but the lyrics are a dreary combination of hypocrisy, preachiness, and naivete from a man with seven castles (for seven brothers).
Do yourselves a favor, but the new Rickie Lee Jones or Steely Dan albums to see how Fiftysomethings can rejeuvenate their sound....
If Steely Dan (or sympathy vote for George Harrison's Last One) doesn't win the Grammy, Rickie Lee Jones' New One "Evening of the Best Day" just might - I haven't heard it all yet, but so far it features a tight jazzy harmony style that's reminscent of the Brilliant "Pirates" released 22 years ago and much more deserving of Grammys than the debut album...a few swipes at Dubya to keep you left-wingers happy, and you don't need to be stoned on oxycontin to hear that it may not be possible to overrate Evening...
Ugly Man and a Second Chance could have easily come from Pirates and Little Mysteries makes one imagine what Sir Paul COULD have written...
oh yes, Rickie has GO CUBS on her website - she must be OK in my book!
User: sweep week continues ... | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: top ten reasons a tour DVD will beat Taxi Cab Confessionals
11) Carolyn is more sophisticated than any of the $5 fares
10) why wisecrack when you can weiskopf?
9) vegas lights or san fran nights?
8) everything must go - not - everything must go-go
7) front of stage beats the back seat barb eh que
6) lovely rita meter maid has nothing on Cindy and Cynthia
5) we talk reluctantly about our success, but we play our asses off
4) you can honk the horn or you can give in to the overwelming horn section
3) reeling in the scheeves or breaking out the hats and hooters
2) yes there's gas in the car vs Carlocked
1) godwacker's coming if it doesn't come to fruition
gimt
samel
User: angel | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Tones/TZG: Thanks for the color on Concord. That transition from Gina to EMG was amazing. You brought it all back to me and reminded me that it was so obviously missing at Universal. Yes, the feel of the start of the tour was nothing compared to the end. What an improvement, what a great band.
Steveedan: Thanks for the first hint of color from Hawaii. I can't believe it's all over. Sigh....
User: Molly the Mistress of Mayhem | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Hey everyone! I hope this makes you smile!
A Good Excuse For Speeding................
A fellow bought a new Mercedes and was out on an interstate road for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80mph he suddenly saw a flashing red and blue light behind him. ''They'll never catch me,'' he thought to himself and opened her up further.
The needle hit 90, 100 110 and finally 120 with the lights still behind him. ''What in hell am I doing?'' he thought and pulled over.
The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car. ''I've had a tough shift and this is my last pull over. I don't feel like more paperwork so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before you can go!'' he said.
''Last week my wife ran off with a cop,'' the man said, ''and I was afraid you were trying to give her back!''
''Have a nice night,'' said the officer.
User: SteveeDan (winding it down sadly ...) | Month: 9 | Day: 12
Message: Well, as I am writing this, I am listening to the final Steely Dan concert live from Honolulu via SouthOfHollywood's cell phone. I am hearing the final three songs of the second set, and the encores ...
Josie ... "tuned in" just after the Keith Carlock drum solo ... I mean, just missed it ...
Kid Charlemagne
Don't Take Me Alive
.. slight break before the encores ..
Special final show announcements ...
During this, Walter made one of the singers swear an oath that among other things ... "what happens on the road, stays on the road".
Ted Baker's gospel piano interlude ... into ...
My Old School
FM
(Place a big fermata (sp) sign here).
many tears, many wonderful memories of this incredible summer of 2003.
and no hot tub initiations tonight, alas.
What the heck do we do now?
SteveeDan
User: the wife of magenta | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
Something fishy happening here!!!!!!
I smell gin!
User: Pink Panther | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
My mistake! I want to apologize public like to Bluz you ain't no evil Walter Pecker even if you were aslo born under a Pisses Sun you way more fun! Pecker can be evil but not you! I won't mention no Korean massage either just like I promised you dude. I would never go public about anything so very private. It's our little secret safe and sound in the vault for now unless I have some gin or rum!
Luv you Bluz! Flying kisses to you!
Pink
PS It was just a "regular massage" anyway folks. Nothing to worry about at all....
User: Justice Prevails | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Suspected Penis Snatcher Beaten to Death
Fri October 10, 2003 10:53 AM ET
BANJUL (Reuters) - A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said.
A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was killed by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, nine miles from the capital Banjul.
Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in the promise of a cure.
The police spokesman said many men in Serekunda were now afraid to shake hands, and he urged people not to believe reports of "vanishing" genitals. Belief in sorcery is widespread in West Africa.
Seven alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs in Ghana in 1997.
User: tzg | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: re: "Caves..." - "hot" = "hit", as in, "Not a -hit- song,..."
User: time zone guru | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: ~ - going downhill? uh... listen to "1st Rays of the New Rising Sun" (the last album he was working on when he died, recompiled by Eddie Kramer and the Hendrix estate)... sure he was evolving, but going downhill? I don't see any evidence. I think his biggest problem creatively was finding players and technology that could keep up with him. Remember, he was only a major recording artist for three years before he died... hardly enough time to be in a "slump"...
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Well, after much delay and at least a couple false starts, here's what I saw and heard from section 204, row BB, seat 9...
Steely Dan - Concord, Ca 10/4/03
-black and white-
Rock Lobster riff - gtr tech
Cubano Chant
Aja
Time Out of Mind
Godwhacker
Caves of Altamira
Black Cow
Babylon Sisters
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More - Walter
Peg
Home @ Last
-ntrmsn-
The Steely Dan Show
Janie Runaway/Hey 19
Haitian Divorce - Walter
Lunch With Gina
Everything Must Go
Parker's Band - ladie's choir
Josie - DF ntro
Kid Charlemange
Don't Take Me Alive
-encore -
My Old School
FM
-colour-
Finally got to shake the hand of our resident patron saint (only the truly hardcore cross two states with only a shoulder and a half. Glad you made it Pat) and friends before finding my seat, which was not exactly where I thought it was going to be, having misread the online map of the venue. But hey, still not bad: front of the upper reserved on DF's side. Good to great sound the entire night. Had an older couple sitting to my left and after I figured the seat to my right were still empty after a few songs, I moved over and had plenty of room to chair dance and rock out.
Aja was slow and deliberate, which made it seem truly epic. -There- and back again. "A Day in the Life" "Darkstar." "Stairway to Heaven." "Aja."
Time Out of Mind - smokin' version. Walter flashed a litle "skunk" during the solo; D & W traded 4's at the end.
-Donald introduces the band as the "Steely Dan Royal Hawaiian Orchestra", or something to that effect...
Godwhacker was incredibly tight. Carlock and Barney laid down a monster groove; I chair danced a couple rivets off my seat...
Caves of Altamira was the pure essence of the "dan experience" to me. Not a hot song, just one of the best songs ever written, and all the non-tourists in the audience really appreciated hearing this one
Black Cow - tourists and non-tourists alike swoon when this one starts; I think further studies would show a palovian firing of neural receptors upon hearing the first notes of Black Cow for anybody who's ever owned the Aja album
Babylon Sisters... shook it. Of course, the requisite crowd response for, "San Francisco show and tell..."
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More - Walter steps up to the mike and throws down. Great little solo over what seems like a modulation to the original (album version) key before going back to the key the song started in(a little lower than the album version).
-band ntros- incumbent Bunsen Prize winner Ted Baker presents Bunsen Prize to Cornelius Bumpus with band and crew in C.B. t-shirts/ "Luke Lovelace" temporarily replaces Carolyn Leonhart in babe choir
Peg - the band completely rocked this one out; best Harrington solo of the night so far - subtle references to the famous album solo but different enough to be it's own beast.
Home @ Last - can't be done any better.
-ntrmsn-
The Steely Dan Show - after enhancing my cognitive state, I start back to my seat singing along to this... for a throwaway tune this is pretty damn catchy...
Janie Runaway/Hey 19 - DF lets the crowd sing "..that's 'Retha Franklin" and doesn't correct them with "Otis Redding" like at Konocti
Haitian Divorce - Walter sings again. I really like the way he sings this... perfect for his range and "'tude". Only wish that they would have played the outro longer, and added the marimba (?) riff over it like on the album, but still killer live
Lunch With Gina - Ok... this has been implanted on my brain for a week. Better than I even imagined. First time Fagen sang "...is forevah...!" I almost levitated!. Every hour or so I still break out into "The waiter never comes..." The groove was PHAT! At the end I wasn't sure if somebody was supposed to be soloing as the song broke down to just the horns and background vocals... like a live dub! Great arrangement; amazing performance. Then before we could catch our breath...
Everything Must Go - slightly lower key thatn the album version; Walt weiskoff took the opening solo -out there-. Not even close to the album version, stretched to the limit of the song before Donald came into the first verse. The whole vibe was like we were suddenly at a blues concert. You could almost hear the dot commies sobbing in their $8.00 beers. An emotional depth rarely felt at a rock show
Parker's Band - the ladie's choir smacked us into a trance
Josie - outstanding DF jazzy solo Rhodes ntro before breaking into the famous opening notes; hats and hooters everywhere...
Kid Charlamange - Herrington soars...
Don't Take Me Alive - Good and crunchy; dark and angular; devastating version
-encore - DF thanks the audience; WB thanks non-Hawaii bound crew - sound and lighting crew, even the truck drivers; ladie's choir comes down and give D & W hugs
My Old School - party time
FM - 4 words: "See you next time." - Donald Fagen, Concord, Ca. 10/4/03
As much as I enjoyed Konocti earlier this year, this show blew it away. From top to bottom the whole band seemed much more in control of the material, which left them free to just blow. Donald seemd to be stronger vocally than at the beginning of the tour; Walter (who seemed to practically carry the band throughout the Konocti show) though seemed to be just a bit road weary, and what was interesting is that he seemed to compensate for his lack of stamina with his consistantly clever choice of notes.
Caught up with St. Al again (though I forgot to leave you your "security patch" bro...)and met suedave and Hoops, and split the scene... A week later I'm *still* steely buzzed from the concert.
and that was that... would make a great (ahem...) DVD...
peace and smooth retsina...
your
tzg
User: Bluz wearing Depends | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
I want to sincerely thank the inventor of DEPENDS!
YOU ROCK MAN!!!!!!! Oh isn't rock man a stone layers name in Ulapalkua?
Gratefully Almost Dead,
Bluz near a beach
User: Bluz | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
I wanted to do a sound check but had to go check my A Leakage instead. It is hard when you are my age. Don has the same prroblem too. We plan to sing about it on our next CD. Running out of negative crap to sing about. Oh when will this life be over?
Bluz
User: pilgrumsol | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: baby, there's no need to be lonely....i can help you out with that, where u be???
User: wormy | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: dream babe choir (all drooling aside)
victoria cave
vicky's twin evil sister
vicky's much older sister
no, really
dream babe choir
a young carly simon
liz phair (less for moderate pipes, more on looks)
faith hill
stevie - hendrix was in a drug induced haze and steadily going downhill
Cooke, Coltrane and Redding were on the rise and opening new boundaries
wormy
User: Steve Jobs | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Toyota Whatevah,
Macs cannot be hacked into. Please leave this site immediately and buy a PC...a Gateway is more your style. Keep in mind, I not only have your IP address, I have your serial number. Frankly, I'm a very bored billionaire with very little to do, now that Apple's stock is soaring, than to track your sorry little paranoid ass down...yes and everything you've heard about me is true.
User: bumpy | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Date: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:28:20 AM US/Pacific
To:
Subject: Fwd: Your candidate reference number - Time Warner, Inc..
To whom this may concern:
I need the email address for your HR department. One of your recording artist's Walter Becker of Steely Dan has used your company owned Website to throw a trojan at me and hack into my computer which he has been pulling up remotely since at least Feb. 2003. He stalks me around the Internet and harasses me. My lawyer has advised me to obtain a restraining order against him. Please let me know what your HR department intends to do about this situation? I need him to leave me alone. He actually boasted to me he has been hacking for 33 years and has never been caught yet. There is always a first time. His new CD on your label has 3 songs with lyrics about hacking stalking and chat rooms.
I am saving a copy of this email for legal reasons.
Sincerely,
Toyota
User: Toyota | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
Bluz U R Walter Becker the computer pecker hacker stalker trojan thrower so why deny it? Am proud to say I can't stand you anyway! Grow up U 53 year old RETARD emotional anti social GEEK FACED MORON OF ALL MORONS.
Isn't Pat around to save U. Don't give a rats arse if you have my IP. Don't hack into my computer and stalk and harass me for 10 or more months and expect me to thank you DUDE!
U really R frinkin' PECANS!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours truly,
Lorena Bobbit (not a friendly hobbit either)
User: Boston Rag - Michael Moore at BC | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: I was at Boston College Thursday afternoon to see Michael Moore. It was the first stop on his 35 city tour to promote "Dude, Where's My Country?". After his very funny lecture, he signed books for an hour. I was wearing my 'Everything Must Go' tour cap. After he signed my book he looked up and said "Bush Must Go!".
The Young Republicans on campus were in the attack mode during Q&A. Mike shot them all down. He commented "How can a Jesuit University have so many conservatives?? If Jesus walked on campus would he go over to the School of Management?" Someone shouted out "We have to take an Ethics class".
Mark in Boston
User: Another milestone! | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: For those New York area Steely Dan fans out there,
Westbury Music Fair will be hosting Jay Black's 65th Birthday Bash on
October 25th. Rumour has it that Donald and Walter will appear on stage
during the show! The plan is for D&W to Walk on stage, wave, and simply
turn around and walk directly off stage as Jay Black says,
"There they are, and there they go..."
Don't miss it!
User: NYB | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: "Kill Bill" huh?
Is that supposed to be some kind of a joke Tarantino?
User: Wash Cycle, Toyota, Maria, | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Hey Mise.22/Macintosh,U,PPC one and the same..very sorry they let you out of Atascadero during the Reagan years" A point of reality I'm not Walter Becker, ok, also please refrain from signing my handle.
Duncan,
BB has my E-mail address, hope all is good.
bluz
User: Jimbo | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Isn't tonight the last date of the EMG tour?
User: maria | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
midnight @ the oasis sing your camel to bed
one hump or two?
Maria
User: tired of your immature harmful behavior! | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message:
Walter GROW UP DUDE you arr 53 not 5. Get a life!
Toyota
User: U asked 4 it U got it Toyota U begged for it! | Month: 9 | Day: 11
Message: Subject: Fwd: Your candidate reference number - Time Warner, Inc.. To whom this may concern: I need the email address for your HR department. One of your recording artist's Walter Becker of Steely Dan has used your company owned Website to throw a trojan at me and hack into my computer which he has been pulling up remotely since at least Feb. 2003. He stalks me around the Internet and harasses me. My lawyer has advised me to obtain a restraining order against him. Please let me know what your HR department intends to do about this situation? I need him to leave me alone. He actually boasted to me he has been hacking for 33 years and has never been caught yet. There is always a first time. His new CD on your label has 3 songs with lyrics about hacking stalking and chat rooms. I am saving a copy of this email for legal reasons. Sincerely, Toyota User: wash cycle
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| Day: 11 Message: User: wash cycle
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| Day: 11 Message: Bluz dolling, Try getting the stain out by grinding salt into the urine stain with the heel of your high heel. If that does not work try soaking the whole T-Shirt in Gin all night or try moving out of La La Land into reality. Turn your computer off for a week and seek a real life - not imaginary. if you are bored with out your puter "pals" fo comapany that just means you are boring. Good luck you very very young buck! Ginspin User: stevietheweavie
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: a possible weekend yellow-light special (or have we done this one?) ???? celebrity female vocal ensemble (i find "babe-choir" disrespectable, folks. these ladies are ARTISTS) nominees. living or dead. you may name singles or complete ensembles, mixed or related (andrew's or lennon sisters ?)... let's try to keep the drooling to a minimum and no, uma thurman cannot really sing well enough. however, diana krall gives you complete package and would be luXURious. gwenneth paltrow ? well... yes ! third chair... User: steviedan
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: oh yes, when one spins a little thread, one may never realize the bizarre garments that the tailor may weave... you people may be accused of many things, but lack of demented creativity would not be one of them: all contributions were alternatively hilarious and/or horrifying. i also found it edifying to imagine whether the artists in question would diva-storm out in disgust or in workmanlike manner, do the deified producer's bidding... for example, in total agreement with herm & raj, mu's suggestion of donny osmond and zappa would be a mutually satisfying act and i'm surprised it never happened. (btw, has anyone heard weird al's very thinly veiled tribute to zappa throughout parts of his new album ?). other very viable pairings would be jimbo's toby keith/keb mo & even his kenny g/wayne shorter summit. hank's pat benatar/kenny rogers sounds like a late seventies network special... wormy, your scenario for zep was intriguing. plant's voice DID change around "houses", i thought. particularly THAT album and the half of "presence" that was good material with the old pipes. really in the spirit of the premise. i also enjoyed the cusackian "artist most taken before their time" and must add young lee morgan to that list. what a waste. but now, i must hear more about your pointed exclusion of hendrix, who i really feel was discovering a new galaxy at the time and had lots of work to do... bluz, that loudly earnest billy guy on tv has sworn by oxy-clean, then orange-clean, snake-oil clean and hell, he's probably found a cure for cancer that he's ready to upsize for you. not found in stores... User: Downey Does Dan
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Mel Gibson's New 'Passion' Is Robert Downey Jr. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99680,00.html ...These days, Downey is not only acting but recording music. He's working on an album of songs, he says, that are reminiscent of Steely Dan. In fact, when he promotes "The Singing Detective" on "The Wayne Brady Show" next week, Downey will perform Steely Dan's old hit "Reelin' in the Years" with the band. - Don't do it again. User: Bluz
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| Day: 10 Message: Thanks, Bluz User: Beers for Fears
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: gimt; touche ... but ref 'one of the babe choir holed out in an LA closet' please don't bother tryin' to find her She's not there .., Hahahahaaaaa (maniacal sp? laugh) brother Shotan has The colour of her hair - too late to say you're sorry ............ Come over or we play her Brit pop 'til the end User: correction on crossing the pond scum
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| Day: 10 Message: sorry 11) should read STEVEEDAN not StevieDan User: diving in
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| Day: 10 Message: good ones Beerberian top ten reasons why the Dan won't cross the pond in 03 11) stevie dan still has one of the babe choir holed out in an LA closet gimt giles? User: Aussie
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: YGK: Gonna try to catch Tarantino's "Kill Bill" tonight after work with Utah. Fly to Boston tomorrow morning...shuttle from LGA. Great weekend everybody! Go Yankees! Go Cubbies! Aus User: Dano
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| Day: 10 Message: Dunc , Thats a cert mate...women no consideration?? Remember, Romeo and Brooklyn are taken? Hope all goes well mate. Regards User: Rajah of Erase
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Beers - can't let you take credit for irony. Aristophanes got there first. But your Dean Swift did refine it. User: Beerberian
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Top Ten Reasons why Steely Dan should come on over the pond à NOW !! 10. ItÆs not nice to see so many grown men cryinÆ. 9. Steveedan could get to stay out real late and gruntle a few more laydeeez. 8. Sunset over the Croydon Gasworks has to be seen to be believed. 7. Fingers Shotan could declare his undying Lust for Ms Leonhart in person 6. Birmingham (not Alabama) could once more resound to the BostinÆ Rag 5. We in the UK could get our own back by posting our ôcrazyö reviews 4. ItÆs tax deductible ( until the Tories get back in û approx 500 yrs) 3. Two new tributes could get a leg up on the showbiz ladder û I give you ôAltered Peckerö & "Grunwald Gayone" 2. D&W could stand @ Dover and shout abuse down the tunnel @ the axis of weasels 1. How ironic for the demigods of irony to return to itÆs birthplaceà User: Beerberian
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Dunc; remember your breathing ... during the match that is !! love and support to Lindy User: YGK
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Aus: que pasa Amigo? Comm Room's Arriving at JFK this morning, 10AM. Pending Transport to your location, avec 100 new VZ Blackberrys. ygk User: hey Dano
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: what are the odds of the baby turning up during the football tomorrow. User: Aussie
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Steely Dan's "Reeling in the Sheaves" heard on "That 70's Show" promo spots on Fox network during the nationally televised Yankees/Red Sox baseball games two nights in a row now. Wormy: Looks like that KCrimso concert in New York City will be two weeks before your folks fly the ballons for Macys. Rats. But count on me being there for sure. LuckLess Pedestrian: Off to Fenway lovie! Aus User: wt
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| Day: 10 Message: desirable sade and duke ellington loathing engelbert humperdick and Marilyn Manson Ted Nugent and Lina Horn justin timberlake and danny bonniduce charles mingus and that canadian wailing pop singer User: Beerberian
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| Day: 10 Message: Beethoven and Ray Charles ... play chopsticks - Imagine it Ludwig; "OK Ray watch for my signal" Ray C; "Right On Luddy I'll count you in" Ludwig; "Pardon" Ray C; "Who said that man?" User: Hank Silvers
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson (wait a minute...another truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moment) User: Spike's Moll
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Donnie Osmond sang a bit in a song played by Jeff Beck. He sounded pretty good. Maybe ol Don just hasn't had the right material.......lol ;-) User: duncan
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| Day: 10 Message: Bluz User: Roy.Scam
| Month: 9
| Day: 10 Message: Bette Midler and Bob Dylan singing "Buckets of Rain" together. No. nevermind, that one must be natural because it actually happened. User: Jimbo
| Month: 9
| Day: 9 Message: Rajah- Yes, Bowie was singing "Peace On Earth" while Bing was still going into the Little Drummer Boy. StAl- Hey, Ted looks like a homicidal maniac and just had a stupid reality special on VH1 called Surviving Nugent. Plus, he's a Bush Lover. I would have said Bush Licker, but, wink wink, nudge nudge;) User: DACW
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| Day: 9 Message: 8:30, 5:30 PDT lol User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 9 Message: Pablo Cruise and Gwar User: DACW
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| Day: 9 Message: Crap, Bing and Bowie - how could I forget?...would have loved to have taken a bet with the audience then on who was the actual child abuser Dave Grohl and Perry would both be up on those stools singing Crhistmas Carols, then the power chords would shake down the halls R and Isaac...maybe a duet from the pen in the final Return of the Rockford File... Lena Horne and Bon Scott (AC/DC singer) Tiny Tim and Allan Holdsworth Leonard Nimoy and Kid Rock Prince and the lead singer for Midnight Oil (?? Garrett) Steeleye Span and Steely Dan User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 9 Message: Yes, right Herm, but wasn't there another thread of a tune in there that Bowie was carrying? Bing did the rum-pa-pum-pum song. That was an incongruous scene with Bowie only a few years removed from the outrageous Ziggy character bein' all mainstream mit der Bingle. Our own Babs and Clean Willie. User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 9 Message: They sang, "Little Drummer Boy". User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 9 Message: Zappa and Donny would blow Pat Boone and Ozzie's doors off. But nothing can compare to Frank & Elvis doing the "Witchcraft/Love Me Tender" medley. They hated each other. Bing and Bowie's Xmas medley, can't recall the tunes now, also a treat. User: GE
| Month: 9
| Day: 9 Message: St. Al said: "Plus I'm a sucker for Snakeskin Cowboy...Must be my age..." And you make fun of Pat Travers who at least covered Black Friday, quite well I might add. Humphh. ;^) User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 9 Message: I bet if Zappa were alive and he had the chance to work with Donny Osmond, he'd jump all over it without thinking twice. User: StAl
| Month: 9
| Day: 9 Message: Great thread. But I know people who would say the connection between Air Supply and Steely Dan isn't hard to define. Then again, these are the same "friends" who think Black Flag is THE ONLY great band. And Jimbo, what'cha got against Sweaty Teddy and the Ten Fingers of Doom? As often as he outrages me, I still find him ammusing as hell to listen to. Plus I'm a sucker for Snakeskin Cowboy...Must be my age... Perry Como & The Foo Fighters. Friggin hillarious if not just for the banter between Grohl and Como... User: Jimbo
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| Day: 9 Message: I like the unnatural acts thread too. Here's my picks: Justin Timberlake & Luther Vandross Madonna & Tina Turner Kenny G. & Wayne Shorter Jessica Simpson & Joss Stone Reuben Stoddard & Barry White Beyonce & Sade Ted (asshole) Nugent & Jimi (genius) Hendrix Shania Twain & Norah Jones R. (I like kids) Kelly & Isaac ( I like women) Hayes Toby Keith & Keb Mo oh, and finally, Air Supply & Steely Dan User: DACW
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| Day: 9 Message: Stevie: I like the unnnatural acts thread... Donny Osmond and Frank Zappa Kathy Berberian and Enya Britney Spears and Ella Fitzgerald Ornette Coleman and Satchmo Weather Report (through 5:30) and Ken Burns/Wynton Marsalis Phoebe Snow and Phoebe Cates Perry Como and the Foo Fighters Keith Jarrett and the Ramones Christopher Hitchens and Maureen Dowd (both are liberal atheists/agnostics - but only one writes with logic, flair, and a bite that is true Steely Dan) examples: "It doesn't help to have a former-NATO-commander-turned-presidential-contender running around telling the country that the Bush dream team is a bunch of dunces." Yeah, why doesn't Wesley Clark build a time machine and stop Clinton from firing him and the Serbs from slaughtering Musclims because we had no ground troops in the Kosovo War unsanctioned by the UN "Or a former-diplomat-turned-angry-husband-of-an-outed-spy running around telling the country that the Bush dream team is a bunch of backstabbing lawbreakers who are dead wrong on Iraq." Novak has stated that the leak did no come from the White House. The wife is a pencil pusher in an office at "THE AGENCY" *hush hush* in Reston, VA, not a "spy"...but we could use some more real ones - first by ridding ourselves of Tenet - the MI-5 and the rest of the Brit intelligence are proven superior...just watch any Bond movie ;-)...and is Hallie Berry single again? hubba No, Dowd is simply sloppy, and not the kind that Ahhnaud digs either... User: wormy
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| Day: 9 Message: hey Auss - yes I bought the new crim disc crim at thanksgiving??? a possiblity Stevie here's another Cusackian Hi Fidelity moment "artist most taken before his time" (top three) and yes, there is no Hendrix on my list 3) Sam Cooke hell's got a rock beat, heaven's got some soul... User: Aussie
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| Day: 9 Message: Wormy: Did you buy the new Kcrim dvd Eyes Wide Open? The compact disque is scalding hot, as was the tour last year....if you do have it, can you spill a bit of colour on here?? I also notised that they will be here in New York on tour (cheque their official web site) I think around Thanksgiving time....perhaps we can team up and catch them in action....let me know. LuckLess Pedestrian: Tough loss last night. I liked the Boston prayer you sent. See ya after squash tonight lovie. Aus User: CodeS
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| Day: 9 Message: From this morning's OP ED page in the NYTimes... One queries... ********************************************* Is Condi Gaslighting Rummy? By MAUREEN DOWD Published: October 9, 2003 WASHINGTON It's easy to see why the Bush crowd is getting so tetchy. The itch to ditch officials who fritter away the public trust is growing, as Arnold and his broom bear down on Sacramento. And we know now that our first pre-emptive war was launched basically because Iraq had . . . a vial of Botox? Just about the scariest thing the weapons hunter David Kay could come up with was a vial of live botulinum, hidden in the home of an Iraqi biological weapons scientist. This has very dire implications for Beverly Hills and the East Side of And it may have dire implications for the Pentagon and White House if It doesn't help to have a former-NATO-commander-turned-presidential-contender running around telling the country that the Bush dream team is a bunch of dunces. Or a former-diplomat-turned-angry-husband-of-an-outed-spy running around telling the country that the Bush dream team is a bunch of The administration that never let you see it sweat is sweating, as two of its control freaks openly tug over control. The president's foreign policy duenna and his grumpy grampy over at the Pentagon are suddenly mud wrestling. Women who are discouraged at the ascension of Conan the Barbarian in The trigger was Monday's coverage of the Iraq Stabilization Group (a.k.a. Fat Chance Group); the group is a desperate bid to get a grip on Baghdad before the campaign starts by transferring power for postwar Iraq from the Pentagon to the national security adviser's office inside the White House. Condi used a trick she learned from Rummy: pre-emption. She outflanked the It was the first time the chesty defense czar ù who had tried to freeze out "And because he is a cantankerous egomaniac," one longtime Rummy watcher President Bush clearly realizes that Mr. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz have Some Republicans worry that it's risky to move accountability for postwar In a meeting with foreign reporters on Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Rummy One of Rumsfeld's Rules is: "Avoid public spats. When a Department argues Maybe Rummy hasn't brushed up lately on the Washington rulebook he wrote in **************************************** User: wormy
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| Day: 9 Message: stevie - I second Blaises sentiments - don't stay away from here too long as for dream lineups to see Duke with Lester Young the new crim vid surprised me in the stores, it is so so, not for the uninitiated - I prefer the 82 france vid Cubs in 6, Yanks in 6 wormy User: stevie dan nielsen
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| Day: 8 Message: wormsweeper, you know i try to keep up but the old man was not onto the crimson dvd OR the upcoming gabe. it's nice to know that even in sweeps week, we can keep up the public service announcements... my idea for a mini-series ? premise: if time, space, life, nor death were a consideration or constraint, what amazing musical reunions/unions, magical or unholy, genus or art crime, could occur. two of my favorite possibilities would be brubeck/desmond or jaco-era weather report. more obvious choices would say, be the original fab four or allmans with ALL the brothers. unnatural acts would include maybe franz liszt with limp bizkit, or tiny tim and sinatra with tv guitarist estephan. i don't know, that last one might be colorful... help me writers ! the new season is coming ! take me to the pilot ! User: Jimbo
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| Day: 8 Message: Ahhnauld- If you were president, I'd fuckin' move to Canada. Last thing I'd want to see is Mr. Ah-Nauld nuking Compton just because a few non-whites live there. In my humble opinion, If California goes into the shitter even more, It's not just the Terminator to blame, but the people who voted for him. They are to blame and they will pay the price. Unfortunately, the innocent will suffer along. Then the pro-Ah-Naulds will cry uncle and want an experience politician to run things. Ah-Nauld, it will come back to you. Then the shutter falls and you see on 3-D. It's your favorite violent movie. User: Ahhnaud
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| Day: 8 Message: Hey, Mister Poster Man 5180, let me tell you something: we've got to get StAl through the tough early stages of rehab...right now he's mainlining so much oxycontin let me tell you that he thinks that me, Ahhnaud is Governor of Caleefornia!!! Rush Limbaugh's national health plan calls for your maid scorring hundred pf pain pills a day, and the Cubs on the verge of the World Series... Today I got a call from Nelson Mandella, my good friend, Bush43, David Drier, Cruz Bustamante, Bill Clinton, and Courtney Love giving me some advice on my first days as Governor of Caleeforneeya...Well, Courtney was tryihg to get me to bail her out again - she said grope away if you know what I mean... and another thing, President Clinton and I have some personal advice for Kobe Bryant, star of the Los Angeleez Lakers. It far easier to cop a plea on copping a feel. It OK in Hollywood to touch some Boobie, but never let the stallion out of the paddock, the snake out of the jungle, if you know what i mean...because if you have a wife zat's hot, it will cost you, well about a $400,000 piece of jewelry! No, when you are out of Hollywood, you have to keep your hands to your hands to your self, you know. me, I love mixing it with de crowd squeezing through - my chest is so massive, zat I rub against some boobies viz zem slipping through ze crowd. That's why they call it pressing flesh...man a palmed Cruz Bustamate's head at the Steely Dan concert this week....doesn't his last name mean huge knockers? you know what I mean? and let me tell you it's round, shingy, and hard just like the boobies in the Silicone Valley ...and now we are going to take back Sacrahmento for ze people...even I know if you increase spending like Gray Davis by 50% and just increase revenue by 25%, zat it don't add up, you know or you got another thing coming...thousands of people cancelling ther subscription to the LA Times. they know I like I know that the National Enquirer has a much better research staff let me tell you something! User: Tommy Chong
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| Day: 8 Message: Yeah like wow, the whole state's been lighting up User: Cheech Marin
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| Day: 8 Message: Wow, man...like I fell asleep watching that LA Earthquake movie with Charlton Heston, and the next thing I knrw I woke up and Conan the Barbarian was Governor of California...like dude, I've gotta wath these brownies... User: imperator
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| Day: 8 Message: I meant the business about not having supposedly filled in all required fields when we have actually done so. That's all. User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 8 Message: We seem to like it. User: planetary prick
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| Day: 8 Message: Sorry. The site was forcing me to do some bizarre things in order to post...... eventually something worked. How all of you get the site to function I don't know. User: world of the king, you're just pissin' in it.wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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| Day: 8 Message: My last pointless post didn't take. Therefore I must make my presence known through a purposeless endeavor such as... well, this thing. I guarantee you that it has more substance than 95% of what you're likely to hear. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: Grass: Herm User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 8 Message: Hey Grass: the length of your post is unacceptable and very disrespectful to the folks on here, whatever politics you are espousing. An apology to these nice people would be in order. User: Grass Roots Recall My Ass
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| Day: 8 Message: "It's a victory. A total victory!" Howard Kaloogian exclaimed on the right-wing Worldmag.com after hearing that the petition to recall the election of California's embattled Gov. Gray Davis had gained enough signatures to qualify as a ballot question. Kaloogian, a former Republican California legislator, had plenty of reason to cheer. Because while the media have presented Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the wealthy car-alarm magnate, as the man who drove the recall, he's actually been little more than a useful idiot for a stealthy group of GOP operatives who laid the groundwork. Months before the recall was even a blip on the media radar, this consultant cabal began manipulating California's idiosyncratic electoral system, creating a muscular funding mechanism and exploiting it for its members' own ends. The cabal includes Kaloogian, who was a right-wing backbencher in the state Assembly, Sal Russo, who handled banker Bill Simon's hapless 2002 gubernatorial campaign, and David Gilliard, a veteran GOP strategist with a career steeped in scandal. They're joined by former Enron pollster and Republican tactician Frank Luntz, who devised a strategy for the recall campaign centering around negative character attacks and avoidance of policy discussion. With the surprise announcement of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger -- who boasted on The Tonight Show Aug. 6, "I have plenty of money. Nobody can buy me off." -- the movie star's high-priced uber-consultants George Gorton and Don Sipple have grabbed the baton in the recall race, eager to take it the last mile to the state capitol. Thanks to this handful of men and the millionaires who bankrolled them, what started with a petition and a few phone calls has become an election that may unseat a twice-elected governor and dramatically affect the lives of one in seven Americans. The recall saga began in February when Ted Costa, a self-styled "anti-tax activist," started gathering the requisite 100 signatures to file a recall petition. (It took an additional 899,900 signatures to turn that petition into a ballot initiative.) Kaloogian and Russo urged Costa to hold off. They wanted time to get their own recall committee off the ground to solicit donations. But Costa went ahead on his own and filed the petition, forcing them to improvise. With little public interest in a recall despite Davis' low approval rating and the state's fiscal crisis, Russo and Kaloogian realized that a movement would have to be manufactured from the top down. In order to find a funding source to jump-start the movement, Kaloogian enlisted Ray Haynes, a Republican leader in the state Assembly's far-right caucus. To his chagrin, Haynes was rebuffed by Simon, Schwarzenegger and Gerald Parsky, George W. Bush's chief California fund-raiser. Parsky initially distanced himself from the recall out of concern that it might backfire or divert funds away from Bush's 2004 re-election drive. Only after these rejections did Haynes call on fellow right-winger Issa, who was planning to run for governor in 2006. Issa enthusiastically stepped forward to form his own recall committee, Rescue California, with $1.7 million from his personal fortune. Suddenly, droves of clipboard-waving petitioners were descending upon the nucleus of California civic life -- shopping-mall parking lots -- and were paid $1 per signature. To direct Rescue California, essentially the recall's funding mechanism, Issa hired Dave Gilliard, a Republican operative with a reputation for using underhanded tactics to help his archconservative clients' campaigns. In 1988, for example, in a stunt reminiscent of Mississippi's Reconstruction-era "shotgun policy," Gilliard arranged for uniformed guards to stand outside Orange County polling places in predominately Latino districts to deter the kinds of voters who might cast ballots against his conservative Republican client. As the director of Rescue California, Gilliard contrived an ingenious plan to get contributions from state legislators who were his clients in exchange for political favors. The Sacramento Bee first reported in May that Gilliard had sent 1 million mailers to heavily Republican -- and highly affluent -- zip codes in the state soliciting donations and support for the recall. These letters bore the signatures of a number of Gilliard's clients, giving them much-needed name recognition in next year's Republican primaries against opponents not included in the letters. For the privilege of inclusion in Gilliard's promotions, the politicians were prepared to pay him. One of Gilliard's clients, Republican Assembly member John Campbell, signed letters sent to Irvine, where he is facing a primary challenge in the overwhelmingly Republican district from fellow Republican Ken Maddox, who was not included in the letters. Campbell donated $10,000 to Rescue California and gained the endorsement of the Lincoln Club, an organization of businesspeople and executives that has also coughed up $100,000 for Rescue California. Another of Gilliard's clients who signed the letters, Cristi Milazzo-Cristich, is a Lincoln Club activist and a candidate for the Assembly in Orange County; she has kicked in $7,000 to the committee. Meanwhile, Republican State Sen. Rico Oller paid Rescue California $30,000 for the honor of being the voice of a radio spot on behalf of the recall. Though Gilliard told The Sacramento Bee that "involving many politicians is a good way for Rescue California to cover costs," in late July he told me that the notion that his clients have donated to Rescue California to advance their own campaigns is "idiotic." "We asked every member of the legislature if they would like to sign the letter for Rescue California," he said. "Most of my clients accepted because my clients happen to be smarter. The other half that didn't accept are not my clients." Russo, who directs the Recall Gray Davis committee along with Kaloogian, called Gilliard's fund-raising ploy the natural byproduct of a dog-eat-dog political atmosphere. "People in politics always do things for their own advantage, like Issa funding the recall with his own money, so that's the way politics works," Russo told me. "I don't see anything wrong with that." Both Russo and Gilliard have been enriched considerably by the donations to their own committees: Russo has run up a $67,000 tab while Gilliard sent Issa a $72,000 bill for June alone. While the consultants paid by Issa propelled the recall, Issa personally intimidated one Republican consultant to shut down his operation against it. As founder of Republicans Against the Recall, political consultant and former Lincoln Club CEO Scott Barnett called the recall "a political weapon of mass destruction." Even though he shares Republicans' disdain for Davis, Barnett opposes the recall because he believes it will set a dangerous precedent that will widen the partisan divide. "If this recall goes through here, there will be retribution by Democrats against Republican officeholders across California," he said. "This will open the door to say, 'It's acceptable to go after officeholders who have committed no crime and are mentally and physically capable of governing.'" Barnett claims that in retribution for his own principled stance, Issa personally called one of his clients, a Republican state legislator, and told him to fire Barnett as his pollster. Barnett also claims that Andy Gharakhani, Issa's district director, called another of his clients and threatened to run a Republican against Barnett's client in the upcoming primaries if the client did not fire the dissident Barnett. "I don't take it personally," said Barnett. "You know, Darrell Issa has got a lot of money and because of that he has very little accountability -- that's just Darrell." Still another consultant who has been instrumental in setting the recall in motion -- and profiting from it -- is the Washington-based Luntz, a former pollster for Enron and Newt Gingrich. His services were retained by Issa's Rescue California to develop an anti-Davis strategy based on focus-group research conducted in Orange and Sacramento counties. His memo, provided in July by U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to the San Francisco Chronicle, outlined 17 ways to "kill Davis softly." "It is important to trash the governor," Luntz wrote, but he added, "Issues are less important than attributes and character traits in your recall effort." Luntz pointed out that the majority of Californians "are unfamiliar with the recall process -- and this uncertainty means voters can be easily swayed in either direction." Luntz's tactics were on bold display during Schwarzenegger's boisterous Tonight Show appearance. The actor used the spot to announce his surprise candidacy while launching a withering attack on Davis and the Sacramento establishment before a national audience. Carefully avoiding mentioning the budget or any policy, Schwarzenegger boomed the Luntz-tested line, "Do your job for the people and do it well, otherwise you are 'Hasta la vista, baby!'" Cheering in the audience were a gaggle of Republican operatives, including Schwarzenegger handler George Gorton. Gorton was first hired by Schwarzenegger in 2002 to direct the star's campaign for Proposition 49, a feel-good ballot measure providing grants for after-school programs (and intended as a vehicle to establish Schwarzenegger's political credibility before a run for governor in 2006). Gorton is a veteran consultant known for his work with Republican moderates like former Gov. Pete Wilson. He is highly regarded in California political circles, and for that, his services carry a hefty price tag. During the Prop. 49 campaign, Schwarzenegger heaped $780,000 on Gorton's California Group. This June, with the premature arrival of a gubernatorial campaign thanks to the recall, the money started rolling again with a $60,000 payment to Gorton through the Prop. 49 committee. In this new effort, Gorton has taken on Sipple, his former partner from Wilson's campaigns, as Schwarzenegger's media director. Sipple gained a reputation as a hard-hitting media consultant by fashioning ads to push viewers' emotional buttons. These negative, character-based attacks on opponents were instrumental in securing a series of Republican victories, notably George W. Bush's defeat of Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race. But after working on Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, which ended in a landslide defeat, and weathering a personal scandal in 1997, which caused his resignation from his ongoing political work, Sipple's luster was tarnished. In 2000, Sipple again found himself embroiled in scandal, exposed for accepting $120,000 from then-California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush -- a client planning to run for Senate -- to craft a veiled campaign ad in which the commissioner played a starring role. The money Sipple received was part of $13 million intended for earthquake victims. The victims never saw a penny of it, and Quackenbush was forced to resign in disgrace. But now as Schwarzenegger's media consultant, Sipple is positioned to return to his former influence and paycheck. On Aug. 13, Schwarzenegger shuffled his team, demoting Gorton and adding another consultant embroiled in the Quackenbush scandal, Martin Wilson, who accepted $375,000 from the former insurance commissioner. Gorton's role as Schwarzenegger's chief strategist has been assumed by Bob White, Gov. Wilson's former chief of staff. The move highlights Schwarzegger's close ties to Wilson, who is persona non grata among Latino voters for his support of the anti-immigrant initiative Prop. 187 in 1994. After The Tonight Show, Gorton told a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle that he was unaware of Schwarzenegger's intentions prior to the program. Besides his impending demotion, there are other signs that Gorton may have been telling the truth. Russo recounts a series of private meetings, while Schwarzenegger was in Mexico City promoting Terminator 3, between Gorton and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who lost to Simon in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary. As Russo explained to me, Gorton was planning to jump ship and join Riordan's campaign if Schwarzenegger did not declare, moving from one self-funding client to the next. But Schwarzenegger's announcement came as the greatest shock to Issa, who had already spent some of his car-alarm fortune to warm up a gubernatorial campaign. He had taken out radio ads, printed up posters and hired a new team of consultants, including Ken Khachigian, a veteran speechwriter who served on President Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign "attack group," and Larry McCarthy, the media producer of the infamous Willie Horton ad that helped elect George Bush Senior in 1988. However, with the Republican Party suddenly lined up behind Schwarzenegger, Issa's ambition was crushed. He found himself at a press conference, the victim of a vast Republican conspiracy, and he cried. Make way for Schwarzenegger and his team of consultants, whose credo can be best summarized by a statement Gorton made in Mother Jones while working on then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin's 1996 re-election campaign: "Unless you're going to make some serious money, it's not worth it." User: So?w
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| Day: 8 Message: I see this place is back to normal. The SD tour isn't even over yet and the last 15 posts were about Gray Davis. Back to the blue.... User: wormy Gim T
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| Day: 8 Message: new dvd releases of interest The Kids Are Alright - The WHo - let's go gold record skeeting Eyes Wide Open haven't viewed this yet new cd - Bonnie Raitt - best of on the radar and not that far away November - Sarah McClaklen cd wormy User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: When I said Republicans, I meant national Repulicans in terms of Presidential elections. They haven't been able able to win the state because of all the Democrats in the assembly and in L.A. Now, though, those usually liberal L.A. votes might be split between those loyal to their party, and those who'd trade it all in for a photo op with govenor Arnold (ick). Later, Herm User: StAl
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| Day: 8 Message: Herm: What Republicans? The California legislature is overwhelmingly Democrat. Call it what you will but mismanagement is mismanagement be it through incompetence or acquiescence or complacency. Still, too bad. User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: Gray Davis' main fault was that he wasn't aggressive. He never got in the face of Republicans. He never really seemed to stand up and defend the state, and he got trampled. Oh yeah. Steely Dan Rules! Later, Herm User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: Al: One way to possibly screw up Dubya's winning is to file for his impeachment now. Win or lose, it casts doubt in the voter's minds when they hear of all the wrongs he's done. Later, Herm User: Spikey's Moll
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| Day: 8 Message: Hey everyone! All is well here in Hooterville. I'm having Steely withdrawal... but that's to be expected.*sighs* SIX WAYS A FOOTBALL IS LIKE A BLONDE 6. Both are made out of plastic. User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 8 Message: StAl : It reminds me of about 15 years ago when the Italians voted in that pron star, Ciccolina or whatever, as one of their congress members. I think it's a statement voters made to the professional politicians. And remember, this is the 38th time we've attempted a recall election out here in 70+ years. Only this one took. This couldn't have been accomplished only with the conservative voting block's mandate. Joe Blow also voted recall. Arnold is not an answer, he's a statement. Based upon this, let's recall Bloomberg in NYC and install --- the Great Donald Fagen. DF's campaign slogan, "Compassion and Vision". And Bad Sneakers as campaign theme song. User: Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
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| Day: 8 Message: "We're a TV nation. It's no wonder a man with no political experience, User: StAl
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| Day: 8 Message: As much as I'd like to agree with you Herm, I'd say the California coup had more to do with the real fact that Gray Davis couldn't find his ass with both hands. He really did bungle the job. However, I still would have voted no for the recall because throwing a fit mid term simply because you were too lazy to cast your vote the first time means SHAME ON YOU (I'm not directing this at you Herm). Plus, the state with a significant budget problem just spent $100 MILLION DOLLARS playing this silly little game. We're a TV nation. It's no wonder a man with no political experience, no agenda or platform to speak of, was somehow elected to the Governorship based on rhetoric and charisma. Maybe it shows how desperate things have become down there? I'm even more convinced George W will win in 2004. Never underestimate the lemmings that make up the majority of the American voting population. StAl User: Hahaha!
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| Day: 8 Message: zoloft Herm, zoloft. :) User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: DACW: I have no doubt that weapons inspectors, our military, or someone, will find WMD in Iraq. As soon as the U.S. is able to sneak them into the country, someone in the administration will point them out. Like in the 70's, when the cop pulls you over and drops a joint in your car. What a wonderful country. Later, Herm User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 8 Message: Hey All, My god, what an absolutely shitty night last night. First, the Cubs lose, then Arnold takes over the governorship of California in one of the most apocalyptic facist overthrows of government that I've seen since Bush 2 took office. Ooh, wait. Could there be a connection? Later, (I mean, Zieg heil!) Herm User: NYB
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| Day: 8 Message: Is the mainland U.S. EMG tour over already? I hope everyone had a great time at whatever venue you saw SD at. Bill User: duncan
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| Day: 8 Message: Angel / Tim http://www.steelydan.com/Images/emg/pics/outtakes3.lg.jpeg User: DACW
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| Day: 8 Message: Top Ten places Saddam's WMD are now 11. Saddam and Sons had an Everything Must Go sale with the Kurds User: Russ
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| Day: 8 Message: Angel... check out the Outtakes Vol. 3 on the tour photos page... that statement is on there... but I wouldn't read too much into it User: Tim Gee
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| Day: 8 Message: Yes, it's sweeps week, stevie. Please, please, keep a keepin' on keepin' a good handle on traffic around here. You're doing great. This place needs it. It needs you. When you leave for months, it does become a real mess. Crazy shit happening... Seriously, did you know that if you buy a 2004 Acura model, you get a Scheiner Surround Sound Special for a system? It's true. Here's an instance in which you can crank that Gaucho SACD and do a Danny Heatly on the Interstate. "It's that Glamour bassline, it made me do it..." And of course, as you know, if you apply for GM credit, you may get a hat or something. It all makes sense. Worm tom on fuego... Duncan, what documentary? Do tell. quarterly sweeps week feature continued: "Me, Maui, Merchant and 10000 Maniacs" User: angel
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| Day: 8 Message: Duncan: What are you seeing over on the ODP? I didn't find anything in my travels. Can you put the link to the page with that information? Thanks. User: Ahhhnaud
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| Day: 8 Message: Now you little girly men don't sweat me becoming President. I don't want that job - my job is in Sahcramento.. That nationa deficit dis year alone is 50 times larger than for Caleeforneeyah. I mean I'd need an MBA from Harvard instead of a finance degree from Wisconsin...no, that's not working. Anyway, der's dis little thing called the Constitution! Even though let me tell you, Henry Kissinger sure wanted them to ignore the natural born citizen clause! User:
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| Day: 8 Message: Ten DVD titles in the running 11) Uptown Baby gimt User: ~
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| Day: 8 Message: hey stevie - no sweeps week - just a few new subjects to spout off about top ten things don and walt will do on their off time 11) pick up a few more of those gold plated grammaphone looking thingies gimt User: Live DVD - Eleven Whacky Title Rejects
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| Day: 8 Message: Great Woods and Tweeter Tidbits for Dummies timg User: stevie forgot
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| Day: 7 Message: to give a huge welcome back to the top ten rated g & t show. what, do we have a sweeps week on the yellow here ? User: you heard it from stevie first
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| Day: 7 Message: what goes around... famous movie actor elected governor of california... could he possibly go on to become one of the most clueless u.s. presidents ever ? stay tuned america ! you stupid bitches better not bring on the dreaded triple-r (Ronald-Reagan-Redux)... oh, THAT's RIGHT ! we've ALREADY got that ! just without the famous californian actor part... in a happily unrelated story: in a new york times news service article by rock critic jon pareles, "reunion tours give fans a dip into the fountain of youth", a good number of the reunions are looked on as questionable artistically and at worst, a mere economic venture. the actual catalyst for the article is the current simon & garfunkel hatchet-burying which pareles seems to anticipate with a skeptic's hope. however, he also says this: "but here is a critic's proposal. every band should be allowed one reunion, no more. if things become a going concern, so much the better. bruce springsteen & the e street band have spurred one another to some of the best music of their careers since reuniting in 1999. STEELY DAN'S brain trust, those persnickety songwriters walter becker and donald fagen, reunited in 1993 to start touring again; they have stayed together and honed a band that they consider good enough to back them in the studio." thank you jon... User: duncan
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| Day: 7 Message: from the ODP sounds promising. User: SteveeDan
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| Day: 7 Message: YGK - I got them ... and I THANK YOU BUDDY !!! Now Rajah ... I mean, I know we're friends, and we've hung out quite a bit since July 23 (Costa Mesa and previously at the Dr. Wu compound) ... but, come ON now ... first of all ... it was 3 beers in 15 minutes. I mean, I HAD to get up during Peg and get to the men's room. Boy is it true that you don't buy beer, ... you only RENT it. I must admit that on the surface I AM a nerdy piano player, but tell the truth, besides Drummer Paul, you've never met a more insane yet sophisticated socialite like me ... have you ? No. Besides, many years ago, while still a student at UC Berkeley, I took the African (Rhodesian to be exact) polyrhythms class and within 5 weeks climbed the ranks to become a Teacher's Assistant. There were 3 or 4 TAs in this class. Some had been back for their 4th or 5th time, but I made it up to the front of the class in my first 10 week session (much to my own surprise). There were a couple of football players who thought that the class would be a breeze and that they "ethnically" outranked me. They were history within three weeks ... never to return. This is one of the reasons why I absolutely CAN hang with Paul because I understand to some extent what's going on with those most dangerous dudes in the primeval forest. User: Ahhnaud - Win One for the Groper
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| Day: 7 Message: Let me tell you something. For my first act as Governor of Caleeforneyah when I get to Sacramento is to appoint Steeve Dan as Sexretary of Social Affairs, if you know what I mean. Mr. Gray Skies Davis, It's hasta la vista baby for you. We will be having da grand opening of the Kennedy Compound West next month. Hey Mr. Bill Clinton - listen to me now and hear me next week - you're not getting any more nookie here. Besides, your ex-girlfriends are on Slimfast or out of the country...and you know da best thing? We don't have to list to the f*kin' nag Arianna Huffington except on Bill Maher's cable show...man no wonder dat husband Michael went AC/DC on her. Well, we're in debt $8 Billion. You know what dat means now? I'm telling you dat it means TOGA PARTY!!!! We've got this hot jazz-blues band Core NYC...they're playing my theme song "Short-term Affair" Can I tickle this? Pour the PJs, but don't worry about your PJs if you know what i mean. For all my lovely ladies, I'll be busy in Sacramento for the next few years, unless there is a total recall, but I never dream of losing, - I'll be sending each and every one a Steely Dan V - lithium powered baby. The first industry dat I will attract back to Caleeforneeyah is the battery industry... Sleep tight...Ahhhlll be baaack! User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 7 Message: LOVE the remedies for countering PostDanDepression. One of these surely will screen out the sorrow. Good topic worthy of exploration for the benefit of our collective mental health if for no other reason. Stevee -I know I'm gullible but do you really expect me to believe you told your wife about the loopy extra-marital affair lady you escorted with your horn-dog drummer to Preferred Parking? And don't get me wrong, I love Paul and he's a student of music but, just on the face of it, what's a nerdy piano player who chases down EMG sheet music doing hanging with the drummer, the most dangerous animal in the forest primeval? User: Roy.Scam (formerly the Boston Rag Arm)
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| Day: 7 Message: "How many years does it take a Red Sock to screw in a lightbulb? Not so. I believe Wade Boggs was once caught screwing in a lightbulb. or was that in a phone booth? User: post dandom depression remedies
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| Day: 7 Message: top ten post dandom depression remedies 11) go on the Ted Baker no binge diet gimt User: StAlphonzo
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| Day: 7 Message: Hey now! Finally able to sit down in front of a PC after returning from the Concord show. What a great time we had. Nice and relaxed. No where to go, no where to be, nothing expected... It was great finally meeting the illustrious T O N E S... Wish I could have spent more time chatting with ya! I love road trips. Drove 1700 miles in 4 days. I've got to say the drive from Weed California to Bend Oregon is one of the most beautiful drives in the country. No cars, just open road and amazing scenery. Well worth it. And MU is right. Is DAMN hard to eat right on the road. User: Sociable Hermit
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| Day: 7 Message: Hey All, Why exactly was Todd on Letterman last night? Did he sit in with the band, or was he an actual guest? And if so, is he touring and/or have a new cd coming out? Curious Todd fans must know. Later, P.S. GO CUBS!!!! User: DACW
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| Day: 7 Message: lp: I bet NONE of them had a last name of Selig!!!! talk about End of Times - what would happen if the Cubs and Red Sox met in the World Series??!! Game 7 - game called by Bud Selig after 62 innings and 20 straight hours of futility as both teams have used their entire lineup and bench and Sammy saved his cork for the champagne... Chicago......1...5...26 User: lp
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| Day: 7 Message: lol, that's BEST! now back to your steely dan programming... User: lp
| Month: 9
| Day: 7 Message: and for you cubs fans, i wish i could post a vocal, since my husband does the bext harry carey (sp) impression EVER!!!! as in: hey, 6 of my friends just walked in and they're all named BUD! User: lp
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| Day: 7 Message: yes ygk - but remember your history: in 1986, there was the debacle of syracuse university blowing it in basketball, only to be further thrown off the paddy wagon by the red sox that fall so it might just be that since the orangemen finally pulled it off this year and won the big show maybe, just maybe the red sox, too, could pull it off just a thought - the 2 might be linked separated at birth kind of thingy favorite line, btw, ygk, from a sports announcer, talking about gedman (ouch, sp?) was that he was "choking on the exhaust pipe of life" - that's a great line... User: DACW
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| Day: 7 Message: Rajah: could be worse: a fondler is a Steely Dan step above Gray - beater, abuser, polluter, taxman...and didn't Cruise just finish high school or something? (1) get high fructose corn syrup out of Donald's Coke! - increases triglycerides big time and brings us way too close to the Steely Dan Estate Tour ...support natural Louisiana cane sugar!!! Corn better to be used for methanol in Fuel Cells (2) get partially hydrogenated xxx oil out of those power bars, chips, and even cereal - chock full of them...how are you supposed to eat on the road?? - 10 times more atherogenic than saturated fat User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 7 Message: The ontological question of what the heck do we do now has hit me. Coupled with the Recall, events have conspired to seriously shake and discomfit the Rajah. All this, and SteveeDan's shocking "end-of-the-world" behavior from last week wherein he displayed all the attributes of a wild man unshackled from conventional and appropriate social behavior, (although we could attribute it to alcohol poisoning - he did have TWO beers, oh the shame) - has left me questioning the true nature of man: feral, ignorant, horny and thirsty. Worst of all, the Rajah has commenced cogitating the next Steely Dan album in a vain attempt to give his pitiful existence some meaning. And I thought we'd come sooo far... User: YGK
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| Day: 7 Message: Whore, Stevee: should be there today..... ygk User: SteveeDan
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| Day: 7 Message: Hi Rajah, wormtom, and our Mate from across the pond Beers ... Clearly the hyjinx has hit the ceiling ... or is that the ceiling fan ... c'mon down and watch the fur fly. Well, now that we've gotten a new CD (June 10th) and the tour ends this weekend ... What the heck do we do now? I mean, all I've got is this 11-piece Steely Dan tribute band called Pretzel Logic ... and the derranged and competing thoughts in my head. I've been Slanged ! User: wormy
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| Day: 7 Message: lp - glad to see that Blaise always come to the call and response as for Sox / Yankees my crystal ball sees a tight series but the Pinstripe boys taking it on an erroneous error when Boston has it in their grasp that collison last night was gastly (only caught ten minutes of the game) Aussie - cheers to you and that crawfish sarcasm seems to have hit your chord - too much SteveeD - so are you swearing not to wash or in the three showers is never enough mode??? any chance the Dan will get video cameras before Hawaaii book em Dano next up - finally the review of Core that it deserves wt User: lp
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| Day: 7 Message: it's GREAT to see the return of the top 10 around here - keep em comin, they're hilarious! aussie - i would love to see the red sox take it, but i'm afraid to get my hopes up - after 1986, i really don't want to get sucked in again - though last night, that was a great win - ;p in any event - the yankees do and always will SUCK (nmn?) the sick joke of the last century would be a world series of the cubs and the sox but, hey, maybe the patriot's will pull it off - they kicked some ass last weekend - can't believe i didn't take those tickets - i will be at the cleveland game later in the month instead of the game, nmn, if you are listening, i was hiking haystack mountain in vermont in the rain, then hail, then sun, then snow - it was beautiful in its chaos and it was almost peak color - met the owner of haystack mountain, owning a mountain, that must be awesome - he was very proud of the new overlook he did, it was very cool - anyway, thought of you nmn, were you there as well? and now i have a cold, some cyber chicken soup with rice please, ala carol king speaking of which, recent cyber cd purchases: really rosie remaster by carol king User: Beerberian
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| Day: 7 Message: Hey Rajah; Nobody, BUT Nobody, gruntles like Stevee !! User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 7 Message: Stevee - Just another disgruntled female you left in your wake Thursday night. You are a cad sir. User: SteveeDan
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| Day: 6 Message: Um ... exactly whom was post # 5134 directed at ? ... That's T for Texas, and that's T for Timbucktu ... User: shake it shake it sugaree
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| Day: 6 Message: On second thought forget it! You are all excess verbiage and no action. Nothing is ever going to change except now I think you are selfish and disrespectful too. No one but you has any feelings. Peter Pan! Todd is on Letterman tonight! Great voice that dude has. Arrivederci per la merce. Realmente ho avuto abbastanza User: SteveeDan ... makes it through another Yom Kippur ...
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| Day: 6 Message: Rajah - you had me chuckling all the way through your Top 10 Excuses why I got home so late ... but when I reached your Reason #1 I completely lost it ... and speaking of Reason #1 ... Fabreese doesn't work on leather alas. Here's my not-quite-truthful retort to some of the ... Top Ten excuses SteveeDan gave his spouse upon returning home at 3 AM Friday morning after the Steely Dan show: 5 - giving Cindi Mizell a yoga lesson on relaxation in the limo hot tub. ... First of all, that wasn't yoga ... oh no ... and secondly, you forgot about Cynthia and Carolyn ... "The Three 'C's " ... Believe me, ... they didn't forget. 3 - dragging drummer Paul Goldberg from SD roadie bus to ensure his appearance at next Pretzel Logic gig on October 22nd at Hermosa Beach. ... Again, not to far from the truth. It turns out that a lot of the people hanging out backstage have worked with Paul at one time or another. I ran into someone who I knew back in High School and who was at our last Baked Potato gig. You never know who you'll run into in Los Angeles. 2 - holding Rajah's hand in men's room as he sobs out the lyrics to Pixeleen ... Honestly Rajah, it's not that bad, besides, I thought that was a product of yours and my speed-drinking all of those free VIP Lounge beers. 1 - had difficulty retrieving his ultra-slim digital camera from his ass crack ... refer to my Fabreese "crack". Oh. Too funny. OK. Who's gone out to get the EMG songbook yet? YOU GUESSED IT SPORTS FANS ... PRETZEL LOGIC LIVE WEDNESDAY NIGHT User: Aussie
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| Day: 6 Message: Wormy: Veeery nice colour bud. Thanks! Maybe that look of derision on Jon Herington's mug was directly linked to him witnessing someone polishing off an ungodly amount of crawdads before the gig?? Thanks Almost Gothic Negative Girl for your tasty account too! LuckLess Pedestrian: Rooting for your Red Sox tonight. Would love to see my Yanks send them packing again! Looking for Cubbies and Yankees Fall Classic showdown. Saw the Bombers dispose of the twinkies in game two at the Stadium last week....56,478 people plus yours truly shaking the cathedral.....pretty amazing. YGK: Call home. Aus User: freezer
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| Day: 6 Message: Jon H played some nice solos in Concord last Sat. night & his style compliments Walt's nicely...He didn't look like an "unhappy camper" so I don't what that's all about but I kinda dig his low-key approach of playing tasty solos while being subdued & non-chalant about it. Walt & Jon make a nice combo so no more griping from the peanut gallery please... I had a lot of fun so thanks again to Don, Walt & the Entire Steely Dan Orchestra! User: freezer
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| Day: 6 Message: excellent show last saturday night in concord I was scribbling down the song-titles on the back of match book covers & bits of paper so you'll have to excuse my tardiness in posting the setlist but it took me a couple of days just to decipher my own scrawlings! Oct.4 '03 SET 1 *cubano chant *aja *time outta mind *godwhacker *caves of altamira *black cow *babylon sisters *daddy dont live in nyc *peg *home at last SET 2 *steely dan show *janie run away *hey 19 *haitian divorce *lunch with gina *everything must go *parkers band *josie(with drum solo) *kid charlemagne *dont take me alive & 2 encores *my old school *fm *new drummer KC sounds great but lets not knock solid guys like Erskine & Chambers though, please! They're all great! Just be happy that they toured again for Chrissakes User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 6 Message: Top Ten excuses SteveeDan gave his spouse upon returning home at 3 AM Friday morning after the Steely Dan show: 10 - Donald needed to learn piano chords to Dr. Wu 9 - Discussing sexual dysfunction with underage daughters of Steely Dan moms waiting backstage for D&W 8 - sneaking onstage to carve out a sliver of the True Fender Rhodes for Smithsonian 7 - Giving piggy back rides to ladies from Amphitheatre entrance to Preferred Parking area 6 - trying to unload that master tape of AJA for a decent price 5 - giving Cindi Mizell a yoga lesson on relaxation in the limo hot tub. 4 - going over Hall & Oates dance moves with Jon Herington 3 - dragging drummer Paul Goldberg from SD roadie bus to ensure his appearance at next Pretzel Logic gig on October 22nd at Hermosa Beach. 2 - holding Rajah's hand in men's room as he sobs out the lyrics to Pixeleen 1 - had difficulty retrieving his ultra-slim digital camera from his ass crack User: torture taping
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| Day: 6 Message: top ten things you wish they'd do to you when caught recording illict Dan shows 11) send out the bookkeepers son - a disgruntled roadie from Oregon ~ gimt ~ User: On the lack of everything must gogo boots
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| Day: 6 Message: A few facts and figures: timg User: If Ogden Nash were alive today...
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| Day: 6 Message: User: SteveeDan (wanted to change the name for this post ... but didn't)
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| Day: 6 Message: Correction: ... that's ... www.sleazyDong.com ... OH !!! (Think ... Sam Kinison.) User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 6 Message: Stevee - great, are you going to post the pics on "SkeveeDan.com"? User: SteveeDan
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| Day: 6 Message: Oh Yeah. ... User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 6 Message: SteveeDan - It's time to fess up buddy, now you're gonna tell us everything you did last Thursday after the show. It's OK Steve, so you appeared to be in flagrante with a certain lady from the midriff section in the limo hot tub, hey, the wife will understand -- this is California. Got pictures? User: 2003 Tour DVD - aloha
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| Day: 6 Message: top ten reasons to film the 03 proceedings 11) Cornelius can tell those dudes under the overpass that he's "home at last" gimt User: duncan
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| Day: 6 Message: Thanks Wormy & AGNG tour over...almost you can imagine how that makes me feel, knowing the show i had Earmarked to go to was the 2nd roseland show. still could be worse User: SteveeDan - just getting caught up
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| Day: 5 Message: The Everything Must Go songbook is out. I got the phonecall from my local sheetmusic store and picked it up on Friday. Howard's guesstimation of the book is correct, but, piano voicings offer enough to fill in the blanks ... for those of us who like to do that sort of thing. Hal Leonard is the publisher. Contact your local music stores, or Hal Leonard's website. You want it, ... you got it. Almost Gothic Negative Girl mentioned that she felt fortunate to hear 5 tunes from EMG on this tour. I started to take up that same assessment and I came up with 7. The two that I didn't hear, I don't think were ever played ... Pixeleen and Greenbook. Wormy - nice job ... that blue strat that Walter plays is a Saddowsky custom guitar. And as for Herington's demeanor ... he is not bored nor unhappy. From very close up he appears to be amused by the work he has to do to fill that chair up on stage. He just isn't a very demonstrative smiler. Someone wanted the chords in the chorus of "What A Shame About Me" from Two Against Nature. There is a songbook for this available. If you are still around these parts and need help with that song, leave a post for me here and I will help you out ... to some extent. Rajah Of Erase - you could be the King of the world ... but what do I know? There is so much more to the story of Thursday night's Universal Amphitheater concert ... but, I'm too tired to post it now ... stay tuned. But, after the tour is over, and the concert stories start to peter out, (how pathetic is that? ... a petered out Steely Dan ...) I will post the saga of SteveeDan and drummer Paul. It will remind many of you of your fast and loose college days ... whenever they were. Clas - We've made some progress on the mixing of the tracks we will be sending you for the compilation CD. It shouldn't be too much longer. Someone I know (who, after you read this paragraph, probably would NOT want to be named) pointed something out to me ... in Godwhacker, at approximately 4:40 (this is where the song has begun to fade out) there is a sound that really sounds like a fart ! I think it's the Fender Rhodes electric piano, but, you know what? ... it DOES sound like a fart. Coolest sounding fart on record. Godwhacker's on the gas ... User: nostatic
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| Day: 5 Message: So did Herington seem loose Saturday? I swear that at Thursday night's show he was one unhappy camper...never a smile, and I remember seeing him standing in the wings waiting for the 2nd set to start...the look on his face was "come on guys, I've got places to do and things to see..." User: angel
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| Day: 5 Message: Wormy!!!! Great stuff. Almost Gothic: Same to you. Great review. I am so sad that this tour is basically over....sigh User: luckless pedestrian
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| Day: 5 Message: hey wormy - thanks for the colour J de Siecle - i completely agree, as in, yeah, what he said! User: late worm gets the bird
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| Day: 5 Message: arrived back from two weeks out west friday, caught Randy Newman in the Big Easy saturday, and following is yet another long diatribe on the dan tour year of our lord two thousand and three sorry don't have time for a short concise note, typing as fast as it comes out, so scroll past if your bored with the details arrived in Albuquerque on Monday evening - caught friend at airport, tuesday vinyl shops in University area and San Dia peak from the back of the mountain drive. back to hotel for showers and off to the show the thursday before on a whim I lucked out and upgraded to 3rd row seats (right in front of walter) so I had to sell my overpriced 7th row seats - not a bad seat in the place. managed to take a 40 dollar loss early enough to have a look around. we played abbot and costello to the cute GM gal for the dan visors, should be able to remove the GM lettering with a good black permanent marker. went down to check out our seats - fantastic, and they only let the first 15 rows in from two side entrances (no seat crashers - nice touch. briefly caught Walt checking out his equipment - a hello walt was greated with a nice nod and upward wave of the hand then back to business. setup my recorder in the bathroom (an Olympus for business meetings with an AudioTechnica external mic failed miserably - but I felt like an fbi informant on the chase). caught a nice n.mexico sunset complete with vapor trails above the bleak terrain. stopped off for the timtm t-shirt, will score an aja one on ebay, gal gave me $5 too many back and was astounded when I returned it to her the venue - sandia casino amplitheatre was a 5,000 seat arena with close seating everywhere. the crowd was very enthusiastic - many navajo indians from the local area, I enjoyed taking in the show with them. we were down in our seats when I recognized Peg from Steely Dammed and went over and chatted with her and her sister becki (who lives in N.M.) Great running into both of you gals. the show started with the traditional cuban intro ET fashion report - basic black was donned by baker, carlock, the gals, bottom line Barney and Weiskopf. Cornelius was in light pastel orange and brown top, Micheal wore the same Indian Shiva t-shirt from when I saw him three years ago and a belt buckle off centered that read 'slow' (what a studly come-on girls), Jon sported unassuming brown cords and a tan long sleeve shirt, pugh white shirt open over t. Walt and Don entered - walt in jeans, navy button down, black casual sportjacket and New Balances. Don wore a white short sleeve button down over a light blue shirt (for the first set anyway). Aja started in fully immersed yet funky and slowed down progression to the point of an anticipated tension. Early highlights of Ted Baker's ivories, weiskopfs straining sax and Keith's "I own this one" exploitive drumming (steve Who?). Time Out of Mind sounded stiffled starting out but soon asserted itself (Barney was way too high in the mix over the first three numbers). Don seemed much more enthusiastic and at ease with the crowd, mentioned what a wild place albuquerque was and that his roadies were all showing up with odd red horns adorning their heads. then he mentioned they'd be playing music from the deep 70s and some new stuff - launch into godwacker. Baker played rhoads up front when don grapped his melodica. The horns in Caves of Altimira were there in perfection, Black Cow was engaging with Barney's botton end and Bakers piano added the perfect touch, enjoyed the gal choirs all thumbs to "take your big black cow and get out of here". Babylon sisters was tight - Donald's voice was well within range and a little more hellbent on the snarling edge. Don introduces his partner of 30 years and surprise, walt is doing Daddy Don't Live and not Slang - repeat of 2000 - I love how nervous he becomes, nearly naked and uncomfortable behind his strat when singing - can he sing and play at once? doesn't appear to want to try. Walt handles the band intros with great finesse and all are greeted rather enthusiastically. Fun moment of the night comes with the comments on the odd bugs which keep divebombing the stage. DOn had been hit several times by them (they were moths) - and even changed to luciferian black t and red shirt after the break to avoid the constant insectual attack. Peg a number I loathed last time out was hitting on all cylinders with a superb Herrington solo and great band attack. Bumpus' sax solo and Bakers piano work on Home at Last were beyond reproach, what a way to send off the first set... second set opened with the Steely Dan Show - the vendor merchandise slants were great sarcastic fun and not lost on this audience. Janie Runaway was another vehicle for TOm Barney's steady and funky bottom end and the stop on a dime transition to Hey 19 was fabulous - a great moment nearly as memorable as Michael's muted horn to walt's guitar switch in the first set). Walt again got the nod for Hiatian Divorce - loved the tv screen 50's images and Herrington's wah wah pedal guitar work. Lunch with Gina truly rocked and was well met by the crowd - (your faithful narrator couldn't keep still in his seat on that one, loved the red hell images at the end). Everything Must Go was huge - Weiskopf was incredible (must buy some of his studio albums). Parker's Band was an unfortunate lapse in the show, no way near Dirty Work's lofty perfection from the 2000 choir. Josie's drum theatrics were well met, Jon's guitar work captured the essence of Kid Charlemagne although I would have gladly welcomed something less played from the old cannon pre scam instead. Don't Take Me Alive was fully rendered and sent the crowd into a frenzy. Only one encore - Fm - but really enjoyed Don's Rhoades intro (I swear Baker wasn't playing along). individual comments - although I would have loved to hear Walt play some bass on this tour, Tom Barney has the bottom end chair for as long as he wants it - his slight funking up of Walt's original lines is the perfect bottom end for the dan contingent. Wesikopf was every bit as engaging as Potter or Shepard (two stalwarts) and Cornelius' moments - less frequent were more than memorable. Micheal's horn work was just left of restriant - he has the swagger for it, Jim Pugh gets the "unassuming yet vital" award. WHAT A HORN SECTION!!! Ted Baker's work was very tasty - I would have loved more quiet interludes where his piano could dominate the proceedings. He sure has put on a lot of weight since I last saw him, I'd say he's gained nearly double the 30 lbs I've lost recently, got to love success. Jon Herrington is the perfect accomplise to Walt - playing tasty chords in accompaniment or ripping his own signature on already established signature guitar licks. His unassuming and upbeat nature is a fresh contrast to others who have taken that role. Carlock is fabulous, very steady and his fills are engaging. He needs to tune his snare just a hair less sharp and move those cymbals out to the side so he can directly engage the audience. The band's second drummer - Cynthia Calhoun was quite the cheerleader, Carolyn appeared less ice queen and more goddess this time out, and newcomer Cindy had a genuine stage presence that was uplifting. The ladies singing was impeccable, I so much wanted to hear it layered with Walter on Slang, but alas, no. Speaker of Walt - he only played the light blue strat - his bluesy licks tight and his confidence increases each tour. Don was much more relaxed this time out, although a bit geriatric in posture. He appeared to be sincerely enjoying the adoration, played much more intently and sang his heart out for an ever receptive crowd quite the night wormy User: almost gothic negative girl
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| Day: 5 Message: Just got in the door from Concord. Woohoo! Last night was absolutely effing fantastic! Had the best time. I'm still pretty much untethered, but here's some random thoughts now, 'cause I might not come down for days! The band was exhuberant and slightly silly at times, in a good way, with almost a "cast party" kind of atmosphere. They were loose when the time was right, and tightened right up when it was called for. They came to play and to celebrate their successful tour. They awarded Cornelius B. the much-touted, highly-coveted Bunsen award, with everyone, except Don, donning (haha!) white T-shirts with a big picture of CB on the front, and declared it Cornelius Bumpus night. CB hails from Santa Cruz, CA, about 1 1/2 hours south of the Concord Pavillion. Anyway, it was a night of pranks, and this one was very cool. I arrived alone at about 8 pm, grabbed a cocktail, and found my way to my seat. My husband had to work, and my friend who was supposed to meet me there, got very ill yesterday afternoon and had to cancel at the last minute (boy did she MISS OUT!), and her ticket was in Santa Cruz (coincidence? I think not..) which was too far out of my way to pick up with such short notice. So I had two seats, same price as lawn (don't know how, but I really scored on that one, and through TicketBastard no less...) in the last row of seats before the lawn, on the aisle, and they were perfect for dancing. The sound was interesting there. It was clear and bright, but there was a definite delay thing going on, (maybe because of the tin roof over the closer seats?) noticed specifically with Fagen's vocals. He would finish singing, shut his mouth, yet it was still just reaching us in the cheap seats. He was also changing up his delivery, hesitating on purpose, then dragging the lyrics out and sustaining the notes for a long time. Never seen him do this before. It was entertaining, although it seemed a little overdone because it was repeated for the first few songs. Seemed like he quit doing it part way through the first set. For the most part, the people in the back half of the seats, and on the lawn, were nearly comatose during the first set. (I hope this changed by the second set...) I was making some appropriate noise, and dancing, and one or two others were too, but most didn't stand when Don and Walt came out, wouldn't get up for a Standing O on any of the songs, and weren't even head bobbing, let alone chair dancing. Good grief, is this the Prozac generation? Really dissappointing. I could see that the people in the pit were going wild, and the band was feeding off of it, so I made sure I was closer to the action for the second set. I made my way down to the 100's near the end of the break, found an unoccupied seat, in the back row on the aisle; another exceptional spot for dancing. When the second set started, I was joined by two men who had discovered the danceability of this area during the first set. We shared the large area, grooved, didn't block any views, and were never harassed by ushers. Sightlines were wonderful, sound was even better, dancing company was great; hell, it was perfect. The best part came when I yelled out Lunch with Gina, and the band went right into it. When it ended, I took a chance and shouted Everyhting Must Go, and they went right into it, too ; ) Damn, hearing those two songs made my summer! Add in the Paso Robles and Tahoe shows, and I was lucky enough to hear Blue's Beach, Godwhacker, and Slang of Ages, for a total of five off the new album. Damn, that made my whole year! I thought that Ted Baker was much more prominent in last night's show than the other two. I thought the ladies really had it together last night. At PR and Tahoe, their antics were overkill, a bit too precious, with too much waving, too much goofiness, basically workin' it too hard, and I personally found it a distraction. In Concord, it became obvious that they found their true groove somewhere along the way. They were less busy, and much more in synch, but with individual personalities shining through. They were really a distict pleasure this time around. Carolyn's got some dancing hands during the shake-it-baby's that were downright mesmerizing. Loved Cindy Mizelle's brief interplay with Don on Time Out of Mind. She got a chance to show her stuff again (she took a real solo which showed off her pipes during intros at PR). Cynthia just exudes happiness and beautiful energy. The three of them have really developed as a group over the last three months. Wow, that was weird, because here I am online (or so I thought) and my phone rang (with only one line, it shouldn't have), and it was Al Gore (via the wonders of tape and autodial), urging me to vote no on the California Recall. Sorry, too late Al, already sent in my absentee ballot. Anyway, need to copy this, and reconnect to the internet, and post it before I lose it. Hey, didn't Al Gore invent the internet? Ha! Weird wild stuff! Later ~ linda User: Sliding down the ladder with Mr. Hidey-Ho Face...
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| Day: 5 Message: Arnold's Enron Secret http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16902 User: Missy Fixed
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| Day: 5 Message: Youv'e got mail. XOXO Missy Finally Fixed PS. I am still behaving as well and plan to continue behaving. User: button of the week:
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| Day: 5 Message: I used to care User: N
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| Day: 5 Message: Looking for hip, smart, 30+, New York City-based Dan fan to hang around with. User: Laina
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| Day: 5 Message: J de Siecle: "Jimbo - I bet if Don & Walt said they'd french-kiss on stage during the Grammies on live TV, the nomination would be a shoe-in!!" This occurring would be another sign of the endtimes. Lainalove User: almost gothic negative girl
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| Day: 4 Message: Ready for round three. Ding! There's the bell ; ) Leaving for Concord in about an hour or so. Spending the night, so I won't be reporting in until tomorrow. Man, life has been pretty darn hard lately. I really am looking forward to seeing Mr. Steely Dan and whatevah, tonite-tah! See some of you freaks at the Pavillion. My girlfriend and I are sitting in the very last row, center section, aisle. Same price as lawn. Hopefully we can dance there, if not, we will probably move back to the lawn. Gotta shake it to these guys, no question about it. Would love to get Gina and Everything, but I'll settle for one of them, if I must. Being the last mainland show, getting both of them is of course a possibility. You guys listening? LWG and EMG!!! Pretty please? Danks! linda User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 4 Message: Hey Concord people - get us some news tonight woncha please? Saw my boys & girls Doctor(s) Wu last night out in the valley. Sound problems, new people problems, Boyd expecting a baby, new tunes, result: chaos generally, the Rajah does not lie, but guess what? These freakin songs are so good even unatural disaster can't fuck them up. Poised as we are here at the cusp of another period of emptiness, as another Void of Dan approaches my pidgeons, we turn for succor to the tribute band. I hate that term for various unspecified reasons but the strength of any SD tribute band at this juncture are the tunes never or seldom played by Don & Walt. For that, I will get up off the couch. So King of the World and Dr. Wu and Bad Sneakers become sweet treats and as rendered by the WOOers, did not disappoint. They also gave us a surprise version of the Tower of Power classic, "What is Hip?" which killed. Bassist and horn players in the kitchen and our vocalist peppered the concoction with the musical question. Needless to say, mi likee. User: nostatic
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| Day: 4 Message: The great thing about great music is that the meaning changes depending on the accumulated experiences of the listener, and the context of the listening. I'll have to ponder the deeper meaning of Pixeleen, but EMG really changed for me. Upon first reading the lyrics, I agreed with much of the analysis concerning corporate greed, etc. BUT, after seeing them play it live, towards the end of a fantastic tour, I found it to mean something totally different. On Thursday night, the song was about the transitory nature of music and life. Both are journeys, and certain parts of the trip have a beginning, middle, and end. EMG for me was about the end of a journey. Now whenever I hear the recording, I will likely reflect back to 13 musicians gathering to make astonishingly good music, then moving on to the next "deal." A moment frozen in time but never able to be truly captured, only experienced. As for the banyan woodwork, I think it has been 3 years or so. Sorry for the gaps. Reminds me of some other pair of pranksters... User: DACW
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| Day: 4 Message: Stevie: besides NPR, I don't listen to the major airwaves...what I mean is that for a "legitimate artist" and someone who's an actual musician, this album stoops down to the Madonna and Britney level...even more tuneless if that's possible...the Razor Boy's gonna come and take his fancy Jaguars away...my daughter listen lately to not only my CDs but sometimes the country music stations, and the pathetic thing about it is that , although the production is often predictable, the musicianship and songwriting are superior to today's pop...I hear some clever chord changes occasionally as well... ...that's why we need an infusion of a perfect pop song...and that is Pixeleen StAl: For those of you imagining that your rights are shrinking, that's an illusory political football. Enforcing anything under the Patriot Act requires a court order just like anything in the search and seizure area - and the truth is IT'S NEVER BEEN USED... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2136452 which feeds into my argument that we haven't been nearly tough enough at home and our borders...I mean ABC smuggled uranium into the country easily User: free money for steviedan
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| Day: 3 Message: our gig tonight was cancelled, due to one of the party-throwers having a mild heart episode. the guy is okay from what i hear, but they felt so bad about us pre-empting our regular thang to do their thang and it not happening, they're paying us anyway... so i actually got paid to watch tonight's excellent blues installment. only criticism: neither john mayall, eric clapton, peter green, or steve winwood performed a note, although they were all quite well-spoken. the whole abbey road session with van morrison, jeff beck, tom jones, et al was excellent and albert lee is always a pleasure. again, a real no-bullshit evening. snakes and jimbo, i'm glad you guys are partaking. jimbo, i totally concur on tuesday night with the bobby rush sojourn but man, for me wednesday was "little house on the delta". i felt the actual blues content was really secondary. very troubling when i still haven't seen any albert collins yet... and what a great day for the color ! raj proves again to be first rate purveyor, nostatic out of the banyan-woodwork, herm taking the trouble to bring second-hand color, and this so-called "count of crisco" grease- master blaise with his good. where ya been so long ?!?! tonight i was also paid to watch the a&e special on the making of the new sting. now good dr., i know this is not the strongest mr sumner has offered, but as for the "worst piece of shit i have ever heard" ??? no live drummer really does suck, considering the normal expectations, but i don't know what you normally hear over the airwaves in texas but... as far as "the worst piece", compared to what else is out there in the pop world ??? i heard a couple of at-least-up-to-standard sting tunes, anyway... w1p, in my opinion, yes is not a cheesy show. i just picked up the remastered (2nd remaster, BASTARDS !) of "close to the edge" tonight (and again, i was paid to do so). now journey and cheap trick, that is cheese PRODUCT, not even rising to the level of REAL cheese. but yes is another story and you cats should be HONORED to share the stage with them... User: J de Siecle
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| Day: 3 Message: Jimbo - I bet if Don & Walt said they'd french-kiss on stage during the Grammies on live TV, the nomination would be a shoe-in!! User: J de Siecle
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: cult, et al re: pixeleen.... i'd like to add my 2 cents since this is my current candidate for most brilliantly comic SD composition. I have been listening to it over and again and each time loving it more, and the punch lines still make me smile. The most brilliant part is that it's not just a two or even three-voice lyric dialogue, but utterly multi-layered, with each chorus morphing into a new iteration as the story is pitched to the various producers/financiers... and the carolyn 'freddy cut to the chase...everything about me ... " etc part is, I believe, the sought-after lead actress' comments to the pitch-meister, to make sure character reflects her own self-vision. anyway, I could exegesize it forever but that would be silly because the work speaks for itself so perfectly. Also, is Pixeleen giving anyone else flashbacks to the Altman movie The Player in its cynical take on the storyline pitch process? But with Buffy/Alias thrown into the mix? (the 'girl in girly trouble') And isn't it amazing that this one song could so sharply render all of these things, humorously, no less? It's called poetry. Spelled P O E T R Y. Our boys still rule. User: Jimbo
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| Day: 3 Message: Great reading the reviews of the recent Dan concerts. Here's hoping the Cd still sells as well as get a few Grammy nominations just to piss off Britney, Justin and these tired kids. StevieDan-Can't wait to hear your lastest take on tonights episode of the Blues. I missed the first half hour of it because I was driving home from work, but I caught Mr. Tom Jones throwing down along with Van Morrison and Lulu? Lulu of all people. Heck, who'd thought that Lulu had a thing for the blues and she was quite good. For the record, I did like Wednesday's episode. The purpose was to connect the blues and spirtuals in a way that creates the tension for the storyline about the boy who was sent to his religious uncle to be saved and instead his other uncle, a blues afficianado who was the opposite showed him what the blues was all about. Now, I did enjoy tuesday's show especially the Bobby Rush segments. Well, waiting to hear from you. User: Rajah of Erase
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Cult of Cristano - your Pixeleen analysis: nice example of how looking at the musical structure of a tune that deviates some from expected format can inform an otherwise difficult lyric. And illuminates how intertwined and dependant on the other word and note need to be to create a song's integrity, its wholeness. Especially important when tinkering with structure. So their decision not to rehearse or perform Pixeleen is understandable from the point of view of their tour workload. Plenty of tough numbers to pull off this time...I was gonna list the tough numbers but looking at the setlist, shit, they're pretty much all tough except Daddy, Hey 19, Parker's. Adding Pixeleen this time would have been too much. User: Sociable Hermit
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Hey All, Don't know how many of you saw this, but when I saw it, I thought of you. Later, Concert Review: Steely Dan By John Lappen LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A mere three years after their Grammy-winning triumph of "Two Against Nature," a megasecond in the lifetime of a band that virtually ignored the call of the live stage in the '70s and '80s, Steely Dan (news - web sites) has returned with both a vivacious new album ("Everything Must Go" on Reprise Records) and another tour. Both are bringing down the house; the album receiving ecstatic reviews and the tour sold-out wherever they pop up. User: W1P
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| Day: 3 Message: How hold is Carlock? User: angel
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Blaise: Funny you should bring up the tempo change songs. I was watching Carlock all through Time out of Mind, to see how he handled that one. It amazes me how effortless he makes it seem. Pixeleen - Yes, I agree with you that the time changes are deliberate and add to the story line itself, in subtile ways. I didn't see it before, but can see where you are heading with that analysis. Falling apart at the end, though according to the duo, it happened by chance, still does add to the overall feel, too. Great song. User: angel
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Reaching my posting limit of the day. Outtakes Volume II is now up on the Official Dan Page tour pictures. Love the comment about "I don't care who he is..." User: nostatic
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: and last night's show: show biz kids with the shade on the light This is a funny town. Crowds in LA are probably the toughest in the country (maybe the world). They've seen it all, and have lots of choices of things to do. As a result, concerts can be odd events. I was able to have a pretty direct comparison between Steely Dan playing last Friday down in San Diego (outdoor amphiteater), and last night in Los Angeles (indoor Amphitehater). Exact same set list exact for "Everything Must Go" (played last night..an ode to the end of the tour I think) for "The Last Mall." home at last It's funny because I listened to the first 5 SD albums over and over again during my "lost years." They were a large part of my salve for wounds real and imagined. At certain points, I wasn't sure if I'd ever live to hear the songs again, let alone see them played live. I've been lucky enough to see SD now on 4 different tours ('93 at the Greek in LA, '94 at Mountain View in the Bay Area, '00 at Coors Amphitheater in San Diego, and '03 at Coors and Universal Amphitheater in LA). Given all the things going on in my life right now, these past two shows really stuck a chord (pun intended). There is much work to be done, and I don't know where I'll end up, or who I'll end up being. But I can say that I have heros, human though they may be. Thanks Don and Walt, for writing the tunes I wish I had, and setting the bar so damn high. Now I've just got to jump. User: nostatic
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| Day: 3 Message: some comments from my blog (actually the one at simpleflower.com, along with nostatic.fm): Dan elation User: Spike's Moll
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| Day: 3 Message: Hey everyone! Hope is all well down your way. User: Ric o Carty
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| Day: 3 Message: Good revioew, but... "drummer Ted Baker"?? All I can say is OUCH User: angel
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: For those who don't mix colors. A review of the Wednesday Concert in LA. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reviewsNews&storyID=3551743 User: W1P
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: C -- The base instrumental track has been committed to tape -- a second session has yet to be scheduled to try to perpetrate a fraud with the vocals -- a time consuming process. After two nights of the Dan @ Universal, tonight on Universal City Walk a considerable step down from the Ampitheater to BB King's which will play host to Fallout -- a Police tribute -- and Which One's Pink? And speaking of Coup eh day graws, tomorrow @ The Verizon Ampitheater in Irvine Which One's Pink? will share the bill with Yes, Cheap Trick, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Journey and Led Zepagain at Arrowfest 2003. Yeah, a cheesy concert, but we're a tribute band so we are excited. User: Rajah of Erase
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Calling SteveeDan: I think I saw you as I was pulling out of the Universal parking lot last night but I'm not sure. Was that you in the back of that jacuzzi-limo with Cindi Mizell? I'm tellin your old lady. User: Beerberian
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| Day: 3 Message: Howard; Can we tempt you up the M1 on Nov 7th ?? User: sh
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| Day: 3 Message: sh User: DACW
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| Day: 3 Message: Stevie: too subtle, eh? I think the Randy Newman song is applicable for certain Puck!! I had forgotten about the Hurricane...bad choice of a moniker - the last few years are prrof - never taunt mother nature User: Beerberian
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Ms Calhoun just posted on the blue book ... User: CCR
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Is tape trading a dying craft, StAl? I've looked around but haven't found any grey recordings from this last tour. That is none at all, when in 2000, there were several available. User: Howard
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Clas - I've done some work on the EMG tracks, but very little on Pixelene. Lunch With Gina and Godwhacker are the ones that got my attention most - have figured out most of the changes, and hope to get something added for one of these to my site (I am way behind on updates there!). Also figured out some of Last Mall, Green Book, EMG. Howard P.S So, no WMD found in Iraq yet after many thousands of man-months searching. But they did find a bad photocopy of a fax of a sketch of a missile with "put the nasty stuff in here" scribbled on it, so I guess that counts as a weapons program... User: Cult of Cristiano Ronaldo - Substitute Exfraordinaire
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Pixeleen, Clas. Sure, I thought about that one. It certainly struck my fancy. I ain't no Howard and this is just a few random notes but here goes: Notice how the solo sax appears to wail short all the time, both in the opening and in the proper solo section. It is not the amount of measures one is used to hearing. So there's an instance right there of fucking with the listener's expectations as formerly in-formed through years of exposure to the format. This is purosely done. They like to do that sort of subtle wavering and they're good at it, the best. "Flashback to cool summer nights..." is a key change bridge, marking a clear seizure from the prior and post. And much like "In the cool of the evening...", it opens up a little short-lived universe of it's own, like for one night away form the usual mood. Then, "this is what I see..." and we just got to another bridge of sorts, of the pre-chorus kind, feeling more like an exit ramp back to highway Pixeleen. Let's pull up our pants and segue to the Chorus once more. It's truly wild and wiggy in structure, that one. The impression of collapse at the very end, like one is fainting away (dying after dueting with the ultrateen, passing the vocal torch? Meanwhile not being able to sustain the tempo, after having taken a last go at the chorus?) when it slows down suggest that this is loosely frame in terms of Time too, much like Time Out of Mind, I got The News. I would get Howard to perform a tempo check on that song. There's always a song that's particularly offbeat, in every sense of the word. He hits the high notes, he sings with the kids an upbeat number, he takes the exit ramp to one last Chorus, nails it with desperation but can't quite keep it up and collapses in funeral colors, just in the process of promising more. Darn. User: C - Again
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| Day: 3 Message: Howard, have you done some autopsy on any of the EMG-songs? I am curious about Pixelene. User: C @ W
| Month: 9
| Day: 3 Message: Hi you all! W1P? - where's your song man? Stevee - and where are yours? Schwinn is in, soon. So are Roy Scam. And Nigey Lennon & Gina. I have received CD's from K Vogel, FlaDave and Gaucho... Find my snailmail address at: http://www.ateljelundkvist.se/z/sketchesandstrangeloops Coming up next on Dr. Fill; how you do when you buy stamps and envelopes... stay tuned. --- Great review Rajah. User: Rajah of Erase
| Month: 9
| Day: 2 Message: Just returned from Universal show #2. We were a party of less than 10 hardcore Dan revelers, all the stalwarts. Tonight I was house left in front of Herington and the brass. Not quite a full house to the rafters as last night but spirited nonetheless. Not as many Standing Os. Weiskopf in stocking feet. The girls all in black, glitzy tonight with shimmery things. Carolyn in basically a black bikini halter. Mazzuza to protect her from the cupidinous ones. As predicted by the all-seeing one (that would be me) EMG was played and Gina was dropped. Not as ornate a rendering as the album but WAAY impressive from Mr. Weiskopf who takes off, not counting the flourish intro, a verse unto itself, really, at three times during the piece. Donald remarked afterward that it was not a particularly happy song, certainly true. AJA - Donald is totally behind the old beat and pausing on, "there's nooo re ....[beat][pause] turn", "or sooo they... [beat][pause] say", "they jussss don't...[beat][pause] care". Great, just great choices here, he does that throughout. he's reinterpreting in the best tradition of jazz. Hooray Donald skipped dimensions and got his groove back. Standing O. TOOM - Donald puts his right arm behind the small of his back when standing and singing not only this but other tunes when standing. He either has back problems or the posture somehow opens his pipes up by stretching them back, try it. Donald lifts chin to heavens when reaching up, I think it's a mechanical device that helps somehow. Or, as I said, the lumbago. Godwhacker - Doesn't miss, but a small notch down from last night in energy. Caves - Horns own the house. Perfect little jewel. Black Cow - has become a crowd pleaser, so funny when gals give the heave-ho with the thumbs on "get outta here". I still think a Donald version of "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles should be spliced in or tacked on. He's ripping off his body language anyway. He da limit. Standing O. Babylon - "Drive west on Sunset" big yowls from the living in the audience. Daddy - People got beers. Walt an inspiration to the rangeless. Again, very stayed in the intros save for the affirmation of Donald as "great scrabble player" along with raconteur, man about town, etc. Peg - My Peg, wouldn't trade her for the world. Play it at my funeral. Home at Last - Donald again stretching out beyond, "..I guess that I'm the ...lucky one" "calm be... fore the storm" "heard this one be...fore" etc. Love it Donald, when does the cover of "I've Got You Under My Skin" hit the shelves, I'm buyin. Frank now heard to be seriously worried up there, no, down there. SD Show - folks like it, they like the lyrics projected karaoke style. This crowd was NOT heavily attended by the first night repeaters. Last night was the glitzy LA crowd, not tonight. A third of the limos waiting in preferred parking. Janie- Hey 19 - OK, I screamed Retha Franklin as loud as I could, I think I was the lead asshole --imagine that. I feel I really helped Don on this song. Standing O. (I'm not taking all the credit, mind) Haitian D - Herington always comes close during the wah-wah, so very close, he's great at cleek & scratch. Didn't Dean Parks lay down this solo on record? Why he dosen't help out on this I can't figure. No Dean tonight. EMG - as noted above. Parker - Carlock is subtle on this song. He's not shaking and rolling; he keeps a semi-stiff clean beat. It's like an aural illusion. His left hand, holding the stick in the classic jazz configuration is a breath of fresh air for a rock drummer, which, of course, he's not really but CAN play one on TV, as evidenced by this tour. Josie - What is there left to say about Keith here? Special. Strong confident and fresh as always. Ya think it helps to be 25 and on the classist and most envied gig for an American musician these days? I thought you would. Kid C - the better of the two nights, so tight, nobody seems to be thinking at all. Standing O. DTMA - Crowd is singing hard, everybody has moved down and packed the orchestra seats, it feel intimate now. Standing O. MOS - Everybody on their feet. FM - Yes great but please stop torturing me boys. Thanks to SteveeDan and drummer Paul. We acted like teenagers and crashed a pre-party thrown by American Airlines. They were good for beer and eggrolls. Grazie. User: this just in....
| Month: 9
| Day: 2 Message: just confirmed: rush be trippin' hockey is roller derby on ice with sticks but no hot butch babes that could kick your ass and finally ahhhaud is clearly undersexed or a virgin. stay tuned User: steviedannish man
| Month: 9
| Day: 2 Message: if anyone cares and i'm not sure if anyone does, i am changing my summation of the pbs blues series from "hit and miss" to "feast or faminine". maybe that's just a slight semantic difference, but tonight's film was a five-course, five-star delight. marshall chess (son of chess records founder leonard) and chuck d of public enemy joined to reminisce about the years of the classic chess label and to reassemble the band from muddy water's controversial "electric mud" album, an album that was influential on chuck d. this, all interspersed with excellent footage from the chicago blues scene and festival (koko taylor, otis rush, magic slim, paul butterfield, lonnie brooks). LOTS of music, quality reminiscences by people who count and were there. real musicians and absolutely no bullshit. "blacks and jews equal blues" was one of the evening's catch lines. i'm sorry if you missed it. pbs followed it with a very good mini-feature on hendrix which was appropo. tomorrow night will focus on the blues influence on brits like clapton/cream, the stones (marshall chess ran their label for seven years), eric burdon, etc. looks promising, but it won't beat tonight's i'm sure... mu, thanks for that detailed sting review ! i'm still not sure i get your drift... hey, you forgot our fabulous hawk-ey team here, eh. yeah, along with the traffic the yankees had to bring THAT shit with 'em. it's REALLY GOING OVER WELL, you know. as in tax dollars going down the glacial plain to oblivion. i stand by my prediction that it won't be here five years from now... User: SCI for St Al
| Month: 9
| Day: 2 Message: PINK FLOYD ICON FLIES AGAIN The pig took flight during a set by the String Cheese Incident. The inflatable, believed to be from Floyd's 1988 tour of "A Momentary "Everybody thought I was nuts -- the band, my partners," Luba says. But Nga Keith of Bluebonnet Cut & Sew in Austin thought otherwise. "At first I wasn't sure I could fix it," said Keith, a 49-year-old Eventually she was able to match the acrylic fabric of the inflatable Inflatable pigs first entered Floyd lore with the cover of 1977's User: Ahhnaud
| Month: 9
| Day: 2 Message: Rajah: Let me tell you something. First, I like my ladies natural. I used ta hang out at Venice Beach. ...and I'd see a buff woman dat I could get bad with, you see. I'd ask her "can I carry you over the hot sand?" and I'd put her up on my shoulders and jog - a little test drive you know for 100 feet. If they bounced right...no silicone you know, and we'd leave for dessert, you know what I mean? Dumb luck, dumb love, just suck me in antyime I'm telling you! I'm telling you, I liked them BAD too. Spankings - oh yes. I dug that. I had this little leather SS suit my Fathah gave me as a child. The usually would fit just right on a lady...and I had this little whip...I saw the fireworks and the ladies came out screaming and anothah thing - I went to all those Hollywood Parties. Sometimes I'd come with a shade on my head, A Steely Dan t-shirt, size XXX, and the Razor Boy...bad or high heel sneakers, leather poncho, celluloid bikers, whatevah. Sausage, beer, retsina, hearty gulping wine. Let me tell you, I don't have total recall of some of those nights...but many of those mornings there were two or three Babylon sisters 969 and me, you know what I mean? Yes, twins! Safe sex? Always, but there was this one time a trapeze artist from Russia and me were doin the business and we end up on some paranymphic glider about 400 feet in the air...and there was this time you know I think it was Stevie Nicks...she made me talk in dis British accent and use the old Steely Dan...well it was de rainy season, we were up on the hill in my new pad and got caught in this landslide...she said Don't Stop as we slide on down, but the Steely Dan shorted out!! Let me tell you that was a big mess...almost as big as the one in Sacramento! ...and let me tell you another thing my friend. I would never let the big dog roam with a lady in the kind of poor shape Miss Lewinski was in...No, no, she'd have to pump Waaaaaaaayyyy up! That's why Jack Kennedy was my hero - Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, a think he might have even danced the famous merango with Tuesday Weld. You don't think i joined the family for nothing do you. I mean lok at Maria...of course now those days are over, and I'm givin' it to Maria like a black stallion every night... Am I copping a plea on copping some feel? sure, I just loved to pump up those ladies...and they thanked me, let me tell you! User: W1P
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| Day: 2 Message: Last night was wonderful. Horn section was crack. Rhythm section ruled. I continue to be not all that impressed by JH. No doubt he's good but a good many solos just don't sound right. Walt's solos, on the other hand were consistently great. And Thank GOD for Dean Parks. I thought Josie was way slow and sludgey. Everything else was very snappy. Bought an Aja T for my daughter -- she's loving it. User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 2 Message: Ahhnaud- Have you ever had group sex to a Steely Dan album, or rather, when was the last time and which album. And most importantly, did you do it without your Fez on? Left Angeles Times User: Ahhnaud
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| Day: 2 Message: I'm telling you dat I want to do terrible things to Vicki, Carolyn, and Cindy. As a matter of fact, I have the Kennedy compound all to myself this weekend! I know people out der are saying dat they know now why they call in a Hummer now, but now I am more interested in healthy things, like spreading Smuckers preserves or organic honey all over those beautiful women...and if Maria wants to get in on the action, with her digital camera in tow...well, Cahleefornia is going our of business, Sacramento must go! User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 2 Message: Eraserhead: you are an animal. No way Vicki, for all her charms, could move like Carolyn. Now admit you've committed sexual battery in your heart or drop out of the recall race. User: sh
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| Day: 2 Message: User: rajah of eraserhead
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| Day: 2 Message: rajah - Cynthia and Carolyn do look a little on the small side That's why Vicki Cave seemed like such a Goddess in comparison, healthy, vital, and vulnerable. User: Rajah of Erase
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| Day: 2 Message: Another nice touch from last night, Don asks for applause for the band at the end, then asks for a hand for, "my brother, Walter Becker". His opening line was, "howya doin kids?" He's relaxed. OK Cynthia and Carolyn are whippet-thin. I was sitting kinda behind them if you take my meaning. Cindi looks great and is built like a regular, nice looking woman, very sexy. It's standing next to those two size zero hip hugger babes that accounts for the disparity. Go Cindi. User: sh
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| Day: 2 Message: A new book out for women about men: ôWhat Could He Be Thinking? How a ManÆs Mind Really Worksö The male brain secretes less of the powerful primary bonding chemical oxytocin and less of the calming chemical serotonin than the female brain. ah hah! so that's it! it just figures a guy wrote this...lol User: DACW - This Just In
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| Day: 2 Message: Jimbo: Breaking story on the National Probe that Rush was stoned on oxycotin before inserting foot Sunday and every day since the late 90s...scored by his maid...who's in witness protection with West Palm Vice.... User: DACW
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| Day: 2 Message: "You ain't kidding. I'm still pissed off over the whole Safeco Field debacle. The taxpayers vot
Date: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:28:20 AM US/Pacific
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I meant to say coma company in my last post - computer error
I just love my Steely Dan T-shirt from 93 but for some reason it has a big yellow stain on it!!!!!! I am not really good with a washer and dryer being a 53 year old single dude (for good reason). Any ideas on how to get the stain out would be appreciated? Lost in the Steelyspin of it all going around and around in the wash cycle of life and can't seem to get clean with spiritual intent. Is my junkie soul still for rent to the diablo?
10) Godwackers are too busy neck deep in horse badoradees in the States
9) Don's too busy taking in Yanks games
8) would you seriously leave the big island??
7) EMG sales in Europe already adequate, you old worlders appreciate good music
6) warming up for the grammies
5) Howard might cop too many of those chord changes via binoculars
must keep Mu chords a secret
4) nobody locks their car in Europe
3) COrnelius was denied a passport, cardboard box under overpass is not valid mailing address
2) walt's too busy moving the backyard aura to throw off the feds
1) no jaded tax exiles here
Dano.
Let's rendevous soon, eh?
duncan
Pat Benetar and Kenny Rogers
Could you drop me a line at the address above please.
James Brown and Jim Nabors
Debby Boone and Courtney Love
...and of course Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson in a scramble golf tournament
that band isn't as visual as the 80's regalia
much better to experience in person (imho)
then again the musicianship is first rate (not my fav tunes)
but when the vid goes to blue light it's fuzzy
otherwise you'll be grooving it
my parental units are doing macy's, could be another fabulous venture
YGK? LB? I'll let you know later this month
2) John Coltrane
1) Otis Redding
Is Ms. Dowd one of us, an unmitigated Dan fan?
And, what's happened to that deep mystical soul synergy within BushCo?
Manhattan, areas awash in vials of Botox, the botulinum toxin that can either be turned into a deadly biological weapon or a pricey wrinkle smoother.
Americans come to believe that their trust was betrayed when the president
and his team spread the impressions that Saddam was about to blow us up and
that he was behind the 9/11 attacks.
backstabbing lawbreakers who are dead wrong on Iraq.
Cal-ee-fornia can take heart. In this delicious gender-bender, Condoleezza
Rice triumphs as the macho infighter, driving Rummy into a diva-like
meltdown.
famous Washington infighter by talking about the new alignment to The New
York Times before he had a chance to object.
the softies at State, which the Pentagon sneeringly refers to as "the
Department of Nice" ù had been downgraded by the president and outmaneuvered by a colleague.
said, "he compounded his own problems by acknowledging it in public, further undermining his own stature."
gotten him into a fine mess. He wants his trusted Mother Hen, as he calls
Condi, the woman who probably spends as much time with him as Laura ù
weekends at Camp David, vacations at the ranch, workouts at the gym ù to make it all better. This will be the first time Ms. Rice, a Soviet expert who has functioned mostly so far as First Chum, will have her reputation on the line.
Iraq closer to the Oval Office because then there's no one else to blame.
made no effort to mask his displeasure, saying he had not been consulted,
even though Condi said he had, and cattily referring to the "little
committees" of the N.S.C. When a German broadcast reporter pressed the
defense secretary, he hissed: "I said I don't know. Isn't that clear? You
don't understand English?"
with other government agencies in the press, it reduces the President's
options." Hmm.
the 1970's ù after his stints as President Gerald Ford's chief of staff and
secretary of defense. Otherwise, he might have recalled this Rumsfeld rule
before he bullied the world and ripped up Iraq: "It is easier to get into
something than to get out of it."
Coltrane and Dolphy
Lamb lies Down tour Genesis before Phil left the drum stool and Peter was in his element
73 Crim with jami muir, Bruford,fripp, wetton, and that maniac on percussion
Zep before Plants voice broke in 72 doing 75 material
Pink Floyd when they tolerated each other
Gram Parker sitting in with the drug induced Exile Stones and Hopkins and Keys
...plus there are fewer black people in Colorado than in Nazi Germany, let me tell you something...way to easy to ID you there...so you need to marry into the Kennedy family - they understand these things about bad men
Length doesn't matter.
It's what you do with it.
It's a fabulous regeneration of my generation
love Keith and Pete's lunacy
Roger's straight man and John's wicked sense of humor
King Crimson
2000 and 2003 quartet live rumblings in Europe and Japan
from Grammy winning Knick of Time to present
it cooks
Nov 9 - Peter Gabriel UP Tour DVD from Italy
During the alleged energy crisis, Californina was buying energy from another state. That state? Texas. The energy was way over-priced and they had us by the balls. A lot of the people in Texas that controlled what came to California, and the cost of it all, were good buddies with Dubya.
Now, seriously, I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but all it really takes is a little imagination to draw the line from A to B. Republicans haven't won California in a long time. One way to make sure they can in the future is to have a populist candidate that is really a puppet for more powerful Repulicans. How do you do that? Cut off energy. Make the Democratic govenor look bad. Real bad. Don't give him federal funds. Watch his deficit grow, THEN, have someone petition for a recall, and find the perfect person to swoop in and easily win the election.
Schwartzeneggar doesn't mind. It's just like the movies. Someone writes the script. Someone else directs. You have the money men to produce, and he acts like the hero. Unfortunately, this isn't the movies. It's real life, and what they're doing is facism.
Teaxa. Florida. Now California. Huge electoral votes. Almost a guarantee for Bush to win. The Republicans needed this to happen because they saw that America was starting to sniff around, and not really liking what it smelled. This will only help mask the odor.
But, an impeachment hearing will really make it stink. That might be our only chance. That, and for every Democrat to drop out and firmly support Wesley Clark.
I mean, seriously, if they wanted to impeach Clinton because of a blow job, they can certainly get a good head, (no pun intended. Okay, it was intended), of steam going on this.
Clinton getting a blowjob only hurt his family.
Lying about WMD's and sending young soldiers to their death just so your friends could obtain mideast oil rights hurt millions.
Best bumper sticker I've seen lately: All Men Are Animals, Some just make better pets!
5. Both are full of hot air.
4. Both are frequently passed from man to man.
3. Both have been known to score.
2. Both are often handled by hot, sweaty guys on television.
1. Women aren't especially fond of them.
no agenda or platform to speak of, was somehow elected to the Governorship
based on rhetoric and charisma."
Right you are Pat.
But this entire thing has been a lesson in what's wrong with the political
system. Ideas don't count. What counts is advertising and the ability to
be heard, and this ALWAYS boils down to money. It's not just Arnold, it's
the entire election system that's gone awry. One of the reasons I gave up
on the political process was the glaring inequity of the election system.
What chance has a person got of being elected to any office in this
country if they don't have the massive funds necessary to buy radio and
TV time? Do great ideas and noble intentions equate to political success?
Of course not, money and advertising do. The problem is that niether of
the major political parties have the will to put a stop to this charade
by enacting TOUGH campaign finance reform laws. After all, if they ever
did that they'd probably find themselves out of office and searching for
a real job.
I know I'll always remember the Jones Beach gig. I'm also very happy
with the direction D&W have taken with EMG. The songs emphasize thier
growth as songwriters without completely erasing the formula that made
thier past work so unique. The sign of a great album comes from the desire
of the listener to want to play it again and again. I find myself
listening to it quite often, and that's a good sign. Even if it takes
D&W several more years to release another album, I think the wait will be
worth it.
could be nothing.
10. Used to Power Dick Cheney's pacemaker
9. Buried in Walter's backyard
8. Saddam said "drop them into the biggest hole you can find" - so Al Qaeda operatives dropped them into Mauna Loa
7. In exchange for Rock the Casbah casinos, WMDs were buried in Nevada with our Nookyular waste
6. Powering Steely Dans worldwide with the Nextel Wireless Network
5. Used as fertilzer for the hydroponic gardens in the new Kamakiri II line of fuel cell cars
4. Fina is now greenah
3. Used to power Skunk Baxter's moustache
2. Were used last night instead of the Cubs pitching staff
1. In crates next to the Ark of the Covenant somewhere below Washington, DC
Then people start spotting me surfing an outdated browser with my teeenage love slave in the cache, sniping mad.
They have such vivid imaginations.
You know... some start dreaming about me.
But that's understood.
ahem...
DACDubya's on a roll...
Well ,well... "Where your WMDs, Web MD?" I thought I heard them say.
No reply-y-y-y.
Hmm... yes, plenty of oil now... hey, I'm getting a Hummer.
Btw, it says "we'll make some calls from my car..." but this was 1979 at best... so you best drop that tiny cell phone image of yours, 'cause this one's a mutha with this giant rubber antenna on top. A CB radio even? ouach... the mind reels.
"Never Mind the Steveedans, it's Steely Dan!"
"Meeting Mam'zelle Mizell - An Introduction"
"Clocking Keith Carlock Conundrum - A Comprehensive Compendium"
...
10) Catharsis at Concord
9) Everything Must Go Softly Into the Night
8) What we did after the Taxi Cab Confessionals
7) Nearly All of Aja and a Few New Ones
6) Godwackers Live On Stage
5) Something Happened on the Way To The Hollywood Bowl
4) Steely Dan Live featuring bare midriff Babe Choir
3) Lunch with Gina, Dinner with Don and Walter
2) Steely Dan - Ventures with the Carlocked
1) GM Presents Steely Dan Live in Mauii
10) initiate fagengrooven das trinity
9) ride Shadowfax to some more Windham Hill productions
8) everything must gogo at the pixelene parlor
7) share those tapes of Miss Fugazi
6) root for the Bronx Bombers as they take the Cubs in 5
5) remorse over not having shot an 03 concert DVD
don't worry the remorsing will be captured on taxi cam
each babe will get a $5 ride
4) yet again have MCA begging for another repackaging
3) venture out on the yellow
2) one long luau after the Jill St John lawsuit is appealed
1) start work on "everything must stay"
Steely Dan: Roseland Darlings
Costa Mesa et Paso Robles en VIVO!
Barely Alive in Toronto - One Night Only
Steely Dan's Big Bad Bible Belt Godwhack of 2003
Piece de Petre Pakre's Band - Disque 1 et 2
The Seasoned Travelling Minstrel's Digital Companion
Steely Dan - The Road Not Taken - Live at Budokan
"Jones Beach... 'm dyin'" Live
Great American Roadkill Tally of 2003 - An Overview
Hubba Hubba Albuquerque!
'' the explosive documentary coming soon to a theatre near you''
I can't wait to put on the headphones and just immerse myself in The Core.
You ARE the man.
SteveeDan
85 and counting....."
10) chase Carolyn Leonhart around manhattan in various small gigs (hi auss)
9) discover that Sign in Stranger sang backward says "the Bunson award is a farce"
8) read 50 posts from Howard and Steeveedan and still not be able to voice that elusive mu sus chord
7)stock up on provisions for that Muswellbrook bomb shelter
6)wear out the plush, score another on ebay
5) try to dejitter your failed Dan live recording via computer simulators
4) proudly wear that GM Dan visor to the beach, sleep all day in your fold out lounge and rise when the sun goes down
3)hotwire the ex's Audi TT
2) yes there's gas in the car, where's the Carlock?
1) go Hawaian!!!
Herm
box score: R H E
Boston........1...6...66
Until the world's end, join me in an effort to Ban (or at least educate):
YGK: gotcha - smoke quatro quatro uno on the rebound
oh yes, GO CUBS!!!!!!!!
Wormy: Cheers! Wish I could've vaca'ed in NO.....
LP: if the Yankees always suck, then the Red Sox always, uh......blow?!?!?!
How many years does it take a Red Sock to screw in a lightbulb?
85 and counting.....
SteveeDan ... But what a Slang it WAS !!!
even if I don't know his current handle
YGK and his trio have hit one out of the ballpark
major release next in the cards for Malcolm
how sweet it is and righteous love by joan osborne
tears of stone by the chieftains
romantica by luna
Are you chicken or just plain tuna?
.
7 - Giving piggy back rides to ladies from Amphitheatre entrance to Preferred Parking area ... This practically happened. Drummer Paul and I walked this really loopy (read: loose and ready) girl from the backstage area to her car while she asked us how she should navigate the extra-marital affair she was currently engaged in ... after that conversation neither Paul nor I could remember where we parked our car ... let alone our own names !!!
SHAMELESS PLUGGING - ABBREVIATED VERSION ...
OCTOBER 22ND AT 8 PM SHARP AT 705 PIER (THAT'S THE NAME OF THE CLUB AND IT'
S ADDRESS) IN HERMOSA BEACH. C'MON DOWN ... FOR SOME SAUSAGE AND BEER ... HURRY BEFORE RAJAH AND STEVEEDAN DRINK IT ALL !!!
SteveeDan
10) sign you up as sound board engineer in 2005
9) Roger Nichols will personally interview you and give you the stink for not recording things properly
8) burn you a sound board dat copy gratis for initiative
7) lock you backstage with all Don's used Diet Coke cans - swipe them and head directly to ebay - do not pass go
6) join Bromberg in the locked vault of dan heads who dared fare their wares
5) force you to listen to "The Early Days" for weeks on end till you Mock Turtle in forgiveness
4) they run your tape through DBX processing making it essentially worthless
3)ask you to do the artwork on the 2004 dvd package
2) invite you down to the lido for sausage and beer
1) get a good workout from the babe choir
they didn't sing Dirty Work for nothing
Cubano Chant is a secret voodoo-based WMD used to disable all electronics deemed offensive within a good square mile radius.
Pugh trombone sees dual use as device which zeroes in on previously profiled bootlegging candidates, tracks their almighty asses and brings 'em to justisssss.
Strict Anti-Metzger measures implimented following the Great "Grey Gaucho" Debacle of 2001.
Effective Taliban-style deterrents used: fine print advisory on back of ticket goes "Hand on the back cover of Countdown could be YOUR hand. Thinks about it. Don't Steal Music".
"Besides, console branching rots your brain".
"Is that a four-track or you just glad to see me?" voted road crew catchphrase of the new Millenium.
Gag order enforced as set of preemptive strikes against any future "See You next year" verbal contract litigations.
Leaky intel: RIAA covert anti-piracy operations involved parachuted agent Miss Mizell. whoa
No, that's a not a Pig flying over the crowd, Pink dude. It's a freaking unmanned drone.
"Strip Search Strip Search Jeanie isn't wearing no slit skirt..." voted security crew pre-show anthem of the new Millenium.
Yahoo! News: Steely Dan Incorporated's latest quarterly report, when read backwards, pitches Live DVD set like it's early '04.
Kerry Wood
Is verry good.
10) maybe a skycam would let us all know what Keith Carlock looks like above the wailing arms
9) Dave from acquisitions definitely wants to get in the on the action,
but this time it better be proshot
8) a march dvd release to coincide with more grammys would be primo - hello record company execs
7) Malibu mystery guests?? Big Island babylon??
6) rear shots for posteriors for posterity
5) otherwise we'll all show up at Walt's for Kumbaya around the campfire
4) not enough mula was spent on those $35 t-shirts
3) General Motors can subsidise it with big truck drop down menus
just drop the lame Bob Seger tune
2) plush was not really a true live setting
1) what a shame about me if they didn't
the colour is much appreciated.
no baby yet !!!!
SteveeDan
Dear Mr. Fixit,
but now I take a pill for that.
J. de Siecle: yes The montage chorus with Carolyn in the call and repeat of Pixeleen...the great advantage is that you get about 4 mintes of perfect pop instead of 3 hours of wildly inconsistent, but high production celluloid...
Herm
Fri Oct 3, 3:10 AM ET
Their two-night stand in Los Angeles, a place that Dan keyboardist/lead vocalist Donald Fagen referred to without much enthusiasm as "a place we used to live," was a religious experience for the hard-core Steely Dan fan and a great concert for those who like and appreciate well-played ditties that are sonically pure and tightly wound.
On past tours, Steely Dan was sometimes too polished for its own good; it lacked a panache that the songs had but the performance lacked. On this night, everything was cookin' just fine, thank you. In fact, it is probably the best the band has ever sounded and played live. It all starts, of course with Fagen and his longtime partner in musical crime Walter Becker on guitar and -- surprise! -- one vocal as well. Normally a bit stiff live outside of their studio element, both artists seemed as loose as they've ever been onstage. Not that they were jumping around and doing cartwheels, but, at this juncture, Becker and Fagen in particular, seem to be having more fun playing their wondrous catalog than ever before. It was more the vibe than their actual physical presence as the music swung with a feel and groove that wasn't always present in previous Dan L.A. shows.
Being joined by a very talented eight-piece band that breathed new life into the old songs and delivered as one on the new ones didn't hurt. It's as good a band as Fagen and Becker have performed with in a long time. While each musician stood out, including the three backup singers, the rhythm section of drummer Ted Baker and a very funky bassist was outstanding. A young cat, Baker is a prodigious talent who was all over the place; his playing is inventive and meticulous without being intrusive.
The band opened with an hourlong set that featured a stunning version of "Aja" along with gems like "Babylon Sister" and a soaring "Peg." "Aja" revealed the band to be on the mark from the start. Steely Dan's trademark jazz-pop was infectious and tight, clean and impeccably played. The groove was sublime but very evident on just about every song. Not only does no other band on the planet sound like Steely Dan, no other band could carry it off as well as this band does even if an imitator existed.
The second half of the set was another hour-plus affair, closing with a reading of "FM" that had the appreciative crowd howling for more. They were denied the pleasure of another tune, but they didn't go home cheated. Sleep well knowing that Fagen and Becker remain at the height of their prodigious power both as songwriters and now as performers as well.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
In San Diego, I was actually suprised by how loose the band seemed. And not musically (they were dead on perfect and tight), but rather their demeanor. Fagan was downright personable, coming out wearing a Funkadelic sweatshirt, and seeming at ease and faving fun. The rest of the band also had plenty of smiles. Last night fagan seemed a bit tighter. The biggest difference was Herington...it looked like he really didn't want to be there. Maybe the night before with Dean Parks sitting in was weird? I don't know...but the only time I saw him smile was during FM...the last tune of the night.
Becker made a comment about coming 30 years later to where their career started, but I think they always had a love-hate relationship with LA. Becker and Fagan are east coast boys, NY through and through although these days Becker lives in Hawaii (he's no fool).
To the credit of the crowd, they actually were very responsive. Highly animated by LA standards. Much singing along, especially for the encore tunes of "My Old School" and "FM." Other "LA" tunes like "Babylon Sisters" also got big receptions, as did most all of the early stuff, with tunes from Aja and Gaucho being the crowd favs.
Keith Carlock was amazing again. He is one of the hottest drummer I've EVER heard or seen. I actually shed a tear or two during "Home at Last." Carlock has the Purdie Shuffle down pat, and takes it to new levels. And the band played such beautiful music. Michael Leonhart's horn arrangments are just amazing and sweet.
This is what it's all about...
Back in one piece following the very long Friday odessey. I of course couldn't get out of the office at 1pm as planned, and worked my way through traffic, getting to Harry's house around 4pm. I checked out his new fretless bass, then we went off to meet his wife, followed by a trip to his buddies guitar store to check out an acoustic and meet another friend. Then the trek down towards the amphitheater, meeting up with two more friends at dinner, then the show. Then a long wait to get out of the parking lot, and a sleepy drive back to LA...got in at 2am this morning.
Anyway...the point is the music. And it did not dissapoint. And as usual, I learned a lot. Keith Carlock, the drummer, was AMAZING. I have now seen 4 SD tours with 4 different drummers. Carlock was absolutely spot on and probably the best fit. That is saying something considering that the other three drummers are not exactly slouches (Peter Erskine, Dennis Chambers, and Ricky Lawson). In fact, Erskine is one of my all time favorite drummers. But Carlock had a bit more edge to his playing, while still being totally sublime. It also probably didn't help that Erskine played the first tour in '93, and the boys were just getting their feet wet again. SD has it down tight.
There were a lot of things to take in. First and foremost, the drummer can really change the sound and feel of the band. I knew that, but it was reinforced last night, and I think I have a better appreciation for the ways it can change things. We're not talking loud v. soft, or fast v. slow...those are obvious things. I'm looking beyond that, and I think SimpleFlower is too. Carlock played grooves so wide you could drive a truck through them. The feel of old standards like Caves of Altimira and Kid Charlemenge were changed up in ways I really didn't expect. And while there is a lot of things going on in SD (4 horns, 2 guitars, 2 keyboards, bass, drums, 3 backing vocals), it really came down to the drums, and some subtle changes to the lines Tom Barney was playing on bass. And my guess is that it was Carlock's playing that influenced Barney's lines.
So I have a new perspective on our drummer search. While I still feel that the existing trio needs to be incredibly communicative with our playing (which we are, and getting more so as time goes on), the feel might hinge on the drummer. We have a choice of having someone just play the tunes as they are...fitting the round peg in the round hole. OR, we can find someone that really has some sublime things going on, and the peg and hole both get shaped during the process.
Time will tell...
Clas, no silly I was the nasty bottle blonde. Spike was the one with the body art ;-)
BB, same time same place Sugarman?
here's a lame joke just because:
Times When the F-word Was Appropriate
People get really upset when you use the "F" word. So much so, that I can't even write the full word out, but have to referto it as the "F" word. However, despite what many educators, and pious people believe, there are times when the "F" word just makes sense. And that is why we are bringing you ... TIMES WHEN THE "F" WORD WAS APPROPRIATE
"What the F was that?" -- Mayor of Hiroshima
"Where did all these F'ing Indians come from?" -- General Custer"
Any F'ing idiot could understand that." -- Albert Einstein
"It does so F'ing look like her!" -- Pablo Picasso
"How the F did you work that out?" -- Pythagoras
"You want WHAT on the F'ing ceiling?" -- Michaelangelo
"I don't suppose its gonna F'ing rain?" -- Joan of Arc
"Scattered F'ing showers my ass." -- Noah
"I need this parade like I need a F'ing hole in my head." -- John F. Kennedy
"Who the F is going to know? " -- Bill Clinton
stevieeeeedannish - yep, last night's "Blues" was excellent. howlin' wolf was a badass wasn't he? yikes! and i especially loved the extra 20 minutes afterwards on Hendrix...just amazing...but we all knew that
I just couldn't help wondering what was up with that. I think it would be interesting to hear if anybody happened to know better on this particular issue. hint hint
That's where I'm at. Under it's poppy guise, it's all very dramatic a reflexion on existence, lust for youth, keepimg the beat and ultimately dying. And it's expressed through the music itself, completing the lyrics.
Indeed, here's a song where the music truly speaks and highlights, "under scores", storyboards the narrative. Yes, much like movie music does (hey Donald). I think it plays a role and I'm exploring that lead, dropping down notes. Bear with me here, it's early.
belaise
Inflatable pig makes appearance at Austin City Limits Music Festival
Pink Floyd fans attending the Austin City Limits Music Festival
Saturday, Sept. 20, received a surprise when the 40-foot inflatable pig
made famous by its concert appearances with Floyd flew above the crowd.
Organizers showed a video of the swine's work with the Floyd on a jumbo
screen during the band's performance before a crew of eight walked the
tethered beast through the crowd while the band played "Another Brick
in the Wall."
Lapse of Reason," was purchased by String Cheese Incident's co-manager
Mike Luba from a Floyd stagehand in 2002. Torn in five sections with
substantial pieces missing, the band had been told by hot air balloon
experts that the pig would never again be airworthy.
"They looked at that box full of rags and said I was crazy to buy it."
Vietnam native who moved to Austin in 1981. "The face was almost gone."
and reconstruct it in four places, even if she had no idea of the pig's
history. "I had no idea the pig was famous," she says.
"Animals" album. They went on to become a staple of the band's live
shows, becoming so much of the popular culture as to be parodied on
television shows such as "The Simpsons."
in case anyone thought i was confused...lol i realize that "oxytocin" and "oxycontin" are two completely different things...just weird timing on those posts...
So while women find emotional conversations a good way to chill out at the end of the day, the tired male brain needs to zone out all that touchy-feely chatter in order to relax ù which is why he wants the remote control to zap through ömindlessö sport or action movies.