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(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Doing rails at a Steely Dan concert ain't what it was back in the '70s   (chicagotribune.com) divider line 32
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TheCharmerUnderMe [TotalFark] 2008-08-18 11:16:22 AM  
This thread is relevant to my login.

"Think Fast" tour.

Not for the guy in TFA.

 
PYROY 2008-08-18 11:19:33 AM  
The sound of Steely Dan has always depressed me, I would need several rails to attend one of their concerts.

 
freddie freeloader 2008-08-18 11:43:51 AM  
The chord progression under the sax solo in Deacon Blues is the best thing that's ever been played on rock radio.

 
grundletaint 2008-08-18 11:51:32 AM  
an 8 ball, a bottle of black label, and aja is the best way to spend an evening. pool table optional.

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-18 11:52:51 AM  
that's what he gets for trying to do it without the fez on

 
NYZooMan 2008-08-18 11:54:31 AM  
Just thinking about their music puts me in an opiate stupor.

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-18 12:00:15 PM  
freddie freeloader: The chord progression under the sax solo in Deacon Blues is the best thing that's ever been played on rock radio.

I also love the fact that I hear them on the radio in the grocery store and think "how many people realize the lyrics they are currently hearing are about cocaine, mob hits, or sleeping with your cousin?"

 
mekkab [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-18 12:03:35 PM  
TheCharmerUnderMe: "Think Fast" tour.

Not for the guy in TFA.


ZING!


/nice headline, BTW

 
mavrick45 2008-08-18 12:08:45 PM  
damn
I missed the Chicago show!

 
Uzzah 2008-08-18 12:09:38 PM  
That's "Mr. Steely Dan ... or whatever" to you.

/he gonna get down to the nitty gritty.

 
Slu 2008-08-18 12:12:51 PM  
I love Steely Dan. Katy Lied is just an awesome record.

 
swaxhog 2008-08-18 12:47:42 PM  
grundletaint: an 8 ball fine Colombian, a bottle of black label Cuervo Gold, and aja Gaucho is the best way to spend an evening. pool table optional.

FTFY

 
LL Bean J 2008-08-18 01:16:39 PM  
You can take me along when you slide on down, but don't take me alive.

 
Gunny Highway 2008-08-18 01:50:47 PM  
cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com

Loves her some Dan

 
Pulled Pork 2008-08-18 02:27:38 PM  
liquid duane-o: freddie freeloader: The chord progression under the sax solo in Deacon Blues is the best thing that's ever been played on rock radio.

I also love the fact that I hear them on the radio in the grocery store and think "how many people realize the lyrics they are currently hearing are about cocaine, mob hits, or sleeping with your cousin?"


What's the mob hit song?

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-18 02:51:21 PM  
Pulled Pork:
What's the mob hit song?


i guess not mob hit exactly.... i was thinking of "don't take me alive", which i always imagine as a stand off with a kid who started off as a money launderer for the mob ("book keepers son") and ended up in over his head.

also, the "crossed my old man"line, it just sounds like something they'd say in a mafia movie "he crossed his old man so tonight, he sleeps with the fishes"

i dont know...im retarded

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-18 02:53:11 PM  
but come to think of it... isn't "daddy don't work in that new york city no more" about a guy who got killed by the mob?

 
mahavishnunj 2008-08-18 02:53:46 PM  
freddie freeloader: The chord progression under the sax solo in Deacon Blues is the best thing that's ever been played on rock radio.

black cows solo section is one of the hardest things ive ever had to solo over. it sounds easy, but its hard as hell.

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-18 02:55:48 PM  
mahavishnunj:
black cows solo section is one of the hardest things ive ever had to solo over. it sounds easy, but its hard as hell.


thats how i feel about most steely dan. it sounds so smooth and simple, but as soon as you're playing you realize it's a biatch!!

 
The Viewer 2008-08-18 03:19:06 PM  
Pulled Pork:
What's the mob hit song?

That would be "The Goodbye Look" off of Fagen's solo lp, "The Nightfly"

 
Uzzah 2008-08-18 03:48:45 PM  
liquid duane-o: thats how i feel about most steely dan. it sounds so smooth and simple, but as soon as you're playing you realize it's a biatch!!

My college roommate was a thrash-metal guitarist -- Metallica, Anthrax, etc. He mocked my Steely Dan albums.

One month, his copy of "Guitar" magazine had the tabs for "Kid Charlemagne." I dared him to try to learn it. He came back 3 weeks later and said that it had the "sickest" chords he'd ever seen.

 
freddie freeloader 2008-08-18 04:05:27 PM  
Uzzah: liquid duane-o: thats how i feel about most steely dan. it sounds so smooth and simple, but as soon as you're playing you realize it's a biatch!!

My college roommate was a thrash-metal guitarist -- Metallica, Anthrax, etc. He mocked my Steely Dan albums.

One month, his copy of "Guitar" magazine had the tabs for "Kid Charlemagne." I dared him to try to learn it. He came back 3 weeks later and said that it had the "sickest" chords he'd ever seen.


And IIRC (haven't played it in years) that's one of the relatively simple ones -- just 6, 7 & 13 chords.

 
grundletaint 2008-08-18 06:50:14 PM  
swaxhog: grundletaint: an 8 ball fine Colombian, a bottle of black label Cuervo Gold, and aja Gaucho is the best way to spend an evening. pool table optional.

FTFY


well i'm certainly up for a comparison!

 
JohnnyDreamboat 2008-08-19 12:44:31 AM  
Steely Dan rules.
/That is all I came to say.

 
mavrick45 2008-08-19 01:28:32 AM  
JohnnyDreamboat: Steely Dan rules.
/That is all I came to say.


lolx
you came

/my maturity is out for the day

 
GibbyTheMole 2008-08-19 07:23:54 AM  
I dig the Dan. Got all their albums, including the bootlegs which are mostly horrible, but still entertaining in a trainwreck sort of way. Those studio albums are impeccable, though.

And Steve Gadd's drumwork on "Aja" may be the best thing ever committed to magnetic tape.

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-19 10:37:55 AM  
GibbyTheMole: I dig the Dan. Got all their albums, including the bootlegs which are mostly horrible, but still entertaining in a trainwreck sort of way.

what are the bootlegs? live shows, or just fark ups in the studio?

 
mahavishnunj 2008-08-19 12:57:03 PM  
liquid duane-o: what are the bootlegs? live shows, or just fark ups in the studio?

im wondering this too. ive got two bootlegs from the last tour and both are badass. i also have all the outtakes and unreleased stuff and 95% of it is great. the only kinda lame stuff ive heard is the pre-dan 'becker and fagen' stuff.

 
smells homeless 2008-08-20 12:07:10 AM  
mahavishnunj: liquid duane-o: what are the bootlegs? live shows, or just fark ups in the studio?

im wondering this too. ive got two bootlegs from the last tour and both are badass. i also have all the outtakes and unreleased stuff and 95% of it is great. the only kinda lame stuff ive heard is the pre-dan 'becker and fagen' stuff.


The bootleg albums are mostly demos. The best of which, IMHO is "The Yellow Peril." The surviving version of "The Second Arrangement" is also excellent as is, but it makes me sad about an album that could have outshined "Aja." Stupid drugs.

About the mob songs, there are several that seem to have strong mob themes, including "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again," "Razor Boy," "Night by Night," and "Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More." "Glamour Profession" seems to be about a different kind of mob, but mob just the same.

On a related note, I've always thought "Midnight Cruiser" to be a very, very melancholy song from the point of view of a non-connected guy singing about his friend who is failed low-end mob muscle. I have no idea if that's the idea they were trying to get across, but that's what I take from it. And I love them for it.

/Would have Deacon Blue for a login
//but it was taken

 
liquid duane-o 2008-08-20 01:37:18 PM  
smells homeless:

On a related note, I've always thought "Midnight Cruiser" to be a very, very melancholy song from the point of view of a non-connected guy singing about his friend who is failed low-end mob muscle. I have no idea if that's the idea they were trying to get across, but that's what I take from it. And I love them for it.

that song is about thelonious monk.

also, thanks for the clarification. i haven't heard those tapes. i'm happy with the albums i've got. i actually even enjoyed their last record, which many of my fellow dan fans panned. YMMV

 
mahavishnunj 2008-08-20 01:46:21 PM  
liquid duane-o: also, thanks for the clarification. i haven't heard those tapes. i'm happy with the albums i've got. i actually even enjoyed their last record, which many of my fellow dan fans panned. YMMV

how could someone not like that record? its not their best but its good as hell. greenbook is one of their best songs.

 
smells homeless 2008-08-20 03:41:37 PM  
liquid duane-o:

that song is about thelonious monk.

also, thanks for the clarification. i haven't heard those tapes. i'm happy with the albums i've got. i actually even enjoyed their last record, which many of my fellow dan fans panned. YMMV


Heh, Thelonius Monk, mob hit. What's the diff?

/d'oh
//Many Dan fans hated 11 Tracks of Whack too
///They're also wrong.

 
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