Posted on 05/27/2011 11:40:04 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
I own two, if you count the complilation A Decade of Steely Dan, but if not I only own one. In my case, it's The Royal Scam.
Love them! I can listen to any of their stuff and it never gets old. Saw them several years ago in Dallas.
Seems that every Steely Dan LP sounds like the next...
SD—Mix compilation, just click and chill, very nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrI_mIT6PQ
I had a similar experience back in early 1980. The band, interestingly enough, was Styx. They were actually unbelievable in concert, and I don't even like them that much (which begs the question, why did I go to the concert in the first place? To be honest, I don't really remember.).
Barrytown is my favorite...especially now with the current WH occupant... “Barrytown people got to be from another world....”
Some great Skunkster pedal steel on this one.
“I saw Steely Dan live in 1974 in Long Beach Calif on their Pretzel Logic tour. Never have I heard a band that could play their music so closely to the original studio versions. They were amazing!”
I’ve seen Rush twice. They are also quite good at reproducing the studio versions of their songs in concert, although they do have to tune the guitars down a step so Geddy can sing some of the older ones. :)
I haven’t seen one, just went through dozens on YouTube in the compilation of this piece, fwiw
Got to be one out there, or so you’d think
“They got a name for the winners in the world,
I want a name when I lose.
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide,
Call me ‘Deacon Blues.’”
Like a castle in his corner
in a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same....
Not many bands that put out albums with so little filler as Steely Dan... like none, not a second
“New Frontier” from that album... who doesn’t have a crush on Tuesday Weld or Ruby?
(Jingle:)
"
An independent station
W-J-A-Z
With news and information
From the foot of Mt. Belzoni
"
Pretty much everything on that album's a sardonic gem, including the above-quoted title song, and the album cover (depicting a time and place where I misspent part of my youth).
“
I hear you’re mad about Brubeck
I love your hair I like him too
He’s an artist, a pioneer
We’ve got to have some music on the new frontier
“
The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing.
It was shows like the 73/74 Santa Monica Civic that was largely credited with them stopping to tour. IIRC their first number immediately following a severely inebriated announcer, who kept referring to “Mr Steeley Dan, whatever” was Bodhisattva.
Uh... that was in my PRE Republican days lol
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