Posted on 06/06/2022 12:27:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s on the time internet. It must be true.
Steely Dan was the anti-punk band. They were all about high production quality and great sound. They still had some sneakily subversive and cynical lyrics.
The British version of Steely Dan was Supertramp. Well, sort of.
I admit to still putting on Superchunk’s “No Pocky for Kitty” when cleaning the house…
Billy Idol had Steve on his Sirius show over the winter, and Schteve was on and on about how much he 'roiked' The Killers and these punk-revival bands.
Then he tried to embarrass Billy with a fake anecdote about how Billy came to have the shocking, straight-up blond hair. Idol shot him down with the exact story: how his girlfriends had aimed for blue, and ended up buying "platinum blue" -- girlfriends WHO HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED TO BILLY BY STEVE -- and had been spiking their hair a la Vivienne Westwood.
And to square the circle, Steve's “Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol” has led to Danny Boyle's "Pistol" on FX/Hulu/Disney, which has been boring as fooking hell...
“Not as bad as liking Kenny G. or Yanni or the Dave Matthews band.”
Kenny is a scratch golfer who generates lots of bucks for charities. I’m told Frank Beard can hold his own on the links as well.
Yeah, I’ve seen him play at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am a couple times. Guy can play golf.
Also saw him in L.A. (back when his last name was still Gorelick) with the Jeff Lorber Fusion Band. Good (albeit limited) instrumentalist. Fine for that style. But he realized commercial success was all but impossible in that genre, and decided to rebrand himself “G” and create his own style — “adult contemporary” or “smooth” or whatever. Not my thing at all obviously, but he sure hit the right chord with a mass audience — middle aged women needing to de-stress.
Jazz musicians criticized him for selling out, but I’m guessing most of it was out of envy — he may be the richest (formerly) jazz musician ever.
Once you grow up, the Rebel Without a Clue crap is just noise.
Great. Now I have to look that up.
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