I'll always love this quote:
I’ve listened to Can’t Buy a Thrill a thousand times. It’s just a perfect record. Steely Dan have very complicated chord changes, it’s very modal. They also have a really harmonic sensibility that’s not like anybody else’s. The music breaks for long, long solos—and I hate jamming, I hate solos. But I guess making people play 20 solos and then putting them together really pays off, because all of them feel like melodic parts of the song. And there’s something to their music where you can tell that those guys are assholes, but but they also sound like they fucked up in a way that feels familiar.
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:01 (two years ago) link
All is forgiven if Donald just tells me what Brooklyn is about. https://t.co/5zUTzIhIjt— Aimee Mann (@aimeemann) March 17, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:27 (two years ago) link
Maybe she was dropped from the tour after Steely Dan heard that she referred to them as assholes
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Did she?
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
It's two quotes up, part of a Pitchfork interview
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
Clicked through the tweet to Pitchfork and also to the instagram but didn't quite see the quote in question.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
The "asshole" quote is under the Steely Dan entry in the Pitchfork interview above the tweet. The "female singer-songwriter" quote is from the comic.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
Do Steely Dan not know they're assholes?
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Oh, sorry! It was hiding there in plain sight, I can’t read this morning, too much time on ILX, you know the drill.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
They don't give a fuck about anybody else.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
That may be the nicest way to call somebody an asshole that I have ever seen.
― henry s, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
Response by Fagan (via a statement "shared with Pitchfork"):
Well, first of all, the idea that I would make any decision based on the gender of a performer is ridiculous. That’s something that would never even occur to me.There was a communication problem on our end. I was misinformed as to how firm the commitment was to any particular opening act. And, although I have the greatest respect for Aimee as a writer and performer, I thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style.But I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup. I apologize for any distress this has caused Aimee and her fans.
There was a communication problem on our end. I was misinformed as to how firm the commitment was to any particular opening act. And, although I have the greatest respect for Aimee as a writer and performer, I thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style.
But I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup. I apologize for any distress this has caused Aimee and her fans.
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
Some of his best wives are female singer-songwriters.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
The upside to this is that she can now do her own tour and people won't be forced to listen to Steely Dan in order to enjoy her performance.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link