Where has the picture of this memo suddenly appeared from? Are there other memos to come?
― Rob M Revisited, Saturday, 3 November 2012 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I wondered the same thing... Then my cynical side wondered if it was a forgery. It really does ring so precisely as "current-day FB meme" in its tone and language.
― Clarke B., Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
Here's an interview with a guy who said he unearthed the document in Teo Macero's archives at the New York Public Library.
― how's life, Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://jazzblog.scena.org/2010_04_01_archive.html
― how's life, Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Can't believe John McL got no votes
― bham, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
underdone poll for this monumentally perfect record
all great records should get that header on the cover: 'directions in music by'
― j., Sunday, 18 August 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Going back into a deep fusion kick listening to those early records by Weather Report and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters; it's kind of a shame that the economics of jazz in the pop world wasn't such that somehow those key players could have kept working together. I'd love to hear what Miles Davis trumpet would have fit in on the first couple of Weather Report records, as they really did take up that spacey feel from Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way. Conversely it's not hard to imagine what Herbie, Mike Clark and Paul Jackson would have sound underneath one of Miles 70s funk groups.
Them's the breaks, never happened.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
this result is as lopsided and rong as 'rated x' winning the 'get up with it' poll
― j., Saturday, 18 October 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of a shame that the economics of jazz in the pop world wasn't such that somehow those key players could have kept working together. I'd love to hear what Miles Davis trumpet would have fit in on the first couple of Weather Report records
The weird thing is (in retrospect, maybe not at the time), Hancock and Weather Report were handily outselling (and outdrawing -- Miles was Herbie's opening act at least once in the 70s) Miles. Miles playing with Weather Report would no doubt have been a thrill for the members of Weather Report, but it might not necessarily have been a selling point for WR's fans.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 October 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
There's more "rong" in this thread but it got worked out in the end.
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― Mark G, Saturday, 18 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
thread needs a teo to do some splicing, work all the best takes into an underrecognized collaboration between him and us
― j., Saturday, 18 October 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Thread made the mistake of releasing the unedited masters first.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 18 October 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
part twoNINE was. In particular.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 October 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Pharaoh's Dance got robbed big-time here.
― There's no stopping the thetans from hopping (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 19 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
rated x didn't win the get up with it poll
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 19 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I was so mad at my ipod today for not having Bitches Brew on it.
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Sunday, 19 October 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
FWIW, I like the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions more than the album. Some great tracks on there that didn't make the final.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Sunday, 19 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
i have probably listened to 'feio' only one time in the entire number of years i have had that set
― j., Sunday, 19 October 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Feio is great
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 October 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
Donald Fagen, co-founder of Steely Dan, called the album "essentially just a big trash-out for Miles" in 2007: "To me it was just silly, and out of tune, and bad. I couldn't listen to it. It sounded like Davis was trying for a funk record, and just picked the wrong guys. They didn't understand how to play funk. They weren't steady enough."[21]
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
not enough guys named Skunk
― Dominique, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
i've read fagen knocking fusion in general, which seems odd.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
kind of feel like part of the album's strength is that the players "didn't understand how to play funk"
what does fagen have to say about OTC i wonder
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
BB is the opposite of sure-footed and slick, and Fagen not liking it tells me pretty much everything I need to know about Steely Dan. Except I already knew it.
― Dominique, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I don't know much about Steely Dan at all really, but I just thought this was odd and funny. And wrong.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Fagen also despised the new music (which is maybe less surprising than him not digging BB); I seem to recall him saying snarky shit about Sun Ra.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm not convinced that Steely Dan ever "understood how to play funk"
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
well they certainly hired people who did.
― mizzell, Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
People who played on Bitches Brew, even.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
i mean, it would be pretty disappointing and out-of-character if Steely Dan was really into Bitches Brew.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
released 50 years ago yesterday
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
still sounds like 50 years tomorrow
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link