Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

(walter)

But you're the other half of the group. What are your thoughts on the matter?

A group is . . . Yeah, I am half the group. Is two people a group? We're sort of a duo, like Peter and Gordon, more than a group.

Well, the White Stripes were a group. There's just two of them.

Oh, what an unfortunate example.

They're obviously very different, but . . .

Jesus Christ. Go ahead and tear my heart out.

Who gives better interviews than these guys, really?

dylan sometimes if the mood is right...

i have no use for the band but the gallagher bros. antics and shit-talking has always been 100% awesome to me, they are so incredibly dumb though, which i guess is part of the charm

cannot wait to read eminent hipsters

Gonna buy a copy and one each for friends and family

wow, they've rehearsed every song from Countdown and may do the whole thing in some shows this year.

I think I'll be seeing them alone on a Tuesday

Just look at Bob Dylan. His voice is pretty shot.
Really?

I love the guy, but it's not in great shape.
Well, I'd like to quote Jack Nicholson in Rolling Stone. He said that as long as Bob Dylan is alive, he will be the greatest living songwriter.

I totally agree, but that doesn't mean his voice is in great shape.
I don't know . . . Wow. Wow.

pretty disappointed by the book. the 150ish page count seems like a joke. basically nothing about steely dan. $26.95

i never got in the impression from anything about the marketing or press coverage that the book would be a) a thick, substantial tome or b) focused on fagen's own career. hardcovers are expensive, i'll probably wait for the paperback.

more talk about Fagen's book here:

Donald Fagen wrote an article about Ennio Morricone

To paraphrase Nick Cave, every time I'm in a grocery store, I hear this slick, overproduced 70s crap come on, and I think "What the fuck is this?" And the answer is always Steely Dan.

trolling for FPs

yeah like Nick Cave shops in grocery stores. He would know what crap is though.

sounds like grocery stores rule down under

the Nick Cave quote is: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this GARBAGE?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

Nick Cave was clearly pining for the days when he could just groove out to The Royal Scam.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/countdown_to_ecstasy_an_interview_with_the_creator_of_the_forthcoming

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimyNC1BytY

"Not a real one, a fictional one."

i have no use for the band but the gallagher bros. antics and shit-talking has always been 100% awesome to me, they are so incredibly dumb though, which i guess is part of the charm

― adrian "stanky" legg (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great post

bump.

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/cc9a06052f337adc5c5996368e4cd8c8/1676824.jpg

Best band ever

rikki don't wear that native american headgear

Apparently Janet booked us at something called "Coachella." The last time we spent that much time in the desert was when Walter and I hired a Cahuilla shaman to help us work through our differences in opinion re: 8-10k Hz crash presence on "Gaucho." I can't recall if we got over it, but we both ate so much of some sort of off-brand peyote derivative that Walt engaged in some extended metaphysical riffing with a Centruroides exilicauda and I was pretty convinced that I was Gene Vincent's shoes.

Net, I don't see this ending particularly well.

- fagen

oh which was almost certain fake, sorry bros

^can confirm that ;)

hilarious though

aw fake? good fake tho.

Yeah their booking agent is named Bev

even better than janet

I don't know what it says about me, and music, and music in 2015, and me and music in 2015, that Steely Dan and ac/dc are the two acts at Coachella that jump out as the ones I would want to see the most.

I have never knowingly heard Steely Dan but 2015 is the year where that finally changes. I was going through my late grandpa's record collection at Xmas for the final time before my grandma gets rid of them and he had Can't Buy A Thrill, Katy Lied & Aja so I snuck them in our keep pile. I will have to wait til I'm home alone to listen to them though cos my wife claims to hate them.

http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2015/01/06/why-steely-dan-belongs-at-coachella
http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/01/20/steely-dan-fans-are-assholes

ha ha, love this...they should get the touring band from the first two records back together--Michael McDonald, Skunk Baxter, Denny Dias, and Royce Jones--and just play from the first four records. That band was unbelievably sick from the few bootlegs out there

Steely Dan is a band I used to hate but now like though I kind of envy people who legit hate them

Like I wish I could resist their self-impressed cynicism and tasteful licks

ive never in my life had the desire to attend coachella until now

Wow, both those LAW articles kind of suck. As for the latter, I know there are some assholes who like Steely Dan, and a few that are in Steely Dan, but the times I have seen them they've attracted an overwhelming just-here-for-a-good-time crowd of middle aged pot smokers and suburban couples. A la, dunno, Jimmy Buffett. Because I am an asshole, I've often wondered, do these people even listen to the lyrics? Do they know anything about the musicianship? Or are they just there to boogie.

i've been ambivalent about steely dan for a while but getting really into those joni records from court and spark through don juan i feel like i am really opening up to them. those joni albums were the gateway for me, they've brought me into a lot of different 70s stuff

quaaludes

I've often wondered, do these people even listen to the lyrics?

short answer is no

recalling the moment I explained to my prog-musician weed dealer that Everyone's Gone to the Movies was about pedophilia

I just heard Two Against Nature for the first time last week. It's terrible! I'll stan for 70s-era Dan all the way, but man. There's like two good songs: "Gaslighting Abbie" and "Cousin Dupree" but the rest was boring as fuck. Where's the jaw-dropping Denny Dias solos? Where's the hip-hoppin' future-sample drumbeats? Where's the soothing Michael McD background vocals? And why is the production so goddamn LIFELESS?!?! Should I even bother with Everything Must Go?

yeah Everything Must Go is much better – trust me.

EMG is way worth it

There's like two good songs: "Gaslighting Abbie" and "Cousin Dupree" but the rest was boring as fuck.

"jack of speed" or gtfo

Everyone's Gone to the Movies was about pedophilia

It's sort of disturbing how many SD songs are about jailbait girls and perverts. Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Janie Runaway, Hey Nineteen, Cousin Dupree ...

But yeah, Everything Must Go is great. It's impossible to find online, last I checked, but there is an EPK of them riding around in the back of a cab in Vegas while the taxi cab confessions driver interviews them about the album.

^^Uh, look upthread at the posts of August 2nd, 2014.

Oh shit! Last time I looked it was IMPOSSIBLE! Day made, thanks.