Shades of Billie Eilish

[chazolson]

I'm trying to round up quality players for a Steely Dan tribute act. Placed a CL ad.

A singer replied with: "Who is Steely Dan?"

I don't think he'll make the cut.

 

[fhm555]

Tell him the truth. It's a dildo in Naked Lunch

 

[Volker Kirstein]

I observed this happening in a Record Store in Petersburg, VA in 1980:

A goup of schoolkids were looking at albums, and one held up a Beatles album, and cried "Look! Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!"

 

[Michedelic]

I'm trying to round up quality players for a Steely Dan tribute act. Placed a CL ad.

A singer replied with: "Who is Steely Dan?"

I don't think he'll make the cut.

When was the last time they put an album
out? Had a hit single on the radio? Oh, by the way, what's an album? What's radio? I'm sure there are college students who don't know(or care)who the Foo Fighters are(where). Or Jack White, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Killers, Green Day, Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Mumford and Sons, etc. Britney Spears, even. BTW, the answer to the first question is 2003. That's almost 20 years ago.

 

[Nev375]

Most kids these days consider Nickelback to be classic rock/oldies, have no idea who Kurt Cobain or Nirvana is, and you are expecting them to know Steely Dan?

To put that in perspective, that'd be akin to putting out an ad for a Glen Miller Orchestra tribute band in the 1980s.

 

[Nashrakh]

Most kids these days consider Nickelback to be classic rock/oldies, have no idea who Kurt Cobain or Nirvana is, and you are expecting them to know Steely Dan?

To put that in perspective, that'd be akin to putting out an ad for a Glen Miller Orchestra tribute band in the 1980s.

I, for one, think the weirdest thing about the CL ad is that someone writes the OP to ask who Steely Dan were instead of simply looking them up on Wikipedia. "Let me google that for you" and all that.

Not knowing something is fine. Not knowing how to look something up is not.

 

[Volker Kirstein]

... To put that in perspective, that'd be akin to putting out an ad for a Glen Miller Orchestra tribute band in the 1980s.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I'd love to play in a Glen Miller band

 

[lfmn16]

I, for one, think the weirdest thing about the CL ad is that someone writes the OP to ask who Steely Dan were instead of simply looking them up on Wikipedia. "Let me google that for you" and all that.

Not knowing something is fine. Not knowing how to look something up is not.

That's what I was thinking. Plus, who wants to play in a tribute band of band they've never heard of?

 

[yodedude2]

I, for one, think the weirdest thing about the CL ad is that someone writes the OP to ask who Steely Dan were instead of simply looking them up on Wikipedia.

uhhmm...o.p. got trolled. and now it's spilled onto t.b.

 

[Nashrakh]

uhhmm...o.p. got trolled. and now it's spilled onto t.b.

In cases like this, I like to use Hanlon's razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

In other words, if it looks like a troll, it's most likely just a dumb-dumb. I mean, would you be surprised?

Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

 

[yodedude2]

i'd be surprised they asked. it looks like an 'ok boomer' moment to me.

 

[Cowboy in Latvia]

i'd be surprised they asked. it looks like an 'ok boomer' moment to me.

One of my friends had a student respond to her comment in class with "ok boomer"...my friend is a millennial...

I like this Hanlon's Razor.

 

[Nashrakh]

i'd be surprised they asked. it looks like an 'ok boomer' moment to me.

You may be right. I work in a library, being asked stuff people should be able to find out on their own is my bread and butter though.

 

[chazolson]

uhhmm...o.p. got trolled. and now it's spilled onto t.b.

Actually, no. The same guy placed a CL ad himself as a aspiring "rock singer" and basically admitted he only knew Springsteen songs.

 

[SteveIII]

I am forman in a truck shop. I consider it part of the apprenticeship for them to learn about and be able to recognize older music. I let this go both ways as then I can find out about the stuff my kids listen too!

 

[Ooba Tooba]

Oh by the, which one's Pink?

 

[LoTone]

You could also tell him that Steely Dan is Arnold Schwarzenegger's sidekick in the original Terminator movie.

[OK Millenial moment]

 

[gln1955]

People post on here about bands I never heard of every day it seems. Some of its damned good. I guess I haven't spent my entire life listening to more obscure stuff. Not that SD is obscure, but aside from a very few radio hits, they had a niche appeal.

 

[Stewie]

People post on here about bands I never heard of every day it seems. Some of its damned good. I guess I haven't spent my entire life listening to more obscure stuff. Not that SD is obscure, but aside from a very few radio hits, they had a niche appeal.

You must be a lot younger than me. Steely Dan was all over the radio in the seventies, at least around Boston. I wish I was young enough to not remember them.

 

[dadglasser]

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I'd love to play in a Glen Miller band

I'm happy to say I know from whence that line came without even looking it up.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I got a gal in Kalamazoo...

Looks like Lou Costello on bass and the lead male singer looks like Lurch from The Addams Family: