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So we've done Whitney and The Eagles... Steely Dan?

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Steely Dan

  • The hippest and coolest

    Votes: 104 75.9%

  • Ok but too many key changes

    Votes: 7 5.1%

  • Pretentious college stuff

    Votes: 15 10.9%

  • Carrots

    Votes: 4 2.9%

  • Meh

    Votes: 7 5.1%
  • Total voters
    137
#101
GIBrat51 said:
View attachment 2827427 I have a friend who constantly confused them with these guys... which can happen, I suppose, if you're way too stoned, and not real bright. I really like these guys too, by the way...;)
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(raises hand) The not real bright part is me to a tee... I may not have literally confused those, but did have the two monikers interfere with each other, kinda like having Link Removed inside my head insistently suggesting SD right before I'm about to name SS, or vice versa.

I've been guilty of worse in that compartment, hence my thread:
Pairs of names of bands or solo artists you tend to mix up
 
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#102
Back in the 80's after giving up on the original music, rock star dream, I landed in a jazz/rock/funk trio with a couple serious players. One was a guitar/drum machine player and the other a trumpet/keys player. I/they knew they were out of my league but they needed someone who was solid, dependable and most importantly....available. They played a ton of Steely Dan. The guitar player could cop the Carlton/Baxter solos note for note. I had to do some serious wood shedding to get up to speed with those guys. I would still get the occasional "I think you missed the flat 5 on that last change" from the guitar player. I credit them and Steely Dan for a serious upgrade of my chord theory knowledge.
 
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#108
JimK said:
I re-visit Can't Buy A Thrill (their 1972 debut)...a lot. At this point, they were a band.
In this time frame, I was entrenched in Hard Rock. I still recall hearing "Do It Again" back then(with my Hard Rock ears)...it was so different from what I was listening to...loved it from the start.
Anyway, if you're a long-time fan, re-visit that debut album. Every tune is well-played & well-crafted...by a band. :)
Gary Katz' production is stellar, too.
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What he said...

Jim and I agree that there is a good argument to be made for Can’t Buy A Thrill being on the Very short list of best ever debut albums...By A Band...:thumbsup:
 
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#110
petrus61 said:
A dope sick mind can turn out some pretty depraved material.
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My late friend Nelson Lyon, an SNL writer and friend to the famous with friends such as Andy Warhol, knew Bill and visited him
up to the end at his farm in Lawrence, Kansas. According to Nels -- the funniest man I ever met, incidentally - Burroughs, contrary to the cultivated PR, never surrendered his habit. His main capitulation to age was to hold off on the opiates until early afternoon -- the morning was for vodka, and the shooting range.

Here's my project's singer (and better half) with a photo of Bill on HIS shooting range, taken by Lyon on one of his trips to Lawrence.

William Burroughs.jpg
 
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heatheroo1 said:
Back in the 80's after giving up on the original music, rock star dream, I landed in a jazz/rock/funk trio with a couple serious players. One was a guitar/drum machine player and the other a trumpet/keys player. I/they knew they were out of my league but they needed someone who was solid, dependable and most importantly....available. They played a ton of Steely Dan. The guitar player could cop the Carlton/Baxter solos note for note. I had to do some serious wood shedding to get up to speed with those guys. I would still get the occasional "I think you missed the flat 5 on that last change" from the guitar player. I credit them and Steely Dan for a serious upgrade of my chord theory knowledge.
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I played with a guitarist who could do all that stuff like it was effortless. We'd feature him during shows on "Bodhisattva" where he would rip that thing to shreds, doing all the harmonies on the leads, note for note, as well as some of his own extended stuff. Great way to close a set. Man, I miss playing with that guy.
 
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#114
TrevorR said:
Tim's good... really good... but he's not that good! ;):D:roflmao:
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I disagree.
Timothy B. Schmidt is a freakin’ monster.
He’d be thoroughly at home in Any setting... :thumbsup:

(Bear in mind...I’m so damn old that I always think of T.B.S. as the bassist for Poco. :whistle:)
 
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#116
I passed on seeing Michael McDonald in Atlanta a few months ago.
I’ll never be able to get past what he did to the Doobies.
They were a by gawd rock n roll band...and then they were Michael McDonald’s (WELL Paid dollah, dollah!) back up band.
I thought he gutted them...
35 years ago...not that i hold a grudge or nuthin’... :roflmao:

That isolated vocal track IS “sublime”... :thumbsup:
 
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#117
the harp unstrung said:
I passed on seeing Michael McDonald in Atlanta a few months ago.
I’ll never be able to get past what he did to the Doobies.
They were a by gawd rock n roll band...and then they were Michael McDonald’s (WELL Paid dollah, dollah!) back up band.
I thought he gutted them...
35 years ago...
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Skunk got him in...then Skunk hadda go.
Back then, I was into this Doobie period. A bit jazzier, a bit funkier, etc. Actually, I still like a lot of this stuff.
Taking It To The Streets, IMO, is still a great album. Same for various tunes on the following albums.
McDonald's voice, though, doesn't do it for me after a couple of cuts. Johnston/Simmons...still like what they were about.
 
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#119
the harp unstrung said:
I passed on seeing Michael McDonald in Atlanta a few months ago.
I’ll never be able to get past what he did to the Doobies.
They were a by gawd rock n roll band...and then they were Michael McDonald’s (WELL Paid dollah, dollah!) back up band.
I thought he gutted them...
35 years ago...not that i hold a grudge or nuthin’... :roflmao:

That isolated vocal track IS “sublime”... :thumbsup:
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McDonald added about five years to their initial run by bringing in a more urban sound at the end of the 70’s, I don’t mind when a band morphs a bit with the times.
 
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#120
Michael McDonald's voice is like a sore thumb. You can't help but notice it. I crack up when I listen to Peg, because it just goes along all nice and whatnot, then suddenly there's Michael, big as all whatever, yelling PEEEEEGGGGG!
 

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