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Ryoshi posted:"Peg" is about convincing a reluctant woman to film a porn. smug "oh don't you see what i'm doing here" lyrics set to soporific muzak. next
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The live versions of Aja and Sign In Stranger from Alive In America are nifty as gently caress.
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Seen em live 10 times, ask me anything Is there gas in the car? There's a really cool series of documentaries on Netflix where bands go back into the studio to talk about recording specific albums and then replay the songs off them. The one on Steely Dan covers Aja. At one point, Fagen and Becker are sitting at the soundboard and isolate Michael MacDonald's backing vocal track on Peg, and spend about 5 minutes just cracking each other up doing Michael MacDonald impressions. Stryder fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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 quote:Backed by several influential Capitol Hill lawmakers, Baxter received a series of security clearances so he could work with classified information. In 1995, Pennsylvania Republican congressman Curt Weldon, then the chairman of the House Military Research and Development Subcommittee, nominated Baxter to chair the Civilian Advisory Board for Ballistic Missile Defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKCQfLY7nQ Champenema posted:No static at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_XEwgfmDk anyone here ever go to a Dan show before? I have a feeling that they tend to be kind of wild affairs, like a far more classy version of a Jimmy Buffet concert (and obviously with music that doesnt suck). i recall their tickets being expensive and besides they arent really a live band at all so ive never gone Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Jan 23, 2016 21:48
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this what dudes with ponytails and moutsaches in the 70s used to jam to when they ate a couple ludes to take the edge off the coke
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Stryder posted:There's a really cool series of documentaries on Netflix where bands go back into the studio to talk about recording specific albums and then replay the songs off them. The one on Steely Dan covers Aja. At one point, Fagen and Becker are sitting at the soundboard and isolate Michael MacDonald's backing vocal track on Peg, and spend about 5 minutes just cracking each other up doing Michael MacDonald impressions. Whats this called I need to watch this. I've been a fan of this band for years. I thought everyone hated them are they cool now?
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Mariana Horchata posted:anyone here ever go to a Dan show before? I have a feeling that they tend to be kind of wild affairs, like a far more classy version of a Jimmy Buffet concert (and obviously with music that doesnt suck). i recall their tickets being expensive and besides they arent really a live band at all so ive never gone i saw em live in berkeley, ca with my parents when i was like 21 and it was not very wild at all but it was a loving amazing show. i think they did aja in whole. as far as i could tell i was by far the youngest person in the audience. my mom bought me gelato afterwards
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Hot Stereo Rock
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a lot of their songs are about getting hosed up
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Helical Nightmares posted:Steely Dan is good
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the great deceiver posted:i saw em live in berkeley, ca with my parents when i was like 21 and it was not very wild at all but it was a loving amazing show. i think they did aja in whole. as far as i could tell i was by far the youngest person in the audience. my mom bought me gelato afterwards did ya get any afterward?
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comes along bort posted:did ya get any afterward? no my game is weak 
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It says right there, gelato, from his mom.
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it was excellent gelato but i forget what flavor i got
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Steely Dan is a good band I have their double album best of on vinyl that I bought because CDs didn't yet exist now get off my lawn
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Bilirubin posted:Steely Dan is a good band I have their double album best of on vinyl that I bought because CDs didn't yet exist now get off my lawn NEEEERRRRDDD!!!!
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Champenema posted:The notes on the cd with FM say it's fully digital "DDD." Pretty high tech poo poo for 1971 or so. A digital recorder was usually a converted 3/4" VCR; I could envision a bank of 24 of these all yoked together, clicking and clanking loudly to make the cleanest sound yet. You're actually mixing up a couple of things equipment wise, though. The converted 3/4" umatic video decks were only ever used in mastering and never on the recording/mixing side. The machines you're thinking of, like the Alesis ADAT, weren't really out until around the early 90s, so for a DDD session at the time they would have used an early version of either the Mitsubishi or Sony multi track reel to reel DASH machines for the recording sessions. Since those would be either 24 or 32 track machines there would be no need to slave multiple machines like you're describing. Mixing would have been to a 2 track DASH machine, pretty much just a smaller version of the multi track monster they used for recording. That tape would go to mastering, after which they would end up with a 3/4" umatic master tape from which they would cut a glass master for CD pressing. Here's the thing, though; FM was recorded during the sessions for Aja which predates commercially available multi track digital recorders so I'm pretty sure the recordings were done using 2" 24 track and 1/2" 2 track analog tape machines (which was the reigning pro standard not only at that time but pretty much up until the early 2000s). Its possible they got their hands on early prototype versions of the digital machines but it's probably more likely that the DDD badge was a mistake since those badges are pretty well known for not being accurately applied. E: Sorry for the spergy seriouspost, but I figure if there's any place to be a dork about recording it's in a thread about Steely Dan. the future is WOW fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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They are talented, but I dont really like their music
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Bruce Kison posted:They are talented, but I dont really like their music This was my initial opinion but then I bought a couple albums to try out on a road trip and it grew into a full-on thing where if I can't decide what to listen to I just put on a Steely Dan record because it always works for me. And if I'm drinking whisky then the music is Steely Dan. Gabriel Grub fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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Stryder posted:Is there gas in the car? I saw them live with Michael McDonald opening and he came back out for Kid Charlemagne, he was singing solo during that verse and hosed up the line to "put some gas in the car." Weak.
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Stryder posted:There's a really cool series of documentaries on Netflix where bands go back into the studio to talk about recording specific albums and then replay the songs off them. The one on Steely Dan covers Aja. At one point, Fagen and Becker are sitting at the soundboard and isolate Michael MacDonald's backing vocal track on Peg, and spend about 5 minutes just cracking each other up doing Michael MacDonald impressions. the greatest michael mcdonald piss-take comes from sctv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HzWMqLeiE
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Ryoshi posted:I saw them live with Michael McDonald opening and he came back out for Kid Charlemagne, he was singing solo during that verse and hosed up the line to "put some gas in the car." Weak. I saw that tour and I don't think he usually sang on that song?
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AuntJemima posted:Whats this called I need to watch this. poo poo, it looks like they don't have them streaming anymore, but the series is called Classic Albums. I've watched a few and they're actually really cool if you're a music nerd who likes stories about songwriting and recording techniques. The last time I saw the Dan live was a few years ago and they were awesome despite a janky encore of Reelin' in the Years where Fagen totally biffed singing the rhythm of the first verse. He smiled wryly and shook it off, but after they got through the song, you could see him turn to Becker and mouth, "I'm done, let's blow." Honestly, when I was a kid my dad was a big Steely Dan fan, and I kinda hated them. I didn't really get it until I was in my 30's. So much of their music is about looking back and thinking, "Holy poo poo. Is this really all I've done with my life?" that I don't think it completely clicks until you reach that point yourself. But when it does, it ALL clicks.
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Goons like Steely Dan? I worked at a record store in the late 90's and my coworker would play almost exclusively Steely Dan and talk about them with me. The lore, the meanings of the cryptic lyrics, the whole idea of only using session players, their obsessive perfectionism... I got into them hardcore and just bought every album I could get my hands on... Saw them live twice but the second concert Donald had almost entirely lost his voice which was a bummer but man Oh man the band was incredible. Their later stuff is pretty good though it has no psychedelic sounds and has any remaining edges sanded off. Though the lyrics are still amazing, dark and sarcastic. Green Book, Gaslighting Abby, Cousin Dupree all worth a listen.
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IMHO, Donald Fagen's solo stuff has some great moments as well - The Nightfly is almost - but not quite- as good as the Dan, and Morph The Cat is underrated.
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I saw them in Seattle a while back, they played Aja in its entirety for the second set. A++ would go again.
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I enjoy the musical stylings of Steely Dan.
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ive been using a Dan album sleeve "Can't Buy a Thrill" as a mousepad recently so i can play Baldur's Gate in bed on my laptop and I noticed that there is a bunch of interesting and wacky (they don't take themselves nearly as seriously as their fanbase in case u didnt kno) writing on the back side with self-written comments about their band and each song on the album its really cool and something that is now confined to the past aside from blog/twitter posts which sux
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yeah maybe but eveyone who has met donald fagen has said he's kind of an elitist dickhole so ya know
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nah he's just an old jew beatnik playing it up for an audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbE2zNoWPFw ^ like this basically (but not as good of course)
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Midnight Cruiser is their best song IMO and also all of Aja is boring as gently caress.
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Over the past 5 years, Steely Dan has rocketed up to become my favorite band. But I'm just growing old. It's like, whatever your favorite part of rock is, they have some songs that do it amazingly. Except lyrics, never cared for those. The Royal Scam is my favorite Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eLEVZ_q9eU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPHxw5q8PiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBfdXmqJfb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfNWc1UNjM Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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The Time Dissolver posted:Midnight Cruiser is their best song IMO and also all of Aja is boring as gently caress. its got a great solo but u can say the sae thing about most of their tunes
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