Posted on 07/20/2019 6:43:57 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
"Chain Lightning" by Steely Dan off "Katy Lied" featuring Wilhelm Reich's "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" in poster form as preformed by The extraordinary New York Surveillance Camera Players a combination theater and protest performance group that performs to the surveillance cameras. Photos of include Stalin*, Nixon, Bush and Clintons.
According to a group member, a liberal estimate of the number of surveillance cameras in operation in Manhattan is now more than 10,000. This pales in comparison to London, the city with the highest concentration of surveillance cameras, where it is estimated there are 10,000 cameras in operation in London's financial district alone.
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Sure thing little buddy.
Have a nice day.
Well, I never heard of them.
Love your tagline. Love Gary Nunn & Jerry Jeff Walker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ppc3jz3GE
As a Texan, I’ve always taken the chances :-)
“But do they have soul?”
Oh yes, my friend. They have soul:
Enjoy you day.
L
“I’d forgotten how good this tune is.”
Their music is just like that. One of their songs plays, a song you have heard a thousand times, and it sounds better than the first time you heard it.
Watching the images in the video lead me to post the question. Me thinkest that they have a good angst, but lack the classical, liberal education to address the issue :-)
Back at ya’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rXnx2Lu5rs
Stay cool. Upper 90s today on the right coast.
PS. That SD song was one that hasn’t been played to death and I agree. Quite tasty.
Cheers,
‘Pod.
One of the best videos! The drawings were pure Alexander Calder.
“Like rolling a pure diamond thread through your fingers.”
Awesome version of that tune.
“Stay cool. Upper 90s today on the right coast.”
The heatwave broke here in the great Midwest yesterday afternoon. Temperature dropped 20 degrees in half an hour. Then the blessed rains came. Going to top out in the mid 80s today. So relief is headed your way soon.
Mrs. L and I caught 5 nice bass and a 4 pound cat fishing the back side of the front last night. 3 Sandhills Cranes flew right over us, their calls sounding like flying dinosaurs. During civil twilight a pack of coyotes started howling to announce that they’d be on the prowl soon. One of those magic evenings the Good Lord throws your way every once in a while just to remind you that He does love you and that in spite of all the crap going on in the world it is indeed good to be alive right here, right now.
Thanks for the ear candy. It’s a fine start to the day.
Best,
L
One name to utterly refute that tripe:
Frank Zappa
If you were less than perfect in studio or onstage, you were GONE. That fast. If dope was around, you were gone. A more exacting taskmaster I have never heard mentioned.
Katy Lied is such a great album.
“One name to utterly refute that tripe:
Frank Zappa”
Yep. Saw him 5 times. As close to flawless live performances as they got.
L
“Katy Lied is such a great album.”
It is. So was Can’t Buy A Thrill.
L
And Countdown to Ecstasy, "King of the World" is my favorite Dan tune.
I think mine is New Frontier. Technically not a SD song but it’s Fagen and Becker and that’s enough.
Enjoy your day.
L
AXS teevee had done one or two Steely Dan pieces, one where Fagen gets into detail about the sounds that were placed, and why. There is an incredible amount of "just below the surface" sound that makes a significant difference to the ear.
You can't have a discussion about Steely Dan's Katy Lied without also touching on the infamous dbx debacle, obliquely referred to in Becker and Fagen's 1999 liner notes, but explained with some gory details by Dias. The mysterious dulling of the sound during the mixing process so frustrated everyone -- even reducing the `immortal' engineer Roger Nichols to a mere, dumbfounded mortal -- that the task of remixing and mastering fell to Dias by default, because no one else wanted to do it. To the great credit of Dias and Becker (who stepped in late into the process), the album was salvaged sufficiently enough for release.
I never noticed ;-)
Contains Gold Teeth II, the piano/guitar solo gives me goosebumps.
I once heard a garbage truck skid down a road, strike a yelping dog, slam into a glazier’s truck, and catch fire as a grand piano landed on the maelstrom from above and a (beautiful, really) 1974 Sedan de Ville hit the mess head-on.
Whilst watching the hubcaps roll away I realized it all sounded like a Zappa track but, of course, I knew that to try and understand such transcendent music would be utterly above my lowly abilities.
Steely Dan was 2 guys (Fagen & Becker) who hired A-Class studio musicians to play on their tracks.
They were infamous for hiring a group of studio musicians to record a song...then the next day a new group of musicians would come in and record the same song.
They would bring in numerous musicians to get a solo “just right”. The guitar solo in “Peg” brought in 6-7 musicians to try their hand...until Jay Graydon nailed it. byw, Jay Graydon played the hot solo on Al Jarreau’s “Raging Water” & co-wrote the song as well as produced the entire album.
Their engineer, Roger Nichols, was a nuclear scientist and SD albums always were known for their high level of sound quality.
Jazz inspired music
Great musicians
Dry, sardonic lyrics
Impeccable sound quality
saw them twice in recent years
2014 in Madison, WI when Becker was still playing...in fact, he sang some lead lyrics
saw “half the dan” last summer in St Paul, MN. Good show, but Fagens voice is weakening noticeably. Beckers absence is noticeable, IMHO
Still one of my favorite bands. Top 5
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