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Classic Albums: Aja by Steely Dan 1977 (fun, detailed video analysis of Aja)
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Posted on 11/10/2013 9:56:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux

VIDEO LINK.

You never realize how much actually goes into the production an album like Aja...until you see it reviewed by the artists.


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1 posted on 11/10/2013 9:56:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Jump ahead to the 18:00 minute point to see and hear Michael McDonald comment on his part in supplying vocals. Very interesting stuff.


2 posted on 11/10/2013 10:05:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s a Steely Dan weekend at Freepers!


3 posted on 11/10/2013 10:10:13 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: RoosterRedux

Hey, Everything Must Go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2nbAtceHqw&list=PLdD0L20Wp32PZxEFlOuOoaQfPc8paFmqQ


4 posted on 11/10/2013 10:11:54 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Great album and video. Thanks for posting. Too many memories.


5 posted on 11/10/2013 10:21:33 AM PST by Fungi
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To: Nachum
Thx. Just watched it again for the first in a long time.

Great fun...loved every second of it.

6 posted on 11/10/2013 10:23:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux
I go back and forth between “Aja” and “The Royal Scam” being my favorite Dan album.

I love “Gaucho” too.

7 posted on 11/10/2013 11:09:56 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

The Royal Scam and Pretzel Logic are my favorites....I like Aja, but I tend to prefer the harder-edged early Steely Dan sound before they got too Jazzy.


8 posted on 11/10/2013 11:11:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: CaptainK
I just watched a video of Kid Charlemagne from Royal Scam (live) and remembered that it was also one of my faves.

Check it out.

9 posted on 11/10/2013 11:12:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux

Best hour I’ve spent in while. Thanks for the post!


10 posted on 11/10/2013 11:28:48 AM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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Yur welcome.


11 posted on 11/10/2013 11:30:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: RoosterRedux

I hadn’t heard of them, really, until a classmate at Fort Huachuca in 1978 turned me on to them. Great music.


12 posted on 11/10/2013 11:50:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Many on the left see faith & family as oppressive, the right sees them as indispensable." Palin)
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To: RoosterRedux

Great music. Fun seeing kind of the exploded view of what’s going on with the individual parts in those songs.


13 posted on 11/10/2013 12:24:01 PM PST by CowboyJay (Vida Eterna Benigno Numine)
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To: samadams2000; RoosterRedux
Best hour I’ve spent in while. Thanks for the post!

What he said... ditto that...Absolutely! Perfect vid for a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon.

14 posted on 11/10/2013 12:28:43 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: RoosterRedux

Did you know Kayne West sampled a piece of Kid Charlemagne on one of his “songs”?

It’s like putting $100 an ounce caviar on a crap sandwich.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f4yq_kanye-west-champion-video-clip_music


16 posted on 11/10/2013 1:00:03 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Have the LP

The 1st Mrs. Lurkin floated the idea of naming a child Aja — but we never got to that.


17 posted on 11/10/2013 1:48:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: RoosterRedux

LOVE this album, and the drumming on the title track, though simple, is sublime. Steve Gadd won the best drumming performance of the year for that. It’s become my favorite track on the album.


18 posted on 11/10/2013 1:59:11 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: R AND R IN 2012
“DEACON BLUES” has got to be one of the best songs...EVER!!!

I like it too, but I hope this doesn't ruin it for you...

Fagan: "Walter (Becker) and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' And I said, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool! Let's finish it!'"

19 posted on 11/10/2013 2:06:29 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Steely Dan leads the nation in urban legends related to songs. Wake Forest students said that SD was referring to Wake Forest in that song.
To people in NOVA, SD is referring to Annandale HS in Arlington.


20 posted on 11/10/2013 2:11:53 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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