Posted on 06/27/2023 12:20:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bkmrk
That’s pretty neat. There are a lot of stories with many bands losing tapes, accidentally erasing tapes and finding things discarded in dumpsters. I guess that doesn’t happen anymore since most recording is now digital an goes to hard drives.
Now they lose it when the producer erases it, because it’s not woke.
Literary mysteries: Books that have been permanently lost
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/05/12/books-book-question-lost
I agree with this list.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/steely-dan-albums-ranked/
Gaucho is next to last. And this song does not ring my bells.
jeffry skunk baxster is a trip
I still love Pretzel Logic era. Yeah, it’s pure pop before they got into the whole jazz thing. But I love it.
We’re seeing producers erased actually. Record labels are not paying producers enough. I believe they are paid indirectly from a cut of the revenue given to the artist. Song writers get so much from the cut, producers get so much, sound engineers get so much and so on. Labels are not giving as much to the artists so everyone including the artists are not making as much money as in the past. Many artists, less the most elite, are doing their own sound and production work to make up the deficit. It seems to be second nature to these kids, since they grow up with laptops and DAWs.
The PBS member station I worked at in a former life cleared the tape vault that was one huge room, a respectable medium barn I guess.
There was a period of two weeks where large portable dumpsters were being filled regularly.
All kinds of analog formats.
I snagged a quad tape just to have it.
Tons of vinyl records were tossed as well.
I saw Steely Dan in March 1973 at the Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg MD. SGMF was a relatively small venue with a circular stage that slowly revolved; the audience sat around the entire stage. The wasn’t a bad seat in the house.
They gave a great show playing songs for the “Reelin’ in the Years” album and some they had not released yet.
Skunk Baxter was playing lead guitar. His equipment malfunctioned and gave him a shock. He quit playing and the band then unexpectedly took a break. The band’s crew came out and checked and changed out some of his equipment. When they came back on stage Baxter explained what happened.
I think this was their first national tour and after it they quit touring for many years as I recall.
Note to self: Proof read before posting.
I’d jump all over that vinyl.
You made a GREAT call in going to see them..Steely Dan in the round! Awesome!
I saw two guys doing that at a farmer’s market recently, and it was great.
jeff was a spook too
I thought songwriters get royalties, not upfront money?
Literary mysteries: Books that have been permanently lost
Epstein’s black book.
I saw them in 1973 as well. Tight band with Fagen on keys and Walter on bass. Besides Baxter there was also another guitarist named Denny Dias in those days. He was known for the electric sitar solo in Do it again and a great player. When live he performed that solo on a regular electric.
“Gaucho is next to last.”
Next to last among Steely Dan fans, perhaps, but second to none among Yacht Rock fans.
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