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At the risk of inspiring everyone's ire, I wasn't a SD fan back in their heyday. Think they were a little too cool for their own good. I didn't start to appreciate them until I started to play guitar about five years ago. Those guitar solos are just so amazing to listen to. Tremendous chops.
 
Hey, like I said, taste is personal, and I bet for anyone who retorted in the negative to my Hall and Oates post they themselves have artists in their collections that I would laugh at too. But I am relaxing on a long week and not in the mood to defend my PERSONAL taste to what is obviously undefendable.

But still, for whatever SD gets on the hype, having the recordings on my system it SOUNDS nice but does not move me. That is all.
 
Hey, like I said, taste is personal, and I bet for anyone who retorted in the negative to my Hall and Oates post they themselves have artists in their collections that I would laugh at too. But I am relaxing on a long week and not in the mood to defend my PERSONAL taste to what is obviously undefendable
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sorry - but just seemed you were bashing other's when you said
Granted, there is no accounting for taste
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so I guess some thought that Hall & Oates was fair game.

I have no doubt many would not care for some of the stuff I listen to, but I doubt I would ever tell them
Granted, there is no accounting for taste
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unless I had a real big :D behind it.
 
I've told this story before. I saw SD during their heyday, early 70's. Actually they had a bad reputation then for being a mediocre live act. They were on a bill with Jessie Colin Young who opened. Talk about comeplete opposites. Young's band was loose and in a great musical groove. SD was as advertised. While technically great they were emotionally flat and actually pretty boring. It seems as if they have loosened up in their old age.I hope so.

cubdog
 
miner said:
A fine group of musicians and a great show I am sure of. They do pride themsleves on tightness and fluidity. Now, do you know where the band name came from? :)
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I believe I know, but this is a family show. So, uhhh....:nono:
 
Steely Dan songs are like little mini-movies. Good examples include the eerily prescient "Don't Take Me Alive", "The Things I Miss The Most", "Deacon Blues", and one of my real faves "What A Shame About Me". The Dan often demands concentrated listening...but they're worth the effort.
 
Saw SD at the Chicago Theater in the summer of 2009. Looking forward to seeing them in Milwaukee at the end of August. They put on such a great show, I didn't want it to end last time I saw them.

I can just imagine them singing 'She's a Rich Girl' from Hall and Oates. They could actually twist it to be a cool song. Just my humble opinion.:D
 
cubdog said:
I've told this story before. I saw SD during their heyday, early 70's. Actually they had a bad reputation then for being a mediocre live act. They were on a bill with Jessie Colin Young who opened. Talk about comeplete opposites. Young's band was loose and in a great musical groove. SD was as advertised. While technically great they were emotionally flat and actually pretty boring. It seems as if they have loosened up in their old age.I hope so.

cubdog
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Then you're one of the few who saw them. IIRC they only went on tour once back-in-the-day. I remember readng they had no interest in playing live. You could say they were a studio band in the truest sense.

I began to lose interest in them with Aja, although I still but down my dollar for Gaucho and Fagen's Nightfly. The albums prior to Aja are all excellent. YMMV
 
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It would be great if a good quality live DVD becomes available from
this Steely Dan tour, my Hafler DH-500 needs a good workout..:D
 
Dan certainly has the ability to polarize, but at the end of the day there is no denying the significant contribution they made to American pop music history. I mean, just look at what they are and everything they've done....excellent story tellers of topics unique to the American culture, uncompromising musicianship through the employement of top notch studio musicians, cutting edge recording, engineering, and production methods, integration of all significant styles of American music including jazz, rock, blues, funk, R&B, and country, and still chuggin' along after four decades! And when they decided to go back to the studio after a twenty year hiatus and spit out an album, which made no comprimises to their original style, they won a Grammy for ALBUM OF THE YEAR! They are an American treasure, no doubt. Think I'll go fire up The Royal Scam now.
 
donberry said:
sorry - but just seemed you were bashing other's when you said

so I guess some thought that Hall & Oates was fair game.

I have no doubt many would not care for some of the stuff I listen to, but I doubt I would ever tell them
unless I had a real big :D behind it.
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priceless
 
I missed seeing them back in the 70's for which I still regret but I'm looking forward to seeing them at MGM at the Foxwoods Hotel & Casino in Ledyard CT on July 29th.
 
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