From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V8 #75 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, June 24 2003 Volume 08 : Number 075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "Everything Must Go" ["Kamille" ] RE: one guitarist vs. another [Max Wellhouse ] Re: Guitarist analogies [Max Wellhouse ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:31:47 -0500 From: "Kamille" Subject: "Everything Must Go" We're in parallel worlds! I also heard "Everything Must Go" yesterday in its entirety and all of my nostalgic longings for SD were satisfied once again. These guys are phenomenal. I, like you, hold a permanent reverence for "The Goodbye Look." It's a wonderful tune from start to finish and "The Nightfly" was also on my list of "must haves" on the deserted island. Their formula is still working. I bet Basia's would too! Kamille - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:04 AM Subject: re: please let it die re: pw vs. larry godzilla > > I know Danny has always had high regard for Steely Dan, I'd like to know > how he feels about their latest, 'Everything Must Go' > I listened to it tonight and am overwhelmed. The title cut is extremely > reminiscent of Fagen's best chord changes, but when you listen to Becker, > nominally a bassist, stroking lead guitar on the bulk of the tunes, you > wonder why I left him out of my Guitar Heroes list the other night. > It's cause I forgot to list him! > Becker is Fagen's foil, to be sure, but he aint no John Oats. I recall > seeing them on Letterman years ago, when they did 'Peg'. As the number > faded away, Becker, playing lead guitar, inserted in the last measure a > perfect refrain of the Scarecrow song from the Wizard of Oz. > In these days of nega-melodic pop music crap we should all get down on our > knees before Donald and Walter and thank them, and beg them to contact > Danny and Basia and implore them to get off their asses and do > something...anything....PLEASE! We need this kind of music, the world needs > their kind of music. At least there is Steely Dan, THANK GOD! > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:38:04 -0500 From: Max Wellhouse Subject: RE: one guitarist vs. another ...and what about Carlton's early work on the Michael Franks albums? That's where I first listened to him and later on hearing his version of "Sleepwalk" over a PA system at a dance I attended many years ago sorta sealed me into his fan club. And NIghtfly IS one of the 10 best albums EVER created. dm&fs At 05:26 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, pineking@gwi.net wrote: >Whoa there, Dennis, old pal. SD's distinctive guitar had to have been Jeff >"Skunk" Baxter. Baxter goes 'way back to the original Nitty Gritty Dirt >Band lineup, when it was more a jug band than re-invented country. Larry >Carlton didn't show up until AJA, as far as I know, but, there is no >question Carlton lent his authority to Fagen's post-SD masterpiece 'The >Nightfly' (every song of which a mini-masterpiece, especially, in my >opinion, perhaps because of Carlton, The Goodbye Look). Baxter was, with >Denny Dias, SD's string section. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:49:38 -0500 From: Max Wellhouse Subject: Re: Guitarist analogies If you like the rock side of things, you should try the CD that has Carlton's instumental version of Clapton's "LAYLA" Only about 4 minutes, but you will get a taste there. His best acoustical CD was "Discovery" and he has several lCD's that split time with both acoustical and electric tunes on them. It's hard to believe he's only commercially famous for the guitar break on Mike Post's theme song for Hill Street Blues.At 06:38 PM 6/21/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Ok, so which Larry Carlton CD should I try first? I love Hendrix, >Anastasio, Hiromi >(not a guitarist, an unbelievable jazz pianist), Bloomfield, some Eric >Johnson and >not others, Petrucci. > >Thanks, > >-Bill Schnaitter > >Stephen Ylvisaker wrote: > > > Interestingly enough, Jimi Hendrix also learned from surf guitarist Dick > > Dale, "king of the surf guitar." For those that remember the Frankie Avalon > > and Annette Funicello Beach Party movies Dick Dale and his Deltones was the > > band in those movies. Anyway, Jimi Hendrix would go to Dick's shows to > watch > > and listen and learn. Jimi was smart enough to understand he could learn > > from many people. > > > > Stephen > > > > On 6/21/03 4:25 AM, "Paxety Pages" wrote: > > > > > > > > And Jimi learned a tremendous amount of his playing from a guitarist > I knew > > > slightly by the name of Johnny Jenkins. Johnny played in Otis Redding's > > > original backup band, The Pinetoppers. Johnny was from Macon, > Georgia, as was > > > Otis. Jimi played in Otis' band for a while, but I'm not sure they > were still > > > called The Pinetoppers then. Johnny tried to have a solo career some > five or > > > six years before Jimi became famous, but I don't think the world was > ready for > > > such a thing yet. His recordings went nowhere, and I'm not sure what > happened > > > to him. > > > un abrazo, > > > juan > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen Ylvisaker > > greyfell@gns2000.com > > "Never do business with pets you don't trust." Robert Kiyosaki, author > > of RICH DAD, POOR DAD ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V8 #75 **************************