From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V9 #217 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 Saturday, December 18 2004 Volume 09 : Number 217 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Larry Carlton ["Leslie O." ] Re: Larry Carlton [Bill Roberts ] Re: Larry Carlton ["Amy ODonnell" ] Re: Larry Carlton [Bill Roberts ] Re: Larry Carlton ["Amy ODonnell" ] Re: Larry Carlton [bcouil@comcast.net] Re: Larry Carlton [Bill Roberts ] Re: Larry Carlton ["Amy ODonnell" ] Re: Larry Carlton [bcouil@comcast.net] IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: Larry Carlton [Bill Roberts ] IGY [Bill Roberts ] Re: IGY [Bill Roberts ] IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) [George Davson ] Re: IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: IGY [William Schnaitter ] Re: IGY ["Greg Kain" ] Re: IGY [Max Wellhouse ] Re: IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) [Max Wellhouse ] Re: IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: IGY [pineking@gwi.net] Re: IGY ["Leslie O." ] Re: IGY [SUPRDAVE@aol.com] Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) [pineking@gwi.net] Re: IGY [pineking@gwi.net] Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) ["Leslie O." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:47:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: Larry Carlton > Carlton's association with Fagen continued after > Steely Dan - he is all over 'The > Nightfly', probably the best album of the '80's - at > least until Basia came along 8-). And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in the past called The Nightfly one of their most influential albums. Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came across a long article about the International Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen first. ;-) - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:45:23 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Larry Carlton > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > influential albums. And now we have come full circle. Bill R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:03:50 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Does that mean we're done? - -- Bill Roberts wrote: > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > influential albums. And now we have come full circle. Bill R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:09:51 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Larry Carlton It is to be hoped. Quoting Amy ODonnell : > > Does that mean we're done? > > -- Bill Roberts wrote: > > > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > > influential albums. > > And now we have come full circle. > > Bill R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:12:19 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Gracias, Senor. - -- Bill Roberts wrote: It is to be hoped. Quoting Amy ODonnell : > > Does that mean we're done? > > -- Bill Roberts wrote: > > > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > > influential albums. > > And now we have come full circle. > > Bill R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:07:45 +0000 From: bcouil@comcast.net Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would ever make that connection. - -- B - -------------- Original message -------------- > > > Carlton's association with Fagen continued after > > Steely Dan - he is all over 'The > > Nightfly', probably the best album of the '80's - at > > least until Basia came along 8-). > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > influential albums. > > Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > across a long article about the International > Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > first. ;-) > > --Leslie > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:18:08 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Larry Carlton I thought most people who like IGY knew what it stood for. Bill Quoting "" : > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would > ever make that connection. > > -- B > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > > > > Carlton's association with Fagen continued after > > > Steely Dan - he is all over 'The > > > Nightfly', probably the best album of the '80's - at > > > least until Basia came along 8-). > > > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > > influential albums. > > > > Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > > Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > > across a long article about the International > > Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > > first. ;-) > > > > --Leslie > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. > > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:25:14 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: Larry Carlton I wondered for years. Now I know. Hope I can remember if I ever get asked. Gracias. Amy - -- Bill Roberts wrote: I thought most people who like IGY knew what it stood for. Bill Quoting "" : > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would > ever make that connection. > > -- B > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > > > > Carlton's association with Fagen continued after > > > Steely Dan - he is all over 'The > > > Nightfly', probably the best album of the '80's - at > > > least until Basia came along 8-). > > > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > > influential albums. > > > > Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > > Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > > across a long article about the International > > Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > > first. ;-) > > > > --Leslie > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. > > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:44:02 +0000 From: bcouil@comcast.net Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Thanks, it's always nice to have someone else thinking for you ;-) - -- B - -------------- Original message -------------- > > I thought most people who like IGY knew what it stood for. > > Bill > > > > Quoting "" : > > > > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would > > ever make that connection. > > > > -- B > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > > > > > > > Carlton's association with Fagen continued after > > > > Steely Dan - he is all over 'The > > > > Nightfly', probably the best album of the '80's - at > > > > least until Basia came along 8-). > > > > > > And to top it all off, both Basia and Danny have in > > > the past called The Nightfly one of their most > > > influential albums. > > > > > > Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > > > Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > > > across a long article about the International > > > Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > > > first. ;-) > > > > > > --Leslie > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. > > > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:03:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: IGY > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many > people would > ever make that connection. Heh... well, I didn't know what the IGY was beyond the song title, until yesterday. Now I do! : The IGY spanned from July 1, 1957 to Dec 31, 1958. It was a massive scientific study of geophysics, with tests being done at the same time (they say) by scientists in 40 countries. They chose this time to coincide with maximum sunspot activity. And it is longer than a year to get everyone out of Antarctica in due time. Pretty cool! And it was an early use of rockets, so you know that really fired the imaginations of the time. This article I read was an interview with the US honcho of IGY, heh. I'm gonna go listen now. :-) - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:13:50 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Larry Carlton Actually, no one should need anyone to think for them. All they have to do is be able to read. On the Nightfly album, the title of the song is: "I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) ". > > Thanks, it's always nice to have someone else thinking for you ;-) > > -- B > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > > > I thought most people who like IGY knew what it stood for. > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would > > > ever make that connection. > > > > > > -- B ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:15:13 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: IGY On the Nightfly album, the title of the song is: "I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) ". Quoting Amy ODonnell : > > I wondered for years. Now I know. Hope I can remember if I ever get asked. > Gracias. > > Amy > > -- Bill Roberts wrote: > > > I thought most people who like IGY knew what it stood for. > > Bill > > > > Quoting "" : > > > > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many people would > > ever make that connection. > > > > -- B ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:17:14 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: IGY Like I said, International Geophysical Year was PART OF THE TITLE!!! Quoting "Leslie O." : > > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many > > people would > > ever make that connection. > > Heh... well, I didn't know what the IGY was beyond the > song title, until yesterday. Now I do! : The IGY > spanned from July 1, 1957 to Dec 31, 1958. It was a > massive scientific study of geophysics, with tests > being done at the same time (they say) by scientists > in 40 countries. They chose this time to coincide with > maximum sunspot activity. And it is longer than a year > to get everyone out of Antarctica in due time. Pretty > cool! And it was an early use of rockets, so you know > that really fired the imaginations of the time. > > This article I read was an interview with the US > honcho of IGY, heh. > > I'm gonna go listen now. :-) > > --Leslie > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: George Davson Subject: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Leslie O. wrote: > Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > across a long article about the International > Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > first. ;-) IGY was one of my favourite songs that I didn't know the name of, for about eighteen years! It took a session of googling for lines in the song a few years back to identify it. Having latterly got to know it better, I love the contrast between the youthful optimism and the jaded irony of experience ("by '76 we'll be A-OK", "spandex jackets, one for everyone"). Oddly, I think the optimism wins out. Howard Jones did a really good cover of it in the early 1990s. The CDsingle features an outstanding live version from a concert in Philadelphia (on the last occurrence of the "90 minutes" line he alters it to "90 minutes from Philadelphia to Paris" to the crowd's wild delight). george - -- George Davson, Computer Services, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK gdavson@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 1865 483317 Fax: +44 1865 483073 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:41:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY > Like I said, International Geophysical Year was PART > OF THE TITLE!!! You guys--- have a cold, relaxing drink on me, please? :-D This is being an interesting conversation and I hate to see it go down the tubes, like all our other interesting conversations do when someone gets testy. And believe me, today I should have the monopoly on crankiness. On top of everything, I don't even know who my boss will be on Monday! :-/ - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:58:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY > IGY was one of my favourite songs that I didn't know > the name of, for > about eighteen years! It took a session of googling > for lines in the song > a few years back to identify it. Yeah, he doesn't make it easy, does he? :-D I bought the album specifically because Danny and Basia liked it and was struck at how many of the songs I knew! > Having latterly got to know it better, I love the > contrast between the > youthful optimism and the jaded irony of experience > ("by '76 we'll be > A-OK", "spandex jackets, one for everyone"). Oddly, > I think the optimism wins out. It's a great summnation of that time period in the US too, told through those cynical eyes (I LOVE that about Donald Fagen, he says so much with just a slight change in his voice). I mean, we were supposed to be colonizing Mars by now! Where is my rocket car anyway? ;-) LOL It's interesting how The Last Mall (on Everything Must Go) revisits some of these same themes, except it's like the aftermath. ;P Man, talking about this makes me want to reread The Martian Chronicles, badly. > Howard Jones did a really good cover of it in the > early 1990s. The > CDsingle features an outstanding live version from a > concert in > Philadelphia (on the last occurrence of the "90 > minutes" line he alters it > to "90 minutes from Philadelphia to Paris" to the > crowd's wild delight). Haha! I've heard that, I was suprised by it. I always lump in Howard Jones with Thomas Dolby, I love love love Golden Age of Wireless, again, some similar themes as The Nightfly (IMHO) And to bring it all back: guess who plays (played? dunno if he still does) with Howard Jones? Kevin Robinson! See, I'll always find a way to bring it back around. - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:08:09 -0800 From: William Schnaitter Subject: Re: IGY "Leslie O." wrote: > > Like I said, International Geophysical Year was PART > > OF THE TITLE!!! > > You guys--- have a cold, relaxing drink on me, please? > :-D This is being an interesting conversation and I > hate to see it go down the tubes, like all our other > interesting conversations do when someone gets testy. > > And believe me, today I should have the monopoly on > crankiness. On top of everything, I don't even know > who my boss will be on Monday! :-/ > > --Leslie Hey, me either! - -Bill Schnaitter wait a minute, I already posted once this year... > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:38:17 -0500 From: "Greg Kain" Subject: Re: IGY I think The Nightfly was also the first total digital recording on the market. Or some such milestone. Original Message ----- From: Leslie O. To: basia@smoe.org Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 5:58 PM Subject: Re: IGY > IGY was one of my favourite songs that I didn't know > the name of, for > about eighteen years! It took a session of googling > for lines in the song > a few years back to identify it. Yeah, he doesn't make it easy, does he? :-D I bought the album specifically because Danny and Basia liked it and was struck at how many of the songs I knew! > Having latterly got to know it better, I love the > contrast between the > youthful optimism and the jaded irony of experience > ("by '76 we'll be > A-OK", "spandex jackets, one for everyone"). Oddly, > I think the optimism wins out. It's a great summnation of that time period in the US too, told through those cynical eyes (I LOVE that about Donald Fagen, he says so much with just a slight change in his voice). I mean, we were supposed to be colonizing Mars by now! Where is my rocket car anyway? ;-) LOL It's interesting how The Last Mall (on Everything Must Go) revisits some of these same themes, except it's like the aftermath. ;P Man, talking about this makes me want to reread The Martian Chronicles, badly. > Howard Jones did a really good cover of it in the > early 1990s. The > CDsingle features an outstanding live version from a > concert in > Philadelphia (on the last occurrence of the "90 > minutes" line he alters it > to "90 minutes from Philadelphia to Paris" to the > crowd's wild delight). Haha! I've heard that, I was suprised by it. I always lump in Howard Jones with Thomas Dolby, I love love love Golden Age of Wireless, again, some similar themes as The Nightfly (IMHO) And to bring it all back: guess who plays (played? dunno if he still does) with Howard Jones? Kevin Robinson! See, I'll always find a way to bring it back around. --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:49:23 -0600 From: Max Wellhouse Subject: Re: IGY Oddly enough, IGY is the only song on Nightfly that Larry didn't contribute to. He's there with bells on on the other 7 for sure. Fagen's version of Ruby Ruby absolutely puts Dion to shame. When Larry King was still doing radio talk, I always wanted to send him a cassette of the Nightfly track; it seemed to fit what he did so well. DM&FS > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. >http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:52:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY > I think The Nightfly was also the first total > digital recording on the market. > Or some such milestone. And check out how cool this is: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=78138 Very very tempting. - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:58:56 -0600 From: Max Wellhouse Subject: Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) For those of you that like Donald Fagen or are just discoveing him as a solo gig, he did a live CD in Madison Square Garden back in the early 90's called New York rock and Soul Review. He had the likes of Michael McDonald, Phoebe Snow, Box Scaggs, The Brugatti(sp?) brothers(ie half of the Rascals), Chuck brown and some other troops. the only song he does from NF is Greenflower street, but it's a keeper. I found a copy on Ebay for like $2. Excellent buy. DM&FS >On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Leslie O. wrote: > >>Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular >>Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came >>across a long article about the International >>Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen >>first. ;-) > > >IGY was one of my favourite songs that I didn't know the name of, for >about eighteen years! It took a session of googling for lines in the song >a few years back to identify it. > >Having latterly got to know it better, I love the contrast between the >youthful optimism and the jaded irony of experience ("by '76 we'll be >A-OK", "spandex jackets, one for everyone"). Oddly, I think the optimism >wins out. > >Howard Jones did a really good cover of it in the early 1990s. The >CDsingle features an outstanding live version from a concert in >Philadelphia (on the last occurrence of the "90 minutes" line he alters it >to "90 minutes from Philadelphia to Paris" to the crowd's wild delight). > > >george > > >-- >George Davson, Computer Services, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK >gdavson@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 1865 483317 Fax: +44 1865 483073 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:06:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY > > crankiness. On top of everything, I don't even > know > > who my boss will be on Monday! :-/ > > > > --Leslie > > Hey, me either! Seriously? Whoa! Here's hoping you aren't as hosed as I will probably be. ;-) - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:10:26 -0500 From: pineking@gwi.net Subject: Re: IGY I like this historical stuff. Any Basia fan is a historian, you must admit. I was in the second grade during the IGY, and I remember seeing on TV launches of all sorts of rockets, LIVE, in glorious black and white. We moved to Miami in 1959, and then up to Satellite Beach a couple of years later, when the space industry really went bananas, my parents were employees. Fagen's take on the pre-Vietnam optimism of the era is true. However, my favorite cut is Maxine, such a sophisticated "we're too young to be lovers" ballad, followed closely by his cover of Ruby Baby. Every song on the album is 4 stars. On 17 Dec 2004 at 14:03, Leslie O. wrote: > > > Wow, IGY! Good one, Leslie ;-) Not too many > > people would > > ever make that connection. > > Heh... well, I didn't know what the IGY was beyond the > song title, until yesterday. Now I do! : The IGY > spanned from July 1, 1957 to Dec 31, 1958. It was a > massive scientific study of geophysics, with tests > being done at the same time (they say) by scientists > in 40 countries. They chose this time to coincide with > maximum sunspot activity. And it is longer than a year > to get everyone out of Antarctica in due time. Pretty > cool! And it was an early use of rockets, so you know > that really fired the imaginations of the time. > > This article I read was an interview with the US > honcho of IGY, heh. > > I'm gonna go listen now. :-) > > --Leslie > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:13:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY The great thing too about Steely Dan is that they keep being important and relevent. Witness Super Furry Animals' The Man Don't Give A F*** rifffing on Show Biz Kids, and Pharrel Williams of NERD and 5 billion hip hop songs pretty much worshipping at the altar and mentioning it in many many interviews this year (you can really, really hear it on the Fly or Die album) Give you guys some hope for the whippersnappers yet, huh? ;-) - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:13:26 EST From: SUPRDAVE@aol.com Subject: Re: IGY In a message dated 12/17/2004 6:57:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, maxjoyce@ipa.net writes: Oddly enough, IGY is the only song on Nightfly that Larry didn't contribute to. He's there with bells on on the other 7 for sure. Fagen's version of Ruby Ruby absolutely puts Dion to shame. When Larry King was still doing radio talk, I always wanted to send him a cassette of the Nightfly track; it seemed to fit what he did so well. DM&FS - ----------------------------------------------------- I like the Nightfly myself and love the album cover and backside too. My favourite pick from it is The Goodbye Look. The lyrics provide a great picture in one's mind and the drumbeat is interesting although I don't know what you'd call it. I heard the same beat from a band on a small boat that was taking me and a bunch of others to a small tropical island down around florida. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:31:25 -0500 From: pineking@gwi.net Subject: Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) I attended the last three Dan tours, and while really great, and I understand the role Becker plays, I have been contemplating the (imagined) upcoming Donald Fagen Tour, in which he reprises the Nightfly, Rock and Soul Review and Kamakiriad years. I think he is on the same level as any Gershwin or Cole Porter, let alone Bacharach, and I think he understands the business better than any contemporary composer since Henry Mancini. I think Danny White has the potential to enter the ranks of these guys, based on what he has accomplished so far. Unfortunately Basia hasn't carried him to that level - but you can't fault her, she has had to overcome other obstacles. I think instead Danny needs to think beyond this association. He's got to think bigger. The movies is where he (and Basia, bless her) need to go. Find a good vehicle and get some exposure. On 17 Dec 2004 at 17:58, Max Wellhouse wrote: > > For those of you that like Donald Fagen or are just discoveing him as a > solo gig, he did a live CD in Madison Square Garden back in the early 90's > called New York rock and Soul Review. He had the likes of Michael > McDonald, Phoebe Snow, Box Scaggs, The Brugatti(sp?) brothers(ie half of > the Rascals), Chuck brown and some other troops. the only song he does > from NF is Greenflower street, but it's a keeper. I found a copy on Ebay > for like $2. Excellent buy. > > DM&FS > > > >On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Leslie O. wrote: > > > >>Incidentally, I was looking at my bunch of Popular > >>Science issues from the fifties yesterday, and came > >>across a long article about the International > >>Geophysical Year. Of course I thought of Donald Fagen > >>first. ;-) > > > > > >IGY was one of my favourite songs that I didn't know the name of, for > >about eighteen years! It took a session of googling for lines in the song > >a few years back to identify it. > > > >Having latterly got to know it better, I love the contrast between the > >youthful optimism and the jaded irony of experience ("by '76 we'll be > >A-OK", "spandex jackets, one for everyone"). Oddly, I think the optimism > >wins out. > > > >Howard Jones did a really good cover of it in the early 1990s. The > >CDsingle features an outstanding live version from a concert in > >Philadelphia (on the last occurrence of the "90 minutes" line he alters it > >to "90 minutes from Philadelphia to Paris" to the crowd's wild delight). > > > > > >george > > > > > >-- > >George Davson, Computer Services, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK > >gdavson@brookes.ac.uk Tel: +44 1865 483317 Fax: +44 1865 483073 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:00:21 -0500 From: pineking@gwi.net Subject: Re: IGY Surely you refer to 'Walk Between the Raidrops', since the Florida Fagen refers to is the Miami in which Larry composed his 'Surfboard' columns for the Miami News, 'way back then. I know only because I hawked them at the corner of 27th Ave (Lejeune Blvd) and 79th Street. On 17 Dec 2004 at 17:49, Max Wellhouse wrote: > > Oddly enough, IGY is the only song on Nightfly that Larry didn't contribute > to. He's there with bells on on the other 7 for sure. Fagen's version > of Ruby Ruby absolutely puts Dion to shame. > > When Larry King was still doing radio talk, I always wanted to send him a > cassette of the Nightfly track; it seemed to fit what he did so well. > > DM&FS > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > >http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:11:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: IGY - (was Re: Larry Carlton) > I think he is on the same level as any Gershwin or > Cole Porter, let alone Bacharach, > and I think he understands the business better than > any contemporary composer > since Henry Mancini. I think Danny White has the > potential to enter the ranks of > these guys, based on what he has accomplished so > far. Unfortunately Basia hasn't > carried him to that level - but you can't fault her, > she has had to overcome other > obstacles. I think instead Danny needs to think > beyond this association. He's got to > think bigger. The movies is where he (and Basia, > bless her) need to go. Find a good > vehicle and get some exposure. Yow! Killer! What I can imagine: - --Danny doing film scores. I am not kidding here. - --Basia writing more songs, and not just for herself either. Other people. IMHO, she is a hell of a lyricist at her best. Again IMHO, it's kinda obvious to me that she wrote the best lyrics on Matt's Mood (with all due respect to Mark Reilly, a few of his songs are good but I'm hearing the whole Fisher/Reilly MB back catalog right now and a lot of those lyrics will make you scream with pain. I think he is best as a song stylist). You put that stuff with the stuff she wrote on TSI and I rest my case. - --I see this whole Matt's Mood thing as sort of the beginning of what can be some great stuff on both their parts. Perhaps working under a different context instead of this 'Basia' one will bring out the best in both of them on an ongoing basis. I wouldn't be suprised in the least to see another Matt Bianco album. I really wouldn't. We shall see, though....I'm just digging right now, mind you, while it is here and now. - --I do think there will be another Basia album. I do think that Basia will be singing more stuff, with who and with what, I dunno. But MM shows me, as clear as day, that she's into it. She sounds frigging great, vocally. Better than TSI even by a smidgen, and wayyyy better than the first two albums. And she isn't bogged down by production-- it was nice and light on MB and her voice could really come through. And I think we may see this supposed dead material see the light of day in some form. - --also, kill me here, but I would still love a jazz album-- actual jazz, mind you, with Danny and some of these super cool musicians they have worked with over the years. And yes, I would love to see Danny and Kevin collaborate on compositions. But I would also love to see a Triple Crown winner so y'know... LOL - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V9 #217 ***************************