Old Fashion Drugs-- Alcohol

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Jeff, I microwaved a quesadilla here in Jersey while I wrote about Jefferson Airplane and listened to Grace Slick singing in my head. No steak here.

My favorite Steely Dan song is probably "Aja" or maybe "Deacon Blue."

I agree that David Byrne is a musical genius.

But it's awfully hard to conceive of a list of a thousand songs without at least "I Wanna Be Sedated" on it.

What a great thread Peter Chao started!

-Al

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Steely Dan did tour in the 1970's. Not often, but I did see them once.

Well that does it for me. Bye bye.

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Posted By: pas

No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know.

EDIT TO ADD No cut and paste here.

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Posted By: JimCrandell

I have Psycho Killer and Burning Down the House on the Top 1000 and also a song by the Tom Tom Club(Chris and Tina)

Aja was a great album and it seems like Fagan and Becker like to play songs from that more than any.

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Posted By: pas

Bad Sneakers is probably my favorite Dan song, although there are many.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Al, at the next dinner both you and Jim will have to attend. At the very least we will work on Jim and demonstrate that there are 100 better Clash songs than "Rock the Casbah" -- including the first three songs on Give 'Em Enough Rope, probably the most brutal and best start to any Punk album ever.

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Posted By: JimCrandell

Jeff,

Al and I are good collecting buds--I even owe him a dinner for setting up my scanner so set it up and its on me.

Peter--I like that too.

Loved the Can't Buy a Thrill almum with Dirty Work, Change of the Guard and Fire in the Hole and Pretzel Logic with Night by Night, Barrytown and the title song.

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Posted By: John Kalafarski

Some random thoughts associated with this post.
Joe Page, the great Yankee closer in the '40s and '50s, drank himself out of the big leagues quickly. Coulda been better than Mariano. He chased women and stayed out all night too.
When I was a kid in the fifties, we had a friend, then in his thirties, who played ball in the Cardinal system. He drank himself out of baseball. When I saw him at my uncle's house, which is where I would see him, he ALWAYS had a beer in his hand.
Has anyone ever seen this Peter Chao character; does he really exist?
Lawyers seem to have a lot of free time.
I saw the Airplane just after "Baxter's" came out. Doesn't get any better than that (except maybe the young Rolling Stones).

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Posted By: Joann

I read years ago that Steely Dan toured a few times and then refused to do it. Their sound had a lot that came from a studio - from the different instruments to the mixers, etc. They toured it and found they could not recreate the complexities, and were dissatisfied with it so they stopped. Not sure why they changed their minds in later years - maybe better technology to support live shows.

And for Peter S - more from your same song - the kind of stuff I'll crank up loud when there is a lot piling up ...

There's no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live 'til Saturday

(Also no cut and paste here)

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Jeff I'll take the entirety of "London Calling" over virtually any album ever. Months go by inbetween listens for me, and every time I put it on I expect it to bore me, and every time it blows me away.

I would love to make one of those dinners someday, although I don't get into the city much these days. I enjoy the boonies more as I get older.

-Al

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Posted By: peter chao

John,

Why did you remind me that I have a deposition tomorrow? Nope, I do not officially exist, now that I have joined the resistance my identity is top secret.

Peter C.

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Posted By: Ken W.

He Lives!!!!
(And Al, word on "London Calling"!)

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Posted By: pas

What's a deposition?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

London Calling rocks -- as does the first Clash album. Very possibly the greatest band of all time.

Peter, in order to remain a secret perhaps you should go further underground. Keep going...we'll tell you when to stop.

Edited to add: <--- damn, almost forgot this thing

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Posted By: pas

You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe

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Posted By: Joann

OK. Maybe after all these years I might finally be able to find this out. What the hell is a cobalt cigarette?

And Jim - no doubt SD has some very very complicated lyrics. I'll admit that a lot of the time I really don't know exactly what they are saying. But I love the music, and in the cases where I can grab a stanza that is dead on to something I understand, those are burned into my brain.

J

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Posted By: pas

J -- what you smoke when you watch the sun go brown, of course.

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Go Rockies!!!

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Posted By: Cobby33

I'm getting a haircut this weekend.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

favorite clash song:

"this is radio clash"...


speaking of alcohol...

i had 2 "sambuca on the rocks" at dinner!


p.s. jim- i'm impressed with your musical knowledge!

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Posted By: barrysloate

John K.- I saw the Airplane at least a couple of times at the Fillmore East, probably around 1967-68. The After Bathing at Baxter's Album was their absolute peak.

50 years ago today in rock history:

On October 18, 1957, 15-year-old Paul McCartney makes his debut with the Quarry Men. He is nervous and messes up his guitar licks...but I think it eventually worked out for him down the road.