Since we are about to go into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the USA, I thought I'd suggest a cool tune to jam to while you are stuffing your face with turkey, mashed potatoes, green been salad and pumpkin pie. The news media is harping about balck Friday, so it got me in a Steely Dan mood.

As for the orgers out there not from the USA, Thanksgiving Day is a major holiday in the USA on par with Christmas and Easter Sunday. It's a national day of thanks to our ancestors who settled into this country, and its origins are based to the 1600's when the Pilgrims first settled into what is now America. Many of the Pilgrims who came over to America to flee religious persecution in Europe died during the first year here due to disease and starvation. The native American tribes who were here helped the pilgrims set up farms and helped them hunt and fish, and as a symbol of gratitude, the Pilgrims invited the native American tribes to a huge feast from their harvest. Therefore, the major tradition in this country is to invite or go over to our families, cook a huge turkey and a lot of other food, and eat until we cannot move around. (Sorry, I couldn't find a cooked bird emoticon.)

Now as for Black Friday (for our non-American orgers), it is the name which the news media and retail businesses have given to the day after Thanksgiving, which is the unoffical start of the Christmas holiday season in the USA. It's a huge shopping day where Walmart and all of the major retailers cut prices on heavily in-demand items for Christmas gifts to ridiculously low prices, but with a catch. The stores open at 6:00 am, and these sales only last during the morning hours, and even then, they have a limited supply of those items available. This usually leads to a hundreds of people lining up outside the store at 5:00 am to get a digital camera which is normally $350.00 for $80.00 or some toy which normally costs $30.00 for $10.00. Then when they get inside the store, people act foolish and start pushing and shoving each other for gifts, and in some cases, physical assaults will happen. The irony of all of this mayhem is that, depending on how the economy is, the prices of these same gifts will drop to that same level the week before Christmas, and there are no bait-and-switch tactics used at that time. If the economy is good, like it was in the late 1990's, you won't find many discounts before Christmas, but if it has been crappy like it has been for the last few years, there are discounts of 50% or more up to a full ten days to two weeks before Christmas.


When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it 'til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop's gonna sanctify me
And if he don't come across
I'm gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name

Yes!

Great cut.

For once, they didn't employ a guest guitarist to do the solos. Walter Becker took the reins himself for this one. I've always dug this tune.

Nice pick, great tune.

The term also refers to the beginning of the American Stock Market crash of 1939...

When Black Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor

...where the legend was created of businessmen jumping out of windows.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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