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Steely Dan - The Lost Gaucho Album The Gaucho sessions produced enough material for an alternate record that has been floating around for a bit. Based on what went on with them during this time period, it's amazing the record got made at all. Overall its an interesting insight into their writing process especially when you hear early versions of songs like Third World Man with a different title and lyrics. One of the unfinished tracks that i'd wish they'd revisit is... ...Kulee Baba
My nom d'voyage is McSween
(missing lyrics) Sweet holy Jesus, what a night
The principal in this song reminds me of the Carl Denham character... [Edited 5/2/12 20:39pm] "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I'm diggin' this!!
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What is the alternative setlist for the "lost" Gaucho album? "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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01 Kind Spirit
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Thanks! I'll keep a look out for these. A big steely Dan fan from way back! "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I have a Kulee Baba version that just features Donald Fagen, alone on piano and vocals--so it;'s nice to compare and contrast the two....
... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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Disc 2...
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Btw, have any other Kindle/iPad users checked out the e-book, "Do It Again: The Steely Dan Years", by Dave Di Martino? I don't know if you could call it a proper book really--it's basically all the information he gathered in preparation for a book on Steely Dan back in '85--and the publishing company decided not to release it for one reason or another.
So he just released all the stuff as an e-book..with no updates, no rewrites or anything, just all the interviews with band members and other info he came up with, up to that point in time(he doesn't really get to talk to Fagen, although he does correspond and play phone tag back and forth with Walter Becker, to get his OK on the material.....I wish he would have spent more time talking to the studio and Jazz cats like Larry Carlton, Steve Khan, Wayne Shorter, Steve Gadd etc. (although I guess we have the "Classic Albums" program, at least for Aja)...
Overall, I thought it was fascinating, even though it's a little jumbled and erratic...for die-hard SD fans, it's a nice companion piece to Brian Sweet's book, "Reelin' In The Years" ....
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[Edited 5/1/12 17:24pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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Aha!!! Ndeed, Obi-Wan.....I got to see Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, and Boz Skaggs play together as "The Dukes of September" at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2010, and they sounded wonderful. Much better than this tinny sounding video posted below. I was disappointed that they all didn't have a recording together to buy.
I heard they reprised "The Dukes" last year, although I didn't attend. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Not yet. I'll have an iPad3 in about a week or so. If it's available in that format i'll definitely snag it.
I see that it's up for grabs in some of the usual places.
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They're back out again this year. From Michael McDonald's site:
I'll probably catch the L.A. date.
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I love stuff like this
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unreleased albums,unfinished demos,alternate takes.....exciting stuff!
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A friend of mine here in LA may be the one who first unleashed that on the world. It had come from a friend of his who used to work in studios & ended up with a reel of the multitracks. If I recall correctly, he had acquired it when buying a reel of used 2-inch tape.
(One thing we learned when buying used tape reels for the studio- always listen to them before demagnetizing them! I know other engineers who ended up with multitracks for The Doors and Bloodsugarsexmagic.)
He gave a couple of us copies, and one of my friends went to talk about it on an SD message board, and was stunned to find out none of the collectors had heard it before.
SD broke out one of those outtake tunes on their tour last year, a really big surprise for those of us who noticed it. I'm pretty sure it was "The Bear." | |
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On a similar subject, i've had the individual tracks from Shaft for a few years. Now that guitarist Charles Pitts has passed, I thought about that classic wah track.
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Really digging this | |
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The "studio" versions... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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