Re: (RL) Steely Dan

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mauricerickard.com>]

At 9:41 PM -0400 6/17/01, Jim Kauffman wrote:
> Don't be so hard on Steely Dan, Keith. Becker and Fagan have 
> certainly created their share of jazz-rock nonsense, but they can be 
> pretty amazing songwriters. Check out "Almost Gothic" and "Negative 
> Girl" on their Grammy-Awards-Album-Of-The-Year (choke, cough, clear 
> throat) Two Against Nature.
>  ...
> Gotta give the devil his due.

Jim, you're not alone on this list.  I'll stand up and be counted as 
a 'Dan fan, 's much as it may give Keith the howling fantods.   I did 
like the new one--that stretch of "Janie Runaway" through "Jack of 
Speed" was really gratifying to me.  And yeah, I bought it the day it 
came out.  (I have several reviews on my site, actually.)  I didn't 
like "Negative Girl" at first, but after a while, it really sunk in.

Still, I have to say that the Denny Diaz/Skunk Baxter and the Larry 
Carlton years are my favorite SD periods.  Great band, no matter what 
people may think.

Restraining myself in the interests of preserving bandwidth,
Maurice


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