mistuh steely dan and whatevah
Van Hammersly
'bodhisattva'? just some drunk guy they found on the street?
Jim Haselmaier
recent interview on NPR (not the REAL recent interview, but they were on an
hour-long show a few month ago - don't recall the name) they discussed this
guy at length. I believe the recording you're referring to was done on the
last *night* they played live before they took their concert hiatus in the
70s. Although that recording is not the last *show*, because they did
another show that same night after that one.
They also said the guy, no matter how many times he was told, couldn't get
it through his head that Steely Dan was not a *person*, but a *band*.
Jim
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Greg Anderson
> hey, who is the guy 'introducing' steely dan on the live version of
> 'bodhisattva'? just some drunk guy they found on the street?
Jerome Aniton. Just some drunk guy who used to drive their truck.
He's even credited at http://www.steelydan.com/citizentracks.html.
Greg
ddr
bitty purdy one..." line.
And I also heard he had had a bit of a wreck with one of their rental
vehicles earlier in the day/tour.
But, rambling aside, that has to be one of the greatest introductions of all
time.
Why, however, does he get bleeped? It's even worse than the version of
Junkie Girl that appears on the radio promo where Walter sings, "It's a
<bleeped>-up world..."
Speaking of profanity, I loved how Donald sang "fucked-up" instead of
"funked-up" in FM. And these guys blew the tweeters off tens of thousands of
stereos in the 70s with the line from Showbiz Kids who "Don't give a fuck
about anybody else..." So why would any Steely Dan release EVER be bleeped?
love and kisses
diane
--
Somewhere along the line
I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything;
somewhere along the line
the pearl would be handed to me.
-- Jack Kerouac
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Đon ßailey
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> And apparently he also thought Bernard Purdie was with them, ergo, "little
> bitty purdy one..." line.
>
> And I also heard he had had a bit of a wreck with one of their rental
> vehicles earlier in the day/tour.
>
> But, rambling aside, that has to be one of the greatest introductions of
all
> time.
>
> Why, however, does he get bleeped? It's even worse than the version of
> Junkie Girl that appears on the radio promo where Walter sings, "It's a
> <bleeped>-up world..."
>
> Speaking of profanity, I loved how Donald sang "fucked-up" instead of
> "funked-up" in FM.
One day in my teen years....
I had FM blasting on my stereo and my mom walked in right when
Donald sang "Give us some....." She stopped talking for a minute,
paused, and went back in her talk...
I thought I had crossed a line that day. Even though I knew what Donald
was singing... She probably didn't.
db
Corvid
"ddr"
>
> Speaking of profanity, I loved how Donald sang "fucked-up" instead of
> diane
D - how sure are you about that? The Official Word From On High is
"funked-up", although the first instance of it in the tune has always
sounded like "fucked-up", and that's the way I've sang it for the last
twenty years. I don't always trust my ears when it comes to SD lyrics.
ddr
plainly. not on the record. never on the record.
love and kisses
diane
--
Somewhere along the line
I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything;
somewhere along the line
the pearl would be handed to me.
-- Jack Kerouac
ON THE ROAD
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Van Hammersly
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:26:28 -0700, "ddr" <jacko...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Van Hammersly
Steve2000indeja
>'bodhisattva'? just some drunk guy they found on the street?
>
I heard they called in a favor and got Ed McMahon from the Tonight Show. Ed was
pretty heavily into the sauce then..
Steve
:)
Mike C.
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Steve2000indeja
>
>> In fact, that's something that I've found surprising about the live
>> version of 'Bodhisattva' on their compilation CD: Why would a band
>> whose existence nearly revolves around sonic perfection have such a
>> shitty-sounding live track on their best-of album? I know it's because
>> the intro is pure genius, but still it's kind of an anomaly.
>
>
>I expect this has more to do with MCA records than the Dan
>
>coneripper
I always assumed the guys purposefully released this as a rare and -with that
intro- highly amusing artifact from their short mid 70s 'band' era .
It's pretty obviously a low fi cassette recording, albeit with the person(s)
holding the tape recorder having good seats/access to the main PA for a clean
hit of sound. Perhaps it was done from at the mixing board location, but it is
not what is now known as a (direct from the) "board mix." It's simply
microphones (probably built into the cassette) picking up what's through the
air from the PA.
You can even hear the person(s) holding the recorder laughing and
'oh-my-god'-ing a little bit as Jerome wanders on and on. Might have been
recorded by a crew member or a manager or friends. Who knows? (don and walt
probably do)
The band was red hot that night and 'Bohisattva' smokes. The cassette recorder
picks it all up with it's inexpensive built-in 'level control" (limiter)
squashing things wonderfully.
The reason I'm *pretty sure* this is what's going on technically is that I
snuck my own 70s-style cassette recorder into many concerts in those years and
sometimes I'd get a keeper tape -or at least a few songs- if I was lucky. They
sounded like this after a bit of cleaning up. And you could hear snatches of
concersation by friends and other people around me between songs.. similar to
the live 'Bodhisattva.'
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When I first heard this live version of 'Bohisattva" (B-side of the "Hey 19"
single circa 1980..?) I laughed like crazy listening to Jerome's intro, then
went "Wow! Cool! etc" when the band came on and burned through the tune.
Yeah, it was pretty lo-fi and most likely a cassette recording - but it was the
first time I'd ever heard a recording of the original Steely Dan band live.
Very few such things ever existed and we didn't have the internet or boot
trading rings in 1980 to find them. Steely Dan didn't officially release any
live material (besides this lone side of a 1980-1 single) until 1995s "Alive in
America."
In 1980 it was fantastic hearing a 6 year old audience/cassette recording of
one of the last live performances Steely Dan did in the 70s. Jerome's intro has
turned this rare artifact into bonifide legendary recording. Beyond classic.
I had lost my 45 vinyl single which had the "Jerome->Bodhisttva" on it
somewhere along the way in the 80s and was more than pleased that it made the
box set.
For what it is, it's killer.
Steve
Van Hammersly
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