Thank you Skeevy Daniel! This is my favorite of missing songs from Steely Dan. You must have put in a great deal of effort to get this to sound as good as it does.
Thanks Skeevy. You know, while I'm extremely appreciative of all the blood, sweat and tears the SD fandom has put into recreating this track as it might have been intended to be, I'll still always wonder, were there elements intended for this song that we've just never heard and lack the imagination/genius to envisage? The main guitar lick, whilst incorporating a few small variations, is largely repetitive, which seems unusual even for the (relatively) more minimalist late period SD, plus I just can't imagine those (in the true sense) pathetic little string bending and even slightly discordant breakdowns would ever find their way into a Steely Dan song unless they were a foil to something else happening either lyrically or musically. Was there a secret bit of soloing (guitar/sax/piano/whatever) that was being saved as the icing on the cake? Something else? Still, I suppose if you're going to have an enigma that dogs you for the rest of your days it might as well be one created by Steely Dan...
Wasn’t this released by Roger Nichols’ daughter a few years ago? And the story goes that he always took copies back home and this copy was only found upon his death? And I thought Peter Jackson helped her clean it up because it was an old tape, but nothing was added per se. I guess the question is whether Nichols’ copy was the finished version or an earlier, unfinished iteration? Was the one erased by the studio intern the only fully finished copy, or did Nichols take home a duplicate of that? This info is probably out there, I just don’t know it. Excuse me if the question itself is completely ignorant, I’ve only tangentially followed this story 😆
Thank you Skeevy Daniel! This is my favorite of missing songs from Steely Dan. You must have put in a great deal of effort to get this to sound as good as it does.
Thank you Skeevy.
No rabbit ears antenna on the tv set. I'll never rent this room again.
killer work, thanks skeevy
Thanks Skeevy. You know, while I'm extremely appreciative of all the blood, sweat and tears the SD fandom has put into recreating this track as it might have been intended to be, I'll still always wonder, were there elements intended for this song that we've just never heard and lack the imagination/genius to envisage? The main guitar lick, whilst incorporating a few small variations, is largely repetitive, which seems unusual even for the (relatively) more minimalist late period SD, plus I just can't imagine those (in the true sense) pathetic little string bending and even slightly discordant breakdowns would ever find their way into a Steely Dan song unless they were a foil to something else happening either lyrically or musically. Was there a secret bit of soloing (guitar/sax/piano/whatever) that was being saved as the icing on the cake? Something else? Still, I suppose if you're going to have an enigma that dogs you for the rest of your days it might as well be one created by Steely Dan...
Wasn’t this released by Roger Nichols’ daughter a few years ago? And the story goes that he always took copies back home and this copy was only found upon his death? And I thought Peter Jackson helped her clean it up because it was an old tape, but nothing was added per se. I guess the question is whether Nichols’ copy was the finished version or an earlier, unfinished iteration? Was the one erased by the studio intern the only fully finished copy, or did Nichols take home a duplicate of that? This info is probably out there, I just don’t know it. Excuse me if the question itself is completely ignorant, I’ve only tangentially followed this story 😆
Very nice outtake. Culled from Aja sessions? Sounds very similar to “Black Cow.”
@@libertycaps97211 Gaucho sessions.
Didn't they used to play this live?
@@raptor4916 - They did, on the Rarities shows they did at The Beacon. Don't know if they ever blessed other audiences than those in NYC.
Fun picture
Holiday Inn (circa 1974) vibes…🫣
Skeevy Hotel
This is beautiful, @SkeevyDaniel! Is there any way we can get the lossless download?
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