Reelin' in the Years with Steely Dan
I've just spent a very nostalgic ten minutes scraping mud off my boots. As a kid my school shoes always seemed to be caked in mud which my mother insisted I clean - army style - every evening. My plea that they'd just get dirty again the next day always fell on deaf ears.
Today I was polishing my boots after spending the entire evening in a cold muddy field with thousands of others listening to Steely Dan. I think it was the first time in 15 years I'd been out in cold weather after dark for more than ten minutes. I didn't suffer too badly because I was wearing ALL my clothes. Yes, every single item in my entire wardrobe including, of course, my Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf and my usual Faginesque fingerless gloves. Luckily it was pitch black so nobody could see to mock.
If you're my age (and you have my sympathy) then Steely Dan was one of the bands you grew up listening to and for all the sense the lyrics made you might as well have been stoned. Walter Becker has been heard to say that they thought a song a failure if it didn't make them both howl with laughter when they listened to it later. Like everyone else in the audience I knew the lyrics to every song they played and could identify it on the first two bars but, unlike some, I showed restraint enough not to join in till the final encore. No one had paid $100 to hear my dulcet tones, after all.
It certainly made you feel young again. The entire audience was well over 45 and mostly grey-haired but for an evening at least we were all 17 again.
If you want to know more check out these links:
Steely Dan Wikpedia
Steely Dan references A-Z
Steely Dan meanings
Today I was polishing my boots after spending the entire evening in a cold muddy field with thousands of others listening to Steely Dan. I think it was the first time in 15 years I'd been out in cold weather after dark for more than ten minutes. I didn't suffer too badly because I was wearing ALL my clothes. Yes, every single item in my entire wardrobe including, of course, my Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf and my usual Faginesque fingerless gloves. Luckily it was pitch black so nobody could see to mock.
If you're my age (and you have my sympathy) then Steely Dan was one of the bands you grew up listening to and for all the sense the lyrics made you might as well have been stoned. Walter Becker has been heard to say that they thought a song a failure if it didn't make them both howl with laughter when they listened to it later. Like everyone else in the audience I knew the lyrics to every song they played and could identify it on the first two bars but, unlike some, I showed restraint enough not to join in till the final encore. No one had paid $100 to hear my dulcet tones, after all.
It certainly made you feel young again. The entire audience was well over 45 and mostly grey-haired but for an evening at least we were all 17 again.
If you want to know more check out these links:
Steely Dan Wikpedia
Steely Dan references A-Z
Steely Dan meanings
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posted by Kay @ 3:17 PM
1 Comments:
At September 10, 2007 12:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
'Reelin in the Rikkis' and that's about it for my knowledge of Steely Dan. It doesn't help that I always get them and Steeleye Span mixed up. I think I must've been diggin different stuff, Kay. The lack of a photo of you in your arctic gear is a major omission from your blog.
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