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Re: Is BJ hip now?
« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2006, 10:35:58 AM »
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somehow, I never really warmed up to him.


not hip now, but he was the bee's knees for a while.

Actually, he was a god in NYC long before his national breakout with The Stranger.  Long about the LP Dave played today, he became decidedly UNfashionable. (Rolling Stone famously said Glass Houses deserved a polyester album, rather than gold or platinum).

His writing, from Piano Man thru 52nd St is very good and sometimes brilliant.  He got the juice back for Nylon Curtain and Innocent Man, but it's been a slow downhill slog ever since.

Jeez, did we HAVE to hear Martha Motel? Dave surely loves this one.
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Re: Is BJ hip now?
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2006, 10:37:28 AM »
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somehow, I never really warmed up to him.


Depends who you ask, but no, not in my book.
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14 July 2006--it's a Vertical Tasting--1973-82
« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2006, 10:37:57 AM »
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And it had been so long since I'd heard it that I had never realized until now that it was sampled heavily to make Len's "Steal My Sunshine".

Wow, is that the song they sampled?  I knew it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it.  I'll have to hear it again...  I didn't hear Andrea today.


Dang it -- you all beat me to it!  Yeah, I guess I'd never listened closely enough to realize it!  Wikipedia's got the full scoop on Andrea True, and also confirms the Len sample:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_True_Connection
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2006, 10:38:12 AM »
Motels kinda ending this with a whimper in my book, but pretty nice VT all-in-all.
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« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2006, 10:40:01 AM »
I have to say:  Great Year!!  ... my High School graduation year too!!
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2006, 10:40:45 AM »
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Motels kinda ending this with a whimper in my book, but pretty nice VT all-in-all.


We've definitely heard worse. This was a great span of years to work from.
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2006, 10:41:25 AM »
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And it had been so long since I'd heard it that I had never realized until now that it was sampled heavily to make Len's "Steal My Sunshine".

Wow, is that the song they sampled?  I knew it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it.  I'll have to hear it again...  I didn't hear Andrea today.


Dang it -- you all beat me to it!  Yeah, I guess I'd never listened closely enough to realize it!  Wikipedia's got the full scoop on Andrea True, and also confirms the Len sample:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_True_Connection


Man, you can't make shit like that up.  Amazing.
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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2006, 10:41:45 AM »
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And it had been so long since I'd heard it that I had never realized until now that it was sampled heavily to make Len's "Steal My Sunshine".

Wow, is that the song they sampled?  I knew it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it.  I'll have to hear it again...  I didn't hear Andrea today.


Dang it -- you all beat me to it!  Yeah, I guess I'd never listened closely enough to realize it!  Wikipedia's got the full scoop on Andrea True, and also confirms the Len sample:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_True_Connection


If you haven't seen it you MUST rent the docu Inside Deep Throat, in which Ms True makes an appearance. She looks like the little old (sixtysomething) Jewish bubbie that she now is.
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Re: Katrina status?
« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2006, 10:46:25 AM »
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Gerry Rafferty, always lovely.

I never tire of this one.


I'll be showing my age (youth?) with this one, but for me Baker Street will forever be associated with ice skating.  :-}

Yeah -- I assume it must've been the summer of 1978, since that when Baker Street was at the top of the charts.  My grandma would happily take me via bus and BART from Alameda to Southland Mall in Hayward to go skating on their ice rink.  They either had their PA system hooked up to a local top 40 station (although I don't recall hearing commercials), or somebody in the office really really liked this track.

I remember getting especially charged up during the opening of the song, and then when the sax hook hit -- fwoosh, I would just go go go.

I of course was a crappy skater who never learned to properly turn, but man did I love to go fast.  Especially to this song.
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« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2006, 11:12:30 AM »
Annalisa's 1983 bonus: Crock o'Siegals, "Wishing".
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« Reply #40 on: July 14, 2006, 01:28:04 PM »
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Many years ago, I was the lucky recipient of a bday vertical.


I was the recipient of a vertical bidet once, is that close enough?
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« Reply #41 on: July 14, 2006, 01:36:52 PM »
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Many years ago, I was the lucky recipient of a bday vertical.


I was the recipient of a vertical bidet once, is that close enough?


that would be quite hard to use, no?  Bidets: the Enema of the People.
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« Reply #42 on: July 14, 2006, 10:04:49 PM »
7/14/2006 - FRIDAY!!! Today is a Vertical Tasting!! July 14, 1973 - 1982!!
 
1.  1973 - Paul Simon - Kodachrome  
2.  1974 - Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number  
3.  1975 - Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'  
4.  1976 - Andrea True Connection - More, More, More  
5.  1977 - Peter Frampton - I'm in You (eeewwwww, NO!)
6.  1978 - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (BEST OF SET!!)  
7.  1979 - EWF & The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland  
8.  1980 - Billy Joel - It's Still Rock & Roll to Me  
9.  1981 - Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True  
10.  1982 - Motels - Only the Lonely  
 
BONUS TRACK:  1983 - Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
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« Reply #43 on: July 15, 2006, 03:54:35 PM »
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7/14/2006 - FRIDAY!!! Today is a Vertical Tasting!! July 14, 1973 - 1982!!
 

5.  1977 - Peter Frampton - I'm in You (eeewwwww, NO!)


Anyone catch DM's comment during the backsell "We'll have to talk about this record some time..." or words to that effect. Wonder what he meant by that? There's gotta be a story there....
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« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2006, 08:26:45 PM »
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7/14/2006 - FRIDAY!!! Today is a Vertical Tasting!! July 14, 1973 - 1982!!
 

5.  1977 - Peter Frampton - I'm in You (eeewwwww, NO!)


Anyone catch DM's comment during the backsell "We'll have to talk about this record some time..." or words to that effect. Wonder what he meant by that? There's gotta be a story there....


I heard that too; my first thought was a loss-of-virginity story, but Dave would've been, what, 27? 28? in '77.
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