RUMOR: Steely Dan w/ Michael McDonald Red Rocks 7/31/06

[MOHSHSIHd]

!!!


hell yes that would be sick

[The Dad]

hell yes that would be sick

Christ, add in Mannheim Steamroller, the Eagles, and Phil Collins, and we could probably convince the Sex Pistols to nuke the place as a public service.

[MOHSHSIHd]

Christ, add in Mannheim Steamroller, the Eagles, and Phil Collins, and we could probably convince the Sex Pistols to nuke the place as a public service.

I take it you arent a musician then?


Steely Dan has had the best of the best of touring and studio bands of any band pretty much EVER (besides all the various Miles Davis ensembles)

[The Dad]

When good musicians play crappy music, I cringe nonetheless.

(Con)fusion ain't my schtick, nor "smooth jazz."

[tuffy109]

I take it you arent a musician then?

yeah dude, everyone who plays an instrument HAS to love everything you do. i mean, c'mon! what are they, stupid?

[slim]

i mean, c'mon! what are they, stupid?

Obviously.

[bio-smear]

I'd nuke it just to get rid of Michael McDonald and his Kenny Rogers wannabe coif.

[PhishingME]

Live Steely is sick, one of my best live shows ever. Not a huge fan of the other guy though. Hopefully he opens.

[MOHSHSIHd]

Live Steely is sick, one of my best live shows ever. Not a huge fan of the other guy though. Hopefully he opens.

Michael McDonald was a singer on the steely dan albums, Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho......

he is essentially an "original member" of steely dan....his voice kicks ass

[freshies]

dude, did you see "40 Year Old Virgin"?

[iceman]

Every Steely Dan song has a sick guitar lick in it somewhere, and sometimes a nice sax break. Other than that I can't really listen to it.

[Benny Profane]

Christ, add in Mannheim Steamroller, the Eagles, and Phil Collins, and we could probably convince the Sex Pistols to nuke the place as a public service.

London
March 10, 2006 - 10:04AM
Surely not. Surely, if there was one band that would never, ever, sell out it would be the Sex Pistols.

Not the gods of punk! Not those spitting, sneering rebels who called for anarchy, mocked the Queen, raised a middle digit to everything establishment, and ridiculed the greed of record companies.

But it appears so.

The Sex Pistols have signed over the rights to their back catalogue to Universal Music Publishing Group, which is now hawking it to companies for use in advertising.

Just in time for the 30th anniversary of their seminal 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, the Sex Pistols' music and imagery is up for the highest bidder.

Harvey Nichols - that chi-chi department store beloved of England's well-to-do establishment - has already paid up for a Sex Pistols summer window display.

Range Rover and British Airways are believed to be among the companies also targeted by Universal to use Sex Pistols songs in their ads.

It gets worse.

There are reportedly also plans for Sex Pistols action figures, a Sex Pistols musical and Sex Pistols ringtones.

"The band members must approve every opportunity put to them but we believe they will want to maximise the income we can generate," Universal president Paul Connolly said.

Maximise income is corporatese for make a bucketload.

But before the tears of betrayal from old punks rust their safety pins, they really shouldn't be too surprised.

After all, when the Pistols - minus the late Sid Vicious - re-formed in 1996 for a reunion tour, it was titled Filthy Lucre.

And what was punk about if not defying expectations of how to behave, whether it be from the crusty establishment of 1977 or today's diehard acolytes.

The Sex Pistols revelled in their disregard for anyone but themselves, and in one of their most famous songs Pretty Vacant, sang: "Don't ask us to attend 'cos we're not all there/ Oh don't pretend 'cos I don't care/ I don't believe illusions 'cos too much is real/ So stop your cheap comment 'cos we know what we feel".

And everyone knows, ideals tend to fade as waistlines expand and hairlines recede.

Lead singer John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten) is now a 50-year-old US property investor with a portfolio worth more than eight figures, guitarist Steve Jones is now a teetotaller who campaigns against swearing on television, and drummer Paul Cook is a family man.

Indeed only original bassist Glen Matlock remains touring with his own band, an irony given that he was sacked for being too conservative and replaced by Vicious.

Sell out? Surprised?

As Mr Rotten sang: "I got no feelings for anybody else, except for myself, my beautiful self."

[Orange Julius]

tickets will be $1.2 million. If you want to be able to see Fagen's hideous yellowing gap teeth, $1 billion. Seriously that was an expensive show to see last time they were on tour. Made me want to go find some cuervo gold and fine columbian.

and did anyone see mcdonald when he was recording "Peg"? all-in-3-D...fo-reign-mov-ie. All while looking like Bob Seger. funcking hilarious.

[slim]

and sometimes a nice sax break.

as opposed to a ROCKIN' sax break.

[The Dad]

Michael McDonald was a singer on the steely dan albums, Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho......

he is essentially an "original member" of steely dan....his voice kicks ass

I'm sorry. I understand that you like the band, but nothing about Steely Dan can be said to "kick ass."

Well, except maybe the name. But that's it.

[Steven S. Dallas]

The sitar solo on "Do It Again" kicks ass. Best. Sitar. Solo. Ever.

edit: the one in "Norwegian Wood" is pretty good too, I guess.

[Orange Julius]

and Fagen's keyboard guitar solo on kid charlemagne is incredible

[The Dad]

Something can be incredible without "kicking ass." Semantics are important.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Definitely. The Bush Administration's case for invading Iraq is incredible, but most assuredly does not kick ass.

[marshalolson]

i was 1st row at steely dan a few years ago at fiddlers. it ruled. and most definately kicked ass.

[yogachik]

Definitely not a rumor, Phish. One of my very closest friends is touring with them, on keyboards (Jeff Young). We had breakfast this morning - he told me that McDonald will join Steely Dan and play some songs - not just open. I'll be going to the Irvine, CA show, on 7/20.

[Tippster]

The greatest Studio Band, ever.

Disclaimer: I like Steely Dan, always have. Showbiz Kids is one of my faves.

[MOHSHSIHd]

A little taste for all you naysayers who heard Hey Nineteen once on the radio and assumed Steely Dan sucked for the next 20 years

[tuffy109]

i've got steely dan records at home, but i'm capable of keeping my hands out of my pants at the thought of this concert.

[Orange Julius]

big fan of the dan but some of their fans are intolerable. It's like they are analyzing a snifter of cognac when they talk about various studio sessions and concerts they have attended. And in fact I'm sure many of them do sample snifters of cognac.