Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Pole Vault Pin-Up Wants To Be Respected As Steely Dan Fan Above All Else Dept.

"I like a pole to be firm yet flexible, ultra-long, and strong enough to take all of me, again and again  ..."

Comely Athletician and Marine Biologist Holly "Holy Hula" Hayley-Hall is damn tired of fellows who just want to watch her yeet herself over some stick in the sky. "There's so much more to me than mere Olympian athletic prowess," she averred yesterday. "For instance, which I am a passionate expert of the music of Steely Dan. I have, like, all their albums which surprises the shit out of the dumb-ass jocks what I date. Where's a skinny Jewish guy when you need one?"

Here[left - Ed.]'s a swell collectible for your collectible collectibles collection! Instantly reduce your confreres to grovelling supplicants prostrating themselves at the hem of your garment! They will literally sacrifice their firstborn to get a lick at this Steely Danish deli delite! Either that or turn away with a sneer of disdain on their lovely pan. Probably that. Best keep this quiet, because only a Dan Fan like you would find this kind of thing mildly interesting.

It's what the music business knew as a "promotional" disc back in the day. It would - as the name seems to imply - "promote" the band via a selection of representative cuts [Aja features strongly] interspersed with a intryview with the "lads" themselves, Dolt n' Wonnie! Oboy!



This post fulmigated from Th' Lupine Assassin Collection Of Collectible Collectibles Collection




35 comments:

  1. What personal sacrifice would you make to hear this? The most sincerely desperate of you will win a beautiful heirloom set of @192 mp3 files, housed in a museum-grade virtual little blue folder icon thingie.

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    1. Erm ... my very last bottle of Chang beer??

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    2. I really don't think we have the time to wait for that one to reach your table, Steve, but perhaps your offer will encourage others to greater sacrifice.

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  2. I promise not to freeze-frame the Female Pole Vault Finals on TV when I find a channel that shows the FPVF. Anyway I've hurt my wrist, so operating the remote control is a bit difficult atm.

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    1. Hmm. Not sure this is any kind of sacrifice. Hey! I smoked my first harvest of legal home-grown today. Great success! Piper At The Gates Of Dawn never sounded so good.

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    2. I will give up my smokin' salary.
      Mmmmm....on second thought, I don't make salary, and were I to do so, it wouldn't be much. So, never mind.
      C in California

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    3. The old joke about celery: "If only I could eat water with hair in it."

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  4. I would sacrifice my copy of "The Early Years" by Becker and Fagan, which has been released in a variety of forms and titles already.

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    1. Is that this?

      https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/12/fred-macmurrays-stunt-double-explains.html

      Because this is ultra-swell. And if the Snarko Bros. hadn't been such snobs would have made a fine official release.

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  5. I’m not a fan of self-sacrifice. I’ve always seen it as basically “virtuous masochism”. Neglecting my needs has always led me to experience anxiety, depression and emotional exhaustion. Unless, of course, there’s something in it for me, in this case a swell Steely Dan collectible. So my self-sacrifice, and in the true spirit of Steely Dan, I’ll give up my personal massager for no more than forty-eight hours.

    A favorite Billy Connolly joke:
    I went to the Olympics in Tokyo, and saw a guy walking around with a big stick.
    So I asked: "Are you a pole vaulter?".
    He replied: "No, I'm German, but how did you know my name is Walter?"

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    1. Babs' suffering is on an unimaginable scale, and merits reward, thusly:
      https://workupload.com/file/GRPkq2BdchE

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    2. Thanks, Farq!
      This would seem an opportune time to share:
      Steely Dan 'The London Boys: UK Broadcast Y2K'

      https://workupload.com/file/RncHTbeYT33

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    3. Many thanks, Farq and Babs.
      Here's an odd Dan set for you. It's a radio show with Don and Walt being interviewed, interspersed with tracks from "Alive in America". That's followed by a few live songs from the band in the studio. There's also a spectacular technical failure by the radio station. This is a real oddity.
      Details in the folder.
      https://workupload.com/file/2wdMUb7UWd3

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    4. Thanks, Steve n' Babs. "Alive In America" gets my vote for the dullest, most unnecessary live album from a major band, ever. It's the only official Dandisc I actually threw out (when I had physical media). There are many infinitely better boots out there that the Snarko Bros. could have tidied up and run with, but no. Also their box set was a fucking disgrace. The band were their own worst curators, squandering metric tonnes of primo material out of a misguided sense of quality control and/or meanness.

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    5. Not to mention, the Citizen boxed set, and MFSL gold discs, are all at the wrong speed.
      At the risk of sounding like one of Steve H's 'audiophools"©. For me, the best are, the MCA half speed vinyl releases.

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  6. Much Thanks too all for all the Dan!

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  7. July 22, 2009 - AJA and ROYAL SCAM Night at the Wang Theater, Boston, MA.
    Excellent quality stereo soundboard recording.

    But wait, there's more!
    Included is a bonus track of Pretzel Logic with Steve Winwood from the 2011 Australian tour.

    https://workupload.com/file/kVjwYZdZn6b

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  8. Here's possibly the best-known (and maybe best) live 'leg: Metal Leg (TooleMan Edition) with the timelessly wonderful "Stalling for time while the drummer is in the bathroom", and Live At The Rainbow, with a cover what I did that will only make sense to those stopping their Levis from falling down in '74.

    https://workupload.com/file/hUKFPdhmkQF

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  9. Here's Don and Walt on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz" show. Jazz and conversation - but not from the foot of Mt Belzoni...

    https://workupload.com/file/cYPfa7SbmFg

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  10. The Lost Gaucho, studio bootleg is well worth finding in blogworld (superb fidelity), although it is often grouped with some other awful lo-fi outtakes.

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    1. That's possibly the worst mistake they made - not releasing a legacy edition with The Lost Gaucho as a second disc. I suppose there's still time but I doubt Don has it on his bucket list.

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    2. Of course, this exposes their claim made re Citizen - that there were no outtakes, etc in the can - as bollocks.

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    3. There's also a Katy Lied outtakes and sessions collection 'out there'.

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    4. I have this stuff, if any of youse should be desirous.

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    5. If Lost Gaucho is around I'll gladly grab it following your kind offer.
      Thanks Farq
      I already did the sacrifice of not listening to it yet if it counts.
      Bat

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  11. In Jan 2000 they did a show that was filmed/recorded for the PBS series "In The Spotlight". Some low res (128) MP3s of it somehow found their way to me that year. I have no notes or anything about them - not even who originally gave them to me - other than "PBS20000131" in the folder name. So here they are for your consumption, exactly as I received them - misspellings and all.

    https://workupload.com/file/Xwytq8tUPqV

    The video was later released as "Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party". (Name chosen by the marketing department at Lumon Industries.)


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    1. I believe it made it to DVD, so it's in good quality somewhere.

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    2. I thought that I might have a copy of the DVD somewhere, but I'm afraid to look. What I did find was a very good quality set of the original raw audio feed for the show. It has some numbers which never made it to the broadcast.
      Shout if you want it.

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  12. Here's a special Brobdignagian Bonus Bumper Blisterpack off off-catalog items, live n' studio. Shaddap an' eat yer peas!

    https://workupload.com/file/ugLMxkDVJgM

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    1. Than you for the Brobdignagian Bonus Bumper Blisterpack of off-catalog items, live'n'studio.
      Bat

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  13. Thanks, Now what about the Skunk Plays Ragtime sessions?

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