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Question About the Steely Dan Song

Donald Fagan said in an interview in the mid-80's he wrote those lyrics because Bama was always winnging, they were either play for or winning the national championship!
They have modified that buddy jewel song for georgia radio stations so the second time he sings ROLL TIDE ROLL, he instead sings go Dawgs go.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Spot Dailey:
So, does anybody know what a Steely Dan is? I'll give you a hint: Tenn Studd shorted his out in the jacuzzi. There' s been lots of songs about Alabama. One you might check out is "Shout Bama Lama". There's an Otis Redding version and an Eddie Hinton version which is really cool. What about "Flaggin' That Train To Tuscaloosa". I just saw the old Hitchcock movie The Trouble With Harry the other night. I'd forgotten that song was in that movie. "Alabammy Bound" is another one from the old days. So don't limit yourselves to the current generation. People been writing songs about Alabama forever. I even wrote a few myself.</font>
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Steely Dan was the dildo in "Naked Lunch"

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were almost ahead of their time. They surrounded themselves with super musicians and as I recall they seldom toured and when they did the only ones you could count on seeing were Becker and Fagen. Skunk Baxter recorded with them on their first album. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was from a wealthy Conneticut family but left the preppie life for music. Skunk Baxter also played with the Doobie Brothers and is now one of the top missle defense advisors in the Bush administration. I think Michael McDonald toured with Steely Dan for a while before he and Baxter left to play with the Doobie Brothers. I also seem to recall one of my favorite guitarists Eric Johnson playing with them very late in the Steely Dan era.

How did I do Spot?
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bayoutider:
Steely Dan was the dildo in "Naked Lunch"

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were almost ahead of their time. They surrounded themselves with super musicians and as I recall they seldom toured and when they did the only ones you could count on seeing were Becker and Fagen. Skunk Baxter recorded with them on their first album. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was from a wealthy Conneticut family but left the preppie life for music. Skunk Baxter also played with the Doobie Brothers and is now one of the top missle defense advisors in the Bush administration. I think Michael McDonald toured with Steely Dan for a while before he and Baxter left to play with the Doobie Brothers. I also seem to recall one of my favorite guitarists Eric Johnson playing with them very late in the Steely Dan era.

How did I do Spot?

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i was unaware that eric johnson had played with them. i've most of his music and really enjoy him. thanks for the info!
 
Bama_197, as other forumers have said, the lyrics of "Deacon Blues" are a nice tribute to the dominance of the Tide in the 1970s.

Another cool 70's-era Tide reference is on the cover of Aerosmith's breakout 1975 album "Toys in the Attic." Likenesses of Big Al and the Notre Dame leprechaun are among the "toys" pictured in the artwork. At that time, we had played high profile back-to-back bowl games with ND after the '73 and '74 regular seasons (unfortunately 24-23 and 13-11 losses).

Many here in the forum may not remember the animosity between us and ND, but when I was a kid it was red hot. Ara Parseghian was right up there with Mao Tse-Tung and Ho Chi Minh in the minds of most Bama fans. They leap-frogged over us in '77 for the national championship when all the higher ranked teams lost bowl games. We had been ranked higher prior to the bowls.

When I arrived in T-town as a freshman in 1983, some of the stop signs on campus still had "Notre Dame" written in green paint on them.

Thanks ya'll, for posting the info about the Buddy Jewell song. I must be one of the few Tide fans who had not heard of it.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chris:
i was unaware that eric johnson had played with them. i've most of his music and really enjoy him. thanks for the info!</font>
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chris, I don't know if Eric was ever a part of Steely Dan and I have all of Steely Dan's albums and do not see his name listed on any of them but I do recall seeing him play with them possibly on a PBS concert or something like that. Eric's style of playing would mesh nicely with Steely Dan's music both have some jazzy roots. Eric Johnson just blows me away with his playing.
 
It is so nice to see that Tide-HSV and Bayou are from my era! Nobody had to tell me what the word "NUMBER" referred to as I was born in '62 and lived through the fantastic 70's!

As a matter of fact, almost every song in the late 60's and early 70's had some obscure reference to drugs, sex and rock'n'roll!

Anyway, just to put my two cents worth in...the Steely Dan song Deacon Blues was the best tribute to Alabama that has every been written either before or since. And as for Buddy Jewel, before he won Nashville Star he sang the song with the reference to Alabama and Roll Tide Roll and you are correct...that is the REAL version!

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As a side request...

If anyone has a recording of Steely Dan when they played "Black Friday" live at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, I would love a copy. I've already got a live copy of the song, but I want that specific performance. No one seems to have it.



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You did very well Bayou. The recorded a lot with Skunk but used Larry Carlton on a lot of later stuff. The guitar solo on Kid Charlamaine is probably one of the best ever solos in a pop song. They used a lot of the N.Y. A-team like Steve Gad and others. Lot of fantastic players went into the Fagan / Becker stew.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Spot Dailey:
You did very well Bayou. The recorded a lot with Skunk but used Larry Carlton on a lot of later stuff. The guitar solo on Kid Charlamaine is probably one of the best ever solos in a pop song. They used a lot of the N.Y. A-team like Steve Gad and others. Lot of fantastic players went into the Fagan / Becker stew. </font>
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There was a very good interview in Vintage Guitar Magazine a couple of years ago with Skunk Baxter. Quite the colorful character.
 
What can I say - I inhaled!
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Unlike that dog, Clinton, of whom the dirty truth has now come out - he choked...
 
ToddHSV: I was driving through chatanooga and obnoxiousville on the way back to Virginia after a visit to see the family in Alabama this past Monday. I had the misfortune of hearing an altered version of the Buddy Jewell "Sweet Southern Comfort" song there too.

The second verse was altered to say:

"tennessee is where you'll find me, go viles go". I almost had to hit the nearest rest area it made me so nauseated! My wife and I were trying to determine if it was Buddy Jewell's voice or someone else doing a voice-over.

Either way, it was an abomination of the original.

Sweet Home Alabama, Roll Tide Roooollllll!!!
 
in my opinion electric music doesn't get much better than AJA, Gaucho, Katy Lied, and The Royal Scam. They really made some incredible music in those four projects (and their other stuff ain't half bad either). After listening to these for years, I still get surprised by some of the stuff i hear.
 
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