Yes, I know, I’m on blog-cation. But after *ahem* being asked to say a few words to over a hundred Porsche owners at an exclusive showing of the 918 Spyder and Rothmans 962 as seen in Sam Smith’s R&T article this month this evening *ahem* I was able to convince Patrick to come over and try something very different from D’Angelo.
Patrick didn’t know the song. Had never heard it. How can that be? How it is that everybody does not own the Mobile Fidelity 24k gold CD of Aja from 1988 like I do?
This was going pretty well when the G and B strings of my American Deluxe Strat just crapped out during practice. You’d think I would have another guitar, but we didn’t have time for me to find another Strat in my basement and tune it and make sure that its strings were crapped out. So I’m not in tune for this. Also, I don’t know the solo and it’s obvious I’m just trying to figure out how it goes on the fly.
Also, Patrick says to listen to this on a system with proper EQ so you can hear him.
I have one of those 24kt MoFi gold CDs of Aja.
It is quite possibly the best recording I’ve ever heard on Compact Disc.
And Mobile Fidelity’s release of Little Feat’s Waiting For Columbus may be the best live recording on CD.
I’ll stick to my early Japan for US issue. That said, I don’t think there is a bad sounding digital copy of Aja.
Thanks for the tunes gentlemen.
PS, I’ve been living in my brown and black Frye Arkansas Brogue boots for ten day trips to Houston. I was sure to bring shoe trees for both pairs, a brush and polish. Shoes and fees are happy.
I need to give a pair of those a try.
I got married in my Frye Harness boots. Now, they don’t even make my size anymore. Of course, they cost 2x+ what they did twenty years ago when I bought them.
I respect Becker and Fagen and their music but I’ve never bought any of their albums. There’s a sense of ennui and clinical precision I get from them. YMMV.
BTW, I’d like to survey automotive writers about their favorite satellite radio stations (since just about every press car comes with XM). I find that I’m more likely to listen to ’40s on 4 than the ’60s and ’70s channels which is music from when I was growing up. Hell, even I can get tired of the Grateful Dead and Steve Van Zandt’s channel is obviously playlisted (he’s big on Dina Regine).
“There’s a sense of ennui and clinical precision I get from them. YMMV.”
Well yeah, that is the whole and entire point of Steely Dan from the first record on.
Gave me a chuckle. Ronnie, check this out and tell me you don’t dig the clinical precision of these cats:
Backspin, Real Jazz, 80s on 8, 90s on 9, ESPN Radio
Never miss Casey Saturday afternoons on 70s on 7.