You're A Funny Bunch
March 27, 2006
The Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Audience Recording
A Lurker Ray Recording
A Damnjim/WombBoy Production
Upped By buttmanos
UNCIRCULATED first circulation: 7/2/11
TWIN SONY ECM-T6 MICS > RADIO SHACK L/R MONO IN STEREO OUT ADAPTER > SONY TCD-D8 DAT RECORDER > SONY POC-DA12 DIGITAL OPTICAL CABLE >
PIONEER PDR-W739 CD RECORDER > CDR > STEINBERG WAVELAB 5 > WAV > FLAC
DISC ONE
01 Here at the Western World
02 Green Flower Street
03 The Nightfly
04 New Frontier
05 Maxine
06 Band Intros
07 Home At Last
08 Black Cow
09 Goodbye Look
DISC TWO
01 Third World Man
02 Mary Shut the Garden Door
03 Mis'ry & The Blues
04 Brite Nightgown
05 Black Friday
06 Pretzel Logic
07 Viva Rock N Roll
The Donald Fagen Band is:
Donald Fagen: vocals, keyboards
Jon Herrington: guitar
Wayne Krantz: guitar
Walt Weiskopf: Sax
Micheal Leonhart: Trumpet
Keith Carlock: drums
Freddie Washington: bass
Jeff Young: keys
Carolyn Leonhart: backing vocals
Cindy Mizelle: backing vocals
A never before released Donald Fagen show!!?? I've been waiting over 6 years to share this show and debunk and clear up a "cloud" that has been hanging over this amazing night for almost 7 years now. I guess it all started with two lousy reviews after the show and we were left wondering, "Did these two tin eared reviewers EVEN see the same show the rest of us did??!"
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930051?categoryid=1266&cs=1
I don't know if these lame reviews finally put Donald Fagen over the edge or not but soon after this was posted on the "Lexi Says" page over at donaldfagen.com
NOTE - These remarks have since been taken down:
"It's always the same with these L.A. audiences. We had so much fun in Vegas and Temecula with all the dancing drunk people. In L.A., with all the too-cool-for-school music biz people out there, you can't seem to get much of a response, so you start working too hard, become unmusical, you start feeling like an a--hole, like Sammy Davis, Jr. or something. Sometimes I wish my mom had taught me to tap... it would have come in handy."
"Also, I guess they've never been to a jazz club, no interest in soloing as an art, no attention span, really. They don't have a clue. They're waiting for some old wormy radio hits from when they were humping some girl on the hood of a Datsun Z car. I wish I was dead."
OUCH. But finally we are going prove Fagen wrong. All recorded from the left front row of the balcony. How do you tell one of your musical heros that he was being a cry baby and a total arrogant tool? I've lived here for over 13 years now and I
can tell you that on this night this "L.A. too-cool-for-school" crowd went ape shit. And you can finally hear it for yourself. It was one of the MOST appreciative and giving crowds of the 4 shows I saw that tour. And this was on a Monday night in L.A. !!
We would have LOVED to have been able to dance! But the Wiltern staff shut that down. Listen to the cock block usher early on. "We aint having none of that tonight" And this L.A. crowd still brought it. On a Monday night.
The late Rajah Of Erase and Miss Gretchen from the dandom.com Bluebook threw a "Donfest" over at Opus before the show where guests included the Co-Founder of the great Steely Dan Fanzine "Metal Leg", Pete Fogel. Just listen to this "quiet" crowd when they sing, "Won't You pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen". Donald says we don't like soloing? Really? That's funny, just listen to this crowd during "Maxine" and during a stellar "Mary Shut The Garden Door". Listen for the applause for Walt Weiskopf. We haven't been to a jazz club and we don't like soloing? Well what is that going on after each solo during "Mis'ry & The Blues"?!
"You're a funny bunch" - yeah, right this crowd is quiet and one big douche. Over at "Lexi Says" at DF.com after a bad review Lexi always writes a scathing post about the reviewer tragically dying with their head up their ... Well after listening to this recording you will clearly find that it was in fact Donald Fagen himself who had his head up his a-- as to what he perceived from this "L.A. crowd" this Monday night in March in 2006.
Maybe this "wrong" self consciousness pushed him harder because this was one hell of a damn fine show. Some say, one of the best nights of the tour. One of the best "Here At The Western World" you will ever hear even if you don't like the revamped version. I asked myself should I call this show, "I'm Going To Do It Again, I Liked It So Much" because of the amazing "Home At Last" take or "You're A Funny Bunch"?
I settled on the later. I've split the tracks over two discs and the reason we close disc one with "Goodbye Look" will become very apparent. It clearly is a disc one/side one closer! During the early '90's I often received bootleg cassette tapes that were often marked, "PLAY LOUD". Well, I'm going to say the same thing, "PLAY LOUD". Not because this by any means is a "quiet" recording, but because I was
right in front of the left speaker in the front of the balcony and it saturated the DAT in such a great way. So play it loud, cause that is how it was up in the front of the balcony of the Wiltern that wonderful Monday night.
In the crowd that night: Ted Danson, Jodie Foster, Alan Rosenberg, Marg Helgenberger, Eliott Scheiner and Lee Sklar.
"That band was tight last night, they played like the aces they are. Nothing dragged, not even Black Friday. Keith got a few more licks in there, Carolyn wowed 'em on the Maxine verse, Donald was on it, he was Donald Fagen last night, Maestro and bandleader extraordinaire, no blown lyrics and nary a clam in earshot. He doesn't ad-lib, he don't tell no stories and he don't spank hecklers, he just plays."
-The late Rajah Of Erase via the March 2006 dandom.com Bluebook
"The Wiltern show in LA last night was stellar. The sound was beautifully clear, and the performance flawless and energetic. I think this has been the best on this particular tour so far."
-Gretchen via the March 2006 dandom.com Bluebook
After hearing "Pretzel Logic" on disc two one might agree with her.
Dedicated to the lovely "nor'easter" Miss Gretchen. 'La vita deve andare avanti' - 'Life must carry on'
-Lurker Ray June 30, 2011
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