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Bricksnbeatles
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Your pedal choices give me a good enough idea. And while I’m not so sure you’ll dig Peg (it depends on your tolerance for flangery keyboards, horn sections, funky popcorn/chickenscratch-style guitar, and Michael McDonald backing vocals, but it’s a pretty rad tune if you ask me) but I’m fairly confident (85%?) you’ll find stuff to like in the other two.
Bricksnbeatles
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You ever listen to Donald Fagen’s solo album, The Nightfly? One of my desert island records. It’s like Aja 2: Electric Boogaloo— every song is infectiously catchy, and it has all the emotional range of Aja x100; optimism, bitterness, sarcasm, regret, reminiscence, etc… everything except anger. Every feeling worth feeling. I’d say listening to it is like living through a well-lived life. It’s also one of the most stellar sounding albums I’ve ever heard, from a production standpoint, and Larry Carlton’s solos are all demonstrations in playing the unexpected note in the perfect place.
Bricksnbeatles
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He was only actually in Steely Dan for a very short period of time, and then he was later recruited as Keyboardist and Vocalist for the Doobie Brothers by fellow Steely Dan/Doobie Bros dual-alumnus Jeff Baxter, so that’s probably how you would know him. He did contribute backing vocals to a few Steely Dan albums after his tenure in the group though, and most prominently on the song Peg.
Michael McDonald in the Doobie Bros is essentially the poster child of the Yacht Rock sound (What a fool be-LIEEEEEEVEEEEEEES), so he gets a lot of shit, but the dude has talent no doubt. Just not the most subtle vocal flavor, so it‘s easy to have a distaste for
peccary
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I've not listened to that, but I will check it out for sure. Thanks for the recommendation!
szukalski
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My wallet hates you.
Harry Klippton
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Good news is you can build a fuzz face for nothing. I was gonna say the other two aren't very expensive but it seems they've crept up in price over the years
Robert
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I worked at Walmart many years ago. One of the departments I worked in happened to be right beside the little video kiosk that played one of those "Kids Pop" CDs... You know the one, all the annoying pop songs, but sung by kids instead. 
I could also go a lifetime without ever hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham! again too..... every single year.... it's like it was the only holiday song they had the rights to play.
I could also go a lifetime without ever hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham! again too..... every single year.... it's like it was the only holiday song they had the rights to play.
Harry Klippton
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Alright, of the three songs, I dug black Friday the most. I didn't mind these at all in general though, but my gripe is that I would characterize this stuff as sounding "smooth," and I hate smooth, unless it is smooth by Carlos Santana featuring Rob Thomas. I certainly wouldn't characterize any of those songs as "boisterous," which is more my style. I tend to favor exuberance and a lack of restraint. No doubt steely Dan is well crafted, intentional, and full of restraint
ICTRock
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I worked at Walmart many years ago. One of the departments I worked in happened to be right beside the little video kiosk that played one of those "Kids Pop" CDs... You know the one, all the annoying pop songs, but sung by kids instead.
I could also go a lifetime without ever hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham! again too..... every single year.... it's like it was the only holiday song they had the rights to play.
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fig
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Harry Klippton
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No I love all things SantanaYou hate Santana ft. Rob Thomas? That was THE song of 1999. I also hate smooth and that song. I love you bestie
(j/k). I’m into everything and anything interesting.
Harry Klippton
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My wife still has her supernatural CD and I put it on every time we're in her car
