Eminent Hipsters
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143126016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This may not be what you want to hear. First off. If you plan on heading out to the Steely Dan show with your gas powered blender, boat shoes, and Alma mater golf shirt and scream "Hey Ninteen" from your third row seats while Fagen insists on covering a Willie Dixon tuneDON'T read this. It's only going to hurt your feelings and cause you to leave a review calling him a whiny New York jew. He acknowledges that you wont be covering any new groun. A fine and funny read A fine and funny read for every fan of the often mysterious goings on behind the scenes of Steely Dan. The book is split into two parts: part one is a mix of unrelated small essays Donald wrote about growing up in the mid sixties in suburbaian New Jersey. They explain how he came to love Jazz and what would later influence him musically. Part two of the book is a journal he kept during a tour with the Duk. "Disappointing" according to Jack Dowd. Book not as advertised. Just an aging musicians reflection on life. Way too much childhood info. Minuscule history of the Steely Dan years. Mercifully short!
A witty, candid, sharply written memoir by the cofounder of Steely DanIn his entertaining debut as an author, Donald Fagen—musician, songwriter, and cofounder of Steely Dan—reveals the cultural figures and currents that shaped his artistic sensibility, as well as offering a look at his college days and a hilarious account of life on the road. Fagen presents the “eminent hipsters” who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecs
(Oct.) . Agent: Andrew Wylie, Wylie Agency. He singles out Connie—whose career was affected in some measure by an early brush with illness (likely polio)—and praises her last recording, saying that she sounds like a toned-down Wanda Jackson or Brenda Lee. In one chapter, Fagen recalls his early fascination with now-forgotten jazz singers the Boswell Sisters. In 2012, Fagen, Michael McDonald, and Boz Scaggs toured as the Duke of September Rhythm Revue; during the months of the tour, Fagen kept a journal, included in these pages, that's filled with irony, sarcasm, humor, anger, and flat-out honesty about what it's like to be on the road playing to houses filled with aging hippies: Tonight the crowd looked so geriatric I was tempted to start calling out bingo numbers. By the end of the set, they were all on their feet, albeit shakily, rocking. Fagen vivaciously recalls his college days at Bar