Mike Lindup / Gay / Not Gay – I *think* Mr Miller was being ironic in the face of the recent debates on the digest.  Either that or he hasn’t been paying attention for the past 8 years.  J

 

Firneds – nice to see that the Hankinson’s are alive and well.  Funny how controversy brings out all the old faces!  Either that or it is just huge coincidence.  Now all we need is for Joe P to make an appearance and we are all set.

 

Marcus – just picked up Dreyfus Jazz DVD “Marcus Miller, Master Of All Trades” – it features a concert from 2002.  Poogie, Patches et al, some Lalah Hathaway vocals.  The quality is great and the whole band is very on form – highly recommended.  I don’t think it has been mentioned on the digest so far.  Either that or *I* haven’t been paying attention for the past year.

 

Doug – I replied to your email from a while back about Level 43 – never saw a response.  Your first mail got classed as Junk Mail, so am wondering if the same thing happened…?  Either that or you just don’t love me any more.

 

Right, I am off to practice the slap version of Teen Town.

 

 

Winston: I had Morph the Cat in my car player for a week. It took some time to acquaint myself but all is good now.

I agree some tracks sound like old material but in an interview, Fagen stated some of these songs were composed during his previous efforts and have been lying around for years. Becker says those songs were more Fagen than 'Dan so Fagen kept them for himself. I also read this is the third installment of his trilogy. Nightfly was about youth, Kamakiriad was growing up and Morph is about maturity.

Don't forget to grab the itunes-only "Rhymes" bonus track. It's more of a straight ahead rocker, Fagen-style.

Regarding the fued.....Winston was the first firned I made on the web and took me under his wing in the early days from everything from music to PC's to Spiderman, and the list goes on. He's even sent my son some cool movie promo stuff - never asking for anything in return.

Johnny

>On another note, anyone enjoying the new ToTo album, or the new Donald Fagen
>solo release? The Toto is in heavy rotation on my Ipod, but i cant
>really get into the
>Fagen just yet. Might need a few more listens to grow on me, but it
>really sounds
>much too similar to all his previous releases for my tastes. It really
>sounds like he
>grabbed some recorded but unused songs from his previous solo effort, and
>put them on cd.
>
>What do you folks think? I know we have some Toto and Fagen fans here.

Hi i am going to the fairfield hall, croydon gig....anyone in that locality....cheers

Paul in Carshalton

Well, I am so glad that those who defended Winston, have ALL benefited from his share of bootlegs over the past 10 years - so getting a cascade of personal insults, lies, and half-truths from them means absolutely nothing to me.  Let them hurl all they want to me and to my character;  it won't change the views of those who really do know me, those who know what I've said is true, and those who simply do not care.    However, being branded a liar by some of them is funny to me, in fact, HILARIOUS!!!! 

 

MIKEY