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   "Kyle"  wrote in message   
   news:1181760250.728946.161010@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Jun 13, 1:17 pm, "D-unit"  wrote:   
   >> "Kyle"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:1181757804.424386.257620@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> > Okay, I've been starved for ages now for an update on Walter Becker's   
   >> > new solo record.  I can't remember when WB's site was last updated.   
   >> > But I read last week in one of the guitar magazines that the new album   
   >> > is finished -- and that it was produced by Larry Klein, who also   
   >> > cowrote all of the songs.   
   >>   
   >> > I'm thankful for the info, and glad to hear the record's done.  Larry   
   >> > Klein?  I don't know; he's a bass player/producer who was married to   
   >> > Joni Mitchell in the 80s, and who worked on some of her 80s stuff   
   >> > (which I thought was terrible and hideously dumbed-down) and on other   
   >> > projects, like Cars' bassist/vocalist Ben Orr's late-80s album "The   
   >> > Lace" -- which, I have to be honest, I thought was bland commercial   
   >> > dreck (and I love the first three or four Cars albums).  Watch; some   
   >> > Larry Klein fan's going to jump on me.   
   >>   
   >> > Obviously, the LK aspect of the news doesn't thrill me.  But WB has   
   >> > enough of an edge that I'm sure he can cut through whatever hack   
   >> > blandness they attempt to smother him in.   
   >>   
   >> > Anyone heard anything else?  Does anyone have *any idea* when, if   
   >> > ever, the record is expected to be released?   
   >>   
   >> Hey,   
   >>   
   >> If he's good enough for Joni....   
   >>   
   >>    
   >   
   > But I think even JM would admit today that her 80s records sucked.   
      
   I doubt that.  Maybe only you think they sucked?   
      
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