"Kyle"  wrote in message   
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   > 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....   
      
      
      
      
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