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   Message 1,352 of 2,181   
   Professor to tim r   
   Re: Steely Dan In Stuttgart   
   17 Jul 07 03:00:32   
   
   From: vze3vvj2@verizon.net   
      
   "tim r"  wrote in message   
   news:N5Smi.25098$p8.6950@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...   
   > "Klaus & Rooster"  wrote in message   
   > news:1184621382.886285.235160@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
   >>I keep replying to my own posting - it is like talking to myself.   
   >> Maybe I am a lone Steely Dan fan who is boring enough to spend time   
   >> posting personal rumifications on the subject matter while not being   
   >> thrilled by some other mean postings where the authors are rude and   
   >> beating each other up over silly definitions what the definition of   
   >> Jazz is...   
   >>   
   >> However, today my local newspaper (located in Munich) actually   
   >> published a rather long article on the concert Steely Dan played last   
   >> Friday in Stuttgart. Well, even though Stuttgart is only a meager 270   
   >> km away from Munich, I find this remarkable, because from a cultural   
   >> point of view Stuttgart is much farther away than that and it is   
   >> surprising that a journalist from Munich actually takes notice of   
   >> what's going on over there.   
   >>   
   >> The article is brilliant! I can't remember that I have ever read such   
   >> a profound report on a SD show. Usually, German journalists spend   
   >> about 60-80% of the pae budget on some old stories of Steely Dan   
   >> stopping to play live in the mid-seventies and reuniting in the mid   
   >> nineties and recording new albums bla bla bla and finishing off with a   
   >> few very stereotype statements about how old the audience has turned   
   >> by now and so on. Pretty boring stuff. Not this time. I guess that I   
   >> have to read the article a couple of times to understand what the   
   >> author was trying to say. However, it sounds pretty Danesk and he   
   >> seems to be a real fan on top of that. He also commented on Donald's   
   >> welcome to the audience ("Kids", "Babies" see previous posting)   
   >>   
   >> That's it for now.   
   >> CU   
   >>   
   >> Klaus & Rooster   
   >>   
   > Any chance of a post/translation of the article Klaus? I'd be interested   
   > to read it..   
   > timr   
      
   Me too!   
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