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   From: drjudsjr@verizon.netSCRAPE.COM   
      
    Jon Enslin , why do you sit there looking like   
   an envelope without any address on it?   
   >On Sep 11, 10:14 am, wrote:   
   >> In rec.sport.football.college Archie Leach wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > "DokterZ" wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >>Steely Dan.   
   >>   
   >> >>In my list of most-overrated bands of the 70's, along with the Eagles,    
   Sex   
   >> >>Pistols (duh) and Allman Brothers.   
   >>   
   >> >>Kiss were more over-exposed, but everyone knew they sucked.   
   >>   
   >> > Please give a good explanation as to why you think Steely Dan is   
   >> > "overrated", besides "Well I don't like them" or "I don't understand   
   >> > their lyrics".   
   >>   
   >> 1) Almost absolute refusal to play live due to overly anal perfection   
   >> obsession.   
   >>   
   >> 2) Inability to craft an album without using 27 session guitarists,   
   >> 14 session bassists, 22 session drummers... hell, on one song on   
   >> Aja (I don't recall which) they used the snare track from one session   
   >> drummer, and the rest of the playing from another - not because one   
   >> was wrong, but they liked the snare hits better on the other... and   
   >> then they didn't even use the entire snare track, but a single snare   
   >> hit the copied and grafted with overly anal precision onto the track.   
   >   
   >   
   >Why would either of the two above classify them as "overrated?"   
   >   
   >Jon   
   nah BOSTON was and still is OVERRATED...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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