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   In rec.sport.football.college Archie Leach    
   wrote:   
   > Dennis J  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   > Bollocks.  Don't you know?  Boston at the time of the release of their   
   > debut album in 1976, was the Biggest band in the World?   
   >   
   > Much bigger than Zeppelin.   
      
   Boston at the time of the release of their debut album in 1976 wasn't   
   even a band... it was Tom Scholz.   
      
   --   
   Aaron   
      
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