From: gorgota@hotmail.it   
      
   Hi guys. This is my first post on this board: a big Ciao from Italy to   
   all SD fans.   
      
   I'm a musician (piano-keyboards) and I discovered Steely Dan back in   
   1978, through the Greatest Hits double vinyl album. Since then, I   
   absorbed their music to the point that I can play most of their tunes   
   without learning the parts, just by osmosis :-) (perfect pitch is   
   handy, too...)   
      
   A couple of months ago I decided to put up a tribute band, with a bunch   
   of fanatics like me: I guess it's a first here in Italy. It's such a   
   joy to rehearse those tunes, you can imagine. I hope that soon we'll be   
   ready to play a whole show.   
      
   One of the songs I'd really like to cover is "The second   
   arrangement"... Searching around the net I found a crappy mp3 of this   
   incredible  song and I fell in love with it. Sounds like a studio   
   rehearsal, or maybe a rough mix somebody was able to do before the song   
   was erased: actually, the drummer sounds more like Ed Greene than Steve   
   Gadd, who was supposed to play on the failed attempt to re-record it.   
      
   My mp3 is rather distorted and fluttering: it's good enough to learn   
   the basic chords and riffs, but all the arrangement details are buried   
   deep down in the noise. I read somewhere on a web page that the   
   infamous Gaucho outtakes have been recently improved, thanks to better   
   source tapes: I'd like to get more infos about it. Anybody can help me ?   
      
   BTW, I hate bootlegs, like any musician. Most of the time it's awful   
   stuff, in terms of sound and performance. But since we can't expect an   
   official release of these long lost gems, we have to deal with it. I   
   read on Brian Sweet's book that SD even considered to play "The second   
   arrangement" live in one of the Nineties US tour, but they eventually   
   dropped the idea. It's a shame, really. I hope they kept it for a   
   future European tour... (will it ever happen ?)   
      
   Thanks in advance to anyone who can contribute with a little help. And   
   excuse my poor English.   
      
   j-man   
      
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