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> 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
Ciao paisą:-)
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