home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.music.steely-dan      More than just a funky pair of dildos      2,181 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 723 of 2,181   
   Tim Hawryluk to R-ton   
   Re: Track by track : nr 3 , What I do   
   14 Jun 06 18:07:48   
   
   From: thawryluk@optonline.net   
      
   Yeah, sorry for being confusing.  I don't know why, but "harp" is another   
   name that some folks use for a harmonica.  Hohner sells a "Blues Harp" and a   
   "Cross Harp", but I think the acutal word is generically used for many   
   different kinds of harmonicas.   
      
   "R-ton"  wrote in message   
   news:PoYjg.482129$Db6.12511358@phobos.telenet-ops.be...   
   >   
   > "Tim Hawryluk"  schreef in bericht   
   > news:ZQJjg.1912$_D7.1325@fe12.lga...   
   >> Actually, It's beginning to be one of my favorites.  Just a simple minor   
   >> blues with a iiiM7(?) resolution in the middle of the verse.  And Fagen's   
   >> falsetto-ey fade out.  Stellar background vocals.    Solid lyrics.   
   >> Beautiful harp solo.  Just about knocks the IPod earbuds out every time.   
   >>   
   >> "R-ton"  wrote in message   
   >> news:KHlgg.463305$gg6.11794529@phobos.telenet-ops.be...   
   >> > Hello,   
   >> >   
   >> > "What I do" got 7/10 at first listening, now it's  9/10 ! !   
   >> > No other track will get 9/10, so to me it's the best track of the CD.   
   >> >   
   >> > This song may be called "quiet" ; but among all quiet songs, it is   
   >> > among   
   >> > the   
   >> > best I ever heard.   
   >> >   
   >> > A very nice, pure Rhodes piano,  is omni-present in this track ; it's   
   >> > almost   
   >> > an ode to the pure Rhodes.   
   >> >   
   >> > The harmonica solo has already been discussed in this newsgroup ;   
   >> > indeed   
   >> > it   
   >> > is very fine.   
   >> >   
   >> > The backing vocals - quite jazzy at some moments -  , together with   
   >> > some   
   >> > harmonica soloing make a wonderful apotheosis.  And this time, the   
   > backing   
   >> > vocals are done by sEveral people, including Caroline Leonhart.   
   >> >   
   >> > (The only somewhat strange thing is the chord just after aDORE at   
   >> > "she's   
   >> > the   
   >> > one you aDORE".)   
   >> >   
   >> > Any comments ?   
   >> >   
   >> > R-ton   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Hello, OK,   
   > but a "harp" solo ?? I guess you mean "harmonica" ?   
   > R-ton   
   >   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca