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While in college, Steve really developed a love for the music of Steely Dan. Every day after class, Steve would go back to the dorms and play a Steely Dan album to unwind. Steve had not picked up a saxophone for 15 years until his employer decided it would be great fun to get together employee musicians for a spoof band for an annual kick-off meeting.
Steve still remembers that first day of opening up his saxophone case and seeing the horn again.
Steve has not put down his horn since that occasion. Since then, Steve has played in various rock, jazz, soul, funk and big band groups all over Los Angeles. Steve moved to Colorado in and has played in various musical projects in the Denver Metro area. Steve took his time finding the right personnel for the band. The band members needed to possess the right combination of talent, personality and a commitment to play the music. Come join us and have some fun! Like oriental sex, but it usually costs a little more Strange but true: Front yard contains no grass!
It consists entirely of weeds Pet peeve: People who pad their bios with irrelevant fluff. The music of Steely Dan is an incredible mix of all of the styles of music that I enjoy playing and to be able to perform it with such an amazing group of musicians is truly a privilege. After many good years in school music programs in Arizona then Colorado, I went to CSU as a biology major, found out my study habits precluded passing chemistry and I became a music major.
I was fortunate enough in college to get jobs in the Isaac Hayes orchestra twice and to perform with the Symphonic band, the Statesmen, orchestra and chamber ensembles of CSU. I taught band and orchestra a total of 13 years in Colorado and played in the Ft. Collins Symphony for 7 years under Will Schwartz. I was fortunate to play alongside Gil Garcia many of those years.
I also have been with the NUMC brass quintet for over 25 years. Retirement brought me back to playing and the music of Steely Dan has been a fantastic experience.
Zach grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana listening to the music of Steely Dan. By the time he was in high school, he was playing his favorite Steely Dan tunes on the piano. While in Colorado, Zach fell out from the music scene, learned to snowboard, went to college, and continued to woodshed music. Zach resurfaced into the music scene several years ago, playing various open stages and one-offs with some very talented players.
After graduating from college, the 7 piece toured the midwest for about 6 months…….. I took a sabbatical from playing music for almost twenty years to have a wonderful family, and a rewarding career in finance at MillerCoors in Golden, CO. In , I picked up the bass again and started playing contemporary Christian music in several churches on the west side of Denver….. I met some amazing musicians that led to playing bass with the classic rock cover band The Jagtones.
"My Old School" is a single drawn from Steely Dan's album Countdown to Ecstasy. It reached number 63 on the Billboard charts. The song's lyrics tell the. My Old School Lyrics: I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes / When you put me on the Wolverine / Up to Annandale / It was still September / When your.
Serious chopsmanship, edgy lyrics — scarcely imitated. Flag Lafcadio1 on May 06, That's why "your daddy was quite surprised to find you with the working girls in the county jail", since the college did not post bail for her. Gordon Liddy, who was the assistant DA at the time of the drug bust. The line "I hear the whistle but I can't go" I believe refers to college graduation. Fagen boycotted his graduation because of the school's complicity in the drug bust. Oh and the Wolverine was a train that used to go very near Annandale-on-Hudson, now it is just a Chicago-Detroit train.
Fagen feels bad about what happened to his girlfriend and blames the college for it. By the way, according to a interview with Rollingstone Magazine rollingstone. Could they be saying that the "35 sweet goodbyes" had to do with the 35 boys that got their heads shaved? Flag mumajor on July 23, I still don't understand why there is a you and a she in there, but agree they're referring to different people.
The "her" can't refer to Bard College, because her door is obviously somewhere south of Annandale, the location of Bard. I don't have an alternate theory, but yours doesn't work. Flag Souldeep69 on January 31, Anyway, I'm more confused than ever now Flag Souldeep69 on January 31, Bard is in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY! Oleanders are flowers that grow at Bard - it's not a reference to pot. No Replies Log in to reply.
General Comment from wiki In its March 24, edition, Entertainment Weekly details a return trip to Bard College by Donald Fagen, in which he describes a raid by sheriff's deputies. Charges were dropped, but the harassment was the origin of the grudge alluded to in "My Old School". Fagen was reportedly so upset with the school being complicit with the arrests that he refused to attend graduation. General Comment I actually think the intended focal point is Fagen and Becker's drug bust. The song's about a marijuana drug bust. The drug references are subtle: The bitter narrator had an equally culpable female accomplice who turned state's witness in return for leniency.
Plus, because of all the bad stuff that's happened, he's never, ever going back to Annandale probably can't either after being kicked out for drugs General Comment To settle the Wolverine train debate Rhinebeck and the Rhinecliff station is one of the nearest towns to Bard which is in the obscure hamlet of Annandale-On-Hudson. I am not at all surprised this is the place from where G.
Gordon Liddy hails - it figures trust me, I know, I was a student at Bard back in the 70's and my first wife was from Red Hook. If they were tossed into the County jail then I suspect they were probably transported to Poughkeepsie where the county jail is located Red Hook probably only had hold cells - so one has to wonder were were they actually held - in a holding cell in Red Hook or in Poughkeepise?
I believe the route was called the Empire State Express before , was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York and Detroit via Buffalo and the Canadian province of Ontario. General Comment There's probably a lot of inside jokes, but this is mostly about a girl who Becker or Fagin left behind when they went to college in Annandale, NY.
Portrayed in a film holding is hand over a candle flame. Many of those music students went on to have incredible careers in the music business. I taught band and orchestra a total of 13 years in Colorado and played in the Ft. There was an error. Learning guitar, mandolin, and a couple of years of viola training over the past 50 years, became a hunger that made the guitar a prominent part of life. I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes When you put me on the Wolverine Up to Annandale.
She was very sweet when she took him to the train station to go to school, but before he'd been there a month, she was in trouble and wouldn't be able to go to college at William and Mary.