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DRAGON: Whatcha know bout Teddy P
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LOVE this! Mind-blowing. I recently played this song with a friend. Such a cool bass line. Teddy had that voice! I wish there was more of that chill vibe in contemporary R&B.
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If we’re talking Teddy, I gotta add this to the convo. One of the greatest ever talk intros to a soul song and then halfway through . . . those pipes man.
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Can’t see Teddy P without thinking about Eddie Murphy Raw.
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That’s a great Pull!!
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Boz Scaggs with a great cover. Boz is very underrated.
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Pivoting off of this, HBO’s Yacht Rock documentary was actually very good and entertaining.
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Yes it was, if for no other reason then Donald Fagen’s interview
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Steely Dan. Brought jazz to many people who weren’t aware.
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Dam I wanted to hate but that legit
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I call Steely Dan my guilty pleasure.
Kind of baffled that they’re the poster child of yacht rock, actually. Either I don’t understand the genre, or it’s a misfit. I love Steely Dan, but if I turn on “yacht rock radio” on Sirius, there’s a 90% chance that I’ll hate whatever is playing - unless it’s Steely Dan. My MIL loves yacht rock and hates Steely Dan. Not sure how they’re “yacht rock.”
I guess I should watch the documentary, but I’m not getting HBO just for that.
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A friend of mine played and sang this one at my dad’s funeral in 2014:
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Never heard that before but, yeah, WTF??!! Steely Dan was a studio band and they were able to get some incredible musicians to play on their songs. Denny Dias’s and Jeff Skunk Baxter’s guitar duo on Bodhisattva was mind blowing! I can’t link that song from my cheap cellphone for others to hear but perhaps you can do it for me?
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Thinking about that made me depressed so am distracting with one of the old late night work motivation anthems
That’s fucking beautiful, hoodat. (the paul simon one, not the UOENO one).
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Agreed, and thanks
Ok, a couple of thoughts on this, weirdowl (and the rest of you):
First:
Here is the reported interchange between Donald Fagen and the producer of the documentary:
"Director Garret Price learned this the hilarious way when he was working on his new HBO Films documentary Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, premiering Wednesday, Nov. 13 at the DOC NYC festival.
At one point in the documentary, Price rings up Donald Fagen, 76, the surviving full-time member of Steely Dan, the landmark '70s group behind yacht rock classics like “Ricki Don’t Lose My Number” and “Peg,” to see if he would like to be interviewed for the documentary. The conversation, which is heard in audio, does not go down well.
After Price introduces himself and politely asks Fagen for an interview about “this genre,” Fagen’s reaction is priceless.
Fagen: “And what genre is that?”
Price: “Um, yacht rock.”
Fagen: “Oh, yacht rock. Well, I tell you what. Why don’t you go f— yourself?”
Beep, beep, beep."
So, yeah, Donald Fagen agrees with me.
I just can’t reconcile the desperate plea of an overdose’s friend that he’ll do anything if it will “turn that hearbeat over again” with yacht rock.
On the other, here you are (though I might put Kid Charlemagne atop the SD guitar riffs of all time):
Bodhisattva
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I didn’t really understand why it was called Yacht Rock until I watched the HBO doc, but it was apparently just a comedy web series (that did seem pretty funny), and then others just kinda ran with it, like Sirius.
As for the actual documentary, it was just kinda interesting for its profile of a certain set of musicians and especially Toto. I would watch another 1.5 hours of just “guys from Toto” interviews and I would watch another full hour of the guys from Toto embarassingly recap who came up with the ideas for the terrible Africa video.
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Not relevant but Meat Loaf is and was an abomination and I suspect you danced to them at Dorians on your UES at some point
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