Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
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in Video of the Week Tags: new age band, snl
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in General Posts Tags: schlitz, steely dan
(via American Songwriter) By Tina Benitez-Eves
Somewhere in between Steely Dan‘s debut, Can’t Buy a Thrill, and the 1973 follow-up, Countdown to Ecstasy, the band recorded a jingle for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based brewing company Schlitz Beer.
The untitled song was recorded during an eight-month break between the band’s first and second albums. “It was soon after ‘Reelin’ in the Years’ that someone called and asked if the guys would write a song for the Schlitz commercial,” shared Gary Katz, the band’s longtime producer. “And as I remember it, Donald [Fagen] said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna write it.’ By which he meant, they didn’t want to do a commercial somebody else wrote.”
Co-founding guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, added “The band was still pretty young in its career, so everybody was reaching out for whatever opportunities there were.”
Read more: https://americansongwriter.com/listen-steely-dan-once-wrote-a-jingle-for-schlitz-beer-in-the-1970s/
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in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: follow me, rory gallagher
Rory Gallagher: “Follow Me” (1979)
After the previous year’s Photo Finish LP and the successful US tour that followed, Chrysalis Records pushed Rory Gallagher to get a follow-up out quickly, telling him they’d make it a top priority to promote it.
Hence the title of his next album in 1979, a relentless blast of sweaty rock pretty much from start to finish, with the record’s first track “Follow Me” setting the tone.
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Major Charles Winchester: Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled; but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be.
Private David Sheridan: Gift? You keep talking about this damn gift. I had a gift, and I exchanged it for some mortar fragments, remember?
Major Charles Winchester: Wrong! Because the gift does not lie in your hands.
[David huffs in frustration]
Major Charles Winchester: I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing! More than anything in my life… I wanted to play. But I do not have the gift! I can play the notes; but I cannot make the music. You’ve performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin! Even if you never do so again, you’ve already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live! Because the true gift is in your head, and in your heart, and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world – through the baton, the classroom, the pen. As to these works, they’re for you! Because you and the piano will always be as one.
Every Moment Has A Song 