The Fabriani Bros. = Steve Porcaro & David Kamp + friends, in homage to Messrs. Fagen and Becker.
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Let’s bridge this gap until we can hear our musician friends play live again!
Music by Steve Porcaro
Lyrics by David Kamp
Lead vocals by Billy Sherwood (Yes)
Guitars by Denny Dias (Steely Dan) and Marc Bonilla (Keith Emerson, Derek Smalls, Ronnie Montrose)
Drums by Shannon Forrest (Toto, The Dukes of September)
Keyboards by Steve Porcaro (Toto)
A Fabriani Bros. production
Mixed by Mike Ging
Video produced and directed by Ted Kamp
Video edited By Dan Wolfmeyer
Original illustrations by Ross MacDonald
Additional photos and video via Envato
King Crimson's North American tour this summer has been postponed due to the corona virus threat.
"...and it is our intention wherever possible to play exactly the same dates with the Zappa Band on very similar dates in 2021. The rescheduled dates will be confirmed over the coming weeks."
Several Jethro Tull concerts this spring have been cancelled or postponed due to the corona virus threat. Several shows in the UK have been cancelled. The three concerts in Sweden have been postponed to May 2021.
February 29 2000 was the day that Steely Dan released the first album of new songs since Gaucho back in 1980.
I bought the new one and after work I sat down in my sofa with headphones on and listened to the whole album once, twice. three times...
It was amazing to finally be able to listen to the record that had been rumoured for a long time and then announced for real. Twenty years after Gaucho.
I was a happy man that day. And will l give Two Against Nature a spin today on its 20 anniversary.
It ended up being a comeback as well as the band's next to last album. 2003 saw the release of Everything Must Go. And that was it. While the short time of three years between Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go had me hoping for more Steely Dan albums they never appeared.
The band concentrated on touring and Donald Fagen and Walter Becker recorded solo albums.
I was reminded of the day and date by a post in the Dandom.com Facebook group. So on I go ... listening to Gaslighting Abbie and the rest:
started in 2018 to offer "hi-fidelity rarities, demos, and unreleased tracks from Becker's archives, plus downloads, discussion boards, history, context, and pics" to fans old and new.
As of today you can listen to, download for free and discuss - also for free - 27 tracks.
Here's just a couple of them:
Nobody thought there existed any recording of the live show Walter Becker did April 7, 1995 at Slim's in San Francisco. The one and only solo show he did with songs from his album 11 Tracks of Whack. But a recording has been found and here's one song posted:
And this one has been doing the rounds for years as a very, very nth generation cassette copy among the hardcore fans. Returning in a sparkling, shiny way. The story behinf it well worth a read after you've had a listen:
For the first time photographer Keith Macmillan tells the story of how he designed the iconic cover of Black Sabbath's debut album (released in 1970).
Macmillan tells Rolling Stone about some alternate setups with the model Louisa Livingstone. “Any kind of sexuality took away from the foreboding mood. But she was a terrific model. She had amazing courage and understanding of what I was trying to do.”
Alex Winter's film "Zappa" will be premiered at the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival in Austin, Texas in March 2020.
The film is made possible through a kickstarter campaign and the material has been selected while digitalizing the Frank Zappa archives, but it has also been sent by fans to Alex Winter.
Alex Winter writes: "Here's the very first look at our special festival poster for Zappa. It will ONLY be used for festival screenings prior the public release of the film. Photo by the great Bill Gubbins."
"Earth After Hours". That's the title of the 22 date long summer tour Steely Dan and Steve Winwood are going on in June and July this year.
The first date is June 2 in Portland, Oregon with the tour ending in Bethel, New York on July 11.
Tickets go on sale this month. January 20 is the presale date for the fans a little more worthy than the rest of us. We can fight over the remainders starting January 25. And, yes, it is USA and Canada only this time around.
Two tracks from the upcoming Frank Zappa Hot Rats Sessions 6 CD set are now available on Spotify.
The set will be released any day now (December 20) but here we can enjoy two familiar tunes but in a different form than we are used to.
Dame Margaret's Son To Be A Bride (1969 quick mix) This piece is actually the basic tracks for the song Lemme Take You To The Beach (Studio Tan 1978). The strange song title seems to refer to actress Margaret Rutherford's adopted son Gordon Langley Hall. He had sex reassignment surgery in 1968 and married a man in the US.
40th anniversary. Adrian Belew and Jerry Harrison will take the 1980 Talking Heads album Remain in Light on the road. Jerry Harrison played guitar in the group and ex Bowie guitarist Adrian Belew plays on two Talking Heads albums, one of them the excellent Remain in Light.
