STEELY DAN students session

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nooms

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« on: August 24, 2019, 03:39:34 PM »
im a keen fan of steely dan and this song is a particular favourite so i risked everything and pressed play..
brilliant version of 'my old school' by a group of students.
fantastic young players & reading from charts ! took them a couple of hours..
i was only learning the chords to WildThing at their age !
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2019, 07:54:54 PM »
Might good stuff nooms. SD tracks can be tricksy to play and even harder to capture that Dan essence.

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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2019, 07:49:47 PM »
Lovely work, Berklee isn’t your run of the mill music college...some fine musicians there...I always look at those live studio recordings and look carefully ‘thats how many saxes/trumpets they used or how many female tracks to lay down...

Always admire guitarists who can read that well, only knew one a guy called Mike Eaves...and he was only 15 when we were in a band together ( i was 20) , he could play jazz like a pro, he had to lie about his age to play a studio session on radio 2’s jazz night slot. He was one of those that if you let him start a song he would say 1234 faster than i could play the number...

His dad was a pro jazz pianist and his brother was our drummer...his mum used to bring us wonderful burgers half way through our sessions....

Thanks Mike...