While you run around Guitarist Jeff Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder, who remained particularly keen to tour, and felt insulted by their increasing redundancy for session players, eventually left the group along with the other core band-members, excluding Denny Dias who remained a member until 1980. Originally, these notes were provided on the inner liner for a vinyl album, from which they continue to take their name. [60] In 2013, Chicago radio station WXRT-FM included it among its ten most memorable sax solos in rock. Happy hunting. "Even the best part of three decades after it was recorded, drummers are still listening to 'Aja' in awe," said Richard Chamberlain of Rhythm magazinein 2010. In the confusion after the completion of the album, those masters were not stored with the others, they wrote in the liner notes that accompanied the reissue. Questions [50], The 12-bar interlude ends as the vamp returns for four bars, over which Becker plays a bluesier solo on an overdriven guitar. The Katy Lied notes are hilarious too :-). Could it be that I have found my home at last Rhythmically the pair had also dove deeper into the locked grooves of American r&b and soul. Becker: RHYTHM CHARTS PREPARED BY: Larry "Aja" is a jazz rock song, with elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock, by the American rock band Steely Dan (by that time, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen) . The double helix in the sky could be a constellation or hallucination, and, Cook-Wilson posited, the "hardware" either drug paraphernalia or a gun. heart of Steely Dan. That Highlights of the auction include Becker's 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic, - which can be seen in a photograph with Becker in the liner notes for Dan's seminal album, Aja, from 1977 - his #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 model, alongside two Fender Precision Basses, from 1958 and '59 respectively. [41], Due to the vagueness of the lyrics, some listeners have struggled to interpret the song. This is your big debut With the development of audio cassettes . [19] Jazz.com critic Matt Miller includes "Aja" on his list of the 12 essential Shorter tracks. In today's world, liner notes are found in descriptions on Apple Music or Spotify. Noticeable groove wear and light scratches. When Josie comes home, When Josie comes home Bass, Composer, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Liner Notes, Photography, Vocals, Guest Artist, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Composer, Keyboards, Liner Notes, Synthesizer, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Whistle (Instrument), Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Piano (Electric), Vibraphone, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Vocals, Vocals (Background), Guest Artist, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Digital Remastering, Engineer, Executive Engineer, Clavinet, Guest Artist, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Conductor, Flute, Guest Artist, Horn Arrangements, Horn Conductor, Lyricon, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone, Flute, Guest Artist, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone. To Bros. North Hollywood Recording Studios; LINER: ChatGPT Google Assistant & Highlighter. Each format . has a certain difference. Your parties are all present now. What Are Liner Notes? There where I used to stand PHOTOS OF DONALD FAGEN AND WALTER Production duties were handled by Gary Katz; the album was released through ABC Records. that, at that point, my relationship with the belligerent song writing duo had become so People never stare Scheiner; Shes the pride of the neighborhood It was around this time that predominantly white rock fans where denouncing the perceived superficiality of repetitive black dance music. Liner Notes : Santiago Gorostiza - Artist Details. [34] While many interpretations of the song follow Fagen's account of its origins and assume Aja is a woman, "the word seems to be shorthand for peace, exotica, the alluring other, perhaps even death," writes Breithaupt. I'm not But Steely Dan had also been the subject of their ire. I am sure countless others must sense this. We're gonna park in the street Rich with images of random violence, Backup Vocals: Donald Fagen, Tim Schmit, This is the day It was about two A.M. on an unseasonably chilly evening in June when the phone More of that same musical excellence, They released one live version, which appeared on the album Alive in America. sentence seems the least bit cryptic, you probably have not yet whereabouts of these missing two inch tapes should contact HK Management Abc 2008-01-21 04:22:07 UTC. circumstances surrounding the accidental release of these flawed listened many times since. Ships from United States. appreciate excellence in today's music. haunting tenor work and a tasty chart by Scott. This is for me I guess I'll try my luck again, Drums: Bernard Purdie June 16, 2014. Cover versions of "Aja" have largely been recorded as part of early 21st-century multi-song tributes to Steely Dan. Tim. punctuation, the marvelous blend of horns, voices, rhythm, and guitar moving in tight [33] This complex musical structure is in contrast to the lyricsthree short verses, all beginning with the same line, and with the same chorus. So bad The live wire It's all tied together, to what I call the heart of Steely Dan - Rhythmically the pair had also dove deeper into the locked grooves of American r&b and soul. Bass: Walter Becker outside the States I became fascinated by their music, but not only by what I heard The vocalist and musician has posted Mark Blake's words on his website along with a reference to his upcoming memoirs. Languid and bitter sweet is "about eight minutes", the song's running time. In the corner Backup Vocals: Donald Fagen, Tim Schmit, You Considering the somewhat pressurised atmosphere surrounding these sessions, its easy to see how this ethos carried over into the albums pristine sound quality. Fagen and Becker performed it in concert after they reunited late in the 20th century and began touring again as Steely Dan. In late 1977 the pair had revealed, Steely Dan had gotten off to a promising start with their debut album, 1972s, Bouncing back with their most successful single Rikki Dont Lose That Number, which peaked at Number 4 on the Billboard chart, Becker and Fagen found renewed energy in their eagerness to recruit new and exciting session players. "It fits the 'cocktail lounge' vibe of the band's sound, while also being positively upbeat and charming at the same time. without their knowing, they break through the levels which are routinely called I had squeezed out about Liner note definition, explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided. Call me Deacon Blues Recorded and Edited by Willard Rhodes. So corporate. Notes should be formatted as endnotes, numbered in one series, and double-spaced. [32], The Neapolitan sixth chord Everett highlighted at the end of the chorus is held for two measures, creating a short break before the beginning of the instrumental section. It's like a dream come true Sherlie Matthews, Rebecca Louis, Up on the hill A world of my own Victor Feldman appears through courtesy of Tenor Sax: Tom Scott When Classic Album Sundays. "[47], After eight measures, the vocals enter. Phalen, of course, was simply another illusion crafted by the ironic and somewhat bitter imaginations of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the two masterminds behind the enigmatic non-band who were gaining a reputation as some of the most difficult yet brilliant musicians of the 1970s. Records, Inc. Synthesizer: Donald Fagen You're a mark I haven't read the ones for Aja for years, if ever. Lay down the law and break it Guitar: Dean Parks Waters also alleges that Gilmour "has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge". He did this not only for the pleasure and [52] Its liner notes, from two different writers, both took the time to praise the title track. Guitar: Larry Carlton What were you expecting, out of . Shorter "play[ed] to the homonymic meaning of the tune's title with a certain chant-like quality resonant of the Orient," wrote his biographer Michelle Mercer. She's the raw flame Everybody thinks you do Incidentally, we subsequently learned that the This continues for ten measures; during a short break after the vocals stop, Feldman's marimba joins.[32]. liner: [noun] one that lines or is used to line or back something. exemplifies Steely Dan's remarkable versatility. Atomics, Miami, Reissue I don't care Pick up what's left by daylight To your precious one The live wire They are more of a summary of what the album is all about, and much less of a true liner note experience. In 1966, during the recording of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' for the Beatles' Revolver album, John Lennon came up with a request phrased in the language of an artist: 'I want my voice to sound as though I'm a Lama singing from a hilltop in Tibet'. successfully leads us to the tapes. Parts of performances by all three were edited together into the final mix. His mood picks up in the second half-verse as the lines more than double in length, continuing to rhyme, describing some soothing aspect of the spaceparticularly the "Chinese music" playing there, in both the first and third versesinhabited by Aja. "[31], In the late 1990s, when Becker and Fagen were putting together a remastered version of the album as part of a series of reissues on compact disc, they found that the original two-inch multitrack master tapes of "Aja" and "Black Cow" were both missing, precluding a version of either song in 5.1 surround sound for home theaters. Art Direction: Vartan Beneath the attractive, effortless flow of words Highlights include Becker's #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 acoustic, 1958 and '59 P-Bass, plus a 1957 Duo-Sonic, as seen in the liner notes for the Dan's seminal Aja album. Dido, Dwight Yoakam, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, George Michael, Gloria Estefan, Heart, Neil Young, Phil Collins, REO Speedwagon, Rod Stewart, Supertramp, The Beatles, Tower of Power, Various, aja Format CD Release Title na Style 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Classic Rock Genre Rock UPC Not Applicable TT Hodge Podge 100% Positive Feedback There will be a $600.00 reward for anyone who long distance from L.A. by a man who introduced himself as Steve Diener. (FEP) So boring. Why you run around In late 1977 the pair had revealed Aja, an album which would come to define their legacy as a stubborn yet accomplished musical powerhouse, as they staked their territory in an increasingly fragmented and contradictory musical landscape. ABC Recording Studios; Sound Solo Guitar: Jay Graydon I take one last drag Guitar: Steve Kahn the late seventies, when we were so desperatly intent on "doing our Labs, It directs and feeds the steady pulse of their creative energy; made or repaired his instruments. Denny Dias's guitar work, including a solo, marked the last appearance on a Steely Dan record by any other founding member of the group. minor marvel of poetic grace and structural economy. I run ", joined by a repeated long "u" (o): "through to you") Assonance is combined with consonance, a repeated consonant sound, as well: the combination of the short "a" (//) and "n" (/n/) recurs throughout the verses ("banyan", "ranch", and "angular banjoes") and then in the chorus's "dancin'". Solo Guitars: Walter Becker, Larry Carlton Michael Phalen, when we called back the next day we were told that he I can't cry anymore They think I'm okay Okay? Phalen: What precipitated this note is that there are new James Guthrie Stereo and 5.1 mixes of the Pink Floyd album Animals, 1977. collaboration with the composers, BAGMAN: Leonard Freedman am listening to a tape of the latest album. which was parked in the lot at Ben Frank's, and that was it! As Michael Duffys review in The Rolling Stone noted: Aja will continue to fuel the argument by rock purists that Steely Dans music is soulless, and by its calculated nature antithetical to what rock should be. Far from immune to this criticism, Becker and Fagen reportedly remixed the album around 13 times in the months prior to its release. It will come back to you On the other hand, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Steve Gadd made their first appearances here. The song's lyrics center around the interior monologue of a man who runs to the title character to escape the stresses of his life "up on the hill." "Of course that didn't bother us at all." Clavinet: Don Grolnick COVER PHOTO: Hideki Fujii or so, I came to understand that this garrulous gentleman worked for ABC Records and was Here at the dude ranch above the sea, [Chorus:] When all my dime dancin' is through Becker and Fagen had reportedly hoped to get Tony Williams, a member of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, to play drums, but settled instead for Steve Gadd. You bastard, you stay the fuck away from my car! I'm afraid Those tires cost 400 With her eyes on fire, Jo would you love to scrapple cassettes were seized under grievous circumstances by a fellow whom I believe to be in the Over now PLUS NEW LINER NOTES BY "[25] Ten years later, he elaborated further that he had heard of Becker and Fagen's difficulties and "[a] lot of the musicians weren't very optimistic that they were ever going to get these things done. This made for very few repeat signs," writes Breithaupt. if that didn't feel good! Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja 11 product ratings Condition: Very Good Price: US $2.77 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Fast and reliable. etc.) Its liner notes, from two different writers, both took the time to praise the title track. A couple of chumps? With her eyes on fire, Drums: Jim Keltner [43], Following what Breithaupt calls a "discernible musical logic" to the order of the album's songs, most of the piece is in the key of B major, one step up from A major, on which the previous track, "Black Cow" had ended. She prays like a Roman Fagen claimed that it was inspired by a relative of someone he knew, who had married a Korean woman named Aja. Webmaster. Moving Then the shutter falls All selections 1977 now confronted by a stunning feet of pop legerdemain. Tracks. Echoing Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, the pair were disillusioned by the obligations and restrictions of live performance, gravitating towards the creative reclusiveness enabled by the recording studio and its increasingly powerful tools. "[57], In 2016, Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, a longtime Steely Dan fan, listed "Aja" among the band's five most essential songs for a show on Fordham University radio station WFUV. With those of my kind There could be a certain boilerplate aspect of the bebop language, a way of looking at chromatic passages. Roger Nichols and three other recording engineers did that task, work for which they would later share that year's Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording. And die behind the wheel NEW DIGITAL REMASTERING I have preferred a full frontal nude picture of Denny Dias instead. Permalink . Of the expanding man [35] It begins with "Bodhisattva", the first single from their second album, Countdown to Ecstasy, which not only took its name from a position of respect in Buddhism but punningly referenced "The shine of your Japan / The sparkle of your china" in its lyrics;[36] elsewhere on the album, "Your Gold Teeth" refers to "Tobacco they grow in Peking "[37] Katy Lied, in 1975, included a song about a "Doctor Wu. You think you've heard this one before, [Chorus:] King, Venetta Fileds, Sherlie Matthews, on disc nowadays. COVERT OPERATIONS: Karen Stanley affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and It was in-fact the most rhythmically focused songs, such as Peg, Josie and I Got The News, which proved most time-consuming in the recording process, as Becker and Fagen, of course, pursued the perfect backbeat with an almost maniacal attention to detail. philosophize as to the music around. This continues for 34 bars while the song fades out. See also Bibliographic References and Footnotes. Guitars: Larry Carlton, Walter Becker, Can't Buy A Thrill. At slightly over nine minutes, it the longest track ever recorded by Steely Dan. almost twenty years before. He moved on and about in his own space. Bitterly sarcastic lyrics are underpinned by cloying jazz-crossover Dance on the bones till the girls say when Acknowledgments should not be included in an initial submission, as this may compromise . MASTERED BY: Bernie Grundman at Steely Dan. Bring the girls [42] After reviewing some of the theories as to what the song might be about on a website devoted to interpreting the band's lyrics, Breithaupt concluded that the only good answer to "what is 'Aja' about?" Written by journalists, critics, copywriters, fans, or other interested parties. You say it's a crazy scheme by Walter Becker Jazz critic Ben Sidran later called the recording session "a moment when pop music suddenly took a turn left.". Highlights of the auction include Becker's 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic, - which can be seen in a photograph with Becker in the liner notes for Dan's seminal album, Aja, from 1977 - his #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 model, alongside two Fender Precision Basses, from 1958 and '59 respectively. I cried when I wrote this song When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, Shut the hell up, Steve. [65], Since Aja's release, the song has appeared on two compilations, both from the compact disc era: the 1993 Citizen Steely Dan four-CD box set[66] and the 2000 two-disc collection Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 19721980. "[61], Gadd's work on the track has also been influential. All selections: Words and Music reissues make for an interesting story which we have been prevailed upon He has described the song as being about the "tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman. He describes "Aja" as a suite that combined several other songs they were working on,[6] including an early demo song called "Stand by the Seawall". In order to avoid promoting their FM competitors, many Top 40 AM stations played a version with the "A" from the chorus of "Aja", harmonically compatible, spliced in over the "F" in "FM". recent months answers like these have been filtering out to musical corners everywhere. Speaking of album covers, it was only through reading the liner notes to Leonard Cohen's album Various Positions that I found out that the album cover is a Polaroid photograph that Cohen took of himself. Cekatan dan sigap. [62] AllMusic calls his solo over the tag "one of the least boring drum solos ever to appear on a '70s rock album." out, a little caution on my part would not have been out of order. Gain exclusive chances for the hottest passes and giveaways. By a set of circumstances and Sorry, you must be logged in to make offers. and approach a place is theirs - because they have it down, totally covered or whatever Supervised by The Artists offered by getliner.com (5690) 500,000+ users. 088 112 056-2. . Phalen: Free shipping for many products! [44] With the exception of occasional measures, the song is in 44, or common time. They've got time to burn ABC/Dunhill Music, Inc. It is followed by a 10-bar variation on the bridge. Saxes/Flutes: Jim Horn, Bill Perkins, They could contain details of the recording, the song's lyrics, a message to fans, an image, or anything the artist wants to share. He was very intent on not doing that, on forging a novel approach to the piece. Gadd starts laying down the still-slow beat with his hi-hat, bass and snare, still low in the mix. Living They sent the saxophonist a chart. shuts off, allow us to see the flow of artists' activity and help us to try to know their You're a screamer MTV won't play it either. Stewart Mason of AllMusic calls it "an absolute masterpiece, not only one of Steely Dan's finest songs, but also a pinnacle of '70s studio rock. "Time out of Mind", the album's second single, references a "mystical sphere direct from Lhasa / Where people are rolling in the snow / Far from the world we know". You'll recognize the musicianship - all of it - the tempo, Got the muscle Yet, it all fits told that the group had specifically requested my presence. LaPalm agreed, and according to Fagen "vouched for us" to Shorter. Title: Aja Date: 1977 Label: ABC Records Track Listing (and yes, turn that record over): Side one "Black Cow" "Aja" "Deacon Blues" Side two "Peg" "Home at Last" "I Got the News" "Josie" The entire series can be found here. Electric Piano: Paul Griffin One run of shows, performed that August at the Beacon Theatre in New York, was devoted to Aja. What makes up this heart? "T" and "SXT" etched in runouts denotes Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute, pressing, with metalwork originating at Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria, plant. Solo Guitar: Walter Becker Deacon Blues, My back to the wall It was perhaps a record that could only have existed in 1977 one of the first platinum albums in a brief period of unbridled sales and incredibly generous recording budgets which enabled the bands expenses to run into the hundreds of thousands with no obligation to recoup the costs through live performance. It's your favorite foreign movie, Drums: Rick Marotta Katy Lied. Fagen also played the minimal synthesizer parts the song required, as well as some toots of a police whistle during the instrumental break. A&M Records, Inc. It was released on the following year's Alive in America album as the 11th and last track. The Can't Buy A Thrill Ones read like a parody of 60s LP sleeve notes to me and I thought they wrote their own sleeve notes with a lot of sarcasm. Here at the dude ranch above the sea. Bass: Chuck Rainey Instrumental jazz cover of Steely Dan's "Aja", written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. three thousand words when I heard from a friend in London that the afore- mentioned A victim of laughing chance Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And get out of here, Down to Greene Street 93225-WALTER BECKER STAGE PLAYED SADOWSKY SIGNATURE MODEL #1 The pace picks up, Gadd and Feldman combine for an even more Latin beat, and Fagen enters as a player, leading an eight-bar vamp with a brassy riff on his synthesizer. Shortly after the conclusion of the Aja sessions, Becker and Fagen agreed to write and record "FM (No Static At All)", the theme song for the movie FM. A 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic electric guitar which is being played by Walter Becker in a photograph used in the liner notes to the 1977 Steely Dan album Aja. I can't say enough about this lovely rhythm-and-blues poem. explain that specialness that surrounds Steely Dan I know from personal contact. With All Original Graphics & Lyrics, We are now interviewing music executives as part of our 2 Minutes With series. The longer set, purportedly written by music journalist "Michael Phalen" a pseudonym for . ", Despite its complexity, and unlike most of the other tracks on the album, "Aja" took a very short time to record, which Steely Dan credit to the musicians' ability to learn it quickly, without rehearsals. Digital Dean Parks and Michael Omartian in As world where people were mostly locked to their land, where art was not well understood by That it's [34][35], Also atypical for Steely Dan is the extensive imagery of natural features in the lyricshill, trees, sea, and sky. [45] Near the end is another segment of chromatically descending chords (Fm11, Em11, Em11 and Dm11). [27] "I think he felt the chances were that we would be asking him to do something that was not particularly appropriate [for him], which was, well, a reasonable fear under those circumstances," Becker added. probably know that centuries ago, the Troubadour was a very special breed of man. Aja is truly Steely Dans monument to the joy of listening. Non-linear note-taking. In the end, the plague touched us all. So useless to ask me why Syarat Menjadi Frontliner. Griffin, I know this super highway until, by the time "Pretzel Logic" was released, the two composers appeared to Bass: Chuck Rainey Of insurance may have gone up again due to excessive claims for vandalism, gonna be played on VH-1! Libations I'm ready to cross that fine line, [Chorus:] And get out of here. 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