Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972, by ABC Records. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz...

The title of the album is a reference to the opening line of the Bob Dylan song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry".The album cover features a photomontage by Robert Lockart. It includes images of muscle-men and a line of prostitutes (standing in Rue du Gros-Horloge in Rouen, France),[citation needed] waiting for clients, which was chosen because of its relevance to the album title..

...Robert Christgau ... said he found the lyrics "oblique, even philosophical [...] as befit a band named after a dildo in a William Burroughs novel.. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-w7yN3L-_I

#steelydan #williamburroughs #donaldfagen #walterbrecker #JeromeRichardson #dennydias #jeffskunkbaxter #1972inmusic

Ted Tocks Covers

My Old School

Originally posted on July 27, 2023

On this day in 2017 Walter Becker of Steely Dan died at the age of 67.

“Oleanders growing outside her door
Soon they're gonna be in bloom
Up in Annandale
I can't stand her
Doing what she did before
Living like a gypsy queen
In a fairy tale”

#SteelyDan #DonaldFagen #WalterBecker #JeffSkunkBaxter #GGordonLiddy #LexingtonLabBand #LeonidandFriends

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ULTIMATE SPINACH
"PLASTIC RAINCOATS / HUNG UP MINDS"
Mastodon Post

PLASTIC RAINCOATS/HUNG UP MINDS
Ultimate Spinach - Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBA80uS8b4g

"Plastic Raincoats" is a fun song. The Ultimate Spinach, a prime example of The Boston Sound, was a better group than I remembered. If any band members ever stop by, I will apologize.

The Boston Sound, which came to be called Bosstown, was a major label promotion (MGM Records). It fizzled and Bosstown became a joke; but this was not entirely deserved. Some very good music came out of the Boston Sound and the better tracks recorded then hold up very well to this day.

At the time, I was of the view, which would seem to put me in the minority now, that the Jeff "Skunk" Baxter lineup of the Ultimate Spinach was the best.

Hooray for the all-around great John Cooke, Earth Opera, David Grisman, The Ramrods (renamed "Puff"), Peter Rowan, Teddy and the Pandas, the Ultimate Spinach, John Lincoln Wright, and a whole host of others. New England hippies had a wicked good time.

One of the Bosstown-era singers, who came out of Boston, went on, in the 1970s, to become the biggest dance music star in the world: - Donna Summer. I am a big fan. Donna Summer's late '60s Boston band, The Crow, played innovative psych/pop arrangements at the Psychedelic Supermarket.

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Music Museum of New England (MMone) Ultimate Spinach article

https://www.mmone.org/ultimate-spinach-2/

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Music Museum of New England (MMone) article about The Boston Sound (Bosstown)

https://www.mmone.org/the-boston-sound/

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