moray james

the very best to you today. special thanks for all you post.

going to miss Walter in the band so much. Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm. We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues. Walter had a very rough childhood - I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter. His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band. I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band. Donald Fagen September 3 2017

Thanks knuckledragger post like these really make my day. Very much appreciate your taking the extra time to identify so many of your picture locations. These are what bring me here every day. Carly Simon said it best when she sang " nobody does it better". Craig: lucky to be you Loughrigg Fell looks like a fairy tail and reminds me or reading the adventures of the Rupert books a s child.

many happy returns today and thanks for my most favorite thread on line! moray james.

Page number 186 is a special page thank you to all concerned you made my morning. moray james.

at least ow when people stand in front of the fridge staring for hours the door won't be open. watch out for the gooey sticky wet spot on the floor "I think the fridge is leaking hun".

makes for my favorite thread on the internet thank you Knuckledragger

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Oh man that's sad the world needs laughter, RIP Garry.

Honey, have you seen the cat today?

Roy Allison American Loudspeaker designer has passed away yesterday. I don't have any details. Roy was a ground breaker and an independent thinker. Roy was 88 and still in the business. Sad loss RIP Roy.

great writer very sad news. RIP Umberto.