Black Friday by Steely Dan
Posted by admin in Finance Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:56 25 Comments
Steely Dan hit off Katy Lied (1975), featuring photos of Wall Street’s unusual suspects and certain of the nation’s other fixer fixtures. Answering those who have questioned relation of this mash to the first “Black Friday”, from a Steely Fan site: Brian Sweet reports, “In US history the first real Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869, a day of panic in the securities market which was repeated nine years later. The term is often used on both sides of the Atlantic for any day of crisis, financial or otherwise, but there is no evidence to suggest that Becker and Fagen were referring to any particular occasion. They had simply used their collective imaginations to create a fictitious incident. “Becker and Fagen’s tale is of a crooked speculator who makes his fortune and absconds to Australia with the proceeds to live in the lap of luxury and seek forgiveness for his sins…. They chose Muswellbrook, a town in New South Wales, Australia, for the lyrics of the tune. ‘It was the place most far away from LA we could think of,’ explained Fagen… and, of course, it fitted the metre of the song and rhymed with ‘book.’ “
After listening to the impeccably smooth Aja, this record sounds VERY LOUD AND ROUGH in comparison, Lol!
Great song…and great slide show to go along with it! Thanks for putting this here, thesquonkstear
thanks for posting.. I am 12 again…
Michael McDonald first gained wide attention as an adjunct member of the group Steely Dan, providing back-up vocals on tracks for 1975′s Katy Lied.
Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he shot to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied.
the chorus rules!
love this stuff, was turned onto it while going through brother in-laws record collection (with permission o course lol) classic music has a way of becoming trans-generational thumbs up buds
Whoa boys go with the flow and enjoy life. Enjoy the music that goes with life!!
Your slide show is confused. Too many scammers NOT pic’d; yet others not relevant to the nightmare were included.
You need to edit your perp line-up. Raines and Gorelick certainly deserve air time; Dodd, Frank and Moses were at ground zero.
Counterfeit-credit needed Moodys S&P and Fitch PLUS Fannie and Freddie.
You seem to have no working focus for who did what to whom.
The answer is corrupted players, rules and government.
Just yesterday Frank admitted F&F have to go!!!
We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia- 18-times as much oil as Iraq- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait- 22-times as much oil as Iran- 500-times as much oil as Yemen- and it’s all right here in the Western United States .HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help us from eating kangaroos!
black friday rocks!!!
Has to be the worst…you lied cheated and stole and crossed all your tees and dotted all iees and its stil not enough..sucks.
this is a very good tune i also like dr woo from them as well as bad sneakers and showbiz kids
Hello thesquonkstear! It’s CBFALL! To me,ALL Steely Dan songs are excellent!
Muswellbrook represent!
Nice job squonkster
@eftz – martha stewart knew she was f**king her shareholders
@efzt You must enjoy the word “cunt”. Maybe you should share it with your mother, ’cause we don’t care a bit.
Don’t include Martha Stewart with the rest of those cunts….you cunt!
@thesquonkstear I like both the song and the slide show. Especially Barrymore as Potter.
@s2exg I sang the song!
Sincerely,
Donald.
The fender piano was played by David Paich (TOTO). Amazing work!
they are still at it and BamBee and his goons– is in on it.(affected English)
You should update this one with the new play’as.
How bout that patriot act…didn’t go away, did it?
The NWO!!
Don’t be happy to be divided on one side or the other,
they love it!—if my other post made it sorry this one might be redundant,
though it is not irksome for me to repeat the truth. Cap’n trade tax us so the elite can have their infrastructure paid for to get slave labor since we work cheap Lie
There are even more tools for the NWO
that you could expose with an update
of the current characters involved
Bambi and his crew are filling Bush’s big shoes with ease.
awfully clever video. ties into the great SD tune nicely.