This All Too Mobile Home ...
" I get four or five miles a gallon in this old car
I don't care as long as it takes me to where you are
You ain't leavin' no tracks to follow
It's driving me mad but what else can I do
This all too mobile home is crawling after you
You get thirty miles out of Phoenix on a three-day drive
When you left the body there brother number five
When you slammed the door behind you
You walked out on the line that we once knew
This all too mobile home is crawling after you "
These are just a portion of the lyrics to a Steely Dan song called "This All Too Mobile Home". It's a unreleased song and one that they often closed their sets with back in 1974. It's also a shame too that this never appeared on a CD but did appear in a bootleg format though and it's immediately one of my favourite 'Dan tracks.
I'm thrilled too that I have found more songs to add to my Steely Dan collection. It's hard to believe that with such a back catalogue exsists and that they never used a good portion of these unreleased tracks that I have stumbled upon. Of course the majority of these songs are more rock (again about 1974 or 1972) than the "smooth jazz" or the pop jazz sound they later evolved into but I'm sure they could have revamped or reworked them.
I also wonder too if they did one of those A&E "Live By Request" shows with Steely Dan and someone asked of they could play (and for example) "This All Too Mobile Home" they would remember it or it would even be in their catalogue? I wonder sometimes what's in Donald's lyric book that sits in front of him on his keyboard when he plays live.
I also now have some alternate versions and mixes of certain well known Steely Dan tracks too. I can't decide if I like the polished and finished versions now or the rough and raw works in progress. Or maybe I should just enjoy each version as they are. It astonishes me too that these tracks it in the vaults and labels don't release this stuff. Then again maybe they are better off left that way so they are more "collectable".
Anyways, I'm just over the moon happy about what I have added to my collection and it really shows to me than an artist can and truly evolve through the years. These guys for sure have taught me lots as I listen to them play for me.
I love Steely Dan.
I don't care as long as it takes me to where you are
You ain't leavin' no tracks to follow
It's driving me mad but what else can I do
This all too mobile home is crawling after you
You get thirty miles out of Phoenix on a three-day drive
When you left the body there brother number five
When you slammed the door behind you
You walked out on the line that we once knew
This all too mobile home is crawling after you "
These are just a portion of the lyrics to a Steely Dan song called "This All Too Mobile Home". It's a unreleased song and one that they often closed their sets with back in 1974. It's also a shame too that this never appeared on a CD but did appear in a bootleg format though and it's immediately one of my favourite 'Dan tracks.
I'm thrilled too that I have found more songs to add to my Steely Dan collection. It's hard to believe that with such a back catalogue exsists and that they never used a good portion of these unreleased tracks that I have stumbled upon. Of course the majority of these songs are more rock (again about 1974 or 1972) than the "smooth jazz" or the pop jazz sound they later evolved into but I'm sure they could have revamped or reworked them.
I also wonder too if they did one of those A&E "Live By Request" shows with Steely Dan and someone asked of they could play (and for example) "This All Too Mobile Home" they would remember it or it would even be in their catalogue? I wonder sometimes what's in Donald's lyric book that sits in front of him on his keyboard when he plays live.
I also now have some alternate versions and mixes of certain well known Steely Dan tracks too. I can't decide if I like the polished and finished versions now or the rough and raw works in progress. Or maybe I should just enjoy each version as they are. It astonishes me too that these tracks it in the vaults and labels don't release this stuff. Then again maybe they are better off left that way so they are more "collectable".
Anyways, I'm just over the moon happy about what I have added to my collection and it really shows to me than an artist can and truly evolve through the years. These guys for sure have taught me lots as I listen to them play for me.
I love Steely Dan.
posted by Spatchula at 1:45 AM
1 Comments:
is that an album cover? if it is, which album?
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