buy Walter Becker "Book of Liars"
buy Steely Dan "Reelin in the Years"
buy Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way"
buy Stevie Nicks "Stop Draggin My Heart Around"
I recently revisited the Feb 2015 print
copy of Wired – specifically an article about Microsoft’s new CEO. Segments of
Jessi Hempel’s article worth relating seemed to resonate with where I am
vis-a-vis Star Maker blogging, (and our theme of “lies”)
When Vannevar Bush first envisioned the Internet
(his memex), the idea was that “trailblazers” could share their trails – the
sequence of links they followed to get to a certain (re)source. More often than
not, current web files lead us to the end rather than sharing the process and
all the intermediary by-paths that might add value to our journeys. For most of
us, searching for information about music related to lies, this would be a
likely starting point:
Of the fairly decent list of links that appeared, my trail began at the top, and- partway down the list- I locked in on Steely Dan – mostly because, well … they had their heyday when I was a radio disk jockey and… because I like the jazz-rock mix
But I couldn’t place the song “Book of
Liars”. Turns out it is a Walter Becker “solo” piece from a 1994 album (Alive
in America) produced by the other ½ of Steely Dan, Donald Fagan, and then
brought out again in 2004.
This got me thinking about other Steely Dan
songs/lyrics. If we stretch the “lies” theme to include cheating lovers, our
trail could wind on over to Reelin in the Years
(where they sing: “after all the things
we’ve seen and done you go and find another man…” – cheat city)
Back to Vannevar Bush and his memex and his
trailblazers. My thought process continued by following Steely Dan – at which
point I saw that Steely Dan appeared on the TV show Midnight Special – and so
did Fleetwood Mac, at about the same time. My YouTube right-side links (your
results may vary) suggested I would like some Fleetwood Mac (Vanovar Bush in
action). I am not sure I have my
Fleetwood Mac timeline down all that well, but .. well … there was a certain
amount of spouse sharing, and it seems to me that there must have been a
certain amount of lies going on there: hence: Go Your Own Way.
Again, the YouTube right-side link. This
time: Tom Petty (and one-time Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks. Stop Draggin My Heart ...
link ... to link ... to link ... Many lies...
