Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Dan gave us a whipcrack to the face...
HOLY HOT SHIT. I MEAN SERIOUSLY, HOLY FUCK.
Last night blew us out of the fucking WATER then in mid-air flip blasted us into the propeller of a hover craft and that diced us into little bits then some greyhair gathered us up in a pouch let us gather some stank and then rolled us up and smoked the living shit out of us.
Steely Dan was out of fucking control last night. Seeeereiously. OUT. OF. CONTROL. Hands down the best time we have ever seen them. Hands down the best DAN JAM EVER. And thats fucking saying something b/c we've razed the earth during previous jams. It all started out in a MAJOR HARSH too, so the fact that we picked it back up to a mind blowing level was a tribute to our JAMBILITY.
Alright, so the show is at this new venue up in Alpharetta. By "up in Alpharetta" i mean in Chattanooga. Fucking so far up 400 it was practically night by the time we got there. Not really, but fucking far. Cuz it was so far up there I decided there was no point in going home after work and headed straight up there at 5. Traffic at that time was rough, but not that bad and I got through it all and up to the exit where the show was by 5:30. Stop at publix and pick up the LOT JAM essentials: party subs, peanuts, brews, brews, wangs. I only got a small number of wangs just b/c one of the other dudes mentioned they may stop and get some. So I leave publix and get to the venue in 10 minutes pulling into my parking space at 6pm. I was one of the first 10 people in the parking lot, guess i over shot but whatever twas better to jam in the lot than sit in traffic. So i popped a few brews while i waited on Ice and Drew to roll in. They call me about 6:15 and are leaving ATL. Little did they know they were about to be bent over and butt jammed by 400. Long story short they got to the lot at 7:40. Fuck. In the mean time I'm sitting in my car jamming the MOVIN EZ channel on sirius jamming to Christopher Cross, America, Paul Davis (Cool Night, just let me hold you by the fire light...) - so i was fine. Oh also I was drinking Bud Lime. At one point I walk over to the port-a-potty to change clothes into my Danfit. I had scored some SWEEEEEEET white linen pants and this horrific black "island" type shirt with cork buttons. I walk out of the bathroom and 20 people walking into the show all start laughing at me. Sign of a killer outfit and of the jam to come.
Ice and Drew roll up and I deliver ice his gift, a killer shirt for him to wear tonight. SKIN TIGHT NYLON CAMO SHIRT! This picture kind of shows it, but not really. I'll upload pictures from my camera later i forgot the chord. Anyways they get there and the LOT JAM BEGINS. Ice jamms his personal speaker and we're pumpin some serious Dan tunes and jamming the subs. Just then Drew's friend Josh walks up holding a bag with 60 wings from wild wing. WTF. Instant bro. Not only that but he jammed NEW flavors which we hadnt tried before. POLLO LOCO WANG! So tight. We hear the opener start up around 8 and continue jamming. We knew the dan was on at 9 so we jammed it up to about 8:45. Walking in we made some friends and high fived.
So as much as this venue sucked ass on the outside, the minute we walk in we're thrust into the zone. This place was pretty fucking cool. It had a vibe of this massive structure out in the middle of nowhere full of old people. So we had to kick it up with some flavor. We were getting some choice looks as we sauntered through the path on the way to our seats in our yacht attire. Fuck the haters, they had 1/10th the fun we did, more on that later. One thing about Dan jams as of late is that we usually get HARSHED on bad b/c we enjoy standing up to dance and groove during the show. Old people dont. They want to sit down and sip Chablis and dont want some whippersnappers ruining their view and or wine buzz. So when finding our seats we lucked out b/c on the row over from us there wasn't a single person there AND...BONUS...there were about 10 rows behind them leading up to the lawn WITH NO ONE SITTING IN THEM. So we had a jam station with no chance for a harsh. Constantly high fiving and drankin some brews.
The show starts to a roar. The band comes out (with out Walter or Donald) and jams a killer groove melody just whettin' our minds. Out the dudes stroll and ITS FUCKING ON. This show just fucking slayed from the get go. The band was on and you could tell they were feeling this shit. Three songs in they hit "SHOW BIZ KIDS" and thats when ignition began. This was a show for the fans too b/c it was FUCKING DEEEEEEPPP CUTS and the hits you wanted to hear. So there we are the 4 of us just jamming in an row by ourselves on an island of jam. Then in the row in front of us, "the dan scholar" sees us having fun and decides to come over and give us the history of the band. STEP THE FUCK OFF DUDE! I'll steal a choice phrase a few forever dudes spoke before us: I cant hear you when im dancing! He decided I was the one to buddy up to so every fucking 5 minutes he would walk over and say "man my brother saw these dudes in Dallas in '00 (he actually said "double o") and they played this version of blah blah fucking blah." So slowly we started creeping down to the other end of the isle.
Here's where it gets good. We're clearly the 4 dudes having the most fun in the entire fucking stadium. So much so we start to gather a crowd. People come up and high five us and just come to jam like they are going to work. Had a bunch of fuckin' gawkers too, WHAT YOU TAINT NEVER SEEN JAMMIN BEFORE! WELL LET US BESTOW IT UPON YOU! ...........BLAMO they kick into Hey 19! WTF! Hammjamm level 9.3 reached. I look over, 2 hippies just walk up and start dancing with us. They later ask ice to jam them higher, but ice was fresh out. Look up 10 minutes later, these two 45 year old women just a jammin' immediately to our left. Look up 2 minutes later two greyhairs come up and say "we found our people" - psssh, start jammin. I mean if you could see this shit you would be so proud. JAM ISLAND in the middle of a sea of lame-os. The dan is keeping us alive, tinkling around their song list with hit after hit. SUPER HUGE HIGHLIGHT of the night was when they played Gaucho. Rare live one. Then they bring out the meat gun and blast us into the next century. Finish the regular set with a plateau of monster tracks. Black Friday [whip] Green Earrings [whip] Josie [whip] PEG [mega thrash]!!!!!!!
We were numb. (dontdrinkdontsmokedontrave like the edge)
Encore. We're standing on our tippietoes just so anxious for what is coming next. LAZERCRACK.......Kid Charlemagne! WHAT?!?! LOL!! OMG!
Finish the set with FM and our heads almost roll off b/c we're totally middle age moshin. Good dance moves on our part for sure. The show ends before we wanted it to and our minds were in mid flight. Had to come down. We high five our new friends who were all around us at this point and Ice and i run up to the front of the stage to try to get some memorabilia. That picture above is ice in front of Fagen's piano. We take it back to the lot to jam some more subs and some water and to let the brain matter seep from our heads. It starts raining so we pack it up and head home after a round of hugs and thoughts of the best DAN JAM EVER.
Nothing captures it like this quote from Ice:
"We are my heroes."
Set List - Steely Dan - Alphareatta, GA 6/11
Medley: Everyone's Gone to the Movies/The Fez/Royal Scam
Royal Scam
I Got The News
Show Biz Kids
Everything You Did
Two Against Nature
Hey Nineteen (with WB "story")
Godwhacker
Babylon Sisters
New Frontier
Gaucho (Walter Becker vocal)
Glamor Profession
Parker's Band (the girls)
Black Friday
Green Earrings
Josie
Band intros
Peg
Encore
Kid Charlemagne
FM
HOLY HOT SHIT. I MEAN SERIOUSLY, HOLY FUCK.
Last night blew us out of the fucking WATER then in mid-air flip blasted us into the propeller of a hover craft and that diced us into little bits then some greyhair gathered us up in a pouch let us gather some stank and then rolled us up and smoked the living shit out of us.
Steely Dan was out of fucking control last night. Seeeereiously. OUT. OF. CONTROL. Hands down the best time we have ever seen them. Hands down the best DAN JAM EVER. And thats fucking saying something b/c we've razed the earth during previous jams. It all started out in a MAJOR HARSH too, so the fact that we picked it back up to a mind blowing level was a tribute to our JAMBILITY.
Alright, so the show is at this new venue up in Alpharetta. By "up in Alpharetta" i mean in Chattanooga. Fucking so far up 400 it was practically night by the time we got there. Not really, but fucking far. Cuz it was so far up there I decided there was no point in going home after work and headed straight up there at 5. Traffic at that time was rough, but not that bad and I got through it all and up to the exit where the show was by 5:30. Stop at publix and pick up the LOT JAM essentials: party subs, peanuts, brews, brews, wangs. I only got a small number of wangs just b/c one of the other dudes mentioned they may stop and get some. So I leave publix and get to the venue in 10 minutes pulling into my parking space at 6pm. I was one of the first 10 people in the parking lot, guess i over shot but whatever twas better to jam in the lot than sit in traffic. So i popped a few brews while i waited on Ice and Drew to roll in. They call me about 6:15 and are leaving ATL. Little did they know they were about to be bent over and butt jammed by 400. Long story short they got to the lot at 7:40. Fuck. In the mean time I'm sitting in my car jamming the MOVIN EZ channel on sirius jamming to Christopher Cross, America, Paul Davis (Cool Night, just let me hold you by the fire light...) - so i was fine. Oh also I was drinking Bud Lime. At one point I walk over to the port-a-potty to change clothes into my Danfit. I had scored some SWEEEEEEET white linen pants and this horrific black "island" type shirt with cork buttons. I walk out of the bathroom and 20 people walking into the show all start laughing at me. Sign of a killer outfit and of the jam to come.
Ice and Drew roll up and I deliver ice his gift, a killer shirt for him to wear tonight. SKIN TIGHT NYLON CAMO SHIRT! This picture kind of shows it, but not really. I'll upload pictures from my camera later i forgot the chord. Anyways they get there and the LOT JAM BEGINS. Ice jamms his personal speaker and we're pumpin some serious Dan tunes and jamming the subs. Just then Drew's friend Josh walks up holding a bag with 60 wings from wild wing. WTF. Instant bro. Not only that but he jammed NEW flavors which we hadnt tried before. POLLO LOCO WANG! So tight. We hear the opener start up around 8 and continue jamming. We knew the dan was on at 9 so we jammed it up to about 8:45. Walking in we made some friends and high fived. So as much as this venue sucked ass on the outside, the minute we walk in we're thrust into the zone. This place was pretty fucking cool. It had a vibe of this massive structure out in the middle of nowhere full of old people. So we had to kick it up with some flavor. We were getting some choice looks as we sauntered through the path on the way to our seats in our yacht attire. Fuck the haters, they had 1/10th the fun we did, more on that later. One thing about Dan jams as of late is that we usually get HARSHED on bad b/c we enjoy standing up to dance and groove during the show. Old people dont. They want to sit down and sip Chablis and dont want some whippersnappers ruining their view and or wine buzz. So when finding our seats we lucked out b/c on the row over from us there wasn't a single person there AND...BONUS...there were about 10 rows behind them leading up to the lawn WITH NO ONE SITTING IN THEM. So we had a jam station with no chance for a harsh. Constantly high fiving and drankin some brews.
The show starts to a roar. The band comes out (with out Walter or Donald) and jams a killer groove melody just whettin' our minds. Out the dudes stroll and ITS FUCKING ON. This show just fucking slayed from the get go. The band was on and you could tell they were feeling this shit. Three songs in they hit "SHOW BIZ KIDS" and thats when ignition began. This was a show for the fans too b/c it was FUCKING DEEEEEEPPP CUTS and the hits you wanted to hear. So there we are the 4 of us just jamming in an row by ourselves on an island of jam. Then in the row in front of us, "the dan scholar" sees us having fun and decides to come over and give us the history of the band. STEP THE FUCK OFF DUDE! I'll steal a choice phrase a few forever dudes spoke before us: I cant hear you when im dancing! He decided I was the one to buddy up to so every fucking 5 minutes he would walk over and say "man my brother saw these dudes in Dallas in '00 (he actually said "double o") and they played this version of blah blah fucking blah." So slowly we started creeping down to the other end of the isle.
Here's where it gets good. We're clearly the 4 dudes having the most fun in the entire fucking stadium. So much so we start to gather a crowd. People come up and high five us and just come to jam like they are going to work. Had a bunch of fuckin' gawkers too, WHAT YOU TAINT NEVER SEEN JAMMIN BEFORE! WELL LET US BESTOW IT UPON YOU! ...........BLAMO they kick into Hey 19! WTF! Hammjamm level 9.3 reached. I look over, 2 hippies just walk up and start dancing with us. They later ask ice to jam them higher, but ice was fresh out. Look up 10 minutes later, these two 45 year old women just a jammin' immediately to our left. Look up 2 minutes later two greyhairs come up and say "we found our people" - psssh, start jammin. I mean if you could see this shit you would be so proud. JAM ISLAND in the middle of a sea of lame-os. The dan is keeping us alive, tinkling around their song list with hit after hit. SUPER HUGE HIGHLIGHT of the night was when they played Gaucho. Rare live one. Then they bring out the meat gun and blast us into the next century. Finish the regular set with a plateau of monster tracks. Black Friday [whip] Green Earrings [whip] Josie [whip] PEG [mega thrash]!!!!!!!
We were numb. (dontdrinkdontsmokedontrave like the edge)
Encore. We're standing on our tippietoes just so anxious for what is coming next. LAZERCRACK.......Kid Charlemagne! WHAT?!?! LOL!! OMG!
Finish the set with FM and our heads almost roll off b/c we're totally middle age moshin. Good dance moves on our part for sure. The show ends before we wanted it to and our minds were in mid flight. Had to come down. We high five our new friends who were all around us at this point and Ice and i run up to the front of the stage to try to get some memorabilia. That picture above is ice in front of Fagen's piano. We take it back to the lot to jam some more subs and some water and to let the brain matter seep from our heads. It starts raining so we pack it up and head home after a round of hugs and thoughts of the best DAN JAM EVER.
Nothing captures it like this quote from Ice:
"We are my heroes."
Set List - Steely Dan - Alphareatta, GA 6/11
Medley: Everyone's Gone to the Movies/The Fez/Royal Scam
Royal Scam
I Got The News
Show Biz Kids
Everything You Did
Two Against Nature
Hey Nineteen (with WB "story")
Godwhacker
Babylon Sisters
New Frontier
Gaucho (Walter Becker vocal)
Glamor Profession
Parker's Band (the girls)
Black Friday
Green Earrings
Josie
Band intros
Peg
Encore
Kid Charlemagne
FM
