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Time Out of Mind for when you want to boogie down.
Deacon Blues for when youre feeling sentimental.
Josie for further boogying.
Lets just say they werent averse togatherin up the tears.
From noon till six wed play the tune over and over and over again, nailing each part.
Wed go to dinner and come back and start recording,he explained.
They made everybody play like their life depended on it.
But they werent gonna keep anything anyone else played that night, no matter how tight it was.
All they were going for was the drum track.
For about an hour and a half, Im playing my hip, melodic kind of jazz style.
Then Donald says to me, Naw, man.
have a go at play the blues,he remembered.
The whole thing probably took about four, five hours.
Including taking some breaks.
They knew they were onto something.
Other musicians, such as Peg rhythm guitarist Steve Khan, werent as kind with their words.
Having the money, and the power of guaranteed sales, is a license for abuse, he recalled.
Lets go with somebody else tomorrow night.
Itd be different bands every night to get the same song.
Asremembered byDick LaPalm, Bents friend and publicist extraordinaire:
Dick, I have to talk to you.
She put her head down on the desk in her arms and said, Well-the, well-the, well-the.
I said, What are you doing?
Lenise looked up and said, Dick, I have to get off theAjasession.
They worked on the words well the for six hours last night.
All they did was work those two words for just the right sound for hours.
I really have to get off the session.
We found there were certain feels that we couldnt get out of real drummers, Fagen explainedat the time.
They werent steady enough.
Wendel can play exactly what the drummer plays.
To add insult to injury to those rejected drummers, Wendelwas awardedwith a platinum record.
