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July 23, 2022

Steely Dan, but Paul Shaffer won't shut up!

July 23, 2022

This is the worst interview I have ever seen. Paul Shaffer never shuts up. Poor Donald Fagen can hardly get a word in edgewise. I am surprised Fagen didn't walk out. If he gives a two-word answer, Shaffer will interrupt it. Forget about finishing a sentence, or even starting one! Shaffer continually talks over his guest, and plays over him too. When Fagen finally tells him how much fun it wasn't (19:53), Shaffer doesn't even notice, just keeps blathering on. Incredible - that's narcissism.

Here's one of my favorites, that you've probably never heard unless you are a big fan.
A rollicking 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
At least here Shaffer stays in the background. I hope he was unplugged, Becker and Fagen don't need any help! Letterman gets it: "Leave the big stars alone, Paul, you're making them sick." (Josie)

Around the time of this video, I saw them live, and they were terrific, even without Paul Shaffer.

Artie Fufkin, Polymer Records

Update:

I tried to watch this "interview" a second time, but I couldn't. It's just painful.

Charlie Parker

Music, 07/23/22

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Fretboard Gluing

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It's time to glue up some necks. First I radius-sanded the fretboards to 12 inches with my DIY sanding block. The StewMac board started with a 16" radius, which was easy to do. The other board started flat and was a lot of work to do entirely by sanding, not to mention a mess of nasty rosewood dust. For a flat board, better to rough it out with a router, and then finish by sanding. I'm not much of a cook, but the little kitchen timer has a thousand uses.

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