Monday Morning Music: Caves Of Altamira

When there wasn’t even any Hollywood

(Yeah, I know it’s actually Monday evening but I like the alliteration) You-Tuberr Melegorm has assembled some photo-montages of quite a few Steely Dan songs.  The pictures are not really essential but he obviously put a lot of effort into them.

I love Caves Of Altamira because I was so much like that when I was a kid. I didn’t have any caves full of paleolithic artwork to explore, but spent countless hours at the University Of Iowa’s many excellent (free!) museums full of fossils, geological samples and biological displays from around the world.  And there was an abandoned rock quarry and several ravines nearby.  Excellently inappropriate playgrounds for a somewhat antisocial kid.

Steely Dan’s mythic description of ancient artistry is wonderful, and like many SD songs it is semi-historical.  Ideally when listening to Steely Dan one should be cruising down a 2-lane seacoast highway in a red ‘65 Impala ragtop with the top down…

Posted by George on 02/25/08 at 07:08 PM

  1. Ideally when listening to Steely Dan one should be cruising down a 2-lane seacoast highway in a red ‘65 Impala ragtop with the top down…

    Lovely. Steely Dan is like that; capable of transforming it back to some previous point.

    For me it’s driving down Balboa, west toward Pacific Beach. To hang out at the jetty with others on a Friday night after the show (“The Song Remains the Same” played every week at the dollar midnight matinée). Steely Dan courtesy of KGB-FM on the radio, the Fiat 128’s four-by-forty air conditioning letting the cool night breeze waft by…

    Posted by Ted  on  02/26/08  at  12:17 AM

  2. Steely Dan courtesy of KGB-FM on the radio, the Fiat 128’s four-by-forty air conditioning letting the cool night breeze waft by…

    No static at all…

    Posted by george.w  on  02/26/08  at  07:29 AM

  3. Hi DOF - thanks for mentioning the photomontages. You’re right, they’re not essential, but hopefully they bring an extra dimension to the magnificent audio artistry of Steely Dan. It keeps me off the streets, at any rate.
    Ad astra - Melegorm

    Posted by Melegorm  on  03/04/08  at  09:28 PM

  4. Thanks for dropping in Melegorm!  I enjoyed seeing what images came to your mind as you listened to some of my favorite music.  Watched a whole bunch of them.

    Posted by george.w  on  03/04/08  at  09:39 PM

  5. Hello, I lost about 2 hours of sleep last night because I just stumbled upon the you tube images of the songs from The Nightfly.  I am more than willing to buy a dvd of these images.  Is this possible?

    Posted by Kevin  on  04/23/08  at  05:10 PM

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