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Steely Dan - Peg (8-bit rendition)

Obscure but cool Australian Rocker Billy Thorpe's biggest hit. This was the first attempt at a big production sound with lots of overdubs and voices. 100% solo me.

Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe cover

This is a warm up track to all my fans accross the world. Thank you all for all your kind messages and support, I'm feeling very honored :) 
I know you're waiting for my album, please know that I'm doing all my best to release a decent work... 

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Ben Hedibi

Das EFX - Real Hip Hop (Ben Hedibi Remix)

Rusty Foulke played the guitar parts on this one.

Ah Leah Donnie Iris cover by Bernie Garzio

• The Temple of Time - Sacred Way
• Reduced to 90 seconds - (Original 6:16)
• From the debut album "Twice"
• Copyright 2014 by Case of Madness


iTunes (Album - Twice):
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/twice-radio-edit/id1242632312?i=1242632561

amazon (Album - Twice):
https://www.amazon.de/Twice-Case-Madness/dp/B06WLQSM5F/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1499199740&sr=1-2-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Case+of+Madness

Google Play (Album - Twice):
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Case_of_Madness_Twice?id=Bxbl4xpdnychpchivdznz5xokgi

7Digital Deutschland (Album - Twice):
https://de.7digital.com/artist/case-of-madness/release/twice-6201145

Spotify (Album - Twice):
https://open.spotify.com/album/4JWOP71Aq7QIBou1BOuZ7M


Artist Website: http://www.caseofmadness.com

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Case of Madness

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The Temple of Time (Sacred Way) - (Original 6:16)

My smooth jazz guitar version of the Steely Dan classic. I play all instruments except drums.

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I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan-Guitar-Solos.aspx


Steely Dan ---- Peg (free download by clicking the 'buy' button)

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to hear and download many more great sounds like this?

I've got a page devoted to Steely Dan where I talk about how to play their great guitar solos 
http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan-Guitar-Solos.aspx

'Josie' is another Steely Dan classic off the 1977 album 'Aja'. 

Steely Dan ---- Josie

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Deacon Blues is another classic Steely Dan track off the Aja album.

Guitarists love Steely Dan because they integrated the instrument into their studio productions so beautifully. In the process they gave the world at least 10 of the top 50 guitar solos of all time!

What's the secret of a Steely Dan guitar solo? Find out at http://www.bennysutton.com/Music/Steely-Dan-Guitar-Solos.aspx 

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Steely Dan ---- Deacon Blues

Someone Is Always Pontificating

taken from my vinyl copy of Scary Monsters -"Ashes to Ashes" is a single by David Bowie, released in 1980. It made #1 in the UK and was the first cut from the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album

"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie (vinyl)

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my music, I really appreciate it!

Power Through Atonement

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Flamboyant.
Autor e intérprete: Adauto Fernandes

Flamboyant

Not strictly a Steely Dan Track this is from Donald Fagen's Nightfly album. However it's as close as he gets to classic Steely tracks. I always thought Fagen wrote it but it is actually a cover they did of a Leiber Stoller song. They know a good song when they see one.
My approach is to jump genres with the beats; there's Dubstep and Disco there! Some horns and a clavinet bassline later and - Voila! The Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. version was originally recorded by The Drifters and was released on a single by Atlantic Records in 1956


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Steely Dan ---- Ruby Baby (downloadable)

This track, when the Steelies first released it, was marked by its distinctive 'voicebox' guitar, quite an innovation at the time when it was initially released Technology has moved on so much since the original track was recorded. 
The original voice box was a tube attached to your amp the sound from which went up a plastic tube and you mouthed vowels etc with your mouth close to a microphone. I have a pedal with a superb setting that does in digitally! I don't use it often but when I do I love it. So you get a clean guitar solo and a voice box one too for the same money! 
I always wondered why the almost reggae beat - that would mean it was called Jamaican Divorce! Slick move Donald to not do the obvious).
source http://www.songfacts.com
The lyrical meaning of the original refers to the odd practice of going to Haiti for a quickie divorce. You could go to Vegas for a quickie marriage, but what if you want a quickie divorce? In the early '70s, Haiti made it easy, allowing foreigners to divorce with hardly any restriction; the big sell was that only one member of the married party had to be present and request it.
For Haiti, this was a tourism ploy, as travel agents would send Americans looking for a quick and easy divorce to the island, where they would often spend some time on a resort. In many cases, these divorces were requested so that the person could immediately get remarried - a service Haiti also provided. So it was not uncommon for a married man to show up in Haiti with his mistress, get a divorce, and marry the new girl all in the course of a weekend. .Donald Fagan talked about the Haitian divorce in a 1976 interview with Sounds. Said Fagen: "It's a fierce and terrible ritual. I'll tell you that. You wouldn't want your sister to have a Haitian divorce, believe me. It was the quick 'divorce, without too much red tape. If you can say 'incompatibility of character' in French you're as good as gold. But we added a few elements to the ceremony itself."
In this song, it's the woman who goes to Haiti for her divorce. She has some fun while she is there, and presumably hooks up with a local - their sex scene is implied in cinematic terms in the lines:

    Now we dolly back
    Now we fade to black

    When she returns to America, she is pregnant, as Fagen sings, "Some babies grow in a peculiar way."
    The girl in this song drinks a zombie from a coconut shell, which at the time was a very typical island experience. A zombie is a rum-based cocktail that was popular at the time - an alternative to the Pina Colada.


Steely Dan ---- Haitian Divorce

I've really given this on a pop dance treatment. There's Electro and Disco going on in different places. Otherwise it's business as usual, the lead guitar picking out the melody and a solo later on (at 1 min 50)
Steely Dan Trivia... Bad Sneakers  was released as the second track on the Steelies 1975 album Katy Lied. Apparently producer Gary Katz later regretted not releasing the song as the first single.


Steely Dan ----- Bad Sneakers (downloadable)

ChangesTwoBowie

Starman (2012 Remaster)

ChangesOneBowie

Ziggy Stardust (2012 Remaster)

Josie - Steely Dan

"Misty Mountain Hop" - Led Zeppelin (vinyl 45)

"Funk #49 & #50" - Joe Walsh & Daryl Hall Band (live)

"Reelin' In The Years" by Steely Dan

Das EFX feat. KRS ONE - Represent The Real HipHop ( Al*bu remix ) Free Download

This is - hopefully - my final cover of Steppenwolf's Born to be wild. Please like, comment, share with your friends and enemies :). Thanks!

No copyright infringments intended, this is my way to pay tribute to Steppenwolf and their awesome song.

Steppenwolf - Born to be wild - Cover, 2013-05-24

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ABOUT ME
I play the music I like to listen to. 
As a guitarist I like to think I have my own style.
Harmony, and the groove is what I'm chasing, hopefully with a tasteful, nuanced, and distinctive presentation. 
I don't have a genre as such. I could sort of call myself a smooth Jazz 'n' Blues guitar 'thang' but in reality every track crosses over multiple strands of R&B/Jazz/Funk/Pop. Don't be put off by my use of the "J" word. Jazz to me is anything unpredictable and I'm nothing if not contemporary. 
Rhythm playing is as much a part of my "game" as lead soloing. I love the Funk!
My main instrument is guitar. I play a 1973 Ovation Breadwinner, an Ibanez nylon stringed and a Yamaha keyboard loaded with Keyscape. Unless stated I play all the other instruments too (mostly Bass), and sequence MIDI and arrange/produce. 

MY JOURNEY
I was signed with Fresh Air records and EMI in the 1980's creating Jazz/funk dance tracks but things were just as challenging then as they are now for musicians so I got a 'proper job' for 20 years! During all that time my guitar was in the loft! I rediscovered music in 2010 and Soundcloud in 2014.


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I am grateful to Soundcloud listeners who take the time to press |>Play - and especially if you give me some feedback :-)
I hope what you hear will draw you in sufficiently to explore on my own website. Nearly all my original stuff (6 albums worth) are on www.BennySutton.com and all are downloadable.
Please don't follow me in hope of getting to get an automatic follow back. I don't do that because I only follow the smallest number of people I can keep track of. I'll have a look at your page but will only follow back if you are really of interest to me. See my follow list, you'll discover some very talented artistes, many of whom I have been lucky to Collab. Soundcloud really is the place to find the real innovators these days - not the music industry approved channels, especially MTV!
If you want to get my attention, send me a PM.

Steely Dan ----- Bad Sneakers (downloadable)

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