-Don´t take me alive- Cover version - or Don´t catch me alive-


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I *LOVE* Steely Dan songs he says, me too I say! They're always so good and so complex at the same time. I know people talk about the generalities of their songs. I've read lots of "...this is about a guy who..." or general analysis about moods or
settings. But I've found that, honestly, Steely Dan *rarely* writes a song
about generalities - they're VERY specific. In fact, eerily so (see my
analysis of Glamour Profession). In my RS version I have done three different guitars communicating, and vokals, a lot of guitarwork on this song. I did this cover about 2014-15, now ten years ago.

That doesn't change the fact that the music is great! In fact, knowing how they compose lyrics makes me delve that much deeper...

"Don't Take Me Alive" off of "The Royal Scam" is about David Sylvan Fine, the youngest of the Sterling Hall bombers (at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison) who was captured in San Rafael, California in January of 1976. 
Despite the title of the song he WAS taken alive, spent three years in prison
and eventually became a paralegal in Oregon.


FIRST STANZA:

This is a David Fine (also known as William Fewes) inner monologue as the
'agents of the law' (FBI or, as they are known, "federal agents") surround
his room in San Rafael to arrest him for the Sterling Hall bombing in 1970. 

He was one of four men that bombed the building on the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus because it housed the Army Mathematics Research Center. (Three others were injured.) The 'luckless pedestrian' in first verse 1 is the only casualty of the Sterling Hall bombing, researcher Robert Fassnacht. He was unlucky to be a walking victim as it seems.

Don´t take me alive    (-Agents of the Law...Don´t catch me alive- MIX3)

Videofilmerna till en del av låtarna finns på Youtube:  
RS ("Rosten Vaknar"@SoundCloud). Bland annat Erik Saties "Gymnopedies" med gitarren inspelat 1981.  https://youtu.be/30PQO-gtWEs?si=_Wo_y7FrIYs1VdJJ
Videos to some of the tracks are on Youtube:  RS ("Rosten Vaknar"@SoundCloud)

Don´t take me alive (-Agents of the Law...Don´t catch me alive- MIX3)

Rosten Vaknar - Neo RetroSpectivES