immaculate. like a dark green 78 chrysler prowling the streets of brooklyn. those are like four part vocal harmonies in the chorus. i hear three for sure.
"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’ is the only
casualty of the Sterling Hall bombing, researcher Robert Fassnacht…"
this take supposes the song is about a particular incident that actually happened, but i haven’t found confirmation either way from fagen or becker in the articles and interviews i’m looking at.
Okay so it wasn’t about any particular incident and was just a general theme… into which that particular incident might fall, but not intentionally, as it were.
“Don’t Take Me Alive” continues the outlaw theme: “Got a case of dynamite / I could hold out here all night.” “‘Don’t Take Me Alive’ is very much a song of these troubled times,” Fagen told NME in 1976. “In Los Angeles and through the world in general, terrorism is a way of life actually for a lot of people. The song was inspired by a run of news items in Los Angeles where people would barricade themselves inside an apartment house or a saloon with an arsenal of weapons. It’s about individual madness rather than political situations.”
Oh my god I’m dying over here. It’s not the idea that is original because voice sampling like that is old trade. It’s the time and the quality given to them in the making.
My god everybody’s doing them. You know I’d wager they’re using some kind of software that allows you to generate from a stored set of trump speech samples, whatever sentences you want. Or do you think this is being done manually on a movie editor? I know the video clips look like they match the word clips, but I dunno.
