Assisstant Engineer Lenise Bent on Working on Aja
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2022
- Lenise Bent, who was an assistant engineer on Aja, speaks about stashing the Aja master tapes in the trunk of her car and other stories during the making of Aja.
From “The Killah Cortez Show” episode 2
• The Killah Cortez Show... (starts at 28 minutes)
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-TDV 
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Thank you for re-posting this interview! 👩🏽🚀🤘🏽
The story of Lenise getting burned out on Home at Last has always been my absolute favorite "Donald and Walter are insane perfectionists" story.
Also, Donald taking a pill called "Perk A Dan" to calm him down enough to sing is hilarious to me.
Master tapes held in the trunk of her car. This is the most Steely Dan thing ever.
I'll never hear 'Home at last' the same again.
Crazy that Lenise (a young woman by video pic at the time) had such an important job for SD, and other bands then. This is not a knock on her…just the time. I loved SD then, and she was obviously a big part of that. I would like to hear more about what got her to this job at that age.
I’d only read about this before. Very nice to be able to hear about it
I always remember this story when I think or hear, Home At Last. It was a snippet I heard where she spoke of the "Well the, well the, etc. I thought that she walked. Apparently, she hung in. Cracks me up. It’s nice to hear her defend the process.
This is a great insight into the day to day work on a Steely record by someone who was so involved, brilliant!
Fagen was so obsessed with getting the “well the” phrasing just right, but won’t even sing that part live now.
Michael McDonald had a similar experience doing backing vocals on Peg.
“Well the danger on the rocks is finally pasted”! Love this song. Thanks for sharing. Just saw Donald in concert, loved the small talk. Well the… nightmares paid off. Thx 🙏!
The closest thing to a perfect album ever recorded.
Donald didn’t want it perfect…he just wanted it right.
Which was perfect.
@@BillySBC You’re right.
@@BillySBC It was perfect, and then a little more
Yeah, right on
I forget who said that --they looked and worked for perfection, once they had that, they worked their magic and allowed artists to do their thing, it loosened things up a bit but not to quality detriment.
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing
love these stories
priceless - thanks you so much for that
Very ,very cool!!!
Wow!
Is there more of this interview? Love this backstory..
The Killah Cortez Show #02: Lenise Bent - Steely Dan, Supertramp and Vacuum tubes VS Apple Pie
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This all we had time for re: Steely Dan, but we took a dive into other topics and projects Lenise has been on 🤘🏽
Mind blown 🤯
"Come on lady I gotta get gone, gimme that thing you're sittin' on!" (Leon Redbone)
Just figured I'd throw that out there.
No ofense but I though that the voice was from Carol Kaye, so similar to me.
That looks like a Nakamichi 1000 in the background. She’s cute, too.
Great interview. If your going to be an assistant engineer, what better project you could you work on than Aja. Roger Nichols was such an innovative engineer. He got the drums he wanted on Gaucho with his pet Wendal- clever guy. I bet sessions like this made Lenise a sought after engineer.
Well the…
1:25 - Donald shooting hoops, slam dunkin' ?...Hard to imagine, but I've read he is or at least used to be a pretty good table tennis player back in the day.
Well the....Danger on the rocks is surely past, still I remain tied to the mast. Could it be that I have found my home at last? Home at last...
Having to do the well the over an over is a clear sign that it was critical as a starting point for the rest of the chorus to sound and feel right to Donald
Any more of this?
This is all she talked about when it came to Steely Dan. If you want to hear more of her stories from her career check the description.
Cabana did want it “Right” but also wanted it “Perfect”
“Well that…”. He’d record it once, then he’d “Go back, Jack, do it again…” for the next 4 days…
you can really smell the blood sweat and tears that went into home at last
That's at least 50 minutes too short.
Well the 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Get Barry Manilow or Barbara Streisand?
The snark is good.
Laura Nyro?