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    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 15, 2018
      ·  Edited: Mar 25, 2018

    Circus Money (2008) with Bonus Tracks

    1. Door Number Two

    2. Downtown Canon

    3. Bob is Not Your Uncle Anymore

    4. Upside Looking Down

    5. Paging Audrey

    6. Circus Money

    7 .Se;fish Gene

    8. Do You Remember the Name

    9. Somebody's Saturday Night

    10. Darkling Down

    11. God's Eye View

    12. Three Picture Deal

    (13). Dark Horse Dub (Bonus, Euro Track)

    (14). Circus Money Hammerhed Remix (for Newsletter Subscribers)

    (15). Bob is not your Uncle Anymore - Demo (B-side for Euro Single)


    Songs by W. Becker and L. Klein except

    Circus Money By W. Becker


    Produced by Larry Klein

    Lyrics and credits here from Official Walter Becker


    22 comments
    Tony Favia
    Mar 15, 2018

    Hi there Moderator. I recall that there was a demo version of Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore, but only available as a download to overseas folks. Can we now make that available to us friendly USA fans? Here? That would be swell, thanks!

    cjbrayshaw
    Mar 16, 2018

    "Dark Horse Dub" is a beautiful, atmospheric track which I only know from someone kindly posting 4 of its 6 minutes over at Great Big Public Music Sharing Site. I'm curious to know why it was cut from the finished North American album - legendary Aesthetic Perfectionism, or maybe some more prosaic technical limitation (running time, sample copyright & etc.)? I suppose I am also subliminally hoping that the gorgeous finished object might appear here one day like a starfish on the beach, revealed by an ebbing tide. FWIW Circus Money is my favorite of the post-reunion records, SD & solo, one that has provided so much listening pleasure over the years. In every show I attended post-2008 (& there were a lot of those...) I kept hoping one of its tracks would receive the full-band + WB vox treatment, but no dice. But the album has its own warm autonomy & maybe that, in the end, is enough.

    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 16, 2018

    Tony and cjb...-- the bonus track for the euro version was "Dark Horse Dub", and we can definitely sling that up here before too long. Tracking down that Bob Demo may take a tad longer...but it should go up here too so we will get it. Cjbrayshaw, DHD wasn't cut from the N.A.. version., but was made specifically for a euro bonus.


    Then there was the free New Years' download for Newsletter subscribers; "Hammerhead Remix", another dub fantasia. Yeah, those tracks should be posted -- thanks for reminding me of them

    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 21, 2018  ·  Edited: Mar 25, 2018

    Dark Horse Dub





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    Note on Added Lyrics

    You will see lines in the lyrics that are in italics. These lyrics are not sung, but are meant to be read.. There are more chapters to the story of Chalk Miller, and these read (not sung) lyrics will play a part.


    Dark Horse Dub

    (Bonus Track - European Release)

    Walter Becker and Larry Klein (2007)


    Chalk Miller was a man

    He was a man he was a man he was a man

    He played the favorites and he did okay

    He didn't fool with any longshot play


    Chalk Miller didn't mind

    He didn't mind he didn't mind he didn't mind

    He liked to bet a couple bucks on a nag

    Drink his winnings from a bottle in a bag


    Dark horse

    Coming up on the outside

    Dark horse

    At a hundred to one

    Dark horse

    Nuthin short of a miracle

    Run like a bastard

    Dark horse run


    Chalk Miller came home

    He came home he came home he came home


    Chalk Miller was alone

    he was alone he was alone he was alone

    He knew the minute that he walked though the door

    His one and only didn't live there any more


    Jimmy Fish was a man

    Another man another man another man

    He likes to take a little action now and then

    He likes to share his wise counsel with a friend


    Dark horse

    Coming up on the outside

    Dark horse

    At a hundred to one

    Dark horse

    Nuthin short of a miracle

    Run like a bastard

    Dark horse run


    Chalk miller throws down

    He throws down he throws down he throws down

    What the hell it will all be over soon

    I guess I might as well shoot for the moon


    Gimme something that's a hundred to one

    A little pony with a reason to run

    Gimme something that could come home big

    Gimme something gimme something ...


    Dark horse

    Coming up on the outside

    Dark horse

    At a hundred to one

    Dark horse

    Nuthin short of a miracle

    Run like a bastard

    Dark horse run


    The kitchen table is a mess

    A couple minutes til post-time is his guess


    A cup of coffee and a half eaten roll

    A couple saw-tail guppies in a bowl


    A travel book called "Bangkok and beyond"

    A smith and wesson that he pilfered from a blonde


    He lights a camel and he makes a little cough

    A sip of bourbon god help us and they're off…


    =================================

    © Zeon LLC,2007


    Vocals, bass: Walter Becker

    Drums: Keith Carlock


    Guitars:Jon Herington, Dean Parks

    Keyboards: Ted Baker

    Trombone: Jim Pugh


    Bass clarinet, baritone and soprano sax, alto flute: Roger Rosenberg

    Percussion: Gordon Gottlieb

    Vocals: Carolyn Leonhart-Escoffery


    Mixed and Mastered by Jay Messina





    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 21, 2018  ·  Edited: Mar 25, 2018

    Circus Money Hammerhead Remix




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    Circus Money Hammerhead Remix

    (bonus track for Newsletter subscribers)



    Walter Becker 2007


    [NOTE: NEW FINAL VERSE AFTER FADE]


    they bang the hammer and they pitch the tents

    throw up some posters for the residents

    your daddies' footfalls on the rain slick streets

    you try to keep up with your tiny feets

    take it easy baby

    nice and slow

    little Walter got a

    ways to go

    I lacks a nickel momma

    don’t you know

    circus money for the early show


    the tiger's sleeping and he can't wake up

    you pitch some pennies in a paper cup

    they guess your age they guess yr weight

    you toss the softballs at the china plates

    hold'er steady baby

    there you go

    let me hit you honey

    sweet and lo

    thus the tab is written

    blow by blow

    circus money for the evening show


    all the horses baby all the men

    round the circle and around again

    you watch some hobo take a nasty spill

    laugh like a bastard oh you know you will

    you got to have it when you first walk up

    drop a dollar in the old tin cup

    you're gonna need it

    when it's time to go

    circus money for the late late show



    The denim sneakers and the leather vest

    the grim fruition of the life long quest

    the dancing monkey cum the human wife

    the mighty ruin of a middling life

    dogs and ponies in a

    tidy row

    a little trickle or a

    mighty flow

    won't you tell me darlin

    what I owe

    circus money for the midnight show


    =========================

    © Zeon LLC, 2006


    Vocals: Walter Becker


    Bass: Larry Klein


    Drums: Keith Carlock


    Guitar: Jon Herington


    Piano: Ted Baker


    Keyboards: Jim Beard


    Percussion: Gordon Gottlieb


    Tenor sax: Chris Potter

    Background vocals: Carmen Carter,

    Kate Markowitz, Windy Wagner




    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 21, 2018  ·  Edited: Mar 25, 2018

    BOB IS NOT YOUR UNCLE ANYMORE (Demo)





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    BOB IS NOT YOUR UNCLE ANYMORE (Demo)

    B-side to Euro single

    (W. Becker, L. Klein -2007)


    This old house
 looks just the way it was


    Just a tumbledown of pine and river stone

    But it’s only just a shadow

    of the place you knew before


    Because Bob’s just not your uncle anymore


    Winter’s here

    
And the day don’t last too long


    Barely thimbles full of sunshine to go on

    There’s an ocean full of midnight

    rolling right up to the door
I guess

    Bob’s just not your uncle anymore


    And I say it without pride and without shame

    That the dopey Irish Setter dog — Regan’s still his name


    Well he looks right glad to see you

    But he might not want to be you

    Even though he loves you madly

    from before


    Before Bob was not your uncle anymore

    Good old games

    
Like they play them back in town

    Where the wayward daughter’s luck

    runs strong and pure


    You might feel like you’re a winner

    but you never know for sure


    Now that Bob’s just not your uncle anymore


    And so we see


    You can find your way back home


    And that maybe when you get there

    There’s a lock on every door


    Now you know for certain


    What the big wide world is good for


    And that Bob’s just not your uncle anymore

    ==========================

    © Zeon LLC 2006


    Vocals, bass: Vision opticope: Walter Becker




    Tony Favia
    Mar 21, 2018

    Thank you!

    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 21, 2018

    just to make sure to have a friend check you in an hour, to make sure you haven't fallen into a dub coma :-)

    Tony Favia
    Mar 21, 2018

    That would be a very pleasant coma to fall into!

    aacers
    Mar 23, 2018

    Such great stuff. Thank you so much!

    cjbrayshaw
    Mar 24, 2018

    Thanks for DHD, what a treat to hear it unclipped after all these years, & with an expanded lyric sheet to boot. Would have logged in to express thanks sooner, but was in the western Yukon, metered satellite internet, spotty and/or nonexistent cell service, & etc. Back in civilization now; thanks again! Also took a few moments to reread Bob's lyric sheet. Several online reviews read it as a pendant to Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Cousin Dupree, etc. -- Creepy Older Relative -- but to me it feels much more like the ghost of someone who's passed returning to the old house, drawn back but unable to connect with anyone save the dopey dog.

    James L. Kelley
    Jan 10, 2020

    Yeah, not to be a pedant, but the expression "Bob's your uncle" (meaning "that's all there is to it!" or "voila!") originated in the U.K. about a century ago. Saith Wiki: "The origins are uncertain, but a common theory is that the expression arose after Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism which was apparently both surprising and unpopular." So, if Bob's not your uncle, then what used to be so easy, so dependable, so taken-for-granted (like a home with a good woman, a good life, etc.) is now, devastatingly absent....

    Moderator: D-Mod
    Mar 24, 2018  ·  Edited: Mar 25, 2018

    Glad you all enjoy.

    download here a 3-cut EP of the CM bonus tracks

    TBD
    May 7, 2018

    That house on Bob Demo vid, can you say if that is a WB house? Ocean running right up to the door, other visuals make me think it is but, could just be a house.

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    Moderator: D-Mod
    May 22, 2018

    so happens it's just a grab from the interwebs.

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    David Brailsford
    May 24, 2018

    Aww man... were these tracks forced down? was looking for a better verserion of DHD and interested in the demo version of bob is not your uncle anymore

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    Moderator: D-Mod
    May 28, 2018

    David - not sure I'm getting your complaint. Every Demo and bonus cut requested is on this page --including DHD and the Bob demo. Plus, our download page has a 3-cut EP of all the Circus Money bonus tracks in one download. They're all still there -- nothing's been forced down. Or am I missing your meaning? If so, please try again...

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    David Brailsford
    Jun 4, 2018

    I apologize Mod I jut figured out why I couldn't find the tracks before, I didn't know they were all bundled in one package and I saw it listed as the one track, Circus Money the Hammerhead Mix. Clicked download the album and found it.

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    Moderator: D-Mod
    Jun 4, 2018

    Hey David - they appear in this thread individually, then Matt made an EP of them. Glad you found...


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    drum1018
    May 20, 2020

    Will the Circus Money or 11 tracks of Whack CD's be available to purchase again?

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    Matthew Kerns
    May 20, 2020

    Circus Money should still be available from Mailboat records here: https://www.mailboatrecords.com/collections/walter-becker/products/circus-money I can't find a new copy of 11ToW right now. I'll check and see what's up with that.

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    drum1018
    May 20, 2020

    @Matthew Kerns awesome thanks! Just purchased it.

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