Moderator: D-Mod
Mar 15, 2018

Circus Money (2008) with Bonus Tracks

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Edited: Mar 25, 2018

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

 

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!

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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.

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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

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Moderator: D-Mod
Mar 21, 2018Edited: 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…

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© 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

 

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Moderator: D-Mod
Mar 21, 2018Edited: 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

 

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© 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

 

 

 

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Moderator: D-Mod
Mar 21, 2018Edited: 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


 

 

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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 :-)

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Tony Favia
Mar 21, 2018

That would be a very pleasant coma to fall into!

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aacers
Mar 23, 2018

Such great stuff. Thank you so much!

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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.

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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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