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Short Circus Money teasers on YouTube, pre-release 2008 Beckerbird: Backstage at The Gorge Sarcastic Fringehead: Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mine has to be "three picture deal". The piano intro is beautiful and that catchy rhythm reminds you kind of a Josie kind of thing. Walter's voice sounds fantastic and Chris Potter's sax solo in the beginning, it's truly amazing. I remember I ordered this when I was on my second tour of Iraq in 2008 and I was so excited to receive Circus Money in the mail when it arrived in Baghdad, I brought an amplifier to my motor pool and played the shit out of that album every single day for the last two months of my deployment. I always listened to Three picture deal in my headphones before I went to bed, and listening to this lyrics that were haunting yet beautiful... I remember when Walter passed my ex-wife was in Germany at the time let me know that he passed before I even knew.... I still to this day when I listen to this album remember those times in Iraq and how I made it through that time with his, Donald's and Steely Dan's music. The combination of the three made it so much easier to make it through each day. Well I wish I had the opportunity to tell Walter that to his face, but I'm grateful I got to see him that one time in Canada, I got to talk to Walt Weiskopf, that amazing saxophone player, and I always asked how Don and Walter were doing and how it is working with such brilliant minds.... Well I know I'm kind of rambling now but, the circus money album, was the soundtrack to a difficult time in my life but it made it so much easier. Rip Walter... Thank you for making the wonderful music that you did. Well aside from the rambling what is your favorite Walter song...?

I was thinking today about the lyric fragment "looking down on the upside, locked out in the danger zone" that appears first in the Jack of Speed, as sung by WB on the 96 tour: The second part of this fragment, "Locked out in the danger zone," harkens back to this unreleased WB demo we shared in March of 2019. The first part of this lyrical fragment, "looking down on the upside" is repurposed and fleshed out on the track "Upside Looking Down" on Circus Money. D-Mod has talked before about Walter's contextual thesaurus, and the way he filed and refined and reinterpreted his own words over time, but I think this is a good example of how it goes forward and backward, continually reinterpreted until it ends up where it needs to be.

From the White Plains, New York, Journal News issue of March 2nd, 1970: I'm not sure how easy that is to read. Here's the full image if that helps:

Intro: Em/Ab Eb/G Dm/Gb Db/F C/E Cmajb5/Gb Fm#7 Gsus4/F Asus 4 A7 Asus4 A7 Well along in the 21st hour when the whole damn grid goes down Asus 4 A7 Asus4 A7 This is how a party gets started in for a penny — in for a pound Cadd9 Asus 4 A7 Asus4 A7 All at once the whole joint goes quiet and all the wavy lines go straight Asus 4 A7 Asus4 A7 One fool among fools is wondering what happens if I die too late? F/A G7 F/A G7 Get back with your dimestore nihilism Big Daddy’s on a glory run F/A G7 C C/Db Gettin’ down on the cellular level just in case I got to call someone Dm C Bdim Am Darkling down — on a darkling plain Am G Am G In the dim dank night of the pissin’-down rain Dm C Bdim Am Darkling down — on the balls of his ass Am G Am G While he prays and waits for the storm to pass Dbm7(b5) Gb7(b9) Bm7(b5) E7(b9) Lemme show you where the good thing happens it’s a barbershop in Inglewood Too bad we won’t get past the bouncer sadly I’ve been banned for good There’s a coffee shop right ‘round the corner the proprietor knows my name Cup of joe and a Vicks inhaler now you’re ready for the big boy game Steady son come seven come eleven, if either one of us can count that high Muscatel if the deal gets dicey, milk and honey in the by and by Darkling down — it’s a damn disgrace Going round and round in a very small place Darkling down — with a hole in his soul That he can’t explain and he can’t control Dbm7(b5) Gb7(b9) Ebm7(b5) Ab7(b9) Solo: Dbsus4 Db7 Dbsus4 Db7 Absus4 Ab7 Absus4 Ab7 Dbsus4 Db7 Dbsus4 Db7 Absus4 Ab7 Absus4 Ab7 Ebsus4 Eb7 Dbsus4 Db7 Asus4 A7 Asus4 A7 For the fun or for the money. For the fuck of it or just because Asus4 A7 Asus4 A7 Listen, friend, this is no damn picnic but let’s imagine for a minute that it was Asus4 A7 Asus4 A7 Who will feast on this buzzard’s banquet? Who will render my heroic bust? Asus4 A7 Asus4 A7 Who will choke on my lachrymose musings? Who will eat my zero dust? F/A G7 F/A G7 Who will wear this puke-streaked tunic? Who shall gorge on this cup of spleen? F/A G7 C C/Db Who will sing about the good bad and ugly? And all and everything in between? Darkling down — this is god’s good man On his hands and knees livin’ god’s good plan Darkling down — and we don’t know still When he’ll come around if he ever will Darkling down — on a zero-G dive And we just can’t say will the fool survive Darkling down — in a seven-G turn Glowing like a coal in the afterburn