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	The Royal Scam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally released in May 1976, The Royal Scam was an album by rock group Steely Dan.
		The Royal Scam is the most guitar-friendly of Steely Dan's albums, featuring extended solos by Becker, Larry Carlton and former band member Denny Dias.
		With irony-leaden verses about drug dealers, safe sex, and hardships faced by immigrants, The Royal Scam is arguably Steely Dan at their most cynical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Royal_Scam (235 words)

	Business Scam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Scam baiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to manipulate a scammer.
		The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammers' time, embarrass them, cause them to reveal information which can be passed on to legal authorities in the hope that they will be prosecuted, or simply to amuse the baiter.
		Scam baiting emerged in response to e-mail based frauds such as the common Nigerian 419 scam.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/26/business-scam.html (453 words)

	The Royal Scam — review by Robert Whyte
		"The Royal Scam" was Becker and Fagan at the height of their writing powers -- not that they didn't go on to achieve more and build on what they'd laid down on this record, but this was where they shifted into high gear.
		The song The Royal Scam, which for me became inextricably interwoven with the imagery of the cover art, was a sign of things to come.
		"See the glory of, see the glory of, the Royal Scam." Drive down through the city, between the city parks, down the deserted city streets in the grey light of the false dawn and onto the free-way ramp that swung out through the mist that came up the river in the cold morning.
	www.toadshow.com.au /rob/music/royal_scam.htm (1422 words)

	The Head Heeb: Royal scam
		The Prime Minister, who is also the crown prince, calls this a "natural progression of the Kingdom's political system" that "will reflect the democratic principles of Tonga's Constitution." There is nonetheless considerable reason for skepticism, starting with the fact that the measure was sponsored by one of Tonga's most anti-democratic politicians.
		Even more to the point, the four new ministries are likely to be given to royalists or, as Pesi Fonua points out, to be used as incentives for wavering politicians to become royalist.
		The monarchy is under considerable measure to democratize, and it is hoping that the expansion of the cabinet would reduce this pressure while in fact tightening the royal grip.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/026807.html (209 words)

	A Royal Scam
		Wes Anderson, who co-wrote the script with Owen Wilson and directed it, is the cinematic equivalent of a window dresser at Barneys: Everything and everyone on display in his frame is posed, mannequinlike, for instant absorption; every square inch of space is crammed with conceptual doodads.
		Gene Hackman, piling on the gusto, plays con man Royal Tenenbaum, the family patriarch who abandoned the brood years ago and a former litigator whose financial-whiz-kid son Chas (Stiller) had him disbarred.
		Royal, who describes himself as "one-quarter Hebrew and three-quarters Mick," has been living for 22 years in a hotel and feigns dying to get back with his wife and children, who, for various unhappy reasons, have reassembled in the family home.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/reviews/5491 (1445 words)

	Four charged in ``royal'' investment scam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Four people have pleaded guilty in connection with a financial scam that defrauded investors of $45 million by falsely claiming ties to Italian royalty, officials said.
		The company purported to be headed by a descendant of a royal Italian family and to have a treaty with the U.S. that promised investors tax free returns.
		Among those agreeing to plead guilty in connection with the scam Friday was Kenneth Kuczwaj, 46, of Temecula, a DFJ vice president with the title of "Capo di Asta," or chief of staff.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/18/state1834EST0137.DTL&type=printable (307 words)

	RollingStone.com: The Royal Scam : Steely Dan : Review
		That said, one must immediately note that their latest, The Royal Scam, is the Dan's most atypical record, possessing neither obvious AM material nor seductive lyrical mysteriousness.
		The Royal Scam is a transitional album for Steely Dan; melody dominates lyric in the sense that the former pushes into new rhythmic areas for the group (more "pure" jazz, semireggae and substantially more orchestration than before) while the verbal content is clearer, even mundane, by previous Dan standards.
		While Scam is certainly not a concept album, every song—with the possible exception of "The Fez"—concerns a narrator's escape from a crime or sin recently committed.
	rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/321794/steelydan?... (611 words)

	Metal Leg 10 - The Royal Scam/Aja
		From now on, Becker and Fagen were to use a plethora of session musicians to perform their music in the studio and in 1976 their fifth LP, The Royal Scam, became the first album to rely entirely upon the inclusion of these musical musclemen.
		Rolling Stone: The Royal Scam may not be a concept album, but every song concerns a narrator's escape from a crime or sin recently committed.
		However, if the Royal Scam was a guitar fetishist's delight, then Aja devoted an equal amount of time to the woodwind and reed players.
	www.granatino.com /sdresource/10royal.htm (2832 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Royal Scam (Rm) (W/Orig Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Lyrically, the songs cut an ever-sardonic, presciently discomforting slice of modern life that was a couple decades ahead of the game (who else was extolling the virtues of condom-couture, à la "The Fez," mid-Me Decade?).
		The Royal Scam, more than any other Steely Dan album, balances their meticulously-smooth arrangements with an edgy spontanaeity.
		"Royal Scam" is not the Dan album I turn to when I want to hear them at their best.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003002D (812 words)

	Royal Scam Band Information
		The Royal Scam is the world's premier Steely Dan tribute band.
		Playing more than 40 of Steely Dan's masterpieces, The Royal Scam has helped to keep the compositions of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the spirit of rock/jazz, and the enthusiasm of fine musicianship alive in small clubs and concert venues in the NY metropolitan area.
		In March of 1996, The Royal Scam was featured in a Star Ledger article about tribute bands and we have appeared on the cover of Steppin' Out Magazine.
	www.royalscam.com /band.htm (320 words)

	The Royal Scam
		The next song, "Sign in Stranger," emphasizes piano, and is one of the better tracks on the The Royal Scam; one of the most under rated Steely Dan compositions.
		Overall the guitar on The Royal Scam is very, very good, even if it is more polished than usual.
		The Royal Scam is not Steely Dan best album, but it has more than enough good material to highly recommend it.
	www.thebestofwebsite.com /bands/Steely_Dan/Royal_Scam.htm (354 words)

	Steely Dan MP3 Downloads - Steely Dan Music Downloads - Steely Dan Music Videos
		The Royal Scam is the first Steely Dan record that doesn't exhibit significant musical progress from its predecessor, but that doesn't mean the album is any less interesting.
		The cynicism that was suppressed on Katy Lied comes roaring to the surface on The Royal Scam -- not only are the lyrics bitter and snide, but the music is terse, broken,...
		The cynicism that was suppressed on Katy Lied comes roaring to the surface on The Royal Scam -- not only are the lyrics bitter and snide, but the music is terse, broken, and weary.
	www.mp3.com /albums/15296/summary.html (427 words)

	The Head Heeb: The royal scam
		The royal family's clan name is Dlamini rather than Mswati, the Swazi king is an evangelical Christian rather than a pagan, and the Afro-Caribbean tradition of voodoo does not exist in Swaziland.
		Political 419 scams seem to be increasingly frequent.
		The garden-variety 419 letter is still common, but many fraudsters see the need for a more sophisticated appeal - one that the victim can perceive as different from the 419 scams he's been warned about.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/017329.html (491 words)

	Royal Scam by Steely Dan CD
		It was the year of America's bicentennial celebration, but on 1976's THE ROYAL SCAM, Steely Dan masterminds Fagen and Becker did not share in the exultant spirit of the times.
		The title track--a vision of fallen America from the point of view of immigrants--has a mock-celebratory chorus: "See the glory of the Royal Scam," which typifies SCAM's heartfelt cynicism.
		The cover (a man sprawled on a park bench, dreaming an intimidating scene of skyscrapers topped with heads of savage beasts) is merely a tantalizing sample of the beautiful chaos that reigns within the 9 tracks of this 1976 gem.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1104647/a/Royal+Scam.htm (788 words)

	eye - The royal scam - 09.09.99
		Cynics call it "selling out," accused parties defend it as "cashing in," but only Royal Trux have the evidence to exonerate themselves from all charges.
		When the market value of their street cred peaked after 1993's sci-fi blues masterpiece Cats and Dogs, Royal Trux sold their soul to "The Man" and then stole it back by making records so mired in avant-boogie filth that Virgin Records paid them $300,000 to just go away.
		In Royal Trux's case, that place is -- and has always been -- nowhere.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.09.99/music/royaltrux.html (570 words)

	Steely Dan: The Royal Scam/Aja - PopMatters Music Review
		These two re-issues solve that problem and finally give a generation raised with the inferior CD versions of these albums some notion of what was so hypnotic about the Steely Dan sound.
		Musically, The Royal Scam and Aja are arguably the band's two finest works.
		The Royal Scam (originally released in 1976) was the first step in the band's move to the more sophisticated jazz-oriented sound found on Aja and the group's last studio effort Gaucho.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/steelydan-aja-royal.shtml (593 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - The Royal Scam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Albert added that he had sent a letter to Lord Robert May (the drafter of the press release) expressing his dismay at the misleading and political statements made in it.
		As Benny Peiser, a well-known British climate skeptic noted: "The Royal Society appears to have pressured its president, Yuri Osipov, into signing a politically motivated document against the expressed stance of its own organization.
		The press release by the Royal Society is just another example of the long string of manipulative and obfuscatory practices that have defined the climate debate and in which pro-Kyoto British scientists have played such a prominent role.
	www.techcentralstation.com /070605C.html (858 words)

	Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The Royal Scam, out in 1976, consists of nine potential signature Steely Dan songs ready for radio play.
		The tracks are a bit longer than from The Royal Scam, and it provides Fagen, Becker, and guests to stretch into the jazz side of their sound.
		While the Royal Scam has the initial catchiness, I think the Boys paid more attention to composition here.
	home.earthlink.net /~mjohnsen/Music_Reviews/Steel.html (500 words)

	Steely Dan - The Royal Scam: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		The Royal Scam [+] is the first Steely Dan [+] record that didn't exhibit significant musical progress from its predecessor, but that doesn't mean the album is any less interesting.
		The cynicism that was suppressed on Katy Lied [+] comes roaring to the surface on The Royal Scam [+] -- not only are the lyrics bitter and snide, but the music is terse, broken, and weary.
		Nevertheless, the best songs on The Royal Scam [+], like the sneering "Kid Charlemagne" and "Sign in Stranger," rank as genuine Steely Dan [+] classics.
	music.com /release/the_royal_scam/1 (257 words)

	London Free Press: Scam targeting Royal Bank clients
		TORONTO -- The Royal Bank is warning its customers about an e-mail fraud that asks clients for personal information regarding their accounts, an apparent scam aimed at taking advantage of the bank's recent computer system problems.
		The Royal said it learned yesterday e-mails are being sent out asking customers to verify account numbers and personal identification numbers, or PINs, through a link included in the e-mail.
		The message states that if they don't click on the link and key in their client card number and passcode, access to the account will be blocked.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/06/10/492778.html (315 words)

	Reviews of Eurythmics \| Peace and Steely Dan \| Royal Scam and Aja
		Steely Dan Reissues (MCA 1999) - The Steely Dan Reissues continue with The Royal Scam (1976) and the seven-song classic, Aja (1977).
		The Royal Scam reached number 15 on the Billboard pop album chart, and boasts such fan favorites as "Green Earrings," and "Haitian Divorce." Among the album's guest artists are guitarist Larry Carlton (who provided the riff on "Kid Charlemagne"), saxophonist John Klemmer, and singer Michael McDonald.
		Both classic albums (though The Royal Scam boasts one of the 70s worst album covers), Steely Dan lives on with clean sound.
	www.cdshakedown.com /021100.htm (858 words)

	THE ROYAL SCAM
		Ironically, it’s only on “The Caves of Altamira” where the band lets some light shine into their subject matter; otherwise, these are dark musings even by Dan’s standards.
		Though the band has adopted some of disco’s trappings in its punchy bass lines and strict drum beats, the guitar solos still sting like a Portuguese man o’ war, the arrangements remain intellectual, the melodies ingratiating.
		No one would accuse The Royal Scam of being a bad album -- I don’t think Steely Dan were capable of making one -- but the boys would have done well to pull up the shades and open a few windows in the studio when recording this one.
	www.connollyco.com /discography/steelydan/royal.html (299 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Tech News: Internet E-mail scam targets Royal Bank clients
		HALIFAX -- Royal Bank of Canada customers are being warned about an e-mail asking for client account numbers and passwords.
		The e-mails appear under the subject Official information from RBC Royal Bank and have a return address of support@royalbank.com.
		With Wi-Fi or Wireless Internet in the home has reaching the point of "almost-free" status, of course after mail-in rebate, many home users are adopting this technology instead of tripping over a mess of wires.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/TechNews/Internet/2004/06/10/493757.html (458 words)

	Music Forum - Steely Dan
		Hmmm, maybe I should pick The Royal Scam as my favorite...
		You could almost make a case for any of the albums being their best but I usually waver between Aja and The Royal Scam.
		Right now, I would probably pick The Royal Scam over Aja.
	www.radiomute.com /printthread.php?t=8837 (597 words)

	eBay - royal scam, CDs, Records items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		STEELY DAN The Royal Scam EX 1976 Jazz Funk Fusion LP
		STEELY DAN - THE ROYAL SCAM (ORIGINAL RECORDI...
		STEELY DAN The Royal Scam LP abc Records 9022-931
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=royal+scam&newu=1&krd=1 (348 words)

	The Royal Scam id (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		This album, every single song is amazing, and what a way to end the album with the Royal Scam track.
		"The Royal Scam" is far from a disappointment; but it doesn't quite hit the nail on the head like their previous three albums did ("Countdown to Ecstasy" [1973], "Pretzel Logic" [1974], "Katy Lied" [1975]).
		There are a lack of standout cuts compared to it's predecessors ("Everything You Did", "The Royal Scam").
	ourlyrics.net /ID_B00003002D,bbmak (647 words)

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