St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 115

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Alienated." But Vela needed the money, and "modeling is money," says Vela, who helps support some of her family. it has its dark side. People think you're the Barbie doll of the century. They think that's all you are." Within a few years, Vela was living with artist Peter Max the relationship has ended and getting a reputation for showing up late and demanding naps during shooting sessions. But Vela and her brother Chat were building a recording studio in her apartment.

She'd come home from posing "for my little pictures," put on a Roberts tape, sit at her piano and play along. By 1976, a studio owner was watching Vela record some songs, looking her up and down and proposing: "He said, 'Hey, you like music? You could be a star. You could do it. I'll get you some songs. I'll get you a producer.

I'll dress you up. I got it figured out an androgynous pop character, neither male nor "I said, and declined, then speeded work on her studio at home. "I'm a serious person, and serious people work at something," she explains. She says Roberts "taught me that. I worked at his songs.

"But I'd play them for people, and they'd look at me like I was crazy. They weren't my songs." She also worked at acting lessons with Sandra Seacat in Los Angeles and in 1980 got a small part in the film "Heaven's Gate." Then one night, after a day of posing, she came home, sat down at the piano and didn't play Robert's Well the heroes never call. Nobody's there And there's nowhere to fall "Walter was hangin' out and hangin' out and hangin' out," Vela recalls, "and I'm recording the lead melody line and he's watchin' and I'm sweatin' bullets." Midway through the song, Becker walked into the sound room and picked up Vela's portable Yamaha keyboard. "He started doin' this little snaky, sexy thing that worked'bgainst the beat," says Vela. "I couldn't breathe." "Walter just joined in," says Katz.

"He liked the song." Then Becker stopped. "I don't play keyboards," he said. But later that night, he told Katz he'd like to play on some of Vela's other songs, especially "Interlude." "Walter Becker wants to be on my album," Vela thought. "God bless America." winy aiooifcVoiW' WMade. mE I.V.

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I like 'Interlude' the most." Fagen and Becker hadn't played together in six years, but they met with Vela and Katz at a New York studio called Sound Ideas. Fagen seemed nervous, tugging at his face and hair, while Katz tried to sooth him, Vela recalls. "The next thing you know they were playin' together for the first time in six years," says Katz. "It was a nice moment. The three of us and Rosie, just playing." Indeed, the session went so well, Katz says, that Becker and Fagen are now in a studio working on new Steely Dan material.

But Vela was intimidated "Frightened, man. The Beatles." The next day, she was hospitalized for suspected formaldehyde poisoning she'd drunk from a plastic bottle left too long in the sun but Becker and Fagen kept working. That night, she recalls, "I called my brother Chat, who was in the studio. He says, 'Listen to Then I hear the music: Walter's guitar is playing my melody; Donald's keyboard is all around it. I said, '(expletive deleted), I feel "I never told Becker and Fagen about listening to them in the hospital when Jimmy was dying," Vela says.

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"Yeah, I thought I was good," Vela laughs. "But I never thought I'd get to work with rock-and-roll Vikings." -tr -Cr "People say, 'Howdja get Steely Dan to play on your Vela says in sneering tone of voice. 'Musta cost a lotta I say, 'No, it just Becker, she explains, walked into the Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles to see Katz, who was producing Vela's record. Becker stood in the mixing room while Katz spun dials and Vela worked on "Tonto," a song about a woman tired of being the sidekick to a Lone Ranger who's never around: Imw.i"'"., sm0t Pillsbury's "Dinner Tonight" More Brilliant Colors More Natural Flash Pictures 2 ROLLS OF $7.00 REFUND MAIL-IN OFFER PILLSBURY REFUND OFFER BOX 5706. MN 55460 RECEIVE: 17.00 worth of 50c coupons "good on next purchase" Complete (his form ind mail with required UPC symbol (proofs) from ach of these products.

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