Early Steely Dan music was good stuff.
I saw them back then in a livestock pavilion in Reno. The power kept going out when they got to jamming, like on Reeling in the Years.
Fagen was so pissed he left the stage.
They soon stopped touring altogether.
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Oops, typo, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter.
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You mean Skunk Baxter right?
I wish I could player guitar like Skunk Baxter.
Then I remember hearing Artie Shaw on a call in talk show. A caller said he wished he could play the clarinet like Shaw did.
Shaw replied, “Do you practice eight hours a day? Because if you don’t, I don’t want to hear it.”
That was a great video. It didn’t have the reed and brass section as the studio recording did, but it didn’t lose anything because of it. Nor did it use synthesizers to make up for it.
To me, this type of show was just there — another case of “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.”
Becker and Fagan supposedly wrote some bubble-gum records in the late ‘60’s, but I haven’t been able to find a list.
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Walter Becker looks like Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heros.
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“The Starkweather and Manson of music.”
That was fun. Thanks.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
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Their studio albums are impeccably recorded and mastered.
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I dig Porky and Bucky… Long legged monkeys they are (were). Great song.
FJB
Saw The Dan in ’03 at Hershey Park (PA) Arena. They closed out a blissful three or so hours with “My Old School”. We were all standing….
Leonid is the bass player arranger in the above. Amazing… !!!
Badco – Them Ruskies play Chicago better than Chicago!
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man, he’s uglier than Jagger (or any of the Stones)
but, I loved early Dan …. I still have my ‘Countdown To Exstacy’ album … surprised I didn’t wear out the grooves
they went downhill w/ the departure of Baxter, imo. got too pretentious
happens when people take themselves too seriously … yeah, yeah, I get it, you guys went to colleggggge … get in line, genius’
did I spell ‘Exstacy’ right? doesn’t look right …
tell me again what a college education is worth
Great band.
Also, kudos to the director for creatively placing the background singers in the frame.
He knew that staring at Frankenstein Fagan for 5 minutes was not gonna be good TV. 😆
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Love me some Steely Dan. early, middle, late doesn’t matter.
How good was Spunk Baxter?
Early Steely Dan music was good stuff.
I saw them back then in a livestock pavilion in Reno. The power kept going out when they got to jamming, like on Reeling in the Years.
Fagen was so pissed he left the stage.
They soon stopped touring altogether.
Oops, typo, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter.
You mean Skunk Baxter right?
I wish I could player guitar like Skunk Baxter.
Then I remember hearing Artie Shaw on a call in talk show. A caller said he wished he could play the clarinet like Shaw did.
Shaw replied, “Do you practice eight hours a day? Because if you don’t, I don’t want to hear it.”
That was a great video. It didn’t have the reed and brass section as the studio recording did, but it didn’t lose anything because of it. Nor did it use synthesizers to make up for it.
To me, this type of show was just there — another case of “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.”
Becker and Fagan supposedly wrote some bubble-gum records in the late ‘60’s, but I haven’t been able to find a list.
Walter Becker looks like Donald Sutherland in Kelly’s Heros.
“The Starkweather and Manson of music.”
That was fun. Thanks.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Their studio albums are impeccably recorded and mastered.
I dig Porky and Bucky… Long legged monkeys they are (were). Great song.
FJB
Not too bad…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8aZZ9d_EA
Saw The Dan in ’03 at Hershey Park (PA) Arena. They closed out a blissful three or so hours with “My Old School”. We were all standing….
Leonid is the bass player arranger in the above. Amazing… !!!
Badco – Them Ruskies play Chicago better than Chicago!
man, he’s uglier than Jagger (or any of the Stones)
but, I loved early Dan …. I still have my ‘Countdown To Exstacy’ album … surprised I didn’t wear out the grooves
they went downhill w/ the departure of Baxter, imo. got too pretentious
happens when people take themselves too seriously … yeah, yeah, I get it, you guys went to colleggggge … get in line, genius’
did I spell ‘Exstacy’ right? doesn’t look right …
tell me again what a college education is worth
Great band.
Also, kudos to the director for creatively placing the background singers in the frame.
He knew that staring at Frankenstein Fagan for 5 minutes was not gonna be good TV. 😆
Love me some Steely Dan. early, middle, late doesn’t matter.
Denny Diaz!
Chuck Rainey – Bernard Purdie. Say no more.
And only one left now.