Steely Dan

By Dread Empire The Doobie incarnations go like this: first were the original California, sometimes biker bar band and musicians. The second was the jazzy period promulgated by the Steely Dan expatriates such as Michael MacDonald and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. The third was the sell-out phase. TAKIN' IT TO THE...

By Dr. Robert Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by the American jazz-rock band Steely Dan, originally released in 1974. The album's opening song, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", became the band's biggest hit, reaching #4 on the charts soon after the release of the album. The album itself went gold...

By Dr. Robert Steely Dan - Katy Lied Katy Lied is the fourth album by Steely Dan, released in 1975. It went gold and peaked at #13 on the US charts. The single "Black Friday" also charted at #37. Band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were not happy with the album's sound quality due to an equipment malfun...

By Chronus Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic “from allmusic: Countdown to Ecstasy wasn't half the hit that Can't Buy a Thrill was, and Steely Dan responded by trimming the lengthy instrumental jams that were scattered across Countdown and concentrating on concise songs for Pretzel Logic. While the short...

By Dr. Robert Steely Dan - Aja Long argued as one of the (if not THE) best rock recording ever and a permanent fixture on many a demo system in the late 70’s and 80’s, Aja was the culmination of everything Donald Fagen and Walter Becker aspired to accomplish in their storied careers. It was the first album ce...

By Dr. Robert The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, released in 1982. It was one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music. In the UK the album was certified Platinum in 2004, despite only reaching #44 on the charts following its release. It has also gone pl...

Then comes a brilliant cover of Midnight Cruiser by Steely Dan. Very rocky with excellent guitar lines in the chorus. I can't say this is better than Steely Dan's version, but I can say it's "different", in the best way different can be.

By Guthead Steely Dan - Gaucho “The commercial success of this album's predecessor, Aja, made both the band and the dynamic duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen household names. Perhaps the most perfect recording ever made, the band spent three years in seven different studios and over a million do...

Pixieland comes across as a Steely Dan throwaway without the hired hand guitar virtuosos that the Dan employed on their albums. Most of the rest , well ... if I may ... the best that I can say is to imagine Karen Carpenter fronting a 70s soft rock outfit with that era's mediocre jazz rock noodlings.

The irony, of course, is that the three albums were recorded after Steely Dan decided to forego playing live in the mid-'70s and therefore never toured to promote them, but Becker says he and partner Donald Fagen and the current incarnation of their ...

Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met while attending Bard College in New York State.

Last but not least a nice soul/funky jazz track "Peg" with a good rhythm and a excellent rhythm section and features guest vocalist Michael McDonald. STEELY DAN Music Online: recommended progarchives.com worldwide prog rock stores More about STEELY DAN at Progarchives.com

Steely Dan should have belonged to the oughties. Their particular blend of soft-rock bears so many of the hallmarks of latter-day indie royalty that one begins to wonder whether it's a coincidence at all, or if Walter Becker and Don Fagen are actually time-traveling sonic explorers sent...

News & Observer Shockingly, Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen did make one obvious mistake. "Let's try something from 1975, '76," he said as he rolled into "Aja" -- a song ... WIN tickets to see Steely Dan tributeGainsborough Standard all 2 news articles »

 Canada By Steve Newton Roland Nipp knows tasty lead guitar when he hears it, and he hears a lot of it on Steely Dan records. On his Web site, the Richmond musician points to the work of session players such as Larry Carlton, Jeff Baxter, and Jay Graydon for ...

Steely Dan is coming to Boston and the famed jazz-rockers are going to set a spell. In the course of their upcoming "Rent Party '09" tour, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are doing a series of special set list residencies in four cities and Boston is ... Steely Dan's Rent Party Pollstar

The jazz-infused rock sound of Steely Dan makes its first Rock Band Music Store appearance with Black Friday from 1975's Katy Lied and My Old School from 1973's Countdown to Ecstasy. Steely Dan's notoriously difficult Bodhisattva is featured on the ...

This trek, though so far light, marks the fourth consecutive year that the band--helmed by co-founders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen--has hit the tour trail after several years of avoiding consistent roadwork. More dates for the summer run will be ...

 FL Don't get me wrong: I love the band's classic stuff, and even if I never really gravitated in the same way to Two Against Nature and beyond, I still respect what Donald Fagen and Walter Becker do in the studio. At these prices, though, I think I'd be ...

Herald & Review, IL “Katy Lied,” Steely Dan – Child molesters, Nazi sympathizers and addicts all gather in this dark little tale. Uplifting. “Tonight’s the Night,” Neil Young – The singer’s farewell to two close friends who overdosed and died. ...

In this album, versus many of the band's previous albums, Steely Dan seems to blend the jazz, pop, funk, and synth-ish prog rock flavors of their music less effectively. It seems like I'm always hearing one or two of those combined, rather than a cohesive combination of all at once as it was i...

 New Zealand The Mountain Goats, FM (Steely Dan): I love hearing John Darnielle's warped bleat and frenzied acoustic strum; it's the antithesis of Steely Dan's slick jazz-rock. 4. Calexico, Alone Again Or (Love): This is that other kind of cover; ...

Years and years before I actually heard The Royal Scam, I remember being intrigued by its cover. Even at a very young age, I was familiar with H.P. Giger's work - and who of my generation wasn't, especially after his iconic cover for ELP's Brain Salad Surgery? Anyway, I knew a few Steely Dan song...

 NC Steely Dan singer and keyboardist Donald Fagen said he is typically skeptical of commemorative shows, but enjoyed the Tolliver concert. "I thought it was a really good representation of what Monk does," he said. "It was really great as far as tributes ...

The Republican - MassLive.com, MA Poor Walter Becker. The "other guy" in Steely Dan, equally brilliant but often in Donald Fagen's shadow, had the spotlight to sing one song each night during their tour a few years ago. No matter where they played, when Becker's time came, ...

 UK - In 1978 Steely Dan recorded the theme tune to a film about a radio station. The film was called FM, and the title of Steely Dan’s song contained, ...

 - Pecknold grew up listening to the music of Neil Young, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and The Beach Boys, providing a firm foundation in the classics. 2. ...

Gibson Signature artist Larry Carlton, a.k.a. "Mr.335," recently gave a blues master class to a capacity audience at the Bedford Arms in London. The event was hosted by the Guitar Institute, Gibson Guitar, and Guitar Getaways. Carlton performed with a Limited Edition Gibson 50th Anniversar...

Not an easy mood to capture in song but Brogan does the job and then adds creamy icing with a fab jam ending in the vein of Steely Dan circa The Royal Scam. A Southern boy named Robinson once noted, “There's a passion in being alone," ...

By toejam One of the many great things about Steely Dan is their ability to write catchy melodies and riffs while Becker and Fagen's lyrics (on the Royals Scam) reveal characters who are murderers, thieves, or even a jilted lover who wants details. The album reveals more and more with each listen. No d...

 MA - The 1970s innovative jazz fusion group that has at its core keyboardist/vocalist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker performed Friday night at the MGM ...

In 2003 McDonald received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. During the summer of 2006, McDonald joined Steely Dan on tour for the first time since 1974 in a live setting, opening their concerts with his own set and then joining them for the latter half of the Steely Dan set.

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Steely Dan offers musical retrospective in Wellmont show The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Becker, who has played both guitar and bass on Steely Dan's recordings, shared guitar duty with Jon Herington throughout this show, and also gave Fagen a ...

Anyway, this circular leaking thing is nothing new, at least as far as ZDNet is concerned. A post on their "Home Theater" blog about leaks of Best Buy’s and Circuit City Black Friday leaks is titled, “Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.”

That's an easy one: Any album by Steely Dan. I adore them. My wife makes a face whenever she hears Donald Fagen's voice. At least I understand where she's coming from. I used to be a Dan doubter too. Then, thanks to the insistence of a ...

By Chris Gray We have the Texicali Horns, Joe Sublett and Darrell Leonard, who were named by Stevie Ray Vaughan. They are two horns who sound like four. It’s just a compilation of the best studio cats around, and recording cats and producers and Grammy winners. It’s very strongly a Texas band.

By Amy S. Rosenberg Ok, so this time, when we walked up at showtime to a sold out show at the Borgata, we only got second row seats, not front row center, like we did at the "sold out" Steely Dan show. But... Ok, so this time, when we walked up at showtime to a sold out show at the Borgata, we only got second row seats, not fr...

By Mike Newman I’ve never really stopped to think about what our friends across the pond think about our New York-centric Steely duo, but it comes to mind now that I’m checking out the UK release of the new Walter Becker joint, Circus Money, on Sonic 360. Perhaps they didn’t grow up sneaking their parents’...

Show Review, Setlist and Photos: Steely Dan at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Monday, August 18. Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 02:48:13 PM. Setlist: 1.Everyone’s Gone To The Movies/ The Fez (instrumental) 2. The Royal Scam 3. I Got The News ...

By Bob Sassone Hiram Bullock: He was a veteran session guitarist probably best known to TV fans as being a guitarist in Paul Shaffer's band during the first couple of years of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. He also played on classic albums by everyone from Billy Joel and Steely Dan to Barbara Strei...

By Pico There are a lot of mainstream artists I admire. I love a lot of Paul Simon's compositions, Steely Dan, Prince, and all the ones which seem to be almost cliché for jazz musicians to like these days (Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Nick Drake, etc). Additionally I am also influenced by a lot of class...

By Graham Hough-Cornwell gt;>Venerable quasi-jazz-rockers Steely Dan make their Wolftrap debut this Thursday, June 7, on the final leg of their "Heavy Rollers Tour." They're ostensibly touring in support of the upcoming greatest hits collection, The Best of Steely Dan, due out October 2. 8 p.m. $50/35 (lawn).

By Austin Scaggs Happy sixty-sixth birthday, Bob! That was the idea behind Smoking Section Presents: Rolling Thunder Reborn, a gig we put on at a club in Manhattan’s Alphabet City, featuring a who’s-who of young New York musicians obsessed with Bobby D. Check out highlights on the RS Web site. The S.S. must ad...

By Dave Alper Two Against Nature Hey 19 Peg Dirty Work Josie Aja Pretzel Logic (Everything Must Go-5/22) Kid Charlemagne ENCORE Bodhisattva A lifelong avid concert goer, my very first job was hawking programs at the Schaeffer Music Festival in Central Park. It has been one long encore ever since.

By Dave Alper If there ever was a venue ideally suited for a particular band or artist then I would have to argue that the Beacon Theater, Manhattan's majestic, upper west side art deco performance space, is the perfect concert locale to host Steely Dan and their 10 piece band. The partners 'Dan'- Walter...

By Dave Hill Another interesting thing about the Steely Dan show is how much Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (the Steely Dan guys) looked like dentists who shop at Sam Ash on the weekend. Then again I guess they always kind of looked like that. Still, they rocked it and that's what really matters in the end. A...

By Fred 1) Wilco's Sky Blue Sky is great, at least I think so, my girls think its too mellow. Anway the record goes on sale May 15th and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. Wilco announced US tour dates yesterday and will be playing the Hammerstein in NYC on June 25th. TIckets haven't gone on sale yet. I think the...

By Gordon Hauptfleisch Why, it seems like only yesterday [cue harp and wavy, out of focus visuals] when you could pore over an album's liner notes and not have to squint to garner an embarrassment of riches and a treasure trove of tidbits..."The superlatives commonly found in liner notes are often as empty as the mus...

By Gordon Hauptfleisch Why, it seems like only yesterday [cue harp and wavy, out of focus visuals] when you could pore over an album's liner notes and not have to squint to garner an embarrassment of riches and a treasure trove of tidbits..."The superlatives commonly found in liner notes are often as empty as the mus...

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shopaholic_man - This is another classic album that's worth re purchasing on SACD. If you love the smooth smooth sounds of Donald Fagan and Walter Becker a.k.a. Steely Dan, well, Gaucho is the only classic Steely Dan album released as of my review on SACD. Their...