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Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860, is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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Brill Building
The Brill Building (built 1931 as the Alan E. Lefcourt Building and designed by Victor Bark Jr.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Maui
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Strand Bookstore
Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located in New York City's East Village. Its slogan is "18 Miles of Books". The store is famous among New Yorkers for its giant collection of publishers' overstock, used, rare, and out-of-print books, as well as the chaos on and around its shelves. The store houses the city's largest collection of rare books, and is also a contender for the title of world's largest used bookstore, its major competitor in this regard being Powell's Books of Portland, Oregon. The Strand occupies [http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/aboutus/ 55,000 square feet of space] while Powell's flagship Burnside location has over [http://www.powells.com/locations/powells-city-of-books/ 68,000].
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Upper West Side
The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street. It encompasses the neighborhood of Morningside Heights.
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Yokohama
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's . Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
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Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer.
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Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
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Andy Gill
Andy Gill (born 1 January 1956, Manchester, Lancashire) is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands. Gill is known for his jagged style of guitar on albums such as Entertainment! (1979) and Solid Gold (1980) and hit singles such as "At Home He's a Tourist," "Damaged Goods," "Anthrax," "What We All Want" and "I Love a Man in a Uniform."
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Arif Mardin
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Barry Bales
Barry Bales (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee) is the bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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Bernard Purdie
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American session drummer and is considered an influential and innovative exponent of funk. He is known for his strict musical time keeping and "The Purdie Shuffle".
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Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer.
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Big Boi
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Brian Gardner
Brian Gardner (nicknamed 'BigBassBrian') is a mastering engineer. He has worked on countless recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B;, hip hop, pop punk, and dance pop. He is perhaps best known for his work on hip hop albums and in particular in his collaborations with Dr. Dre.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.
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Charles Starkweather
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Chester Thompson
Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American drummer and session musician.
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Chevy Chase
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China Crisis
China Crisis is an English pop/rock band. They formed in 1979 in Kirkby, near Liverpool, Merseyside with a core of vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon. Their output was pop music similar in style to that of New Wave but with strong similarities to the post-punk movement of the early 1980s, namely inclusion of a broader range of musical influences and occasional flirtation with political commentary. Throughout their career, China Crisis has seen moderate success in the United Kingdom with ten hit singles between August 1982 and January 1987 and six albums, as well as commercial success in Western Europe, Australia and the Americas.
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Chris Carmouche
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Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King (born October 14, 1964) is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.
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Clydie King
Clydie King (born Clydie May Crittendon, August 21, 1943, Dallas, Texas) is an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist.
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Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Jacqueline Bailey on 26 February 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, who released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006.
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Craig Street
Craig Street, born in Oakland, California, is a noted record producer.
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois (, Respell|lan-) (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson. Lanois is best known for producing, with Brian Eno, a number of albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.
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Dean Parks
Dean Parks is a leading session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.
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Denny Dias
Denny Dias (born December 1946 in Philadelphia) is an American guitarist, most known for being a founding member of Steely Dan.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo (John King), famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums ''Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to the film Fight Club''.
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Elliot Scheiner
Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award. Elliot holds an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music and is one of the only Americans to be awarded the Master of Sound honor from the Japan Audio Society.
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Elliott Randall
Elliott Randall (born 1947) is an American guitarist, most known for being a session musician with popular artists. Randall has played the well-known guitar solos from Steely Dan's hit "Reelin' in the Years" and Fame. Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has said that Randall's solo on "Reelin' in the Years" is his favorite guitar solo of all-time [http://www.elliott-randall.com/clasrock.htm]. The solo was ranked as the 40th best guitar solo of all-time by the readers of Guitar World magazine [http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatestc.htm] and the 8th best guitar solo by Q4 Music [http://news.q4music.com/2007/07/the_20_greatest_guitar_solos.html].
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
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Flood (producer)
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Francis Poulenc
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Gary Katz
Gary Katz is an American record producer, most famous for his work in that capacity on every Steely Dan album recorded during the first run of their career, from ''Can't Buy A Thrill in 1972 to Gaucho'' in 1980, as well as the Donald Fagen solo album, The Nightfly in 1982. His other production credits include albums by 10cc, Joe Cocker, Rosie Vela and Eye to Eye.
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Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch (; born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms".
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Harley Allen
Harley Lee Allen (born January 23, 1956) is a country singer and songwriter.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
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Homer
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Jacknife Lee
Garret "Jacknife" Lee is an Irish Grammy Award winning music producer and mixer. He has worked with a variety of artists, including U2, R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, AFI, The Hives, Weezer, Vega4 and Editors.
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James "Bubber" Miley
James Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903–May 20, 1932) was an early jazz trumpeter and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute.
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Jay Black
Jay Black (born David Blatt; 2 November 1938) is an American singer, also known as "The Voice," whose height of fame came in the 1960s when he was the lead singer of the band Jay and the Americans. The band had numerous hits including "Cara Mia", "Come a Little Bit Closer", and "This Magic Moment".
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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
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Jeff Baxter
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.
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Jeff Porcaro
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Jerry Douglas
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John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.
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John Sakamoto
John Sakamoto is a Canadian journalist and music critic. He is best known for the Anti-Hit List column, which has appeared on canoe.ca and in eye, the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star. He served as executive producer of canoe.ca's entertainment section, Jam!, from 1996 to 2002.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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K. C. Porter
KC Porter (born June 27, 1962 Karl Cameron Porter) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. For nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, Porter has earned numerous Grammy nominations and 3 Grammys and Latin Grammys. He is best known for his production work on Carlos Santana's Supernatural, (which sold over 27 million copies worldwide and won 9 Grammy Awards) and for producing and penning some of the most popular Spanish language singles for Ricky Martin to date.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
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Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton (born Lawrence Eugene Carlton, March 2, 1948, Torrance, California) is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands. Over his career, Carlton has won three Grammy Awards for his performances and compositions, including the theme music for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues
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Larry Klein
Larry Klein (born 1956) is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell.
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Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is the drummer for the rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to , in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
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Lee Ritenour
Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is a guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at the age of 16 and has appeared on over 3000 sessions, recorded over 40 albums, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. He is probably best known for the hit "Is It You" in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a pioneer in the Contemporary Jazz and jazz-funk genres of music.
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Levon Helm
Mark Lavon Helm (born May 26, 1940), best known as Levon Helm, is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequently lead and backing vocalist for the R&B;/rock group The Band. Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, and creative drumming style highlighted on many of The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010.
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Libby Titus
Libby Titus (born Elizabeth Jurist on July 6, 1947 in Woodstock, New York) is a singer, songwriter, actress and concert producer. Although she released several solo albums in the 1970s and '80s, she is best known as the co-writer, with Eric Kaz, of "Love Has No Pride", a song recorded by many artists including Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Jane Monheit.
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Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
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Matt Serletic
Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, Rob Thomas, and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with American Idol Season 7 Winner David Cook on his second studio album. He also preceded Jason Flom as chairman of Virgin Records. Most recently he has been working with Joe Cocker, writing as producing his latest album, Hard Knocks.
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Michael Omartian
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Miles Davis
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Pete Christlieb
Pete Christlieb (born February 16, 1945) is a jazz bebop, West Coast jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist.
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Peter Kurland
Peter Franklin Kurland is a production sound mixer .
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Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2, 1931 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.
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Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Richard Pryor
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known particularly for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
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Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records.
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Ron Block
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Rosie Vela
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Royce Jones
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Sherlie Matthews
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Steve Gadd
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Steve Lillywhite
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Stuart Duncan
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T-Bone Burnett
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Terence Boylan
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The Edge
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Tim Blake Nelson
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Tina Turner
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Tom Lord-Alge
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Venetta Fields
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Victor Feldman
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Wayne Shorter
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Steely, Dan Filmography
- Debbie Does Wall Street (1991)
- Space Virgins (1990)
- Blue Cabaret (1988)
- Saddletramp (1988)
- Taboo VI: The Obsession (1988)
- Kinky (1987)
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- Stone Piano I
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- The Mock Turtle Song
- Soul Ram
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- Yellow Peril
- Let George Do It
- Parker's Band
- Any World That I'm Welcome To
- Barrytown
- Ida Lee
- Caves of Altamira
- Take It Out on Me
- A Little With Sugar
- Oh! Wow It's You
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- You Go Where I Go
- Stone Piano II
- Green Earrings
- Cousin Dupree
- Bad Sneakers
- Janie Runaway
- A Little Piano Segue
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- Jack of Speed
- Peg
- What a Shame About Me
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- A Little With Sugar
- Android Warehouse
- Any World That I'm Welcome To
- Barrytown
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- Caves of Altamira
- Charlie Freak
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- The Mock Turtle's Song
- Old Regime
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- Your Gold Teeth II(Jam)
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- Come Back Baby
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- Old Regime
- Brooklyn
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- Yellow Peril
- Let George Do It
- Idia Lee
- Any World That I'm Welcome
- You Go Where I Go
- Android Warehouse
- A Horse in Town
- More to Come
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- Ida Lee
- Stone Piano
- Any World
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- This Seat's Been Taken
- Barrytown
- Oh, Wow It's You
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- Roaring of the Lamb
- A Little With Sugar
- Sun Mountain
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- You Go Where I Go
- Instrumental Overture (Royal Scam/Bad Sneakers/Aja)
- Green Earrings
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- I.G.Y
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- Hey Nineteen
- Book of Liars
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- Green Flower Street
- Home at Last
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- Old Regime
- Come Back Baby
- Brain Tap Shuffle
- Take It Out on Me
- Yellow Peril
- She Took a Little With Sugar
- More to Come
- This Seat's Been Taken
- A Horse in Town
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- Barrytown
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- Night by Night
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- Barrytown
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- Through With Buzz
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- With a Gun
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- Monkey in Your Soul
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- Your Gold Teeth
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- Pearl of the Quarter
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Steely Dan 《Do It Again》 (sound from original studio version)
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- Duration: 5:47
- Published: 01 Jul 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
the sound is from the studio version and the video is from the Midnight Special aired in 1973
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
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- Duration: 4:38
- Published: 16 Sep 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years Lyrics: Your everlasting summer You can see it fading fast So you grab a piece of something That you think is gonna last You wouldnt know a diamond If you held it in your hand The things you think are precious I cant understand Are you reelin in the years Stowin away the time Are you gatherin up the tears Have you had enough of mine You been tellin me youre a genius Since you were seventeen In all the time Ive known you I still dont know what you mean The weekend at the college Didnt turn out like you planned The things that pass for knowledge I cant understand Are you reelin in the years Stowin away the time Are you gatherin up the tears Have you had enough of mine I spend a lot of money And I spent a lot of time The trip we made in hollywood Is etched upon my mind After all the things weve done and seen You find another man The things you think are useless I cant understand Are you reelin in the years Stowin away the time Are you gatherin up the tears Have you had enough of mine Rights belong to Universal Music Group (UMG)
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
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- Duration: 7:36
- Published: 17 Aug 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Steely Dan Charlotte, NC 8/12/2006 Donald Fagen - Keyboards and Vocals Walter Becker - Guitar Keith Carlock - Drums Jon Herington - Guitar Carolyn Leonhart-Escoffery - Backing Vocals Michael Leonhart - Trumpet Cindy Mizelle - Backing Vocals Jim Pugh - Trombone Roger Rosenberg - Baritone Sax Freddie Washington - Bass Walt Weiskopf - Sax Jeff Young - Keyboards and Backing Vocals
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steely dan my old school
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- Duration: 4:08
- Published: 13 Aug 2005
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
steely dan my old school
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Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce
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- Duration: 5:51
- Published: 21 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
UK hit 1976 peaked at No.17, 9 weeks on chart
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Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne (Live)
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- Duration: 4:50
- Published: 04 Mar 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Live in NY)"Two Against Nature - DVD - You are free to comment but..... I will remove mindless BS that nobody wants to sift through
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Steely Dan live plays "FM"
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- Duration: 6:41
- Published: 07 Jul 2007
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
FM - Steely Dan Pine Knob Ampitheater Clarkston, MI 11 August 2003 In house video feed + Mono SBD
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years-Whistle Test 1978
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- Duration: 3:53
- Published: 30 Oct 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
A rare Steely Dan performance from old grey whistle test (this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's)-Reelin' In The Years.Jeff Skunk Baxter on lead guitar.
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Steely Dan-Deacon Blues with Lyrics
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- Duration: 7:35
- Published: 24 May 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Another Lyrics vid. . Plz comment and rate. I do not own this video in any way, all credit goes to Steely Dan.
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Steely Dan live plays "Peg"
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- Duration: 4:35
- Published: 30 Jun 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Peg - Steely Dan Pine Knob Ampitheater Clarkston, MI 11 August 2003 In house video feed + Mono SBD
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Steely Dan - Babylon Sister (Live in NY)
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- Duration: 6:11
- Published: 04 Mar 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
"Live" in NY - Two Against Nature - DVD - You are free to comment but..... I will remove commercials, spam, mindless BS or talking smack about anothers opinion.
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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 19 Oct 2011
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
video from Lightrhythm Visuals: Vol. 3 This visual feast of cutting-edge image wizardry. Buy at Amazon www.amazon.com Hey- Come inside and take your shoes off....please visit and bookmark my website www.thedailydummy.com
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Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
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- Duration: 5:25
- Published: 03 Sep 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
From their album "Gaucho" (In honor of my daughter's 19th birthday) www.steelydan.com _____________________________________ Walter Becker & Donald Fagen being fans of Beat literature, Steely Dan took its name from the book "Naked Lunch" (sometimes referred to as "The Naked Lunch") by William S. Burroughs, originally published in 1959. The book was originally published with the title "The Naked Lunch" in Paris in 1959 by Olympia Press. An American edition by Grove Press followed soon after in 1962. The American edition was titled "Naked Lunch" and was substantially different from the Olympia Press edition. This is because the Grove Press edition was in fact based on an earlier 1958 manuscript that Allen Ginsberg had in his possession. The article the in the title was never intended by the author, but added by the editors of the Olympia Press 1959 edition. Nonetheless, "The Naked Lunch" remained the title used for the 1968 and 1974 Corgi Books editions, and the novel is often known by the alternative name, especially in the UK where these editions circulated. Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME" 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005." David Cronenberg released a film of the same title based upon the novel and other Burroughs writings in 1991.
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Steely Dan - Aja
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- Duration: 2:37
- Published: 17 Jun 2009
- Updated: 15 Sep 2012
This profile of Steely Dan's elegant 1977 masterpiece, Aja, is a feast for Dan fans, a thoughtful, satisfyingly detailed assessment of the album and its bejeweled fusion of jazz, R&B, rock, and pop. The documentary's producers elicit straightforward, revealing interviews from the group's stealthy principals, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who jettison enough of their signature sarcasm to touch on the autobiographical threads, cultural anomie, and serious musical ambition audible in their work. The duo, along with producer Gary Katz, engineer Roger Nichols, and a generous cross-section of the crack New York and Los Angeles musicians featured on the sessions, dissect the sleek layers of the songs both musically and lyrically, both in modern performances featuring the original players and in control-room playbacks of the original multitrack master tapes. Becker and Fagen prove articulate, self-aware, and dryly funny subjects, and the subtlety and richness of the music offer an ample canvas for discovery. To purchase from the UK: www.amazon.co.uk and the US: www.amazon.com
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Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of
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- Duration: 8:41
- Published: 04 Aug 2008
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Becker & Fagin and other musicians talk about the track they laid down for "Peg"
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Steely Dan plays Aja live
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- Duration: 8:53
- Published: 24 Jun 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Aja - Steely Dan Pine Knob Ampitheater Clarkston, MI 11 August 2003 In house video feed + Mono SBD
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Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan
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- Duration: 4:38
- Published: 02 Feb 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Kid Charlemagne, classic Steely Dan from The Royal Scam, with images of a few Kids who'd make Charlemagne look like a puppy dog. Photos include Jorge Cabrera and Hillary. Cabrera was the drug dealer who gave enough to the Democrats to have his picture taken with both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. In a 1997 story, Don Van Natta Jr. of the NY Times reported, "Jorge Cabrera, a drug smuggler who has emerged as one of the most notorious supporters of President Clinton's re-election campaign, was asked for a campaign contribution in the unlikely locale of a hotel in Havana by a prominent Democratic fund-raiser, congressional investigators have learned. . . On his return to the United States several days after that meeting, in November 1995, Cabrera wrote a check for $20000 to the Democratic National Committee from an account that included the proceeds from smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States, said the investigators, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Within two weeks of the contribution, Cabrera met Gore at the dinner in Miami. Ten days later, Cabrera attended a Christmas reception at the White House hosted by Hillary Rodham Clinton. At the events, Gore and Mrs. Clinton posed for photographs with Cabrera, who has two felony convictions dating from the 1980s and is now in a prison here on a drug-smuggling conviction. . . "A Cuban-born American, Cabrera was arrested two times on serious drug charges in the 1980s. Both times he pleaded guilty to nondrug felony <b>...</b>
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Steely Dan - Josie
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- Duration: 5:03
- Published: 16 Jul 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
"Josie" by Steely Dan from the Aja LP, 1977. Played on Technics SL-1700 w/ Grado Red cartridge, Philips 785 receiver, KLH Model 17 speakers.
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Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 06 Mar 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
(Live in NY)"Two Against Nature - DVD - You are free to comment but..... I will remove commercials, spam, mindless BS or talking smack about anothers opinion.
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
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- Duration: 4:32
- Published: 21 Feb 2011
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Steely Dan was the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Becker and Fagen never truly enjoyed rock - with their ironic humor and cryptic lyrics, their eclectic body of work shows some debt to Bob Dylan - preferring jazz, traditional pop, blues, and R&B. Steely Dan created a sophisticated, distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, and a devotion to the recording studio. With producer Gary Katz, Becker and Fagen gradually changed Steely Dan from a performing band to a studio project, hiring professional musicians to record their compositions. Though the band didn't perform live after 1974, Steely Dan's popularity continued to grow throughout the decade, as their albums became critical favorites and their singles became staples of AOR and pop radio stations. Even after the group disbanded in the early '80s, their records retained a cult following, as proven by the massive success of their unlikely return to the stage in the early '90s. Walter Becker (bass) and Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) were the core members of Steely Dan throughout its variety of incarnations. The two met at Bard College in New York in 1967 and began playing in bands together shortly afterward. The duo played in a number of groups <b>...</b>
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My Old School- Steely Dan- 1973
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- Duration: 5:49
- Published: 07 Feb 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Love Steely Dan.They Are A Trip.When You Hear A Steely Dan Song Especially Like This One,You Say What's This?These Guys Are Wild And Unique.Very Special Artists.
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Classic Albums: Steely Dan's Aja - Deacon Blues
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- Duration: 10:29
- Published: 18 Dec 2010
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Steely Dan discuss the production behind "Deacon Blues" from "Aja." "Deacon Blues" was Steely Dan's fifth Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, where it peaked at #19 in 1978. The song remained in the Top 40 for eight weeks.
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Steely Dan - Midnight Cruiser
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- Duration: 4:08
- Published: 17 Jun 2007
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Off of the "Can't Buy A Thrill" album... And a sincere thanks to UMG for allowing me to post this copyrighted song. If you like what you hear please go out and buy the music.
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Rock Hall Anniversary: Steely Dan’s Aja
19 Sep 2012
The Examiner
Related topics Steely DanRock and Roll Hall of Fame Advertisement By 1977, Steely Dan was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular bands of the 1970s, thus popularizing the genre of jazz rock. They were known for hit albums including 1972’s Can’t Buy a Thrill and 1974’s Pretzel Logic. But in...(size: 7.1Kb)
>Steely Dan and the Ancient Near East
10 Jul 2012
Wired News
Many of you have heard of the band . But have you ever wondered what Ancient Near Eastern scholars think of this rock group? You probably haven’t. Well, I’m still not sure if they think of this band, but I did study the Ancient Near East in college. Therefore, this is what I think of...(size: 6.7Kb)
Skiddle
A ten-piece Steely Dan tribute show featuring classic tracks such as Rikki Don't Lose that Number, Do it Again, and more from the American jazz rock legends Date: Friday 22nd June 2012 Venue: Fairfield Halls » Location: Croydon » Doors: 20:00 til 22:30 Event short url:...(size: 2.7Kb)
Hospitality Cover Steely Dan
22 May 2012
Stereogum
This right here is Hospitality's first time attempting a cover, a fact I know because they say it in the beginning of this video. Research! Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" may never have been the obvious answer to this particular bit of Hospitality trivia, but the band's krautrock...(size: 4.7Kb)
Old music: Steely Dan – Dirty Work
22 Mar 2012
The Guardian
Cynicism concealed by sweetness – Steely Dan knew how to smuggle their worldview into smooth AM pop music...(size: 4.1Kb)
Steely Dan
08 Mar 2012
AV Club
Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re...(size: 10.0Kb)
New York Daily News
It’s one of the most expensive, meticulous and famous albums ever made. So who would think to redo it in cheap, murky and, in many places, unrecognizable ways? That’s the nervy strategy behind a new project by The Darcys. The Toronto-based band has released a track-by-track remake of Steely Dan’s...(size: 3.0Kb)
Top Five Steely Dan Songs About L.A.
31 Jan 2012
LA Weekly
See also: Steely Dan Fans Are Assholes I've long considered Steely Dan the ultimate...(size: 0.6Kb)
Steely Dan Fans Are Assholes
20 Jan 2012
LA Weekly
William Gibson called them "the most genuinely subversive" band in late-20th Century pop. Bryan Cranston sneaks winking references to them into Malcolm In The Middle and Breaking Bad episodes. Ice Cube sampled them and The Roots play them on Jimmy Fallon. Who are...(size: 1.7Kb)
| Steely Dan | |
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 Steely Dan circa 1973: Denny Dias (far left), Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Jim Hodder |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States |
| Genres | Rock, jazz rock |
| Years active | 1972–1981, 1993–present |
| Labels | ABC, MCA, Reprise |
| Associated acts | New York Rock and Soul Revue, Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, Jay and the Americans |
| Website | steelydan.com |
| Members | |
| Donald Fagen Walter Becker |
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| Past members | |
| Denny Dias Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Jim Hodder David Palmer Jeff Porcaro Michael McDonald Royce Jones |
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Steely Dan is an American rock band consisting of core members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.[1] Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies."[2]
The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric"[1] lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs,[3][4][5][6] and crime.[6] The pair is well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio,[7][8] the most extreme example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs.[9]
Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time "a cult following"[1] remained devoted to the group. In 1993, the group resumed playing live concerts; later Steely Dan released two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.[10][11][12]
History[link]
Formative and early years (1967–1972)[link]
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 1967. Fagen was passing by a cafe called The Red Balloon when he heard Becker rehearsing the electric guitar.[13] He would later recount the experience during an interview: "I hear this guy practicing, and it sounded very professional and contemporary. It sounded like, you know, like a black person, really."[13] He immediately introduced himself to Becker, and asked him "Do you want to be in a band?"[13] They quickly realized that they enjoyed similar music, and even listened to the same jazz radio stations; not long after, they began writing songs together.
The two soon began playing in local groups. One of these bands, first known as The Bad Rock Group and later as The Leather Canary, included future comedy star Chevy Chase on drums. They played covers of songs written by The Rolling Stones ("Dandelion"), Moby Grape ("Hey Grandma"), and Willie Dixon ("Spoonful") along with a handful of originals.[13] Terence Boylan, another Bard musician, remembered that Fagen immediately took to the Beatnik life while attending college: "They never came out of their room, they stayed up all night. They looked like ghosts — black turtlenecks and skin so white that it looked like yogurt. Absolutely no activity, chain-smoking Lucky Strikes and dope."[13] Fagen himself would later remember it as "probably the only time in my life that I actually had friends."[14]
After Fagen graduated in 1969, the two moved to Brooklyn and tried to peddle their tunes in the Brill Building in midtown Manhattan. Kenny Vance, a member of the pop group Jay and the Americans, who had a production office in the building, took an interest in their material that led to work on the soundtrack of the low-budget Richard Pryor film You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat in 1971. Becker later spoke bluntly of the soundtrack: "We did it for the money."[15] A series of demos made between about 1968 and 1971 are available in bootleg form.[16] This collection features approximately twenty-five tracks, and is notable for its stripped down production and decidedly lo-fi nature (many songs are just Fagen and his piano), in contrast to future Steely Dan works. Although some of these songs ("Caves of Altamira", "Brooklyn", "Barrytown") were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums, the majority of them were never officially released.
Becker and Fagen joined the touring band of Jay and the Americans for roughly a year and a half.[17] They were at first paid $100 per show, but partway through their tenure the band's tour manager cut their salaries in half.[17] The group's lead singer, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen "the Manson and Starkweather of rock 'n' roll", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.[17]
They had little immediate success after the move to Brooklyn, although Barbra Streisand recorded their song "I Mean To Shine" on her 1971 Barbra Joan Streisand album. Little other significant headway was made by the pair until one of Vance's cronies, Gary Katz, moved to Los Angeles to become a staff producer for ABC Records. He hired Becker and Fagen as staff songwriters and they flew to California. Katz would produce all their 1970s albums in collaboration with engineer Roger Nichols, and Nichols would wind up with six Grammy Awards for his work with the band in the 1970s to 2001.[18]
After realizing their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion they formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed the band to ABC as recording artists. Being fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after "Steely Dan III from Yokohama", a strap-on dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.[19][20] The addition of Palmer as a second lead vocalist was due to a combination of Fagen's resistance to singing in front of an audience and the label's feeling that his voice was not "commercial" enough. Fagen lacked confidence in his voice and was known to have suffered from occasional bouts of stage fright.
In 1972, ABC sent out promotional copies of Steely Dan's first single, "Dallas", backed with "Sail the Waterway." It is unclear if "stock" copies were ever released to the general public, and if they were, the single sold so poorly that promotional copies are more abundant today (whereas the reverse is true for most releases). The two songs were re-released on vinyl a handful of times as b-sides and on EPs throughout the 1970s and 1980s; as of 2012, "Dallas" and "Sail the Waterway" remain the only officially released Steely Dan tracks to have not been reissued on cassette or compact disc. Becker and Fagen would tell an interviewer in 1995 that the songs hadn't been reissued because they felt the tracks were "stinko."[21]
[edit] Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy (1972–1973)
Their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill, was released in 1972 and made an immediate impression with the hit singles "Do It Again" and "Reelin' In the Years", reaching #6 and #11 respectively on the Billboard singles chart. Those and the Palmer-sung "Dirty Work" eventually became staples on classic rock radio.
Because of Fagen's reluctance to sing live, David Palmer handled most of the vocal duties on stage. During the first tour, it became apparent to Katz and Becker that Palmer's interpretation of the material wasn't having the same impact, and eventually convinced Fagen that he was the one who best conveyed the attitude and meaning of the songs. Palmer quietly left the group during the recording of the second album, soon hooking up with Carole King, with whom he wrote the 1974 #2 hit "Jazzman".
Countdown to Ecstasy, released in 1973, failed to match the level of commercial success of the first album. Becker and Fagen blamed this on having to rush-record the album between tour dates and the fact that they were not happy with some of the performances on the record. The album's singles included "Show Biz Kids" and "My Old School", both of which remained in the lower half of the Billboard charts. However, "My Old School" (and to a lesser extent, "Bodhisattva") did become a minor FM Rock staple as years passed.
[edit] Pretzel Logic and Katy Lied (1974–1976)
Pretzel Logic, a diverse set that produced "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", which reached #4 on the Billboard chart, appeared in early 1974. The piano riff for "Rikki" was lifted directly from the title track to Song for My Father by hard bop pianist Horace Silver. The album also included their note-for-note rendition of Duke Ellington and James "Bubber" Miley's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo."
During the tour for the previous album, the band had added Sonny & Cher's young session drummer Jeff Porcaro, and also added vocalist-percussionist Royce Jones and vocalist-keyboardist Michael McDonald.[22] Porcaro and McDonald were prominent on Pretzel Logic and future Steely Dan recordings and would illustrate the duo's increasing reliance on session musicians. Dean Parks was another session musician they would use. Striving for perfection, they would ask the session musicians to do up to forty takes of each track.[23]
This album also marks the first time Walter Becker would play guitar on a Steely Dan album. He commented that "once I met (session musician) Chuck Rainey, I felt there really was no need for me to be bringing my bass guitar to the studio anymore".[23]
A rift between Becker-Fagen and the other members of the group (particularly Baxter and Hodder) began to develop when the latter pair seemed more intent on touring. Becker and Fagen disliked touring and wanted to withdraw from the road to concentrate solely on writing and recording. The other members also felt discouraged by their diminishing roles in the studio and gradually left the group, although Dias and McDonald continued to contribute up to the 1977 Aja and 1980 Gaucho albums, respectively. Baxter left to join The Doobie Brothers, where he was later joined by McDonald. The band retired from touring after a July 4, 1974 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Center in California.[24] A recording of the show's opening track, "Bodhisattva", would later be released as a B-side.
The 1975 LP Katy Lied saw the duo using a diverse group of session players, including Porcaro and McDonald, as well as guitarist Elliott Randall, jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, saxophonist/bass-guitarist Wilton Felder, percussionist/vibraphonist/keyboardist Victor Feldman, keyboardist (and later producer) Michael Omartian, and guitarist Larry Carlton, with only Dias, Becker, and Fagen remaining from the original group. The album went gold on the strength of "Black Friday" and "Bad Sneakers", but Becker and Fagen were so dissatisfied with the sound of the album (caused by a faulty DBX noise reduction system) that they publicly apologized for it (on the album's back cover), and for years refused to even listen to it in its final form.[25] Often considered a "transitional album", it also included "Doctor Wu" and "Chain Lightning".
[edit] The Royal Scam and Aja (1976–1978)
The Royal Scam was released in May 1976 on ABC Records and is the group's most guitar-oriented record, in part due to Carlton's contributions. It also features session drummer Bernard Purdie. It sold well in the USA without the strength of a real hit single, but in the UK sales were driven by Steely Dan's first major hit in the country, the Top 20 single "Haitian Divorce".[26]
Their sixth LP, the jazz-influenced Aja, received the Grammy award for "Engineer - Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical", shot into the Top Five in the U.S. charts within three weeks of release, and was one of the first American LPs to be certified 'platinum' for sales of over 1 million albums.[27][28] The first single off the album was "Peg", which featured Michael McDonald's backing vocals and peaked at US #11. Other singles included "Deacon Blues" (#19) and "Josie" (#26). The album cemented the duo's reputation as songwriters, as well as their reputation for studio perfectionism. The story of the making of the album was later documented in an episode of the popular TV and DVD series, Classic Albums. The album features such jazz and fusion luminaries as guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour; bassist Chuck Rainey; saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Pete Christlieb, and Tom Scott; drummer Steve Gadd; and ex-Miles Davis pianist/vibraphonist Victor Feldman.
"Roger [Nichols] made those records sound like they did. He was extraordinary in his willingness and desire to make records sound better." [29]
"The records we did could not have been done without Roger. He was just maniacal about making the sound of the records be what we liked... He always thought there was a better way to do it, and he would find a way to do what we needed to in ways that other people hadn't done yet." [30]
— Steely Dan producer Gary Katz regarding the late Roger Nichols' role in the band's recording legacy.
Soon after the success of Aja, Becker and Fagen were asked to contribute the title track for the movie FM. The movie was one of the year's worst box-office disasters but the song was another hit, winning another engineering Grammy award. It barely missed out on the Top 20 in the US, and was a minor hit in the UK.[26]
[edit] Gaucho and breakup (1978–1981)
Becker and Fagen took most of 1978 off before beginning to write songs for the follow-up to Aja, Gaucho. The project would become plagued by technical, legal, and personal problems and ultimately cost them their partnership for many years. The early stages of the lengthy recording sessions were hindered by an assistant engineer's accidental deletion of "The Second Arrangement", a favorite track of Katz and Nichols[31] that was ultimately abandoned.
In March 1979, ABC was bought by MCA Records, and for most of the next two years they were caught in contractual problems that prevented them from releasing the album. Becker and Fagen had planned on leaving ABC for Warner Bros. Records and wanted to release the next album on it, but MCA claimed ownership of the material, blocking Fagen and Becker from putting it out on any other label.
Becker was also having personal difficulties. His girlfriend at the time, Karen Stanley, died of a drug overdose in their shared Upper West Side Apartment. Becker was hit with a $17 million wrongful death suit, later settled out of court in his favor, but he was shocked by the accusations and the tabloid press coverage that followed. His own substance abuse problems made matters worse. Not long after, Becker was struck by a taxi while attempting to cross a Manhattan street, shattering his right leg in several places and forcing him to use crutches.
Another lawsuit dogged the band, this time regarding the title track for the album. Jazz composer Keith Jarrett claimed that the song had been based on one of his own compositions, titled "Long As You Know You're Living Yours". Fagen later admitted he'd loved the song and was strongly influenced by it.[32] Jarrett sued for copyright infringement and eventually settled for a sum of approximately one million dollars, the deal stipulating that Becker and Fagen keep the songwriting credit. Fagen later told the press that maintaining their reputations as songwriters was an important factor in the decision to settle for such a substantial sum.
The album was finally released in November 1980 and, despite the problems that had gone into recording it, it was another major success. The first single, "Hey Nineteen", peaked at #10 on the pop chart in early 1981, and "Time Out of Mind" (featuring Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits on guitar) became a moderate hit in the spring. "My Rival" was featured in John Huston's 1980 film Phobia. Roger Nichols won his third engineering Grammy award for his work on Gaucho.
Time off (1981–1993)[link]
Becker and Fagen announced the hiatus of their partnership in June 1981.[33] Becker subsequently moved to the Hawaiian island of Maui with his family where he became an "avocado rancher and self styled critic of the contemporary scene."[34] Becker also stopped using narcotics around this period, a problem he had been struggling with throughout most of Steely Dan's original run.[35][36][37] Fagen released his 1982 solo album The Nightfly, which went platinum in both the U.S. and the U.K. and yielded the Top Twenty hit "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)." Fagen later contributed both the score and a song to the soundtrack of Bright Lights, Big City in 1988, but generally did little or no music recording for several years. He occasionally did production work for other artists, as did Becker: one credit was British group China Crisis, who were strongly influenced by Steely Dan.
In 1986, Fagen and Becker both performed on Zazu, an album by the former model Rosie Vela produced by Gary Katz, marking their first collaboration since the breakup.[38] The two rekindled their friendship and embarked upon several songwriting sessions between 1986 and 1987, but initially left the results unfinished.[39] On October 25, 1991, Becker attended a concert of the New York Rock and Soul Revue, co-founded by Fagen and producer/singer Libby Titus (who was for many years the partner of Levon Helm of The Band and would later become Fagen's wife), and performed spontaneously with the group.
1993 saw Becker's production of Fagen's second solo album Kamakiriad. Fagen later said it was the most satisfying recording experience of his career.[citation needed]
[edit] Reunion, Alive in America (1993–2000)
These events finally led to a reformation, and the mounting of a U.S. tour in 1993 behind Kamakiriad, which sold poorly despite a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and the success of the supporting concerts. With Becker now mainly playing lead and rhythm guitar, the pair put together a band that included an additional keyboard player and lead guitarist, a bassist, three female backing singers, and a four-piece saxophone section. During this tour, Fagen introduced himself as "Rick Strauss" and Becker as "Frank Poulenc".
The following year, MCA released Citizen Steely Dan, a boxed set featuring their entire catalog on 4 CDs, plus 4 extra tracks: "Here at the Western World" (originally released on 1978's "Greatest Hits"), "FM" (1978 single), a 1971 demo of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" and "Bodhisattva (live)", the latter recorded on a cassette in 1974 and released as a B-side in 1980. 1994 also saw the release of Becker's debut solo album, 11 Tracks of Whack, which Fagen co-produced.
Steely Dan followed with a tour supporting the boxed set and Becker's album. They released a live CD compiled from recordings of several 1993 and 1994 concerts, Alive in America, in 1995. The following year, they embarked upon the Art Crimes Tour, covering the US prior to their first European concerts in 22 years. This was followed by a Japanese tour in October. Following this string of activity, the duo focused on a studio project intended to yield a new album.
[edit] Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go (2000–2003)
In 2000, they released their first studio album in 20 years, Two Against Nature. It proved to be one of the surprise successes of the year, and in February 2001, it earned them four Grammy Awards. They won in the categories for Best Engineered Album - Non-Classical, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal ("Cousin Dupree"), and Album of the Year. Their win for Album of the Year came as a shock as they defeated Eminem and his highly controversial album The Marshall Mathers LP. In the summer of 2000, they took to the road for another US tour followed by an international tour later that year. The Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party DVD followed, documenting a live-in-the-studio concert performance of popular tunes from throughout Steely Dan's career. In March 2001, Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[10][11]
In 2003 Steely Dan released their followup album Everything Must Go and toured America afterwards. The duo went for a looser approach in the studio and attempted to capture a more live feel. Becker contributed his first lead vocal on a Steely Dan studio album on the song "Slang of Ages" (he had sung lead on his own "Book of Liars" on Alive in America). This album also showed a return to more self-contained recording sessions: Becker played bass on every track and lead guitar on five tracks while Fagen added piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizers, and percussion on top of his vocals.
Recent activity (2003–present)[link]
Following Everything Must Go, the group focused its energy largely on touring and live performances. After time off and work on solo records, yielding Fagen's Morph the Cat and its subsequent tour, they embarked on Steelyard "Sugartooth" McDan and The Fab-Originees.com Tour in 2006.[40] Also featured on the bill was former collaborator Michael McDonald, who sat in with Steely Dan during their encore. The Heavy Rollers Tour followed in 2007, including dates in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, making it the largest and most exhaustive Steely Dan tour.[41]
The 2008 Think Fast Tour was comparatively small, focused on American and Canadian shows, including a performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival in July. Becker's second solo record, Circus Money, appeared later that year. In 2009, the Left Bank Holiday and Rent Party Tour saw Steely Dan touring extensively in Europe and North America, alternating standard one-date concert appearances at large venues with multi-night theater shows which featured, on given nights, performances of the albums The Royal Scam, Aja or Gaucho in their entirety. The following year, Fagen formed the touring supergroup Dukes of September Rhythm Revue with McDonald, Boz Scaggs, and members of Steely Dan's live band, whose set included songs by the three songwriters and additional material. Steely Dan's 2011 Shuffle Diplomacy Tour included an expanded set list, as well as dates in Australia and New Zealand. Their longtime studio collaborator Roger Nichols died of pancreatic cancer on April 9,[42] prior to the tour's commencement.
Musical and lyrical style[link]
Music[link]
Overall sound[link]
Special attention was given to the individual sound of each instrument. The recording was done with the utmost fidelity and attention to sonic detail, and mixed so that all the instruments are heard and none are given undue priority (a deft and accomplished use of the multi-tracking process). For example, in the song "Parker's Band", two drum kits are used, which gives the song an unexpected drive, without overpowering the sound; it is not even immediately apparent that there are two drum kits on the track. Their albums are also notable for the characteristically 'warm' and 'dry' production sound, and the sparing use of echo and reverberation. Long known as perfectionists, they often recorded take after take before selecting the player or performance that made the final cut on their albums.
Backing vocals[link]
Becker and Fagen favor a distinctly soul-influenced style of backing vocals, which after the first few albums were almost always performed by a female chorus (although Michael McDonald features prominently on several tracks, including the 1975 song "Black Friday" and the 1977 song "Peg"). Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews and Clydie King were the preferred trio for backing vocals on the group's late 1970s albums.[43] Other backing vocalists include Tawatha Agee, Carolyn Leonhart, Janice Pendarvis, Catherine Russell, Cynthia Calhoun, Victoria Cave, Cindy Mizelle, and Jeff Young.
Horns[link]
Horn arrangements have been used on songs from all Steely Dan albums. They are usually jazz-oriented, and typically feature instruments such as trumpets, trombones and saxophones, although they have also used other instruments such as flutes and clarinets. The horn parts occasionally integrate simple synth lines to alter the tone quality of individual horn lines, for example in "Deacon Blues" this was done to "thicken" one of the saxophone lines. On their earlier albums Steely Dan featured guest arrangers and on their later albums the arrangement work is credited to Fagen.
Composition and chord use[link]
Steely Dan are famous for their use of chord sequences and harmonies that explore the area of musical tension between traditional pop sounds and jazz. In particular, they are known for their use of the add 2 chord, a type of added tone chord, which they nicknamed the mu major.[44][45][46] Other common chords used by Steely Dan include slash chords (polychords), for example B♭/C or E-7/A. This notation shows a chord (shown to the left of the slash) with a note other than the tonic (shown to the right of the slash) as the lowest pitched note.
Lyrics[link]
Steely Dan's songs cover a wide range of topics, but in their basic approach they often create fictional personas that narrate the experience. The duo have said that in retrospect, most of their albums have a 'feel' of either Los Angeles or New York City, the two main bases where Becker and Fagen lived and operated (see below). Characters appear in their songs that evoke these cities. Themes of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll appear, but never in a straightforward manner, neither encouraging nor discouraging, and many (if not all) of their songs are tinged with an ironic edge.[47]
Additionally, many would argue that Steely Dan never wrote a real love song.[48] However, some of the demo-era recordings show Fagen and Becker at their most romantic. Such songs include "This Seat's Been Taken", "Oh, Wow, It's You", "Come Back Baby", and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". Other themes are also present, such as prejudice, aging, failure, poverty and middle-class ennui, but these are typically seen from an ironic and detached perspective. Many of their songs concern love, but none can be classed as straightforward love songs, since there is inevitably an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics. One may think the song is about love on first inspection, however, upon deeper analysis the listener realizes that the real story is about prostitution, incest ("Cousin Dupree"), or some other socially unacceptable subject.
Steely Dan's lyrics contain subtle and encoded references, unusual (and sometimes original) slang expressions, a wide variety of "word games" and intriguing lyrical choices and constructions of considerable depth. The obscure and sometimes teasing lyrics have given rise to considerable efforts by fans to explain the "inner meaning" of certain songs.[49][50] Jazz is a recurring theme, with references abounding in their songs, and there are numerous other film, television and literary references and allusions, such as "Home at Last" (from Aja), which was inspired by Homer's Odyssey.
Some of their lyrics are notable for their unusual meter patterns; a prime example of this is their 1972 hit "Reelin' In the Years", which crams an unusually large number of words into each line, giving it a highly syncopated quality.
"Name-checking" is another Steely Dan lyrical device; references to real places and people abound in their songs. The song "My Old School" is a well-known example, referring to Annandale (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met), and the Two Against Nature album (2000) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.
The band also often name-checks drinks, typically alcoholic, in their songs: rum and cokes ("Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"), piña coladas ("Bad Sneakers"), zombies ("Haitian Divorce"), black cows ("Black Cow"), Scotch whisky ("Deacon Blues"), retsina ("Home at Last"), grapefruit wine ("FM"), cherry wine ("Time Out of Mind"), Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila ("Hey Nineteen") and kirschwasser ("Babylon Sisters") are all mentioned in Steely Dan lyrics.[51]
Discography[link]
The following list includes all Steely Dan's studio albums. For a complete album list including compilations and live albums, see Steely Dan discography.
- 1972: Can't Buy a Thrill
- 1973: Countdown to Ecstasy
- 1974: Pretzel Logic
- 1975: Katy Lied
- 1976: The Royal Scam
- 1977: Aja
- 1980: Gaucho
- 2000: Two Against Nature
- 2003: Everything Must Go
See also[link]
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- ^ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame official Steely Dan biography.
- ^ Allmusic song review: Hey Nineteen. Accessed July 31, 2008.
- ^ AllMusic song review: Kid Charlemagne
- ^ AllMusic song review: Don't Take Me Alive
- ^ a b Stylus Magazine: Top Ten Obscure Steely Dan Lyrics.
- ^ Canada.com: Steely Dan still feeling the groove.
- ^ MSN Inside Music - Re:Masters: Steely Dan Think Fast and Tour.
- ^ AllMusic album credits: Gaucho.
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