A couple of real cool guys. I so wanted to be like them!
Hat's off to the passing of a great guitarist. d:^)
One of the great bands of my generation.
Steely Dan was a unique sound of our generation.
RIP and prayers.
We continue to lose our youth to the Grim Reaper. And they all are so danged YOUNG!
I only have one CD (A Decade of Steely Dan), but I love the songs and I feel their music, which has a bit of a mystical quality, has held up quite well over time. RIP
No.
I can tell you exactly where I bought the LP Pretzel Logic when it came out. There was a K Mart on 436 near hwy 50 in Orlando at that time. I was moving out of a house I rented nearby and stopped in there to buy a record to raise my spirits.
Intelligent rock
Kid Charlemagne
I was in college
We knew right off what it was about
Can’t Buy a Thrill was epic
Like EOMS or TRAFOZS or CTTE or Smokin or Argus or Slider or DP: MIJ
GOOD YEAR
Exile is arguably best album ever made for so much material
From https://www.thewrap.com/donald-fagan-steely-dan-fans-pay-tribute-to-walter-becker/
Donald Fagen’s tribute:
Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.
We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.
Walter had a very rough childhood – I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.
His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.
Donald Fagen
September 3 2017
The Steely Dan boys wrote and performed some of the best 1970s-80s pop music and it still sounds great today. A salute to Walter Becker, you are missed.
Wow I can’t believe I didn’t know the titles to more of their hits. LOL couldn’t match a tune to the titles - Rikki is the only one that is clear what it is!
Good stuff.
Cletus removes his 10-gallon hat and looks at his Justins. RIP, Walter.
The Dan’s music was always so crisp and clean. Always my favorite.
Call me Deacon Blues...
My Old School.......remains an all time favorite of mine.
Even Chino and Daddy G are saddened......
That sums it up...
Steely Dan was part of the soundtrack of my life growing up.
Scary. 67. Same age as I am.
Same here. Long time fan, have all their recordings. Big ripple effect from this band to other bands/artists.
That sucks. And too young.