Steely Dan keep the flame burning brightly from the late 60's right up until...the New Wave. Always pulling in the top session guys-- backing up their creative flood of complex jazz rock tunes that've kept my foot tapping for nigh on 40 years!
The music just goes on!! So damn great!
STEELY DAN
I Got The News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJIacyY ... re=related
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are 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] with one notable 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, the group steadily built and maintained "a cult following."[1] 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. -wiki
Reelin' In The Years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwHK1xk ... re=related
Riki Don't Lose that Number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIIwH9V ... re=related
The Fez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71gvV9n ... re=related
Kid Charlemagne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zmX6_uj ... re=related
and OMG!!! Another Chevy Chase connection.....
Chase … played drums for a band called the leather canary, with friends walter becker and donald fagen. you may recognize those two as the founding members of multiple-grammy-award-winning steely dan.
Chase eventually left the group, calling them “a bad jazz band.” not long afterward, becker and fagen changed their name and hit the jackpot.
(I'm pretty sure this is photoshopped...I doubt Chevy got "top billing")
What are your favorites from Steely Dan?
The Royal Scam is a particular favorite album of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImqniitiMU
