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American rock band

Steely Dan
Steely Dan performing in 2007. Walter Becker (l) playing electric guitar, Donald Fagen (r) playing melodica.

Steely Dan performing in 2007. Walter Becker (l) playing electric guitar, Donald Fagen (r) playing melodica.
Groundwork information
Origin Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Genres
  • Jazz rock
  • soft stone [i]
  • pop stone[ii]
  • jazz fusion[3]
Years active 1971–1981, 1993–nowadays
Labels
  • ABC
  • MCA
  • Giant
  • Reprise
  • Warner Bros.
Associated acts
  • Jay and the Americans
  • Doobie Brothers
  • New York Stone and Soul Revue
  • Dukes of September Rhythm Revue
  • Toto[4]
  • Larry Carlton
Website steelydan.com
Members Donald Fagen
Past members
  • Walter Becker
  • Jeff Baxter
  • Denny Dias
  • Jim Hodder
  • David Palmer
  • Royce Jones
  • Michael McDonald
  • Jeff Porcaro

Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York by cadre members Walter Becker (guitars, bass, bankroll vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Blending elements of stone, jazz, Latin music, R&B, blues[five] and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics, the band enjoyed disquisitional and commercial success starting from the early on 1970s until breaking up in 1981.[v] Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired the band from alive performances altogether to become a studio-just band, opting to record with a revolving bandage of session musicians. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies".[half-dozen]

After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less agile throughout almost of the next decade, though a cult following[v] remained devoted to the grouping. Since reuniting in 1993, Steely Dan has toured steadily and released ii albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They accept sold more than than forty 1000000 albums worldwide and were inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.[7] [8] [9] [x] VH1 ranked Steely Dan at No. 82 on their list of the 100 Greatest Musical Artists of All Time.[xi] Rolling Stone ranked them No. xv on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Fourth dimension.[12] Founding member Walter Becker died on September three, 2017, leaving Fagen equally the sole official fellow member.

History [edit]

Formative and early on years (1967–1972) [edit]

Becker and Fagen met in 1967 at Bard Higher, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. As Fagen passed by a café, The Reddish Balloon, he heard Becker practicing the electric guitar."[xiii] In an interview, Fagen recounted the experience: "I hear this guy practising, and it sounded very professional and contemporary. It sounded similar, you know, like a blackness person, really."[xiii] He introduced himself to Becker and asked, "Practice you want to exist in a band?"[xiii] Discovering that they enjoyed similar music, the two began writing songs together.

Becker and Fagen began playing in local groups. Ane such group – known as the Don Fagen Jazz Trio, the Bad Rock Group and afterwards the Leather Canary – included future comedy star Chevy Hunt on drums. They played covers of songs by The Rolling Stones ("Dandelion"), Moby Grape ("Hey Grandma"), and Willie Dixon ("Spoonful"), as well as some original compositions.[13] Terence Boylan, another Bard musician, remembered that Fagen took readily to the beatnik life while attention 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]

Afterwards Fagen graduated in 1969, the two moved to Brooklyn and tried to peddle their tunes in the Brill Edifice in midtown Manhattan. Kenny Vance (of Jay and the Americans), who had a production office in the edifice, took an interest in their music, which led to work on the soundtrack of the depression-budget Richard Pryor film You lot've Got to Walk It Like Y'all Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat. Becker after said bluntly, "We did it for the money."[14] A series of demos from 1968 to 1971 are available in multiple different releases, not authorized by Becker and Fagen.[fifteen] This collection features approximately 25 tracks and is notable for its sparse arrangements (Fagen plays solo piano on many songs) and lo-fi production, a dissimilarity with Steely Dan'southward later on work. Although some of these songs ("Caves of Altamira", "Brooklyn", "Barrytown") were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums, most were never officially released.

Becker and Fagen joined the touring band of Jay and the Americans for virtually a year and a one-half.[16] They were at beginning paid $100 per bear witness, only partway through their tenure the ring'south tour manager cut their salaries in half.[16] The group'south lead vocaliser, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen "the Manson and Starkweather of rock 'n' scroll", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.[16]

They had picayune success after moving to Brooklyn, although Barbra Streisand recorded their song "I Mean To Shine" on her 1971 Barbra Joan Streisand album. Their fortunes changed when i of Vance's associates, Gary Katz, moved to Los Angeles to become a staff producer for ABC Records. He hired Becker and Fagen as staff songwriters; they flew to California. Katz would produce all their 1970s albums in collaboration with engineer Roger Nichols. Nichols would win six Grammy Awards for his work with the ring from the 1970s to 2001.[17]

Too realizing that their songs were besides complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's proffer Becker and Fagen formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and vocaliser David Palmer, and Katz signed them to ABC equally recording artists. Fans of Vanquish Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after a "revolutionary" steam-powered dildo mentioned in the William South. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.[18] [19] [20] Palmer joined as a second lead vocalist because of Fagen'southward occasional stage fright, his reluctance to sing in front of an audience, and because the characterization believed that his vox was not "commercial" enough.

In 1972, ABC issued Steely Dan'due south first unmarried, "Dallas", backed with "Sheet the Waterway". Distribution of "stock" copies bachelor to the general public was manifestly extremely express;[21] the single sold so poorly that promotional copies are much more than readily bachelor than stock copies in today's collectors market. As of 2015, "Dallas" and "Sail the Waterway" are the only officially released Steely Dan tracks that accept not been reissued on cassette or compact disc. In an interview (1995), Becker and Fagen chosen the songs "stinko."[22] "Dallas" was later covered by Poco on their Head Over Heels album.

Can't Purchase a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy (1972–1973) [edit]

Can't Buy a Thrill, Steely Dan's debut anthology, was released in 1972. Its hit singles "Practise It Again" and "Reelin' In the Years" reached No. 6 and No. 11 respectively on the Billboard singles chart. Forth with "Dirty Work" (sung by David Palmer), the songs became staples on radio.

Because of Fagen'southward reluctance to sing alive, Palmer handled nigh of the song duties on stage. During the first tour, however, Katz and Becker decided that they preferred Fagen's interpretations of the ring'due south songs, persuading him to take over. Palmer quietly left the group while it recorded its 2d anthology; he later on co-wrote the No. 2 hitting "Jazzman" (1974) with Carole King.

Released in 1973, Countdown to Ecstasy was not as commercially successful as Steely Dan's first album. Becker and Fagen were unhappy with some of the performances on the record and believed that information technology sold poorly because it had been recorded hastily on bout. The anthology'southward singles were "Show Biz Kids" and "My Sometime Schoolhouse", both of which stayed in the lower one-half of the Billboard charts (though "My Erstwhile School" and—to a lesser extent—"Bodhisattva" became FM Stone staples in time).

Pretzel Logic and Katy Lied (1974–1976) [edit]

Guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter left Steely Dan in 1974 when they ceased performing live and began working in the studio exclusively.

Pretzel Logic was released in early 1974. A diverse fix, information technology includes the group's almost successful single, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (No. four on the Billboard Hot 100), and a notation-for-note rendition of Duke Ellington and James "Bubber" Miley's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo".

During the previous album's tour, the band had added vocalist-percussionist Royce Jones, vocalist-keyboardist Michael McDonald, and session drummer Jeff Porcaro.[23] Porcaro played the sole drum track on one vocal, "Night By Nighttime" on Pretzel Logic (Jim Gordon played drums on all the remaining tracks, and he and Porcaro both played on "Parker'due south Band"), reflecting Steely Dan's increasing reliance on session musicians (including Dean Parks and Rick Derringer). Jeff Porcaro and Katy Lied pianist David Paich would get on to class Toto. Striving for perfection, Becker and Fagen sometimes asked musicians to record equally many equally forty takes of each track.[24]

Pretzel Logic was the commencement Steely Dan album to feature Walter Becker on guitar. "Once I met [session musician] Chuck Rainey", he explained, "I felt in that location actually was no need for me to be bringing my bass guitar to the studio anymore".[24]

A rift began growing between Becker-Fagen and Steely Dan's other members (particularly Baxter and Hodder), who wanted to tour. Becker and Fagen disliked constant touring and wanted to concentrate solely on writing and recording. The other members gradually left the band, discouraged by this and by their diminishing roles in the studio. However, Dias remained with the group until 1980's Gaucho and Michael McDonald contributed vocals until the group'south xx-year hiatus after Gaucho. Baxter and McDonald went on to join The Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan'southward last tour performance was on July 5, 1974, a concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California.[25]

Becker and Fagen recruited a diverse group of session players for Katy Lied (1975), including Porcaro, Paich, and McDonald, as well equally guitarist Elliott Randall, jazz saxophonist Phil Forest, saxophonist/bass-guitarist Wilton Felder, percussionist/vibraphonist/keyboardist Victor Feldman, keyboardist (and later producer) Michael Omartian, and guitarist Larry Carlton—Dias, Becker, and Fagen being Steely Dan'southward but original members. The album went aureate on the strength of "Black Fri" and "Bad Sneakers", but Becker and Fagen were so dissatisfied with the anthology'southward sound (compromised by a faulty DBX noise reduction system) that they publicly apologized for it (on the album'due south dorsum cover) and for years refused to listen to information technology in its last form.[26] Katy Lied besides included "Doc Wu" and "Chain Lightning".

The Royal Scam and Aja (1976–1978) [edit]

The Majestic Scam was released in May 1976. Partly considering of Carlton'due south prominent contributions, it is the band's near guitar-oriented album. It also features performances by session drummer Bernard Purdie. The album sold well in the Us, though without the force of a hit single. In the Great britain the single "Haitian Divorce" (Meridian 20) drove album sales, condign Steely Dan's first major striking there.[27] Steely Dan's 6th album, the jazz-influenced Aja, was released in September 1977. Aja reached the Top V in the U.Due south. charts within iii weeks, winning the Grammy award for "Engineer – Best Engineered Recording – Not-Classical." Information technology was also i of the first American LPs to be certified 'platinum' for sales of over 1 1000000 albums.[28] [29]

Roger [Nichols] made those records sound like they did. He was extraordinary in his willingness and desire to make records sound better.[30]

The records nosotros did could not have been done without Roger. He was but maniacal near making the audio of the records be what we liked... He always thought in that location was a meliorate style to do information technology, and he would find a way to exercise what we needed to in ways that other people hadn't washed yet.[31]

~ Steely Dan producer Gary Katz regarding Roger Nichols' role in the band'due south recording legacy.

Featuring Michael McDonald'south backing vocals, "Peg" (No. 11) was the album'south first single, followed by "Josie" (No. 26) and "Deacon Blues" (No. 19). Aja solidified Becker's and Fagen'southward reputations as songwriters and studio perfectionists. It features such jazz and fusion luminaries as guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour; bassist Chuck Rainey; saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Pete Christlieb, and Tom Scott; drummers Steve Gadd, Rick Marotta and Bernard Purdie; pianist Joe Sample and ex-Miles Davis pianist/vibraphonist Victor Feldman and Grammy award-winning producer/arranger Michael Omartian (piano).

Planning to bout in support of Aja, Steely Dan assembled a live band. Rehearsal ended and the tour was canceled when backing musicians began comparison pay.[32] The anthology's history was documented in an episode of the Television set and DVD series Archetype Albums.

Subsequently Aja's success, Becker and Fagen were asked to write the title track for the movie FM. The flick was a box-office disaster, but the song was a hit, earning Steely Dan another engineering Grammy honor. Information technology was a small hit in the U.k. and barely missed the Elevation twenty in the U.Due south.A.[27]

Gaucho and breakup (1978–1981) [edit]

Becker and Fagen took a break from songwriting for most of 1978 before starting work on Gaucho. The project would not become smoothly: technical, legal, and personal setbacks delayed the album'southward release and later led Becker and Fagen to suspend their partnership for over a decade.[33]

Misfortune struck early when an assistant engineer accidentally erased virtually of "The 2d Organization", a favorite rails of Katz and Nichols,[34] which was never recovered. More than problem — this time legal — followed. In March 1979, MCA Records bought ABC, and for much of the next ii years Steely Dan could non release an album. Becker and Fagen had planned on leaving ABC for Warner Bros. Records, merely MCA claimed ownership of their music, preventing them from changing labels.

Turmoil in Becker's personal life also interfered. His girlfriend died of a drug overdose in their Upper W Side apartment, and he was sued for $17 million. Becker settled out of court, but he was shocked by the accusations and by the tabloid press coverage that followed. Shortly later, Becker was struck by a taxi while crossing a Manhattan street, shattering his right leg in several places and forcing him to apply crutches.

Still more legal trouble was to come. Jazz composer Keith Jarrett sued Steely Dan for copyright infringement, claiming that they had based Gaucho'southward title track on i of his compositions, "Long As You lot Know You lot're Living Yours" (Fagen later admitted that he'd loved the song and that it had been a strong influence).[35]

Gaucho was finally released in Nov 1980. Despite its tortured history, it was some other major success. The album's showtime unmarried, "Hey 19", reached No. 10 on the pop chart in early 1981, and "Fourth dimension Out of Mind" (featuring guitarist Marking Knopfler of Dire Straits) was a moderate striking in the bound. "My Rival" was featured in John Huston's 1980 picture Phobia. Roger Nichols won a 3rd engineering Grammy accolade for his piece of work on the album.

Fourth dimension off (1981–1993) [edit]

Steely Dan disbanded in June 1981.[36] Becker moved to Maui, where he became an "avocado rancher and self-styled critic of the gimmicky scene."[37] He stopped using drugs, which he had used for most of his career.[38] [39] [twoscore] Meanwhile, Fagen released a solo album, The Nightfly (1982), which went platinum in both the U.South. and the UK and yielded the Summit Twenty hit "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)." In 1988 Fagen wrote the score of Vivid Lights, Large City and a song for its soundtrack, but otherwise recorded little. He occasionally did production work for other artists, as did Becker. The virtually prominent of these were two albums Becker produced for the British sophisti-pop group China Crisis, who were strongly influenced by Steely Dan.[41] Becker is listed as an official member of Mainland china Crunch on the first of these albums, 1985's Flaunt the Imperfection, and played keyboards on the band'south Top 20 United kingdom hit "Black Man Ray". For the 2d of the 2 albums, 1989's Diary of a Hollow Horse, Becker is only listed as a producer and not every bit a band member.

In 1986 Becker and Fagen performed on Zazu, an album by sometime model Rosie Vela produced past Gary Katz.[42] The 2 rekindled their friendship and held songwriting sessions between 1986 and 1987, leaving the results unfinished.[43] On October 23, 1991, Becker attended a concert by New York Stone 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'south wife), and spontaneously performed with the group.

Becker produced Fagen's second solo album, Kamakiriad, in 1993. Fagen conceived the album equally a sequel to The Nightfly.[ citation needed ]

Reunion, Live in America (1993–2000) [edit]

Steely Dan, shown here in 2007, toured oftentimes afterwards reforming in 1993.

Becker and Fagen reunited for an American tour to support Kamakiriad, which sold poorly despite a Grammy nomination for Album of the Twelvemonth. With Becker playing lead and rhythm guitar, the pair assembled a band that included a second keyboard histrion, second pb guitarist, bassist, drummer, vibraphonist, 3 female backing singers, and four-piece saxophone section. Among the musicians from the live band, several would continue to work with Steely Dan over the next decade, including bassist Tom Barney and saxophone players Cornelius Bumpus and Chris Potter. During this tour, Fagen introduced himself as "Rick Strauss" and Becker as "Frank Poulenc".

The next year, MCA released Citizen Steely Dan, a boxed set featuring their entire catalog (except their debut single "Dallas"/"Sail The Waterway") on four CDs, plus iv extra tracks: "Here at the Western Earth" (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. That year Becker released his debut solo album, xi Tracks of Whack, which Fagen co-produced.

Steely Dan toured once more in support of the boxed set and Tracks. In 1995 they released a live CD, Alive in America, compiled from recordings of several 1993 and 1994 concerts. The Art Crimes Bout followed, including dates in the The states, Japan, and their get-go European shows in 22 years. Afterward this activity, Becker and Fagen returned to the studio to brainstorm work on a new anthology.

Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go (2000–2003) [edit]

In 2000 Steely Dan released their first studio album in 20 years: Two Against Nature. It won four Grammy Awards: Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Popular Performance by Duo or Grouping with Song ("Cousin Dupree"), and Anthology of the Year (despite competition in this category from Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP and Radiohead's Child A). In the summer of 2000, they began another American tour, followed by an international bout later that twelvemonth. The tour featured guitarist Jon Herington, who would continue to play with the band over the next ii decades. The group released the Costly Tv set Jazz-Rock Party DVD, documenting a live-in-the-studio concert performance of popular songs from throughout Steely Dan's career. In March 2001, Steely Dan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[7] [eight]

In 2003 Steely Dan released Everything Must Go. In contrast to their earlier work, they had tried to write music that captured a live experience. Becker sang lead vocals on a Steely Dan studio album for the first time ("Slang of Ages" — he had sung pb on his own "Book of Liars" on Alive in America). Fewer session musicians played on Everything Must Go than had become typical of Steely Dan albums: Becker played bass on every track and pb guitar on five tracks; Fagen added piano, electrical piano, organ, synthesizers, and percussion on top of his vocals; touring drummer Keith Carlock played on every rails.

Firing of Roger Nichols [edit]

In 2002 during the recording of Everything Must Go, Becker and Fagen fired their engineer Roger Nichols, who had worked with them for 30 years, without caption or notification, according to band biographer Brian Sweet's 2018 revision of his book Reelin' in the Years. [44]

Touring, solo activity (2003–2017) [edit]

To complete his Nightfly trilogy, Fagen issued Morph the Cat in 2006. Steely Dan returned to annual touring that year with the Steelyard "Sugartooth" McDan and The Fab-Originees.com Tour.[45] Despite much fluctuation in membership, the live band featured mainstays Herington, Carlock, bassist Freddie Washington, the horn section of Michael Leonhart, Jim Pugh, Roger Rosenberg, and Walt Weiskopf, and bankroll vocalists Carolyn Leonhart and Cindy Mizelle. The 2007 Heavy Rollers Tour included dates in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, making it their most expansive tour.[46]

The smaller Remember Fast Tour followed in 2008, with keyboardist Jim Beard joining the live band. That twelvemonth Becker released a 2d album, Circus Money, produced by Larry Klein and inspired by Jamaican music. In 2009 Steely Dan toured Europe and America extensively in their Left Bank Holiday and Hire Party Tour, alternate between standard one-date concerts at large venues and multi-nighttime theater shows that featured performances of The Regal Scam, Aja, or Gaucho in their entirety on certain nights. The following year, Fagen formed the touring supergroup Dukes of September Rhythm Revue with McDonald, Boz Scaggs, and members of Steely Dan's alive band, whose repertoire included songs by all three songwriters. Longtime studio engineer Roger Nichols died of pancreatic cancer on Apr 10, 2011.[47] Steely Dan's Shuffle Diplomacy Tour that year included an expanded set list and dates in Australia and New Zealand. Fagen released his quaternary anthology, Sunken Condos, in 2012. It was his first solo release unrelated to the Nightfly trilogy.

The Mood Swings: eight Miles to Pancake Day Tour began in July 2013 and featured an 8-night run at the Beacon Theatre in New York Metropolis.[48] Jamalot Always Later on, their 2014 United States tour, ran from July ii in Portland, Oregon to September xx in Port Chester, New York.[49] 2015's Rockabye Gollie Angel Tour included opening human action Elvis Costello and the Imposters and dates at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The Dan Who Knew Too Much bout followed in 2016, with Steve Winwood opening. Steely Dan also performed at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with an accompanying orchestra.

The band played its concluding shows with Becker in 2017. In April, they played the 12-date Reelin' In the Chips residency in Las Vegas and Southern California.[l] Becker'due south last performance came on May 27 at the Greenwich Boondocks Party in Greenwich, Connecticut.[51] Due to illness, Becker did not play Steely Dan's ii Classics E and Due west concerts at Dodger Stadium and Citi Field in July.[52] Fagen embarked on a tour that summer with a new backing band, The Nightflyers.

After Becker's death (2017–present) [edit]

Becker died from complications of esophageal cancer on September three, 2017.[53] In a note released to the media, Fagen remembered his longtime friend and bandmate, and promised to "keep the music nosotros created together alive every bit long as I can with the Steely Dan band."[54] Afterward Becker's expiry, Steely Dan honored commitments to perform a curt North American tour in October 2017 and three concert dates in the Britain and Ireland for Bluesfest on a double bill with the Doobie Brothers.[55] The band played its offset concert post-obit Becker's death in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on October 13.[55] In tribute to Becker, they performed his solo song "Book of Liars", with Fagen singing the lead vocals, at several concerts on the tour.[56]

Becker'southward widow and manor sued Fagen later that twelvemonth, arguing that the manor should control 50% of the band'due south shares.[57] Fagen filed a counter accommodate, arguing that the band had drawn up plans in 1972 stating that band members leaving the ring or dying relinquish shares of the band's output to the surviving members. In December, Fagen said that he would rather have retired the Steely Dan name later on Becker's expiry, and would instead have toured with the electric current iteration of the grouping under another name, simply was persuaded not to by promoters for commercial reasons.[58]

In 2018, Steely Dan performed on a summertime tour of the United states with The Doobie Brothers as co-headliners.[59] The band also played a nine-evidence residency at the Buoy Theatre in New York Metropolis that October.[sixty] In February 2019, the ring embarked on a bout of Smashing Britain with Steve Winwood.[61] Guitarist Connor Kennedy of The Nightflyers joined the live band, kickoff with a nine-night residency at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas in April 2019.[62]

Musical and lyrical style [edit]

Music [edit]

Overall audio [edit]

Special attention is given to the private audio of each instrument. Recording is done with the utmost fidelity and attention to sonic item, and mixed so that all the instruments are heard and none are given undue priority. Their albums are also notable for the characteristically 'warm' and 'dry' production sound, and the sparing use of echo and reverberation.

Backing vocals [edit]

Becker and Fagen favored a distinctly soul-influenced way of backing vocals, which after the first few albums were near ever performed past a female chorus (although Michael McDonald features prominently on several tracks, including the 1975 song "Black Friday" and the 1977 vocal "Peg"). Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews and Clydie Rex were the preferred trio for backing vocals on the group's late 1970s albums.[63] Other backing vocalists include Timothy B. Schmit, Tawatha Agee, Brenda White-King, Carolyn Leonhart, Janice Pendarvis, Catherine Russell, Cynthia Calhoun, Victoria Cave, Cindy Mizelle, and Jeff Young. The band also featured singers like Patti Austin and Valerie Simpson on later projects such as Gaucho.

Horns [edit]

Horn arrangements have been used on songs from all Steely Dan albums. They typically feature instruments such as trumpets, trombones and saxophones, although they have likewise used other instruments such as flutes and clarinets. The horn parts occasionally integrate simple synth lines to modify the tone quality of individual horn lines; for example in "Deacon Dejection" this was washed to "thicken" ane of the saxophone lines. On their before albums Steely Dan featured guest arrangers and on their later albums the arrangement piece of work is credited to Fagen.

Limerick and chord employ [edit]

Steely Dan is 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 ii chord, a type of added tone chord, which they nicknamed the mu major.[64] [65] [66] Other common chords used by Steely Dan include slash chords.

Lyrics [edit]

Steely Dan's lyrical subjects are various, merely in their bones approach they often create fictional personae that participate in a narrative or state of affairs. The duo have said that in retrospect, most of their albums take a "feel" of either Los Angeles or New York City, the 2 primary cities where Becker and Fagen lived and worked. Characters appear in their songs that evoke these cities. Steely Dan's lyrics are ofttimes puzzling to the listener,[67] with the true pregnant of the vocal "uncoded" through repeated listening, and a richer understanding of the references inside the lyrics. In the song "Everyone's Gone to the Movies," the line "I know y'all're used to sixteen or more, sorry we only have eight" refers not to the count of some article, but to 8 mm motion picture, which was lower quality than 16 mm or larger formats and ofttimes used for pornography, underscoring the illicitness of Mr. LaPage's movie parties.[68]

Thematically, Steely Dan creates a universe peopled by losers, creeps and failed dreamers, often victims of their own obsessions and delusions. These motifs are introduced in the Dan's first striking song, "Do Information technology Again," which contains a clarification of a murderous cowboy who beats the gallows, a man taken advantage of by a cheating girlfriend, and an obsessive gambler, all of whom are unable to control their ain destinies; similar themes of being trapped in a death screw of i's own making announced throughout their catalog. Other themes that they explore include prejudice, aging, poverty, and heart-class ennui.

Many would argue that Steely Dan never wrote a genuine love vocal, instead dealing with personal passion in the guise of a destructive obsession.[69] Many of their songs concern honey, but typical of Steely Dan songs is an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics that reveals a darker reality. For example, expressed "love" is really almost prostitution ("Pearl of the Quarter"), incest ("Cousin Dupree"), pornography ("Everyone's Gone to the Movies"), or some other socially unacceptable subject.[70] All the same, some of their demo-era recordings show Fagen and Becker expressing romance, including "This Seat's Been Taken", "Oh, Wow, It'southward You lot" and "Come Back Baby".

Steely Dan's lyrics contain subtle and encoded references, unusual (and sometimes original) slang expressions, a broad diversity of "word games." The obscure and sometimes teasing lyrics have given ascent to considerable efforts by fans to explain the "inner pregnant" of certain songs.[71] [72] Jazz is a recurring theme, and there are numerous other flick, boob tube and literary references and allusions, such as "Home at Final" (from Aja), which was inspired by Homer'due south Odyssey.[73]

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 information technology a highly syncopated quality.

"Name dropping" is another Steely Dan lyrical device; references to real places and people abound in their songs. The song "My One-time School" is an example, referring to Annandale (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is domicile to Bard College, which both attended and where they met), and the Two Against Nature album (2000) contains numerous references to the duo's original region, the New York metro surface area, including the district of Gramercy Park, the Strand Bookstore, and the upscale food store Dean & DeLuca. In the song "Glamour Profession" the decision of a drug bargain is historic with dumplings at Mr. Grub, a Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills. The band even employed self-reference; in the vocal "Show Biz Kids," the titular subjects are sardonically portrayed as owning "the Steely Dan T-shirt."

The ring also often name-checks drinks, typically alcoholic, in their songs: rum and cokes ("Daddy Don't Alive in That New York City No More than"), piña coladas ("Bad Sneakers"), zombies ("Haitian Divorce"), black cows ("Blackness Cow"), Scotch whisky ("Deacon Blues"), retsina ("Dwelling house at Last"), grapefruit wine ("FM"), carmine wine ("Time Out of Mind"), Cuervo Gold ("Hey Nineteen"), kirschwasser ("Babylon Sisters"), Tanqueray ("Lunch with Gina"), Cuban breeze (Fagen'south solo rail "The Adieu Wait"), and margaritas ("Everything Must Get") are all mentioned in Steely Dan lyrics.[74]

Members [edit]

Current members

  • Donald Fagen – lead vocals, keyboards, saxophone (1972–1981, 1993–present)

Onetime members

  • Walter Becker – guitar, bass, backing and lead vocals (1972–1981, 1993–2017; his death)
  • Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – guitar, backing vocals (1972–1974)
  • Denny Dias – guitar (1972–1974, studio contributions until 1977)
  • Jim Hodder – drums, backing and atomic number 82 vocals (1972–1974; died 1990)
  • David Palmer – backing and lead vocals (1972–1973)
  • Royce Jones – backing vocals, percussion (1973–1974)
  • Michael McDonald – keyboards, bankroll vocals (1974, studio contributions until 1980)
  • Jeff Porcaro – drums (1974, studio contributions until 1980; died 1992)

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

  • Tin can't Purchase a Thrill (1972)
  • Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)
  • Pretzel Logic (1974)
  • Katy Lied (1975)
  • The Royal Scam (1976)
  • Aja (1977)
  • Gaucho (1980)
  • Two Against Nature (2000)
  • Everything Must Go (2003)

See too [edit]

  • List of songwriter tandems

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