Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

Steely Your Face

Obligatory: Deadhead/Danfan Conversion Chart

now that's a nice cover! maybe not quite as funky as the original, but Don brings a lot of energy to the mix

"Bad Sneakers"? xp

Saw them outside of Houston a week or so ago. They were really good, better than the last time I saw them... 5 years ago maybe?

The only let-down was the new second guitarist. They gave him the solos in My Old School and he was not up to snuff.

The main guitarist is super good and I gather he's been the bandleader for a little while. I guess they wanted to give the new guy a spotlight but he did not shine.

the woman in front of me at the steely dan concert is reading the wikipedia page for steely dan pic.twitter.com/ZznmmUPsSb

— vermont postsal service (@ThePostsOffice) June 24, 2022

"They're named after A WHAT!?!?!"

https://t.co/7jgousn9bs pic.twitter.com/jhCTABUCwE

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) June 16, 2022

We’ll adopt your baby. pic.twitter.com/n2oXMrrk3Y

— Andrew Marzoni (@andrewmarzoni) June 27, 2022

If I was a video streaming site, I would give Fagen some money to put together an all-star group including guys that played on the records playing 1-2 nights in a theatre and some well-chosen guests and film it for my site.

For what they are spending on so much crap podcast and standup stuff, they could make a ton of these type of shows. I think they would prove profitable. I think Steely Dan could do a cool video like this. Get John Mulaney to MC.

Yeah, you would think Millennial and Zoomer Dan love could justify something like that. Although I guess those recent live albums function in a similar way.

Related:

Weatherman: “Dress for the 90s today”
me and the crew: pic.twitter.com/mGj4rgIfgk

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) July 3, 2022

nothing to see here, just an obscure funk 45 cover of "do it again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xezXoOd00g

deep heat — "do it again" (1975)

this is cool:

pic.twitter.com/79zWqC6ZFs

— steely dan video (@steelyvideo) July 5, 2022

that's from an old instructional video donald did a while back, the whole thing is on youtube in pieces

here's more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_2r9zbaIY

whoops forgot to include pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UVxZGRwC4

Very cool. Thanks!

‘I was on the high of highs, and suddenly it was over’: at the age of 71, singer-songwriter Linda Hoover is finally releasing her debut album – 50 years after she made it. She explains how Becker and Fagen lent a hand to a must-have record for Steely Dan fans.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/07/linda-hoover-on-her-great-lost-lp-with-steely-dan-i-mean-to-shine

I recall either Becker or Fagen being somewhat dismissive of this record in an interview, saying something like "she had written three songs: one about her boyfriend, one about her mother and one about autumn leaves".

LINDA HOOVER: "Big deal. The Gaucho album is a song about a girlfriend, another song about another guy fucking said girlfriend, and a buncha songs about the Coke Dealer who's fucking both of them."

DON: "Well, yeah."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULtC-_dDu4

STEELY CRUE

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/steely-dans-classic-abc--mca-records-catalog-to-be-remastered-from-original-tapes-and-reissued-on-180-gram-black-vinyl-via-ume-and-uhqr-and-sacd-via-analogue-productionsquality-record-pressings-301625901.html

$30 for that sweet analogue dirty work

thirty bucks would be a steal! those puppies are $150. https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/171031/Steely_Dan-Cant_Buy_A_Thrill-UHQR_Vinyl_Record

Oh

Finally we can be rid of the lovely light and dark patterns that can be seen on the surface of the pressing of Katy Lied!

Stomping $150 copies of Can’t Buy a Thrill on the avenue by Radio City

$30 for that sweet analogue dirty work

Yeah absolutely worth it

wow pic.twitter.com/KsmOqCxPf3

— ｂｏｏｓ (@bosscrood) October 6, 2022

Perhaps the nerdiest SD thread on SD Nerd Twitter: a deep dive on fonts!

I can’t reply to your tweet so I’m starting a thread of Steely Dan fonts.

Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972): The squiggly band type was obviously custom-drawn, but the album title uses Mistral. https://t.co/Gc9NChwy8k pic.twitter.com/sH2u8UM24u

— James Campbell Taylor (@jamestaylor) October 18, 2022

Listening to 'Pretzel Logic' today, I had a thought to wonder if that record was a bit of a cleaning the books of all their good stuff they had starting from when they were staff writing at ABC. The reason I kinda say that was that it was both the end of the live band and all the tunes are really tight for the most part at or under 3 minutes a tune - kinda classic AM radio kinda stuff. Really after that, they started going much more jazz with 'Katy Lied' playing down the guitars and bringing in more horns.

Yes, a lot of those songs are pre-Steely Dan or pre first album.

tired: owning Aja on vinyl
wired: owning Classic Albums: Aja on VHS pic.twitter.com/iNDiZWkxm2

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) January 4, 2023

75!

when it's your special day pic.twitter.com/AOL6u1PGVj

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) January 10, 2023

top 4 Dons:

1. salt & pepper sunglasses at night Don (~2000)
2. late-era melodica and track jacket Don (~2017)
3. business casual Don (~1991)
4. adjunct professor at an undergrad party Don (~1982) pic.twitter.com/ukKqgpJ7Uq

— Jokermen (@JokermenPodcast) January 10, 2023

Back cover of Countdown Don

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kxID00jios/YC1FkS3km_I/AAAAAAAAQAQ/en-YGWBn9GIpRZ40Hnfm040WID34wRxXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Steely%2BDan%2B-%2BCountdown%2Bto%2BEcstasy%2B%25281973%2529%2Bfront%2Bback%2Balbum%2Bcovers.jpg

"My Old School" on American Bandstand Don:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1JxEOqSMouU/maxresdefault.jpg

Listening to Can't Buy A Thrill while I play RISK so I can feel what it's like to be Skunk Baxter

— Jonathan Weier (Contemporary Performing Artist) (@classicweier) January 14, 2023

Search for that Musicians Hall of Fame interview with Skunk Baxter off the ye' olde Youtube. That dude is a bit of a musical Forrest Gump as you get. I really dig the story in there about Segovia.

singing 🎶 they got the spy balloon from china 🎶 in a donald fagen voice

— boss crude (@bosscrood) February 3, 2023

totally

I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) February 6, 2023

would pay to see

the one stunt GG Allin never dared

Donald Fagen's shoes cost more than GG's guarantee.

Donald Fagen's shits cost more...

can't believe people are still complaining about this and this thread and the article it referenced are almost 20 years old at this point

it's all in the game! and so are you...

Akm, we go back

Jack

Do it again

Thread churning round and round

(googles "steely dan lyrics about poop")