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03 Sep 17
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He'd ballooned in size over the last few years, don't know if that was due to an illness, only 67.
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aye, rip Walter.
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RIP, your music will live on
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RIP - Top 5 Unheralded Steely Dan Tracks
1/ 'Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)' from 'Can't Buy A Thrill' http://open.spotify.com/track/5Y17vKO1JtfnxIlM4vNQT6 2/ 'Kid Charlemagne' from 'The Royal Scam' http://open.spotify.com/track/1Ah2XT5vP7kZxS0iXuitik 3/ 'FM' from 'FM' Film Soundtrack http://open.spotify.com/track/3pOxaKtjlZflHx6HAhniZK 4/ 'Any Major Dude Will Tell You' from 'Pretzel Logic' http://open.spotify.com/track/7bTzJfz5RQajc7497JzWQZ 5/ 'Hey Nineteen' from 'Gaucho' http://open.spotify.com/track/12Ht0EOxXboCpbW58Wxxdf A smashing list, as I'm sure Walter would agree. |
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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 |
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spooky just being playing their greatest hits and drooling at how effortlessly cool they were
i came to them the wrong way round i was a huge prefab sprout fan and Swoon had so many people saying it was influenced by them he was a part of a band who's influence will last a long long time...Grizzly Bear the latest i heard recently rip |
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not forgetting his production of china crisis album 'flaunt the imperfection ' .
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all around my hat a shocking omission
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