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December 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Steely Dan: NORTHEAST CORRIDOR: Steely Dan Live!

Steely Dan NORTHEAST CORRIDOR: Steely Dan Live! UMe It should come as no shock – really – that the band that, well, fired its entire band and then showed no loyalty to the session greats of the world, picking and choosing them on a track-by-track basis, simply carried on touring after co-leader Walter Becker died […]
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December 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Steely Dan: La La Land – The 1974 Los Angeles Broadcast

Steely Dan La La Land – The 1974 Los Angeles Broadcast Shockwaves Steely Dan, in 1974. This is a legendary radio broadcast of a live show from near the end of the life of the original band, Steely Dan. After that touring was off the table and the band’s line-up changed from song to song […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1974, 2019, Album Review, Bootleg, David Palmer, Denny Dias, Donald Fagen, Jeff Baxter, Jeff Porcaro, Jim Hodder, La La Land, La La Land – The 1974 Los Angeles Broadcast, Live, Michael McDonald, Radio Broadcast, Steely Dan, Steely Dan: La La Land – The 1974 Los Angeles Broadcast, The 1974 Los Angeles Broadcast, Walter Becker, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ed Motta: Criterion of the Senses

Ed Motta Criterion of the Senses MustHave/Membran Though this is a slightly more subdued effort than his mighty Perpetual Gateways (an easy contender for my record of the year in 2016) the consistency is still there, the quality so high on Ed Motta’s latest.  
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brazil, Criterion of the Senses, Donald Fagen, Donny Hathaway, Ed Motta, Ed Motta: Criterion of the Senses, George Benson, Perpetual Gateways, Steely Dan, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Todd Rundgren: White Knight

Todd Rundgren White Knight Cleopatra Todd Rundgren knows a thing or two about making mixed-bag albums – but he also knows that if you keep experimenting and collaborating you find magic. And there’s plenty of good stuff here on White Knight, an album of profound and perplexing collaborations that very much vacillates from the sublime […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Atticus Ross, Bettye LaVette, Bobby Strickland, Collaborations, Dam-Funk, Daryl Hall, Donald Fagen, Duets, Joe Satriani, Kkwatson, LIars, Michael Holman, Robyn, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren: White Knight, Trent Reznor, White Knight, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 15: Steely Dan, Wellington 2011

What struck me about seeing Steely Dan live – something I guess I knew already but it felt remarkable to actually see and hear it taking place, being shaped – was the bubble that this band’s music exists in; the bubble that Fagen and Becker’s music occupies, floats around in – impervious. There have been […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged $15, 2011, Best Gig, Best Gig Ever, Donald Fagen, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 15, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 15 Steely Dan, It Was The Best Gig EverIt Was The Best Gig Ever, Walter Becker, Wellington, Wellington 2011, Wgtn ·

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September 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 178 Steely Dan

I woke up in the middle of the night and turned on the computer. The first thing I saw on social media was the news that Walter Becker had died. That first album of Steely Dan was really something for me. I was a long-haired high school student living in an inland town and it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aja, Countdown to Ecstasy, Death, Donald Fagen, Eulogy, Gaucho, Gig, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Live Music, Memory, Music, R.I.P., Spines, Steely Dan, Steve Winwood, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 178, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 178 Steely Dan, The Royal Scam, Walter Becker, War Stories, War Stories # 178, Whangamata ·

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September 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P Walter Becker

Walter Becker of Steely Dan has died. He was 67. Maybe all that matters, in terms of marking his passing, is this tribute by his band-mate and songwriting colleague of nearly 50 years. Donald Fagen’s words surely matter the most. If not for anything else it speaks to the bubble these two created for themselves […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Donald Fagen, Eulogy, R.I.P Walter Becker, R.I.P., Steely Dan, Walter Becker ·

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November 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Steely Dan’s Aja: Their Classic

Aja is the one for me – and I was reminded of that just recently, not (just) by listening to it, but by re-reading a very short book about the record, Steely Dan’s sixth. I’m a big fan of Steely Dan’s music – I own all of the albums, I really liked bits of 2003’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1977, Aja, Black Cow, Classic Album, Deacon Blues, Donald Fagen, Everything Must Go, Gaucho, Home At Last, I Got The News, Josie, Michael McDonald, Peg, Steely Dan, Steely Dan's Aja, Steely Dan's Aja: Their Classic, Their Classic, Two Against Nature, Walter Becker ·

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May 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 693

Becker-Fagen-Diaz, You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You’ll Lose That Beat) (1971) I haven’t yet seen the film – but I will, one day – not just because I tend to watch films if I like (or even just own) the soundtrack but also because the film features Richard Pryor and was […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1971, Denny Dias, Denny Diaz, Donald Fagen, Film, If It Rains, Movie, Movie Soundtrack, Richard Pryor, Robert Downey Sr., Score, Soundtrack, Steely Dan, The Vinyl Countdown # 693, Walter Becker, Wes Craven, You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lost That Beat) ·

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April 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Late Night Soul, Jazz and Pop: DJ Set

Tonight, Friday, April 10, I’m going to be playing some soothing late-night, post-gig jazz, soul and pop down at the San Fran. I’ll be on the decks from around 10.30. The main gig that night is Nathan Haines (with DJ Riki Gooch opening the show). Currently I’m listening to Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly so that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged DJ, DJ Set, DJ Simon Sweetman, Donald Fagen, Jazz, Jazz and Pop: DJ Set, Late Night Soul, LP, Nathan Haines, Pop, Records, Riki Gooch, San Fran, Simon Sweetman, Soul, The Nightfly, Vinyl ·

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December 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 981

Steely Dan, Gaucho (1980) I have the single of Hey Nineteen and that’s a favourite – and I had Gaucho on CD (along with everything else by Steely Dan) but now, finally, I have the LP. That lovely, loping groove of Babylon Sisters (go Bernard Purdie!) and some fantastic stuff here; indicative of where Donald […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Babylon Sisters, Bernard Purdie, Donald Fagen, Gaucho, Glamour Profession, Hey Nineteen, LP, Steely Dan, Vinyl ·

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October 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Donald Fagen: Eminent Hipsters

Eminent Hipsters Donald Fagen Viking Adult You could never expect a man who made his name by placing the incongruous inside happy-sounding so-slick pop-jazz ditties to write a conventional memoir; Steely Dan is as much a magic act as it is a musical act – and not just for the fact that you’re either under […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book Review, Donald Fagen, Dukes of September, Eminent Hipsters, Essay, Memoir, Steely Dan ·
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