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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
April 29, 2012 by Simon Sweetman