Countdown to Ecstasy(1973) is very different. Although the songs were largely written while the Dan undertook their first touring they don’t suffer as a result. In fact, some feel this album might be – gasp – the greatest record ever made. It is an immaculate piece of work. ‘Bodhisa...
This was the first full album where Steely Dan was no longer an actual band and consisted entirely of Fagen-Becker, and an assortment of guest artists and session players, and the result was a noticeably softer, more laidback sound and jazzier pop arrangements and style. But a wonderful colle...
But the song did surface on a tape documenting an FM radio broadcast of a Memphis, Tennessee concert in April 1974. “Bodhisattva” (live-in-the-studio recording) It would be easy to assume that the staggeringly intricate and complex arrangements of Steely Dan’s music were the product of...
Without a doubt.Jeff Porcaro was the best drummer that ever played with Steely Dan. I can attest to that. I love the song FM. It has that jazzy groove and feel. May his legacy live on forever and ever. Still the best.And deeply grieved by all that knew loved and worked with him....
Remember whenSteely Danrecorded the title song forFMback in 1978, adding a Johnny Mandel string chart that made the band’s snarky jazz-pop take on the patina of elegant movie music? Their back catalog got the 85-minute equivalent of that treatment Saturday in a one-off symphonic gig with...
As per @Nothing Is Real Jason below, there is another live album from the same tour. That seems to be a best-of of the tour, on which they also played several Steely Dan albums in full: The Royal Scam–https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/steely-dan/2019/orpheum-theatre-boston-ma-239...
To everyone’s surprise, Steely Dan’s debut album spawned the hits “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ in the Years.” By the time Fagen and Becker finished their second album, Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), they had sacked vocalist David Palmer, leaving Fagen as sole lead singer. Gradually ...
“Black Friday” from the group’s 1975 albumKaty Lied. Although he would eventually join the Doobie Brothers, he maintained a close professional relationship with the members of Steely Dan and added backing vocals to tracks on the group’sThe Royal Scam(1976),Aja(1977), andGaucho(1980) and...