By Chuck Klosterman Akron Beacon Journal There is a logic to humor. Of course, how that logic is applied makes all the difference in the world. First, there is the logic of being silly, which is essentially the art of being obvious (if a clown gets hit in the head with an anvil, a 5-year-old child […]
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Steely Dan Plays New Songs, Old Sound
By Dave Tianen Milwaukee Journal Back in 1979, a year of evil developments that included Three Mile Island and Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya’ Think I’m Sexy?”, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (a.k.a. Steely Dan) released an album called Gaucho. And then they took a break. “Back in the ’80s, we decided to go our separate […]
Steely Dan Goin’ For It
By G. Brown Denver Post DENVER –In the ’70s, Steely Dan’s sleek, studio-perfect sound defied all conventions. Pop hooks mixed with jazz harmonies and chording. Complex time changes. A flair for wryly observant yet cryptic lyrics. It made Steely Dan one of the most influential bands in the development of rock music. Now, Donald Fagen […]
Steely Dan: Still Reeling
By Chris Macias Sacramento Bee This is not typical Steely Dan mode. The group — founded in 1972 by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — rarely tours and hadn’t released an album since 1980’s “Gaucho.” But Steely Dan has emerged from pop music’s shadows this year with a new album (Two Against Nature) and a […]
Steely Dan Makes a Few Concessions
By Mike Weatherford Las Vegas Review Journal There are some things Steely Dan’s members will do to conform to the modern demands of music marketing. And some things they won’t. “We stopped short of Jay Leno, actually. I didn’t want to spend that sad a night in the aftermath of it, really depressed,” says singer-keyboardist […]
Q&A with Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen
By Aidin Vaziri Special to the San Francisco Chronicle Many reasons have been given for Donald Fagen, 52, and Walter Becker, 50, getting back together as Steely Dan nearly 20 years after releasing their last studio album, 1980’s “Gaucho.” But no one has hit on the obvious — where else are these guys going to […]
Fan Questions
Last year I came up with the idea for an interview conducted over the Internet where fans could submit questions to the band. So Jim McKay and I set the wheels in motion and the band graciously accepted. Below are the results in no particular order. Quite frankly when we started working on this concept […]
Return of the Dark Brothers
Nearly two decades after fading away, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan are picking up exactly where they left off By Alec Wilkinson Rolling Stone Barely eighteen years go by, and Steely Dan follows up Gaucho with Two Against Nature,which Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the band’s original and only and permanent members, […]
Becker, Fagen Return as Steely Dan
By Roger D. Friedman New York Observer When Steely Dan was last a major part of the pop music marketplace, it was the summer of 1980, and their final hit — “Hey, Nineteen,” about an older guy dating a young girl who shares none of his cultural references, like Aretha Franklin — was wedged into […]
BBC Online Chat
BBC Host Welcome to the Steely Dan Live Chat, with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen joining us live from the US. We’ll be chatting tonight about the chequered history of one of the most important and intelligent bands the US has produced. You can ask your own question by typing in the box at the bottom […]
