Walter Becker of Steely Dan, dead at 67.

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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    One of my favorites, I have never tired of them. I have heard good things about their last studio album, the only one that I don't have. Let me see if it's back on Amazon.
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  • tophatjohnny
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Thank you for some of the best music ever written and performed. After all these years it definitely stands the test of time.

    RIP Walter Becker

    Amen and making it a weekly ritual has been a thing for my ears for years. What a great loss. RIP
    "if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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  • voltz
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    Watch Classic Albums: Steely Dan AJA! and get to know little bit about Walter and Donald and how they created what they have. AJA is still my Favorite SD LP and this show explains why I think.

    Stream it or rent it or buy it from amazon...A must have if you ask me!
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  • gce
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    Thanks. I'll check it out.
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  • mhardy6647
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    voltz wrote: »
    Watch Classic Albums: Steely Dan AJA! and get to know little bit about Walter and Donald and how they created what they have. AJA is still my Favorite SD LP and this show explains why I think.

    Stream it or rent it or buy it from amazon...A must have if you ask me!

    ... or watch it in bits & pieces on Youtube :/
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  • Viking64
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    Today I was rummaging through my boxes of CD's and I ran across my copy of "A Decade of Steely Dan", which was immediately moved to my "Must Listen To Soon" pile.

    Any suggestions as to which SD releases have the best mastering?
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
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    Gaucho probably, even though I prefer AJA. Gaucho maybe one of the best recorded albums ever to me. just my opinion ;)

    Personally, I think you should buy them all B) I did and I not complaining :p
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  • Viking64
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    voltz wrote: »
    Gaucho probably, even though I prefer AJA. Gaucho maybe one of the best recorded albums ever to me. just my opinion ;)

    Personally, I think you should buy them all B) I did and I not complaining :p

    I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I was thinking along the lines of compilations or box sets.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
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    LOL that cool!

    Box sets? Steve Ray Vaughn Vinyl box Set from GRP in Salina Kansas, even Stevie's band mates say they never heard it sound so good!

    http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/72286/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan-Texas_Hurricane-Vinyl_Box_Sets

    the 33/12 rpm version is cheaper or the SACD's :)

    there is no Steely dan box set yet! but the SACD japanese import of AJA is stellar!!
    http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/80819/Steely_Dan-Aja-SHM_Single_Layer_SACDs
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  • Viking64
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    HAHAHAHA Okay, so what about Steely Dan compilations? I would guess the one I have isn't that great. And what the frack is an SACD???? :p
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  • voltz
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    I did not like SD's their greatest hits personally :) I get what you after but most compilations are compress sounding and who know where they got the songs from but some are excellent.

    https://smile.amazon.com/Steely-Dan-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000005RVM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506047235&sr=8-1&keywords=steely+dan's+greatest+hits

    think your better grabbing most of your favorite CD's from SD and making a better play list! just my 2 cents
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,033
    edited September 2017
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    for me - and FWIW - by the time they made Gaucho, the Dan had jumped the shark. It's too cool; too sardonically detached.

    For me, Aja was their apotheosis (and, again FWIW, I think their best sounding album). A tad too glossily perfect, though, looking back over the decades.

    but...

    When it's all said & done -- I like their first album the best :)

    https://youtu.be/rVns5KE13gs
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  • voltz
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    Good call as always Doc!

    very True in that "Can't buy a Thrill' is a excellent offering showing a much different Steely Dan!

    Do it Again & Reeling in the Years" are forever stuck in my brain ;)
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  • Viking64
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    I looked at Steely Dan's discography, and the number of songs on each album that I know (in chronopretzelogical order) is as follows: "Can't Buy a Thrill" = 3, "Countdown to Ecstacy" = 1, "Pretzel Logic" = 1, "Katy Lied" = 1, "The Royal Scam" = 3, "Aja" = 2, "Gaucho" = 1. I guess I don't know Steely Dan as well as many of you do. Hey, at least as far as 70's Scorpions vinyl, I've got everybody beat. :p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,033
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    not that anyone asked -- but my favorite single Steely Dan song is this one:

    https://youtu.be/8fkP8P21OjI
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  • Dennis Gardner
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    The best part of My Old School was the sax section.....and Jeff Baxter's solos. Too bad they lip synced that video and left the saxes in the studio.
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  • mhardy6647
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    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    The best part of My Old School was the sax section.....and Jeff Baxter's solos. Too bad they lip synced that video and left the saxes in the studio.

    Yes, I concur -- great solos. The upbeat construction of the tune vs. the bitter yet snide lyrics is what makes the song, for me.

    It appeared that this particular video was a mash-up of the original video (which was surely lip-synched, too) with a good quality (relatively speaking) audio track of the song; i.e., a meta-lip-synch! :) I decided to link that video because I thought it was cool to see the band (they were an actual band, of sorts, back then) in their shaggy glory :)
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  • FestYboy
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    not that anyone asked -- but my favorite single Steely Dan song is this one:

    https://youtu.be/8fkP8P21OjI

    Is it my imagination or is Walter rocking the Thunderbird bass? I always thought he played guitar...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,033
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    FestYboy wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    not that anyone asked -- but my favorite single Steely Dan song is this one:

    https://youtu.be/8fkP8P21OjI

    Is it my imagination or is Walter rocking the Thunderbird bass? I always thought he played guitar...

    He was listed as bass player at least in the early days.
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  • FestYboy
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    Learn something new every day... Thanks Doc!
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  • SCompRacer
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    I love their entire catalog. Had someone here not familiar with Steely Dan, they heard Gaucho on vinyl and bought the entire catalog only to discover they didn't like the earlier stuff.
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  • mhardy6647
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    I don't think I ever bought a copy of Gaucho. I do have a copy on licorice pizza; I think I found it on the swap pile at the town dump in Harvard back in the days when we lived there :)
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  • SCompRacer
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    And here I bought a 200 gram USM Japan Gaucho for what, $40 at the time? And I love low efficiency speakers too. No regrets. :)
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  • mhardy6647
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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    And here I bought a 200 gram USM Japan Gaucho for what, $40 at the time? And I love low efficiency speakers too. No regrets. :)

    I am not here to judge.

    ;)

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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »

    I am not here to judge.

    ;)

    You gaucho own opinion. He has his. :p
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  • SCompRacer
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    Viking64 wrote: »

    You gaucho own opinion. He has his. :p

    LOL Nice!
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  • mhardy6647
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »

    I am not here to judge.

    ;)

    You gaucho own opinion. He has his. :p

    Well played, sir. Well played.

    :)
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  • lunazul
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    HAHAHAHA Okay, so what about Steely Dan compilations? I would guess the one I have isn't that great. And what the frack is an SACD???? :p

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  • mhardy6647
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    HAHAHAHA Okay, so what about Steely Dan compilations? I would guess the one I have isn't that great. And what the frack is an SACD???? :p
    4savi2b35q1a.png

    Whew! At least he didn't ask about DVD-A!

    ;)
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  • pitdogg2
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    And what the frack is an SACD???? :p
    Seriously?
    Super audio compact disc...
    Put the game controller down and come up for knowledge once in a while.

    Need a special player to play sacd. So if you do not have an sacd player do not but sacd.

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