Wow - yesterday I had an irresistible urge to hear Ricky Don't Lose That Number, so I played it. RIP Walter. Only a year older than me, and shared a birthday with my wife.
“Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.
“We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.
“Walter had a very rough childhood — I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.
“His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby Titus, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
“I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.”
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more
He don't travel on down to the neighborhood
Liquor store
Lucy still loves her coke and rum
But she sits alone
Cause her daddy can't come
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more
Driving like a fool out to Hackensack
Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
He says I gotta see a joker
And I'll be right back
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
He can't get tight every night
Pass out on the barroom floor
Daddy can't get no fine cigar
But we know you're smoking
Wherever you are
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
Aw. maaaan. I dig his guitar work. Steely Dan is a big part of my musical mind. you always know a Dan tune.Caught them last year and it was great. RIP Mr. Becker.
this is the first time a musician who is really special to me died.
my dad was playing steely dan for me since before i was old enough to go to school. i "rediscovered" the dan several times over the course of my teenage years, and was obsessed with them, brian wilson, and the dead in my early 20's.
i am officially bummed out this morning. really happy to got to see them live, at least.
Sounds like Fagan will continue on with Steely Dan as a band.
Super bummed to start my morning with this news. Only got to see them one time. Thank you, Poz!
Donald Fagan is playing at the Masonic in SF next Saturday. It was on my calendar but I wasn't really planning on going, but now for obvious reasons I'm in a bit of a Steely Dan mode.
I just might find myself on the top of Nob Hill on the 16th.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3yRKoS95o
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RIP
RIP
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RIP Walter
RIP Walter
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Very sad news. 67 is too
Very sad news. 67 is too young. Gonna miss you, Walter. End of an era.
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Rest in Peace
Rest in Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdzVCMOxYA
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Wow - yesterday I had an
Wow - yesterday I had an irresistible urge to hear Ricky Don't Lose That Number, so I played it. RIP Walter. Only a year older than me, and shared a birthday with my wife.
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ahhhh shit
ahhhh shit
could spell the end to the Dan
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Terrible news.
Terrible news.
Just caught the Dan at Classic East without Walter.
I wonder if Donald will continue with Steely Dan now?
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Donald touring solo right now
Donald touring solo right now with his band The Nightflyers. They have a gig in Texas tonight. Wonder if Donald will be heading to Hawaii instead.
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Major bummer. One of my all
Major bummer. One of my all-time favorite bands. A band most of my friends could agree on when we were teens. Sad news to wake up to this morning.
RIP Walter Becker
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Cause of death not annouced?
Cause of death not announced?
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/walter-becker-dead-dies-steely-dan-12...
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Fagen has released this
Fagen has released this statement:
“Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.
“We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.
“Walter had a very rough childhood — I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.
“His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby Titus, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
“I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.”
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WoW and Bummer RIP Walter....
WoW and Bummer RIP Walter.......
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-found...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=RExbOZasap8
2015, complete show
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Soooooo bummed! RIP Walter
Soooooo bummed!
RIP Walter
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RIP Walter
RIP Walter
Loved his lyrics:
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more
He don't travel on down to the neighborhood
Liquor store
Lucy still loves her coke and rum
But she sits alone
Cause her daddy can't come
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more
Driving like a fool out to Hackensack
Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
He says I gotta see a joker
And I'll be right back
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
He can't get tight every night
Pass out on the barroom floor
Daddy can't get no fine cigar
But we know you're smoking
Wherever you are
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
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Aw. maaaan. I dig his guitar
Aw. maaaan. I dig his guitar work. Steely Dan is a big part of my musical mind. you always know a Dan tune.Caught them last year and it was great. RIP Mr. Becker.
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this is the first time a
this is the first time a musician who is really special to me died.
my dad was playing steely dan for me since before i was old enough to go to school. i "rediscovered" the dan several times over the course of my teenage years, and was obsessed with them, brian wilson, and the dead in my early 20's.
i am officially bummed out this morning. really happy to got to see them live, at least.
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Sounds like Fagan will
Sounds like Fagan will continue on with Steely Dan as a band.
Super bummed to start my morning with this news. Only got to see them one time. Thank you, Poz!
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My Brother is Devastated He
My Brother is Devastated He LOVES Steely Dan !!! RIP WB....
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http://www.rollingstone.com
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-rickie-lee-jones-poignant-tr...
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Shots of Cuervo Gold and some
Shots of Cuervo Gold and some fine Colombian (Bud not snow) are appropriate for tonight
Thank You Walter....!
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Just Realized My wife and I
Just Realized My wife and I were at the Final Steely Dan show...Greenwich town Party (Lucky to score a pair of tix on CL)
Fuck well here is that show, Id call it a manditory watch...please enjoy Walter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAItw7dIa8
^^^FINAL STEELY DAN SHOW^^^
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RIP, Sir Genius.
RIP, Sir Genius.
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{{{{ THANKS FOR ALL THE TUNES
{{{{ THANKS FOR ALL OF THE TUNES WALTER & GODSPEED }}}}
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No I'm never gonna do it
No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on.....
Rest In Peace Mr. Becker and thanks for all the groovy tunes.
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I'm a bookkeeper's son. I don
I'm a bookkeeper's son. I don't want to shoot no one. Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive.
Got a case of dynamite. I could hold out here all night. Yes, I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive.
RIP Walter
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>>I'm a bookkeeper's son. I
>>I'm a bookkeeper's son. I don't want to shoot no one. Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive.
Got a case of dynamite. I could hold out here all night. Yes, I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don't take me alive.
The first three songs on The Royal Scam are fantastic, I always loved The Caves of Altamira too and of course Kid Charlemagne is a classic.
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royal scam is one of the
royal scam is one of the grate albums in rock n roll history.
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i feel the monkey in your
i feel the monkey in your soul....
RIP WALTER
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A tune from WB's solo album
A tune from WB's solo album performed by Steely Dan .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtjLRKy3PcY Book of Liars
With another - his own(?) band ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnYkxkRFT-0 Hard Up Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff_hYMnttVE Down in the Bottom
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Grab a Copy ~~~ Showbiz Kids
Grab a Copy ~~~ Showbiz Kids
https://www.amazon.com/Showbiz-Kids-Steely-Dan-Story/dp/B0000C8YKW/ref=s...
Astounding Excellent tracks A++++ SD
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAItw7dIa8
^^^FINAL STEELY DAN SHOW^^^
Thanks Sigmund! Just watched this. Nice Gregg dedication on Pretzel Logic.
Those days are gone forever....
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^Nice! Thanks, LvA. That
^Nice! Thanks, LvA. That will do for a chunk of my shift tonight.
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Mandatory for every Steely
Mandatory for every Steely Fan fo sho
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Donald Fagan is playing at
Donald Fagan is playing at the Masonic in SF next Saturday. It was on my calendar but I wasn't really planning on going, but now for obvious reasons I'm in a bit of a Steely Dan mode.
I just might find myself on the top of Nob Hill on the 16th.