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In a recent Not a Blog post, Martin announced that auditions for the series are nearly complete, with key roles such as Tanselle, Steely Pate, Baelor Breakspear, the Laughing Storm, and others ...
Steely Dan's songs of monied decadence, druggy disconnection and self-destructive escapism seemed satirically extreme way back when. Now they just seem prophetic.
Last year, Steely Dan embarked on their Earth After Hours tour across North America. The band is supporting The Eagles for at least the first 13 dates on their final tour, The Long Goodbye, this year.
Former Steely Dan guitarist Denny Dias has looked back on the making of his iconic Do It Again electric sitar solo – and revealed it was recorded using a “piece of crap” rental guitar.. Dias ...
The new book, Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and other Sole Survivors From the Songs of Steely Dan, is the delightful result of an author not only understanding their subject, but ...
Photo via Steely Dan’s Official Facebook. Steely Dan will reissue their 1973 LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, on vinyl next month.The group’s co-founder Donald Fagen has overseen the newly remastered ...
Steely Dan fans love to debate every last detail in the band’s music, every song, every drum break or sax solo, from the caves of Altamira to the oleanders of Annandale.
In 1979, a studio technician accidentally erased a new Steely Dan song called “The Second Arrangement.” Attempts to rescue the recording were futile, and everyone assumed the tune was lost to ...
Jim Beard, the longtime keyboardist for Steely Dan, has died.. Beard passed away March 2 at age 63 following complications due to a sudden illness. He was surrounded by loved ones at the time of ...
Steely Dan fans are in for a treat, as the band’s classic 1977 album, Aja, is getting a vinyl reissue and has been “remastered from analog,” according to a new press release.. This version ...
Fagen and Becker. During Steely Dan‘s 1979 sessions for Gaucho, what would be the final album of their original run, a song titled “The Second Arrangement” was accidentally erased from the ...