randyhersom Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/walter-becker-steely-dan-co-founder-dead-at-67-w50095 Always a favorite band of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 RIP I saw them once after they started touring again after a long layoff. Amazing show. Fagen says the show (current tour) will go on, but obviously it will never be the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Yeah, we saw them on opening night of their 1994 tour. Cleanest sounding, and most wonderfully played concert I've ever been too. And that's not hyperbole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Wow! That's stunning news. I have not kept up with the band for many years, so I had not even heard that he was ill. May he rest in peace. The music of Steely Dan was a constant presence in my youth and Aja will always be a desert island disc for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Sad news, may he RIP. Always been a fan, will spin a Dan CD or two this afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Another one gone too early. RIP Walter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 1960 Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 I am really bummed to hear this. I love this band. Music that was always well done. In lieu of jazz profiles on wkcr in New York they are instead playing a tribute to Walter Becker till 7 p.m. tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 He always was the sickly one of the two, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disaac Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 SD was one of the main gateways for me into jazz. Its influence so obviously permeated both their music and I remember reading interviews with them where they enumerated their jazz influences which, of course, had me not only listening to Parker and Ellington but also to Braxton and Dolphy. An unbelievably sad day for music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 1960 Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Features Phil Woods on alto sax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Shearn Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 RIP. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 bad ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 i too am very sad. the donald fagen conert a week from tmw will, due to the timing, most definitely be a memorial // tribute--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) RIP. I enjoyed very much Steely Dan's albums up through Aja. But it was never clear to me what Becker's contributions were. That is to say, I always felt like the albums were Fagen's. Edited September 5, 2017 by GA Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Definitely one of the more interesting and unique bands to come along in the last 50 years. I got to see them 3 times: in 1974 and then two times in 2009 performing The Royal Scam (once with Larry Carlton sitting in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Good group, though I never collected much. I did have the first album on vinyl, and I taped Aja off the radio. I've also heard Two Against Nature, their comeback album. You have to like a group with that much interest in jazz and who hired the likes of Wayne Shorter and Chris Potter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 http://www.uptownmagazine.com/2013/11/copyright-law-downfall-peter-gunz/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Milestones Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 I have to say Aja sounds as jazzy as anything that is classified as Rock music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Not that it makes any difference, but did his cause of death been made public? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 13 hours ago, Milestones said: I have to say Aja sounds as jazzy as anything that is classified as Rock music. I agree. Deacon Blues' opening chord progression of major 7's with added 9th's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 no, but they told us enough, w/ those "eels" lyrics, it was cancer. RIP Walter Becker!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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