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Rest in peace, Walter Becker...

CajunCrimson

CajunCrimson

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Are you reelin' in the years
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears
Have you had enough of mine …
 
Bazza

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44 years gone by......hard to believe. Seems like only yesterday to me.

Those first 10 years from Steely Dan were pretty danged special. Revolutionized the scene with their sound. That's what they did....

 
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Bamaro

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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, 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.

Donald Fagen

September 3 2017
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-tribute-to-steely-dans-walter-becker-w500968
 
Relayer

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Was a fan from the beginning. So much great music.

RIP, Walter Becker.
 
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