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Recovering Steely Dan’s second arrangement

by omar_alt on 6/25/23, 8:05 PM with 8 comments

• by omar_alt on 6/25/23, 8:09 PM

  Rather delighted to a hear high quality copy of would be hit 80s song that a tape engineer erased by accident

• by duskwuff on 6/25/23, 9:40 PM

  It's funny how things happen sometimes. There was some ongoing work on restoring some of the surviving tapes of this song [1] which was already yielding some very listenable results; it'll be interesting to see how the release of these tapes changes things.

  [1]: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2nO5fSdOWs

• by sowbug on 6/26/23, 3:30 PM

  I've always loved Steely Dan's music, but I'm not enough of a musicologist to understand Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's legendary pickiness in the studio. Were they just idiosyncratic? Or did they have objectively higher standards?

  I know my question is a little vague, but it's coming from a place of admiration.

• by gtani on 6/26/23, 8:58 PM

  reminds me of Rosie Velez song with Fagen/Becker/Katz and possibly others

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I

• by dabluecaboose on 6/25/23, 11:18 PM

  Listening to this song right now. What a banger! I love finding lost or cut things like this. I've been really vibing on the Daft Punk samples from RAM lately, as well.