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Walter Becker struck a rockin’ chord in Forest Hills
Henry “Carl” Becker was born Dec. 24, 1906. He built up a successful paper-cutting machinery business on Van Dam Street in ...
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'Instead of just sticking to conventional chord shapes, Walter Becker preferred to use different inversions to place guitar in the track in a different way': If you only learn ...
American rock group S teely Dan have trodden a few different genre lines in their career – they almost became their own genre – but one thing that remains constant in their sound is their ...
American Songwriter22d
Behind the Album: ‘Two Against Nature,’ Which Found Steely Dan Returning After Two Decades as if They’d Never Left
It looked for quite some time the legacy of Steely Dan would be confined to the ‘70s, a decade their music helped define. Who could ever have expected that they’d make a grand return, sounding eerily ...
The genre Steely Dan were bored to death of: “The limited chord structure”
Steely Dan are perhaps most closely associated with the genre tag of yacht rock, but that term wasn't exactly the best descriptor of their sound.
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Circus Money
Door Number Two; Downtown Canon; Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore; Upside Looking Down; Paging Audrey; Circus Money; Selfish Gene; Do You Remember the Name; Somebody's Saturday Night; Darkling Down; ...
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New Frontier: The Music of Walter Becker & Donald Fagen
New Frontier; Babylon Sisters; Any Major Dude Will Tell You; Deacon Blues; I.G.Y.; Kid Charlemagne; Glamour Profession; Everyone's Gone to the Movies; Gaucho; Third ...