“A $600 reward”: The case of the missing Steely Dan master tapes for ‘Aja’
“This is not a joke.”
Walter Becker
“Humiliated”: the only early singles Steely Dan actually liked
Still finding their feet as musicians.
The disastrous collaboration between Steely Dan and Mark Knopfler: “A strange experience”
Loveable misanthropes.
Steely Dan’s Walter Becker on his favourite musicians: “Bob Dylan was such a great singer”
“I got a lot of inflections and stuff from various blues singers.”
The two Steely Dan songs that the band have grown tired of
“I think it’s ‘well-written,’ but it’s so simple”.
Addiction, car crashes and studio disputes: the disastrous triumph of Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’
Turning in a performance through pain.
