ITGITC Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/steely-dan-aja/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=p4k&utm_social-type=owned “We overdubbed a lot of the overdubs over,” - Walter “You can get studio musicians to sound exactly like a rock and roll band,” Fagen said. It’s obvious what he meant. They’d pulled one over on us, again. ITGITC? 1 1 Quote "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe P Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Nice, I played Josie and Pretzel Logic on a gig Saturday, great tunes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Pretzel logic is fun to play live! (nice Wurli feature at the beginning - we should all celebrate such focus!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe P Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Indeed the overdriven Wurli... I also layered some horns under the guitar solo and during the outro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonizer Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 I absolutely love this album. The guy who lived in the room next door to mine in my college dorm came to hate it by the end of my freshman year. I made transcriptions of the horn parts for Deacon Blues and Home At Last during 2014 when my son played in a "School of Rock" that played all Steely Dan songs. For Deacon Blues I transcribed it for 5 horns because that is how many horn players were available in that School of Rock group of musicians, and the 5 horn parts was a reduction. It amazed me how many layers were in the Steely Dan recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyRude Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Quote Some music I've recorded and played over the years with a few different bands Tommy Rude Soundcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 That vid above is great. I actually referred to it a bit when my band decided to learn Peg, specifically the part where they solo up the background vocals Needless to say our version live is a tad simplified in that dept. It's been a hard tune for me...not a single one of the chords is "hard to play" in a vacuum, but not a single one of them is a "regular old rock chord" either, so it really forces my brain to concentrate super hard every second or I lose what I'm doing. Normally on songs I'm free and loose with inversions and parts but I can't do that with this song, because I just have never explored these types of chords that much. A few of them, sure, but there are so many jazzy partial chords that I'm way, way out of my comfort zone. And it's great! I realize this probably sound silly to all you jazz players but I've just never done it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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