Weird, intelligent, polished, poetic, and hilarious—it’s a worthy companion to the Dan’s jazz-rock canon of bizarro characters.
Eschewing the road for the studio fairly early in their career, Fagen and Becker produced smooth pop hooks, blisteringly hot rock guitar solos, and bebop-inflicted blue eyed soul. And for notoriously obsessive perfectionists, they weren’t shy about infusing humor into their music .
Fagen and Becker took all the royalties and songwriting credit for a young rap group’s only hit song—after the track was released without clearing the sample use of the Steely Dan song, “Black Cow.” In thechapter covering this episode, Fagen and Becker come across as petty and cruel to the hapless one-hit wonder rappers, Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz.
Babs and Clean Willie, the subjects of “Haitian Divorce,” get their moment. As does the doomed bookkeeper’s son and his case of dynamite in “Don’t Take Me Alive.” Even occasional collaborators like Michael McDonald get to have their say, as do the Dan’s fellow ’70s smooth rocker frenemies, the Eagles.
Owsley “Bear” Stanley was a rich kid from a prominent family who, through both chemistry and superior salesmanship, was one of the Johnny Appleseeds of LSD in the ’60s. His name appears in Tom Wolfe’sThe Grateful Dead
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