Steely Dan's knotty relationship with sampling and hip-hop is explored in an exclusive excerpt from the fantastic new book on the group called 'Quantum Criminals'
Before copyright law caught up with digital-sampling technology and the uses hip-hop found for it, the whole history of recorded sound was a playground and a candy store for any young rap producer with an open ear and access to cheap used vinyl. In 1989, on De La Soul’s
“You Showed Me” was the Turtles’ last top-10 hit. They broke up in 1970. Billed as Flo and Eddie, the group’s founders, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, then passed through Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention circa–era Steely Dan demos, including a very early version of “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies.” In Kaylan’s memoir he says that when Steely Dan first got together, Donald offered him the job of lead singer, a position Kaylan turned down out of loyalty to Volman.
The case was settled out of court, but two years later rapper Biz Markie was found guilty of criminal copyright infringement over an uncleared sample of the Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, Naturally.” The case set a precedent, requiring artists to “clear” any reuse of copyrighted music with the owners of the relevant copyrights before releasing it.
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