Steely Dan's Walter Becker dies aged 67

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Terrible news.

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Yeah, just reading this elsewhere, bit young. There's some good tunes in their back-catalogue, I think one of the things I liked about them was the studio technical excellence, a sonic obsession!

Walter Becker did some of the best production work in the business, and I see the album Gaucho as a great triumph over the personal and physical adversities in his life at the time. Even if they did borrow a Keith Jarrett tune for the lead-in to Gaucho, the title track.

 

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Rosie Vela's album Zasu was really great as well. That was the first collaboration between Fagen and Becker after Steely Dan 1.0.

 

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Walter Becker did some of the best production work in the business, and I see the album Gaucho as a great triumph over the personal and physical adversities in his life at the time. Even if they did borrow a Keith Jarrett tune for the lead-in to Gaucho, the title track.

I love Steely Dan, and the production is really, really good, but sometimes I think that the pure slickness gets in the way of expressing emotion.

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Sometimes it does, like with Rikki, but other times I think it lends itself to an expression far beyond words and music, like Everything Must Go.