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Steely Dan Is An American Jazz Rock Band Which Formed In 1972. The Band Was Formed By Donald Fagen Vocals Keyboards And Walter Becker Guitar Bass Who Met In 1967 While Both Attended Bard College In Annandale-On-Hudson New York And Began A Songwriting Partnership Shortly Thereafter. Their Music Is Characterized By Dark Witty Lyrical Narratives Obscure Lyrical Allusions And Complex Jazz-Influenced Instrumentation And Chord Sequences Overlying More Ordinary Popular Song Structures. Their Fastidious Standards In The Studio And Use Of World-Class Sessions Players Has Also Been A Hallmark Of Their Work. For This Special Credit Should Be Given To Their Long-Time Producer Gary Katz And Engineer Roger Nichols. The Band Was Originally A Six-Piece Consisting Of Fagen Becker David Palmer Vocals Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Guitar Denny Dias Guitar And Jim Hodder Drums But By 1975 Only Fagen And Becker Remained. The Band's History Can Be Divided Into Three Stages. In Its Original Conception The Group Was A Relatively Conventional Rock Band That Toured From 1972 To 1974 Releasing The Singles-Chart Successes 'Do It Again' 'Reelin' In The Years' 'My Old School' And 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'. The Group's Name Was Derived From A Series Of Dildos In The 1959 Novel 'Naked Lunch' By The Avant-Garde Writer William S. Burroughs The Phrase First Used In The Lyrics Of An Early Pre-Steely Dan Fagen/Becker Song Soul Ram. In Its Second Stage 1975 - 1980 The Group Now Consisting Solely Of Fagen And Becker Became A Purely Studio-Based Act Their Album Releases Showing A Growing Obsession With Polished Production Values And Whose Output Became Increasingly Jazz-Orientated Culminating In The Highly Successful 'Aja' 1977 And 'Gaucho' 1980 . The Two Split In 1981 Following A Tumultuous Recording Process For The Latter Album And Personal Problems For Both Members. In The Eighties Fagen Released His Seminal Debut Album 'The Nightfly' And Took Time Away From The Music Industry Whilst Becker After Recovering From Drug Dependence Was In Frequent Work As A Producer. The Third Stage Came When Fagen And Becker Reunited In 1993 Followed By A World Tour Their First Touring Dates In 20 Years . In 2000 The Grammy-Award-Winning 'Two Against Nature' Was Released To Critical And Surprising Commercial Success. Its Successor Followed Swiftly 'Everything Must Go' Being Released In 2003. The Two Albums Show A More Relaxed Attitude To Production Less Morbid Lyrical Themes And An Upbeat Jazz Pop Sound But With The Characteristic Wit And Musical Complexity Of Their 20th Century Work Remaining. Walter Becker Passed Away On September 3 2017. This Was Followed By Legal Action Between Becker's Estate And Fagen Over Ownership Of Material. Fagen With Additional Bandmates Continues To Tour As Steely Dan. --
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"Deacon Blues" Is A Song By Steely Dan From Their 1977 Album Aja. "Deacon Blues" Was Steely Dan's Fifth Top 20 Hit On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart In The US Where It Peaked At #19 In 1978. The Song Remained In The Top 40 For Eight Weeks. It Was Originally Speculated That The Song Was Written About The Losing Wake Forest University Demon Deacons And The NCAA Division I Championship Crimson Tide Football Teams Which Was Confirmed In A Rolling Stone Interview When Group Member Donald Fagen Said "Walter And I Had Been Working On That Song At A House In Malibu. I Played Him That Line And He Said "You Mean It's Like 'They Call These Cracker Assholes This Grandiose Name Like The Crimson Tide And I'm This Loser So They Call Me This Other Grandiose Name Deacon Blues?' " And I Said "Yeah!" He Said "Cool! Let's Finish It!" In A 1994 AOL Chat Interview With Becker Someone Asked Him About The Inspiration For "Deacon Blues". He Answered "It Was An Outgrowth Of A Specific Mood That Pertained At A Given Time " And Later Added "...I Remember The Night That We Mixed That One Thinking That It Was Really Good And Wanting To Hear It Over And Over Which Is Never The Case." 2 In A 2000 Documentary Becker Said "The Protagonist Is Not A Musician He Just Imagines That That Would Be One Of The Mythic Forms Of Loserdom To Which He Might Aspire. Who's To Say That He's Not Right?"
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Steely Dan Is An American Jazz Rock Band Which Formed In 1972. The Band Was Formed By Donald Fagen Vocals Keyboards And Walter Becker Guitar Bass Who Met In 1967 While Both Attended Bard College In Annandale-On-Hudson New York And Began A Songwriting Partnership Shortly Thereafter. Their Music Is Characterized By Dark Witty Lyrical Narratives Obscure Lyrical Allusions And Complex Jazz-Influenced Instrumentation And Chord Sequences Overlying More Ordinary Popular Song Structures. Their Fastidious Standards In The Studio And Use Of World-Class Sessions Players Has Also Been A Hallmark Of Their Work. For This Special Credit Should Be Given To Their Long-Time Producer Gary Katz And Engineer Roger Nichols. The Band Was Originally A Six-Piece Consisting Of Fagen Becker David Palmer Vocals Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Guitar Denny Dias Guitar And Jim Hodder Drums But By 1975 Only Fagen And Becker Remained. The Band's History Can Be Divided Into Three Stages. In Its Original Conception The Group Was A Relatively Conventional Rock Band That Toured From 1972 To 1974 Releasing The Singles-Chart Successes 'Do It Again' 'Reelin' In The Years' 'My Old School' And 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'. The Group's Name Was Derived From A Series Of Dildos In The 1959 Novel 'Naked Lunch' By The Avant-Garde Writer William S. Burroughs The Phrase First Used In The Lyrics Of An Early Pre-Steely Dan Fagen/Becker Song Soul Ram. In Its Second Stage 1975 - 1980 The Group Now Consisting Solely Of Fagen And Becker Became A Purely Studio-Based Act Their Album Releases Showing A Growing Obsession With Polished Production Values And Whose Output Became Increasingly Jazz-Orientated Culminating In The Highly Successful 'Aja' 1977 And 'Gaucho' 1980 . The Two Split In 1981 Following A Tumultuous Recording Process For The Latter Album And Personal Problems For Both Members. In The Eighties Fagen Released His Seminal Debut Album 'The Nightfly' And Took Time Away From The Music Industry Whilst Becker After Recovering From Drug Dependence Was In Frequent Work As A Producer. The Third Stage Came When Fagen And Becker Reunited In 1993 Followed By A World Tour Their First Touring Dates In 20 Years . In 2000 The Grammy-Award-Winning 'Two Against Nature' Was Released To Critical And Surprising Commercial Success. Its Successor Followed Swiftly 'Everything Must Go' Being Released In 2003. The Two Albums Show A More Relaxed Attitude To Production Less Morbid Lyrical Themes And An Upbeat Jazz Pop Sound But With The Characteristic Wit And Musical Complexity Of Their 20th Century Work Remaining. Walter Becker Passed Away On September 3 2017. This Was Followed By Legal Action Between Becker's Estate And Fagen Over Ownership Of Material. Fagen With Additional Bandmates Continues To Tour As Steely Dan. --
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"Deacon Blues" is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja.
"Deacon Blues" was Steely Dan's fifth Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, where it peaked at #19 in 1978. The song remained in the Top 40 for eight weeks.
It was originally speculated that the song was written about the losing Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, and the NCAA Division I championship Crimson Tide football teams, which was confirmed in a Rolling Stone interview, when group member Donald Fagen said, "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, "You mean it's like, 'They call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' " And I said, "Yeah!" He said, "Cool! Let's finish it!"
In a 1994 AOL chat interview with Becker, someone asked him about the inspiration for "Deacon Blues". He answered, "It was an outgrowth of a specific mood that pertained at a given time," and later added, "...I remember the night that we mixed that one thinking that it was really good and wanting to hear it over and over which is never the case."[2]
In a 2000 documentary, Becker said: "The protagonist is not a musician; he just imagines that that would be one of the mythic forms of loserdom to which he might aspire. Who's to say that he's not right?" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.