STEELY DAN IN THE BAG
Posted by: Simon Matthews on 22 January 2003
May the 6th is quite a long way off but the news of a new Dan album appearing has brightened this miserable January afternoon. Reading between the lines of the press release below it appears as if the album will have a looser and more 'live' feel. I particuarly like the bit about it being tracked and mixed in analog to give a 'rich and satisfying sound'.
Something else to look forward to beyond the nights drawing back!
"REPRISE RECORDS TO RELEASE EVERYTHING MUST GO, STEELY DAN'S FIRST ALBUM SINCE 2000'S GRAMMY®-WINNING TWO AGAINST NATURE
In Stores Tuesday, May 6
Steely Dan is releasing Everything Must Go (Reprise) on May 6. It is Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's first release since 2000, when their Two Against Nature -- the duo's first studio release in 20 years -- garnered multiple Grammy® awards including "Album Of The Year".
Listeners anticipating Steely Dan's patented amalgam of sonic perfection, sinuous musicality, and subversive storytelling will not be disappointed by the new release, whose musical allusions range from Pharaoh Sanders to Tommy James, and whose literary echoes bound from William Gibson to Burmashave. Featured lyrics include such catchy phrases as "and that's when she jumped the turnstile" and "hey -- is that a horseshoe crab"?
Everything Must Go took roughly a year to record -- a veritable wind sprint given Becker and Fagen's legendary meticulousness in the studio. "We went for live tracking this time and got great, in-the-pocket tracks," says Becker. Donald Fagen adds "It's mad: it's wiggy: I love it".
The core band included Keith Carlock (drums), Ted Baker (keyboards), jazz sensation Bill Charlap (keyboards), and Jon Herington and Hugh McCracken (guitars). Becker played bass and guitar, while Fagen contributed keyboards, organs, Rhodes, synths, and -- on all but one cut -- lead vocals. Becker's solo singing on one tune marks the first such credit for him in Steely Dan's studio oeuvre.
Engineering were Elliot Scheiner, Dave Russell, Roger Nichols -- all of whom received Best Engineering Grammys® for Two Against Nature -- along with newcomer T.J. Doherty. Superstar tracking and mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner comments on the process, saying "We did a few things differently -- including tracking and mixing in analog instead of digital. That contributed to giving this album a really rich and satisfying sound".
Something else to look forward to beyond the nights drawing back!
"REPRISE RECORDS TO RELEASE EVERYTHING MUST GO, STEELY DAN'S FIRST ALBUM SINCE 2000'S GRAMMY®-WINNING TWO AGAINST NATURE
In Stores Tuesday, May 6
Steely Dan is releasing Everything Must Go (Reprise) on May 6. It is Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's first release since 2000, when their Two Against Nature -- the duo's first studio release in 20 years -- garnered multiple Grammy® awards including "Album Of The Year".
Listeners anticipating Steely Dan's patented amalgam of sonic perfection, sinuous musicality, and subversive storytelling will not be disappointed by the new release, whose musical allusions range from Pharaoh Sanders to Tommy James, and whose literary echoes bound from William Gibson to Burmashave. Featured lyrics include such catchy phrases as "and that's when she jumped the turnstile" and "hey -- is that a horseshoe crab"?
Everything Must Go took roughly a year to record -- a veritable wind sprint given Becker and Fagen's legendary meticulousness in the studio. "We went for live tracking this time and got great, in-the-pocket tracks," says Becker. Donald Fagen adds "It's mad: it's wiggy: I love it".
The core band included Keith Carlock (drums), Ted Baker (keyboards), jazz sensation Bill Charlap (keyboards), and Jon Herington and Hugh McCracken (guitars). Becker played bass and guitar, while Fagen contributed keyboards, organs, Rhodes, synths, and -- on all but one cut -- lead vocals. Becker's solo singing on one tune marks the first such credit for him in Steely Dan's studio oeuvre.
Engineering were Elliot Scheiner, Dave Russell, Roger Nichols -- all of whom received Best Engineering Grammys® for Two Against Nature -- along with newcomer T.J. Doherty. Superstar tracking and mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner comments on the process, saying "We did a few things differently -- including tracking and mixing in analog instead of digital. That contributed to giving this album a really rich and satisfying sound".
Yes, probably just you 
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Originally posted by Simon Matthews:
Maybe even a nice analog lp pressing from the original masters if we all prey together.
Prey together? Gee, I don't think we need to gang up and attack them ... I think simply asking nicely might do the trick.
terra plantsa
Email me at sm@therefore.co.uk. I can sort you something out over the next couple of weeks.
The only Dan thing becker did vocals on live over here was daddy don't live in new york city. I have caught them three times in the uk, it would be more if they came to europe more often.
If you ask nicely I will stick on a very rare bootleg of the famous lost gaucho track 'the second arrangement'. They had it virtually complete until an engineer wiped the master clean. After that they could never face doing it again. My dodgy version has a click track in the background and ends abruptly but you can still tell how much a gem it is.
Email me at sm@therefore.co.uk. I can sort you something out over the next couple of weeks.
The only Dan thing becker did vocals on live over here was daddy don't live in new york city. I have caught them three times in the uk, it would be more if they came to europe more often.
If you ask nicely
I will stick on a very rare bootleg of the famous lost gaucho track 'the second arrangement'. They had it virtually complete until an engineer wiped the master clean. After that they could never face doing it again. My dodgy version has a click track in the background and ends abruptly but you can still tell how much a gem it is.