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Goban_Saor- Posts : 454
Join date : 2013-07-16
Goodbye Walter Becker
Tue 05 Sep 2017, 7:52 am
Given the moniker of one of our most prominent ROKCers, I believe it’s fitting to observe that Black Friday has come for Walter Becker, founder member and long-time member of Steely Dan, one of my all-time favourite rock groups.
Their music was the epitome of the cool metropolitan sophistication that I aspired to but was always way beyond my grasp.
Their music was the epitome of the cool metropolitan sophistication that I aspired to but was always way beyond my grasp.
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Jake_Sykes- Posts : 1096
Join date : 2016-08-15
Re: Goodbye Walter Becker
Tue 05 Sep 2017, 9:34 am
I hear you Goban. It was so cool to have a Steely Dan album in hand. It played by its own rules.
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StanDane- Posts : 3645
Join date : 2013-09-03
Age : 71 
Re: Goodbye Walter Becker
Tue 05 Sep 2017, 10:53 am
When I heard them live in Phoenix a few ago they KILLED this song. Still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.
- Goban_Saor
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Re: Goodbye Walter Becker
Tue 05 Sep 2017, 7:15 pm
I never had the pleasure of hearing Steely Dan in concert. I’ve just gone back and listened to Aja, possibly their masterpiece, again and marvelled at how wonderful it is. I once knew an impossibly cool couple who named their daughter Aja after it.
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All is but a woven web of guesses. (Xenophanes)
The truth. No; by nature man is more afraid of the truth than of death...For man is a social animal – only in the herd is he happy. It is all one to him whether it is the profoundest nonsense or the greatest villainy – he feels completely at ease with it, so long as it is the view of the herd, or the action of the herd, and he is able to join the herd. (Soren Kierkegaard)
So let us not talk falsely now. The hour is getting late. (Bob Dylan)
- Bigjohnaz
- Posts : 17
Join date : 2017-08-11
Re: Goodbye Walter Becker
Thu 07 Sep 2017, 8:30 am
Yes, a great loss. Love Steely Dan, saw them 2x here in Phoenix. Fabulous live. Agree on Aja, that's my favorite of theirs. Still listen to it often.
A lot of bass giants have left us the last couple of years. RIP.
A lot of bass giants have left us the last couple of years. RIP.
TerryWMartin- Posts : 1000
Join date : 2013-11-30
Age : 73
Location : Middleburg, VA, USA
Re: Goodbye Walter Becker
Sun 22 Oct 2017, 2:50 pm
Loved Steely Dan's albums, and for me as well "Aja" was the best - I even had a friend who named his daughter Aja as well.
My fave song of theirs was "Reeling in the Years", and of that song my favorite line was "The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand".
It is a lament that my poor wife hears from me fairly often.
Walter Becker will be missed.
My fave song of theirs was "Reeling in the Years", and of that song my favorite line was "The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand".
It is a lament that my poor wife hears from me fairly often.
Walter Becker will be missed.
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