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The Steely Dan File

Author : Stephen Vincent Orourke

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 30,10 MB

Release : 2007-09-22

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0615172997

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The Steely Dan File- the first American biography of the great rock band. A detailed history of the acclaimed rock band Steely Dan. From their origins as a quirky rock band in the early 1970's on through their transformation into one of the most innovative and enjoyable American musical entities of our era, Steely Dan (Donald Fagen & Walter Becker) have carved out a unique position in the annals of rock and popular music. Read their inspiring story in this well researched and well presented book- The Steely Dan File. From 'Do It Again' to 'Morph the Cat' the saga of Steely Dan has been a journey of intrigue and humour.



Steely Dan: Reelin' in the Years

Author : Brian Sweet

Publisher : Omnibus Press

Page : 469 pages

File Size : 46,80 MB

Release : 2018-08-16

Category : Music

ISBN : 1787591298

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Reelin’ in the Years tell the remarkable story of the American jazz rock band who have sold over 50 million albums during a career lasting over 20 years: Steely Dan. Updated and revised for 2018. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of cynical New York jazz fans wormed their way into a record contract and astonished critics with their first album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1973. Nine albums later, they were among the biggest selling acts in the world. Steely Dan were different from the rest of rock's super-sellers. They rarely gave interviews and, after some early bad experiences on the road, they refused to tour. They didn't have their photographs taken and few people knew what they looked like. Steely Dan weren’t even a proper group; it was two musicians and a producer, yet every top notch player in the world lined up to appear on their albums. This book, penned by Brian Sweet, the editor and publisher of Metal Leg, the UK-based Steely Dan fanzine, finally draws back the veil of secrecy that surrounded Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Here is the story of how they made their music and lived their lives.



Eminent Hipsters

Author : Donald Fagen

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 109 pages

File Size : 30,70 MB

Release : 2013-10-22

Category : Music

ISBN : 1101638095

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A witty, candid, sharply written memoir by the cofounder of Steely Dan In his entertaining debut as an author, Donald Fagen—musician, songwriter, and cofounder of Steely Dan—reveals the cultural figures and currents that shaped his artistic sensibility, as well as offering a look at his college days and a hilarious account of life on the road. Fagen presents the “eminent hipsters” who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecstasies of a recent cross-country tour with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. Acclaimed for his literate lyrics and complex arrangements as a musician, Fagen here proves himself a sophisticated writer with his own distinctive voice.



The Best of Steely Dan (Songbook)

Author : Steely Dan

Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 16,34 MB

Release : 1996-04-01

Category : Music

ISBN : 147680320X

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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Transcriptions of 20 top hits, including: Aja * Deacon Blues * Hey Nineteen * Josie * Kid Charlemagne * My Old School * Peg * Reelin' in the Years * Rikki Don't Lose That Number * and more. Includes an introduction, photos and tab.



Steely Dan's Aja

Author : Don Breithaupt

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 33,38 MB

Release : 2007-05-15

Category : Music

ISBN : 1441181326

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Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour aesthetic. Populated by thirty-fi ve mostly jazz session players, Aja served up prewar song forms, mixed meters and extended solos to a generation whose idea of pop daring was Paul letting Linda sing lead once in a while. And, impossibly, it sold. Including an in-depth interview with Donald Fagen, this book paints a detailed picture of the making of a masterpiece.



Steely Dan Complete (Songbook)

Author : Steely Dan

Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation

Page : 394 pages

File Size : 45,44 MB

Release : 1995-10-01

Category : Music

ISBN : 1458495213

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). All the songs from Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho 62 songs in all! Includes: Reelin' in the Years * Rikki Don't Lose That Number * Aja * Deacon Blues * Peg * Hey Nineteen.



Using Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (Digital Short Cut)

Author : Michael R. Miller

Publisher : Pearson Education

Page : 229 pages

File Size : 34,41 MB

Release : 2006-09-29

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0132713330

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. Windows Media Player 11 is the latest update to Microsoft's popular digital media player program. WMP11 offers a giant step forward in features and ease-of-use, and many critics are calling it the best media player software available today. With all its new features and functions, how do you use WMP11 to do what you need to do? How do you rip songs to your hard drive, or burn music CDs, or watch DVDs and downloaded videos? And what other new features are included? Those questions and more are answered in the new Digital Shortcut Using Windows Media Player 11, from best-selling author Michael Miller. Using Windows Media Player 11 is a detailed how-to guide for WMP11 -- the kind of instruction manual that users wish would have come with the program. Readers will learn how to use WMP11 to: - Organize their digital music libraries - Play back digital music and movies - Create custom playlists - Edit the information stored on music metadata tags - Rip music from CDs to hard disk - Burn custom music CDs - Sync their music to a portable music player - Organize and display digital photos - Purchase and download music from Microsoft's new URGE music service Everything you need to know about the new Windows Media Player 11 is described in this Digital Shortcut. Using Windows Media Player 11 is the ideal guide for new WMP users -- or for anyone considering the upgrade!



Die Behind the Wheel

Author : Brian Thorton

Publisher : Down & Out Books

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 36,15 MB

Release : 2019-06-24

Category :

ISBN : 9781643960166

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DIE BEHIND THE WHEEL, Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan. Edited by Brian Thornton.



Texas Jack

Author : Matthew Kerns

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 36,9 MB

Release : 2021-05-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1493055429

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Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. “Texas Jack” Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he became first a cowboy and then a trail boss, jobs that would inform the rest of his life. Jack lead cattle on the Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving trails to New Mexico, California, Kansas and Nebraska. In 1868 he met James B. “Wild Bill” Hickok in Kansas and then William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in Nebraska at the end of the first major cattle drive to North Platte. Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill became friends, and soon the scout and the cowboy became the subjects of a series of dime novels written by Ned Buntline.



Nightfly

Author : Peter Jones

Publisher : Chicago Review Press

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 27,14 MB

Release : 2024-04-24

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0897332571

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Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972. The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often downright weirdness lurking just beneath the surface. The elliptical lyrics were—and continue to be—an endless source of fascination. What kind of person was capable of writing such songs? Fagen has always kept his true self hidden behind walls of irony, confounding most journalistic enquiries with a mixture of obscurity and sarcasm. Nightfly cracks open the door to reveal the life behind the lyrics and traces Fagen's story from early family life in suburban New Jersey, to his first encounter with Walter Becker at Bard College, their long struggle for recognition as songwriters, and the formation of Steely Dan. The band's break-up in 1981, re-formation in 1993, and Fagen's parallel solo career are covered in detail. Author Peter Jones seeks to explain the public's continuing fascination with Fagen's music, both in collaboration with Becker and as a solo artist.