(I got the) News | Issue 8

On exploring the minutiae of Steely Dan; The Chevy Chase-Steely Dan Connection

Chevy Chase Talks Almost Playing Drums In Steely Dan

Actor Chevy Chase was interviewed for the latest episode of Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast. Part of the retrospective interview touched upon Chase nearly playing drums in Steely Dan.

Chase, who is said to have perfect pitch, befriended Becker and Fagen and played drums in a band with them before they went on to co-found Steely Dan. Fagen, an avid WTF listener, was asked by Maron to give his assessment of Chase, whom he called a “great musician.”

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• Steely Dan once wrote a chart on how to abandon Grateful Dead

• On Exploring the Minutiae of Steely Dan

• The six greatest Steely Dan guitar solos

• The earliest Steely Dan music was for a Richard Pryor movie

• How millennials came to unironically love Steely Dan

• Steely Dan explain why they "loved" Frank Zappa

• The Best Steely Dan Songs, Ranked

• Steely Dan: Inside the College of Musical Knowledge, Part II

• 12 Quotes From Donald Fagen of Steely Dan

• Reelin' in the years: the rogue genius of Steely Dan's greatest songs

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I love Rickie Lee Jones, so this week’s stroll through the catalog of Steely Dan covers was a delight. Here, she covers one of my absolute favorite SD tracks - “Show Biz Kids.”

The song was found on her album of covers It’s Like This, released in 2000. The album is sadly not on Spotify, but YouTube to the rescue.

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Have a GREAT day! 😎

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Photo Credit: Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium, 09/07/2007. (Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)

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