Sunday, September 3, 2017

Walter Becker, RIP





Just heard of the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker. Here's one of my SD favorites. Great opening guitar solo by Larry Carlton. This song may or not be based on the Texas tower shooter case from 1966. 

I once inserted the Becker-Fagen line about "luckless pedestrians" from this song in an Economics paper in college, as in, "A high unemployment rate will further damage America's luckless pedestrians". The professor was not amused.
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