{"id":51523,"date":"2021-07-27T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=51523"},"modified":"2021-07-28T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:33:21","slug":"steely-dan-reelin-in-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/steely-dan-reelin-in-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d: The Lasting Legacy and Consummate Musicianship of Steely Dan\u2019s Iconic Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-1540012410\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9666433949441-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-9666433949441-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-9666433949441-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-9666433949441-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-9666433949441-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><\/div>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written By: Caitlin Vaughn Carlos<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story of Steely Dan is one of consummate musicianship, cerebral writing and audio polish. Their first big hit &#8211; \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d showcased these values. Fusing together their deep love of jazz\u2019s complex harmonies and rhythms, alongside blues and rock songwriting, Steely Dan\u2019s intellectual approach to music is a hallmark of their long career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band\u2019s founding members, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, met at Bard college where Fagen was bouncing between the music and English departments; Becker was also a student, a couple years younger.\u00a0 An accomplished pianist, Fagen was looking for other musicians to play jazz and rock with, but struggled to find anyone who could play in the style he was looking for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passing by a local campus cafe &#8211; The Red Balloon &#8211; he heard the young Becker practicing his guitar and immediately asked him to start a band together. Fagen remembered: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c(He had) a little amplifier turned up all the way, bending notes and getting sustain.He\u2019d been listening to all these Howlin\u2019 Wolf and B.B. King records. Well, I\u2019d never really heard anything like that.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost immediately the pair began writing music together.\u00a0 They were thrilled to find that they had grown up listening to the same records since childhood &#8211; not just the rock \u2018n roll and popular music they shared with their peers, but also a deep knowledge of jazz.\u00a0 Becker explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe had a lot of common musical background&#8230;Donald and I had listened to the same jazz radio stations, we had all the same records, and there weren&#8217;t that many jazz fans around at that time in our particular age group. Making rock &amp; roll that was more sophisticated harmonically and more jazzlike was something that we had a common interest in.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merging together diverse influences and bringing together the most talented musicians they could find, Fagen and Becker created musically complex songs that were also immensely popular. But before making the first Steely Dan record &#8211; the duo refined their skills playing in local bands and venues. They even performed with future comedian Chevy Chase on drums &#8211; in a band called the Leather Canary. They started picking up professional gigs as session players and in live back-up bands. Soon after they began touring as part of the backup band for Jay and the Americans. It was here where they met guitarist Elliott Randall. Randall would go on to play the iconic guitar solo on \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a few years, Becker and Fagen scraped together a living as studio musicians in New York, before moving to Los Angeles in 1971. Producer Gary Katz &#8211; who they had worked with in New York &#8211; had also relocated to California and he got the duo a job as staff songwriters for ABC\/Dunhill Records, where Katz was then working as an A&amp;R man.\u00a0 By 1972, Becker and Fagen had teamed up with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff Baxter, as well as Jim Hodder on drums and had begun rehearsing in an unfinished wing of the ABC building.\u00a0 In this early iteration of Steely Dan, Becker was primarily playing bass, while Fagen focused on keyboard. The group pulled their name from a 1959 William S. Burroughs book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naked Lunch &#8211; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">connecting back to Fagen\u2019s history as a beatnik English major at Bard reading works by Burroughs, Kerouac and Ginsberg. Within a few weeks the band was in the recording studio working on their debut album and their hit single \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Steely Dan has had many hits in their long career &#8211; \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d is undoubtedly one of their greatest. It brings together Fagen and Becker\u2019s talent for clever lyrics and cerebral composition, alongside consummate popular songwriting. They had honed their craft writing songs for other musicians, but in creating Steely Dan, they were able to expand their creative palate to embrace the complex musical influences that inspired them.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d is structurally a clear pop song with catchy hooks and a memorable, singable chorus.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s also quite thoughtfully constructed. This is especially clear in the song\u2019s lyrics which follow a beautiful parallel structure in each verse. Working on the classic theme of a romantic breakup &#8211; each verse starts with a description of the ex-girlfriend or the couple\u2019s relationship and ends with the same frustrated bewilderment &#8211; \u201cI can\u2019t understand\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d and the rest of Steely Dan\u2019s debut album &#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can\u2019t Buy a Thrill &#8211; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was recorded in August of 1972 at the iconic Village Recorder in West Los Angeles. The album features Steely Dan\u2019s original band of Jeff \u201cSkunk\u201d Baxter on guitar, and pedal steel guitar, and Denny Dias on guitar and electric sitar. Becker plays electric bass guitar and sings background vocals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lead vocal role is shared between three members, as Donald Fagan was feeling increasingly uncomfortable singing lead.\u00a0 At first, drummer Jim Hodder tried his hand at lead, singing the vocals for the band\u2019s first single \u201cDallas.\u201d For the album, he took on the role of lead vocals for one track &#8211; \u201cMidnight Cruiser.\u201d But as those surrounding the band continued to try to convince Fagen to sing his own songs. David Palmer was brought in to sing lead vocals. His voice appears as lead on \u201cDirty Work\u201d and \u201cBrooklyn.\u201d But Katz was still convinced Fagen should be singing. Fagen recalls the struggle:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think they had a conflict about it on the one hand, because Walter and I wrote them, we knew what they were about and understood the best attitude that was best to convey them &#8211; they realized I could do that\u2026.On the other hand, I had a very small range and really hardly any experience and they sort of looked at it two ways &#8212; on the one hand they wanted somebody with a bigger voice, a kind of thrilling, rock and roll vocalist, but I think we knew we weren\u2019t gonna find anybody who could convey the attitude, which was really the most important thing, so they wanted me to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fagen\u2019s vocal limitations required them to adjust some of the songs\u2019 melodies, but ultimately it is his phenomenal attitude in the performance that carries the lead vocals of \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the band\u2019s 6-piece original line-up, the group brought in several experienced session musicians to record on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can\u2019t Buy a Thrill <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album, including Victor Feldman on percussion, Jerome Richardson on Tenor Saxophone, and Snooky Young on Fluegelhorn. The songs \u201cBrooklyn\u201d and \u201cKings\u201d\u00a0 feature the backing vocals of Clydie King, Shirley Mathews and Venetta Fields.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d one session musician really takes the shining role &#8211; guitarist Elliott Randall, who Fagen and Becker had played with in Jay and the Americans a few years before. Randall recalled being brought in to energize the almost-finished \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey were having trouble finding the right \u2018flavor\u2019 solo for \u2018Reelin,\u2019 and asked me to give it a go&#8230;Most of the song was already complete, so I had the good fortune of having a very clear picture of what the solo was laying on top of. They played it for me without much dialog about what I should play\u2026.It just wasn\u2019t necessary because we did it in one take and nothing was written. Jeff Baxter played the harmony parts, but my entire lead \u2013 intro\/answers\/solo\/end solo \u2013 was one continuous take played through a very simple setup: my old Strat, the same one I\u2019ve been using since 1965, plugged directly into an Ampeg SVT amp and miked with a single AKG 414. The whole solo just came to me, and I feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to play it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite it having been recorded in only the second take, Randall\u2019s guitar part has received well-deserved acclaim.\u00a0 Jimmy Page even told Classic Rock Magazine in 1999, that it was his favorite guitar solo of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song and album were produced by Gary Katz who would go on to work with the band for all of their albums between 1972 and 1980. Roger Nichols was the engineer for the album. Nichols was a Northern California native who had developed his interest in engineering the old fashion way. He explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just tore apart all these old radios, which was great \u2018cause I learned a lot that way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Fagen and Becker, Nichols was an intellectual thinker &#8211; earning a degree in nuclear engineering from Oregon State University and working at the San Onofre nuclear power station during its construction between 1965-1968. But while he was doing that, he would also spend his days off working in recording studios.\u00a0 He eventually built his own recording studio with friends in his garage and continued to refine his skills recording local bands and commercial advertisements. After building another, larger studio in Los Angeles, and developing a side gig supplying hi-fi and audio equipment to other studios, he was picked up by ABC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their pursuit of musical excellence, Fagen and Becker also wanted the best sound quality they could achieve. Nichols was the man for that job.\u00a0 He remembers: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u00a0 thought they were great because they cared about what stuff sounded like and wanted to take time to get things happening right. The other artists I was working with never wanted to do that. They were both hi-fi nuts, especially Walter with his quad electrostatic speakers at home and the latest cartridge and tone arm.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result was an album of impeccable sound quality and audiences and critics alike took notice. After its release, Penny Valentine of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aptly<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA really superb album&#8230; polished up like a diamond. More please.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can\u2019t Buy a Thrill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was released in November of 1972. \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d was released as the album\u2019s second single on February 27, 1973. It just barely missed the 10 Ten, reaching number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. 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