From: JYOB@aol.com   
      
   On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 10:31:37 AM UTC-4, montaine...@aol.com wrote:   
      
   > there is no evidence that Walter Becker is anything other than the luckiest   
   human in human history aside from Ringo Starr and Gerald Ford. His singing   
   voice sounds like toad farts. His guitar work is of the senseless noodling   
   variety and necessitates    
   hiring people like Jon Herrington, Drew Zingg, Larry Carlton, Jeff Baxter   
   etceteraetceteraetceteraetcetera. If you think he ever had anything meaningful   
   to do with any chords or lyrics-- just review any or all of Fagen's solo   
   albums all of which benefit    
   enormously from the absence of Becker.....   
      
   Doncha feel bad now??   
      
   In a statement released on Sunday, Mr. Fagen said:   
      
   “Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we   
   met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes   
   on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a   
   mouldering old mansion on    
   the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.   
      
   “We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the ‘20s through the   
   mid-’60s), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt   
   Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music   
   and Chicago blues.”   
      
   He added, “I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I   
   can with the Steely Dan band.”   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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