Recovering Steely Dan’s second arrangement

[omar_alt]

Rather delighted to a hear high quality copy of would be hit 80s song that a tape engineer erased by accident

[duskwuff]

It's funny how things happen sometimes. There was some ongoing work on restoring some of the surviving tapes of this song [1] which was already yielding some very listenable results; it'll be interesting to see how the release of these tapes changes things.

[1]: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2nO5fSdOWs

[omar_alt]

Yeah I imagine those tape versions will add more to the fan version. I have listened to the lo-fi original for many years

[sowbug]

I've always loved Steely Dan's music, but I'm not enough of a musicologist to understand Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's legendary pickiness in the studio. Were they just idiosyncratic? Or did they have objectively higher standards?

I know my question is a little vague, but it's coming from a place of admiration.

[gtani]

reminds me of Rosie Velez song with Fagen/Becker/Katz and possibly others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaiZL51H6I

[dabluecaboose]

Listening to this song right now. What a banger! I love finding lost or cut things like this. I've been really vibing on the Daft Punk samples from RAM lately, as well.