12-09-2014, 12:45
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:that song you mentioned Jerome....was an outtake from 76-77 so it was never on a studio album, i believe it appears on several of their compilation albums though...
as for where they they got their name from....i have no idea,sorry
Oh I know where they got their name - I find it quite amusing..............
'After realizing that their songs were too complex for other ABC artists, at Katz's suggestion Becker and Fagen formed their own band with guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer, and Katz signed them to ABC as recording artists. Fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after "Steely Dan III from Yokohama", a strap-on dildo mentioned in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.[SUP][21][/SUP][SUP][22][/SUP] Palmer joined as a second lead vocalist because of Fagen's reluctance to sing in front of an audience and because the label believed that his voice was not "commercial" enough. Fagen then lacked confidence in his voice and occasionally suffered from stage fright.'
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