Walter Becker working on new solo album
Friday, 30. December 2005, 15:29:45
After yesterday's post about the new Fagen solo album, today I read a message in the alt.music.steely-dan newsgroups about Walter Becker's new solo album:
edit (17/3/08): it's called Circus Money
"Rolling Stone" #990/#991 December 29, 2005 / January 12, 2006, p. 39
The Smoking Section by Austin Skaggs (Yes, Danfans, that's NY Rock and Soul Revue's Boz Scaggs' son)
The Smoking Section worships STEELY DAN, so we were more than stoked to check out "Morph the Cat," the new disc from Steely Dan front man DONALD FAGEN, due in March. Whereas his solo debut, 1982's "The Nightfly," viewed the future from an adolescent's eyes, and 1993's "Kamakiriad" viewed it from the middle age, "Morph," says Fagen, "is looking towards the endings of things." He means death, but by no means is "Morph" glum--with songs like "H Gang," "Security Joan" (about a sexy airport agent) and "Brite Nitegown," as well as fabulous Steely-esque phrases like "Rabelaisian puff of smoke," Artic mindbath," and "ten milligrams of Cronax," Fagen's got another masterpiece on his hands. "It's the album that's closest to my vision of how it would sound," says Fagen. "I don't know if I could do much better," adding that partner WALTER BECKER is also working on a new album in New York. We're also jiggled to break the news that Fagen will support the record with his very own theater tour--his first solo tours since, uh, high school. "I've never done it before," he says, "I might do a few Steely Dan things that I particularly like, but it'll mainly be my stuff."
edit (17/3/08): it's called Circus Money
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By qicai02, # 13. June 2006, 18:10:17