I’ll be honest – I amd a fan, but obviously not a big enough to know of this. A legendary long lost song from the Gaucho sessions has been found and restored.
Any Steely Dan fans here..? How about a long lost song!
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Here’s the song. Sounds amazingly good.
Online one can find ‘the alternative gaucho’ which has another albums worth of material, just about, as a lot of songs were left off Gaucho. Good stuff, too.
There are quite a few unfinished/unreleased Dan tracks. The current Steely Dan Band is brilliant as proven by the recent live albums, particularly The Nightfly.
Fagan should get in the studio with his hand and properly record as many of those songs as possible. Before it’s too late.
Sounds pretty much like prime Dan to me. Awesome find.
Exactly!
It’s good by anybody else’s standards and I’m glad to hear it in good quality for a change, but it’s not up there with the prime Gaucho tracks like Babylon Sisters, Hey Nineteen, Gaucho, Time Out Of Mind or Third World Man. Could and possibly should have replaced My Rival on the finished album.
Reading the YouTube comments. It was converted from DAT with the comment that DAT sound is awful, muddy etc. I thought DAT recordings were supposed to be the dog’s bollocks.
Without going into the dull technical details, for once, DAT is a teensy bit better than CD. And we all know how crap some CDs can sound.
Mixing, mastering, etc, have little or nothing to do with carrier format.
My usual input into these threads is this:
Almost uniquely for a Dan song, it’s unashamedly emotional, totally unironic, and not surprising why the couple of cold fish couldn’t bring themselves to record it.
Sounds fantastic! What a find. Her YouTube channel looks good too. I’m going in…
Let us know what’s down there.