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    Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:42

Is it just me or could Steely Dan easily fit in the Fusion category of prog rock?  I think they have all the credentials to be prog and with Aja being a true masterpiece, why not add them?
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Points: 870 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 03:44
Hmm, not too sure about fusion, but I could definitely see them as art-rock. An excellent, quirky & humorous band with great chops!
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Points: 1298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 21:15
mmm... i have to dissent on this one. I love steely dan, but they're not prog. They're not fusion. They're jazz-rock... something distinctively different from fusion. They fall in the same category as Chicago and Blood, Sweat, and Tears if anything... definitely not with Mahavishnu, Return to Forever, or Brand X. 
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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2005 at 01:36
Originally posted by Sweetnighter Sweetnighter wrote:

mmm... i have to dissent on this one. I love steely dan, but they're not prog. They're not fusion. They're jazz-rock... something distinctively different from fusion. They fall in the same category as Chicago and Blood, Sweat, and Tears if anything... definitely not with Mahavishnu, Return to Forever, or Brand X. 


Sorry, but in my opinion "fusion" is just a more modern word for "jazz-rock".  If you dissent on that, then I'd like you to point out the stylistic differences. As for putting Steely Dan into this category: Definitely not, at least not from what I have heard of them. (They did not convince me into liking them, to be honest).

The name "Steely Dan", by the way, was taken from William S. Burrough's  novel "Naked Lunch", in which a vibrator of that name appears.


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