Steely Dan
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Topic: Steely Dan
Posted By: The Minstrel
Subject: Steely Dan
Date Posted: June 08 2005 at 20:42
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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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Posted By: Ben2112
Date 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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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 21:15
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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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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 01:36
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. -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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