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icymist

(15,888 posts) Tue Nov 24, 2015, 10:12 PM Nov 2015

Steely Dan - Do It Again (found a cool video)

That guitar solo ->WOOF!

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Steely Dan - Do It Again (found a cool video) (Original Post) icymist Nov 2015 OP

Denny Diaz ProfessorGAC Nov 2015 #1

Wow! What a gem! TonyPDX Jun 2016 #2

ProfessorGAC

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1. Denny Diaz

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Mon Nov 30, 2015, 04:21 PM

Nov 2015

And, he's playing an old electric sitar. That why the sustain is so minimal and it sounds like it does.

Denny did TONS of studio work back in the day.

So many Dan songs have guitar solos by guest players (like Elliott Randall on Reelin' In The Yearss), but thing is, Walater Becker is a REALLY good player. He just preferred to have other people come in so there was a different feel on the solos, rather than all of them being his.

I have a DVD of SD. He plays 2 or three solos and they're excellent. Smooth. Good ideas. Great tone. Yet, his ego was so in-check that he preferred to let others do it on record.

TonyPDX

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2. Wow! What a gem!

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Sat Jun 18, 2016, 12:08 PM

Jun 2016

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on congas, Walter Becker chording the bass, and the sublime Mr. Dias.

Thanks for posting!

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