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Never a band per se, Steely Dan was actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
Finally, Banks sighs and sits behind a table in front, hands in her lap. She does nothing to stop the class from replacing the classical cassette with one of their own rap tapes. "Rap began a long time ago," she says softly, as the bass begins to boom over her voice. "It's gone through about three forms already...
Drums of Heaven describes a terminal wasteland where the "tears of the crocodile water the sun" and "kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust." Feeding Frenzy uses sepulchral organ chords and a throbbing bass line to drive home its point that civilization has bloodied its own waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes...
...amount of adulation seemed to satisfy Koresh, whose egomania apparently disguised an emptiness at his center. Fallen-away follower Marc Breault, who sometimes played bass in the rock band Koresh organized at the compound, says that even practicing together was difficult because Koresh threw tantrums when he hit a wrong note in front of the others. "It's very difficult being in a band with God's messenger," says Breault...
After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...