Yes, the guitar solo in "Kid Charlemagne" is widely regarded as a classic and a favorite among many guitarists. It's particularly known for Larry Carlton's performance, which is often praised for its complexity, melodic phrasing, and overall brilliance.
Great song but there is a TV programme in ireland after the evening news called " reeling in the years" and it has the song on its introduction.I like them but if I never hear Reelin In the Years again it'll be too soon
Fagen and Becker met as students at Bard College, which is apparently in upstate New York. (They did not go to William and Mary, despite the lyrics of another very well-known song). Neither of them were studying music, I believe (they were studying literary things, hence the quite bookish slant to their lyrics occasionally), but they both played, for pleasure. Both were jazz aficionados, who'd spent the fifties listening to Sonny Rollins, Coltrane etc. Anyway, Fagen met a woman called Rikki at a faculty/student get-together. A faculty party, I think. This all emerged many years after the song. Both Fagen and the woman in question remained discreet. Fagen got chatting to her, fancied her, and gave her his number. Small obstacle — she was not long married to a faculty member. And pregnant. All in all, she decided not to call that number.
You can tell that I'm a long-time fringe member of the Steely fandom, to have acquired such trivia.
I go by the name of Rik, and in the 80s was in a huge queue in a bank to try and get cash for the weekend and realised I forgot my PIN, only for the piped music to play “Rikki don’t lose that number” much to the amusement of my mate who wanted to borrow a few quid - weirdly spoke to him last week, still a freeloading twat ;)
Yeah, 'cos there's no mention of these rock dinosaurs anywhere else on the boards....any Steely Dan fans on here want to discuss all things Dan?
Ricky Ross most definitely agrees with you.Peg and Deacon Blues are amazing tracks.
A wonderful solo, although Steve Hackett made good use of the tapping technique on his first album with Genesis' Nursery Crime in 1971 on The Musical Box and The Return of the Giant Hogweed (and also on 1973's Selling England By The Pound album - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight ) but this pre-dates this and no doubt he was not the first guitarist to use the technique.Kid Charlemagne is one of my favourite guitar solos of all time. Also, if I'm not mistaken, one of the first instances of a "tapped" note before EVH popularized the technique.
Steve Gadd's drumming on Aja is also a major highlight for me. The song includes three solos all done impeccably and fitting beautifully into the song. This lady seems to do a good job covering it...
A wonderful solo, although Steve Hackett made good use of the tapping technique on his first album with Genesis' Nursery Crime in 1971 on The Musical Box and The Return of the Giant Hogweed (and also on 1973's Selling England By The Pound album - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight ) but this pre-dates this and no doubt he was not the first guitarist to use the technique.