Steely Dan albums

@larsman 

"@faustuss - and you'd have been wrong and there would have been nothing clever about SD putting it there. A katydid is a member of the locust family, like a grasshopper, but it's a different insect. It's called that because of the sound it makes, which is something like 'katydid katydid'. I used to study insects."

I've had my forays in botany and ichthyology. I might call a black knife fish a mormyrid or I might call it apteronotus albifrons or I might call it a fish.

@faustuss - so you're saying that the fact that the insect on the cover being a katydid had nothing to do with the title being 'Katy Lied' and it's just some kind of coincidence? 

@larsman 

"@faustuss - so you're saying that the fact that the insect on the cover being a katydid had nothing to do with the title being 'Katy Lied' and it's just some kind of coincidence?"

Nope, just sayin' I'd call it a grasshopper. I bet you'll go on and on about this won't ya!

Entomological issues aside, since Reelin' in the Years dominated the AM radio waves in the day, SD has been a constant prescence for me.

From Denny Dia's stunning Bodhisattva guitar solo through to Third World Man on Gaucho, Mr. Fagan & Mr. Becker took us on a carnival ride of thrills, cheap and otherwise.

I must admit  a little disappointment, back in the day, when the Royal Scam abandoned their lunatic, gonzo rock personas for something else, but I've since warmed to it a bit.

I was as dismayed by the announcement that Gaucho was Steely Dan's last recording as I'd been by the Beatle's breakup, but it was my opinion then that Third World Man's Larry Carlton solo couldn't be topped anyhow.

"Denny Dia's stunning Bodhisattva guitar solo"

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Interesting Steely Dan Bohdisattva guitar solo trivia-it is Denny Dias AND Jeff "Skunk" Baxter trading licks.

Cool isolated track in article.

Hear the isolated guitars on Steely Dan track 'Bodhisattva'

In 1973 I spent many hours in my bedroom trying to copy those amazing lines as a guitar student. As a kid, I always heard it as 2 different guitar tones/phrasing style but no knowledge of what was going on.