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Feb 20, 2022, 5 tweets

Remembering Walter Becker on his birthday 🎂
On the left in this photo by Henry Diltz, with his Steely Dan partner Donald Fagen, 1978
"We took ourselves more seriously than anyone else took us."

Steely Dan by Ed Caraeff.
This is one of my all-time favourite rock group studio shots. Jim Hodder, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, Denny Dias, Donald Fagen & Walter Becker.
ABC Recording Studio in Los Angeles, May 1973

Walter Becker & Donald Fagen by Lynn Goldsmith, 1995
"As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars."

Steely Dan by @Danny_Clinch: Donald Fagen & Walter Becker
"We think very much the same musically. I can start songs and Walter can finish them."

Walter Becker of Steely Dan would have turned 72 today.
📷 Ed Caraeff, 1975
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