Q. What does call me Deacon Blues mean?
On the origin of the song’s name, Fagen says, it was inspired by football player Deacon Jones, as they like the sound of his name: “It also had two syllables, which was convenient, like ‘Crimson. ‘” The song, however, is really about “the ultimate outsider, the flip side of the dream, boy-o . . . call me Deacon Blues.”
Q. What year was Steely Dan Deacon Blues?
1977
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Q. Who played drums on Steely Dan’s Aja album?
drummer Steve Gadd
The result is a rambling eight-minute epic highlighted by Wayne Shorter’s stately, rhapsodic solo which descends gracefully into a recapitulation of the vocal theme. The sensitive, sometimes explosive performance by drummer Steve Gadd may be his finest recorded work to date.”
Q. Why do they call Alabama the Crimson Tide?
Crimson Tide Story The game was played in a sea of crimson mud and the Alabama players’ white uniforms were stained crimson. As a sports editor for the Birmingham Age-Herald, Hugh Roberts, left the field, he described Alabama as a Crimson Tide. Sports writers then popularized the name and it’s stuck ever since.
Q. Why is the band name Steely Dan?
Working with ABC producer Gary Katz, they secretly assembled Steely Dan (named after a prosthetic phallus in William S. Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch) with other young musicians, notably guitarists Jeff (“Skunk”) Baxter and Denny Dias, emerging in 1972 with Can’t Buy a Thrill.
Q. Who played guitar on Josie by Steely Dan?
Larry Carlton
Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet particularly praised his solo, calling it “a real stormer.” Fagen sings the lead vocals. The other musicians on the song include Chuck Rainey on bass guitar, Victor Feldman on electric piano and Larry Carlton and Dean Parks on guitar.
Q. What is the meaning of Deacon Blues?
“Deacon Blues” is the narration of a rock-bottom suburbanite ’s fantasy of becoming a romantic saxophonist. In the words of Walter Becker : “Crimson Tide” didn’t mean anything to us except the exaggerated grandiosity that’s bestowed on winners. “Deacon Blues” was the equivalent for the loser in our song. The song was a hit single in early 1978.
Q. Who sings the song Deacon Blues?
“Deacon Blues” is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1976 and recorded by their group Steely Dan on their 1977 album Aja .
Q. Who is Deacon Blues Band?
Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond . The band released their debut album, Raintown , on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the United States in February 1988.
