Hello everyone! Patreon Request No: 33.
Hugh McCracken on guitar!
Have to say i really enjoyed playing this one. Chord progression on verse i basically D G A. What Hugh did here is far more interesting than just strumming the old D, G, A through verses.
Steely Dan’s Walter Becker was full of praise: “Hughie McCracken was great on that, absolutely outstanding. Doing what only Hughie McCracken does.” For a band so meticulous about the parts they asked their studio musicians to play, it was rare to give a musician that level of freedom: “The thing was the Hughie’s part was just so great, that it took care of a lot of business. You didn’t have to do a lot of other things that you might have done that would obscure it. It just sounded so great that you wanted that to be there. It functioned as a kind of lead and rhythm part at the same time. When you record something that sounds so great you want to feature it and not lose it.”
Have fun!
Juha Aitakangas
2024-11-01 22:44:17 +0000 UTCMatthew Dippe
2024-11-01 22:41:46 +0000 UTCJuha Aitakangas
2024-11-01 17:59:57 +0000 UTCRomolo Givonetti
2024-11-01 17:56:09 +0000 UTC