Is there a list of Steely Dan guitar solo credits?

Is there a Steely Dan website with a list of who plays the guitar solos in each song? Some are easy to guess but others not so much!

 

I wouldn't mind seeing a list like that either.

 

I know most by memory.

 

I believe solos are credited on Can't Buy a Thrill, Aja, and Gaucho. Outside of that, I can tell you that Larry Carlton did Kid Charlemagne but I'm sure you already knew that.

 

W. Becker played the solo on Black Friday and the outro on the guitar version of FM.

 

Mark Knopfler plays guitar solos on Time Out Of Mind


NJB

 

Okay, here's what I was able to cobble together from Wikipedia (who knows how accurate and they don't have solo credits from a few albums).


"Kings" – 3:45
▪ Guitar solo by Elliot Randall

"Midnite Cruiser" – 4:08
▪ Guitar solo by Jeff Baxter

"Only a Fool Would Say That" – 2:57
▪ Guitar solo by Jeff Baxter

"Reelin' in the Years" – 4:37
▪ Guitar solos by Elliot Randall

"Fire in the Hole" – 3:28
▪ Steel guitar solo by Jeff Baxter

"Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)" – 4:21
▪ Steel guitar solo by Jeff Baxter

"Change of the Guard" – 3:39
▪ Guitar solo by Jeff Baxter

Rick Derringer - slide guitar on "Show Biz Kids"

▪ Denny Dias - guitar (solo on 'Your Gold Teeth II')
▪ Rick Derringer - guitar (solo on "Chain Lightning")
▪ Dean Parks - guitar (solo on "Rose Darling")
▪ Elliott Randall - guitar (solo on "Throw Back the Little Ones")
▪ Larry Carlton - guitar on "Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More"

"Kid Charlemagne" – 4:38
▪ Guitar solo by Larry Carlton

"Don't Take Me Alive" – 4:16
▪ Guitar solo by Larry Carlton

"Sign in Stranger" – 4:23
▪ Guitar Solo by Elliott Randall

"The Fez" (Becker, Fagen, Paul Griffin) – 4:01
▪ Guitar solo by Walter Becker

"Green Earrings" – 4:05
▪ Guitar solos by Denny Dias (1st) and Elliott Randall (2nd)

"Haitian Divorce" – 5:51
▪ Talk box guitar solo by Dean Parks, altered by Walter Becker

"Everything You Did" – 3:55
▪ Guitar solo by Larry Carlton
"The Royal Scam" – 6:30
▪ Guitar solo by Larry Carlton

Mark Knopfler - lead guitar on "Time out of Mind"

 

I believe Denny Dias played the solo on BF.

Jay Graydon did Peg.

 

"Bodhisattva"
Denny Dias (1st solo)
Jeff Baxter (2nd solo)

 

The credits on the Decade Of Steely Dan CD said that Becker played the solo on "Black Friday."

I see there is little info on Countdown, time to break that record out again. "My Old School" was also on the Decade CD but I forget what the credits said there.

 

Denny Diaz never bends notes, and there are bent notes in the Black Friday solo. It's Becker, and credited as such in the Hal Leonard Songbook.

 

Thanks for the assist, pbuzby. It was Becker for sure, and in fact there's an interview where Dias or somebody describes the guitar Walt used. I want to say it was a Fender Mustang with "rusty strings."

 

Apparently it was Becker, but he used Denny Dias's Fender Telecaster from what I just found online. I had some of it right.

 

Aja. Dias and larry carlton

 

I could tell you who did each solo but I don't know if there is one place that will give you that information.

 

Steely Dan's Millennium Collection comp lists the soloist for each of its 10 songs on the back insert. I don't own this, but here's what I could find online to add to the others already mentioned here:

"Do It Again," Denny
"My Old School," Skunk
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number," Skunk
"Third World Man," Larry Carlton
"Deacon Blues," Pete Christlieb

I don't have my albums at the ready, or I'd do some more digging to contribute further.

 

Becker plays the solo on "Josie," right?

 

Yes he does.

 

Steve Khan plays the outro solo on "Glamour Profession". Quite tastily I might add.

 

anyone see that Classic Albums doc about Aja? (its streaming on netflix)

Fagen and Becker are in the studio with the tapes and they go through and play like 4 different solo versions from different guitarists for Peg (i believe, im blanking at the moment).

of course they were all amazing, but the one that was selected was perfect for the song.

how cool is that?

 

"With a spastick's reeling perfection"!...

 

...except that Christlieb's not a guitar solo credit, him being a sax player.

 

And on a related note, Denny Dias plays the Coral Electric Sitar solo on "Do It Again" from the first album.