Later era Doobie Brothers albums like "Livin on the Fault Line" and "Minute by Minute".... Obviously due to "Dan" alumns Skunk Baxter and Michael McDonald all over those albums! I always call those albums Steely Dan meets the Doobie Brothers. Tom Johnston was gone by then and from all accounts, the two who "shouted loudest" in the studio were Skunk and MM..........
The Sopwith Camel reunion record "The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon" always reminded me of what Steely Dan might sound like if they were better.
Dunno about a specific artist, but I think ‘Fragments Of Time’ by Daft Punk sounds quite Dan-esque, albeit Dan-Lite.
even suggesting publicity shots like this would cause half the board room to fall to the ground with a conniption fit and then disruption of their limbic system.
Y'all know that Skunk Baxter's has just released his 1st(!) solo record! CD's and vinyl available at Amazon (mine's in the mail!). Pretty sure he does a few Dan numbers!
I can definitely see Steely Dan doing that one. But the other Little Feat song you posted, "Skin It Back"? I don't remember the Dan ever sounding that funky.
I said that very thing to my ex-boss -- the guy I mentioned earlier. Specifically, I said the earlier Dan was less Toto-like. Didn't do any good. SD were Toto to him.
To be transparent, i dont much like SD….but, to me Pages and Larsen Feiten Band….maybe some Bill Labounty….some Crusaders….a lot of what passes for late 70s “west coast” Lite jazzy R&B rock is “obviously similar to SD but better” to me. Every on of them sings better than Fagen, which is part of my issue. I like SD from this century way better than the 70s stuff. they all took those kind of harmonic complexity r&b rock fusion,,,,in slightly different directions.
The only Starbuck song I know is "Moonlight Feels Right," so unless they otherwise had a radically different sound I don't know of, gotta agree with you.
SNEAKER, although they also sounded at times like David Pack & Ambrosia, The Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs and a few others, but on this song they are 100% Steely Dan (thanks to Donald & Walter writing the song!) ...
There are a few songs by Sea Level that have that Steely Dan vibe, like this one: "Nothing Matters But The Fever"
`10cc's album Meanwile was produced by Gary Katz and has a definite Steely Dan vibe (to the point where many 10cc fans didn't like it because it didn't really sound like them).
