My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.
I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was on the radio in Michigan. There was a lot of Steely Dan; just a lot of great music inspired me.
I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.
I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Steely Dan is a band I'm not that into. Well, I guess I like certain singles.
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.
I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.
Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
