My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
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!
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.
