MEDIUM HYBRID SACD
CONDITION sealed
CD CASE M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIAL NUMBER No
LIMITED No
MISCELLANEOUS playable on all CD Players, Stereo
MUSICIANS HOMEPAGE --
Donald Fagen - keyboards, sax, lead vocals, background vocals
Walter Becker - bass, guitar, background vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - lead guitar (wah-wah on track 5), pedal steel guitar
Denny Dias - guitar
Jim Hodder - background vocals (track 6)
Timothy B. Schmit - background vocals (track 1, 4, 8)
Michael Omartian - piano, keyboards
David Paich - piano, keyboards
Ben Benay - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar, banjo (track 5)
Wilton Felder - bass
Chuck Rainey - bass
Plas Johnson - sax
Jerome Richardson - sax
Ernie Watts - sax
Ollie Mitchell - trumpet
Lew McCreary - trombone
Jim Gordon - drums (all except track 2)
Jeff Porcaro - drums (track 2, 6)
Victor Feldman - flapamba (track 1), percussion
Roger Nichols - gong (track 5)
rikki don't lose that number - 4:30
night by night - 3:36
any major dude will tell you - 3:05
barrytown - 3:17
east st. louis toodle-oo - 2:45
parker's band - 2:36
through with buzz - 1:30
pretzel logic - 4:28
with a gun - 2:15
charlie freak - 2:41
monkey in your soul - 2:31
Steely Dan's third studio album, Pretzel Logic, featured the biggest pop hit of their career, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", and put the band back on the radio
Becker and Fagen invited prominent Los Angeles musicians into the studio for the recordings, but only allowed them to record occasional overdubs
Drummer Jim Hodder was given a backing vocal role and was replaced on his instrument by Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro
The songs on "Pretzel Logic" are shorter than on its predecessor "Countdown to Ecstasy"
Steely Dan saw this as an attempt to make complete musical statements within the three-minute pop song format
The lyrics deal with nostalgia, lost love and the struggles of the creative process
One of the distinctive features of 'Pretzel Logic' is the use of unusual chord progressions and unexpected musical twists
The whole album demonstrates the band's musical ability with its intricate arrangements
RECORDING October 1973 - January 1974 at The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles
ENGINEERING Roger Nichols
LABEL ABC
RE MASTERING Bernie Grundman
RE RELEASED 2023
AVERAGE RATING 5 Stars out of 5
MADE IN USA
STYLE Pop / Rock / Jazz Rock
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock