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…will tell you.

This one’s my personal favorite from Pretzel Logic and I swear I’m having way more fun in the video than it looks like.

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I guess Josie’s home, because everybody already parks in the street. People even double park in front of empty spots.

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I hope y’all have been mobilized since dawn…here is “Were You Blind That Day”…I mean “Third World Man.”

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The long exhausting credits are: remix by Bearbot featuring “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” by Birdman and Lil Wayne AND “My Only Swerving” by El Ten Eleven.

You’ve not heard El Ten Eleven I highly recommend.

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Pack your bags, kids, we’re heading back to Annandale, where oleanders rhymes with “i can’t stand her.”

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I always liked the little Carolyn Leonhart feature in this bridge.

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Combing the Steely Dan dark-ives reveals a song that’s basically a drumset feature. It’s possible the song wasn’t so much discarded as it was re-worked into “aja.”

Drummer’s trivia: Steve Gadd plays the “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” groove as the breakdown. It’s alot more obvious in the original demo, mine is not so good.

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See the glory of…

If you fancy yourself a deep cut expert, this next hint is for you.

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For those tour, they usually played this back to back with “Janie Runaway” as their “jail bait” set.

There’s a few reasons I went with this live version, but the biggest is that I eventually want to post the “cuervo gold” monologue. Secondly, I was at this concert and way back when in 2003, when I was hey fifteen.

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No summer road trip is complete without this on repeat. Turn left at the fork in the road.

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This one seemed like one of the most bizarre ways to send off Jim Hodder; invite your original drummer to sing some backup vocals on a track where you have not one but TWO of your replacements behind the kit, and one of them is a teenager.

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…the amount of people who kept guessing this was “Kings.”

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I had a weird thought that this song was being sung by Mr. LePage, who has been ordered by the courts to stay 10 miles away from any schools after he was caught showing his films in the den.

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When I was doing a basic transcription of those I kept thinking to myself, there’s no way Bernard Purdie is playing so many ghost notes while keeping it so relaxed. He’s pretty much playing both hands in unison the whole time. It’s an awkward feel at first, but now it’s one of my favorites to play.

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I’m one track away from finishing my full Abbey Road cover. Full song here.

It’s no secret that Becker is the less listened-to of the duo, which is why I wanted to make sure he gets SOME recognition this summer.

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I’m sorry but the court does not accept “the cat made me do it” as a valid defense. Full video here

This might be the only instance where I use the word “tomorrow” and really mean it. If anyone is going to guess this hint, it’s going to be my reddit cl(d)an.

In the context of 70s music where every band has some song about having a vision while doing peyote at Joshua Tree, i like to picture Becker and Fagen flipping through a National Geographic at the airport on the topic of European show caves, and then writing this song.

Anyway, please enjoy. I imagine it must be nice and cool in that cave. Full drum cover here

The Summer of Dan is not Steely Done yet.

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(Sorry it’s another easy hint today, the next one WILL be harder)

Well, it’s my birthday, I figured I’d celebrate with an exercise in masochism.

Ready for the WHOLE HOUR?! Full video here.