A seemingly limitless imagination flows into this music — every album, each song, the stories are all so unique. This is why we still enjoy hearing these decades later……
Very interesting hearing Fagen mention Nabokov. I’m sure he must have been influenced by Lolita. The skeevy characters in that book perfectly mesh with the lyrics of the Dan-O-Verse. I’d bet money that Walter and Donald were fans of Kubrick too.
I was so surprised to hear Ben Sidran ask Fagan, “What’s that song about?” and he tells him straight out! No obfuscation or smart aleck reply, no “oh it’s about whatever the listener wants it to be”. It doesn’t fit with the image I have of Donald built up over the last fifty years. Still, it’s reassuring to hear the relief in his voice when the interviewer finally lets him escape from the studio at the end of the show.
A seemingly limitless imagination flows into this music — every album, each song, the stories are all so unique. This is why we still enjoy hearing these decades later……
Very interesting hearing Fagen mention Nabokov. I’m sure he must have been influenced by Lolita. The skeevy characters in that book perfectly mesh with the lyrics of the Dan-O-Verse. I’d bet money that Walter and Donald were fans of Kubrick too.
I was so surprised to hear Ben Sidran ask Fagan, “What’s that song about?” and he tells him straight out! No obfuscation or smart aleck reply, no “oh it’s about whatever the listener wants it to be”. It doesn’t fit with the image I have of Donald built up over the last fifty years. Still, it’s reassuring to hear the relief in his voice when the interviewer finally lets him escape from the studio at the end of the show.