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This jazz-geek one-liner got Becker and Fagen laughing
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This jazz-geek one-liner got Becker and Fagen laughing

A recollection from "Peg" soloist Jay Graydon
Jay Graydon

Not long after Jay Graydon had successfully completed the high-wire act that was the guitar solo for Steely Dan’s “Peg”—the part that famously confounded several first-call studio players—he bumped into Walter Becker and Donald Fagen at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles. In Studio A, Fagen was laying down vocals for “FM (No Static at A…

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