STEELY DAN "PRETZEL LOGIC" 1974 STILL SEALED LP

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THERE IS A SMALL “HOLE PUNCH” IN THE JACKET OF THIS LP WHICH WAS DONE BY THE RECORD LABEL PRIOR TO MAILING THE ALBUM OUT TO RADIO STATIONS.

THIS STILL SEALED L.P. COMES FROM MY OWN PERSONAL COLLECTION. POSSIBLY A THRIFT STORE FIND OR FROM A COLLECTION OF OVER 5,000 RECORDS GIVEN TO ME BY A RADIO EXECUTIVE, WHO WAS TIRED OF HAULING THEM AROUND…. OR FROM THE RADIO NETWORK WHERE I WAS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR 15+ YEARS AND IN CHARGE OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY…

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THIS IS THE 1974 RELEASE BY ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMERS STEELY DAN, TITLED "PRETZEL LOGIC" AND IT IS STILL SEALED IN IT'S ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP. THERE IS A SMALL, 3" OPENING/SLIT OF THE SHRINK ALONG THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE JACKET WHERE THE OPENING IS, ALSO IT HAS COME APART ALONG THE BOTTOM, JUST BECAUSE IT WAS SO TIGHT,BUT THE LP IS STILL SEALED, NEVER OPENED & NEVER PLAYED.  HERE'S MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS & THIS RELEASE.

Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies."

The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, and crime. The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio,with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs.

Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade, Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time, the group steadily built and maintained "a cult following." In 1993, the group resumed playing live concerts; the early 21st century saw Steely Dan release two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.

Steely Dan returned with their third LP, Pretzel Logic, in early 1974, a diverse set that produced "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", which reached #4 on the Billboard chart. The piano riff for "Rikki" was lifted directly from the title track to Song for My Father by hard bop pianist Horace Silver. It also included their note-for-note rendition of Duke Ellington and James "Bubber" Miley's East St. Louis Toodle-Oo. This is the only instrumental ever done by Steely Dan, the only Steely Dan song to feature a banjo, and the only song on which Donald Fagen is credited with playing the saxophone (he also plays the piano solo).

During the tour for the previous album, the band had added Sonny & Cher's young session drummer Jeff Porcaro, and also added vocalist-percussionist Royce Jones and vocalist-keyboardist Michael McDonald. Porcaro and McDonald would become prominent on this and future Steely Dan recordings and would illustrate the duo's increasing reliance on session musicians. For example, "Parker's Band" features both Jim Gordon and Porcaro playing drums. This album also marks the first time Walter Becker would play guitar on a Steely Dan album.

Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by the American jazz-rock band Steely Dan, originally released in 1974. The album's opening song, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", became the band's biggest hit, reaching #4 on the charts soon after the release of the album. The album itself went gold, and then platinum, reaching #8 on the charts. The album was also highly regarded critically, appearing near the top of several end-of-year polls including the number one slot on NME Album of the Year and the number two spot on both Robert Christgau and the Village Voice end-of-year lists. It was placed at number 385 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Overview

Steely Dan was still considered a true “group” at the time this, their third album, was released; in addition to core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, guitarists Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Denny Dias and drummer Jim Hodder (as well as multi-instrumentalist Victor Feldman) had appeared on both previous Steely Dan releases along with a host of session aces; all five appeared on the inside cover of the album, though Hodder was replaced on drums by Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro for the recordings (Hodder did, however, contribute backing vocals to "Parker's Band").

The tour supporting this album would be the last time any version of Steely Dan appeared live until decades later, as Becker and Fagen's disillusionment with live performance during the tour would lead both to an end to such performance and a disbanding of the Steely Dan lineup. Much of this disillusionment was due to audiences' lack of reception of more complex material. This would lead Becker and Fagen to move to being a studio duo with varied backing on following albums, still under the name Steely Dan.

One of the tracks, "Parker's Band," was a tribute to legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Initial versions of the Remastered CD issue contained an abridged version of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number". This has been corrected on subsequent pressings. The album was originally released in 2 channel Stereo and also in a special 4-channel Quadrophonic mix. There are some significant musical differences between the two mixes. This was the last of three Steely Dan albums to be issued in both 2 and 4 channel formats.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 385 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs written by Becker and Fagen, except where noted

[edit] Original album version

1. "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" – 4:30
2. "Night by Night" – 3:36
3. "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" – 3:05
4. "Barrytown" – 3:17
5. "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:45

6. "Parker's Band" – 2:36
7. "Through with Buzz" – 1:30
8. "Pretzel Logic" – 4:28
9. "With a Gun" – 2:15
10. "Charlie Freak" – 2:41
11. "Monkey in Your Soul" – 2:31

Personnel

Steely Dan

• Donald Fagen - keyboards, saxophone, vocals
• Walter Becker - bass, guitar, vocals
• Michael Omartian - keyboards
• David Paich - keyboards
• Timothy B. Schmit - bass, vocals
• Wilton Felder - bass
• Chuck Rainey - bass
• Denny Dias - guitar
• Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - guitar
• Ben Benay - guitar
• Dean Parks - guitar
• Plas Johnson - saxophone
• Jerome Richardson - saxophone
• Ernie Watts - saxophone
• Lew McCreary - horn
• Ollie Mitchell - trumpet
• Jim Hodder - drums
• Jim Gordon - drums
• Jeff Porcaro - drums

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