This really really makes me miss the heady days of steelydan.com and walterbecker.com, when any visit on any random day could be rewarded with an article or piece, topical or otherwise, written in that inimitable voice.I love this little love story, but it makes me very sad that I don't have a full length Walter Becker novel or six on my shelf at home. Didn't William Gibson, no slouch himself, list Walter as his favorite author (or maybe among his favorite writers) FULL STOP? I mean, Steely Dan, two remarkable websites, grammy awards, halls of fame, laudatory praise innumerable, two frankly amazing solo albums, and a trove of unreleased material most artists would kill to have created...its not like Walter needed to prove anything. I just don't see a time when I selfishly don't wish that the man had never taken a day off of creating and pipelining his work directly to us.All of that said, this is pretty great. Walter's stuff—and Walter—tend to be.
This really really makes me miss the heady days of steelydan.com and walterbecker.com, when any visit on any random day could be rewarded with an article or piece, topical or otherwise, written in that inimitable voice. I love this little love story, but it makes me very sad that I don't have a full length Walter Becker novel or six on my shelf at home. Didn't William Gibson, no slouch himself, list Walter as his favorite author (or maybe among his favorite writers) FULL STOP? I mean, Steely Dan, two remarkable websites, grammy awards, halls of fame, laudatory praise innumerable, two frankly amazing solo albums, and a trove of unreleased material most artists would kill to have created...its not like Walter needed to prove anything. I just don't see a time when I selfishly don't wish that the man had never taken a day off of creating and pipelining his work directly to us. All of that said, this is pretty great. Walter's stuff—and Walter—tend to be.