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I assume some (if not everyone) browsing these forums has listened to this collection. Shows up online as Rare Tracks of Whack or Tracks of Whack-Demos and Outtakes. In case however there are some who hadn't heard it, it was an expansion of an earlier collection of outtakes and demo's called Just Another Story that added an earlier demo of 3 Sisters and a demo of Hat too flat and book of liars. The whole Album encompasses 10 tracks total: 1. Junkie Girl (Demo) Almost the same as the album version minus the guitar solo. 2. Girlfriend (Demo) Walter's vocals for the rabbit shouting portion song are significantly livelier. 3.Cringemaker (Demo) has a completely different sound with the guitar rifts. 4.Medical Science (Demo) Also very different from the Japanese bonus track, sort of unpolished in comparison. 5.Sampaiku- Has a reggae sound to the melody. 6.Ghost of Hypno's Past (Outtake) Pretty haunting sound in both the melody and Becker's vocals. 7.Lies I can believe (Outtake)- Possibly one of my favorite Walter Becker Songs of all time even now. Easily one of the most polished songs in this collection. 8.Three Sisters Shaking (Alternate Take) Very different sound then the one posted here, uses more electronic organ, no real guitar. 9.Book of Liar (Demo) slightly different pitch 10.Hat too Flat (Demo) Missing some background instrumentation from the Album version. Just was wondering what others thoughts were on the sound of this set. I find it fascinating look at how the final album evolved.

Posted to Facebook by Don Breithaupt The new Monkey House album, FRIDAY, will be out July 26 — and the first single, our version of Walter Becker's "Book of Liars," dropped this morning! Follow the link of your choice to listen, purchase, pre-order: • pre-order on iTunes and get an Instant Grat track of "Book of Liars"; • pre-save on Spotify and get "Book Of Liars"; • pre-ad on Apple Music and get "Book Of Liars" immediately

Having read references to SD and WB music I understand SD was considered Jazz/Rock music. I can mostly agree with that although whenever questioned, much Jazz music is mentioned, never heard any Rock & Roll music or bands referenced. Blue eyed Soul isn't Rock necessarily. Of course from DF's actual tour drippings he mentions he had never heard an AC/DC song and wouldn't know one if he heard one (private gig for RDJ)! My question is, how can that be? But that's a question for him. Now I understand Musicians and especially accomplished ones not listening to other people's music or even much of the, for lack of a better word POP or Rock & Roll radio. My question for our WB friends here is understanding that Walter favored and certainly generated a Jazz/Reggae style if you will, what if anything did he like, ever listen to, or seek out that was categorized as Rock & Roll? Are there any Rock bands or any Rock music that he liked, followed, listened to?

Don’t know about you all out there…but here in still high-risk Maui County, some wan and pandemic-weary widowladies are starting to creep out to a few select brick and mortar retail establishments, roll the cart back up the aisle, and scour the rows for CDs, kitty litter, and hypoallergenic soap. Now what aisle is the morphine in again? Oh yeah, right here next to the ladies Depends. It sort of makes you wanna dance….or not. Depends on what you see when you first walk up BTW, the musician/artist “melodysheep” is fucking awesome — his early “Symphony of Science” remixes were early favorites of ours; Walter was especially taken with one of the first: The Carl Sagan vid/tune below. He played it for everybody — and was just impressed to the shits with the the musicality of the choices and the techniques that yielded these great results (I mean, check out that baseline! the breakdown! as just a few examples). I’m guessing most of you Beckerphiles can get why he thought they were pretty impressive. Also BTBTW, this one figured prominently in Walter's playlist of his last weeks and days. . We found it truly awe-inspiring. (Yes, Sagan sounds like Kermit the Frog. Adds to the charm, we thought). Thank you, melodysheep I urge you to check out his other remixes. Amazing stuff. And hey -- retail or no...read the stats and understand that the spread and ICUs and deaths among the unvaccinated are almost as high as they were for the whole country during the worst of it last fall. [viz https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people/]. That's what we call a bimodal distribution, folks. And continued spread means more variants that could come for us all someday soon. So...get and stay safe out there everybody!

For those who celebrate: Two Against Nature was released six (calendar) years ago,  February 29, 2000

If there was a Steely Dan song About the Stanford Prison Experiment I would know. That's not the kind of thing That escapes you where I come from. I mean, I know the name of Donald Fagen's dog And Walter Becker's favorite aftershave. Do you think that if they'd recorded a song About that particular social psychological phenomenon I would be unaware? I've heard two separate covers of Do Wrong Shoes, An early tracking session of I Got The News, Derivations of "If you're feelin' lucky you just can't refuse," I know exactly which deli on 8th Avenue Walter Becker was referring to In the single show Live at Slim's encore tune More of a waltz than a twelve bar blues Of The Girl Next Door To The Methadone Clinic So yeah, motherfucker, call me a cynic But I think I would know If there was a Steely Dan song About the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Came across this photo on Barney Hurley's Twitter the other day. It's one of the few (the only?) photos I've seen from the Circus Money sessions. Surely such a legendary work deserves better documentation. Are there more photos of the sessions out there? Can they be shared on this site?

Dear all, Thanks for this place. You’re giving me a chance to come clean, as it has been hanging on my mind especially since Walter abruptly left the building. Many moons ago, I played Walter on another forum. Allow me to rewind a bit. I am a touring and recording session musician. In the early 2000’s, I stumbled upon a post from a guy who anonymously blogged about recording an album for a band who’d been at the center of a bidding war between major record labels. It was called “The daily adventures of Mixerman” and caused quite a stir amongst musos and industry insiders. It was a fascinating insight into the recording process and the industry as it was then; it was also hilarious. I found out the guy (Mixerman) was hosting a forum and soon found myself signing up and enjoying the vibe there. These were folks who were all about recording and music. Many a passionate hobbyist but also (as I would find out) a bunch of pros with Grammys on their mantelpiece, gold records hanging on the wall or a permanent “all access” backstage pass tattooed on their chest. Pretty much everyone would sign up with an alias, which allowed us to vent and share how we survived a current recording or tour without actually naming names. Newcomers and pros alike would suffer merciless witty roasts and thoroughly enjoy it. Over time I got in touch with some of the mods and admins and ended up helping out with their yearly online music collaboration competition. We were early birds in this: 15-20 teams, spread across the globe and as many timezones would have to write, record and produce a song together over the course of a couple months, exchanging audio tracks over the “internot” as we called it. The quality was astonishingly good; over the years and after 10 editions there was an impressive catalog of over a hundred tunes which made the cut. We were all about music, recording and the industry but we also were a bunch of merry pranksters. During online music collaboration season, we’d sneak into a given team’s ftp folder, download a vocal track, pitch it ever so slightly out of tune and replace it back on their ftp. We’d take a drum track and transform an effortless groove into a sad rhythmic hiccup. The guy who would have to mix the track would be wondering how this drum track from a big pro could ever be such an abysmal failure. And there would be much rejoicing from us behind the curtains. Mixerman’s growing fame and the online music competition brought more eyeballs to the forum, and we ended up having about 10000 members. As the community grew, the need for some more hands-on moderation became apparent. I’d become an admin by then. We discussed how to approach this, trying to keep the signal to noise ratio as low as possible so that the info shared on the forum would still be of value, as opposed to what we saw happening elsewhere in other fora’s I can’t mention here. * We discussed at length how to do this efficiently while keeping our very particular vibe alive. So in addition to our great mods, we started to use “sock puppets” whenever we needed to make a point (or stir some sh.t). For instance, we created a character called “the Colonel”, a blatant reincarnation of Colonel Tom Parker. Whenever someone would cluelessly complain about the state of the industry, the Colonel would come waltzing in and put up a post complaining about how "a man can’t make a decent living and skim 50% of the top of the talent’s income anymore". The pros would come in and share their real-life stories but the sock puppets allowed to inject a bit of levity into the discussions. So, one day, in need of another sock puppet, I summoned a character named “Studiotan” who’d sport a picture of Walter as his avatar. Studiotan’s opening post explained how he’d been a “lurker” but was intrigued by our little community. Within minutes, someone on the forum sent Studiotan a PM (private message): “Dude, don’t use your picture as an avatar, that’s too obvious. Thrilled to have you here.” Dear me. Hook, line and sinker. Studiotan thanked the guy and quickly changed his avatar to a hawaiian girl playing the ukulele (as if that would be less obvious). The same guy who sent the message to Studiotan/Walter sent a message to the mods: “Walter is in the house!!!”. It quickly simmered upwards to the admins. I immediately kept my fellow admins in the loop but we decided to not share the info with the mods, just to see how we could spin this. Now, let me re-assure you. Over the course of 5 or 6 years, Studiotan/Walter appeared maybe 5 or 6 times. His comments would be minimal. He’d reply “Hilarious.” to someone who posted a weird and completely useless microphone placement technique. Or he’d make a semi-hidden self-deprecatory comment when someone would mention Steely Dan. The main reason for the few and short appearances was that there was no way I could ever match the man’s wit. And English is not my native language. But the fact that a bunch of people on a forum (including some of our mods) would believe they were sharing a small spot of cyberspace with Walter was too good to let go. I went as far as having Studiotan sign up for one of our online music competitions because he thought it would “give him a vacation from having to hang out with the other dude.” Of course, due to touring or recording commitments his contribution would never materialize. Ours was a special forum. A pretty decent group (in the vicinity of 30 folks) would fly across the globe and meet up in real life once a year for a week-long party in some remote place in Canuckistan. We weren’t able to do it every year, but some of these guys are my very good friends to this day. Invariably during these gatherings someone would wonder if we’d heard anything new from Studiotan, and they would still be amazed that His Witty Greatness would mingle amongst us mere mortals. Not wanting to disappoint them, I kept the truth hidden from most. The times, they are a-changing, and Facebook came and changed how people connected on the net. The forum lost its appeal and the discussions moved over to FB. Finally, last year, we pulled the curtain on the forum. It has always impressed me that the mere mention of the presence of Walter would command such respect from musicians and recordists. I would have loved to come clean and tell him about our little prank. When he left for the next dimension last year I was sad and regretted I’d never been able to let him know he was able to have this huge influence on people without even being there. Nah, what I am saying. I’m sure he knew. Thanks for giving me the opportunity. Feel free to wipe, discard, erase and re-record as needed. Cheers, Paul * Gearslutz (attached pic: a sad Photoshop effort showing one of our admins supposedly meeting up with W before a SD performance in our neck of the woods in Europe).