Iconic 70s Classic Rock Band, Called Upon Hire Gun to Supercharge This HIT | Professor of Rock

Cerebral rockers Steely Dan believed they had a great song in Reelin’ in the Years for their debut album Can’t Buy Thrill but it lacked vibrancy and passion. So, the duo followed a hunch to bring in a musician that would provide the spark they desperately needed.

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It’s time for another edition of Number one in our heart where we breakdown a song that was so great that it should’ve been a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 We discuss the song and place it in it’s historical context versus the other songs ahead of it. The genius band we will discussing next, never did have a number one hit. If there was any justice in the world, they should’ve had at least 5. They came closest with their 1974 Hit Rikki Don’t lose that Number which hit #4.

Of all the song that should’ve hit #1 by the Dan , The one we are covering today is a no brainer to me. So Steely Dan co-founder, Donald Fagen, was going through the effects of a tough breakup with a woman he’d been romantically involved with for several years.

Twisting the knife of emotional agony was when he discovered that “after all the things" the couple "had done and seen, she found another man.” Fagen recoiled, and struck back at his ex-lover, by penning a song that expressed his exasperation:
“Your everlasting summer, and you can see it fading fast.
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last
Well, you wouldn’t even know a diamond if you held it in your hand. The things you think are precious I can’t understand.”

A powerful opening verse with a measured, scathing lyric that marked the making of one of the all-time greatest rockers….”Reelin’ in the Years" by Steely Dan. As the heartbroken victim, Fagen laid on the guilt trip on his ex-lover even thicker in his chorus:

"Are you reelin' in the years? Stowin’ away the time Are you gatherin’ up the tears? Have you had enough of mine?”
Donald collaborated with best friend and indivisible wingman of Steely Dan, Walter Becker, to compose the music for “Reelin’ in the Years” with a plan to include the track on the band’s critically important debut record Can’t Buy a Thrill- set for release in 1972.
Even after a dissatisfying first attempt to lay down the track in the recording studio, Becker & Fagen trusted they had something very special with “Reelin’ in the Years,” but they felt it was missing something that would jumpstart the song’s energy.

They came to the conclusion that what the track needed was a catchy guitar riff, with gratifying guitar solos. Steely Dan already had two amazing guitarists in tow- with Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, and co-founder Denny Dias (die-us), But, whatever Skunk & Denny were doing in the studio on “Reelin’ in the Years" wasn’t cutting it for Fagen & Becker.

So, they elected to reach out to guitarist Elliott Randall to see if he had the magic touch for the intro, the solos, and the outro.

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