Steely Dan and Chevy Chase
Richard Wallingford
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Dick
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Len Grande
Wallingford) wrote:
The way I've heard it is that Chevy played with Donald Fagen and Walter
Becker (the core of Steely Dan) in the same incarnation of Jay and the
Americans.
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Len Grande
"The views expressed are my own and are not those of my employer."
Thomas Ford Brown
In article <CJ6E2...@news.iastate.edu> di...@iastate.edu (Richard Wallingford) writes:
>Did Chevy ever play with Steely Dan (drums?)?
>
Maybe he sat in live, but he's not listed on any albums.
Chevy's a pretty one-dimensional keyboard player,
never heard him on drums.
Anthony Corman
It's possible: he and Fagen and (I think) Becker all went to
Bard College.
Robert McNeice
I don't know...but he played sax on a Paul Simon video 8-)
"Will you be my bodyguard
I will be your long lost friend"
Wah, Wah-Wah, Wah
Wah, Wah-Wah, Wah
Dana E. Rollins
I may be mistaken, but I believe they all played together in a pre-Dan band,
was it Ultimate Spinach? Seems like Chevy was the drummer...
Cube
Just Ducking In Outa The Sleet For A Moment
Thomas Ford Brown
In article <drolli...@lib.auburn.edu> drol...@lib.auburn.edu (Dana E. Rollins) writes:
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>I may be mistaken, but I believe they all played together in a pre-Dan band,
>was it Ultimate Spinach? Seems like Chevy was the drummer...
>
Skunk Baxter was the guitarist in that band. Anybody
ever hear it?
Anthony Corman
>was it Ultimate Spinach? Seems like Chevy was the drummer...
Wouldn't have been Ultimate Spinach, although Skunk Baxter
did play in that band. Ah, the "Boston Sound!" Dick Summers
on WBZ...the Beacon Street Union...Orpheus...Concerts on the Common.
Tony ("I'd rather wax nostalgic than wroth") Corman
spb...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
Ultimate Spinach were part of the ill-fated "Bosstown sound" hype of
the late 60's. They recorded a few long-deleted albums for MGM. In case
anyone still wants to know the correct answer to the original question,
though, Chevy Chase played drums with Fagen and Becker in a group called
the Bad Rock Band (or was it the Bard Rock Band?) in their Bard College
days.
Pat Buzby
Oberlin, OH
Andrew Rogers
>>>I may be mistaken, but I believe they all played together in a pre-Dan band,
>>>was it Ultimate Spinach? Seems like Chevy was the drummer...
>>Skunk Baxter was the guitarist in that band. Anybody
>>ever hear it?
> Ultimate Spinach were part of the ill-fated "Bosstown sound" hype of
>the late 60's. They recorded a few long-deleted albums for MGM.
"Ultimate Spinach", "Behold and See", and (again) "Ultimate Spinach". Skunk
Baxter appears only on their last album, by which time only singer Barbara
Hudson remained from the original lineup.
> In case anyone still wants to know the correct answer to the original
>question, though, Chevy Chase played drums with Fagen and Becker in a group
>called the Bad Rock Band (or was it the Bard Rock Band?) in their Bard
>College days.
At least one source says the band was called "Leather Canary", but I don't
dispute "Ba{r}d Rock Band" either; in one article, Donald Fagen was described
as "dean of the pickup band syndrome at Bard", and if his experiences there
were anything like mine at Union (100 miles away and two years later), he/they
probably used a different name at every gig.
Fagen described these bands as sounding like "The Kingsmen playing Frank
Zappa", going on to explain that "some of the songs Walter and I were
writing used chords that weren't triads, and you couldn't use your capo
all that much".
Anyway, Chevy Chase went on to play drums and keyboards for Chameleon Church,
who released one OK-but-forgettable LP on MGM. A couple other members of
Chameleon Church rejoined Chase years later on various National Lampoon
musical parodies.
Andrew