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Denny Dias is an American guitarist and a founding member of Steely Dan. He also played with Toto, Wayne Shorter and other jazz musicians, and released his own material on Matter of Time.
- ‘Reelin’ in The Years’ – Elliot Randall
- ‘Bodhisattva’ – Denny Dias
- ‘Kid Charlemagne’ – Larry Carlton
- ‘Rikki Don’T Lose That Number’ – Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter
- ‘Bad Sneakers’ – Walter Becker
- ‘Peg’ – Jay Graydon
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It was a small miracle that Steely Dan ever found two permanent guitar players in the first place. Before landing a contract at ABC Records, Becker and Fagen were playing in faded doo-wop groups and scoring low-budget Richard Pryor movies. The fact that they made it to California and scored two of the top six string players on the scene was an unli...
When Becker and Fagen were still working in New York, they befriended a young guitarist by the name of Denny Dias. Dias wasn’t much of a rock player: his roots were in jazz. When Steely Dan began to solidify, Becker and Fagen insisted on bringing Dias into the fold to make sure that the band never got too “rock”. Dias and his partner in crime, Jeff...
As Steely Dan gained increasing levels of success, Becker and Fagen were bolstered in their attempts to bring in some of the best players from not just the rock world but the jazz world as well. To get fusion great Larry Carlton, who spent most of his time contributing toJoni Mitchell and Michael Jackson records, was a major grab, and they made sur...
Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter didn’t actually need Steely Dan. That man had backed up Jimi Hendrix once upon a time (granted, only for a single night, but still). He was an engineering genius and got so enthralled in the specifics of military weapons that the US government actually hired him as a consultant. But Baxter was getting ignored at his day job, and...
Steely Dan went through a lot of guitar players. So many, that you’d be forgiven if you forgot that there was a perfectly capable guitar player among the most exclusive ranks of the band. Walter Becker might have played bass in the original incarnation of the group, but he was a guitar player by trade, and after Chuck Rainey became the band’s go-to...
The most infamous case of Steely Dan’s overbearing attitude towards exacting perfection comes from ‘Peg’, a goofy four-minute pop song that somehow became the song where the most skilled performers couldn’t live up to the central duo’s expectations. Michael McDonald struggled to hit the notes that Becker and Fagen requested, but it was the guitar s...
Learn about the six greatest guitar solos in Steely Dan's music, including Denny Dias's jazz-infused solo on 'Bodhisattva'. Find out how the band used different players and styles to create their unique sound.
Aug 30, 2021 · Here are 6 times guitarist Denny Dias, best known for his work with Steely Dan, went beast mode. The original version of this video, which is called "7 Times...
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Denny Dias' gear and equipment including the 1972 Fender Telecaster and Valley Arts Stratocaster. Get the gear to sound like Denny Dias and get their tone.
Here is the guitar solo from Steely Dan's "Your Gold Teeth". Denny Dias performed both this from the Countdown to Ecstasy record, and the followup in "Your ...
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Mar 2, 2019 · This is an incredible solo from Steely Dan's album Countdown to ecstasy, my favorite album by them. Just amazing guitar playing all over, and genius song writing of course. This solo always puts...
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As one of the founding members of Steely Dan, Denny Dias played a pivotal role in shaping the band's distinctive sound. Renowned for his innovative guitar work and versatile musicality, Dias contributed to the group's early albums, including their breakthrough hit "Reelin' In the Years."
