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Steely Dan
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The Legendary Troll King
OH. MY. GOD.
A new Gaucho song is out, there’s a mutiny going on in Russia, and the year is somehow not 1980. Time is a social construct, man. More than four decades after being feared forever lost owing to a studio technician error, Steely Dan’s “The Second Arrangement” has surfaced in high-fidelity glory. The Expanding Dan Substack reports that Roger Nichols, one of the band’s longtime engineers, made a rough mix of the track on a cassette tape during the 1979 recording sessions prior to its accidental erasure. This tape was unearthed by Nichols’s daughter, who got confirmation from band advisers that this version of “The Second Arrangement” was indeed the “original recording of the song in its nearly finished form.” The digital audiotape clocks in at five minutes and 46 seconds — perhaps it would’ve been a fitting side-one closer after “Glamour Profession” — and here’s a taste of the chorus:
A new Gaucho song is out, there’s a mutiny going on in Russia, and the year is somehow not 1980. Time is a social construct, man. More than four decades after being feared forever lost owing to a studio technician error, Steely Dan’s “The Second Arrangement” has surfaced in high-fidelity glory. The Expanding Dan Substack reports that Roger Nichols, one of the band’s longtime engineers, made a rough mix of the track on a cassette tape during the 1979 recording sessions prior to its accidental erasure. This tape was unearthed by Nichols’s daughter, who got confirmation from band advisers that this version of “The Second Arrangement” was indeed the “original recording of the song in its nearly finished form.” The digital audiotape clocks in at five minutes and 46 seconds — perhaps it would’ve been a fitting side-one closer after “Glamour Profession” — and here’s a taste of the chorus: