Peter Jones (38)

The book is billed as "the life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen" however, it really is the biography of Steely Dan, as well as Fagen and, to a slightly lesser degree, Becker. How could it not?

The things I did find interesting were, the author's assessments of all the output by Steely Dan, Fagen, and Becker pretty much aligned with my own, which is a rarity. Also, it was nice to see that Jones didn't shy away from the negatives. We saw no Saint Fagen here, and a couple of times, Jones almost got show more as snarky as Fagen would, which was fun.

Overall, I don't think I learned much new from the original Dan years, but this did fill in a lot of the gaps from the ensuing forty-odd years after the initial breakup.

A decent book. show less