{"id":1507,"date":"2017-09-08T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2017-09-08T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:51:58","slug":"libby-cudmores-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Libby Cudmore’s tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walter Becker\u2019s passing this past Sunday at the age of 67 has hit the music world hard. This includes Albumism\u2019s Libby Cudmore, who pays her respects to the Steely Dan co-founder in this special tribute:<\/p>\n

“They don\u2019t play much from their newer albums, which is a shame, but Becker and Fagen, melodic in hand, moved to the center stage and busted out \u201cTwo Against Nature.\u201d To me, there is no song more purely Becker\/Fagen than this one, the lyrics a code only they understand. It was an oddly pure moment, as though the band wasn\u2019t there, as though the audience wasn\u2019t there, as if it was only the two of them on stage. We were witnessing magic, in a way. We were witnessing two friends recreating some goofy beatnik scene from a Bard College dorm room 50 years previous, before the studios and the stage lights, the Grammy awards and the praise. Maybe most of the audience didn\u2019t get it. Maybe they just wanted to hear the hits. But Becker and Fagen didn\u2019t care. This moment was for the two of them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you can’t see the embedded post, click here >> Walter Becker, remembered and revered<\/a><\/p>\n

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