Download My Old School here as an MP3
About
The great track off the Pretzel Logic album
Another classic Steely Dan track.
Here I play organ for verse one and turn it acoustic guitars for the second. I recreate the first Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter solo and do my own things for the second - it's what I would do had I played on the album.
Steely Dan Trivia: The "Old School" referred to in this song is Bard College in Annendale, New York, where Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met. The song is at least partially inspired by an event that occurred at Bard, where both Becker and Fagen, along with their girlfriends, were arrested in a pot raid on a party that was orchestrated by an ambitious young District Attorney named G. Gordon Liddy - hence the line
'Tried to warn ya about Geno and Daddy G
"My Old School" is an cover instrumental track. This instrumental is in the pop genre and also has a jazz rock feel.
Author
It is a composition by Steely Dan.
The track was first made available here in 2015, though copyright precedes that, as can be fully ascertained from registration with The Performing Rights Society in the United Kingdom.
Credits
- Benny plays all instruments on "My Old School," with emphasis on guitar and keyboards (unless otherwise noted).
- All other instruments are virtual (VST) and either played directly as MIDI from a MIDI keyboard or sequenced directly into a MIDI editor.
- Benny also does all arrangements, produces, and engineers all recordings in his home studio using Cubase as his DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
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