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Steely Dan

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1976’s 5th is now available on HYBRID STEREO SACD! Direct DSD mastered from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman, HYBRID SACD specification, playable on all CD/SACD players Steely Dan’s gold-selling fifth studio album, The Royal Scam, produced by Gary Katz and released by ABC Records in 1976. The guitar work on this album is more prominent than on Steely Dan’s previous album, “Katy Ride,” which was the first album without founding guitarist Jeff Baxter. The guitarists include Walter Becker, Denny Diaz, Larry Carlton, Elliott Randall, and Dean Parks, among others. The album was certified as a gold seller and reached #15 on the Billboard 200. Like all Steely Dan albums, it is littered with cryptic allusions to real people and fictional events.In a 2000 BBC interview, Becker and Feigen revealed that “Kid Charlemagne” is loosely based on OWSLEY STANLEY, the notorious drug “chef” famous for ma