The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 178 Steely Dan

I woke up in the middle of the night and turned on the computer. The first thing I saw on social media was the news that Walter Becker had died.

That first album of Steely Dan was really something for me. I was a long-haired high school student living in an inland town and it was the soundtrack of one whole golden summer at the ocean beach paradise that …