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| name = Gaucho | type = studio | artist = Steely Dan | cover = Steely Dan - Gaucho.jpg | alt = | released = November 21, 1980 | recorded = 1978–1980 | venue = | studio = Sigma Sound Studios, New York City; Village Recorders, West Los Angeles, California; Soundworks, New York City; Automated Sound, New York City; A&R, New York City; Producer's Workshop, Hollywood | genre = Jazz rock | length = 37:58 | label = MCA | producer = Gary Katz | prev_title = Aja | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = Alive in America | next_year = 1995 | misc = {{Singles | name = Gaucho | type = studio | single1 = Hey Nineteen | single1date = November 1980 | single2 = Time Out of Mind | single2date = 1981 }} }}Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on November 21, 1980 by MCA Records. The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique.[1][2] To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label.[3] During the two-year span in which the album was recorded, the band was plagued by a number of creative, personal and professional problems.[4] MCA, Warner Bros. and Steely Dan had a three-way legal battle over the rights to release the album. After it was released, jazz musician Keith Jarrett threatened the band with legal action for plagiarism in the title song. Gaucho marked a significant stylistic change for the band, introducing a more minimal, groove and atmosphere-based format. The harmonically complex chord changes that were a distinctive mark of earlier Steely Dan songs are less prominent on Gaucho, with the record's songs tending to revolve around a single rhythm or mood, although complex chord progressions were still present particularly in "Babylon Sisters" and "Glamour Profession". Gaucho proved to be Steely Dan's final studio album before a 20-year hiatus from the recording industry. BackgroundExceptional difficulties plagued the album's production. By 1978, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had established themselves as the only two permanent members of Steely Dan, using a revolving cast of session musicians to record the songs they wrote together. However, the pair's working relationship began to strain, largely because of Becker's increasing drug use.[4] During the course of the Gaucho sessions, Becker was hit by a car late one Saturday night while walking home to his apartment on the Upper West Side.[5][7] Becker managed to push the woman he was with out of harm's way, but sustained multiple fractures in one leg, a sprain in the other leg, and other injuries.[5][6] During his six-month recovery,[10] he suffered from secondary infections.[5] While Becker was in the hospital, he and Fagen continued their musical collaborations via telephone.[6] Becker's personal problems continued to mount when his girlfriend, Karen Roberta Stanley, died of a drug overdose at his home on January 30, 1980.[7][8] Her family attempted to sue him for $17.5 million in January 1981, claiming that he had introduced the woman to cocaine, morphine, barbiturates, and heroin.[8] The court later ruled in Becker's favor.{{cn|date=February 2019}} CompositionHal Leonard's Best of Steely Dan explains that Gaucho is "a concept album of seven interrelated tales about would-be hipsters."[9] The lyrics of "Hey Nineteen" are about an aging hipster attempting to pick up a girl who is so young that she does not recognize "'Retha Franklin" playing on the stereo.[10] The song closes with the ambiguous line, "The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing", leaving it up to the listener whether the narrator is consuming tequila and drugs with the love interest, or if he is in fact alone.[10][11]Resemblances between the subject of "Glamour Profession" and then-second year NBA player Magic Johnson have been noted but not confirmed as intentional, particularly as the recording of the album coincided with the player's arrival in the city and the onset of the "Showtime" era of the Los Angeles Lakers and how it paralleled the L.A. lifestyle at that time.[12] Years later, the line "living hard will take its toll" would almost seem to have been prescient after the player's HIV announcement.[13] Stewart Mason of AllMusic says that "Time Out of Mind" is "a barely veiled song about heroin, specifically a young man's first experience with the drug at the hands of a pretentious, pseudo-religious crank talking of 'chasing the dragon' with the 'mystical sphere direct from Lhasa.'"[14] Keith Jarrett sued Becker and Fagen for copyright infringement over the title track of the album, claiming it plagiarised "Long As You Know You're Living Yours" from his 1974 album Belonging. As a result, Jarrett has since been included as a co-author of the track.[15] In an interview after Gaucho was released, Fagen said that he loved the Jarrett track and had been strongly influenced by it.[16] RecordingRecording sessionsWith 1977's Aja, the duo had become accustomed to recording with Los Angeles-based session musicians. Sessions for Gaucho began in New York City during 1978.[17] The transition to using New York City players during the Gaucho sessions proved difficult, because the musicians were unenthusiastic about Becker and Fagen's obsessive, perfectionist recording style.[15] Fagen and Becker hired Mark Knopfler to play the guitar solo on "Time Out of Mind" after hearing him play on Dire Straits' hit single "Sultans of Swing". Several hours of Knopfler's playing were recorded at the session, but his contributions as heard on the record are limited to a matter of seconds. The album's mixing sessions proved to be just as difficult as the recording sessions. It took Becker, Fagen, Nichols and Katz more than 55 attempts to complete a satisfactory mix of the 50-second fade-out of "Babylon Sisters".[5][18] Drum recordingEven though the session players hired for Gaucho were amongst the most talented from both the East and West Coast session fraternities, Fagen and Becker were still not satisfied with the basic tracks for some of the songs, particularly with regard to the timing of the drum tracks.[19] In a 2006 interview for Sound On Sound Magazine, Donald Fagen stated that he and Becker told recording engineer Roger Nichols: "'It's too bad that we can't get a machine to play the beat we want, with full-frequency drum sounds, and to be able to move the snare drum and kick drum around independently.' Nichols replied 'I can do that.' This was back in 1978 or something, so we said 'You can do that???' To which he said 'Yes, all I need is $150,000.' So we gave him the money out of our recording budget, and six weeks later he came in with this machine and that is how it all started."[20] Nichols named the drum machine "Wendel".[19] Subsequently, Wendel was awarded a platinum record. According to Ken Micaleff in an article in Modern Drummer, the title song's drum track was assembled from 46 different takes. The drummer on the session, Jeff Porcaro, is quoted as saying: "From noon till six we'd play the tune over and over and over again, nailing each part. We'd go to dinner and come back and start recording. They made everybody play like their life depended on it. But they weren't gonna keep anything anyone else played that night, no matter how tight it was. All they were going for was the drum track."[21] Drummer Bernard Purdie plays his signature half-time shuffle beat, the Purdie Shuffle, on "Babylon Sisters". "The Second Arrangement", outtakes and bootlegs"The Second Arrangement" had been a favorite of producer Gary Katz and Nichols.[22] In late December 1979, after weeks of working on a particular recording of the track, approximately three-quarters of the song was accidentally erased by an assistant engineer who had been asked by Katz to ready the track for listening.[4][22] The band attempted to re-record the track, but eventually abandoned the song entirely.[22] Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet has written that the group abandoned the song in favor of focusing on "Third World Man".[37] "The Second Arrangement" was never played live by Steely Dan until a rarities show on September 17, 2011, and a studio recording of the song remains unreleased.[22] However, a handful of demo and outtake recordings of the song exist in bootleg form.[23] In addition to "The Second Arrangement", a number of songs were written for the album which were not included in the final release. Some of them were included on a bootleg titled The Lost Gaucho, which features recordings from early in the sessions for the album. Song titles include "Kind Spirit", "Kulee Baba", "The Bear" and "Talkin' About My Home", as well as "The Second Arrangement".[24] An early version of "Third World Man", with alternate lyrics, is included under the title "Were You Blind That Day".[24] That recording dates from the Aja sessions. During a clinic in 2011, Larry Carlton said about "Third World Man": "When Billboard Magazine came out ... about Gaucho, it's writing about the news 'Steely Dan released ... bla bla bla ... and great guitar solo by Larry Carlton', and I said, 'but I didn't play on Gaucho!, they'd cut it in New York, I didn't play on it!'. So I found out later: they had finished mixing in New York, and one of the second engineers erased one of their master tracks. So "Third World Man" was in the can from The Royal Scam (sic) and they had to reach back into the old tapes and find something to finish the album, and that's how I ended up on Gaucho playing "Third World Man".[25] ArtworkThe cover art is based upon a wall plaque entitled "Guardia Vieja – Tango" (Old Guard – Tango), located in a southside Buenos Aires promenade known as Caminito, by Argentine artist Israel Hoffmann.[26] ReleaseJust prior to the album's release, the band members had another argument with MCA over the retail list price. MCA made Steely Dan a test case for its new "superstar pricing" policy, whereby new albums by top-selling artists would sell for $9.98, one dollar more than those of other artists.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} Critical reception{{Album ratings|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[27] |rev2 = Chicago Tribune |rev2Score = {{Rating|2|4}}[28] |rev3 = Christgau's Record Guide |rev3score = B−[29] |rev4 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music |rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}[30] |rev5 = Rolling Stone |rev5Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[31] |rev6 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide |rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}[32] }} The album was greeted with mostly positive reviews. Rolling Stone's Ariel Swartley said of the album: "After years of hibernation in the studio, the metamorphosis that began with The Royal Scam is complete. Steely Dan have perfected the aesthetic of the tease."[31] The New York Times gave Gaucho a positive review,[33] later deeming it the best album of 1980, beating out Talking Heads’ Remain in Light and Joy Division's Closer.[34] The album also received a positive review from the Montreal Gazette.[35] Not all reviews were positive. The second edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide gave Gaucho a rating of 1 star out of 5; critic Dave Marsh called it "the kind of music that passes for jazz in Holiday Inn lounges, with the kind of lyrics that pass for poetry in freshman English classes."[36] Pittsburgh Press{{'}}s Pete Bishop found it "too well-crafted, too artificially sophisticated", and lacking in spontaneity.[37] The Village Voice{{'}}s Robert Christgau remarked, "Even the song with Aretha in it lends credence to rumors that the LP was originally entitled Countdown to Lethargy."[29] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Gaucho, while sonically similar to Aja, features musical performances that have been overly rehearsed to the point of lacking emotional resonance, as well as inferior songwriting, excepting the highlights "Babylon Sisters", "Time Out of Mind" and "Hey Nineteen", which "make the remainder of the album's glossy, meandering fusion worthwhile".[27] David Sakowski of PopMatters reappraised the album as a "classic" that was largely "lost in the shadow of Aja and the changing tides of music".[38] AccoladesGaucho won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Non-Classical Engineered Recording. Commercial performanceThe album reached #9 on the U.S. Album Chart and was certified Platinum. "Hey Nineteen" reached #10 on the U.S. Singles Chart, and went to #1 in Canada. The album reached #27 on the UK Albums Chart. Track listingAll songs written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, except where noted. {{Track listing| headline = Side one | title1 = Babylon Sisters | length1 = 5:49 | title2 = Hey Nineteen | length2 = 5:06 | title3 = Glamour Profession | length3 = 7:29 }}{{Track listing | headline = Side two | title4 = Gaucho | writer4 = Becker, Fagen, Keith Jarrett[39] | length4 = 5:32 | title5 = Time Out of Mind | length5 = 4:13 | title6 = My Rival | length6 = 4:34 | title7 = Third World Man | length7 = 5:15 }} PersonnelSteely Dan
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MCA Records. 088 112 055-2 20. ^{{cite web |last1=Tingen |first1=Paul |title=Donald Fagen – Recording Morph The Cat |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug06/articles/fagen.htm |website=soundonsound.com |publisher=Sound On Sound Magazine |accessdate=2015-05-06}} 21. ^{{cite book |last1=Payne |first1=Jim |title=The Great Drummers of R and B Funk and Soul |date=2010-09-08 |publisher=books.google.com |page=146 |edition=Paperback|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkmx5GIKf8IC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=steely+dan+ken+micallef+modern+drummer&source=bl&ots=3RfUNbmwyC&sig=mUzBFBeTPp3oTREAg3kzyL9woro&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kglJVe3NGYjJtQXPlIHoBg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=steely%20dan%20ken%20micallef%20modern%20drummer&f=false |accessdate=2015-05-05}} 22. ^1 2 3 Steely Dan: Reelin in the Years by Brian Sweet – [https://books.google.com/books?id=olM4BEGfjmgC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=steely+dan+second+arrangement&source=bl&ots=zDu_-o4ASa&sig=ycPu0A088ydbyJbpDSp6MOc2mqs&hl=en&ei=2FaaSZMogc7JBbKElP4J&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result page 137] 23. ^Steely Dan Database: "The Second Arrangement" song info. 24. ^1 2 Big O Worldwide article: "The Lost Gaucho." 25. ^Youtube : "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr1oTERqh4 335 Records - Larry Carlton Clinic - Third World Man]". 26. ^SteelyDanDatabase: " ." {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811035307/http://212.178.99.195/SteelyDanDatabase/info.jsp |date=August 11, 2011 }} 27. ^1 {{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/gaucho-mw0000321832|title=Gaucho – Steely Dan|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=December 20, 2018}} 28. ^{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|authorlink=Greg Kot|date=August 16, 1992|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-08-16/entertainment/9203140079_1_star-steely-dan-katy-lied|title=Thrills, Scams and Nightflys|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=February 15, 2017}} 29. ^1 {{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=3316|chapter=Steely Dan: Gaucho|accessdate=December 20, 2018|title=The '80s|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=1990|isbn=0-679-73015-X}} 30. ^{{cite book|chapter=Steely Dan|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|last=Larkin|first=Colin|authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|year=2011|isbn=0-85712-595-8}} 31. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Swartley|first=Ariel|date=February 5, 1981|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/gaucho-19810205|title=Gaucho|journal=Rolling Stone|location=New York|accessdate=December 20, 2018}} 32. ^{{cite book|chapter=Steely Dan|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|authorlink=Rob Sheffield|pages=778–79|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}} 33. ^{{cite news|last=Holden|first=Stephen|authorlink=Stephen Holden|date=January 18, 1981|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/arts/steely-dan-s-new-songs.html|title=Steely Dan's New Songs|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=December 20, 2018}} 34. ^New York Times article: "[https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/19/archives/the-pop-life-the-10-best-of-the-albums-issued-in-1980.html The Pop Life; The 10 best of the albums issued in 1980]." 35. ^Montreal Gazette article: "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=taQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2024,4259874&dq=steely+dan+becker&hl=en Steely Dan's Gaucho takes a smooth ride]." 36. ^{{cite book|chapter=Steely Dan|page=488|last=Marsh|first=Dave|authorlink1=Dave Marsh|last2=Swenson|first2=John|title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide|publisher=Random House/Rolling Stone Press|location=New York|edition=2nd|year=1983|isbn=0-394-72107-1}} 37. ^{{cite news|last=Bishop|first=Pete|date=January 24, 1981|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LN4cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GWMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6638,3335167&dq=steely+dan+becker&hl=en|title='Gaucho' Humdrum|newspaper=Pittsburgh Press|accessdate=December 20, 2018}} 38. ^{{cite web|last=Sakowski|first=David|url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/steelydan-gaucho.shtml|title=Steely Dan: Gaucho|work=PopMatters|accessdate=December 20, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040619160630/http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/steelydan-gaucho.shtml|archivedate=June 19, 2004}} 39. ^Initial copies of the album credited Becker and Fagen as the authors of this track. Keith Jarrett was added as co-author on all subsequent reissues. 40. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Steely-Dan-Gaucho/release/2861002|title=Steely Dan – Gaucho|website=Discogs}} 41. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.broberg.pp.se/sd_gaucho.htm|title=Gaucho Album|website=www.broberg.pp.se}} External links
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