FM by Steely Dan

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I heard this yesterday and the guitar solo toward the end has a distinctive Pink Floydish sound to it.

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Walter Becker was primarily a bass player - at that point he and Fagen were down to the two of them (and Jeff Porcaro on drums) for the most part, - that was their first single for MCA. Even on Gaucho, for example, Becker only played guitar on Hey Nineteen - and a solo on Time Out of Mind - people lined up to work with them, though (much like the Alan Parson Project, Steely Dan was more of an "idea" and a collaborative group built around Fagen and Becker, than a conventional jazz/rock/blues/fusion band) - with guys like Mark Knopler and Larry Carlton (among others) filling in the rest.

But, this was pure Becker guitar/bass along with Fagen on the keys - on some days, FM is my favorite Steely Dan song. I agree with you it has a Floyd, kind of funky, gritty, dirty blues vibe to the solos.

(And I enjoyed the film as well.)

Oh - more trivia about this particular track - the background singers constitued 3/5 of the Eagles line up from Hotel California ("...stab it with their Steely knives...") - Schmit, Henley and Frey.

gaucho go hard fam