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So I am by no means a big fan of Steely Dan -- pleasant music, inoffensive, doesn't do much for me, but doesn't bother me either -- but I've enjoyed their extra-musical sardonic smartassery for a few years now. As when they were inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and used their "acceptance speech" time to throw out some "important questions" to the audience to be answered.
(#1: "Who was the first drummer with The Mothers of Invention?")
Somehow though, their deadpan humor just seems to confuse people, as with a current document up on their website:
Open Letter to the Great Comic Actor Luke Wilson
Which is being taken as a serious (even legal) demand in some internet quarters, or at least as an example of the "unhinged-ness" of Becker and Fagen.
Is it that subtle, for god's sake?
(#1: "Who was the first drummer with The Mothers of Invention?")
Somehow though, their deadpan humor just seems to confuse people, as with a current document up on their website:
Open Letter to the Great Comic Actor Luke Wilson
Which is being taken as a serious (even legal) demand in some internet quarters, or at least as an example of the "unhinged-ness" of Becker and Fagen.
Is it that subtle, for god's sake?
