34. “Just A trick Would state You to definitely”
While you are Fagen and Becker constantly expressed ambivalence about their adopted home condition of Ca, they stays certainly the great subjects. Just in case you found him or her after, experiencing Steely Dan records create getting a first cure for possess changes one impacted California, and you can what it signified concerning remaining portion of the nation, over the course of the fresh ’70s. “It’s probably the latest funniest of 50 says that i see away from,” Becker told you inside 1977. Extra Fagen: “We’re not given that negative due to the fact Eagles. They truly are totally upon California.” Its speaing frankly about better-to-manage and you may spiritually bereft Ca characters peaked which have Gaucho – more about that later on – however, to your One or two Against Characteristics Fagen and you will Becker been able to choose in which it left-off interestingly better that have “West of Hollywood,” a song regarding a torrid romance lay resistant to the movie world that can brings up yet another term to have breast augmentation (“hooterie”) with the lexicon.