12-12-2017, 21:36
Denny Dias was born on this day in 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
He is a guitarist and was a founding member of Steely Dan which, according to Wiki, came about thus – “
Dias was working with his own band out of his basement in Hicksville, Long Island, when he placed an ad in The Village Voice in the summer of 1970 that read: "Looking for keyboardist and bassist. Must have jazz chops! Assholes need not apply". Donald Fagen and Walter Becker responded to the advertisement. They joined his band and immediately began playing their own material. Dias fired the rest of the band, and the three of them moved to California, adding drummer Jim Hodder, guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, and vocalist David Palmer before recording for ABC/Dunhill Records as Steely Dan.”
His final stint as a full-time member of the band was on the Katy Lied tour, but he continued to contribute to albums as a session musician up to Aja. He recorded with a few other musicians, did a tour with Toto and made one solo album which is elusive. Having taken up computer programming and abandoning the music biz as a permanent occupation, he still dabbles now and then – last appearing with Spanky and Our Gang in 2015.
The sitar solo is his …
He is a guitarist and was a founding member of Steely Dan which, according to Wiki, came about thus – “
Dias was working with his own band out of his basement in Hicksville, Long Island, when he placed an ad in The Village Voice in the summer of 1970 that read: "Looking for keyboardist and bassist. Must have jazz chops! Assholes need not apply". Donald Fagen and Walter Becker responded to the advertisement. They joined his band and immediately began playing their own material. Dias fired the rest of the band, and the three of them moved to California, adding drummer Jim Hodder, guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, and vocalist David Palmer before recording for ABC/Dunhill Records as Steely Dan.”
His final stint as a full-time member of the band was on the Katy Lied tour, but he continued to contribute to albums as a session musician up to Aja. He recorded with a few other musicians, did a tour with Toto and made one solo album which is elusive. Having taken up computer programming and abandoning the music biz as a permanent occupation, he still dabbles now and then – last appearing with Spanky and Our Gang in 2015.
The sitar solo is his …
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