Walter Becker Official Website
(walterbecker.com)
This is Walter Becker's official website, launched by
Becker in 2006. Material posted before Walter's death
include Becker's memos, letters, Newsletters and gags,
news updates and events, exhaustive information and visuals
on Circus Money (2008) -- along with several amusing
"audience participation" aspects to the release -- and The
Official Newsletter sign-up and Archive of past issues.
Since Walter's death, the site has posted a slideshow (with
more stills and video to come), amazing essays by W's pride
and joy Sayan Becker, a contest, new Newsletter issues, and
some new front page pictures. This website will remain active
and central as the Official Website of all things Becker, will be
updated with new material, and remain the location for new
sign-ups and past issues of The Official WB Newsletter.
Walter Becker Media
(walterbeckermedia.com)
Walter died in September of 2017. Early in 2018, The Walter
Becker Estate launched Walter Becker Media, a site designed
to house some of Becker's unreleased tracks, demos, live
cuts, and other rarities, as well as an FAQ, discussion boards,
photos, material related to Becker's officially released recordings,
and free, high-quality downloads of site material. The ever-amazing
Matt Kerns came on board to do all the heavy lifting ... and brought
along most of the fellowship, friendship, and fun as well.
Since its launch and to date (1/19), Walter Becker Media has posted
over 20 tracks in MP3 and FLAC/lossless audio formats, many with
accompanying videos or slideshows, and virtually all with accompanying
(con)text. These tracks have ranged from simple sequencer and vocal
demos — the earliest, most stripped-down version of a song in the process
of being written — to songs that have been tracked by Becker's
recording band but never completed. Several are "rehearsal tapes",
which are Becker's band practicing for recording or performing.
The main purpose of this website is to honor Becker's wish that
some subset of his unreleased or WorkInProgress material be made
available after his death. Arguably, its effect has been to illustrate
the breadth of his talent and, to the surprise of some, the apparently
bottomless creativity of his musical endeavors; interesting things can
sometimes be heard in a "silent partner's" powerful voice
Another important component of the site is its
discussion boards. Originally developed to give Beckerphiles
an open, anonymous (if desired) troll-free space for discussion and
interaction, it has developed into a place where people can share
their musical enthusiasms and knowledge for the betterment and
enjotment
of fellow posters, and much good-will interaction all-around
Walter Becker Slideshow Index
(walterbeckermedia.com)
Index of photos and videos collected from walterbecker.com ,
walterbeckermedia.com and other
WB sites, plus selections from WB's
private collection. Additional media collections in the future will be linked here.
Walter Becker Media YouTube Channel
Launched along with Walter Becker Media, it mirrors
material posted there. Note: The audio quality of posts both
on YouTube and on our discussion threads are frankly inferior
to the high quality Downloads we've made available to you
on the site. The YouTubes and posts are perfectly fine for
computer or desktop listening, we believe. But if you're headed
for the headphones or the big macker system, go for a Download
in good MP3 or FLAC
Steelydan.com V 1.0 Archive
(sdarchive.com)
It was 1996 "when lo Walter begat steelydan.com" (M. Kerns).
Becker spearheaded its content for most of its life, rejecting a parade
of "New Media" dolts offered up by the record companies, instead
recruiting more simpatico help wherever he could find it. Eventually
he convinced his tuneful partner in Art Crimes that this could be
a cool little playpen in which they could have some fun and sling
some shit around. And that's what they did, to fantastic effect, for
quite some time.
Noted in its day by fans, reviewers, and the music press for its
non-corporate feel,the participation of the principles, the high
quality satire , and extended gambits ---
such as trying to bribe the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame judges
with a case of honey mustard --- and then putting their
statuettes up for auction on SDEbay once obtained ---Becker was
frequently as proud of this site and the online SD community of
which it became a part as he was a random guitar lick or a line of
lyrics. To him, sd.com was a substantive, creative enterprise.
Upon Becker's death, the administration of the official SD website
passed into other hands. But the entire original SD website from
its launch in March of 1996 until Becker's death in 2017 has been
archived at the "Steely Dan Internet Archive"
Never visited Newbie? You won't believe any site could have
been so eclectic, ad-libbed, and nutz. Old-timer? All hail the
Founding Mothers And Fathers of a utterly unique online aesthetic
that could only have come from the creative melding of WB, DF,
and their fans.
Hey 19 Digital Archive
(dandom.com/hey19/)
Fantastic fan-sourced collection of Becker's "infamous interludes"
that graced (?) the performance of Hey Nineteen during live
Steely Dan shows. The searchable, cross-categorized database
contains every recording of Becker's "raps rants and raves" that
could be found from 2007 up to his final show at Greenwich, CT in
May of 2017... and new shows continue to be discovered and added
to the collection! Hosted on Jim McKay's venerable fan site, the archive
was put together and is maintained by -- who else -- Matt Kerns. For
years, fans have daydreamed about hearing a bunch of those deeply
weird shards of lexical lunacy. Now thanks to Matt andd all material
contributors, we have The Box Set!
The collection is comprised of both video and audio files,
all available for embedding or download.
Walter Becker Media Instagram
Good Lord. Matt assures me this serves mainly to send more eyeballs over to Walter Becker Media and, largely, announces new posts and duplicates some of the photos also posted there. So why not go to the site itself? But hey, that's just me....
Walter Becker Media Twitter
Holy Mary Mother of God. Same thing, he promises me..just posts and reposts reminding a tiny corner of the world that !WB Lives! on Walter Becker Media, the Official Walterbecker.com, and in the musical sensibilities of a hunk of thoughtful appreciators.
Walter Becker Way
(walterbeckerway.com)
This is the website for The Street Naming event for
Walter Becker Way in Queens, New York, on October 298, 2018.
Contains Press Releases for the event, promotional photographs
and graphics for press and promotion, long and short-form
Becker biographies, and discographies. This web location also
houses post-event materials such as texts of all the speechifyin',
Howard Rodman's Keynote Address, "greeting" videos from friends
and colleagues, follow-up givaways— such as the
current Captions Contest -- and will house any other
post-event material as may present itself.
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-- Jeffrey Lebowski