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This is really cool...back in 78/79 when SD was recording Gaucho, they had a song in the can and ready to be mixed. However, the engineer queued it up for playback but accidentally deleted the track, losing months of work. In the process, Walter Becker was hit by a car and then his heroin addiction worsened to the point where he was completely out of it for days at a time. Then, his girlfriend died of an overdose in his house and her family sued him, so it took long enough to get this track laid down that they decided it wasn't worth recutting it and subbed in Third World Man instead.
Dan fans for years have speculated about the existence of the song, and a few years ago before WB died, they played it live once at a show but that's it.
Fast forward, the daughter of one of the engineers who died was going thru her dad's old belongings and found a cassette tape with "SECOND ARR" written on it, which is the almost complete track without a couple of the lyrics, so they used pieces of the lyrics to create the full track of The Second Arrangement, considered to be the lost song by Steely Dan from Gaucho.
This is awesome.
Dan fans for years have speculated about the existence of the song, and a few years ago before WB died, they played it live once at a show but that's it.
Fast forward, the daughter of one of the engineers who died was going thru her dad's old belongings and found a cassette tape with "SECOND ARR" written on it, which is the almost complete track without a couple of the lyrics, so they used pieces of the lyrics to create the full track of The Second Arrangement, considered to be the lost song by Steely Dan from Gaucho.
This is awesome.
