Fred MacMurray's Stunt Double Explains Dept. - "Where Steely Dan Went Wrong"

In what promises to be a swell new feature, Fred MacMurray's stunt double Sid Slaw [left - Ed.] takes time out between stunts to explain where major rock, pop, n' roll acts fucked up!

This week, Sid takes a critical look at the career of one of pop music's most feted combos - Steely Dan!

"Hi there, record enthusiasts! Y'know, I meet a lot of lovely little ladies backstage thinking I'm T.V's beloved Fred MacMurray, and I'd have to be some kind of no-good feller to disappoint them! One of the questions I get asked on a regular basis is, gee, Mr. MacMurray, where did so-and-so go wrong?

With Steely Dan, it's a no-brainer! They squandered a real career boost by not exploiting their unreleased tracks! That Citizen Dan box was frankly spitting in the fan's eye! I'd have included the  Yellow Peril album, for starters! Sure, Becker and Fagen railed against bootlegs of these early recordings, but I'm here to tell you they had their heads up each others' asses!"

Thanks, Sid! And you know what, subscribers? Sid's on the money. The whole album is as sweet as honey off a hooker's hooter. It's as real a Dan album as anything else they concocted, with a bunch of first-call session players and swell songs that stand up better than their later stuff, you ask me, when they forgot what a tune was for, the dumb fucks. They should have listened to Sid!