The duo from Steely Dan met in what college coffee house in 1967?

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The duo from Steely Dan met in what college coffee house in 1967?

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Last updated Oct 20 2019.
Originally posted Oct 20 2019 6:51 PM.

AyatollahK

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AyatollahK

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Donald Fagen met Walter Becker in 1967 in the Red Balloon, a now-defunct coffee shop at Bard College. As an Entertainment Weekly article on Fagen from 2006 describes it:

One day in 1967, Fagen happened by a long-gone campus coffee shop, the Red Balloon. "I hear this guy practicing, and it sounded very professional and contemporary," he says. "It sounded like, you know, like a black person, really. And that was Walter. I walked in and introduced myself to him. I just said, 'Do you want to be in a band?"'

http://steelydanreader.com/2006/03/17/back-annandale/

Response last updated by AyatollahK on Oct 20 2019.
Oct 20 2019, 11:43 PM

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Walter Becker and Donald Fagen met in 1967 while students at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Oct 20 2019, 8:40 PM

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https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/opinion/2017/09/08/beckers-death-gets-columnist-thinking-their-old-school-bard-rolfe/643724001/

Oct 20 2019, 9:39 PM