Man...unbelievably, I just listened to Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” in full for the first time yesterday and was blown away by Baxter’s guitar work throughout that record.
SD was ADD with their studio albums and session players. They seem to recognize talent and add it to make their songs better. I heard a breakdown on the guitar solo in Kid Charlemagne on the Rick Beato website, quite interesting.
I have all the Steely Dan albums through ‘Aja’ when I sort of lost interest. They still kicked out interesting stuff, but it wasn’t consistently brilliant IMO.
THE absolute best version of “Pretzel Logic” featuring Drew Zingg on guitar - KILLER!!!
Poor video quality...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2zKrx0iYE