About Mike McGibney Expertise I can answer questions about individual members of the band or their vast array of session musicians, or about ANY song, even the extremely rare/unpublished. I can help with musical aspects such as chords/instruments used or with style of playing or about the history behind the band and in particular, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the bands writers/arrangers.
Experience I am a huge Steely Dan fan, and have my own website on them. I also have a Steely Dan tribute band, and saw the real Steely Dan play at Wembley in 2000. I play all their music on bass and piano, and specialise in hard to get songs, mostly on mp3 format.
Organizations I play keyboards and do the arranging and transcriptions for a Steely Dan tribute band, and am a regular member on forums on the band throughout the internet.
Question I have looked at numerous lyrics sites for the words to the song, "Show Biz Kids". All seem to show the word "outrageous", as the word being sung by the chorous of singers during the song (and later on by the lead vocal). Yet it doesn't really sound like that word. It sounds like something like it, but somehow changed slightly. Was the word slightly altered, in fact, when the song was recorded? What is the spelling? Or a close approximation of it? I know that the word "outrageous" is cited on the album cover, or sleeve, but it seems to sound like, like it's being purposely mis-pronounced. Thank you.
Answer A good question! The backing singers are in fact singing "You go to Las Vagas", but they are mispronouncing it on purpose so it sounds like a cross between "Las Wages" and "Lost Wages", a kind of ironic statement about the city.
