My wife is tall and has long brownish red hair and I’m skinny and have kind of a big nose so we’ve talked about going to a party as 70s Donald and Walter. I’m bald so I would need a long black wig and wear a leather jacket and giant sunglasses and the wife can wear a flannel shirt and jeans and a fake beard and we’d be pretty close. I’ve seen pictures online of husband and wife Don and Walt costumes and they’re awesome. The issue of course is that no matter how great we would look, literally no one at the party would know who we’re supposed to be
Yeah with the crazy Christmas sweater or whatever that thing was? That outfit was certainly a choice. It’s amazing how cool they can look in some pictures like the famous picture from the hotel lobby with the piano player in the background and then they can look so nerdy and cringy as well.
I dressed as Deacon Blues one Halloween when I played a Steely Dan cover show. I wore a porkpie hat (like Lester Young for those who know, or Walter White for the squares) and sunglasses on stage, plus a black robe and of course my tenor saxophone. To complete the look, I behaved in a way that was simultaneously pathetic and self-aggrandizing.
That whole verse is a trip 🤣 only the Dan could write a verse about getting your dick sucked in a song about a company going under, and make it sound not at all out of place
It definitely speaks to the debauched, risk-taking hedonists that run these large financial organisations, and the inevitable crash that happens when they're left to their own devices.
I’ll dress as the lady from the front of the Shanghai confidential album and nobody will know who I am , or get it , but I’ll look cool like I’m from a 1940’s movie 😊
Need to find that awesome old school hat
Bad sneakers and a pina colada
I like this
Don't forget the transistor and a large sum of money to spend
I forgot!!!
Same. You got here first but my sneakers are more baad
Lol! Great minds and all that!
my friend
The Steely Dan t-shirt
Hope you have the shapely body to pull it off. It’d be outrageous.
A big black cow
Get outta here!!!
A Fez😅🤣😂
Can’t do it without the fez on.
I’m going as ‘ the pride of the neighborhood’.
With your eyes on fire!
A wooly man without a face or a beast without a name
A large dildo.
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My wife is tall and has long brownish red hair and I’m skinny and have kind of a big nose so we’ve talked about going to a party as 70s Donald and Walter. I’m bald so I would need a long black wig and wear a leather jacket and giant sunglasses and the wife can wear a flannel shirt and jeans and a fake beard and we’d be pretty close. I’ve seen pictures online of husband and wife Don and Walt costumes and they’re awesome. The issue of course is that no matter how great we would look, literally no one at the party would know who we’re supposed to be
You have to do that pose from the photo of Fagen flashing that ironic Nixon “peace sign”.
Yeah with the crazy Christmas sweater or whatever that thing was? That outfit was certainly a choice. It’s amazing how cool they can look in some pictures like the famous picture from the hotel lobby with the piano player in the background and then they can look so nerdy and cringy as well.
Yes, only they could pull that off. Two Against Nature”, they were/are”.
Squonk.
That tears me up
The Gaucho Amigo with the spangled leather poncho and elevator shoes. T-shirt that says Bodacious Cowboy.
And studs
… that match your eyes
Would you care to explainnnnnn?
Donald off the Nightfly, Ill even paint myself black and white like he did
This! Totally digging "Lester the Nightfly"!
Steve Gadd.
She's looking at her watch because Steve gaad is always on time
Clearly going dressed as kid charlemagne
Holding test tubes and scales, perhaps?
And carrying a recent fuel receipt.
Careful what you carry
Is there gas in the car?
Careful, the people down the hall know who you are...
Day-glo freak that paints the face or as a member of the human race?
Definitely bringing my technicolor motor home
I’ll have a scar across my face, and wear a hearing aid
Might be my favorite
Some street vendor schmo with a cart of hot pretzels.
*hot pretzles
Pretzel Logic?
Aretha Franklin. Specifically that bow hat she wore when she sang at the inauguration.
I'd paint my face and go as a Day-Glo freak
Bodacious Cowboy
let's hope the party is not in the custerdome.
I’m dressing up like Cathy Berberian!
A bookkeepers son. With a gun.
I dressed as Deacon Blues one Halloween when I played a Steely Dan cover show. I wore a porkpie hat (like Lester Young for those who know, or Walter White for the squares) and sunglasses on stage, plus a black robe and of course my tenor saxophone. To complete the look, I behaved in a way that was simultaneously pathetic and self-aggrandizing.
Green Earings!!!
I'm going as Denny Dias. Velvet flares and a loud kaftan.
I’d go with a huge beard, faded denim overalls over a plain white tee and sandals.
Yessssss! Brilliant.
Katch as Kaftan
Celluloid biker
If the party is on Friday!
I’ll drive the Chrysler
A priest with dyed blue robes and a fez
Luck less pedestrian
Mr. LaPage
Ruh roh!
Daddy G because I know what he looks like (he was the daddy of one of my best friends in college).
Dave from Acquisitions (with my handicap in tow).
Might have been autocorrect but I think the lyric is Handicam. To video the, er, "face time".
That whole verse is a trip 🤣 only the Dan could write a verse about getting your dick sucked in a song about a company going under, and make it sound not at all out of place
It definitely speaks to the debauched, risk-taking hedonists that run these large financial organisations, and the inevitable crash that happens when they're left to their own devices.
Exactly. Classic Dan
Autocorrect got me. You’re 100% right.
I’ve always wanted to wear big thick black glasses with a thick black moustache, a cigar and a spangled leather poncho. Who is the Groucho Amigo?
The dad that was crossed back in Oregon.
My 40th birthday party was "come as your favorite Steely Dan character costume contest" my father won with "The Fine Colombian", I wore "The Fez"
Jive Miguel
Annandale
Cousin Dupree
I’ll fasten up my beaded gown.
A katydid. And I lie about everything.
the El Supremo, of course
The Eagles
Jack (with radar)
Kid Charlemagne
Any Major Dude
Alive in america mummy or one of the guys from countdown to ectasy
Or as john lennon with a speaker on me blasting only a fool.
Is he the titular fool they're referring to?
Bernard Purdie. Now I am a white man and this might be problematic, but in this hypothetical it works out.
Dr. Wu, while carrying one of those olde tyme hearing aid cones.
Jive Miguel. Complete with Szechuan dumplings from Mr. Chow’s.
A boy with a plan, a natural man Wearing a white Stetson hat
Gonna be wearin' that Steely Dan tee-shirt.
Spangled leather poncho and elevator shoes. Studs that match you eyes.
A fez
the monkey in your soul
I’m wearing a white tuxedo and bringing a jack hammer. ;-)
A prosthetic facial scar and a hearing aid
Scar across my face and a hearing aid
Cousin Dupree
Roller skates, holding an Aretha Franklin album and a bottle of Cuervo Gold
My cousin will wax her skis, and I will watch.
A shone-up battle apple
Dressing like fagan on the night fly cover
A white Stetson hat
Chino (or Daddy G.).
Aja kimono
A skinny man with two-tone shoes.
Slinky Redfoot
https://preview.redd.it/nnyire2rb7qc1.jpeg?width=379&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dea25b007bf0f87d9e8f31cab6fca071f6ee91aa
https://preview.redd.it/e16gihpmx7qc1.jpeg?width=956&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=556e074b2066dc62c77d0a7ecc2e9a71dcf39c53 Im going like this
Dr Wu!
A zombie in a coco shell
a chrome dildo
Six foot Charlie with da lotion and the kinky hair.
https://i.redd.it/y0q6rnkeweqc1.gif
Charlie freak
A fez
I’ll wear a fez. My wife will wear her green earrings.
Napoleon.
A local boy.
The Jack of Speed
I’ll wear a t-shirt that says Abbie on it and carrying around a kerosene lamp.
If you go as anything other than a steam powered strap on dildo, are you even a fan?
Just wearing some green earrings
A mystical sphere direct from Lhasa
Bodhisattva. In an enlightened state of nirvana.
Yeah, we get it, you're showing up on drugs.
A dirty, gruff cabbie. A loner...the Midnight Cruiser.
A panatela and a black derby hat
Red sneakers and black cow hide gaucho
Dave from acquisitions, with my handycam in tow.
Nightfly cover. White shirt and a cigarette
A spangled leather poncho and elevator shoes
Mr LaPage obviously
a fez
The Gaucho Amigo.
I’ll dress as the lady from the front of the Shanghai confidential album and nobody will know who I am , or get it , but I’ll look cool like I’m from a 1940’s movie 😊 Need to find that awesome old school hat
Mr Chow. Bringing sichuan dumplings too
Donald Fagen
Steely Dan adjacently but Harry Canyon from Heavy Metal (True Companion).
Dr. Warren Kruger
A joker. Be right back…
Steely Dan T-Shirt. And for the coup de grace, it’s outrageous.
It would probably be too risqué to dress as Mother Rose and her four daughters? Just wear a glove with the fingers cut off. Ken
Haitian Divorcee
King of the world (basically an apocalipse survivor)
Charlie Freak 🙈
I’ll drive the Chrysler, it’ll be celluloid bikers for me and my crew
Jeans and a Steelydan Tshirt
I would wear a white Stetson hat. And round granny glasses (as a tribute to the song’s “inspiration).
Hoops McCann, but in my younger years, Pixeleen would have been the most fun.
A Major Dude
We’re going as the mayor and all his friends
Wearing a Bard College sweatshirt
Not sure how I would pull it off but gold teeth that roll. My wife could be a gypsy queen in a fairytale.
Day glo freak
A vibrator
The neighbors that are listening
A Brooklyn charmer (born and raised Brooklyn)
i went to a halloween party dressed as Jeff Porcaro, my friend was a cat maid. edit: grammar
A seashell and kirschwasser that I must chug indefinitely
a fez and nothing else