{"id":83185,"date":"2023-06-28T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=83185"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:18:10","slug":"ted-gioias-confession-hes-a-dan-stan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/28\/ted-gioias-confession-hes-a-dan-stan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Gioia’s confession – he’s a Dan stan"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve never been much of a musicologist — and definitely not any kind of musician — I admit I had a very similar evolution of feeling toward the music of Steely Dan as Ted Gioia<\/a>, who charts his progress from Never Dan to Dan stan:<\/p>\n

I often make jokes about Steely Dan fans.<\/p>\n

They’re bros and geeks and sad wannabes. But the painful truth is that I’m one of them now.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t watch out, it could happen to you too. <\/p>\n

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At least I can laugh at myself. That’s good, because fans like me are the real target of the jokes.<\/p>\n

And it’s true \u2014 we are a trifle obsessed. <\/p>\n

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If you’re a Dan stan, you see the band’s influence everywhere. Random patterns take on new Dan-esque shapes. For you it’s just rush hour traffic, but for us it’s a message from the cosmos. <\/p>\n

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But I wasn’t always like this. Once upon a time, I was a Steely Dan skeptic, a real Dan-o-phobe. I thought I was safe from their pernicious influence, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n

This is my story. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve never been much of a musicologist — and definitely not any kind of musician — I admit I had a very similar evolution of feeling toward the music of Steely Dan as Ted Gioia, who charts his progress from Never Dan to Dan stan: I often make jokes about Steely Dan fans. They’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[263,1077,200,795],"class_list":["post-83185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-autobiography","tag-music","tag-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lDH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83191,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83185\/revisions\/83191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}