学生の頃、それこそレコードwが擦り切れるほど聴いたうちの一つがスティーリー・ダンのこのアルバム。
In the song "Everything You Did", a lyric says, "turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening." Glenn Frey of Eagles said, "Apparently Walter Becker's girlfriend loved the Eagles, and she played them all the time. I think it drove him nuts. So, the story goes that they were having a fight one day and that was the genesis of the line." Given that the two bands shared a manager (Irving Azoff) and that the Eagles proclaimed their admiration for Steely Dan, this was more friendly rivalry than feud.[3]
Later that year in a nod back to Steely Dan for the free publicity,[4] and inspired by Steely Dan's lyric style,[5] the Eagles penned the lyrics, "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" in their hit "Hotel California". Frey commented, "We just wanted to allude to Steely Dan rather than mentioning them outright, so 'Dan' got changed to 'knives,' which is still, you know, a penile metaphor."[6]
「ホテル・カリフォルニア」の、野獣を「スティーリー」なナイフで刺す、というのはこの返答だったわけか…。初めて知った。
