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BARD BUST IN ‘69 INSPIRED STEELY DAN SONG
While future Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman was staging his student rock musical in Massachusetts (see below), the future members of Steely Dan were getting busted in a police raid at Bard College that spring in 1969. The incident would be recounted in the song ”My Old School” four years later on the album Countdown to Ecstasy. Here’s a 2006 interview with Donald Fagen about the incident, along with memories of a young Chevy Chase backing Fagen and Walter Becker on drums, and of a professor’s young wife who might have been the inspiration for “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.”