Donald Fagen (placeholder)

There’s no way I can summarize my thoughts on this subject in a li’l comment here, but- because he’s the number one guy on my list of “people to meet” I just felt like I had to say something! To completely over-simplify it, I could just leave it at this: He is my hero.

BUT I’m not the kind of person who has “heroes,” who explodes people in her mind to be larger-than-life. I want to meet him because he’s been a teacher to me for so long through his music and seems like such a normie who might like the idea of a younger musician seeking his advice or tutelage- in the tradition of great jazz players (and composers of all kinds, actually!) through the ages, he too might take someone under his wing for maybe a brief moment in time? I don’t even know for sure that that would be “teaching” or that it would be about “music”... maybe more about friendship or ack I don’t know. Whatever it means, I think meeting and getting to know him would rule. I think I might have something to do with a Steely Dan, Walter/Donald-related legacy to be left in this world. But I don’t understand what my gut is saying exactly. It’s all very bizarre.

Now that I officially sound crazy, I will leave it at that.