Elliott Randall

Released the second single, 72, debut album, Campfire Thrill.

Massive commercial breakthrough, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. uh, released October 32, uh, lead vocals, Fagan, um, guitar solo was played by session musician, Elliot Randall.

Uh, and I found something that said, apparently Jimmy page called it one of his favorite guitar solos of all time, if not his

favorites.

And I got some friends of mine to overdub guitars.

You know, Elliot Randall, the guitar player who played guitar on Reland in the years, he's playing At least half the guitars on that album, maybe more.

Jeff Baxter, the other guitar player in Steely Danny, played some of it too.

But there isn't much of the original Pavlov's Dog on that record.

So, um-

Well, and who played that? That was Elliot Randall, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Who was not a member of the band.

Uh, Jim Hodder on drums.

David Palmer was the additional vocalist.

And then they did still have some session cats with Elliot Randall, which you mentioned, and Victor Feldman.

So this was, uh, intended as a five-piece band project, and just filled in a couple of gaps with session players.

Dean Parks playing acoustic guitar throughout everything, and on the Rose Darling solo.

We had Elliot Randall, throwback to Little Ones.

He's the guy who did the Do It Again solo, so they were just, they were getting everybody from the history of Steely Dan to make this great album.

Michael McDonald, this is his first studio s- professional studio session was for Katy Lied.

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in between everything.

And then give a shout-out to Green Earrings, 'cause it's like that final solo at the end that I think Elliot Randall is playing a [sings].

It just gives, it's like going into outer space on the phasing he's using with whatever he's doing.

Donald Fagan's alias was Tristan Fabriani, and Walter Becker chose Gus Mahler for his fictitious handle.

Elliott Randall was the lead guitarist for early demos of Fagan and Becker's music prior to the formation of Steely Dan.

The demos represented months of work in the studio to record those early demos, But the music was received with very little interest from the record label, as the story sometimes goes.

Of course, until the tapes miraculously found their way to producer Gary Katz, who convinced Jay Lasker, the president of ABC Dunhill Records, to sign the duo.