Don Henley Also Had the Honor of Being Fired by Steely Dan

His “Peg” backing vocals were “no good” and “disappointing.”

Don vs. Don. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Getty Images It will come back to you, as an anecdote, about 45 years later. Proud curmudgeon and Eagles front man Don Henley has been outed as one of the dozens of musicians fired from Steely Dan’s legendary 1977 album Aja, with the band’s longtime producer revealing in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock that Henley was originally recruited to sing background vocals on “Peg.

“We played the track on the speakers, and Fagen used the piano to teach each one of them their parts. He came in and they tried it — and it might as well have been me and you,” Katz recalled. “They tried a second time and got the same disappointing result. There wasn’t patience as much as instant reaction of the realities of the moment. We didn’t jerk people off by letting them think it was going to work and have them sit for two hours.

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