The lead vocalist/key boardist/composer breezed straight into the kitchen for a mug of coffee. Fleetwood Mac. Steely Dan will present two different concerts at Ravinia. “This is the job of the decade.” He has, it seems, adapted his entire sense of humor to the nasality of his voice. He felt we owed it to our singles audience.”. Steely Dan subsequently takes Josephhostage and proclaims the intention of destroying each of the heroes' brain one by one, exhibiting great confidence in his Stand's microscopic size and thus its ability to avoid bein… These days most pop critics, you know, are mainly interested in the amount of energy that is… obvious on record. In anticipation of Aja, Katz mounted a small campaign urging Becker and Fagen — who fancy themselves as more exclusive than reclusive — to take a higher profile. We figured, sure, take a shot.”. As I look back through the past 59 days/59 installments of AotD, I’m surprised by some of the groups/artists/albums I haven’t hit yet.One of those is Steely Dan. His ambition for Becker and Fagen is fueled by the fact that he, like Katz, is a fan. We had outside players on the first album. Becker and Fagen gladly relocated in Los Angeles when producer/friend Gary Katz took a West Coast staff job with ABC on the stipulation they be hired as Iabel songwriters. A lot of things Eric Clapton played…everyone thought it was George Harrison.”. “A lot of interviewers are just jerk-offs,” he snapped, taking a swipe at a fly. So here’s this album that’s Number Three in the country. Jan 16, 2020. It’s a particular favorite of fanatics who savor Becker’s and Fagen’s Gordian Knot of oblique losers, dopers, ravaged lovers and doomed optimists. Can't Buy a Thrill? In 2003 Everything Must Go is published. Fans with tickets to the previously announced 2020 dates are encouraged to hold on to their tickets as they will be honored for the new dates. And they kept selling. “Ah well,” Fagen said. They all bought two, three, four times as many as normally. Irving impressed us with his taste for the jugular…and his bizarre spirit. Steely Dan embodied and flaunted their contradictions: spotlessly produced and impeccably performed studio creations about unsympathetic losers and … “We do encourage that misconception,” allowed Becker. Becker died on the 3rd of September 2017. A moment later, neighbor Donald Fagen pulled up in a black sports car. Want more Rolling Stone? “It tapers off when you’re not touring.”, Becker and Fagen now write off their announced plans for a fall return to touring as “speaking out of turn.”, “We thought it might be a good idea again,” Becker says. “Kibitzing,” reports Becker. Walter Becker. Doing what? Steely Dan have announced that their 2020 Earth After Hours Tour with Steve Winwood has been rescheduled. “We were doing fine, you know,” Becker added. It’s difficult, but it’s fun. Now, having finally acquired Steely Dan, he is in the frenetic but enviable position of managing all of his favorite artists, including Boz Scaggs, the Eagles, Jimmy Buffet and Dan Fogelberg. It’s selfish. They are a very special breed of cat, and that includes their producer, Gary Katz.”), “Really,” added Fagen, about his and Becker’s Working Process. We want to hear from you! One of the bands will then tour as Steely Dan. Songs We Hope Steely Dan Brings Back on 2019 U.S. Sweet Tour. Steely Dan song lyrics collection. Following its release, Steely Dan goes on a huge world tour. We’re going to try again soon. It was an ugly job, but somebody had to do it. Fagen realized his own unharnessed vocals were best for the group, and David Palmer became the first to leave. “He has a moustache.”) They next recorded Katy Lied, using players from all areas of expertise. We killed the Stones, didn’t we?” Azoff paused to curse the Rams, who lost by two points. curiously, a favorite of house wives everywhere for their soft tones and smooth vocals. Any further details are subject to Becker’s and Fagen’s notorious distaste for facts. About a month ago, I posted on this subreddit that Steely Dan: Survivor would return in May, and I'm keeping that promise. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest. “We’re proud that we don’t have any bad cuts or at least ones that we think are inferior. But we get the best work. “I imagine you have to have a certain jazz consciousness to understand what we’re doing,” said Fagen. Vacationing in Florida, he’s in a frisky mood, reeling with stories about a new band whose sessions he’s been attending: Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band Featuring the Rootettes. “Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes. “We just keep the quality up for ourselves,” Fagen insisted. Which, in itself, is quite a concession. Six months later a musician may realize he’s reading the same chart and playing the same song with a different band. On Aug. 12, the group will perform its milestone album Aja in its entirety along with select greatest hits. With Katz at the helm, Steely Dan recorded its debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill, and, amazingly, scored hit singles with “Do It Again” and “Reeling in the Years.” “We had zero expectations,” Becker remembered. “No,” Becker answers earnestly, “but we can get a real good one together in a hurry.”, In This Article: It is a testimony to their studio prowess that the “flawed” sound on Katy Lied is still much advanced compared to any of the competition. “We overdubbed a lot of the overdubs over.” Becker grinned luxuriously, cracking open a can of Coke. The reason I tolerate and even encourage them is it’s necessary for their own creative perfection. (1) proper name of a steam powered dildo from the novel "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs. Donald Fagen is relaunching the Steely Dan name to honor the music he made with the late, great Walter Becker, and he'll be performing the band's unclassifiable blend of genres live at venues across North America — including at one near you! Sign up for our newsletter. Steely Dan. Becker turned to me. Steely Dan – Josie WritingIsMyReligion had a comment on Josie rated up by @nthony . “It was better sounding than anything you’ve ever heard to this date,” recalls Gary Katz. The Royal Scam, the fifth Steely Dan album, continued the lyrical descent into the seamy underside of society. Three weeks later, with Aja the first Steely Dan album to break into the Top Five, a visit to Irving Azoff was in order. He did not. Sep 4, 2019. Wu’ as “kind of a love-dope triangle… in ‘Dr. I get no special privileges. The original Steely Dan band dissolved soon after the 1974 tour, making official, says Becker, “the enlarged-band concept, if you will.” Hodder and Dias returned to the lucrative freelance status. from Katy Lied, 1975 Steely Dan’s fourth album Katy Lied marks their first with Becker and Fagen as the only official members, augmented by session musicians. The relationship with Katz continued. Becker, Katz and engineer Roger Nichols took a midnight flight to the DBX factory in Boston and, after some work by experts, were told the malfunction had irreparably damaged the tapes. Becker is long-haired and wispily bearded, in the spirit of Howard Hughes’ latter years. Steely Dan recorded yet another album entitled “Everything Must Go” and supported it with an extensive tour. “We’re just sitting out the Seventies, waiting for better times….”. Katz promptly assembled around them a band that would play their material exclusively. He wanted a new hobby. There was a time when I and a few others were determined that /r/earwolf needed more Steely Dan content. When the group wasn’t playing the dives of America, it was visiting uninterested disc jockeys to plug the album. After more than ten years Steely Dan had reunited and the fans now expected a new studio album. There were questions to be asked, though. The discography for the American jazz rock band Steely Dan consists of nine studio albums, 21 singles, one live album, one live set on DVD, seven compilations in the United States, one box set, and numerous other appearances.The band has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. “Writing songs,” Becker replied. But the composers do not warm to specific questions. Formed in 1972 by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan is a rock band hailing from America. “Even Aja. “I used my power base,” Azoff said, “and called all my rack-jobber friends — the guys in the field and the record chains — and I offered them Aja for a suggested $6.98 instead of the $7.98 list price. “Here’s how we did it,” the twenty-eight-year-old megamanager chirped. “Radio Free Steely Dan,” Becker announced, “is still open for offers.”. I suppose other people go into the studio and jam around and it’s, ‘Let’s get something going,’ until they get a few riffs that they can try and write some words around. “In fact, we were amazed that ABC bought the album at all.” He snickered. I wonder how it feels, at least for tonight, to be bigger than the Rolling Stones. Their new album, held throughout the product-glutted summer for just the right moment, accidentally came out the same afternoon as the new Rolling Stones LP. “But it’s not that accurate.” He lit a Marlboro with shaky hands. The band also gained much attention for its tradition of not listing detailed credits on its albums. “I go over to Donald’s. The phone rings late on deadline night: it’s the elusive Walter Becker calling long distance. The duck story “must have come from our doing interviews during the Hotel Bel-Air phase. I arrived at the tiny Malibu guest home of Walter Becker the day Aja was released. Unbelievable. I've fallen slack on that for sure, but I figure May Nineteen is a good day to bring up the greatest band of all time, and that time that Paul and Scott hilariously roasted one of Dan's hit singles. We’re probably hardest on guitar players. Donald Fagen continues to pay tribute to his late partner Walter Becker through the ongoing Steely Dan project, and now that he's back on tour in 2021, you've got a chance to hear some of the most complicated, rewarding classic rock ever produced, live at a venue near you! Tour Update It’s not stupid music.”. Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band which formed in 1972. I want to see it. This is a big, long post with a lot of words, but every word I've written is important, so please take the time to read this thing over! Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Brent Cobb? They were named after the William Burroughs dildo in Naked Lunch. Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band which formed in 1972. A lot of people don’t like Steely Dan. We were always shuttling back and forth from the West to the East Coast. This included a meeting with Irving Azoff. Consequently, it's balanced to showcase at least one song from each of the band's albums, leaving off the compilation such minor hits as "Pretzel Logic," "The Fez," and "Josie." And his mouth is caricature-sized; it’s as if he has an extra two inches of lip and no room for it. We went to mix it, and the tape sounded funny. “Worms, I guess.”. “We’re no longer belligerent to interviewers, for example….”. “We don’t construct them as puzzles. Neither were hits. “We were definitely on the shit list over there, can you believe it? On Aug. 13, Steely Dan will perform songs requested via the internet plus select greatest hits. Browse 264 lyrics and 218 Steely Dan albums. (“We’re enormously naive about certain business realities that most people take for granted,” proclaimed Fagen. Think of the biggest American supergroups. They had ponds with swans and shit.” However, that former ABC president did, they say, call them worms. Walter Becker immediately balks at the comparison. Steely Dan Perform Complete Albums on Sweet Tour - See Highlights. Their sixth album, ‘Aja,’ is one of the year’s hottest records, Donald Fagen, Jim Hodder, Denny Dias, Walter Becker and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter of the rock and roll band 'Steely Dan' pose for a portrait, 1974. The resulting Countdown to Ecstasy and the taunting single “Show Biz Kids” were as sophisticated a snub of the pop-rock treadmill as could be imagined. I have a lot of respect for these guys. Fagen/Becker returned with the 2000 release Two Against Nature, which won four Grammy Awards in 2001. What radio station isn’t going to play a hit Steely Dan album. The group locked itself in a small Santa Monica studio and concentrated on longer songs (such as “My Old School” and “Bodhisattva”) with increased virtuosity, sometimes from outside musicians. Most of them knew they could stock up early and retail it as if it were $7.98. “In the past,” said Becker, “it has been Larry who played most of the guitar solos. “It takes a long time to make an album that all three of us are really happy with. “We never raised the price. “I guess we’re achieving the success we so richly deserve. Taking influences from jazz, reggae, pop, and RnB, they enjoyed a lot of commercial success until they broke up in 1981. Steely Dan, Soundtrack: R.I.P.D. The dan who knew too much: 2017 Reelin' in the chips: 2017 Donald Fagen & the Nightflyers: 2017 Live in North America: 2018 The summer of living dangerously: 2018 [The autumn without a doobie] 2019 [The British Isles 2019] 2019 Reelin' in the chips 2: 2019 Sweet Steely Dan tour 2019: 2020 Earth after hours Becker and Fagen met ten years ago at Bard, a progressive college in upstate New York, “and we’re tired of talking about it.” They had the same eclectic tastes in jazz, and together began to write their own uniquely over-educated form of pop and rock. A Decade of Steely Dan was one of the first compilations designed for CD, so it was intended to showcase digital sound as much as the music itself. They obviously sleep all day. They belong in that list. “I haven’t heard it on the radio yet…but I read how well we’re doing.” He chuckles. In an interview, Fagen recounted the experience: "I hear this guy practicing, and it sounded very professional and contemporary. He thought we could do much better about making America Steely Dan conscious. Steely Dan built a new audience from the remains of the old. Cindy Mizelle on Singing Backup for Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and Mariah Carey )Plus, Aja is my wife’s favorite album! That has been made obvious time and time again. We’ve real charts and everything. They cajoled Gary Katz, now equally rabid in his devotion, into producing and signing Root Boy Slim to Warner Bros. Now Becker and Fagen, at career peak, are at his sessions. Becker: “It was unfair of us to spend eight months writing and recording when Jeffrey Baxter and others in the group wanted to tour. (“It wouldn’t bother me at all,” says Becker, “not to play on my own album.”) The infrequent product of their labors is labeled a Steely Dan album. Amazingly, Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. “I don’t care,” he said, slapping the chair again. This song always makes me laugh, and I'm not sure why. They deserved it sooner.”. Root Boy Slim is a figure straight out of Becker’s and Fagen’s musty backroom imaginations — a pudgy white blues singer of such deviant songs as “Bride of the Burro,” “Christmas at K-Mart” and “Too Sick to Reggae.” Becker and Fagen knew they’d been topped the instant they discovered him in a Baltimore nightclub. They were just pissed at us for being…I don’t know.” He shrugged. Donald Fagen described ‘Dr. One review like…the sterling production of Gary Katz, and I will take a good two, three days of abuse from those guys.”, All three are predictably proud — and remarkably free of even playful sarcasm — in discussing their working relationship with such jazz musicians as Wilton Felder, Victor Feldman and particularly Larry Carlton. Their first tour in three years was canceled. “Simple strategy. Steely Dan Lyrics "Do It Again" In the mornin you go gunnin' For the man who stole your water And you fire till he is done in But they catch you at the border And the mourners are all sangin' As they drag you by your feet But the hangman isn't hangin' And they put you on the street So much for anecdotes. Steely Dan spent the 1970s getting progressively more esoteric: jazzier, groovier, weirder. When the group wasn’t playing the dives of America, it was visiting uninterested disc jockeys to plug the album. I dropped in on Azoff at his Benedict Canyon home one Sunday while he was watching his beloved Rams — and one suspects a small investment of his own — succumb to the New Orleans Saints. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Official Steely Dan website, including tour dates, news and updates. As Fagen passed by a café, The Red Balloon, he heard Becker practicing the electric guitar. It was late afternoon, morning for the bass-and-guitar-playing half of Steely Dan’s composing team. artistfacts. “We actually made one full start with a bunch of musicians. It’s more productive. He was just waking up. The band was formed by Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) and Walter Becker (guitar, bass), who met in 1967 while both attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and began a songwriting partnership shortly thereafter. (Anyone who’s heard my EP, Foundation, knows I have a strong influence from them…and, of course, Keith Carlock played drums on it too — a fairly strong connection! The Eagles, Chicago….” Azoff broke into a triple-platinum smile. The band’s “Two Against Nature” tour would be the band’s first time on the road since the ‘70s. Naturally we have to exclude some information. “It was like a dream come true.”, Steely Dan watched the dream fall apart on its first road trip. We have a great relationship with them now. “We’re going to Warner Bros. We’ve got one more with ABC of new material. He chose East Coast musicians he had worked with before: Denny Dias and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on guitars and Jim Hodder on drums. Their contract with ABC runs out with the follow-up to Aja; rumor has it they will follow their producer, Gary Katz, to Warner Bros. “Oh yeah,” Becker confirmed. They don’t own a Scrabble game, as it turns out. All we had to do was make it official.”. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Steely Dan exhibits a particularly cruel, petty and cowardly personality. They have been known to discard entire tracks because of a single bad note. And the tours weren’t well organized. Related News. This element of rock-biz etiquette didn’t and still doesn’t set well with Becker and Fagen, who turned their attentions to the second Steely Dan album. We try to tell a big story in a very short period of time. Baxter went on to join and spark the resurgence of the Doobie Brothers, later bringing with him Michael McDonald. They even play themselves, but less and less, it seems, each album. If you are unable to attend the new date, you will be able to request a refund. “We actually think most of these songs are pretty funny,” Fagen commented. Or the former president of ABC Records who reportedly disowned them, calling them “worms.”. Discovering that they enjoyed similar music, the two began writing songs together. Even now, mapping the album’s melodic and harmonic shifts is impossible to do with confidence. “I am a fan first,” Katz underscores. They haven’t had a hit single since 1974’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” And still, their sixth and most esoteric effort yet, Aja, is one of the season’s hottest albums and by far Steely Dan’s fastest-selling ever. The songs will be written in New York this time. Steely Dan watched the dream fall apart on its first road trip. Lemme see, then they have the rights to a greatest hits album. There are, though, plenty of stories making the rounds: about Becker and Fagen being “obsessively maniacal” Scrabble players whose marathon games have wasted weeks of valuable studio time. “We didn’t deal with ABC for a long time,” Becker said. Like Billy Joel, another famously disliked famous songwriter who found fame in the 1970s, trashing Steely Dan is practically a sport. “Overdubbing, too.”, “Most of our time is spent on the Working Process,” Fagen began, slapping the arms of his leather chair. I told them the offer would last two weeks. (“Why shouldn’t it?” asked Becker. People who are mainly Rolling Stones fans and people who like punk rock, stuff like that…a lot of them aren’t interested at all in what we have to do.”, I wondered if he intends to keep it that way. They may not owe it to anybody, but they do owe it to themselves to go out and play,” Katz says. 1972-Donald Fagen. [Jimmy Page calls the Elliott Randall guitar solo in “Reeling in the Years” his all-time favorite.] Perhaps one can try too hard to extract the Secret Intentions of Steely Dan. Becker and Fagen are oblivious, even apathetic, about the pursuit of commercial or critical success. I asked how they spend their nights. Another vocalist, David Palmer, was later added to help with stage presence. timeline. Then Catch Steely Dan Live in 2021! Cameron Crowe, Coverwall, Steely Dan. “Constant touring…and singles. We weren’t well rehearsed at all. But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs -- even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. They are the unlikeliest supergroup — perhaps because there is no group. It’s been the most-played album for weeks. And we didn’t give ’em a hard time or anything. They had her…and they were taunting him. “I think that’s a good thing.”). It’s true — they could be characters from their own sinister songs. Becker emerged with Fender in hand; wordlessly, the two took seats. They are said to delight in making mincemeat of outsiders, these two. “We were ready to go blissfully through life without a manager,” said Fagen. Steely Dan continued touring well through out the 2000s and even did a tour in 2013 where they played “Aja” in its entirety. But when they deliver…they deliver. So I simply ask if he feels as though he’s in a band at all. This is primitive rock & roll energy. We have no idea who’s out there buying our records.”. Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. :>) Josie seems to be the local "go-to girl" for fun--the gal you go to for, among other various illicit acts, sex. By the time of Pretzel Logic, Steely Dan’s third album, the concept of a rock band as airtight touring-recording-touring unit had all but evaporated. Aja (1977) Any Major Dude Will Tell You (1974) Babylon Sisters (1980) Barrytown (1974) ... From "Some Day My Prince Will Come" to "Let It Go" - how Disney princess songs … All the singles and albums of STEELY DAN, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news. Suddenly, against all the odds, it’s Steely Dan fever. “Then we’ll be doing the same thing we’re doing now, except for Warner Bros.” Having just summed up the next, oh eight years of his life, Becker took another sip of Coke. Two blurry characters named Walter Becker and Donald Fagen write and construct the struct the songs, then hire highly skilled studio musicians to execute the parts. Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. Steely Dan Information. The pair are like delinquents taking an oral exam in detention. There was something vaguely disconcerting about their Eddie Haskell smiles; they were quite aware of their heinous reputations. Most recently, it was one of the most famous art critics in America, Jerry Saltz, taking a dump on the group. We don’t discourage any speculation.”, Personal harassment from the hardcore devotees has fallen off in recent years, though Becker and Fagen still reminisce about the fellow who followed them across country to retrieve “the girlfriend.” He had finally figured out what Becker and Fagen were talking about. They haven’t returned any calls in weeks. We didn’t. Becker and Fagen met in 1967 at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Steely Dan, American rock band that drew from the gamut of American musical styles to create some of the most intelligent and complex pop music of the 1970s. We weren’t making very much money and everybody wanted to be out touring a lot. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. “That cold stigma about studio hacks,” Fagen bristles, “is nonsense. “I push them so much…I do. “This is a real laugh,” he says. We found out the DBX noise reduction system we were using was not functioning properly.”. It sounded like, you know, like a black person, really." Fagen, by comparison more tanned, is wearing dark shades he will not remove. On the whole, I think this is a very rewarding thing.”. They floundered through several amateur bands — one of which was called the Bad Rock Group and included Chevy Chase on drums (“We don’t remember him,” says Fagen) — and eventually wound up playing with Jay and the Americans. “Doesn’t mean that much to me. “I certainly don’t think it’s any more commercial than any of our other albums,” he says. Becker played bass; Fagen handled keyboards and, for the first time in his life, vocals. Everybody knows Steely Dan. Steely Dan's Concert History. The band’s best-known songs included ‘Do It Again,’ ‘Reelin’ in the Years,’ and ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.’ Learn more about its history and music. “The Good Songs,” Becker decided. When he shows himself in front of the Joestar Group, Steely Dan is particularly smug and shows great confidence in his Stand. Steely Dan; the Golden Years, or I Remember Steely Dan.…“. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. The musicians enjoy getting asked to do something that’s challenging. Steely Dan Song list. “It was fun,” he resumed. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. Long before the term came to denote the shopping frenzy on the day after Thanksgiving, Steely Dan released this song about the original "Black Friday," when on Friday, September 24, 1869 a failed ploy left many wealthy investors broke. They probably don’t even realize they have a huge album.”. He cruelly kills Enya, telling her to her face that DIO ordered her execution which shook the old woman. Steely Dan became simply Walter and Donald, the journeymen be-boppers from Bard. The Beatles did it quite a bit, by their own admission. I waited in a quaintly domesticated living room, amid harmless collections of beach shells and artifacts. Staring glumly at a huge Advent video screen, Azoff brightened only at the mention of Steely Dan. Steely Dan and Steve Winwood Plot Earth After Hours Tour! Setlist Spoilers From Steely Dan's Sweet Tour. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Leslie West, Mountain Guitarist Who Belted ‘Mississippi Queen,’ Dead at 75, ‘The Little Things’ Trailer: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto Clash in Thriller, Arnold Schwarzenegger Surprises ‘Kindergarten Cop’ Cast During Virtual Reunion, Meet the Paramedic Whose OnlyFans Was Outed by the ‘New York Post’, Cameron Crowe: John Mahoney ‘Brought Joy to Every Scene’ in ‘Say Anything’, Remembering Glenn Frey: Cameron Crowe on Eagles’ Teen King. It’s a three-way effort. But the music had already taken a spectacular swing in the direction of forward-motion jazz. Three years ago, Azoff was wearing out copies of Pretzel Logic. 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