Talk:Walter Becker

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Clem Snide might have taken their name from a certain talking orifice, but Yiddish-fluent 'non-Jew Walter Becker'Bold text Italic textand authentic Hebraic rocker Donald Fagen went with the moniker of a giant dildo. 
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By admin / November 15, 2006  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.186.201.33 (talk) 05:32, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Jewish

message: "As a guitarist, Becker is known for his intelligent, tasty, rhythmically savvy playing"
This sounds like something Walter himself would write.  Zeusnoos 19:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: tasty?

message: I was browsing the internet for more information about Walter Becker, when I found this website.  As I started reading, I noticed that it was sounding very familiar.  It is exactly the same as the wikipedia article.  So my question is, who stole it from whom.  If the writer of this article stole it from that website, we should fix this.  TreeWithAChainsaw (talk) 21:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article's editting history seems to indicate that AllAboutJazz are the thieves, not Wikipedia.  RossPatterson (talk) 00:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied? 

message: There is a death notice on his official website. However there are allegations on Twitter that his site has been hacked. So awaiting official confirmation. Manning (talk) 13:31, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It is exactly how Wikipedia works. We wait for reliable sources. For example, I have no way of even knowing whether that site is his official site or not. Manning (talk) 13:36, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You might want to refer to Wikipedia's policies on "reliable sources".  Manning (talk) 13:44, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, confirmed by Rolling Stone. Manning (talk) 13:50, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

text: As a generally accepted "reliable source", I am presuming they would have confirmed it via their own channels. If not, then they are about to suffer an enormous credibility loss. Manning (talk) 14:09, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible death? 

message: I wouldn't call him a jazz guitarist. He didn't call himself that, just as he and Fagen didn't call Steely Dan jazz.–Vmavanti (talk) 02:24, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jazz? 

message: He died of esophageal cancer.  Did Becker smoke?  Thanks in advance to anybody who knows. Betathetapi454 (talk) 11:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This source says: "In an interview at the time ... he remembered the painful process of making Gaucho, exacerbated by his plunge into drug addiction and other self-destructive afflictions... "I got to the point where there was no doubt in my mind that this was never going anywhere. I just didn't want to do that yet. So I moved to Hawaii and stopped smoking, stopped drinking and stopped taking all kinds of drugs." So he did smoke, at least until about 1980. Maybe he started again later. But unless some RS sources have commented on this, it would probably be WP:OR to mention his smoking in the article? 205.239.40.3 (talk) 13:55, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Becker smoke?