A special aloha to my cousin David Russell, the brilliant sound engineer behind Steely Dan. Their latest album, Everything Must Go, was recently released, and as always, his work is top-notch.
Dave (left) accepting a Grammy for Two Against Nature, 2000 album of the Year and several other Grammies.
Soundtrack for a Moment
Released in June 2003—just a month after Allegiance Telecom filed for bankruptcy—Everything Must Go became my personal soundtrack for that time, a fitting epilogue to those days of irrational exuberance.
And if somewhere on the way
We got a few good licks in
No one’s ever gonna know
’Cause we’re going out of business
Everything must go