Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion | Unveiling Steely Dan: Engineer Roger Nichols’ Daughter Shares Inside Scoops (Part One)

Vinyl Community Podcasts · Aug 9, 2023 · 34m

Hello and welcome to another Audio Excursion!

Roger Nichols was educated in Nuclear Physics and worked as an operator at a Nuclear Plant in California with the acronym SONGS. Ironically after just a few years in that industry, he threw it all away to learn how to become a Recording Engineer. He became the recording engineer for Steely Dan by luck as they wanted to record some material for Gary Katz of ABC Records, but the only engineer around was Roger Nichols. And the rest, as they say, is history. A tight knit group of professional musicians joined the production team and the band. Roger…