THE RARE ALTERNATIVE CUTS Steely Dan s fourth studio album Katy Lied, released in 1975 by ABC Records, was certified gold and peaked at No. 13 on the US charts with the single Black Friday reaching No. 37. The record was the first after the disbandment of the original quintet; most of the original members had departed during a rift over touring and recording schedules. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who had been increasingly using session musicians in the studio on prior albums, continued on with numerous prominent Los Angeles area studio musicians. Katy Lied marks the first appearance of singer Michael McDonald on a Steely Dan album. Jeff Porcaro, then only 20 years old, played drums on all the songs bar-one, and it also marked the first appearance of Larry Carlton, who played guitar on Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More . A year later, Dan s fifth hit the stores. The Royal Scam was equally as poetic, jazz fuelled and joyously immediate as it predecessor, and critically acclaimed in similar tones of commendation, At the end of 76, Messrs Becker and Fagin appeared on college radio in New York where they played more than 80 minutes of rare outtakes and demos made during the recording of Katy Lied and Royal Scam, revealing a raft of alternative takes, obscure cuts and other studio paraphernalia