In the new CNN documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the actor’s musical talents on the drums and piano were showcased—and a pretty big tidbit was dropped about his past. As Steely Dan’s “My Old School” played, viewers got a look at Chase’s years at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y, in the mid-1960s. It was then revealed that Chase was in a college jazz band with musicians Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
Fagen once talked about sharing the stage with Chase in an interview with Undercover’s Paul Cashmere. “He was a fellow student when Walter and I were at college in New York State. He was a pretty good drummer,” Fagen recalled.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the band went by multiple names. At the 1967 Halloween party, they were known as the Leather Canary. In addition to playing the Rolling Stones’ “Dandelion” and Moby Grape’s ”Hey Grandma,” the college band performed a few original songs, presumably penned by Fagen and Becker.
“We started Steely Dan, basically,” Chase claimed. “I was [Fagen’s] first drummer, and I loved it. We started at Bard College. I can’t remember the name of the little place that people would go and play guitars and sing. And we called ourselves The Very Bad Jazz Band. That was literally our name.”
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