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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Don't Take Me Alive (page 1/1) ------ performed by Steely Dan Donald Fagen has strange friends | Reviewer: Lynn B. Meyer | 10/3/2006 In 1979 a Portland, Oregon radio station did a show on Steely Dan and explained that the song "Don't Take Me Alive" was about a friend of Donald Fagen who had killed his parents in Eugene and refused to be arrested and holed up in his house with a gun. They didn't say whether or not he also had dynamite in that residence. I never read a story about it in the newspapers since I wasn't in Oregon at the time. Is this review helpful to you?     Yes      No Don't Take Me Alive | Reviewer: Lynn B. Meyer aka Ronald James Scheller | 9/7/2005 I am an accountant's son from Portland, Oregon. On February 13, 1973 I got in a police shootout in Seattle, WA. A search of my Ballard residence yielded a 68-stick dynamite bomb wired for detonation. Donald Fagen was from Seattle, WA. The case was highly publicized in the Seattle Times http://www.dynamitebomb.blogspot.com Is this all a coincidence? Perhaps Mr. Fagen had subconscious inspiration from the Seattle newspapers when he wrote Don't Take Me Alive. Is this review helpful to you?     Yes      No Add Your New Review About The Song