A 20 yr old Jeff Porcaro crushing that shuffle on drum. He did the whole album before jumping ship to form Toto. Though he did sessions for EVERYBODY in the 70's and 80's. One of The greats.
Steely Dan... blasting thru my Pioneer speakers, cruising Whittier blvd on a Friday night in my dropped 69 VW bug with a beautiful girl in my passenger seat headed to a party in the hills🤘🏻 Memories
Walter Becker played the lead guitar on this track. Played on a Fender Telecaster he borrowed from another guitar player in the studio. It's nasty. He will be ripping while Donald is singing as well as solo.
Coming back from a college trip to Italy, just off the ferry late at night back in the UK there was a cassette player in the hire van we were traveling in and the driver, our tutor, asked me to find a tape to put on. This was in the glove compartment. Whenever I hear this song I remember that journey, Summer '76 that was!
Just as you think you're going to hear a good swinging upbeat SDan song, Fagen hits you with "and catch the gray men when they dive from the 14th floor" lmao 🤣. This song foreshadows what themes they will tackle more on Royal Scam about the corporate greed screwing the common man and selling consumers short with their shams/scams. And you're right, this song could really swing live in concert and they would stretch it out. The horns would join in and extend the outro. Good concert tune and kind of a minor hit. You've only got a few left on Katy Lied I think and then you can backtrack to Pretzel Logic. Thanks for doing the Dan!
Right at the end you mentioned that shuffle beat. That’s the first thing you notice as the song ramps up and it never lets up. That and Walter’s blazing guitar work. Always a good day for The Dan. ✌️🔥
our band covered this tune back in the day, usually in the third set....needless to say, the crowds went absolutely nuts, and occasionally we would throw it in as an encore. Still not sure who wanted to play it more, the crowd or the band. Like they say, if you aren't moving to this one, you're either hard of hearing, or your dead!
I have heard Black Friday used to reference the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Dang, I can hear the next song in my head I've heard this album so many times!
I love you guys big time because you play my music and enjoy it. I like this presentation the best with the album cover in the middle. When it was on the right hand side it cut you off and squeezed you together. Keep up the great work.
@@leemcclements8889I've been listening to, and loving their music since their beginning. One of my all time favorite bands. And what's interesting is, I've never tried to understand the meanings of their songs. It's all about the music for me. But I'm like that with the majority of rock music. I think the musical part is what gets my brain's attention. Now someone like John Prine, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Kristofferson etc, basically leaves you no choice but to focus on the lyrics. I'm gonna start listening to some Steely Dan songs from a different perspective.
@@hog7203 start listening to it from a " dark perspective" they are one of my all time favorite bands, incredible musicians. But....a lot of songs are very drug oriented..as you may well know. Some are geared toward other issues I don't want to get into on this board, but think Babylon Sisters, Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Cousin Dupree. Brilliant stuff, yet said topics are taboo. I love analyzing their music!
I can’t believe that I never heard Michael McDonald in the chorus on this track until today (even though I know he appears on several other tracks on Katy Lied). Like everyone says, you never stop hearing new elements on a Steely Dan song…🙂 “Chain Lightning” next, please!
You guys are lucky I'm a fan. I may have saved y'all from eternal damnation. You had 666 likes, when I clicked on the video to watch it. I made it 667. It probably didn't matter, but better safe than sorry 😆 I use to always crank this tune up when it came on the radio in my car. Gave those Jenson coaxials a workout. Another excellent song and album by Steely Dan.
ONE OF MY TOP 5 STEELY SONGS YOU GUYS, JUST SOMETHINGGGG ABOUT IT!!! 😊 MY OLD SCHOOL, BAD SNEAKERS, AND OF THEIR BIGGEST HIT : RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER 😊
Rockin jazzed, leaving town, no more street lights number. Ghost Writer,Garland Jeffreys, whole album, why not, you will not regret this gentlemen, this carried me through some dark alleys, record needs to take its rightful place. Peace
Great day so far! Bit of Zep, now the Dan..yummy! Excellent point about seeing them live….4 times now is never enough…Happy Thursday to everyone…Roll Tide!
You guys haven't commented on the quality of Steely Dan from song to song. You must have heard over 20 songs. Has there been one you don't want to listen to again. Is there another band that comes close to this?
This is about an economic collapse of the Australian stock market, even before the American collapse in 1929. People were jumping out of windows then as well.
Morbid song- Black Friday was the 1869 crash from silver price manipulation- so people jumping out of the 14th floor is them watching the Wall Street suits offing themselves and deciding to just chill with the Kangaroos!
Nice Steely Dan staple trademark song. But I just watched Airplay Beats' reaction to Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand. I feel a little underwhelmed but no fair. Steely Dan is great in their own right. But Achilles Last Stand!!!!
You say it was well put together and recorded - it sounds great - but their engineer, the late Roger "The Immortal" Nichols has said that when they were recording the tracks for this album the noise reduction system they were using was affected by a local radio station's radio frequency interference which affected the calibration of the equipment. When the station stopped broadcasting and they played back the master tapes the calibration was different and it didn't sound quite right and there was nothing they could do to recover how they'd wanted it to sound - even though they tried many things to fix it. So Donald and Walter were never truly satisfied with how Katie Lied sounded. Sounds pretty good to me though!
@@kbrewski1 Hmm, I think the gist of the "initial" comment was "Dancing in 1975.." not 1993. But with that said, they played a handful of dates in 72. Then 40-50 or so per year in 73-75. One show in 77 and ONE in 78...wasn't until 93 that they went back out, and even that was spotty. Only 20 or so dates...hence my comment. But I guess "Technically" they toured, but if you weren't in CA the odds of seeing them were slim at best!
@mr.snicker-doodles7081 They stopped touring after the 1974 tour was over. Never played live in 75 as far as I know. Skunk and McDonald moved on to the Doobie Bros. I don't know anything about live concerts in 77 and 78 when Aja came out. That would be breaking news to most diehard Dan fans. I'm also puzzled by your claim that they "toured spottily or sporadically" when they restarted in 1993. They first did 2 summers of the New York Rock and Soul Revue with Boz Scaggs, McDonald etc. in 91 and 92. They played a handful of SD songs on those 2 tours. That led to the full blown reunion of Live Steely Dan touring in 1993. I was in attendance on Sept 1, 1993 in the StLouis area to hear my first Steely Dan songs played live as Steely Dan (aside from the previous year's Rock and Soul Revue show I was also at). So cool to FINALLY hear this music live after being a fan for 20 years. And to hear songs from Katy Lied, Royal Scam and Aja etc never played live before ever! Mind blowing. I just checked the setlist. There it is>>>>>Black Friday was the final track before mid concert intermission! Boooyaaa!! Looks like they played BF at every show that tour. They toured again in 1994. Then they released their 1st live album from the 93-94 tours. I missed the 96 tour, so when they toured in 2000 I made sure I saw that one when Two Against Nature was released. That was a huge tour 60 dates, 39 in the US. Great setlist that year. Between 2003 and last year Steely Dan pretty much toured every summer. Between 1993 to the pandemic, I've seen Steely Dan live over 20 times. So I don't know if you're buried in a mudslide there out in LA, but Steely Dan has toured STEADILY FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS. And I've heard Black Friday live MANY times.
@@kbrewski1 Well once again, getting back to my initial comment when I said "They didn't tour!" Which you then ignored and said "Well the were dancing in 93!" SO yes, exactly that's what Ii was saying, to most ppl's knowledge they did not tour much in the 70's, like at ALL. I think we both seem to be on that page, correct!? Well, I did some poking around and found this amazing site. Has EVERY show the ever played, along with sets lists and opening bands, take a look, pretty neat. Down in the lower Right of the opening page, you will see a list of shows they played "by year" and how many gigs they played per year. Oh, I was wrong, they did not play a single solitary show in 77, they were prolly recording Aja. Not saying this is Gospel, but It's pretty dang good! Ok, cheers! www.concertarchives.org/bands/steely-dan?year=1993#concert-table
Legs Diamond would be a better pairing on Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand day. Or some Rush Caress of Steel. Hemispheres. Nothing against Steely Dan. Achilles Last Stand needs something in the realm to bookend it. See if this guy can sing maybe: th-cam.com/video/4phPDHyFuMM/w-d-xo.html Or Triumph Street Fighter Man / Lay It On The Line / Blinding Light Show
Geezus, its not enough that they play your precious Zeppelin, now you want to control what they play AFTER Zeppelin? This isn't your personal jukebox dude, lighten up.
A 20 yr old Jeff Porcaro crushing that shuffle on drum. He did the whole album before jumping ship to form Toto. Though he did sessions for EVERYBODY in the 70's and 80's. One of The greats.
The phrase "expensive chords" is possibly the best way to describe what Steely Dan does. Perfect!
You guys are on Fire this morning!!! First "Achilles last stand" now Black Friday. Gonna be a great day!!!
No fair though. One is a true masterpiece. Guess which one?!
Lit was gonna say the same thing 🤜💥🤛
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@@Mr.Average1957call you deacon blues?
Katy Lied is my Steely Dan happy place. You can hear all three strains of their music: rock, blues and jazz. Just a fantastic blend.
Steely Dan.... some of the best jams ever recorded
Steely Dan... blasting thru my Pioneer speakers, cruising Whittier blvd on a Friday night in my dropped 69 VW bug with a beautiful girl in my passenger seat headed to a party in the hills🤘🏻
Memories
And later to Bob;s Big Boy parking lot listening to it on 8 track
I was so surprised when I found out that Walter Becker was the one playing this solo. Love it!
Walter was basically on fire during this one!
Part rock, part funk, part jazz and part R&B and ALL good!
Yeah, funky!
nothing like smoking I big fatty and putting on some Steely Dan and losing yourself...great therapy for the mind.
This was the first song I heard from Steely Dan! Loved it. It was my entrance to Steely Dan! I was maybe 9! Pretty cool!
Holy $&@! what freakin awesome lead guitar. Damn, thanks for reminding me how ridiculously great this song is!!
This is one my favorites from Steely Dan.
Thanks
Walter Becker played the lead guitar on this track. Played on a Fender Telecaster he borrowed from another guitar player in the studio. It's nasty. He will be ripping while Donald is singing as well as solo.
Yes more Steely Dan wonderful stuff love you guys
This has always been one of my absolute Steely Dan favs!
Songwriting, playing, production, engineering ... never fails with the Dan.
One of my favorites!
Coming back from a college trip to Italy, just off the ferry late at night back in the UK there was a cassette player in the hire van we were traveling in and the driver, our tutor, asked me to find a tape to put on. This was in the glove compartment. Whenever I hear this song I remember that journey, Summer '76 that was!
Man you guys have been taking me back to my childhood of all the great music my parents played lately
Love your review of my favorite band. As someone who has seen them live you're dead on. They're amazing
Just as you think you're going to hear a good swinging upbeat SDan song, Fagen hits you with "and catch the gray men when they dive from the 14th floor" lmao 🤣.
This song foreshadows what themes they will tackle more on Royal Scam about the corporate greed screwing the common man and selling consumers short with their shams/scams.
And you're right, this song could really swing live in concert and they would stretch it out. The horns would join in and extend the outro. Good concert tune and kind of a minor hit. You've only got a few left on Katy Lied I think and then you can backtrack to Pretzel Logic. Thanks for doing the Dan!
One of my favorite SD songs!
Right at the end you mentioned that shuffle beat. That’s the first thing you notice as the song ramps up and it never lets up. That and Walter’s blazing guitar work. Always a good day for The Dan. ✌️🔥
our band covered this tune back in the day, usually in the third set....needless to say, the crowds went absolutely nuts, and occasionally we would throw it in as an encore. Still not sure who wanted to play it more, the crowd or the band. Like they say, if you aren't moving to this one, you're either hard of hearing, or your dead!
Favorite SD song. love the triplets swapping between the ep's. Could listen to it 5 times in a row and just freak on the keys.
I saw them play this the last time I saw them in concert which was right before Walter Becker passed away, what a great show 👍🏻🥰
Probably the hardest rocking Steely Dan song. The vocal harmonies on the chorus are awesome!
👍🏼🎸🎼😎❤️
Love this song. Such a great vibe
More Steely Dan please! Loving your Zeppelin deep dives!
I have heard Black Friday used to reference the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Dang, I can hear the next song in my head I've heard this album so many times!
I love you guys big time because you play my music and enjoy it. I like this presentation the best with the album cover in the middle. When it was on the right hand side it cut you off and squeezed you together. Keep up the great work.
This stock market adjustment in the 1800's cost my family a million acre cattle ranch in Texas. My family's tangent was changed on that day. Oh well!
This song is about an attempt to control the gold market by investors in 1869. Never a simple tune from Steely Dan!
Gotta read between the lines with them. Always hidden meanings that you don't see on the surface!
@@leemcclements8889I've been listening to, and loving their music since their beginning. One of my all time favorite bands. And what's interesting is, I've never tried to understand the meanings of their songs. It's all about the music for me. But I'm like that with the majority of rock music. I think the musical part is what gets my brain's attention. Now someone like John Prine, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Kristofferson etc, basically leaves you no choice but to focus on the lyrics.
I'm gonna start listening to some Steely Dan songs from a different perspective.
@@hog7203 start listening to it from a " dark perspective" they are one of my all time favorite bands, incredible musicians. But....a lot of songs are very drug oriented..as you may well know. Some are geared toward other issues I don't want to get into on this board, but think Babylon Sisters, Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Cousin Dupree. Brilliant stuff, yet said topics are taboo. I love analyzing their music!
Love starting my day with some Airplay Dan! Hope you guys will keep bringin it - and more Fagen, too!
They played it both times I saw them.
Great song. MORE DAN PLEASE! ☺
This is a top 10 Steely Dan song for me! Just has a great groove to it.
Love you guys!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. More Steely Dan!!!! give it to me.....
Damn!!! You guys are killing it again today! Pure gold. Love it!!!
I can’t believe that I never heard Michael McDonald in the chorus on this track until today (even though I know he appears on several other tracks on Katy Lied).
Like everyone says, you never stop hearing new elements on a Steely Dan song…🙂
“Chain Lightning” next, please!
You guys are lucky I'm a fan. I may have saved y'all from eternal damnation. You had 666 likes, when I clicked on the video to watch it. I made it 667. It probably didn't matter, but better safe than sorry 😆
I use to always crank this tune up when it came on the radio in my car. Gave those Jenson coaxials a workout. Another excellent song and album by Steely Dan.
Thanks my friend!!!
One of my all time fav Dan songs but there’s like 50 lol
Probably their most hard-driving track. Definitely a banger.
Hands down my fav SD song from my fav reactors. Hands down. That guitar is so fire 🔥. Tx fellas!
Great thirsty Thursday tune right there. KILLER GUITAR and the key board was a rocking
Live version of this is incredible.
ONE OF MY TOP 5 STEELY SONGS YOU GUYS, JUST SOMETHINGGGG ABOUT IT!!! 😊 MY OLD SCHOOL, BAD SNEAKERS, AND OF THEIR BIGGEST HIT : RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER 😊
This is a banger!
Yes, I get it. Bliss. Freedom and bliss IS nothing left to lose.
This n Achilles might b 2 of my fav tracks ever
Rockin jazzed, leaving town, no more street lights number. Ghost Writer,Garland Jeffreys, whole album, why not, you will not regret this gentlemen, this carried me through some dark alleys, record needs to take its rightful place. Peace
Great, under appreciated album. Garland Jeffreys is all about attitude.
Great day so far! Bit of Zep, now the Dan..yummy! Excellent point about seeing them live….4 times now is never enough…Happy Thursday to everyone…Roll Tide!
Lovin that shirt!! Roll Tide!! 🐘
ROLL TIDE !🌊🌊
You guys haven't commented on the quality of Steely Dan from song to song. You must have heard over 20 songs. Has there been one you don't want to listen to again. Is there another band that comes close to this?
This is about an economic collapse of the Australian stock market, even before the American collapse in 1929. People were jumping out of windows then as well.
On the short list of nearly perfect records is "Katy Lied", gentlemen .
Was that everyone’s favorite CIA Analyst Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on the guitar solo? Someone gotta know?
CIA so if they tell you,then they will have to….we’ll you know the rest🤐😬
The lyrics are clever too
Morbid song- Black Friday was the 1869 crash from silver price manipulation- so people jumping out of the 14th floor is them watching the Wall Street suits offing themselves and deciding to just chill with the Kangaroos!
Two electric pianos, one in each ear. Noice
Walter Becker with the solo guitar. A little different than his normal solo sound.
From the ‘14th’ floor
4:10 they always fucking do thattt!
Highway music 🎵. 69 Rivera.🌄✌️
My Old School....
Nice Steely Dan staple trademark song. But I just watched Airplay Beats' reaction to Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand. I feel a little underwhelmed but no fair. Steely Dan is great in their own right. But Achilles Last Stand!!!!
You say it was well put together and recorded - it sounds great - but their engineer, the late Roger "The Immortal" Nichols has said that when they were recording the tracks for this album the noise reduction system they were using was affected by a local radio station's radio frequency interference which affected the calibration of the equipment. When the station stopped broadcasting and they played back the master tapes the calibration was different and it didn't sound quite right and there was nothing they could do to recover how they'd wanted it to sound - even though they tried many things to fix it. So Donald and Walter were never truly satisfied with how Katie Lied sounded. Sounds pretty good to me though!
Roger explains it all here th-cam.com/video/LPQ2oAZ0RnM/w-d-xo.html
You guys alright? You seem less than your usual enthusiastic selves. Anyway, ... loyal subscriber. Thanks, gentlemen.
Just because the song is about white collar crooks doesn't mean you can't dance to it. They won't mind.
I just get sucked into those phaser ep's swapping the triplets back and forth...
Walter on bass n guitar?
Phillies Hat would have been more appropriate. lol Black Fri against Dodgers Game 3 NLCS 1977.
Robert Plant?
They didn't tour! No dancing live back then...
They've been playing this song fairly frequently live since 1993. I've heard it multiple times. It gets the middle aged divorcees up dancing.
@@kbrewski1 Hmm, I think the gist of the "initial" comment was "Dancing in 1975.." not 1993. But with that said, they played a handful of dates in 72. Then 40-50 or so per year in 73-75. One show in 77 and ONE in 78...wasn't until 93 that they went back out, and even that was spotty. Only 20 or so dates...hence my comment. But I guess "Technically" they toured, but if you weren't in CA the odds of seeing them were slim at best!
@mr.snicker-doodles7081
They stopped touring after the 1974 tour was over. Never played live in 75 as far as I know. Skunk and McDonald moved on to the Doobie Bros. I don't know anything about live concerts in 77 and 78 when Aja came out. That would be breaking news to most diehard Dan fans.
I'm also puzzled by your claim that they "toured spottily or sporadically" when they restarted in 1993. They first did 2 summers of the New York Rock and Soul Revue with Boz Scaggs, McDonald etc. in 91 and 92. They played a handful of SD songs on those 2 tours. That led to the full blown reunion of Live Steely Dan touring in 1993. I was in attendance on Sept 1, 1993 in the StLouis area to hear my first Steely Dan songs played live as Steely Dan (aside from the previous year's Rock and Soul Revue show I was also at). So cool to FINALLY hear this music live after being a fan for 20 years. And to hear songs from Katy Lied, Royal Scam and Aja etc never played live before ever! Mind blowing.
I just checked the setlist. There it is>>>>>Black Friday was the final track before mid concert intermission! Boooyaaa!!
Looks like they played BF at every show that tour. They toured again in 1994. Then they released their 1st live album from the 93-94 tours.
I missed the 96 tour, so when they toured in 2000 I made sure I saw that one when Two Against Nature was released. That was a huge tour 60 dates, 39 in the US. Great setlist that year.
Between 2003 and last year Steely Dan pretty much toured every summer. Between 1993 to the pandemic, I've seen Steely Dan live over 20 times.
So I don't know if you're buried in a mudslide there out in LA, but Steely Dan has toured STEADILY FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS. And I've heard Black Friday live MANY times.
@@kbrewski1 Well once again, getting back to my initial comment when I said "They didn't tour!" Which you then ignored and said "Well the were dancing in 93!"
SO yes, exactly that's what Ii was saying, to most ppl's knowledge they did not tour much in the 70's, like at ALL. I think we both seem to be on that page, correct!? Well, I did some poking around and found this amazing site. Has EVERY show the ever played, along with sets lists and opening bands, take a look, pretty neat. Down in the lower Right of the opening page, you will see a list of shows they played "by year" and how many gigs they played per year. Oh, I was wrong, they did not play a single solitary show in 77, they were prolly recording Aja. Not saying this is Gospel, but It's pretty dang good! Ok, cheers!
www.concertarchives.org/bands/steely-dan?year=1993#concert-table
@@kbrewski1 Haa, I knew it. No reply...
Typical great Steely Dan tune.
Bout time u upgraded yr wardrobe....ROLL TIDE ...
Legs Diamond would be a better pairing on Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand day. Or some Rush Caress of Steel. Hemispheres. Nothing against Steely Dan. Achilles Last Stand needs something in the realm to bookend it. See if this guy can sing maybe:
th-cam.com/video/4phPDHyFuMM/w-d-xo.html Or Triumph Street Fighter Man / Lay It On The Line / Blinding Light Show
Geezus, its not enough that they play your precious Zeppelin, now you want to control what they play AFTER Zeppelin?
This isn't your personal jukebox dude, lighten up.
Great morning y'all! Killin it🔥🤘✌
Not one of my personal SD favourites, but the Extraordinary Men Of The Groove⟨™⟩ never disappoint.
What wc1994 said x 10!!!!