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Hey guys!! An awesome Friday checking out some more Steely Dan!! So what are ya’ll feelin’, Deacon Blues or Hey Nineteen next?!?! 🙌🏻🔥
‘A’ but not ‘and A’
Listened to Bodhisattva
Yet it still needs played
Both are great songs, but I’d say go to Deacon Blues next.
HSCC just did a great cover of Hey Nineteen. th-cam.com/video/bpdjciHPfg8/w-d-xo.html
Definitely Deacon Blues....please😎
@@lisamorrison2149 I agree, Deacon Blues
Next Steely Dan : ‘FM’. No static at all.
Great one!
We have a winner! FM.
My favorite these days
Good song, but I'd prefer King Of The World, also from CTE.
Yes, I love that groove, but there are different versions of the song: one featuring a sax solo, one featuring an electric guitar solo, and a shorter radio version. Don't do the radio version! After that, it's hard to say which is better.
"ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU...." This is a great song...!
One of my favs!!
Classic hit.
a favorite of mine
YES SIR THANK YOUUUUU
They do a reaction to AMDWTY. It was my first time seeing these two react in. fact. I’m only here because I decided to see what else from the ‘Dan they react to.
“California tumbles into the sea...” (followed by tumbling sax line). Steely Dan in 4 bars. Outstanding.
That baritone sax so makes this song, gawd it makes me smile and giggle at times.
Of course they did. Perfection.
“Don’t Take Me Alive” - Larry Carlton at his finest.
Kid Charlemagne is better.
@@andrewtrotter9023 I like them both. On another day I probably would have said “Kid Charlemagne”.
@@lesleypalmer4295 I do too. Larry Carlton is great.
Love, love that freakin’ song!!
This song was Skunk Baxter wasn't it?
Check the rhymes! "Remember" with "Septmeber"; "Oleander" with "I can't stand her"; "California" with "tried to warn ya"!!!
Love the rhymes! 🌟❤️. "The oleander growing outside your door" ... I always loved it but it wasn't until this year that I understood what he was saying. Haha. I heard the word but didn't fully understand. I think back then I didn't know what the oleander was. Haha🌿🌿. Long leaf shrub/ plant.
I can't think of anything that rhymes with Sept Meber
Also don't edit your typo Pete. Your heart will go away
Cool 🤯
@@susanklasinski1805 Wise ass!
The "Old School" referred to in this song is Bard College in Annandale, New York, where Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met. The song is at least partially inspired by an event that occurred at Bard, where both Becker and Fagen, along with their girlfriends, were arrested in a pot raid on a party that was orchestrated by an ambitious young District Attorney named G. Gordon Liddy (hence the line "Tried to warn ya about Geno and Daddy G"). Despite the fact that California has not (yet) tumbled into the sea, both Fagen and Becker have returned to Bard.
I went to Bard, and yup. This is our anthem.
Annandale-on-Hudson. And right next door is Barrytown where they do things very strange.
Thank you, I couldn't remember some of the specific details
this is interesting
had no idea they were Bard brats.
@@61hink funny.
always thought this was referring to someplace in CA
If you dig guitar centric songs, you have to give "Bodhisattva " a listen.
Yes, yes, yes!
Definitely. I hadn't listened to that in a while so I checked it out today. Andy is going to freak.
@@MrDarkMagnus I'm pretty sure I heard Andy say he's already heard Bodhisattva, BUT, he CAN show it to Alex on music share Monday.😉
Bodhisattva and Reeling in the Years.
@@cl8onj388 really? Man, I just thought that he likes that fast picking guitar playing. Alex had mentioned that it's his style of playing as well.
Stop procrastinating. "Don't take me alive." After hearing Larry's initial filty chord slip into the intro guitar solo, you'll know you chose wisely.
Can you picture the audition for that solo? No one could come close to matching that! So many YT guitarists can play it these days.
@@Tarkus7 They can play it, but they couldn't WRITE it.
As I've watched this channel, I kept thinking
"Why the Hell haven't they reacted to My Old School?"
It has everything! Awesome vocals, harmony, great lead guitar, and amazing sychopated brass. One of my favorite songs ever.
"Josie" is to jazz-rock what "Just What I Needed" is to new wave--the perfect pop song with all the musical ingredients of that genre packed in.
Best line for me was "California tumbles into the sea, that'll be the day I go back to Annendale"
and how the horns and keyboard play the arpeggio to mimic that.
Here's Fagan on the bust:
”These were the days when there was a ‘war on longhairs,’ as they used to call it, and Bard’s in this kind of rural district. They picked up about 50 kids just at random. There were a few warrants, and one was for me, which was based totally on false testimony. They handcuffed our hands behind our backs and put us in a paddy wagon and took us off to the Dutchess County Jail. They took all of the boys, about 35 of us, most with really long hair, and shaved our heads. I remember some of them were crying. I don’t think any of them had seen their head for three or four years. It didn’t make that much difference to me. But it was scary, you know? To hear the cell-block door slam shut, the whole business with the handcuffs and the paddy wagon. I’d never been arrested or put in jail before.
”I asked them to bail my girlfriend out. She had nothing to do with this and was just visiting me. And they refused to do it. So when graduation time came I protested by not going. My case had already been dismissed-they had withdrawn the charges, actually. So I was sitting on a bench in front of Stone Row with my father and lawyer, just watching the graduation. A lot of the students were also angry because apparently the school had let an undercover policeman be planted in the building and grounds department. Their cooperation with the investigation was despicable.”
Great context. Thank you for the post.
Thanks for the great context!
@Michael that is an amazing quote for context, thank you for posting! I kinda worked out what the song was about over 20yrs of listening to it ;) but I didnt know it was Fagen's direct experience.
Yep, that’s the way it was.
Listen to kid charlemane about owsley
Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive, Home at Last, Babylon Sisters, Time out of Mind
Or just the entirety of Aja - best record ever produced.
Many of the other tracks on various albums may not be catchy "pop" tunes but there are a lot of gems in the SD catalog .....consider the sadness and regret of "Charlie Freak" ... I think of it as a dark Christmas-time tale replete (ironically) with bells....you hear them and are reminded of a wet snow heavily falling on a busy lampost-lit Manhattan street covered with dirty slush, full of people rushing about but everyone alone..... the arrangement is unbelievable !
Time Out of Mind never got enough love.
In my opinion, Aja and Madman Across The Water from Elton are the best recorded albums sonically speaking.
Oh my, yes. Would someone please do Babylon Sisters.
@@Crazywater1976 Yes....I have some 96khz/24bit tracks of some (early) Elton John.... the magic is in the dynamic range that those songs possess...not like today's "Wall of Sound" mastering techniques
Prediction: You’re gonna love Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter’s solo work and outro noodling on this. Also, you’ll think the horns are great. Wish I was hearing this for the first time!
Couldn't even wipe the smile off Andy's face!😁😁😁
Skunk Baxter's best solo.
That outro solo…
Why did STEELY DAN’s Fagen & Becker write such amazing lyrics? They both cared enormously for literature... reading doesn’t just make one a great conversationalist... it’s why their phrasing is just so damn good.
I'm still campaigning for "Don't Take Me Alive" or 'FM". Each of these songs has everything you could ask for in a Steely Dan song: Great writing, musicianship, guitar work etc.,... I could go on...
And “FM” has bongos😎
my objection is do the early stuff first.
FM is so fire
My vote is for “FM”. It’s such a groove!
Don't Take Me Alive is soooo tasty! Possibly the best opening guitar solo for a song, ever!
And on that guitar? Jeff “Skunk” Baxter.
My ex-Boss’ wife used to be Skunk’s old lady, I even got invited to his son Fender’s wedding. But I couldn’t go. 😞 .
Just a nuclear physicist whose normal day job is at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA.
Baxter was in the Doobie Bros. for awhile and he brought in Michael MacDonald. He played at my local library when I was in high school. The school band had a field trip to watch him demonstrate a Chapman Stick, which has both bass and standard guitar strings. Baxter played bass and guitar parts as he jammed with his drummer.
Boddisattva ..I know I'm not spelling it right but it's a great pumped up Steely Dan Jam where the instrumentalists get to show off
one of the best mustaches in rock and roll.
Next recommended Steely Dan song:
“FM (No Static at All)”
I think the guys will REALLY like “FM”!
So fortunate to have had 40+ years appreciating these guys. Arguably The most prolific/creative/original/musically sophisticated-yet accessible song-writing team in Pop music history. Don’t neglect their newest stuff and Fagen’s solo projects also guys, you won’t be disappointed!!
At last!!! What a great banger. Steely Dan with guitars and horns a-blazin'. Historical note in the lyrics: Daddy G is G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame, then a local prosecutor in New York. Now...onward to "Don't Take Me Alive"...
I think the only way to solve this dilemma is to do a "dual" or even a "duel" reaction video to "Hey, Nineteen" AND "Deacon Blues" in the same sitting. Play them both then duke it out! Could be lots of fun for you and us!
Great idea!
@@manualboyca The idea of a "Steely Dan-off" makes me excited.
I like this idea
Forget all that. Go with "Caves of Altamira" and have a great day!
Love it...both great songs.
The backing vocals on their tracks are SOOOO underrated !! They are equivalent to instruments in their own right
"Different from other Steely Dan songs, but so Steely Dan." Exactly.
Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter’s work on this song is soooo good. Though he is most known for his years with the Doobie Brothers his solo work on various artists albums is a testament to his talent. You guys also need to listen to ‘Dirty Work’ . Definitely another Steely Dan classic. 😀
Oh yes, fully agree... Dirty Work... Great slow song, but a bit sad. Staying in a place where you know you should not.
"Dirty Work" is another cool jam!
Baxter was an original bandmate of Steely Dan. He stuck around for a while.
He had a monthy column in guitar player magazine for many years
Themistokles Theodosopoulos nope, not original member, but a frequent collaborator after the full band was dissolved.
My favourite Dan song, EVER! Looking forward to this.
Steely Dan is the ultimate groove machine. I can't think of one bad or mediocre song they've made.
I’ve seen Steely Dan 3 times and this is the song that always gets the audience up on their feet and the place rocking!
The "you" in the lyrics is Dorothy White, Fagen's girlfriend from Bard College. She painted the cover of this album.
Wow 🤯
Thank you! I enjoy these nuggets in the comment section.
Yeah cool info. Hope she's still not a "working girl" college tuition loans can be a beast! 😉 🤙😎
And "35 sweet goodbyes" refers to oral sex performed by the girlfriend on the boyfriend before he parts. Yes, really. And the Wolverine is name of the train going up to Annandale in upstate New York.
peter filling in the lines as usual.
This song is one of the pinnacles of human artistic achievement.
Alex demonstrating the guitar tone....MORE OF THIS TYPE OF CUTAWAY PLEASE! Would love to see you guys dig deeper into educating listeners!
Agreed... As a music lover but technical music idiot I found it quite educational.
Came here to say this! As an amateur musician for 45+ years, I'm a sucker always for this stuff (Rick Beato's channel is the master class in this, his "What Makes This Song Great" series, check it out if you haven't, he's great....)
I love you guys - you have a great attitude and your friendship shines through! Plus, you really understand and appreciate the music.
I’m really looking forward to the full Aja album react. Complete with leather chairs, cigars, and bourbon. Remember, “Steely Dan sounds like leather smells.” What a great line.
Better change the flavor to scotch..."drink scotch all night long" (from Deacon Blues).
Home At Last is top 5 of my favorite SD songs and I have their entire discography including solo albums
Jeff Skunk Baxter was still working as a guitar customizer at Valley Sound in LA when Steely Dan recorded this song. He made this guitar himself from a maple tree he cut down, fretted it himself, the works. Walter Becker told Baxter to plug it directly into the console, and that's what they did.
What a close poll. Glad for you the My Old School squad prevailed, Pete
@@susanklasinski1805 The best You Tube cover band, HSCC, did a Steely Dan yesterday! th-cam.com/video/bpdjciHPfg8/w-d-xo.html
@@peterquinones3522 Pretty good! I also clicked on the suggestion for Reeling In the Years cover of Pretzel Logic at Daryl's House and watched that too
Awesome 🤯
Baxter is also a self-taught missile defense expert that has been contracted for work with the Defense Department, NASA and several intelligence agencies as well as many civilian defense contractors.
'70's music was sometimes described as "the search for the perfect guitar lick". Skunk Baxter totally nails that lick here. Just great stuff!!!!
FINALLY!! Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter slays on those solos. That fade out kills me and I would kill to hear the full take on this. Bodhisattva that kicks off this album is another one of my all-time favorites, too.
Ahem, Jeff....
ask Rick Beato about how they made that guitar sound. He would know. :)
Wow! I hope you love this song as much as I do. To this day I cannot resist cranking the volume on it.
Hey 19 is Awesome!! Going to listen to it right now.
Leonid and Friends covered this song to perfection! Give that a listen!
Just incredible with Sergei on lead guitar!
This is one of my faves, of any artist. FM and Deacon Blues, when you get to them, will become favorites.
Two of their best songs among many.
Steely Dan you’ll like-
Haitian Divorce
Bodhisattva
Green Earrings
Pretzel Logic
Just type out the entire Steely Dan discography. They are that good
I was watching for your reaction after "California...tumbled into the sea" then the damn run!! Yas!! HA! I love Steely Dan, they are so raw and real and they write about their life. Bard College, going out to Los Angeles, then them being nostalgic for the old college days in Annandale. So cool.
Andy’s face for the guitar solos were the same ones from 25 or 6 to 4 😂
Great song! For a real banger and more stunning guitar virtuosity from Denny Dias and Jeff Skunk Baxter check out BODHISATTVA from this same album. Thanks
Seconded!
Agreed.
Bodhisattva is my favorite Dan song. That's saying a lot!
Been requesting Bodhisattva for ages
Add Boston Rag
When you have “Skunk” Baxter, Denny Diaz, and Walter Becker all playing guitar on the same track, amazing things are going to happen!!
yep, see Baxter playing after the Dan with the Doobies, great stuff!
Let me try again. I just finished 4- 12 hour days working in Covid ICU. Tried to sleep and just couldn't get there. Turned you guys on and I felt alright. Drifted back to1974ish. I was in my room joint rolled, incense burning and hoping my parent wouldn't come in telling me to turn the music down. Such good music to take anyone away. Thanks guys. Deacon Blues is quintessential SD and just so damn good.
Finally, finally, finally. Been waiting for you guys to hear this. My favorite song by my favorite band. Such a fun song. Glad you liked it.
"...California... tumbles into the sea..." I remember that was something we all used to think was going to happen any day!
Saw them do this in Arizona in 94...when they said this line, the crowd cheered really loud! Great memory!
So MANY Great Steely Dan Songs... This Is One of Everyones Faves for Sure! Enjoy It Guys ))) ))) )))
Great review guys. Good stuff. Steely Dan can never be put in a box. Their musical history is incredibly eclectic and varied. Never know what's coming or, quite what the lyrics mean. If you want to hear a real head-scratcher, try "Throw Back The Little Ones" from Katy Lied.
You can't be in a bad mood when listening to that song! My fave Steely Dan.
Yesss! Looking forward to Hey 19, Deacon Blues, Don't Take Me Alive, FM, Babylon Sisters, Doctor Wu, Josie, Haitian Divorce… so many more!
For a total ‘nother flavor of Steely Dan, but yet still very “Dan”, you HAVE TO listen to ‘The Royal Scam’.
The entire album
Title track is killer.
The Royal Scam (the song) has an “edging” effect. You feel a climax coming but it never comes.
So... when will the “Babylon Sisters” get a turn or from another poll “Hey Nineteen”.... seriously good stuff🎸 cheers fellas🥃.
I bootlegged a live version of Babylon Sister years ago on videotape, it might have been from Austin City Limits. It was utterly outstanding live, such a groove.
The "Old School" referred to in this song is Bard College in Annendale, New York, where Donald Fagen and Walter Becker met.
Excellent. Can't get enough Steely Dan. This is one of their best. "Aja" should be on your list to hear soon.
Just cant believe AJA has been overlooked
Greatest sax riff of all time as California tumbles into the sea.
Everytime i hear this song i think this 7:33 is a masterpiece!! An army of musicians, hand mixed in the old eight track studio. Phenomenal! Just masterful musicianship and production
One of my two favorite Dan songs. Love the baritone sax.
One of my all time favorite Steely Dan songs. If you haven't already...you really need to listen to their song Bodhisattva, especially if youre into the drums, as I know you are :) On the same album and I think it will blow your minds! Happy Listening!
One of mine too!
YES, Bodhisattva!
My favorite song by this artist. Hope it resonates the same way.
This is definitely one of their more fun, upbeat songs.
There is still so much more from these guys.
I think Anondale is the home of Bard.College where Don and Walter met.
Great Album. Old School is great. But do Show Biz Kids cause they Don't give a fuck about anybody else
Cuz they’re making movies of themselves
right. been pushing for this one for awhile
Good morning! The gents will love this one! I am having an enjoyable work morning while watching Monterey Pop Festival 1967
You may be cool, but you’ll never be Department of Defense Technology consultant, bassist for Jimi Hendrix, guitarist for Steely Dan and Doobie Bros, nickname ‘Skunk’, and have a muppet designed after you cool!
@@stevegosper8568 So true!
JIMI!!
@@jimd7260 He lit that guitar on fire!!!!!
Next Steely: "Time Out Of Mind"
...honestly, Alex-I mean we ARE talking about Steely Dan so, yes: (practically speaking) ALL of their tunes (nearly) are great (and, WITHOUT QUESTION, far beyond the creative and constructive echelons of MOST (if not all) other bands/musicians!), HOWEVER, with THAT context in mind: "Deacon Blues" is, actually, one of the weaker songs in their catalogue. (...esp. from [meaning: "out of"] the "major radio bangers." It was a rock radio staple, along with the majority of the AJA album and tons of their other songs, in the '70s, '80s *, even, into the '90s).
>>>Yes, some people (for whatever reason) love it and I am not "anti-" the song, however, as a song-writer, I can tell you: It is one of their "B-grade" compositions. (And Fagen and Becker have confirmed this, over the years, as well.). 👍
...Steve Gadd's world-altering drum solo and -breaks in the title-track "Aja" [which he was so stoned on H, at the time he recorded, or soon after; that he, literally, forgot he played them! - Great story, actually!!!!!! 😛🤪] are, far more important listening experience. ...So are tracks such as: "Don't Take Me Alive", "The Royal Scam" or "The Caves Of Altamira"
...or the fan-favorite "secret" track:
"Night By Night" [an out-and-out BANG-ERRRRRR!!!!!, from them; on which an 18 or 19 year-old Jeff Porcaro [GODS rest his soul - we still miss you, Jefff!!!!! 😭😭😭😭🤘🤘] came in and cut the drum track in one take! [Pretzel Logic is, also, where the original band broke-up (Yes. there WAS an entire BAND; NOT, just, Becker and Fagen!!!!! 😡🙄🤦♂️🤷), they stopped touring after the Pretzel Logic tour and became a "studio only" band (...which they remained until the early '00s and their return to live performance and recording!) ...as MOST, casual, fans, now, think of them/know them/knew them in their heyday.] or:
"Home At Last" (featuring Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and his legendary "Purdie shuffle." 👍👍👍👊🤘🤘👍 - although, I think if you want to hear Mr. PURDIE at the top of his game, you need to go listen to ANOTHER artist and an unknown, "deep cut" album track by: Daryl Hall & John Oates [generally, but incorrectly, referred to as, simply: 'Hall & Oates.']:
"Everytime [sic] I Look At You"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🧡🧡🧡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘👊👊👊👊👊⚡☝🌩 - Most people shit themselves ("in a good way," as the saying goes. 😛😜😋😉🤘🤘🤘) when they hear it. It is bad-ass to the Nth degree and with more "bad" and "ass" than most can imagine! -NO JOKE!
...Also:
"Any Major Dude Will Tell You",
"Black Friday",
"Haitian Divorce",
"Any World (That I'm Welcome To)",
"Everything You Did",
"Babylon Sisters"
[but "Time Out Of Mind" -a love song to heroin, literally.- is a much better song, & more of a fun listen, overall, too. 👍👍]
...I guess: "Bodhisattva", as well.
...you guys already DID "Josie" right??? (Sorry. I'm forgetting, now....) [If not: STEP ON IT. NOW!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘]
-Also, the guitar solos in this song are all by one of the 2 original guitarists in the band: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Well, that unfairly, cuts out Walter Becker, who was a BRILLIANT, brilliant guitarist (and started playing the guitar, again, on Pretzel Logic and forward -basically, 'cause they discovered Chuck Rainey and with Chuck there??? ...there was NO reason, WHATSOEVER for him, to ever entertain, sitting behind the bass guitar again, PERIOD! [NOT that "he sucked," or something...Just: Rainey is THAT, fucking, GOOD! 🤘🤘👍👊👊👊] (Becker had taken on the bassist role in the original line-up, because they had 2 brilliant guitarists in the fold and no bassist. He didn't need to compete/fight for space.)-).
Skunk rips all of the solos in this cut (and they are mind-bogglingly good!).
...In early Steely Dan stuff, all of the guitars are performed by, either: Jeff Baxter or Denny Dias ...and, often, they share (unless another guest-performer is named in the credits ...I, personally, can't think of any such instances on the first 2 Dan albums. 👍)
...as on: "Do It Again" (where Dias does the electric sitar solo and Skunk does a, later, shorter, electric guitar solo (among other solos)). A good "general rule," for Skunk and Denny is: ...if you hear a note being bent (or having vibrato or trills used), that's not Denny (he never used those -an old-school jazz thing, mainly, I think... 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤦), it's Skunk.
...Also: for the most part: Skunk always plays with a pick and Denny does so much less often.
Even when the band became "an orchestra of whoever they wanted" and Larry Carlton became a major contributor on guitar, Denny and Walter were, still, also, playing parts and contributing solos, as well.
[On GAUCHO, Becker (even in the throes of heroin addiction, basically) contributes a good deal of the guitar work. ....]
Denny Dias was, really, the only founding member, besides, Becker and Fagen, who stayed with the band and contributed to almost every Steely Dan album. 👍🔥🔥
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter wanted to be a touring musician and departed when he heard Becker and Fagen announce that the band would be a non-touring outfit (after the Pretzel Logic tour).
HE is, generally, more well-known/better-recognized for his NEXT gig (although he had been a session player for years -as had all of the other original members of Steely ...save, Dias, I believe 🤷♂️🤷♂️- and had done sessions with the song-writing team of Becker and Fagen for years, in N.Y.C., prior to any notion of any band!):
"Skunk" ended-up becoming a member of: the Doobie Brothers (that's RIIIIGGGGHHT! 😁😁🤘🤘) -whom he had, already, done some session work for!- ...with his role, there, increasing after Tom Johnston got ill, for a while (leading to the addition of Michael McDonald and the 2nd wave of the band) ...but "Skunk" had been there already (I forget if Jeff JOINED the Doobies on The Captain & Me album, or if THAT album was the last album he contributed to as a session musician, for them 🤷♂️🤷♂️).
...so, that's more of "the long and the short of it." 😜😛😋
(I'm pretty sure I've left out SOME things I had wanted to mention ---- there is always SO much, that I nearly always SEEM to! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤷♂️🙄🤦♂️😛 ...but, o.k. ....Here we are! ....)
...ah: "forgotten elements" (from prior post):
"Annandale" is, in fact, Annandale-On-Hudson; an upstate N.Y. town which is home to: Bard College (where Becker and Fagen went to school and first met
-Fagen studying literature and Becker, music (as I believe I recall - I may be off on either one of those, as well ....but forgive me if so & I do not BELIEVE that I am (currently!)).
Fagen has, famously, never revealed the reason(s) for his dig at his alma mater in this song, but you can, practically, hear him/the deliverer of the vocal, sneer in the lyrics.
Facts. 👍
...Just like "Rikki" (from "Rikki, Don't Lose That Number" -Miss Rikki Ducornet [Yes. A real, actual, person. 👍👍]), the events in this tale are based on real events and real occurrences, but, as with All Steely Dan lyrics: they can be read/heard at LEAST 2 ways! ...and, even when "forthcoming" or "kind," generally, may, also (simultaneously) possess/masquerade: vitriol, irony, even cynicism...
(not always Fagen's or Becker's ...but the character's whom they were writing about or the situations those persons find themselves in.
Also, often, while employing elements from real life, the song;s narrative is only EMPLOYING reality, NOT "reflecting" it (as most hip-hop writers tend to do -or CLAIM to do.want to be SEEN as (likely) doing, anyway! 😛🤘🤘-), directly. You get it?? )
@T Andra: I like your [writing] style. Parentheses are the gateway to knowledge. Thanks for the excellent exposition. 😃
@@tedcole9936 I, very much, appreciate that, sir!
-Indeed: I was (rather frequently, I believe, even!) told that: I "over-parenthesized" (yet: understood the usage of parentheses and parenthetical statements, simultaneously!😛😋🤷🤷😂), in my writing
...from grade-school onwards.
🤪
-The truth is that: I do not, really, consider "writing comments" (in any internet forum, whatsoever!), actually, "writing"!
...Neither does anyone else (not consciously) - Rare would be an individual who does.
...or is able to compose and review and correct as one must with a good piece of writing!
-I believe what the overuse and sub-sub-sub "fractionalization," et al. allows me to do (Why I tend to do it, pretty continually), is that:
It allows me to "write" as I speak, essentially
(-well: as I might if I were, actual lly, NOT "conversing," but: teaching/lecturing, relating information, after which, I would be waiting for further questions/a response. 🤷🤷
-But, yes: I tend to, just, "drop things in" as I remember them -often stimulated by something that I, myself, just said (wrote) or something that the words or what I eas thinking at the time, made me recall/realize that reference should be made to.
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...since I rarely, ever, get a response from anyone ...I tend to ... 🤷🤷 I dunno ..."just do whatever" and, as the saying has been reconnoitered from its (now common) use in hip-hop: "drop knowledge.".
I "tend" to have a lot of it. 👍👍👍😁
-Oh, it also permits me to slip in "various smart-ass asides"/"comments" (which, yes: I would, likely, also have done, if speaking to you - although not necessarily.😛😋😉🤷🤷).
This bit, in fact (in comparison to many of my statements/presentations, "overall."), is, somewhat ..."restrained," even!
...I appreciate that you learned something from and that you did, or did not, exactly; found its "style" enjoyable (or annoying, but ploughed-through despite that!😋👍👍).
Again: Happy to hear.
Am, fully, willing to answer (or attempt to) any questions or "I wonder..."s you might have (regarding: this song. Steely Dan or anything else musical, whatsoever.!! 🤘🤘)
Cool.👍
T
@ T Andra: I’ve heard it said that there is nothing which might be healthily consumed or imbibed that would not be toxic if taken to excess…. I have myself been accused of employing an excess of parenthetical phrases, and I have become conscious of this (but still retain the core impulse) when writing informally. I’ve also noticed that some artists are rewarded for specifically pushing beyond accepted constraints or norms (Thomas Wolfe comes to mind) to pursue their natural style without inhibition. Indeed, you are such an artist. Good stuff, thanks again!
@@tedcole9936 Agreed 100%, Mr. Cole.
Yes. Yes. Yes. & Yes.
[I *DO* ascribe to (and BELIEVE POWERFULLY!) the statement that:
"You've got to know the rules before you can break the rules."
...inherently implied in this (yet ignored or unseen by most who use said phase or, rather: MISuse it!) is the idea that: If one is UNAWARE that one IS breaking a rule, OR: WHY one is doing it, or is doing so SIMPLY to "spite" the rule, itself!???: Then one is not
...advancing anything, "breaking-new-ground," innovating and, certainly, is not IMPROVING anything.
-I am referring, mainly, to art and artistic use and development, here (just to clarify)-
Wolfe did all of those.
A large majority of those who "stumble into" a broken rule (which makes things simpler/more conducive for them, circumstantially.... 🤦), really, do NOT.
...but claim the right and the "innovation."
You can't, actually, innovate if you don't understand what or how you are innovating, in fact.]
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DEACON BLUES! Was listening to it yesterday on a long drive and thought of you guys.
You should do "The Last Waltz" and "Stop Making Sense" the two best concert films/documentaries ever made.
"Jimi Plays Monterey".
ENDORSE! Both are on Amazon Prime right now
God. Yes on TLW!
Yes yes yes. Stop Making Sense wins that contest! But last waltz is great
Don't Take Me Alive for next Steely Dan Song!
YESSSS! I’ve been waiting so long for this!!
That’s my favorite SD song. Have you done Black Friday? That’s next then Deacon Blues.
Easily my favorite Steely Dan song and one of my top ten of all time. Give it a few more listens and it will continue to get better. The horns and guitar work are incredible.
How do you guys not have ten times the subscribers? The most intelligent and entertaining reactions on the Tube.
A lot of people have their favorite, Steeley Dan, guitar solo but this is one everyone forgets about.
wait on those two drive Alex crazy and go with "Doctor Wu" def one of their finest
Hey Nineteen is such a hot track. Deacon Blues has a similar vibe, but you can’t really go wrong.
Love how their "band" was whomever they wanted on a particular song. In this case I loved Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on guitar.
I appreciate the intelligent breakdown of some of my favorite songs. Gives a new perspective of what I have taken for granted for a long time. Mucho gracias!
Show Biz Kids....Rick Derringer on slide guitar.....BANGER!!!
King Of The World also kicks ass!!!
Steely Dan is like watching the insides of a Rolex watch, everything smooth, polished and done to the highest standards with absolutely no emotion or feeling.
What a great analogy.
I'd disagree with no emotion, but very repressed, with a sneer, sonic film noir.
The three guitar solos are fire💥🔥💥🔥
I heard Steely Dan in concert a few years ago in Boston. Steely Dan at this point meant Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and backup musicians and singers. Donald Fagen said he and Walter hadn't planned to include this song in their setlist but the band insisted that they had to include this song for the great guitar solos. 👍
The consummate studio masters! Not a single wasted note. Every single instrument and vocal considered and vetted carefully before the final mix is rendered. That is Steely Dan.
Steely Dan created more "S" songs than any band ever.
Steely Dan is great, but for me it's Rush.
@@carlgibbons5777 Both
Works for me! lol
Uh? No.
@@mattdepinto7959 Perfectly stated Matt!
Countdown To Ecstasy doesn’t have a clunker on it...great choice today!
Same with “The Royal Scam”.
@@mikewritz yep
@@mikewritz I dunno ... The Fez is pretty weak.
@@keithdixon6595 I agree but like most Steely songs that don’t stick at first, the more you listen the more you appreciate it.
Show biz kids !!! Wouldn’t that be something that they reacted to showbiz...🔥🔥
Andy, there are lots of YT sites that have videos to the guitar solos to SD songs, so you can see exactly how it's being played. Makes a world of difference once you see them.
My favorite Steely Dan tune.
Hey Nineteen. Loved it at 19, and lived it at 40. Smugly, I report that she left my ex-husband 4 months after the divorce... it’s a great little ditty of a song!
I had my hey19 when i was hey50. Women keep your hubbies away from 19 yr ol chicks, homewreckers.
Deep Purple Space Truckin' . Just reminding you. It's time. ;)
Wooooohoooooo! Just asked you guys yesterday when you were going to get to this one. Finally! I love this song and am so happy you guys reacted to it. I knew you'd both like it a lot. Thanks for making my night lol.
Love you guys for over a year and love watching y'alls progression. I've turned multiple friends on to you!!
This is a cool song. I can just see Donald and Walter at Bard College in upstate New York. Great times there I bet.
They attended there with Chevy Chase and the three of them were in a band together. By all accounts it was a shitty band, but the parties must have been something..
"Loved the horns"? Time to get back to CHICAGO
How about some Tower of Power?
1 of my Top 5 Steely Dan songs, thank you for putting it up!
Hey guys, you had "Countdown to Ecstasy" right there, and "Bodhisattva" is a banger of an album-opener track, one of the best ever laid down!!
I *love* the Steely Dan heavy-ironic stuff, like "Pretzel Logic," but it's a rare when such a straight-ahead optimistic, positive song comes along and it *isn't* from the great depression~~~~
Oh!!! My favorite SD song, hope this gets an S. If any SD song deserves one, this one does!!
Dan's best LP might
be Countdown to Ecstasy?
One for full review?
Pretzel Logic has always been my favourite, just love the short snappy songs. With a Gun, Night by Night, Through with Buzz, Barrytown, Charlie Freak, wonderful stuff!
During Lockdown 2020 you guys have helped me a lot. No pubs or bars listening to tunes with people. I've got my fix watching you honestly reviewing awesome music. Thank you!