Steely Dan Performed on the show February 9, 1973 Follow us on Social Media: / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / tmstvshow
The guy on the conga drums is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who was also a guitarist for Steely Dan for several years, and then went on to The Doobie Brothers and many other musical endeavors. I had no idea he was an accomplished conga drummer!
As a 14 year old living in Podunk, USA, The Midnight Special was as close to live music as I could get. I was too young to drive, had no means to buy albums and no one to talk about music with, this show was my window to Rock and Roll. I was introduced to so many bands and performers across a wide variety of amazing genres forming a strong foundation for music within me.
Same here, growing up in Hawaii we of course had many radio stations that played Hawaiian music and top 40,the Midnight Special was like a whole other world,just awesome! Also years later I met Walter Becker from Steely Dan while surfing at a spot called Tavares Bay,he lived in the north shore town of Paia,Maui and would see him out in water on his boogie board!Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽
Not all. I've been watching all of them and some are canned and lip-synched. Which is ok, almost every show in the world did that but I do prefer the live ones.
Yes it was Great because it wasn't lip synced it keep off pop posers and frauds off, only High Quality REAL bands appeared on the hey days of the Midnight Special.
@@honeychilerider The funniest lip-synched performance I've seen from the show was Hall and Oates in 1980. In some moments Daryl Hall didn't even try to sing into the microphone.
@@scottlarson1548 It's gotta be hard for bands to do that. It's funny because I thought lip-synching had become a thing when I was a teenager back in the 80s, I didn't realize it had been a thing almost as long as there was television.
Remember when you could get actual entertainment on good old network TV? I remember as a teenager staying up to watch Midnight Special even though I was so tired that my eyes were burning.
Ah the good old days eh? I remember tuning into the Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert back in my pre-cable days. In the post-cable era, the show Night Flight made quite an impression on me as it featured music videos before MTV came around along with all sorts of off-the-wall content that I found pretty entertaining.
I prefer Fagen's vocal to Palmer's but the latter does a good job. Baxter is unexpectedly fine on the congas! Dias is great on lead guitar. This is fricking 50 years old but the sounds (def not the duds) are so fresh!
@@kbrewski1 It's hard to imagine Fagen being terrified of being a lead singer, but he genuinely was! You can see him visibly shaking on Reelin' In The Years. And he spoke of it in early interviews. But he owns this song. I love Can't Buy A Thrill, but Palmer was best at what he did on that album. Imagine him taking on Fire In The Hole?? sacrilege! I think he clearly conquered that fear pretty quickly!
@@JROD082384 Yeah, but i don't really know how pedals are bad though, because that's what this guy was implying. Denny basically just had a Wah pedal in front of him (3:59 if you want an example)
Back when I could come HOME.... With the munchies, sit on the floor wearing my Dads old army jacket and watch one of the three channels we had, toatally content with no worries. I had it all, and didnt know it.
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Wow..50 years...gone ...in a blink...the 70's and its unique magic...👍👍
@dennydias-id5jh Likewise. If this is the real Denny Dias thanks for the great music and guitar playing over the years. You and Skunk Baxter were a great guitar duo in Steely Dan.
@@carlosxd9739 I got that,i'm with you on the greatness of the 70s... I was born in '60 so i grew up on the 70s... But my point was 60s started with doo-wop and surf... Beach boys into the Beatles and then the British invasion starts in '64 with the stones,the who,dave clark 5,spencer davis,the animals,more Beatles and a load of others. Then summer of love in '67 and then the hard psychedelic and heavy rock roll in... So i wasn't saying 60s was better just that both decades were so full of great music that there ain't enough time in the day too listen to all of it🥰 🤘
I am fortunate enough to remember when songs like Do It Again were hits on AM radio .. Let that sink in - this was considered a pop song - and along some incredible other artists like Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower Of Power and The Doobie Bros, this was the music of my childhood because it played on mainstream radio .... and of course, sneaking into the family room in the wee hours on Friday and Saturday nights to watch The Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert .... How times have changed
T.O.P. is still one of the best LIVE bands in the HISTORY of live performing acts...I have a recent concert on DVR with a young black singer....OMG, find it, you will freak out!
I disagree. This was their first release on AOR FM radio. 1972. Who knew that Steely Dan would become a mainstay on FM radio for the next decade? Still consider them one of the top ten bands of the 70’s.
I am fortunate enough to have access to all this great music and all thats been released since then at my fingertips. Times have changed for the better.
@@ivegotpetercrissI’m no boomer, but let me point that there’s a difference between having access to good music like we have now and being completely surrounded by it everywhere you go in the 1970s. I wish I had a Time Machine to check it out.
@@kevind7422 are you familiar with the term, “British teeth”? It refers to the stereotypically misaligned and crooked teeth many Britons have. My statement wasn’t saying that the singer himself was British, but that he has teeth like a stereotypical British person. Also, it was a joke.
Shall I 'Ha' or 'Whinny'? I prefer to focus on the art and presentation of a performer rather than judgements about personal appearances. Guess it's just a me thang.
Very good example why the Midnight Special kicks ass. Great live performances up the wazoo. Everyone always gave it their all and played their ass off. Just amazing
All the camera shots are right on the money. Too many TV shows had the wrong player featured at the wrong time. TMS has all the right angles and the right camera switches. 👍👍
I would have liked to see more straight ahead stage shots so we could see all the musicians playing (poor Walter is in there somewhere), a lot of rear shots from behind,but just good to have these Dan performances at all from the early 70s.
@garion333 Who you talking to? Becker is playing bass behind Skunk Baxter on congas. The drummer they showed multiple times playing, his drum kit is right in the center. That's Jim Hodder. They didn't show his face.
This song makes me remember a trip to Boston. The guy I was hanging around with took me to Combat Zone to hear a bacd in a cool little bar. I don't think the back was Steely Dan but they played nothing buy Steely Dan. It was a great night. I forgot the guy I hung out with but if he reads this "THANK YOU!"
It is with overwhelming gratitude to my older brother...thank you for turning me on to Can't Buy A Thrill. The beginning of a love affair with Steely Dan that continues to this day. I'm now 65, still listening 🎧🎶
My older sister. I'm 66. I was 16, you were 15. Best time for music that there has ever been. Also she turned me on to The Doobie Brothers with "The Captain and Me", which is my all-time favorite album. "Can't Buy A Thrill" is definitely one of the top 5 ever. Take good care (Medicare, that is lol), my brother in rock!
Agreed! His playing is amazing on this performance. And he does it with his eyes closed! I am not sure if he always picks so far away from the pickups but it really makes the sound special, like a cross between a guitar and electric sitar!
@@vindas777 That sitar sound is an electronic effect. The best place to pick any stringed instrument is in the middle of the string, where it has the widest vibrations and string feel. Pickups only go so far up the neck, stuck at the end, but your picking technique doesn't have to. If you want a sitar sound, try playing a guitar upside-down. Play up and down the G string with B and E as drones. Using D with G, B and E drones is more like a zither.
@@johnwattdotca I understand how pickups work but thanks for the explanation. I need to point out to you that on the recording it is most certainly an electric sitar NOT an effect. This performance is of course on an electric guitar, which to my ear sounds like it only has some reverb and distortion. He is making the sound with his fingers.
@@vindas777 Others are calling it a sitar sound, and there is something else going on beyond reverb and distortion. I'd call it a plinky sound. Pretzel Logic featured the first guitar synths that really fooled me, knowing the studio pros involved, and it's one of the reasons the band couldn't perform live, at the time. A friend of mine from another city bought the electric sitar when it was auctioned off at Electric Ladyland. Talking about sounding like a sitar is just about the sound. Playing one is very different, because we grew up with twelve notes per octave, and Indian music begins with seventeen.
The fact they where able to simply NAIL IT in all levels, and even so beign critical of their live sound, says it all of how amazing, tight and top notch Steely Dan was. Superb and Masterclass band
Kudos,to the Midnight Special, for putting on amazing talent like this🎉🎉.It needs to be showcased 🎉🎉.This is exactly what rock and roll sounds like 🎉🎉. They are legendary 🎉🎉
This music will never be duplicated, music now is a far cry from the past as far as composition goes. There’s cool stuff out like Tool and some others but it was different then.
do you mean stuff on top 40 radio? There is very great new music out, it just doesnt get the attention of the ever-more-ignorant public. Anna Von Hausswolff comes to mind among countless others.
As we used to say in the 70's..... "fuckin [A] man" great band. I'm 72 years old and I've been playing their music ever since 'I first hear them' on the radio in 1973. I have them on my Spotify and listen to them all the time.
I was 12 yrs old and I couldn't wait to see this show, they didn't get big bands often on this show, this was before steely hit it really big, in fact this was one of steelys first songs that gained quite a bit of popularity. Thanks for great memory.
From what I understand, Fagen in those days had really no desire to be a front man and much preferred writing and producing to performing which really makes sense considering they eventually stopped touring and fully committed to studio releases. But perfectionists as they were in the studio, eventually Fagen decided he was the only one who could sing these songs.
Donald admitted to having stage fright in the band’s early days. He did not like to get on stage or be the center of attention. He eventually got over it though. David does a nice job on “Dirty Work” and the other song he sings.
I saw this show, and that was it for me - 3 years in Europe and missed all those cool concerts on TV. Oh well, I had all of Europe to travel and go to concerts.
Yeah. Although like Freddy Mercury, some at that time didn't want to fix their teeth as it might effect their singing ability. Didn't want to chance it
Thank you for posting this video. We've listened to Denny Dias for many years, but it's great to see him play live. I always found his chord progressions while improvising very interesting and unique.
Fagen really needs to front this song as his intonations give it the extra bite needed. That said, Palmer was absolutely brilliant on 'Dirty Work' which is one of my favorites.
That Telecaster Denny is playing would go on to be even more modded by Jeff Baxter, one of the coolest guitars in rock n roll. The guitar side of this band is one of the most continually inspiring and amazing sides of them. They always had the best solos and players.
The guy on the conga drums is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who was also a guitarist for Steely Dan for several years, and then went on to The Doobie Brothers and many other musical endeavors. I had no idea he was an accomplished conga drummer!
Yes and he also played with Linda ronstadt as well a great track is your no good 😊
Thanks! I was about to google him after seeing him play. Impressive!
And is now working for the department of defense! The guy can't be stopped!
And google why he's known as "skunk" it's not about weed 😊
And Rocket Scientist...
As a 14 year old living in Podunk, USA, The Midnight Special was as close to live music as I could get. I was too young to drive, had no means to buy albums and no one to talk about music with, this show was my window to Rock and Roll. I was introduced to so many bands and performers across a wide variety of amazing genres forming a strong foundation for music within me.
Same here, growing up in Hawaii we of course had many radio stations that played Hawaiian music and top 40,the Midnight Special was like a whole other world,just awesome! Also years later I met Walter Becker from Steely Dan while surfing at a spot called Tavares Bay,he lived in the north shore town of Paia,Maui and would see him out in water on his boogie board!Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽
Podunk or New York where I'm from, at 13 years old, this was like viewing another world. Shows like this got so many of us to buy our first guitars!
Same age here, exact same thoughts. Each week, watching this was like winning the music lottery.
😍
Same here. I got back from Nam and got married and we never missed a Midnight Special. Cheers from eastern TN
That guitar solo was incredible.
So awesome that the guy is barely seeing the fretboard lol
He's using a pick dude@@CasperLCat
Denny was/is a great guitarist
Skunk Baxter was better.
Denny Diaz is one of my favorite guitar players of all time.
I love the fact that on 'The Midnight Special', all performances were actually done live and not played to a track. Great stuff!
Not all. I've been watching all of them and some are canned and lip-synched. Which is ok, almost every show in the world did that but I do prefer the live ones.
@@honeychilerider
Almost all the early ones were live. Only in the late 70s did they start using videos and lip synching (the disco crap)
Yes it was Great because it wasn't lip synced it keep off pop posers and frauds off, only High Quality REAL bands appeared on the hey days of the Midnight Special.
@@honeychilerider The funniest lip-synched performance I've seen from the show was Hall and Oates in 1980. In some moments Daryl Hall didn't even try to sing into the microphone.
@@scottlarson1548 It's gotta be hard for bands to do that. It's funny because I thought lip-synching had become a thing when I was a teenager back in the 80s, I didn't realize it had been a thing almost as long as there was television.
The 70s were the best times.
I wish I was a teenager of the 70's, that would have been something. I only got a sense of what I missed, growing up in the 80's.
Great lead guitar work by Denny Dias 🎸
Denny was a bad ass!
I love how he is hardly even looking at his fretboard as he plays!
He could play that solo in his sleep. Looked like he was trying to prove it in the video LOL. He was great though.
Remember when you could get actual entertainment on good old network TV? I remember as a teenager staying up to watch Midnight Special even though I was so tired that my eyes were burning.
Ah the good old days eh? I remember tuning into the Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert back in my pre-cable days. In the post-cable era, the show Night Flight made quite an impression on me as it featured music videos before MTV came around along with all sorts of off-the-wall content that I found pretty entertaining.
I'm so old. I wish I had a reason to stay up until midnight! :)
You mean when 90% of the shows were God awful playback "performances"?
The Midnight Special and Don Kirchner's Rock Concert are treasures from yesterday. I'm glad TH-cam is here.
I prefer Fagen's vocal to Palmer's but the latter does a good job. Baxter is unexpectedly fine on the congas! Dias is great on lead guitar. This is fricking 50 years old but the sounds (def not the duds) are so fresh!
Yeah, Fagen's voice had a little more bite to it. But at this point he had a bit of "stage fright".
@@kbrewski1 It's hard to imagine Fagen being terrified of being a lead singer, but he genuinely was! You can see him visibly shaking on Reelin' In The Years. And he spoke of it in early interviews. But he owns this song. I love Can't Buy A Thrill, but Palmer was best at what he did on that album. Imagine him taking on Fire In The Hole?? sacrilege! I think he clearly conquered that fear pretty quickly!
The original voice in the recording definitely owns this song.
is the guy on congas the same who played lead guitar on their previous appearances? looks similar.
@CJinsoo
Yes, its Jeff Skunk Baxter, one of the original founders of Steely Dan.
One of the best guitarists of all time.....on congos!! Awsome!!
Hahahaha. Ikr?
Yeah. I'm like. Jeff Baxter? Why the fuck is he playing congos?
@jasonbarton4521 making the song work lol
Somewhere you can find video of Skunk playing drums for Linda Ronstadt.
No fancy peddles no auto tune no in ear monitors just pure talent
There are literally *pedals in front of the guitarist, so maybe you should go pick up your 50x bifocal prescription, you ignorant old dummy...
@@JROD082384 Yeah, but i don't really know how pedals are bad though, because that's what this guy was implying. Denny basically just had a Wah pedal in front of him (3:59 if you want an example)
Back when I could come HOME....
With the munchies, sit on the floor wearing my Dads old army jacket and watch one of the three channels we had, toatally content with no worries.
I had it all, and didnt know it.
Wow..50 years...gone ...in a blink...the 70's and its unique magic...👍👍
look like Denny can play guitar in his sleep. cant get over the talent here !
Killer guitar solo by Denny Dias.
@dennydias-id5jh Likewise. If this is the real Denny Dias thanks for the great music and guitar playing over the years. You and Skunk Baxter were a great guitar duo in Steely Dan.
This Channel is a complete treasure trove of live recordings! The Seventies music wise were the best decade.
70s is the best decade for the music 🎉
@@carlosxd9739apparently you have never heard any music from the 60s...🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@timhoovermusicman i love it the music from 60s🤩 is amazing, but i love u more the music from 70s 😊
late 60s have a strong case but yeah probably one or the other. 90s had a nice boom but yeah nothing quite like this.
@@carlosxd9739 I got that,i'm with you on the greatness of the 70s... I was born in '60 so i grew up on the 70s... But my point was 60s started with doo-wop and surf... Beach boys into the Beatles and then the British invasion starts in '64 with the stones,the who,dave clark 5,spencer davis,the animals,more Beatles and a load of others. Then summer of love in '67 and then the hard psychedelic and heavy rock roll in... So i wasn't saying 60s was better just that both decades were so full of great music that there ain't enough time in the day too listen to all of it🥰 🤘
I am fortunate enough to remember when songs like Do It Again were hits on AM radio .. Let that sink in - this was considered a pop song - and along some incredible other artists like Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower Of Power and The Doobie Bros, this was the music of my childhood because it played on mainstream radio .... and of course, sneaking into the family room in the wee hours on Friday and Saturday nights to watch The Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert .... How times have changed
T.O.P. is still one of the best LIVE bands in the HISTORY of live performing acts...I have a recent concert on DVR with a young black singer....OMG, find it, you will freak out!
I disagree. This was their first release on AOR FM radio. 1972. Who knew that Steely Dan would become a mainstay on FM radio for the next decade? Still consider them one of the top ten bands of the 70’s.
I am fortunate enough to have access to all this great music and all thats been released since then at my fingertips. Times have changed for the better.
it's not the same, you'll never understand. 🙂@@ivegotpetercriss
@@ivegotpetercrissI’m no boomer, but let me point that there’s a difference between having access to good music like we have now and being completely surrounded by it everywhere you go in the 1970s. I wish I had a Time Machine to check it out.
The days when you could have British teeth and still be a mega star
David is a Jersey boy, as in New USA, not the English island.
@@kevind7422 are you familiar with the term, “British teeth”? It refers to the stereotypically misaligned and crooked teeth many Britons have. My statement wasn’t saying that the singer himself was British, but that he has teeth like a stereotypical British person. Also, it was a joke.
Shall I 'Ha' or 'Whinny'?
I prefer to focus on the art and presentation of a performer rather than judgements about personal appearances. Guess it's just a me thang.
@@kevind7422 that was my point. This was from a time when the music was more important than the artist’s appearance.
@@WhyTheHorsefaceI got it instantly... Apparently kevin is still lookin' for it😂
Very good example why the Midnight Special kicks ass. Great live performances up the wazoo. Everyone always gave it their all and played their ass off. Just amazing
The diff between this version and the studio recording show what a perfectionist Donald Fagan was
Fagen looking,exasperated at his Tom-Toms at the end of the performance, and gesticulating at them angrily really says it all... 🤣
I prefer this live version to the original studio version
Bass seems heavier here, I love it!
Seems like he sings on the wrong key or not quite right and seems Fagen is not happy with it. Actually Fagen's voice is much better for me.
THAT WAS GREAT!
Wow! Never heard this before with Palmer on lead vocals.
Whenever Fagen comes in as a backing vocalist it's so jarring. Where were you the rest of the song?
Stage fright for Fagan.
thanks as I didn't know who this guy was....
Dave Palmer was amazing
LOVE STEELY DAN!!!!!!!
I was lucky to be teenager during this era. It is still hard to believe that quality music existed on network TV back in those days.
Saw this line up open for Elton John in September of 1973.
All the camera shots are right on the money. Too many TV shows had the wrong player featured at the wrong time. TMS has all the right angles and the right camera switches. 👍👍
I would have liked to see more straight ahead stage shots so we could see all the musicians playing (poor Walter is in there somewhere), a lot of rear shots from behind,but just good to have these Dan performances at all from the early 70s.
No drummer or bass guitarist, eh? Shame on you!
@garion333
Who you talking to? Becker is playing bass behind Skunk Baxter on congas. The drummer they showed multiple times playing, his drum kit is right in the center. That's Jim Hodder. They didn't show his face.
@@kbrewski1 Shoot, yeah, my reply was meant for the original comment, not yours.
Steely Dan was and still is one of my favorite session bands , along with Allen Parsons Project...
Or Alan
This guy is just plain bad ass musician he can sing and play instruments he should be in the rock and roll hall of fame
Man what guitar licks. He’s lost into his guitar world. Awesome!
He played most of his solo with his eyes closed!
one of the best solos for guitar in Steely Dan album
Strongly agree.
Denny Días is a monster talent.
This song makes me remember a trip to Boston. The guy I was hanging around with took me to Combat Zone to hear a bacd in a cool little bar. I don't think the back was Steely Dan but they played nothing buy Steely Dan. It was a great night. I forgot the guy I hung out with but if he reads this "THANK YOU!"
It is with overwhelming gratitude to my older brother...thank you for turning me on to Can't Buy A Thrill. The beginning of a love affair with Steely Dan that continues to this day. I'm now 65, still listening 🎧🎶
My older sister. I'm 66. I was 16, you were 15. Best time for music that there has ever been. Also she turned me on to The Doobie Brothers with "The Captain and Me", which is my all-time favorite album. "Can't Buy A Thrill" is definitely one of the top 5 ever. Take good care (Medicare, that is lol), my brother in rock!
I did the same thing introduced my baby brother to doobies and steely dan
Best album can’t buy a thrill
My mind was just a little bit blown to see Jeff Baxter absolutely owning those congos. Brilliant performance all around!
Classiest band with great music, lyrics. Still great in 2023
RIP Jim Hodder! One helluva drummer and the first in a long line of talented Dan drummers!
It doesn’t seem possible that Denny Dias could play like he did holding his picking hand in that position. That’s precision!
Agreed! His playing is amazing on this performance. And he does it with his eyes closed! I am not sure if he always picks so far away from the pickups but it really makes the sound special, like a cross between a guitar and electric sitar!
As much as he's picking he's using his arm to press the guitar body into his for that precise balance.
@@vindas777 That sitar sound is an electronic effect. The best place to pick any stringed instrument is in the middle of the string, where it has the widest vibrations and string feel.
Pickups only go so far up the neck, stuck at the end, but your picking technique doesn't have to.
If you want a sitar sound, try playing a guitar upside-down. Play up and down the G string with B and E as drones. Using D with G, B and E drones is more like a zither.
@@johnwattdotca I understand how pickups work but thanks for the explanation. I need to point out to you that on the recording it is most certainly an electric sitar NOT an effect. This performance is of course on an electric guitar, which to my ear sounds like it only has some reverb and distortion. He is making the sound with his fingers.
@@vindas777 Others are calling it a sitar sound, and there is something else going on beyond reverb and distortion. I'd call it a plinky sound. Pretzel Logic featured the first guitar synths that really fooled me, knowing the studio pros involved, and it's one of the reasons the band couldn't perform live, at the time. A friend of mine from another city bought the electric sitar when it was auctioned off at Electric Ladyland. Talking about sounding like a sitar is just about the sound. Playing one is very different, because we grew up with twelve notes per octave, and Indian music begins with seventeen.
David Palmer lead vocals rocked here!
Best vocalist this band had
Fantastic band, very intelligent musicians who could weave our neurons a tale. LOVE.
I used to think this was a Santana song 😂
@@DarthTerminatti Did you really? Haha! I love Santana too 😉
50 years ago crazy. Steely Dan always had an amazing fusion sound and famous guest band members.
Baxter on percussion? Priceless.
Yes... "Do It Again"... I need it! 🙆♀️
Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖
The fact they where able to simply NAIL IT in all levels, and even so beign critical of their live sound, says it all of how amazing, tight and top notch Steely Dan was. Superb and Masterclass band
omg that guitar solo by Denny was fire!
they were so incredibly musically talented.
Damn I miss music
Before digital, we were growing up to a totally different sound- lucky us! 🌎✌
The guy on the congas was wicked.
skunk baxter.
Wicked on the guitar, as well. Played for the Doobie Brothers later. On guitar, that is.
Kudos,to the Midnight Special, for putting on amazing talent like this🎉🎉.It needs to be showcased 🎉🎉.This is exactly what rock and roll sounds like 🎉🎉. They are legendary 🎉🎉
Skunk on Percussion!! You gotta love it!!!
Good times never to be repeated. The music was amazing!
One my all time favorite bands!
Oh man the Midnight Special! The good old days.
Love that jammy outtro
One of the Greatest Songs Ever….
One of my favorite 70s songs.
This music will never be duplicated, music now is a far cry from the past as far as composition goes.
There’s cool stuff out like Tool and some others but it was different then.
do you mean stuff on top 40 radio? There is very great new music out, it just doesnt get the attention of the ever-more-ignorant public. Anna Von Hausswolff comes to mind among countless others.
@@billyghostalthank you, great comment!
No autotune bs. Just pure talent.
Yup real music… I’m 19 and know all of this shit that’s all I listen to
One of my favorite bands ever!
The real deal. Those boys have the cojones to pull that off live!! Seldom seen today.
DANG! Those fangs!!!!!!
This song was one of my earliest childhood memories; I came alive June 1970😅.
Best American band of the 70s. Have you got My Old School?
As we used to say in the 70's..... "fuckin [A] man" great band. I'm 72 years old and I've been playing their music ever since 'I first hear them' on the radio in 1973. I have them on my Spotify and listen to them all the time.
fuckin [A] right! I had forgotten that line lol
@@markmercer5274 Triple A, from across the pond. I know I can die contented knowing I lived in the best decades ever ( musically).
Putting this song & driving threw East L.A., hell yeah! 😎
That guitar solo is all full of heart & soul
I was 12 yrs old and I couldn't wait to see this show, they didn't get big bands often on this show, this was before steely hit it really big, in fact this was one of steelys first songs that gained quite a bit of popularity. Thanks for great memory.
What a guitar solo! Like he could have gone on forever - amazing flow. Ben Eunson's playing reminds me of this flow.
Thanks for stirring up my memory bank. I vividly remember watching this episode!
Terrific ❤
1973 one of the best years of my life. What memories are made of.
I love reliving the golden years of rock-n-roll. The midnight special was just that... special!
I love this song.....❤
50 years later and little comes close in reference to all that has been produced.....sublime !!!!
The guitar solo at 2:15 got dammmmn😮😊😊
A classic song from the 70s.
Ah, the Midnight Special. No lip syncing or unplugged instruments here. Loved this program.
Fantastic ❤❤❤
As a conga player for over 50 years I love this so much.
Legendary song. So many elements that would be classic 70’s.
The funny thing is, Donald Fagen is the original vocalist on the original recording
From what I understand, Fagen in those days had really no desire to be a front man and much preferred writing and producing to performing which really makes sense considering they eventually stopped touring and fully committed to studio releases. But perfectionists as they were in the studio, eventually Fagen decided he was the only one who could sing these songs.
Donald admitted to having stage fright in the band’s early days. He did not like to get on stage or be the center of attention.
He eventually got over it though.
David does a nice job on “Dirty Work” and the other song he sings.
@@DPMomutant Of course he had to, he had the perfect voice for them
@@herbb8412 That song fits David perfectly, I totally agree with that
I also thought Fagen also was dealing with a vocal health issue at the time of this performance. He had to limit his singing.
Talent on full display. And Skunk on Congas to boot
I saw this show, and that was it for me - 3 years in Europe and missed all those cool concerts on TV. Oh well, I had all of Europe to travel and go to concerts.
The lead singer with the bad teeth is🔥🔥
Yeah. Although like Freddy Mercury, some at that time didn't want to fix their teeth as it might effect their singing ability. Didn't want to chance it
My favorite channel on TH-cam. Being a child of the 70's, this is my favorite decade for music. These performances are absolute treasures.
Awesome song! Love all these 70s tunes from here!!!🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥
Wow, I was 3 year's old when this magic dropped 🎉😊 the 70s was the best time.
That was just awesome.
I was there for every episode / event. I am still enthralled. Thankyou.
Best music channel on TH-cam! I enjoy Jeff “Skunk “ Baxter on the congas!
I was wondering had to do a double take 👀👀 but yes he was awesome 👍🎶🎼🎵
Just awesome!!!!
Absolutely phenomenal! These videos take me back to an amazing time! 🎶🎶🎶🎶
I first saw this about 40 years ago. Remember being mesmerised by Denny’s guitar solo. Still fresh today.
Midnight Special and Don Kirschner..best performances ever
Thank you for posting this video. We've listened to Denny Dias for many years, but it's great to see him play live. I always found his chord progressions while improvising very interesting and unique.
And that solo! It's absolutely mind blowing to see him playing what sounds impossible to me.
Good lort the ‘70’s were freakin GROOVY
Uma das melhores deles.
Fagen really needs to front this song as his intonations give it the extra bite needed. That said, Palmer was absolutely brilliant on 'Dirty Work' which is one of my favorites.
i was thinking the same thing. That song NEEDS Fagen on Lead vocal.
Palmer sings this with very square phrasing IMO
Palmer also gave a good lead vocal on “Brooklynn Owes the Charmer”
Walter Becker is a phenomenal guitarist he plays effortlessly! Just incredible 😎👍
Walter was good, but that guitar player is Denny Dias playin the solo.
This song is an amazing commentary on the Human Condition. We are so weak. It's tragic. Amazing, musically. So diff than today.
That Telecaster Denny is playing would go on to be even more modded by Jeff Baxter, one of the coolest guitars in rock n roll. The guitar side of this band is one of the most continually inspiring and amazing sides of them. They always had the best solos and players.
Is that Skunk Baxter on the bongos here?!
@@joedecristoforo5434 sure is
Stunning. This is now my favourite channel.😊
Thank you so much 😀