Steve Gadd Discusses Playing On Steely Dan's "Aja"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2023
- In this clip, prolific session drummer Steve Gadd discusses playing on the Steely Dan track "Aja", as well as his warm-up routine, and where he gets ideas for grooves.
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Great inspiration for learning an instrument.
He's not even on the same set as Gadd!
Photo shopped!
The King!
Great one w a truly amazing legend! The artists he has played with and the songs he has played on is really epic. And what feel!
That section at the end of Aja is one of the best minute on a record I’ve heard.
The last minute feels exquisite.
Let’s not forget about the drum fills and simultaneous Wayne Shorter solo
From the mouth of the master. The simplicity of displacement! Pure genius!
@@genewilliams617 Simple yet unthinkable to execute such a complex part with a displaced downbeat - and he improvised that. Sublime mastery.
@@mattdelany6799 Tory Slusher is great, but I don’t think she played on Aja lol
I'm a bassist, not a drummer, but Steve Gadd & "Aja" rewrote some of my brain wiring.
There was an embarrassment of riches in the 70s with Aja topping the list, and at the time it seemed completely normal to have classic albums drop one after the other. And now 46 years later we know the sad truth that hit me hard listening to Gadd’s drumming and Wayne Shorter’s sublime counterpoint of a sax solo: it was a minor miracle something like that was put on record, and I will always treasure it.
Cream always rises to the top.
God, you are so right! That period was giving us so much wonderful music. Not just simple chords but complex feels. Taking ideas from 50's and early 60's jazz, the growing ideas from pop music, using other genres, then mixing it with their own original ideas. Not just the Dan but so many other groups and artists. We were so fortunate in the 70's -- early 80's...
Aja is on an entirely different plane. For me, I think it's the most well produced album I've ever heard.
Agree. My Jenson 6X9”coaxial speakers wore themselves out playing it back when.
I have always regarded Aja as the pinnacle of 70’s rock music. So good that it is really jazz
I would add 90125 by YES on there as well :)
@@melodymakermark Yes! My Jensen 6x9's were on the rear deck of my 1972 Maverick Grabber.
‘73 Gran Torino, I had. With which receiver did you power the Jenson’s? I had a Craig “road rated”.
I was named after this song this Album and it’s so interesting. I feel so connected to the music.
Give me regards to your brother next time you see him... He's a lovely guy is Pretzel Logic...!?! 😉
Or sister Katy. 😅
Mr. Gadd is a very nice person. Very humble. Met him in Rochester. Insane drummer.
I sold him and his wife a "Bose Wave System" at Eastview Mall!!! Great guy.
I went to MI in ‘88-‘89, the drummers all called him “Steve God”. Couldn’t disagree.
Steve Gadd work on Stanley Clarke "School Days" 1976 and "Aja" 1977 was the most talked about drum playing those 2 years. The 70's with Steve Gadd playing was unbelievable! Awesome drummer! A legend!!
Steve on Stanley's Silly Putty and "Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Parts 1-4" both from Journey to Love. Killer groove and dynamics.
I believe that Greg Brown played drums on track 1 of "School Days".
@@skineyemin4276Gerry Brown
@@skineyemin4276yeah, it was Gerry Brown on "School Days" and "The Dancer" Steve G. was on "Quiet Afternoon" and "Hot Fun"
I don't even understand how people can drum like that. It blows my mind.
When I bought "Aja" many moons ago, I remember being awed by Steve's drumming. I looked on the jacket and instantly committed Steve's name to memory. What an outstanding moment in musical time. Thank you for the memorable performance. 🙂
Steely Dan. Always the best musicians.
I had CTI records before I had Dan records LOL I came in the side door to the pop world, kinda following where Gadd went I was such a die hard got me into drumming.
Gadd had been a first call studio musician for decades before Aja.
Same here! I remember poring over the liner notes in the album.
Up to 1977 and the release of Aja I thought drummers were just percussionists laying down the rhythm. Gadd's work opened my eyes to the fact that drummers had individual and charismatic voices. That solo is still one of the best even nearly 45 years later.
“I was letting the MUSIC DICTATE WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO”. A lesson many musicians need to learn (myself included) 👍👍
And that's exactly what Ringo Starr did. Played to the song. And got crapped on for it.
Both Gadd and Starr are geniuses.
@@jmamarq Couldn’t agree more. I’ve been drumming for 3 + decades, and when people ask me my favorite drummer, I say Ringo for PRECISELY that reason! Plus I fucking love The Beatles.
Play to the song, not the formula.
Paul Simon’s “Late In The Evening” introduced me to Steve Gadd’s drumming. He uses two sticks in each hand and it’s so great.
Love you Steve!
I bought Aja album when I was 14. Love it as much now as I did then. Steve Gadd - what an incredible drummer. His feel for whatever he's playing is astounding.
Steve Gadd is a legend. Such a master, surely one of the greatest.
There's one key to his playing on Aja that I've never heard or seen discussed: It's the fact that the primary band kicks come in threes and twos, but Gadd hits twos and ones and then begins his fills on the third and second hits respectively. This is musical brilliance and a huge part of the flow of the track.
I first heard AJA on a cassette and was blown away. I was 17. 4 years later I bought the album. It's 2023 now and AJA is my favorite album of all time for the last 46 years. Deacon Blues is my favorite song. What an album. What genius. Thank you God for making these guys come up with it.
Named my daughter after it! Born also on my birthday, 47yrs later. 2-16-1963 2-16-2010.
@@mikeruane2121 That's wonderful. Hope she grows to love SD as we all do.
Only Steve Gadd could make playing a coffee table sound so good.
Haha, I was just thinking that, listening to him!
Super talented drummer.
I would buy his record even if it was just him playing a counter. His feel is so natural.
He replaced the coffee table.
Steve Gadd??? Holy shit, Rick! This channel just keeps getting better and better. How is that even possible?? Nice work, my friend. 👊
How can it get better? I'm from the future to say that it does indeed just keep getting better. Gotta go.
The greatest feel in the drum business in my humble opinion
Such a legend. I just turned 44 and have been drumming for about 25 years and I’ve really started to appreciate Steve as a drummer these last couple years, he is just so incredibly talented. his drums have such an iconic sound to them, his snare drum and tom’s are perfect.
The fact one of the greatest drummers in the world can sit down and study rudiments and learn new rythems and concepts only proves his infinite wisdom and expertise on the drums. A legend.
The drumming was great of course but the entire song was epic. Just a very well made song.
I've been listening to Steve Gadd and trying to emulate his playing for well over 40 years. He's a drum god among gods.
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This is pure gold! I’ve loved Gadd’s playing for decades!
Been waiting for this interview for 40 years. Thank you Rick for asking these questions that have been on my mind for so long.
I have been playing drums for almost 50 years and remember when this album came out,. I still have the original ABC Records vinyl. Whenever and wherever I am, when I have hear the song Aja and the middle and end drum parts kick in, I just stop what I am doing and take it all in. It was incredible then and still is. The next generations have picked this up too and you can find younger people on TH-cam playing along to this song
He plays an 8min drum solo.
One of my favorite drummers.
Steve Gadd is my favorite drummer ever, an absolute legend!
There are drummers and then there's Steve Gadd. 🙏
Amazing how someone like Steve Gadd can have a whole new line of inspiration by syncopating what he already knows. Brilliant!
Not syncopating, displacing. He's taking the downbeat and changing it places, but it makes a lot more sense to "move" whatever you're doing an 1/8th to the right, if you would - or 1/16th. When he's gonna start displacing in triplets I'll lose my mind.
@@jas_bataille you just defined syncopation. To take a phrase and place it over onto the “e” and “a” in a phrase is syncopation. Same thing, different name.
The drums for the Aja session were a Ludwig Red Sparkle set with a 12, 13 and 16" set of toms and a 22" Bass drum. Steve used his new 21" Rock Ride and all cracked crash cymbals . The snare was his Ludwig chrome 14" x 5 1/2 " Super Sensitive. I delivered the drum set . It was a rental from SIR where I worked as the head of the Drum Department in 1976 and 1977. The studio was the Producer's Workshop in Hollywood.
Aja came out when Disco was really beating us up and Aja saved our brains from melting into the Abyss. What a refreshing piece of work that pushed millions of Musicians all over the World to explore the basic fundamentals of rhythm and Jazz. Steve was part of this wonderful time that still effects us all.
I'll never get tired of hearing about Abby Road, Blow by blow or Aja! Thank you for this.
That solo always moves me. Like hes playing a different structure with every arm and leg. Just blows me away every time.
You know how good Steve Gadd is when you sit and watch him play a table for 10 minutes! He was one of the drummers for Simon and Garfunkel live in Central Park. Just wonderful to watch play
One of the all time great drummers. Thank you Rick, for so many great interviews of so many unsung heroes.
The perfection of his work in that song,no one else is able to get it so right.
The stuff about displacement is genius... one of the best demonstrations of what you have to be able to do to be a drummer that I've ever seen.
Steely Dan definitely were jazz buffs. The opening eight bars of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" were taken from the opening four bars of jazz pianist Horace Silver's 1964 composition, "Song For My Father".
Autumn Leaves and Aja……
When this came out in '77, it was at the time, the greatest thing I ever heard. I still listen to that album regularly and always look forward to hearing his solo.
Steely Dan always puts together the most amazing troupe of studio musicians.
Hands down the most influential drummer in my lifetime. Thank you for the interview and thank you Steve Gadd for your career.
I first heard the Aja track on the radio as a teen when it first came out. I was in bed in the dark and half a century later I still clearly remember how utterly astonished and mesmerised I was. Many years later I found myself playing this track in a UK Steely Dan tribute band…. Sweet!
I dropped out of college as a music major, and drummer, joined the navy. A year later I was standing lower level aux machinery space watch on a frigate after picking up this album on cassette and absolutely wore it out! It was transformational!🙌🙌
Wonderful that he mentioned John Tropea as I went to school with his daughter and was in a band briefly with her in high school years. One time we had all gone to her Dad's place and sitting there was Steve Gadd who couldn't have been nicer to me. I think he was having some personal issues of his own at the time (1986-67 or so), but I wish I had the maturity then to have a solid conversation with him. I think I mumbled something about loving "50 Ways...."
Great memory…
@@annanikia7949 : It was. Hadn't thought about that in decades until I watched this. Actually, one time John Tropea was coming to the bass player's house to pick up his daughter after our rehearsal and we knew John was a big deal and I think we played either "Rock & Roll" or "Sunshine Of Your Love" for him. He did single me out saying I sounded like Ginger Baker!! I wasn't huge on Ginger, but it was a great compliment and I happily took it. A compliment or a word of acknowledgement can last years and cover many miles.
I saw him with a group called Stomo Yomashita and Go. He's amazing.
What a phenomenal album. It was musical perfection. So many talented musicians in one place.
The full album is one of my faves. The title track…..GOLD!!
His bit about displacement is just brilliant. That’s the type of thing that comes to you when you are deep in focus and completely open-minded when practicing. Finding a new frontier of playing is extremely gratifying.
Thank you, Rick. Steve is such a treasure. No words really. Just thank you....
A high school alumnus, six years senior to my class. Mr Castle's pride and joy; a product of a good musical tradition at our school that seems to still live on.
Rhythmic displacement does have brain-based mechanisms for the difference in perception that the listener experiences, as Rick alludes to here. One of these mechanisms relates to how the left and right cerebral hemispheres manage auditory temporal dynamics. I've always loved good examples of rhythmic displacement. Cool to see Steve being into this phenomenon. 🧠
Hm. There are some who dismiss popular brain hemisphere memes as pseudoscience.
@@IAm-qf2xb Yes, the left and the right hemispheres are not actually a thing. However, they are still correct about how the brain perceive those dynamics.
fascinating concept!
Gavin Harrison is brilliant at this.
Rick... you pull the best interviews, this is a really remarkable chapter in your career and for your channel
Thank you for this! Always a pleasure to hear Mr. Gadd speak on drumming and his (sizable) contribution to music history.
The most musical best drummer on the planet! My dream band drummer! Love you Steve!! Sincerely, Cameron Caton 👍👍😎
Once again, not the usual interview with Rick. He dives deeper and speaks from the “day in the life”aspect of the musician. You feel like you were there, which is what we all want to feel.
PURE GENIUS
Oh man, love his playing
Thank you Rick and Steve.
I don’t think there are too many people that could interview, appreciate and connect with an artist as creative and talented as Steve Gadd, like Rick did. All is well with the universe ❤
I love this guy.
He is incredible, so smooth
One of my FAVORITE songs and albums!
Absolute legendary talent
Thank you Rick for doing this one.
Man, I can't thank you enough for this and all other interviews. I can't wait to check out the full interview.
big smile, thank you Rick
What a drummer
This guy is a legend!!!
Dude is a Legend 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Fantastico! Gadd + Beato, amazing conversation amongst great people.
Your best interview ever!
Man, what a talent.
Aja is a masterpiece in producing, recording, playing. The album sounds so good after so many years. What more can we say about the track Aja? Pure perfection, pure bliss. The music of Becker and Fagen introduced me to jazz.
The man the legend!
One of the truly great drummers.
What an inspiring musician! Finding new ideas 💡 following his muse. 💜
Forever grateful Steve,,,👏
Wow, what a great conversation, loved it!
Rick! Thank you so much for having one of my all time favorite musicians on for this nice long and informative interview. This is one of my favorite interviews you have ever done. Steve Gadd is an amazing treasure to the Industry of American Music and I was so glad to catch it here.
When Steve talks about displacement, it is a concept which seems alien at first. But, when you start thinking about it when you listen to these tracks, you realize what a difference it makes.
"Just the rudiments " loved the little demonstrations. Awesome! 😎🤓
Maybe the best interview ever. Questions about the business and studio practices I always wondered about.
What a class act and mega talent!
I have all of Steely Dan's records. Love it.
Yes! The interplay with Wayne Shorter was epic
Those beautiful hands. That beautiful feel.
Steve Gadd is still picking up new beats! That's incredible!
When he demonstrated displacement of a riff was amazing!
The drums r a composition of their own!
And that was deep, from a legendary drummer. Mr. Steve Gadd.
Aja was groundbreaking and remains one of my favourite albums of all time 👌 Gadd's drumming on the outro is pure gold. ♥️
What a legend. Great to hear him talking about the masterpiece that is Aja.
I wish I could be in a mind like that for just one day. What a gift. Thankfully he's good enough to share it with everyone.
The absolute tops as a drummer and a person is Steve. Long live Steve.
Great full interview, Rick! What a fantastic hour, what an education! In my vernacular "Gadd" is substituted for that big man in the sky, in every conversation: Thank Gadd . . . for Steve Gadd.
COVID-19 hit in 2020. Gadd was 75 years or so, then. Him talking about how he used the extra time to learn about "displacements" is absolutely incredible - I mean, to be this passionate about studying at this age is heart-warming and makes him even stronger as a role model. What a drummer!
The Anthony Jackson/Steve Gadd combo was the star on the classic Al Di Meola records