FINALLY! Reviewers who get the music! No ridiculous intro. You're not caricatures. Just real people appreciating the music. So refreshing! Thank you so much.
7:46 That's not actually a harmonica, it's Fagen on a synth. He did a lot with that kind of synth patch in the early 80s. Check out the tune "IGY" from his first (?) solo album.
It's 1979 and an early 30s guy is out on a date w/ a 19 yrl old. She doesn't know Aretha Franklin or 1960s Soul, 'cause she's a Disco era girl and the dude's cultural references are of a late 1960s Hipster.... but besides their mutual attraction (they're both of legal age), they do indeed have a couple of things in common after all, a teste for Tequila and Colombian Cannabis.
@@ilovegoodsax Good for you! You might've been rather the exception and not the rule, likewise the '19' character in the song might've known the name but not her music and as such not know her singing/songs. On the same note, I don't think the character is some type of archetype, or a generalization on your generation, it's just illustrative device for story telling in the song, they picked Aretha coz its Soul music from their (Don and Walt's) generation and a cool reference in a lyric anyway. Toddlfe-oo
Nothing like being the old dude in the club still trying to hang with the young ones! The Cuervo gold and the fine Columbian helps, no doubt! Great song!
This song off the "Gaucho" album was released in 1980 and got a ton of AIR PLAY. This track is "radio friendly" for sure. I've been in similar situations in college when "freshman" girls come to parties and I was 22 or 23 and they seemed clueless. By the time I turned 22 I had served three years in the U.S. Army with much of it overseas. Trying to interact with someone 18 or 19 was at best a challenge. We had very little in common. I thing that's the jest of this song. Another slice of life tune by S.D.
When Steely Dan (Fagen, Becker) lived in LA they wrote about New York (Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied). When they moved back to New York, they wrote about LA (Gaucho).
As an aspiring guitarist I find the guitar work on this song sublime. A perfect note starts the song, I don't think I can recall any other song where it starts with a singular note held for the perfect amount of time. It's like the song has inhaled and is holding it's breath and then on the exhale the song starts. Hugh McCraken then weaves, shimmies and slides all around the other instruments perfectly supporting or contrasting the phrases he wants to highlight. My favorite Steely Dan Guitarist is Larry Carlton (best solos!) but Hugh has some fantastic guitar parts in some of their songs.
The Aretha Franklin line reminds me of the old story about the young British girls in the record store. One of them is leafing through Beatles albums and suddenly blurts out to her friend 'look, Paul was in another group before Wings'.
Sorry to disappoint but Michael McDonald was not on this one. Zach Sanders and Frank Floyd did the backing vocals here. But Michael McDonald was on one song from this album but I won’t tell you which one. Don’t won’t to spoil it.
@@Arthur101 if you listen really close to the outro I think you can hear Michael McDonald shouting “I don’t want to do this!”. I’m sure I’m not imagining it!
LOL Yeah, I burst out laughing when Dan said that. Like just about every song from Don and Walt isn't a cynical celebration of one sort of depravity or another.
Yes, Hey Nineteen was a single and it went to #10 on the charts. Hey Nineteen and Babylon Sisters both get played a lot on satellite radio. Maybe that’s where you know it from.
@@CopperNoir The album lists Hey Nineteen personnel "Donald Fagen... synth solo" ... etc., etc. This means an electronic synthesizer. Not an acoustic wind and reed Hohner Melodica. A Melodica uses metal reeds like a harmonica. Hence the name Melod'ica'. I own two Melodicas. If you listen to the song, there are many pitch bends in Don's soloing. This can't be done on a Melodica - only straight tones. Don *does* play the Melodica on stage sometimes. But has not used it in recording. Common instrument mis-identification. Happy listening.
There’s a song on Fagen’s most recent album (Sunken Condos) called Slinky Thing, that’s pretty much the same concept. Except he was in his late 60s by then 🤣. Edit - Now that I think of it, there’s also one on SD’s final album (Everything Must Go) called Pixeleen. Also young girl, old guy.
OK so I'm randomly going through your reactions to Steely Dan and you both are really good in like *you get it*. Yeah this is definitely West Coast vibe, and I haven't checked out your reaction to FM yet but same area code. ... I'm old, and I have internationally travelled to an extent, but I have never felt the need to check out the East of Chicago in my life. I keep telling myself I'll go check out some things but never get around to it. And Sifa mentions Santa Barbara of all places without ever having been there; you are so dang perceptive! I lived an hour's drive down PCH for a while in Ventura/Oxnard/Camarillo [The depicted "Hotel California" on the Eagles album cover is in Camarillo) as a Younger in the 80's during my California stint, and at the time I considered Ventura County a middle class person's Santa Barbara. Yep the vibes...good job again!...Sifa has mentioned Fagan's vowel enunciation; I totally attributed this to him being from New York/New Jersey and him just playing on it, like Brit punkers and some Brit rockers used to empahsize their natural accents e.g. The Kinks. ... I'll have to check out an aforementioned reaction to Blue Oyster Cult y'all have evidently done at some point; a favored group of mine from my youth. Uh! You two are good at this for my tastes :).
Try the solo album from Donald Fagen - The Nightfly, a masterpiece!! Had to buy the vinyl 3 times cause it was totally worn down. You could almost right through it. New Frontier, I.G.Y., Walk Between The Raindrops.... all of the tracks.
I believe this album was made after Walter and Donald moved back to NYC…all the songs are their snarky take on the over-wrought LA Scene…These NY dudes were not impressed
There is an interview of them saying , when they moved to La a lot of their songs were about their NY vibes and back in NY they felt like Californians.
Sorry guys. No Michael McDonald. Donald Fagen - electric piano, synthesizer (solo), vocals Walter Becker - bass guitar, guitar Hugh McCracken - guitars Rick Marotta - drums Victor Feldman, Steve Gadd - percussion Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders - backup vocals
I am going to have to head to Patreon and join up. There is an artist that I have yet to see reacted to and she is fng incredible. I think her hole vibe is meant for you guys. Rickie Lee Jones, dubbed the empress of cool. Take a dive with Gravity. SD always gives a great feel.
Nobody's reacting to Rickie which is stunning. Gravity and Pirates and even her first album with songs like "Night Train" and "Last Chance Texaco", many more. She was beyond reasonable belief, still is. Anyone who's seen her live is still unable to get over it. She altered perception,
@@markbarnwell942 "Living it Up" is actually tearfully painful for me to hear. Her lyrics are so strong I feel like it happened to me. The definition of nostalgia. What better gauge of an artist is how it resonates with people. "In terminals where dreams let so many tickets through When strangers look in faces and see somebody there they knew."
Cant wait to see Glamour Profession. Always enjoy the younger generation's reaction to what we grew up and loved. Some songs are timeless! Thanks for giving our music a chance. I did the same with my dad's era music. I'm stuck on them too😁
I am going to have a pre-emptive strike here. There are going to be kids commenting and claiming the Fine Colombian is coke. Well they did not go to school in the 70's or they would know better. When I was in college you could buy Mexican for $20/ounce, Colombian for $50 and it was much better, although no good by todays standard. And for $120 you could get Thai stick.
I believe there's two possibilities: 1) Either Gadd is doubling 'Wendell' (the Nichols drum machine), in other words, Gadd is playing 'real drums' along w/ a pre programmed, Wendell drum-loop, or 2) in reality 'Wendell' also had early sampling capability, meaning it digitally recorded Gadd's playing, stored it, and played it back, utilizing Gadd's drum sound, but w/ the 'mechanized perfection' of robots.
@@SightAfterDark Also the guitarist, Hugh McCracken, was the busiest session musician in the world at the time. He was so booked he turned down work from Paul McCartney.
@@SightAfterDark Probably one of the first more ore less 'hi fi ones'. It was developed strictly for studio applications (and not for 'off the shelf' consumer market). Roger Linn, creator of the fabled 'Linn Drum' (machine), was developing his around the same time and his product became one of the very first, fine, widespread drum machines used in records of the early 1980s. However actual drum machines go back earlier in the decade, and one the actual very, very first examples can be found in the intro of Sly Stone's 1973 (!!) Funk Classic 'In Time', from the album 'Fresh' on the sam year. Check out this track on youtube, they sound a bit primitive in comparison to Wendell, but kudos to Sly Stone for his pioneering spirit.
Michael Mc donald is NOT singing on this. Donald Fagen - electric piano, synthesizer (solo), vocals. Walter Becker - bass guitar, guitar. Hugh McCracken - guitars. Rick Marotta - drums. Victor Feldman, Steve Gadd - percussion. Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders - backup vocals.
'I think I've heard this one before.' Yes you have, as well as I.G.Y., It's called 'Elevator music'. In the music industry it's been said 'If you've got copyright on elevator music, your at the top of the game'.
A fun project for a DJ would be to take “do it again”, “everyone’s gone to the movies”, and “hey 19”, and do a mash up of the three, because they are basically all the same rhythm track. It’s not a knock against any of the songs or Steely Dan, but they had a certain sweet spot in the rhythm sections they created where they would blend drums and percussion, the difference here being that I think Hey 19 was a drum machine track, but those three songs can definitely be faded in and out with each other and it would completely work.
Rick Marotta is the drummer on this track! Wendel may have been used to tweak the groove slightly! Nevertheless a great track and album! They used the studio like an instrument!
So 19 was about a pole dancer leaving her shift. When I was a cab driver I would bring these girls to whatever motel they were staying at . Some would say it was how they were paying for their daughter's college tuition . Pole dancers are not dumb bimbos .
Yes - "Hey Nineteen" got heavy air play on Top 40 radio stations in the summer/fall of 1980. And currently get a lot of air play on Sirius XM's Watercolors channel (66) as well as their Yacht Rock channel (14). Coincidentally, I was also 19 at the time.
Ouch, unfortunately yes. At least one that I know of and when you hear it you’ll really see why they were an incredible team but Fagen was definitely the main guy. Also keep in mind as a duo they had a 20 year hiatus until their 2002 Grammy winning come back album. Most agree the newer stuff is not as consistently brilliant, but there are still masterpieces on both newer Steely Dan albums and Fagen’s four solos. His first, the Nightfly, is still considered an incredible jazz rock classic!
@@SightAfterDark i saw them live in the early 1990s and it was great fun. I think that was their first ever tour. There is *something* live in the early 1970s but as I recall Steely Dan was legendary for wanting to be perfect and therefore stuck close to the studio at all times. Just a recollection tho. Came out in a big way in the 1990s ("Two Against Nature.")
Can't go wrong with Steely Dan..I guess you know what they're named after? I'm not saying here, but it's obviously easy to look up if you don't. Sifa, was wondering if your partner in S After D had a determined look in his eye..would you call him Steely Dan? I'm sorry... it's late lol (i realise im watching these out of order , apologies for repeating prev comments)
Dan you say you wouldn't know how to begin writing a Steely Dan song. Here is a song written by Donald Fagan for David Crosby. th-cam.com/video/HAcyGsJkMaY/w-d-xo.html Rodriguez For A Night.
@@SightAfterDark Right! Thanks for doing these. Been a Dan fan since I was 8 years old. The music only gets better the older you get. It’s an amazing thing!
@@SightAfterDark If you like that, you'll love The Nightfly album (Fagen's first solo album) and a song called Century's End and True companion that Fagen recorded for movies in the 80s.
For future reactions I would find ones without the all the imagery....stick to strictly lyrics versions and enjoy the music...imagery too distracting and pretty sophomoric IMO ....keep up the good work you 2!
If I may chip in my 2%, I believe it was not really midlife crisis, but more 'culture shock' because' by 1979, when this tune was likely written, the hipsterism of 1950s beatnik culture and the psychedelic days of late 1960s that greatly informed Don and Walt's sensibilities had given away to Punk, Disco, New Wave and all kinds of musical tribes they didn't feel connected to, in other words the world had changed a lot since 1969 when they left Bard College and set out to become 'great songwriters'.
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Steely Dan were the kings of the outro. If you don't listen all the way to the end you'd miss so much
very true!
And very often the outro contains another guitar solo.
FINALLY! Reviewers who get the music! No ridiculous intro. You're not caricatures. Just real people appreciating the music. So refreshing! Thank you so much.
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7:46 That's not actually a harmonica, it's Fagen on a synth. He did a lot with that kind of synth patch in the early 80s. Check out the tune "IGY" from his first (?) solo album.
It's 1979 and an early 30s guy is out on a date w/ a 19 yrl old. She doesn't know Aretha Franklin or 1960s Soul, 'cause she's a Disco era girl and the dude's cultural references are of a late 1960s Hipster.... but besides their mutual attraction (they're both of legal age), they do indeed have a couple of things in common after all, a teste for Tequila and Colombian Cannabis.
Lol well who doesn't love Columbian Cannabis?
I turned 19 in 1979 and definitely knew who Aretha Franklin was. 💯💯💯
@@ilovegoodsax Good for you! You might've been rather the exception and not the rule, likewise the '19' character in the song might've known the name but not her music and as such not know her singing/songs. On the same note, I don't think the character is some type of archetype, or a generalization on your generation, it's just illustrative device for story telling in the song, they picked Aretha coz its Soul music from their (Don and Walt's) generation and a cool reference in a lyric anyway. Toddlfe-oo
Nothing like being the old dude in the club still trying to hang with the young ones! The Cuervo gold and the fine Columbian helps, no doubt! Great song!
Thanks for watching Cheryl!
This song off the "Gaucho" album was released in 1980 and got a ton of AIR PLAY. This track is "radio friendly" for sure. I've been in similar situations in college when "freshman" girls come to parties and I was 22 or 23 and they seemed clueless. By the time I turned 22 I had served three years in the U.S. Army with much of it overseas. Trying to interact with someone 18 or 19 was at best a challenge. We had very little in common. I thing that's the jest of this song. Another slice of life tune by S.D.
When Steely Dan (Fagen, Becker) lived in LA they wrote about New York (Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied). When they moved back to New York, they wrote about LA (Gaucho).
As an aspiring guitarist I find the guitar work on this song sublime. A perfect note starts the song, I don't think I can recall any other song where it starts with a singular note held for the perfect amount of time. It's like the song has inhaled and is holding it's breath and then on the exhale the song starts. Hugh McCraken then weaves, shimmies and slides all around the other instruments perfectly supporting or contrasting the phrases he wants to highlight. My favorite Steely Dan Guitarist is Larry Carlton (best solos!) but Hugh has some fantastic guitar parts in some of their songs.
Agreed! All of the guitar work on Steely Dan songs is simply incredible
This IS the vibe .. shout out from LA .. roll up the windows, turn on the a/c, and turn up the gaucho
EVERY Person that is listening to this song needs to buy the catalog
The Aretha Franklin line reminds me of the old story about the young British girls in the record store. One of them is leafing through Beatles albums and suddenly blurts out to her friend 'look, Paul was in another group before Wings'.
LOL
I think it's changed back around. The Beatles are still huge. Wings? Not so much.
Sorry to disappoint but Michael McDonald was not on this one. Zach Sanders and Frank Floyd did the backing vocals here. But Michael McDonald was on one song from this album but I won’t tell you which one. Don’t won’t to spoil it.
Haha thanks Michael, maybe we were just in our own heads. Couldve sworn that was him!
He's perfection and grace...
He’s in Peg.., sings Peg. Listen for it. Great song.
@@Arthur101 if you listen really close to the outro I think you can hear Michael McDonald shouting “I don’t want to do this!”. I’m sure I’m not imagining it!
@@doctorbuzzard10 That would be fun. Ill listen for it. Thanks
Was definitely a single. It was provably played 7 times a day. The next song is fire. Looking forward to it.
Nail on the head. "The sex and drugs album". It definitely is. From every angle. The dealer, to the first time user.
LOL Yeah, I burst out laughing when Dan said that. Like just about every song from Don and Walt isn't a cynical celebration of one sort of depravity or another.
lol yeah really every SD album could be described as a sex and drugs album
Yes, Hey Nineteen was a single and it went to #10 on the charts. Hey Nineteen and Babylon Sisters both get played a lot on satellite radio. Maybe that’s where you know it from.
Very possible!
Come on out to Cali! You’ll love it!! Great review. Can’t wait until you get to Time Outta Mind
Thanks Sonja! Would love to get out to Cali to play some shows sometime!
Hey Guys. The harmonica you thought you heard is a synth or electronic wind instrument.
Makes sense! Thanks Ken!
It's actually called a melodica.
@@CopperNoir The album lists Hey Nineteen personnel "Donald Fagen... synth solo" ... etc., etc. This means an electronic synthesizer. Not an acoustic wind and reed Hohner Melodica. A Melodica uses metal reeds like a harmonica. Hence the name Melod'ica'. I own two Melodicas. If you listen to the song, there are many pitch bends in Don's soloing. This can't be done on a Melodica - only straight tones. Don *does* play the Melodica on stage sometimes. But has not used it in recording. Common instrument mis-identification. Happy listening.
There’s a song on Fagen’s most recent album (Sunken Condos) called Slinky Thing, that’s pretty much the same concept. Except he was in his late 60s by then 🤣. Edit - Now that I think of it, there’s also one on SD’s final album (Everything Must Go) called Pixeleen. Also young girl, old guy.
Adam, you are the MAN! Great reference to those two songs.
Lol seems to be a recurring theme
Almost Gothic another one...seems to be a common theme.
I think that was a synthesizer that sounded like a harmonica.
OK so I'm randomly going through your reactions to Steely Dan and you both are really good in like *you get it*. Yeah this is definitely West Coast vibe, and I haven't checked out your reaction to FM yet but same area code. ... I'm old, and I have internationally travelled to an extent, but I have never felt the need to check out the East of Chicago in my life. I keep telling myself I'll go check out some things but never get around to it. And Sifa mentions Santa Barbara of all places without ever having been there; you are so dang perceptive! I lived an hour's drive down PCH for a while in Ventura/Oxnard/Camarillo [The depicted "Hotel California" on the Eagles album cover is in Camarillo) as a Younger in the 80's during my California stint, and at the time I considered Ventura County a middle class person's Santa Barbara. Yep the vibes...good job again!...Sifa has mentioned Fagan's vowel enunciation; I totally attributed this to him being from New York/New Jersey and him just playing on it, like Brit punkers and some Brit rockers used to empahsize their natural accents e.g. The Kinks. ... I'll have to check out an aforementioned reaction to Blue Oyster Cult y'all have evidently done at some point; a favored group of mine from my youth. Uh! You two are good at this for my tastes :).
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Try the solo album from Donald Fagen - The Nightfly, a masterpiece!! Had to buy the vinyl 3 times cause it was totally worn down. You could almost right through it. New Frontier, I.G.Y., Walk Between The Raindrops.... all of the tracks.
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I believe this album was made after Walter and Donald moved back to NYC…all the songs are their snarky take on the over-wrought LA Scene…These NY dudes were not impressed
Ha sounds about right
This one is always a fan favorite live!!
Would love to hear this live!
Got to see them several times. The last show I saw the opening act was some guy named STEVE WINWOOD!!! Incredible show!!!
She thinks I’m crazy but I’m just growing old. I’ve loved Steely Dan since they first came out many moons ago.😎
Hard not to love em!
You might know this from the countless supermarkets, banks, doctors offices, shopping malls, etc that it was constantly played in for decades haha
Lol probably
There is an interview of them saying , when they moved to La a lot of their songs were about their NY vibes and back in NY they felt like Californians.
Ha makes sense
I remember that commercial coming on TV every 5 minutes it seemed advertising Cuervo gold tequila. I never knew it was a complete song by Steely Dan.
Sorry guys. No Michael McDonald.
Donald Fagen - electric piano, synthesizer (solo), vocals
Walter Becker - bass guitar, guitar
Hugh McCracken - guitars
Rick Marotta - drums
Victor Feldman, Steve Gadd - percussion
Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders - backup vocals
I Grew up with this Vibe
I am going to have to head to Patreon and join up. There is an artist that I have yet to see reacted to and she is fng incredible. I think her hole vibe is meant for you guys. Rickie Lee Jones, dubbed the empress of cool. Take a dive with Gravity. SD always gives a great feel.
Nobody's reacting to Rickie which is stunning. Gravity and Pirates and even her first album with songs like "Night Train" and "Last Chance Texaco", many more. She was beyond reasonable belief, still is.
Anyone who's seen her live is still unable to get over it. She altered perception,
@@lewismaddox4132 Magazine and Pirates are so good start to finish and unique and just so good
@@markbarnwell942 "Living it Up" is actually tearfully painful for me to hear. Her lyrics are so strong I feel like it happened to me. The definition of nostalgia. What better gauge of an artist is how it resonates with people.
"In terminals where dreams let so many tickets through
When strangers look in faces and see somebody there they knew."
We've been seeing her name show up a lot lately! Thanks for watching Mark. We appreciate you!
It hit #10 on the billboard charts in 1981.
Lots of sound engineers use this for sound checks even now as the production is so good !🙏
Wow!
That one got a lot of air time in its day. Sure miss Walter Becker! Those two were a genre of their own. Masters of complex harmony!
Masters indeed!
Cant wait to see Glamour Profession. Always enjoy the younger generation's reaction to what we grew up and loved. Some songs are timeless! Thanks for giving our music a chance. I did the same with my dad's era music. I'm stuck on them too😁
One of the best songs from Steely Dan. (Along with FM and Babylon Sister.
Hard not to love it!
Silky smooth vibe with not quite a taboo topic though he must have been much much older than she was!😃
For sure!
I am going to have a pre-emptive strike here. There are going to be kids commenting and claiming the Fine Colombian is coke. Well they did not go to school in the 70's or they would know better. When I was in college you could buy Mexican for $20/ounce, Colombian for $50 and it was much better, although no good by todays standard. And for $120 you could get Thai stick.
lmao shoutout to the Thai Stick!
Sign me up for that 70s stick or Lebanese hash not picky
Steely Dan produced immaculate music. Cool as shit y'all.
Immaculate is a great word for it
The credits on the album say Steve Gadd plays drums but in reality it's a drum machine programmed by Steely Dan' s genius engineer Roger Nichols.
I believe there's two possibilities: 1) Either Gadd is doubling 'Wendell' (the Nichols drum machine), in other words, Gadd is playing 'real drums' along w/ a pre programmed, Wendell drum-loop, or 2) in reality 'Wendell' also had early sampling capability, meaning it digitally recorded Gadd's playing, stored it, and played it back, utilizing Gadd's drum sound, but w/ the 'mechanized perfection' of robots.
That's crazy was this one of the first drum machines used on a major recording?
@@SightAfterDark Also the guitarist, Hugh McCracken, was the busiest session musician in the world at the time. He was so booked he turned down work from Paul McCartney.
@@SightAfterDark Probably one of the first more ore less 'hi fi ones'. It was developed strictly for studio applications (and not for 'off the shelf' consumer market). Roger Linn, creator of the fabled 'Linn Drum' (machine), was developing his around the same time and his product became one of the very first, fine, widespread drum machines used in records of the early 1980s. However actual drum machines go back earlier in the decade, and one the actual very, very first examples can be found in the intro of Sly Stone's 1973 (!!) Funk Classic 'In Time', from the album 'Fresh' on the sam year. Check out this track on youtube, they sound a bit primitive in comparison to Wendell, but kudos to Sly Stone for his pioneering spirit.
I'm looking at the album credits right now, and it lists Rick Marotta as the drummer.
Walter was beginning to have health problems so Donald soldered on
Michael Mc donald is NOT singing on this. Donald Fagen - electric piano, synthesizer (solo), vocals.
Walter Becker - bass guitar, guitar.
Hugh McCracken - guitars.
Rick Marotta - drums.
Victor Feldman, Steve Gadd - percussion.
Frank Floyd, Zack Sanders - backup vocals.
haha i guess we were just too in our own heads thinking that was Michael! Thanks for the info!
Headphones music after embibing on the ganja.
Hey 19 peaked at #10 on the Billboard chart in 1981.
Its a hit!
'I think I've heard this one before.'
Yes you have, as well as I.G.Y., It's called 'Elevator music'.
In the music industry it's been said 'If you've got copyright on elevator music, your at the top of the game'.
LOL love it
The song peaked at #10 in the Billboard charts
For good reason!
A fun project for a DJ would be to take “do it again”, “everyone’s gone to the movies”, and “hey 19”, and do a mash up of the three, because they are basically all the same rhythm track. It’s not a knock against any of the songs or Steely Dan, but they had a certain sweet spot in the rhythm sections they created where they would blend drums and percussion, the difference here being that I think Hey 19 was a drum machine track, but those three songs can definitely be faded in and out with each other and it would completely work.
Good idea John! Could totally see a DJ rocking that!
That is not a drum machine on "Hey Nineteen". Rick Marotta on drums.
Steely Dan! Another cool band. Loved this song when it was out! Try Dire Straits-- that Zydeco beat!
We love Dire Straits!
Rick Marotta is the drummer on this track! Wendel may have been used to tweak the groove slightly! Nevertheless a great track and album! They used the studio like an instrument!
Thanks for the details David!
It's more like an organ (electric piano) sounding like a harmonica
Ahhh gotcha
So 19 was about a pole dancer leaving her shift. When I was a cab driver I would bring these girls to whatever motel they were staying at . Some would say it was how they were paying for their daughter's college tuition . Pole dancers are not dumb bimbos .
Agreed
Yes - "Hey Nineteen" got heavy air play on Top 40 radio stations in the summer/fall of 1980. And currently get a lot of air play on Sirius XM's Watercolors channel (66) as well as their Yacht Rock channel (14). Coincidentally, I was also 19 at the time.
Very cool!
Very cool!
It's not a Harmonica, Donald is playing a Melodica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica
In the middle of reviewing your sixth Steely album, six more to go (including Fagen’s four solos of course)
Does Becker have any solo albums?
Ouch, unfortunately yes. At least one that I know of and when you hear it you’ll really see why they were an incredible team but Fagen was definitely the main guy. Also keep in mind as a duo they had a 20 year hiatus until their 2002 Grammy winning come back album. Most agree the newer stuff is not as consistently brilliant, but there are still masterpieces on both newer Steely Dan albums and Fagen’s four solos. His first, the Nightfly, is still considered an incredible jazz rock classic!
@@SightAfterDark Becker has 2 solo albums: 11 Tracks of Whack (1994) and Circus Money (2008).
Never played live for i think their first 30 years.
We thought they started out playing live and stopped after an album or two?
@@SightAfterDark i saw them live in the early 1990s and it was great fun. I think that was their first ever tour. There is *something* live in the early 1970s but as I recall Steely Dan was legendary for wanting to be perfect and therefore stuck close to the studio at all times. Just a recollection tho. Came out in a big way in the 1990s ("Two Against Nature.")
morcaiden www.youtube.com/@Morcaiden also has unbelievably great videos for Steely Dan. not sure, but the one their watching might be his.
Can't go wrong with Steely Dan..I guess you know what they're named after? I'm not saying here, but it's obviously easy to look up if you don't. Sifa, was wondering if your partner in S After D had a determined look in his eye..would you call him Steely Dan? I'm sorry... it's late lol (i realise im watching these out of order , apologies for repeating prev comments)
While I can't condone the use of intoxicating Herbs...wait a minute, I can.
Dan you say you wouldn't know how to begin writing a Steely Dan song. Here is a song written by Donald Fagan for David Crosby. th-cam.com/video/HAcyGsJkMaY/w-d-xo.html
Rodriguez For A Night.
Thanks Ms Burton!
this song, the instruments and lack thereof ....brings to mind minimalism
Why is it assumed that “the fine Colombian” was weed? Not sure about that.
Haha could be a few things
@@SightAfterDark Right! Thanks for doing these. Been a Dan fan since I was 8 years old. The music only gets better the older you get. It’s an amazing thing!
Michael McDonald???? I don't think so
lol whoops
I think this is about hooking up with a hot 19 year old and drinking tequila!
harmonica = synth blues harp
ahh make sense!
@@SightAfterDark If you like that, you'll love The Nightfly album (Fagen's first solo album) and a song called Century's End and True companion that Fagen recorded for movies in the 80s.
HEY WTF
For future reactions I would find ones without the all the imagery....stick to strictly lyrics versions and enjoy the music...imagery too distracting and pretty sophomoric IMO ....keep up the good work you 2!
Thanks Doug!
Cocaine and teens, sounds like Motley Crue except it really doesnt.
Lol basically
Not an harmonica, probably a Lyricon. Best. Leo.
Thanks Leo!
Donald and Walter having a mid-life crises here. They were barely thirty...
Lol relatable
If I may chip in my 2%, I believe it was not really midlife crisis, but more 'culture shock' because' by 1979, when this tune was likely written, the hipsterism of 1950s beatnik culture and the psychedelic days of late 1960s that greatly informed Don and Walt's sensibilities had given away to Punk, Disco, New Wave and all kinds of musical tribes they didn't feel connected to, in other words the world had changed a lot since 1969 when they left Bard College and set out to become 'great songwriters'.
Liked this song but overly long. Lyrics could have been better but still a good song.
Thanks for your input Leon!
Always sad to see reaction vids when the reactor is watching these awful fan made vids.
The music is what’s important, and the music here is great 😇
19 was the average age of the soldier in Vietnam and that was a reference to them.
Oh damn
If Michael MacDonald was in this song then he wasn't credited. Though the hook does sound like him. Awesome song, first time seeing your channel.
Thanks for being here Leonard!
Groupies. The Quervo and weed make the age difference is a nothing burger.