Of course. The lyrics and riffs are great, but the drums are what makes this song. Porcaro played on Dan's 3rd and 4th (as main drummer) albums when he was 20-1.
Jeff Porcaro was in Steely Dan and before they were Toto, they played a lot of Steely Dan in their high school band, Donald and Walter even got to watch them play as youngins', so it's more of a memorial to Jeff and their beginnings.
Wrong, Jeff was not involved in 'Countdown to Ecstacy' where 'Bodisattva' is included but it's true that Jeff and Dave were once in Steely Dan's 'Can't Buy a Thrill' and 'Katy Lied'
@@slimjohn3351 Well, Jeff's work in Steely Dan was a few years of hard touring, then he played on Pretzel Logic, pretty much all of Katy Lied, and on Gaucho, so out of all their drummers, he was definately their main one in the post Hodder era, and as much in the band as it was possible for anyone but Becker and Fagen to be.
@@michaelcaplin8969 It's true that Porcaro toured with them and plays all but one tracks on "Katy Lied", but he was hardly the "main" drummer post Hodder - he doesn't appear at all on "Royal Scam" or "Aja" and only plays one track on "Gaucho" (the title track).
SD has more than enough stones to pull it off live believe me. I’ve seen it. Unless Wayne Krantz is touring, SD’s guitar player is nothing like Lukather, but SD has Keith Carlock on drums touring and he is pretty much the gold standard.
Thank you!! I miss him sooo much in Toto...even to this day, i've got problems to deal with it. F...!!! Does anny fucking body notice the countless ghost-notes? Or am i alone in this world??
@@paulconnelly4050 Seeing your reply made me go back and re-read what I put down which was partially wrong. The vocal wasn't Walter but Donald. And, Skunk indeed was a virtuoso caliber guitarist....but so many of the fellows who played with the Dan live or performed on record and created the memorable leads were all incredibly gifted musicians.....I mean Steely Dan has had some of the greatest guitar players.
The whole band is so TIGHT on this track...but Luke's solo is the work of a one-of-a-kind master. Especially from 4:30 on, he mixes the most sublimely beautiful jazz licks with some insanely fast and precise shredding. I keep looking for another guitarist that is as versatile and musical as Steve Lukather, and I've not found them yet. So grateful this concert was recorded!
Preston Frazier, in his blog, described Toto's version of this song as, and here's my favorite bit: "David Paich's piano and Steve Porcaro's synthesizer programming are perfect. Porcaro probably created his parts in an eighth of the time it took Donald Fagen to badger the fake horns out of his analog ARP Soloist synth." According to Denny Dias, when Fagen tried doing that he was so angry whenever his instrument started going out of tune. Since the synth solo was supposed to represent the sound of a four-piece horn section, each of the four different tracks had to be recorded separately as the ARP Soloist was a one-note instrument, and Fagen kept going "I'm gonna kill this thing!" each time the instrument went out of tune and after the tapes had stopped rolling. Then after the whole synth solo was finished, its four tracks put together and then played and played back, Fagen then took out his anger by yanking the wires out of the instrument, ran off with it, and then from several flights of stairs, threw it down as hard as he could, and then did his best to destroy the instrument to bits by stomping on it before a studio engineer got some alcohol to set the wrecked instrument on fire.
FUN FACT: To settle the argument about who played lead guitar and solos on the Steely Dan version...Both Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Denny Dias played solos on the song. Dias is first at 1:35, then Skunk winds it up with a blistering turn at 4:09.....you can look it up.
Great version. Love the rock feel instead of the in the pocket jazz feel SD plays these days. Luthaker is great here and the jon herrington solos are awesome in SD , but i still love the fire and passion denny dias put into the first solo back in the day . Jazz with insane rock and roll attitude. Listen to the 74 recording on youtube if you havent heard it.
Denny Dias and Jeff Baxter played the two leads on the recorded version -- two of the best session guitarists you'll ever hear. This one rocks -- Toto has always been an extraordinarily tight band -- but I prefer live versions that stay closer to the original guitar parts. Mixing it up with some improv and personal style is great -- I just think it's better to do it in an outro jam, not within the song itself.
Interesting - frankly I hate it when bands play a song that sounds exactly (or even close to) like the recording, how boring and defeating of the purpose of hearing a live version.
@@joe-vz6hx Generally speaking, I agree with you. It's one of the things I've always loved about seeing bands like the Grateful Dead, Skynyrd, Blues Traveler, Allmans, Joni Mitchell (especially when Metheny and Pastorius were backing her -- they blew me away.) But why would I want to go pay good money to hear a band play songs the exact same way I've heard a million times on the radio or the album? I could just as well listen to at home. Give me something different, vibrant, eclectic. BUT there are a few songs that are so masterfully recorded that I WANT to see and hear the version I know and love. Steely Dan has number of them -- Bodhisattva, My Old School, Deacon Blues, to name a few. Mix it up on the outro, though, in an extended version -- I'm all for that.
So I get it! Its a hard song. Everybody is justified saying, "wow, they did a good job!!!" But huh... these guys are all talented and let's not forget... its Steve Lukather!
A masterful cover of Steely Dan's classic, with a full subtle twists and turns courtesy of Steve, Mike and Simon! Its heartbreaking to hear how they ended up :( The tragic loss of Mike Porcaro (to ALS), Jeff Porcaro (to a freak garden accident), Steve Porcaro losing part of his hearing following an operation to remove a (thankfully) benign tumor, Bobby Kimball (who was fired back in 83', basically because he couldn't sing with all the cocaine he was ingesting (they all were to be fair), but joined Toto again around 1998/2000) but who now has dementia. And then there is Steve, who was drinking himself to death (but thankfully managed to turn it all around) and of course David Paich (who had an apparent seizure during the 2018 European tour (who is still a member of the band in their current iteration as Musical Director and occasion guest performance). I was lucky enough to hear these guys back in 1995/96 as part of thier Tambu tour at a local small venue - the venue was around the size of a barn, but the acoustics were great! Hands down, one of the best nights of live music ever!
This tour was in support of "Through The Looking Glass," an album of cover songs. The video is probably from late 2002 / early 2003. Me thinks they owed their record company something so they did this. Check out their version of "Watching The Detectives." Lukather does a great imitation of Elvis Costello who hated them! So they stuck it right up his ass!! LOL!!
lukather nails the solo in this , but hey he grew up on the dan , by the way R.I.P WALTER YOU WAS ONE HELL OF A MUSICIAN AND SO WAS THE DAN ONE HELL OF A BAND , GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER !!!
+Dino Di Lucido sure...i mean, if you can get porcaro, you take him ! anyway, whenever steely dan goes on tour, they just ask: who wants...!? and the crème de la crème of jazz and studio musicians yell: present !
Like who in Toto played for SD except Jeff Porcaro (RIP) and sprinkling of David Paich? I don’t think anybody else from Toto ever played for the Dan through Gaucho, which is the last REAL Steely Dan album.
TOTO plays a very competent cover. My favorite Bodhisattva live rendition is from the 1985 SD album "Alive In America". Sorry Steve Lukather, but George Wadenius kills in his fiery arranged guitar solo, besting even the 1973 album's studio guitar track. th-cam.com/video/BHETjHyMzbo/w-d-xo.html
One of the best Steely Dan covers that you will ever hear…
I think Setzer's is better. Check it out.
@@bayouflier6641 I just did, and must politely disagree, they did it too slow for me
Of course. The lyrics and riffs are great, but the drums are what makes this song.
Porcaro played on Dan's 3rd and 4th (as main drummer) albums when he was 20-1.
Try this one. I think it’s even better. Especially because Keith Emerson is there.
th-cam.com/video/AAvYHXz7XsA/w-d-xo.html
Damn straight... I could fool some people with this tune.. TOTO is dead on!!!
Insane! Wow!
These Cats were great musicians! They did Steely Dan justice! Well done!
"were"???
@@2tommyrad - Right? 🤣🤣🤣
I love how Lukather can shred without sounding cheesy
Define "cheesy?"
HOW I MISS, SO BADLY, when the mainstream was made by REAL music and REAL musicians. And I'm not a nostalgic.
Jeff Porcaro was in Steely Dan and before they were Toto, they played a lot of Steely Dan in their high school band, Donald and Walter even got to watch them play as youngins', so it's more of a memorial to Jeff and their beginnings.
Wrong, Jeff was not involved in 'Countdown to Ecstacy' where 'Bodisattva' is included but it's true that Jeff and Dave were once in Steely Dan's 'Can't Buy a Thrill' and 'Katy Lied'
@@slimjohn3351 Well, Jeff's work in Steely Dan was a few years of hard touring, then he played on Pretzel Logic, pretty much all of Katy Lied, and on Gaucho, so out of all their drummers, he was definately their main one in the post Hodder era, and as much in the band as it was possible for anyone but Becker and Fagen to be.
@@michaelcaplin8969 It's true that Porcaro toured with them and plays all but one tracks on "Katy Lied", but he was hardly the "main" drummer post Hodder - he doesn't appear at all on "Royal Scam" or "Aja" and only plays one track on "Gaucho" (the title track).
you forget Boz Scaggs
Didn't know that, thanks 🙏 🥁🥁🥁
I adore both bands as equal, I just love the fact that Toto have the stones to play and pull this song off live!
SD has more than enough stones to pull it off live believe me. I’ve seen it. Unless Wayne Krantz is touring, SD’s guitar player is nothing like Lukather, but SD has Keith Carlock on drums touring and he is pretty much the gold standard.
Dammit, saw Toto live a couple of years ago and they didnt play this 😡 It was still an awesome show though.
Check out the version of this song by The Best. Its on YT too.
These "bands" are hardly equal, but yeah, impressed that they covered this and did it well - no small feat
here are some real stones (and they're barely past puberty) th-cam.com/video/jylN5BjCq8Y/w-d-xo.html
Simon Phillips is SUCH a monster drummer--ambidextrous --killer player!!!!
KILLER
Thank you!! I miss him sooo much in Toto...even to this day, i've got problems to deal with it. F...!!! Does anny fucking body notice the countless ghost-notes? Or am i alone in this world??
Think it's called "open style drumming".... Billy C is another drummer who uses this style
@@jonnifjader open handed :)
@@jenteworrell4065 : ghost notes aren’t very audible here.
A great cover on this fantastic Steely Dab jam. Thanks, Steve.
Toto are such great musicians. The original is better but this really captures the feel of the original.
Thank, Jeff Skunk Baxter for the riveting fast leads in the original and the great vocal effort by Walter.
@@petewentz3528 agreed, the Skunk is an amazing player but being a big Steely fan I’m biased.
@@paulconnelly4050 Seeing your reply made me go back and re-read what I put down which was partially wrong. The vocal wasn't Walter but Donald. And, Skunk indeed was a virtuoso caliber guitarist....but so many of the fellows who played with the Dan live or performed on record and created the memorable leads were all incredibly gifted musicians.....I mean Steely Dan has had some of the greatest guitar players.
Steve's guitar gently weeps every time he picks it up........ crying from a severe workout !
It Rocks...it Jams! I'm blown Away! Electrifying cover from such an amazing band!
I overheard this on my computer, thinking Wow, Steely Dan sounds better live. Then I saw it was a cover!
holy cow, never thought one of the best bands would cover one of the most underrated songs by another great band!
Underrated only by the musically ignorant!
@@andrewtrotter9023 true
TOTO = Total justice to this masterpiece by Steely Dan.
Damn. I think I just found my new favorite version of this song. *** Tribute to Toto ***
I love Luke’s mish mash of bebop and shred metal. Brilliant and beautiful!
I had no idea they played this and did such a kick-ass job doing it. And it's right after While my guitar gently weeps, which was also awesome.
I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY KICK ASS👍🎸😎
I must say, as a YUGE fan of The Dan, I was very skeptical about this.
Hot damn was I mistaken, and blown away 🤯🤯🤯
The whole band is so TIGHT on this track...but Luke's solo is the work of a one-of-a-kind master. Especially from 4:30 on, he mixes the most sublimely beautiful jazz licks with some insanely fast and precise shredding. I keep looking for another guitarist that is as versatile and musical as Steve Lukather, and I've not found them yet. So grateful this concert was recorded!
Holy shyte! Well done. That snappy snare gives me a woodie.
Lukather's a monster!
Now that's music
AWESOME 😎🎶
the best band ever. simon and luckather incredible in this song
Tony Spinner with Lukather on the dual lead. He's originally from my neck of the woods. Played with Paul Gilbert too.
Tony spinner can keep up with Paul Gilbert, he’s in full support role here,
❤️ Luke you are on fire
Preston Frazier, in his blog, described Toto's version of this song as, and here's my favorite bit:
"David Paich's piano and Steve Porcaro's synthesizer programming are perfect. Porcaro probably created his parts in an eighth of the time it took Donald Fagen to badger the fake horns out of his analog ARP Soloist synth."
According to Denny Dias, when Fagen tried doing that he was so angry whenever his instrument started going out of tune. Since the synth solo was supposed to represent the sound of a four-piece horn section, each of the four different tracks had to be recorded separately as the ARP Soloist was a one-note instrument, and Fagen kept going "I'm gonna kill this thing!" each time the instrument went out of tune and after the tapes had stopped rolling. Then after the whole synth solo was finished, its four tracks put together and then played and played back, Fagen then took out his anger by yanking the wires out of the instrument, ran off with it, and then from several flights of stairs, threw it down as hard as he could, and then did his best to destroy the instrument to bits by stomping on it before a studio engineer got some alcohol to set the wrecked instrument on fire.
FUN FACT: To settle the argument about who played lead guitar and solos on the Steely Dan version...Both Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Denny Dias played solos on the song. Dias is first at 1:35, then Skunk winds it up with a blistering turn at 4:09.....you can look it up.
O YA🎸🎸
They made it their own and did an excellent job of it!
Simon Phillips: never missed a beat.
Actually he missed the beat when playing I supply the love live in Paris in 2007 hahhahaha
OUTSTANDING !!! Excellent cover of a hard song to do. The vocals were dead on! 👍
I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY,,,👍🎸🎶
Steve L just tears it all apart.....................! just saw Sammy Hagar last week....same incredible energy. 2022 !
Great version. Love the rock feel instead of the in the pocket jazz feel SD plays these days. Luthaker is great here and the jon herrington solos are awesome in SD , but i still love the fire and passion denny dias put into the first solo back in the day . Jazz with insane rock and roll attitude. Listen to the 74 recording on youtube if you havent heard it.
Great energy!!! I love this.
Class. Sheer class.
QUE GRANDE TOTO Y QUE BUEN TRABAJO DE TONY SPINNER
Denny Dias and Jeff Baxter played the two leads on the recorded version -- two of the best session guitarists you'll ever hear. This one rocks -- Toto has always been an extraordinarily tight band -- but I prefer live versions that stay closer to the original guitar parts.
Mixing it up with some improv and personal style is great -- I just think it's better to do it in an outro jam, not within the song itself.
Interesting - frankly I hate it when bands play a song that sounds exactly (or even close to) like the recording, how boring and defeating of the purpose of hearing a live version.
@@joe-vz6hx Generally speaking, I agree with you. It's one of the things I've always loved about seeing bands like the Grateful Dead, Skynyrd, Blues Traveler, Allmans, Joni Mitchell (especially when Metheny and Pastorius were backing her -- they blew me away.)
But why would I want to go pay good money to hear a band play songs the exact same way I've heard a million times on the radio or the album? I could just as well listen to at home. Give me something different, vibrant, eclectic.
BUT there are a few songs that are so masterfully recorded that I WANT to see and hear the version I know and love. Steely Dan has number of them -- Bodhisattva, My Old School, Deacon Blues, to name a few. Mix it up on the outro, though, in an extended version -- I'm all for that.
TOTO. Musicisti unici,,te prendono a carci n culov . troppo forti
holy shit what a perfomance
Well these guys just MURDERED this tune..fabuloius version
Fantastic !
That was fun!
Excellent rendition!
WOW! Excellent cover.
Luke ! Youre one em guitar gods👍
They do the song justice 👊
So amazing!
tony spinner was the best background singer toto ever had !
I didn't known him, but Tony was from my neck of the woods. His grandmother owned a pawn store in the area.
That was Literally the most amazing thing I have ever seen !! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Steve Lukether is on par with the great guitarists of all time !!
¡¡¡Mi madre!!! ¡¡que versión!!
Fabulous.
Sick...awesome
Awesome🎸🎸🎸🎵🎶🎸🎵🎶🎸🎵🎶🎸🎵😀
Wtf...mind blowing...hell yes🎸
My god that was impressive!
i have a gig in three days time and i have to learn this song !!!
Definitely one of the better covers out there that still respects the source material.
The intro riff reminds me of Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy"!
Great song in itself.
Toto does this so well if you close your eyes and listen yould think this is Steely Dan live! BEST cover I've heard in many years. 👍👏👏👏👏
those guys were studio session recording musicians(jeff porcaro begun in the recording at 17 yr R.I.P) ,before TOTO, this cover is explosive.
So I get it! Its a hard song. Everybody is justified saying, "wow, they did a good job!!!" But huh... these guys are all talented and let's not forget... its Steve Lukather!
Nice guitar solo on that one ;-)
I always like to watch the effect this tune Booty Savvy has on performers -
it changes them all into James Cagney.
A masterful cover of Steely Dan's classic, with a full subtle twists and turns courtesy of Steve, Mike and Simon! Its heartbreaking to hear how they ended up :( The tragic loss of Mike Porcaro (to ALS), Jeff Porcaro (to a freak garden accident), Steve Porcaro losing part of his hearing following an operation to remove a (thankfully) benign tumor, Bobby Kimball (who was fired back in 83', basically because he couldn't sing with all the cocaine he was ingesting (they all were to be fair), but joined Toto again around 1998/2000) but who now has dementia. And then there is Steve, who was drinking himself to death (but thankfully managed to turn it all around) and of course David Paich (who had an apparent seizure during the 2018 European tour (who is still a member of the band in their current iteration as Musical Director and occasion guest performance). I was lucky enough to hear these guys back in 1995/96 as part of thier Tambu tour at a local small venue - the venue was around the size of a barn, but the acoustics were great! Hands down, one of the best nights of live music ever!
I don't think there is anyone better
Simon wow
man Luke kills this
This tour was in support of "Through The Looking Glass," an album of cover songs. The video is probably from late 2002 / early 2003. Me thinks they owed their record company something so they did this. Check out their version of "Watching The Detectives." Lukather does a great imitation of Elvis Costello who hated them! So they stuck it right up his ass!! LOL!!
Good cover. By no means an easy song to re-create. It is obvious these guys are really good musicians --as musician would concur.
Wow!
superb!
Great cover. Not that I am surprised...
La magnifica quitarra de Steve lukather
ss
STEELY DAN.
Cool version! Forgot that sustained piano chord at the end, but awesome just the same...
Impressive. I like 👏😎
bunch of these guys played with steely dan back in the day.
DAN-TASTIC !!
"The Dan of Steel"
I didn't realize that Jan Michael Vincent played guitar. Lukather and Jan Michael Vincent...what a pair! Fab as usual Luke...talk to ya later!
lukather nails the solo in this , but hey he grew up on the dan , by the way R.I.P WALTER YOU WAS ONE HELL OF A MUSICIAN AND SO WAS THE DAN ONE HELL OF A BAND , GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER !!!
Nails it? He doesn't sound much at all like the version Baxter played in SD.
A very good version, but it can't top Steely Dan's live version in Santa Monica 1974 on the "Citizen" album.
Charles Ryans you must be a little pretty one
@@toothbrush5190 🤣🤣🤣
Holy 😮
holy mother of god!
Decent cover
YES - Live in Amsterdam?
Oh lord how does Luke do it
A number of members of Toto played for Steely Dan.
+Dino Di Lucido sure...i mean, if you can get porcaro, you take him ! anyway, whenever steely dan goes on tour, they just ask: who wants...!? and the crème de la crème of jazz and studio musicians yell: present !
Like who in Toto played for SD except Jeff Porcaro (RIP) and sprinkling of David Paich? I don’t think anybody else from Toto ever played for the Dan through Gaucho, which is the last REAL Steely Dan album.
This is the best lineup after jeff porcaro died... Atleast for me
OMG!!!!
All Hail Lord Lukather
All hail Jeff Baxter on the original version.
Prodigy.
Best version ever. Bobby tatieu never had tetes, or balls for that matter......
I had no idea...
TOTO plays a very competent cover. My favorite Bodhisattva live rendition is from the 1985 SD album "Alive In America". Sorry Steve Lukather, but George Wadenius kills in his fiery arranged guitar solo, besting even the 1973 album's studio guitar track.
th-cam.com/video/BHETjHyMzbo/w-d-xo.html
I wasn't talking writing skills, just playing covers and I still and always will think that Toto did it better, my opinion, tyvm.
do these guys compose or what. Improving on a masterpiece
didnt know toto was a steely dan tribute band lolz
CSFLChampion Well, given that both David Paich and Jeff Porcaro played on Steely Dan records, their music is pretty much in the bands’ DNA.
well, yey!!
Nope, this has to Becker and Fagan with a cover video.
Toto is amazing!
W-O-W . . . . . . .
Wow! This ain't no Africa. Those boys can flat out jam!