STEELY DAN "THE CAVES OF ALTAMIRA" (reaction)
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- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "The Caves of Altamira" by Steely Dan!
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The cave art of Altamira was the first Paleolithic cave paintings to be discovered in Europe
Crazy that they were discovered by a member of Steely Dan 😉
@@SightAfterDark LOL!
Wild, weird stuff. I did not know that.
@@jayburdification YES!
Yes discovered by Steely Dan but before there was any Hollywood.🤣🤣🤣
One of their most underrated songs and one of my favorites.
Guys, there is so much great stuff coming up on the rest of The Royal Scam. Every one is a classic. Enjoying your reactions.
Eey, Steely Ben my guy spitting facts
Steely Ben the legend! Thanks so much for your videos! Not sure if you noticed, but we go out of our way to make sure we use yours as much as possible. They’re the best!
@@SightAfterDark Thank you. I so love Steely Dan!
You guys are really getting into the gritty with Steely Dan now. My favorite band ever and my favorite album of theirs which is saying a lot cause all of their albums are basically flawless and so unique in their own way.
Steely Ben, def thanks for taking the time to put all of these videos together. I’m sure you already know but JamelAKAJamel has done a ton of Steely reactions with your videos and gives you a lot of shout outs. Keep it up and take care.
PS if you haven’t already you should make a video for “Here At The Western World”.
Everything You Did is most definitely not a classic :P
John Klemmer on tenor sax, had some very popular solo albums in the 70's. Jazzy, moody, ethereal. His only sax solo in the Steely Dan catalog, and a huge fan favorite.
It’s Wayne Shorter from Weather Report.
@@Skylarking00 Caves of Altamira is John Klemmer. Wayne Shorter performed on the title track of Aja, not Caves.
Yes, this is definitely John Klemmer. He had some really wild music back in the 70’s.
Hey stereolab... Research before hitting send.
@@Skylarking00 No, it's not.
The Caves of Altamira in northern Spain is one of the places where Paleolithic and then Mesolithic West Hunter Gatherers held out during the last Ice Age and contains some earlier examples of ancient art. And the cave apparently was discovered by a youth who wandered into it by chance, while exploring the country side near his town. After the ice sheets receded towards the artic they started following the game towards the north and were arguably the first the ancestral group of people that repopulated Western Europe after the Ice Age. They were joined around 7000/6000 BCE by the Early European Farmers who came from Anatolia and then about 4000 BCE by so called Bronze Age Metal workers, coming from Southern Russia/Ukraine region. The mix of these 3 populations gave rise to Modern Europeans.
Did the youth that discovered the cave happen to be named Donald Fagen? 😂
@@SightAfterDark I think it was some Spaniard kid, but Donald perhaps learned about this as a youth himself and maybe fantasied about it.
@@SightAfterDark Ha! Excellent!
Perfect - they should have called you before “wuz that like … a real place ?”
@@teelurizzo8542 Fagan did indeed go to Alta Mira , met Peg there - they had
a Haitian Divorce and he spends his
time on the Dunes - looking for
Tomorrows Girls
Others here have explained what Altamira is. This has long been one of my favorite Dan tunes, and after much pondering about its meaning, here's my take: It's about humans' eternal, innate and universal drive for artistic expression.
Love that interpretation!
Both Fagen and Becker were extremely well read individuals and had a wealth of knowledge from which to glean inspiration. I loved this song ever since I first heard it when I purchased the album at 14.
It’s a great song! Thanks for watching!
Absolutely
I look at that cave painting of all the hands, and I think: friends, we still remember you 50,000 years later. Amazing.
🤯
I think so, too: Fagen & Becker paid homage to our ancestors, with some of their descendants listening to this very video. Each time I see that painting of the artist blowing ochre, charcoal, iron rust and other tints over the back of his hand, something tugs at my heartstrings...like a yearning to want to meet him, and all of them who left their hundreds of handprints in different hues throughout that and other cave systems. Yep, memory sweeps over me, as Fagen sang. It's difficult to describe the exact feeling, but I know there's an involuntarily disconnectedness from fellow humans who just barely remained alive, after breaking out of a continental barrier, and who just might be among my relatives. Jeez, I hope you can understand/comprehend why "Caves" touches me so profoundly, reaching out from beyond 12,000 years and using paintings to tell us who they are/were...a kind of handshake of a greeting to the future "themselves."
Caves is truly a gem. The rest of the album is of the same caliber, practically flawless and timeless. There is some funk and syncopation coming your way.
It was cave arts discovered in Altemira Spain. It sparked a debate about if ancient men had artistic expression....Some of the greatest and smarest lyrics in a pop song. Love this song
It’s a great one!
Seefra? Dan? It's obvious that you both seem to have the same reaction to "The Dan" that we all did, the first time we heard them... It's a wonderful thing! Please, please, please! consider continuing this journey, throughout the whole Dan discography, as well as Walter and Donalds Solo efforts,,.. Your minds will be blown, and your channel will grow!! You've tapped a very, very deep well of musicianship and excellence.. Your own music (Which I like), will grow exponentially as well ...Do it... You will never be sorry.. :)
Hey Tony! Sifa and Dan here, we appreciate your comment! We’ve already done a bunch of SD albums (Can’t Buy A Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied and Aja) and we plan on doing them all eventually!
Aja the song is actually a huge reason we have this channel! It’s was one of our first reactions ever and the feedback was so great we realized we might be good at this whole reaction video thing 😂 The Dan has quickly become one of our favorite bands!
Most of the “big” channels of young people reacting to SD stopped short of fully exploring the riches that are available in those albums. Thank goodness for Sight After Dark.
Thanks for watching Dan!
Agreed. In my opinion Steely Dan’s best work is not their radio hits but the so called “deep cuts”, of which there are so many songs. They took so much time to perfect every song on every album and it shows. Every song is so unique and musically/ lyrically brilliant. They never phoned it in.
One of the best horns I've ever heard.
Beautiful indeed
Can't forget the milieu and context of this album .
It's as relevant today as '76 when first I heard .
Definitional 'Art' = timeless .
Truth!
Absolutely
The caves are in Portugal and were some of the earliest cave drawings found.
From Wiki: The Cave of Altamira (/ˌæltəˈmɪərə/; Spanish: Cueva de Altamira [ˈkweβa ðe altaˈmiɾa]) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.[1] The site was discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas and subsequently studied by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola.[2]
Ahhh ok that makes a lot of sense
As someone already said, “Green Earrings” … ‘nuff said.
My favorite
We’re looking forward to it!
Altamira is a cave system in Spain where a large number of cave paintings was discovered some more than 50,000 years old
Lol checks out
The extraordinary men of the eternally masterful groove.
The correct lyrics:
They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall
For you and me
To be understood.
Love that you guys are appreciating Steely Dan and also Zappa. My two all time favourites. ☺️
Thanks for watching!
I’m glad you guys made it to the The Royal Scam! 🔥 Enjoy the journey! I’m a Brooklyn native born and raised and Steely Dan fan so love the reactions!
Glad you like the videos! Thanks for watching!
Ditto. I was too young to appreciate them in their heyday, but when I got to college, I became a “Dan fan” while others around me were becoming the next generation of “Dead Heads.”
For my 50th birthday, I traveled from San Francisco to NYC to treat myself to 4 of their shows during their residency at The Beacon Theater.
Altamira, cave in northern Spain famous for its magnificent prehistoric paintings and engravings. It is situated 19 miles (30 km) west of the port city of Santander, in Cantabria provincia. Altamira was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985. Best. Leo.
Thanks Leo!
I can't wait for you to get to Green Earrings. It has one of the best drum breaks I've ever heard.
We’re excited to hear it!
you also must remember, Donald wrote this when he was 17 years old, I think it is impressive
Amazing!
The sax solo is such an elevating vibe.
Consider us elevated ;)
Altimira is a cave in northern Spain known for its prehistoric paintings on the walls.
As a classic stand alone album ,it's one of the Best.
For sure!
Excited that you are doing this album. My fav Steely Dan album. Enjoy.
We’re excited that you’re excited!
Michael McDonald did backing vocals on Kid Charlemagne. You have to listen closer on that one but his voice is definitely there. As far as I know that is the only song on The Royal Scam he did backing vocals on.
Gotta love some Michael! Thanks Michael!
McDonalds voice is easy to hear on "Peg"
McDonald is interviewed that Fagan had him hold one note on “PEG” (it will come back to you “
He then had him over dub another note
when singing PEG -‘so he’s got two pure nots overlayed on the song PEG
on that luric
I think he did sing background vocals on Everything you Did as well ,on the lyrics,"I never knew you were a roller skater".
The one after Pretzel Logic was Katy Lied which was followed by The Royal Scam.
Altamira - the site of a cave with Palaeolithic rock paintings, south of Santander in northern Spain, as Donald Jackson said.
One of my favorite SD songs! And it kinda sticks out among the rest of the album - its the only one that is not about sleazy criminal activity haha
This album is amazing
Amazingly non sleazy! 😂
i wish Royal Scam had more of Altamira's flavour.
Truth!
such a comforting vocal melody as he sings of almost unspeakable loneliness
What a Steely Dan thing to do
How are you not in the thousands of subs yet? Best wishes!
We’re not worried about it. All things in time. Thanks though!
If Aja is Steely Dan’s Sgt. Pepper, Royal Scam is definitely their Revolver. This is like the deepest cut of the album and it’s a straight up banger.
Great take Jay!
You guys are awesome! Sight After Dark jamz!
Thanks so much John!
Loved this reaction. This is definitely top 10 Steely Dan tracks for me. First time I heard it I had it on repeat for at least an hour.
It’s hard to beat! Glad you enjoyed the video!
#underrated
Sifa: "For the last two songs, I'm secretly looking for Michael McDonald."
Seek, and ye shall find! 🥳
If you listen closely to the hook to KC, towards the end when they're jamming on it "Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne"--4:20 (!) in your KC reaction video--I think you'll hear Michael in there doing doing a delayed harmony.😷
Love Michael! Thanks so much George!
@@SightAfterDark You're so welcome. I couldn't resist--here's Michael. th-cam.com/video/hSlYaKrQWww/w-d-xo.html
there was a time when there wasn't a hollywood? who knew?!!!
Lol shocking!
I hope you'll understand where I'm coming from regarding this song. [It always seems odd to me to call SD performances "songs." They're obviously much more than that, at least to me.] Something about "Caves" has always touched me deeply. I view it as an attempt by ancient humans to communicate not only to themselves but to yet unknown generations of their offspring...which are us. Perhaps they could foresee that humanity would always search for and appreciate its roots. If so, it was an indication of the love they felt for future generations. The paintings portray a reverence for the animals that thrived in an environment that could appear hostile to anything living. Their art was a form of giving thanks to a "beast without a name."
Hey, btw...I LOVE your intro/bumper music!
Thanks so much for sharing and watching!
Thanks for another awesome reaction!
Thanks for watching!
It’s jazz guys, better off to look at a lead sheet instead of a lyric sheet. Check out those jazz chords you won’t hear from any other so-called rock group, and this was early 70s. That’s a young up-and-coming John Klemmer on tenor, taking it out through the fade.
The chords make our heads spin to be honest. We need to brush up on our theory!
@@SightAfterDark No problem, just the fact you can appreciate that their “jazz harmony” has always been a unique feature’s important. From their second album onward they were always hiring top studio jazz players to record. Imaginative songwriting, top studio musicians, unique lyrical storytelling, Great grooves, killer arrangements, and snappy hooks all combined in making their music timeless while always “ahead of its time“.
I loved Aja the most from the Dan until I heard The Royal Scam. Aja sounds (for a lack of a better word) "commercial" compared to the Scam. The Scam sounds raw, it has in-your-face great lyrics and music. Don't get me wrong, Aja is an absolute masterpiece, but I prefer The Royal Scam.....and yes, The Caves of Altamira is my favorite song in it, mankind's eternal drive to express art. Many thought of "the cavemen" as barbarian people, well look at their beyond beautiful art in the caves of Altamira Spain, those now-extinct majestic buffalos. They painted them on the wall 14,000 to 18,000 years ago. Just think about that: 12,000 to 16,000 years before Christ, 11,500 to 15,500 years before the Egyptian pyramids. Do you notice how the sax solo sounds like an ancient "tribe" horn call?
Michael McDonald sang back up on Kid Charlemagne. Briefly, it wasn't hard to miss. The get along, get along KC part he's there.
We’ll have to go back! Sometimes it’s hard to catch everything on the first listen. Especially with Steely Dan
You wouldn't necessarily realize this because the guitar is so damn hard to extrapolate from this music but anything from Royal Scam, Aja, or Gaucho is hell for a guitarist unless you are well versed in old jazz chords. (And lots of them!) SDs music is among the most complicated that I have ever played. Fun but complicated. Cheers!
Oh trust us, as musicians, we realize how difficult this all has to be 😂 kind of makes our heads spin to be honest
Hope you hit Green Earrings next then either Haitian Divorce or Don't Take Me Alive
We’ll be doing the whole album in order! Next weeks reactions will be mostly SD :)
@@SightAfterDark you just can't go wrong with SD
¿ Graphiti Fan~fare's...
Never one of my favourites for some reason. But the next one..................
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