This is a rough mix that was made at Sigma Sound in New York the day Gary & Company came to check out our studio. I was the engineer. The tracks were cut by Al Schmidt except for the piano solo which I overdubbed that day. (Btw the piano is the same Steinway we used in Philly on Backstabbers, for those of you who like to know everything about everything.) The reason I know it's my mix all these years later is because of the fade -- Gary kept telling me to fade faster, and I was just too slow, never having heard the whole song before. So that's why you hear that slight transition at the end -- it's not supposed to be there. (We also cut Kind Spirit that day as well as doing a rough mix on the "original lyrics" version of Third World Man, which at that time was called Were You Blind That Day.)
Marc Landes - Small world! I don’t even remember how I got here - I think I was just looking for some Dan stuff to listen to on new speakers I just got in Florida.
Imagine a alternate universe in which this, the second arrangement and other cut songs were completed and released. THAT would be incredible Still very cool that these cuts survived, especially since they too are masterfully composed
In my alternate universe, the Dan produced decent studio versions of all those low-fi demos they threw together before they became famous. How can you have written work as stupendous as "Let George Do It", "A Horse in Town", "The Old Regime", "More to Come", "Soul Ram" and not give them the perfectionist treatment they lavished on later material? They pulled "Brooklyn" out of the vault, why not the rest? A challenge for one of the tribute bands maybe.
@@rustykuntz94 I'm pretty sure this is an outtake from Aja and was titled wrong. I think it was going to be on Aja and the record company decided against adding it.
@@WrestlingErnestHemingway that's a damn shame they decided for excluding this. I figure they privileged Peg for it, for being a dance song more or less
Each side of a record album holds 18 minutes at maximum;end of story! No bonus tracks here!. Certainly means that we missed out on a whole bunch of good stuff!
I've listened to Gaucho countless times, but just heard this outtake for the first time. Damn what a great song, would have fit in perfectly with the others. Great groove on this, and with the usual intriguing lyrics from SD.
With how wonderful the song selection has been on the TV show 'The Bear,' I don't see how this hasn't shown up yet. A bit on the nose, but perfect still.
Just wonderful to hear this!!! Man! What a shame that all these tracks are going unheard... music today could use a BIG dose of this stuff... thanks for getting this out there...
This track has All of the Essential Steely Dan Elements in it.. Incredible composition, Stellar arrangement, and brutally Honest, and Cynical, lyrical imagery.. And, it's Catchy as Hell.. As a representative piece of work, this song is as Essential as Every other song on Gaucho.. Walter Becker's imprint runs all through it.. What an Amazing piece of work... Lary
By the way, did I mention that the song is Catchy as Hell ? Well, you can decide for yourself, but it's pure Steely Dan in every way.. Just check out the Imagery.. Upbeat tempo, downbeat theme.. Pretty much Reeks of Lookout Kid, your gonna get Hit.. Really Great Song.. Love it... Lary
The vocal and chord changes are quite reminiscent of what they were doing on Pretzel Logic, to my ears. Great to know some background and brilliantly restored. Thanks! :)
D B I love Floyd but Frank Zappa on this level? Really? In my view he was different but that’s all - musically dead. And I can’t say I’ve heard much jazz influence in Zappa or Floyd. I feel you insult the dan comparing them to prog rock.
I like it so much! ..with these enigmatic/double meaning lyrics in full W. Bakers style :-) I didn't never hear it til today.. Probably it was ruled out because musically it resembles to "The Royal Scam" (the song)..it was a pity because it's...amazing!
Sir, I parked my juggernaut at your gate Fifteen-thousand miles and I'm feeling great I've been on the run, but I done my time You just can't stand still with a friend like mine [Chorus] There's a bear that walks like a man Better shake him fast Better hide yourself if you can Cause he wants your ass I believe you'll do quite well But only time will tell If you got the bear or the bear got you Drive the coach and six for the county line Point me towards the tube and I'll be just fine Mr. Quick has flown from the cosmic zoo Someone must be him and I just found you
With The Bear, The Second Arrangement, and Kulee Baba, Gaucho could almost have rivaled Aja. I personally think if you added these three songs and dropped Time Out of Mind that would've made it just about perfect.
@@jss1877 I like the beat of "Time out of Mind", and I'll grant you that lyrically it's one of Steely Dan's more optimistic songs, but I was very disappointed with Mark Knopfler's work and found the overall sonic texture over-polished and bland. Just my opinion.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to disagree, too. The outtakes are solid songs, but they are not better than what’s on the album. (Oddly, my least favorite of the outtakes is the one that everybody at the time was excited about-“The Second Arrangement.”)
My bias would be I never liked Gaucho. The outtakes seem more experimental and jam form, but again these are demos. They could have sounded much different if they were ever released in their final form.
This particular song is, to me, the Overall Standout of All of the excluded material from Gaucho.. Not only does it have that pure Steely Dan context, as well as Fabulous Instrumentation, but it's the Only song from sessions to have resurfaced later, in a Live Concert.. This song has Walter Becker all over it, and though Fagen stands in the Spotlight as the Singer, it's was always Walter that kept him more controlled, and focused on the Task at Hand.. This song is really First Rate, and somehow should have been released.. I think that Steely Dan had the same feelings about it too.. However, they have chosen to remain silent about Most of the distress that accompanied the album, and I must say that it has probably been the Wise thing to do.. One of Life's Sad Truths.. Sometimes you just have to Walk Away... Lary
Wow, what a privilege.. To hear a mix in pretty good shape of a song that should have done better things and to read about its birth from the man who helped make it happen on the day,... Wow.. We are so very lucky here. Such a great track. Such a shame only a few get to hear it but as a good friend just told me, they were picky. If there was something that Donald didn't like about it .
They didn't want to release a double LP & felt only 7 tracks were necessary for this record. So this, Kulee Baba, Western World and others all never made it to a proper release.
This is a such a great song. One thing I find is that it doesn’t have the same vibe as the rest of Gaucho...it doesn’t fit. Yes it does have the degree of melancholy in the melody line, but this song sounds like it was a holdover from The Royal Scam. Sounds almost like it could have been a Royal Scam Part II. Maybe it’s just me.
There are so many amazing songs that they never released, and some I do prefer over the ones they picked, I might have given up Everything You Did for this, as long as I could still hear it on You Tube like this.
Yes and the bear old drugs meth heroin is taking over the U.$. In the new millennium just like cocaine was all over florida and cali in the 70s when this song was made the destructive drugs of choice at centurys end
ILa Ali The opiate and more specifically Heroin epidemic is very real. It’s not just street junkies like we used to always think of H addicts being. It’s infiltrated the suburbs and kids are snorting it and saying “well I’m not shooting a needle in my arm” but it’s still a devastating drug. Treatment and recovery does work but the addict has to be willing. It’s destroying lives and families all over.
A record label needs to buy the rights to the Outtakes from Gaucho and create an official album. (preferably Vinyl, maybe only mildly touched up for quality reason if the masters are gone)
This is an odd commentary but as time goes on I sort of here similarity in the phrasing of Donald Fagen and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. All very interesting since they were using some of the same Studios and Studio musicians in around this era. I never noticed it after all these years until now. Perhaps it's a Dylan/Van Morrison thing they are both doing.
Nope, it was left on the cutting room floor for one reason or another. The album Gaucho has a ton of tracks that didn't make it and the only evidence of their existence are these demos and rough cuts smuggled from the recording studio. There's a really good video called "The Lost Guacho" that explains it perfectly.
I can see why this didn't make the cut, but I still like it--especially now, with Walter gone, because you can definitely hear the Becker influence, both musically and lyrically. Donald may have been the more accomplished and disciplined guy, but he was never as interesting on his own as he was with Becker. (Just my opinion, of course.)
Is it possible this is about speed? Speed was a popular drug in the seventies with some college students - all-nighters et al. "Speeders" always crashed - "Or the bear got you".
I know of the acid man, however he did not occur to me as a two in the two plus two equation of this song. The references to "quick" and "fifteen thousand miles..." led me to the specific inferences of "speed." AOS may very well be the theoretical subject of this song and an intriguing posit. Regardless, a very good song, I think.
from Wikipedia: The sessions for Aja produced several outtakes, including "The Bear Got You". The song was never officially released, but would later be played live on their 2011 Shuffle Diplomacy tour.
1954telecaster BB Chronicles is a blog. Just look up Steely Dan BB Chronicles and I'm sure it'll come up. It has the full Lost Gaucho and Gaucho Outtakes as well as Katy Lied outtakes.
C'mon, there must be a dozen songs from that old collection of demos that deserved the proper studio treatment. Old Regime, Let George Do it, A Horse in Town, More to Come, Soul Ram spring immediately to mind. How could you write material of that quality and work it up into album quality?
![Steely Dan - The Bear [The Definitive Restoration Mix]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kwghDRDzxfQ/mqdefault.jpg)
This is a rough mix that was made at Sigma Sound in New York the day Gary & Company came to check out our studio. I was the engineer. The tracks were cut by Al Schmidt except for the piano solo which I overdubbed that day. (Btw the piano is the same Steinway we used in Philly on Backstabbers, for those of you who like to know everything about everything.) The reason I know it's my mix all these years later is because of the fade -- Gary kept telling me to fade faster, and I was just too slow, never having heard the whole song before. So that's why you hear that slight transition at the end -- it's not supposed to be there. (We also cut Kind Spirit that day as well as doing a rough mix on the "original lyrics" version of Third World Man, which at that time was called Were You Blind That Day.)
Jay Mark So very interesting. What year/mouth was it ?
Like a complete unknown / Like a rolling stone - ‘78 or ‘79 I think. No idea of month.
That’s great! do you happen to know who’s playing drums on this?
Hey Jay
Marc in Melbourne here
Nice surprise finding you here
Marc Landes - Small world! I don’t even remember how I got here - I think I was just looking for some Dan stuff to listen to on new speakers I just got in Florida.
Walter Becker you absolute legend - 1950 - 2017
One of the greatest Dan songs that they never released.
Can't believe they deemed it not good enough for inclusion on an album.
An absolutely fantastic song.
def the funkiest unreleased track
solo piano de orlando goñi
Mark Kregel pretty scary that something this good never made it onto an album. Just a crazy high bar they set.
This and The Second Arrangement 😭
Brilliant song, it's one of Steely Dan's best songs.
Even Steely Dan out takes are better than anything out right now. WTF!
FACT.
They have more fans than when they first came out. Everyone I play them to say ‘who the f are these, it’s great’ ahead of their time.
Well ....
Everything REALLY POPULAR definitely. And most of the stuff that isn't surely.
But not ALL.
looks like we are getting old....
So TRUE Brother….🙏❤️☮️
Imagine a alternate universe in which this, the second arrangement and other cut songs were completed and released. THAT would be incredible
Still very cool that these cuts survived, especially since they too are masterfully composed
In my alternate universe, the Dan produced decent studio versions of all those low-fi demos they threw together before they became famous. How can you have written work as stupendous as "Let George Do It", "A Horse in Town", "The Old Regime", "More to Come", "Soul Ram" and not give them the perfectionist treatment they lavished on later material? They pulled "Brooklyn" out of the vault, why not the rest? A challenge for one of the tribute bands maybe.
Whoa now. WHOA. It's like Steely Dan from the 70's time traveled to now to release a new song. If I haven't heard it, it's new to me!!!
UMAMIMAMU Gaucho outtakes.
Yep ‘new’ Dan never disappoints. All this stuff out there I was not aware of. Kinda glad really. Something to discover anew
@@rustykuntz94 I'm pretty sure this is an outtake from Aja and was titled wrong. I think it was going to be on Aja and the record company decided against adding it.
@@WrestlingErnestHemingway that's a damn shame they decided for excluding this. I figure they privileged Peg for it, for being a dance song more or less
How this gem never made an album I'll never know. Superb
Each side of a record album holds 18 minutes at maximum;end of story!
No bonus tracks here!. Certainly means that we missed out on a whole bunch of good stuff!
@@imme.7106 That's bullshit. There's a boatload of records that are longer than 36 minutes total.
What an absolutely fantastic tune.
EXCELLENT re-master! I think this is now my favorite Steely Dan tune. It use to be Godwacker. I just love the beat and hard groove in this tune.
No other band could consciously cut a song of this caliber off their album. The Dan is one of a kind.
I've listened to Gaucho countless times, but just heard this outtake for the first time. Damn what a great song, would have fit in perfectly with the others. Great groove on this, and with the usual intriguing lyrics from SD.
Haunting and melodic. Simply amazing this has never been released😎😢♥️👍
Why would 6 people give this masterpiece a thumbs down??? Donald and Walter are about ready to cut their ear off with this beauty
Walter is dead buddy 😞
With how wonderful the song selection has been on the TV show 'The Bear,' I don't see how this hasn't shown up yet. A bit on the nose, but perfect still.
BOOM im a massive steely dan fan maybe the biggest. love this sooo much
oh man this is fantastic, the twang that guitar has is fantastic.
Guitar, or clavinet?
That bass though. Damn
Just wonderful to hear this!!! Man! What a shame that all these tracks are going unheard... music today could use a BIG dose of this stuff... thanks for getting this out there...
This track has All of the Essential Steely Dan Elements in it.. Incredible composition, Stellar arrangement, and brutally Honest, and Cynical, lyrical imagery.. And, it's Catchy as Hell.. As a representative piece of work, this song is as Essential as Every other song on Gaucho.. Walter Becker's imprint runs all through it.. What an Amazing piece of work... Lary
By the way, did I mention that the song is Catchy as Hell ? Well, you can decide for yourself, but it's pure Steely Dan in every way.. Just check out the Imagery.. Upbeat tempo, downbeat theme.. Pretty much Reeks of Lookout Kid, your gonna get Hit.. Really Great Song.. Love it...
Lary
The vocal and chord changes are quite reminiscent of what they were doing on Pretzel Logic, to my ears. Great to know some background and brilliantly restored. Thanks! :)
Marvellous ... a masterpiece! Simply love it!!
... the exclusion of this piece from any official material will most likely remain a complete mystery... and here with great audio, too!!!!
Haunting and sublime, one of their best.
Nothing but talent
I love this cut, it should have been a single.
This song was too good to have been left off the album. They should have re-recorded it, or cleaned up this version and included it on the record.
I remember the first time I heard this..damn what a tune...
Cool song! Thanks for posting it.
This thing blew my toupee off
AH... the funky funk... thanks man!
The whole time we've been deep in the Carona mess, this song's been running through my head. It looks like the bear got us. How fitting...
Right there with you man! Can't get enough of these "lost" steely tracks right now.
I just heard this for the first time. Your reference to Clovid is spot on.
Fantastic song! I can hear the influence of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" on this one, specially in the beat and in the vocal lines.
I really don’t think have a cigar is on the same level as this.
D B I love Floyd but Frank Zappa on this level? Really? In my view he was different but that’s all - musically dead. And I can’t say I’ve heard much jazz influence in Zappa or Floyd. I feel you insult the dan comparing them to prog rock.
D B I also completely disagree that “most” put Zappa anywhere near steely dan.
Sounds like the funky section of Echoes to me.
@@kidcharlemagne3044 Difference is that this features a melody!
Jay Mark's insights were enough for me- subscribed!🎯👍🤌
Great work indeed....I love it very much...Thanks a lot...!!!
I like it so much! ..with these enigmatic/double meaning lyrics in full W. Bakers style :-)
I didn't never hear it til today.. Probably it was ruled out because musically it resembles
to "The Royal Scam" (the song)..it was a pity because it's...amazing!
Sir, I parked my juggernaut at your gate
Fifteen-thousand miles and I'm feeling great
I've been on the run, but I done my time
You just can't stand still with a friend like mine
[Chorus]
There's a bear that walks like a man
Better shake him fast
Better hide yourself if you can
Cause he wants your ass
I believe you'll do quite well
But only time will tell
If you got the bear or the bear got you
Drive the coach and six for the county line
Point me towards the tube and I'll be just fine
Mr. Quick has flown from the cosmic zoo
Someone must be him and I just found you
Sir, I caught my juggernaut at your game
Fifteen-thousand miles and I'm feeling great
@@collick100 GaTe!
Best sounding on here it is. THANKS a billion......
Brilliant 3:08 piano interlude
under rated gem...
It's literally a tango melody. That explains the album cover art
Hmm... not sure if this tune would've been a good fit for Gaucho. Almost sounds like it would've been a better tune for Royal Scam.
For some reason the verse sounds like a slowed down take on Gang Of Four's "Ether". Either way another SD masterpiece
Amazing it seems they cut the best songs off the album.
With The Bear, The Second Arrangement, and Kulee Baba, Gaucho could almost have rivaled Aja. I personally think if you added these three songs and dropped Time Out of Mind that would've made it just about perfect.
@@apparently2 those are great songs but i have to disagree and say “Time out of mind” is one of the best tracks of off Gaucho
@@jss1877 I like the beat of "Time out of Mind", and I'll grant you that lyrically it's one of Steely Dan's more optimistic songs, but I was very disappointed with Mark Knopfler's work and found the overall sonic texture over-polished and bland. Just my opinion.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to disagree, too. The outtakes are solid songs, but they are not better than what’s on the album. (Oddly, my least favorite of the outtakes is the one that everybody at the time was excited about-“The Second Arrangement.”)
My bias would be I never liked Gaucho. The outtakes seem more experimental and jam form, but again these are demos. They could have sounded much different if they were ever released in their final form.
This particular song is, to me, the Overall Standout of All of the excluded material from Gaucho.. Not only does it have that pure Steely Dan context, as well as Fabulous Instrumentation, but it's the Only song from sessions to have resurfaced later, in a Live Concert.. This song has Walter Becker all over it, and though Fagen stands in the Spotlight as the Singer, it's was always Walter that kept him more controlled, and focused on the Task at Hand.. This song is really First Rate, and somehow should have been released.. I think that Steely Dan had the same feelings about it too.. However, they have chosen to remain silent about Most of the distress that accompanied the album, and I must say that it has probably been the Wise thing to do.. One of Life's Sad Truths.. Sometimes you just have to Walk Away... Lary
I’m pretty sure The Second Arrangement was also played at that concert
Well done for having a male dancer that bears (geddit?) more than a passing resemblance to Donald Fagen.
This is as far out there as Steely Dan has ever gotten, lyrically. WTF is this all about?
Worth the work...
Dan The Bear is mi fav song by Steely
I'm pretty sure the first line there is
"Sir, I parked my Juggernaut at your gate."
Wot Yacht-Rock? This is DoomerJazz.
Wow, what a privilege.. To hear a mix in pretty good shape of a song that should have done better things and to read about its birth from the man who helped make it happen on the day,... Wow.. We are so very lucky here. Such a great track. Such a shame only a few get to hear it but as a good friend just told me, they were picky. If there was something that Donald didn't like about it .
Spookier than any of their others. Very very spooky. ooooooooo
Masterpiece ...
Donald returns to this on Sunken Condos.
in what sense?
Big thanks for this!
Quel joyau !!
Awesome. Yes, the other versions were hard to listen to.
Yes, It'll match them whim for whim now.
Steely Dan's outtakes are great songs! What could be the reasons for them being deleted from the original albums?
This sounds like a track off The Royal Scam with that refrain...
Yes definitely sounds like it's off of The Royal Scam.
Yes, it's got that same Dorian vamp, w/ the minor 7th moving down to the 6th.
It does definitely sound more reminiscent of some of that albums tracks than anything else on Guacho definitely.
Don’t know why this didn’t make it onto an album
They didn't want to release a double LP & felt only 7 tracks were necessary for this record. So this, Kulee Baba, Western World and others all never made it to a proper release.
This is a such a great song. One thing I find is that it doesn’t have the same vibe as the rest of Gaucho...it doesn’t fit. Yes it does have the degree of melancholy in the melody line, but this song sounds like it was a holdover from The Royal Scam. Sounds almost like it could have been a Royal Scam Part II. Maybe it’s just me.
definitely, that's it
The tone is more raunchy, kind don't take me alive, the fez and royal scam!!
Second arrangement videos all pulled. Right when we had the remastered version.
Can anyone hook me up with second arrangement remastered?
There are so many amazing songs that they never released, and some I do prefer over the ones they picked, I might have given up Everything You Did for this, as long as I could still hear it on You Tube like this.
IMO this song & Kulee Baba should have made Gaucho over My Rival & Third World Man
Both this and Let George Do It open with lines about juggernauts.
“Sir I parked my juggernaut at your gate...”
“Has your juggernaut reached my door?”
Good catch there
Sorry - no idea about personnel other than Fagen’s piano solo.
And this one didn't make the cut.... just wow!
Point me towards the tube baby- the TH-cam that is!
I'm thinking about recording a cover of this. Any thoughts on how to approach licensing/copyright? Would it be done through Harry Fox? Thanks.
Someone has to be him, and I just found you.
fucking heaven!
Do some of the chords in this sound a bit like "Night by Night" ?
Night by Night meets The Royal Scam
Does anyone know how to get a copy of the Gaucho outtakes?
This sounds like an outtake from The Royal Scam not Gaucho. But, it's great either way!
Apparently they revisited a number of Royal Scam era outtakes during the Gaucho sessions. Thus Third World Man.
Long shot but who did that cover art?
Reminds me of ManBearPig from South Park lol
I want this on vinyl........................................where is it?
Here at the Western World is the best song never to make it on a dan album
Yes and the bear old drugs meth heroin is taking over the U.$. In the new millennium just like cocaine was all over florida and cali in the 70s when this song was made the destructive drugs of choice at centurys end
ILa Ali The opiate and more specifically Heroin epidemic is very real. It’s not just street junkies like we used to always think of H addicts being. It’s infiltrated the suburbs and kids are snorting it and saying “well I’m not shooting a needle in my arm” but it’s still a devastating drug. Treatment and recovery does work but the addict has to be willing. It’s destroying lives and families all over.
Agree but this one kullee baba and second arrangement are damm close second
A record label needs to buy the rights to the Outtakes from Gaucho and create an official album. (preferably Vinyl, maybe only mildly touched up for quality reason if the masters are gone)
Another bear you do not feed.
This is an odd commentary but as time goes on I sort of here similarity in the phrasing of Donald Fagen and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. All very interesting since they were using some of the same Studios and Studio musicians in around this era. I never noticed it after all these years until now. Perhaps it's a Dylan/Van Morrison thing they are both doing.
Steely Dan - G O A T If the bear has been exposed to human food, then he will maul you for your picnic basket. moral of the story
And did this ever make to a release???? Slightly out of the loop here, lol.
Nope, it was left on the cutting room floor for one reason or another. The album Gaucho has a ton of tracks that didn't make it and the only evidence of their existence are these demos and rough cuts smuggled from the recording studio. There's a really good video called "The Lost Guacho" that explains it perfectly.
I can see why this didn't make the cut, but I still like it--especially now, with Walter gone, because you can definitely hear the Becker influence, both musically and lyrically. Donald may have been the more accomplished and disciplined guy, but he was never as interesting on his own as he was with Becker. (Just my opinion, of course.)
This song slaps
DSD or at least no less than 1080 please?
Those must be Walter Becker lyrics. He tells a painful joke, and expects us to get the punchline.
That is classic Walter indeed.
Great!
Is it possible this is about speed? Speed was a popular drug in the seventies with some college students - all-nighters et al. "Speeders" always crashed - "Or the bear got you".
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (aka Bear).... look him up
I know of the acid man, however he did not occur to me as a two in the two plus two equation of this song. The references to "quick" and "fifteen thousand miles..." led me to the specific inferences of "speed." AOS may very well be the theoretical subject of this song and an intriguing posit. Regardless, a very good song, I think.
I could see this being done well by pink floyd. Kinda wish you were here, have a cigar vibes.
I always thought this was an "Aja" outtake. Am I incorrect?
Joe Turner I believe Fagen has stated this was indeed an Aja outtake.
Sounds like something from the royal scam album
from Wikipedia: The sessions for Aja produced several outtakes, including "The Bear Got You". The song was never officially released, but would later be played live on their 2011 Shuffle Diplomacy tour.
what's BB Chronicles? Is it possible to enhance the audio any further than this?
1954telecaster BB Chronicles is a blog. Just look up Steely Dan BB Chronicles and I'm sure it'll come up. It has the full Lost Gaucho and Gaucho Outtakes as well as Katy Lied outtakes.
It's "Sir, I parked my juggernaut at your gate," I think...
Absolutely.
Reminiscent of The Boston Rag...
Cool vocal bit starts at about 4:43
Πως στην ευχή τα κατάφεραν κι άφησαν έξω απ το Gaucho ένα τέτοιο κομμάτι? Άβυσσος η ψυχή του Donald... Κρίμα..
Obviously about heroin
Great sounding tune, but I hear why it wasn't included on Gaucho. It just doesn't fit on that masterpiece.
Great tune and music but the lyrics would normally get you locked up or sectioned....
Whoever did this can you remaster "Ida Lee"?
Google search Steely Dan BB Chronicles. An engineer fixed the Lost Gaucho and Outakes. I did not see Ida Lee but check it out anyway.
C'mon, there must be a dozen songs from that old collection of demos that deserved the proper studio treatment. Old Regime, Let George Do it, A Horse in Town, More to Come, Soul Ram spring immediately to mind. How could you write material of that quality and work it up into album quality?
This tune has kinda worked it's way into a fav Dan tune.. it's a bit stilted lyrically, but it works better than Walter and Don thought
Sometimes you eat the bear and well sometimes the bear eats you
What is that, some kinda eastern thing..?