I'm a 69 year old old man with liver cancer, I've seen the Dan at least 4 times great band probably my favorite , seen Zappa a few times also ,big fan also . I've had stuff in my life happen also, my son pass away in 2000 he was 19 . Had a head injury riding his skate board , he was 16 ,and had every negative thing that could happen with a head injury . Anyway now I have cancer ,terminal they tell me. I did the drug thing also . But I stopped cold turkey in 96 . All that stuff is cured with a good lady ,that's how I got through. Keep rocking, I really enjoy watching your reactions, I watch some of these other guys have no idea what they're listening to , genius yes ,youl be alright !
The opening track on their 2nd album is "Bodhisattva." ~~~ It is their most *relentlessly* positive song ~~~ It *is* a bit jazzy, but it's mostly quintessential 1970's guitar-solo based ROCK&ROLL !
Music keeps me going. It's my drug for easing the pain. It hurts losing grandparents. I'm a grandma now, but still miss my grandparents so much! Sending love
OMG! I have only just looked at the thumbnail! I can't believe you are wearing a fez!! I did notice it looked photo shopped, though! Too cool, either way!!
2:49 Haha! So true. You could state it as a ‘fill in the blank with your choice of descriptive’: “There’s no one more ‘blank’ than Steely Dan. Smoother, tighter, funkier, ….
My condolences on your grandfather. I’m glad you had someone that believed in you. Now you have us. Your daughter sounds like a lucky girl and she’s gonna love this in 20 years. ✌️❤️🎶
😒 At this time in history, EVERYONE was wearing a FEZ so we didn't die. 😔 It was a terrible time in NYC especially for the Broadway & Entertainment Industry. 🙏🏿 We lost a ton of Talent in a short time. 😳 Now they got commercials for HIV Meds, like they do for everything else. 🤯 Nope, we wasn't doing it without the FEZ on. 🥰🐰
You're now never going to get this song out of your head. 😄 It's really just a blues (which more SD songs are than you realize), but it just goes to show what can be done with that form. Such a short lyric but one of the best of 1976.
Get out your sticks and drum to the Dan's Fezzy groove and get some music therapy. I never knew my granddads and lost my dad at 12 so be grateful for each moment.
😂😂😂 They have a ton of folks on stage for shows. 🤗 It was super interesting to see the different change ups of stage personnel & band setup, depending on which Album they were performing that night. 😏 And was expensive too cause they weren't my Account or signed to us. 😁🥰🐰
Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I'm sure his memory will live on as a blessing in your heart. BTW - good luck finding a Dan song that you won't like.
Ask your grandfather to tell you about his grandparents and aunts/uncles/cousins and parents and siblings and about his favorite memories from childhood and school and the military and record him, if he's cool with it. Share it with your daughter at the appropriate time. ❤
I just subscribed. I grew up with a lot of the music you react to. Steely Dan is a "band" I grew up with along with many other classic rock artists. The 70's is arguably the best decade for music of all genres. If you're considering doing another reaction to Steely Dan, may I request/suggest "Cousin Dupree" from the "Two Against Nature" album. after you finish reactions to your "Royal Scam" album of course. Donald Fagen's solo works are also phenomenal, very much Steely Dan like. Finally, I would like to take a moment to offer my condolences and wish the very best to you and your family. Thanks for opening your mind and soul to new music, specially the music of my youth. (I was a teen in the 70's). Music has way of keeping things in life going....
The greatest song about promoting safe se× ever made! 😂 I'll bet the condom machines at dance clubs sold out back then, every time this song played. ❤✌
I'm sorry to hear about your Grandfather...prayers for your family. You are correct...fez is a condom and "I want to be your Holy Man" references the women's climactic response of "Oh God"...Glad I found your channel...other SD songs to touch on FM, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, Babylon Sisters...to many to list.❤
Their lyrics are not to be taken literally. It's more like they are creating a poetic gestalt that different people bring different feeling states and thoughts to. This is perhaps the best example, since they boil the lyrics down to just a few words. This is also perhaps the best use of (otherwise mind-numbing) Disco rhythms and cliches ever done. I love that you have found and are doing reactions to Zappa and the Dan at the same time - my two most favorite musical, artistic, pioneering composers of an archeological persuasion. Zappa also had a similar way of using lyrics. I rate the Dan as superior lyrically; Zappa the greater innovater in pure music. But fuck it, they were both great in both areas.
Dude, so sorry I posted my comment b4 your comments about your grandad. It's a hard loss; lost my dad 3 years ago. I never even met my grandad, he was long gone b4 I was born. So, there's that. It will get better but honestly you never get over it completely.
Lyrically sparse for a Steely Dan tune, but what a groove! It almost has hints of world lounge music, and feels like a precursor to the Steely Dan song Glamour Profession off the Gaucho album. Yeah, that organ and synth melody on top is just otherworldly! This is probably my favorite Walter Becker guitar solo on all of Steely Dan albums, except for possibly Home at Last from Aja. 👍🏼🎸🎼😎❤️
You still have Steely Dan's two best songs "Do It Again" and "Deacon Blues" =) I'm not sure which album their on =( Sorry about your loss , stay positive and everything will get better !
Very sorry to hear about your grandpa, dude. And trust me as someone who's three times older than you; you never get over that shite. If you 'do' get over it, that's when you need therapy the most.
From when Steely Dan were still an actual band, the album 'Countdown to Ecstacy', the songs 'Bodhisattva' and 'My Old School'. Nothin not to like about Steely Dan.
THe MEANING of , which you will NEVER find anywhere else . Their masterfully satirical side you are new to and boy is this is one satirical hit piece !!! Which they might have died for saying overtly , so they say it cryptically. Think of their ethnicity and "religion" and you will see . The strict Hasidic Jews have strict rules for certain Rabbis . A strict Rabbi cannot touch or be touched by a woman , even their wife !! So in order to have sex with their wife they could get around the prohibition with a bedsheet that has a strategically situated "hole" in it .(usually embroidered spectacularly with shamrocks and such) Hence the lyrics " I want to be a holy man" . If you go through a Hasidic neighbourhood in Brooklyn or Tel Aviv on wash day when these holey bedsheets are all seen hung on clotheslines . So both Walter and Donald had a scathing view of this whole "religious mockery" and said it cryptically . Now you SEE.
I've always taken it to mean that the narrator (too dignified for such a brief tale?) wouldn't have sex without his fez. Been riding tricycles in the streets, strategizing charitable functions/operations, maybe coordinating with locals, either gov't. or NGOs, why would he remove it for that? He wouldn't. He won't. Ever. Never. 😊🤙🏼🎶❤️✨️🕊 Sorry about your grandpa, hope he pulls through, one can't tell sometimes 🙏🏽 🙄❤️💪🏽
I love that a smart dude like you is diggin' the Dan.. it warms the cockles of my heart.
They rock bro! I love them now. One of my favorites
I'm a 69 year old old man with liver cancer, I've seen the Dan at least 4 times great band probably my favorite , seen Zappa a few times also ,big fan also . I've had stuff in my life happen also, my son pass away in 2000 he was 19 . Had a head injury riding his skate board , he was 16 ,and had every negative thing that could happen with a head injury . Anyway now I have cancer ,terminal they tell me. I did the drug thing also . But I stopped cold turkey in 96 . All that stuff is cured with a good lady ,that's how I got through. Keep rocking, I really enjoy watching your reactions, I watch some of these other guys have no idea what they're listening to , genius yes ,youl be alright !
The opening track on their 2nd album is "Bodhisattva."
~~~ It is their most *relentlessly* positive song ~~~
It *is* a bit jazzy, but it's mostly quintessential 1970's guitar-solo based ROCK&ROLL !
Music keeps me going. It's my drug for easing the pain. It hurts losing grandparents. I'm a grandma now, but still miss my grandparents so much! Sending love
OMG! I have only just looked at the thumbnail! I can't believe you are wearing a fez!! I did notice it looked photo shopped, though! Too cool, either way!!
It's definitely photoshopped LOL I wish I had a fez 😂😂
@@L33Reacts 🤣😎
Yeah, that was money. It’s part of why we tune in here right? Lees got a creative mind.
2:49 Haha! So true. You could state it as a ‘fill in the blank with your choice of descriptive’: “There’s no one more ‘blank’ than Steely Dan. Smoother, tighter, funkier, ….
Love this tune. I play it a lot. Always dance.
Definitely about a condom.....though they called 'em rubbers at the time!
My condolences on your grandfather. I’m glad you had someone that believed in you. Now you have us. Your daughter sounds like a lucky girl and she’s gonna love this in 20 years. ✌️❤️🎶
I sure hope she does ❤️ she's the best
@@L33Reacts she will. Girls always love their dad’s forever. And you sound like a great Dad.
#Facts 😁🥰🐰
😒 At this time in history, EVERYONE was wearing a FEZ so we didn't die. 😔 It was a terrible time in NYC especially for the Broadway & Entertainment Industry. 🙏🏿 We lost a ton of Talent in a short time. 😳 Now they got commercials for HIV Meds, like they do for everything else. 🤯 Nope, we wasn't doing it without the FEZ on. 🥰🐰
🙏🏿 Condolences to you & your family. 😔🐰
Prayers for your grandfather and the rest of your family. 🙏
Love watching your reactions especially Steely Dan which is my favorite band. ❤️
Thank you lynda ❤ they are the best! Gotta love it.
Great attitude bro!!! Keep grinding one step at a time!!!
Thanks brother 🙏 that's the only way I'll make it. Gotta work for it
My sincere condolences Lee. I hope you come to believe you've repaid the faith he obviously has in you.
Amen brother about your daughter! So sorry to hear about your grandfather. Stay strong!
Strange yet funky tune!
Cheers from Australia .Really enjoying your Steely Dan reactions So sorry to hear about your grand father.
I love every Dan song from their classic period, 1972 to 1980, when I was 12 to 20 years old. 60+ songs and they are all great.
Listen to "Don't Take Me Alive" soon. One of my favorites from The Dan.
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Hey Lee! Congrats on 9K! Soon to be 10K!!🎵🎼🎶🔈🔉🔊👍😎
Thanks bro! Hopefully soon! 😊
You're now never going to get this song out of your head. 😄 It's really just a blues (which more SD songs are than you realize), but it just goes to show what can be done with that form. Such a short lyric but one of the best of 1976.
One of the great hallmark albums of the late 20th century.
Much love to you and your family Lee ❤️
I love you man! This song is spooky, yes!
Donald & Walter have been in control ever since the beginning.
Sending prayers for your grandfather. ❤
How? With God Express?
thankfully hes not wearing the fez from the song in the thumbnail!! 😬
also gratz for cracking 9k!
haha!
I thought about it but decided against it 😂
@@L33Reacts 🤣
I want to be your Holy Man... "Oh, God! Oh, God!! Oh, God!!!"
Get out your sticks and drum to the Dan's Fezzy groove and get some music therapy. I never knew my granddads and lost my dad at 12 so be grateful for each moment.
So sorry about your grampa. Hope he pulls through....
Love Steely Dan, thanks!
😂😂😂 They have a ton of folks on stage for shows. 🤗 It was super interesting to see the different change ups of stage personnel & band setup, depending on which Album they were performing that night. 😏 And was expensive too cause they weren't my Account or signed to us. 😁🥰🐰
Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I'm sure his memory will live on as a blessing in your heart. BTW - good luck finding a Dan song that you won't like.
The song always makes me think of a middle-aged Shriner.😂
So sorry about your Grandfather, Lee.
He has a 50/50 shot they said yesterday. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers 🙏
Ask your grandfather to tell you about his grandparents and aunts/uncles/cousins and parents and siblings and about his favorite memories from childhood and school and the military and record him, if he's cool with it. Share it with your daughter at the appropriate time. ❤
I just subscribed. I grew up with a lot of the music you react to. Steely Dan is a "band" I grew up with along with many other classic rock artists. The 70's is arguably the best decade for music of all genres. If you're considering doing another reaction to Steely Dan, may I request/suggest "Cousin Dupree" from the "Two Against Nature" album. after you finish reactions to your "Royal Scam" album of course. Donald Fagen's solo works are also phenomenal, very much Steely Dan like. Finally, I would like to take a moment to offer my condolences and wish the very best to you and your family. Thanks for opening your mind and soul to new music, specially the music of my youth. (I was a teen in the 70's). Music has way of keeping things in life going....
The greatest song about promoting safe se× ever made! 😂
I'll bet the condom machines at dance clubs sold out back then, every time this song played. ❤✌
I'm sorry to hear about your Grandfather...prayers for your family. You are correct...fez is a condom and "I want to be your Holy Man" references the women's climactic response of "Oh God"...Glad I found your channel...other SD songs to touch on FM, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, Babylon Sisters...to many to list.❤
Their lyrics are not to be taken literally. It's more like they are creating a poetic gestalt that different people bring different feeling states and thoughts to. This is perhaps the best example, since they boil the lyrics down to just a few words. This is also perhaps the best use of (otherwise mind-numbing) Disco rhythms and cliches ever done. I love that you have found and are doing reactions to Zappa and the Dan at the same time - my two most favorite musical, artistic, pioneering composers of an archeological persuasion. Zappa also had a similar way of using lyrics. I rate the Dan as superior lyrically; Zappa the greater innovater in pure music. But fuck it, they were both great in both areas.
Dude, so sorry I posted my comment b4 your comments about your grandad. It's a hard loss; lost my dad 3 years ago. I never even met my grandad, he was long gone b4 I was born. So, there's that. It will get better but honestly you never get over it completely.
Man, i love this song. Proper music 🎶 cheers bro😊
I can’t wait till you react to Show Biz Kids where they actually say they their name in the song.
Lyrically sparse for a Steely Dan tune, but what a groove!
It almost has hints of world lounge music, and feels like a precursor to the Steely Dan song Glamour Profession off the Gaucho album.
Yeah, that organ and synth melody on top is just otherworldly!
This is probably my favorite Walter Becker guitar solo on all of Steely Dan albums, except for possibly Home at Last from Aja.
👍🏼🎸🎼😎❤️
Great reaction!
Thank you Linda! 😊
Countdown To Ecstasy album has several essential songs you gotta check out. Bodhisattva for sure.
You still have Steely Dan's two best songs "Do It Again" and "Deacon Blues" =) I'm not sure which album their on =( Sorry about your loss , stay positive and everything will get better !
They were the best. Sadly, Walter Becker passed in 2017.
Nice! Keep on keeping on!
There are no "Dan" duds!!!!
A 'Fez' is slang for a condom
Yeah I came to that conclusion by the end of the first chorus lol
Very sorry to hear about your grandpa, dude.
And trust me as someone who's three times older than you; you never get over that shite. If you 'do' get over it, that's when you need therapy the most.
It’s a minor song as Steely Dan goes, and there’s not much to the lyrics, but it’s still good.
Not many have a Fez!😂
hope gramps is okay!👌✌️
Haha my photoshop sure had one 😂 thank you he has an operation today hopefully it works
Yeah, The Dan is an embarrasment of riches, man. Sorry to hear about your gradfather.
From when Steely Dan were still an actual band, the album 'Countdown to Ecstacy', the songs 'Bodhisattva' and 'My Old School'. Nothin not to like about Steely Dan.
Is that a fez you are wearing?😅
The other kind 😎
THe MEANING of , which you will NEVER find anywhere else . Their masterfully satirical side you are new to and boy is this is one satirical hit piece !!! Which they might have died for saying overtly , so they say it cryptically. Think of their ethnicity and "religion" and you will see .
The strict Hasidic Jews have strict rules for certain Rabbis . A strict Rabbi cannot touch or be touched by a woman , even their wife !! So in order to have sex with their wife they could get around the prohibition with a bedsheet that has a strategically situated "hole" in it .(usually embroidered spectacularly with shamrocks and such) Hence the lyrics " I want to be a holy man" . If you go through a Hasidic neighbourhood in Brooklyn or Tel Aviv on wash day when these holey bedsheets are all seen hung on clotheslines . So both Walter and Donald had a scathing view of this whole "religious mockery" and said it cryptically . Now you SEE.
I kinda thought you'd like Royal Scam. Sorry about your Grandfather, yeah as you get to your thirties, this type of thing becomes more common.
Yeah he's getting an operation done today. Hopefully it works. He is my favorite family member.
It's not about the fez you wear on your head.
I know lol
The other head
Dan who?? Listening to this horrid "band" is worse than torture.
If you don't like them, why do you keep commenting on their videos? You probably could get a lot done in the time you take to comment.
Are you always attracted to things you dislike? 🙄
Don't listen to it then and leave it to those of us that have taste. Just go and listen to whatever shit you like. Don't torture yourself.
I've always taken it to mean that the narrator (too dignified for such a brief tale?) wouldn't have sex without his fez. Been riding tricycles in the streets, strategizing charitable functions/operations, maybe coordinating with locals, either gov't. or NGOs, why would he remove it for that? He wouldn't. He won't. Ever. Never.
😊🤙🏼🎶❤️✨️🕊
Sorry about your grandpa, hope he pulls through, one can't tell sometimes 🙏🏽 🙄❤️💪🏽