@@kualua6612 They are so good. Both of my parents hate them but I started hitting the second hand vinyl bins before I was 10 lol I don't know which one I found first.
It’s interesting that as I am much older and retired I have more time to slow down and listen more intently with a new ear and appreciate all these songs even more.
I was a senior in HS and this came on the radio, I had never heard anything like it. It turned me on to Steely Dan, which turned me onto Jazz, and it changed my life.
For me, the genius of "My Old School" has always been the way Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's lead guitar plays off of Jimmie Haskell's brilliant horn arrangement. Love the moment when "California ... tumbles into the sea" to the bleat of a baritone sax. This was released as a single in late 1973, and only went to #63, but over the years has become every Steely Dan tribute band's set closer.
Reggie Bush loved this track. In high school, our English teacher was a big Steely Dan fan, played tracks between classes. Reggie walks in one day, My Old School is playing, and Reggie says "what is THIS? Damn, those HORNS are HOT!"
Google has the short story: “The song's lyrics tell the story of a May 1969 drug bust at Bard College, referred to in the lyrics by its location, Annandale. The incident happened while both Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were students there, and the song mentions how a female acquaintance had betrayed them to "Daddy Gee" (G. Gordon Liddy), then the local prosecutor. “ That would be Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame.
Steely Dan is a great American rock band founded in 1971. They had a lot of great hits such as "Do It Again", "Reelin' In The Years", "Dirty Work", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Hey Nineteen", "Peg", "Josie", "Deacon Blues", "Show Biz Kids", "FM", "Babylon Sisters" etc.
They typically closed their live show with this song and the energy of the crowd was bananas! No matter how many times I hear their catalog I always hear something new and I remain utterly impressed by their genius. Timeless perfection.
For me, this is one of my favorite Dan tunes. The funk is off the charts, and those horns in the middle just carry this tune to the nether regions of amazing and beyond. The guitar on the outro is one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. To me, this song is a 10 ++++. Greatness realized.
Oleander, growing outside her door………. I LOVE this. Pot was demonized……. I’ve been in a raid 1977….. we were all scared as shit! Cops came busting into the party and confiscated everyone’s stash. Then, they left……. What a bring down and then …..we all cracked up in the end and no one got arrested 😎🤪
Guys, Steely Dan is beyond awesome (as are you)!!! They're group that was played on so many formats--Album Oriented Rock, Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Alternative, Jazz, et al. They are every man's band.
Yes it does grow on you. The thing about this song is they used it for the encore song both times I've seen them ( in the last 10 years ) and everyone was on their feet very enthusiasticly singing at the top of their lungs "I'm never going BACK to my old school!" best encore song ever.
That's how I feel. My graduating class had a number of class reunions. I never went to any of them. I like to move forward not backward. Nostalgia is not for me at all. That's one of the Steely Dan's best but you could say that about every single song they did. West of Hollywood is my current favorite. Next month it could be Black Cow again or Dr Wu, Boston Rag or Gaslighting Abby.
Nine studio and 2 brilliant Fagen-solo albums later, this duo has more creative musicality in one average song than you'll find in any TEN albums from your contemporary "artists." Getting better with repeat listens. . . . . you guys nailed that comment. And you'll discover the amazing pains Fagen/Becker always took in their hiring/choosing instrumental soloists. This duo is still unequaled in their 30 year+ history of songwriting and production.
As a Brit with tons of choice from my own country,SD are my favourite band among many many favourites. Musical perfection. Wait til you get to the album Gaucho!
I think you guys would love the guitar opener by the talented Larry Carlton in Don't Take Me Alive. 😉 SD is most definitely my "desert island" band. The breadth and depth of their catalog is mind boggling!
Skunk Baxter related a story in his interview with the Musicians Hall of Fame. Fagen &Becker were notorious for doing multiple takes while recording but according to Skunk, they had an understanding with the musicians that, if he felt he had given his best, they would move on. That's exactly what happened with his first take of the guitar solo in My Old School. Fagen wanted to do another take. Skunk said, nope, that's it. And that's the take you hear.
So, what I'm hearing is that you eeed to, and are contemplating more Steely Dan songs. The next one you hear will be your favorite... until you hear another. I like seeing your Initial reactions to Steely Dan! Keep them coming brothers.
Huge Dan fan here! Have 7 vinyl albums of theirs and honestly, I can't name one song I don't like. Obviously there are some I love more than others but there are no two songs that are the same. From jazz to pop to ballads, quirky lyrics..just such talented musicians! STEELY DAN ROCKS!
My dear friend Jeffrey Young also played on their albums and on tour with them, he comped us tickets. Ore than once. We met the members of the band after, they said it was the best gig ever, top of their game type of gig.
Thanks for the reaction. I'm a Bard grad and the band actually did go back to Bard at one point for graduation ceremonies; this song was blasting out of all the windows of student dorms. It was so odd! I love that such a funky song is about my alma mater.
"When you put me on the Wolverine up to Annandale..." The Wolverine was an Amtrak train that ran from NYC up the Hudson Valley then to Chicago via Buffalo and Detroit. Bard College is in the Hudson Valley town of Annandale-on-Hudson
Steely Dan's AJA Album was a monster hit on the Michigan State University campus in the Spring of 1979. I still love the album and the Band 45 years later!!
Ah, the theme song of my Alma Mater, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The members of Steely Dan met there, and there are many many references to Bard in the song.
Steely Dan songs always tell an interesting story on top of the music masterpiece. Sometimes, they are also just FUN. This is one of them. "Bad Sneakers" is another that will have you humming the tune afterward.
It's magic just watching your faces light up in smiles at the wonderful music that is Steely Dan. They never did self pity or depressive music. Even if the subject matter leaned that way, their music was always joyous. You're in for a ball. Enjoy the ride guys. It just gets better and better.
From 1988-1993 I was in the Air Force down in Tampa, FL. There was a sort of biker bar called the South End Saloon Bar & Grill that started having local cover bands around '92-'93. One of them used to bust out Steely Dan's "My Old School" and "Kid Charlemagne" during their sets. Great songs, but not the ones I'd expect a cover band to play. I was pleasantly surprised. Those were good times.
Definitely a lyrics song... A message that Don and Walter needed to get off their chest How many know Daddy G is G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon/Water gate infamy???? 😮
The thing with SD is that the songs are so complex that you have to listen to them multiple times to appreciate. Donald Fagen is one of the great songwriters of his generation. Yes I loved Walter Becker as well. So many great songs. Enjoy your reactions to music I grew up with.
Glad to see you guys enjoying MOS. It is my favorite song of all time, regardless of musical genre. It's a wonderful song that grooves it way into your height and soul. Thanks.
My favorite instrumental break in all of rock, especially those rolling saxophones and Jeff Baxter's awesome lead guitar. Second place - "School" by Supertramp. Yeah, I know, both titles contain "School." It's just coincidence.
"they make you come to them..." that was a great take, and I never realized but you are so correct....who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? 😄 Steely Dan is a deep dive for sure, but So worth it...never boring, at times make you wonder, What?? lol Great react!
the core members of Toto -- David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather and David Hungate worked with Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs and Michael Jackson. These guys played on literally hundreds of records before and even after they formed Toto. They formed Toto after running into each other so many times at sessions and deciding they should start their own band. Plus, several of the guys all grew up together and went to the same high school in Van Nuys.
It's great to watch you hear this for the first time. I've known this song since it came out and watching you guys react sort of gives it a refresh, sort of a, "oh, yeah, this song DOES kick ass."
Highly Recommended - Deep, deep, deep Dive: FM, Kid Charlemagne, Your Gold Teeth, Your Gold Teeth II, Time Out of Mind, Peg, Jack of Speed, Lunch with Gina, Doctor Wu, Razor Boy. Pretzel Logic, Black Friday, Haitian Divorce, Black Cow, Home at Last, Babylon Sisters, Hey 19 (you may have heard this), Janie Runaway, West of Hollywood, Everything Must Go, Third World Man, There is also Donald Fagen solo material: IGY, New Frontier, Tomorrow's Girls, Florida Room, The Nightfly, Goodbye Look,, Good Stuff, Slinky Thing, I'm Not the Same Without You, The Night Belongs to Mona, Countermoon, Great Pagoda of Funn... Walter Becker: Paging Audrey, Downtown Canon, Book of Liars...
Great SD tune - great take guys. I think you're ready for some of their most ambitious material... one in particular is the title track from their "Royal Scam" album. So moving and deep, in a concert from a few years ago they expanded RS into a 20 minute opus - slowly dropping musicians out until only a percussionist remained. People were weeping. You'll hear it in the studio release. Keep up the entertaining takes.
There is no such thing as a favourite Dan album,I love them all and cannot separate them,but gun to head,The Royal Scam just ahead. Will be totally different next week though!
@@TheCornishCockney You encapsulated my feelings- Impossible to pick a best album, and at times I think it’s Two Against Nature, Gaucho, Aja, or the Royal Scam. Depends on how I’m feeling that day lol
You guys have barely scratched the surface of Steely Dan, you lucky devils. I’d suggest FM or Black Cow, for your next couple outings. Although Kid Charlemagne has an absolutely epic guitar solo....
Just as how many people love Steely Dan and their musicianship, variety of sounds and production values, that's how I feel about - and well beyond that - my favourite band of all time, Supertramp. Supertramp's sound is never dull with a massively deep catalogue between 1974-84 combining great keyboards and sax/woodwinds, engaging alternating lead singers and absolutely superior socially conscious, sometimes cynical and sometimes hopeful, spiritual lyrics. Do yourself and your viewers a favour and get into their amazing, timeless music.
Steely Dan and Supertramp are two of my favourite bands ever. They both take pride of place in my record collection, their best albums for me were recorded in the early to mid 70's. If l had to narrow it down to two favourite albums from each it would be Pretzel Logic and The Royal Scam from SD and Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America from Supertramp.
@@keithjones7390 Hi, Keith. Always nice to speak to a fellow Supertramp fan. I am still shocked, frustrated and even a little angry that after all these years they are still not in the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. A complete joke and travesty.
John Palumbo of Crack The Sky is a huge fan of Steely Dan. So, keep that in mind as you eventually listen to their work starting with their 1975 self-titled debut. A Sea Epic, Ice, Mind Baby, Hold On/Surf City, She's a Dancer, Robots for Ronnie, Sleep. A classic first album. Steely Dan is a near perfect studio band. Not really a bad song in their entire catalog.
"Daddy G" was the local prosecutor G. Gordon Liddy who arrested 44 Bard students 1969, and in 1972 a jury found him guilty, and served 5 years in federal prison for his involvement in Watergate, called "The Whitehouse Plumbers". From the same album song "The Boston Rag" about a student from Bard College.
Imagine, if you will, or can, growing up with this? Like Led Zep, and a few other bands, you never knew what's next! But you knew it was going to be Awesome...
This is my personal favorite Steely Dan album; if you want dirty guitar, it's all over this album. You're not going to get a lot of suggestions for "The Boston Rag", but trust me, it is a classic slow burn tale.
Wikipedia lists four sax players for this song. I don't know if the deeper is called a baritone sax, but after numerous listens, now those deep sax notes really catch my brain's attention. I thought Ryan might say something. Maybe right now the alto and soprano sax really catches his ear. The higher pitched saxs are more attention grabbing.
I'm a percussionist in a Steely Fan tribute band and playing cowbell on this is one of life's great pleasures for me
More cowbells...more cowbells!!! 🤣🤣
THERE IS NOT A BAD STEELY DAN SONG PERIOD!
Agree totally!
You are totally wrong. All Steely Dan songs are BAAAAAAD!
Truth
I couldn't agree more. Can't say that about any of my favorite bands.
@@kualua6612 They are so good. Both of my parents hate them but I started hitting the second hand vinyl bins before I was 10 lol I don't know which one I found first.
The Skunk Baxter's lead guitar is insanely good. That outro could go on forever
Yeah. It needed another seven minutes at the end.
Maybe not the hardest solo in history, but the hardest to reproduce I'm sure. Once in a lifetime music.
Every Steely Dan song is a celebration!
I like the saying; my favorite Steely Dan song is one I'm playing. Don't forget about Donald Fagen's solo albums. Nightfly is a classic.
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on that lead guitar. Love the pinch harmonics on this. So squeally
One of my all time favorites
He goes heavy with the thumb as it engulfs the pick and creates that thick sound.
The squeak is awesome.
So good....it's almost like he invented it.
One of the best horn songs ever performed in pop/rock music IMO, glad you all liked it 🙂
Spot on Frank!!
Pop/Rock....🤨 It’s jazz/Rock fusion! I have to ask, can you find your ass with both hands🤷🏻♂️
I share this with all Steely Dan newbies: When real musicians get off work, they listen to Steely Dan.
It’s interesting that as I am much older and retired I have more time to slow down and listen more intently with a new ear and appreciate all these songs even more.
Well said. The same here. Listening to music is a big part of my happy retirement
I think you kinda evolve into Steely Dan.
@@jahdonkey100% agree
😊😊😊😊
You Fuckin A, brother..I know exactly what you mean...
Steely Dan is probably my favorite group ever. Their music can’t be beat. My favorite Steely Dan song is Black Cow from the Aja album.
Drink your big black cow and get outta here.
WHAT an album.
One of a kind band.
The production -- impeccable.
@@MrDuneedon Absolutely!
@@stevecontini5386 Ah, yes. My favorite Dan album!
I was a senior in HS and this came on the radio, I had never heard anything like it. It turned me on to Steely Dan, which turned me onto Jazz, and it changed my life.
For me, the genius of "My Old School" has always been the way Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's lead guitar plays off of Jimmie Haskell's brilliant horn arrangement. Love the moment when "California ... tumbles into the sea" to the bleat of a baritone sax. This was released as a single in late 1973, and only went to #63, but over the years has become every Steely Dan tribute band's set closer.
That's Jeff Baxter on guitar. He also played with The Doobie Brothers.
I absolutely love when you guys hear one of Steely Dan’s songs for the first time 😎❤️🔥
Reggie Bush loved this track. In high school, our English teacher was a big Steely Dan fan, played tracks between classes. Reggie walks in one day, My Old School is playing, and Reggie says "what is THIS? Damn, those HORNS are HOT!"
Google has the short story:
“The song's lyrics tell the story of a May 1969 drug bust at Bard College, referred to in the lyrics by its location, Annandale. The incident happened while both Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were students there, and the song mentions how a female acquaintance had betrayed them to "Daddy Gee" (G. Gordon Liddy), then the local prosecutor. “ That would be Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame.
You were giggling because the music spoke without words.Unique.
You never know what you’re going to get, but you can bet IT will be awesome! We’ve seen Steely Dan live at least 7-8 times. Love love love them.
Steely Dan is a great American rock band founded in 1971. They had a lot of great hits such as "Do It Again", "Reelin' In The Years", "Dirty Work", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Hey Nineteen", "Peg", "Josie", "Deacon Blues", "Show Biz Kids", "FM", "Babylon Sisters" etc.
They typically closed their live show with this song and the energy of the crowd was bananas! No matter how many times I hear their catalog I always hear something new and I remain utterly impressed by their genius. Timeless perfection.
For me, this is one of my favorite Dan tunes. The funk is off the charts, and those horns in the middle just carry this tune to the nether regions of amazing and beyond. The guitar on the outro is one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. To me, this song is a 10 ++++. Greatness realized.
Yea its a top 5 for me with with kid charlemagne we jammed this one a lot cruisin n boozin in my 69 buick skylark good ole days ! 🤘🎹🎸🎷🎺🎧🎶🕪
Talk about an OUTRO........ This track has it all. Horns, guitars and great background vocals.
Oleander, growing outside her door………. I LOVE this. Pot was demonized……. I’ve been in a raid 1977….. we were all scared as shit! Cops came busting into the party and confiscated everyone’s stash. Then, they left……. What a bring down and then …..we all cracked up in the end and no one got arrested 😎🤪
I listen to Steely Dan today as much as I listened to them in High School. Timeless and Perfection.
Great insight gentlemen. Suggest we all make a left turn into the “funked up muzak” of “FM.” Keep up the great work men!
This might be Steely Dan’s best album. Every song on it should be hit.
Always good to hear Steely Dan
Leonid and Friends - Cover band from Russia - covers this song and most of Chicago catalog - all studio musicians
Interestingly, a couple of the members of Toto, were session artists on some Steely recordings.
Guys, Steely Dan is beyond awesome (as are you)!!! They're group that was played on so many formats--Album Oriented Rock, Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Alternative, Jazz, et al. They are every man's band.
Yes it does grow on you. The thing about this song is they used it for the encore song both times I've seen them ( in the last 10 years ) and everyone was on their feet very enthusiasticly singing at the top of their lungs "I'm never going BACK to my old school!" best encore song ever.
That's how I feel. My graduating class had a number of class reunions. I never went to any of them. I like to move forward not backward. Nostalgia is not for me at all. That's one of the Steely Dan's best but you could say that about every single song they did. West of Hollywood is my current favorite. Next month it could be Black Cow again or Dr Wu, Boston Rag or Gaslighting Abby.
This Steely Dan reaction that you did was my first visit to your channel. I am now a Sub!
The marriage of horns and guitar has never been finer, phenomenal!
Can't wait until you hit FM and Black Cow. Talk about a groove!
And "Babylon Sisters"!
@@79BlackRose I love Babylon Sisters too!
Nine studio and 2 brilliant Fagen-solo albums later, this duo has more creative musicality in one average song than you'll find in any TEN albums from your contemporary "artists." Getting better with repeat listens. . . . . you guys nailed that comment. And you'll discover the amazing pains Fagen/Becker always took in their hiring/choosing instrumental soloists. This duo is still unequaled in their 30 year+ history of songwriting and production.
This is my fave Steely Dan. A desert island song for me. And I believe it's based on a (mostly) true story.
Always love you guys. Great chemistry and you're all real music lovers. And Steely Dan. My fav band growing up and still today.
As a Brit with tons of choice from my own country,SD are my favourite band among many many favourites.
Musical perfection.
Wait til you get to the album Gaucho!
I think you guys would love the guitar opener by the talented Larry Carlton in Don't Take Me Alive. 😉 SD is most definitely my "desert island" band. The breadth and depth of their catalog is mind boggling!
Mate, they've covered it. Loved it!!
I saw Larry Carlton with Steely Dan the first concert they played after Walter passed in Citi Field….2017. Missed seeing Walter but Larry? Awesome!
Skunk Baxter related a story in his interview with the Musicians Hall of Fame. Fagen &Becker were notorious for doing multiple takes while recording but according to Skunk, they had an understanding with the musicians that, if he felt he had given his best, they would move on. That's exactly what happened with his first take of the guitar solo in My Old School. Fagen wanted to do another take. Skunk said, nope, that's it. And that's the take you hear.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing that.
The whole idea about SD , is replay value. The more you listen the more you like. Music so good, but more important, you don't know what to expect.
So, what I'm hearing is that you eeed to, and are contemplating more Steely Dan songs. The next one you hear will be your favorite... until you hear another. I like seeing your Initial reactions to Steely Dan! Keep them coming brothers.
Huge Dan fan here! Have 7 vinyl albums of theirs and honestly, I can't name one song I don't like. Obviously there are some I love more than others but there are no two songs that are the same. From jazz to pop to ballads, quirky lyrics..just such talented musicians! STEELY DAN ROCKS!
One of my favorite bands. So many great songs.
My dear friend Jeffrey Young also played on their albums and on tour with them, he comped us tickets. Ore than once. We met the members of the band after, they said it was the best gig ever, top of their game type of gig.
I love the laughing reaction. Like oh my god what are you playing? It's too good.
Thanks for the reaction. I'm a Bard grad and the band actually did go back to Bard at one point for graduation ceremonies; this song was blasting out of all the windows of student dorms. It was so odd! I love that such a funky song is about my alma mater.
"When you put me on the Wolverine up to Annandale..." The Wolverine was an Amtrak train that ran from NYC up the Hudson Valley then to Chicago via Buffalo and Detroit. Bard College is in the Hudson Valley town of Annandale-on-Hudson
One of their greatest songs, no doubt about it!
Steely Dan's AJA Album was a monster hit on the Michigan State University campus in the Spring of 1979. I still love the album and the Band 45 years later!!
One of the few albums of all time where EVERY dang song on it is a 10!!
Ah, the theme song of my Alma Mater, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The members of Steely Dan met there, and there are many many references to Bard in the song.
Steely Dan songs always tell an interesting story on top of the music masterpiece. Sometimes, they are also just FUN. This is one of them. "Bad Sneakers" is another that will have you humming the tune afterward.
It's magic just watching your faces light up in smiles at the wonderful music that is Steely Dan. They never did self pity or depressive music. Even if the subject matter leaned that way, their music was always joyous. You're in for a ball. Enjoy the ride guys. It just gets better and better.
That baritone sax holds it all down!
My favorite part!
One thing you can be sure of with steely Dan: the song will be good 😊
Each song has a special surprise in it like when you were a kid diggin in the cereal box. All the tracks on Aja will blow your mind 🔥
From 1988-1993 I was in the Air Force down in Tampa, FL. There was a sort of biker bar called the South End Saloon Bar & Grill that started having local cover bands around '92-'93. One of them used to bust out Steely Dan's "My Old School" and "Kid Charlemagne" during their sets. Great songs, but not the ones I'd expect a cover band to play. I was pleasantly surprised. Those were good times.
Black Cow, Josie, Babylon Sisters, Pretzel Logic, Deacon Blues, FM. Don't Take Me Alive, Dr Wu...enjoy your Steely Dan journey!
Black Cow and Pretzel Logic are such great tunes.
Definitely a lyrics song... A message that Don and Walter needed to get off their chest
How many know Daddy G is G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon/Water gate infamy???? 😮
My father and Liddy became friends at Fordham and then served together.
Yes. And they didn't mention Chevy Chase who also attended Bard and actually played drums with Don and Walter for awhile.
@@leonardshevlin7260 don't know whether to say "cool" or not!
I do.
@@craigplatel813 I'll bite. Which? Cool or not cool?
Love the Album cover
Kid Charlemange is a must listen to by Steely Dan. Haitian Divorce is a different sound by them but a great tune.
The thing with SD is that the songs are so complex that you have to listen to them multiple times to appreciate. Donald Fagen is one of the great songwriters of his generation. Yes I loved Walter Becker as well. So many great songs. Enjoy your reactions to music I grew up with.
You need to do black cow and Kid Charlemagne too. Awesome songs.
Glad to see you guys enjoying MOS. It is my favorite song of all time, regardless of musical genre. It's a wonderful song that grooves it way into your height and soul. Thanks.
My favorite instrumental break in all of rock, especially those rolling saxophones and Jeff Baxter's awesome lead guitar.
Second place - "School" by Supertramp.
Yeah, I know, both titles contain "School." It's just coincidence.
🙏 ❤ 🌹 Jim, Bill, Johnny, Walter 🌹 ❤ 🙏
This confirms it... I definitely grew up with the best music ever! 🙂
Agree absolutely, a phenomenal time for fantastic music!
We did
"they make you come to them..." that was a great take, and I never realized but you are so correct....who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? 😄 Steely Dan is a deep dive for sure, but So worth it...never boring, at times make you wonder, What?? lol Great react!
the core members of Toto -- David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather and David Hungate worked with Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs and Michael Jackson. These guys played on literally hundreds of records before and even after they formed Toto. They formed Toto after running into each other so many times at sessions and deciding they should start their own band. Plus, several of the guys all grew up together and went to the same high school in Van Nuys.
There is no bad Steely Dan.
It's great to watch you hear this for the first time.
I've known this song since it came out and watching you guys react sort of gives it a refresh, sort of a, "oh, yeah, this song DOES kick ass."
I suspect the music of Steely Dan is going to survive until the end of the Universe...
@KI Tan at least !
Highly Recommended - Deep, deep, deep Dive: FM, Kid Charlemagne, Your Gold Teeth, Your Gold Teeth II, Time Out of Mind, Peg, Jack of Speed, Lunch with Gina, Doctor Wu, Razor Boy. Pretzel Logic, Black Friday, Haitian Divorce, Black Cow, Home at Last, Babylon Sisters, Hey 19 (you may have heard this), Janie Runaway, West of Hollywood, Everything Must Go, Third World Man,
There is also Donald Fagen solo material: IGY, New Frontier, Tomorrow's Girls, Florida Room, The Nightfly, Goodbye Look,, Good Stuff, Slinky Thing, I'm Not the Same Without You, The Night Belongs to Mona, Countermoon, Great Pagoda of Funn...
Walter Becker: Paging Audrey, Downtown Canon, Book of Liars...
Toto were the session musicians for Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs.
Great SD tune - great take guys. I think you're ready for some of their most ambitious material... one in particular is the title track from their "Royal Scam" album. So moving and deep, in a concert from a few years ago they expanded RS into a 20 minute opus - slowly dropping musicians out until only a percussionist remained. People were weeping. You'll hear it in the studio release. Keep up the entertaining takes.
There is no such thing as a favourite Dan album,I love them all and cannot separate them,but gun to head,The Royal Scam just ahead.
Will be totally different next week though!
@@TheCornishCockney You encapsulated my feelings- Impossible to pick a best album, and at times I think it’s Two Against Nature, Gaucho, Aja, or the Royal Scam. Depends on how I’m feeling that day lol
I'd dearly like to find a 20 minute Royal Scam; I might weep too.
You guys have barely scratched the surface of Steely Dan, you lucky devils. I’d suggest FM or Black Cow, for your next couple outings. Although Kid Charlemagne has an absolutely epic guitar solo....
When you are ready for more Steely Dan, try "F.M." the extended version, if you like sax, you will love this one, in my top 5 sax solo songs ever!
This one and "Hey Nineteen " are my favorite Steely Dan songs. - along with "Black Cow".
Me too
Just as how many people love Steely Dan and their musicianship, variety of sounds and production values, that's how I feel about - and well beyond that - my favourite band of all time, Supertramp. Supertramp's sound is never dull with a massively deep catalogue between 1974-84 combining great keyboards and sax/woodwinds, engaging alternating lead singers and absolutely superior socially conscious, sometimes cynical and sometimes hopeful, spiritual lyrics. Do yourself and your viewers a favour and get into their amazing, timeless music.
Steely Dan and Supertramp are two of my favourite bands ever. They both take pride of place in my record collection, their best albums for me were recorded in the early to mid 70's. If l had to narrow it down to two favourite albums from each it would be Pretzel Logic and The Royal Scam from SD and Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America from Supertramp.
@@keithjones7390 Hi, Keith. Always nice to speak to a fellow Supertramp fan. I am still shocked, frustrated and even a little angry that after all these years they are still not in the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. A complete joke and travesty.
When Becker and Fagen where students at Bard, they were in a college band with Chevy Chase on drums.
Steely Dan do not miss. Facts! 💯
John Palumbo of Crack The Sky is a huge fan of Steely Dan. So, keep that in mind as you eventually listen to their work starting with their 1975 self-titled debut. A Sea Epic, Ice, Mind Baby, Hold On/Surf City, She's a Dancer, Robots for Ronnie, Sleep. A classic first album.
Steely Dan is a near perfect studio band. Not really a bad song in their entire catalog.
Steely Dan dont have a single bad song, you guys could pick any from their catalogue ansd it will be fire
Seen them live a few times, they are amazing
Steely Dan is your favorite band's favorite band
Always thought it sounded like a college fight song, in keeping with the theme. Keep the Dan a comin!
Check out “Reelin’ In the Years”, “Peg” and “Kid Charlemagne”.
Yes pls
The best pinched note guitar solo ever recorded!
La Grange, ZZ Top?
@@79BlackRose Very close second !
"Daddy G" was the local prosecutor G. Gordon Liddy who arrested 44 Bard students 1969, and in 1972 a jury found him guilty, and served 5 years in federal prison for his involvement in Watergate, called "The Whitehouse Plumbers". From the same album song "The Boston Rag" about a student from Bard College.
My favourite is "Do It Again "
Absolutely, ❤ Steely Dan, others Peg, hey 19, reelin in the years, Babylon Sisters, FM, Home at Last and more. Great reaction thanks guys!
Boston Rag. Blow your mind. Gotta hear it.
Razor Boy too!
Black Cow, Night by Night, Caves of Altamira, Your Gold Teeth 2 next!
Such a cacaphony reflecting the anger and chaos of the day!
Night by Night from Pretzel Logic is pretty damn funky. You just can't go wrong with SD. My favorite all time band.
Imagine, if you will, or can, growing up with this? Like Led Zep, and a few other bands, you never knew what's next! But you knew it was going to be Awesome...
Yup, we had countless bands, hundreds, all amazing, god, we were lucky
This is my personal favorite Steely Dan album; if you want dirty guitar, it's all over this album. You're not going to get a lot of suggestions for "The Boston Rag", but trust me, it is a classic slow burn tale.
You took the words I was going to write, my favourite Steely album and love the Boston Rag.
YAY MY FAVORITE BAND!!!
The best Jazz/Rock Fusion ever made! MONSTERS! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wikipedia lists four sax players for this song. I don't know if the deeper is called a baritone sax, but after numerous listens, now those deep sax notes really catch my brain's attention. I thought Ryan might say something. Maybe right now the alto and soprano sax really catches his ear. The higher pitched saxs are more attention grabbing.