@@IronMan-tk8uc sheaves is a biblical reference. its a bundle of wheat before its separated from the chafe, that is the part of the plant that is thrown away.......gives new insight to the face walter made.....
the funniest clip i’ve seen is when walter is shitting on the talking heads for like a minute straight, then donald says ‘i kinda like the talking heads’ and walter says ‘i like the talking heads too’
please don't forget to also explore the Fagen solo catalogue! - it's arguably better than anything Steely Dan has ever released. I know that's a TALL order but i'm not joking or exaggerating
@@danapaul3216 The funny thing was even in the old interviews from the early-mid-70s, they were exactly the same way. Probably because they had such similar musical tastes and ideas. To me they are the Sedin brothers (twin hockey players for the Vancouver Canucks who between them hold all the team records and still work for the team together today) of music....more so than Lennon and McCartney, who each eventually would develop their own styles.
They did an interview in Musician Magazine where they talked about the car that hit Walter and broke his leg as an act of quantum criminality. I've used "quantum criminal" for decades now as a result.
Such quiet, intelligent and somewhat pompous dudes 🤣 In a league of their own in many ways. Also was so sweet how they both said “you’re not funny lookin” at the exact same time
Never realized the potty mouth existed but not surprised. Just hope none of it ever makes it's way onto a CD. It would my image of the Lads as two God Fearing Upstate NY Catholic Boys. :)
I fell in instant love the minute my dad plugged an 8-track tape into the car stereo and the guitar intro to "Reeling In the Years" poured out. 50 years or so and I'm still electrified by everything they did.
You were SO FORTUNATE to have a dad as cool as one who turns you onto The Dan. My very Un-Hip father subjected us to his entire catalog of Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks. Polka Gods from Cleveland. GOD! I wish the dementia would set in and end my suffering.
Being a true long time fan and collector, this was great to watch. Sad that materially, Walter is not on this plane anymore. Miss him a lot. They had great chemistry and could fire off each other which made then very witty. Many thanks for your production time and effort. It has been appreciated. Cheers Colin.
Great stuff! My favorite album is Aja. You could have added the part from the Aja documentary where Donald talks about sounding like Jerry Lewis upon which Walter responds dryly “that was a very fertile period for you”.
Saw them twice in concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 1993, and again in 1995. Sure glad I went, as Walter is now gone. RIP Walter Becker. Wayne, Port Alberni, Canada.
@ 7.30 Walter says..... "what's that ....some little envelope .... filter thing he's got going there on his guitar".....what a great understated diss ! ....PS I have loved Steely Dans music for almost 50 years now & inexplicably they sound better each time I listen to "them"....Nice vid....... Thankyou !
King Of The World blew me away long before I realized how excellent they were. I'm sort of glad that I'm not smart enough to be a SD hardcore buff because all of their albums are just excellent to me ~ even Aja 😉
Joseph, check out Joe Jackson's cover of King of the World on his Live in New York album (recorded in '99 I think). It's real good, esp. considering it's only piano, bass & drums.
hey thanks man i liked joes cover, i make videos and wanted to make my version of king of the world but this guy steely ben did a great job so i couldn't compete with his, he did a great job, take care man,---Steely Dan - King Of The World--@@dannyize
Remember hearing on the radio in either ‘77 or ‘78 an interview with Donald Fagen. The interviewer told Fagen what his interpretation of the Kid Charlemagne lyrics were. Fagen’s response … “well, that shows how astute YOU are”. By the way, I have always loved the guitar work on Kings. Loved the lyrics too. What other American rock band offered commentary on Medieval English history!
It's pretty clearly about Owlsley Stanley, the man who made the greatest LSD of all time, bankrolled the Grateful Dead, and most definitely worked for the CIA
I think music historians years from now, studying the late 60's early 70's, will latch onto Steely Dan's jazz-rock and the Allman Brothers' jazz-blues as examples of opening up rock music in truly original ways.
@@justmeeagainn Of course! hahahha. They just knew not to fight good ol chuck on it as hes been playing professionally longer than they have. Same goes for Bernard Purdie. And we can thank Donald Fagan for that. He knows when musicians are right in their opinions even when they go against his instincts. The other thing about my comment is that as i typed "SNEAKIN iN the SLAP!" I was singing to myself "REELIN in the YEARS" :D
Thanks for sharing this. During their times of being off the scene, many people would start to guess what their behavior was. Your video lets us know that they were really satirical college buddy / gigsters at heart. 8:27 - Donald breaks in to "How Dry I Am." Too funny!
These guys were funny 99.9% of the time I have ever seen them. It's that sarcasm, quick wit & keen sense of humor that became the hallmark of their lyrics throughout their studio production years. Although DF carried on bravely & nobly afterwards, WB's death was truly devastating to the entire industry because the music world was deprived of its combined genius from that moment on, but thankfully, the music lives on in all of us who were privileged to bare witness as it played out in real time. I'm glad the host found his way to Steely Dan's musical contributions to the soundtracks of generations past, present & those who've yet to discover. Great work!
Really good..thanks for making. I’m pretty much obsessed by them also. DF is supposed to be coming to Detroit in a few months..plan on getting tickets. Should be a good show, a shame WB won’t be with him. Ok my favorite album is ..Aja..
I like all their album s. I saw them in the summer of 1974 at the UCSB Robinson Gym when Rikki don’t lose that number was out. Been a huge fan ever since!! Thanks for all the great music!!
Brookyln has always slayed me. Such a poignant tune from two guys who specialized in celebrating the dark underbelly of our culture, How do you write Brooklyn and Charlie Freak? They must have had help stepping outside themselves from time to time. Maybe KID Charlamagne ?
Fagan & Becker, Metheny and Mays......Sometimes two kindred spirts meet and make magic for us. How luck are we to have lived at the same time as Fagan & Becker.
My fave Dan album is still The Royal Scam; from that gritty guitar intro by the indomitable [Sir] Larry Carlton on "Don't Take Me Alive" to the quirky neo-religious swamp thang that is the title track! It's ALL so tasty, shiny & BRILLIANT and I never get bored of it!
I am in total agreement! I think it's their most underrated album and it has so many great songs - many with a slightly darker flavor than the usual stuff by the band.
@@79SteelyMatt I think you must be on drugs...... Walter's own compositions and album are almost lame, especially in comparison to Donald's. Donald Fagen's solo albums, on the other hand, might as well be Steely Dan albums for their intensity and similarities.
19 at the last count, I believe; that flunky "weird envelope filter" guy sounded like Nils Lofgren to me {Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band] and I've always liked his playing, but it's NOT Dan worthy.....
Katy Lied is my most fav, after Can't Buy a Thrill till Two Against Nature I got all their vinyl on release day, Tuesday! Is it still Tues? They are all GREAT!
Becker and Fagen appear to be sarcastic, have a dry sense of humor which is in their song writing so the humor is built in. "Kick off your high heeled sneakers." I love many of SD songs.
appear TO BE SARCASTIC? child, THAT'S LIKE SAYING OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN HAD A SACHERRINE SWEET VOICE. enjoy GETTING DEEPER INTO THEIR CELEBRATION OF OUR CULTURE'S SEEDY, DARK UNDERBELLY. A LISTEN TO Charlie freak OFF OF PRETZEL LOGIC AND THEN LISTEN TO BROOKLYN OFF OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM. turns OUT YOU CAN BUT A THRILL.
Can't Buy a Thrill was my favorite, until I heard Countdown to Ecstasy and then I heard, Pretzel Logic and that became my favorite. In 1975, Katy Lied was released and that became my fav, until I heard The Royal Scam. In 1977 I fell in love with Aja. Gaucho was released in 1980 and that was my favorite album.
Steely Dan was by far the best YACHT ROCK band. " The Cuervo gold. The fine Columbian. Make tonight a wonderful thing . Say it again..." Thanks for everything you gave the world Donald and Walter.
Saw back/back shows at Chicago Theater... with the second year featuring Larry Carlton. On the 45 minute drive home to my brothers' house; the conversation went something like this:....."Royal Scam is the best"... " did you forgot about AJA"... 'Katy Lied in Florida"... 'Denny Dias on Do it Again .... or any other album".... 'Gaucho was very cool'.... 'My Old School/Razor Boy'... the acknowledge to Charlie Parker on Pretzel Logic. Yup... what's your favorite Beatles tune.... the conversation continued.
Donald Fagen is my twin brother snatched away at birth, and Walter was his gentile buddy, also my best friend. Whatever I was going through in the 70s, good or bad (mostly bad), they were right there with me. I took a course in Buddhism and read a lot of Zen? “Boddhisattva.” I moved to LA? “Only a fool would say that.” I was fascinated by the 1940s, watched zillions of late-night movies interspersed with Cal Worthington ads.? “Well I seen it on the movies, the TV show/They say the times are changing but I just don’t know.” I went through a painful breakup? “I don’t care any more/How you run around.” I could go on for days… My favorite album, and it is hard to pick one, would have to be “Katy Lied.” You say Dr. Wu? I say I spent five years writing an unpublished novel about a Japanese-American woman surgeon during WWII. My favorite among all their incredible songs? Has to be “Show Biz Kids.” I worked crap jobs, came home, wrote, went out at night among the art-gallery crowd… “While the poor people sleeping with the shade on the light…” I knew I wasn’t really one of the glitter set, I was dirt-poor and drove a 66 MGB with no floors, but every once in a while, I could pretend. “Up on the hill, they think I’m ok/Or so they say.” Runner-up, or maybe sharing the #1 spot: “Bad Sneakers.” Although I never missed NYC (how could I? I was from Staten Island, f’chrissakes), the veiled tenderness in that song - “you wear a white tuxedo, how you gonna beat the heat” - and the gleeful-painful triumph of “laughing at the frozen rain” spoke to me with the volume turned up to 11. “That fearful excavation on Magnolia Boulevard” - I moved to North Hollywood after my marriage, lived there for 30 years. And finally, “that ditch out in the Valley that they’re digging just for me” - I always figured I would end up interred in Mt Sinai cemetery, and that there were worse places to spend eternity. This year, we finally bought plots in that place. I’ll sleep near my parents and in-laws. Twenty years ago I wrote another novel (published), and included some lines from “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies.” A few weeks ago we were visiting the battlefield in Gettysburg, PA, and I thought: “We’re standing just where he stood/chain lightning, it feels so good.” Never mind that the song was about Hitler, may his name be erased. Could just as easily apply to Winfield Scott Hancock, Lewis Armistead, or even R. E. Lee. The Dan was my Yang to the Grateful Dead’s yin. Together those two bands brought me through that execrable decade. And whatever happens, don’t forget Bernard Purdy’s incredible drum work on “I Got the News”! Thank you for posting this. Happily, I got to see the Dan in 2016, at the Hollywood Bowl. Walter, may he rest in peace, did most (or all) of the talking. He was very funny. The finale was “Bodhisattva,” with fireworks. Nirvana … and I don’t mean that bunch of zhlobs from Seattle. “And for the coup-e de grace/They’re outrageous, honey let me tell you …”
You want to know what my favorite Steely Dan album is? I have been disecting them since 1972 I have met them have a picture on Letterman with my arm around Roger Nichols and am a .musician who has played with many people all that you know and my answer is: All of them including all their solo albums
Love it but you left out a great one. They are at the mixing board, Donald says something like, "That was when I was in my Ethel Merman mode." Becker quips, "Yeah, that was a fertile period."
The funniest stuff they ever did are the liner notes on the early 2000s reissues of all their albums before Two against the world. Autobiographical and hysterical, they are real gems.
Merci beaucoup à vous et Aja est mon album préféré comme beaucoup de fans français de ces deux musiciens géniaux au second degré ! La série Breaking Bad les a cités c'est vous dire ! 🙏
How is it that Steely Dan is the back-up band to the Eagles on tour? I don't get it. Steely Dan is an elite group with a collection of amazing albums and music. Even though Walter has passed, Steely Dan should always be the lead group in any public appearance.
Becker's face when she says "reeling in the sheeves" is us all.
Can't help but think of that everytime I hear that song lmao
what even is a sheev??
@@anuraggdeshpande286 depending on the spelling it has multiple meanings
And Fagen just went along with her 😆
@@IronMan-tk8uc sheaves is a biblical reference. its a bundle of wheat before its separated from the chafe, that is the part of the plant that is thrown away.......gives new insight to the face walter made.....
the funniest clip i’ve seen is when walter is shitting on the talking heads for like a minute straight, then donald says ‘i kinda like the talking heads’ and walter says ‘i like the talking heads too’
Where can I find this clip?
I fell into the Steely Dan hole a few years ago and haven’t found my way out. The Dan is the real thing, every song is like it came out yesterday.
Exactly. It’s mind boggling.
I’m currently falling in. It’s incredible
You have detected the El Supremo
please don't forget to also explore the Fagen solo catalogue! - it's arguably better than anything Steely Dan has ever released. I know that's a TALL order but i'm not joking or exaggerating
its so interesting how they happen to be a naturally comedic duo, wish there was more documented stuff though
They were together for so long it’s as if they finished each other’s sentences and thoughts. Kind of like an old married couple. 😆.
DO NOT miss the steely dan everything must go "confessions" bonus, available to watch here on youtube.
@@danapaul3216 The funny thing was even in the old interviews from the early-mid-70s, they were exactly the same way. Probably because they had such similar musical tastes and ideas. To me they are the Sedin brothers (twin hockey players for the Vancouver Canucks who between them hold all the team records and still work for the team together today) of music....more so than Lennon and McCartney, who each eventually would develop their own styles.
They did an interview in Musician Magazine where they talked about the car that hit Walter and broke his leg as an act of quantum criminality. I've used "quantum criminal" for decades now as a result.
Aja, favorite long play, there was really no bad Steely Dan music though!
Every album is my favorite album. These two are in a class all their own. No one can get in
Naw not that last album without gary katz producing, that sh*t was trash!
It almost seems like a Steely Dan side project if Katz wasn't producing.
Such quiet, intelligent and somewhat pompous dudes 🤣
In a league of their own in many ways.
Also was so sweet how they both said “you’re not funny lookin” at the exact same time
Still die laughing when I hear 'reeling in the sheeves" lmfao. Walter and Donald's reactions are peak
Them taking the piss out of the Peg solos is brutal and hilarious at the same time
Never realized the potty mouth existed but not surprised. Just hope none of it ever makes it's way onto a CD. It would my image of the Lads as two God Fearing Upstate NY Catholic Boys. :)
I've been so in love with both of them for years...break my heart. Home at Last is the best song ever. Miss you, Walter
Love Home at Last!
I know this super highway
YES!
I fell in instant love the minute my dad plugged an 8-track tape into the car stereo and the guitar intro to "Reeling In the Years" poured out. 50 years or so and I'm still electrified by everything they did.
You mean reeling in the sheaves
You were SO FORTUNATE to have a dad as cool as one who turns you onto The Dan. My very Un-Hip father subjected us to his entire catalog of Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks. Polka Gods from Cleveland. GOD! I wish the dementia would set in and end my suffering.
Reeling in the sheaves reeling in the sheaves, we will come rejoicing Like any major dude, reeling in the sheaves.
I love that song!
Being a true long time fan and collector, this was great to watch. Sad that materially, Walter is not on this plane anymore. Miss him a lot. They had great chemistry and could fire off each other which made then very witty. Many thanks for your production time and effort. It has been appreciated. Cheers Colin.
Great stuff! My favorite album is Aja. You could have added the part from the Aja documentary where Donald talks about sounding like Jerry Lewis upon which Walter responds dryly “that was a very fertile period for you”.
Best Dan doc EVER! (and I don't usually speak in absolutes)
Yes. Who can forget that moment!
Loved that!!
I've become obsessed with Steely Dan to the point where everyone I know keeps asking me if i play anything else in my car.
When I'm having a bad day. I just watch this video and everything is better.
I always knew that Bette Midler would end up driving a cab.
This video speaks for itself.
You included the Chuck Rainey slap bass bit! I Ioved that.
Saw them twice in concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 1993, and again in 1995. Sure glad I went, as Walter is now gone. RIP Walter Becker. Wayne, Port Alberni, Canada.
Thanks for the chuckles. "Pretzel Logic" is mine, but never heard a bad Steely song. RIP Walter.
you are cultured my friend
They are the musical loves of my life 🤍
@ 7.30 Walter says..... "what's that ....some little envelope .... filter thing he's got going there on his guitar".....what a great understated diss ! ....PS I have loved Steely Dans music for almost 50 years now & inexplicably they sound better each time I listen to "them"....Nice vid....... Thankyou !
Smiles for the soul. Thanks for posting it.
i love countdown to ecstacy, king of the world is a way overlooked uncredited song, thanks for making such great jams, joe t.
My favourite album and song from Steely Dan! Good choices.
King Of The World blew me away long before I realized how excellent they were. I'm sort of glad that I'm not smart enough to be a SD hardcore buff because all of their albums are just excellent to me ~ even Aja 😉
Joseph, check out Joe Jackson's cover of King of the World on his Live in New York album (recorded in '99 I think). It's real good, esp. considering it's only piano, bass & drums.
hey thanks man i liked joes cover, i make videos and wanted to make my version of king of the world but this guy steely ben did a great job so i couldn't compete with his, he did a great job, take care man,---Steely Dan - King Of The World--@@dannyize
It's so funny to see Donald straight up "🗿"
Remember hearing on the radio in either ‘77 or ‘78 an interview with Donald Fagen. The interviewer told Fagen what his interpretation of the Kid Charlemagne lyrics were. Fagen’s response … “well, that shows how astute YOU are”. By the way, I have always loved the guitar work on Kings. Loved the lyrics too. What other American rock band offered commentary on Medieval English history!
It's pretty clearly about Owlsley Stanley, the man who made the greatest LSD of all time, bankrolled the Grateful Dead, and most definitely worked for the CIA
I already loved Dan but this shit is like icing on my heroin cake.
I think music historians years from now, studying the late 60's early 70's, will latch onto Steely Dan's jazz-rock and the Allman Brothers' jazz-blues as examples of opening up rock music in truly original ways.
Chuck Rainey SNEAKIN iN the SLAP! Hilarious!
It wasn’t really sneaky. They knew. You can’t fool these guys.
@@justmeeagainn Of course! hahahha. They just knew not to fight good ol chuck on it as hes been playing professionally longer than they have. Same goes for Bernard Purdie. And we can thank Donald Fagan for that. He knows when musicians are right in their opinions even when they go against his instincts. The other thing about my comment is that as i typed "SNEAKIN iN the SLAP!" I was singing to myself "REELIN in the YEARS" :D
Ive always loved this fuckers. Dark, smart...clever. brilliant musicians.
I love this what ever you did to put this together. This is the opposite of boring
They’re just…weird guys. And it’s awesome.
Two guys that just got each other and decided they didn’t need anyone else.
Thanks for sharing this. During their times of being off the scene, many people would start to guess what their behavior was. Your video lets us know that they were really satirical college buddy / gigsters at heart. 8:27 - Donald breaks in to "How Dry I Am." Too funny!
All of them. I've been listening to Steely Dan since I was 2 going on 3. I turn 49 tomorrow.
I'd say some Cuervo gold and Fine Columbian are in order. congratulations.
These guys were funny 99.9% of the time I have ever seen them. It's that sarcasm, quick wit & keen sense of humor that became the hallmark of their lyrics throughout their studio production years. Although DF carried on bravely & nobly afterwards, WB's death was truly devastating to the entire industry because the music world was deprived of its combined genius from that moment on, but thankfully, the music lives on in all of us who were privileged to bare witness as it played out in real time. I'm glad the host found his way to Steely Dan's musical contributions to the soundtracks of generations past, present & those who've yet to discover. Great work!
The bit with Mike McDonald on "Peg" was classic. I laughed, I cried, I peed meself!
Really good..thanks for making. I’m pretty much obsessed by them also. DF is supposed to be coming to Detroit in a few months..plan on getting tickets. Should be a good show, a shame WB won’t be with him. Ok my favorite album is ..Aja..
I like all their album s. I saw them in the summer of 1974 at the UCSB Robinson Gym when Rikki don’t lose that number was out. Been a huge fan ever since!! Thanks for all the great music!!
Reeling in the sheeves......yeah that was one of our best ones..😂😂😂😂
"Can't Buy a Thrill" my first album when it broke I carried that album everywhere I went.. Favorite song, "Show Biz Kids"
Brookyln has always slayed me. Such a poignant tune from two guys who specialized in celebrating the dark underbelly of our culture, How do you write Brooklyn and Charlie Freak? They must have had help stepping outside themselves from time to time. Maybe KID Charlamagne ?
Reeling’ in the sheevs
One of a kind, those guys!
Thanks for putting this together
Fagan & Becker, Metheny and Mays......Sometimes two kindred spirts meet and make magic for us. How luck are we to have lived at the same time as Fagan & Becker.
Loved it! Difficult to decide on a favorite but Aja is a gem.
It makes me so happy that these guys are funny on top of being crazy talented musicians
Been listening to my favorite band since Bottisatva! ❤❤❤❤❤
Won't you take me by the hand......plus one iconic guitar solo.
Thanks for the video! My favourite album is Gaucho, followed by Two Against Nature.
I love Gaucho, it’s definitely my favorite. Two Against Nature is second or third for me
When I was young, my fave SD song was Peg, but now it's My Old School.
greatest video on youtube. thank you for compiling this
Great idea for a video! My favorite album is Aja!
This was awesome. 🤘🏻
Gaucho is my most favourite album of all time but every other steely dan album runs it close.
Love Steely Dan! Sooooo great
I'm turning 48 this May and my WIFE bought me Steely Dan tickets for this summer in Franklin, Tennessee. #donaldpleasedontdie
Thanks for compiling! Tough call but my favorite album of theirs is Gaucho. Gems to be found on all of the albums of course!
Gaucho is my favorite album of all time and it always will be
This is just fantastic.
I love them so much!
The thumb business… so classic!!
My fave Dan album is still The Royal Scam; from that gritty guitar intro by the indomitable [Sir] Larry Carlton on "Don't Take Me Alive" to the quirky neo-religious swamp thang that is the title track! It's ALL so tasty, shiny & BRILLIANT and I never get bored of it!
I am in total agreement! I think it's their most underrated album and it has so many great songs - many with a slightly darker flavor than the usual stuff by the band.
"never gonna do it without the fez on" don't forget about that song
@@AnArchyRulzzfr that one slaps
I really think a lot of the lyrics on Royal Scam were mainly Walter Becker and on Aja and Gaucho the dope songs were his
@@79SteelyMatt I think you must be on drugs...... Walter's own compositions and album are almost lame, especially in comparison to Donald's. Donald Fagen's solo albums, on the other hand, might as well be Steely Dan albums for their intensity and similarities.
The cab driver in Vegas is brilliant, she even beats the boys. Uptown baby ;-)
The absolute boys 💅🏿
I adore them ❤
Word is they are still adding onto the amount of guitar players that tried out for Peg. 💩
19 at the last count, I believe; that flunky "weird envelope filter" guy sounded like Nils Lofgren to me {Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band] and I've always liked his playing, but it's NOT Dan worthy.....
At least we know that it stopped with Jay! Whatever number he turned out to be, perhaps #7!
6. 7….8, 9 Ten players…
Great compilation of clips. Thanks for putting it together.
Big fan of them both. Thanks for this!
Katy Lied is my most fav, after Can't Buy a Thrill till Two Against Nature I got all their vinyl on release day, Tuesday! Is it still Tues? They are all GREAT!
Becker and Fagen appear to be sarcastic, have a dry sense of humor which is in their song writing so the humor is built in. "Kick off your high heeled sneakers." I love many of SD songs.
appear TO BE SARCASTIC? child, THAT'S LIKE SAYING OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN HAD A SACHERRINE SWEET VOICE. enjoy GETTING DEEPER INTO THEIR CELEBRATION OF OUR CULTURE'S SEEDY, DARK UNDERBELLY. A LISTEN TO Charlie freak OFF OF PRETZEL LOGIC AND THEN LISTEN TO BROOKLYN OFF OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM. turns OUT YOU CAN BUT A THRILL.
And yes, there was the dry sense of humor too. Outstanding too.
Thanks for making this:) funny dudes😂
IVE BEEN A STEELY DAN FAN SO SO LONG AND NEVER WOULBE IMAGINED THAT THERES A FANDOM BAHA
I'm a big fan and I really enjoyed this 😁💖🎶
I laughed I cried I shitted my pants.
Great,funny Walter and Donald.
Loved it.
Can't Buy a Thrill was my favorite, until I heard Countdown to Ecstasy and then I heard, Pretzel Logic and that became my favorite. In 1975, Katy Lied was released and that became my fav, until I heard The Royal Scam. In 1977 I fell in love with Aja. Gaucho was released in 1980 and that was my favorite album.
The parodying of the song "Deja Vu (Uptown)" 😂
That was Great. Thanks 👍
Love these guys so much lmao
Steely Dan was by far the best YACHT ROCK band. " The Cuervo gold. The fine Columbian. Make tonight a wonderful thing . Say it again..." Thanks for everything you gave the world Donald and Walter.
Enjoyed this. Thanks. Aja.
I enjoyed .thanks a lot...
Thanks! This was fun!
"The Horrible Drum Teacher..."
He summed up that garbage Whiplash movie perfectly.
I love Donald even more than I already do because of what he said there.
whiplash isn't that bad, it's just a horrible jazz movie. la la land on the other hand is absolutely one of the worst films of the 21st century.
Uptown Baby, Uptown Baby!!! Hilarious!
Saw back/back shows at Chicago Theater... with the second year featuring Larry Carlton. On the 45 minute drive home to my brothers' house; the conversation went something like this:....."Royal Scam is the best"... " did you forgot about AJA"... 'Katy Lied in Florida"... 'Denny Dias on Do it Again .... or any other album".... 'Gaucho was very cool'.... 'My Old School/Razor Boy'... the acknowledge to Charlie Parker on Pretzel Logic. Yup... what's your favorite Beatles tune.... the conversation continued.
Donald Fagen is my twin brother snatched away at birth, and Walter was his gentile buddy, also my best friend. Whatever I was going through in the 70s, good or bad (mostly bad), they were right there with me. I took a course in Buddhism and read a lot of Zen? “Boddhisattva.” I moved to LA? “Only a fool would say that.” I was fascinated by the 1940s, watched zillions of late-night movies interspersed with Cal Worthington ads.? “Well I seen it on the movies, the TV show/They say the times are changing but I just don’t know.” I went through a painful breakup? “I don’t care any more/How you run around.” I could go on for days… My favorite album, and it is hard to pick one, would have to be “Katy Lied.” You say Dr. Wu? I say I spent five years writing an unpublished novel about a Japanese-American woman surgeon during WWII. My favorite among all their incredible songs? Has to be “Show Biz Kids.” I worked crap jobs, came home, wrote, went out at night among the art-gallery crowd… “While the poor people sleeping with the shade on the light…” I knew I wasn’t really one of the glitter set, I was dirt-poor and drove a 66 MGB with no floors, but every once in a while, I could pretend. “Up on the hill, they think I’m ok/Or so they say.” Runner-up, or maybe sharing the #1 spot: “Bad Sneakers.” Although I never missed NYC (how could I? I was from Staten Island, f’chrissakes), the veiled tenderness in that song - “you wear a white tuxedo, how you gonna beat the heat” - and the gleeful-painful triumph of “laughing at the frozen rain” spoke to me with the volume turned up to 11. “That fearful excavation on Magnolia Boulevard” - I moved to North Hollywood after my marriage, lived there for 30 years. And finally, “that ditch out in the Valley that they’re digging just for me” - I always figured I would end up interred in Mt Sinai cemetery, and that there were worse places to spend eternity. This year, we finally bought plots in that place. I’ll sleep near my parents and in-laws.
Twenty years ago I wrote another novel (published), and included some lines from “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies.”
A few weeks ago we were visiting the battlefield in Gettysburg, PA, and I thought: “We’re standing just where he stood/chain lightning, it feels so good.” Never mind that the song was about Hitler, may his name be erased. Could just as easily apply to Winfield Scott Hancock, Lewis Armistead, or even R. E. Lee.
The Dan was my Yang to the Grateful Dead’s yin. Together those two bands brought me through that execrable decade. And whatever happens, don’t forget Bernard Purdy’s incredible drum work on “I Got the News”!
Thank you for posting this. Happily, I got to see the Dan in 2016, at the Hollywood Bowl. Walter, may he rest in peace, did most (or all) of the talking. He was very funny. The finale was “Bodhisattva,” with fireworks. Nirvana … and I don’t mean that bunch of zhlobs from Seattle.
“And for the coup-e de grace/They’re outrageous, honey let me tell you …”
This is my favorite album from the 90s ❤😊
I just wanted to say... DO IT AGAIN IS THERE BEST SONG BY FAR AND IS IN THE TOP 3 OF BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME 🗣🗣🗣🗣
You want to know what my favorite Steely Dan album is? I have been disecting them since 1972 I have met them have a picture on Letterman with my arm around Roger Nichols and am a .musician who has played with many people all that you know and my answer is: All of them including all their solo albums
Brilliant thanks
Love these clips
I love kid Charlemagne but startet 1986 with Donald Fagen the night fly!
I love Donald’s voice it swings like a guitar
Put on a copy of "Aja" in the background. No, no, no. All of SD's albums require you're undivided attention.
Love it but you left out a great one. They are at the mixing board, Donald says something like, "That was when I was in my Ethel Merman mode."
Becker quips, "Yeah, that was a fertile period."
He says “that’s when I was signing a little like Jerry Lewis remember that?”
The funniest stuff they ever did are the liner notes on the early 2000s reissues of all their albums before Two against the world. Autobiographical and hysterical, they are real gems.
Merci beaucoup à vous et Aja est mon album préféré comme beaucoup de fans français de ces deux musiciens géniaux au second degré ! La série Breaking Bad les a cités c'est vous dire ! 🙏
9:33 the song is called godwhacker
How is it that Steely Dan is the back-up band to the Eagles on tour? I don't get it. Steely Dan is an elite group with a collection of amazing albums and music. Even though Walter has passed, Steely Dan should always be the lead group in any public appearance.
Exactly how I felt about Toto opening for Journey this year. I was ready to leave 2 songs into the “headliner” set.
Quote - (Denny Dias) "........it's highbrow, intellectual humour. You don't get any fart jokes...."
Except "Fire in the Hole" maybe
Great job
Favorite Steely Dan Album ? All of them ! Especially the one with Reeling in the Sheeves on it .
yo! where is the award acceptance where they took questions frkm the audiance!?!
Thank you
Great video thanks I love Royal Scam I guess being a Dead Head Kid Charlemagne about Owsley
How do you pick a favorite album? But c'mon, "Can't Buy A Thrill" is just an amazing collection of fantastic songs.... such a variety of styles...