WHO Played The SOLO That Jimmy Page Called "12 out Of 10"? (On Steely Dan-"Reelin' in The Years")
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2022
- Jimmy page called it a "12" out of 10! The fantastic story of how this solo became one of our favorites in the history of rock music. It's the solo on Reeling
In The Years by Steely Dan
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Tim is so humble, and you don't realize what a master he is until he picks up the guitar.
You mean when he plays? Isn’t that kind of the only way to tell?
Love it ❤!!!
No one makes me happier to play along than Tim. What a guy. What a player. Thank god for Tim.
Agreed
God, not "god".
No doubt!
@@ChrisPBacon3000 thank god for Tim!
@@AJ-xx5ik God
That’s solo is so far above the norm it slips into your consciousness it’s truly sublime
There are numerous amazing solos in Steely Dan songs but this one, just gets you on the first listen.
Yes, Steely Dan got the best studio players together and ran multiple versions until it was perfect. Amazing on every level, writing, singing, playing, and producing. But I agree, this one plus the Larry Carlton solos (plural) are at the top of my list. As much as I love the Carlton solos, this is THE one that blows your head off, as you said, on the first listen.
I knew this was Jimmy Pages' favorite, I am amazed how well you can play it. Very cool, thank you
Not close, but fun to listen to either way:)
@KamakaziOzzie close enough to be one of the best session players in history.
Let's hear yours!@@kamakaziozzie3038
It's so hard to tell if Tim's playing is better than his storytelling. Both are way ahead of most of us! Thanks for all these videos you make!
Steely Dan is just mind-blowing. I remember listening as a kid and not understanding why I loved it. Then, I studied as an adult. It's just phenomenal. ❤
The first time I heard that solo I was a Steely Dan fan. They only got better. Tim is also a treasure.
Always loved that solo and I remember freaking out when I learned it was just improvised on the spot
That's a killer album, would love to go back to those days such great memories, nice video!!!
Tim, you're so dang good and you play with such joy, an inspiration to all musicians, thanks man.
Totally. A guitarist who uses his pinkie? He must be over 35...)) Tim is fast and clean, without all the shredding nonsense.
Elliot Randall had such an interesting and impressive career as a session musician. Can't believe all the work he turned down. He knew where he was going and was confident in that. I admire his work.
Randall's Island
Lima Ohio 1967?
This has remained one of my all time favorite songs throughout my entire life. Such a well crafted masterpiece. From start to finish, it is an incredible piece of music. 👌
I was working for Independent studios on Colfax next to the LA river in 72+. This guy with salt and pepper hair came in where the demo band I was rehearsing with was. He was listening for a long time. He talked to me and wanted me to do a movie score for him (just the guitar {I could have done it by the way, but for a car accident I was in that damaged every vertebrae and disc in my neck}). It was Roger Corman. He got some guy named Larry. Larry was very good. Life is full of weird twist of fate. It my favorite solo also.
That PRS sounds so crisp and chunky (technical terms...)! Such transparency. And, of course, in the hands of a master.
I read an interview many many years ago with Jimmy Page where he talked about this song. To be exact, it was the second solo in the song that he was fascinated with, and he called it the perfect guitar solo
Thanks, I did not know that. The best thing about your comment is it gives me another excuse to listen to this song all over again, for about the millionth time.
I think of Tim smiling when I’m playing now .. his smile reminds me to enjoy what I’m doing ! Thank you
Tim !
Great video- thank you Tim. Steely Dan is one of my favorite bands they have so many great songs it’s really incredible. All from about a ten year period from 1972-82. Superior musicianship, great lyrics and funky virtuoso vibes all around. From their New York riots to moving out to California, ....Fagan, Becker, Baxter, Dias, et al.
Hey Tim. Found you on Beato...I don't play guitar but you discuss all my favorite solos and man can you play!! Really enjoy the videos. I am too old to learn guitar but would love to try one day if I am still breathing!
Elliott recently said, in an interview with John Beaudin, that Denny played the harmonies and that-yes-the SVT was the only amp available at the time.
Great! Thanks
Don't forget "My Old School" !! That's one of my all time favorite Steely Dan and "guitar lead" songs of all time !!
Mine as well.
"Bodhisattva" - epic.
Even as a drummer I F’N love this! My fav as well. Could listen to it for forever. Thanks TP for this. At 55 I can still appreciate this after 1000’s of times hearing it, esp when you play it too! So pretty and melodic.
Tim is always amazing in his explanations and his incredible playing and of course his love and enthusiasm for music in general. He’s a true master.
Reach the Beach by The Fixx.. Wow, loved the guitar tone on that record. Jamie West-Oram, IIRC.
Loved that whole album
I did NOT know this. Very cool. Steely Dan is, for me, a band that I didn’t get until the last few years. Like Steve Vai, they just went over my head, I think. Amazing how much I missed out on, knowing “all” 😂 as I did when I was younger.
Great playing, Tim, and the connection between Jimmy Page and Elliott Randall goes back nearly six years before the recording of "Reelin' In the Years." On Dec. 4, 1966, The Yardbirds played at Lima, Ohio's Springbrook Gardens Teen Club (you can Google the show poster), a venue just 20 miles east of my parents' farm. I was 15 and hoping to see both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page that day, but Beck was a no-show. He had returned to London after becoming upset with conditions on their U.S. tour, so all of us had to settle for Jimmy Page solo. What I didn't know until 50 years later from watching a UA-cam interview was that 19 year-old NYC native, Elliott Randall (then a guitar teacher at Lima's Custom Percussion Music Store), also attended that show and introduced himself to Page. In Aug. of 1972, Randall would play the lead solos on "Reelin" that Page famously said made him rethink his whole approach to guitar solos.
Super story. Thank you
Great story, thanks
@@stigmontgomery7901 Another future Steely Dan session guitarist, Rick Derringer, was also playing regularly in western Ohio back then with The McCoys ("Hang On Sloopy"). I saw them in the fall of 1965, and now I wonder if Derringer and Randall ever met up in the mid-60s. They both would audition for the lead guitar solos on Steely Dan's "Peg" in 1977, but lost out to Jay Graydon's performance.
Man… that smile when you play touches my heart.
Is it just me or was this one of Tim's coolest jams?
Ahh, Reelin' In the Years. It's always been my favorite guitar solo, too. I first heard it on my little crystal AM radio with a single earpiece that I'd secretly listen to far past my bedtime. I didn't even realize it was Page's favorite solo until a number of years ago and I was thinking about the song, solo, and Elliot Randall, and I read it on Wikipedia, I think it was.
I've always been stunned by what some guys can come up with right out of the gate. Things I'd never think of in 100 years.
I did read in an interview, I think in Guitar Player years ago, that the SVT was the only amp available at the time. One of my favorite solos too!
Growing up all I ever wanted and asked for at xmas time was an electric guitar which never came. My mother said she was saving my life. If my parents knew their good little Boy Scouts camping trip was in line at The LA Forum for 3 Days to see Led Zeppelin. I was 14. I still believe that was the best $8.75 I ever spent.
I never got that guitar I wanted so I took the safe road. You know the one where you become a dad at 15 and drop out of school and learn a trade (and how to be a parent). When I turned 21, the first time I could Legally drink in a bar was at a bar in Duarte Ca. VanHalen was playing. So, I'm 21 with 3 kids and no guitar and can't afford one. The Safe Road has become busy.
My first job I worked there 10 years. I ran 4 and 6 color printing presses. My career was good enough that my house guitars, basses' amps, fiddles, a flute, a clarinet, drums, horns, I encouraged them to play music but never forced them. I worked 80 hours a week just to live in SoCal Now I have a guitar and no time to pick it up. My 2 boys love going to rock concerts with Mom and Dad but no interest in playing. My daughter bless her heart, can pick up a piece of sheet music and play it on most any instrument. I'll tell ya sometimes I'm so proud of her and yet i want to smack that smug little look off her face when she tells me how easy it is.
A couple years ago I sold my Tattoo shop, and I bought a Gibson Les Paul Standard and a 2003 Fender with Tex-Mex pups and an Atomic Humbucker. I got a Marshall Origin 50, and the local milk truck driver sold me a 1970 Fender Twin Reverb Silverface. And a Hummingbird acoustic.
So, at 57, with my new tools I decide I want to learn Little Wing how hard could it be right? So, I ended on some guy's UA-cam channel where he was showing how to play it and he was explaining the chord progression and scales used with each chord simple right? It was an exercise in humility to say the least. Playing Smoke on the water wrong will do for now. I'm 60 now and like many people I found Rick Beato. His knowledge of music theory is light years ahead of me, but we are the same age and i like how he explains things. It's funny he had this guy on his show and I'll be damned it was that same guy I tried to learn Little Wing from was his guest. I've revisited Tims Little Wing lesson and I understand it a little better now. I also understand how talented Tim is. I have no need to be a rockstar but maybe if i can keep improving my neighbors might not hate me so much. Thank you, Tim,
Tim, Thanks for bringing this bit of wonderful history and amazing playing to our attention. Love your channel and I really enjoy it when you’re on Rick Biato’s channel.
I was just starting out playing guitar when a local friend of mine, Mike Guy (he was in his teens) was around and he played it pretty much note for note... Wayyyy before internet, and digital stuff. We grew up in Simi/Thousand Oaks. Mike went on to play professionally and I took other paths. Always wondered how he figured out those dang 'tough' songs.....Yes, Steely Dan, etc... the good ole days...! Kinda funny, my favorite solos for rock are this song and the song Tim Pierce played solo = Changes. Both of these are timeless.
Hey, another T.O. guy here! Our little valley was a boring place, but we sure made a lot of good music around here.
I knew a guy like that, the most naturally talented guitarist ever met in 61 years. . . he could hear a song at lunch and then after school pick up a guitar and play it! His name was Dominic Barela and I am certain he would've been a Satriani, or Vai, if he hadn't been killed by a freak accident at work when he was only 19 years old. . .
I drool with admiration when I watch you play. You’re so melodic and you chose your pathways around the fretboard with perfection. Thanks for so many great videos Tim.
This is one of the first difficult solos I ever learned, and mostly got, three or so decades ago. Stumbled into playing the interlude lick at the nut-end of the neck one day and figured it was time to tackle it. Tim really picks up the details and nuances better than I ever did. Bravo!
I've never seen anyone enjoy each note as much as you do.... even better... it's contagious.... !!!
Awesome Tim, Steely Dan has been one of my all time favorites. Playing guitar has always been a joy when exploring and especially figuring out the lead parts of "the Dan" music. I enjoyed the chords you use - giving an all different flavor.
I love following along with you. I learn so much. Thank you!
Tim my wife and I saw Steely Dan with Larry Carlton doing Royal Scam at The Beacon. Fabulous show! Loved the way way they started with a young lady coming out on stage with the Royal Scam album and placing it on a turn table and dropping the arm on to the record and the band began to play.
Chris, I was there for opening night when they played Aja. Fagan was getting sick and they cancelled a couple shows after it. The record starting and flipping is a story I still tell to this day. I believe it was named "Rent Party" tour. Prior to the show I went to the rock and roll hall annex and saw the
John Lennon exhibit. It was one of the most incredible days of my life.
That’s cool.
What a great show.
That’s cool.
What a great show.
That’s cool.
What a great show.
That’s cool.
What a great show.
I thank God for having been on Planet Earth in the 60s and 70s, just for the music. Thank you for this Video, Fantastic how you explain it to make it more understandable. Thank you again.
I live through you and Tom vicariously sometimes now. Thanks! You bring me joy.
Tim Pearce is such a gem just the most delightful guitar nerd on UA-cam . I have 3 guitars (A Strat a Les Paul and a Tele) and can’t play anything that makes any sense. I just like to look at them on the stands . However, I think it’s time to learn some Pentatonics starting with the master class for beginners. Well done Tim & very tasteful .
What a wanker wannabe !! 🤡 has 3 strats and hasn't even learn to play the Guitar yet.
Typical self-indulgent wiener with filthy money. Lol to your fakeness. Pff 😂😤
Wow! How cool to have 3 guitars & you can play anything that makes any sense. I'm nearly 71, can't play a note but when I hear Tim it makes me want to buy one too. Peace, love & health to you all.
lol your not alone
I quit guitar for 27 years. Since late 2019 I have been playing again. I always used pentatonics in the past. Trying to use the blues scales more these days. I didn't have a lot of money in the past, so now I'm making up for it. My collection is 16 guitars. This can become an addiction, also a safe investment
What an incredible song, solo and breakdown by Tim. Just a masterpiece.
Out of a whole raft of brilliant music from that era, my era when growing up, this is one of my absolute favourite songs. Must have worn out that album. Another fascinating video from Tim. Thanks!
Learned this years ago and play it at least once a week so I don't forget it and to keep my chops up.
The 2nd solo in the middle was killer, too!!! Don't forget that one...
So many great guitarists..Elliot, Dick Wagner,Steve Hunter…and Tim Pierce..🎸
Carlos?
It's refreshing to find that even a master like Tim Pierce has heroes of his own.
Great stuff Tim bringing your variations and stories on this masterpiece for us
Thank you Tim, this was fabulous......I was working a summer break job when suddenly this song came on the radio that was playing loud in the warehouse hand bombing boxes off and on shelves. WTF was that!? That guitarwork...brilliant! The DJ did not mention name of the band. I was blown away by it. Did not come on again when I was listening in the week after. Went to all local record stores to find it, was not easy at first as all I could remember was a title I assumed was Reelin' in the years. There was no 45 single available yet, but my search ended at the Free Record shop (long gone) where a music buff behind the counter pointed me to Can't buy a thrill. Sold from that moment, fan for life with The Royal Scam an absolute master piece, my favorite, but in all honesty, there is not a single weak album by this best of bands.
A great story. Always a pleasure watching you play. The joy shows.
A genuine thank you for showing us all how beautiful and simple some of our songs were back in the day. I love playing them.
Great one, Tim, one of my all-time favorite solos and song. Thanks.
What a monster assembly of guitarists who played on this song from Becker/Fagan. We are blessed by the monster guitarist Tim Pierce. Thanks for helping us play correctly, and making it fun
(Kurtiss)
Always so tasteful, love the sheer joy of playing you radiate, thanks for keeping it fun.
I have also heard Jimmy Page, Chet Atkins and a host of others (I think even Vernon Reid) refer to Amos Garrett's brilliant solo on Midnight at the Oasis also a favorite solo. It is like some anti-gravity, river running backward stuff. Love to see someone pay homage to it. Really enjoyed your video and your jam track was stellar.
Ooooh nice call
That Midnight At The Oasis solo is pure genius. Such a beautiful song.
YESS!
I have read the same over the years. It is a brilliant lead by Amos. Tim, you have got to alert your audience to that gem. I was born the year it came out and my father asked me if I could play it. There is only 2 versions on UA-cam that capture the magic.
Chet Atkins told Johnny Carson when asked what guitar players he liked and he said Midnight at the Oasis...Wow!!! That pretty much sums it up when Chet weighs in.
Mr. Pierce Sir, you have truly received a gift from God. You have mastered your craft, or gift. The proof is that you can not only duplicate what you hear, you can communicate it to others so they too can develop their own gifts. Keep doing what you do.
Always been one of my favorite solos too. I also remember thinking it would be impossible to learn because it's so many notes. Really cool to see you play it Tim...🎸
I swear, every video you put out is so damn inspirational. Every time I think your playing can't get any better, you supremely prove me wrong, and I LOVE IT! Great stuff Tim, great stuff. Thank you.
What a great video Tim thanks for sharing. You fair get the tones flowing. Now that's a gift I believe. Considering all the guitars, pedals, amp's to choose from. +1 👍🥃Respect to you mate.
Brilliant video!!! Again!! Yeah, AGAIN!!
I saw the Fixx several times touring English colleges and I really liked the guitarist, he was using an ibanez roadstar through a Marshall half stack, it had a real thump to the sound, I can't say I saw a jazz chorus live. Love Steely Dan, more please!
Underrated guitarist. I saw em in Atl a few weeks ago.
I knew his first name was Jamie, but had to look up his West-Oram last name. He's such a good rhythm player "One Thing Leads to Another" and "Saved by Zero" were alot of fun to cover back in the day. He was playing a Marshall half stack? Hmmm for those two songs I'd say need a Roland jazz chorus would be good but he obviously made it work.
Joe Satriani has mentioned that he is super good and can really burn ,but you don't get to hear him do that with the fix,but his guitar parts are very good and pretty high praise when Satriani mentions you!!
Tim, I enjoy your playing and your grin while doing so!
I read an interview with Elliott Randall recently, and he said on the day he recorded that solo he came in cold, not having heard the song, read the lyrics to get an idea what he could play to complement the song, and just went for it. I think he perfectly captured the emotional feelings of the storyteller. What an amazing solo, and it has been my favorite since it was released way back when.
John, you've essentially captured the Elliot Randall story. As Tim mentioned, Elliot laid this iconic riff/solo down in one take. Talk about "dialed in"!!
Randall hadn't even heard the song?? Holy Christ I was impressed enough with his solo before but that is the definition of cold killer perfection! Wow. But he did read the lyrics so...always good to know the lyrics going in for sure. He is a legit genius no doubt!
Love that guitar solo ever since first heard when I was 11. years old. Remember a friend of mine would come over when we would listen to music and always play air guitar together. This was a favorite popular on the radio at the time.
Thank you Tim for all these videos and thank you for all of the amazing music you have given us. I cannot believe that I did not know that all of the great guitar playing that I have loved for so many years all came from one man.
So cool that you are able to show us how those runs are done, add theory on some of the notes relationship to the chords, and then provide history of the actual session! This video was like a Thanksgiving Dinner, thank you for putting it together!
I remember hearing this song on the radio when I was still playing with GI Joe and Tonka Trucks. . . I think that is where my love for the sound of electric guitar started. . . no other songs of that era (that I knew of) had as beautifully arranged melodic and magic axework as this one. . . It seems that the guitarist I admire the most kinda liked it too. . .
Oh my God that is so smooth and beautiful I haven't seen somebody play that in front of my eyes since 1985 from my guitar teacher Eric Anderson. God has blessed you with Talent
Great job Tim. Steely Dan is one of my favorite all time bands. I don't play anymore but I always appreciate good music and musicianship.
I love Tim Pierce!
So glad that I found this channel.
As soon as he plays guitar he has this joyful smile and it is infectious…….
Hey Tim, I was there at the Universal for SD's request night. Larry was there for that one as well and he did command respect like you said. It was a magic experience. Great videos Tim.
I love Steely Dan. Wish I had the knowledge of guitar to play em all. Thanks for presenting this Tim. Always great to hear you play.
I keep coming back to this video. Love the whole thing but from mid way on you just knock it out of the park. Incredible Tim!!
This one has stuck with me since I first heard it as a child in the 70's - very special! All the best to you!
That was really fun,thank you so much.
Thanks, Tim, This is one of those cuts that the first time I heard it in the early 70's I stopped whatever it was I was doing to check it out. It was one of those "Damn, where did that come from" moments. Still enjoy it.
Tim, this is awesome. Amazing analysis and storytelling. I would love to hear some stories about Mike Landau in the studio if you have any to share! Regardless, keep up the great work!
Steely Dan has always blown me away
Ah yes - the great Skuck Bankster...classic 🙂Great as always, sir! Thank you.
❤soooooo glad this came up..love your channel Tim
Great post, Tim. I learned in under 20 minutes the answers to questions held by many who study why things are the way they are, whether of music, philosophy, or religion.
I don't know why but this song always reminds me of traveling down the road. Thank you, Tim, for the beautiful memories and the beautiful playing.
Thanks Tim for explaining this. Would like to see more of these type of vids.
Cool! One of my favorites too. Only difference is that I still can't play! I had a guitar teacher once who told me something about the solo parts of "My Old School ". He said that the others were spuring on him during the second part where he put some
grease on it! All that stuff has stuck with me forever. Finally have some time to play now at 65. Gonna have to sign up for your classes. Better late than never! I really enjoy your playing and input. Thanks.
Tim, another two thumbs up, hats off video, with such inspirational playing, thank you for being there and doing all this work for us in UA-cam land :) BTW, I LOVE those backing tracks you are mellowing on :) can we get a copy anywhere??? I bet I'm not the only one wanting to jam on this .....
Always knew that solo was awesome!!! absolutely one of my favs of all time!
This is one of my favourite solos as well. Although I played Reeling in the Years in cover bands I never really played the solo note for note but Tim’s analysis is great and the double stops at the end are just brilliant!
I’d just like to add that I love Tim’s guitar sound on this post.
Informative and inspiring
fantastic. I'll be watching this many times.
“Burning for you” by BOC is another example of rock solo going from single note, to chordal and back, masterfully, ….a simpler tune, but a mix of elements too….not so much major to minor, but a nice progression
Jimmy has made some very positive comments about Buck Dharma, with his unusual style and unique solos.
Buck Dharma has some amazing leads too. He doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Buck is a master who seems to always fall under the radar when people are discussing guitar greats.
The build on Astronomy is a masterclass too. It has a true vocal quality to it.
Could listen to Donald Buck playing anytime. Underrated surely. Or not rated at all. Ain't it a shame.
What a GENUINE PLEASURE to hear ( WATCH!!) You play this one of My absolute favoriteS! CHEERS for another wonderful analysis!😊
I have always judged this to be my favourite solo of all time. It’s beautifully melodic, it never overtakes the song itself and I just can’t imagine anything better in its place. I heard years ago that it was a one take shot, which blew my mind.
Tim - Just want you to know how inspiring you are when you play with such joy! Whenever i get in a rut, I go watch one of your videos and i feel 500 lbs lighter… you are a treasure
You're right that is a killer solo I've always loved that song it's sort of reminds me of the days when Greg Alman was with us. He was very unique and smooth like that. Some great stories today too Tim thanks
All the solo parts are just so singable , so memorable magic!
@TimPierseGuitar love what you do thanks
Fantastic Tim! Love the stories behind the songs
The best storyteller on youtube. Love it.
thank you mr pierce for all you an family do. your huge inspiration .
I love watching you play!
Watching Tim play this is just awesome!!! AWESOME!! And the overall story detail is monster as well!! Did I mention the tone? I know, no need!
If you can, find a copy of "Randall's Island" and give it a spin. Elliott's playing shines.
As always, thanks you Tim for pulling a great player into the light with such passion.
Always entertaining. Never boring. Much respect Tim...