The Kid Charlemagne referred to in this song was my old friend Bear. I remember his four way windowpane in the early 70’s was kitchen clean. I met him on Grateful Dead tour 55 years ago and remained friends. He became a silversmith later in life and made belt buckles for me and my wife. He was killed in a car accident in Australia a decade or so back. Still miss him. His life is worth exploring. He was Owsley Stanley and he was one of the coolest cats to breathe air.
Wow, Captain, that's one of the coolest posts I've seen on a Steely Dan reaction!! My question to you comes from the angle that, despite the fact that it seems really cool to have one of the great songs of all time written about him, what did 'Bear' think about this tune??! Did you ever talk about it?
"Kid Charlemagne" tells the tale of the rise and fall of Owsley Stanley, sound engineer for the Grateful Dead and LSD chemist extraordinaire. His practice of recording the Dead while they practiced and performed led to the formation of the taping and sharing ethos among their fans and that ethos inspired the open source software movement. The Dead called him Bear and the dancing bears motif commonly seen on their merchandise is an homage to him and his LSD blotter art.
The funk is in the bass and drums. The jazz is in the keys, harmonies and chords. The rock is in the guitar. I forget how stellar this record is until I hear it again.
The fact that so many reactors are shocked to hear the original, tells me that rappers are not being forthcoming enough about where their samples come from
@@destinyreelly2974 I recall vividly back in the 1970s and 1980s when I used to buy vinyl records. The first thing I'd do when I got the record home was read all the liner notes.
Larry Carlton on guitar, Chuck Rainey on bass ... and shuffle king Bernard Purdie on drums. Michael McDonald, Venetta Fields, Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews on backing vocals.
An all-star group. I used to think I was a bass player and I've had the honor of meeting Chuck Rainey a couple times. He is a master of the instrument.
@@mikegoodwin2386 Rick Beato does a great interview with Chuck. Actually, I think he's interviewed everyone who ever played with Steely Dan. Individually and in small groups.
All monsters in their trades. Can you even imagine being in the studio when these people were laying down tracks? And to this kill song? I can't. I'd be passed out.
Dude! I've been following you thru your journey of listening to the greatest band of my lifetime. Steely Dan. I fell for there music, when they realesed their first album "Cant by a thrill". It is a big thrill to watch the real and honest reactions to everyone of their songs. Buckel-up my friend, you have barely scratched the surface of this incredible, dynamic collection of musicians. Everyone that performs on their records is top of the class. Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie - wow drummers. Carlton on guitar with Parks, Derringer and on and on. The backup singers are my dream I always wished would back me up lol. I am 80 years old and I want to die with Steely Dan playing my death march. I look forward to joining with you on your journey thru the stax of music these rascals have released on the world. There are so many to recommend, how about we start with "Hiatian Divorce", or "Babylon Sisters". Have a great ride thru the archives of wonderment. 🎸🎸
I was just listening to 335 today during my walk! (We are having great weather here in Maryland). I went to college in California and Aja was all the rage. I was fortunate enough to see Larry Carlton at the Baked Potato. He was great and really friendly. It was the closest thing to seeing Steely Dan live at that time
@lla788 I'm from LA and went to college in No Cal., Humbolt State. Sheer luck, I went to school with Jeff Porcaro and his brothers, most of Toto. I saw Jeff play at the Baked Potato a few times and at the old Donte's in North Hollywood. Met Larry C. when I saw him play with my old schoolmate Steve Lukather in Seattle. What a world!
That was such a fun reaction. That Baseline just Cooks but really it's the jigsaw puzzle of the whole band putting it all together and the vocal delivery and the lyrics and the harmonies and how danceable it is. Never get tired of hearing it. I'm glad you keep checking their stuff out!❤
I don't have a fav Steely Dan song, but if I had a top 10 then this song would never not be in it. Once you get past the Kayne aspect you'll enjoy this record even more because it's absolute 🔥 in every aspect.
Yeah, the live version that is on "Alive in America" is slightly longer, and much better in my opinion. I'm not normally into live records, but the whole things slaps, they made slightly different versions of their existing songs, but they were all better.
Steely Dan are a genre by themselves. Great Reaction. The guitar solo from Don't Take Me Alive, is also performed by Larry Carlton. I've loved Steely Dan for 50 years. The white men on the streets is in reference to the change to cocaine from LSD.
Rolling Stone ranked Larry Carlton's guitar solo as the 80th in the top 100 guitar solos. Studied it for 3 weeks before I could pull it off. It has long been forgotten, eroded by time and arthritis.
There are lots of "Rap Fan Reacts" channels out there,and it blows my mind,that after being exposed to REAL music, you guys don't say: "i don't know how I could of been so brainwashed to believe that disgusting noise was music". But no, to a man, you still regard it as having some sort of value! ABSOLUTELY MINDBOGGELING !!
That's from the Royal Scam album. The guitarist is Larry Carlton - a great jazz player and studio cat - and he's all over the album. The Royal Scam is probably SD's best guitar album. I think the solo is one of the best, if not the best, guitar solo ever recorded. The sound and note choice are second to none. Owsley Stanley was, as you read, an acid chemist. He was also a rich kid. Between family money and what he made from his LSD production, he ended up bankrolling and sort of managing the Grateful Dead in the early years, and eventually became one of their sound engineers.
This is among their 10 best songs imho, although their whole discography is filled with gems like this one. But you should try "Your Gold Teeth I" and "Your Gold Teeth II". Super funky and groovy, but also jazzy. One of their grooviest tracks is "Time Out of Mind" though, also super smooth and groovy, and like Kid Charlemagne, about the drug culture in the 70's.
Owsley Stanley was a chemist/Inventor that made the best and cleanest mind altering substance you could buy. He was Grateful Dead's sound engineer, He invented and financed their "Wall of Sound" sound system!!! It will blow your mind!!! look it up!!! The Grateful Dead lived in LA for a short time and sold Owsley acid in the parking lot of "Canters Deli" on Fairfax in Los Angeles!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
Larry Carlton on the guitar here. If you liked the guitar on this one and thought it stole the show, then you would likely really enjoy Don't Take Me Alive. Another great guitar performance by Mr. Carlton that truly steals the show. Great reaction!
So funny watching to think everything we all have about trying to describe them and then say basically, "It doesn't really matter what you call it or how you describe it, it's Steely Dan."
Funk Jazz Rock Fusions were wildly brewing up in the mid 70s ,,Steely did not invent it but they added a lot to it ...The Boston Rag is a great one to chek out
There's more to the back story of this song The guy actually made the LSD for the grateful Dead... And the gas in the car thing is really these guys got pulled over because they ran out of gas and got busted....
Steely Dan are heavily sampled but they did plenty of “sampling” themselves. Listen to Steely Dan’s Riki Don’t Lose that Number, then listen to Horace Silver’s Song for my Father. Listen to Steely Dan’s Gaucho, then listen to Keith Jarrett’s As Long As You Know You’re Living Yours. Sampling is a part of all musical traditions.
As long as an artist receives the proper permissions to sample a song, I think it's fine. Like according to WhoSampled, Steely Dan has been sampled almost 200 times, Billy Squier has been sampled over 300 times. If it wasn't for Eminem sampling "Zombie" by The Cranberries (In Your Head) or "The Stroke" by Billy Squier (Berzerk), I wouldn't found one of my favorite bands.
You should also check out stuff like Pages (debut self-titled album is fantastic), also for some of the dudes who play on Steely records check out jazz man Michael Franks from the 70s who used the cream of the crop of session guys and he has such a unique voice himself. Naturally, Earth, Wind & Fire 70s stuff, Rotary Connection with band leader the amazing Charles Stepney. Joni Mitchel and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, America, Leroy Hutson, Leon Ware, Gino Vannelli albums from the 70s. Mark GV - Reference Point
I've enjoyed watching you on this journey so much. I don't think you've gotten anything off their album Countdown to Ecstasy> That has some great songs including Showbiz Kids and King of the World, but my favorite, and imho the best guitar solo on a Steely Dan album is on their absolute jam, My Old School. Please check that one out soon!
You still have another 25 + great songs by them to hit. Great call on the guitar solo this solo is known as their best and one of the best of all time.
You’ve been playing some great hits from the older albums but I NEED you to check out more stuff from their last 2 albums since they’re severely overrated. You gotta check out Jack of Speed from Two against Nature, it got me into steely Dan as a high school freshman in 2010. The whole album is easily in the top 3 of their discography
I used. to live in Ousley's house in in SF the song references 2 iterations. of communal living after Ousley. 1st block of stiener st. in the duboce triangle. "i think the people down the hall know. who you are".
It's near impossible to assign a genre to Steely Dan. They menl several elements if music in most of their tracks. They are a unique blend of jazz, funk, soul, and rock harmonies, and complex song lyrics. At times their lyrics are cryptic and open to interpretation. Thanks for reacting to the Dan. BTW.... what ya think about the Larry Carlton guitar solos ? Take care P.S. Owsley was an underground folk hero, revered throughout the counterculture for making the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture.
@@pixelrancher Thanks for your post. Owsley was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to three years in jail. I was in the US Army from 1967 to 1970. I moved to the San Francisco Bay area to go to college on the G.I. Bill. There were a lot of stories floating around about him and his "chemistry" projects. Take care.
The SD song "My Old School" is a fun radio staple. I think you'd dig it and I don't believe you have reacted to it yet. O e if my favorites. Also "Don't Take Me Alive" has a cool vibe to it.
Tales of the brilliant Owsley Stanley, sound engineer extraordinaire (Grateful Dead Wall of Sound!), master chemist responsible for the purest, strongest LSD made. Very interesting cat! The song is full of references to Owsley and his trade!
If you're interested in hearing some of their newer stuff, I think you'd really like "Jack of Speed". Funky, groovy and super tight musicianship as always. Their music is always very clean sounding, and this is right up there with the best of them.
When you can’t create new, pretend and the kids will think you are a genius. This is why we “oldster originals” do not like nor do we listen to rap. It is our music recycled into noise. Sorry but it’s the way we feel. “Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby….”.
Just my opinion: I've never liked rap mainly b/c of sampling. The utilization of sampling does not introduce the original music/artists to a new audience of listeners. It makes listeners think the tunes they're using are original. Most people don't research music/artists they listen to. Why would they, unless they are curious enough to know? If you're hearing a song for the first time you probably wouldn't think to question how it came to be.
I once saw a guy in the city wearing a t-shirt with the text 'is there gas in the car...yes there's gas in the car' - it made my day.
The Kid Charlemagne referred to in this song was my old friend Bear. I remember his four way windowpane in the early 70’s was kitchen clean. I met him on Grateful Dead tour 55 years ago and remained friends. He became a silversmith later in life and made belt buckles for me and my wife. He was killed in a car accident in Australia a decade or so back. Still miss him. His life is worth exploring. He was Owsley Stanley and he was one of the coolest cats to breathe air.
What fantastic memories.❤
Wow, Captain, that's one of the coolest posts I've seen on a Steely Dan reaction!! My question to you comes from the angle that, despite the fact that it seems really cool to have one of the great songs of all time written about him, what did 'Bear' think about this tune??! Did you ever talk about it?
Wait. Your friend was "Bear," or Owsley Stanley?
Not enough cap😅
@@captainkangaroo4301 Orange Barrel
"Kid Charlemagne" tells the tale of the rise and fall of Owsley Stanley, sound engineer for the Grateful Dead and LSD chemist extraordinaire. His practice of recording the Dead while they practiced and performed led to the formation of the taping and sharing ethos among their fans and that ethos inspired the open source software movement. The Dead called him Bear and the dancing bears motif commonly seen on their merchandise is an homage to him and his LSD blotter art.
Kid Charlemagne: Unparalleled songwriting and performance!
The funk is in the bass and drums. The jazz is in the keys, harmonies and chords. The rock is in the guitar. I forget how stellar this record is until I hear it again.
What's your favorite song from The Royal Scam? Mine is a tie between Kid Charmaine and Don't Take Me Alive.
The fact that so many reactors are shocked to hear the original, tells me that rappers are not being forthcoming enough about where their samples come from
I miss liner notes😢 I read every word and always knew who wrote the songs. Those days are gone. 😢
@@destinyreelly2974 I recall vividly back in the 1970s and 1980s when I used to buy vinyl records. The first thing I'd do when I got the record home was read all the liner notes.
All the information is in the production notes
Sampling is lame.
@ I’ve never been a fan of it for this very reason. If it led to people listening to the originals, I might feel differently. 👊🏼
Larry Carlton on guitar, Chuck Rainey on bass ... and shuffle king Bernard Purdie on drums.
Michael McDonald, Venetta Fields, Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews on backing vocals.
An all-star group.
I used to think I was a bass player and I've had the honor of meeting Chuck Rainey a couple times. He is a master of the instrument.
@@mikegoodwin2386 Rick Beato does a great interview with Chuck. Actually, I think he's interviewed everyone who ever played with Steely Dan. Individually and in small groups.
@@mikegoodwin2386 He's right up there with Leland Sklar.
All monsters in their trades. Can you even imagine being in the studio when these people were laying down tracks? And to this kill song? I can't. I'd be passed out.
@@mikegoodwin2386 I'm still a bass player and I'm pretty damn good. But Chuck Rainey? Leaves us all in the dust just doing his JOB. Thanks.
You can't go wrong with steely Dan just keep going man loving it
Larry Carlton on guitar 🔥
Another gem. Some of the finest music ever produced. B&F are musical geniuses.
"Haitian Divorce" is a slammer!
"The Fez" is too...from the album The Royal Scam
Whole album
🎶No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on 🎶
Such a great song!
The whole album is phenomenal but my favorite is Don't Take Me Alive
Dude! I've been following you thru your journey of listening to the greatest band of my lifetime. Steely Dan. I fell for there music, when they realesed their first album "Cant by a thrill". It is a big thrill to watch the real and honest reactions to everyone of their songs. Buckel-up my friend, you have barely scratched the surface of this incredible, dynamic collection of musicians. Everyone that performs on their records is top of the class. Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie - wow drummers. Carlton on guitar with Parks, Derringer and on and on. The backup singers are my dream I always wished would back me up lol. I am 80 years old and I want to die with Steely Dan playing my death march. I look forward to joining with you on your journey thru the stax of music these rascals have released on the world. There are so many to recommend, how about we start with "Hiatian Divorce", or "Babylon Sisters". Have a great ride thru the archives of wonderment. 🎸🎸
Impeccable. Next from the same album, The Royal Scam (1976), Haitian Divorce. Gotta trust me on this one.
when i was first discovering SD, everytime i heard a new track, i said, this my new favorite lol
Larry Carlton making that 335 sizzle. This album is my favorite
Add Jeff Porcaro, you're in the room. Carlton's first album is spectacular, tour de force.
I was just listening to 335 today during my walk! (We are having great weather here in Maryland). I went to college in California and Aja was all the rage. I was fortunate enough to see Larry Carlton at the Baked Potato. He was great and really friendly. It was the closest thing to seeing Steely Dan live at that time
@lla788 I'm from LA and went to college in No Cal., Humbolt State. Sheer luck, I went to school with Jeff Porcaro and his brothers, most of Toto. I saw Jeff play at the Baked Potato a few times and at the old Donte's in North Hollywood. Met Larry C. when I saw him play with my old schoolmate Steve Lukather in Seattle. What a world!
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - Another radio hit if theirs to check out - thanks
"Is there gas in the car ?........….yes, there's GAS in the CARRRR....."
Forever quotable
CAREFUL WHAT - YOU CARRY
My favorite part to sing 💙
The best song about an acid cooker ever recorded!
That was such a fun reaction. That Baseline just Cooks but really it's the jigsaw puzzle of the whole band putting it all together and the vocal delivery and the lyrics and the harmonies and how danceable it is. Never get tired of hearing it. I'm glad you keep checking their stuff out!❤
I don't have a fav Steely Dan song, but if I had a top 10 then this song would never not be in it. Once you get past the Kayne aspect you'll enjoy this record even more because it's absolute 🔥 in every aspect.
The only thing wrong with this song is that the outro is about 5 minutes too short.
Yeah, the live version that is on "Alive in America" is slightly longer, and much better in my opinion. I'm not normally into live records, but the whole things slaps, they made slightly different versions of their existing songs, but they were all better.
And the Great Larry Carlton on Lead Guitar!!!! Crazy crazy good!!
Steely Dan are a genre by themselves. Great Reaction. The guitar solo from Don't Take Me Alive, is also performed by Larry Carlton. I've loved Steely Dan for 50 years. The white men on the streets is in reference to the change to cocaine from LSD.
A lot of music died when Rap was born
I stumbled on your channel and laugh so much thanks for that!
Keep the faith bro!
Rolling Stone ranked Larry Carlton's guitar solo as the 80th in the top 100 guitar solos. Studied it for 3 weeks before I could pull it off. It has long been forgotten, eroded by time and arthritis.
There are lots of "Rap Fan Reacts" channels out there,and it blows my mind,that after being exposed to REAL music, you guys don't say: "i don't know how I could of been so brainwashed to believe that disgusting noise was music". But no, to a man, you still regard it as having some sort of value! ABSOLUTELY MINDBOGGELING !!
Every song of theirs is like this. Perfection.
That's from the Royal Scam album. The guitarist is Larry Carlton - a great jazz player and studio cat - and he's all over the album. The Royal Scam is probably SD's best guitar album. I think the solo is one of the best, if not the best, guitar solo ever recorded. The sound and note choice are second to none. Owsley Stanley was, as you read, an acid chemist. He was also a rich kid. Between family money and what he made from his LSD production, he ended up bankrolling and sort of managing the Grateful Dead in the early years, and eventually became one of their sound engineers.
Suprise now check out BLACK COW 😅 you'll recognize that too
He already hit Black Cow
This is among their 10 best songs imho, although their whole discography is filled with gems like this one. But you should try "Your Gold Teeth I" and "Your Gold Teeth II". Super funky and groovy, but also jazzy. One of their grooviest tracks is "Time Out of Mind" though, also super smooth and groovy, and like Kid Charlemagne, about the drug culture in the 70's.
AGREE
Steely Dan is a great example of musical intelligence,..... They are not alone in that class,.....but they are a great benchmark. Constant quality.
Hey, MMB. I had a feeling you'd groove on that solo section. A masterpiece of a song, IMO. Thank you for your reaction.
Love
Steely
Dan
I see what you did there. Right on.
Fantastic reaction. The Dan unite us all
Owsley Stanley was a chemist/Inventor that made the best and cleanest mind altering substance you could buy. He was Grateful Dead's sound engineer, He invented and financed their "Wall of Sound" sound system!!! It will blow your mind!!! look it up!!! The Grateful Dead lived in LA for a short time and sold Owsley acid in the parking lot of "Canters Deli" on Fairfax in Los Angeles!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
My favorite Steely Dan song right here. Is there gas in the car?
Yes, there’s gas in the car!
@@wdrauch I think the people down the hall know who we are.
Yes there’s gas in the carrrr…
Larry Carlton on the guitar here. If you liked the guitar on this one and thought it stole the show, then you would likely really enjoy Don't Take Me Alive. Another great guitar performance by Mr. Carlton that truly steals the show. Great reaction!
So funny watching to think everything we all have about trying to describe them and then say basically, "It doesn't really matter what you call it or how you describe it, it's Steely Dan."
Funk Jazz Rock Fusions were wildly brewing up in the mid 70s ,,Steely did not invent it but they added a lot to it ...The Boston Rag is a great one to chek out
There's more to the back story of this song The guy actually made the LSD for the grateful Dead... And the gas in the car thing is really these guys got pulled over because they ran out of gas and got busted....
You should try Dr Wu next, it’s a masterpiece
“Show biz kids.”
A great song 😎
Steely Dan always be Jazz Funk and Rock ... with a good helping of some Blues. But always ... Perfection
Damn dude, that was a fantastic Kanye rendition. Gives me goosebumps seeing you make the connections.
Another great reaction. Well done!
Great reaction; Larry Carlton's guitar solo in this one is legendary.
Larry Carlton on that guitar, many, me included, best ever.
Great artist build off each other's work ❤
Steely Dan are heavily sampled but they did plenty of “sampling” themselves.
Listen to Steely Dan’s Riki Don’t Lose that Number, then listen to Horace Silver’s Song for my Father. Listen to Steely Dan’s Gaucho, then listen to Keith Jarrett’s As Long As You Know You’re Living Yours. Sampling is a part of all musical traditions.
Many SD Tunes are from real life happenings... This song is a perfect example.
PS: Have you looked up the origins of the words Steely Dan yet??
Larry Carlton on guitar… considered by many as the greatest solo ever!
And the outro is pure silk.
As long as an artist receives the proper permissions to sample a song, I think it's fine.
Like according to WhoSampled, Steely Dan has been sampled almost 200 times, Billy Squier has been sampled over 300 times.
If it wasn't for Eminem sampling "Zombie" by The Cranberries (In Your Head) or "The Stroke" by Billy Squier (Berzerk), I wouldn't found one of my favorite bands.
Windowpane. Wow. Haven't heard of that many years. That was a trip to the moon.
Owlsley Stanley was also the Grateful Dead's sound engineer
See Aye Hey!
You should also check out stuff like Pages (debut self-titled album is fantastic), also for some of the dudes who play on Steely records check out jazz man Michael Franks from the 70s who used the cream of the crop of session guys and he has such a unique voice himself. Naturally, Earth, Wind & Fire 70s stuff, Rotary Connection with band leader the amazing Charles Stepney. Joni Mitchel and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, America, Leroy Hutson, Leon Ware, Gino Vannelli albums from the 70s. Mark GV - Reference Point
I've enjoyed watching you on this journey so much. I don't think you've gotten anything off their album Countdown to Ecstasy> That has some great songs including Showbiz Kids and King of the World, but my favorite, and imho the best guitar solo on a Steely Dan album is on their absolute jam, My Old School. Please check that one out soon!
Owsley Acid!!!
"Is there gas in the cah? Yes, there's gas in the cah." Donald Fagen is a freakin' legend y'all.
You still have another 25 + great songs by them to hit. Great call on the guitar solo this solo is known as their best and one of the best of all time.
You’ve been playing some great hits from the older albums but I NEED you to check out more stuff from their last 2 albums since they’re severely overrated. You gotta check out Jack of Speed from Two against Nature, it got me into steely Dan as a high school freshman in 2010. The whole album is easily in the top 3 of their discography
Is there gas in the car, Yes there's gas in the car , OH one of my fav's . With about 39 more.
"Time out of Mind" on the Gaucho album - A must-listen.
Masterpiece
I used. to live in Ousley's house in in SF the song references 2 iterations. of communal living after Ousley. 1st block of stiener st. in the duboce triangle.
"i think the people down the hall know. who you are".
kid charlamagne is Ousley, early LSD king.
now you got there. he was a major figure in the counter culture.
So if you can remember it were you really there?
@@davidryan7386 Owsley aka "Bear". Sound engineer for the Grateful Dead.
Kid Charlemagne (0wsley) was also the sound man for the Grateful Dead-
The guitar player is the wonderful Larry Carlton.
It's near impossible to assign a genre to Steely Dan. They menl several elements if music in most of their tracks. They are a unique blend of jazz, funk, soul, and rock harmonies, and complex song lyrics. At times their lyrics are cryptic and open to interpretation. Thanks for reacting to the Dan. BTW.... what ya think about the Larry Carlton guitar solos ? Take care P.S. Owsley was an underground folk hero, revered throughout the counterculture for making the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture.
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene,
But yours was kitchen clean.
Everyone stopped to stare at your Technicolor motor home.. (the LSD bus).
@@pixelrancher Thanks for your post. Owsley was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to three years in jail. I was in the US Army from 1967 to 1970. I moved to the San Francisco Bay area to go to college on the G.I. Bill. There were a lot of stories floating around about him and his "chemistry" projects. Take care.
@@raycewilliams3300 "Bear", of the Grateful Dead. Died in a car crash in Australia about a decade ago.
✌
Owsley led such a fascinating & crazy life. Only Becker & Fagen could write the perfect song about him.
The SD song "My Old School" is a fun radio staple. I think you'd dig it and I don't believe you have reacted to it yet. O e if my favorites. Also "Don't Take Me Alive" has a cool vibe to it.
Another song sampled (By Tupac) is Bruce Hornsby and the Range doing "The Way It Is."
Tales of the brilliant Owsley Stanley, sound engineer extraordinaire (Grateful Dead Wall of Sound!), master chemist responsible for the purest, strongest LSD made. Very interesting cat! The song is full of references to Owsley and his trade!
You be right on everything you say. One of a kind. Perfection - always
FINALLY!!!!
Steely Dan can't be put in a box, they were ahead of their time, and I have yet to find a song from them that disappoints.
Bernard Purdie on Drums and Chuck Rainey on Bass. It doesn't get much funkier than that.
This next aspect of SD that is in this groove, Peg.
The story behind the song, also good. LSD....etc....
If you're interested in hearing some of their newer stuff, I think you'd really like "Jack of Speed". Funky, groovy and super tight musicianship as always. Their music is always very clean sounding, and this is right up there with the best of them.
Another great song is “Riki Don’t Lose That Number”!
Not surprised the "cut and paste" generation doesn't realize how much is stolen--er 'sampled'. Gen Y and Z are the most uncreative gens we've had.
Chillax with Steely Dan !
Now you MUST finish the Royal Scam album!!
When you can’t create new, pretend and the kids will think you are a genius. This is why we “oldster originals” do not like nor do we listen to rap. It is our music recycled into noise. Sorry but it’s the way we feel. “Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby….”.
A good term to use for this type of song is FUNK ROCK!
Been waiting on this one 😅🤩🪄✨
I mean, does it really surprise you got the artists you like to listen to like to listen to the artists that you like to listen to?
Ice Cube sampled "Green Earrings" from the Royal Scam album.
My favorite would be Home At Last.
My favorite bands….
Beatles
Steely Dan
Talking Heads
😎👍
What do I want you to say?
Say that you surrender to the Dan. That they are the top.
Tuning in to see a Steely Dan reaction and being subjected to The History of Kanye West is a nightmare.
Night By Night banger too
HE'S ANOTHER RICHARD CRANIUM......GET IT LOL...
They are the truth.
One of your favorite Kanye West records, is barely Kanye. 😄
Just my opinion: I've never liked rap mainly b/c of sampling. The utilization of sampling does not introduce the original music/artists to a new audience of listeners. It makes listeners think the tunes they're using are original. Most people don't research music/artists they listen to. Why would they, unless they are curious enough to know? If you're hearing a song for the first time you probably wouldn't think to question how it came to be.
I keep hoping your gonna do HOME AT LAST until I guess I'll keep requesting it
It's a rock shuffle.
You can probably tell by my screen name how I feel about Steely Dan.
Dont get much better.❤