Drummer reacts to "Reelin' in the Years" / "My Old School" (Live) by Steely Dan
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- A dose of double Dan for my Steely Sunday folks! And I finally get to see them live! What a performance man. The 70s were wild LOL
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Walter is on bass behind the girls. Most of the leads were Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...after a few albums w/ Steely Dan, he joined The Doobie Brothers. Denny Dias was the guitarist w/ the beard.
Walter is on the 2nd Telecaster, not the bass
Hate to tell you, but your wrong. Walter often played bass in live performances in the early days, and thats definitely Walter on bass.@@brianjones8751
Hate to tell you, but your wrong. Walter played bass on many of the early live performances and that is most definitely Walter playing bass on both of these videos.@@brianjones8751
@@brianjones8751wrong, Walter is on Bass
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The studio version of My Old School is the reason I became a SD fan. When it came out on the radio, I had never heard anything like it. //////Before then, I never realized songs were made by individuals playing instruments. (I was a jock) I bought the album and became a huge music fan and it turned me on to jazz and my life was transformed. I was a senior in High School when this came out.
Studio version guitar is so clean.
🎉 Class of ‘73‼️
This is fun to see but definitely check the studio versions. Especially on My Old School here we miss the horns blasting in.
Yes, there is a lot of really great horn play on the studio version of "My Old School".
The album version of this song is worth hearing - with Elliot Randall on guitar.
Oh I'm definitely gonna listen to the studio. But it was due time to see them live.
And the great horn arrangement, with, at one point, the whole section tumbling into the sea. 😂
Jeff Baxter is normally a monster but his Reelin solo is pretty lackluster compared to Elliot Randall. Jimmy Page said that Randall's solo was one of his all time favorites. It's kind of close in feeling to Page's Song Remains the Same workout.
That's Jeff doing the main lead. You need to look him up and see his other career. It's well worth the dive.
He was even a politician for a while!
When Steely Dan was still an actual band and not purely comprised of studio musicians. Denny Dias and skunk baxter on guitar was a killer combo.
Yes, listen to the studio versions as well, they are amazing . This was a lot of fun. Diaz was the one with the full dark beard. Baxter was the blonde man going wild on guitar. Becker was there also, but not up front
Brings back memories of high school! I played Reeling in the Years, the studio version, in a guitar contest with my guitar teachers band playing backup. Jeff Baxter is not only an incredible and legendary guitarist but also became a consultant to the Department of Defense due to a paper he wrote on missile technology or something related.
I think he’s an astrophysicist, or some similar exotic education.
Baxter has been a consultant to the Department of Defense as well as related corporations like Northrup Grumman.
@@johndoe-gt6gp Brian May from Queen is an astrophysicist. Jeff Baxter was self-taught. He was always very interested in missile defense and gained all his knowledge through reading.
@@CharCanuck14 Thanks. I knew Brian May had gotten his doctorate in astrophysics. I thought Jeff had similar schooling. I guess I was a little confused about these geniuses.
@@johndoe-gt6gp "Genius" sure is the right word to describe those 2!
the band that musicians love and strive to be ..... welcome to one of the best!
Long hair, short skirts and fast cars...what a time to be alive, indeed. 🙂
And chicks with the see through halter tops
@@Richard2003 cute girls not covered by tats
Also, the Midnight Special is a treasure trove of 1970s music. In England there was a similar TV show - The Old Grey Whistle Test. Wonderful stuff available from both
Nice reaction :) Yes, you should definitely check out the studio versions of these songs! My Old School was missing the horn section :)
Listen to the studio version of My Old School, which has many horns and the best sax solo ever.
When they tour now they have a full brass section and the backup singers wear evening gowns \m/
It's great to still be alive! After the first 2 albums, I was all into SD, they were special, a real cut above the schlock in 1973.
Now imagine your high school friend being hired by SD to play drums and tour with them in 1974. And play on 2 songs from Pretzel Logic and of course, Katy Lied, the Nightfly, Gaucho.
My friend was Jeff Porcaro, and it really was a great time to be alive, fifty years ago.
Lee, I live for your steely Sundays! Never miss a Sunday! And you are so right, 1973, what a Time to be alive! I was 14 years old and always looked forward to the midnight special ! Just want you to know you are doing your fantastic job critiquing These songs. It warms my heart seeing you discover this music for the first time. Makes me smile. I might suggest you try the songs “ Black Friday “ and “ pretzel logic “. But to tell you the truth, there are no bad Steely Dan songs. Congratulations on your channel! So very happy for you!✌️❤️🎶🎸
Bryan I really appreciate that. I'm very glad you enjoy them! I certainly do as well 😀😀
just missed the live broadcast, but I'll write it here... the songs on countdown to ectasy are all great...so...any song'll do.
The first big hits, and a rare view of what SD were like as a live band. Donald is nervous as f*ck! 😄 Walter Becker is playing bass here. The guitarist in glasses is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, veteran LA session player who was part of SD until they retired from live work. He then went on to join The Doobie Brothers for their run of mid-late 70's albums. IMO this beats the studio version, despite the 'made for TV' sound mix (early 70's TV sound technology was nothing like it is today!). The energy of "My Old School" kicks butt over the studio version, so it's great that you got to see this. There's a bootleg of early SD live from London that sounds about the same as this.
L33: One might think that the Steely Dan players would travel in a whole different circle than the prog guys or the classic rockers, but as if to prove Louis Armstrong's adage that there's only two kinds of music - good music and bad music, it won't surprise you to know that on the 90s a tour of Japan was done by a band called The Best. The following were the band members: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers), Keith Emerson, Joe Walsh (James Gang, Barnstorm, solo), John Entwhistle (The Who) and Simon Phillips (Jeff Beck, Toto, Pete Townsend, The Who, Derek Sherinian) on drums. So yes - we DID have it good. Great fun to see them back in their early days as well as how much fun you're having. We had the shows and records, but you have RUclips and a soul to appreciate it!
My Old School was the 6th track on Countdown to Ecstasy, their 16th track overall including Can't Buy a Thrill. Although you don't see it on the Midnight Special live performance, it was their first track with a full R&B horn section. Yes, you have to listen to the studio version of both songs. That same attention to precision & detail shines through on their early work.
BTW, you absolutely have to catch their modern 13-piece live band when they come around, including one of THE best drummers you'll ever see & hear, Keith Carlock.
I’ve seen the twice live. Amazing. I was 24 in ‘73 it was a great time to be alive.
Yaaaay! Reelin' is my favorite since I was 14 in '72.
I was 12 in 72 . Yes yes yes. I loved growing up in 60s 70s 80s.music explosion 💥
1973...graduated high school that year.... appropriate song for that year
The guitar solo on the original recorded version, by session player Elliott Randall, was recorded in one take. It has reportedly been rated by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page as his favorite solo of all time. I know this because we all worked with Elliott many times in NYC(he never wanted to be in a band despite offers from the Dan,Doobie Bros,Blues Bros and any more.
He is now based here in the Uk and l am pleased to say that Els is a friend of mine. He still uses the same modified Strat that he played on this track all those years ago..and he is a lovely guy.
Skunk Baxter, alongside playing in two great bands, also consults for Military defense Co,and the government having no formal training or Degrees.
My teenage years were throughout the 1970s and it WAS a great time to be alive, especially living in the Bay Area with any artist you could ever want to see just a 30 minute drive away in San Francisco, with Berkeley and Oakland even closer. I enjoy your videos because I find your perspectives on the music interesting. Your willingness to explore the “old stuff” is fun for me to experience along with you. You may not like something I’ve loved for decades but I feel you’re very fair. And lastly I have Mad Respect for you being so upfront about your sobriety. In fact along with today being my 66th birthday I’m also celebrating 2 weeks today of quitting smoking. Just by a casual mention of your sobriety reminds me that HEY…I totally can do this, cuz look at Lee haha! Sometimes support can come in a random way, out of the blue. So thanks!❤☺️
Great and one of their first big hits that has been played for decades on Fm radio in the NYC area. Jeff,’Skunk’, Bacter won an award for that guitar solo and My Old School might be my favorite amongst 20 more by Yhe Dan!Lee you need to react to the original recording on My Opd School!
the guitarist is Skunk Baxter. An awesome talent who actually since the 1990s is a nuclear specialist for Pentagon
Steely Dan was a band that didn't tour very much, so I didn't get to see them until 2000, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.. They played both of these songs, of course, with "My Old School" being the encore song. Just as they started to play "My Old School" it started to POUR, in a major way. We all exited about halfway through the song. BTW, the band Steely Dan is named after a sex toy.
My parents made me tag along with my sister when she went to her boyfriends house. As if I would intercede.
One night they wanted a bit of time alone so, Brent, her boyfriend, slapped on Countdown on the console in the living room. I even learned how to flip it. I played it about four times.
When they came back from his room and said it was time to go home, I said, 'But I'm not done."
Wonderful reaction. Steely Dan wasn’t known much for touring. Nice to actually see them perform live. Love “My Old School”.
Used to watch the Midnight Special every week
Yup. The studio version is effin’ fantastic, just like you say.
Yep. What a time to be alive. I was 17 in 1973. Best year for music ever, in my humble opinion.
That’s Walter w/the long hair and glasses. He was amazing.
the studio cut was done by elliot randall,i in one take. he was recording in the building, and stopped by and played the lead track.
Really great live versions, but listen to the studio versions when you get the opportunity. My Old School is my favorite Steely Dan song.
I love Steely Dan and Donald Fagan and have really enjoyed discovering you and your reactions. Thank you so much!
This band is such a gem. And it's a relief that talent has nothing to do with perfect looks. By the way, that Jeff Baxter, what a guitarist.
At one of his concerts, Frank Zappa once said: "Here's a message to all the beautiful people: Y'know, there are a lot more of us ugly motherf@%kers out there than there are of you."
Saw Skunk Baxter with the Doobies in 1976. He is amazing!
Jeff Skunk Baxter - killing it on the guitar - and protecting our country with his self taught expertise in defensive missle systems. You cant make this shit up.
There's a story behind "My Old School"..Should read about it.
one of the best lead guitar riffs
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter shredding, Walter way in the background, unobtrusively playing bass.
Walter was the cool one in the background, with the waistcoat on, playing bass. Reeling In the Years and My Old School my mate and I used to play when we ran our discos each week.... trying to keep the locals up to date with what was class music.... even thought the BPM was the same as other stuff that we played... no-one ever danced to it which was sad but c'set la vie.... Keep on Rocking young sir.
Screams the seventies, indeed. See the concept of pretzel logic... and how it's wrong. Great reaction as usual. :)
Rock on, Lee!
You need to listen to the studio version. Amazing mix. Skunk is legend. Same with My old School. Two of my favorite Dan tunes.
I now want to write a seventies tv detective series with those amazing background singers as the detectives. (taborines at all times, of course 🙂) Also, go Scunk Baxter ! Cheers, Lee !
Elliott Randall is the guitartist with the beard he wrote the riff in this song .
Wow! I don't think I've ever seen Steely Dan perform live, yet I've been a fan for over 50 years! Thanks so much!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it my friend! This was so cool to see them live. I'll go back and listen to the studio version but I couldn't pass seeing them live lol
Welcome to the 70s Lee. Midnight Special, Wolfman Jack, and the opportunity to see our favorite bands long before MTV and RUclips. And yes, My Old School has horns on the studio version, as well as the Skunk's crazy solos
BACK in the DAY, we never knew videos like this even existed. Now with You Tube we can see all the best stuff we missed. If you were lucky you would catch a show like this on Merv Griffin, or some other variety show. But that would be a fleeting moment cause you see it once and they did not do replays.
There's quite a lot of them live on RUclips John. Essentially, since reformation they've been a (magnificent) live band for the last 30 years, 2 LPs and a few solo LPs, aside. Don's voice isn't what it was (neither is my back!). I'm a fan too. I've only seen these 70s performances recently - a year later they stopped performing live (like the Beatles) for a couple of decades, to concentrate on kitchen-clean studio output.
Walter Becker is on bass, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Denny Dias on guitars. When they stopped touring the guitarists left and Walter began playing the guitar parts.
70's live materials. Production quality improves obviously in recent live shows 2010+, but great to see the early band.
Thank you for the Dan reactions! Such amazing music from them!... Only, I wish you would finish up the couple songs from the Royal Scam album. Unless for some reason, you can't, I Hope you will do GREEN EARRINGS and SIGN IN STRANGER (both really cool songs!) Thank you, once again.
The Midnight Special was awesome show. It came on about 1 am on the east coast.
Skunk was a madman on these. Blew the doors off it
Skunk is killin it!!!!!
Definitely play the studio version of both of these!
blond on lead guitar is Jeff Skunk Baxter...later with Doobie Bros and now is one of the worlds leading experts on ballistic missile defense for the US govt.
Have you reacted to The Stone Roses yet? They're from the late 80's/early 90's. As a drummer you will really appreciate "I Am The Resurrection". He beats the hell out of his drum set!
That was "Skunk " Baxster on guitar solo !!!!!
That was SICK!! I love those songs, of course, but I had not seen that Midnight Special live performance before. Awesome!
I can’t tell if that’s Elliott Randall or not, but he wrote the intro and solo…, which by the way Jimmy Page said was one of his all time favorites.
It was good to see it done live, hadn't seen it before this, they didn't play live very often.
Walter was playing bass baxter and Dias were guitars
This was super cool to see. The two guitarists they were mostly showcasing were Jeff Skunk Baxter with the long blond hair and Denny Diaz with the dark brown hair and beard. Walter was in the back. He also has long blond hair. They didn't show him much.
That was a great find. I have not seen that before. The studio versions sound much better but the live energy was a revelation!
Donald was extremely nervous here - he was barely getting up the nerve to sing Live on "Reelin'". The guitar solos was Jeff (Telecaster), Denny is the heavy one. Walter is behind the girls on bass. Looks like Film quality here, but the noise bars reveal it's actually recorded on TAPE!. Do yourself a solid and catch the studio recordings, too. Denny started the group but eventually got forced out. Don't forget RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER.
🎉Your next reaction to Steely Dan should be "FM(No Static At All)" Put out a poll and see what your Fam thinks!🎉🎉🎉 Great Reaction to this this song. Take care.
4:25 Walter Becker (far right)
Bearded guy: Denny Diaz
Glasses: Jeff Baxter
Steely Dan has a double cd " The Very Best of Steely Dan". It's 33 tracks & worth a listen
Steely Dan has 7 albums from 1972 - 1980. They have 62 tracks & worth a listen.
I only recently discovered what a great bassist Walter Becker was. For years I thought he only played guitar. That dude came from a rare breed; blessed with the gift of both highly advanced melodic sensibilities of a guitarist, but also the rhythmic intuition of a proper bassist. Finger player too; dude had technique. This man was a drummer’s dream.
You are absolutely right, what a time to be alive, livin in the 70s. From 12 to 21 I was truly blessed with the music, the vibe, the good people, the trancendant philosophy that reached over from the 60's hippy era. Nothing like it since. But there's some good news, it was just a taste, an entree to what's coming for the whole planet in this century, but exponentially better. You might get to see it, but not before a lot of trouble.
The kids of the 70s were visionaries. The 80's was the beginning of the Darkness before the Dawn!!❤🙏
My favourite Steely Dan album, Countdown to Ecstacy, had My Old School on it. And that sums up what the 70s was, A Countdown to Ecstacy 😍🤩😍
Fk'n awesome! That was a great performance, they are not known for liking to perform live. Great energy and outlook notwithstanding the political climate, probably in spite of it. Thanks LEE and picker!
Backup singers on the video looked like sisters!
Two of my top favs,Lee....thanks--You Rawk,brother! T
that,s walter on the AMPEG DAN ARMSTRONG PLEXYGLASS BASS.
That was so fun. And boy I was a little kid in the early seventies and I sure do miss halter tops, laugh. Sexy as hell.
Yeah man, you would totally dig the studio cut for both of these, it's got great clarity even for that early era. You can hear the bass and drums quite well although I didn't have any problem picking up the bass on this one for some reason, maybe my ears are just used to that kind of live mix from back then. But the studio cut also allows you to focus more on the lyrics, which are also really cool in both of these songs.
Oh halter tops.... lol. I wish. Glad you enjoyed Steve. I'm definitely checking out the studio versions. This was awesome to see!
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Awww dude! You guys makin' me remember halter tops! * sigh *
Yeah, those should make a comeback and get introduced to yoga pants! 😍
Walter was very subdued onstage when I saw them. Donald looks better now tbh.
Count down to ecstasy is a great CD
My dream job was to be a back up singer for Steely Dan or Elton John. I’d like to think I’m still too young for these bands at 55, but who knows?! 😂
Blonde guy with glasses is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter." He was also the lead guitarist for The Doobie Brothers. Guy is a special sort of guitarist. He was also a studio session guitarist for other artists records.
Got a chance to catch Skunk at the legendary (and tiny) Troubadour club in LA (ok, it might actually be West Hollywood) last year with his band while playing mostly his solo album stuff. I was not familiar with his solo album but it was good. Later in the show he threw in a few Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers tunes. He's such an incredible guitar player and yes, he still has his signature mustache.
Boy! this is as live as it can be! (lol) bad mix and all. But, they ARE in the zone!! And, Lee, yes, it WAS a great time to be alive!!
Steely Dan quit performing live early in their career. Donald and Walter essentially broke up the band and became a studio oriented duo who hired session musicians from album to album. Thats why there is so little live stuff of theirs to check out when they were young. Finish off Can’t Buy a Thrill and go straight to Countdown to Ecstasy.
Walter was always the 'noodler' and rarely played lead. It was a great time to grow up.
I have always thought that people should react to studio recordings to hear what bands actually want to produce, before looking at live shows which are different
Wow! Skunk Baxter looks so Young!
Probably because he was young back then.
I would be remiss if I didn't give kudos to Elliott Randall who played the guitar solo on the studio version, cited in many surveys as the best rock guitar solo ever. It has been reported that it's Jimmy Page's favorite.
skunk has the glasses,denny,the beard.
Love Steely Dan and Midnight Special. I was 11 when this came on. Glad I got to see them back in the 90's. I'm on the back cover of their "Made in America" album.
One of the reasons you can't hear the bass and drums very well is because it's 70s television.
This song is referring to a "drug bust" at The Old School during the beginning of "The War on Drugs", think Nixon, and G. Gordon Liddy/Daddy G
I really wish I could impress upon reviewers the importance of first experiencing the source material before venturing into the live interpretations. Particularly when it comes to Steely Dan. They are first and foremost a studio creation.
This is the first time I've ever done a live steely dan video. It'll be ok. I listened to the studio versions as well.
@@L33Reacts please forgive an old mans outburst. These guys have meant so much to me over the course of my 72 years, that I get a bit protective.
If "Describe 1973" was the midnight school assignment, this is spot on.
This looks like fun! I always regretted not making it to a Steely concert. What was I thinking? Somebody SLAP me!
I watched Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert on late night TV in the mid-1970s many times, but don't recall ever seeing them live on the boob-tube.
I had a little black& white 13" television in my bedroom and hard-wired some headphones and a little toggle switch to it so I could select the 'phones or the TV's little speaker so I could listen to it loud at late night without waking anyone when it came on. They didn't call it MIDNIGHT special for nothing. ;-)
awesome throwback!
SKUNK on LEAD with Denis Dias
I was lucky enough to see Steely Dan before the lockdown. It was in a small 1600 seat venue and it was a f*cking blast. They sounded great.
Skunk Baxter and Denny on Guitars Walter on bass
These are great! Can’t wait till we get to Showbiz Kids 😍
There is a version from the midnight special too!
Great reaction to two Steely Dan classic tunes. 'My Old School' is one of my faves from the Dan. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter had glasses. My favorite LP by the band is Dr. Wu. Their canon, to me, is the first 5 Albums, all killer no filler.
Good luck.